Büro für
Bestimmte Dinge
Sonnenallee / Berlin - Neukölln
A live-in studio, laboratory and sweet presentation space with a shop window and a backroom in the wildlife of Neukölln.
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LAST PARTY IN THE BÜRO
Tuesday, May 1st 2018 / 18h
@ Büro für Bestimmte Dinge / Sonnenallee 147 / Berlin-Neukölln
Tuesday, May 1st 2018 / 18h
@ Büro für Bestimmte Dinge / Sonnenallee 147 / Berlin-Neukölln
Join us for the last party at this mostest beautiful space that was part of the Institutional Union since 2012. Capitalism forces us to close it. Let's dance a small tango ...
SILENT LOVERS
Thursday, March 15th 2018 / 20h
@ Büro für Bestimmte Dinge / Sonnenallee 147 / Berlin-Neukölln
Thursday, March 15th 2018 / 20h
@ Büro für Bestimmte Dinge / Sonnenallee 147 / Berlin-Neukölln
SILENT LOVERS
16mm, 10min, color, sound
As if trapped in a warbly snow globe at the bottom of an ocean (probably not far off Coney Island), we peer into a crystalized void where ageless and speechless souls of elegant despair longingly linger. Obedient to the sovereign ruler of his silent universe, a hopeless mime plays lap dog to a covetous queen in their silky echo chamber of imprisonment. As revelations befall upon the crestfallen clown, he realizes his dis-enthrallment through a shattering escape with the hand of a pirouetting harlequin, while Her Majesty’s empire and identity spiral into vibrant agony. Caught in a fantasy of abstract and eternal heartache, their faces are forever enslaved to express, or mask, what they cannot say.
j.r.orlick / www.julieorlick.com
16mm, 10min, color, sound
As if trapped in a warbly snow globe at the bottom of an ocean (probably not far off Coney Island), we peer into a crystalized void where ageless and speechless souls of elegant despair longingly linger. Obedient to the sovereign ruler of his silent universe, a hopeless mime plays lap dog to a covetous queen in their silky echo chamber of imprisonment. As revelations befall upon the crestfallen clown, he realizes his dis-enthrallment through a shattering escape with the hand of a pirouetting harlequin, while Her Majesty’s empire and identity spiral into vibrant agony. Caught in a fantasy of abstract and eternal heartache, their faces are forever enslaved to express, or mask, what they cannot say.
j.r.orlick / www.julieorlick.com
OPEN STUDIO
February 1 2018 / 19h
@ Büro für Bestimmte Dinge / Sonnenallee 147 / Berlin-Neukölln
February 1 2018 / 19h
@ Büro für Bestimmte Dinge / Sonnenallee 147 / Berlin-Neukölln
I HEART GIRL/BOY & SELECTED WORKS
Sep 8 2017 / 19h
@ Büro für Bestimmte Dinge / Sonnenallee 147 / Berlin-Neukölln
Sep 8 2017 / 19h
@ Büro für Bestimmte Dinge / Sonnenallee 147 / Berlin-Neukölln
Works by Jessica Yatrofsky (USA) / www.jessicayatrofsky.com
TRANS-BOUNDARY
Saturday, APRIL 29 2017 / 19h
@ Büro für Bestimmte Dinge / Sonnenallee 147 / Berlin-Neukölln
Saturday, APRIL 29 2017 / 19h
@ Büro für Bestimmte Dinge / Sonnenallee 147 / Berlin-Neukölln
a project by Betty Zanelli; music by Marco Visconti-Prasca.
In an era that seems to toy viciously with the concepts of borders, limits, exclusion and even walls – either metaphorical or real, Zanelli looks at the birds as those creatures who most naturally defy any limitation of space.
Even if we can trace their – the birds – migrations on our maps, human way to encapsulate space, birds fly freely unaware of he borders we – the humans – draw on the maps.
In an era that seems to toy viciously with the concepts of borders, limits, exclusion and even walls – either metaphorical or real, Zanelli looks at the birds as those creatures who most naturally defy any limitation of space.
Even if we can trace their – the birds – migrations on our maps, human way to encapsulate space, birds fly freely unaware of he borders we – the humans – draw on the maps.
| Press release / Betty Zanelli |
16 CHANNEL SOUND FERTILIZER
PROJECT SPACE PRACTICE / TALK (#1)
SPRINGSESSION (2017)
April 2 2017 / 15-18h
@ Büro für Bestimmte Dinge / Sonnenallee 147 / Berlin-Neukölln
PROJECT SPACE PRACTICE / TALK (#1)
SPRINGSESSION (2017)
April 2 2017 / 15-18h
@ Büro für Bestimmte Dinge / Sonnenallee 147 / Berlin-Neukölln
Renewable energy sources are used to run multiple speakers that are playing sounds published by various researchers as beneficial for plants. They include different frequency ranges, binaural and isochronic sounds, noise generators, field recordings and musical interpretations.
Among others is a sound composition offered by French mathematician and physicist Joel Sternheimer who developed a study on protein synthesis activation by sound. 16 CSF thus appears as sound installation, but it is also a critique on contemporary art operating system. By playing his music to plants, Jošt dismisses an audience, questions human supremacy and adds to discussion on environmental thematic, including biodiversity and climate change.
Jošt has moved to rural Croatia to continue his latest open-end art work "Centre for Creative Solutions". C4CS is an off-the-grid living and working premises with permaculture garden and research lab that he is building as an art piece with artist friends, volunteers and his family. He plays with institutional/non-institutional and artistic/scientific roles finding autonomy as a way of functioning in the spaces between them. By applying new technologies together with traditional materials, as well as scientific ideas with those that are not accepted by mainstream science, and permitted to do so as an artists, he is working on subtly transforming himself and people around to self-sustainable and creative individuals.
In last few years his works was exhibited at Museum for Modern and Contemporary Art in Rijeka, Technical Museum in Zagreb and ArteMov in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. He often positions and presents works as off-the-grid environment interventions, making documentation available on-line, using methods of participation and collaboration with DIY techniques.
http://gentlejunk.net/
http://gentlejunk.net/mobileartdome/
http://mmkamp.gentlejunk.net/
http://gentlejunk.net/art01/
Among others is a sound composition offered by French mathematician and physicist Joel Sternheimer who developed a study on protein synthesis activation by sound. 16 CSF thus appears as sound installation, but it is also a critique on contemporary art operating system. By playing his music to plants, Jošt dismisses an audience, questions human supremacy and adds to discussion on environmental thematic, including biodiversity and climate change.
Jošt has moved to rural Croatia to continue his latest open-end art work "Centre for Creative Solutions". C4CS is an off-the-grid living and working premises with permaculture garden and research lab that he is building as an art piece with artist friends, volunteers and his family. He plays with institutional/non-institutional and artistic/scientific roles finding autonomy as a way of functioning in the spaces between them. By applying new technologies together with traditional materials, as well as scientific ideas with those that are not accepted by mainstream science, and permitted to do so as an artists, he is working on subtly transforming himself and people around to self-sustainable and creative individuals.
In last few years his works was exhibited at Museum for Modern and Contemporary Art in Rijeka, Technical Museum in Zagreb and ArteMov in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. He often positions and presents works as off-the-grid environment interventions, making documentation available on-line, using methods of participation and collaboration with DIY techniques.
http://gentlejunk.net/
http://gentlejunk.net/mobileartdome/
http://mmkamp.gentlejunk.net/
http://gentlejunk.net/art01/
Thank you to Prinzessinengarten and Matthias Wilkens for their help with this project.
