BERLIN ART NEWS: February - April 2012
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GALLERY WEEKEND BERLIN
Friday April 27th 6 pm - 9 pm, Saturday + Sunday April 28th + 29th 11 am - 7 pm
50 galleries, 50 Openings, Three Days, Three Nights, Feel invited!
Further information: http://www.gallery-weekend-berlin.de
Exhibitions in Public Spaces (selection)
RYOJI IKEDA - DB
from January 28 to April 9, 2012 at Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart / Museum for Contemporary Art
Japanese composer and visual artist Ryoji Ikeda has conceived an exhibition for the Hamburger Bahnhof that, for the first time, compositionally unites the two symmetrical halls on the upper level of the museum's east and west wings.
Further information: http://www.hamburgerbahnhof.de
FRIEDRICH SEIDENSTÜCKER - Photographs 1927–1958
until Febuary 6, 2012 at Berlinische Galerie / State Museum of Modern Art, Photography and Architecture.
Almost every Berliner knows his photographs: atmospheric shots of everyday life in Berlin during the Weimar Republic. He developed a truly legendary reputation among animal and zoo lovers with his sensitive animal studies, and his powerful shots of the destroyed city of Berlin represent a valuable resource for historians. Friedrich Seidenstücker’s oeuvre is founded in optimism, but never draws a veil over the appalling conditions, harshness, poverty and misery of his age.
Further information: http://www.berlinischegalerie.de
GERHARD RICHTER . Panoramas
from February 12 to May 13, 2012 at Neue Nationalgalerie / New National Gallery
Around 150 paintings from all periods of the artist's extensive oeuvre, carefully selected together with the artist himself, offer visitors a profound insight into his stylistically and thematically diverse body of work.
Further information: http://www.neue-nationalgalerie.de
TOMÁS SARACENO . Cloud Cities
until February 19, 2012 at Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum for Contemporary Art
Tomás Saraceno's installations shatter traditional concepts relating to place, time, gravity and traditional ideas as to what constitutes architecture. His works are utopian and invite the viewer to play a part in their impact on a particular space, as they reach up to the sky and down to the ground.
Further information: http://www.hamburgerbahnhof.de
RON GALELLA . Paparazzo Extraordinaire
until February 27, 2012 at C/O Berlin Postfuhramt - International Forum For Visual Dialogues.
"If someone says 'no photos!' then I try not to take any more. However, before he says that I take as many as I can. That’s the game". Ron Galella . A paparazzo hunt is cunning, harsh and frequently ends painfully. In the worst case bloodily—including broken jaws and lost teeth. For Ron Galella and his undercover activities, no effort or risk was too great. He proceeded like a detective in order to catch the celebrities in the right moment, patient, persistent, shifty. Whether it was Jacqueline Kennedy, Marlon Brando, Greta Garbo, Andy Warhol, Sean Penn, Robert Redford, Muhammad Ali, Madonna, Mick Jagger or Audrey Hepburn—he managed to get them all in front of his lens. His pictures are snapshots rather than portraits. Spontaneous, not staged, and as a result extremely authentic. On the occasion of the Berlinale, C/O Berlin will show approximately 140 black/white photographs by Ron Galella.
Further information: http://www.co-berlin.info
ARCHITEKTONIKA
until February 27, 2013 at Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum for Contemporary Art
To coincide with the exhibition by Tomás Saraceno in the gallery's historical central hall, an array of sculptures, photographs, film works and paintings will be on show in the Rieckhallen that all in some way bear references to architecture. Works by Absalon, Jürgen Albrecht, Carl Andre, Sophie Calle, Nina Fischer & Maroan el Sani, Peter Fischli / David Weiss, Thomas Florschuetz, Isa Genzken, Dan Graham, Mika Taanila, Rachel Khedoori, Sol LeWitt, Gordon Matta-Clark, Bruce Nauman, Manfred Pernice, Andrea Pichl, Ascan Pinckernelle, Hermann Pitz, Dieter Roth & Björn Roth, Jason Rhoades, Anri Sala, Thomas Schütte, Thomas Struth, James Turrell and Jeff Wall are presented.
Further information: http://www.hamburgerbahnhof.de
EVA BESNYÖ - Woman Photographer 1910–2003
until Febuary 27, 2012 at Berlinische Galerie - State Museum of Modern Art, Photography and Architecture.
The modern aesthetics of the 1920s have always remained the yardstick of Eva Besnyö’s photography. This exhibition with 120 vintage prints will be the first retrospective of work by the Dutch Grande Dame of photography in Germany.
Further information: http://www.berlinischegalerie.de
GLOBAL PRAYERS: Redemption and Liberation in The City
until February 29, 2012 at Haus der Kulturen der Welt / The House of World Cultures.
GLOBAL PRAYERS addresses a key social issue of the future, which has yet to receive adequate treatment by the sciences or arts: the world-wide emergence of new, urban religious communities contrary to established religions and denominations, which have developed into a central phenomenon of urban societies.
