Zentrale
Schererstraße / Berlin - Wedding
A live-in-studio, laboratory and cozy presentation space with a shop window and a backroom.
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A live-in-studio, laboratory and cozy presentation space with a shop window and a backroom.
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OPEN STUDIO
Saturday 23.02. / 13-17h
@ Zentrale / Schererstrasse 11 / Berlin-Wedding
Saturday 23.02. / 13-17h
@ Zentrale / Schererstrasse 11 / Berlin-Wedding
We are artists from Australia and the Netherlands and have been working in Berlin-Wedding for the past 2 months on a project called 'News From Home'.
On Saturday afternoon we are opening our studio space up for the public to view our finished pieces and idea development during our residency. We will be present to discuss our work (and anything else) and offer you a tea/coffee/beer/wine!
We are on the ground floor and there will be a sign out the front directing you in the right door. We look forward to seeing you there!
You can see our work on the following:
www.instagram.com/news_from_home
On Saturday afternoon we are opening our studio space up for the public to view our finished pieces and idea development during our residency. We will be present to discuss our work (and anything else) and offer you a tea/coffee/beer/wine!
We are on the ground floor and there will be a sign out the front directing you in the right door. We look forward to seeing you there!
You can see our work on the following:
www.instagram.com/news_from_home
OPEN STUDIO
October 25 2018 / 18h
@ Zentrale / Schererstraße 11 / Berlin-Wedding
October 25 2018 / 18h
@ Zentrale / Schererstraße 11 / Berlin-Wedding
Sarah O'Neil, II, 2018, Video, 04:04
Sarah O'Neil (b.1982) is an interdisciplinary artist currently based in Chicago, IL. The artist's recent work deals with the struggles of grief and trauma. Discussing one of the great lasting taboos in our society, Sarah uses video and performance to explore the mysteries surrounding death and the fear that this causes.
OPEN STUDIO
September 28 2018 / 16-20h
@ Zentrale / Schererstraße 11 / Berlin-Wedding
September 28 2018 / 16-20h
@ Zentrale / Schererstraße 11 / Berlin-Wedding
TEXTILE / PERSPECTIVE / LAYER / DIMENSION / GEOMETRY / SPACE / WARP / DISTORTION / LIGHT.
EXTENDING THE THREAD TO THE BASIC IDEA OF A LINE, SOFIA AND LEA COMPOSE THESE NOTIONS INTO TEXTILE HYBRIDS THAT ALTER AND INTERACT WITH THE SPACE AROUND THEM.
A Presentation by Sofia Escobar and Lea Schwarz.
EXTENDING THE THREAD TO THE BASIC IDEA OF A LINE, SOFIA AND LEA COMPOSE THESE NOTIONS INTO TEXTILE HYBRIDS THAT ALTER AND INTERACT WITH THE SPACE AROUND THEM.
A Presentation by Sofia Escobar and Lea Schwarz.
CRY WITH ME
August 24 - 26 2018
Opening: August 24 / 19h
@ Zentrale / Schererstrasse 11 / Berlin-Wedding
August 24 - 26 2018
Opening: August 24 / 19h
@ Zentrale / Schererstrasse 11 / Berlin-Wedding
Come watch a Latina be vulnerable and cry in a public space.
24.08.2018 / 19:00-22:00
25.08.2018 / 17:00-21:00
26.08.2018 / 17:00-21:00
Straddling the lines of assimilation, refuge, and self-preservation, Denisse Griselda's current work interrogates the boundaries of representation by publicly engaging with memory. Using rotoscoping as an obsessive technique, she performs the ritual reflection to the past, while inviting an audience to witness her attempt to suspend her memories in time. Denisse is dedicated to investigating how to archive marginalized histories poised between fiction and reality, the histories that are manufactured as (in)visible, which lend themselves to their representation and mystification.
by Denisse Griselda
24.08.2018 / 19:00-22:00
25.08.2018 / 17:00-21:00
26.08.2018 / 17:00-21:00
Straddling the lines of assimilation, refuge, and self-preservation, Denisse Griselda's current work interrogates the boundaries of representation by publicly engaging with memory. Using rotoscoping as an obsessive technique, she performs the ritual reflection to the past, while inviting an audience to witness her attempt to suspend her memories in time. Denisse is dedicated to investigating how to archive marginalized histories poised between fiction and reality, the histories that are manufactured as (in)visible, which lend themselves to their representation and mystification.
by Denisse Griselda
OPEN STUDIOS
Saturday, May 26th 2018 / 18-22h
@ Zentrale + Niederlassung Berlin + Kanzlei / Schererstr. 9/10/11 / Berlin-Wedding
Saturday, May 26th 2018 / 18-22h
@ Zentrale + Niederlassung Berlin + Kanzlei / Schererstr. 9/10/11 / Berlin-Wedding
ZENTRALE: EXHIBITIONism by Manuchar Okrostsvaridze and Tatia Darchiashvili
In the era of social networking the act of self-portraying, self-exposure seems to be a common passion, or an obsession. Everyone seeks to be noticed, seen, to be heard, to be appreciated... and an artist may not be an exclusion.
www.facebook.com/events/105646196986422/
In the era of social networking the act of self-portraying, self-exposure seems to be a common passion, or an obsession. Everyone seeks to be noticed, seen, to be heard, to be appreciated... and an artist may not be an exclusion.
www.facebook.com/events/105646196986422/
LOW CHANDELIER
Monday, April 23rd 2018 / 19h
@ Zentrale / Schererstr. 11 / Berlin-Wedding
Monday, April 23rd 2018 / 19h
@ Zentrale / Schererstr. 11 / Berlin-Wedding
film by Julia Zastava
Its about hunger, silence, dark streams of forced satisfaction, soul exchange and dog's brain pleasures.
Its about hunger, silence, dark streams of forced satisfaction, soul exchange and dog's brain pleasures.
OH DAME
Thursday, March 8th 2018 / 19h
@ Zentrale / Schererstr. 11 / Berlin-Wedding
Thursday, March 8th 2018 / 19h
@ Zentrale / Schererstr. 11 / Berlin-Wedding
In celebration of international women’s day.
A collection between three lady illustrators who have found their way to Berlin from Britain.
Each exploring imagery inspired by the fun and free spirit that resonates in all young ladies of today and the past.
Everyone is welcome!
A collection between three lady illustrators who have found their way to Berlin from Britain.
Each exploring imagery inspired by the fun and free spirit that resonates in all young ladies of today and the past.
Everyone is welcome!
OPEN STUDIOS
Friday, February 9th 2018 / 19h
@ Zentrale + Niederlassung Berlin + Kanzlei / Schererstr. 9/10/11 / Berlin-Wedding
Friday, February 9th 2018 / 19h
@ Zentrale + Niederlassung Berlin + Kanzlei / Schererstr. 9/10/11 / Berlin-Wedding
Emma Bates is an illustrator and printmaker that explores traditional pagan festivals and rituals that date back centuries. The traditions take place in rural communities across Europe, in attempts to banish evil spirits, and welcome int he seasonal changes. The series of prints and artist books that Emma creates are to commemorate the weird and wonderful world of paganism in all its eccentricities.
OPEN STUDIO / FLASH
Dec 15 - 17 2017 / 19h every day
@ Zentrale + Kanzlei / Schererstr. 9 + 11 / Berlin-Wedding
Dec 15 - 17 2017 / 19h every day
@ Zentrale + Kanzlei / Schererstr. 9 + 11 / Berlin-Wedding
FLASH:
The Garden and the Cave|
The Hotel |
The Cabaret|
The Consipirac
by Tim Best, Photographer
Visiting from Dallas, Texas
www.timcbest.com
Best's color images are taken with a vintage Polaroid SX-70. They reveal secrets found inside and outside dark, private spaces referencing Freud's Uncanny. The images of nude models, couples and a cross-dressed artist are inter-mingled with photographs of nature. Grouped into multiple series that represent the Cave and the Garden, the Hotel, the Cabaret, and the Consipiracy, these images function to take the viewer into the darkness of the subconscious. The cave and the abyss are historically identified by literature as transformative, where the hero confronts the unfamiliar and emerges a stronger man in the narrative. The garden is historically a lure, where the sirens reside to seduce the hero.
