Press Reviews on Art Laboratory Berlin


previous exhibitions
(scroll down for previous events)

 

 

25.11.2011 - 15.01.2012

Time & Technology

Gretta Louw: Controlling_Connectivity
Performance and exhibition

Online performance: 2-12 November, 2011

http://controllingconnectivity.tumblr.com/


Opening: 25 November, 2011, 8PM
Exhibition: 26 November, 2011 - 15 January, 2012
(winter break: 19 December, 2011 - 5 January, 2012)
Fri - Sun 2-6PM and by appointment

14 January, 2012 3.30PM: Tour of the exhibition and Artists' talk with Gretta Louw
+ plan b (Sophia New & Daniel Belasco Rogers) and Igor Štromajer; moderation: Regine Rapp & Christian de Lutz (curators).

Press text of the exhibition as .pdf

Press text from the performance (17 October 2011) as .pdf

Essay: 'Too Artful to be a Virtual Soul' by Christian de Lutz as .pdf

Article in rhizome.org

 

 

 

10.09.2011 - 16.10.2011

Vernissage: 9. September 2011, 20 Uhr
Opening hours: Fri -Sun 2-6PM and by appointment.
Book Release Party - VISIONS NYC von Bärbel Möllmann:
30. September, 20 Uhr

Press text as .pdf

Presse reviews:

Article in TIP

Article in Sugar High

Radio interview on Kulturradio RBB

Video reportage from DAPD

Radio report on RadioEins

 

 

29.04.2011 -26.06.2011

Artists in Dialog: Al Fadhil & Aissa Deebi
My Dreams Have Destroyed My Life. Some Thoughts on Pain

Opening: 28 April,2011, 8PM

Press text as .pdf

Round table discussion Al Tahrir: The Day After, 1 May, 2011, 3PM

Round table press text as a .pdf

Pressestimmen:

Julia Gwendolyn Schneider: Al Fadhil & Aissa Deebi bei Art Laboratory Berlin und AhmedBasiony im Ägyptischen Pavillon in Venedig
Band XVII, Heft 3 - Sommer 2011, Titel: Umbruch in Arabien, Seite 6 f.
springerin

Article in Al Akhbar, Beirut - 2011-7-5

Sturm und Drang: En Futuro -2011-7-9

Article in Zitty - 2011-4-5

 

 

 

22. 01.2011 - 13.3.2011

Sol LeWitt: Artist's Books

Opening: 21 January, 2011, 8PM

Sol LeWitt_Symposium: 19/20 February, 2011

Press page for Sol LeWitt Artist's Books

Press text as pdf

 

 

 

 

30.10.2010 - 28.11.2010

Stardust Boogie Woogie
Tania Antoshina, Mo Foster, Marcela Iriarte, Christian de Lutz, Jane Mulfinger, Bob & Roberta Smith, Jessica Voorsanger.
curated by Francesca Piovano

Opening 29 October 2009 8PM

Finnisage: 26 November 2010 8PM
Special event: 30 November 2010 A reading by Mo Foster at the East of Eden bookstore

In cooperation with:

Press text as .pdf

Article at Spotted by Locals

 

 

 

 

 

28.08.2010 - 26.09.2010

Artists in Dialog: Alex Toland and Myriel Milicevic - Wunschgarten: Wild Urban Offshoots

Opening: 27.08.2010 8PM

Workshop 4.09.2010 2-6PM

press text as a .pdf

Program about the exhibition on radioeins RBB on 16 September 2010

 

 

 

29.05.1010 - 27.06.2010

Artists in Dialog

2-1/4-n/2 x 21/4-n/2
Heidi Hove & Jens Axel Beck

Opening: Friday, 28 May, 2010, 8 PM
Performance/ work in progress (open to the public):
31 May - 3 June, 2-6 PM

Artist talk: Saturday 12 June, 2010, 6PM

 

Press text as .pdf

Original Press text (2010-5-18) as .pdf

 

 

 

 

23.04.2010 - 22.05.2010

OFF FENCE. Art on the Californian-Mexican Border
Michelle Chong, Katya Gardea Browne, Ed Gomez, Luis G. Hernandez, Camilo Ontiveros.

Opening: Friday, 23 April, 2010, 8 PM
Artist Talk with Michelle Chong: Sunday, 25 April, 2010, 4PM


The exhibition runs 24 April - 22 May, 2010
Open: Fri - Sun, 2-6PM
(press text as .pdf)

Article by Hans Kuiper

 

 

 

 

28.11.2009 - 7.02.2010
Art and Law IV
Creative Rights. On Appropriation, Copyright and Copyleft

Azin Feizabadi, Gilbert & George,
Christian de Lutz, Triple Candie


The Creative Rights Library with documentation on Shepard Fairey vs AP, Richard Prince vs Patrick Cariou, Creative Commons, The Fair Use Projekt, Piratpartiet, etc.

