[aha] Programme 2008 of Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien
T_Bazz
t_bazz at ecn.org
Thu Jan 10 22:49:27 CET 2008
Programme 2008 of Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien (Berlin)
>> see May-June ;)
Ecco il programma del 2008 del Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien di
Berlino...con una bella sorpresa verso maggio-giugno ;)
accorrete numerosi!!!
T_Bazz
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P r o g r a m m e 2 0 0 8
to 17 February 2008
Two exhibitions on colonialism, representation, working with archives
and ways of coming to terms with the past:
"The making of ... "
Archive | Jihad | film | spirits | history | stories | Halfmoon Files |
colonial models | camps | sound archive | propaganda | sound recordings
| entertainment | science | Wünsdorf
A project by Philip Scheffner and Britta Lange in cooperation with the
Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien. Sponsored by the Hauptstadtkulturfonds
Berlin.
In cooperation with the sound archive of the Humboldt Universität
Berlin, the Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte Berlin and
the Stiftung Deutsches Rundfunkarchiv
Bilder verkehren
Postcards in the visual culture of German colonialism
An exhibition showing postcards from the Sammlung Peter Weiss and the
Altonaer Museum in Hamburg – Norddeutsches Landesmuseum
by Felix Axster, Heike Hartmann, Astrid Kusser and Susann Lewerenz for
[i][mi][r] – Institut für Migrations- und Rassismusforschung, Hamburg
Exhibition architecture and graphics by René Hillebrandt, Knut Schneider
and simon_spiegel_zimmermann Büro für visuelle Kommunikation, Hamburg
"The making of ...": The project "The making of ..." is based on
research undertaken by writer-director Philip Scheffner for the film
"The Halfmoon Files" (première: Berlinale 2007) as well as on studies
conducted by cultural studies expert Dr. Britta Lange (Max-Planck
Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, 2005-2007) on academic research
concerning prisoners of war during the First World War.
The various approaches and results which emerged from the joint project
"The making of ...." are brought together in an exhibition context. The
exhibition takes as its starting point the encounter between German
academics and soldiers from the British, French and Russian armies
interned in German prisoner of war camps during the first World War. One
main focus is on the so-called "Halbmondlager" (or Camp Crescent) in
Wünsdorf near Berlin where "colonial soldiers", mainly Indians and North
Africans, were interned between 1914 and 1918. These "exotic" prisoners
of war were used for political propaganda and as material for numerous
academic studies in the fields of anthropology, ethnography,
linguistics, music and law.
The exhibition shows the particular situation of the prisoner of war
camp, located somewhere between politics and science. The
interdisciplinary approach investigates the complex historical topic
with regard to its relevance and significance for today's constructions
of "history" and "science". The exhibition "The making of ..." reflects
on the circumstance that, even as it is taking place, history is already
the stuff of which stories are made: stories about the political aims of
propaganda, about the prisoners' individual or collective fate, about
their relevance to academic studies, about the media deployed – as well
as the prisoners' own narratives concerning the war, their home
countries, Wünsdorf and the way they themselves viewed the researchers.
The exhibition takes the historical narratives and examines them from
the perspective of "today", producing a fragile audio-visual network of
stories about the interconnections between colonialism, war, media,
politics, entertainment and science.
Events:
16.12.2007 | 18 h | Film screening
" The Halfmoon Files - A ghost story " by Philip Scheffner (German version)
06.01.2008 | 19 h | lecture
Paul Paulun: “Auf die Ohren - Musik und Klang in militärischer
Verwendung” / "In the ears – military use of music and sound"
10.01.2008 | 19 h | lecture
Avery Gordon: "I'm already in a sort of tomb. Some thoughts on war,
prisoners and casting shadows”
13.01.2008 | 20 h | lecture
Wolfgang Fuhrmann: "Kolonialismus und Film im Ersten Weltkrieg"/
"Colonialism and film in the first World War"
17./18.01.2008 | 10-17 h | symposium
"Die Ambivalenz der Archive" /"The ambivalence of archives"
with: Wolfgang Davis, Beate Engelbrecht, Wolfgang Ernst, Lars-Christian
Koch, Astrid Kusser, Julia Kursell, Thomas Schnalke, Raimund Vogels,
Nicole Wolf, Susanne Ziegler.