Best's work utilizes instant prints, amateur models, and himself as an amateur cross-dresser to create the antithesis of the heroic photographer: the narcissistic voyeur. The viewer is taken into the Garden, seduced by the imagery, and left at the gateway of a strange paranoid dream.
Event photo: "The Conspiracy" /Instant Print/ 10.5cm x 9cm/ 2017
The Garden and the Cave|
The Hotel |
The Cabaret|
The Consipirac
by Tim Best, Photographer
Visiting from Dallas, Texas
www.timcbest.com
Best's color images are taken with a vintage Polaroid SX-70. They reveal secrets found inside and outside dark, private spaces referencing Freud's Uncanny. The images of nude models, couples and a cross-dressed artist are inter-mingled with photographs of nature. Grouped into multiple series that represent the Cave and the Garden, the Hotel, the Cabaret, and the Consipiracy, these images function to take the viewer into the darkness of the subconscious. The cave and the abyss are historically identified by literature as transformative, where the hero confronts the unfamiliar and emerges a stronger man in the narrative. The garden is historically a lure, where the sirens reside to seduce the hero.
Best's work utilizes instant prints, amateur models, and himself as an amateur cross-dresser to create the antithesis of the heroic photographer: the narcissistic voyeur. The viewer is taken into the Garden, seduced by the imagery, and left at the gateway of a strange paranoid dream.
Event photo: "The Conspiracy" /Instant Print/ 10.5cm x 9cm/ 2017
OPEN STUDIO
October 29 2017 / 17h
@ Zentrale + Kanzlei + Kabinett / Schererstr. 9+11 / Berlin-Wedding
October 29 2017 / 17h
@ Zentrale + Kanzlei + Kabinett / Schererstr. 9+11 / Berlin-Wedding
Zachary Hutchinson (b. 1991) comes to art through costume making, make up, theater, video making and an obsessive attention to image and transgressive affect. The work uses queerness as resistance to capitalism through toys and fashion. Hutchinson received a BFA from SAIC in 2015 and a MFA from UIC in 2017. Hutchinson has had works shown in Montreal, Mexico City, San Francisco CA, NYC, Los Angeles, Portland OR, Austin TX, Berlin Germany, Athens Greece, Glasgow United Kingdom, Iceland, Venice, and extensively in Chicago IL. They created VideoVideoZine.com in 2013.
zacharyhutchinson.com
zacharyhutchinson.com
FROM STIMULATION TO SIMULATION
September 29 2017 / 19h
@ Zentrale / Schererstr. 11 / Berlin-Wedding
September 29 2017 / 19h
@ Zentrale / Schererstr. 11 / Berlin-Wedding
Since the experience of the construction bubble and its following disaster, the role of the contemporary ruins in the Spanish landscape has become a fundamental issue when talking about architecture, landscape and urbanism.
The ruin as an object and as architecture, as thing and as space, has different roles and meanings but all of them have traditionally revolved around the evocation of the past and the symbolization of the passing of time. Nowadays, although the antique and classic ruins maintain the romantic image in our culture, it has appeared a new part associated with the contemporary ruin, linked to the consequences of a fierce capitalism, to the extreme consumption and its resulting creation of waste. In this context, we understand that the mad years of the construction bubble were a constant “stimulation of ruins”, since there were endless construction projects all over the country whose sense and function was not clear in the same moment of its creation. We are using this background to research the ruin as an everyday object, moving its presence in the landscape to the personal territory and making an homage to this usual element that has an ambiguous and changing sense but whose relevance and mark in our culture is permanent. By moving the ruin from the outside landscape to the interior spaces of the normal life we have tried to assumed this characteristic of our patrimony and landscape, not as a drama nor as a triumph, but just as a legacy that we have to deal with. When everything is abandoned and the joy of the bubble has disappeared to leave these places as an abandoned scenery, we have wanted to research these symbols of the human chaos and decay to build with these elements new objects, and to design and create these new “simulated ruins”.
With this simulation our aim is to create a space in where the spectator sees him or herself in the middle of a room surrounded by different objects that does not really identify but nevertheless can establish a link between them and regular things that can be found at any home. This sensation of recognition and strangeness at the same time is the atmosphere we have tried to create with this “simulation” of ruins since it is the same feeling that provokes us the presence of the “stimulated” ruins: something familiar and odd simultaneously.
A project by Studio La Cube.
The ruin as an object and as architecture, as thing and as space, has different roles and meanings but all of them have traditionally revolved around the evocation of the past and the symbolization of the passing of time. Nowadays, although the antique and classic ruins maintain the romantic image in our culture, it has appeared a new part associated with the contemporary ruin, linked to the consequences of a fierce capitalism, to the extreme consumption and its resulting creation of waste. In this context, we understand that the mad years of the construction bubble were a constant “stimulation of ruins”, since there were endless construction projects all over the country whose sense and function was not clear in the same moment of its creation. We are using this background to research the ruin as an everyday object, moving its presence in the landscape to the personal territory and making an homage to this usual element that has an ambiguous and changing sense but whose relevance and mark in our culture is permanent. By moving the ruin from the outside landscape to the interior spaces of the normal life we have tried to assumed this characteristic of our patrimony and landscape, not as a drama nor as a triumph, but just as a legacy that we have to deal with. When everything is abandoned and the joy of the bubble has disappeared to leave these places as an abandoned scenery, we have wanted to research these symbols of the human chaos and decay to build with these elements new objects, and to design and create these new “simulated ruins”.
With this simulation our aim is to create a space in where the spectator sees him or herself in the middle of a room surrounded by different objects that does not really identify but nevertheless can establish a link between them and regular things that can be found at any home. This sensation of recognition and strangeness at the same time is the atmosphere we have tried to create with this “simulation” of ruins since it is the same feeling that provokes us the presence of the “stimulated” ruins: something familiar and odd simultaneously.
A project by Studio La Cube.
OPEN STUDIO
Thu Aug 24 2017 / 19h
Sat Aug 26 2017 / 19h
@ Zentrale / Schererstr. 11 / Berlin-Wedding
Thu Aug 24 2017 / 19h
Sat Aug 26 2017 / 19h
@ Zentrale / Schererstr. 11 / Berlin-Wedding
"Sound in Vivo" sound installation
This is a proposal on the body and imagination through sound and a experimentation of setting space around relationship between body and sound. I am interested in the "listening posture" as corporeity.
And so these listening postures generate a human landscape a place for reflection. For this, the visitor's body is crucial in this device ...
Kaya Sasaki
www.dtbandflyingcat.com
This is a proposal on the body and imagination through sound and a experimentation of setting space around relationship between body and sound. I am interested in the "listening posture" as corporeity.
And so these listening postures generate a human landscape a place for reflection. For this, the visitor's body is crucial in this device ...
