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January 22, 2014

Munich; preview opening at Haus der Kunst: Abraham Cruzvillegas “The Autoconstrucción Suites”

25.01.2014-25.05.14

preview with the Freunde tonight of this exciting exhibition and dinner to follow

photo credit@walker art center (published photo)

“Autocontrucción” (auto-construction) is the term Abraham Cruzvillegas (born 1968) uses to describe his art, the roots of which lie in the improvised construction methods and techniques of his native Mexico City. In this exhibition, the first major survey of his artistic career to be presented in Europe, Cruzvillegas combines his dynamic sculptural language with natural materials and found objects. He thus blurs the boundaries between art and craft and between industrial and manual production. For the Mexican artist, the sculptural form is a process of change, action, solidarity, and transformation. Over the past decade, Cruzvillegas has created an impressive body of work that reflects his interest in the forms and matter surrounding Ajusco, a volcanic area south of the Mexican capital…”

The Autoconstrucción Suites” is organized by the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, USA, and presented by Haus der Kunst.

more at HdK site

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January 21, 2014

Munich; “Bernd Eichinger – …alles Kino (..Everything is Cinema) at the Kunstfoyer of VKB, Maximilianstrasse 53

29.10.2013-02.02.2014

Poster Exhibition Bernd Eichinger, Pentagram Design, Berlin

a fabulous exhibition at the Kunstfoyer der Versicherungskammer Bayern :A chronological table combined important events from his professional, private and public lives with objects, photographs and film clips.

supported by Deutche Kinemathek Museum für Film und Fernsehen

Bernd Eichinger, Los Angeles, 1980s Photo: Karin Rocholl Source: Deutsche Kinemathek – Bernd Eichinger Collection

promotion photo, WERNER BEINHART, 1991

Natja Brunckhorst CHRISTIANE F. (GDR 1981) Source: Deutsche Kinemathek

Autograph "No Fear!" Nina Hoss THE GIRL ROSEMARIE (DE 1996) Source: Deutsche Kinemathek – Bernd Eichinger Collection

@photos publishes at Deutsche Kinemathek

“Bernd Eichinger (1949–2011) was Germany’s most important film producer in recent decades. Fulfilling diverse functions, he oversaw and accepted responsibility for more than 100 film and television productions. His name is linked to the Munich distribution company “Constantin Film” where he took an active role until 2006. Initially under the name “Neue Constantin,” he led the company to major successes, building one upon the other since the 1980s.

What does a film producer do? He bears financial responsibility for a film project from beginning to end: from the development of its subject through its international marketing. He is the “driving force” behind every film production, and must know all its steps and consider any risks involved. The film producer Bernd Eichinger, who studied at the University of Television and Film Munich (HFF), embodied this role as a creative authority with all his passion; like no other. Eichinger made films for a “wide audience” beginning with his involvement with “Constantin”, although his productions often raised controversy among German critics. Within the international film business Eichinger enjoyed great recognition.”

more at Deutsche Kiemathek

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January 16, 2014

Munich: ‘Unpainted’_media art fair_Jan 17-20

preview night; Thursday, January 16, 5 pm at PostPalast in Munich

postpalast munich unpainted media art fair 2013

Postpalast in Munich

UNPAINTED is a new art fair devoted to a special topic: media art / digital art. It will take place from Janurary 17th to 20th 2013 in Münich, Germany. UNPAINTED is focused on “art made since the first computers were switched on, means artistic practices that engage technology. Algorithmic plotter-drawings will be shown, computer animation, collages, photography, net.art, software art, interactive art, app-art, tablet-art, game art, etc.” A decision that matches the evolution of another German Art Fair : Art Cologne, which will also feature video and media art fair next year. (source)

unpainted official site

and here on digital/arti

unpainted’s director Annete Dom’s interview

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January 15, 2014

Munich; preview opening at Villa Stuck; ‘RICOCHET #8’ Jan Paul Evers

16.1.2014-23.3.2014

Museum Villa Stuck

photo: courtesy of Villa Stuck and Jan Paul Evers

curator of exhibition: Sabine Schmid

“In the exhibition series RICOCHET #8 the Museum Villa Stuck shows as the eighth position of the work by Jan Paul Evers ,born in 1982 in Cologne his first museum solo exhibition. Jan Paul Evers follows with his works an extended term Photography: In his artistic work in the photographic process he captures space, creates it anew and finally banishes him on paper, the trace of an object is sometimes visible, other times is completely unrecognizable. Not the subject is in the center of Evers’ work, but the medium itself….”

