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KGB-Kunstwoche 2018 in Berlin

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  • Fri
    07
    Sep
    2018

    MIES – SITZEN UND LIEGEN 03

    14:00Symposium
    Lichtenberg, Mies van der Rohe Haus

    im Rahmen des Jahresprogramms MIES – SITZEN UND LIEGEN.
    Anmeldung bis zum 06.09.2018 erbeten unter info@miesvanderrohehaus.de

  • MIES – SITZEN UND LIEGEN 03 (SITTING AND LYING)

    14:00Symposium
    Mies van der Rohe Haus

    Symposium as part of the one-year program MIES – SITZEN UND LIEGEN (SITTING AND LYING).

    Please register for the symposium tour by 06.09.2018 at info@miesvanderrohehaus.de

  • Wir verrecken vor Lachen - 50 Jahre Karikatürkei

    19:00Eröffnung der Ausstellung
    Friedrichshain–Kreuzberg, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien

    In Anwesenheit von Künstler*innen aus Istanbul, Berlin und Paris.

  • Laughing Ourselves to Death — 50 Years of Caricature

    19:00Exhibition opening
    Friedrichshain–Kreuzberg, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien

    With artists from Istanbul, Berlin, and Paris

  • Jenny Michel – Antenna Diaries

    19:00Exhibition opening and concert
    Schwartzsche Villa

    with Josepha Conrad and Jakob Dobers

  • #REFLECTIONS#

    20:00Concert
    Friedrichshain–Kreuzberg, projektraum alte feuerwache

    Ensemble LUX:NM with Ruth Velten (saxophone), Florian Juncker (trombone), Silke Lange (accordion), works from John Cage, Steve Reich, and more.

  • Sat
    08
    Sep
    2018

    Open Day

    15:00Guided tour
    Mies van der Rohe Haus

    Please register for the guided tour by 06.09.2018 at info@miesvanderrohehaus.de

  • Artistic Work in Public Space

    15:00Artist Talk
    Schloß Biesdorf

    Artists who took part in the “Soft City” exhibition discuss their experiences with artistic work in public space in Japan and Germany.

  • Enough with Fun?

    19:00Panel discussion
    Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien

    The publishers of Turkey’s biggest satirical magazine discuss contemporary satire, working conditions, the freedom of the press, and self-censorship. With: Tuncay Akgün (Leman), Selçuk Erdem (Penguen), Ramize Erer (Bayan Yanı) and Barış Uygur (Uykusuz)

  • Sun
    09
    Sep
    2018

    Open Monument Day

    10:00 - 22:00Tours, activities, and lectures
    Zitadelle Spandau — Zentrum für Aktuelle Kunst, Alte Kaserne

  • Anna Lehmann-Brauns – The Final Curtain: An Homage in Photographic Images

    12:00Exhibition opening
    Kommunale Galerie Berlin

  • Collage Workshop

    13:30 - 16:30Workshop
    GalerieETAGE im Museum Reinickendorf

    Workshop for adults with visual artist Anett Lau. With the exhibition as a starting point, structured and patterned surfaces are created with themes of nature and other motives using various artistic techniques that are further developed with collage.

    To bring: Nail scissors and illustrations / comics of any kind.
    Participation fee: 3 euros (including materials)

    Registration at: info@museum-reinickendorf.de or phone 030-404 40 62

  • < urbane Vectors > SKETCHES FOR A POLITICAL RE/CONSTRUCTION OF URBAN SPACE

    14:00 - 18:00Preview and tour
    rk — Galerie für zeitgenössische Kunst

  • “Azumaya” - Art Picnic in the Park

    14:00Workshop and picnic
    Schloß Biesdorf

    A picnic in the park with exhibiting artists and a workshop with Yuji Ueno who offers a glimpse into Hanaike, a free, contemporary, and artistic form of Japanese ikebana. Titus Spree also presents “Azumaya” – typical, small Japanese garden houses.