CHRISTINE CROOK
Jan - March 2017
@ Büro für Bestimmte Dinge / Sonnenallee 147 / Berlin-Neukölln
Jan - March 2017
@ Büro für Bestimmte Dinge / Sonnenallee 147 / Berlin-Neukölln
Excited to share LIVE window display costume performance art at my little studio Büro in Neukölln Sonnenallee 147.
Also Very excited for the opportunity to use my costumes/makeup/wigs for a fun photoshoot (& short window sessions for the brave) with any excited models/new friends. Let me know if you'd like to come over for a weird dress up party!?
Also Very excited for the opportunity to use my costumes/makeup/wigs for a fun photoshoot (& short window sessions for the brave) with any excited models/new friends. Let me know if you'd like to come over for a weird dress up party!?
DJ's Dog House - Gabbie and Lizzie's Show
Saturday, December 10 2016 / 18-21h
@ Büro für Bestimmte Dinge / Sonnenallee 147 / Berlin-Neukölln
Saturday, December 10 2016 / 18-21h
@ Büro für Bestimmte Dinge / Sonnenallee 147 / Berlin-Neukölln
Opening of DJ's Dog House - our show dedicated to DJ Dog ♥
Together we decorated the room the way we'd like to see it with our new work.The past few months we have started making new projects together in addition to continuing our individual works in process.
Gabriella has been sculpting ceramics and Elizabeth has been working on photography and new multimedia projects.
Join us for some wine and maybe even karoake afterwards >:)
Together we decorated the room the way we'd like to see it with our new work.The past few months we have started making new projects together in addition to continuing our individual works in process.
Gabriella has been sculpting ceramics and Elizabeth has been working on photography and new multimedia projects.
Join us for some wine and maybe even karoake afterwards >:)
GOOD BYE OLD FRIENDS
September 18-21 2016 / 14-18h
OPENING: Sunday, Sep 18th / 14-18h
@ Büro für Bestimmte Dinge / Sonnenallee 147 / Berlin-Neukölln
September 18-21 2016 / 14-18h
OPENING: Sunday, Sep 18th / 14-18h
@ Büro für Bestimmte Dinge / Sonnenallee 147 / Berlin-Neukölln
Everything is everything
A fullness of empty
An emptiness of fullness
And the garden you grow
the garden I grow
good bye, old friends.
Open studio by our current resident Chinatsu Ikeda.
www.chinatsuikeda.net
A fullness of empty
An emptiness of fullness
And the garden you grow
the garden I grow
good bye, old friends.
Open studio by our current resident Chinatsu Ikeda.
www.chinatsuikeda.net
OPEN STUDIO
Sunday August 28 2016 / 11-18h
@ Büro für Bestimmte Dinge / Sonnenallee 147 / Berlin-Neukölln
Sunday August 28 2016 / 11-18h
@ Büro für Bestimmte Dinge / Sonnenallee 147 / Berlin-Neukölln
Open Studio by our resident Chinatsu Ikeda.
“I have been working on cut outs of vegetables that I buy at the farmers market since I arrived at the residency. Also I am working on paintings that are reflection of what I am ...”
“I have been working on cut outs of vegetables that I buy at the farmers market since I arrived at the residency. Also I am working on paintings that are reflection of what I am ...”
IN THE SHADOW OF THE SUN
Sunday, 24 July 2016 / 19h
@ Büro für Bestimmte Dinge / Sonnenallee 147 / Berlin-Neukölln
Sunday, 24 July 2016 / 19h
@ Büro für Bestimmte Dinge / Sonnenallee 147 / Berlin-Neukölln
Yambe Tam presents the culmination of work produced during her two summer residencies at Can Serrat, Barcelona and at the Institut für Alles Mögliche, Berlin in the open studio exhibition “In the Shadow of the Sun”. The paintings on view reflect her interests in the blurred histories of science, religion, and philosophy through the study of alchemy, the occult, and metaphysics.
Among the works on view are a series of paintings based on the five Platonic solids, representing the five elements of earth, water, fire, air, and ether. Large-scale paintings meditating on the nature of time are also included, using archetypal symbols of the eclipse, the clock, and the hourglass. Gold leaf is used across all paintings to create a sense of the sublime and the eternal.
www.yambetam.com
Among the works on view are a series of paintings based on the five Platonic solids, representing the five elements of earth, water, fire, air, and ether. Large-scale paintings meditating on the nature of time are also included, using archetypal symbols of the eclipse, the clock, and the hourglass. Gold leaf is used across all paintings to create a sense of the sublime and the eternal.
www.yambetam.com
THE WRECKAGE / WHAT IT TAKES TO BECOME INVISIBLE
Saturday, 28 May 2016 / 20h
@ Büro für Bestimmte Dinge / Sonnenallee 147 / Berlin-Neukölln
Saturday, 28 May 2016 / 20h
@ Büro für Bestimmte Dinge / Sonnenallee 147 / Berlin-Neukölln
Amsterdam-based musician and artist Jessica Tucker, aka Fetter, has spent the Spring in Berlin as artist-in-residence at the Institut für Alles Mögliche. During her residency she has been conjuring material and delving into images and concepts for a new album, "The Wreckage."
On Saturday the 28th of May, you are invited to a special video installation presentation and live performance evening at the Büro für Bestimmte Dinge at Sonnenallee 147 in Neukölln. The gallery space will be open from 20:00 and live music will begin at 21:00.
With the noisy yet unavoidably danceable textures of "The Wreckage," together with the colorful video landscapes and hijacked news clips of the video loop series, "What it Takes To Become Invisible," you are invited to explore the inevitable, desirable, and blissfully catastrophic sides of disappearance. As our own images and self-productions fade us out or rampantly saturate us, find refuge in absurdity, through stories of disappearing aircraft, selfie-deaths, infinite faceswaps, jellyfish with credit cards, Jungian tricksters, fertile wastelands, imperfect idols, doves, wolves, and the curiously persistent urge to procreate.
Free entrance, unlimited Späti refreshments available a few steps away.
Doors: 20:00
Live music: 21:00
www.fettermusic.com
This project is kindly supported by the Young Artfund Amsterdam.
On Saturday the 28th of May, you are invited to a special video installation presentation and live performance evening at the Büro für Bestimmte Dinge at Sonnenallee 147 in Neukölln. The gallery space will be open from 20:00 and live music will begin at 21:00.
With the noisy yet unavoidably danceable textures of "The Wreckage," together with the colorful video landscapes and hijacked news clips of the video loop series, "What it Takes To Become Invisible," you are invited to explore the inevitable, desirable, and blissfully catastrophic sides of disappearance. As our own images and self-productions fade us out or rampantly saturate us, find refuge in absurdity, through stories of disappearing aircraft, selfie-deaths, infinite faceswaps, jellyfish with credit cards, Jungian tricksters, fertile wastelands, imperfect idols, doves, wolves, and the curiously persistent urge to procreate.
Free entrance, unlimited Späti refreshments available a few steps away.
Doors: 20:00
Live music: 21:00
www.fettermusic.com
This project is kindly supported by the Young Artfund Amsterdam.
SPICE UP!
March 29 2016 / 19h
@ Büro für Bestimmte Dinge / Sonnenallee 147 / Berlin-Neukölln
March 29 2016 / 19h
@ Büro für Bestimmte Dinge / Sonnenallee 147 / Berlin-Neukölln
In Neukölln - this really multicultural area of Berlin, where one of the main representatives of different cultural identities is food, offered in bars and restaurants, fast foods, markets, on the street… I’m offering my “food” – an artists catalog, designed in style of a culinary book. Using my recent or older works as ingredients for the book, placing them in different context, I’ve tried to create a new multilayer, eclectic artwork. While you can easily catch an irony in giving recipes and directions how to make art, working on this project I was led by number of important questions: how accessible art can be? What is originality? Where is the edge between creativity and plagiarism in the era when we use so many readymade including objects, photos or even artworks by other artists? Or where is a checkpoint between art and culture? What is role of art schools and art trends in contemporary art (if they really have any)?...
