NOWs: Functions and Fictions by Alvaro Urbano

17 September 2016 / Nows

Alvaro Urbano

Solo Performance : Functions and Fictions

Villa Empain / FONDATION BOGHOSSIAN, Brussels

Alvaro Urbano’s practice unfolds through an experimental process by creating synergies between living entities and dynamic structures, scripting time-space based situations with a strong interest in heterotopias, architecture and fiction. Urbano’s Functions and Fictions will animate the Villa Empain – shifting perspectives on the built environment through replicating architectural elements of the Villa. He will destabilize the functionality and space-time relations of the architectural program to create a fictional landscape and portal to the imaginative.

Curated by Asad Raza.

NOWs: Raul Walch and Rike Horb at Global Goals World Cup

18 September 2016 / Nows ⟶

NOWs Raul Walch: UNITY, 2016 New York fabric, buttons 200 pieces 35 x 140cm On the occasion of the Global Goals World Cup the Berlin artist Raul Walch has produced a cloth that is composed of 200 individual parts and which can be used by the viewers in a variety of different ways. The piece consists of 17 unique geometric designs that interlock with one another creating a large and abstract pattern. Chance decides how the variable shapes and the colors of the cloth are assembled. Similar to a community – the whole is constructed out of many singular and constituent elements. The unity and the completeness of the cloth will slowly degrade over the course of the event as the many individual pieces will be taken over by the public. Visitors will be able to wear and use the scarf-like components during the event. Once the crowd leaves the arena, the textile elements will be carried out into the city; and then further out into the world. Through their participation with this textile sculpture the visitors will become ambassadors to the UN Global Goals. — Raul Walch and Rike Horb participate in PLAY FOR CHANGE, the launch of The Global Goals World Cup at The Social Good Summit and amplify the 17 UN Global Goals through art. The Global Goals World Cup is an open women’s amateur soccer tournament designed to expand the scope of a conventional sport event and draw on the perspectives of creatives, academics, and activists, to merge true global citizenship with the game of soccer. To qualify, teams have to play and take action for one of their favorite 17 UN Global Goals. The Global Goals World Cup is powered by Eir Soccer and UNDP – who are proudly supported by Social Good Summit, Save the Children and The Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. — NOWs Raul Walch: UNITY, 2016 New York fabric, buttons 200 pieces 35 x 140cm On the occasion of the Global Goals World Cup the Berlin artist Raul Walch has produced a cloth that is composed of 200 individual parts and which can be used by the viewers in a variety of different ways. The piece consists of 17 unique geometric designs that interlock with one another creating a large and abstract pattern. Chance decides how the variable shapes and the colors of the cloth are assembled. Similar to a community – the whole is constructed out of many singular and constituent elements. The unity and the completeness of the cloth will slowly degrade over the course of the event as the many individual pieces will be taken over by the public. Visitors will be able to wear and use the scarf-like components during the event. Once the crowd leaves the arena, the textile elements will be carried out into the city; and then further out into the world. Through their participation with this textile sculpture the visitors will become ambassadors to the UN Global Goals. — Raul Walch and Rike Horb participate in PLAY FOR CHANGE, the launch of The Global Goals World Cup at The Social Good Summit and amplify the 17 UN Global Goals through art. The Global Goals World Cup is an open women’s amateur soccer tournament designed to expand the scope of a conventional sport event and draw on the perspectives of creatives, academics, and activists, to merge true global citizenship with the game of soccer. To qualify, teams have to play and take action for one of their favorite 17 UN Global Goals. The Global Goals World Cup is powered by Eir Soccer and UNDP – who are proudly supported by Social Good Summit, Save the Children and The Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. —