“In his contemplative photographic works, all unique, Evers grasps the technical and creative possibilities of the medium of photography and takes it as a starting point to examine the photograph as well as their relationship to art. It deals not only with the history and aesthetics of photography, but also with the question of authenticity, reality and perception, with ways of seeing, objectification, as well as with the technology and the design possibilities of photography….”

more at museum press release

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January 14, 2014

Munich;Haus der Kunst; Lecture “In the Concreteness of Abstraction: Modernism and Modernization in Postwar India” by Atreyee Gupta

LECTURE 14.01.14, 7 pm

I attended an amazing lecture by Atreyee Gupta, Goethe-Institut Postdoctoral Fellow (Berkeley/München)

“Situating art at the intersections of postwar scientific developments and the modernizing aspirations of a new nation-state, this talk examines the emergence of an inter-mediatic aesthetics of abstraction in 1950s and 1960s India….

“…Attending to trans-continental exchanges made possible through the artists’ interlocutions with figures such as Le Corbusier, Lucien Hervé, and Clement Greenberg, the talk seeks to foreground the ways in which postwar modernism in the post-colony intersected with the trajectories of modernism in Western Europe and North America but also significantly complicated its universalizing claims.”….

….Atreyee Gupta’s research centers on questions of postwar modernism and the politics of inhabitation, corporeality, and sensoriality, the intersections between modern art and processes of modernization in post-colonial contexts, institutional histories of modernisms, and aesthetics as a form of postwar global cultural capital.

more here at HdK site

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January 10, 2014

Munich; Haus der kunst;revisit ‘So Much I Want to Say: From Annemiek to Mother Courage’ — Goetz Collection at Haus der Kunst

exhibition 19.04.13-12.1.14

photo: courtesy Goetz collection, Andrea Bowers, ‘Letter to an army of Three’,2005

The title of this fifth presentation of works from the Goetz Collection at Haus der Kunst is borrowed from an early video work by Mona Hatoum from 1983. It is based on the material of a performance: While Mona Hatoum’s voice repeatedly says, “So Much I Want to Say”, images depict a woman’s face being obscured by men’s hands.

… Works by female artists constitute nearly half of the pieces in Ingvild Goetz’s collection of media art. These works represent and illustrate the key stages of the feminist discourse and feminist film theory since the 1970s. With works by Chantal Akerman, Andrea Bowers, Rineke Dijkstra, Cheryl Donegan, Mona Hatoum, Lucy McKenzie & Paulina Olowska, Tracey Moffatt, Ulrike Ottinger, Ryan Trecartin, and Rosemarie Trockel.

So Much I Want to say – Goetz Collection at Haus der Kunst” is open daily from 25.12.13 thru 30.12.13 and from 01.01.14 thru 06.01.14; hours 10 am – 8 pm, Thursdays until 10 pm.

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January 4, 2014

Munich: revisit Pinakothek der Modern, exhibition ‘Alfred Flechtheim, art dealer of the avant-garde’

24.10.2013-26.01.2014

Alfred Flechtheim at the Léger exhibition, Berlin 1922Photo: Atelier Lily Baruch © The Royal Library Copenhagen

The gallery owner Alfred Flechtheim (1878-1937) was a major protagonist in the art scene at the beginning of the 20th century. His commitment to the ‘Rheinische Expressionisten’ group of artists, the French avant-garde and German Modernism, and his support of great artists such as Max Beckmann, George Grosz and Paul Klee, made him internationally famous even during his lifetime. The National Socialist regime, however, changed his life and that of his family drastically. Flechtheim had to leave Germany in October 1933. As an art dealer of Jewish extraction he was publicly slandered and, by 1935, had closed his galleries in Düsseldorf and Berlin and transferred the artworks he still possessed abroad, mostly to London, where he died in 1937 at the age of 59 as the result of an accident. His wife, Bertha, committed suicide in 1941 in the face of her imminent deportation. The remaining works of art in the flat in Berlin were confiscated.

The exceptional influence Alfred Flechtheim exerted as an art dealer representing artists defamed by the Nazis, the abrupt break in his biography and the feeling of loss this brought about, as well as the tragic fate of his family, are all reasons for this project being dedicated to his life and work. In addition, the database generated website http://www.alfredflechteim.com provides details about the works and their respective provenance, as well as background information on 234 items now found in a total of 15 different museum collections taking part in this project.

