Johanna und Helmut Kandl
Opening: September 22 from 7pm
Exhibition September 23 – October 22, 2023
open on Saturdays 2-7pm
and by appointment: 0178 3298 106 or mailto@after-the-butcher.de
Press Release:
| Opening: Friday August 18, from 7pm Exhibition: August 19 – September 17 visit by appointment: mailto@after-the-butcher.de or +49 178 3298 106 This exhibition brings together two artistic voices in an attempt to neither emphasise nor deny clearly existing differences in form and content. Romain Löser and Wendelien van Oldenborgh belong to different generations, and when it comes to measuring possible harmonies or dissonances between their artistic practices, it is easy to see that both work mostly in different media, each with their own themes, techniques and conceptions of the public. Nevertheless, their joint appearance at after the butcher does not merely reveal vague professional sympathies or interests. Anyone who takes a serious look at the works by both artists shown here in spatial interlocking, can see a comparability in the movements with which they treat the sharp complexities in the contradictions they each convey. The exhibition is accompanied by a text by Clemens Krümmel: |
During the opening on 18 August, Lina Campanella performed Clemens Krümmel’s text, producing hiphop and gabber beats that refer to van Oldenborgh’s film and the contrasts and polyphony of both artists’ works.
Elisa T. Bertuzzo and Sambaran Das
curated by Alice Creischer and Andreas Siekmann
Exhibition: May 20 – June 18
Opening: May 19, 2023 from 7pm
open by appointment: mailto@after-the-butcher.de
or +49 178 3298 106
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Performance, 15 February, 7pm sharp
atb#95 Vs. The War Yet To Come – Jeremiah Day
Performance, 15 February, 7pm sharp
After The Butcher, showroom for contemporary art and social issues, is happy to invite you and your friends to a performance of American artist Jeremiah Day, marking the 20th anniversary of the largest protests in human history on 15 February 2003.
Both the largest gathering of people in political action in one place, Rome, and as well the largest coordination of people internationally assembled in opposition to the US-plans to invade Iraq. 15 million people in the streets of 800 cities on every continent participated.
The World Social Forum and thousands of anti-war initiatives paved the way for this action, whose meaning cannot be limited to its usefulness.
The democratic protest against the US government and its war coalition did not prevent the war, which unfolded in violation of international law. This war marks a corner stone in recent political history. It has brought neither democracy to Iraq nor peace to the Gulf region; on the contrary, it has fuelled radical Islamism, increased social contradictions in the region and triggered new refugee movements. The seeming acceptance of this aggression also bears greatly on other violations of international law that followed in the years after, those today – as in Ukraine, and those potentially to come.
The Exhibition Aggregatzustände will be open after the Performance until 10pm
atb#94 Aggregatzustände (The State of Things)
Gisela Kleinlein / Sculpture
Janet Riedel, Katja Pratschke, Gusztáv Hámos / Film
Opening: February 3, from 7pm
Exhibition: February 4 – March 19, 2023
Open by appointment:
0178 3298 106 or mailto@after-the-butcher.de
Vebjørg Hagene Thoe und Stepan Mörsch
Artistic reflections on the complex realities of nuclear presence, SHARING AS CARING No7*, curated by Miya Yoshida
Exhibition: November 19, 2022 – January 15, 2023
Performance Lecture: December 10, 2022 and January 15, 2023 both from 4 pm with Stephan Mörsch und Miya Yoshida
Open by appointment:
0178 3298 106 oder mailto@after-the-butcher.de
*Sharing as Caring is a project that reflects on the current conditions of nuclear presence in planetary perspective. The project began in 2012 with a series of small-scale exhibitions. It explores the political, economic, psychological and personal longings associated with nuclear presence.
https://miyayoshida.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/HDKV_SAC-Zeitung_Screen.pdf
#atb92: 19 Köpfe + Pink Mao
Franziska Hufnagel – painting Tang Han – video
Opening, Friday 14 October from 7 pm Exhibition: 15 October – 13 November 2022
Open by appointment: mailto@after-the-butcher.de or 0178 3298 106
Installationsfotos: Sergej Hufnagel
Eröffnung: 12. Juli 2022 ab 19 Uhr
Finissage: 16. Juli
atb#90 – String Figures
Jamila Barakat, Mengna Tan, Eva Ďurovec and Nikita Kadan
Opening Friday, April 1, from 7 pm
Exhibition: April, 2 – May, 15 2022
Finissage: Sunday, May 15, from 3-6pm
Open by appointment: mailto@after-the-butcher.de or +49 178 3298 106
30 April, 6pm: Book Launch „New Mind Mapping Forms“ by Eva Ďurovec
In the exhibition rooms, please keep your distance and wear mouth and nose masks.
After the Butcher, Showroom for Contemporary Art and Social Issues is happy to present its next exhibition “String Figures” with artists Jamila Barakat, Mengna Tan, Eva Ďurovec and Nikita Kadan.
