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I AM A BERLINER – Artist talks

fs — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 07:07:37 +0000

The exhibition I AM A BERLINER is accompanied by a program of artist talks and discussions with the artists from Berlin visiting Tel Aviv during the exhibition period. All talks take place in the Helena Rubinstein Pavilion. The entrance is free.

Events in January 2012

21.01.12 | 12 pm noon
Teaching painting today
Valérie Favre and Robert Lucander (Professors of Painting at the Universität der Künste Berlin) in conversation with Larry Abramson (Professor of Art at Shenkar College)

24.01.12 | 8 pm
Infinite imagination: spaces in figurative and abstract painting
Artist talk with Daniel Biesold and Harald Hermann

27.01.12 | 12 pm noon
Catching the light: Formalism and structures in painting
Discussion between Berlin-based artist Michelle Jezierski and Tel Aviv-based artist Gabriella Klein

SATELLITES

fs — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 10:09:38 +0000

OMER FAST – RECENT WORKS

22.01.-28.04.2012

Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art | Herzliya, Israel

curator: Joshua Simon

opening: 21.01.2012 | 8 pm

The exhibition SATELLITES: OMER FAST at the Herzliya Museum features a group of recent films and video installations. This is the first Israeli exhibition of works by Omer Fast (b. 1972, Jerusalem). The exhibition includes Fast’s latest film, 5000 Feet Is The Best (2011), as well as the video installation Nostalgia (2009) and the video work De Grote Boodschap (The Big Message, 2007). These three works present recent aspects of Fast’s oeuvre. The works are scattered throughout the museums like satellites, revealing the unique work processes and installation methods that Fast developed while engaging with documentary materials and fictional formats – including interviews and closed-circuit videos, TV shows and feature films, aerial photographs, and the type of impersonal, overview images associated with satellites.

Supported by:
Outset Contemporary Art Fund

BALANCING ACTS

Annika Kunz — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 10:59:34 +0000

Olaf Kühnemann

08.12.11- 13.01.12

Alon Segev Gallery | Tel Aviv

Opening: 08.12.11 | 8pm

Artist Talk: 30.12.11 | 11 am with Olaf Kühnemann and Friederike Schir

The name of the show references a struggle between two types of energy, each fundamental to the human condition. One is a structured energy- slow linear coherent. The other is intuitive- passionate and impulsive. These energies fluctuate in dominance and scale day to day, moment to moment. One does not have priority over the other. They are in constant struggle. The awareness of their existence is expressed by Olaf Kühnemann through the attempt of the maintain balance within these energies, and to also use and channel them.

Within the context of painting, these energies are assigned practical meaning through the physical actions involved. The initial preparation and stretching of the canvas are structured actions- A series of technical motions in a specific order with little room for expression. The first decision concerning this current group of work was to prepare each canvas with transparent rabbit-skin glue. As opposed to using a

white ground, this leaves the canvas bare and allows the first layers of paint to sink into the canvas, becoming a part of it.

Balancing Acts not only refers the working process, but also the final result. The second decision was to paint large groups of work simultaneously. Only in this way could these two types of energy be allowed to coexist, and to be expressed in many different directions; in the same and in separate paintings. Some of the works were made while referencing a photograph; others were arrived at through invention and imagination. Often, smaller paintings resulted after sustained periods of working on larger, more structured works. Here energy and physicality were allowed to shape and form the painting without the imposition of an external idea or narrative.

And even so, the abstract and non-specific will inevitably look like something. The clear boundaries of the painting dictate the horizontal and vertical elements. Paint that has been applied with no clear intention becomes . . . a balancing act.

Website Olaf Kühnemann

ARTBOX I AM A BERLINER

Annika Kunz — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 10:31:07 +0000

From January to March 2012, a large-scale exhibition on positions of contemporary painting from Berlin takes place at the Helena Rubinstein Pavillion of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art. Bring a sense of the feeling of the show into your own home by purchasing the special limited edition ARTBOX!

„Berlin is particularly rich in painterly traditions that express a diversity of approaches spanning everything from Abstraction to Expression, Symbolism and Fantasy, the Conceptual and the Minimal“ as stated by the curator Mark Gisbourne in his exhibition concept. The ARTBOX presents the rich diversity of the artists and their creative practices in a beautiful and unrepeatable manner.

With the ARTBOX you not only bring works by some of Berlin’s most successful artists to your home, but also support the realization of the exhibition project in Tel Aviv in general, and an educational program of artists’ visits and lectures in Tel Aviv in particular. Throughout the exhibition programme artists will be

travelling from Berlin and engaging in a cultural interaction with the art community of Tel Aviv.

What is it and who has participated?

Each of the artists in the exhibition have contributed 20 dated and unique numbered drawings, prints, paintings or videos to the ARTBOX. In every ARTBOX you find a work by each of the following artists: Martin Assig, Daniel Biesold, Norbert Bisky, Martin Borowski, Valérie Favre, Axel Geis, Katharina Grosse, Harald Hermann, Gregor Hildebrandt, Christian Hoischen, Michelle Jezierski, Ruprecht von Kaufmann, Clemens Krauss, Robert Lucander, Gerold Miller, Frank Nitsche, Peter Stauss, Miriam Vlaming.

How do you get it?

You can purchase the ARTBOX by sending an email to Friederike Schir, fs@schir.net. Then you will receive an invoice including details for the bank transfer. Once your payment is received, your ARTBOX will be sent to you with DHL Premium service. In case of any questions, please send an email to Friederike Schir fs@schir.net or to Philipp Horrichs ph@schir.net.

