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Artists
in Dialog. Alex Toland und Myriel Milicevic Vernissage 27.08.2010
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Most
recent exhibition: Opening:
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| 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. Each
exhibition in Artists in Dialog will take the form of a discursive
examination between two artists, whose work has a common point of
contact (e.g. in aesthetics, theme or process). The exhibition will
be based around each artist interacting with the other's artistic
position. It is our intention that their artworks come together
not through a series of traditional curatorial (and hierarchical)
decisions, but that the artists, working together, find a specific
form of display for their own and each other's works. Thus, this
form of exhibition as dialog will present an additional phenomenon:
both artists will take part intensively in the curatorial aspect
of the project, breaking down traditional barriers between artistic
and curatorial production. 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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Heidi Hove,
In Memory of You, 2008
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Jens
Axel Beck,
Chest
of Drawers Without Cherry Laminate,
2008
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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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