TISCHGESELLSCHAFT #11
March 8 2016 / 19h
@ Büro für Bestimmte Dinge / Sonnenallee 147 / Berlin-Neukölln
March 8 2016 / 19h
@ Büro für Bestimmte Dinge / Sonnenallee 147 / Berlin-Neukölln
SPRINGSESSION (2016)
Feb 29 - March 6 2016
@ Büro für Bestimmte Dinge / Sonnenallee 147 / Berlin-Neukölln
Feb 29 - March 6 2016
@ Büro für Bestimmte Dinge / Sonnenallee 147 / Berlin-Neukölln
Wie würde die Welt (Berlin) aussehen, wenn wir die Geräusche des Alltags als Farben sehen könnten?
Die Leipziger Künstlerin Anna Schimkat hinterfragt in ihren Installationen und Objekten den vorgefundenen Raum, entwickelt neue Wahrnehmungsräume und konzentriert sich auf den Klang (darin). Der (zufällig) gefundene Ton der Dinge und Umgebung ist dabei Inspiration und Grundlage. Nach dem Vorbild des Synästhetikers und Komponisten Alexander Nikolajewitsch Skrjabin ordnet sie farbiges Licht den Klängen zu.
Im Rahmen der aktuellen künstlerischen Forschungsarbeit residiert Schimkat vom 29.2. - 6.3.2016 im Institut für Alles Mögliche und nähert sich in dieser Zeit einer Farbe Berlins. Das Zwischenergebnis präsentiert Anna Schimkat in einem Live-Installations-Konzert-Experiment im "Ausland". Den vorläufigen Abschluss der Berliner Farb- und Klangstudie bildet die dreitägige Klanginstallation im "Büro für bestimmte Dinge". Der Klangraum ist durchgehend begeh- und erfahrbar, zwischendurch gibt es Live-Performances. Das Atelier steht (Nicht-) SynästhetikerInnen auch in den vorherigen Tagen offen, um sich über Höhr - und Seherfahrungen austauschen zu können.
Freitag - Sonntag, 04. - 06.03.2016, Gespräch / Klanginstallation / Liveperformance, ganztägig
www.annaschimkat.de
Die Leipziger Künstlerin Anna Schimkat hinterfragt in ihren Installationen und Objekten den vorgefundenen Raum, entwickelt neue Wahrnehmungsräume und konzentriert sich auf den Klang (darin). Der (zufällig) gefundene Ton der Dinge und Umgebung ist dabei Inspiration und Grundlage. Nach dem Vorbild des Synästhetikers und Komponisten Alexander Nikolajewitsch Skrjabin ordnet sie farbiges Licht den Klängen zu.
Im Rahmen der aktuellen künstlerischen Forschungsarbeit residiert Schimkat vom 29.2. - 6.3.2016 im Institut für Alles Mögliche und nähert sich in dieser Zeit einer Farbe Berlins. Das Zwischenergebnis präsentiert Anna Schimkat in einem Live-Installations-Konzert-Experiment im "Ausland". Den vorläufigen Abschluss der Berliner Farb- und Klangstudie bildet die dreitägige Klanginstallation im "Büro für bestimmte Dinge". Der Klangraum ist durchgehend begeh- und erfahrbar, zwischendurch gibt es Live-Performances. Das Atelier steht (Nicht-) SynästhetikerInnen auch in den vorherigen Tagen offen, um sich über Höhr - und Seherfahrungen austauschen zu können.
Freitag - Sonntag, 04. - 06.03.2016, Gespräch / Klanginstallation / Liveperformance, ganztägig
www.annaschimkat.de
POND
Feb 26th 2016 / 19-22h
@ Büro für Bestimmte Dinge / Sonnenallee 147 / Berlin-Neukölln
Feb 26th 2016 / 19-22h
@ Büro für Bestimmte Dinge / Sonnenallee 147 / Berlin-Neukölln
TISCHGESELLSCHAFTEN #10
Feb 9 2016 / 19h
@ Büro für Bestimmte Dinge / Sonnenallee 147 / Berlin-Neukölln
Feb 9 2016 / 19h
@ Büro für Bestimmte Dinge / Sonnenallee 147 / Berlin-Neukölln
Ein Abend, mehrere Menschen, etwas zu Essen, dazu das passende Getränk. Aus Fremden, wird im Laufe des Abends eine Tischgesellschaft, verbunden durch einen gemeinsamen Abend.
TISCHGESELLSCHAFTEN #9
Jan 26 2016 / 19h
@ Büro für Bestimmte Dinge / Sonnenallee 147 / Berlin-Neukölln
Jan 26 2016 / 19h
@ Büro für Bestimmte Dinge / Sonnenallee 147 / Berlin-Neukölln
Ein Abend, mehrere Menschen, etwas zu Essen, dazu das passende Getränk. Aus Fremden, wird im Laufe des Abends eine Tischgesellschaft, verbunden durch einen gemeinsamen Abend.
FRIENDS ARE ARTISTS
Opening: Jan 16 / 19h
January 16-22 2016
@ Büro für Bestimmte Dinge / Sonnenallee 147 / Berlin-Neukölln
Opening: Jan 16 / 19h
January 16-22 2016
@ Büro für Bestimmte Dinge / Sonnenallee 147 / Berlin-Neukölln
with zena bartlett, jordana bragg, jon jon drypnz, lucy wardle, ed bats, yvette velvin, meg dieudonné, april brimer, josephine jelicich
LULU v.3
November 7th / 20-23h
@ Büro für Bestimmte Dinge / Sonnenallee 147 / Berlin-Neukölln
November 7th / 20-23h
@ Büro für Bestimmte Dinge / Sonnenallee 147 / Berlin-Neukölln
you. you. you here.
ah. that’s good.
let’s play a game. i’ll give you an address and a time. you just need to find me behind a curtained window on a city street.
swipe left, swipe right, what are you looking for. my place or yours. are you hiding something under that wig or is that actually more like who you’d rather be.
more: www.theredlightdistrict.ca
ah. that’s good.
let’s play a game. i’ll give you an address and a time. you just need to find me behind a curtained window on a city street.
swipe left, swipe right, what are you looking for. my place or yours. are you hiding something under that wig or is that actually more like who you’d rather be.
more: www.theredlightdistrict.ca
Iph / The Beard of Maqbool
October 1 / 18.30h
@ Liegenschaft / Stuttgarter Straße 13 / Berlin-Neukölln
@ Büro für Bestimmte Dinge / Sonnenallee 147 / Berlin-Neukölln
October 1 / 18.30h
@ Liegenschaft / Stuttgarter Straße 13 / Berlin-Neukölln
@ Büro für Bestimmte Dinge / Sonnenallee 147 / Berlin-Neukölln
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Upasana Sarraju is an Indian artist and writer currently in residence at the Liegenschaft, IAM.
