World premiere of “A Tall Tale” (HD, 16’, Germany / Ireland, 2017) at the 67. Berlinale Forum Expanded Screenings: 10.2., 21:30 Akademie der Künste, Hanseatenweg 10 12.2., 12:30 Arsenal 1, Potsdamer Straße 2 A thin crack extending from the roof, down the front of the building and into the adjacent lake forms the mise en […]
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Forum Expanded / Berlinale 2017
9 – 19 February The Forum Expanded curatorial team has now completed the 2017 selection. 44 artistic works from a total of 21 countries have been invited, including 28 films of various lengths, 15 installations and a performance. The opening of the group exhibition at the Akademie der Künste at the Hanseatenweg already takes place […]
Exhibition: Arne Schmitt / Nico Joana Weber. Alleinanspruch (Sole Claim)
04 February – 30 April 2017 Opening: Fri 3 February, 7 pm Temporary Gallery, Centre for contemporary art, Mauritiuswall 35, 50676 Cologne, Germany Curated by Regina Barunke Under the title „Alleinanspruch (Sole Claim)“ the Cologne based artists Arne Schmitt and Nico Joana Weber present an exciting interplay between photography and film, focussing the notion of […]
Exhibition: Elfriede Mejchar
Elfriede Mejchar: ROAD TRIP mit PÜPPI, 17.01. – 24.02.2017, Kro Art Contemporary Elfriede Mejchar: 1924 born in Vienna, 1961 Mastership examination at the Federal Education and Research Institute for Graphics, 1952 – 1984 photograph for the Austrian Federal Office for the Protection of Monuments, since 1984 Freelance photographer. For Elfriede Mejchar photographie was her job. During her work […]
EEB7 – Fabricated Histories. Fact and Fiction in Recent History
IEEB (International Experimental Engraving Biennial) in Bucharest is focused on various aspects of printmaking seen as a contemporary art medium with a broad technical and visual offer, going beyond its traditional approach. IEEB encourages experiment, challenging conventional perceptions, re-defining and re-contextualizing engraving techniques as powerful tools of representation in contemporary art. IEEB functions as a […]
Exhibition: Amie Siegel – Strata
South London Gallery, Friday, 20th January to Sunday, 26th March 2017
For New York-based artist Amie Siegel’s first solo show in London, the South London Gallery presents recent works which explore the mechanisms through which objects become imbued with meaning. Known for her layered, meticulously constructed works that consider the undercurrents of value systems, cultural ownership and image-making, Siegel works across film, video, photography, performance and installation.
Kochi-Muziris Biennale
Forming in the pupil of an eye December 12, 2016–March 29, 2017 Yesterday, India’s largest contemporary art exhibition, the Kochi-Muziris Biennale (KMB), opened to a crowd of thousands, marking the start of three months of contemporary art, culture and design in the city of Kochi. Titled Forming in the pupil of an eye, the third […]
Symposium: “A New Fascism?”
December 17, 2016, 10:30 am–7 pm Fridericianum Friedrichsplatz 18 34117 Kassel Germany In conjunction with the exhibition Two A.M. by Loretta Fahrenholz, the Fridericianum is hosting a symposium devoted to an exposition of new forms of fascism. In her novel entitled Nach Mitternacht (After Midnight, 1937), Irmgard Keun describes everyday life in Nazi Germany in […]
Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2017
This year’s shortlist for the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2017 celebrates established photographic narratives alongside experimental and conceptual approaches to documentary, landscape and portraiture. All of this year’s nominated artists investigate questions of truth and fiction, doubt and certainty, what constitutes the real and ideal and the relationship between the observer and the observed. […]
Gabi Ngcobo Appointed as Curator of the 10th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art
The Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, which has been funded since its fourth edition by the Kulturstiftung des Bundes (German Federal Cultural Foundation) as an “outstanding cultural event,” is delighted to announce Gabi Ngcobo as the curator of the upcoming 10th Berlin Biennale. Since the early 2000s Gabi Ngcobo has been engaged in collaborative artistic, […]
Winners of the 2016 Paris Photo – Aperture Foundation Photobook Awards
2016—Paris Photo and Aperture Foundation are pleased to announce the winners of the 2016 edition of the Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards. The Awards this year have been organized in collaboration with C/O Berlin, a Berlin-based charitable institution committed to photography and visual media. Libyan Sugar by Michael Christopher Brown (Twin Palms) is the winner […]
Friends With Books 2016
Saturday & Sunday, 10 & 11 December 2016, 11–19h Reception: Friday, 9 December 2016, 18-20h Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin (Rieckhallen) Free Entry FRIENDS WITH BOOKS: ART BOOK FAIR BERLIN 2016 takes place on the weekend of 9–11 December, 2016, at Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin as Europe’s premier […]
Exhibition: Never Leave Me. Photographic Images in Germany Today
With works by: Nina Beier, Louisa Clement, Buck Ellison, Lindsay Lawson, Alwin Lay, Roman Schramm, Mark Soo and Tobias Zielony, curated by Renee Preisler Barasch November 15–December 12, 2016 Opening: November 15, 6–8pm On Stellar Rays Project Space, 1 Rivington Street, New York, New York 10002 www.neverleaveme.org / www.onstellarrays.com We are pleased to announce a […]
photo graz 016. Biennale der steirischen Fotokunst.
Erwin SCHWAB Mario SCHWEIGHOFER Bernd SIEBER Oliver SPILLER Christina TSILIDIS IngridVIEN Klaus Dieter ZIMMER zweintopf Jörg AUZINGER beba fink Tom BIELA Karl CEBUL Peter DITTRICH Claudia GANSBERGER Nicole GREINER Martin HANUS Leon HÖLLHUMER Nicole HOPFER Sylvia HURYNOWICZ Heidrun KOCHER-KOCHER Tereza KRIZMANICH Christian LAPP Moritz LECHNER Alois LOIDL Ulrike MAYRHUBER Bernd OBERDORFER Wolfram ORTHACKER Franz PACHER Klaus PICHLER Manfred PICHLER Robert PICHLER Erwin POLANC Heinz PÖSCHKO Verena ROTKY + Stephan WEIXLER Robert W. SACKL-KAHR SAGOSTIN Franz SATTLER Bianca SCHARLER Nina SCHUIKI
Screening: Oliver Ressler, Emergency Turned Upside-Down
mumok, Vienna, Wednesday, November 30, 2016, 19:00 Two new works by Oliver Ressler refer to the migration and flight that war and conflict in Syria (and other states) have set in motion. Emergency Turned Upside-Down addresses the cynical and inhuman discourse that sees the presence of refugees in Europe as a state of “emergency,” although […]
Book Launch: Manuel Gorkiewicz and Stefanie Seufert
Book Launch, Performances, Screenings, Food, Special Cocktail by Maren Lübbke-Tidow Thursday 24th November, 7 p.m. Wiensowski & Harbord, Lützowstraße 32, 10785 Berlin Manuel Gorkiewicz, Therapy Make-up works Voluptuous U-turns on the street of Style, Beauty, and Greed, Verlag für moderne Kunst, Wien 2016, Text: Kerstin Cmelka, Christian Egger, Interview: Martin Guttmann with Manuel Gorkiewicz Stefanie […]
Exhibition: Peter Dressler. Wiener Gold
Kunst Haus Wien, 16. 11. 2016 – 5. 3. 2017 Curators: Rainer Iglar in collaboration with Christine Frisinghelli and Michael Mauracher With the first retrospective in Vienna, KUNST HAUS WIEN is paying tribute to the work of Peter Dressler, an oeuvre in which the city of Vienna itself plays a central role. As a photographer […]