  • Open Day

    15:00Guided tour
    Mies van der Rohe Haus

    Please register for the guided tour by 06.09.2018 at info@miesvanderrohehaus.de

  • Enchanted Land – Chinese Art by Wang Lan

    16:00Artist Talk
    Galerie im Kulturhaus Karlshorst

    with Wang Lan as part of the KGB bus tours

  • AUSGEZEICHNET | GEFÖRDERT (DISTINGUISHED | PROMOTED)

    18:00Exhibition tour
    Kommunale Galerie Berlin

    with curator Katharina Lorenz

  • The Franciscan Monastery Church – Berlin landmark since 1271

    18:00Film premiere and lecture
    Ruine der Franziskaner Klosterkirche

    Documentary filmmaker and visual anthropologist Johanna Ickert presents a new film that explores the Franciscan Monastery Church ruins, vividly conveying the history of and current perspectives on the monument. Accompanying the film presentation is a lecture on the cultural and urban development potential.

  • Anonyme Zeichner 2018 - Choir performance

    19:00Choir performance
    Galerie im Körnerpark

    Vocal group Mayröcker perform a libretto made up of short descriptive texts by anonymous artists participating in the exhibition in exact, associative, lyric, meandering, and concise forms as a choir performance.

  • Mon
    10
    Sep
    2018

    Control Food and You Control the People

    18:00 - 19:30Artist Walk
    Galerie Wedding  – Raum für zeitgenössische Kunst

    with Anaïs Héraud-Louisadat

  • Tue
    11
    Sep
    2018

    REFLECTIONS| FlächenTiefenSelbstbetrachtungen (SurfacesDepthsSelfReflections)

    19:00Exhibition tour and artist talk
    projektraum alte feuerwache

    Curator Harald Theiss tours the exhibition in discussion with some of the artists.

  • < urbane Vectors > SKETCHES FOR A POLITICAL RE/CONSTRUCTION OF URBAN SPACE

    19:00Exhibition opening
    rk — Galerie für zeitgenössische Kunst

  • “Der Protest und die Kunst” (Protest and Art)

    19:00Reading and talk
    Galerie Nord | Kunstverein Tiergarten

    Gretchen Dutschke reads excerpts from her new book, an account of social awakening that is simultaneously personal and critical. Klaus Staeck reports on documenta 1968 and 1972.

  • Collectors & Hunters. Olaf Bastigkeit – Curiosity Cabinet

    19:00Exhibition opening
    Zitadelle Spandau — Galerie Bastion Kronprinz

    Gerhard Hanke, district councilor, Dr. Urte Evert, museum director, and Dr. Ralf F. Hartmann, head of the Culture Office, speak at the opening of “Collectors & Hunters. Olaf Bastigkeit – Wunderkammer”.

  • Artist families

    19:00Artist talk and concert
    Galerie Alte Schule Adlershof

    Discussion with Barbara Müller-Kageler. Moderator: Petra Hornung; music: Ulrike Vieguth, accordion

  • Wed
    12
    Sep
    2018

    Documentation of Works and Estate Lists

    18:00Lecture
    Kommunale Galerie Berlin

    The question of artistic estates is a pertinent one in Berlin in view of the high number outstanding artists. With Dr. Liane Burkhardt and Thomas Kumlehn, Mobiler Nachlass-Service, Private Künstlernachlässe im Land Brandenburg e.V. (Mobile Estate Service, Private Artistic Estates in Brandenburg e.V.)

  • DIE NENNEN DAS SCHREI (They Call it Screaming)/ DER SCHÖNE 27.SEPTEMBER (Beautiful September 27)

    19:00Reading and film presentation
    Galerie Kulturhaus

    Herwig Finkeldey and Lars Hartmann present texts by and about Thomas Brasch. Film clips from interviews providing insight into his work and worldview will also be shown.

  • Wed
    12
    Sep
    2018
    Sun
    16
    Sep
    2018

    uncertain sounds

    19:00Sound performance
    galerie weisser elefant

    Lucrecia Dalt, Driftmachine, Moritz Geist, Jan Jelinek, Felicity Mangan, Daniela Huerta, Andrew Pekler, Stefan Römer, Ioana Vreme Moser

    The sound performance week brings together a selection of artist from experimental electronica. As part of KGB Kunstwoche 2018, they are invited to use their individual aesthetic approach to explore the sonic universe between the reality of the acoustic and the symbolism of sound, and from that to create and present sound-iconic sonic landscapes. Curated by Sebastian Häger

  • Thu
    13
    Sep
    2018

    Uwe Behrens – I want to stay where I have never been | for Thomas Brasch

    18:00Artist Talk
    Galerie Kulturhaus

    As part of the “Bleiben will ich, wo ich nie gewesen bin” (I want to stay where I have never been), Uwe Behrens talks about his images and their cross-connections with Thomas Brasch’s texts.

