OPEN CALL 2024

MOMENTUM-LAGOS [Berlin]
LAGOS-MOMENTUM [Mexico City]

RESIDENCY PROGRAM

Since 2023, LAGOS and MOMENTUM have initiated a series of exchanges between our institutions which enable the mobility and visibility of the artistic communities of Mexico City and Berlin through our Artist-in-Residence Programs in both cities. Starting in 2024, we open the applications to international artists and curators, regardless of their nationality or where they are based. The locations of the Residencies are in Berlin at MOMENTUM-LAGOS in the Kunstquartier Bethanien Art Center, or at LAGOS in Mexico City.

MOMENTUM AiR / LAGOS Berlin
ARTIST RESIDENCY

#7: IRMA SOFIA POETER

OPEN STUDIO

NEW MAN, A WOMAN’S GAZE

With Live Performance:

It’s a Girl! Opening one door and closing another

Artist Residency Presentation by Irma Sofia Poeter

30 September 2023 @ 6 – 9pm, Performance 8pm

@ MOMENTUM-LAGOS

Kunstquartier Bethanien, rm 134

Mariannenplatz 2, Berlin

Irma Sofía Poeter is a Mexican American artist who has lived on both sides of the San Diego-Tijuana border. For her Artist Residency at MOMENTUM-LAGOS, Poeter brought a selection of recent works, entitles NEW MAN, A WOMAN’S GAZE, to present in dialogue with new work created in Berlin. “It’s a GIRL! Opening one door and closing another” is closely related to the “New Man” series – a body of work that explores the possibility of deconstructing hegemonic masculinity and opts for alternative masculinities in which ways of being and existing in the world stand out differently. With the performance “It’s a GIRL!”, Poeter starts to imagine the deconstruction of that hegemonic masculinity in women. How can we alter, transform, recreate this structure? As more women enter and thrive in this vertical and patriarchal system, we are just conforming and settling into the same system we are revolting from. Who is this New Woman that embraces both her masculine and feminine and projects that balance into the creation of a new and harmonious world? These are some of the topics Poeter explores during her Artist Residency at MOMENTUM-LAGOS.

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MOMENTUM AiR / LAGOS Berlin
ARTIST RESIDENCY

#6: RAÚL CERRILLO

OPEN STUDIO

New Mythologies:

Intelligence vs Consciousness

Artist Residency Presentation by Raúl Cerrillo

1 September 2023 @ 6 – 9pm

@ MOMENTUM-LAGOS

Kunstquartier Bethanien, rm 134

Mariannenplatz 2, Berlin

With his paintings, sculptures and installations, the Mexican artist Raúl Cerrillo builds a bridge between the past of our ancient cultures and the future that can be expected from today’s technological age. The syncretism expressed in his works speaks of the importance of blending different cultures and traditions to connect with ourselves and with other people. In this context, he proposes new myths and archetypes to help us find our own way.

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Parallel to his Artist Residency at MOMENTUM-LAGOS,
Raúl Cerrillo holds an exhibition at Mexican Embassy:

With his paintings, sculptures and installations, the Mexican artist Raúl Cerrillo builds a bridge between the past of our ancient cultures and the future that can be expected from today’s technological age. The syncretism expressed in his works speaks of the importance of blending different cultures and traditions to connect with ourselves and with other people. In this context, he proposes new myths and archetypes to help us find our own way.

New Mythologies:

OPENING: 28 August @ 6-8pm

EXHIBITION: 29 August – 11 October 2023

Opening Hours: Monday – Friday @ 9-5pm

@ The Cultural Institute of Mexico in Germany

Embassy of Mexico

Klingelhöferstraße 3, 10785 Berlin

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Far Away So Close / In weiter Ferne, so Nah!

Mexico in Berlin

Featuring:

Julieta Aranda, Luis Carrera-Maul, Mariana Castillo Deball, Emilio Chapela, Sandra Contreras & Anselmo Fox, Beatriz Morales, Naomi Rincón Gallardo, Gabriel Rossell Santillá

Curated by Luis Carrera-Maul

Within the framework of the 30th anniversary of sisterhood between Berlin and Mexico City,

MOMENTUM & LAGOS jointly present

Far Away So Close / In weiter Ferne, so Nah!

