Cinema dates in Siemensstadt with Hans Scharoun

Balconies in Siemensstadt, Berlin

Siemensstadt in Berlin

Laura Horelli – Helsinki Shipyard (14/17min) 2003 Courtesy of the artist

Adrian Paci „The Column“, 2013 Courtesy of the artist, Galerie Peter Kilchmann und Kaufmann Repetto

How can motion picture best present a discourse on labour? Set against the architectural backdrop of Berlin’s reform settlement Siemensstadt, the online film series, KINO SIEMENSSTADT – The complex of Labour, explores this very question through a ten-week online series. Together with the accompanying exhibition Anette Rose, Techno Textiles at Scharaun Project Space for Art and Architecture invites artists to reflect on the subject of ‘work’ through film and video set in the local context of Siemensstadt as a working-class neighbourhood.

2038, ENTERING A NEW SERENITY

Still from 2038 © The New Serenity

Inside the German Pavilion © Federico Torra

© Federico Torra

The German contribution to the 17th Architecture Biennale tunes in from the year 2038 to tell the story of a world, in which everything, though imperfect, has been made better in a profound way. Based on the collective knowledge from international experts across the fields of architecture, art, ecology, economy, philosophy, politics, science and technology, 2038 illustrates, through a series of films, an emergence from crises into a world of radical democracy and viable solutions for co-existence. 

HYBRID GALLERY WEEKEND

Ashley Hans Scheirl at Galerie CRONE, “Synapse Trading”, 2021

Heiner Franzen at Ebensperger, Installation view, Courtesy Ebenperger, Photo: Ludger Paffrath

Agnes Schere at ChertLüdde,  “Bonbonniere”, 2021, Courtesy of ChertLüdde and Agnes Scherer Berlin, Photo: Trevor Lloyd 

Susan Philipsz, Three channel sound installation and three silos, “Slow Fresh Fount”, installation view at Konrad Fischer Galerie Berlin, 2021, Courtesy the artist and Konrad Fischer Galerie, Photo: Roman März

On the occasion of the 17th Gallery Weekend, 49 Berlin galleries presented high-calibre exhibitions, featuring both established and up and coming artists to a local and international public. Despite all odds, the presentation was accessible both on-site and online through an all-encompassing digital format, which allowed Gallery Weekend exhibitions to be fully explored remotely for the very first time. Bureau N was involved in the realisation of the online double including a web journal, commissioned features with galleries and art-world persona, Instagram TV exhibition previews and the moderation of live tours across all participating galleries.

LIFE IN CONTINUOUS TRANSFORMATION

Olafur Eliasson, Life, 2021, Installation view: Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel, 2021, Courtesy of the artist; neugerriemschneider, Berlin; Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York / Los Angeles © 2021 Olafur Eliasson, Photo: Pati Grabowicz

Olafur Eliasson, Life, 2021, Installation view: Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel, 2021, Courtesy of the artist; neugerriemschneider, Berlin; Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York / Los Angeles © 2021 Olafur Eliasson, Photo: Pati Grabowicz

Olafur Eliasson, Life, 2021, Installation view: Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel, 2021, Courtesy of the artist; neugerriemschneider, Berlin; Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York / Los Angeles © 2021 Olafur Eliasson, Photo: Mark Niedermann

In times of social distancing and spatial boundaries, can we give up human control and embrace a biocentric perspective in its place? LIFE by Olafur Eliasson entangles the Fondation Beyeler with everything that is usually kept outside: microorganisms, non-human species, the weather, the climate. Space has been made for others as bright green water, infused with uranine, now floods the exhibition halls. Inside, delicate floating plants coexist with the park’s insects, bats and birds. Emerging in March and fading away in July, the artwork can be experienced from sunrise to sunset, for there are no fixed opening or closing hours.

