Berlin Collective

NEW WORKSHOPS by MIRA O’BRIEN

2012-01-13T03:18:00.000-08:00

NEWWORKSHOPS in Berlin
by MIRA O’BRIEN

Contemporary Art Camp for Easter Break

(Sign Up Now!)

April2-6 or April 9-13, Monday-Friday 10am-5pm
Ages13-18, 200 Euro for 5 days. Materials included.

This5-day Workshop is perfect for the creative teen, curious what being an artisttoday is all about! In the morning we will work in the studio, with guideddrawing exercises, presentations on themes in Contemporary art, portfoliodevelopment, and experimentation. Each day after lunch there will be adifferent excursion into the Berlin art world. We will visit contemporary art exhibitions in museums andgalleries, and visit artists at work in their studios. Direct contact withcurators and artists will be the focus. All instruction will take place in English, but Mira doesunderstand German.

Richard Jackson, “The Laundry Room”2009

Mira O'Brien, "When Breaking a Current" 2010
interactive installation/performance at the Volksbühne, Berlin

Back to the Drawing Board: drawing refresher

2day intensive weekend workshop, date to be determined. 50 Euro per person.

ThisWorkshop is intended for conceptual artists, photographers, video artists, oranyone working in a visual field that could use a drawing refresher! How many years has it been since youtook beginning drawing? Strengthen your visual muscles through drawingexercises designed to facilitate the switch to visual thinking in a hands onway. Learn or re-learn tools to help get your ideas down through sketching. Thisis not about drawing as a finished artwork, but drawings as a way of thinkingand understanding.

Matt Mullican, “A Drawing TranslatesA Way of Thinking”

Spring Watercolor Workshop: the Berlin Landscape

Spring 2012, 8 weeks/ once per week

Anintroduction to watercolor, with new techniques to be learned for the moreexperienced. We will use thelandscape of Berlin as a subject for practicing the subtle medium ofwatercolor. Mira O’Brien oftenuses watercolor in her own work, and will guide the class through layeringcolor and value, dry and wet brushstrokes, sketching with watercolor, andexperimentation with new materials.

J.M.W.Turner, “Storm Clouds (looking out to sea),” 1845

Mira O'Brien, "Overgrowth Series", 2011

CONTACT Mira O'Brien for more information or to sign up for classes! 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, recently in the Torrance Art Museum in LA, a solo show at Vierter Stock supported by the US Embassy in Berlin, east-Berlin’s historic theater the Volksbühne. www.miraobrien.com)

Mira O'Brien in her studio, 2011

photo credit: Chloe Richard

ongoing...

Winter Drawing Workshop: Drawing from Life

Monday 6-9 pm, January 16 - February 27
4 classes / 100 Euro

This course introduces basic techniques in drawing,with a focus on drawing from observation. Exercises explore technique, mediumand strategies in visual thinking. The class is a perfect introduction forbeginners, with something new even for the more experienced.

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

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

more information http://berlincollective.de/study-abroad/workshops

Drawing Workshop Open House // January 15

2012-01-08T09:46:00.000-08:00

Berlin Collective Drawing Workshop Open House
Sunday, January 15, 2012
3:00pm until 6:00pm

Mira's Studio: Wrangelstrasse 31a, Berlin (Kreuzberg)

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3pm - 4pm Open Drawing Workshop
No experience necessary!

4:15 - Artist Talk Mira O’Brien
In the artist's studio!

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Followed by Reception with Drinks!

Exhibition with work from the Fall Drawing Workshop!

Please join us and find out what the Berlin Collective Drawing Workshop has been up to! Participation is Free! Drawing materials provided.

The Winter Drawing Workshop starts Monday January 9, 6-9pm.

Course description: http://berlincollective.de/study-abroad/workshops

More information at www.berlincollective.de
& www.miraobrien.com

RSVP on the Facebook event https://www.facebook.com/events/104146093038643/

or to Mira directly miraob@gmail.com

We look forward to seeing you there!