An exhibition of contemporary art by Mexican artists working in Berlin.

FINISSAGE: 23 July @ 5-8pm

With Catalogue Launch & Mezcal by San Cosme

Catalogue Design by Emilio Rapanà

EXHIBITION: 6 July – 23 August 2023

Opening Hours: Monday – Friday @ 9-5pm

@ The Cultural Institute of Mexico in Germany

Embassy of Mexico

Klingelhöferstraße 3, 10785 Berlin

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TRUTHTRUSTTREES

FEATURING:

Alena Grom, Verena Issel, Laura J. Lukitsch, Sonya Schönberger, Nina E. Schönefeld, Benjamin Heim Shepard, Caroline Shepard, Andreas Templin, Philip Topolovac, Magaly Vega

Curated by Caroline Shepard & Benjamin Heim Shepard

OPENING: 27 July @ 5-9pm

With Movable Performance by Patrick Jambon @ 6-8pm
& Musical Intervention by Andreas Templin: Aurorhytmica Hymns // Extended Piano (Drone/Doom) @ 8:30pm

POETRY & SOUND: 2 August @ 6-8pm

“How Do We Love This World“: Sound Performance and Guided Cemetery Walk by Laura J. Luetisch,
“Roses of Resistance”: Reading by Federico Hewson,
& A Celebration of Trees with Poetry from Ben Shepard and Max Haivenm

FINISSAGE: 6 August @ 4-9pm

Raise money for Ukraine! Unique poster from Ukrainian artist Alena Grom will be for sale. Proceeds will be donated.
Caroline and Ben Shepard say “Adieu” to Berlin and all the wonderful people they have met. Celebrate with live music by the band “Isaak” and D/VJ AntiDodi.

EXHIBITION: 28 July – 6 August 2023

Opening Hours: Tuesday – Sunday @ 12-6pm

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MOMENTUM AiR / LAGOS Berlin
ARTIST RESIDENCY

#5: AURORA PELLIZZI

OPEN STUDIO

RHABARBER SPRITZ

Works on Paper, Weaving & Felt

Artist Residency Presentation by Aurora Pellizzi

28 July @ 5 -9 pm

@ MOMENTUM-LAGOS

Kunstquartier Bethanien, rm 134

Mariannenplatz 2, Berlin

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Far Away So Close / In weiter Ferne, so Nah!

Mexico in Berlin

Featuring:

Julieta Aranda, Luis Carrera-Maul, Mariana Castillo Deball, Emilio Chapela, Sandra Contreras & Anselmo Fox, Beatriz Morales, Naomi Rincón Gallardo, Gabriel Rossell Santillá

Curated by Luis Carrera-Maul

Within the framework of the 30th anniversary of sisterhood between Berlin and Mexico City,

MOMENTUM & LAGOS jointly present

Far Away So Close / In weiter Ferne, so Nah!

An exhibition of contemporary art by Mexican artists working in Berlin.

OPENING: 5 July @ 5-9pm

EXHIBITION: 6 July – 23 August 2023

Opening Hours: Monday – Friday @ 9-5pm

@ The Cultural Institute of Mexico in Germany

Embassy of Mexico

Klingelhöferstraße 3, 10785 Berlin

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MOMENTUM AiR / LAGOS Berlin
ARTIST RESIDENCY

#4: LAURA VALENCIA LOZADA

OPEN STUDIO

KREUZBERG<>TLATELOLCO

Artist Residency Presentation by Laura Valencia Lozada

For the Art-In-Context Masters Program at the Universität der Künste Berlin (UDK)

1 July @ 5 – 9 pm

@ MOMENTUM-LAGOS

Kunstquartier Bethanien, rm 134

Mariannenplatz 2, Berlin

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You Know That You Are Human

travels to

The Countless Cities Biennial III

OPENING: 23 June 2023 @ 8pm

EXHIBITION: 24 June 2023 – 28 January 2024

OPENING HOURS: Thursday – Saturday @ 4 – 7pm

@ Farm Cultural Park, Favara & Mazzarino

Corso Vittorio Emanuele 404, Mazzarino, Sicily

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MOMENTUM AiR / LAGOS Berlin
ARTIST RESIDENCY

