The Russians Have A Word For It: BALAGAN and the World Outside
Speakers:
Kathrin Becker // Ekaterina Degot // Volker Diehl // David Elliott
Gabriele Knapstein // Olaf Kühl // Bojana Pejić // Asia Żak Persons
The Russians Have A Word For It: BALAGAN and the World Outside
Speakers:
Kathrin Becker // Ekaterina Degot // Volker Diehl // David Elliott
Gabriele Knapstein // Olaf Kühl // Bojana Pejić // Asia Żak Persons
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“What is BALAGAN?” by Marina Belikova – a visualisation of text by David Elliott
EXHIBITION at:
MOMENTUM
Mariannenplatz 2
10997 Berlin
Stiftung Brendenburger Tor
am Max Liebermann Haus
Pariser Platz 7
10117 Berlin
Kühlhaus am Gleisdreieck
Luckenwalder Str. 3
10963 Berlin
OPENING HOURS – ALL VENUES:
Frid & Sat @ 12 – 8pm
Mon, Wed, Thurs, Sun @ 12 – 6pm
Closed Tuesdays
9 December 2015 @ 8pm – Late
29 November 2015
@ Reinickendorfer Strasse 15, 13347 Berlin
16:00 – 19:00
Artist Talk at 5:00pm
The installation will continue through 15 December 2015 and can be seen by appointment at: ondrizeg@reed.edu
Research and Studio Work based on findings from the Max Plank Archive at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Dr. Georg Geipel’s hand and fingerprint studies (1930-1960). Installation by Geraldine Ondrizek for her Berlin Open Studio on 29 Nov 2015.
Curated By David Elliott
14 November — 23 December 2015
75 Artists from 14 Countries from the Former “East”
<< CLICK HERE >> FOR OPENING PROGRAM AND SCHEDULE OF PERFORMANCES, LECTURES, & SYMPOSIA > >
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EXHIBITION at:
MOMENTUM
Mariannenplatz 2
10997 Berlin
Stiftung Brendenburger Tor
am Max Liebermann Haus
Pariser Platz 7
10117 Berlin
Kühlhaus am Gleisdreieck
Luckenwalder Str. 3
10963 Berlin
CONTEMPORARY ART FROM THE FORMER
SOVIET UNION AND OTHER MYTHICAL PLACES
Curated By David Elliott
Opening 13 November
14 November — 23 December 2015
75 Artists from 14 Countries from the Former “East”
<< CLICK HERE >> FOR OPENING PROGRAM AND SCHEDULE OF PERFORMANCES, LECTURES, & SYMPOSIA > >
UNFAMILIAR SHOW
Selected Works from the MOMENTUM Collection
2 – 5 July 2015
At Millerntor Gallery
Heiligengeistfeld 1, 20359, Hamburg
Featuring:
Eric Bridgeman // Nezaket Ekici // Theo Eshetu
Amir Fattal // Gülsün Karamufa // Tracey Moffatt
Martin Sexton // Sumugan Sivanesan
Time_Art_Impact Dialogue #12
Physical Ghosts and other Tales:
A Virtual Impromptu by David Medalla
David Medalla in dialogue with Shi Handao
17th May 2015 @ 19:00
At Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai
At MINSHENG ART MUSEUM, Shanghai
Marina Belikova // Richard Berger // Andreas Blank // Isaac Chong Wai // Paul Darius // Amir Fattal // Zeno Gries // Mariana Hahn // Sarah Lüdemann // David Medalla // Adam Nankervis // Melisa Palacio Lopez & Noise Canteen // Kirsten Palz // ff (Janne Schäfer, Magda Tothova and Mathilde ter Heijne) // Zhou Xiaohu
MOMENTUM is proud to announce BuildingScape as our new partner for MOMENTUM_InsideOut – MOMENTUM’s initiative for Video Art in Public Space – turning the museum and gallery insideout to bring video art onto the streets for all too see. Together we transform public spaces into dynamic urban encounters with contemporary art and build new audiences for video art.
MOMENTUM is proud to launch this partnership with a screening of
Amir Fattal‘s newest video work “Atara”
Premiering on Berlin Gallery Weekend!
1st & 2nd of May
9:00pm – midnight
Projected on the facade at Französische Straße 56-60, Berlin
(the future Palais Varnhagen)
Click HERE for more information and full program of events >>
BuildingScape is a Berlin-based company that develops artistic, architectonic and urban media interventions and concepts to accompany and promote the construction process of pivotal European building projects. The primary aim is to transform what is often perceived to be a social inconvenience in the form of major construction sites into living urban interventions that creatively address the process of urban transformation and development. With this frame of thinking, BuildingScape addresses the building of future architectural and cultural icons within their immediate and broader social context. To achieve these objectives, BuildingScape designs innovative artistic interventions within and upon the structures of construction sites, including large-scale video projections in public space, and the commissioning of site-specific works through artist residencies. By bringing contemporary art into direct contact with urban development in public space, BuildingScape transforms the process of construction into cultural and social experience that is as innovative and inspiring as it is entertaining and educational. BuildingScape was founded in 2014 by Can Togay (former Director of the Collegium Hungaricum Berlin), David Szauder (artist and curator), and Thomas Hölzel (collector and developer).
Zuzanna Janin’s Poetics of Combat:
Beyond Victory and Defeat
Zuzanna Janin in dialogue with Lin Yu
19th April 2015 @ 19:00
At MINSHENG ART MUSEUM, Shanghai
satire and role-play in Doug Fishbone’s politics of mass-media representation
Doug Fishbone in dialogue with Shen Qilan
22th March 2015
19:00
At MINSHENG ART MUSEUM, Shanghai
3 May – 28 June 2015
Sunday Performance Series and Gallery Exhibition in Partnership with Month of Performance Art
Performances:
May 3, 10, 17, 24, 31
Exhibition:
1—28 June 2015
Featuring:
Curated by Cao Dan and Li Zhenhua
Web-site for the Online Exhibition
The Liminal Spaces of (Dis)Appearance in Kate McMillan’s Paradise Falls
Kate McMillan in dialogue with Wu Guanjun
15th January 2015
19:00
At MINSHENG ART MUSEUM, Shanghai
China, 上海市长宁区Bldg.F/570 West Huaihai Rd. 邮政编码: 200050
Mobilizing The Still Image In Hannu Karjalainen’s Video Art
Hannu Karjalainen in dialogue with Hu Sang
14th December 2014
19:00-21:00
At MINSHENG ART MUSEUM, Shanghai
We are very proud to announce the latest acquisitions to the MOMENTUM Collection of 16 gorgeous photographs by Fiona Pardington from her new series of work, Ex Vivo.
Our enduring thanks to Fiona Pardington for entrusting more of her exquisite work to the MOMENTUM Collection! This makes 46 works in total! To see them all CLICK HERE.
RECOLLECTION • REPRESENTATION • REFLECTION
Fiona Pardington in dialogue with Zhang Hui
23rd November 2014
19:00
At MINSHENG ART MUSEUM, Shanghai
For FRAGMENTS OF EMPIRES We Are Proud To Announce
The Limited Edition Record Release With The Vinyl Factory
OF
AFTER THE WALL
A Sound Sculpture by Artist Lutz Becker (1999 / 2014)
For the 25th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall
MOMENTUM Berlin together with Minsheng Art Museum Shanghai are proud to present the collaborative project: Time_Art_Impact, a year-long education program of monthly dialogues, live-streamed between media artists from the MOMENTUM Collection and key figures from the thriving Shanghai art scene.
ART • SCIENCE • IMAGINATION • MEMORY
JANET LAURENCE in dialogue with HU XUDONG
26 OCTOBER 2014 at 17:30
At MINSHENG ART MUSEUM, Shanghai
Please note that this event does NOT take place at MOMENTUM Berlin.
After the talk Janet Laurence
and our artist in residency Fiona Pardington
will develop ideas and frameworks
for their upcoming project with MOMENTUM with the audience in Berlin
By Invitation Only
Documentation about the talk and the workshop will be available soon on this page.
