NOWs: Artists Care About Bridges

13 - 16 December 2018 / Nows

FUNDRAISING initiated by Artists Care About Bridges at Acud Macht Neu

In support of the international movement SEEBRÜCKE

13.12.2018
from 10pm to open end at Acud Club
FUNDRAISING CLUB NIGHT

16.12.2018
from 4-7pm at Acud Studio
FUNDRAISING ART AUCTION

13.12 – 16.12.2018
from 12 – 9pm at Acud Courtyard
FUNDRAISING CHRISTMAS TREE SALE

Acud Macht Neu

Veteranenstrasse 21

10119 Berlin

Under the current social and political climate, in which the rise of ever more global nationalism and political backwardness is strengthened daily, we as artists, curators, activists and people need literal and metaphorical bridges to stand united and to take action together. Bridges are meeting places, they allow for possibility and for discourse. The collaboration Artists Care About Bridges is hosting a series of fundraising events on the third weekend in Advent at Acud Macht Neu; including a club night, an art auction as well as the sale of Christmas trees from organic farming. These profits go to the organization SEEBRÜCKE. SEEBRÜCKE is an international movement that receives support from the community as well as several civil society alliances and whose mission is to create safe harbors. SEEBRÜCKE will not accept Policy Makers and Governments who let people drown in the Mediterranean Sea to further seal off Europe and win political points. Artists Care About Bridges agrees that this is unbearable and against any humanitarian values. Migration is and has always been part of our society! Instead of closing borders, we need to provide more bridges, to encourage a Europe that is open, and support cities that show solidarity and provide harbors that are safe and humane. We declare our solidarity with societies who are forced to flee their homes. From German and European policy makers, we demand the establishment of safe routes for refugees, to stop the criminalization of sea rescue and to receive them in a human way whilst respecting their rights.

Artists Care About Bridges is a collaboration of activists that was conceived by cultural producer Kathrin Pohlmann and artist Anne Duk Hee Jordan, joined by the curators Pauline Doutreluingne and Petra Poelzl (Karma Ltd. Extended) and supported by Bioland Herbarium Leipzig and Acud Macht Neu. Build a bridge by extending your hand and joining us in creating an open, inclusive and progressive Europe.

FUNDRAISING CLUB NIGHT

13.12.2018
10pm – open end
at Acud Club

To launch the collaboration Artists Care About Bridges, we organize a kick off fundraising club night with a pumping line up featuring Nedalot, Perera Elsewhere, DJ Residue (TTT) and Akmê (://about blank).

Nedalot

NEDALOT aka Neda Sanai is a Berlin based DJ & and producer that moves in the queer underground scene of Europe. With their skillful mixing of different club genres, including rap, R&B, bass music, Jersey club, 2 step, all mixed up in an ocean of twisted pop Acapella, the vibe is always intense-warped-sexy. https://soundcloud.com/nedalot

Perera Elsewhere (FoF) – Dj Set

Sasha Perera, aka Perera Elsewhere, is a polyglot, if there ever were one. Her music proclivities are not resigned only to her output under that name on Los Angeles imprint Friends of Friends or to her previous work she did as a member of Berlin-based globalist club project Jahcoozi. Perera also DJs and when she does, it’s all about bass music. Rooted in her love of UK sounds, she delivers a banquet selection of contemporary club sounds from all over the world to keep the bodies popping and people hungry. https://soundcloud.com/bordermovement-2/mother-perera-border-movement

DJ Residue (TTT)
Techno Excursions

Akmê (://about blank)

Akmê’s sets are known for their diversity. They are profound improvisational odysseys, which explore deep planes of emotions. Simply put: Techno with groove.

https://soundcloud.com/lostakme

FUNDRAISING ART AUCTION

16.12.2018
4 – 7pm
at Acud Studio

In the spirit of the necessity of “building bridges and not borders”, Artist Care About Bridges curates an art auction. There is a growing list of reputable artists, supporting joint social action by donating an art work for the auction.

