Art Auction at Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum fuer Gegenwart
in Aid of Christoph Schlingensief’s Operndorf Afrika
08.03.2012 (Preview 24.02. - 04.03.2012)
Christoph Schlingensief worked on the idea for the Operndorf Afrika (Opera Village Africa) from 2008 onwards. He conceived it as a place for intercultural encounters and experiments, as well as an artistic reservoir for the future.
Auktion 3000 at Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart in Berlin will help the Operndorf Afrika to grow. Numerous internationally renowned artists donated works for this fundraiser, among them Marina Abramovic, Matthew Barney, Pipilotti Rist, Olafur Eliasson, Andreas Gursky, Patty Smith, Wolfgang Tillmans, and Günther Uecker.
Credits (from top): Elmgreen & Dragset: top & bottom, 200, courtesy: the artists // Patti Smith: untitled (door), 2010 // Matthey Barney: cremaster 3: plumb line, 2001, courtesy: the artist // Andy Hope 1930 kara zor-el, 1998-2004
alexanderlevy
28.01. - 24.03.2012
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Punishment I gallery
alexanderlevy shows new works by the artist Julius von Bismarck. The title of the exhibition points to a pre-Christian legend that says that the Achaemenid King and Egyptian Pharaoh Xerxes had the strait at Hellespont punished with 300 lashes, after bridges that had been built on his order were destroyed by a storm shortly after construction. At impressive locations in Switzerland, South America and the United States Julius von Bismarck plays with the rhetorical power of this traditional retaliation, whipping nature, defying its power, until he is exhausted.
ZHONG GALLERY
21.01. - 31.03.2012
ZHONG GALLERY in Berlin is the first gallery for contemporary art in Europe founded by Chinese gallerists, presenting perspectives on Chinese art. The opening exhibition “Dawn – New Art from China” shows works by the artists Chen Yujun, Li Jikai, Li Qing, Wang Guangle, Wang Yabin, Wu Di, Yuan Yuan and UNMASK.
Credit Yuan Yuan, Ducklings Paradise; Li Jikai, Heart; Chen Yunjun, Land of Asia
KW Institute for Contemporary Art
13.01.2012
The
KW Institute for Contemporary Art has been one of the most important art institutions in Berlin for around 20 years. To support this work,
KW Freunde (Friends of KW) has been able to convince artists, gallery owners and collectors close to the institute to provide 60 works for an extraordinary art lottery. Works by Monika Bonvicini, Angela Bulloch, Patty Chang, Martin Eder, Tim Eitel, Olafur Elliasson, Via Lewandowsky, Pipilotti Rist and Katharina Sieverding – to name only a few – are in the official drawing.
Credits (from Top): Albrecht Schnider: Ohne Titel (Portrait), 2006// Clara Brörmann: Kleiner Tag, 2009-2010 // Patty Chang: Submarine Swimmers, 2007 // Allan Kaprow: Fluids, 1967
MD 72
25. - 27.11.2011
Artist Lucy McKenzie and designer Beca Lipscombe, working under the name
Atelier, present their first fashion collection encompassing high quality knitwear, wovens, raincoats, workwear and accessories at
MD72. Using the best of Scottish manufacturing, they realise a wardrobe for working men and women, specifically artists and those in creative and artisan professions. The collection has been developed as a part of the recent research project in collaboration with the Glasgow based independent design office Panel (Catriona Duffy and Lucy McEachan), The Inventors of Tradition.
Galerie Max Hetzler
12.11.2011 - 28.01.2012
Galerie Max Hetzler presents an exhibition of Günther Förg featuring works from 1987 to 2011. On this occasion the gallery is turned into a quite commanding immersive environment with the seminal black and white photograph “Ika” (1987) as an introduction to the exhibition. A specially commissioned wall painting is on view along with a mirror, photographs from the series of rationalist architecture „Città Universitaria“, paintings from the nineties and noughties, including very large formats and recent paintings from the series known as the grit or dot paintings. Thus underscoring Förg's interdisciplinary investigations and his use of the space conceived as one work.
Credits: Ika 1987; Williamsburg 2000; Untitled 2007; Città Universitaria, Mineralogia 1990; Città Universitaria, Auditorium Maximum 1990
Schinkel Pavillon
29.10. – 11.12.2011
Art, in Saâdane Afif’s highly reflexive practice, becomes words, music and movement, metamorphosing from one art form into another with the help of talented collaborators. Inviting writers to respond to physical artworks, and musicians and actors to respond to their texts, Afif transposes the visual into other senses, projecting the imaginary essence of a piece through the interpretations of others. At
Schinkel Pavillon his work completes a full circle, turning lyrics formed in response to previous pieces, by way of performance by Katja Schrade and porcelain by Nymphenburg, into sculpture, and in doing so sealing the process.
Galerie Podbielski
24.09. - 15.11.2011
Hrair Sarkissian’s Zebiba series from 2007 consists of portraits of pious men in Egypt, who all have the 'Zebiba' or prayer scar on their foreheads. For the second, correspondent series he photographed churches that no longer serve as sacred spaces, but have been turned into public ones for social activites such as reception halls, or music and dance clubs.
about painting
From 07 - 11 September 2011
abc art berlin contemporary addressed the topic of painting, featuring over 130 artists from 125 galleries. 'about painting' surveys contemporary painting practices, presenting not only works on paper or canvas, but also videos, photographs and sculptures that deal with the classical medium.
Credits (from Top):
David Diao: Salon 2, 2010 // Michael Fullerton: The Bitch Messed With His Head, 2010 // Hans-Peter Feldmann: Maler mit Palette, Augen mit schwarzem Balken // Rokni and Ramin Haerizadeh: Collage and painting on magazine covers and inside pages, various sizes, 2011 (installation detail) // Rineke Dijkstra:
Ruth Drawing Picasso, Tate Liverpool, 2009 (video still)