(in the ruined lecture theatre of the Berlin Charité Museum of Medical
History)
17.01.2008 | 19 h | Film screening
" The Halfmoon files -- A ghost story " by Philip Scheffner (German version)
27.01.2008 | 19 h | lecture
Britta Lange: Wissenschaftliche Forschungen an Kriegsgefangenen. Berlin
und Wien 1915-1918" / "Academic research and prisoners of war. Berlin
and Vienna 1915-1918"
31.01.2008 | 19 h | lecture
Ravi Ahuja/Franziska Roy: "Indische Kriegsgefangene im Deutschen Reich"
/ "Indian prisoners of war in the German Reich"
03.02.2008 | 11 h | Bus excursion to Wünsdorf (advance reservation required)
07.02.2008 | 19 h | Filmscreening
"The Halfmoon files - A ghost story " by Philip Scheffner (English version)
17.02.2008 | 18 h| Finissage
Bilder verkehren / Changing images: Which are the images that have
accumulated in the visual archives of German colonialism? The exhibition
"Bilder verkehren" explores this question by examining picture postcard
motifs current in the days of the German Empire and the Weimar Republic.
Changing the images clarifies both the role the popular mass medium
postcard played in shaping everyday debate about colonial power
relationships and the breadth of themes it covered: pictures which
served political propaganda purposes, advertising for colonial imports
and appeals for funds by missionary societies confront visual the
visiting cards of black migrants working in the entertainment business
in big European cities. Colonization and migration are thus shown as
being in part parallel, as well as partly contradictory historical
dynamics. Consideration is also given to the emergence of popular black
culture around 1900 and the associated transatlantic processes of
exchange and appropriation.
Many of the picture postcard themes confirmed the colonialist schemes as
being right and proper, yet in the overview provided in the exhibition
the variety and contradictory of this visual archive becomes clear.
Whilst the colonialist ideology assumed that a hierarchy between
colonizers and colonized was quite natural, the material from popular
culture reveals the unforgiving nature of such ascriptions and the
degree of racist coercion required to produce and maintain them. The
repertoire of colonialism is thus also closely connected to movements
targeted against the colonizing process. In this way, picture postcards
can serve to demonstrate that popular colonial legends and jokes had
their origins in the everyday struggles, escapes and ambivalences of the
colonies.
Changing images allows one to see that the medium of the postcard could
be used, not just to confirm and spread colonialist pictures and
patterns, but also to subvert these pictures, to challenge familiar
images and to produce new images, defiant of colonialist hierarchies.
"Bilder verkehren" presents a selection of ca. 350 picture postcards
from the Sammlung Peter Weiss, a collection of exceptional scale and
quality containing several thousand examples dating from the 1870s to
the 1930s. The selection is accompanied by exhibits from the extensive
collections of the Altonaer Museum in Hamburg – Norddeutsches
Landesmuseum.. The exhibition was first shown in spring 2005 at the
Kunsthaus in Hamburg.
Event: Sunday, 16 December 2007, 16.00 h: Discussion about the
exhibition with th curatorial team
1 March to 27 April 2008
Opening: Friday, 29 February 2008 from 19 h
GLOBAL ALIEN: Congress of Culture
An exhibition project by the Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien
GLOBAL ALIEN is a network of artists and theorists from Germany, Korea,
Iceland, Denmark, Japan, Austria and the Philippines which examines and
questions the mechanisms of globalization.