#3: LUIA CORSINI

OPEN STUDIO:

BEYOND BAUHAUS

Works-in-Progress

27 May 2023 @ 5-9pm

@ MOMENTUM-LAGOS

Kunstquartier Bethanien, rm 134

Mariannenplatz 2, Berlin

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You Know That You Are Human

Travels to the Kultursymposium Weimar 2023

A MATTER OF TRUST

Featuring:

Valentyn Bo, Aleksander Chekmenev, Maryna Frolova, Oleksander Glyadyelov, Paraska Plytka Horytsvit, Borys Gradov, Alena Grom, Viktor and Sergey Kochetov, Yulia Krivich, Sasha Kurmaz, Viktor Marushchenko, Sergey Melnitchenko, Boris Mikhailov with Mykola Ridnyi, Valeriy Miloserdov, Iryna Pap, Evgeniy Pavlov, Roman Pyatkovka, Natasha Shulte, Synchrodogs, Viktoriia Temnova, Mykola Trokh

Curated by Kateryna Filyuk

In this edition of the exhibition at Galerie EIGENHEIM Weimar, You Know That You Are Human is presented together with selected video artists from the MOMENTUM Collection.

Lutz Becker, Nezaket Ekici, Thomas Eller, Mahsa Foroughi, Christian Jankowski, Shahar Marcus, Christian Niccoli, Nina E. Schönefeld, Caroline Shepard, Mariana Vassileva

Curated Rachel Rits Volloch & Emilio Rapanà

OPENING: 9 May 2023 @ 6-9pm

ARTIST TALK: 11 May @ 4pm

EXHIBITION: 11 May – 3 June 2023

EXHIBITION EXTENDED UNTIL 10 June 2023

Opening Hours: Thurs-Sat @ 4-7pm

@ Galerie EIGENHEIM Weimar

Asbachstrasse 1, 99423 Weimar, Germany

Part of the Kultursymposium Weimar:

10-12 May 2023

A MATTER OF TRUST

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MOMENTUM – LAGOS

Present:

EMILIO CHAPELA

There are no clouds on Google

SCREENING & ARTIST TALK

13 May 2023 @ 7pm

@ MOMENTUM

Kunstquartier Bethanien

Mariannenplatz 2, Berlin

Emilio Chapela is a visual artist and researcher. His practice, which is informed by science and ecology, aims to visualize bonds and connections between humans and nonhumans to reconcile with the world’s manifold temporalities and movements. His work deals with multiple ideas about time and space. He is a fellow at Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte (2022-2024) in Mexico. He has exhibited extensively in Mexico, Latinoamerica, the USA and Europe. His most recent solo Museum exhibition was at Laboratorio Arte Alameda in Mexico City in 2019, where he collaborated with architects, astronomers and scientists. He has a PhD in Artistic Research from the University of Plymouth, UK. He is the co-curator of entre—ríos.

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MOMENTUM AiR / LAGOS Berlin
ARTIST RESIDENCY

#2: MERCEDES GERTZ

OPEN STUDIO

26-28 April 2023 @ 6-9pm

DREAM FOR A DREAM

Participatory Workshop by Mercedes Gertz

with Tarot Performance by Paulina Jade Doniz

@ MOMENTUM

Kunstquartier Bethanien

Mariannenplatz 2, Berlin

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MOMENTUM AiR / LAGOS Berlin
ARTIST RESIDENCY

#1: Magaly Vega Lopez

1 – 31 March 2023

OPEN STUDIO

29 March 2023 @ 6-9pm

LOVE IN A MIST
Performance by Magaly Vega Lopez @ 7pm

ARTIST TALK @ 7:30pm

Magaly Vega Lopez in dialogue with Luis Carrera Maul, Director of LAGOS Mexico City & Berlin
& Caroline Shepard, Artist and Prof. of Photography

@ MOMENTUM

Kunstquartier Bethanien

Mariannenplatz 2, Berlin

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CURATORS TALK & VIDEO SCREENING