Opening 27 November 2009, 8PM
Duration of the exhibition: 28 November 2009 - 7 February 2010
(closed 18 December 2009 - 3 January 2010)
Open Sat - Sun 2-6PM, exhibition tour 3PM

Workshop: 28 November 2009, 3PM "Copyright and related topics for artists. musicians, filmmakers and other creative producers" with Andreas Lichtenhahn (lawyer), in German.
(free, registration necessary: info@artlaboratory-berlin.org)

(press text as .pdf)

Review: Berlin:Kunst und Recht by Miriam Wiesel in Kunstbulletin (1/2 2010)
Review as .pdf

 

 

02.10.2009 - 15.11.2009
Art and Law III

Seized
Critical Art Ensemble (CAE) & Institute for Applied Autonomy (IAA)

Press Preview: 1. October 2009, 11AM
Opening: 2. October 2009, 8PM
Artist Talk: 4. October 2009, 4PM
Exhibition duration: 3. October - 15. November 2009, Fri-Sun 2-6PM, and by appointment

Film Screening: Strange Culture, 2. November 2009, 7.30 PM
(D: Lynn Hershman Leeson, 2007), followed by a Round Table. The case of Steve Kurtz will be discussed from legal, cultural-political and curatorial perspectives: Eberhard Schultz (lawyer), Mark C. Donfried (Institute for Cultural Diplomacy) and Christian de Lutz (Art Laboratory Berlin); Moderated by Regine Rapp (Art Laboratory Berlin).
Kino Arsenal, Potsdamer Platz 2, 10785 Berlin
Tickets: 6,50 Euro/ 5,00 Euro reduced (Students)

Catalog: Regine Rapp and Christian de Lutz for Art Laboratory Berlin (Hrsg.):
SEIZED. Critical Art Ensemble & Institute for Applied Autonomy. Berlin 2009
44 p., color, text in English and German
ISBN: 978-3-9813234-0-5
9,00 EUR

Press page for the exhibition
Press text as.pdf

 

 

30.05.2009 - 28.06.2009
Art and Law II
Ztohoven. Media Reality

Opening 29.05.2009, 8pm
Sat. and Sun. 2 - 6pm
(also open 26.06., 8-11pm)

Filmscreening: On Media Reality
by Vladimir Turner: 29. May at 8:30pm

Press text as .pdf

 

 

 

21.02.2009 - 29.03.2009
Art and Law I: CAT. Monstration

Opening 20.02.2009, 8PM
Hours: Sat. und Sun. 2-6PM
(also Fri. 27.02. and 27.03, 8-11PM)

Press text as .pdf

 

 

 

 

 

28.18.2008 - 04.01.2009
Curators from East and Central Europe III:


Mari Laanemets

Hier wäre das Leben leicht (There, Life Would Be Easy)

Opening: Friday 28.11.2008, 8PM
Hours: Sat. and Sun. 2 - 6PM;
closed 27.12. and 28.12.2008

Press text as .pdf

 

 

  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
W
orkshop 24.10.08 (registration required)

Press text as.pdf

 

 

 

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


Opening: 29.08.2008, 8PM
Sat. and Sun. 2 - 6PM;
also open 26 June from 8PM -11PM
Artist's talk: 31.08.2008, 5PM
Tour of the exhibition: 28.09.2008, 3PM

Press text as.pdf

 

 

 

31.05.2008 - 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

Sat. and Sun. 2 - 6PM;
also open 27 June from 8PM -11PM
Press text as .pdf

 

 

 

29.03.2008 - 04.05.2008
Art and Science I
Dmitrij Bulatov - Senses Alert

Opening: 28 March, 2008, 8PM
Artist's talk and workshop: 29.03.2008, 5PM
Tour of the exhibition: 27.04.2008, 3PM

Press text as .pdf
http://www.nurart.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=122&Itemid=2

 

 

 

26.01.2008 - 2.03.2008
Curators from East and Central Europe I
Cosmopolitics:
New Media Art from the Czech Republic

Curated by Denisa Kera and Pavel Sedlak

Press text as .pdf
http://www.nurart.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=97&Itemid=120

 

 

 

 

 

 

24.11.2007 - 6.01.2008
Art and Text III Prinzenallee: A Play without Dialogue by Birgit Szepanski

Press text as .pdf (German version only)t

 

 

 

 

29.09.07-28.10.07
Art andText II
Christian de Lutz - Ekphrasis


Art and Text II: Christian de Lutz - Ekphrasis (as .pdf)
Art and Text II: Christian de Lutz - Ekphrasis _essay (as .pdf)

 

 

 

30.06.07-22.07.07
Art and Text I
Farkhondeh Shahroudi

Art and Text I: Farkhondeh Shahroudi press text(as .pdf)
Art and Text I: Farkhondeh Shahroudi essay(as .pdf)