Her residency focuses on the exploring the complex association between words and silence. Their natures remain infinitely powerful in their absolute, mutually-exclusive forms even as the immersion of oneself in either only reveals the depth and beauty of the other. To represent this exploration and her artistic journey so far, she presents two pieces of work at her studio: a short dramatic performance on Oct 1, and an exhibition of a series of humourous letters from Oct 1-3. |
ALL THAT GLOWS SEES
Thursday, Sep 3 2015 / 18-20h
@ Büro für Bestimmte Dinge / Sonnenallee 147 / Berlin-Neukölln
Thursday, Sep 3 2015 / 18-20h
@ Büro für Bestimmte Dinge / Sonnenallee 147 / Berlin-Neukölln
OPEN STUDIOS
July 24th 2015 / 20h
@ Büro für Bestimmte Dinge + Liegenschaft / Sonnenallee 147 + Stuttgarter Str. 43 / Berlin-Neukölln
July 24th 2015 / 20h
@ Büro für Bestimmte Dinge + Liegenschaft / Sonnenallee 147 + Stuttgarter Str. 43 / Berlin-Neukölln
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Join resident artists Katie Green (CA) and Molly Aubry (USA) as they open their studios in Neukölln. Katie will be showing in-progress paintings, drawings, and documentation of murals from her 6-week residency in Berlin. Molly will be showing an in-progress drawing installation.
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FROM DUSK TILL DAWN
May 21st - 23rd 2015
Hours: 21.+22.05. 18-22h / 23.05. 14-19h
@ Büro für Bestimmte Dinge / Sonnenallee 147 / Berlin-Neukölln
May 21st - 23rd 2015
Hours: 21.+22.05. 18-22h / 23.05. 14-19h
@ Büro für Bestimmte Dinge / Sonnenallee 147 / Berlin-Neukölln
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During my residency, I shot photographs using forms painted in black, both outdoors and in the studio. For just one of the photographs displayed in the exhibition, there are generally a hundred others, if not more. While the processes used during the shoot are rigorous, they also involve a substantial random dimension.
My body movements and those of the camera are at the root of these ambiguous spaces and blurs. The inherent constraints of the residency, particularly that of working solely with natural light, produced various, sometimes surprising effects. However, quite to the contrary of what I had expected, the Berlin experience actually reinforced my use of an increasingly simplified vocabulary. The exhibition title is taken from an eponymous triptych made using a black monochrome painting photographed at different times of the day. It also evokes the particular time required of art and the way in which I have chosen to practice it... At work, ensconced in the midst of a flowerless garden, I often have the feeling that I am awaiting something special, like the flight of a hummingbird framed in the viewfinder. I don’t lose hope, because occasionally something really does happen. The artist would like to thank the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, the Conseil des arts de Longueuil and the Antenne du Québec à Berlin for their financial support.
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PLEASURE GARDEN
Feb 21st / 7pm
@ Büro für Bestimmte Dinge / Sonnenallee 147 / Berlin-Neukölln
Feb 21st / 7pm
@ Büro für Bestimmte Dinge / Sonnenallee 147 / Berlin-Neukölln
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'Pleasure Garden' is an installation that reflects research from an ongoing project investigating Theme Parks and their position as sites of escapism and pleasure. In August of 2014, Martha Glenn visited 7 different Theme Parks in the Southeast of the United States, collecting material and experiencing the "pleasures" of consumerist escapism. Seeking to better understand how pleasure is attained in our modern world and in what forms pleasure comes in, the installation explores form and experience. Using video, objects and sculpture, the installation considers both the chaos and the satisfaction associated with obtaining pleasure within the confines of consumerism.
Created // Installed by Martha Glenn |
OPEN STUDIO - John R. Neeson (AUS)
Jan 24th / 7pm
@ Büro für Bestimmte Dinge / Sonnenallee 147 / Berlin-Neukölln
Jan 24th / 7pm
@ Büro für Bestimmte Dinge / Sonnenallee 147 / Berlin-Neukölln
John R. Neeson / www.johnrneeson.com
OPEN STUDIO - Robyn Alatorre (USA)
December 2014
@ Büro für Bestimmte Dinge / Sonnenallee 147 / Berlin-Neukölln
December 2014
@ Büro für Bestimmte Dinge / Sonnenallee 147 / Berlin-Neukölln
Tsuki
Nov 16th 2014 - 8.30pm
@ Büro für Bestimmte Dinge / Sonnenallee 147 / Berlin-Neukölln
Nov 16th 2014 - 8.30pm
@ Büro für Bestimmte Dinge / Sonnenallee 147 / Berlin-Neukölln
Party / two performers and video mapping / with François Chaignaud (dance video) Harold Kühnel and Trami Nguyen
(*) INSTANT MEMORIES
28.09.2014 / 5 - 7 PM
28.09.2014 / 5 - 7 PM
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Images captured by the artist eye seem to work like the crystals embedded in the Polaroid to sublimate the photographed subjects.
As such the 'polaroid' idea is used by Betty Zanelli to end her residency at the Buro. The process speeds up the connections between the photographer and her subjects and the resulting snapshots are both the raw material – for a large composition to be exhibited – and the refined tiles of a greater picture. bettyzan@gmail.com http://www.cargocollective.com/bettyzanelli |
(*) IMPRO Jam
23.09.2014 / 7.30 pm
23.09.2014 / 7.30 pm
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Betty Zanelli's "Small Wonders" hosts a live music improvisation 'jam' by Filippo Cosentino (guitar); Andrea Marcelli (percussions) and Marco G. Visconti-Prasca (saxophones).
www.marcogviscontiprasca.com |
(*) SMALL WONDERS
17.09.2014 / 6 pm
17.09.2014 / 6 pm
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Betty Zanelli is an artist working with photography, digital painting and installation.
www.bettyzanelli.com Marco Visconti-Prasca (Milano 1957) is an Italian composer and saxophone player whose musical language is the byproduct of the composer’s influences from both jazz and ‘contemporary-classical’ practices. www.marcogviscontiprasca.com |
(*) Uncharted Territory
27. – 29.06.2014
27. – 29.06.2014
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A collection of new works by Michael Bennett
For this latest series Bennett will use his new found home (Berlin) as the stimulant. Harnessing his recently developed understanding of this environment and daily interaction with the city as inspiration. These visual mind maps, personify the mood and feeling of the city in the eyes of the artist. * Michael Bennett / www.b-e-n-n-e-t-t.com * FOR: www.48-stunden-neukoelln.de
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L/H/B*C (#1) - With Helena Björk, Finland
May 2014
May 2014
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L/H/B*C IS A COOPERATION BETWEEN AALTO UNIVERSITY - SCHOOL OF ARTS, DESIGN AND ARCHITECTURE IN HELSINKI, THE INSTITUT FÜR ALLES MÖGLICHE ZU BERLIN AND THE ACADEMY OF VISUAL ARTS LEIPZIG.
THROUGH A MONTH LONG RESIDENCY IN BERLIN STUDENTS FROM THE ART DEPARTMENT OF AALTO UNIVERSITY HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO CONNECT WITH THE CITY, ITS ARTSPACES, ITS DISCOURSES AND ITS CONTEMPORARY CULTURE IN GENERAL. www.i-a-m.tk/l-h-b-c.html
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(*) Shadow of Memory
02.05.2014 / 7 PM
02.05.2014 / 7 PM
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Shadow of memory is a site-specific installation which seeks to explore corollaries between quantum physics and the complex psychology of human experience. Through an examination of dissipative structures and chaotic systems far-from-equilibrium, Shadow of memory explores the idea that individuals - like other complex systems in nature - evolve new systems of self-organisation in response to 'crisis'.
