Curator’s Tour – Into the Underground with Johanna Janßen

On September 6th, curator Johanna Janßen will lead a tour “Into the Underground” – to Galerie im Turm’s very own “pole of inaccessibility”, were an artwork by José Montealegre is installed. The space is the planned but never completed entrance to the Frankfurter Tor underground station, which is only accessible during the curator’s tour. Tour in […]

Concert within the frame of the exhibition “Innehalten”

Frank Reinecke, double bass solo iv 18 »Sie fürchteten sich nämlich« (For They were Afraid) Composition by Mark Andre [*1964] from cycle iv (introverted) – A journey into the interior of music, into the realm of intermediate tones and the microtonal world. Length: approx. 45′ and other new music works (Program information at www.alte-feuerwache-friedrichshain.de) Berlin-based […]

Reading within the frame of the exhibition “Innehalten”

Actor Ulrike Folkerts reads texts by Canadian-US artist Agnes Martin (1912-2004), pioneer of the artistic avant-garde in 1960s America. “When I think of art, I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye; it is in my mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection.” Artists Ev […]

Guided tour: Voicing Bethanien – an exhibition space in context

Guided tour through the exhibition Voicing Bethanien – an exhibition space in context with Stéphane Bauer Voicing Bethanien is an exhibition and event project that commemorates the 50th anniversary of Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien by delving into its rich and eventful history. Through a large-scale video installation featuring forty interviews with people who were there, Voicing Bethanien […]

Opening: Voicing Bethanien – an exhibition space in context. Video installation by Sonya Schönberger/Berliner Zimmer

Opening: 3–11 pm Welcome: 7 pm Voicing Bethanien is an exhibition and event project that commemorates the 50th anniversary of Kunstraum Kreuzberg by delving into its rich and eventful history. Through a large-scale video installation featuring forty interviews with people who were there, Voicing Bethanien expands into a multi-voiced and individually relatable narrative about a […]

Artist Talk with Ana Alenso

Ana Alenso’s art focuses on the social and environmental impacts of extractivism, global resource politics, and the trade precious metal and fossil fuels. In her new work, Deepwater Horizon, Alenso explores the environmental risks associated with oil extraction using offshore drilling rigs. She looks specifically at the catastrophic consequences of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon blowout […]

Haunted Waters

In this workshop we will join forces and become ghost hunters! We will go through imagination, drawing and writing exercises to visualise ghostly contaminants. We will explore bodies of water that are “haunted” by chemical contamination. Contaminants are substances that due to different factors have ended up in our waters. Just like ghosts, they are invisible […]

Innehalten

Berlin artists Ev Pommer and Katharina Schnitzler present artistic approaches that explore space. The objects, paintings and drawings in the show interrelate, yet their distinctiveness is clear. In ways that are both concrete and abstract, they deal with profundity and grace – the prosaic and the incomprehensible, the unheard and the not-yet-seen.