MOMENTUM Berlin together with Minsheng Art Museum Shanghai are proud to present the collaborative project: Time_Art_Impact, a year-long education program of monthly dialogues, live-streamed between media artists from the MOMENTUM Collection and key figures from the thriving Shanghai art scene.
Sex・Politics・Cross-Cultures:
Hye Rim Lee’s Video Images and
Multidimensional Exploration
HYE RIM LEE in dialogue with ZHOU YI
12 OCTOBER 2014 at 15:00
At MINSHENG ART MUSEUM, Shanghai
Please note that this event does NOT take place at MOMENTUM Berlin. But video documentation can be seen soon on this page.
Sat 4th Oct at 19:00 – 20:00
IN DIALOGUE with Omar Chowdhury &
Mark Gisbourne
@ MOMENTUM Berlin
Kunstquartier Bethanien 134
Mariannenplatz 2, Kreuzberg, 10997 Berlin
CORRECTIONS:
Please note – the FINISSAGE takes place @ MOMENTUM Berlin, NOT @ .CHB
And we apologize, the InsideOut screening is cancelled.
A Time For Dreams
Selected Videos from the 4th Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, curated by David Elliott
Chen Zhou // Wojtek Doroszuk // Versia Harris // Yuree Kensaku & Maythee Noijinda // Lu Yang // Ma Qiusha // Anuk Miladinovic // Sun Xun // Michael Wutz
Organizers of 4th Moscow International Biennale for Young Art:
National Centre for Contemporary Arts (NCCA), Moscow Museum of Modern Art (MMOMA)
19 – 21 September 2014
Screening Nightly @ 19:00 – 24:00
@ .CHB, Dorotheenstrasse 12, Berlin Mitte 10117
Reception & Dialogue
Sunday, 21 Sept @ 17:00 – 19:00 // // 19:00 – 24:00 InsideOut Screening
MOMENTUM together with present:
A Presentation of Xu Zhen: The Catalog
In Dialogue with Chris Moore And David Elliott
With a screening of Rainbow and 8848-1.86 by Xu Zhen
@ .CHB Collegium Hungaricum Berlin
Dorotheenstrasse 12, 10117, Berlin Mitte
Form As Being
Omar Chowdhury
Solo Exhibition and Artist Residency
OPENING: Wed 10 September at 19:00 – 22:00
EXHIBITION: 11 September – 5 October 2014
@ MOMENTUM Berlin
Kunstquartier Bethanien, Mariannenplatz 2, Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany
Gallery opening hours: Thurs – Sun, 13.00-19.00
Or by appointment: contact Isabel de Sena
Thursday, 21 August, 20.00
Lecture / artist talk
with Isabel de Sena & Via Lewandowsky
For more information: click HERE
To celebrate the newest acquisition to The MOMENTUM Collection:
Thomas Eller’s THE white male complex, #5 (lost)
MOMENTUM together with the Minsheng Art Museum Invite You To:
Time_Art_Impact Dialogue #3: Exploration and Hybridization: Thomas Eller’s Experience and Practice of Embodiment
THOMAS ELLER in dialogue with HU JIEMING
19 JULY 2014
13:00 at MOMENTUM Berlin
Kunstquartier Bethanien, Mariannenplatz 2, Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany
&
19:00 at Minsheng Art Museum Shanghai
Address: bldg F, NO.570 West Huaihai Road, Shanghai, China
In Cooperation With
Are proud to present
Public and Private Space: Map Office’s radical urbanization experiment
Two Hours of Video Screening
followed by
Map Office in dialogue with Li Xiangning
At Minsheng Art Museum
Address: bldg F, NO.570 West Huaihai Road
29 June at 7:00pm
MORE INFO HERE
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MOMENTUM’s Chairman
DAVID ELLIOTT
Curates The
4th Moscow International Biennale for Young Art
OPENING 25 June 2014
Exhibition Dates: 26 June – 10 August 2014
At Museum of Moscow
2 Zubovsky Boulevard, Moscow
MOMENTUM is proud to announce that two of the outstanding artists in the MOMENTUM Collection and Performance Archive – Mariana Hahn and Isaac Chong Wai – as well as several artists featured PANDAMONIUM: Media Art From Shanghai – Lu Yang and Double Fly Art Center – are participating in the Biennale.
83 Artists From 32 Countries
To Learn More CLICK HERE.
MOMENTUM_InsideOut Presents:
IN
International Artist Gathering
Curated By irri-art
17 June – 17 July 2014
Casablanca and Rabat
To Learn More CLICK HERE.
Gallery Exhibition
4 – 29 JUNE 2014
Featuring:
Thomas Eller // Jia // MNM (Christian Graupner with Mieko Suzuki & Ming Poon) // Qui Anxiong // Mad for Real (Cai Yuan and Jian Ju Xi) // Feng Bingyi // Xu Wenkai // Isaac Chong Wai
Curated by Rachel Rits-Volloch
16:00 // Guided Tour with the Curators
17:00 – 19:00 // SYMPOSIUM
China Through The Looking Glass: Shanghai – What’s Next?
Speakers:
DAVID ELLIOTT and LI ZHENHUA / Curators of PANDAMONIUM: Media Art from Shanghai
GABRIELE KNAPSTEIN / Head of Exhibitions, Hamburger Bahnhof
SIEGFRIED ZIELINSKI / Chair of Media Theory, Archeology and Variantology of the Media at UDK
FENG BINGYI, QIU ANXIONG and XU WENKAI (AAAJIAO) / PANDAMONIUM Artists-In-Residence
19:00 // PERFORMANCES
Cai Yuan + Jian Jun Xi (Mad For Real),
MNM (Christian Graupner with Mieko Suzuki and Ming Poon)
20:00 – 24:00 // PARTY
MNM with DJ Mieko Suzuki
To Learn More CLICK HERE.
MOMENTUM_InsideOut CURRENT SCREENING
MOMENTUM in Cooperation with Viva Con Agua de Sankt Pauli
Are Proud To Present:
MOMENTUM_InsideOut
FEATURING
Theo Eshetu
AT
29 – 31 May 2014
Ethiopian artist Theo Eshetu lives and works in Rome and Berlin. His works have been shown at the Venice Film Festival, the London Film Festival, the New York African Film Festival, the 2nd Video Biennial in Fukui, Japan, and many more. His films have won numerous awards, for example at the Berlin Video Festival, the International African Film Festival in Milan or the Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto. Eshetu has exhibited at the ICA, London, the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, the National Gallery of Canada, the Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin and the National Gallery of Cape Town, South Africa among others. In 2011 his works were shown at the Sharjah Biennial and the Venice Biennale. In 2012 Theo Eshetu was a guest of the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program.
In January 2014, The Return of the Axum Obelisk, (2009), was shown as a 15-screen video installation at Berlin’s DAAD Galerie, after having first been presented at BOZAR, Brussels. Shown here in its single-channel version, the film chronicles the repatriation of a monumental war trophy from Rome to Ethiopia and the religious ceremonies that surrounded its resurrection. Eshetu shows the return of the “Roman” Axum Obelisk to Ethiopia more than 70 years after Mussolini had it shipped to Italy as spoils of war. Building on his own film documentation of this extraordinary incident of restitution, Eshetu has created an elaborate work whose compositional complexity honors the historical complexity of its subject. Unlike most monuments that are built to consolidate and commemoration a given event, the exceptional characteristic of the Axum obelisk has been its unique capacity to change significance with the course of history.
This screening marks the first step in a future collaborative initiative between MOMENTUM and Viva Con Agua in Ethiopia which will engage local artists an enable them to create new works to benefit their communities and to be shown internationally.
Besides the air we breathe, water is the most fundamental source of life. Water creates life, water is life. Water means healthy living, happy living. For Viva con Agua de Sankt Pauli this is the primary motivation for the funding and implementation of water projects around the world in order to enable people to access clean water.
The MILLERNTOR GALLERY #4 occupies the football stadium of the FC St. Pauli in Hamburg. For three days, the stadium transforms into a public art project that provides an arena for creative engagement, intercultural dialogue and an exchange with the urban collective. The main objective of this hybrid event is in support of international NGO Viva con Agua, whose aim is to raise funds in order to support clean drinking water and sanitation initiatives, as well as to raise awareness of the lack of available clean drinking water in many countries of the global South.
