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Current
exhibition: In the first half of 2012 Art Laboratory Berlin will present the exhibition Series Time & Technology, a reflection of how the radical technological changes of the last 20 years have influenced our perception of time and how we plan and structure our lives. Navigating the Everyday presents works by plan b, the British artist duo Daniel Belasco Rogers and Sophia New, and is their first solo exhibition in Germany. Since 2003 and 2007 respectively, Daniel and Sophia have been recording every journey they make every day using GPS devices. Additionally all areas of their digital communication (e.g. mobile phone text messages) are evaluated and processed artistically. Their work represents an artistic research by means of a digital archiving of their movements. Over the years this practice has become part of everyday life, a form of private and personal 'sousveillance', in which the artists generate their own data, thereby reflecting the approach of those private and public agencies who collect all available data. Since January 2011, the artists have also recorded their moods in writing three times a day. This mood diary enables them to compare their emotional life with the GPS traces of their movements and collected text messages. Presentation of the act of remembrance, in human and machine form, provides material for the two-channel video installation Narrating Our Lines, shown here in full for the first time. The video installation shows the artists viewing an animation of the GPS traces of their movements from 2007. With a temporal distance of three years, they then recall past events of their lives through these traces. On one screen, the viewer can see the artists, while on the other we see what the artists see - the GPS traces of their movement. A striking tension is achieved, while they (re)construct the common narrative of their lives. In addition to this installation, additional objects are presented, which have resulted from their practice of collecting: an archive of their mobile text messages, lists of personal vocabulary based on the frequency of use, as well as journals of their fluctuating moods arranged by season, time of day and location of each of the artists. Curated
by Regine Rapp and Christian de Lutz.
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25.11.2011
- 15.01.2012 Gretta
Louw: Controlling_Connectivity 14
January, 2012 3.30PM: Tour of the exhibition and Artists' talk
with Gretta Louw Art Laboratory Berlin would like to announce the exhibition project Controlling_Connectivity by the Australian artist Gretta Louw reflecting use of the latest forms of digital communication. Her 10-day online performance (2- 12 November 2011) has laid the basis for an exhibition which will include screen capture footage, photographs and an installation. In many ways participation in the elaborate communication networks that now underlie social interaction is no longer a matter of choice, since failure to participate is, in many demographics, akin to social withdrawal. Our decision to connect with and perform within online networks also plays an increasingly large role in determining professional success. The question, however, is what are the other effects of our growing reliance on online communication and community on our lives, culture, and society? With
the opportunity for connectivity and limitless access to information,
comes the obligation to be increasingly available to receive and
transmit; to be perpetually connected. The consequent erosion of
true leisure time, the blurring of the traditional professional/
personal, public/ private dichotomies, and an information overload
are creating hitherto unknown levels of psychological pressure.
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10.09.2011 - 16.10.2011 Bärbel
Möllmann - VISIONS NYC - afterthoughts Anyone
who has lived in New York and witnessed as I did the terrorist September 11, 2011, marks the 10th anniversary of the attacks on The World Trade Center. In VISIONS NYC - afterthoughts the Berlin-based artist and photographer Bärbel Möllmann has gathered a series of amazing portraits and interviews with New Yorkers from Summer 2001, recording their individual plans, goals and dreams, and from Summer 2002 recording their reactions to the events of the previous year. When
she began her unique artistic project in July 2001, Möllmann
could not have imagined the attacks on the Twin Towers that would
occur only two months later. The actual events of 9/11 are not directly
seen in the images, but rather felt as a historic turning point
in the interviews and photos taken both before and after September
11. The project is rather about individual New Yorkers and their
respective fates, which are brought convincingly near in these artistic
photographs and authentic interviews, which shows just how strongly
the city of New York and its residents changed in the aftermath
of September 11.
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29.04.2011 - 26.06.2011 Artists
in Dialog: Al Fadhil & Aissa Deebi Round table discussion Al Tahrir: The Day After, 1 May, 2011, 3PM My Dreams Have Destroyed My Life. Some Thoughts on Pain was first conceived by the artists during a common artist residency in Taiwan. Both artists had lost brothers in respective conflicts in their countries of origin. Al Fadhil has lost two brothers to the wars in Iraq. One brother died in the Iran-Iraq war. Fadhil's father, as the parent of a 'martyr,' were granted an audience with the dictator Saddam Hussein, which was documented with a photograph. Fadhil's
younger brother Ahmed was killed during the civil war that followed
the American invasion of Iraq. After his death, Fadhil was contacted
by Jason Sagebiel, an American soldier who had known Ahmed. Sagebiel
is also a musician, who learned to play the traditional Arabic Oud
during his stay in the city of Kut, Iraq, and composed a a musical
homage. Fadhil will include a series of documentations, the photographs
of his father with Saddam Hussein, Sagebiel's song, photographs
of the family home by his younger brother Ahmed in the exhibition.