20 February 2023 @ 18:30

With Rachel Rits-Volloch & Emilio Rapanà

VIDEOS from ELSEWHERE: Tijuana

Selected Works from the MOMENTUM Collection @ ICBC

The Cultural Institute of Baja California, Mexico

Part of the MOMENTUM, Berlin – LAGOS, Mexico City Partnership Program

On the occasion of
the 30th anniversary of Berlin & Mexico City as Sister Cities

ART from ELSEWHERE: Mexico City

On the Occasion of Mexico City Art Week 2023
and the 30th anniversary of Berlin & Mexico City as Sister Cities

OPENING:
2 February 2023 @ 20:00

EXHIBITION:
3 February – 2 March 2023

Opening Hours:
Art Week, 6-12 February: 11:00 – 18:00

All Other Times,
OPEN BY APPOINTMENT
info@artelagos.mx

Featuring:

aaajiao – AES+F – Inna Artemova – Claudia Chaseling & Emilio Rapanà – Margret Eicher – Nezaket Ekici – Thomas Eller – Theo Eshetu – Amir Fattal – Christian Jankowski – Ola Kolehmainen – David Krippendorff – Milovan Destil Marković – Almagul Menlibayeva – Gulnur Mukazhanova – Kirsten Palz – Nina E. Schönefeld – Caroline Shepard – David Szauder – Vadim Zakharov

Curated by Rachel Rits-Volloch & Emilio Rapanà

Laguna de Tamiahua 3,
Anáhuac I Sección,
Mexico City, 11320, Mexico

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You Know That You Are Human

@ POINTS of RESISTANCE V

Opening: 3 December 2022 at 1pm – 6pm

Exhibition: 4 December 2022 – 7 January 2023

@ Zionskirche

Zionskirchplatz, 10119 Berlin Mitte

Opening Times:

Monday – Friday / 2 – 6 pm

Saturday + Sunday / 12 – 6 pm

ARTISTS:

You Know That You Are Human

Valentyn Bo, Aleksander Chekmenev, Maryna Frolova, Oleksander Glyadyelov, Paraska Plytka Horytsvit, Borys Gradov, Alena Grom, Viktor and Sergey Kochetov, Yulia Krivich, Sasha Kurmaz, Viktor Marushchenko, Sergey Melnitchenko, Boris Mikhailov with Mykola Ridnyi, Valeriy Miloserdov, Iryna Pap, Evgeniy Pavlov, Roman Pyatkovka, Natasha Shulte, Synchrodogs, Viktoriia Temnova, Mykola Trokh

POINTS of RESISTANCE V

Borys Artiukovych, Lutz Becker, Andreas Blank, Viki Berg, Karol Broniatowski, Kerstin Dzewior, Louisa Dzewior, Thomas Eller, Mahsa Foroughi, FRANEK, Sofia Golubeva, Chris Hammerlein, Gregor Hildebrandt, Christian Jankowski, Anne Jungjohann, Gita Kurdpoor, Maria Lutsak, Volker März, Iris Musolf, Anastasia Pasechnik, Stefan Rinck, Antony Reznik, Nina E. Schönefeld, Deborah Sengl, Kerstin Serz, Caroline Shepard, Marta Vovk, Patricia Waller, Sofiia Yesakova

Curated by:
Kateryna Filyuk, Constanze Kleiner, Rachel Rits-Volloch, Stephan von Wiese

Organized by:
IZOLYATSIA, MOMENTUM, KLEINERVONWIESE

Supported by:
Ukrainian Institute, Goethe-Institut as well as Goethe-Institut in Exile

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Far Away So Close

LAGOS Mexico City / MOMENTUM Berlin
Art Exchange

On the occasion of the 30th anniversary of partnership between Berlin and Mexico City as sister cities.

We welcome applications from Berlin-based artists/curators/urban practitioners to the LAGOS Residency in Mexico City, and project proposals for the Mexico City / Berlin 30th Anniversary program in 2023!

And we welcome applications and project proposals from artists/curators/urban practitioners based in Mexican City to the LAGOS Berlin Residency @ MOMENTUM!