Navigating Darkness video

2011-11-16T03:20:00.001-08:00

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

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Half way through the Fall Drawing Workshop, and I can say that we are making progress. We have made many blind contour drawings, we learned to see form in negative space, and the subtle gradations of tonality. We have drawn from live models and we have a field trip planned to draw the not-so-alive animals in the Museum für Naturkunde.

For more information regarding the next Berlin Collective Drawing Workshop, check back on this blog or write to miraob@gmail.com to reserve your place. The next class starts January 10, 2012 and will meet Tuesday from 6-9pm.

best,
Mira

"Excellent for first-timers! Challenging for slightly more experienced!

Stimulating for experienced artists too. You've got nothing to lose.

Mira's Life drawing class was our highlight of the past summer. "

- Marta Hansan, Visiting Scholar, Max Plank Institute for the History of

Science, Berlin. Participant in the Summer Drawing Workshop 2011

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

2011-10-26T01:47:00.000-07:00

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

Fall Drawing Class link

2011-10-22T09:01:00.000-07:00

Now you can find updated information regarding Berlin Collective classes on our new homepage!
Workshops

Matisse drawing with pole!

berlincollective.de

Fall Drawing Workshop: "Drawing From Life"

2011-08-21T19:25:00.000-07:00

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.)

Summer Drawing Workshop in Berlin

2011-07-18T06:27:00.001-07:00

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

Beacon High School NYC Exhibits in Berlin & in NYC

2011-07-08T12:59:00.000-07:00

Summer Painting & Drawing Course in Berlin

2011-05-25T04:40:00.000-07:00

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

Images from "Here and Now....AMNESIA", Curated by Katia Hermann

2011-05-15T06:34:00.001-07:00

"Here & Now....AMNESIA.....", Curated by Katia Hermann, Opening Reception: Friday, May 13, 7PM, Richardsonstr. 43/44 NEUKOLLN

2011-05-09T11:48:00.000-07:00

Opening Reception, Thursday, April 21, 7PM Beacon High School Slams into Berlin

2011-04-19T03:37:00.001-07:00

Goodbye Tomorrow- Katrin Kampmann, Berlin Artist Show in LA

2011-04-14T03:55:00.001-07:00

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.

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 20^th 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.

This 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.

Katrin 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

www.garboushian.com

PRESS CONTACT

Brent Turner

the Campbells [ideas + communications for contemporary culture]

(323) 300-6132

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brent@thecampbellspr.com

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

2011-04-08T06:09:00.000-07:00

LIVE TO TAPE. The Mike Steiner Collection @ Hamburger Bahnhof,

curator Henriette Hudlisch

Press Release/ Info. on Exhibition:

http://www.smb.museum/smb/hbf/exhibition.php?id=29821&lang=en

"Search & Destroy" Group Exhibition

2011-03-20T07:47:00.000-07:00

Exhibition with International Media Artists: Nikita Neufeld & Guests

2011-02-12T10:17:00.000-08:00

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

2011-01-10T09:59:00.000-08:00

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

Happy 2011 from the Berlin Collective

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Happy New Year!

In 2011, we have student groups coming to Berlin, new consulting for growing art related companies, and
artist conversations with curators/ critics coming soon...

New calendar of events for 2011 posted soon..**

Best wishes,
Berlin Collective

Upcoming in Berlin

2010-11-17T06:09:00.001-08:00

For One Night Only

Friday, November 26, 2010

7pm-11pm

Artists Tom Anholt, Nicholas Kashian, Jeremie Martino, Marco Reichert and Duan Yafeng