Kaya Sasaki
www.dtbandflyingcat.com
OPEN STUDIO
Saturday, July 22 2017 / 19h
@ Zentrale + Niederlassung Berlin + Kanzlei / Schererstraße 9+10+11 / Berlin-Wedding
Saturday, July 22 2017 / 19h
@ Zentrale + Niederlassung Berlin + Kanzlei / Schererstraße 9+10+11 / Berlin-Wedding
Participating artists:
Yoo Shira & Kim Mijin / Scott Kemp, Michael Lachman, Ingrid Olauson, Lyndsay Pomerantz, Zack Trask / Solomon Nagler & Angela Henderson
Yoo Shira & Kim Mijin / Scott Kemp, Michael Lachman, Ingrid Olauson, Lyndsay Pomerantz, Zack Trask / Solomon Nagler & Angela Henderson
OPEN STUDIO
Sunday, June 25 2017 / 19h
@ Zentrale + Niederlassung Berlin + Kanzlei / Schererstraße 9+10+11 / Berlin-Wedding
Sunday, June 25 2017 / 19h
@ Zentrale + Niederlassung Berlin + Kanzlei / Schererstraße 9+10+11 / Berlin-Wedding
On this evening an Open Studio event will take place at three of the The Institut's resident spaces. The Zentrale, Niederlassung, and Kanzlei in Wedding will be displaying artwork and practices by our current artists in residence. This is an event that cannot be missed.
www.facebook.com/events/664896230385213/
OPEN STUDIO
May 19 2017 / 20h
@ Zentrale / Schererstraße 11 / Berlin-Wedding
May 19 2017 / 20h
@ Zentrale / Schererstraße 11 / Berlin-Wedding
Our recollections distort, decay, and retell themselves over time. Convergence and/or the collapse of memory and memory space alter our understanding of our narrative history. Abstracted sites ranging from intimate shadows to grand monoliths emphasize the conflict between finite architectural structures, desired realties and fragmented memory.
www.jennybalinsonenberg.com
www.jennybalinsonenberg.com
Mariah Anne Johnson
December 2016
@ Zentrale / Schererstraße 11 / Berlin-Wedding
December 2016
@ Zentrale / Schererstraße 11 / Berlin-Wedding
During 2016 and 2017, I am using a series of residencies to explore the world around me through drawing. While in Berlin, these explorations took the forms of large collaborative works with my son, constant drawing in my sketchbook on the UBahn, and use of my sketches as source material for small watercolors back in the studio. Upon reflection, I think that my drawing is an attempt to find the poetic in every day life.
www.mariahannejohnson.com
www.mariahannejohnson.com
GATHERING
November 29 2016
@ Zentrale / Schererstraße 11 / Berlin-Wedding
November 29 2016
@ Zentrale / Schererstraße 11 / Berlin-Wedding
REFERENTIAL: OPEN STUDIO AND EXHIBITION
Saturday, November 19 / 14-21h
@ Zentrale / Schererstraße 11 / Berlin-Wedding
Saturday, November 19 / 14-21h
@ Zentrale / Schererstraße 11 / Berlin-Wedding
This group exhibition is part of an open studios initiative at Zentrale I-A-M Berlin artist residency for Australian artists Fiona Halse and Jason Haufe. This one day exhibition will profile work created by Fiona Halse and Jason Haufe whilst in Berlin and work profiled at Berliner Liste.
Alongside an open studio of Fiona Halse and Jason Haufe, artists from Australia, Europe and New York will exhibit works that are connected to collage. This exhibition will explore the use of paper and found objects to construct space and tactile responses to materials assembled through formal principles. Accidents and found materials can be used as a referential point and can provide a touchstone and can instigate ideas for passages or direction. Collage as a medium and device to build space, create variation in form to enable and activate plasticity will be exhibited.
participating artists:
Benjy Barnhart (Munich), Peter Bonner (New York), Kathy Caraccio (New York), Oliver Rivera-Drew (Berlin), Fiona Halse (Australia), Eleanor Hart (Australia), Jason Haufe (Australia), Theo Strasser (Australia), Stan Van Steendam (Brussels), Panos Famelis (Greece)
More Information: Curator - Fiona Halse – [email protected]
Alongside an open studio of Fiona Halse and Jason Haufe, artists from Australia, Europe and New York will exhibit works that are connected to collage. This exhibition will explore the use of paper and found objects to construct space and tactile responses to materials assembled through formal principles. Accidents and found materials can be used as a referential point and can provide a touchstone and can instigate ideas for passages or direction. Collage as a medium and device to build space, create variation in form to enable and activate plasticity will be exhibited.
participating artists:
Benjy Barnhart (Munich), Peter Bonner (New York), Kathy Caraccio (New York), Oliver Rivera-Drew (Berlin), Fiona Halse (Australia), Eleanor Hart (Australia), Jason Haufe (Australia), Theo Strasser (Australia), Stan Van Steendam (Brussels), Panos Famelis (Greece)
More Information: Curator - Fiona Halse – [email protected]
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LEFT HANDED NOTES
L/C/B*C
Friday, October 28 / 18h
@ Zentrale / Schererstraße 11 / Berlin-Wedding
L/C/B*C
Friday, October 28 / 18h
@ Zentrale / Schererstraße 11 / Berlin-Wedding
Jessica Pierotti is an interdisciplinary artist, teacher, and organizer living in Chicago, Illinois, USA. She received her Masters in Fine Arts from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2016 and works as the Deputy Director for a small arts non-profit, LATITUDE Chicago.
Pierotti is preoccupied with discovering power dynamics at play at every scale and setting, driven by a desire for control and the consequential anxiety. The resulting works engage with absurdity, and an obsessive and sincere interest in attempting to understand the world through a reductive process. In addition, she is an image maker that is hungry to better understand the effects and results of mediation upon images using the camera, the eye, the memory or the hand. She often works with personal and banal content as a means of focusing in on the modest complexity of daily life.
www.howcouldiknow.com
Pierotti is preoccupied with discovering power dynamics at play at every scale and setting, driven by a desire for control and the consequential anxiety. The resulting works engage with absurdity, and an obsessive and sincere interest in attempting to understand the world through a reductive process. In addition, she is an image maker that is hungry to better understand the effects and results of mediation upon images using the camera, the eye, the memory or the hand. She often works with personal and banal content as a means of focusing in on the modest complexity of daily life.
www.howcouldiknow.com
OPEN STUDIO
September 23 2016 / 19h
@ Zentrale / Schererstraße 11 / Berlin-Wedding
September 23 2016 / 19h
@ Zentrale / Schererstraße 11 / Berlin-Wedding
Grace Lang, American artist, captures a world in communication with her animations.
"It is a constant challenge," - says Grace - which produces a powerful free interpretation of "her babies", of her mutilated, headless body, of her grotesquely shredded figures.
Illustration is a very old art form. The Egyptians drew religious images on papyrus. Many sacred texts and manuscripts had compulsorily their illurstations. Grace Lang follows an ancient flux, "carving" it - inside - with her skillful hands, with her chaotic combination of a fabulous world.
http://www.grooseling.com/
"It is a constant challenge," - says Grace - which produces a powerful free interpretation of "her babies", of her mutilated, headless body, of her grotesquely shredded figures.
Illustration is a very old art form. The Egyptians drew religious images on papyrus. Many sacred texts and manuscripts had compulsorily their illurstations. Grace Lang follows an ancient flux, "carving" it - inside - with her skillful hands, with her chaotic combination of a fabulous world.
http://www.grooseling.com/
CHINDIS – TWO GHOST STORIES
Saturday, July 23 2016 / 19h
@ Zentrale / Schererstraße 11 / Berlin-Wedding
Saturday, July 23 2016 / 19h
@ Zentrale / Schererstraße 11 / Berlin-Wedding
The Willey Wraiths
The three members of Willey Family died in a tragic murder-suicide during the Great Depression in 1931. It took place at their remote farmhouse in Salem Connecticut. The police report suggested that a recently institutionalized brother recently, released from a psychiatric institution killed his sister and brother, and then himself – though they never investigated the fingerprints. Depression era poverty left the aging family desperate; their farm could no longer support them. As a local newspaper wrote, “The roof had long since fallen, and the floors were hardly safe to bear the weight … and numerous holes in the side walls left them at the mercy of the weather.”
Although some suggested supernatural causes in this isolated area of Salem Connecticut under “Chill Hill” next to “Witch Meadow’s Pond” ( The sister who had a speech impediment had reportedly not left the house in 30 years and was rumored to “be evil” by superstitious neighbors who had looted and set fire to their house after the deaths.) One brother was crippled with a stroke. The real cause, of course, was likely depression ere poverty before Roosevelt safety nets were put in place. The “ghosts” are long gone.
Pillar of Cloud
Oil, ghost towns and dust devils are aligned as tropes of climate change. Tornado-like dust devils, as canaries in the coal mine, are increasingly common in hot, barren deserts and in drought-stricken areas of the world.