APPLICATIONS & INFO:
info@artelagos.mx

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MORE INFO @ www.mexicocity-berlin.org > >

Presented at the

Danube Dialogues Contemporary Art Festival

for the European Capital of Culture 2022 Novi Sad

In the historic Karlovci Gymnasium, Sremski Karlovci, Serbia

19 August – 15 September 2022

ART from ELSEWHERE:
Danube Dialogues

Selected Artists from the MOMENTUM Collection

Marina Belikova // Claudia Chaseling // Nezaket Ekici // David Krippendorff // David Szauder // Mariana Vassileva // Vadim Zakharov

“ART from ELSEWHERE: Danube Dialogues” presents a selection of video artworks by seven artists from the MOMENTUM Collection, Berlin, who come from the Danube regions of Germany, Hungary, and Bulgaria. MOMENTUM’s program is presented for the European Capital of Culture 2022 Novi Sad, in the Danube Dialogues Festival in Sremski Karlovci, Serbia, and is shown in parallel to the exhibition “Danube Dialogues”, featuring Milovan Destil Markovic, Claudia Chaseling, and Inna Artemova – three artists from the MOMENTUM Collection.

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Mahsa Foroughi

Website – CV

15 June – 15 November 2022

ARTIST BIO:

Mahsa Foroughi is a published Persian poet, filmmaker, critic and architect. She was awarded her PhD for interdisciplinary research on architecture, film and philosophy that questioned the status quo of humans’ perception. As an academic, she has been teaching architecture history and theory at UNSW since 2018. Mahsa is one of the authors of The Theatre Times, a non-partisan, global theatre portal. Mahsa has recently been offered an artist residency in Berlin to develop and produce her docudrama A Poetic Suicide. She has also finished her first non-fiction book, Haptic Visuality in Arts. She previously engaged with the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), National Art School (NAS) and Carriageworks as a literary curator’s assistant.

A POETIC SUICIDE

For her Artist Residency project at MOMENTUM, Iranian filmmaker and poet Mahsa Foroughi undertakes research for the production of her new film, A Poetic Suicide. Set in three seminal cities spanning three continents – Tehran, Sydney, and Berlin – this work commingles the bitter truths of history and the poetic license of fiction to address individual and collective memory, trauma and healing, dream and reality. Based on a young poet’s life in post-revolutionary Iran, and then in Europe and Australia, A Poetic Suicide explores a young girl’s attempt to escape the trauma of persecution through an inner journey taking her to her most terrible memories and fears. The film traces the poet’s growth from a rebellious teenager in Iran to a desperate young woman in Australia, and onwards through her family connection to Berlin. Shot on location and also using found documentary footage, this film is designed as visual poetry comingling historical fact with fictional dreamscapes.

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OPENING: 7 April 2022 @ 6pm

EXHIBITION: 8 April – 1 May 2022

CONCERT by Sven Helbig: 17 April 2022 @ 7pm

PANEL DISCUSSION: 26 April 2022

@ Zionskirche

Zionskirchplatz, Berlin

Monday – Saturday: 14:00 – 18:00
Sunday & Holidays before Easter: 12:00 –16:00
Sunday & Holidays after Easter: 12:00 –18:00

Featuring:

Andreas Blank – Jonas Burgert – Tony Cragg – Wojtek Doroszuk – Nezaket Ekici – FRANEK – Asta Grötting – Sven Helbig – Stefan Höller – Olaf Holzapfel – Huang Jia – Nikita Kadan – William Kentridge – Ola Kolehmainen – Via Lewandowsky – Bernd Lohaus – Sarah Loibl – Boris Mikhailov – Fiona Pardington – Angelika Platen – Gerhard Richter – Stefan Rinck – Arsen Savadov – Katharina Sieverding – Vadim Zakharov

Initiated by:

MOMENTUM & KLEINERVONWIESE

Curated by:

Constanze Kleiner, Daniel Marzona, Rachel Rits-Volloch, Stephan von Wiese, in cooperation with David Elliott

Ukrainian Video Program curated by Kateryna Filyuk:

Piotr Armianovski – Fantastic Little Splash – Oksana Karpovych – Dana Kavelina – Yarema Malashuk & Roman Himey – Oleksiy Radynski – Mykola Ridnyi

POINTS of RESISTANCE WEBSITE > >

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27 March @ 6-9pm

Hannu Karjalainen Performs His Visual Album LUXE @ 7pm

Karjalainen presents a live rendition of his most recent work, the audiovisual project LUXE, released by Berlin record label Karaoke Kalk in December 2021. While STATES of EMERGENCY poses the question “What is the role of the artist in a state of emergency?”, Hannu Karjalainen’s new visual album LUXE is inspired by a parallel question, addressing “whether being able to make art in times when the world is quite literally burning must be understood as a luxury or rather a necessity that helps humans to reflect upon the slowly unfolding catastrophes around them?”