Works On Paper, including collage, painting, drawing, watercolor, mixed media

at Potsdamer Str. 91, Berlin 10785- U1 Kurfürstenstr. U2 Bülowstr

2010-11-05T05:46:00.000-07:00

THE CACTUS DUET EUROPEAN TOUR, November 2010

THE FRIENDLY FALCONS & THEIR FRIEND THE SNAKE

JEFFREY KUROSAKI AND TARA PELLETIER

tour details listed below

The Friendly Falcons are undertaking a five-country tour through Denmark, Germany, The Netherlands, France and England. They are presenting, The Cactus Duet, a nomadic theatrical set that fits into a suitcase and is assembled on-site, incorporating music and kinetic sculpture to build a narrative about the inherent cyclicity in nature. The conceptual underpinnings, design, and form of the work reflect contemplations of nomadism and wandering. It is a performance of travel-friendly engineering and reductive editing, bringing with them only what can be carried, and customizing the show according to the site. All music is written by their musical alter ego, The Hawk is a Lonely Hunter.

The Friendly Falcons and Their Friend the Snake is the collaboration of New York artists Tara Pelletier and Jeffrey Kurosaki. Inspired by what they deem as life’s magnificent and miniature grandeurs, they create multi-layered narratives with sculpture, drawing, music and performance. Their work is like riding a wave of primary colors and absurdity with an undercurrent of melancholy and whimsy.

The Friendly Falcons exhibitions include: ABC No Rio, New York; Governor’s Island, New York; Artjail, New York; RPSC Gallery, Oakland, California; Wayne State University, Detroit; and Forum Gallery, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. They were recipients of the Toby Devon Lewis Award in 2007 and recently finished a residency on Governors Island through the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.

November 10, 19:00

MMX

Linienstraße 142/143, 10115, Berlin-Mitte, Germany

www.mmxberlin.com

November 11, 20:00

TIK Theatre im Kino (Nord)

Rigaerstraße 77, 10247, Berlin-Friedrichshain, Germany

www.theater-im-kino.de

November 13, 15:00

FIT, freie internationale tankstelle

Schwedterstraße 262, 10119, Berlin, Germany

www.f-i-t.org

Review on What Berlin Collective Does: Trent Art Advisory- Read it!

2010-10-26T04:46:00.000-07:00

http://trentfineartadvisory.com/tfaa_blog/the-berlin-collective/

Great New Resource in Berlin: VALISE

2010-10-22T09:17:00.001-07:00

http://valiseonline.com/provenance/

Click on Link: Artist Conversation with Stephanie Snider and Daniel Schreiber, Editor of Culture, Cicero magazine

2010-10-04T05:25:00.000-07:00

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nicolecohenphotos/show/

Artist Conversation with Stephanie Snider and Daniel Schreiber, Editor of Culture, @ Sassa Truelzsch, Berlin

2010-10-04T04:53:00.000-07:00

2010-09-27T11:11:00.000-07:00

Berlin Collective Proudly Presents An Artist Conversation with
Artist Stephanie Snider and Daniel Schreiber, Editor of Culture, Cicero Magazine

This Friday, October 1, 2010
@ 7:30-9PM

@ www.sassatruelzsch.com Sassa Truelzsch in Berlin

Click on Flyer for More Information:

Great Berlin Resource! Check it out:

2010-09-02T05:46:00.003-07:00

http://be-my-guest.com/relocating-to-Berlin

Locally Toned/ Experience Berlin with Teresa Foley- Check it out!

2010-07-30T06:43:00.000-07:00

9/11 - 11/9 Exhibition Curated by Jo-Wood Brown/ Berlin Collective Artist Conversation Documentary Coming Soon...

2010-07-18T05:34:00.000-07:00

Artist Exchange International

Shortly after 9/11, I was curious as to what was happening with the
work of artists’ friends of mine, who lived and had studios near the
World Trade Center. I got in touch with the critic Lilly Wei, who
lived in the same area, and she recommended more artists to contact.
To begin a discussion around this work, I received a grant to bring
artists from around New York to studios in Lower Manhattan.

In 2002 I founded what became Artist Exchange International to enlarge this discussion between New York City’s artists and artists around the world and between artists and their communities through exhibition and panel.