The MILLERNTOR GALLERY #4 is a unique project that combines art and social commitment. Starting as a 4-day vernissage, it then turns into the first permanent social art gallery in a football stadium: The stadium of the FC St. Pauli.
Using Art and Culture to Help Those In Need of Water Worldwide.
► 100 ARTISTS ► 40 ACTS ► 1 FOOTBALL STADIUM
A CHARITY ART AUCTION, A SYMPOSIUM of SCIENCES, AN EXHIBITION of CONTEMPORARY & URBAN ART,
LIVE MUSIC, FOOTBALL, PERFORMANCES, WORKSHOPS, TALKS, PRESENTATIONS & FILMS.
“Art cannot change the world, but it can contribute to changing the consciousness and drives of the men and women who could change the world.”
Herbert Marcuse.
CREATIVE ENGAGEMENT: Featuring interactive installations such as, “The Little Sun & Light Graffiti” by Olafur Eliasson and Frederik Ottesens, “Inside Out” by JR, “Operndorf Afrika” by Schlingensief, “RLF”by Friedrich von Borries, MOMENTUM_InsideOut with The Return of the Axum Obelisk by Theo Eshetu,”Time & Life Lampedusa” by Melissa Steckbauer and “Instruments of punctuation” by Yazmany Arboleda.
ART AUCTION: A charity art auction will be hosted by. Dr. Katharina Countess of Sayn-Wittgenstein, Senior Director of Sotheby’s Hamburg for Viva con Agua. The artworks auctioned include works from artists such as: Sigmar Polke, Udo Lindenberg, Bruno Bruni, Hardy KrŸger Jr., Low Bros, Christopher Winter, Holger Jacobs, Melissa Steckbauer, Annette Meinecke-Nagy, Zezao and 40 other pieces by established artists.
WORKSHOPS, TALKS, FILMS, PRESENTATIONS, PERFORMANCES & SYMPOSIUM will take place throughout the event, allowing an interactive dialogue between participants, artists and visitors. The symposium will bring together a panel of speakers considering the following question: How can creative commitment improve our world? Panelists include: Adrienne Goehler (publisher and curator), Friedrich von Borries (architect and curator), Onejiru (musician), Aino Laberenz (stage and costume designer) moderated by Daniel Gad (cultural scientist).
GROUP SHOW: Featuring artworks by local and international artists: Jim Avignon, Adameva, Alex Diamond, Andrea Wan and Rylsee, Antony Valerian, Anders Brinch, Billy, Buff Diss, Christopher Winter, Comenius Roethlisberger, Curiot, Daan Botlek, Flo Weber, 1010, Base 23, Doppeldenk, Elmar Lause, Mateo aka Monum, Zipper, No Art Collective, Darko Caramello, Kalyani Hemphill, Rike Ernst, Loomit, Hardy KrŸger Jr., Henning Heide, Heiko MŸller, Heinning Reith, Henning Kles, Holzweg, Jo Fischer, Johannes Mundinger, John Bršmstrup, Jon Drypnz, Julia Benz, Karl Gšrlich, LIMOW, Linus, Los Piratoz, Low Bros, Lutz Rainer MŸller, Max Johow AVMJ, Maximilian Schmidbauer, Mittenimwald, Nelio, Nils Kasiske, Ole Utikal, Paul Onditi, Marco Pellanda, Paul Gregor, Queen Kong, Rambazamba, Roids, Ashley Frangie, Greg Adamsky, Martina Wšrz, Natalie Bothur, Thiemo Bšgner, Saddo, Stefanie Schmid Rincon, Sven Mayer, Thomas Koch, Pablo Sozyone, Roids, Till Gerhard, Yescka, Zezao, Stizz, Lachsomat, and more…
MUSIC: Live Performances by Eljot Quent, DJ Beykin, Grimel, Ivy Quainoo, Konvoy, LaLoc & RenneR, Leoniden, Liedfett, Marla Blumenblatt, Marvin Brooks, Matteo Capreoli, Nellson, Onejiru, Knackeboul, Chocolococolo, Schwule MŠdchen Soundsystem (Fettes Brot), Shereena, SŽbo, The Hellectric, Vierkanttretlager, Adameva, DJ Ben Kenobi, DJ Clingony, DJ Harry Delgas, DJ Saint One, DJ Vito, DJ Marc Deal, DJ Zooclique.
In 2013, the MILLERNTOR GALLERY #3 took place in a 2500 square meter space and hosted 8000 visitors. This year, the event near;y doubles in size. The participating artists receive 30 percent of the proceeds through the art sales, while the remaining proceeds of the MILLERNTOR GALLERY benefits the water and educational projects of Viva con Agua de Sankt Pauli e.V. The association has made it their business to alleaviate the worldwide problem of water and sanitary supplies. 780 million people have no free access to clean drinking water, and 2,5 billion people have no access to humane sanitary supply.
To Learn More CLICK HERE.
MOMENTUM is proud to announce the launch of:
Collaboration with
25 May 2014 – June 2015
With great thanks to Minsheng Art Museum, MOMENTUM proudly announces the launch of our collaborative education initiative TIME_ART_IMPACT: a year-long series of monthly dialogues and video screenings taking place between Shanghai and Berlin.
WITH SELECTED ARTISTS FROM THE MOMENTUM COLLECTION:
Nezaket Ekici ◆ Doug Fishbone ◆ Zuzanna Janin ◆ Hannu Karjalainen ◆ Janet Laurence ◆ Hye Rim Lee ◆ Map Office ◆ Kate McMillan ◆ David Medalla ◆ Fiona Pardington ◆ Mariana Vassileva
To learn more CLICK HERE: TIME_ART_IMPACT
Works on Paper II: PANDAMONIUM
Performance Series for Month of Performance Art (MPA-B)
May 4, 11, 18, 25, June 1 & 15
SUNDAY 25 MAY at 17:00 – 18:00
THOMAS ELLER, THE white male complex (endgames)
THE white male complex (endgames) is the working title of a series of art works, performances and talks by artist, curator Thomas Eller, in which he navigates the cultural plateau we have all entered in the West. With little chance for change we are collectively engaged in re-spelling the vocabulary developed by artists generations in the past 40 years – a conservative approach to progress resulting in endless artistic endgames. At PANDAMONIUM he puts this approach in stark contrast with a group of media artist from Shanghai largely unencumbered by such deliberations.
Works on Paper II: PANDAMONIUM
Performance Series and Gallery Exhibition for Month of Performance Art (MPA-B)
May 4, 11, 18, 25 & June 1st 2014
SUNDAY 18 MAY at 17:00 – 18:00
Qiu Anxiong, Finite Element
Finite ElementA work-in-progress developed specially for MOMENTUM’s ‘Works on Paper II’ performance series during Berlin’s Month of Performance Art. PANDAMONIUM’s artist in residence, Qiu Anxiong, embarks on an experiment to explore new, uncharted territory in his artistic practice. For the first time in his oeuvre, Anxiong will combine video with live performance and animated paper cut-outs, all overlaid to create a surreal contemporary re-invention of the traditional Chinese art of Shadow Theatre. Projected onto a screen resembling the form of classical Chinese scrolls, the traditional medium of paper is here re-imagined and animated with moving images and moving bodies.
For More Information CLICK HERE.
&
PANDAMONIUM: Media Art from Shanghai
THE GROUP SHOW
Featuring:
Double Fly Art Center ◆ Thomas Eller ◆ Feng Bingyi ◆ Hu Jieming ◆
Hu Weiyi ◆ Lu Yang ◆ Qiu Anxiong ◆ Ming Wong ◆ Xu Wenkai (AaaJiao) ◆ Xu Zhen (MadeIn Company) ◆ Yang Fudong ◆ Yang Zhenzhong ◆
Zhang Ding ◆ Zhang Peili ◆ Zhou Xiaohu
Curated by Li Zhenhua and David Elliott. Presented by CAC | Chronus Art Center and MOMENTUM.