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22. 01.2011 - 13.3.2011 Sol LeWitt: Artist's Books Opening:
21 January 2011, 8PM The American artist Sol LeWitt (1928 - 2007) was an influential figure in minimalism and is considered one of the most important representatives as well as co-founder of American conceptual art. The term "conceptual art" goes directly back to LeWitt: "If the artist carries through his idea and makes it into visible form, then all the steps in the process are of importance. The idea itself, even if not made visual, is as much a work of art as any finished product. All intervening steps - scribbles, sketches, drawings, failed works, models, studies, thoughts, conversations - are of interest. Those that show the thought process of the artist are sometimes more interesting than the final product." (Paragraphs, Artforum, June 1967) LeWitt's
intensive artist books production was extremely versatile: he used
different designs and formats as well as varied techniques from
color lithography to offset printing. Finally the phenomena of reproducibility
was part of the concept: "Also, since art is a vehicle for
the transmission of ideas through form, the reproduction of the
form only reinforces the concept. It is the idea that is being reproduced."
(ibid.)
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30.10.2010
- 28.11.2010
Stardust
Boogie Woogie Opening 29 October 2009 8PM Finnisage:
26 November 2010 8PM Stardust Boogie Woogie When Andy Warhol declared that everyone would be famous for 15 minutes, he probably didn't realized how true that was going to be. In a very short time the media industry has made it incredibly easy for people to become famous. It is no longer necessary to have a particular talent, nowadays absolutely any one who is prepared by whatever means to be entertaining, can become a 'celebrity'. Then mass media, along with popular culture, will see that celebrities are consumed as spectacle giving them a package of meanings that has nothing to do with their intrinsic value. This is particularly true today in Western countries where the boundaries between stars and fans have dissolved: a celebrity is such, as long as fan clubs, gossip columns and TV reality shows say so. It all started with the personality cult as advanced by the Soviet regime. At last the leader was no longer somebody anointed by divine rights, but somebody who was the icon of ordinary people. The Soviet leaders and popular heroes were, in a way, the other side of the coin of the Hollywood star system - both embodied dreams of a better life. To
explore the issues of celebrity cult and modern heroes and to put
them in a multifaceted international context, the exhibition Stardust
Boogie Woogie has brought together 7 artists from different countries
and backgrounds. Their work is around the notion of stardom and
its related lifestyle (Jessica Voorsanger, Jane Mulfinger, Marcela
Iriarte), of socialist personality cults (Christian de Lutz, Tania
Antoshina) and of popular culture (Bob & Roberta Smith, Mo Foster).
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28.8.2010 - 26.09.2010 Artists in Dialog Alex Toland and Myriel Milicevic - Wunschgarten: Wild Urban Offshoots Opening:
27 August 2010, 8PM Art Laboratory Berlin is pleased to announce the opening of the exhibition Wunschgarten: Wild Urban Offshoots by the artists Alex Toland and Myriel Milicevic - the second exhibition in our ongoing series Artists in Dialog. Each exhibition in Artists in Dialog takes the form of a discourse between two artists, whose work has a common point of contact (e.g. aesthetics, theme or process). Alex Toland and Myriel Milicevic both work on the border between art and life and environmental sciences. Toland considers the project 'habitat hacking' and Milicevic describes the project as 'reconstructing cross-species life worlds'. Together they have chosen the immediate area around Art Laboratory Berlin (the Soldiner Kiez) as a place to investigate interactions between the local human population and urban flora and fauna. The exhibition space will function as a laboratory for mapping, sketching, modelling and prototyping. Wunschgarten is a series of dialogues: between the artists and the local community, between city dwellers and nature, between urban planning and urban wilderness. As
cities creep further into wild landscapes, the wild moves into cities.
Urban habitats are places where plants and animals take up residence
alongside people. Too often though, space for nature is sealed off
by concrete constructions, resulting in a marked divide between
the space occupied by humans and the rest of the biotic community.
The Wunschgarten is an exploration of the city's wild features
and creatures, and a vision of utopian measures that reach beyond
existing mitigation schemes and municipal green-space planning.
The city becomes a garden of unexpected edible opportunities and
ideas to incubate and explode.