Heike Gallmeier

fs — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 04:06:57 +0000

Born in Berlin in 1972, Heike Gallmeier studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts Mainz and finished her studies in the master class of the sculpture department at the Art Academy Berlin-Weissensee. She lives and works in Berlin. Gallmeier received the Art Award Junger Westen of the City of Recklinghausen, as well as grants by the Berlin Senate, the Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation and the Werkleitz Centre for Media Art.

She took part in shows such as Art and Identity (Art Museum Guangzhou, China), History will repeat itself (HMKV Dortmund and KW Institute for Contemporary Art Berlin), and New Frankfurt Internationals at Kunstverein Frankfurt.

Gallmeiers works are acts of self-portrayal and escapism, surrogate worlds and projections. She investigates these phenomena working on her spatial arrangements built from everyday materials and found objects (staged photography and installations), as well as by photographing and filming found examples of staged situations and existing sceneries. Painting and photography, set design and performance blend and complement each other. This creates a turning moment between illusion and its dissolution, in which the observer can view both the stage and behind the scenes.

Further information

I AM A BERLINER

fs — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 13:26:56 +0000

18 positions of contemporary painting

21.01. – 24.03.2012

curator: Mark Gisbourne

Artists: Martin Assig, Daniel Biesold, Norbert Bisky, Martin Borowski, Valerie Favre, Axel Geis, Katharina Grosse, Harald Hermann, Gregor Hildebrandt, Christian Hoischen, Michelle Jezierski, Ruprecht von Kaufmann, Clemens Krauss, Robert Lucander, Gerold Miller, Frank Nitsche, Peter Stauss, Miriam Vlaming

Helena Rubinstein Pavilion for Contemporary Art | Tel Aviv, Israel

opening: 20.01.2012 | 12 pm noon

The exhibition I AM A BERLINER is devoted to leading exponents of painting from Berlin. While German painting in general has had an enormous international influence over the last thirty years, the reunification of West and East Berlin twenty years ago has created a city with an enormous number of painting platforms. It has at the same time become the platform for an enormous diversity of painting practices and approaches. The complete reorientation of German art following the reunification of the two Germanys, has led to establishing Berlin as the major city of art production in the New Germany.
Berlin is particularly rich in painterly traditions that express a diversity of approaches spanning everything from Abstraction to Expression, Symbolism and Fantasy, the Conceptual and the Minimal. But more

importantly than that there is a contemporary sense of process and painting practice that is both self-reflexive on the one hand and analytical on the other.
To focus on a city, particularly a major city of painting practice, is to stress the fact that it is not about a National School of painting (quite the reverse), but to highlight the many pluralistic approaches adopted by painters living and working in Berlin today. The title chosen I AM A BERLINER is therefore, by making reference to President Kennedy’s famous statement in Berlin following the building of the Berlin Wall, to express the idea of international inclusion, identification and association with the city. Which is to say that those who live in Berlin are all in their different ways Berliners regardless of their nationality of origin. Berlin has become quite literally a magnet for many painters, a place where painting practitioners from other parts of Germany and the wider world have gravitated in recent years. The picture that emerges as a result is not one of homogenous uniformity, but the creation of a far reaching diversity of means and plurality of visual expression.

Supported by:

HomeBase VI Jerusalem

Annika Kunz — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 11:29:09 +0000

HomeBase and schir partnered up to realize HomeBase VI Jerusalem in Jerusalem in 2012. The project adapts the model of HomeBase New York and Berlin for the Jerusalem context. The HomeBase Project, a site-specific urban art project exploring the notion of home,was founded by Israeli/American artist and curator Anat Litwin in New York City in 2006 as a grass roots, artist run project. The HomeBase Project has been acknowledged by the media as a “new model for public art” and has conducted six projects in neighborhoods in both NYC and recently in an old Brewery in Pankow, Berlin.

The content of HomeBase lies upon the question and idea of home and identity: Is there a connection visual practices and artistic creation? What is the meaning of home in today’s dynamic society and globalized world? How do artists and surrounding communities interact?

HomeBase Website

VIDEO ART BOX

Annika Kunz — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 13:13:34 +0000

09.09.-11.09

Preview | Berlin

Fresh Paint | Tel Aviv

Contemporary video art from Israel

PREVIEW BERLIN and Fresh Paint, Tel Aviv – two inspiring young contemporary art fairs, are delighted to announce the beginning of their collaboration. The collaboration commences with Tel Aviv’s Fresh Paint presenting an exhibition of contemporary video art by Israeli artists at PREVIEW- BERLIN 2011. The program on view in the VIDEO ART BOX by Fresh Paint has been selected as an introduction to Israeli art today. The works give an insight into the internationally acclaimed Israeli video art scene with its characteristic low budget yet highly evocative works.
The works selected for the VIDEO ART BOX, all screened in Germany for the very first time, depict various aspects of Israeli society, tradition and culture. The wide spectrum of subjects, from soccer, through immigration, to politics, are all dealt with from a personal angle, through a personal story or a personal involved impression relevant to an international audience. The VIDEO ART BOX and accompanying events create a lively exchange between the partner organizations and mark the first step in a partnership that will be extended in 2012.
The project was initiated and is coordinated in collaboration with schir – art concepts.

the same sea/ a different coast

Annika Kunz — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 09:41:07 +0000

Sorry, this entry is only available in Deutsch.

Simon Krantz und Yael Ruhman

Annika Kunz — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 09:28:48 +0000