As an 'architecture' of chaotic processes, Shadow of memory takes the form of a vortex, one of the most recognisable dissipative structures in nature - a complex, constantly changing structure, which gives shape to the chaotic motion of energy. And from this metaphorical chaos, patterns of information, embedded within the system, begin to emerge... The term dissipative structure, first coined by [Nobel Laureate Ilya] Prigogine in 1967 refers to a giant fluctuation stabilised by energy exchanges with the outside world when an open system reaches maximum instability, producing a new type of organisation in far-from-equilibrium states. According to this revolutionary concept, natural processes would no longer tend toward degradation, extinction and thermic death, or entropy, but rather towards renewal, generating new orders from the point of chaos.(1) Dissipative structures are developed in systems which are far-from-equilibrium and hence very chaotic, and materialise suddenly when critical conditions are reached. The far-from-equilibrium condition takes place only when a huge amount of information gets embedded in the system. (2) (1) Manuel Almendro and Daniella Weber, "Dissipative processes in psychology", 2012 (2) Anil K. Rajvanshi, "Nature of Human Thought", 2004 (*) by Monique La Fontaine / www.moniquelafontaine.com
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(*) BOILER ROOM
28.-30.03.2014 / 12-6 PM
28.-30.03.2014 / 12-6 PM
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An exhibition featuring work concerning the implications of financial power structures.
Friday 28th - Sunday 30th March 2014, From 12pm - 6pm * by our March Resident: Alice Woods / www.alicewoods.co.uk
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(*) OPEN Studio
17.02.2014 / 5 PM
17.02.2014 / 5 PM
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We invite you for a visual storytelling with mixed media by Lena Selander (SE) - painter, theater and film production designer, playing with abstraction and colors.
In her work the motifs originate from a childhood and the result are the multi-layered images that strongly touch and awaken the viewer's own memories. The viewer faces conflict stories - an invitation to a dialogue between the past, present, and how we as individuals have become who we are today. Petra Revenue (SE) - writer and director - is working on the theme ‘Personal fiktion’. She will show ‘Motive’, a film portrait with the ambition to examine the connecting points between the artwork and the face of the artist - how the inner and the outer landscape corresponds, how the artists articulate their passion. Currently she is doing a similar project in Berlin, portraying artists that works and live here, during her residency at the Institute. 17.02. 5 PM | OPENING 18.02. - 20.02. | OPEN HOURS 4 - 7 PM MORE: http://lselander.blogspot.de www.petrarevenue.n.nu
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(*) OPEN STUDIO
29. – 31.01.2014 / 4 – 7 PM
29. – 31.01.2014 / 4 – 7 PM
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a sneak peek at the making of pieces of jewellery
come by and meet the artist ... Wednesday - Friday ... 4 - 7 pm by Martine Kwakernaak, Netherlands www.martinekwakernaak.com
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(*) ALISA SLAUGHTER (USA)
05. – 19.01.2014
AN INTRO BY NELE HERZOG
01-2014
Alisa mainly sees herself as a writer, even teaches creative writing back home in Southern California. Sometimes she gets bored by her everyday occupations though. Right now she spends her days at the Büro für Bestimmte Dinge in Berlin trying to liberate herself from the everyday business of being a fiction writer by leaving most of her artistic decisions up to chance. ...
05. – 19.01.2014
AN INTRO BY NELE HERZOG
01-2014
Alisa mainly sees herself as a writer, even teaches creative writing back home in Southern California. Sometimes she gets bored by her everyday occupations though. Right now she spends her days at the Büro für Bestimmte Dinge in Berlin trying to liberate herself from the everyday business of being a fiction writer by leaving most of her artistic decisions up to chance. ...
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[19.12.2013 / 7 – 9 PM]
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* / OPEN STUDIO
Lauren Denitzio (1983) is an interdisciplinary artist and writer whose work encompasses drawing, painting, and mixed media as well as site-specific text works and collaborative projects. Their practice addresses the visual examination, representation and re-imagining of private spaces as they are constructed and oriented to reflect one's embodied identity. While in Berlin this December they will be exploring feminist and queer communities, specifically in relation to domestic space and communal living. Recent group exhibitions include those in New York at The Kitchen, Recession Art Culturefix, Storefront, Rush Arts Gallery, and Wayfarers, as well as a solo show at Gallery 5 in Richmond, Virginia. Residencies include SÍM (Reykjavik), AS220 (Providence, RI) and Institut für Alles Mögliche (Berlin). Interviews on various aspects of their practice have been featured in AMP Magazine, Bitch Magazine, MSNBC.com, Alternative Press and FRHC: Creative Fuel. Denitzio is a founding member of For The Birds, a New York based feminist collective dedicated to challenging social inequality through DIY feminist cultural activism. Their writing and visual work has appeared in Sick Zine, International Girl Gang Underground, Brass in Pocket, Hoax and RE/VISIONIST. Denitzio received their BFA at the Rhode Island School of Design in 2006 and recently completed an MFA in Fine Arts at Parsons the New School for Design. MORE: www.laurendenitzio.com
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[30.11.2013 / 6 - 10 PM]
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* / out of touch
Consisting primarily of works on paper that utilize folding book structures, this exhibition explores the concept of identity and self-perception as it changes with one's surroundings. Working from a background of graphic design, painting/drawing, and bookbinding, these two dimensional pieces are able to tell a story even as the viewer manipulates them into a new shape. Tisch Mikhail Lewis, currently based in Michigan, focuses on making work that not only speaks of her direct experiences, but also evokes a sense of place. Formally a painter, she experiments with different media to create objects that are both familiar and portable. |
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[6.10 – 3.11. 2013]
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* / BIANCA BOER, NETHERLANDS
Schuppig (Aus dem Niederländischen von Gregor Seferens) Der roten Linie folgen, hatten sie gesagt. Die Linie führte durch einen Gang, ging vom cremefarbenen Linoleum des Bodens auf die weiße Wand des Treppenhauses über. Es kam Mark Sikkerman so vor, als wäre die Linie dort dicker, so wie die Linien auf dem Asphalt, die man spürt, wenn man mit dem Fahrrad darüber fährt. Um ganz sicher zu gehen, müsste er kurz mit der Zunge an der Mauer lecken. Die Zunge ist ein sehr viel empfindlicheres Tastorgan als die Hand. Der einzige Grund, dies nicht zu tun, waren die Bakterien. Alles war voller Bakterien. ... MORE: www.biancaboer.nl
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[14.09.2013 / 7 pm]
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* / Zwei Wände
Helen Smith and Jeremy Kirwan-Ward are both Australian artists who work collaboratively and individually in the genre of minimal abstraction. Large scale exterior wall works have been completed by both artists in various locations in Western Australia and more recently in France. During the time at the Büro für Bestimmte Dinge, they have completed two large site specific wall works. These works are and explore possibilities of minimalistic visual language intersecting with the physicality of the space in Neukölln. Opening: saturday september 14, 19.00 – 22.00 open: Saturday September 21, 13.00 – 17.00 or by appointment at helensmith71@hotmail.com www.jeremykirwanward.com www.helensmith71.com www.ac4ca.NET |
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[28.07. – 04.08.2013]
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* / JOSH STENBERG (CANADA)
we make up our own do you remember sitting in school, inventing our own language? we made a list three pages long we called a dictionary i still have it somewhere kizzle was a dog fngup was a teacher rinfunifinikeniknik was love but when we tried to use it between us we could not remember any words or when we did remember, the listener did not. so i just said: jenurble timtle biddy oof? and you answered: og de mog hap snipple ñroop! that was our secrecy; but it didn’t last long this period when we were young and honest, when we still knew that the words we used conveyed little and meant nothing |