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29.05.2010
- 27.06.2010 Artists
in Dialog Opening:
Friday, 28 May, 2010, 8 PM Art
Laboratory Berlin is pleased to invite you to the exhibition
2-1/4-n/2 x 21/4-n/2 by the Danish
conceptual artists Heidi Hove and Jens Axel Beck – the first
exhibition in our new series Artists in Dialog. Both Heidi Hove and Jens Axel Beck are interdisciplinary artists, whose practice includes sculptural objects and installations as well as architectural, spatial and social interventions. A point of convergence in their work is a focus on daily life and the public and private spaces that we daily travel through. One example of this is Heidi Hove's inscribing of an American memorial bench with the phrase “IN MEMORY OF YOU”, whose open message and diverging design generates a confusion among users of the bench in the mixed neighborhood of Sundholm in Copenhagen. Their
work examines how we navigate and organise ourselves in the world.
Through simple and diverse manipulations, the daily and the recognisable
are brought out of their regular condition. For instance in his
sculpture Chest of Drawers Without Cherry Laminate Jens Axel
Beck has removed the laminate from an everyday bedroom chest, and
placed the pieces of laminate in jars that are displayed alongside
the altered piece of furniture..
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24.04.2010
- 22.05.2010 Opening:
Friday, 23. April 2010, 20 Uhr The
exhibition project OFF FENCE. Art on the Californian-Mexican
Border is an artistic platform with five positions, exploring
the cultural overflow, overlap and tensions in the border region
of Southern California and Northwest Mexico.
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Azin Feizabadi, from Repititions-Revolutions -Rituals |
28.11.2009
- 07.02.2010 Azin
Feizabadi, Gilbert & George, Christian de Lutz, Triple Candie Opening
27 November 2009, 8PM Creative Rights. On Appropriation, Copyright and Copyleft investigates questions concerning the use, re-use and misuse of images and information in the contemporary art world from artistic, legal, political and philosophical viewpoints. Since the late 1970s appropriation of images and information by such artists as Sherrie Levine and Richard Prince has become a common and accepted technique, part and parcel of postmodernism's critical approach. Indeed it follows a tradition that goes back through pop art and nouveau realisme to Dada and cubist collage. Not without ethical, aesthetic and legal controversy, a number of law cases involving appropriation seems to have increased in recent years involving artists such as Jeff Koons, Richard Prince and Shepard Fairey The exhibition Creative Rights consists of three parts: The exhibition with four artistic positions, the Creative Rights Library with extensive material on the presented artists and other recent law cases as well as a workshop on the theme of copyright. (more information)
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02.10.2009
- 15.11.2009 Opening:
2. October 2009, 8PM ART LABORATORY BERLIN is pleased to announce the exhibition Seized by Critical Art Ensemble (CAE) and the Institute for Applied Autonomy (IAA) as the third part of our series Art and Law. The exhibition Seized documents the FBI raid on the house of CAE member Prof. Steve Kurtz in May 2004, following the death of his wife Hope. In the weeks prior to the raid Steve and Hope Kurtz had been preparing for an exhibition examining GM agriculture at Mass. MOCA. An emergency worker of the fire department responding to Steve Kurtz's 911 call found materials in their houserelated to the upcoming exhibition suspicious and informed the FBI. The raid, conducted by FBI-officers wearing hazmat suits, and blocking off a half block radius of the home, caused much media attention. (more Information)
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30.05.2009
- 28.06.2009 Filmscreening:
On Media Reality The Prague based artist collective Ztohoven use their work, often interventions in public space, to scrutinise the creditability of mass media and advertising. In their action Media Reality, which took place on 7 June, 2007, they ‘hacked’ into the Czech weather channel ČT 2 and added the image of an atomic explosion to the live image of a mountain valley. The channel pressed charges under laws against “indecent behavior” and the “diffusion of false information”. In two separate legal actions members of the group were acquitted. At the same time, Ztohoven were awarded the first NG 333 prize for contemporary art from the Prague National Gallery, in connection with Media Reality Besides showing the work Media Reality and related court documents, Art Laboratory Berlin will present the German premiere of the film On Media Reality, which documents the legal and artistic aftermath of the action. The film’s director Vladimir Turner will be present at the opening on 29 May.(more information)
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21.02.2009
- 29.03.2009 Lecture by Maksim Neroda (CAT): 22 March 2009, 5PM The
CAT (Contemporary Art Terrorism) collective from Novosibirsk
creates situations in public space, which lay bare the absurdity
of the way in which political power functions. Unprepared passers-by
were drawn into the process of creating critical artistic statements.
For organizing a May Day monstration - a counterpart to a classical
May Day demonstration - in which marchers carried individual banners
with apolitical, often poetic or non-rational slogans, the artists
were sentenced to pay a fine. The exhibition Monstration
shows video works and documents of the public reaction by means
of legal documents and mass media reviews.