….works by Max Beckmann, Juan Gris, Paul Klee, Karl Hofer, Ernst Barlach, at Pinakothek der Moderne may be seen with info point and iPad-terminals.

more at Pinakothek der Moderne

and

Alfred Flechtheim site

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December 27, 2013

Vienna: Leopold Museum, focus on the master pieces of Egon Schiele and Gustav Klimt

photos: courtesy of Leopold museum (published photos)

A lovely morning on dec 27ht to see the collection of Egon Schiele consists of 188 works on paper and 41 paintings )

see more here

and the collection Gustav Klimt

Gustav Klimt once said about himself:
“I can paint and draw. There is no self-portrait of myself. I am not interested in my own person – more in other people, females. […] I paint day by day from morning to night – figurative paintings and landscapes, less often portraits. Already when I should write a simple letter I get frightened like due to imminent seasickness. Those who want to know more about me shall observingly regard my paintings, and try to realize who I am and what I want.“

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December 27, 2013

Vienna; visit Mumok, (museum moderner kunst Stiftung ludwig wien) “…and Materials and Money and Crisis”

photos @ VK

8.11.2013-2.2.2-2014 “…and Materials and Money and Crisis” curated by New York-based curator Richard Birkett.

“…this exhibition looks toward the works of artists who conceptualize unexpected ways in which the constellation of ‘materials’, ‘money’ and ‘crisis’ hang together. The works exhibited here move beyond representational conventions, their distinctive formal and material qualities reflecting internal and external schemata of production and regulation. They work through their own material constitution to capture technical supports and organizational systems in ways that enact breakdowns and intensify internal contradictions in the idealized circulatory system of exchange. As capital flows through a financial system composed of pure media, in which the materiality of price is emancipated from any even illusory reference to physical property, and Materials and Money and Crisis ask how aspects of materialization within art might be read as a response to crises in the process of valorization. Artist in the exhibition: Terry Atkinson, Maria Eichhorn, Melanie Gilligan, Gareth James, Sam Lewitt, Henrik Olessen, Pratchaya Phinthong, R.H.Quaytman, Lucy Raven, Cheney Thompson,Emily Wardill.

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December 27, 2013

Vienna_ Kunsthalle Wien at Museumsquartier_ “Salon der Angst” exhibition

6.9.2013-12.1.2014

Gerard Byrne, 1984 and Beyond, 2005-2007 (Still aus der 1. Szene/still from scene 1), © Gerard Byrne, Courtesy Gerard Byrne und/and Lisson Gallery, London

curators: Nicholaus Schaufhausen (director of Kunsthalle) and Catherine Hug

“Fear and anxiety are familiar to all. Salon der Angst at the Kunsthalle Wien Museumsquartier will not only focus on generalised feelings of insecurity and threat, but also on how culture shapes both individual and collective experiences of fear and fearful events. Depictions of fear, terror, and the distraught are well-tread in art history, but also characterize a younger generation’s artistic practice that responds to a contemporary society rife with new and specific fears and insecurities.

The exhibition Salon der Angst explores the artistic confrontation with the fears of our time across a broad affective and socio-political spectrum. Fear is here understood as a response to those aspects of the present that we do not know how to deal with it. The artists in this exhibition address these fears in terms of a history of ideas, but also their specific psychological manifestations. The preoccupation with fear and anxiety in art therefore turns out to be an exacting look at the treatment (and production) through the media of a human emotion at once both familiar and elusive.

Participating artists: Nel Aerts, Özlem Altin, Kader Attia, Gerard Byrne, Los Carpinteros, James Ensor, Ieva Epnere, Harun Farocki, Marina Faust, Didier Faustino, Peter Fischli / David Weiss, Rainer Ganahl, Agnès Geoffray, Thomas Hirschhorn, Iraqi Children’s Art Exchange, Cameron Jamie, Jesse Jones, Dorota Jurczak, Ferdinand van Kessel, Bouchra Khalili, Eva Kotátková, Nicolas Kozakis / Raoul Vaneigem, Alfred Kubin, Erik van Lieshout, Jen Liu, Marko Lulić, Fabian Marti, Florin Mitroi, Marcel Odenbach, Jane Ostermann-Petersen, Francis Picabia, Willem de Rooij, Allan Sekula, Zin Taylor, Noam Toran, Kerry Tribe, Peter Wächtler, Jeff Wall, Mark Wallinger, Gillian Wearing, Tobias Zielony.”

@kunsthalle’s press release

kunsthalle Wien website

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