"Search & Destroy" Group Exhibition

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

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

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

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

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!

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