atb #71 | Entanglements

Michaela Meise, Tomás Saraceno, Forensic Architecture & Die Gesellschaft der Freund*innen von Halit & Initiative 6. April

Exhibition September 29 – November 11, 2018

Opening Friday, September 28, 2018 at 7 pm

Discussion Event: Thursday, October 4, 2018, 7 pm
By clients* and researchers: Art vs. right-wing terror With Ayşe Güleç (Die Gesellschaft der Freundinnen von Halit, Kassel), Fritz Lazlo Weber (artist, Kassel) and Dieter Lesage (philosopher, Royal Institute for Theatre, Cinema and Sound, Brussels), moderated by Nora Sternfeld (documenta professor, Kunsthochschule Kassel).

On the opening weekend of Berlin Art Week:
Saturday, November 29, Sunday 30, 12-6 pm

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In Entanglements / Verstrickungen, after the butcher presents three artistic positions that deal with issues that were already a concern of historical modernism in confronting capitalism. How can art engage in society? Can it implement pioneering new ideas that change the current situation in a positive way?In this spirit, the unique work 77sqm_9:26minby Forensic Architecture is directly addressing a legal suit and a political debate. Gesellschaft der Freund*innen von Halit, an international group of artistsand activists, commissioned the research group from London to investigate the involvement of the Hessian secret service agent Andreas Temme in the Kassel NSUmurder of Halit Yozgat. In a detailed simulation, the research group refutes the statements of the secret service agent who was present at the scene of the crime, when the murder happened in a Kassel Internet café.The sculptor Michaela Meise presents her work Der Ort, Station Zfrom 2007 for the first time in Berlin. Station Z was a camouflaged site of execution within the NS concentration camp of Sachsenhausen, north of Berlin. Meise focuses in her work on the concentration camp memorial architecture of this charged location. In an artist’s book, she reflects on the various contexts of memorials in East and West Germany andtheir divergent architectural solutions and implementations. Tomás Saraceno presents spider/webs weaving their filigreed webs. For the exhibition Entanglements, the artist will experiment with a radio antenna that feeds an alternative open source wireless community network with live broadcasts of sounds coming from a colony of social and solitary spiders. While working on their webs their urgent vibrations can be understood as emergent rhythmstowards a world of interspecies solidarity.

The exhibition will take place in collaboration with Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.) as part of the exhibition project A 37 90 89 –Die Erfindung der Neo-Avantgarde (The Invention of the Neo-Avantgarde)on the project space of the same name in Antwerp fifty years ago. It will take place in the framework of Berlin Art Week and is funded by Hauptstadtkulturfonds.

Forensic Architecture is an independent research collective at Goldsmiths, University of London. The group was commissioned by the Society of Friends of Halitand the April 6th Initiative to investigate the killing of Halit Yozgat by the rightwing NSU terrorist group. The work was coproduced by documenta 14. Also on display is a video (camera: SefaDefterli) of the demonstration “No Tenth Victim” on May 6, 2006, which was organized by friends and supporters of the Yozgat family from the local April 6th Initiativein Kassel.

Michaela Meise (* 1976) lives in Berlin. The media she uses range from drawing and sculpture to performance and music, and she also arranges pictures and texts and integrates them into collage-like installations. She is represented by the King Gallery.

Tomás Saraceno (* 1973) is an Argentine artist living in Berlin. His artistic work often connects science, architecture and society. He examines different social systems and networks in which the human being moves. He is represented by the Gallery Esther Schipper.

michaelameise.de
studiotomassaraceno.org

atb #70 | Milieu

Jenni Tischer, Katharina Aigner, Maria Eichhorn, Marylin Green, Mirjam Thomann, Siska Katrine Jorgensen, Stephanie Taylor, Titre Provisoire

July 14, 2018 at 3 pm
Performance by KATHARINA AIGNER
* Due to illness the lecture by MARINA VISHMIDT had to be postponed and will now take place on the occasion of a second version of MILIEU in Vienna in September 2018 at Krobath (exact date tba) *

Exhibition May 25 – July 28, 2018
Opening Thursday, May 24, 7 pm

KATHARINA AIGNER
MARIA EICHHORN
MARYLIN GREEN
SISKA KATRINE JØRGENSEN
STEPHANIE TAYLOR
MIRJAM THOMANN
JENNI TISCHER
TITRE PROVISOIRE

Open: Saturday, 12-5 pm
or by Appointment ina@after-the-butcher.de

MILIEU was initialised by MIRJAM THOMANN and JENNI TISCHER.