OPENS THIS FRIDAY, 9 May at 19:00
At the Kunstquartier Bethanien – Studio 1
(The large chapel space on the same floor as the MOMENTUM Gallery)
PANDAMONIUM continues next door at MOMENTUM
With Our PERFORMANCE FOCUS for
MPA-B | Month of Performance Art – Berlin
With Micro-Exhibition #3, May 9 – June 1
&
WORKS ON PAPER II – Performance Sundays – May 4, 11, 18, 25 & June 1
With:
Isaac Chong Wai, Double Fly Art Center, Guo Xi, Jia, Mad For Real (Cai Yuan and Jian Jun Xi), MNM (Christian Graupner with Mieko Suzuki & Ming Poon), Qiu Anxiong, Ming Wong, Xu Wenkai, Xu Zhe, Wang Xin, Wu Juehui, Zhang Lehua
The full program of events CLICK HERE.
To join the PANDAMONIUM Facebook Event for invitations and Updates CLICK HERE.
The PANDAMONIUM Preview // INTERPIXEL
at CHB – Collegium Hungaricum Berlin
OPENS MAY 1 at 19:00
UNTIL MAY 4
DO NOT GO TO THE MOMENTUM GALLERY!
MOMENTUM will be closed on May 1st.
All PANDAMONIUM Preview Events on May 1 – 4 are located at the .CHB – Collegium Hungaricum on Dorotheenstrasse 12.
There will be a performance at 20:00 by Berlin-based and Beijing-born artist, Jia
The PANDAMONIUM Preview continues until Sunday 4 May and will close
with a Symposium 16:00 – 19:00: China Through The Looking Glass: Shanghai Meets Beijing
This will be followed by a repeat of Jia’s performance, Untitled at 19:00
and a screening on the media facade of the .CHB from 20:00
More info here
PANDAMONIUM: MEDIA ART FROM SHANGHAI
A Collaboration Between CHRONUS ART CENTER Shanghai and MOMENTUM Berlin
MICRO-EXHIBITIONS: 12 MARCH – 29 June 2014
GALLERY WEEKEND PREVIEW: 1 – 4 May 2014
GROUP SHOW: 9 MAY – 1 JUNE 2014
A Series of Artist Residencies, Open Studios, Micro-Exhibitions, Kunst Salons, Parties, Provocations, and a Group Exhibition Curated by Li Zhenhua and David Elliott
PANDAMONIUM Micro-Exhibition #2:
March 28 – April 27 | 13:00 – 19:00
At MOMENTUM: Kunstquartier Bethanien, Mariannenlatz 2, Berlin Kruezberg
To coincide with Ai Weiwei’s exhibition, “Evidence”, opening at Berlin’s Martin Gropius Bau on April 2nd, PANDAMONIUM dedicates our next Micro-Exhibition to this renowned bad boy of contemporary art. And alongside the bad boy, we present a bad girl – one of the 2 women artists in PANDAMONIUM, this provocative young artist is being shown in Berlin for the first time.
To find out more, click on: PANDAMONIUM
Join the Event on Facebook to receive program updates and invitations to special events. Click on: FACEBOOK EVENT
Check out PANDAMONIUM in today’s Tagesspiegel – Germany’s leading newspaper!
Thanks to Thomas Eller for his article highlighting all of Berlin’s great Chinese exhibitions this spring in the special China inlay in today’s Tagesspiegel.
Press Clipping_Tagesspiegel – CLICK HERE
For the German speakers amongst you, the paper got our curators wrong. PANDAMONIUM is curated by Li Zhenhua and David Elliott. Keep up with all the news on:
Our Facebook Event – CLICK HERE
And on our Exhibition Page – CLICK HERE.
PANDAMONIUM: MEDIA ART FROM SHANGHAI
A Collaboration Between CHRONUS ART CENTER Shanghai and MOMENTUM Berlin
Is Proud To Announce Our Partner Exhibition
The 8 Of Paths: Art In Beijing
Organized by Yu Zhang, Curated by Thomas Eller, Guo Xiaoyan, and Andreas Schmid
29 April – 13 July 2014
Exhibition in the Uferhallen, Uferstraße 8, 13357 Berlin, Germany
Click Here To Join their Facebook Page
“The 8 of Paths” presents 23 positions by young artists living in Beijing, giving a vibrant profile to a previously unknown China. Focusing on a generation of artists born from the mid-1970s on, ”The 8 of Paths” showcases a generation who have gained new possibilities and new freedoms. ”The 8 of Paths” is co-curated by Andreas Schmid, one of the curators of China Avant-Garde, the iconic 1993 exhibition at Berlin’s Haus der Kulturen der Welt which, being the very first exhibition of contemporary Chinese art outside China itself, jump started an interest in Chinese contemporary art in the West. Thomas Eller, also co-curator of ”The 8 of Paths”, is one of the artists participating in PANDAMONIUM, and is on the Board of MOMENTUM. This exhibition is part of the celebrations to mark Berlin and Beijing’s 20th anniversary as partner cities. ”The 8 of Paths” takes place concurrently with PANDAMONIUM, so stay tuned for updates and invitations to both exhibitions. More news on the PANDAMONIUM Facebbok Event: Click Here.
PANDAMONIUM: MEDIA ART FROM SHANGHAI
A Collaboration Between CHRONUS ART CENTER Shanghai and MOMENTUM Berlin
MICRO-EXHIBITIONS: 12 MARCH – 27 April 2014
GALLERY WEEKEND PREVIEW: 1 – 4 May 2014
GROUP SHOW: 9 MAY – 1 JUNE 2014
A 4-Month Series of Artist Residencies, Open Studios, Micro-Exhibitions, Kunst Salons, Parties, Provocations, and a Group Exhibition Curated by Li Zhenhua and David Elliott
PANDAMONIUM Micro-Exhibition #1:
March 12 – 23 | 13:00 – 19:00
WHAT IS PANDAMONIUM??? The collision of Panda Diplomacy – China’s longstanding practice of sending incredibly cute fluffy mammals into the world – with its most enticing cultural export of the day: Contemporary Art.
To find out more, click on: PANDAMONIUM
Join the Event on Facebook to receive program updates and invitations to special events. Click on: FACEBOOK EVENT
SAVE THE DATE: Wednesday 19 March at 18:00
at Moholy-Nagy Gallery Collegium Hungaricum Berlin
Dorotheenstrasse 12, 10117 Berlin
The Collegium Hungaricum Berlin Present:
ARTPOOL – The Experimental Art Archive of East-Central Europe
History of an active archive for producing, networking, curating, and researching art since 1970
BOOK LAUNCH and PANEL DISCUSSION With:
René Block (Berlin), David Elliott (curator and writer, Berlin), Dr. Beata Hock (cultural historian, University of Leipzig), Dr. Bojana Pejic (art historian, Berlin), Franciska Zólyom (director, GfZK – Galerie für Zeitgenööische Kunst, Leipzig)
For more information click on: ARTPOOL
MOMENTUM is very proud to announce our partnership with the NCCA Art Residency in Kronstadt!
Mariana Vassileva, of the MOMENTUM Collection, begins her Artist Residency on March 1st.
MOMENTUM is proud to serve on the recommendations committee for this Artist Residency.
The National Centre for Contemporary Arts (NCCA) is a museum, exhibition center, and research institution aiming to support and promote Russian contemporary art in the global context. The NCCA develops and implements art, architecture, and design projects in Russia and abroad. The North-Western Branch of NCCA was established in 1995 as the first regional branch of NCCA, focusing on art and cultural projects promoting the dialogue of contemporary art within the St Petersburg cultural background. NCCA offers an artist-in-residence facility in the historic city of Kronstadt on Kotlin Island in St. Petersburg.