Carla Åhlander, Uli Aigner, Akinbode Akinbiyi, Ariel Efraim Ashbel, Norbert Bisky, Ally Bisshop, Monika Bonvicini, Lysann Buschbeck, Johannes Buss (Radical Adults Productions), Sol Calero, Jennis Li Chengtien, Anouk De Clercq, Isaac Chong Wai, Elly Clarke, Cucula, Lucinda Dayhew, Viviana Druga, Jesper Dyrehauge, Antje Engelmann, FAMED, Azin Feizabadi, Abrie Fourie, Moritz Frei, Simon Fujiwara, Alexandra Gaul, Alexander Gehring, April Gertler, Surya Gied, Michel Gockel, Sebastian Gögel, Monika Grabuschnigg, Roman Graneist, Grit Hachmeister, Matthias Hamann, Paule Hammer, Stine Marie Jacobsen, Clara Jo, Anne Duk Hee Jordan, Steffen Junghans, Aneta Kajzer, Tobias Kaspar, Susanne Keichel, Fabian Knecht, Cyrill Lachauer, Matt Lambert, Lorenz Lindner, Hanne Lippard, Lemia Monet Bodden, Rachel Monosov, Marco Montiel Soto, Raphael Nagel, Henrike Naumann, Heide Nord, Emeka Ogboh, Ahmet Ögüt, Murat Önen, Funda Özgynaydin, Peaches and Black Cracker, Alona Rodeh, Tere Recarens, Matthias Reinmuth, Johannes Rochhausen, Egill Saebjörnsson, Michael Sailstorfer, Sophia Schama, Ralf Schmerberg, Tilo Schulz, Maya Schweizer, Jenna Seedorf, Farkhondeh Shahroudi, Slavs and Tatars, Katja Stoye-Cetin, Anna Szilit, Anna Run Tryggvadottir, Markus Uhr, Viron Erol Vert, VIP, Shira Wachsmann, Raul Walch, Clemens von Wedemeyer, Tilman Wendland, Gernot Wieland, Euan Williams, Susanne M. Winterling, Tobias Zielony and more.

The auction catalogue will be online via www.revoluzy.org on December 6th.

Auktionator: Fares Al-Hassan

www.fly-auctions.com

Furthermore, there will be the chance to buy artist books as an additional opportunity to donate into the Seebrücke Movement.

FUNDRAISING CHRISTMAS TREE SALE

13.12 – 16.12.2018
12 – 9pm
at Acud Courtyard

Christmas Trees for Sale by Bioland Herbarium Leipzig

Herbarium Leipzig promotes and practices organic farming and develops it further through interdisciplinary collaborations. The Christmas trees for sale are from organic slow growing fields in the area around Leipzig.

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NOWs: SLEEK’s 7 emerging Berlin artists you need to know in 2019