Exhibition projects by Global Alien have been and are currently being
shown in a number of countries. They always refer directly to their
respective surroundings and stage their contents accordingly in ever new
ways. The focus is always on the "global alien" who crosses cultural and
national boundaries, thus making it possible for people to encounter a
foreign or "alien" person. That which is alien is determined by the
boundaries separating he known from the unknown. Where do these borders
lie and who is it that maintains them? How can they be opened or
extended? How does the construction of alienness differ from country to
country?
The mechanisms of globalization are forcing the abolition of economic
boundaries whilst at the same time borders in
other sectors are being tightened. Seen on a "global" scale the world is
growing together, yet on a "human" scale we find a process of
fragmentation taking place. Global Alien counters this with an attitude
to life, a linking of people throughout the world who have been uprooted
and are searching for new frames of reference.
Global Alien has taken up the challenge of building an international
network that addresses contemporary local topics and issues and produces
transcultural ways of approaching at them. The goal is an exchange
between different cultures which can acquire a productive local
connection. The key question is what a global culture might look like
that both accepts its own transformation and is capable of combining the
tensions of preservation and transformation within itself.
"Global Alien" transforms the exhibition venue into a place where art is
produced. Through films, performances and workshops they invite
audiences to become part of the project. By asking visitors to encounter
unfamiliar surroundings or by alienating their accustomed surroundings,
they are invited to reflect on their own cultural and social identity,
which is reciprocally related to the alien.
In the course of the Congress of Culture exhibition at the Kunstraum
Kreuzberg/Bethanien a number of different workshops will take place
addressing the concept of "alienness" and the representation of exotic
figures and symbols in European culture. An international film series
will present the various ways whereby "aliens" leave their allocated
places and take their destiny into their own hands, how cultural
hegemonies can shift and how empty spaces invite new patterns of use.
Global Alien are: Jae Hyun (Lee) Yoo, Alex Gerbaulet, Jakob Schaible,
Youngjoo Cho Ingirafn Steinarsson, Thorbjørn Reuter Christiansen, Lizza
May David, christoph mayer chm, Insa Breyer, Namsee Kim, Kaoru Yoneyama
10 May to 22 June 2008
Opening: Friday, 9 May 2008, from 19 h
HACK.Fem.EAST
Women and technology in networks. Exhibition, workshops, conference
A project by the Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, curated by Tatiana
Bazzichelli and Gaia Novati, sponsored by the Hauptstadtkulturfonds,
with generous support from the Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa).
The exhibition project in Berlin, HACK.Fem.EAST, seeks to present
experimental and artistic practices of artists and activists working in
digital networks in Eastern Europe.
The focus of the exhibition is on presenting a use of media located
somewhere between hacking, art and activism which is driven forward by
an international counterculture and avant-garde: the main protagonists
are women or projects in which women play an important role.
The aim of the project to provide and to develop a network platform.
This will be achieved through five elements: the exhibition, the
workshops (Free Space), a conference, a publication in newspaper format,
and a website bringing the aspects of the project together.
Existing networks from 11 countries are at the heart of the project and
form the basis of the exhibition. A total of 11 networks have been
invited to the various rooms of the Kunstraumes Kreuzberg/Bethanien to
introduce their work, their strategies and their aims in the form of
installations, documentations and presentations. The result is a
"network of networks", visualized in the form of video screenings,
installations, computer presentations and documents.
The activists will be offering a weekly workshop (Free Space) throughout
the duration of the exhibition. The workshops will be based on the
respective presentations in the exhibition as well as on and aims and
activities that have been developed further in the context of the project.
A conference held at the outset of the project is intended to bring the
lines and networks together. Its aim is to provide a forum for a form of
politics based on radical invention – media and internet art projects,
performances, network platforms, software development, artistic coding,
organisation of media festivals, etc. As part of the publicity for the
exhibition, a Berlin daily newspaper (taz) will be publishing a
so-called NGO-supplement in an edition of 30,000 copies to coincide with
the opening. It will include articles that provide an introduction to
the subject and give details regarding the programme.