I spent three days chasing dust devils in the California desert where I tried a benignly quixotic experiment of placing flower petals in their paths. (Catastrophic climate change needed some cheering up.) However, after an initial sighting of dozens of dust devils, conditions changed and they became increasingly rare. When they appeared, they moved fast. They dissipated quickly. They were always too far off the road or just ahead of my car. When I was ready to give up looking after my third day while shooting video of an abandoned school, a well-formed small dust devil appeared about 10 meters to my right. I turned my camera on a tripod towards it, snatched a bag of flower petals that I had bought at LA's flower district and ran into the small vortex dumping the contents. ...It grabbed the petals and then dropped them 30 meters or so away.
The Navaho name for dust devils are “chindis”, the ghosts of the dead. According to the local lore, evil chindi’s spin counter clockwise. Benevolent chindis spin clockwise. (Dust devils are not affected by the Coriolis effect, and can spin either direction, sometimes two within sight simultaneously spinning in opposite directions). Although not superstitious or particularly spiritual, I didn’t want to take any chances. I checked my footage carefully. This one spun clockwise.
The three members of Willey Family died in a tragic murder-suicide during the Great Depression in 1931. It took place at their remote farmhouse in Salem Connecticut. The police report suggested that a recently institutionalized brother recently, released from a psychiatric institution killed his sister and brother, and then himself – though they never investigated the fingerprints. Depression era poverty left the aging family desperate; their farm could no longer support them. As a local newspaper wrote, “The roof had long since fallen, and the floors were hardly safe to bear the weight … and numerous holes in the side walls left them at the mercy of the weather.”
Although some suggested supernatural causes in this isolated area of Salem Connecticut under “Chill Hill” next to “Witch Meadow’s Pond” ( The sister who had a speech impediment had reportedly not left the house in 30 years and was rumored to “be evil” by superstitious neighbors who had looted and set fire to their house after the deaths.) One brother was crippled with a stroke. The real cause, of course, was likely depression ere poverty before Roosevelt safety nets were put in place. The “ghosts” are long gone.
Pillar of Cloud
Oil, ghost towns and dust devils are aligned as tropes of climate change. Tornado-like dust devils, as canaries in the coal mine, are increasingly common in hot, barren deserts and in drought-stricken areas of the world.
I spent three days chasing dust devils in the California desert where I tried a benignly quixotic experiment of placing flower petals in their paths. (Catastrophic climate change needed some cheering up.) However, after an initial sighting of dozens of dust devils, conditions changed and they became increasingly rare. When they appeared, they moved fast. They dissipated quickly. They were always too far off the road or just ahead of my car. When I was ready to give up looking after my third day while shooting video of an abandoned school, a well-formed small dust devil appeared about 10 meters to my right. I turned my camera on a tripod towards it, snatched a bag of flower petals that I had bought at LA's flower district and ran into the small vortex dumping the contents. ...It grabbed the petals and then dropped them 30 meters or so away.
The Navaho name for dust devils are “chindis”, the ghosts of the dead. According to the local lore, evil chindi’s spin counter clockwise. Benevolent chindis spin clockwise. (Dust devils are not affected by the Coriolis effect, and can spin either direction, sometimes two within sight simultaneously spinning in opposite directions). Although not superstitious or particularly spiritual, I didn’t want to take any chances. I checked my footage carefully. This one spun clockwise.
SUMMERSESSION (2016)
June 27 - July 4 2016
OPEN STUDIO: Sunday 3 July / 18h
@ Zentrale + Niederlassung Berlin + Kanzlei / Schererstraße 9+10+11 / Berlin-Wedding
June 27 - July 4 2016
OPEN STUDIO: Sunday 3 July / 18h
@ Zentrale + Niederlassung Berlin + Kanzlei / Schererstraße 9+10+11 / Berlin-Wedding
ELENA GIULIA ABBIATICI
CLAUDIO DE MEO
MATTEO GIUNTINI
FRANCO LOSVIZZERO
CHLOE SMITH
ADELA SOUCKOVA
LAURA GUOKE
> SESSIONS
> more: https://www.facebook.com/events/1135013409875136/
In cooperation with Giovanni Morasutti and ART AIA.
CLAUDIO DE MEO
MATTEO GIUNTINI
FRANCO LOSVIZZERO
CHLOE SMITH
ADELA SOUCKOVA
LAURA GUOKE
> SESSIONS
> more: https://www.facebook.com/events/1135013409875136/
In cooperation with Giovanni Morasutti and ART AIA.
INSTITUTIONAL BIRTHDAY PARTY
ADOLF ILLUSTRATOR - Valerio Rossi (I)
OPEN STUDIO - Bailey Romaine (USA)
DRUCKSACHEN/PRINTED MATTERS - Ilse Ermen (F)
Saturday, June 25 2016 / 18h
@ Zentrale + Niederlassung Berlin + Kanzlei / Schererstraße 9+10+11 / Berlin-Wedding
ADOLF ILLUSTRATOR - Valerio Rossi (I)
OPEN STUDIO - Bailey Romaine (USA)
DRUCKSACHEN/PRINTED MATTERS - Ilse Ermen (F)
Saturday, June 25 2016 / 18h
@ Zentrale + Niederlassung Berlin + Kanzlei / Schererstraße 9+10+11 / Berlin-Wedding
The Institut turns 6 this June and celebrates with lollipops, schnaps and hopefully you!
On this occasion there is an exhibition by Valerio Rossi (I), an OPEN STUDIO by Bailey Romaine (USA) and a BÜCHERBAZAR by Ilse Ermen (F) with a brand new book release.
Das Institut wird 6 Jahre alt und feiert mit Lollipops, Schnaps und mit Euch!
Außerdem eröffnet Valerio Rossi (I) eine Ausstellung, Bailey Romaine (USA) ihr Atelier und Ilse Ermen (F) ihren BÜCHERBAZAR mit einer brandneuen Publikation.
Supported / Unterstützt von www.bebopsweets.com
On this occasion there is an exhibition by Valerio Rossi (I), an OPEN STUDIO by Bailey Romaine (USA) and a BÜCHERBAZAR by Ilse Ermen (F) with a brand new book release.
Das Institut wird 6 Jahre alt und feiert mit Lollipops, Schnaps und mit Euch!
Außerdem eröffnet Valerio Rossi (I) eine Ausstellung, Bailey Romaine (USA) ihr Atelier und Ilse Ermen (F) ihren BÜCHERBAZAR mit einer brandneuen Publikation.
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NAKED.FLESH.MUSEUM
Saturday, May 21 2016 / 21h
@ Zentrale + Niederlassung + Kanzlei / Schererstraße 9 + 10 + 11 / Berlin-Wedding
Saturday, May 21 2016 / 21h
@ Zentrale + Niederlassung + Kanzlei / Schererstraße 9 + 10 + 11 / Berlin-Wedding
The group exhibition of 4 women in 3 spaces on 1 street in multiple ways-
Truthful bodies will interact with the master data truths of the life process, laboratories of art will positively nurture a patriarchal society which is afraid to smile at the Carnival of the free and anti – capitalistic evolution. In a street where anything should be happening, in those streets where often we cross sighs and missed affections, Benvenuti Magali, Sara Edström, Eva Evrad and Stéphanie Roland, find their time in their space, educating it as a heterogeneous and without conflicts proof of their passion.
Sometimes we talk about sex. Other times, what art should be market and commodification. This time we talk about explored bodies. Projects evolving as to be explored.
Magali Benvenuti, Sara Edström, Eva Evrard and Stéphanie Roland will open their spaces giving us the opportunity to talk with their productions, researches and, in some cases, with themselves. Naked. Flesh. of Museums. It lifts the art by common prejudice, directly shots the spontaneity producing three different physical and mental thoughts. Benvenuti is the Naked. Sara is Flesh. Eva and Stephanie are the untied bodies of an evolving museum.
Timing and arting
Eva Evrard – Stéphanie Roland
@Kanzlei – Schererstr. 9 / Berlin-Wedding
21h
“Museum Privatization and Global Crisis”
Stéphanie Roland and Eva Evrard are two belgian artists with their own artistic practices which will join their forces in a new project in order to challenge the conditions of existence of a museum, blurring the boundaries between the roles of Artist and Curator. “In reaction to Museum Privatization and Global Crisis, we will create a mobile nocturnal museum where one artist at once will be invited to show an artwork only during one night. “ The museum’s design will be inspired by the refugee shelter and will move to different locations following the specificity of the selected artist’s work. The aim of our residency in Institut Für Alles Mögliche is the preparation of the museum’s construction process in collaboration with architects and upcoming participating artists.
