29.11.2008 - 04.01.2009
Curators from East and Central Europe III:
Mari Laanemets
Hier wäre das Leben leicht
(There, Life Would Be Easy)

Opening: Friday 28.11.2008, 8PM
Hours: Sat. and Sun. 2 - 6PM;
closed 27.12 and 28.12.2008

Hier wäre das Leben leicht (There, life would be easy) The exhibition revolves around issues of design, of the construction of surfaces we are surrounded by in everyday life: from textiles to texts, to street and city. One of the underlying intentions of the exhibition is to reflect on how these formal constructions organize our behaviour, give our lives a scheme, a program, and on the sedimentation of ideology in forms.
Participating artists: Kadi Estland, Anton Koovit, Sirje Runge, Killu Sukmit, Tere Recarens and Florian Wüst.(more)

Curators from East and Central Europe II: Elena Sorokina
Subjective Events, Sometimes Recorded

curator's talk and workshop (Elena Sorokina) 24.10.2008

24.10.2008 - 16.11.2008
Curators from East and Central Europe II:
Elena Sorokina
Subjective Events, Sometimes Recorded

Opening: 24.10.2008, 8PM
Sat. and Sun. 2 - 6PM;
also open 31 October from 8PM -11PM
Tour of the exhibition: 02.11.2008, 3PM
Workshop 24.10.08

In everyday language, an event is a notion that embraces two different meanings - a happening violating limits or, in the opposite, invigorating them. One is destructive, the other restrictive; one is closer to the chaos of a revolution, the other to a meticulously performed ceremony with a set of rules. The work in the exhibition focuses on the second meaning: initially, it comments on contemporary rituals or pronounced interest in social codes, which often re-emerge in times of crisis and insecurity. Through recording, staging, or enacting some examples of today's ritualistic behavior the artists examine how the so-called "flexible personalities" engage in a performance of specific and mainly self-imposed rules. (more)

Art and Science III
Reiner Maria Matysik - Failed Organisms

Artist's talk and workshop: 31.08.2008

30.08.2008 - 28.09.2008
Art and Science III
Reiner Maria Matysik - Failed Organisms

Opening: 29.08.2008, 8PM
Artist's talk: 31.08.2008, 5PM
Tour of the exhibition: 28.09.2008, 3PM

The Berlin artist Reiner Maria Matysik (born 1967, Duisburg, Germany) works in manifold ways with concepts for future organisms. In the course of the last years he has created his own new system of post-evolutionary life forms at the borderline between art and biology. In his installations, videos, actions and publications the term "biological sculpture", coined by Matysik himself, plays a vital role. (more)

Art and Science II
Marcus Ahlers -Transposed Nodes

21.06.2008 - Children's workshop: SOLAR-ÖFEN

Zum kreativen Umgang mit Sonnenenergie
(SOLAR OVENS Working creatively with solar Energy)

30.05.2008 - 29.06.2008
Art and Science II
Marcus Ahlers - Transposed Nodes

Opening: 30 May, 2008, 8PM
Artists' talk: 14.06.2008,
5 PM Tour of the Exhibition: 20.06.2008. 3PM

The artworks of Marcus Ahlers (born 1974) functions on the borderline of visual arts and science. On one hand they explore visual metaphors for the human body in its surroundings, making reference to social and architectural space. On the other hand they are receptacles for electro-chemical reactions, which take place within them. (more)

Art and Science I
Dmitrij Bulatov - Senses Alert

Artist's talk and workshop: 29.03.2008

Artist's talk and workshop: 29.03.2008

photo ©2008 Roshan Dowlatabadi

photo ©2008 roshan dowlatabadi

photo ©2008 roshan dowlatabadi

29.03.2008 - 04.05.2008
Art and Science I
Dmitrij Bulatov - Senses Alert
Artist's talk and workshop: 29.03.2008, 5PM
Open Friday 27 April from 8PM
Tour of the exhibition: 27.04.2008, 3PM

Contemporary Art already long ago turned away from a solely anthropocentric point of view. Currently in Science Art, it is concerned, among other things, with ecological phenomena and is investigating the existence of newly emerging life forms; Art and Science have been combined. The Kaliningrad based artist Dmitrij Bulatov views the contemporary art scene as a kind of petri dish of living material for his investigations. Coming from his own artistic experience he has investigated this sphere and explored its dynamics and spatial vectors. In connection with his scientific research and artistic practice, Bulatov has staged an active evolutionary dramatisation of ‘post-biological’ forms whose paradoxical development may completely change our idea of the surrounding world. (more)