An integral component of the project is of course the website, with an
up-to-date and open presentation of the project's processes and
developments, summarizing them and putting them up for discussion.
5 July to 17 August 2008
Opening: Friday, 4 July 2008 from 19 h
ROTES HAUS
Representatives of the night
An exhibition by the Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien. Curator: Lena Braun
The interactive exhibition "Rotes Haus" takes the city as its topic,
like Otto Dix, Conrad Felixmüller, George Grosz, Ludwig Meidner and
Lyonel Feininger in the days of expressionism. Meidner said in 1914,
"Let us paint what is obvious and close at hand, our city world, the
tumultuous streets, the elegance of an iron suspension bridge, the
gasometers... the colours of the buses and railway locomotives, the rise
and fall of the telephone lines... and then the night... the city
night". The expressionists saw the city as a social space for living;
they addressed architecture in all its explosive force and regarded man
not as an individual but in his function as a social being. The artists
tried to represent the "Moloch" they themselves succumbed to, in an
objective fashion. They themselves enjoyed bars, brothels and every kind
of pleasure offered by the city. Their socially critical pictures
stemmed from their own observations.
The goings-on in the temples of the night, the gloomily garish streets
of Berlin are different today and shaped by different motivations, but
even in 2008, they are still there: the masks, the mob, the hangers-on,
the voyeurs and the dramatic images.
Together with about 20 artists and actors, the artist, self-presenter,
orchestrator and night-time legend in Berlin and particularly Kreuzberg,
Lena Braun will produce a brilliant image: the red house as a symbol for
the Berlin night of 2008.
30 August to 12 October 2008
Opening: Friday, 29 August 2008 from 19 h
CAIROSCAPE
An exhibition by the Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, sponsored by the
Hauptstadtkulturfonds and in cooperation with various partners
Curators: Antje Weitzel and Marina Sorbello
Current public opinion and reporting about the so called "Islamic world"
and the "Arab " is often dominated by simplifying polarizations.
Cairoscape takes the city of Cairo as a starting point to discover
possible ways of speaking about the world of today that go beyond the
"Orient – Occident" paradigm " and to think about our imaginary, mental
boundaries.
An exhibition of contemporary art showing at the Kunstraum
Kreuzberg/Bethanien from September to October 2008 as part of the
Kunstherbst Berlin, a film programme, concerts, discussions in
cooperation with the Zentrum moderner Orient and the Literaturwerkstatt
Berlin, workshops for young people and a publication will all provide
insights into contemporary Egyptian cultural production in and encourage
dialogue between Germany and Egypt.
Egypt's independent art and cultural scene, which over recent years has
freed itself from state controls and funding, will be very much in the
foreground. The invited artists take the Arab-African megalopolis Cairo
as the basis for their works, many produced especially for Cairoscape,
in which they develop a diverse range of insights and approaches towards
life in a modern metropolis and the current phenomena of urbanisation
and trans-localisation. Cairo is characterized by overpopulation,
environmental pollution, above all air pollution, exploding traffic
problems, an enormous and widening gap between rich and poor and an
extremely large black economy. Endemic unemployment, progressive
disintegration of the middle-classes, corruption, low levels of
political participation – phenomena which also shape European cities, if
in different ways. The project takes Cairo as an exemplary vantage point
from which to discover possibly unexpected scenarios and as an instance
for a critical examination of the current and future situation in the
Mediterranean and in Europe. Art and culture as means of producing
knowledge are important sources to offset and counter the type of image
of Egypt and the Arab World as a whole which has been spread by the
Western media in the wake of 9/11, the continuing Middle East conflict
and the war in Iraq.
Encounters, exchange and discussions are an important part of the
project and aim at avoiding mutually stereotypical images and
perceptions and at focussing less on imaginary or genuine differences
and more on meeting points and on things common to both sides. For this
reason the project has been developed in close cooperation with
representatives of the Egyptian cultural scene and is based on intensive
on the spot research. The exhibition also juxtaposes works by Egyptian
artists with work created in Egypt in the context of international
artists-in-residence programmes in Egypt.