@ MOMENTUM

Kunstquartier Bethanien

Mariannenplatz 2, Berlin

2G+ Corona Rules Apply:
Proof of Vaccination or Recovery AND a Negative Test REQUIRED

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POUSH-Manifesto Artist Incubator

Open Studios Exhibition

5 February 2022

11:00 – 19:00

Featuring:

Mariana Hahn // Boryana Petkova // Mariana Vassileva

Curated by Rachel Rits-Volloch

@ POUSH Manifesto

Studio of Boryana Petkova & Mariana Vassileva

6 Boulevard du Général Leclerc
92110 Clichy, Paris, France

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The Conclusion of MOMENTUM’s 10th Anniversary Program

OPENING (2G+): 11 December @ 7-9pm

11 December 2021 – 27 March 2022

FINISSAGE PERFORMANCE (2G+):

HANNU KARJALAINEN Performing His Visual Album LUXE

27 March @ 6-9pm

CLOSED FOR THE HOLIDAYS:
20 December 2021 – 4 January 2022

Featuring:

aaajiao (CN) – Iván Buenader (AR) – Claudia Chaseling (DE) + Emilio Rapanà (IT/DE) – Margret Eicher (DE) – Nezaket Ekici (TR/DE) – Thomas Eller (DE) – Amir Fattal (IL/DE) – Doug Fishbone (US/UK) – Máximo González (AR) – Hannu Karjalainen (FI) – David Krippendorff (US/DE) – Shahar Marcus (IL) – Milovan Destil Marković (CS/DE) – Christian Niccoli (IT) – Kirsten Palz (DK) – Nina E. Schönefeld (DE) – Sumugan Sivanesan (AU)

Curated by Rachel Rits-Volloch & Emilio Rapanà

Supported by Stiftung KUNSTFONDS

@ MOMENTUM Gallery
Kunstquartier Bethanien
Mariannenplatz 2, 10997 Berlin

& the MOMENTUM Channel on IkonoTV

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ONLINE EXHIBITION
ON

5 November – 31 December 2021

Featuring Video Art from TAKING FLIGHT: Birds & Bicycles Berlin:

AES+F // Shaarbek Amankul // Marina Belikova //
Zuzanna Janin // Dominik Lejman // Almagul Menlibayeva // Hajnal Nemeth // David Szauder

Curated by
Rachel Rits-Volloch & Emilio Rapanà

With David Elliott, Curatorial Advisor & Symposium Organizer

CLICK HERE to view TAKING FLIGHT: Birds & Bicycles on IkonoTV >>

Birds & Bicycles: Paradoxes of Freedom

SYMPOSIUM PROGRAM

9 November 2021

The 32nd Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall

11:00 – 13:30 & 18:30 – 23:00

At Zionskirche, Zionskirchplatz, Berlin Mitte

Morning Program – 3G rules apply: proof of vaccination, recovery, or negative test required.

Places are limited. Please Register by email HERE >>

11:00 – 11:30

Unveiling of the new monumental sculpture Why I Bear by Stefan Rinck
[in English and German]

11:30 – 12:00

Film Screening – Heart of Stone, by Sonja Baeger on the work of Stefan Rinck
[in German with English subtitles]

12:00 – 13:00
Panel Discussion – Birds & Bicycles: Paradoxes of Freedom [in English]

Moderated by David Elliott
Curator, Writer, Art Historian, Museum Director (Oxford, UK / Berlin)

Tatiana Arzamasova
Artist from AES+F (Moscow, Russia / Berlin)

Thomas Eller
Artist and Curator, Artistic Director at Taoxichuan China Arts & Sciences, President of Randian Magazine, Director of THEgallery (Mürsbach, Germany / Berlin)

Dominik Lejman
Artist and Professor at the University of the Arts Poznan (Poznan, Poland / Berlin)

Zsuzsanna Petró
Curator at the Collegium Hungaricum Berlin, formerly at the Ludwig Museum Budapest (Budapest, Hungary / Berlin)

Rachel Rits-Volloch
Curator and Founding Director of MOMENTUM

13:00 – 13:40
Film Screening – Allegoria Sacra by AES+F

Evening Program – 2G rules apply: proof of vaccination, or recovery required.