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[25. – 27. 07.2013 / 17h - 21h / opening: 25.07. / 7 PM]
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* / You Can Say Anything Here
by Kata MijatoviĆ & Zoran PaveliĆ / CROATIA The joint exhibition of Kata MijatoviĆ and Zoran PaveliĆ, You Can Say Anything Here is based on sound / voice. In the exhibition project, the sound / voice are treated in two ways: as a direct mediators of the meaning of the works, and as a artistics statements wich comment on the 'here' and 'now'. Some of the works are executed in a medium that includes the image (video, installation, photography), but the basic transfer of the idea in all the works, takes place via voice / sound. The title of the exhibition, You Can Say Anything Here, was taken from the ephonymus video installation by Zoran Pavelić wich is a part of the exhibition. The title suggest a kind of illusion of the absence of control, censorship, calling on the absurdities of democratic processes at the global level, and refers also to the location, organisational and cultural significance of the exhibition space and its function. The interactive video installation You Can Say Anything Here, includes a call for audience participation. This call is already emphasized on the declarative level, in the name of the exhibitition itself. KATA MIJATOVIĆ / http://issuu.com/katamijatovic/docs/km ZORAN PAVELIĆ / http://issuu.com/zoranpavelic/docs/zp |
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[22. – 30.06.2013 Opening: 29.06. / 7 PM]
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* / Project SpacE
by Tyson Washburn, USA “Project Space” is simultaneously an exhibition and workspace for the presentation of a series of photographs and videos of subjects from the outskirts of Berlin. These works document ephemeral engagements between persons observed as well as the traces of involvement between the artist and the environment. The photographs record found objects placed in the landscape, such as thread marking the space between trees in a winter forest. The videos maintain a constant gaze as almost imperceptible kites are flown in the far distance, or record persons traversing a construction site through the frame of a window of the last standing wall of a mostly demolished structure, resolutely in the foreground. Of his process, Washburn says: “My work involves isolation, landscape and interaction. Seeking the fringes of this city and finding a transcendent or a numinous place to interact with. These additions and observations are my dialogue to the natural composition. Isolation and observation are an important part of my process, and once removed from other concerns, I interact with the landscape on a subconscious level. My photographs are the end result of these interactions.” Tyson Washburn (b. 1979, USA) is an artist and photography instructor based in Berlin. Awards include a graduate fellowship residency at the Headlands Center for the Arts (2010), artist’s residency at the Vermont Studio Center (2012), and collaboration at I-A-M in Berlin-Mitte (2013). He received a BA from Sonoma State University (2003) and MFA from San Francisco State University (2009) |
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[05. – 20.06.2013 / Opening: 08.06. 7PM]
48 STUNDEN NEUKÖLLN:
FRIDAY, 14. JUNE: 12.00 - 19.00 SATURDAY, 15. JUNE: 12.00 - 19.00 SUNDAY, 16. JUNE: 13.00 - 17.00 |
* / Zeitgleich
by Caetlynn Booth, USA “Zeitgleich” is a selection of new work from a painting project based in Berlin. Works include two large paintings comprised of 8 and 12 individual parts on mounted paper and canvas, installed with adjoining wall paintings. Other works are singular paintings or polyptych sequences of relating subjects, including landscapes depicting the Milky Way and urban views focusing on the convergence of architecture and landscaping, such as a scrim of tree branches that create repeating patterns between canvases, suggesting a tree fort or lookout. Views of rural terrain as agricultural geometries describe idealized topographies, and a narrative scene enacts a contemporary mythological scenario, provoking investigation. Booth began the project in 2011 by studying the paintings, throughout Germany, of early Baroque artists such as Rembrandt, Claude Lorraine and Adam Elsheimer, deconstructing their methods to achieve a sense of “the spirit of place” in revitalizing conceptions of landscape. Drawing from the urban and rural areas in and around Berlin, exhibitions of art and historical objects, visualization exercises, and texts including The Urban Revolution by H. Lefebvre, and Ovid’s Metamorphosis, the scope of this work centers on a flexible notion of landscape as experienced through Caetlynn Booth (b. 1978, USA) is a current D.A.A.D. Fellow in Berlin for this independent painting project. Previous awards include grants from the Fulbright Commission and Kittredge Fund. Booth’s work has been shown in San Francisco, New York, Berlin and Paris, and published in New American Paintings (2010, 2011). She received a BA from UC Davis (2002) and MFA from Rutgers University (2011). MORE AT: WWW.CAETLYNNBOOTH.COM |
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[31.05.2013 / 8–12 pm]
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* / RHYTHMS #3
Rhythms #3 is a collaboration work between Andrea Lira and Marisa Benjamim based on the ideas of direction, balance, weight, and how they interact in space. The project explores the recurrent intervals and motion of living things, the interaction between shapes and how things transform and decay overtime. This collaboration aims to create a visual beat through actions between stillness and motion. - - Marisa Benjamim currently lives in Berlin where she works and develop projects, particularly in the field of performance art and installation. She is one of the founders of Kunstraum João Cocteau, an art space in Berlin where she works and collaborates on curatorial projects and bilateral initiatives with other artists. The work of Benjamin combines an inner world of a storyteller, where there is a whole influence on their prior knowledge in sculpture, video, drawing and installation. The work of Benjamin awakens a metaphor from the inconsistency between the concrete and intimate reverie human. Andrea Lira, originally from Santiago, Chile, is based in Brooklyn, NY where she works as an animation director and illustrator. In her personal work, she explores through video and drawing our relationships to nature, time and the body. Her narratives draw inspiration from the everyday life, objects and imagination, combining realities and different spaces together. Andrea is currently doing a 3 weeks residence at the INSTITUT FÜR ALLES MÖGLICHE IN Berlin. (www.andrealira.com) |
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[05.05. – 12.05. 2013]
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DIRECT ACTION 2013 / Berlinon
FÜR ALLE, DIE SCHON ALLES GESEHEN HABEN UND SICH VOR NICHTS MEHR FÜRCHTEN ALS VOR DEM NICHTS. BERLINON BIETET EINE EINWÖCHIGE REISE INS LEERE HERZ DER METAMODERNE. MIT AN BORD SIND TOTAL VERUNSICHERTE MENSCHEN, EXTREM SELBSTBEWUSSTE TIERE UND EINE STATTLICHE SAMMLUNG AN SCHREIBMASCHINEN. SONST NICHTS. NON IST WEDER HIGH NOCH LOW UND SCHON GARNICHT GEIL. NON IST EINFACH NUR NON. EINE VERWEGENE HORDE BLOGGER, ROCKER, PLAYER UND MEDIENINTERVENTIONISTEN AUS BERLIN, DÜSSELDORF, KÖLN, HAMBURG UND HEIDELBERG BEGRÜNDEN DAS ZEITALTER DER METAMODERNE UND SCHREIBEN UND ADDEN IN EINER EINWÖCHIGEN KONFERENZ EIN NEUES KAPITEL ZUR KUNSTGESCHICHTE. WEITERES UNTER: WWW.MAECHTIGES-NON-OF-METAMODERNE.NET NOCH WEITERES UNTER: WWW.PERISPHERE.DE |
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[30.04. – 04.05. 2013]
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* / Les parcimonies / Little savings
Pascale Bonenfant / Québec, Canada OPENING: 30.04. / 7 PM OPEN: 30.04. – 04.05.2013 Cette exposition présente une centaine de planches originales élaborées pendant une résidence de création à Strasbourg et à Berlin. Exceptionnellement réalisé à l’aquarelle, ce corpus d’oeuvres miniatures explore le potentiel poétique du rapport texte-image et joue sur l’aspect énigmatique du décalage entre les deux médiums. Il aborde certains contrastes fondamentaux tels que la nature et la civilisation, la vie et la mort, l’esprit et la matière, par une série de métaphores et une esthétique ludique. This exhibition presents one-hundred original artworks produced during a residency in Strasbourg and Berlin. Exceptionally made with watercolor, this body of miniature work explores the poetic potential of the text-image relationship and plays with the enigmatic aspect of the gap between these two mediums. It approaches certain fundamental contrasts like nature and civilization, life and death, spirit and material through a number of metaphors and playful aesthetics. PLUS / MORE: http://pascalebonenfant.blogspot.ca/ |
