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May 22, 2014

Munich: at Haus der kunst; a 4 day Conference 21-24.05.14 on “Postwar – Art Between the Pacific and Atlantic, 1945-1965”

The “Postwar” research and exhibition project includes a broad spectrum of events, conferences, and publications, of which the four-day international conference “Postwar — Art between the Pacific and Atlantic, 1945–1965″ is the first. The conference is organized by Haus der Kunst in collaboration with Tate Modern, the Institut für Kunstgeschichte, LMU München, and the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Munich. The conference is held in english.

Conceived as an in-depth study of the postwar period, the four-day international conference, “Postwar – Art between the Pacific and Atlantic, 1945–1965″ shifts from a Western/European vantage point to redirect attention to a multifocal and polyphonic history of art since 1945. By following the sweeping lines of the two oceans across Europe, Asia, the Pacific Rim, Africa, the Mediterranean, North America, and South America, “Postwar” straddles continents, political structures, economic patterns, and institutional frameworks to understand the complex legacies of artistic practice and art historical discourses that emerged globally in the aftermath of World War II’s devastation. (from the HdK press)

http://postwar.hausderkunst.de/index.php/konferenzen/konferenz-mai-14/

programme: http://postwar.hausderkunst.de/index.php/konferenzen/konferenz-mai-14/programm-neu/

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May 17, 2014

Athens visit: May 15-18th highlights: Eleni Koroneou Gallery (Yorgos Sapountzis); “A Thousand Doors” curated by Iwona Blazwick at the Gennadius Library and Gardens; Andreas Angelidakis “Every End is A Beginning at EMΣΤ

a great exhibition of Yorgos Sapountzis “Athens Screens” at ELENI KORONEOU GALLERY, Athens

30 April-7 June 2014

Sapountzis’s installations and performances combine elements of theatre, poetry and ritualistic practices, using the specific qualities of a medium to illicit greater interpretive possibilities. At the core of most of his projects are sculptural works that employ such flexible materials as aluminum sheets and rods, brightly colored fabric, pins, knots, strings, and newspaper. All these materials share certain qualities: they are light, flexible, ductile, their volumes can be reduced, they are easily transportable. The sculptures, in their carefully haphazard appearance, evoke a number of associations from banners carried at a protest to classic works of Modernism.(from gallery press)

more www.koroneougallery.com/exhibitions/2014/athens-screens/view:press[/embed]

“Every End is A Beginning“ by Andreas Angelidakis at EMΣΤ -National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens
14/05/2014 – 13/07/2014

The solo exhibition of the artist and architect Andreas Angelidakis entitled Every End is a Beginning presents a series of architectural studies that pertain to concepts such as reuse, mutation, transformation and relocation, and features works exploring the transition from one state to another. In the work Domesticated Mountain, a pile of cardboard boxes from online purchases transforms into a dwelling; in Troll, a block of flats transmutes into a mountain; in Cloud House and Menir, a cloud and a rock take the form of houses; in Casino, an entertainment venue transforms into an economic experiment; while in Walking Building an old factory becomes a hybrid museum….(museum press)

more http://www.emst.gr/EN/exhibitions/emst_exhibitions/main.aspx?

” A Thousand Doors” at Gennadius Library and Gardens, curated by Ivona Blazwick

organizers: NEON & WhiteChapel Gallery

participants artists: Edward Allington, Matthew Barney, Christian Boltanski, Pavel Büchler, Michael Dean, Nina Fischer και Maroan el Sani, Ceal Floyer, Isa Genzken, Shuruq Harb, Nigel Henderson, Georg Herold, Susan Hiller, Hannah Höch, John Latham, Mark Manders, Juan Muñoz, Giuseppe Penone, Elizabeth Price, Michael Rakowitz, Annie Ratti, Meriç Algün Ringborg, Daniel Silver, Francis Upritchard, Adrián Villar Rojas, Jane και Louise Wilson, Γιάννης Κουνέλλης, Πάκυ Βλασσοπούλου, Κώστας Ιωαννίδης, Βαλεντίνα Κάργα, Νίκος Ναυρίδης.