Places are limited. Please Register by email HERE >>

Buy Tickets for TRES MOMENTOS – CLICK HERE >>

18:30 – 19:00

Unveiling of the new monumental sculpture Why I Bear by Stefan Rinck
[in English and German]

19:00 – 19:30

Film Screening Heart of Stone, by Sonja Baeger on the work of Stefan Rinck
[in German with English Subtitles]

19:30 – 20:30
Lecture – The Church, the Resistance and the Bear – Philosopher, historian, and publisher

Christian Posthofen addresses the Zionskirche as a heterotopia.
[in German]

21:00 – 22:00
Concert – TRES MOMENTOS by Sven Helbig, conducted by Wilhelm Keitel

To Buy Tickets for TRES MOMENTOS – CLICK HERE >>

In Cooperation With
Ruhsor Museum of Contemporary Art, Samarkand, and the Samarkand State Museum,
Part of the Culture in Motion Program of the Goethe Institute

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TAKING FLIGHT

Birds & Bicycles Berlin

3 September – 14 November 2021

@ MOMENTUM

Kunstquartier Bethanien

Mariannenplatz 2, 10997 Berlin, Germany

Featuring:

AES+F // Shaarbek Amankul // Inna Artemova // Marina Belikova // Zuzzana Janin, Alexei Kostroma // Dominik Lejman // Almagul Menlibayeva,
Hajnal Nemeth // David Szauder // Mariana Vassileva // Vadim Zakharov

Curated by Rachel Rits-Volloch & Emilio Rapanà

With David Elliott, Curatorial Advisor & Symposium Organiser

Together Birds & Bicycles

Initiated by Georgy Nikich, Association of Cultural Managers, Moscow

Supported by a grant from the
German Federal Foreign Office for the Expansion of Cooperation with Civil Society
in the Eastern Partnership Countries and Russia

In Partnership With:

Moscow Museum, Moscow, Russia; Culture Center The Rails, Tver, Russia; Media Center Vyhod, Petrozavodsk, Russia; Ufa, MIRAS Gallery & Vozrozhdenie, Republic of Bashkortostan, Russia; BWA Krosno, Krosno, Poland; Kadr Cultural Center, Warsaw, Poland; City Cultural Institute, Gdansk, Poland; MOMENTUM, Berlin, Germany

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ART from ELSEWHERE – Seoul Selection

Video Art from the MOMENTUM Collection

21st Seoul International ALT
Cinema & Media Festival (NeMaf)

19 – 27 August 2021

Featuring:

AES+F // Theo Eshetu // Amir Fattal // David Krippendorff // Almagul Menlibayeva // Nina E. Schönefeld // David Szauder

Curated by Rachel Rits-Volloch & Emilio Rapanà

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HOMELAND in TRANSIT

Returns to MOMENTUM in this new iteration – Through The Clouds – curated by Angelika Li

11 – 25 July 2021

With Hong Kong artists:

Luke Ching, Lo Lai Lai Natalie, Yim Sui Song

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ART from ELSEWHERE

Selected Works from the MOMENTUM Collection

11 June – 25 July 2021

@ Kulturforum Ansbach

Kunsthaus Reitbhahn 3, Ansbach, Germany

Supported by KUNSTFONDS

Featuring:

