Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Navigating Darkness video

Navigating Darkness at the Tape Modern Berlin was a great success! 
Now you can take a very brief video tour through the exhibition.




video by Mahir Duman


Thank you to all of the participating artists:

ALAN RUIZ
ALIZA RAND
ANDY GRAYDON 
BONNIE BEGUSCH 
CHRISTOPHER KLINE
DONNA HUANCA
ERIK SMITH
FREDRIK STRID
FRIEDEMANN HECKEL
HENRIKE DAUM
HIROSHI MCDONALD MORI 
JACOB KIRKEGAARD 
JENNY YURSHANSKY
JOHN VON BERGEN
KONRAD MÜHE 
MARC BIJL 
MARIO ASEF 
MARLENA KUDLICKA 
MAX SUDHUES
MICHAEL KRENZ
MIRA O’BRIEN
MITYA CHURIKOV
NICOLE COHEN 
SANDRA PETERS 
SVEN STUCKENSCHMIDT 
SNAKE BRAID AND SEA URCHIN
TRYGVE LUKTVASSLIMO


Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Berlin Collective Artist Holly Zausner Who Lives Between Berlin & NYC: Upcoming Exhibition

EXHIBITION DATES

November 4 - 26, 2011

OPENING RECEPTION:
November 4, 5 - 9PM





UNSEEN

Holly Zausner’s work is about transformation through mediums both literal and metaphorical. For this body of work, she has transformed Unseen a super 16 mm film made in 2007, which was shown at the Bode Museum, into a series of black, white, and colored collages.

In the film Unseen, the artist searches through key locations and museums in the city of Berlin attempting to find metaphorical space and literal rest for two rubber sculptures, one female and one male. As Zausner and her two rubbery protagonists move through the city, a non-linear narrative unfolds. They encounter sites central to the life of the city, like a bread factory and a newspaper plant, as well as historical sites, like a defunct amusement park in the former East. In the beginning of the film, a skywriting plane spells out the word unseen about the city and the window of the artist’s gallery explodes onto the street. Airports, train stations, and large avenues are curiously empty of people, two real tigers patrol through the sculpture garden of the Neue Nationalgalerie, and the carved baroque saint statues in Berlin’s Bode-Museum seem to eye Zausner and her two companions as they move through thegalleries. Evocative dialogues result between urban environment and art, body, and production, instinct and will, while a strong sense of displacement and unrest alternates with a sense of understanding and acceptance.

Zausner’s fascination with the imagery from the film compelled her to reexamine the content and the structure of the different scenes through collage. She re-edits the film and redefines the structure, which enables a new way of looking at the source material. Using repetition and reconfiguration, the collages are a different way of exploring the act of filming, editing, and making the sound, which are all components that create the foundation and meaning of the collages.

Each collage consists of 1,824 images taken from the film that are 13/16 x 15/16 inches and mounted on 40 x 60 inch museum boards. Each image is hand cut and adhered to the board with double foam stick tape, emphasizing the handmade quality of the pieces and increasing their visual energy.

With each collage, Zausner recreates another version of an individual scene from the film through variations of color and black and white images. The complexity of the details create an abstraction when looking at the work from a distance, while up close the figurative or abstract images create rhythmic patterns which depict individual moments in the film. With her collages, Zausner allows us to step back and have an overview, while at the same time, makes it possible to capture the details.

For additional information on this exhibition, please call the UT Downtown Gallery at 865.673.0802 or visit us online at http://web.utk.edu/~downtown

UTDowntown Gallery - 106 S. Gay Street., Knoxville, TN 3790T.
ph: 865.673.0802 - email: mberry8@utk.edu - web: http://web.utk.edu/~downtown

The University of Tennessee School of Art

The University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Sarah McFalls
The Ewing Gallery
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
865.974.3200

Saturday, October 22, 2011

Drawing Class link


Welcome to The Drawing Room!
Studio Workshops in Berlin




Now you can find updated information regarding Drawing Workshops on a new site! 
The Drawing Room






Matisse drawing with pole!





Sunday, August 21, 2011

Fall Drawing Workshop: "Drawing From Life"


Fall Drawing Workshop: ‘Drawing from Life’
Herbst Zeichen-Workshop: ‘Zeichnen von Leben’

Starts October 10

Mira O’Brien, Instructor

This course introduces basic techniques in drawing, with a focus on drawing from observation. Exercises explore technique, medium and strategies in visual thinking. The course will be tailored around the interests and levels of the individual students.

Each class is structured around a formal topic, with examples from art-history and a brief discussion. We will build technique through a series of guided exercises, followed by time for experimentation and longer drawings. We will draw from a live model and from still life creations.