THE BEST OF TIMES, THE WORST OF TIMES REVISITED:
SELECTED VIDEO WORKS FROM THE 1ST KIEV BIENNALE
Curated By David Elliott
Featuring: Lutz Becker, John Bock, Gülsün Karamustafa, Tracey Moffatt, Map Office, Miao Xiaochun, and Yang Fudong
At CAC | CHRONUS ART CENTER, Shanghai
16 January – 2 March 2014
For more information on the Finissage, please visit: Chronus Art Center Events
THE BEST OF TIMES, THE WORST OF TIMES REVISITED closes in Shanghai this weekend, but MOMENTUM’s ongoing collaboration with CAC | Chronus Art Center continues in Berlin with PANDAMONIUM: A 4-Month Series of Artist Residencies, Open Studios, Micro-Exhibitions, Kunst Salons, Parties, Provocations, and a Group Exhibition Curated by Li Zhenhua and David Elliott.
A Collaboration Between CHRONUS ART CENTER, Shanghai and MOMENTUM
A 4-Month Series of Artist Residencies, Open Studios, Micro-Exhibitions, Kunst Salons, Parties, Provocations, and a Group Exhibition
Curated by Li Zhenhua and David Elliott
Find out more at COMING UP AT MOMENTUM
Formerly known as SKY SCREEN, MOMENTUM’S initiative for Video Art In Public Space is now called MOMENTUM_InsideOut! We turn the museum and gallery inside out, showing the best of video and moving image art on the streets for all to see.
10 – 16 February 2014 at 20:00 – 24:00
MOMENTUM_InsideOut INTERSECTION Screening for Cinema Total
Curated for Cinema Total, part of the Berlinale International Film Festival, by
David Szauder, Fanni Magyar, Francoise von Roy and Rachel Rits-Volloch
In cooperation with .CHB Collegium Hungaricum Berlin
Screening Accompanying the INTERSECTION: Film and Video Art Panel Discussion
Venue: Media Facade, Collegium Hungaricum, Dorotheenstrasse 12, 10117 Berlin-Mitte
Featuring:
Theo Eshetu, Bjørn Melhus, Reynold Reynolds, Sarah Choo Jing, Bence Fliegauf
Cinema Total’s special focus in 2014 is the intersection of film and video art. This MOMENTUM_InsideOut screening accompanies a panel discussion exploring the increasingly osmotic borders between film and video art, which find more filmmakers creating gallery-based work and artists making works inspired by cinema and its methods. More information on http://momentumworldwide.org/public-art/current-exhibition-skyscreen/
In cooperation with .CHB Collegium Hungaricum Berlin and CINEMA TOTAL
INTERSECTION: Film and Video Art Panel Discussion
10 FEBRUARY 2014 at 18:00 – 20:00
Followed by MOMENTUM_InsideOut Screening at 20:00 – 24:00
Venue: Panorama Hall, Collegium Hungaricum, Dorotheenstrasse 12, 10117 Berlin-Mitte
Speakers: Candice Breitz, Theo Eshetu, Zuzanna Janin, Bjorn Melhus, and Reynold Reynolds
Moderated by David Elliott
Language: English – Free and Open to the Public
More information on http://momentumworldwide.org/parallel-events/parallel-events-current/
MOMENTUM is proud to announce that we have been awarded Berlin’s Haupstadtkulturfonds Grant for our forthcoming exhibition:
FRAGMENTS OF EMPIRE
Featuring: Kader Attia, Theo Eshetu, Gülsün Karamustafa, and Fiona Pardington
Berlin in the 21st Century sits on the intersection of many immigrant cultures and nations, as people from all over the world flock to the city. In recent years, Berlin has come to be especially known for attracting the world’s leading artists. Equally, Berlin is famous for the wealth of cultural artifacts housed in its museums. This convergence, in this capital city, of creative and historical culture with the world’s migrant cultures is often remarked upon, but it has not yet been closely considered in terms of the convergence of the different colonial legacies of the many populations that inhabit Berlin. Fragments of Empires is thus a timely reflection on the hybridization of cultural practices, and the fact that not only in Berlin, but everywhere in the world, we can all find roots somewhere else.
More information will be available soon…
SAUDADE
A Solo Exhibition by Jacobus Capone
“There is a solemn sadness that dwells here, a regret, a longing to feel without thinking. To forget. To access what could possibly lie beyond the wall of language…” (Jacobus Capone)
Curated by Marita Muukkonen and Ivor Stodolsky
Opening 1 February at 17:00 – 20:00
With Live Performance at 20:00 (Outdoors in front of the Kunstquartier Bethanien)
Dark Learning: Act 4 out of 71
MOMENTUM is proud to begin 2014 with a collaboration with Shanghai’s newest gallery, also focusing on time-based art: CAC | Chronus Art Center in Shanghai
THE BEST OF TIMES, THE WORST OF TIMES REVISITED:
SELECTED VIDEO WORKS FROM THE 1ST KIEV BIENNALE
Curated By David Elliott
Featuring: Lutz Becker, John Bock, Gülsün Karamustafa, Tracey Moffatt, Map Office, Miao Xiaochun, and Yang Fudong
Travels To: CAC | Chronus Art Center in Shanghai
If you can’t catch this show in Shanghai, stay tuned for our upcoming collaboration in Berlin….
MOMENTUM wishes you a joyful holiday season and a very happy New Year!
We are proud to move into 2014 with our ongoing collaboration with TRAFO Center for Contemporary Art in Szczecin. You can still catch the exhibitions in Berlin and Szczecin until 26 January 2014.
SANATORIUM, showing until January 26 at MOMENTUM Berlin.
AND
THRESHOLDS | TRAFO showing until January 26 at TRAFO Center of Contemporary Art in Szczecin, Poland.
Check out the video of our opening in Poland…
And please click here to find out more about what’s COMING UP at MOMENTUM:
THE BEST OF TIMES, THE WORST OF TIMES REVISITED
Travels To CAC | Chronos Art Center in Shanghai
16 JAN – 2 MARCH 2014
SAUDADE: A Solo Exhibition by Jacobus Capone
1 FEB – 2 MARCH 2014
THRESHOLDS travels to TRAFO Szczecin! After the great success of the first edition of this exhibition at Collegium Hungaricum during Berlin Art Week, we are proud to travel this far-reaching exhibition of international video and performance art to the TRAFO Center of Contemporary Art in Szczecin.
Find out about the full program here: THRESHOLDS | TRAFO
We invite you to join us for the Artist Talk at the Polnisches Institut Berlin, tomorrow 5th December at 19:00. This talk follows the progress of the MOMENTUM / TRAFO Artist Residency program, where the three artists Andreas Blank, Jarik Jongman, Natalia Szostak and the curator Aurelia Nowak, are taking part in a process-based project held in both MOMENTUM in Berlin, and the TRAFO Center for Contemporary Art in Szczecin. At the talk you will have a chance to meet all of them and learn about their experiences of the project.
Join our Facebook event page for the talk here.
Looking forward to seeing you there!
The first half of the Artist Residency took place at MOMENTUM, and the resulting SANATORIUM exhibition is now open. Here is a video of the opening night!
SANATORIUM Opening at MOMENTUM Berlin from Momentum Worldwide on Vimeo.
We had such a wonderful opening night at MOMENTUM and are hoping for an equally fantastic opening at TRAFO on 15th Dec at 18:00.
Due to the Artist Talk at the Polnisches Institut Berlin, on Thursday the 20th of December the MOMENTUM Gallery is closing at 17:30. We apologize for any inconvenience.
MOMENTUM – TRAFO ARTIST RESIDENCY EXCHANGE
30 November 2013 – 26 January 2014
Exhibition: SANATORIUM
Featuring Natalia Szostak, Curated by Aurelia Nowak
SANATORIUM is the result of a Process-Based Residency during which Szczecin-based artist Natalia Szostak has been living and working in the MOMENTUM space in the Kunstquartier Bethanien. Working together with curator Aurelia Nowak, from Poznan, Szostak creates new work in response to her immersion in this former church-run hospital. Surrounded by the family of Szostak’s earlier work brought into this new context, the artist and curator conceive of this Process-Based Residency in the tradition of the sanatorium – a retreat wherein they have time to focus and develop their work. Working across a variety of media, and drawing on autobiographical motifs of personal memory and family history, Szostak’s richly textured works give us an insight into a strong character sheltering a delicate sensibility. Szostak’s visual language expresses a soul well beyond her years, rooted in a cultural tradition somehow unchanged by her international education and work experience.
