from february 2009
Art and Law

previous exhibitions:

24.10.2008 - 16.11.2008
Curators from East and Central Europe II:
Elena Sorokina
Subjective Events, Sometimes Recorded

Opening: 24.10.2008, 8PM
Sat. and Sun. 2 - 6PM;
also open 31 October from 8PM -11PM
Tour of the exhibition: 02.11.2008, 3PM
Workshop 24.10.08

In everyday language, an event is a notion that embraces two different meanings - a happening violating limits or, in the opposite, invigorating them. One is destructive, the other restrictive; one is closer to the chaos of a revolution, the other to a meticulously performed ceremony with a set of rules. The work in the exhibition focuses on the second meaning: initially, it comments on contemporary rituals or pronounced interest in social codes, which often re-emerge in times of crisis and insecurity. Through recording, staging, or enacting some examples of today's ritualistic behavior the artists examine how the so-called "flexible personalities" engage in a performance of specific and mainly self-imposed rules. (more)

30.08.2008 - 28.09.2008
Art and Science III
Reiner Maria Matysik - Failed Organisms

Opening: 29.08.2008, 8PM
Artist's talk: 31.08.2008, 5PM
Tour of the exhibition: 28.09.2008, 3PM

The Berlin artist Reiner Maria Matysik (born 1967, Duisburg, Germany) works in manifold ways with concepts for future organisms. In the course of the last years he has created his own new system of post-evolutionary life forms at the borderline between art and biology. In his installations, videos, actions and publications the term "biological sculpture", coined by Matysik himself, plays a vital role. (more)

30.05.2008 - 29.06.2008
Art and Science II
Marcus Ahlers - Transposed Nodes

Opening: 30 May, 2008, 8PM
Artist's talk: 14.06.2008, 5PM
Tour of the exhibition: 29.06.2008, 3PM

The artworks of Marcus Ahlers (born 1974) functions on the borderline of visual arts and science. On one hand they explore visual metaphors for the human body in its surroundings, making reference to social and architectural space. On the other hand they are receptacles for electro-chemical reactions, which take place within them. (more)

29.03.2008 - 04.05.2008
Art and Science I
Dmitrij Bulatov - Senses Alert
Artist's talk and workshop: 29.03.2008, 5PM
Open Friday 27 April from 8PM
Tour of the exhibition: 27.04.2008, 3PM

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)

26.01.2008 - 2.03.2008
Eastern and Central European Curators I: Denisa Kera and Pavel Sedlak
Cosmopolitics - New Media Art from the Czech Republic
Workshop with Denisa Kera (curator): Curating New Media: 27.01.2008 5 PM
Artists Talk 1.02.2008 8PM
Tour of the exhibition 2.03.2008 3PM

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)

23.11.2007 - 6.01.2008
Art and Text III
Prinzenallee: a Play without Dialog by Birgit Szepanski
In her installations, the Berlin artist Birgit Szepanski composes an aesthetic form of urban space using word and image, in which the walls, floor, windows and doors of the exhibition space become part of the art work. Taking regular walks through urban localities is a major part of the artist's production process, during which she collects thoughts, words and images of the city for her exhibition projects in Germany and abroad. There is a correlation between the architectural and bibliophile aspects in her artist's books, photographs, films and audio pieces.(more)

28.9.2007 - 28.10.2007

Art and Text II
Christian de Lutz - Ekphrasis
Christian de Lutz (*1965) 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.
As part of the exhibition series Art and Text, Art Laboratory Berlin is presenting a selection of
de Lutz's most recent Source Code Images. (more information...)

31.8.2007 - 23.09.2007
Art and Text I
Farkhondeh Shahroudi
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.

Born in Tehran in 1962, Shahroudi has lived in Germany since 1990. She is both a visual artist working in a variety of media: sculpture, drawing, painting, photography, video and computer, and a poet writing in Farsi and German. Her work indeed functions like a series of hyperlinks between art and text, between tradition and technology. (more information)

30 June- 22 July 07
Art and Music III
Viktor Alimpiev - Two Songs

Art Laboratory Berlin is pleased to show two video works Wie heisst dieser Platz?, 2006, and My Breath, 2007, by the Moscow artist Viktor Alimpiev, where the medium of film visualizes a full framework of references about speech, song and bodily movement, within which the concept of sculpture plays a vital role... (more information)

25 May - 17 June 07
Art and Music II
3-ROOM-CONFERENCE. A Live Performance with an Exhibition by the Berlin Tiefenrauschorchester

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...
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30 March 07 - 20 May 07
Art and Music I
The Artist Group PG – video works

The Group PG was founded in 1998 (2000). 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”... (more information)

'pre-opening' 23 February 2007
Film screening:
Bildungscamper.
Der Blick des Patriarchen
A documentary film
by Nicola Hochkeppel
2004, 62 min                          (more information)