In Donna Haraways “Staying With The Trouble“, one figure is omnipresent: SF. This figuration seems to be more than just an abbreviation. It seems to be a subject that opens up different opportunities and methods, thought experiments and common practices of exchange and interaction. Cross-species practices that sometimes work, sometimes fail, are active and sometimes stay still.
Like string figures, they propose and enact patterns for participants to inhabit, somehow, on a vulnerable and wounded earth. Haraway describes the figure with the letters SF that can be: Science Fiction, speculative fabulation, string figures, speculative feminism, science fact, so far…
“I think of sf and string figures in a triple sense of figuring. First, promiscuously plucking out fibers in clotted and dense events and practices, I try to follow the threads where they lead in order to track them and find their tangles and patterns crucial for staying with the trouble in real and particular places and times.”
D.H.
By playing string figures, new patterns or images are formed that reveal new entanglements and interconnections.
In the exhibition “String figures” the artists are tracing SF by working, failing and exploring themes and contexts of speculative feminism, speculative fabulation, science fiction and so far…
A dialogue with each other begins, connections with each other emerge. While we prepare this exhibition the Russian regime under Putin launched its war against Ukraine. For this reason we decided to pick up another thread: we invited the Ukrainian artist Nikita Kadan (he has to protect himself in Kiev against Russian bombing) to join the exhibition. We are happy to be able to show two of his wonderful charcoal drawings from the series „Minsk Masks“ in String Figures*). In this respect, SF may also be read as a sign against war: stay friends or seid friedlich (be peaceful) instead of Strike Forces.
*) Nikita Kadan writes: “I found these ‘masks’ in ornaments on the ceiling of the Minska station of the Kyiv Metro since I was six years old. They were really scary, and I felt that I could always find new ones. The ornamental composition “Tree of Life”, based on Belarusian folk ornaments, was created by the artists Stepan and Vasyl Khymochka in 1982, the year I was born. Much later I found out that Belarus was historically associated with a partisan movement – these associations can give new meaning to the camouflaged faces hidden among the floral motifs.” These drawings are very topical in that metro stations such as Minska station in Kiev at the moment serve as shelters from Russian shelling and bombardment….
http://www.mirmetro.net/kyiv/cruise/02/11_minska
atb#89 | Quirin Bäumler, Isabelle Fein und Selou Sowe
Opening: Friday, February 18, from 7pm
Exhibition: February 19 – March 27, 2022
Open by appointment: after the butcher or +49 (0)1783 298 106. Please wear a medical mouth and nose protection.
About the Exhibition:
Quirin Bäumler, Isabelle Fein and Selou Sowe
18 February to 27 March 2022 at after the butcher, Berlin
Everything is connected with each other. Some time ago we might have rolled our eyes in exasperation at this sentence, inhaling and exhaling in a contorted yoga pose. In the past two years, however, this wisdom has been made bitterly clear to us. How do humans, nature and technology influence each other, and what are the consequences for the macro and microcosms of the world? In this group exhibition, we look at that triangle from various axes of vision, zooming in on small, fleeting relationships and using a wide angle to grasp the power of globalization. The question of how the individual subject influences these connections is made material in the three artistic positions presented, as an interplay of control and chance.
Let’s start with the microcosm: Isabelle Fein’s paintings and sculptures examine brief moments and constellations that either come to her by chance from the outside, for instance found photographs, or that she draws from within herself. Sometimes symbolist in nature, sometimes surreally humorous, her figures and animals emerge from the thin layers of pastel hues before us, communicating with us. Still lifes with brush, newspaper and cups of paint trace her work as an artist: it is a solitary but also meditative activity in which digressions from everyday life are intentional.
Fein’s compositions carry something secure in them, which we can also discover in Quirin Bäumler’s sculptures. His three reliefs on view are made of hard plaster, showing lonely dreamy figures, animals or even a firmament of stars. Like screen monitors, they reproduce an excerpt—a still image from life—which Bäumler has alienated and fixed. While here the material has been cast, shaped and removed through a long, laborious process, his drawings are created intuitively, a psychogram of the moment. Predominated by motifs of death and mourning, we see the traces of two tragic pandemic years.
Away from man, now, and towards the machine. Selou Sowe’s sculptures shimmer in a place between technical progress and industrial decay. They are objects that can hardly be classified: are we dealing with something organic or inorganic here? Is this thing still of this world or has it fallen from outer space? With a view to global connections and informatic achievements, Sowe’s video work shows the similarities between man-made systems and natural structures which have become clearer with advances in worldwide networking. In found-footage images overlaid with his own 3-D animations, an artificial voice-over raises the question of whether the demise of destructive power structures in a supposedly decentralized world would mean our salvation.
This group exhibition is the first part of a long-term cooperation between After the Butcher and the young artists’ group Interspace Collective.
Interspace Collective includes: Isra Abdou, Jamila Barakat, Frank Jimin Hopp, Heiko Thandeka Ncube, Selou Sowe, Mengna Tan, Laura Suryani Thedja and Alungoo Xatan.
Text: Nadja Abt
Translation German/English: Michael Baers
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Who Owns the Public? on the so-called “Kunsthalle Berlin”/Tempelhof
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