TWO COUNTRIES, ONE (DESIGN) HISTORY

Red Garden Egg Chair designed by Peter Ghyczy

Peter Ghyczy, untitled (called “Garden Egg Chair” / “Senftenberger Egg”), 1968, © Vitra Design Museum, Photo: Jürgen Hans

Women biting 80s knit swetaer, Fashion Design Advertisment by Claudia Skoda, from circa 1978

Claudia Skoda, knitwear design from the collection “Fruits”, ca. 1978 (model Irene Staub alias Lady Shiva), © Luciano Castelli, courtesy of Claudia Skoda

Braun Calculator designed by Dieter Rams

Dieter Rams and Dietrich Lubs, calculator “ET 33”, 1977, © Vitra Design Museum, Photo: Andreas Sütterlin

More than thirty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Vitra Design Museum presents the first overview of post-war design in the two Germanies. “German Design 1949–1989: Two Countries, One History” offers a comparative selection of design from East and West Germany and explores ideological and aesthetic differences as well as parallels and interrelations between East and West. Exhibits range from iconic pieces of furniture and lamps to graphic, industrial, and interior design to fashions, textiles, and personal ornaments.

ANYTHING GOES?

John Hejduk with Moritz Müller, Residential complex with studio tower, Charlottenstraße 96–98, 1988, Photo: © Hélène Binet

Postcard “750 Jahre Berlin – Friedrichstadtpalast”, Date (Post stamp): 17.02.1987, Privately owned, Photo: © Unknown Photographer (ADN)

Berlin boasts a unique concentration of noteworthy buildings from the 1980s. At the time, radical new concepts, colourful diversity and a certain aesthetic randomness challenged previous ideas of living in the modern city. Widely labelled “postmodern”, it drew on structural typologies and stylistic devices from the past and tested alternative urban lifestyles. The exhibition ANYTHING GOES? BERLIN ARCHITECTURE IN THE 1980s at Berlinische Galerie explores what and who shaped these buildings and visions developed for the divided city in the last decade before the fall of the Wall.

BRIEF BUT INTENSE: THE ERA OF THE MEMPHIS GROUP

Sottsass Associati, Interior for an exhibition on Italian Design in Tokyo, 1984 © Photo: Marirosa Ballo © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2021 for all designs by Ettore Sottsass

Karl Lagerfeld’s Monte Carlo Apartment with designs by Memphis, Monaco, 1982 © Jacques Schumacher © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2021 for all designs by Ettore Sottsass

Nathalie du Pasquier, drawing of an interior, 1982 © Nathalie du Pasquier

With the exhibition MEMPHIS: 40 YEARS OF KITSCH AND ELEGANCE the Vitra Design Museum Gallery celebrates the fortieth anniversary of the group’s foundation through its creations. Interior objects, drawings, and further archival material give insight into the world of Memphis, whose design, seemingly having walked straight off the pages of a comic book, gave rise to a completely new look in which popular culture, advertising aesthetics, and post-modernism merged in a crazy medley. The exhibition is a homage to the brief but intense era of the Memphis group, whose energy and creative drive has lost none of its fascinations.

DANCE TILI YOU POPO

© Saeed Kakavand

© Saeed Kakavand

© Saeed Kakavand

© Saeed Kakavand

The exhibition TIEFSCHWARZ shows the influence the DJ duo, composed by the brothers Ali and Basti Schwarz, had on the electronic music scene of Stuttgart and beyond. Shaping the nightlife of the 1990s, their clubs On-U and Red Dog became the epicentres of the creative, art and gallery scene. More than two decades later, StadtPalais – Museum für Stuttgart welcomes them back home and revisits their influence on the city’s subcultural history.

AN ECLECTIC SEASIDE STAY

eclectic interior of ammos hotel

© Tom Parker

greek food on a table

© Tom Parker

© James Bedford 

© James Bedford 

On the shoreline just outside Chania, Crete, Ammos is home to a cheerful blend of bold fabrics, sweeping marble bookshelves, contemporary seating objects and anyone who comes to stay. The owner-operated boutique hotel reflects the energetic personality of the host and his team, eager to flaunt the island’s multifaceted appeal. The onsite taverna serves up an impressive spread of Greek specialities in close collaboration with a familiar network of local producers.