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May 8, 2014

Munich;Anne Imhof at Deborah Schamoni gallery; opening and performance

Anne Imhof 9.5-21.6.2014

Thursday night at Deborah Schamoni gallery a very interesting performance during the preview opening of Anne Imhof, commissioned and produced by Deborah Schamoni.

all photos below @deborah Schamoni gallery

Anne Imhof was born in 1978 and lives and works in Frankfurt am Main and in Paris. She graduated from Städelschule in 2012, receiving the graduate prize for her final project. In 2013 she holds the fellowship of the Hessische Kulturstiftung.

more here http://deborahschamoni.com

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May 2, 2014

Berlin; Gallery Weekend Visit; May 1st-May 4th

A lovely 3 days festivities in Berlin for the Berlin Gallery Weekend celebrating the 10 years.

Friday, May 2nd

Starting with a reception on Thursday early evening at Palais Festungsgraben and next days to see as much possible starting at the Potsdamer Strasse strip area. Friday, I started with the venture down Schöneberger Ufer towards Esther Schipper‘s “Revenos a nos moutons”, a Liam Gillick exhibition that plays up an illusionistic space between text and structure. A mirrored room with a monitor installed at its center projects its content ad infinitum using repetition as a means of reduction.

Next door at Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Premiered in Berlin is Wu Tsang’s 40-minute, two-channel A Day in the Life of Bliss (2014). This work follows BLIS (played by Boychild), who, according to the press release, “inhabits a ‘near future’ world in which our social media avatars and online personas developed their own hive-minded consciousness called LOOKS.” BLIS is a celebrity-collaborator by day and underground performer by night, who discovers her ability to challenge the Looks. Performance was on Friday evening at 8 pm by Wu Tsang and Boychild but was impossible to get in.

Continued next door, a Phillip Guston exhibition, works from the late 60s, at the elegant gallery of Aurel Scheibler. The exhibition comprises of a group of late drawings and works on canvas complemented by two important earlier paintings…the three charcoal drawings in the show from 1968 and 1969 are important examples of Guston’s new, simplistic language, which he developed since 1966.

Continued at Sassa Trülzch for a wonderful fun exhibition by Klaus von Bruch , series “In the Future…2008-2014” , Billboards, with a guest in the stair tower:Ingo Günther

KLAUS VOM BRUCH, from the series In the Future … 2008–2014 Billboards
110 x 140 cm courtesy of Sassa Trülzsch

Continued at a new gallery Cubus-m for a very exciting and careful exhibition, curated by Christine Nippe “Folding Unfolding Space” with the artists Sylvie Boisseau & Frank Westrmeye, Simon Deppierraz, Christina Dimitriadis, Alois Godinat, Elin Jacobsdottir, Andrea Knobloch, Luc Mattenberger. “In the group exhibition Folding Unfolding Space, at cubs-m the initially abstract concept ‘space’ is addressed. Through the artistic works, altered spatial contours unfold; WIth the help of the utilized media- like film photography, installation, lithography, three dimensional objects and works on paper – the dimensions of space are artistically examined, negotiated and activated.” Cristine Nippe, Curator

exhibition view/Folding Unfolding Space/photo @cubus-m

A small brake from the area and took the car and went to VW (Veneklasen Werner) gallery to the opening exhibition of Huma Bhabha’s first solo exhibition in Berlin

…..the artist’s first solo exhibition in Berlin and features sculptures and collage drawings created in 2013 while Bhabha was artist-in-residence at The American Academy in Berlin. The influence of German art on the artist has never been more keenly felt; German Expressionism, the sculptures of Georg Baselitz and the photo drawings of Arnulf Rainer and Anselm Kiefer are among the art historical referents Bhabha explores in this new body of work….(gallery press)

Huma Bhabha, installation view at VW, 2014

Saturday, May 4th

Starting in Charlottenburg,visit Galerie Buchholz at Fasanenstrasse, exhibition of Lutz Bacher “Homer”. In this exhibition, the artist presents a new suite of 14 photographs entitled “Homer”. This series depicts three off-duty Greek soldiers from the 1970s as they pose in an office, lounge on a couch, and smoke cigarettes on the street of nighttime. Duplications and repetitions of particular photographs upend a narrative progression as the cycle of images seems to stutter, shift, and repeat. …(gallery press release)

Lutz Backer exhibition, photo@galeriebuchholz

Heading to Mitte, a stop at Neugerriemschneider gallery for a Pae White exhibition.

White’s expansive installation in the main room of the gallery is an immersive environment, a highly complex and lyrical composition that consists of twenty-one hovering sculptural models, into which the artist has integrated light sources and various material elements.