We will make several excursions to draw out in the field, including the ready-made still lives of Berlin’s Natural History Museum, the statues in the Pergamon Museum, and a plein air site.

Location: Mira’s studio in Kreuzberg, Berlin

Schedule: Monday Evenings, 6-9pm
- With several extra excursion meetings
-Workshop offered from October 10– December 19, 2011
- Students are encouraged to participate for any length of time, but are requested to commit to 4 weeks at a time

Cost: 30 Euro per class, 4 classes for 120 Euro
- A referral earns a discount! Bring a friend and you each get 4 classes for 100 Euro!

To sign up contact:
miraob@gmail.com

(Mira O’Brien is an American artist based in Berlin. She received her MFA in Painting from Yale University and her BA in art and philosophy from UCLA. Her teaching experience ranges from Yale to public schools in Los Angeles. Her work is exhibited internationally, notably in the Torrance Art Museum in Los Angeles, a solo show at Vierter Stock supported by the US Embassy in Berlin, and a project in east-Berlin’s historic theater the Volksbühne.)

Monday, July 18, 2011

Summer Drawing Workshop in Berlin

Drawing Course visits the Natural History Museum in Berlin

The Berlin Collective Summer Drawing Workshop still has space!!

The Berlin Collective Summer Drawing Workshop has gotten off to a great start, and we still have space for a couple more students! The class has been extended through the end of August, so get in touch if you are interested. Upcoming classes include a visit to the Natural History Museum, and drawing from a live model.

Summer Drawing Workshop
Berlin Collective : Mira O’Brien, Artist & Instructor

This course will introduce basic techniques in drawing, which will be developed into a personal project. Exercises will introduce drawing techniques and strategies in visual thinking. Drawing from observation will be the focus, taking advantage of the summer weather with plein air painting, visiting the incredible ready-made still lives of Berlin’s Natural History Museum, and drawing from a live model. The critique sessions and theoretical instruction held back in the studio will give rise to individual projects for the second part of the class. Each student will receive personalized instruction on his or her chosen project.

Meets Wednesday 6-9pm in my Kreuzberg studio, with occasional extra meetings in the field.

Cost: 10 euros an hour, 3 hours a day (30 euros a day)

To sign up contact:
miraob@gmail.com

(Mira O’Brien is an American artist based in Berlin. She received her MFA in Painting from Yale University and her BA in art and philosophy from UCLA. Her teaching experience ranges from Yale to public schools in Los Angeles. Her work is exhibited internationally, notably in the Torrance Art Museum in Los Angeles, a solo show at Vierter Stock supported by the US Embassy in Berlin, and a project in east-Berlin’s historic theater the Volksbühne.)


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www.miraobrien.com

Friday, July 8, 2011

Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Summer Painting & Drawing Course in Berlin

Summer Painting & Drawing Workshop
Berlin Collective : Mira O’Brien, Artist & Instructor

This course will introduce basic techniques in drawing and painting, which will be developed into a personal project. A very limited number of students will meet in the artist’s studio in Kreuzberg. Painting and drawing from observation will be the starting focus, taking advantage of the summer weather with plein air painting, visiting the incredible ready-made still lives of Berlin’s Natural History Museum, and drawing from a live model. The critique sessions and theoretical instruction held back in the studio will give rise to individual projects for the second part of the class. Each student will receive personalized instruction on his or her chosen project.

Mira O’Brien is an American artist based in Berlin. She received her MFA in Painting from Yale University and her BA in art and philosophy from UCLA. Her teaching experience ranges from Yale to public schools in Los Angeles. Her work is exhibited internationally, notably in the Torrance Art Museum in Los Angeles, a solo show at Vierter Stock supported by the US Embassy in Berlin, and a project in east-Berlin’s historic theater the Volksbühne.

Starts June 27th
Meets 2 times a week: Monday 10-1pm, Wednesday 6-9pm
Participants are asked to commit to 4 week increments, 8 weeks offered in total.

Berlin Collective Registration Fee: 30 euros
Cost: 10 euros an hour, 3 hours a day (30 euros a day)

To register & sign up to reserve by contacting:
miraob@gmail.com




Thursday, April 14, 2011

Goodbye Tomorrow- Katrin Kampmann, Berlin Artist Show in LA


From BERLIN to LA: GOODBYE TOMORROW
KATRIN KAMPMANN, BERLIN’S NEW YOUNG WILD

GARBOUSHIAN GALLERY
March 19 - April 30, 2011
Opening Reception: March 19, 6 - 8pm


(February 2011—Beverly Hills, CA) When Berlin-based artist Katrin Kampmann asks, “How do we recognize pictures? How has our behavior with them changed?” one gets the sense that she is in fact framing a visual treatise on the topic. The results of this exploratory process are apparent in Goodbye Tomorrow, Katrin Kampmann’s first solo exhibition of paintings in the United States, opening March 19, 2011, at GARBOUSHIAN GALLERY in Beverly Hills.