NOWs: Agentur des Exponenten by Andreas Greiner

15 September 2016 - 06 February 2017 / Nows ⟶

Andreas Greiner: Heinrich (totus corpus), Ganzkörper-Porträt eines Masthahns, 2015. Photo: Theo Bitzer NOWs: Agentur des Exponenten GASAG Art Prize 2016 Andreas Greiner has been awarded the GASAG Kunstpreis for 2016. The artist has created an exhibition entitled Agentur des Exponenten (Agency of the Exponent) for the first big hall in the Berlinische Galerie. Its themes are the exponential growth, identity and transformation of living creatures, including such very different beings as microorganisms and chickens bred for fattening. With them, he describes the relationship of people in the media and consumer society to art and to themselves. For his show at the Berlinische Galerie, Greiner has devised a three-part installation linking the various thematic strands in his work. At the centre is the skeleton of a broiler, a monumental celebration of the species made with a 3D printer. The sculpture Monument for 308 (2016) resembles the reconstruction of a winged dinosaur about to leap into the air or take flight. In his Study (Portrait) of the Singularity of the Animal, the second part of the exhibition, the artist considers creatures which are not normally perceived as individuals, such as algae, portrayed here singly with the aid of a scanning electron microscope. In the third section, Greiner combines a self-actuating grand piano (Disklavier) with film shots of the rhythmically throbbing skin of “firefly squids” (Watasenia scintillans). The videos were given as visual scores to composers (Páll Ragnar Pálsson, Therese Strasser, Tyler Friedman), who then derived musical interpretations for the Disklavier. Opening of the exhibition on September 14 in the context of Berlin Art Week 2016. In 2016 the art prize initiated by GASAG will be awarded for the fourth time in partnership with the Berlinische Galerie. The catalogue accompanies the exhibition and examines the individual detached from the masses based on exponential growth. With contributions by Guido Faßbender, Thomas Köhler, Kim Mildebrath and Erich Pucher. Andreas Greiner: The Last Exponent (Karl), 2015 Andreas Greiner: Heinrich (totus corpus), Ganzkörper-Porträt eines Masthahns, 2015. Foto: Theo Bitzer NOWs: Agentur des Exponenten GASAG Kunstpreis 2016 Andreas Greiner erhält den GASAG Kunstpreis 2016. Unter dem Titel Agentur des Exponenten hat der Künstler für die erste große Halle der Berlinischen Galerie eine Ausstellung entwickelt, die sich mit dem exponentiellen Wachstum, der Identität und Transformation von Lebewesen befasst – darunter so unterschiedliche Wesen wie Mikroorganismen und Masthühner. Mit ihnen beschreibt er das Verhältnis des Menschen der Medien- und Konsumgesellschaft zur Natur, zur Kunst und zu sich selbst. Für seine Ausstellung in der Berlinischen Galerie entwickelt Greiner eine dreiteilige Rauminstallation, welche die unterschiedlichen Themen seiner Arbeit verbindet. Im Zentrum steht ein monumentales, im 3D-Druckverfahren erzeugtes Skelett eines Masthuhns, das der Gattung ein Denkmal setzt. Die Skulptur Monument für die 308 (2016) erinnert an die Rekonstruktion eines Flugsauriers, der gerade zum Sprung oder Flug ansetzt. In seiner Studie (Porträt) zur Singularität des Tieres, dem zweiten Teil der Ausstellung, befasst sich der Künstler mit Lebewesen, die normalerweise nicht als Individuen wahrgenommen werden, wie zum Beispiel Algen, die einzeln mit einem Elektronenrastermikroskop porträtiert wurden. Im dritten Teil kombiniert Greiner einen selbstspielenden Flügel (Disklavier) mit Filmaufnahmen der rhythmisch pulsierenden Haut von „Leuchtkalmaren“ (Watasenia scintillans). Die Videos wurden als visuelle Partituren an Komponisten (Páll Ragnar Pálsson, Therese Strasser, Tyler Friedman) weitergegeben, die daraus musikalische Interpretationen für das Disklavier entwickelten. Die Ausstellung wird am 14. September im Rahmen der Berlin Art Week 2016 eröffnet. Die von der GASAG initiierte Auszeichnung wird in diesem Jahr zum vierten Mal in Kooperation mit der vergeben Berlinischen Galerie. Der Katalog begleitet die Ausstellung „Agentur des Exponenten“, die ausgehend vom exponentiellen Wachstum das Individuum gelöst von der Masse untersucht. Andreas Greiner: The Last Exponent (Karl), 2015

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