Pae White exhibition, photos by permission @vk

a quick stop to Galerie Eigen +Art on Augustrasse with Time Eitel and at the Lab with Despina Stokou.. Continued at Michael Fuchs galerie with a first solo exhibition of Marco Brambilla in Germany which features a large -scale 3D video installation from the Megaplex-series and a new body of work

3-D video installation of Marco Barbilla, Galerie Michael Fuchs

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April 30, 2014

Munich;Adreas Binder Gallery; a highlight evening and artist talk with Joseph Zehrer and Dr Eva Karcher and music

Munich; Andreas Binder Gallery :a highlight evening and artist talk with Joseph Zehrer and Dr Eva Karcher with performance music by Pico Be and Daniel Murena : “Walking words and spoken sounds“and generous presentation of drinks and wonderful food by gracious and elegant Andreas and Veronica Binder.. thank you ! I enjoyed it very much.

photos @ VK during the evening event by permission

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April 17, 2014

New York: Lehman Maupin Gallery; Klara Kristalova “big girl now”

feb 27, 2014-april 26, 2014

A fantastic exhibition at Christie street location at Lehman Maupin gallery of the exhibition of new ceramic sculptures by Czechoslovakian-born and Sweden-based artist Klara Kristalova

“In her second exhibition with the gallery, Kristalova continues her work in ceramics to visualize psychological states of being and explore the complexity of the human condition…..

Klara Kristalova, “Big Girl Now”
Installation views, 201 Chrystie Street

The arresting nature of Kristalova’s imagery is further heightened by the handcrafted quality of the surface and awkward scale of the sculptures. The female figure in Birdwoman (2013), for example, confronts the viewer with her black almond-shaped eyes, conveying a sense of scrutiny and confidence, but simultaneously seems uncomfortable with her beak for a nose and a body covered entirely in white feathers, each carefully textured and molded by the artist’s hand….” (gallery press)

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April 13, 2014

New York; Museum of Modern Art MoMA:”Alibis: Sigmar Polke 1963-2010″

April 19-August 3, 2014

My week visit in New York City, highlights the exhibition at MoMa of Sigmar Polke (1941-2010)

This retrospective is the first to encompass the unusually broad range of mediums he worked with during his five-decade career, including painting, photography, film, sculpture,drawing, printmaking, television, performance, and stained glass, as well as his constant, highly innovative blurring of the boundaries between these mediums.

Four gallery spaces on MoMA’s second floor are dedicated to the exhibition, which comprises more than 250 works and constitutes one of the largest exhibitions ever organized at the Museum.

The exhibition is organized by MoMA with Tate Modern, London. Organized by Kathy Halbreich, Associate Director, MoMA; with Mark Godfrey, Curator of International Art, Tate Modern; and Lanka Tattersall, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Painting and Sculpture, MoMA Museum details

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April 10, 2014

New York; “Warhol:Jackie” at Blain Di Donna gallery curated in collaboration with Bibi Khan

April 10-May 17, 2014

I attended a lovely opening of “Warhol:Jackie” at Blain Di Donna gallery and dinner followed at La Grenouille.

and dinner that followed for a wonderful exhibition of

“Deeply affected by the media coverage of JFK’s assassination, Warhol began the Jackie series in February 1964, continuing the Death and Disaster theme of his first European exhibition with Ileana Sonnabend in Paris, in January of that year.

The exhibition begins with the paintings of Jacqueline Kennedy on the day of JFK’s assassination on November 22, 1963, from the smiling Jackie arriving at Dallas Love Field, through the motorcade, to the administration of the oath for the new President Johnson on Air Force One, and finally, at the funeral, as she transforms from glamorous and iconic First Lady to grieving widow. Warhol cropped images taken from Life magazine and silkscreened them on to canvas. By cropping her face and repeating it, Warhol focused on Jackie’s grief and courage. The news was a unifying force during the President’s assassination as people repeatedly watched and read about the events of that week. Warhol gives us a reenactment of this tragic moment in America’s history through Mrs. Kennedy’s powerful image.” (gallery press release)

Warhol: Jackie has been curated in close collaboration with Bibi Khan, former curator of the Andy Warhol Foundation; it will be accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue with an introduction by Bob Colacello, writer, former Warhol associate, and an essay by Judith Goldman, writer, former Whitney Museum curator and noted Warhol expert.

gallery details

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April 4, 2014

Munich;Bayerisches Staatsballett; world premiere “Der Gelbe Klang” (The Yellow Sound)