Further information: http://www.hkw.de
ARNOLD NEWMAM – Masterclass . Retrospective
from March 3 to May 20, 2012 at C/O Berlin Postfuhramt - International Forum For Visual Dialogues.
The exhibition comprises 200 vintage black-and-white Photographs from the oeuvre of the most influential portrait photographer of the twentieth century. The posthumous retrospective includes Arnold Newman’s most famous portraits but also many who have previously escaped attention, along with still lifes, architectural studies, early street photography, and revealing contact sheets that have never been shown before publicly.
Further information: http://www.co-berlin.info
DAVID ZINK YI
Opening: Friday, March 2, 7pm. March 3 to April 29, 2012 at Exhibition Space (ground floor) n.b.k. Neuer Berliner Kunstverein.
n.b.k. director: Marius Babias.
Further information: http://www.nbk.org
ALLAN KAPROW
Opening: Friday, March 2, 7pm. March 6 to April 27, 2012 at Showroom (first floor) n.b.k. Neuer Berliner Kunstverein.
n.b.k. director: Marius Babias.
Further information: http://www.nbk.org
TAKEHITO KOGANEZAWA . Luftlinien (Lines in the air)
from March 2 to May 20, 2012 at Haus am Waldsee - A Place for the Arts.
Takehito Koganezawa (b. 1974 in Tokyo) employs the simplest of means to redefine the concept of drawing on paper, as performance or projection. The artists interrelates video beamers and video cameras with his own bodily movements, generating unusual optical phenomena of overlay and condensation.
Further information: http://hausamwaldsee.de
IN OTHER WORDS . The black market of translations - negotiating contemporary cultures
from March 3 to April 15, 2012 at ngbk - Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst e.V.
Artist Names: Adel Abidin, Marwa Arsanios, Kader Attia, Julien Audebert, Elena Bellantoni, Emilio Chapela Pérez, Cherimus, Julian D’Angiolillo, Angela Detanico and Rafael Lain, Yoel Díaz Vázquez, Braco Dimitrijevi?, Mounir Fatmi, Ofir Feldman, Graciela Guerrero Weisson, Christoph Keller, Moridja Kitenge Banza, Daniel Knorr, Takehito Koganezawa, Oliver Laric, Karl Larsson, Adrian Lohmüller, Miguel Monroy, Antoni Muntadas, Timo Nasseri, Olaf Nicolai, Jorge Pedro Nuñez, Nana Oforiatta-Ayim, Timea Oravecz, Bernardo Oyarzún, Soledad Pinto, Rosângela Rennó, Gabriel Rossell Santillán / Nik Nowak, Sona Safaei-Sooreh, Mariateresa Sartori, Demian Schopf, Lorenzo Scotto di Luzio, Paolo W. Tamburella, Mihalis Theodosiadis, Dani Umpi, Sandra Vásquez de la Horra, Humberto Vélez, Luca Vitone, James Webb, Dilek Winchester a.o.
The operations of translation – reading, understanding, interpreting and rewriting a foreign text – can be understood as a cultural strategy to cross into other cultures. The exhibition will display a market of the foreign and otherness, inviting artists that explore the tongue of the Other and work in-between languages and cultures, penetrating, embodying and contrabanding Others’ words.
Further information: http://ngbk.de
UNDER TREES . The Germans and the Forest
until March 4, 2012 at Deutsches Historisches Museum Berlin - German Historical Museum (Pei Building)
Curators: Ursula Breymayer, Elke Kupschinsky, Dr. Bernd Ulrich, Andreas Bernhard
In Germany the forest is more than just the sum of the trees. When trees are threatened, Germans go on the warpath. For in our country the forest is not only a cultural landscape formed through forestry and the result of modern recreational activities ranging from GPS-guided hikes to treetop trails. At the same time, the woods and trees possess great symbolic, spiritual and fairytale-like charismatic powers and have always been celebrated in German poetry, art and music. In this way the forest is deeply rooted in the German consciousness – not only when we are meandering under trees.
The exhibition will visualize this special relationship of the Germans to the forest, focusing first on the Romantic Age around 1800, when the forest and the trees first became a matter of scientifically based forest management and at the same time enriched literature, music and the graphic arts as subject and theme. It was above all painting – the core of the exhibition – that shaped patterns of perception that have marked our view of the forest up to the present day..
Further information: http://www.dhm.de
PACIFIC STANDARD TIME . Art in Los Angeles 1950–1980e
from March 15 to June 10, 2012 at Martin-Gropius-Bau
“Pacific Standard Time” features such internationally esteemed artists as John Baldessari, David Hockney, Edward Kienholz or Ed Ruscha - it traces the development of the Los Angeles art scene during the post-war period, when the city hosted an impressively varied and versatile art scene, thus proving that it was more than Hollywood.
Further information: http://www.gropiusbau.de
ANIMISM
from March 16 to May 6, 2012 at Haus der Kulturen der Welt / The House of World Cultures.