25 October to 7 December 2008
Opening: Friday, 24 October 2008 from 19 h
Goldrausch 2008
An exhibition by the Goldrausch Frauennetzwerk, directed by Birgit
Effinger and Hannah Kruse and supported by the Kunstraum
Kreuzberg/Bethanien.
Elena Bajo, Anke Becker, Claudia Chaseling, Kerstin Gottschalk, Angela
Köntje, Mareike Lee, Nicole Messenlehner, Rebecca Michaelis, Katja
Pudor, Nadine Reschke Kindlimann, Sandra Truté, Miriam Visaczki, Ester
Vonplon, Claire Waffel and Sinta Werner present new works. The spectrum
of the work shown ranges from painting and installations to drawings,
photography and film, sound installations, performative sculptures and
participative projects.
The exhibition shows a cross-section of contemporary artistic work and
is the finale of the one-year professionalization scholarship programme.
The Goldrausch project for woman artists provides support towards
realizing outstanding artistic positions developed by women and brings
notable woman artists together at the beginning of their careers. In the
course of the programme they can acquire professional expertise and
develop new communicational approaches. The Goldrausch 2008 exhibition
includes workshops, guest lectures, performances and films. Individual
catalogues of the participating artists' work will be published to
accompany the exhibition.
20 December 2008 to 21 December 2008
Opening: Friday, 19 December 2008 from 19 h
Anonyme Zeichner
A project by the Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien based on a concept by
Anke Becker as a finale to the year – and in place of end of year gifts
The artist Anke Becker has already realized her "Anonyme Zeichner"
project seven times. In 2008, the project will take place at the
Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien for the first time and is also intended as
support for the Kunstraum.
The idea is to address artists as well as people who simply like to draw
(locally, nationwide and also internationally) through mailing lists and
open invitations and to ask them to submit three drawings together with
.return postage. One of these drawings will then be exhibited
anonymously and offered for sale. From our experiences with past
exhibitions, and in view of Bethanien's notoriety, we expect some 1000 -
1500 submissions. Each drawing will be priced at 150.00 Euros,
regardless of format, material and above all authorship. Of these
proceeds, 100.00 Euros will go to the artist. The Kunstraum
Kreuzberg/Bethanien will receive 50.00 as a donation for holding the
exhibition and by way of support for future projects. Only after the
drawing has been sold will the buyer be informed who the artist is. Anke
Becker's contacts and those of the Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien provide
the guarantee of participation by very well-known artists. However,
unknown artists will wish to participate too, ranging from the
self-taught to children. In this way, the project succeeds in
questioning immanent principles of authorship, quality, originality,
origins and marketing.
If the concept meets with a favourable reception at the Kunstraum
Kreuzberg/Bethanien and proves beneficial to the institution's work, it
is planned to repeat the project in following years – much as other art
institutions hand out end of year gifts.
Projects in Project Space 1 at the Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien:
In 2008 – until Bethanien has been assigned to a non-profit institution,
in other words as long as the Kunstraum can continue using the space
rent-free – Project Space 1 of the Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien will
continue to be used for exhibition projects. The property managers have
confirmed that the following projects and events can go ahead:
25 January to 30 January 2008
Opening: Thursday, 24 January 19 h
* Panopticon LV I-I
or, The Conspirator’s Path
A Walk-in Opera in Six Rooms
by Jost Lehne, Daniela Kinateder, and Christian Hiller
Music/sound installation by Arno Waschk
A production of the Echelon-Gruppe in cooperation with the
Zeitgenössische Oper Berlin and Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien.
Supported by the Mayor of Berlin, Senate Chancellery – Cultural Affairs.
Panopticon LV I-I is an exploration of space. It sets out in search of
traces of the stories and events of a place on the border that once
divided Berlin into East and West for decades. Asking questions about
this place, researching in archives, and having conversations with
contemporary witnesses resulted in a mosaic on the themes of
surveillance and secrecy, power and powerlessness.