Text Box: Goodbye Tomorrow 
Indian ink, acrylic, linocut and oil on canvas, 250 x 400 cm With Goodbye Tomorrow, Kampmann has arisen as the pioneer of Berlin’s burgeoning neue junge wilde (“new young wild”) art scene—a painterly movement marked by gestural strokes of color and a simultaneous layering and leveling of visual information. Central to Kampmann’s work is the battery of pictorial dismemberments—of the icon from the real thing, of the event from its aftermath, of the signal from the noise, of the two-dimensional rendering from its four-dimensional reality, and of the image where it’s created from the image where it’s displayed—which the artist exacts upon the viewer. Using a range of media and techniques—linocuts, oil, acrylic, watercolors, and Indian ink—painted, printed and poured onto the canvas, Kampmann reveals (and conceals) layers of phenomenological possibility. Negative space and positively charged color dominate Kampann’s canvases, while compositional hierarchies themselves appear to be dismembered—central figures and their surrounding environments seem to be given equal value in an abstracted tableau in which pop and historical references spring up against personalized narratives, both real and imagined.

Kampmann's painting Goodbye Tomorrow (from which the entire exhibition derives its name) takes German film director Alexander Kluge’s 1966 film Yesterday Girl as its starting point. A non-linear chronicle of the main character Anita’s restless movements from place to place, the film jumps jarringly between time and place. In a similarly kaleidoscopic fashion, Kampmann's painting skips between the present, past, place and subject. A man and woman, who by their vague orange silhouette appear to hearken from the mid 20th century, loom ominously as a second couple looks into the screen of a modern day laptop computer. Meanwhile a partially obscured women—Anita perhaps?—turns away from the viewer as her apparent doppelganger—who bears a striking resemblance to Kampmann herself—dances freely in a purple dress. Abstracted elements take equally center stage throughout; paint is thrown, etched, and hastily brushed to bewildering effect, allowing the meaning-making process to deteriorate, much as one’s own memory of an event or the celluloid medium of film itself might degrade over time.

Text Box: Beauty Mark
Indian ink, acrylic, print and oil on canvas, 120 x 140 cmThis type of subjective, often oppositional, layering is the keystone of Kampmann’s work. Writing in 2009, Kito Nedo (critic and writer for Germany’s Die Welt), surmises: "What is then concealed within the pictures of Katrin Kampmann? Certainly, there is the will of the artist toward allowing for ambiguity and openness. As if with a counterspell, the painter attempts to provide the massiveness of closed and defined media images with opposition. For beholders of her work, this means obtaining the freedom to follow the chain of one’s own associations through her pictures. Moreover, Katrin Kampmann rises to one of the most essential tasks of painting: seeing nature, space and figure with perpetually new eyes and creating her work with ever new combinations of light and color."

Essayist Jürgen Schilling explains with regards to Kampmann’s 2007 Nacht der Entscheidung exhibition for Shultz Contemporary in Berlin: “The eye is wandering, because it encounters manifold formal and coloristic sensations and it is being both led and seduced. The viewer will note with amazement, how, in this sophisticated game of colors, ever new stimuli, ever new sections become meaningful or how certain, at first neglected parts come into the foreground. Scantily sketched, dissolving abstract and narratively figurative stages combine to a texture.”

The return to painting, and the possibilities held therein, is a central tenet of the neue junge wilde scene mushrooming in a naturally spontaneous response to the multimedia art trend that has dominated German art and art schools over the past two decades. Drawing its name from Germany’s  Junge Wilde (“young wild”) movement—a neo-expressionist painting style that centered in Berlin, Hamburg and Cologne in the 1980s—the neue junge wilde shares with its predecessor an emphasis on subjectivity and private coded language, as well as gesture and strong coloring. As a former master student of Karl Horst Hödicke (often considered the “Father of the Junge Wilde”), Kampmann is a natural de facto spearhead of the painterly revolution currently taking place in Berlin.
Text Box: Ghost Driver  
Indian ink, acrylic, linocut and oil on canvas, 280 x 360 cmKatrin Kampmann has exhibited in Germany at Kunsthalle Rostock, Kunsthalle Dresden, Kunsthalle Brennabor/Branden-burg, and elsewhere internationally at the Museum of Art Wuhan (China), Bienal de Cerveira (Portugal), Michael Schultz Gallery (Berlin and Seoul), and she is exclusively represented in the United States by the GARBOUSHIAN GALLERY. She was educated and served as a master student under Professor K.H. Hödicke at the University of Künste, Berlin. This is her first solo exhibition in the United States. The opening reception for Katrin Kampmann’s Goodbye Tomorrow takes place March 19, 2011, 6 - 8pm, at GARBOUSHIAN GALLERY in Beverly Hills.