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29.18.2008
- 04.01.2009 The
exhibition revolves around issues of design, of the construction
of surfaces we are surrounded by in everyday life: from textiles
to texts, to street and city. One of the underlying intentions of
the exhibition is to reflect on how these formal constructions organize
our behaviour, give our lives a scheme, a program, and on the sedimentation
of ideology in forms.
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24.10.2008
- 16.11.2008 Tour
of the exhibition: 02 November 2008, 3PM
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30.08.2008
- 28.09.2008 Artist's
talk: 31 August 2008, 5PM
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30.05.2008
- 29.06.2008 Artist's
talk: 14 June 2008, 5PM
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29.03.2008
- 04.05.2008 Artist's
talk and workshop:
29 March 2008, 5PM Contemporary Art already long ago turned away from a solely anthropocentric point of view. Currently in Science Art, it is concerned, among other things, with ecological phenomena and is investigating the existence of newly emerging life forms; Art and Science have been combined. The Kaliningrad based artist Dmitrij Bulatov views the contemporary art scene as a kind of petri dish of living material for his investigations. Coming from his own artistic experience he has investigated this sphere and explored its dynamics and spatial vectors. In connection with his scientific research and artistic practice, Bulatov has staged an active evolutionary dramatisation of ‘post-biological’ forms whose paradoxical development may completely change our idea of the surrounding world. (more)
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26.01.2008
- 2.03.2008 Workshop
with Denisa Kera (curator): Curating New Media: 27.01.2008 5 PM The Czech new media art scene could be characterized by a latecomer strategy which in recent years is turning its disadvantages into a source of advantage. As video art and other trends from the 1980s and 1990s were never strong in the Czech art academies, young artists feel free to experiment and often develop very promiscuous relations to different traditions, trends and technologies. (more)
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23.11.2007
- 6.01.2008 Artist's
talk: Sunday, 06 January 2008, 5pm
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28.9.2007
- 28.10.2007 Art
and Text II Christian
de Lutz has worked as a photographer and visual artist since moving
to Europe in 1994, after having worked in painting and video in
New York during the late 1980s and early 1990s. During these years
de Lutz has built up a considerable photo archive, which he has
used as the basis to create his current images. The original analogue
photographs have been processed through digital imaging software;
some information has been taken away, while new information has
been added. In the last seven years the artist has increasingly
worked at the periphery of image and text. By means of a digital
montage of photography and source code or algorithmic texts his
pictures have generated a palimpsest-like layering of pictorial
and literary signs.
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31.8.2007
- 23.09.2007 Art
Laboratory Berlin is pleased to present a solo exhibition of book
art, drawings and a digital work by Farkhondeh Shahroudi as part
of the series Art and Text.
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June- 22 July 07 Viktor Alimpiev, whose work Summer Lightings was shown at the 4th Berlin Biennale in the Former Jewish Girls' School, combines different artistic fields in his cinematic work: visual arts, music, theater and dance. In his films he has worked with the human body and more recently with song and speech. During the 2005 Venice Theatre Biennale he directed the play We're Talking about Music in Italian language together with Marian Zhunin. In Linz in 2006 he created the video Wie heisst dieser Platz? in German. (more information)
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May - 17 June 07 The 3-Room-Conference is a performance project, which was organized by the Berlin Tiefenrauschorchester especially for the rooms of the artspace Art Laboratory Berlin. In connection with his painting Inbetween (2001) and his film projection Cloud Pieces (2005) Leo Königsberg will realize a sound collage on his space cello. This audiovisual production will be taken further by the live act by Christian Glass' electronic acoustics. The dance performance by janusz de woyciechowski, in relation to his film Titania (1970), which will be projected in the art space, will develop this interdisciplinary experiment through the human body in movement. (more information)
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March 07 - 20 May 07 The Group PG was founded in 1998. It now consists of Ilya Falkovsky, Alexey Katalkin and Boris Spiridonov. PG is a play on words that can be interpreted differently, for example as “Criminal Group”, “Hydrant” or “Hand Grenade”. The group activity is multifunctional. It publishes its own magazines and postcards, releases musical albums, makes comics and performances. (more information)
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'pre-opening'
23 February 2007 A documentary
film by Nicola Hochkeppel A 1960's and 70's West German vacation idyll. The Hubert J. Wagner family of Cologne – all nine of then – trapped between the „simple life“ romanticism of camping and the educated middle-class ideal of classics-based scholarship. Tax consultant Wagner, the arch-catholic clan patriarch, suffers no amendments to his meticulous plans for the rigorous summer pilgrimages. Using the family's home-movie footage (1965 – 1975), the documentary film LEARNING BY CAMPING also chronicles a chapter of German social history during the heyday of the flourishing welfare state.(more information) |
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