April 4, 2014 ; going tonight with my beautiful daughter; what a pleasure to go to watch amazing dance performances

The Yellow Sound / Spiral Pass / Violin Concerto

Choreographies: Michael Simon / Russel Maliphant / Aszure Barton

Music: Mason Bates / Mukul / Frank Zappa

The Yellow Sound is an exemplary work of the most important concepts of the abstract visual arts at the beginning of the 20th century. The result was the approximation, mixing and enrichment of different art forms, as inherent in the work of the Ballets Russes amongst others. The Yellow Sound was created by Russian born but Munich resident painter Wassily Kandinsky, who is probably most well-known for being a part of The Blue Rider group. At the base of the 1906 work is a synesthetic concept, uniting color, sound and movement to complement one another. Five yellow giants are the original protagonists of the piece, amongst a big yellow flower, a child dressed in white and a large man. Michael Simon uses these elements to develop a choreographic theater of images with the dancers, set to musical compositions by Frank Zappa.

Canadian Aszure Barton studied in Edmonton, Alberta, at the Royal Winnipeg Ballet and the John Cranko School in Stuttgart. She started choreographing early on and soon received a commission by the Baryshnikov Arts Center (BAC), New York. Since then, she has created work for the Nederlands Dans Theater and the Martha Graham Dance Company, was artists in residence at BAC New York and founded her own ensemble. This will be her first time working in Munich for the Bavarian State Ballet. Russell Maliphant hails from England but has long made a name for himself in continental Europe. His pieces Broken Fall and AfterLight have received standing ovations from audiences in Munich. This time, he is back by popular demand to create a world premiere on the ensemble.

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March 23, 2014

Munich; Lenbachhaus at Kunstbaum “Playtime”

a sunday afternoon to the newly fabulous opened exhibition at Lebenchhaus at Kunstbaum ” Playtime”

a collaboration of the Lenbenchhaus and Munich Re on the subject of work.

March 15, 2014-June 29, 2014

Tehching Hsieh One Year Performance 1980-1981 (Waiting to Punch the Time Clock)
Photograph by Michael Shen © 2014 Tehching Hsieh
Courtesy the artist and Sean Kelly, New York

Artists:
Darren Almond, Francis Alÿs, Mel Bochner, Monica Bonvicini, Pet Shop Boys, KP Brehmer, Charlie Chaplin, Slatan Dudow, Beate Engl, Harun Farocki, Peter Fischli & David Weiss, Andrea Fraser, Melanie Gilligan, Tehching Hsieh, Jörg Immendorff, Stephan Janitzky, Ali Kazma, Sharon Lockhart, Michaela Melián, Henrik Olesen, Anna Oppermann, Adrian Paci, Dan Perjovschi, Peter Piller, Julian Röder, Martha Rosler, Dieter Roth, Andreas Siekmann, Christoph Schlingensief, Allan Sekula, Richard Serra, Kerstin Stakemeier, Mladen Stilinović, Berwick Street Collective (Marc Karlin, Mary Kelly, James Scott and Humphry Trevelyan), Donna Summer, Jacques Tati, Wibke Tiarks, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Timm Ulrichs, Ignacio Uriarte

“The exhibition PLAYTIME takes up the subtle critique aimed at the modern working environment by Jacques Tati in his eponymous film, and raises a variety of questions: How do artists from different generations and backgrounds engage with the subject of work? What does it mean to work as an artist today? And how is the artist’s work different from other forms of work? The artists we have invited contribute a wide range of perspectives and methods. They not only address work as such, but also the norms and behavioral precepts of a society defined by work. They examine existing power relations and gender-specific conventions in the working world and interrogate the connections between identity, the situations in which we live and work. 1960s socio-critical and activist positions enter into dialogue with more recent pieces that reflect on the conditions under which we work today.” (Lenbachaus press release)

In Bildern: Die Ausstellung „Playtime“ im Münchner Lenbachhaus

Sharon Lockhart: Lunch Break Installation, „Duane Hanson: Sculptures of Life,“ 14 December 2002 – 23 February 2003, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, 2003, Vier gerahmte C-Prints, je 183 x 307cm(Courtesy Collection of Contemporary Art Fundació “la Caixa”, Barcelona Foto: Sharon Lockhart und Collection of Contemporary Art Fundació “la Caixa”, Barcelona)

super-paper-playtime-lenbachhaus-ausstellung

Dieter Roth “Solo Scenes” 1997-1998

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