A specific biography is at the center of this field of tension: that of
Lucien, the conspirator. His life was influenced by a visit to a moving
concert in Berlin-Mitte, by coming to terms with the architectural
visions of Jeremy Bentham, and by an encounter with the legendary spy
Mata Hari.
Organized in six rooms, this opera unfolds in the guise of an
exhibition. It presents exhibits and installations on the history of the
LV I-I site and offers insights into the crucial developmental stages of
Lucien’s path. It is a reflection on questions of the mechanisms of
social control and justifications. Combining documents and musical and
visual elements produced for the opera results in poetic spaces of
sensory experience that enable visitors to get closer to the subject.
9 February to 16 March 2008
Opening: Friday, 8 February 2008 from 19 h
* Don't Worry – Be Happy! ! 4. Ars Baltica Triennale der Fotokunst.
Additional exhibition space. shown in parallel at the NGBK, Oranienstr.
25, 10999 Berlin.
The exhibition at the Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst
(Arbeitsgruppe "Ausstellungsübernahmen“) curated by Dorothee Bienert,
Kati Kivinen and Enrico Lunghi, presents photographs, videos und
installations by 20 artists from Baltic Sea countries, which address
current changes in society, and the fears and problems they cause, in a
variety of ways.
Artists: Petra Bauer (SE), Anna Baumgart (PL), Bodil Furu (NO), Olga
Chernysheva (RU), Colonel und Khaled D. Ramadan (DK), Kaspars Goba (LV),
Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen und Tellervo Kalleinen (FI), Kristina Inciuraite
(LT), Sven Johne (DE), Talleiv Taro Manum (NO), Tanja Nellemann Poulsen
(DK), Anu Pennanen (FI), J&K (DE/DK), Katrin Tees (EE), Alexander
Vaindorf (SE), Arturas Valiauga (LT), Julita Wójcik (PL)
Project in public space:
May, June 2008
GLOBAL IMMIGRATION SERVICE
A project by Farida Heuck in cooperation with Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien
Public Space Sculpture at Kottbusser Tor including a supporting
programme at project space ‘West Germany’ in Berlin/Kreuzberg
Funded by Hauptstadtkulturfonds
The Project Global Immigration Service aims to comment on the changing
immigration control systems and questions the division of migrants along
economic and demographic policy interests.
The Global Immigration Service refers to the newly set up Business
Immigration Service of the German Chambers of Industry and Commerce,
which is to ease the immigration of foreign entrepreneurs and
specialized professionals. The strategy of blocking and at the same time
controlling recruitment cannot be seen as generous.
The sculpture of Global Immigration Service is a kind of controller
post, where the work of the Business Immigration Service of the German
Chambers of Industry and Commerce is interrogated. From the outside
however the Global Immigration Service becomes an illusionary world as
if there was an immigration information service available for everybody.
Long-term projects:
Offensive Kulturelle Bildung
The Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien will continue its two school
sponsorship and mentoring schemes with the Fichtelgebirge Grundschule
and the Kurt-Löwenstein-Hauptschule in 2008, and will develop, carry out
and present cultural education activities in the Kunstraum and in the
schools themselves. Both schemes are associated with and supported by a
special project of the PWC-Stiftung and the Offensive Kulturelle
Bildung/Kulturprojekte in Berlin.
In 2008, a room close to the Kunstraum exhibition space – the former
nurses' common room - will be established as a "Raum der Patenschaften"
or "Sponsorship Space". In this room, which is open to the corridor, the
results of the projects will be documented and presented; the space will
be also be available for small gatherings. The idea is for a
documentation to be created over time together with the students
involved. The students can bring their own design ideas to the room and
make it their "own" space.
Stand: 10.01.2008
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Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien
Stéphane Bauer – Leiter
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Fax: 90 298-1453
bauer at kunstraumkreuzberg.de
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