Sara Edström
@Niederlassung at Schererstr. 10 / Berlin-Wedding
21.45H
“Could you please hold me?”
“For my second open studio at the Institut Für Alles Möglishe I have continued to work to understand myself and rediscover who I am now in the middle of my life. I zoom in on my own body and realize the need to embrace it. And acknowledge he essential power of the touch. I need to hold on to myself. And I also need to be occasionally held”.
Sara Eström has focused on experimenting with new material, new expressions. I show new paintings, video, photo and sculptures made in play-doh. “As a mother of three this material is very familiar to me, it is like the material itself is some kind of self portrait. The simple mix of flour, salt and water from which I can create my own story”.
Magali Benvenuti
@Zentrale at Schererstr.11 / Berlin-Wedding
22.30H
“Open”
Benvenuti Magali has planned a clear interweaving of video art and active performances open to the public. Thanks to the presence of two music artists, Ben R. Osborn and
@Rachel Margetts, her space plays harmoniously with the project and elaboration made by music. Everything is clear and long-waited. “I talked with the musicians today, and the idea would be that the audience stay outside and that I project the video "OPEN" on the glass of the IAM: so that it creates a kind of ghost... And the musicians would play outside, besides the audience.”
Her residency is supported by @The Fiacre-RA (France) and the Grenoble, France.
SEE /THROUGH
November 27-29th 2015 / 14-17h
@ Zentrale / Schererstr. 11 / Berlin-Wedding
November 27-29th 2015 / 14-17h
@ Zentrale / Schererstr. 11 / Berlin-Wedding
OPEN STUDIO by Skye Kennewell
L/C/B*C / OPEN STUDIO
October 29 / 18h
@ Zentrale + Niederlassung Berlin + Kanzlei / Schererstraße 11 + 10 + 9 / Berlin-Wedding
October 29 / 18h
@ Zentrale + Niederlassung Berlin + Kanzlei / Schererstraße 11 + 10 + 9 / Berlin-Wedding
OPEN STUDIO BY
Austin Chaston / London
Jessica Cobb / Chicago
Meik Brüsch / Copenhagen
Austin Chaston / London
Jessica Cobb / Chicago
Meik Brüsch / Copenhagen
BODY-STRUCTURE-TIME
Wednesday, August 19th / 19h
@ Zentrale / Schererstraße 11 / Berlin-Wedding
Wednesday, August 19th / 19h
@ Zentrale / Schererstraße 11 / Berlin-Wedding
I am the body - that means - I am deadly, I will pass away, I am changing, I feel. The body is matter susceptible to the sufering, impulses coming from the outside.
The carnality places our life in particular time and place. In my art the issue centers around the physicality of the body as a complex matter, maze of thoughts, emotions and experiences. I present the fragility of the human body together with the strength of it’s existence. Exhibition by Ewelina Makosa (PL) |
THE TOUCH / DER TASTSINN
July 15th - 22th 2015
Open Studio: July 31st / 19h
@ Zentrale / Schererstraße 11 / Berlin-Wedding
July 15th - 22th 2015
Open Studio: July 31st / 19h
@ Zentrale / Schererstraße 11 / Berlin-Wedding
We want to kindly invite You to the
painting performance 15.07 - 22.07.2015, we will be painting together for 7 days starting on Wed. 15.07. The outcome will be exhibited until the end of July.
The motto for our 7 days of painting together:
Electronic media invades through language and visuality our relationship with others and deprives us of intimate body experience. Painting together for 7 days on site we will explore our relationship through our bodies and the sense of touch.
painting performance 15.07 - 22.07.2015, we will be painting together for 7 days starting on Wed. 15.07. The outcome will be exhibited until the end of July.
The motto for our 7 days of painting together:
Electronic media invades through language and visuality our relationship with others and deprives us of intimate body experience. Painting together for 7 days on site we will explore our relationship through our bodies and the sense of touch.
L/C/B*C / BALLS PROJECT
June 27th 2015 / 18-21h
@ Zentrale / Schererstr. 11 / Berlin-Wedding
June 27th 2015 / 18-21h
@ Zentrale / Schererstr. 11 / Berlin-Wedding
Balls project is a series of interactive sculpture which examines the relationship between masculinity and power. Soheila Azadi uses craft to feminize masculine objects such as sports balls and shape them into functioning playground sculptures. These sports balls are finely crafted to the point that they loose their original form, shape and often functionality. These sculptures are critically humorous while they rest in the in between space of masculinity and femininity.
by Soheila Azadi (IR/USA) |
DOUBLES (#7)
May 27th / 17 - 22h
@ Zentrale + Niederlassung Berlin + Kanzlei / Schererstraße 11 + 10 + 9 / Berlin-Wedding
May 27th / 17 - 22h
@ Zentrale + Niederlassung Berlin + Kanzlei / Schererstraße 11 + 10 + 9 / Berlin-Wedding
A collaboration inflatable light installation by
Nicole Anona Banowetz, SKULK and Sourya Sen (Oblique) Open studio by Jacques Laplante. DOUBLES is a bimonthly experiment in which current residents of the INSTITUT FÜR ALLES MÖGLICHE are paired off with residents from GLOGAUAIR, a residency program in Berlin-Kreuzberg. http://www.i-a-m.tk/doubles.html |
OPEN STUDIOS / WEDDING
Apr 28th - 30th 2015 / daily 18 - 22h
@ Zentrale + Niederlassung Berlin + Kanzlei / Schererstraße 11+10+9 / Berlin-Wedding
Apr 28th - 30th 2015 / daily 18 - 22h
@ Zentrale + Niederlassung Berlin + Kanzlei / Schererstraße 11+10+9 / Berlin-Wedding
As a part of their residencies at the Institut für Alles Mögliche the artists Skulk. (Thomas Thorby-Lister), Naman Saraiya, Sourya Sen and Jayson Haebich will be showing the work developed during their time in Berlin.
Open daily on the 28th/29th/30th April from 18.00 - 21.00 Address: Schererstr 9-10, Wedding, 13347 Berlin SKULK - Thomas Thorby-Lister (Sydney, Australia) / www.iamskulk.com Jayson Haebich (Australia/UK) / www.jaysonh.com Sourya Sen / Oblique (Mumbai, India) / www.ayruos.in Naman Saraiya (Mumbai, India) / http://goo.gl/25zuF2 EVENT ON FB: https://www.facebook.com/events/1580249298880922 |
OPEN STUDIOS / WEDDING
Feb 26th 2015 - 19–22h
@ Zentrale + Niederlassung Berlin + Kanzlei / Schererstraße 11 + 10 + 9 / Berlin-Wedding
Feb 26th 2015 - 19–22h
@ Zentrale + Niederlassung Berlin + Kanzlei / Schererstraße 11 + 10 + 9 / Berlin-Wedding
Nicole Anona Banowetz is a American sculptor from Denver who makes sewn inflatable sculptures and delicate assembled forms. Her artwork addresses vulnerability and struggle. She empowers objects through embellishment, building up protective layers, which with time become destructive. Her forms move freely between growth and decay blurring the distinction between decoration and disease. / https://nicolebanowetz.wordpress.com/
Ashley Cook is an artist from Detroit, currently living in Europe. She graduated with a BFA in Fine Arts from College for Creative Studies in 2009, and was the co-founder and co-director of North End Studios in Detroit from 2009-2014. Ashley is hosting a small exhibition as an end to a one month residency at Niederlassung Berlin. / https://www.facebook.com/events/796009283781984/?pnref=story Jayson Haebichs site specific light installations use smoke, projectors and lasers to create mesmerising, immersive pieces. These works use the interplay of light, shadow and smoke to give light the illusion of being solid planes that cut through the room and respond to the physical attributes of the architicture and space in which they reside and challenge peoples perception of of what light is and how it can be used. / www.jaysonh.com |
OPEN STUDIOS
Jan 30th / 7pm
@ Zentrale + Niederlassung Berlin + Kanzlei / Schererstraße 11 + 10 + 9 / Berlin-Wedding
Jan 30th / 7pm
@ Zentrale + Niederlassung Berlin + Kanzlei / Schererstraße 11 + 10 + 9 / Berlin-Wedding
With current residents Nicole Banowetz, Maaike Bakker, Yan Cheng and Jayne Crawshay-Hall.