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EC. Courtesy of Malte Bartsch 7 emerging Berlin artists you need to know in 2019Article on Malte Bartsch, Jeewi Jee among others Text by Isaac Moss You don’t need us to tell you that Berlin is something of a Mecca when it comes to attracting emerging and underground artists. Every year, young artists flock to the city in their droves in search of bright studio spaces, rustic artist abodes, cheap beer and döner, and of course, a nightlife just ripe for exhibition opening tales of excess. And unlike its counterparts in London, Paris or New York, the art scene here is also relatively accessible due to state-funded galleries and a plethora of independent projects spaces that stud the city from Wedding to Weserstraße. As we start a new year, we take a look at some of the most promising artists making waves in the German capital — from those who are just shy of making their big breakthrough to those bubbling beneath the surface. Here are some of our favourites: Feuerwerkautomat. Courtesy of Malte Bartsch Malte Bartsch caught our attention because of the inclusive, interactive and social components to his practice. A student of Ólafur Eliasson, Bartsch became a name in Berlin last year with his piece, FEUERWERKAUTOMAT — an intervention at this year’s German reunification celebrations. Designed as an app where members of the public could purchase fireworks and create a display based on democratic polls, FEUERWERKAUTOMAT indicated the unpredictable nature of the voting process. In September at the Biesenthal, the multidisciplinary artist exhibited an old ATM reconfigured as a wood burning stove. Audiences were encouraged to burn their money, if they so wished. Blinder Beifall, 2016. Courtesy of Jeewi Lee. Originally from Seoul, Jeewi Lee has been based in Berlin since 2008. By using natural materials such as salt and rock, Jeewi investigates the trace left by human activity, reimagining it as a luminescent stamp. Her most arresting piece, Blinder Beifall (2016), consists of a circus ring composed of salt instead of sand, flanked with large white kerbstones. Jeewi then invited a variety of entertainers to perform in the salt — the final art work was the marks left in the substance. Read full article here. EC. Courtesy of Malte Bartsch 7 emerging Berlin artists you need to know in 2019Article on Malte Bartsch, Jeewi Jee among others Text by Isaac Moss You don’t need us to tell you that Berlin is something of a Mecca when it comes to attracting emerging and underground artists. Every year, young artists flock to the city in their droves in search of bright studio spaces, rustic artist abodes, cheap beer and döner, and of course, a nightlife just ripe for exhibition opening tales of excess. And unlike its counterparts in London, Paris or New York, the art scene here is also relatively accessible due to state-funded galleries and a plethora of independent projects spaces that stud the city from Wedding to Weserstraße. As we start a new year, we take a look at some of the most promising artists making waves in the German capital — from those who are just shy of making their big breakthrough to those bubbling beneath the surface. Here are some of our favourites: Feuerwerkautomat. Courtesy of Malte Bartsch Malte Bartsch caught our attention because of the inclusive, interactive and social components to his practice. A student of Ólafur Eliasson, Bartsch became a name in Berlin last year with his piece, FEUERWERKAUTOMAT — an intervention at this year’s German reunification celebrations. Designed as an app where members of the public could purchase fireworks and create a display based on democratic polls, FEUERWERKAUTOMAT indicated the unpredictable nature of the voting process. In September at the Biesenthal, the multidisciplinary artist exhibited an old ATM reconfigured as a wood burning stove. Audiences were encouraged to burn their money, if they so wished. Blinder Beifall, 2016. Courtesy of Jeewi Lee. Originally from Seoul, Jeewi Lee has been based in Berlin since 2008. By using natural materials such as salt and rock, Jeewi investigates the trace left by human activity, reimagining it as a luminescent stamp. Her most arresting piece, Blinder Beifall (2016), consists of a circus ring composed of salt instead of sand, flanked with large white kerbstones. Jeewi then invited a variety of entertainers to perform in the salt — the final art work was the marks left in the substance. Read full article here.