MOMENTUM extends our heartfelt gratitude to Australian artist Kate McMillan for her generous donation to the MOMENTUM Collection. Paradise Falls I & II results from her PhD research into memory and forgetting. To learn more about the artist, and see both works in full, please follow the link to: MOMENTUM Collection
Paradise Falls I & II will be shown as part of the MOMENTUM Collection, with additional works surveying the first 3 years of MOMENTUM, at TRAFO Art Center in Szczecin, Poland from 14 December 2013 to 26 January 2014. To find out more click here: THRESHOLDS | TRAFO
Paradise Falls II follows a man as he rows towards the silhouette of a craggy island off the coast of Wadjemup/Rottnest. He appears and disappears from sight, finally lost to the inky black of the ocean. These characters are stand-ins for fractured and partial histories that disappear from focus, yet continue in our collective psyche as dark and haunting traumas. The films are like moving paintings, heavily referencing the romantic tradition of Germanic landscape painting, while also holding them in a critical eye as part of an enlightenment ideology that has helped us to forget. Through engaging with the viewing process we participate in a re-remembering, acknowledging the shady edges of things, but also baring witness to the beauty of sadness that is contrary to the horrors of forgetting history.
In case you missed THRESHOLDS in September, you can finally watch Nezaket Ekici’s wonderful performance THE TUBE which was part of our 3-day program of performances, exhibition and panel discussion at Collegium Hungaricum during Berlin Art Week.
THRESHOLDS now travels to TRAFO Art Center in Szczecin, Poland, opening on 14 December 2013.
Find out more click here: THRESHOLDS | TRAFO
Tonight MOMENTUM hits London! With great thanks to our wonderful hosts, WW Gallery, MOMENTUM’s exhibition About Face, featuring Jarik Jongman, Mariana N Hahn, and Sarah Lüdemann, opens in London!
Coinciding with the Frieze Art Fair, About Face demonstrates an alternative to the consumerist, established art world in London, and allows the visitor to confront its dictators, be they collectors or creators. About Face will be on show at WW Gallery from tonight’s opening with live performances until October 19. For more information please see www.wilsonwilliamsgallery.com and join our Event on Facebook. A full description of the exhibition and an online catalog can be found HERE.
On the occasion of Berlin Art Week, MOMENTUM, the Platform for Time-based Art, and the Collegium Hungaricum Berlin are presenting a program of exhibition, performance, and a panel discussion on the theme of Thresholds: Crossing Borders between Video, Performance, and the Visual Arts.
20th – 22nd September 2013
At Collegium Hungaricum Berlin
Dorotheenstraße 12, 10117 Berlin
EXHIBITION: MAKING THE MEDIUM
Friday – Sunday, 20-22 Sept
Opening Friday 20 Sept at 19:00 – 22:00, with live performance by Nezaket Ekici at 20:00
INTERDISCIPLINARY PERFORMANCE: THRESHOLDS
Saturday, 21 September at 19.00 – 19.45
Created, Choreographed, and Directed by
Emi Hariyama (Staatsballet Berlin)
Dr. Marcus Doering, Interactive Light Design Specialist
Music Composed By
Bela Bartok, György Ligeti, Peter Kirn, and Szilvia Lednitzky
PANEL DISCUSSION:
CURATING PERFORMANCE ART – WHERE DOES THEATRE END AND ART BEGIN
Sunday, 22 Sept at 16.00 – 18.00
SKY SCREEN: THE BEST OF TIMES, THE WORST OF TIMES REVISITED
Saturday – Sunday, 21-22 Sept at 21:00 – 00:00
See the full program on: http://momentumworldwide.org/parallel-events/parallel-events-current/
Get updates and invitations to the events on: https://www.facebook.com/ThresholdsTimeBasedArt
Check out MOMENTUM in Istanbul! Opening this week – 2 amazing projects! SKY SCREEN at SALT, and the MOMENTUM Collection at Hayaka Arti.
We’re bringing SKY SCREEN to SALT! Located on the worlds most crowded pedestrian urban street at the heart of Istanbul, we turn this exceptional art space inside out by screening The Best of Times, The Worst of Times Revisited, Selected Videos from the 1st Kiev Biennale onto the facade from Sept 11-15, at 8pm-2am. The program includes: Lutz Becker, John Bock, Gulsun Karamustafa, Tracey Moffatt, Map Office, Miao Xiaochun, and Yang Fudong, curated by David Elliott.
More on: http://www.saltonline.org/en/#!/en/628/1-kiev-bienalinden-video-seckisi-the-best-of-times-the-worst-of-times/
And the MOMENTUM Collection will also be screened in Istanbul at Hayaka Arti on 12 Sept – 13 Oct. Hayaka Arti is an innovative art platform, an artist-run space located across the street from the Orhan Pamuk Museum.
More on: http://www.hayakaarti.com/
Both MOMENTUM projects coincide with the Istanbul Biennale. Showing solidarity through art in support of the people of istanbul taking to the streets to preserve their freedoms!
Lutz Becker, THE SCREAM • John Bock, MONSIEUR ET MONSIEUR • Gülsün Karamustafa, INSOMNIAMBULE • Tracey Moffatt, DOOMED • Map Office, OVEN OF STRAW • Miao Xiaochun, RESTART • Yang Fudong, YEJIANG / THE NIGHTMAN COMETH
Curated by David Elliott
MOMENTUM is pleased to announce the showing of a special program of video works originally screened at the 1st Kiev Biennale last year. The works will be on view from September 6th – October 27th 2013 at MOMENTUM Berlin and then as part of our SKY SCREEN initiative for video art in public space in Istanbul and Berlin! Curated by the Artistic Director of the 1st Kiev Biennale, David Elliott, this program revisits a selection of videos selected for SKY SCREEN, bringing these outstanding works to audiences in Berlin, Istanbul, and beyond.
EXHIBITION:
6 September – 27 October, Wed – Sun, 13:00 – 19:00
Eröffnung / Opening 6 September 2013 19 Uhr
MOMENTUM, Kunstquartier Bethanien, Mariannenplatz 2, 10997 Berlin
SKY SCREEN
11 – 15th September, from dusk until dawn
SKY SCREEN Istanbul at SALT Beyoglu
İstiklal Caddesi 136, Beyoğlu 34430 İstanbul, Turkey
Coinciding with the Opening of the Istanbul Biennale
21th – 22nd September, 20:00 – 24:00
SKY SCREEN Berlin at Collegium Hungaricum
Dorotheenstr. 12, 10117 Berlin
During Berlin Art Week
MOMENTUM extends our great thanks to Janet Laurence for her second generous donation to the MOMENTUM Collection! You can now see Grace (2012), along with the many other wonderful video works in the MOMENTUM Collection on http://momentumworldwide.org/collection/
Janet Laurence is one of the most established and respected Australian artists of her generation. For over forty years she has been producing paintings, sculptures, photography, site-specific installations and architectural intervention. Laurence is not an artist easily categorised; her work skirts the boundaries of art, science, architecture, nature, the imagined world, history and memory. Laurence examines the complex relationships between natural environments and organic phenomena with manmade constructions and the built environment. When referencing architectural forms or the practice of photography, Laurence maintains a distinct sense of the organic and creates a transient hybrid form which corresponds neither solely to the laws of nature or science. Like an alchemist, Laurence displays a fascination with blending materials, resulting in poetic, thought provoking pieces.
A MOMENTUM project with Hungarian artist Eszter Szabó, curated by Brigitta Iványi-Bitter, has been shortlisted for the prestigious Leopold Bloom Award. An Exhibition of the 9 shortlisted artists will be on view at the Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art in Budapest from Sept 7 – 29th 2013. The Leopold Bloom Art Award supports progressive contemporary visual artists in Hungary and their presence on the international art scene. Granting of the award would result in a Residency and Exhibition with Eszter Szabó at MOMENTUM Berlin.
For more information: Click Here.
