Berlin Collective Event in Brooklyn This Fall: Artists that Work Between Berlin & NYC

BROOKLYN STUDIO VISITS with Berlin Collective Artists: Sept. 15, 2012

 
* First Studio Visit: Marcy Rosenblat (Clinton Hill), http://marcyrosenblat.com

 

* Second Studio Visit: Aziz + Cucher (Navy Yard), http://azizcucher.net
 

Third Studio Visit: Amelie Chabannes (Red Hook), http://ameliechabannes.com
 

UPCOMING WORKSHOPS IN BERLIN: PAINTING (WITH ARTIST GWEN KERBER) DRAWING ("OUT OF LINE") with Romeo Alaeff CREATIVE WRITING WITH MELINDA BARLOW CREATIVITY AND CODE: PROGRAMMING FOR ARTISTS WITH JUSTIN BLINDER: http://berlincollective.de/study-abroad/past-participants For more information and to sign up: berlincollective@gmail.com

Video Screening with Madeline Stillwell

design: STUDIO NURA

The first Berlin Collective video screening was an engaging and even slightly magical event! American artist Madeline Stillwell presented a selection of recent video works, documentation of her sculptural performances and installations.  This was followed by a lively discussion, moderated by host Mira O'Brien, the Berlin Collective Berlin Director. The event took place in her studio building in Kreuzberg. 

More of Madeline's work can be seen here http://madelinestillwell.com

After the conversation with Madeline, all guests were invited out into the garden for a surprise performance by artist and musician Mark Golamco. Mark was visiting Berlin with his viola, and treated us to some enchanting songs! 

As guests trickled back inside, we screened the feature film "Pina" by Wim Wenders. We look forward to continuing this series, pairing artists with feature films and performances!

Shelf Life Opening April 25

Facebook event: here

More information on Berlin Collective website http://berlincollective.de/events/exhibitions

Berlin Collective Artist Workshop in NYC for Valentine's Day/ Feb. 12, 2012 JEM Fabric Warehouse Art & Design

Valentine's Day Berry Dyeing Workshop at JEM
In collaboration with Berlin Collective February 12, 2012

Inspire, create and learn with artists in a super amazing treasure at
JEM Fabric Warehouse Art & Design Co-op

Berlin Collective is pleased to announce a collaborative event with JEM Fabric Warehouse Art & Design Co-op the Valentine's Day Berry Dyeing Workshop on February 12, 2012 from 2-5pm

JEM will be offering a one-day Valentine’s Day workshop with artist and JEM owner Michelle Zahabian. We will be dyeing using natural ingredients such as; cherries, roses, beets, and more to create RAD, rose colored cotton scarves with various dyeing techniques and exploring the use of resists. Explore 55 the idea of using words and shapes while playing with dye.

When: Sunday, February 12, 2012 from 2-5pm

Where: JEM Fabric Warehouse Art & Design Co-op, 355 Broadway Between Franklin & Leonard

Why: to explore, inspire, create and learn with artists in a super amazing treasure in NYC.

Price: $60 This price includes materials, beverages, artists, and a super fun time experimenting.

About Michelle Zahabian
Michelle Zahabian is a native New Yorker who loves working with watercolor paper, textiles, water, and liquid paints to show the world and the different energy that we live in. After graduating from Pratt in 2007, with a BFA is Art ED and Painting, a world of creating continued in both L.A and NY with very dedicated clients and kids supporting throughout the way. She worked with partnerships with schools all over the city as a teaching artist . In 2010 her and her brother Dave decided to open JEM, a fabric warehouse full of artists, that produces clothing, furniture and DIY workshops and classes. The arts and creating keeps us alive and forever changing, and JEM is the home Michelle and Dave made to support that thought. She loves the ocean, textiles and very much believes in a revolution…the youth is starting to change….

JEM Blog || www.Houseofjem.blogspot.com

About the Berlin Collective
Berlin Collective founded in 2009 by artist Nicole Cohen, as a platform for international cultural exchange to support U.S. Artists by giving them international exposure and to support U.S. artists based there.

Berlin Collective focuses on the connection between the U.S. and Berlin, Germany and beyond. We are an artist/ curator run collective based in NYC and Berlin. Our aim to provide exciting opportunities, knowledge and intellectual growth to art professionals by strengthening international exposure to their work, increase to U.S. artist’s who participate, and the development of American culture in the arts.

Based on the constant growth in population of artists in the U.S. and continuation of unclear business strategies and community opportunities for emerging, mid-career, and established artists to be in dialogue, the Berlin Collective offers a bridging and dialogue amongst art professionals. We host formal and informal events featuring artists. We hope to support new frontiers and alternative approaches for them to discover international possibilities within their professional careers. We believe in the growing global market, which will boost creative approaches and transform the arts at this time due to the evolving technological advancements and abilities to communicate equally internationally and locally.

For more information, contact Berlin Collective Creative Director at 917-868-5902 or visit www.berlincollective.de.

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Drawing Workshop Open House // January 15

Drawing Workshop Open House
at The Drawing Room

http://berlindrawingroom.blogspot.com/

Sunday, January 15, 20123:00pm 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  Drawing Workshop has been up to! Participation is Free! Drawing materials provided.

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

More information at http://berlindrawingroom.blogspot.com
 & 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

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

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

Drawing Class link

Welcome to The Drawing Room!

Studio Workshops in Berlin

http://berlindrawingroom.blogspot.com/

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

Matisse drawing with pole!

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.)

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

Beacon High School NYC Exhibits in Berlin & in NYC

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

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