NOWs: I’m afraid I must ask you to leave

02 December 2018 - 24 February 2019 / Nows ⟶

I’m afraid I must ask you to leaveJulius von Bismarck and Julian Charrière Kunstpalais Erlangen Palais Stutterheim Marktplatz 1 91054 Erlangen Opening: Dec 01, 2018 Julian Charrière and Julius von Bismarck are each outstanding artists. They are best friends. And sometimes they are partners in their artistic work. The first major exhibition of these two as a duo will take place at the end of 2018 in the Kunstpalais. Despite the diversity and autonomy of their works, they are united in their claim to initiate an intensive reflection about our relationship to nature and our place in society through their art. Both work at the interface of art and science. Julian Charrière (* 1987 in Morges, Switzerland) is fascinated by geology and archeology. These however, are not perceived as backward-looking by him: with his works he analyzes the present – and dives deep into the earth. For his large installation at the Venice Biennale 2017 he extracted sediments from the Bolivian salt desert Salar de Uyuni and thus creating a salt-pinned landscape. With these excavations in the salt desert Charrière anticipates excavations at the same site of much greater extent, given that the salt desert is also the world’s largest lithium deposit. And lithium is becoming gradually the most important resource in the digital world. Therefore Charrières Future Fossil Spaces are future archaeologies. Julius von Bismarck (* 1983 in Breisach am Rhein), who like Julian Charrière was a student of Olafur Eliasson, describes himself as a wannabe physicist. Movement, especially in circles, characterizes many of his works. For the Art Basel Unlimited 2015 for example he created an Egocentric system: he set himself up on a parabolic turntable with a mattress, a desk, a laptop and food and spent the entire duration of the fair in this room in constant motion under the influence of gravity and centrifugal force. With other works, such as the video Irma To Come In Earnest on the hurricane in Florida, he discusses our dealings with nature and climate change. As an artist, Bismarck regards it as his social responsibility to raise awareness of current topics and problems. In his work series Punishment he did this, for example, by personally whipping legendary places such as the Alps. When both artists work together, artworks emerge that are equally scientific, sensual, curious, auratic, sophisticated, humorous, and, in the best sense of the word, megalomaniacal. I’m afraid I must ask you to leaveJulius von Bismarck and Julian Charrière Kunstpalais Erlangen Palais Stutterheim Marktplatz 1 91054 Erlangen Eröffnung: 1. Dez. 2018 Julius von Bismarck (*1983 in Breisach am Rhein) und Julian Charrière (*1987 in Morges, Schweiz) vereint eine besondere Herangehensweise an das Kunstschaffen: mit Forschungsreisen bis ans Ende der Welt und quasi-naturwissenschaftlichen Experimenten nähern sie sich dem Thema ihres Interesses, um ihren eigenen Hypothesen dazu schließlich in Skulptur, Video oder Fotografie Ausdruck zu geben – humorvoll und bildgewaltig. Beide arbeiten mit unterschiedlichen Schwerpunkten an der Schnittstelle von Kunst und Wissenschaft. Seit sich Charrière und von Bismarck bei ihrem Studium bei Olafur Eliasson an der Universität der Künste in Berlin kennen lernten, teilen sie sich ein Atelier und sind beste Freunde. Für ausgewählte Projekte finden sie auch in ihrer Arbeit zusammen. Für ihr Werk Some Pigeons Are More Equal Than Others entwickelten Charrière und von Bismarck eine Maschine, in der Tauben auf öffentlichen Plätzen eingefangen, mit natürlichen Farbstoffen eingefärbt und dann wieder in die Umwelt entlassen wurden. Die Taube, oft als schmutziges oder im besten Fall unscheinbares Tier missachtet, erfährt so nicht nur im wörtlichen Sinne neues Ansehen. In Ägypten, Deutschland, Island, Mexiko und der Schweiz beschrifteten sie für die Serie Kunst seit 2012 mit einer Art überdimensionalem Graffiti natürliche Orte. Unter anderem die koloniale Geste des Beanspruchens und Benennens von Natur wird implizit thematisiert, wenn Mountain den Berg, Jungle das Blätterdickicht in riesigen Lettern bezeichnet. Während sie sich in diesen beiden Arbeiten mit menschlichen Eingriffen in die Natur und deren Wirkungen und Aussagen beschäftigen, dreht es sich in ihrer neuesten Arbeit um die symbolische Aufladung einzelner Naturmonumente und die Fetischisierung der Natur: Thounds And Thounds Of Years And Only Now Things Happen entstand anlässlich der Ausstellung im Kunstpalais und ist hier erstmals zu sehen. Mit ihrem gemeinsamen Œuvre stoßen Julian Charrière und Julius von Bismarck eine intensive Reflexion über unser Verhältnis zur Natur an. Arbeiten beide zusammen, entstehen Werke, die gleichermaßen wissenschaftlich, sinnlich, kurios, auratisch, gelehrt, hintergründig und – im allerbesten Sinne – größenwahnsinnig sind. I’m Afraid I Must Ask You To Leave ist ihre erste große Ausstellung als Duo.

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