Wednesday 19 July 2023

TRUTHTRUSTTREES | Verwalterhaus Berlin | July 27th - August 6th

 


TRUTH TRUST TREES


Curatorial Statement

Bowie warned in 1972: we have five years.

The climate clock is ticking, 

counting down to anthropocene.


At the Verwalterhaus, by the entrance of the St. Marien-St. Nikolai cemetery, a story takes shape between past and prologue. We see majestic trees and resting graves, while across from us are shopping malls and big box stores—a tidal wave of identical details encroaching from Alexanderplatz. Yet, the ghosts resist and push back. Five years was so many years ago. We’re on borrowed time. Mankind can no longer act with impunity. TreesTrustTruth is an exhibition of ten artists from around the world linking the relentless destruction of the climate, nature and women’s bodies to the ticking clock of unsustainability.


In the most recent Volkswahl, Berliners agreed to turn down the dependence on gas for heat, but not give up cars. In NYC, public spaces are sacrificed to  development greed. In the Ukraine concrete and metal pile up around destroyed lives. All over domestic violence claims a shocking multitude of women’s lives with little legal and historical consequence. Germany is losing thousands of hectares of forest due to climate change. From Gruenheide to East River Park to the Amazon, the war on trees is raging, despite a world wide battle for sustainable cities, to stop rising tides, protect nature and house displaced peoples. Yet, cars continue to pollute, people produce unmeasurable amounts of waste, and the WAR MACHINE remains the biggest polluter. 80 years after WW2 the same mountains of debris that lie buried under all major German cities, pile up in the Ukraine. Female bodies continue to be violated as collateral damage and landmines continue to maim for generations, as radioactive pollutants contaminate the land, air, and water. Once more, paralyzed masses become dangerously polarized. Truth is in question, but without established „truths“ how do we move forward? While simultaneously dystopian interventions of Artificial Intelligence subvert authenticity, and we wonder:  who can we trust? 


WE FACE A CHOICE: consume more, add more cars and fossil fuels, shop ourselves to death, hate those we are tasked to love and watch tides rise. OR become sustainable, open green spaces, see others as ourselves, use non-polluting transportation, treasure all people and end wars. When does it change? When we demand it. This is the decisive task.


Come celebrate the trees. Gardens are the future of cities! Decarbonize! Unplug! Destroy cars! Make art! We can do a lot. Celebrate life under the drone of climate doom! Gaia is calling. 


Participating artists:

 

Alena Grom

Laura Lukitsch

Verena Issel

Sonya Schönberger

Nina E. Schönefeld

Benjamin Heim Shepard 

Caroline Shepard 

Andreas Templin

Philip Topolovac

Magaly Vega


Opening: Thursday, July 27th, 17:00 - 22:00 pm

With a Live-Set by 

TEMPLIN 

Aurorhytmica Hymns

Extended Piano (Drone/ Doom)

Alter Friedhof (Old Cemetary) Prenzlauer Allee 1, Berlin

 


Thursday 20 April 2023

AS LONG AS IT LASTS | curated by Sarah Belden | Gallery Weekend Berlin 2023

 


AS LONG AS IT LASTS

MIENTRAS DURE

MENTRE DURI

CHRISTIAN AWE | DARYA VON BERNER

AMIR H. FALLAH | DANIEL KNORR

LATOURELLE & WITTHOEFT

JOHN MONTEITH | JORDAN NASSAR

MARIO PFEIFER  | SANTIAGO SIERRA  
MICHAEL E. SMITH

ANDREAS TEMPLIN | VIA LEWANDOWSKI

 

CURATED BY

SARAH BELDEN

ON THE OCCASION OF

BERLIN GALLERY

WEEKEND

APRIL 28-30

2023

 

ART BRUNCH

SATURDAY APRIL 29

SUNDAY APRIL 30

11:30-4 PM

AND BY APPOINTMENT

Zur alten Flussbadeanstalt 4 10317 Berlin

 

The title of the exhibition “As Long as it Lasts” is based on a typographic text by American conceptual artist Lawrence Weiner made in 1989. “As Long as it Lasts” is a broad and open-ended statement, neither optimistic nor quite pessimistic, but rather it reminds us that one can never make assumptions about the future while we face with the myriad of current socio-political, ecological, economic and health crises.

Each artist in the exhibition addresses this in diverse and subtle ways. “As Long as it Lasts” includes paintings, prints, textiles, sculpture and video works that contend with the transformative, fragile, and fleeting nature of material objects, built environments, architecture and their histories, origins, and possible futures.

These works address the delicate balance between these complex systems at a crucial time when AI, technological innovation, and new political movements might change things for better or worse. Amidst the myriad of crises we are currently facing, “As Long as it Lasts” offers us a glimpse of where we may be going.  

