February 16th, 2010

Junge Kunst der Berlinischen Galerie und der GASAG

Energie, 2003 Blank & Jeron

Ausstellung: 5. März - 24. Mai 2010
Eröffnung: Donnerstag, 4. März 2010, 19 Uhr

In der Ausstellung werden Neuerwerbungen der Berlinischen Galerie im Dialog mit einem umfangreichen Konvolut von Arbeiten aus der Sammlung „Kunst im Bau“ der GASAG präsentiert. Die Bestände ergänzen sich perfekt, weil sie ihren Fokus auf das aktuelle Berliner Kunstschaffen richten. Während das Landesmuseum seit Mitte der 1970er-Jahre neben Werken der Klassischen Moderne und der Nachkriegskunst immer auch Zeitgenössisches gesammelt hat, entstand seit 2002 in Zusammenarbeit mit der Kunstfabrik am Flutgraben e.V. die Sammlung “Kunst im Bau” für das Shell-Haus, den Firmensitz der GASAG. Mit zahlreichen Werken in Berlin tätiger Künstler entsteht ein Panorama zeitgenössischer Positionen in Malerei, Fotografie, Grafik und Installationen.

Beteiligte Künstler:
Fritz Balthaus, Max Baumann, Almuth Baumfalk*, Stefan Beck, Matthias Beckmann, Kristleifur Björnsson, Blank & Jeron, Armin Bremicker*, Daniel Buchheit*, Ronald de Bloeme, Caroline Dlugos, Carsten Eggers, Thomas Eller*, Jörg Finus / Torsten Hennig, Alex Flemming, Bernhard Garbert, Pierre Granoux, Beate Gütschow, Falk Haberkorn, Anton Henning*, Gregor Hildebrandt*, Sybille Hotz, Patrick Huber, Steve Johnson, Veronika Kellndorfer, Volkhard Kempter, Bernd Koberling*, Clemens Krauss*, Raimund Kummer, Albrecht Kunkel, Axel Lieber, Ute Lindner, Marcellvs L., Katharina Meldner, Florian Merkel, Gerold Miller, Wessel Muller, Esther Neumann, Miguel Rothschild, Adrian Rovatkay, Kai Schiemenz, Iris Schomaker, Sarah Schönfeld, Henrik Schrat, Markus Strieder, Caro Suerkemper, Lars Teichmann*, Beate Terfloth, Tim Trantenroth, Birgit Maria Wolf, Maik Wolf, Filip Zorzor*

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March 8th, 2009

From 9 March to 15 March 2009 I will be resident artist in Gropiusstadt

Pilotprojekt Gropiusstadt

International Artists-in-Residence Program

Since 2002 artists can be invited to participate in the „Pilotprojekt Gropiusstadt“ to create ideas for temporary interventions in the public space of Gropiusstadt, Berlin. The artists develop their ideas during a stay in the area: the GEHAG householding company provides an apartment which is located in Gropiusstadt. The works done by the artists try to intervene in or interfere with normal daily life in Gropiusstadt, they can be kinds of actions which involve the inhabitants or just small interventions in the environment.

Gropiusstadt
Gropiusstadt, a satellite town situated on the outskirts of Berlin, was built in the 1960’s and 1970’s. Its most prominent feature is its 10 to 25 storied building-development. The original plans from Walter Gropius were reworked later by others to house more people. Its current population is approximately 37,000.

The artists flat
The apartment where the artists live is located on the 8th floor of a 24-story apartment-block. It provides a huge live- and working room as well as a bedroom, kitchen and bathroom. All rooms are furnished functionally and can adequately house an artist staying from one (to create an idea) to four weeks (to realize a project). Situated at the border of the area the flat offers a view over the rural landscape in the south as well as over the surrounding skyscrapers of Gropiusstadt. Most of the artists are inspired by this view as well as by the impressions of daily life in Gropiusstadt and create ideas for artistic approaches. In contrast to other residence programs artists of the Pilotprojekt Gropiusstadt are not forced to realize a project: they can simply use the opportunity to escape their regular hum-drumlives and tank new energy, or concentrating on photographic, literary or journalistic work, or by using the time for reflection.

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November 1st, 2008

Opening: 1 November 2008, 15 - 17h

Amongst others my proposal “Sie haben Glück gehabt! Dieses Plakat macht Ihnen nichts vor.” has been chosen at the competition: ‘That was lucky!’ - Art in the underground hosted by NGBK

“‘That was lucky!’ Such a statement of relief is not always free of contradiction and ambiguity. This phrase can be applied to everyday and indeed global events from which we escape more or less consciously, or indeed simply by accident. The phrase also applies to the situation of art in Berlin’s underground which will now be continued at different venues.
We are looking for artistic concepts that reflect these contextual links from a wide range of perspectives. One concept for one area behind the rails can be submitted. The projects, selected by a jury, will be hung and pre-sented in a parallel fashion at three venues for several months, until about June/July 2009.” (Quote from open call for proposals)

The results of the open artistic competition, in which 198 international artists took part, will be shown from November 2008 to mid-2009 at three underground stations in parallel:

U8: Voltastraße, Bernauer Straße and Weinmeisterstraße.

Artists:
Julia Baier, Martina Becker, BEWEGUNG NURR and Florian Göpfert, Roland Boden, Heike Bollig, Susanne Britz, Dante Busquets, Martin Conrads/Anna Mándoki, Ilse Deberle, Jean-Ulrick Désert, Manfred Eichhorn, Moritz Frei, Rolf Giegold, Alexandra Gneissl, Adrian Göllner, Sebastian Gräfe, Massoud Graf-Hachempour, Caroline von Grone, Irène Hug, Karen Irmer, Karl Heinz Jeron, Lilo Cornelia Karsten, Katja Klein, Kirsten Klöckner, Carsten Kummer, Victor López, Eva-Christina Meier, Connie Mendoza, Claudia Mucha, Barbara Müller, Leo de Munk, Piotr Nathan, Hester Oerlemans, Felix Pestemer, Heiko Pfreundt, Nik Pitton, Ingrid Schütz, Christian Sievers , Hein Spellmann, Bernd Trasberger, URBAN PLANT RESEARCH, Sylvia Winkler/Stephan Köperl, Gloria Zein
A Project by NGBK, financed by Senatskanzlei – Kulturelle Angelegenheiten Kunst im Stadtraum, Berlin, and supported by Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe (BVG) and Wall AG.

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