WHAT
Goodbye Tomorrow – New Young Wild Paintings by Berlin-Based Katrin Kampmann

WHEN
Opening Reception: March 19, 2011, 6 - 8 pm

Exhibition: March 19 - April 30, 2011

Gallery Hours: Monday - Friday, 10 am - 5 pm, or by appointment

WHERE
GARBOUSHIAN GALLERY
427 North Camden Drive
Beverly Hills, CA 90210
(310) 274-5205

PRESS CONTACT
Brent Turner
the Campbells [ideas + communications for contemporary culture]
(323) 300-6132
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brent@thecampbellspr.com

Friday, April 8, 2011

Live to Tape. / Video Art- The Mike Steiner Collection @ Hamburger Bahnhof

LIVE TO TAPE. The Mike Steiner Collection @ Hamburger Bahnhof, 
curator Henriette Hudlisch
Press Release/ Info. on Exhibition:



Sunday, March 20, 2011

Saturday, February 12, 2011

Exhibition with International Media Artists: Nikita Neufeld & Guests

Nikita Neufeld & Guests 
2 – 13 February 2011
at Kunsthalle Göppingen

An exhibition with international media artists:
Viktor Alimpiev, Clare Langan, Dirk Meinzer, Nikita Neufeld, 
Astrid Nippoldt, Julia Oschatz, 
Susanne Weirich

The main theme of the new exhibition by the media artist Nikita Neufeld in Kunsthalle Göppingen is fiction. The exhibition presents fictional elements in photography, video and film. Even the artist herself is a fiction.
From 2 February to 13 February 2011, Nikita Neufeld is showing installations that include the media photography, video, film, slide projection, and sound. Neufeld’s artworks narrate scenes from everyday and parallel worlds operating between realistic possibility and fantastical fiction. However – Nikita Neufeld, as a real person, does not exist. 
She is a fiction herself, an invented artist (played by Inga Busch) from the film
ART GIRLS (directed by Robert Bramkamp),  whose catastrophe scenario invaded Kunsthalle Göppingen last weekend along with the German Red Cross, the Federal Agency for Technical Relief and other aid organisations, and plenty of Göppingen extras. Among the invited guests are media artists such as Susanne Weirich, in whose work 'Silent Playground' (2005) Nikita Neufeld also appears, and, in the course of the story, becomes an avatar, a character in a video game appears and, in the course of the story, becomes an avatar,  character in a video game. In 'Summer Lightning' (2004) by Victor Alimpiev, small girls drum up a storm on tabletops. In Clare Langan's 'Trilogy' landscapes are transformed into apocalyptic images. Additional guests are Dirk Meinzer, Astrid Nippoldt and Julia Oschatz. All play with the fantastical: an unknown element breaks into familiar scenes opening up other unforeseeable imaginative worlds. 

The exhibition also includes film clips from works that have just been produced while Kunsthalle Göppingen was briefly turned into a large and complex film studio. These are film sketches from the experimental film workshop of the Hamburg University of Fine Arts (HfbK). With their Professor Robert Bramkamp and Göppingen actors, young artists took part in an open workshop to explore, with fantastical film material, what is possible in film and what can be created with images, the seductive power of fantasy, which takes us beyond the limits of the real into fictive stories.
Lounge: Film excerpts by Marlene Denningmann, Joachim Glaser, Alexander Hatchl, David Jahn, Hana Kim, Tim Liebe, Eibe Maleen Krebs, Michael Steinhauser, Hannes Stimmann, Paul Thalacker and Heiko Volkmer.

Info:  werner.meyer@kunsthalle-goeppingen.de  I Kunsthalle Göppingen I
Marstallstraße 55 I D-73033 Göppingen I www.kunsthalle-goeppingen.de
Opening hours:  Di bis Fr 13-19 Uhr,
Sa, So 11-19 Uhr (bis 13. Februar).

Text: Eva Maria Manz / Photos: Eibe Maleen Krebs


To view more work by Susanne Weirich: www.susanneweirich.com

Monday, January 10, 2011

Berlin collective Presents
(virtual) Visiting Artist Series;

"genau", a new work about berlin,
by artist susan shup







Visiting Artist's Website: http://www.shupshop.com