AEI sponsored a number of exchanges: art exhibitions, studio visits,
and panel discussions. These events have included such museums as the
Metropolitan Museum in New York and the Van der Heydt Museum in
Wuppertal. Other exchanges involved artists from Belfast Northern
Ireland, and Wuppertal Germany. We like to imagine artists talking to
one another individually, talking as one group to another group, and
talking as members of the present to the art-historical tradition.

The name of this exhibition "Berlin 11/9 – 9/11 New York" suggests the symmetries and asymmetries we are exploring in our latest exchange.Two cities, two dates (and two ways of writing the name of a date);
fall 1989 and fall 2001 and falling structures, and the common
questions that people ask on such stupifying occasions: What story
just ended? What is the new story that just began?

Jo Wood Brown, Curator

http://visualberlin.org/news/9-11-11-9-new-york/

Our Last Berlin Collective Exhibition Event Review: Check it out!

2010-07-14T05:02:00.000-07:00

Artist Matthew Weinstein's Exhibition @ Nolan Judin Gallery:
Open until July 17th in Berlin:

http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/

X-TRA Magazine hits Berlin!

2010-07-02T07:25:00.000-07:00

Writers and Contributors are in Berlin for 2 weeks:

http://www.x-traonline.org/

For information on X-TRA, please contact:
berlincollective@googlemail.com

Pics from A Conversation Between Artist Matthew Weinstein and Curator Marc Gloede

2010-06-20T11:14:00.000-07:00

http://picasaweb.google.com/ramtino/3PigsAnd3FishByMatthewWeinstin?authkey=Gv1sRgCIC92fSHk47UFA&feat=email#

Berlin Collective Proudly Presents Our Next Event: A Conversation Between Artist Matthew Weinstein & Curator Marc Gloede, Sat., June 12, 5-7 PM @ Nolan Judin Berlin, Gallery

2010-06-09T03:00:00.000-07:00

Sat., June 12, 5-7 PM, Nolan Judin Berlin,

http://www.nolan-judin.de/

Next Berlin Collective Event!!! Monday, June 7, 7-9PM

2010-05-28T10:16:00.000-07:00

Ellen Harvey's Exhibition at Galerie Gebr. Lehmann, Best Pic in Art Forum

2010-05-28T02:26:00.000-07:00

http://artforum.com/picks/section=de#picks25641

Conversation Between Artist Matthew Weinstein & Curator Marc Gloede, June 12, 5-7PM

2010-05-27T03:04:00.000-07:00

Digital Artwork Reproductions in Berlin

2010-05-22T05:34:00.000-07:00

Digital Artwork Reproductions
by Daniel Tobias

When photographing artwork, even with a very good digital camera, many people find the results they achieve are simply not good enough.

If you need archive-quality documents of your artwork, I can help.
My Berlin-based company, DT Reproductions, specializes in creating high-quality photographic reproductions of artwork. We photograph work in situ, with a setup that includes lighting gear and a computer, and deliver high-res digital files immediately.

Whether our clients require just one piece documented, or several hundred, our specialized equipment and precise technique allows us to complete work very efficiently and cost-effectively, always with the same unwavering commitment to quality.

We serve artists, galleries, publishing companies, museums, private collectors, and students.
Because of our quick turn-around, our services can be exceptionally useful for artists visiting Berlin from out of town.

For more information, please visit:
http://dtreproductions.de/

Upcoming Exhibition in Denmark from Berlin-based Artist Elizabeth McTernan

2010-05-22T05:29:00.000-07:00

Exhibition opening:
Saturday, 29 May 2010
5- 9pm

MODTAR projects
Teglgårdssræde 3 1452 Kbh K

København, Denmark
The Fifth Ocean - en udstilling af Elizabeth McTernan (US)

FERNISERING LØRDAG D. 29.5 KL 17 - 21

Very scientific sound and distance studies, conducted in the Gobi Desert. Beyond technological prosthesis, how far can two humans drift apart across an open expanse before they can no longer understand each other, or even detect each other?