SERIAL HOUSING RELOADED: LION FEUCHTWANGER 61

© Filippo Bolognese für Euroboden

rendering of courtyard

© Filippo Bolognese für Euroboden

rendering of balconies

© Filippo Bolognese für Euroboden

Critically acclaimed for their “Wohnregal” in Berlin, architects FAR frohn&rojas are now advancing their take on prefabricated building on a larger scale: together with Euroboden, they are planning an exciting urban building structure comprised of 124 flexible apartments and outdoor communal spaces. Surrounded by a GDR housing estate and the lush greenery of Berlin’s Kaulsdorf district, the project gives way to a highly contemporary reinterpretation of serial building – providing a wide range in residential layouts for its occupancy.

RODIN/ARP: ECHOS OF EVERLASTINGNESS

Installation view “Rodin/Arp” at Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel, 2020. Hans Arp: © 2020, ProLitteris, Zürich; Photo: Mark Niedermann

Installation view “Rodin/Arp” at Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel, 2020. Hans Arp: © 2020, ProLitteris, Zürich; Photo: Mark Niedermann

Very few know that Arp repeatedly paid tribute to Rodin by means of relief, sculpture and even poetry for over 30 years. In their first museum encounter ever, the Rodin/Arp exhibition at Fondation Beyeler enquires the timeless dialogue between Hans Arp (1886-1966) and the pioneer of modern sculpture Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), marking the beginning of a new era of sculpture.

JUST FRIDAYS, ROLF SACHS

© Max von Treu

Cosmopolitan and artist Rolf Sachs is European. He commutes between Rome and St. Moritz, as an artist always looking for variety in impressions and areas of tension. Visits to either house make apparent that his curiosity and view of the world and people as a whole are reflected in all the works of art, installations and design objects that will have you wandering through a chamber of curiosities. However, it is above all his incredible, open nature as a host that gathers together a diverse group of individuals around his table – open-minded, ready for discussions. Read our interview with the artist here. 

REMEMBERING TEGEL—A STORY IN PHOTOGRAPHS

© Rober Rieger and Felix Brüggemann

© Rober Rieger and Felix Brüggemann

© Rober Rieger and Felix Brüggemann

© Rober Rieger and Felix Brüggemann

Last spring, at the height of a global pandemic and just months before the long-awaited opening of the new Berlin airport BER, TXL, which had been reduced to minimum operation, resembled much less an airport as it did a stranded spaceship. The sudden calm and desertedness revealed the iconic architecture of the building with countless hidden details, captured by the photographers Robert Rieger and Felix Brüggemann in their 88-page illustrated book. The result is a personal homage to Tegel, to the architecture of the sixties and the unmistakable design logic of this airport, cherished by so many.

BUILDING FOR TOMORROW—EXPLORING NEW WORK

© Klawe Rzeczy (Getty Images)
 

How do we plan to work during and after the pandemic? How can architecture inspire creativity and communication, as well as support the current social upheavals? To answer these questions, AD Architectural Digest and Euroboden have launched the platform TRANSFORMATIONAL BUILDINGS. Experts from various fields examine the topic of the architecture needed for New Work in the future.

BEYOND THE NAKED EYE

© HGEsch

© HGEsch© HGEsch

© HGEsch

For the internationally renowned architectural photographer, HGEsch, a construction site is a promise: it is the physical transition from concept to built structure. His exhibition PROCESS ARCHITECTURE—A PHOTOGRAPHIC RESEARCH OF GLOBAL BUILDING SITES at Euroboden Architekturkultur in Berlin depicts the in-between moments of architecture—the structures and details that will ultimately be hidden, vanished and forgotten within the building.