Showing posts with label Berlin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Berlin. Show all posts
Sunday, December 28, 2014
Tuesday, November 19, 2013
Instant photos at the Opening of ECLA´s new arts building (The Factory)
Young & aspiring, 25 September 2013
Sunday, July 28, 2013
Friday, June 28, 2013
Wonderlust during the 48-Stunden Neukölln Festival... and after!
The exhibition lasts until the end of June.
Opening hours: daily, from 6 PM... until the bartender decides to go home.
Many thanks to Frank and the Froschkönig: http://www.froschkoenig-berlin.de/
Wednesday, November 21, 2012
echos-Abschlussausstellung der Ostkreuzschule für Fotografie 2012
Fotografien von 20 Absolventen finden, über 3
Stockwerke und selbst im breiten Dachgeschoss verteilt, genug Freiraum,
um ihren sehr eigenen Charakter zu entfalten.
Beim Betrachten fühle ich mich, als ob ich an einem Tag 20 neue Persönlichkeiten mit ihren eigenen Perspektiven, Interessen, Bestrebungen und Ideen kennenlernen kann. 20 neue Welten.
Jede Bilderserie ist autonom und stark, jede Fotografin und jeder
Fotograf hat etwas mitzuteilen, durch das Medium der Fotografie.
Eine Verbindung: zwischen Tochter und Mutter (Zuzanna Kaluznas Sag mir, wer ich nicht bin); zwischen leeren Gerichtshöfen und den Menschen, die nicht da sind (Mark Alker Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus); zwischen Nachbarn in einer verlassenen Nachbarschaft in Pittsburg, USA (Hanna Fuhrmann The 800 Block).
Zwischen großen, schwer zu durchschauenden Waldansichten in
schwarz-weiß und vielleicht, dem farbigen, urbanen Rest der Welt in Eric Meiers Aporia.
Sei es sozial engagiert oder ästhetisch fokussiert, im Ausland oder
in die eigene Vergangenheit gereist, Objekte betrachten oder Menschen
bei Alltäglichem beobachten; jedes fotografische Projekt ist eine
Entdeckung!
Echos mutet wie ein akustisch konnotierter Titel an. Für diese Ausstellung ist er dennoch aufschlussreich, da die Bilder hier auch kling
en können. Es geht nichtum die Sprache, sondern darum Eindrücke, Gefühle und Gedanken hervorzurufen.
Manchmal auch darum Vergangenheit und Gegenwart miteinander zu
verbinden, um den Versuch, das historische Geschehen im Einklang mit der
Familiengeschichte zu bringen, wie in Ulrike Schmitz' Fotos aus der Serie Museum deiner Erinnerung.
Die Bilder weisen eine bewusste, stark artikulierte visuelle Sprache
aus. Die Fotografie wird verstanden und benutzt, nicht nur als Sprache,
deren Technik man beherrschen muss, sondern ebenso als atmosphärisches
Medium, als Wiederkehr einer Realität, als visuelles Echo. Im besten
Fall kann der Betrachter in diesem Sinne als Echo wirken, das die Stärke
der Bilder und Geschichten mitnehmen.
Bilder im Text:
Bild 1: © Birte Kaufmann
Bild 2: © Isabel Kiesewetter
Text erstmals auf artiberlin erschienen: http://www.artiberlin.de/article/echos-Abschlussausstellung_Ostkreuzschule_5_E
Vielen Dank der artiberlin Redaktion!
Monday, October 15, 2012
'0 Grad'-It's not Berliner weather, it's art!
Small, private galleries make up the humus for a creative atmosphere in Neukölln. Kartüche is not only part of the local bohemia, but manages to put a small corner of the borough on a larger map.
The Kartüche gallery
opened its exhibition last weekend with graphic works by the South
Korean artist Kwanyoung Jung, metal sculptures and etchings by
German-Tunisian blacksmith Latifa Sayadi. Jung's poetical, abstract
landscapes are minutely drawn line compositions. His large format
canvases play with ideas of multitude, repetition and perspective. At
first fascinated by their monochrome palette, you soon discover they
change their reflection, like water or mirrors do.
Verrückt,
Sayadi's thin, metal
sculpture playfully inhabits the centre of the second room.
What makes a normally
rigid-looking object playful? This one slightly bends when you get
closer. And there you have it: movement ('rücken') and the state of
being crazy ('verrückt') in one! It is not the first time Latifa
Sayadi's forms play with words (see Geträumte Eindrücke
or L'Impasse de la
Liberté).
The rest is yours to discover.
“This
exhibition could have taken placed anywhere: in Berlin-Mitte or
London”, said a visitor I couldn't help overhearing. And this was,
no doubt, a compliment paid to good art.
'0
Grad'
October
5-November 3, 2012
Wed-Sat:
3-6 pm and by app.
kARTüche
Gallery, Leykestr. 17a, Berlin
Exhibition views with Hügel by Kwanyoung Jung and Verrückt by Latifa Sayadi
Saturday, September 22, 2012
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Friday, June 22, 2012
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Three Ideas in One
Review: Three Ideas in One
A SAVVY Contemporary Performance at AAA (Abteilung für Alles Andere) by Christian Burnoski (USA) and Andrea Jenni (CH)
Friday, 27 March 2012
The performance lasted about ten minutes. This text will take you less than five minutes to read. How long does it take to look at a painting? How long did it take Christain Burnoski and Andrea Jenni to look at a particular photograph by Ludwig Windstosser and get inspired by it?
It was dark when we entered the room and found our way to the improvised seats: e bench, some hard carton boxes, pillows lying on the floor. Then our eyes accommodated themselves to the environment. There was some dim light inside coming from a green-orange lamp on the stage, where one could also distinguish some blue paintings and two more lamps hanging low, close to the floor. And a woman's silhouette, back turned to the public, arranging her long hair.