A New York-born artist, Elizabeth McTernan received her BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD. Her cross-media work has been exhibited internationally, including venues in New York, London, Berlin and Gothenburg. Once upon a time she witnessed someone slip and fall on a banana peel. Liz currently lives, works, and walks in Berlin.

www.thespeedofsmell.com

Check out the blog on Trent Fine Art Advisory on the Berlin Collective

2010-05-19T08:00:00.000-07:00

http://trentfineartadvisory.com/tfaa-blog/

Berlin Collective Invites You to An Open Printmaking Studio Event

2010-05-15T23:39:00.000-07:00

You are Invited!

Open Reception for New Printmaking Studio Especially for Professional Artists Prints

Sat., May 29, 5 PM - onward, at Keystone Editions: Fine Art Printmaking Studio for Artists & Professionals in the Arts

Paul-Linck-Ufer 33

10999 Berlin

For more information: Contact Sarah Dudley and Ulrich Kuhle

info@keystone-editions.net

www.keystone-editions.net

Pics from the Ellen Harvey Event by Ramtin

2010-05-12T02:26:00.000-07:00

Ellen Harvey Artist Conversation:

http://picasaweb.google.com/ramtino/PicturesquePicturesByEllenHarvey#

A Conversation with Ellen Harvey, Artist and Marc Gloede, Curator at Galerie Gebr. Lehmann, Berlin, 2010

2010-05-11T05:12:00.000-07:00

Here are some photos from the event & A Short Video Documentation Coming soon....

2010-05-04T09:02:00.001-07:00

2010-05-04T06:16:00.000-07:00

Berlin Collective Presents A Conversation with

Artist Ellen Harvey and Curator Marc Gloede

on the Occasion of her Two Solo Exhibitions in Berlin

@ Magnus Muller Gallery (http://www.magnusmuller.com/)

& Galerie Gebr. Lehmann/ Berlin/ Dresden

Event takes place at Galerie Gebr. Lehmann, See address below
Date & Time for Event:
Thursday, May 6, 6-8 PM

Conversation and Drinks to Follow

Location: Galerie Gebr. Lehmann, Lindenstrasse, 35, 10969, Berlin
http://www.galerie-gebr-lehmann.de/

Ellen Harvey
Large Chocolate Box Landscape, Oil painting on wood panel
44” x 44” x 2”
Courtesy: magnusmüller and Galerie Gebr. Lehmann Dresden/Berlin
Photo: Jan Baracz

2010-05-03T12:37:00.001-07:00

Berlin Collective Art Review by Karen 5. 0:
http://wwwkmw.blogspot.com/

2010-04-26T12:16:00.001-07:00

2010-04-26T12:15:00.001-07:00

2010-04-17T02:58:00.001-07:00

Our Next Event: Sunday, May 2, 5 PM, Berlin

2010-04-11T08:08:00.000-07:00

A Conversation with the Artists of Group Exhibition, "Phantomschaltung", http://www.fernmeldeamt.info/ Moderator Karen Witczak, Writer, who just relocated from NYC to Berlin. She writes an art focused Blog: Karen 5.0: http://wwwkmw.blogspot.com/

2010-04-05T08:02:00.001-07:00

Berlin Collective Course Offered in May 2010-- Photo & Video

Click here:

http://www.culturalstudyabroad.com/europe/berlin-german

Photos from our last Berlin Collective Event @ Werkstattgalerie, Check it out!

2010-04-03T10:55:00.001-07:00

http://picasaweb.google.com/ramtino/Cacophonic?authkey=Gv1sRgCOPFsLbQz4Pbcw&feat=email#

2010-03-26T05:57:00.001-07:00

Tonight @ the Werkstattgalerie in Berlin! Please join us

2010-03-21T07:51:00.000-07:00

2010-02-28T16:10:00.000-08:00

Talk in Washington, D.C. on March 15th on the Berlin Collective

2010-02-28T16:07:00.000-08:00

Here is some info. on our next event-- Hope to see you there!