As Yuval Noah Harari writes in his book Homo Deus, “We are envisioning a near future with a new set of challenges…exploring the projects, dreams and nightmares that will shape the Twenty-first Century and beyond- from overcoming death to artificial life. How can we protect this fragile world from our own destructive power?  And what does our future hold?”

 

-Sarah Rebecca Anne Belden

 

Monday 28 November 2022

2052 - Kunst zur Klimakatastrophe | Kunstverein am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz

 

Mit Beiträgen von Monica Bonvicini, Claus Föttinger, Katrin Glanz, Beat Gipp, Shila Khatami, Dan Perjovschi, Andrea Pichl, Jost Wischnewski, Johannes Wohnseifer, Marina Naprushkina, Christine Würmell, Matthias Sturm, Andreas Templin, Oliver Ressler, Stefanie von Schroeter, Silke Wagner, Lena von Goedeke, Joulia Strauss, Andreas Koch, Marie S. Ueltzen, Anna Meyer, Peter Niemann, Jonathan Monk, Bhima Griem

Kurator: Raimar Stange

14.4. – 18.6.2022 

Kunstverein am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz Berlin 

Sunday 18 July 2021

WAHLWEISE | KW/Randlage Worpswede | kuratiert von Raimar Stange

 



WAHLWEISE

06.08. - 26.09.21

Ein Ausstellungsprojekt in Worpswede kuratiert von Raimar Stange

Wahlplakate, Flugblätter, Objekte, Musik, Videos von 33 internationalen Künstler*innen

im Rahmen des 2. Randlage Artfestivals

Termine & Infos auf randlageart.de


mit Beiträgen von

Claus Oettinger, Peter Friedl, Dieter Froelich, Beat Gipp, Susanne Giring, Bhima Griem

Eva Grubinger, Christine & Irene Hohenbüchler, Christian Jankowski, Shila Khatami,

Andreas Koch, Almut Linde, Catherine Lorent, Olaf Metzel, Anna Meyer, Marina Naprushkina, 

Peter Niemann, Dan Perjovschi, Oliver Ressler, Martha Rosler, Martin Schepers

Markus Schinwald, Christine Schulz, Joulia Strauss, Matthias Sturm, Andreas Templin

Marie S. Ueltzen, Stefanie von Schroeter, Silke Wagner, Hans Winkler

Jost Wischnewski, Johannes Wohnseifer, Christien Würmell




Thursday 15 April 2021

"Goodbye, World" an apexart-exhibition on an ice floe in Arctic Sweden

 


curated by Andreas Templin and Raimar Stange

view the exhibition on the website of apexart


February 14th - Until the ice melts


Artists:

Nika Fontaine

Nadira Husain

Jonathan Monk

Olaf Nicolai

Peter Niemann

Eliana Otta

Martha Rosler

Stefanie von Schröter

Veit Schütz

Joulia Strauss


winner international open call apexart 2020/21

Tuesday 10 March 2020

2050 - Nature Morte | Kunstverein am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz Berlin

 



Please feel kindly invited to this group-exhibition at Kunstverein am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz

with contributions by

Christine & Irene Hohenbüchler
& Klasse für Kooperative Strategien, Kunstakademie Münster
Fabian Knecht
Almut Linde
Anna Meyer
Olaf Nicolai
Oliver Ressler
Stefanie von Schroeter
Joulia Strauss
Andreas Templin
Silke Wagner

A publication will be published for the exhibition, which can be downloaded here

The exhibition is on view from March 08th till May 30th 2020 


Thursday 23 May 2019

soundpedro | Angels Gate Cultural Center | San Pedro, Los Angeles


Please feel kindly invited to Angels Gate Cultural Center for an evening of ear-oriented art produced by the Long Beach artist group FLOOD

more informations: SOUNDPEDRO 2019  

Tuesday 26 February 2019

ARTE EN LA CALLE | Centro Conde Duque Madrid

 
An exhibition focusing on works of Urban Art in Madrid at Centro Conde Duque
opening: 28.02.2019

This group-exhibition includes elements of my situationist play 
"HELL IS COMING / WORLD ENDS TODAY" for Madrid Abierto.

The virtual publication for this urban intervention with 150 participants taking place in the inner city of Madrid can be viewed here:


Thursday 15 March 2018

BERLIN DOUGH | Hacking Urban Furniture | ZK/U Berlin


My award-winning city-furniture-concept BERLIN DOUGH will be part of the 
Center for Art and Urbanistics newest exhibition titled 

opening: 15 March 2018 

Friday 23 June 2017

Wednesday 10 August 2016

Bosch 500



after Hieronymus Bosch "the hainwanc" 2001

120x138 cm