OPEN STUDIO
Dec 27th 2014 - 3-7 pm
Dec 27th 2014 - 3-7 pm
by Mari Ota / www.mari-ota.net |
OPEN STUDIOS / WEDDING
Nov 27th 2014 - 7-9.30pm
@ Zentrale + Niederlassung Berlin + Kanzlei / Schererstraße 11 + 10 + 9 / Berlin-Wedding
Nov 27th 2014 - 7-9.30pm
@ Zentrale + Niederlassung Berlin + Kanzlei / Schererstraße 11 + 10 + 9 / Berlin-Wedding
You are cordially invited to the exhibition of artworks by The Institut für Alles Mögliche Berlin. Doors will be open to the artists in residence in a three space exhibition. Working through video, performance, photography, sculpture, and sound. These collaborative pieces seek to engage in conversations regarding identity relations, collective action and memorialization proposing imagined utopias that challenge normalized ways of being. The colors black and white become metaphors for racial, socio political structures and also allude to esoteric dualities.
ZENTRALE / Alejandro Acierto (USA) NIEDERLASSUNG BERLIN / Danny Milwain and Oliver Barker (UK) KANZLEI / Yan Gi Cheng (USA) and Trami Nguyen (F) Live performance @ Kanzlei / 8.30pm |
Doubles (#5)
Nov 1st 2014 - 6-8pm
@ Zentrale + Niederlassung Berlin + Kanzlei / Schererstraße 11 + 10 + 9 / Berlin-Wedding
Nov 1st 2014 - 6-8pm
@ Zentrale + Niederlassung Berlin + Kanzlei / Schererstraße 11 + 10 + 9 / Berlin-Wedding
Doubles. A collaboration of artists visiting the concept of what a social media or a light or a painting is. Works question the nature of art, the identity of the artist and the difference between meaning, idea and capitalism.
WITH: Anna Ádám - www.annaadam.net Oliver Barker - www.windowtoberlin.wordpress.com Zoe Alexandra Ciupitu - www.joitica.com Colleen Keihm - www.colleenkeihm.com Danny Milwain - www.spotlight.com/interactive/cv/2051-0163-4211 Fernanda Antola Porto - www.portoart.com Jett Strauss - www.jettstrauss.com www.i-a-m.tk/doubles.html |
(*) open doors wedding
27.09.2014 / 5 – 7 PM
@ Zentrale + Niederlassung Berlin / Schererstr 11+10 / BERLIN-Wedding
27.09.2014 / 5 – 7 PM
@ Zentrale + Niederlassung Berlin / Schererstr 11+10 / BERLIN-Wedding
abject, quarantined, and transformed Monuments
By BRIT BUNKLEY (NZ) (www.britbunkley.com) 27.09.2014 / 6 PM Zentrale A talk about The current project on 3D scanned and videoed monuments - e.g. the Birkenau gate, the Teufelsberg NSA station on top of a MANMADE MOUNTAIN MADe from the ruble of Berlin, a Lenin statue in the Communist Museum (anti-communist museum) in Prague, bullet hole ridden columns on Museum Island, Kafka's homes, and etc. as well as related work. Brit Bunkley has been involved with 3D prints in art since the late 90's through groups such as Intersculpt - shows of printing up the same artworks simultaneously at nodes across the globe.
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Doubles (#4)
29.08.2014 / 9 pm
@ Zentrale + Niederlassung Berlin + Kanzlei / Schererstraße 11 + 10 + 9 / BERLIN-Wedding
29.08.2014 / 9 pm
@ Zentrale + Niederlassung Berlin + Kanzlei / Schererstraße 11 + 10 + 9 / BERLIN-Wedding
WE HAVE COME FROM NORTH AMERICA TO TAKE OVER BERLIN, EACH OF US WITH A DIFFERENT WEAPON AT OUR DISPOSAL: DANCE ATTACK, POWER TOOLS, SEXUAL AMBIGUITY, FANCY PANTS, AND COLOR-COORDINATED CONJOINED CYCLING.
COME SHARE THE CLIMAX OF OUR PROCESS, FRIDAY AUGUST 29TH AT 9 PM BY DAVID ALBERT-TOTH, BRENDON BURTON, EMILY GUALTIERI, AMY LANGE. JOY MARIAMA SMITH AND WILLIAM WINTER. |
Multi Tools
14. - 30.07.2014
14. - 30.07.2014
MULTI-TOOLS IS A SERIES OF WORKS THAT FOCUS ON THE COMMODIFICATION OF ANIMALS AND THEIR TRANSFORMATION FROM WILD AND INDEPENDENT INDIVIDUALS INTO PRODUCTS AND TOOLS USED FOR FARMING, TESTING AND ENTERTAINMENT. THE ADVANCEMENT OF HUMAN-KIND IN THE LAST CENTURY HAS BEEN ACCOMPANIED BY A SIGNIFICANT INCREASE IN THE INTENSITY WITH WHICH WE CONVERT NATURE AND ANIMALS INTO INSTRUMENTS THAT CAN BE FREELY USED AND EXPLOITED TO OUR BENEFIT. ANIMALS HAVE BEEN GIVEN SPECIFIC FUNCTIONS, ROLES AND LABELS WHICH DETERMINE THEIR VALUE AND STATUS WITH LITTLE TO NO CONSIDERATION FOR THEIR WELL-BEING. THROUGH THIS PROCESS, WE SEEM TO HAVE FORGOTTEN THE INTRINSIC CONNECTION BETWEEN HUMANS AND THE NATURAL WORLD. MULTI-TOOLS EXPLORES THIS TURBULENT RELATIONSHIP AND THE EFFECTS OF OUR PRACTICES FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE POWERLESS CREATURES.
BY MAT DUBÉ, CANADA / WWW.MATDUBE.COM |
(*) Liz Miller, USA
June 2014
June 2014
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swapping berlin for Stockholm (1/2)
Opening: may 24th / 6 - 11pm / 24. - 31.05.2014
Opening: may 24th / 6 - 11pm / 24. - 31.05.2014
Photos Drawings Graphics Katarina Mikek & Kristina Gellerstedt Opening: Saturday 24th May 2014 6pm-11pm Show runs from:25th - 30th May 4pm-8pm two Swedish artists Kristina Gellerstedt and Katarina Mikek exchange cities and exhibit their work in Berlin. They invite you to experience their forms and ideas. www.i-a-m.tk/swapping-berlin.html www.stockholmberlin.n.nu |
(*) Working class People working with class
February 27th / 4 - 10 pm
February 27th / 4 - 10 pm
"With any sculpture you have to be able to say, although this is not a ready made, it could be one. That's what a sculpture has to look like. It must have a certain relation to reality. I mean, not airy-fairy, let alone fabricated, so aloof and polite."