The exhibition’s starting point is the artistic-aesthetic process of animation, best known from cartoons and animation films, and examines its relationship with the categorial definitions and limits of the modern world-view..
Further information: http://www.hkw.de
AI WEIWEI IN NEW YORK . Photographs 1983 - 1993
until March 18, 2012 at Martin-Gropius-Bau.
For the first time in Germany, the Martin-Gropius-Bau is showing more than 220 photographs from the period 1983 to 1993 spent by Chinese artist Ai Weiwei in New York. More than 10,000 photos emerged during this time. Ai acted as curator selecting what will be exhibited. For the young Ai, born in 1957, this extended period of stay in the USA was very influential on the style of his future artistic works.
Further information: http://www.gropiusbau.de
CONCEPTUAL TENDENCIES 1960s TO TODAY
until March 18, 2012 at Daimler Contemporary
The characteristic formal features are clearly defined: objective structures, creative systems that are complete in themselves and - overcoming classical painting and sculpture - a tendency to dematerialize the work of art. The conditions under which art comes into being are examined, along with temporal and spatial structures, the congruency of theory and practice, the possibility of involving the viewer intellectually and physically, and also the general conditions for presenting and responding to art in institutions.
Further information: http://www.sammlung.daimler.com
FOUND IN TRANSALTION
until April 9, 2012 at Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin
Deutsche Guggenheim brings together recent works by nine artists who look to translation as both a model and a metaphor to critically comment on the past and to produce richly imagined possibilities for the present.
Further information: http://www.deutsche-guggenheim.de
J. MAYER H. – Rapport . Experiments with Spatial Structur
until April 9, 2012 at Berlinische Galerie / State Museum of Modern Art, Photography and Architecture
Jürgen Mayer H. (*1965), founder of the Berlin architectural office J. MAYER H., gained a national and international reputation for his innovative buildings, objects and interventions into space. His team works at the interface between drafts and free dynamic forms. The experimental space structures offer new insights into his interdisciplinary approach. For the museum’s 10-metre high entrance area J. MAYER H. has developed a walk-in installation. Walls and floor are clad in carpeting, on which data security patterns are printed in black and grey. The work’s space-consuming concept negates the strict geometry of the entrance hall. The considerably enlarged, repeating patterns produce a flickering impression and transform the white cube into a playful scenario of interpermeating forms and structures. Supplementary three-dimensional models translate the two-dimensional patterns into concrete forms.
Further information: http://www.berlinischegalerie.de
ART IN BERLIN 1870 - 1960 . New Presentation of The Collection
until further notice Restructured presentation at Berlinische Galerie / State Museum of Modern Art, Photography and Architecture.
The chronological presentation of our masterpieces in an area of 1,500 square metres reflects the interdisciplinary orientation of the collection and communicates an exciting dialogue among different artistic styles: Art around 1900, Expressionism, Berlin Dada, the Eastern European Avant-Garde, New Objectivity, Art in the National Socialist Era, the New Beginning after 1945 and Positions of the 1950s.
Further information: http://www.berlinischegalerie.de
ALICE SPRINGS + HELMUT NEWTON . Polaroids
until further notice at Helmut Newton Foundation
her own photographic oeuvre began with a bout of influenza suffered by helmut newton in paris, 1970. june newton had her husband show her how to handle the camera and light meter and in his place photographed an advertisement for the french cigarette brand gitanes. the portrait of the smoking model would be the jumpstart of a new career. in the early 1970s, alice springs shot several campaigns for the french hair stylist jean louis david; the photographs appeared under her byline as full-page ads in renowned fashion magazines. 1974 saw the first alice springs cover image adorning french elle.
Further information: http://www.helmutnewton.com
Admired, feared and Desired . EMIL NOLDE Paints Women
until further notice at Nolde Stiftung Seebüll Dependance Berlin
With works by Arnold Böcklin, Eric Fischl, Pablo Picasso, Edvard Munch and Andy Warhol. "The people are my pictures. Laugh, exult, cry or rejoice," Emil Nolde writes in his autobiography. Although in all of his creative phases the painter focused again and again on woman as a motif, the feminine sex was never comprehensible for him. "In becoming accustomed to the innermost nature of women" lies the origin of his pictures, notes Nolde. "So much is incomprehensible - but I don't need to know.".
Further information: http://www.nolde-stiftung.de
Die Sammlungen . The Collections . Les Collections
until further notice at Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart / Museum for Contemporary Art
Since November 1996, Hamburger Bahnhof has housed Nationalgalerie's Museum für Gegenwart (Museum for Contemporary Art). Parallel to temporary exhibitions, the museum also presents works from its own important collections in a series of rotating exhibitions on the 10,000 square meters of space at its disposal: major works from the Nationalgalerie, the Marx and Marzona Collections, as well as the Friedrich Christian Flick Collection im Hamburger Bahnhof are presented in different constellations.
Further information: http://www.hamburgerbahnhof.de