MOMENTUM’s Founding Director, Rachel Rits-Volloch, gives a lecture today at Berlin’s Universität der Künste entitled, ‘MOMENTUM: A New Model in Gallery Practice and Multiple Approaches to Time-Based Art’. With 3 years of outstanding programming to discuss, this should be an exciting talk, using examples from our program to illustrate the many roles of time-based media within individual art practice and in building a creative platform.
For those interested in attending the lecture today, it will be held at the UdK, Hardenbergstr. 33, rm 150, at 6pm.
On May 28 – 30, two MOMENTUM Productions will be featured at Musraramix: a Public Art Festival on the streets of Jerusalem. More information on: www.musraramixfest.org.il
Jarik Jongman will be making a site specific version of (DE)FACING REVOLT, the interactive performative painting series he made for the group exhibition ABOUT FACE at MOMENTUM in August 2012. Also shown will be the video of TRAVELING SOULS, the gorgeous interdisciplinary performance MOMENTUM commissioned in December 2012.
EVERY SUNDAY IN MAY at the MOMENTUM Gallery.
More information on Current Exhibition: WORKS ON PAPER
ARTISTS:
Joyce Clay, Catherine Duquette, Mariana Hahn, Emi Hariyama and Mariana Moreira,
Kate Hers, Sarah Lüdemann and Adrian Brun, Kirsten Palz, Yulia Startsev
5 May
13:00 – 17:30 Sarah Lüdemann and Adrian Brun: Blind Spot
17:45 – 19:00 Yulia Startsev: Ectype ___
12 May
13:00 – 17:00 Sarah Lüdemann and Adrian Brun: Blind Spot
17:15 – 18:15 Catherine Duquette: On Presence | On Paper
18:30 – 19:00 Emi Hariyama and Mariana Moreira: Impermanence
19 May
17:00 – 17:15 Kirsten Palz: Manuals for R
17:30 – 18:00 Joyce Clay: Book I, Book II
18:15 – 19:00 Mariana Hahn: Empress of Sorrow
26 May
17:00 – 17:45 Kate Hers: 7 Drawings, 28 Kisses
18:00 – 19:00 Joyce Clay: Book I, Book II
For Month of Performance Art, MOMENTUM curates a month-long program of Performance Sundays entitled Works On Paper. This exhibition series inverts usual assumptions, inviting performance artists to use paper both as form and as content; not as a blank slate upon which to create, but as a dynamic building block with which to create. Bringing together a diverse group of international artists based in Berlin, MOMENTUM invites them to work on paper and with paper to activate all the possibilities of the medium in unexpected ways. Working through durational performance, instruction pieces, physical and social architecture, live performance in dialogue with video performance, and a diversity of individual practices, Works On Paper invokes the breadth of performance art to reimagine paper: this most traditional of artistic media.
Prof. Dr. Wulf Herzogenrath (Director Fine Arts, Akademie der Künste)
Candice Breitz (Artist, Professor, Braunschweig University)
Christian Jankowski (Artist, Professor, Akademie der Bildende Künste, Stuttgart)
Ivo Wessel (Collector, Founder, Videoart at Midnight)
Sylvain Levy (Collector, Founder, dslcollection)
Elizabeth Markevitch (Founder, CEO, Ikono TV)
moderated by Thomas Eller (curator/artist/writer)
DURING GALLERY WEEKEND
AT
Collegium Hungaricum, Dorotheenstr. 12, 10117 Berlin
28 APRIL 2013
4:00 PM
– FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC –
MOMENTUM is proud to announce our collaboration with the Collegium Hungaricum (Berlin) and TRAFO (the new Kunsthalle in Szczecin, Poland) to mark our first international SKY SCREEN program!
MOMENTUM’s first internationally hosted SKY SCREEN program, MASS AND MESS, takes to the streets on April 14th! Screening in 3 locations simultaneously, SKY SCREEN turns its hosts into an ever-changing canvas for contemporary art, bringing video art out of darkened galleries and onto the streets for everyone to see.
For more information on MOMENTUM’s first international SKY SCREEN program click here.
You are invited to the upcoming exhibition at MOMENTUM | Berlin, showcasing new work by 4 artists in the MOMENTUM Collection. Here they share stories woven in ice, testaments of a very real, very new and ever changing environment. The link between these 4 international artists is the Nordic landscape. MISSING LINK is all they found there, and all that remains to be found. MISSING LINK is the term for the necessary condition the artist has to find themselves in, in order to be able to investigate: if nothing would be missing, one would not have to make art. MISSING LINK is the void in our knowledge which needs to be filled.
Learn more about DO NOT GO GENTLE INTO THIS GOOD NIGHT as Arte TV online talks to the curator/collector behind this remarkable exhibition.
ANNOUNCING MOMENTUM’s NEW 16MM FILM SERIES: LOST AND FOUND!
We present our inaugural event as an exhibition coinciding with the Berlinale Film Festival:
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
Vernissage: 3 February 18:00 – 21:00, with Curator’s Talk at 19:00
3 February – 3 March 2013
A multichannel film installation screened on projectors from the 1920’s-30’s.
Artists unknown (1920’s – 1940’s).
At MOMENTUM | Berlin
In collaboration with guest curators as well as international film archives and film festivals, we are launching a program of 16mm film nights. In addition to a curated program of screenings, each LOST AND FOUND film event will also be an open forum for artists working in 16mm to screen their works and open up discussion about working in this increasingly rare medium.
25 – 27 JANUARY 2013
Eric Bridgeman, Osvaldo Budet, Nezaket Ekici, Doug Fishbone, James P Graham, Zuzanna Janin, Mark Karasick, Hannu Karjalainen, Janet Laurence, Hye Rim Lee, Gabriele Leidloff, Map Office, David Medalla, Tracey Moffatt, TV Moore, Fiona Pardington, Martin Sexton, Sumugan Sivanesan, Mariana Vassileva, and Traveling Souls (Emi Hariyama, Maximilian Magnus, Daniel Dodd Ellis, Marcus Doering, Max Mertz)
This short exhibition of all 52 outstanding video works in the MOMENTUM Collection is timed to coincide with the opening of CTM 12 – the Festival for Adventurous Music and Arts taking place concurrently in the Kunstquartier Bethanien, and to celebrate the addition of Traveling Souls to the MOMENTUM Collection by screening the new Director’s Cut by Max Mertz.
MOMENTUM makes a splash in the media with Traveling Souls featured on TV Berlin’s news program:
Traveling Souls Afterparty at 3 Schwestern
In the Kunstquartier Bethanien
With Sarsaparilla Band performing LIVE
from 22:30
Following the Traveling Souls Performance on Sunday December 9th, please come downstairs with us to 3 Schwestern where you can get a drink, chat with the artists, and enjoy Sarsaparilla – a music project created in order to explore the possibilities of songwriting, performing, experimentation, and collaboration.
Please join us this coming Sunday, December 9th, for:
TRAVELING SOULS
An Interdisciplinary Performance
What happens when you bring together a Japanese ballerina dancing with the Berlin Staatsballet, a German painter, an American opera singer, and Berlin’s most innovative interactive media artist? Magic. MOMENTUM commissions a new work made specially for our gallery in the historic Kunstquartier Bethanien.
Enter four diverse artists who have never worked together before. Now based in Berlin, but originally from very different parts of the world, they come together to reflect on the movements which have brought each of them to converge on this particular space at this moment. Using dance, visual art, voice, and interactive light design, they respond to the unique spaces of Bethanien and the latent aura of its history. In asking these artists to work together, we have given them free reign to develop their own expressions towards this location and their own answers to the question MOMENTUM continuously poses: What is time-based art?
Crossing interdisciplinary boundaries, drawn together through creative synergies, this foursome of talent embodies MOMENTUM’S mission to enable great art to happen across cultural and institutional borders. What happens when you bring together a ballet dancer, a painter, an opera singer, and a media artist? We expect to be amazed by the answer.
