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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.

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April 1, 2014

Munich ;Pinakothek der Moderne:”People in a River Landscape” August Sander and the Photography of the Present from the Lothar Schirmer Collection

02.04.2014-24.08.2014

An amazing evening.. Schirmer Mosel publications celebrated its 40th anniversary with an opening of Lothar Schirmer photographic Collection with about 40 works from August Sander’s epochal cycle “People of the 20th century”

The celebration continued with a reception at the Vorhoelzer Forum of the Technical University with fine food and a surprising performing appearance of legendary Hannah Schygulla. Amazing evening. Congratulations Schirmer Moser Publications and Lothar Schirmer for the great exhibition at Pinakothek.

Sander’s photographic typology of German society did not only fascinate artists, writers and philosophers of that period but, at the same time, formed an important point of reference for the artistic concept contemporary photographers had of themselves. This is also reflected in the Munich publisher Lothar Schirmer’s photographic collection, the starting point of which was a group of some 80 works by Sander comprising not only portraits, but also landscapes and urban pictures, acquired in the early 1970s. Sander’s photographs from this collection will be exhibited for the first time in their entirety and be displayed in dialogue with works by contemporary artists such as Bernd and Hilla Becher, Andreas Gursky, Thomas Ruff, Cindy Sherman, Thomas Struth and Jeff Wall. The selection will be extended by a rare group of extraordinary photographs taken in Berlin by Heinrich Zille in the late 19th /early 20th century and enlarged by Thomas Struth almost 100 years later. (press;Pinakothek der moderne)

more at Pinakothek here

On the occasion of the exhibition, an illustrated catalogue is published.

http://www.schirmer-mosel.de/homee1/index.htm

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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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March 19, 2014

Munich: Kunstverein k.m; 7 pm presentation “The Further Adventures of Parlando, Melisma, and the Cookie Master: a brief history of unique singing techniques” by curator Mark Beasley

“The Further Adventures of Parlando, Melisma, and the Cookie Master: a brief history of unique singing techniques”

Due to the exhibition “La Voix Humane” curator Mark Beasley presented a listening-session and brief history of vocalization and Extended Vocal Technique from female pioneers Patty Waters, Cathy Berberian and Joan La Barbara; Grindcore and the Death Growl to the current re-examination of voices as material in the work of Florian Hecker, Stine Motland and C. Spencer Yeh.

Mark Beasley is a curator and writer based in New York. He is currently curator at Performa, and programmed and commissioned a series of vocal concerts and artist’s projects for Performa 13. He recently organized a performance series in conduction with the retrospective exhibition of Mike Kelly at MoMa PS1, New York that included Michael Smith and Blowfly, X-TG and Kim Gordon and Jutta Koether. His recent curatorial projects with the Performa biennial include Florian Hecker’s C.D.- A Script for Synthesis, France Stark and Mark Leckey’s Put a Song in Your Think at Abrons Theater; Robert Ashley’s That Morning Thing at the Kichen; Mike Kelley’s Day is Done at Judson Church; Arto Lindsay’s Somewhere I Read, and the experimental music festival (co-curated with Mike Kelley) A Fantastic World Superimposed on Reality. His first LP with the group Big Legs will be released on Junior Aspirin Records in Spring 2014.

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March 13, 2014

Munich; afternoon visit at Bernheimer Fine Art Photography; Michael Kenna “Light on Asia”

Fri, Feb.21-Sat 26 April 2014

a beautiful spring day in Munich yesterday, I visited in the afternoon the Bernheimer Fine Art Photography, a fabulous show by Michael Kenna, based on his journey through Asia.

In San Francisco Michael Kenna, got to know Ruth Bernard (Berlin 1905 – San Francisco 2006), the American photographer of German extraction who has had a great influence on Kenna’s creative development. Bernard once called Kenna’s photos “islands of serenity and silence in a loud and chaotic world.”

photos@Bernheimer fine arts, published by gallery permission

“.…In this third solo exhibition of around fifty photographs by Michael Kenna, the visitor is invited to take a sensational trip through Asia, from Japan, South Korea, China and India to Vietnam. On this journey we pass through the “Huangshan Mountains” in southern China, with their bizarre projecting rock formations, gnarled pines and steep mountain slopes shrouded in a dense sea of clouds, and follow the course of the “Lijang River”, with its clear waters and sandbanks, fringed by steep mountains and spectacular rocks. In addition to capturing the different shapes of Nature, Kenna also shows us the foremost industrial city in China: Shanghai with its skyline studded with iconic buildings such as the Oriental Pearl Tower and Jin Mao Tower sparkling in the darkness of the night.” (gallery press release)

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February 27, 2014

Munich; Haus der Kunst; opening Ellen Gallagher “AxME”

28.2-13.07.2014

A most amazing exhibition opened at Haus der Kunst of Ellen Gallagher organized by Tate Modern in association with Sara Hilden Art Museum Tampere and Haus der Kunst, Munich.

A lovely dialogue conversation with the artist and Dr Ulrich Wilmes.

photos@vk

…..Ellen Gallagher took the New York art world by storm in the early 1990s with a series of beautifully balanced, deceptively minimalist paintings such as “Oh! Susanna” (1993), “Oogaboogah”, and “Pinocchio Theory” (both 1994). In a series of work she used advertisements for wigs and other commodities as well as feature articles from black-oriented magazines like Ebony, Our World, Black Stars, etc. One of her most intriguing works consists of a grid of twenty female wig models of various skin shades set against a vast white background. The wigs are meticulously cut into elaborate shapes and float on paper as if embossed.(HdK press release)

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In the catalogue essay on the exhibition “Ellen Gallagher – AxME”, Ulrich Wilmes writes about the cornerstones of the artist’s visual language. The “yellow paintings”, made between 2001 and 2004, illustrate her source of inspiration, which also influenced other works.

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February 15, 2014

Berlin;Hamburger Bahnhof_Museum für Gegenwart-Susan Philipsz “part file score”

01.02.2014-04.05.2014

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Susan Philipsz, Part File Score, 2014, Digitaldruck/Siebdruck, 185 x 145 cm

published photo @Hamburger Bahnhof

Curated by:
Ingrid Buschmann, Freunde Gute Musik Berlin e.V.
Gabriele Knapstein, Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin

For the historic hall of the Hamburger Bahnhof, Susan Philipsz has designed a sound installation that relates both to the building’s former function as a railway station and to the architectonic structure of the hall with its 12archways. The artist connects the former railway station – a place of departure and arrival, of parting and return – with the eventful life of the composer Hanns Eisler (1898-1962), who lived in Berlin in the 1020s and 1950s.

The artist has created three pieces, based on three different musical compositions for film by Eisler, that play one after the other, each tone of the compositions wa recorded separately in the studio. In the installation, the tones are distributed among the 24 loudspeakers installed along the entire length of the historic hall. Each loudspeaker is assigned a tone on he chromatic scale, so that each of the instrumental voices becomes spatialized and wanders through the hall.

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