  • Lisa Holzer - You make me very hungry / Und ich hab schon wieder Hunger (And I’m already hungry again)

    19:00Exhibition opening
    Galerie im Turm

    Lisa Holzer prepares ice-cream for visitors in a motherly performative gesture.

  • REFLECTIONS| FlächenTiefenSelbstbetrachtungen (SurfacesDepthsSelfReflections)

    19:00Performance
    projektraum alte feuerwache

    Artist Nezaket Ekici presents a performance that deals with the phenomenon of “mirror” and explores its cultural and culture-historical significance. What happens when you act like a reflection?

  • Wohnmaschinen (Machines for Living) Film Series: Panelstory aneb jak se rodí sídliště (Prefab Story)

    19:00Lecture
    studio im HOCHHAUS

    Věra Chytilová’s “Panelstory” aneb jak se rodí sídliště – A History of Walls or How Housing Estates are Born” (ČSSR 1979/1981, 100 min, Czech with English subtitles) was created in the period of “normalisation” which followed the Soviet invasion of 1968. Chytilová’s radical imagery—more fragmented than episodic—shows a single day in a housing estate still under construction.

  • “Krieg – Vietnam – Krieg – Fried” (War – Vietnam – War – Peace)

    19:00Performance
    Galerie Nord | Kunstverein Tiergarten

    Relating to the exhibition “No War No Vietnam” Käthe Kruse recites a full-length list of wars since the antiquities. Klara Kruse Rosset reads from the poems of Erich Fried while Edda Kruse Rosset plays a drum. With Sung Tieu

  • Anne Duk Hee Jordan – Ziggy on the Land of Drunken Trees

    19:00Exhibition opening
    Galerie Wedding  – Raum für zeitgenössische Kunst

  • The Salient Point

    19:00Film evening
    Galerie im Körnerpark

    A collection of international short films ranging across the entire kaleidoscope of animation from its beginnings in the early twentieth century up to today. Drawn and scanned, filmed and digitised, twelve and twenty-four frames per second. With Bettina Munk/linesfiction

  • Bruhn, Kain, Neur – Three painters in Berlin

    19:00Tour and artist talk
    Galerie Parterre Berlin

    Kathleen Krenzlin, Galerie Parterre Berlin director, leads a tour through the exhibition in conversation with the artists.

  • Hello Antenna — An Evening about the Crackles in the Air

    19:00Concert and performance
    Schwartzsche Villa

    Josepha Conrad and Jakob Dobers make contact in the middle of the exhibition. A performative appearance with songs, sounds, and stories about invisible signals and visible visitors. A presentation about emergence, disappearance, and repetition, as well as a tribute to in-between space.

  • Transformationsprozesse und Fotografie

    19:00Artist Talk
    HAUS am KLEISTPARK | Projektraum

    with artist Peter Oehlmann und die art historian Franziska Schmidt

  • Künstlergeld (Artist Money)

    19:00Artist talk and concert
    Galerie Alte Schule Adlershof

    Discussion with sculptor Anna Franziska Schwarzbach. Moderation and introduction to the “Künstlergeld” (Artist Money) art project: Petra Hornung; music: Abel Sanchez, guitar— flamenco, tango

     

  • Young Art Award

    19:30Exhibition opening
    Rathaus-Galerie Reinickendorf
  • Fri
    14
    Sep
    2018

    Long Night of Images/Wang Lan – Enchanted Land

    17:00 - 22:00Artist Talk
    Galerie im Kulturhaus Karlshorst

    Artist Wang Lan speaks about her work and writes names in Chinese calligraphy for visitors.