We are proud to announce that our next SKY SCREEN program and gallery exhibition will launch our collaboration with New York’s Streaming Museum. The Streaming Museum – a 21st century museum for cyberspace and public space on 7 continents
The museum has presented over 30 contemporary-themed video exhibitions since its launch on January 29, 2008 that have been viewed by millions of people in over 55 cities and Antarctica. Produced and broadcast in New York City, Streaming Museum generates its dynamic, innovative content of international fine arts, pop culture and visionary innovations in collaboration with prominent and emerging visual and performing artists and curators. The museum also has a history of presenting exhibitions and events at partnering cultural centers and international arts festivals.
Our collaborative program will feature video programs curated for the ZERO1 Biennale in San Jose, California and other international art festivals. Between the works presented on SKY SCREEN and our gallery exhibition, we will be featuring 4 Streaming Museum programs including 20 artists from around the globe. In an exchange between New York and Berlin, the launch of our collaboration with the Streaming Museum is timed to coincide with MOMENTUM’s exhibition A WAKE: Still Lives and Moving Images traveling to New York.
More information coming soon to our Current Exhibition and SKY SCREEN page.
The Reincarnation! MOMENTUM’s exhibition A WAKE travels to New York!
A WAKE at the Dumbo Arts Center
1 – 25 November 2012
Postponed due to hurricane – now opening on 3 November
With AES+F, Osvaldo Budet, Annika Eriksson, Yishay Garbasz + Nikola Lutz, Anna Bella Geiger, Stephan Halter, Jarik Jongman, Betty Leirner, David Medalla, Tracey Moffatt, Fiona Pardington, Polynoid, Paul Rascheja, Alain Resnais, Jan Svankmajer
A WAKE is consciousness with an eye on an open coffin. A gathering in celebration as well as mourning, it is humor as much as horror. As a platform dedicated to interrogating time-based art, with A WAKE, MOMENTUM explores what happens when our time runs out. More information on our A WAKE page.
For BERLIN ART WEEK:
MOMENTUM In Conversation with Thomas Eller at the Berlinische Galerie
Cafe Dix, Alte Jakobstrasse 124-128 – 12 September 2012, 19:00 – 21:00
With thanks to IKONO TV for documenting the evening.
Artist/ Thomas Eller in conversation with Cassandra Bird and Rachel Rits-Volloch, directors of MOMENTUM | Worldwide. Between concerns of art, urbanism and globalization Berlin’s art world is ever changing. Berlinische Galerie provides a platform to discuss artistic practices, concepts and projects and to share experiences, successes and limitations.
Founded 2010 in Sydney and 2011 in Berlin, MOMENTUM has established itself as a global platform for time-based art. The non-for-profit institution invites artists, galleries and other artistic workers worldwide to present themselves in Berlin. The term “time-based art“ is at the core of MOMENTUM’s program and goes far beyond the question of media art (film, video) into a deliberation of what constitutes cultural space. What is the impact of the moving image on the moving body in a digital age?! How are cultural spaces shaped by the moving image – by images that move us? Cassandra and Rachel will report on their various activities and experiences in and with fast changing cultural environments and artistic strategies. The talk will be accompanied by a screening of the MOMENTUM Collection and the launch of this month’s SKY SCREEN program, turning the facade of the Berlinische Galerie into a screen for video art.
At MOMENTUM | Berlin
Opening TONIGHT
Solo Exhibition of ZUZANNA JANIN
September 7 – November 7
Please join us for the premiere of ZUZANNA JANIN’S complete series Majka from the Movie – the first time all 9 episodes will be seen together, along with sculpture and stills to round out the show. MOMENTUM is proud to host this exceptional event.
At MOMENTUM | Berlin
1 September, 19:00 – 22:00
With performance by Mariana Hahn: I SWEAT YOU
“LIFE IS A PUBLIC EXECUTION” (Mariana Hahn, I SWEAT YOU)
MORE INFORMATION ON CURRENT EXHIBITION
PRESS review of exhibition opening: BLOUIN ART INFO
At MOMENTUM | Berlin
lokal_30 Presents ZUZANNA JANIN
Majka from the Movie
7 September – 14 October
12 September: MOMENTUM Presentation and Artist Talk at the Berlische Galerie
MOMENTUM is happy to announce our forthcoming exhibition with leading Polish artist Zuzanna Janin, in collaboration with lokal_30. Zuzanna Janin lives and works in Warsaw. Author of sculptures, installations, videos, photographs, actions and performances. The central themes of artist’s works are space, memory and time, as well as the states in between. Her works invite reflection on the arbitrariness of social roles, their fluid boundaries and the place of individual freedom within the workings of state and society. In her last works Zuzanna Janin, whose film and video practice, alongside her installations and three dimensional objects, frequently addresses ideas of social construction and formation of interactive singular and/or group identities visualized how both singular and collective identities are manipulated and played off against one another in today’s contemporary culture. A singular identity thus finds itself – as Janin makes us aware – in a continuous state of personal construction and displacement. Majka from the Movie is a series of videos shown at the 54th Venice Biennale. The multichannel projection screened at MOMENTUM features a new work in this series, to be premiered the week before at the Center for Contemporary Art in Warsaw.
ABOUT FACE. A military command. A reflection of our tumultuous times. Reversal, revolution, repetition, identity, defacement, destruction, rebirth. The three emerging talents in this group exhibition converge upon these issues in surprising ways. Jarik Jongman, a painter, invokes performance for the first time in his work. Ensuring the complicity of the spectator, this exhibition is not about watching – it is about being. States of being and becoming are reflected through Mariana Hahn’s evocative performances, her poetry sticking in our brains. The rhythms of Sarah Ludemann’s video works stick too. Flesh and blood or concrete and steel, it is all created to be destroyed.
We’re proud to announce that DAVID MEDALLA, featured in the Migrations exhibition at Tate Britain, presents an Artist Talk tonight at the Tate. Tate Britain is also screening “The Ghost of Isaac Newton at Another Vacant Space”, a video commissioned by MOMENTUM for our exhibition A WAKE in November 2011. This work, made in collaboration with Adam Nankervis, is now part of the MOMENTUM Collection, and can be viewed on the COLLECTION page of this site.
For more information on David Medalla at Tate Britain, follow this link. And take a look at this TateShots video.
MOMENTUM Collection featured on Ikono TV
15 June – 15 August 2012, Screening Throughout the Day
Ikono TV is an outstanding all art all the time HD cable channel screening in over 30 million households across Europe, the Middle East and parts of Asia. With a mission to bring art out of the museums and into peoples homes, Ikono TV makes art an integral part of every day life. MOMENTUM is proud to announce our partnership with this extraordinary initiative by screening selected works from the MOMENTUM Collection, and by sharing the content of our programs for SKY SCREEN, our Public Art initiative bringing international video art to the streets and skyline of Berlin. Our first program on Ikono TV features selected works from the MOMENTUM Collection.
MOMENTUM invites MAP OFFICE: Laurent Gutierrez and Valérie Portefaix for a residency to undertake the production of RUNSCAPE BERLIN, 24 June 24 – 10 July 2012
Following the exhibition of RUNSCAPE HONG KONG at MOMENTUM | Berlin last year, we invite MAP OFFICE to Berlin to produce the next work in this series: RUBSCAPE BERLIN. MAP OFFICE see Berlin as a laboratory where the physical urban territory and the territory of film have been interconnected over the last hundred years – from “M” to “Run Lola Run”. RUNSCAPE BERLIN aims at unfolding a new reading of the city through the eyes of the runner and cinema. For the duration of the MAP OFFICE Residency, we will be screening RUNSCAPE HONG KONG on SKY SCREEN in Rosenthalerplatz – Look Up: 24 June – 7 July.
FRIDAY 29 June 7pm: RUNNING THE CITIES – mapoffice_DAZ_Invitation
Lecture and screening of RUNSCAPE HONG KONG at DAZ
Deutsches Architektur Zentrum DAZ, Köpenicker Str. 48/49, 10179 Berlin-Mitte
LAST WEEKEND OF THE EXHIBITION
PRESS PLAY: New Perspectives in Contemporary Chinese Art, The dslcollection at MOMENTUM | Berlin
Featuring works by: Cao Fei, Chen Chieh Jen, Liang Juhui, Zhang Peili, Cui Xiuwen, Jiang Zhi
The press are loving SKY SCREEN!