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atb #69 | In den Wald

Julia Lazarus, Taru Kallio, Icaro Zorbar

Opening Friday, March 2, 2018 at 7 pm
Exhibition March 3 – April 8, 2018
Closing event Sunday May 13, 2018 2-5 pm
open by Appointment on +49-(0)179-947 3040 or
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In the video installation After Nature, Julia Lazarus shows for the first time in Berlin scenes from her film made in Istanbul, for which she accompanied a group of dietary Turkish activists from Kuzey Ormanları Savunması(Northern Forest Defense) in their resistance to the gigantic infrastructure measures north of Istanbul on the coast of the Black Sea. Large-scale construction projects (such as the third bridge, the third airport, and the planned canal) are destroying a forest and water conservation area that has been under nature conservation for centuries and has so far provided the metropolis with water and fresh air. Lazarus’ work questions the planned development, which will yield high profits for a few but whose social benefits remain in the dark. However, her film shots also tell of the contradiction of our concept of nature, which imagines nature as untouched wilderness, far away from our metropolitan life. A few weeks ago, Taru Kallio and Icaro Zorbar undertook a joint artistic research trip through the South American jungle. In the exhibition, they present new works based on the material they collected on this journey.
In her installation Searching for an animal with no-name, Taru Kallio also focuses on those moments in which it is not possible to establish a connection between man and nature, because man has become the most important factor influencing biological, geological and atmospheric processes on Earth. She works with drawings, paper, wood, PVC and LED lights. While the drawings refer to scientific illustrations of flora and fauna, the installation also processes mythical, religious and cultural narratives of humans, animals and the plant world.
During the journey Icaro Zorbar was interested in the perception of time and wondered what the feeling of home meant against the background of the possibility of being lost in the jungle. His installation Night bird’s shadow consists of text and sound from which he spins a looped narrative, in which fictitious elements blend with facts and at the same time the connection between technology and memory is reflected.

Julia Lazarus (born 1971 in Germany) lives in Berlin. She studied at the University of the Arts in Berlin and at the California Institute of the Arts in Los Angeles, USA. Lazarus is an artist, curator and filmmaker. Her films are distributed by Sixpackfilm Vienna and e-flux, Berlin/New York. Selection of exhibitions: Depo, Istanbul, 2017; District, Berlin 2016; IG Bildende Kunst, Vienna 2014; Galerie Funke, Berlin 2012; Schwules Museum Berlin 2011; Manifesta Murcia 2010; NGBK Berlin 2007. www.julialazarus.com

Taru Kallio (born 1986 in Finland) currently lives in Berlin and Hamburg. Exhibitions: ‘Materialization’ Hordaland Kunstsenter, Bergen / Norway, 2017; ‘Life Lessons’ Galleri Fisk, Bergen / Norway, 2016; ‘LUST’ Galleria Jangva, Helsinki / Finland, 2014; ‘Bläckfiskens hjärta’ Kulturföreningen Tellus, Stockholm / Sweden, 2014; ‘Nuoret 2011 Biennale’, Taidehalli, Helsinki / Finland. http://tarukallio.tumblr.com/

Icaro Zorbar (born 1977 in Colombia) currently lives in Berlin and Hamburg. Exhibitions: ‘Stay a while, a swan song. Osnabrück Kunsthalle / Germany, 2017; ‘Floating Worlds.’14th Biennale de Lyon / France, 2017;’Nocturne, int-night.’ Arroniz Gallery, Mexico city, Mexico, 2016; ‘Preludes. VOLT projects.< Bergen / Norway, 2014; ‘The Imminence of Poetics.’ 30th Sao Paulo Biennial / Brazil, 2012 https://vimeo.com/icarozorbar