 

 

 

30.06.07-22.07.07
Art and Music III
Viktor Alimpiev Two Songs

Viktor Alimpiev- two songs- Pressetext (as .pdf)
VIKTOR ALIMPIEV – Two Songs - Between Speech,Song and Body. (as .PDF)

http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/blogon/2007/06/victor_alimpiev_at_smak_ghent.php

 

 

 

26.05.07-17.06.07
Art and Music II

3-ROOM-CONFERENCE.
A Live Performance with an Exhibition by the Berlin Tiefenrauschorchester
3-ROOM CONFERENCE. A Live Performance... (as .PDF)

 

 

 

 

26.05.07-17.06.07
Art and Music II

3-ROOM-CONFERENCE.
A Live Performance with an Exhibition by the Berlin Tiefenrauschorchester
3-ROOM CONFERENCE. A Live Performance... (as .PDF)

 

 

 

 

previous events :
 

01 July 2010 7PM

Evolution Haute Couture
Talk and film screening by Dmitry Bulatov

Art Laboratory Berlin is pleased to present a collection of documentary films about artworks recently created using the latest twenty-first century technologies: artificial life, robotics, bio and genetic engineering. The screening has been organized by the curator and artist Dmitry Bulatov in conjunction with the National Centre for Contemporary Arts (Kaliningrad branch, Russia).

The films document artworks whose medium is living or lifelike matter, and the properties of living organisms and technologically reproduced artefacts are combined to produce the method. Art created under these new conditions of post-biology - that is, under conditions of artificially generated life - cannot avoid making this artificiality its explicit theme. We are thus again confronted with the question of the relationship between art and life in a completely new context defined by biological and abiological creations, works, and beings.

Press text as .pdf


 

Sat 13 and Sun 14 March, 2010, 2-6PM

Presentation of the poster and storybook for "Princess I will follow you..."
by Birgit Szepanski
-part of the Printemps des Poètes Berlin 2010
&
Artist book presentation:
"Prinzenallee - ein Stück ohne Dialoge"
A Book Project by Birgit Szepanski and Regine Rapp

Princess - I will follow you...
is a poster intervention along Prinzenallee in Berlin- Wedding. With photographich motifs and text fragments (in English, German and Turkish) a visual path is laid along the street. This public text and image story plays with motifs, word and sound play, visual faetures and the name of the street:Mit
Princess I will follow you....
(http://printempsdespoetes-berlin.blogspot.com)

In 2008 Birgit Szepanski created a complex site specific installation at Art Laboratory Berlin, which referred to the street Prinzenallee in Berlin-Wedding as part of the exhibition series Art and Text. Over a number of weeks the artist recorded traces of the street in her films, photographs and texts. In decidedly minimal formal language she was able to unfurl the street into the exhibition space by means of language, image and sound. In this newly released publication this is further expressed in the form of an artist book.

 

26 February 2010, 8PM, Book Release Party
28 February 2010, 3-6PM, Artist Book Presentation

13-14 März 2010, 2-6 PM Artist Book Presentation

Artist Book Presentation

Prinzenallee - A Play without Dialog.
A Book Project by Birgit Szepanski and Regine Rapp

Art Laboratory Berlin is pleased to invite you to a presentation of the recently published artist book "Prinzenallee - Ein Stück ohne Dialoge" ("Prinzenallee - A Play without Dialog").

In 2008 Birgit Szepanski created a complex site specific installation at Art Laboratory Berlin, which referred to the street Prinzenallee in Berlin-Wedding as part of the exhibition series Art and Text. Over a number of weeks the artist recorded traces of the street in her films, photographs and texts. In decidedly minimal formal language she was able to unfurl the street into the exhibition space by means of language, image and sound. In this newly released publication this is further expressed in the form of an artist book.

"The graphic and spatial transformation of the urban theme in the exhibition space resembles Gaston Bachelard's description of topo-analysis as the 'study of the locality in our inner life'. This publication shows excerpts of artistic work - photography as well as five fictive texts - that formed the exhibition, and mirrors, in their formal composition, Birgit Szepanski's special aesthetic of text and image installations. The chosen bibliophile medium accommodates the artists formal language especially well."
Regine Rapp, from the essay "Vom Oszillieren urbaner Zeichen" ("On the oscillation of urban signs"), taken from the publication.

"When I take photographs it's not enough for me, and it doesn't really reflect what I really mean: the narration in image and text and the location, the city. Therefore I choose different media: text, film, photography, the publication and the sound piece. I enjoy writing as much as I do photography, and I equally like other medium such as […] - the booklet or book, or installations. Sound is also important for my work, because sound describes a place and evokes images. For me it is the diversity and the fragmentary shards, which produce the whole. The interaction of the different media, for me, produce the possibility of a narrative."
Birgit Szepanski, from the interview "Schauen, Gehen, Schreiben - zur Ästhetik der Straße" ("Gazing, Walking, Writing - on the aesthetics of the street") taken from the publication.