Two more women appeared and went to the red wall, always with their back towards the viewer. When the music started they began to move and slowly approach the public without turning their face towards us. When it finally happened, we could see their colourful, glowing disco-pop make-up and their 80´s outfits. The music was also disco-like, the girls seemed to have a kind of a party.
The performance had a changing rhythm and also played with interruptions, moments when the music would stop and the girls would frieze in a certain pose, then repeat the same pose about three times in a row. Throughout the performance the girls´ movements varied from fluid, disco-like, to more linear, making me think of lines in an abstract painting. But I guess my association was triggered primarily not by their dancing, but by the blue painting on the right wall. By the overall setting of the room: a red wall, a blue canvas, an orange-green lamp. Just like in Windstosser´s image. One should not forget what one knew before attending the performance: namely that the piece is inspired by a photograph. This was the context set for our perception of the show, and the décor made you feel as if you were inside a painting. With moving figures, with music and energy filling the frame.
And this is where the performance reveals its challenge: in showing the interplay between stillness, characteristic to two-dimensional images such as paintings and photographs, and movement, between abstraction and dancing, between flatness and perspective. The artists' endeavour becomes one of translating a photograph (Windstosser's) into a performance.
Three Ideas in One can also be viewed as a variation on the theme of keeping still, with the three female dancers alternately embodying sitting, standing and lying down. Paradoxically, these forms of stillness prove to be necessary and inspiring phases in a complex process of transition and movement from numbness to dance, from passive to expressive. Another significant detail: when the piece started the performers had their backs turned to the audience; when they ended the show, they were standing, facing us. A decisive moment, when their gaze expanded the frames of the performance and the canvas-like stage opened up to the viewers...
Text and performance stills: Ioana Muntenescu
Three Ideas in One by Ioana Muntenescu is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Germany License.
A SAVVY Contemporary Performance at AAA (Abteilung für Alles Andere) by Christian Burnoski (USA) and Andrea Jenni (CH)
Friday, 27 March 2012
The performance lasted about ten minutes. This text will take you less than five minutes to read. How long does it take to look at a painting? How long did it take Christain Burnoski and Andrea Jenni to look at a particular photograph by Ludwig Windstosser and get inspired by it?
It was dark when we entered the room and found our way to the improvised seats: e bench, some hard carton boxes, pillows lying on the floor. Then our eyes accommodated themselves to the environment. There was some dim light inside coming from a green-orange lamp on the stage, where one could also distinguish some blue paintings and two more lamps hanging low, close to the floor. And a woman's silhouette, back turned to the public, arranging her long hair.
Two more women appeared and went to the red wall, always with their back towards the viewer. When the music started they began to move and slowly approach the public without turning their face towards us. When it finally happened, we could see their colourful, glowing disco-pop make-up and their 80´s outfits. The music was also disco-like, the girls seemed to have a kind of a party.
The performance had a changing rhythm and also played with interruptions, moments when the music would stop and the girls would frieze in a certain pose, then repeat the same pose about three times in a row. Throughout the performance the girls´ movements varied from fluid, disco-like, to more linear, making me think of lines in an abstract painting. But I guess my association was triggered primarily not by their dancing, but by the blue painting on the right wall. By the overall setting of the room: a red wall, a blue canvas, an orange-green lamp. Just like in Windstosser´s image. One should not forget what one knew before attending the performance: namely that the piece is inspired by a photograph. This was the context set for our perception of the show, and the décor made you feel as if you were inside a painting. With moving figures, with music and energy filling the frame.
And this is where the performance reveals its challenge: in showing the interplay between stillness, characteristic to two-dimensional images such as paintings and photographs, and movement, between abstraction and dancing, between flatness and perspective. The artists' endeavour becomes one of translating a photograph (Windstosser's) into a performance.
Three Ideas in One can also be viewed as a variation on the theme of keeping still, with the three female dancers alternately embodying sitting, standing and lying down. Paradoxically, these forms of stillness prove to be necessary and inspiring phases in a complex process of transition and movement from numbness to dance, from passive to expressive. Another significant detail: when the piece started the performers had their backs turned to the audience; when they ended the show, they were standing, facing us. A decisive moment, when their gaze expanded the frames of the performance and the canvas-like stage opened up to the viewers...
Text and performance stills: Ioana Muntenescu
Three Ideas in One by Ioana Muntenescu is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Germany License.
Thursday, March 29, 2012
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Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Wonderlust. Overview
Photography and an attempt at installation
Walking through the world with the desire to see and to marvel. Photos as traces of our journeys. As muses for the road to come...
Walking: could be a dance, a dream, a game or a journey. An initiation, an invitation. We step in and out of our routines, we follow decisions, we look for adventures. And learning how to leave traces (behind and ahead of us) is part of the game.
Visitors during the show
Visitor during the show
Photos by Nikhil Chopra, 28 January 2012
Final Presentation for "The Visual in the Performative" Workshop run by Nikhil Chopra, Madhavi Gore, Tina Lange
http://www.nikhilchopra.net/
Walking through the world with the desire to see and to marvel. Photos as traces of our journeys. As muses for the road to come...
Walking: could be a dance, a dream, a game or a journey. An initiation, an invitation. We step in and out of our routines, we follow decisions, we look for adventures. And learning how to leave traces (behind and ahead of us) is part of the game.
Visitors during the show
Visitor during the show
Photos by Nikhil Chopra, 28 January 2012
Final Presentation for "The Visual in the Performative" Workshop run by Nikhil Chopra, Madhavi Gore, Tina Lange
http://www.nikhilchopra.net/
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