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[Opening: 13.04. at 7 pm]
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Morgenvogel Real Estate zu Gast in der Sonnenallee
Der Frühling kommt, und so auch Morgenvogel Real Estate. Das Vogel-Immobilien-Unternehmen der Berliner Künstler Maria-Leena Räihälä und Manuel Bonik bietet perfekte Immobilien an für Meisen, Spatzen, Kleiber und Trauerschnäpper, einfach anzubringen am Fenster oder Balkon oder an Bäumen im Garten, an der Straße oder im nächsten Park. Vom 1. bis zum 13. April macht Morgenvogel Real Estate Station im Büro für bestimmte Dinge in der Sonnenallee 147. Am Samstag, dem 13. April, von 19 bis 23 Uhr feiern wir dort dann einen musikalischen Abend, mit Morgenvogel-Musik und finnischem Tango. Zeiten: di, 02.04. – sa, 06.04. jeweils 14 bis 20 uhr Morgenvogeldisko: Sa, 13.04. Ab 19 uhr Näheres auch unter: www.morgenvogel.net - Morgenvogel Real Estate on Sonnenallee Spring is coming, and so is Morgenvogel Real Estate. The bird housing company by the Berlin artists Maria-Leena Räihälä and Manuel Bonik provides perfect houses for tits, sparrows, nuthatchs, and pied flycatcher, to be attached easily to windows or balconies or to trees in the garden, on the street or in a park close-by. From April 1st through 13th Morgenvogel Real Estate is to be found at the Büro für besteimmte Dinge on Sonnenallee 147. On Saturday, April 13th, from 7 to 11 pm, we’ll celebrate a music evening, with Morgenvogel music and Finnish tango. hours: tue, 02.04. – SAt, 06.04. from 2 to 8 pm MORGENVOGELDIScO: SAt, 13.04. from 7 pm More information at: www.morgenvogel.net |
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[13.03.2013 / 6 – 9 pm]
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* / open studio: "PAY & P(L)AY"
MILENA JOVIĆEVIĆ / Montenegro My work is inspired by everyday-life situations and paradoxes of contemporary society and world we live, that strange place saturated with the media, with an exaggerated production and exaggerated consumption. Everything is poised on the edge between the real and the virtual. In one side we constantly talk about freedom, democracy and better life, but the truth is violence, suffering, bizarre relationships, disease and death. The more we talk, less we do. In this general disarray, where many systems of values have been fundamentally shaken up and devoid of elementary emotions, every kind of addiction and slavery is sold for “freedom”. This society of depression and sedatives, shopaholics, betting addicts, Internet addicts and the most vulgar voyeurism is a very intriguing field for artistic research. The life in harmony with nature and its rules is quite impossible; destruction is key word of our time. My works are ironic, subversive. Latest works explore anxiety and human body as object in the consumer society, with an emphasis on male- female relations in socio- political context. I work in various of media, from drawing to object- sculpture, painting, computer graphic and wall painting. MORE AT: www.milenajovicevic.com |
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[25.02.2013 / 7 PM]
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tischgesellschaften [08]
dieses mal mit: • sekt mit granatapfelkerne und selbstgemachte grissini • rote beete salat mit walnüssen und äpfeln - brot und selbsgemachter petersilienbutter • topinambursuppe mit pastinakenchips • orangenmandelkuchen |
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[21.–23.02.2013]
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* / Once More With Feeling
'Once More With Feeling' explores a possible love affair between two German actresses working in early 1970’s Ireland. Comprising of video, photography, and installation the work playfully combines segments of dialogue from the Irish TV show ‘The Riordans’ translated and performed in German, digitally altered internet images of 1970’s Ireland, email, digital sketches and tourist bric-a-brac to explore issues around National ideology, nostalgia, and xenophobia. by david nugent / www.davidnugentphotography.com |
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[01.02.2013 / 7 PM]
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* / Madonnarama, Berlin style
(OPEN STUDIO - ANETTE FRIEDRICH JOHANNESSEN) Underneath the disco lights, she is free, happy and inches close to stardom. This is the times of heavily mediated culture and an extreme access to people’s personal lives. Through social media we daily are feeding and consuming privacy, intruding upon personal affairs and evolve maniac voyeuristic tendencies. There is an exchange of emotions as pleasure, pain, artificial happiness and simulated “perfect” lives. By inciting this curiosity and mania of x-factor, 15 minutes of fame and obsession with celebrities, my performances merely exists within a multi media space. Adapting the emotions of voyeurism, and intruding upon a person’s private space, by staging familiar actions, such as singing to ones favourite tune or rehearsing on a popular dance, is the key element of all my performances. Habituating intimates spaces or recreating them with as abstract substances as possible, is significant. The viewer should leave with blushed cheeks, a sick stomach and a sense of embarrassment, embarrassment for intruding a secret affair. My performances are often done in more private/home-like spaces; my work here in Berlin has focused on the time one uses to feel at home somewhere. Feeling at home means letting go, sing, dance and move to music. I would like to invite you to my special evening. An evening of intimate character, where you up close can see me perform naturally and free. How it is viewed is by your own choice: there will be a live streaming, a YouTube site for you to watch, or you can peek through the door and watch. Either way, my door is open ... MORE: http://www.youtube.com/user/anefrij |
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[23.01.2013 / 7 PM]
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tischgesellschaften [07]
DIESES MAL MIT: • orangensalat mit schwarzen oliven, zwiebeln und schafskäse • topfenknödel mit bergkäse auf gemischtem salat • schokoladeningwertarte mit zimtsahne |
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[05.01.2013 / 7 PM]
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tischgesellschaften [06]
DIESES MAL MIT: • Poireaux Vinaigrette – gedünsteter Lauch mit einer Kapernvinaigrette • Kartoffel - Ingwersuppe mit Petersillien - Knoblauchbutterbaguette • Gallete de Rois – Dreikönigskuchen |
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[22.12.2012 / 2 – 6 PM]
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* / Reflective History
Reflective History is a series of work examining the blurry crossover of memory and imagination. Often viewed through a mask of reality, the alternate views of the present reflect fantasies of the past, and encourage discoveries for the future to surface. Shawn Dicey works with text, found objects, historical information, paint, pens, musical instruments, and surroundings to create multimedia works of personal and global narrative. Shawn explores and shapes a personal idea of art as statement as life. THE CENTRAL PIECE TITLED 'ORIGINS RISING' IS MEANT TO BE PART FUNERAL SERVICE FOR A GUITAR BEING LAID TO REST, AND PART PERFORMANCE PIECE. THE CASSETTE MACHINE WAS PLAYING A 3 HOUR IMPROVISED SOLO GUITAR PIECE, THE LAST MUSIC MADE BY THE INSTRUMENT, RECORDED BY ME IN THE DAYS LEADING UP TO THE PERFORMANCE. THE HEADSTOCK WAS BAKED INTO A LOAF OF BREAD ON THE MORNING OF THE PERFORMANCE, REPRESENTING AN ENTOMBING AND POSSIBLE SOURCE OF FUEL. THE DRAWINGS AND SCULPTURES ON DISPLAY REFLECT MY TIME IN BERLIN, AND ARE BASED ON EXPERIENCES, DREAMS, OBJECTS FOUND, AND OBSERVATIONS DURING MY TIME HERE. Dicey hails from the shadow of the Rocky Mountains: Calgary, Alberta, Canada. |
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[01.12.2012 / 4-6 pm]
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* / Open Studio (Works in Progress)