Birgit Szepanski und Regine Rapp für Art Laboratory Berlin (Hrsg.): Prinzenallee - Ein Stück ohne Dialoge. Berlin 2009.
Artist Book, 36 pages, Texts in German language
ISBN 978-3-9813234-1-2 // 25,00 EUR

Press text as .pdf

   

 

 

 

  3 February 2010, 7PM
Janez Janša, Janez Janša, Janez Janša NAME Readymade
Performative Presentation

The event will present the act of “name changing” perpetrated by three Slovenian artists who in 2007 officially, with all the required papers and stamps, changed their names to the then prime minister of Slovenia , Janez Janša (2004-08). All Janez Janšas’ works, their private and public affairs, in a word their whole life, has been conducted under this name ever since.

Janez Janša will take you through a series of artistic, political, administrative and mediatic actions performed by himself together with Janez Janša and Janez Janša, with a particular focus on their latest personal exhibition entitled NAME Readymade. Works exhibited in this show (valid ID cards, passports, credit and bank cards, driving licences, birth and marriage certificates, and so on) were generated by reality itself.
(more information)
Press text as .pdf

Review: It's really easy to get rid of your own name!..,art-in-berlin.de

30 August at 4PM (meeting point: Art Laboratory Berlin)
Artists in Dialog
Alex Toland - Personal Dispersal Mechanisms
, an Interactive Urban Exploration
Natural distribution mechanisms of plant species are often severely obstructed in the city. Tree sponsorship is a popular and effective way of re-greening city parks and streets. Individual sponsors become personally linked to individual trees while beautifying the neighborhood and creating new habitats for birds, mammals and insects.

Artist Alex Toland takes this idea a step further by creating species partnerships for a day and encouraging personal interspecies relationships as a potential distribution mechanism. As part of the series Artists in Dialog at ART LABORATORY BERLIN the artist will realize a collaborative walk and installation project by leading a group of Berlin residents through part of the green corridor along the Panke and make personal introductions between individual people and plants.

press text as .pdf

 

 
 
 

22 July 2009
At Artillerie (Exerzierstr. 10, 13359 Berlin) in cooperation with Art Laboratory Berlin

Strike Anywhere
Screening of a new video by Benj Gerdes and Jennifer Hayashida
(2009, 32 minutes, English without subtitles)

Wednesday, 22 July 2009 at 9 pm
Introduction by Christian de Lutz, Art Laboratory Berlin
Followed by a discussion with the artists

press release (.pdf)

 

 

 

24. April 2009, 21h
Artists in Dialog. Presentation by Paola Yacoub

Paola Yacoub will present a running thread through various works, mainly photographs and montages, produced in different geographical areas ranging from Southern Lebanon to Berlin via Sweden and China.

The common point is skepticism as it was introduced in visual arts in the U.S.A. at the beginning of the 20th century.

In a fast food restaurant 'Beautifull Heart' in Shenzhen, China, a flat screen continuously transmits news and entertainment channels. Information becomes like decoration.

One looks at the screen only from time to time, often not at all, and rarely with attention. We do not know if we agree on postures in front of the screen and on what we see.

A dialogical encounter between two video clips of the same screen in the same fast food restaurant but at different moments were made by Paola Yacoub and by Yao Zhiyan.

These plasma screens in fast food restaurants and cafés show the social modality of a contemporary gaze. This presentation from Paola Yacoub is the first of Art Laboratory Berlin's new series of artists talks, presentations, performances and events Artists in Dialog

Press text as .pdf

 

   

22 June 2008

In connection with the exhibition
Art and Science II
Marcus Ahlers - Transposed Nodes

Children's workshop - SOLAR-Oven Creativity and SolarEnergy (In German):
21.06.2008, 9AM - 3PM, Register until 13.06.2008. more information here
(in German)

 

 

June 19-20 2007
Art and Music:
Kriege Der Sprachen (in cooperation with Kunstraum_Sumpfhahn_Raumkunst)
information about the program (in German only)

19 June: Robin Hayward (violin/ bindelwald) and Olaf Bugiel (vocals/ electric guitar)
20 June: Oliver Schneller (percussion) and Workz (electronic, DJ)
(information as .PDF)

 

 

 

'pre-opening' 23. Februar 2007
Filmvorführung:
Bildungscamper.
Der Blick des Patriarchen

Ein Film von Nicola Hochkeppel
DokFilm, 2004, 62 min        

 
press release as .pdf

 

 

Information about Art Laboratory Berlin:
Art Laboratory Berlin (as .PDF)

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