  • Long Night of Images/Marion Stille – Painting-Drawing-Woodblock Printing

    18:00 - 24:00Exhibition tour
    Galerie 100

    with artist Marion Stille

  • Long Night of Images

    18:00 - 24:00Artist talk and concert
    rk — Galerie für zeitgenössische Kunst

  • Spatial Structures and the “Vertical City

    18:00Artist Talk
    Galerie im Saalbau

    Claudia von Funcke’s folded paper works, construction elements, and video projections formulate abstract ideas for folding surfaces and breaking up space. In her talk, she presents her artistic approach and talks about architecture and special structures, about diversity, movement, and coexistence in the city. What do congestion and the concept of the “vertical city” mean for Berlin?

  • From West to East — A Musical Journey to Moscow

    19:00 - 22:00Concert
    Galerie 100

    With Maxim Shagaev (bayan accordion) and Andrej Ur (violin)

  • JURI AND THE GAGARINS

    19:00Concert
    studio im HOCHHAUS

    “Surf in Space” – Juri and the Gagarins are touring in the service of interplanetary friendship. Their mission is called SPACE TWANG. Hagen, Paule and Hirse Gagarin are three very different brothers from the little village of Twistosowo at the edge of the Baikonur space station. It was there that their grandfather Yuri taught them their first spacey tones.

  • Fri
    14
    Sep
    2018
    Sun
    16
    Sep
    2018

    EINE ANDERE WAHRNEHMUNG FINDET STATT / A Change in Perception

    10:00 - 18:00Workshop
    Galerie Pankow

    Workshop with Kurt Buchwald

    Photography is associated with interpretation, reframing, and aestheticisation—possibilities that can be played with. During this three-day workshop, photographs are made using a tube fitted onto a camera so that image borders, variations in lighting, visibility, effacement, and the limits of perception are simulated and experienced in a new way. Registration at galerie-pankow-buero@gmx.de

  • Sat
    15
    Sep
    2018

    Active Ash

    14:00 - 19:00Exhibition opening
    Bärenzwinger

    with opening program

  • Exhibition tour

    15:00Exhibition tour
    Zitadelle Spandau — Zentrum für Aktuelle Kunst, Alte Kaserne

    with artists, moderated by Dr. Ralf F. Hartmann

  • Sun
    16
    Sep
    2018

    Works from the Estate

    11:30Exhibition tour
    Kommunale Galerie Berlin

  • Dada Behind Rosebushes – Tracing the footsteps of Hannah Höch

    14:30 - 17:30Exhibition tour and bicycle tour
    GalerieETAGE im Museum Reinickendorf

    Why did Hannah Höch move to Heiligensee? Arty sleuthing with art-accomplices through the exhibition and around old stomping grounds with stops at the “Schau(ins)fenster Hannah Höch” memorial, at her grave, and at the Tegeler See memorial.

    Meeting point: Museum Reinickendorf
    Fee: 5 euros

    Registration for the exhibition tour at: info@museum-reinickendorf.de or phone 030-404 40 62

  • MAL_AKTION (Painting_action)

    15:30 - 19:00 Live painting, film presentation
    Galerie Parterre Berlin

    The Bruhn, Kain, Neuer exhibition has the secret subheading “Huge Pictures.” Daniela Herr, art mediator at Galerie Parterre Berlin, and exhibiting artist Michael Kain help kids paint a large-scale picture on a roll of paper (3:30 - 4:30 p.m.). At 5:00 p.m. there is a no less impressive film presentation for adults: VINCENT & THEO GB/I/ NL/F 1989 - 139 Minutes – Director: Robert Altman, English, with an introduction by Dr. Claus Löser.

    This rarely seen film — partly due to the lack of a version dubbed in German – focuses more on Van Gogh’s relationship with his younger brother than his struggle for artistic recognition.

  • MIES – SITZEN UND LIEGEN 03 (SITTING AND LYING) Mariko Takagi: I THINK IN WORDS AND DREAM IN IMAGES. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe: MIES FOR ALL SEASONS.

    16:00Exhibition tour
    Mies van der Rohe Haus

  • Lisa Holzer - You make me very hungry / Und ich hab schon wieder Hunger (And I’m already hungry again)

    17:00Performances
    Galerie im Turm

    Quintessa Matranga: Smokers
    Michele di Menna: The bells put out their tongues
    Trevor Lee Larson: My Ex-Brain
    Lisa Holzer: You make me very hungry / Und ich hab schon wieder Hunger