Abbey Hepner / www.hepnerart.com / http://abbeyhepner.tumblr.com/ Abbey Hepner is a multimedia artist who explores the relationship between humans and the landscape. Mediums include photography, performance, video, sculpture and interactive technologies. Public outcry in Germany following the events at Fukushima immediately resulted in 8 nuclear plant closures, with all remaining nuclear facilities to be closed by 2022. Outside of Japan, no other country responded to the Fukushima disaster as dramatically as Germany. Never keen on nuclear energy in the first place, many Germans feel confident about abandoning the old strategy and the tremendous progress they have made in developing renewable energy, which now accounts for over 25% of the country’s electricity. Germany’s decisions are not without heavy criticism however as opponents point out the inconsistent production of some renewable energy sources and possible need for coal to pick up the slack during the nuclear phase-out. In Hepner’s newest series, Scars On The Landscape, she has created a series of videos filmed at both decommissioned and currently active nuclear power facilities in Germany. Using her body in a performance-like gesture she creates a mark in time in the landscape surrounding the building as it is in flux between active and abandoned. Hepner’s series includes interviews, materials from her travels and a look at renewable energy in Germany’s shifting landscape. She also includes a look into the alternative view; neighboring country France, which has 58 nuclear reactors and relies on nuclear power for over 77% of its energy needs. |
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[19.11.2012 / 7 PM]
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* / Carousel
Lise Latreille presents the project "Carousel" at the Büro Für Bestimmte Dinge – a looped slide show of images taken by ten different people in the week of November 8 – 15 in Berlin. |
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[13.11.2012 / 7 PM]
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tischgesellschaften [05]
DIESES MAL MIT: • Grünkernsalat mit Orangen und Fenchel • Kartoffel - Brokkolisuppe mit Ziegenkäse • Bratäpfel in Holunderblüttensirup mit Vanillejoghurt |
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[04. – 18.11. 2012]
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* / LISE LATREILLE, Canada → WEB
Lise Latreille is a photographer who explores the relationship between people and environments. She is inspired by rural and urban life, natural phenomena, travel snapshots, modes of transit, and the lives of objects. Sequencing images is an important part of her process- she enjoys creating atmospheric narriatives, and how the relationships between pictures can generate their own symbolic or psychological world. |
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[09. – 31.10. 2012]
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* / Heather Smith, Canada → WEB
Heather Kai Smith has been collecting and documenting personal artifacts and found photography from Berlin during her stay. These drawings attempt to narrate a subjective self-understanding, and simultaneously create objective nostalgic experiences for the viewer. The finished works, including a bookwork and small sculptural elements will be collectively installed at the Institut fur Alles Moglisches in January. |
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[06.10.2012 / 4 – 7 PM]
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* / open studio
As an ending to the period of living and working at Institut für alles mögliche, Signe-lill opens her studio for visitors to come inside and have a look at her workspace. Signe-Lill will be showing drawing, sculpturE, PHotography. More at: www.signe-lill.com |
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[10.09.2012 / 7.30 PM]
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tischgesellschaften [04]
DIESES MAL MIT: • Möhren-Sesamsalat mit Rauke und Schafskäse • Zucchini - Buttermilchsuppe • Heidelbeertarte mit Katzenzungen |
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[09.09. – 07.10. 2012]
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* / signe-lill valkvæ, Norway → WEB
Signe-Lill works in an interchanging exploration between drawing and writing to collect and transform merging different impressions. This is supported by various media, digital-media, paper mache sculptures, "ready mades" and many more. Her residency will act as an intense selfstudy, supplemented by continuous guiedences by artist Marie Aly. Subjects such as recreation and rewriting will be explored for example by using elements from older drawings in a new context, or removing a found object from its original purpose using it simply as a form or color in a bigger installation. |
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[07.09.2012 / 7 PM]
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aline benecke - Picture this
Aline Benecke arbeitet als Performerin und Kuratorin in verschiedenen Zusammenhängen und Netzwerken. 'picture this‘, ihre erste Soloperformance, entstand 2011 im Rahmen einer Residenz bei aktör&vänner Göteborg mit der Unterstützung vom Goethe-Institut und während eines weiteren Aufenthalts bei ‚ausland‘ Berlin. Die Arbeit wurde zu zahlreichen Festivals eingeladen, u.a 'Duisburger Akzente' und 'Göteborgs Dans & Teater Festival'. Während ihrer Residenz im Büro für bestimmte Dinge wird Aline zusammen mit Hendrik Quast präzise Elemente der Performance strukturieren und zudem die Proben und Vorgänge als solche untersuchen, um mehr Freizeit zu haben. Zurück zum Fremdsein: Ich bin aufgewachsen mit den Geschichte über das là-bas, war aber hauptsächlich im europäischen ici. Meine Erfahrung von, über und mit Algerien ist genährt von Fotografien und orientalischen Mythen. Diese Bogen spinne ich weiter. Ich habe eine beachtliche Sammlung an fremden Fotografien und Geschichten wie aus 1001 Nacht im Gepäck mit denen ich mir meine morgenländische Identität erdichte. Stell Dir vor.... picture this... Dramturgie: Florian Ackermann, Hendrik Quast |
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[27. + 28.08.2012 /
opening 27.08. at 7 PM] |
berlin now
Monika Oechsler, Ron Hagell und Birte Endrejat zeigen foto, film, zeichnung und Text! Opening: 27.08. at 7 pm times: 27.08. 7 – 10 pm + 28.08. 12 – 6 pm Monika Oechsler explores the modalities of performative assemblage and the production of transitional spaces in relation to viewer experience. Her practice includes video installation, sound, photography, performance and animation. Oechsler teaches at Chelsea College of Art and Design, London and at the University of the West of England, Bristol, UK. Her recently completed PhD research explored the interstitiality of the multi-screen video installation space. During the residency at I-A-M the artist will develop a new film based on the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin. (More at: www.monikaoechsler.co.uk) Ron Hagell will be showing a new digital print series made in response to this residency in Berlin. Having lived and worked in Frankfurt/M from1990 to 1995 and visiting Berlin often at that time (including running in the first marathon through both West & East Berlin) and the wrapping of the Reichstag, Ron has now traveled around the "new" Berlin on his little orange cycle (provided by I-A-M). The little cycle has had an historical adventure. Also, planned before the residency and realized this month here in Berlin , Ron has made a new dance video/film based on a previous work, "Dancer on Glass". This new abstract work features video projection as a main light source on solo improvisational contemporary movement. The starting points are the female form - fabric - color - light and movement. BIRTE ENDREJAT IS PRESENTING HER PIECE "WATCHING SOMEONE WATCHING". (MORE AT: WWW.BIRTEENDREJAT.COM) |
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[02. – 30.08. 2012]
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* / RON HAGELL, UK & MONIKA OECHSLER, UK → WEB
Ron Hagell; MFA, Film Directing and Screenwriting, Columbia University. Ron is now a media artist and practice lecturer having had several former careers including a television producer/director with PBS and Lifetime, a narrative film maker and a US Army officer in Vietnam. Most recently Ron has been teaching film and video practice at Royal Holloway - University of London where he created various tracks of courses in studio video and contemporary media art. His current practice is in installation art with large screen projections, digital prints and documentary centred on topics related to diaspora and family.
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[01.08.2012 / 7 pm]
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opening of the Büro Für bestimmte dinge The INSTITUT FÜR ALLES MÖGLICHE opens a new space - this time in Neukölln - and is looking forward to see you there! there is: * the first institutional hitparade ... we asked you to send your favorite song via youtube or any other way and received 24 songs ... the first sampler with 20 copies ... * THE TINIEST ARTSPACE EVER (http://ttae.i-a-m.tk/) * Mojitos * honest white walls Thank you all! |