- Isa Genzken Considering the photograph as a contemporary artefact, "Working Class People Working With Class" traces an archeology of the present image culture. Preserving them as if in a museum vault, the artists look at the symbiotic relations between images, discussing the effects of the archive and popular magazine culture. Identifying this culture as one of image-obsession, artifice and excess, this exhibition takes a standpoint of reduction. Instead, a focus is given towards an interplay of perpetual surface. Alice Duncan and Jack Brown are Melbourne based artists and recent graduates of the Victorian College of the Arts, Australia. They have collaborated on various exhibitions including "Eastern Standard Time" at the Queensland Centre for Photography, "Tell Me What You Want, What you Really Really Want" at Knight Street Art Space and "We've Been Thinking About Expanding" at the Margaret Lawrence Gallery in Melbourne. They are proud to present their first exhibition concluding their month long residency at the Institut fÜr Alles MÖglichE. More About Alice Duncan: http://ls-d.tumblr.com/ |
(*) Do Whatever Feels Right
January 31st / 7 pm
January 31st / 7 pm
How do you know what to do? How do you know what is right? Follow your intuition. Trust your gut. That small voice within... What does it say? Turn that dial. Flick that switch. On. Off. Left. Right. Do whatever feels right. Exploring cause and effect through electronic sound and generative visuals, DO WHATEVER FEELS RIGHT is an interactive new media installation by Rebecca Baxter, created during her four week residency at IAM Zentrale in Wedding. Through the manipulation electronic sound machines, participants can contribute to the generative work by creating unique soundscapes which will in turn manifest a dynamic visual projection. by REBECCA BAXTER, CANADA http://rebeccabaxter.ca/
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[20.12.2013 / 6 PM]
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* / A Mind in Love
A visual representation of a mind in love An introduction to cognitive philosophy (a conceptual understanding of how the mind works) Understand if examining the philosophy of the mind helps us find true love A new paradigm to uncover truths about your head and your heart Open Artist Studio 2 – 13 December 2013
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[26.10.2013 / 6 pm]
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L/C/B*C: BEN Keddy, USA
Sound envelopes the human experience and provides us with the means to better interpret space, form and language in our everyday lives. With tools that both record and direct aural information, technology offers a bridge between the source of sound in an environment and how this sound is heard. As the dictation apparatus hears for us and translates audio to written form, the assistive hearing device partakes in the listening experience by reproducing the essence of reality to those with hearing deficiencies. Considering that the ear has evolved to convey specific acoustical information to our brains, how does the technical mediation of sound influence way we receive and interpret it? Please join Chicago based artist in residency, Benjamin Keddy, as he discusses his current work related to hearing and interpretation at the Institut für Alles Mögliche / Zentrale, Schererstrasse 11, Berlin-Wedding. on Saturday, October 26 at 6pm. MORE: www.i-a-m.tk/l-c-b-c.html MOREMORE: WWW.BENJAMINKEDDY.COM |
[13.09.2013 / 6 pm]
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* / i-Genesis i-Disappearance
Through a modern approach of "loading" Milena Jovicevic transforms the biblical saying: Then their eyes were opened, and they both realized that they were naked. They sewed fig leaves together and made clothes for themselves. (Bible, Genesis 3.7) and points out through all dimensions of human existence and levels of functioning (emotional, intellectual and intuitive) the circularity of creation and the end. The connection of modern and primeval expression here refers to the creation as an act of irony, the irony of the development path in variously expressed pain sensitivity. Biblical theme of genesis is followed by a continuous cut of Adam's ribs, the irony of his "omnipotence", a desire that he`d be granted the pain of creating and Eve, and another woman, a dog and... The appearance of blood would have to refer us to the biblical idea that the blood is soul, detracting of it - oblation, and the verdict is public human branding. (Milos Knezevic) More about the artist: www.milenajovicevic.com
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[18.08. – 01.09. 2013]
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* / JANI ANDERS PURHONEN, FINLAND
At first the residency was shared among travellers, which came naturally. Halfway through my time at Zentrale, I was alone, dazed by the city and mainly managed to bike, round and round. Toward the end I extended a far away exhibition, by performing a durational drawing in the workspace, which was narrowcasted back to Helsinki via video stream. Time seemed to rule over space, as I buzzed around in these various surroundings. MORE: http://tinyurl.com/jananders |
[June 2013]
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L/C/B*C: lauren edwards, USA
While at the I-A-M, I began the research which later served as the basis for My show "in the turns" at Andrew Rafacz Gallery in Chicago. In addition, the color photographs were taken in Berlin, not far from the residency site. The residency was invaluable in constructing this work. MORE: www.i-a-m.tk/l-c-b-c.html MORE: www.andrewrafacz.com/exhibition.php?s_id=79
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[07.05. – 28.05. 2013]
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DIRECT ACTION 2013 / Pointful Walks and Excursions
by Matthew crookes / new zealand Visitors welcome on these days: Tuesday, may 7th + 14th + 21st + 28th For more information go to: HTTP://POINTFULWALKSANDEXCURSIONS.BLOGSPOT.DE/ I will be posting more information on my blog as I go along. |
[08. – 21.04.2013]
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* / Carrie Scanga
Carrie Scanga’s exploration is concerned with space, the intimacy of individual experience and the liminal aspects of memory. During her residency at Zentrale she created “Airmail,” an installation of delicate drawings and carbon tracings depicting the glow of streetlights in Berlin. The process of drawing offered the chance for slow observation and articulation of information, a counterpoint to the speed with which we deal with pictures in contemporary life. At the same time, the drawings imply an investment in a casual idea or whim, since they were made on tracing paper, a material that is lightweight and ephemeral. MORE AT: www.carriescanga.com |
[27.03.2013 / 7 PM]
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* / open studio
This minimal exhibition by the Cypriot artist, Antria Pelekanou, marks the end of her artist residency in Berlin, showcasing a large scale eerie painting based on a 22 year old childhood photograph of a Bulgarian resident of Cyprus. MORE AT: www.antriapelekanou.net |
[March 1. / 7-11 pm]
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* / Domestic Crisis
We are happy to invite you to the presentation of the project "Domestic crisis" that was carried out during our residency in the "Institut für Alles Mögliche". "Collective Authorship" performance at 20.00 Hosted Project: "Bitter Orange Sweet" by Persefoni Myrtsou and Ino Varvariti. Friday 1st of March / 19.00-23.00 contact number: 015777297213 [email protected] / campusnovel.blogspot.gr |
[13.01.2013 / 4 – 6 PM]
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* / Wandering Divergence (I’m Yours) – PRESENTATION
An exhibition of a social experiment by Rachael Parsons If you had one day in Berlin, what would you do? Over the past month Rachael Parsons has been 17 other people on their ideal single day in Berlin. Each participant in the project has considered what they would do, where they would go, who they would see, what they would eat if they had one day to spend in Berlin. They have then listed these as series of instructions that Rachael has followed in order to live the day for them. These various adventures have been documented on-line to extend these experiences into something that is shared. Rachael’s experiences in Berlin have been varied and repetitive, expected and surprising, hectic and lazy, and have uncovered Berlin for her through the desires and ideas of others. |
[17.12.2012 – 14.01.2013]
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* / Wandering Divergence (I’m Yours)
Rachael Parsons / www.rachaelnp.com Wandering Divergence (I’m Yours) - The Berlin Edition asks a simple question: If you had one day in Berlin what would you do? As individuals we all have desires attached to certain places that are varied and informed by disparate experiences, understandings and preferences. Travel and our experiences of new places, like life and our experiences of home, are often determined by habits, routines and set patterns that instigate a recurring pattern of activity and engagement in different settings within comfortable and known parameters set by ourselves. However strong the aspiration may be to live your life differently especially in new and exciting settings, the compulsion to remain within the already established boundaries and routines of daily life constantly allows for excuses to be made, invitations to be declined, and life to follow set patterns while we wait for changes that simply will not and cannot occur without a dedicated willingness to go against instinct, and the known. So what if we removed the boundaries? What if there was no room for excuses or ability to decline? What if we relinquished control over our routine and decisions and gave them to someone else? What if, just for one day, we diverged from the life we are living, and wander into a new one? Over the course of one month in Berlin I will relinquish control over my days to 20 participating third parties, who will control my activities via pre-determined instructions. Each participant has been asked the same question: If you had one day in Berlin what would you do? They have broken up their ideal day into a set of instructions that I will follow in order to live that day for them acting as a surrogate and creating the possibility of diverse and unexpected activities and encounters that if left to myself I would never have experienced. |
[30.11.2012 / 7-9 pm]
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* / Honeycomb II