2010-02-17T04:48:00.000-08:00

Message from Berlin Collective Photographer & Designer:

For the past 10 years I have been working as a photographer and commercial artist in various countries such as Germany, Canada, England, Scotland, India and Iran. It has been an inspiring challenge to be exposed to the diversity that each country and each individual project had to offer.

My degree in B.F.A (applied art) from the University of Pune, India opened the path to work as an international freelance photographer and commercial artist.

Being based in Berlin I have the honor to contribute my part as a photographer and designer for Berlin Collective. I am also available to photograph events in berlin.

To view Ramtin Zanjani’s work for Berlin Collective and his website, please check out: www.Artoleptic.com

2010-02-15T14:07:00.000-08:00

Tomorrow at the Berlinale's Forum Expanded

If you are in Berlin come and check it out: Come early to get tickets!

http://www.arsenal-berlin.de/en/forum/program/forum-expanded/forum-expanded-talk.html

2010-02-13T10:23:00.000-08:00

From our last event, a screening by Sandra Peters, in conversation with curator Marc Gloede
Here is a link to the pics:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/artoleptic/sets/72157623422052656/

Our next event is Sunday, March 21, 5-7pm at the
Werkstattgalerie, http://www.werkstattgalerie.org/

A new flyer with all of the information coming soon....

2010-02-01T10:30:00.001-08:00

Berlin Collective Presents Sandra Peters, Artist
An introduction to her New Film/ Screening Event
Hosted by www.galleryhomeland.org/wordpress and Garten Studio “Défilé des Ombres” by Sandra Peters

A Screening and Conversation with Sandra Peters & Marc Glöde, Curator

Monday, February 8, 2010 @ Garten Studio, www.gartenstudio.org ,
Map on website

8:30-10p.m., Naunynstr. 53, 10999, Berlin, Map on website
2 euros/ Reception to follow
For a reservation/seat, please email: berlincollective@gmail.com

About this Event:
This event is an introduction to Sandra Peters film,
“Défilé des Ombres”, a screening in the gallery space, and a short dialogue between Marc Gloede and Sandra. Since this is a small gathering, we will have a chance to hear from the artist & to ask questions.
Sandra Peters website: www.sandra-peters.com

Marc Gloede, Phd des, Curator/ Film Scholar has written on Sandra Peter’s work, and will ask her some questions relating to his topics of interest in color, editing and the perception of film. He is widely published on topics relating to film, contemporary art, and is invited to this film’s panel at the Berlinale.

Info. For the Screening @ the Berlinale: The film “Défilé des Ombres” will be screened on Feburary 17, 2010 at 2:30 p.m. in the Cinema Arsenal 1 and on Feburary 19, 2010 at 3:30 p.m. in the Cinema Arsenal 2 in the Filmhaus at Potsdamer Platz. The film is presented in a group of nine other short art films. Tickets are available 3 days in advance of the screening dates at all advanced booking offices of the Berlinale and at the counter of the Cinema Arsenal at the Filmhaus at Potsdamer Platz (Potsdamer Straße 2, 10785 Berlin). www.berlinale.de

This event is a collaboration between Gallery Homeland
( http://www.galleryhomeland.org/ ), GartenStudio ( www.gartenstudio.org ), and the Berlin Collective.

Willkommen!

2010-01-16T23:21:00.000-08:00

The Berlin Collective is a new platform for study abroad arts programs in Berlin.

We are now taking reservations for the spring and summer of 2010.

For more information, please contact:
berlincollective@gmail.com

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Program Description:
The Berlin Collective offers unique study abroad experiences that combine courses, workshops, studio visits, and city tours which open the city's vibrant art scene to visitors and scholars. All programs are custom-designed to fit a group's level, interests, and duration of stay.
Courses are available in either, English, French, or German and are taught by Professors of Art, artists, and curators.

Program Duration:
Normally 1-2 weeks, but can be modified according to the group's needs and interests.