Megan Cotts / www.megancotts.com Megan Cotts works primarily in sculpture and installation, exploring the meaning of everyday objects by creating a visual sphere that creates narratives of history and memory, the historical and the memorial. In her current project Honeycomb, Cotts has built an archive surrounding the history of the Heilbrun & Pinner factory in Halle, Germany that specialized in decorative paper products. The factory was owned by her family until production was stopped in 1936 due to National Socialist pressure. Cotts resuscitates the patents filed by the company, (technologies which were subsequently absorbed by the aerospace industry) as the source for her sculptures and paintings. She cites the illustrative section of the patent to begin the translation into the physical. The reinvigoration of the process of what the patents had secured is now done by her hands. The exhibition Honeycomb II features the sculptures and canvas works that Cotts has made during her time in Berlin. Two large-scale paper sculptures reference the history of the honeycomb in the 20th century. From a Valentines Day card to the skin of an airplane wing, Cotts uses scale to show these two objects remarkably emerge from the same design concept. The canvas wall-hangings in the gallery show a continuation of the honeycomb treatment across material. The raw canvas is sewn into place and then treated, using fire or dyes to alter the fabric fibres. Through re-enacting the physical process of making these endless patterns, playing with the scale and material, and shifting the emphasis from the original, mass-produced combs to handmade interpretations of shapes, she discreetly questions legacies, authority, and history while simultaneously constructing her own Megan Cotts was born in New York, NY in 1979. She received her MFA from California Institute of the Arts in 2009. |
[06.–20.11.2012]
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* / Jackie Edwards → WEB
For my residency at the I-A-M, I decided to exhibit a small show of just ten paintings. From this, I now have first hand knowledge of the whole spectrum of a travelling exhibition and what it entails. It has prepared me well for my full solo exhibition to be held in Berlin this summer. Berlin has inspired me greatly and I cant wait to get back. The residency stripped me from the norm, and proved to be such an invaluable experience, from every possible avenue. |
[23.09. – 21.10. 2012]
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* / SAMUEL WALSH, Ireland → WEB
For nearly every residency I have undertaken I have always started with the idea of making progress in my work through my removal from the comfort zone of home and studio. My assumption is that without resource to available materials I can experiment within certain limitations. Whether this is apparent in subsequent work or not I am not in a position to be objective about and leave it to others to decide. Responses to previous efforts made on residences have rarely mentioned that the work was made in absentia although there have been occasional exceptions. Maybe it is only in retrospect we (I) can see any development or maybe it is too much to expect progression in such circumstances? I don’t know. Berlin offers the same challenge. Will my work move forward? Should it move forward? Is all this expectation misplaced? Sometimes you need to get away just to understand and know what you already have and if at the end of my residency I discard everything I have made here then at least I will know that what I brought with me (in my head) is good enough to return to. If I get one good idea from 6 weeks (now 4 due to unforeseen circumstance) in Berlin I will consider that progress. My targets are smaller these days. They’re the kind of expectations you can hold in your hand rather than all consuming. I have eaten plenty from the table of art and now require only time to digest. Samuel Walsh Berlin, September 2012
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[19.08. – 16.09. 2012]
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* / KIMBERLY DARK, USA → WEB
Kimberly Dark's performance work focuses on storytelling, audience interaction, humor and intimacy. She tells stories that reveal the absurdity of everyday life, along with the contours of privilege and oppression – things we don't always notice because they're so common. She makes themes that people don't usually discuss -- gender, race, class, sex and the body -- seem like perfectly pleasurable topics of conversation... |
[01. – 15.08. 2012]
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* / KYLIE BENJAMIN, UK → WEB
What are you doing here? The intention of this residency is to explore the relationship inherent between Berlin and its people. By taking an interactive approach I hope to discover more about the people I encounter and learn why they are in that particular place at that particular time. In order to achieve this in the two weeks I am in the city, I will be travelling to various locations and distributing blank postcards addressed to the artist studio where I will be staying. By asking the people I encounter to communicate how they arrived at that location and anything else they would like to share, I hope to gain greater insight into the life that pulses though the city. I will number all the postcards before I circulate them and note down the location they were distributed. I will also mark this on a map in the studio so that when a postcard is posted back, I can tick that particular postcard off on the map. In doing this I will be able to observe which ones have come back and how long it took for them to arrive. The postcards will be presented to the public openly in the studio window. The map its self will be an integral part of the work and will both compliment the postcards visually and link the messages of the people presented on the postcards to a specific location in the city. In this way the project aims to amicably unite its participants with one question, ‘What are you doing here?’ whilst also providing insight into the people of Berlin at that time. |
[15. – 29.07.2012]
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* / MILOS DJORDJEVIC, SERBIA → WEB
The "Third Edition" project revitalizes full and frontal representation of current ongoing in Serbian printmaking production and community. Three part presentation, during I-A-M * residency staying, is a prelude to a bigger scale project of international cooperation with long-term potential to be further developed and enhanced. Miloš Đorđević, project executive Jovana Avramović, project manager PROGRAM SCHEDULE July 25, 2012, 19pm Presentation of The First International Printmaking Triennial of ULUS Presentation of The First International Printmaking Triennial of ULUS (Belgrade, Serbia) held in 2011. During presentation will be reviewed: planning and running the organization of Triennial, statistical data of participating countries, demonstrated techniques and formats and portrayed thematic. After exposition of Triennial structure, visitors will be encouraged for open discussion on subject of organization and management aspects. Suggestions are welcome as well as valuable comparison with existing practices and events in Germany. July 26, 2012, 19pm Presentation of three Serbian printmaking artists Presentation of three selected Serbian artists: Bojan Otašević, Marko Stojković and Nikola Velicki. Video footage, PowerPoint, oral presentation and catalogues and publications will be available. July 27, 2012, 19pm Presentation of interactive printmaking based installation DISLOCATION One day exhibition of interactive, printmaking based installation by Miloš Đorđević.
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[01. – 14.07. 2012]
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* / ANA SLADETIC, CROATIA (→ WEB) & MIRAN ŠABIĆ, CROATIA (→ WEB)
Preface of the exhibition "Point of view": In his Theory of sublime, philosopher Emanuel Kant sees the tourist of the world in quest for esthetic experiences. In his book the romantic tourist is a man, who even though he is doomed, sees the goal of a journey. As a subject of infinite ideas and reason, Kant, sees the tourist, as a man who always seeks the unusual, great and dangerous so he can prove his superiority over nature. In all possible media, the artist - tourist knows how to do the work, so the local aspect doesn’t disappear, but becomes global. The goal of this project is to be a type of Kant’s artist - tourist. The first part of the exhibition is a short video Searching for a point of view. The video features two artists, who blindfolded each other in front of a large map of Berlin, and searched for their destination by the method of random selection. They pick seven random sights, which they plan to visit. Second part of the exhibition consists of two large maps of Berlin. Each artist went to specific sights that they randomly selected on the map, and gathered impressions. These are not famous touristic attractions that Berlin has to offer to the normal tourist, but randomly selected streets and parks that show the ordinary life and perspective of Berlin. The artists reacted to these seven sights, and made drawings and sketches of their impressions of the specific place. On the exhibition we can see two perspectives and two views of the same problem, and same subject matter. The final part of the exhibition is an installation consisting of photos on a line that connects the randomly selected destinations. The photos show the true appearance of each destination, and are a proof of existence of each of the seven sites. With this project we tried to show that art is a global phenomenon, that knows no boundries, unlike the countries. Also, to search and show resemblances and diversities between everyday life in Croatia and Germany. |
[23. – 31.06. 2012]
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* / SINEAD CURRAN, IRELAND → WEB
My practice investigates the cinematic process and it’s connection to urban architecture and the city, while creating tension between real space and fictional space. Video, photography and installation are used to question the notion of utopia in society. Influences range from the works of Dan Graham to the films of Tarkovsky. For this project I was interested in exploring locations from films shot in Berlin. Video and photography were used to investigate and restage cinematic imagery shot in locations including the Olympic Stadium which featured in Equilibrium, subway stations which featured in Run Lola Run and Tempelhof Airport, The outcome of this project has been a series of photographs and footage for a new video entitled 'Paths Not Taken', shot both in Berlin and the Dublin mountains. |
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