Aaajiao (CN) – Shaarbek Amankul (KG) – Inna Artemova (RU) – Eric Bridgeman (PG/AU) – Stefano Cagol (IT) – Margret Eicher (DE) – Nezaket Ekici (TR/DE) – Thomas Eller (DE) – Theo Eshetu (ET/DE) – Amir Fattal (IL) – Doug Fishbone (US/UK) – James P. Graham (UK) – Mariana Hahn (DE) – Gülsün Karamustafa (TR) – Hannu Karjalainen (FI) – David Krippendorff (IT/DE) – Janet Laurence (AU) – Sarah Lüdemann (DE) – Shahar Marcus (IL) – Kate McMillan (AU/UK) – Almagul Menlibayeva (KZ/BE) – Tracey Moffatt (AU) – Gulnur Mukazhanova (KZ) – Anxiong Qiu (CN) – Varvara Shavrova (RU) – Sumugan Sivanesan (AU) – David Szauder (HU) – Shingo Yoshida (JP)

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WORKSHOP: 8 – 9 September @ 12-5pm

[Participants need not stay for the full duration.]

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Shamanistic Feminism translates traditions of folk art from the Kazakh Steppe to the Kunstquartier Bethanien. A Project for making a large felt hanging for the Focus Kazakhstan Bread & Roses exhibition at MOMENTUM. Anyone may participate. Participants will receive an exhibition catalogue (upon publication), where their names will be listed in relation to this work. Participants can drop in and drop out at any time during the course of the 2-day workshop. We recommend a minimum of two hours. Refreshments will be served.

@ MOMENTUM

Kunstquartier Bethanien

Mariannenplatz 2, 10997 Berlin

FOCUS KAZAKHSTAN BERLIN:

Artist Residency Program Part I

Beibit Asemkul, Liliya Kim, Ykylas Shaikhiyev

Open Studio Exhibition: 21 – 29 July 2018

OPENING: 21 July @ 5-9pm

OPEN STUDIO: 22, 25-29 July @ 1-7pm

@ MOMENTUM

Kunstquartier Bethanien

Mariannenplatz 2, 10997 Berlin

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A cooperation between MOMENTUM and Schlachthaus.fresh&fine art – the solo exhibition of paintings by Maik Schierloh.

OPENING: 11 July 2018 @ 7 p.m.
DURATION: 12 July – 14 September 2018

@ Schlachthaus.fresh&fine art
Budapester Str. 10B
10787 Berlin

Curated by: Constanze Kleiner & Rachel Rits-Volloch

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WINDOWS
No # 1 – Kazakhstan

OPENING: 3 July 2018 @ 7 p.m.
DURATION: 4 July – 11 August 2018

Schlachthaus.editions
@ Chebli – Café & Weinbar,
Mulackstrasse 29,
10119 Berlin

In cooperation with MOMENTUM, Schlachthaus.editions invites the MOMENTUM Focus Kazakhstan Artists-in-Residence to show editions of their works, opening a window onto the Kazakh contemporary art scene and culture.

Curated by: Constanze Kleiner & Rachel Rits-Volloch

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A Cultural Exchange Partnership between
the National Museum of the Republic of Kazakhstan and MOMENTUM Berlin

Curated by:
Rachel Rits-Volloch, Director of MOMENTUM
David Elliott, Chief Curator & Vice Director of Redtory Museum of Contemporary Art, Guangzhou, China
Almagul Menlibayeva, Artist

Organized by:
The National Museum of the Republic of Kazakhstan
&
MOMENTUM Berlin

The FOCUS KAZAKHSTAN Artist Residencies and Exhibitions take place within the framework of the Ruhanyi Zhangru initiative of the Ministry of Culture and Sport of the Republic of Kazakhstan: “Modern Kazakh Culture in the Global World”.

FOCUS KAZAKHSTAN:

1 June – 21 October 2018

Artist Residency Program

Group 1: 1 June – 31 July 2018
Beibit Asemkul, Liliya Kim, Ykylas Shaikhiyev

Group 2: 1 August – 1 October 2018
Anar Aubakir, Saule Suleimenova, Aigerim Ospanova, Gulmaral Tatibayeva

&

Focus Kazakhstan Exhibitions:

25 September – 20 October 2018

@ Kunstquartier Bethanien, Studio 1 & MOMENTUM Gallery

Exhibition Opening Hours: Tuesday – Sunday, 12:00 – 7:00pm. Closed Mondays.

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Your Words Are Only Guesses:
an intersemiotic reading/screening of works-in-progress

Artist talk: 22 April 2018 @ 3pm to 5pm

Exhibition: 22 – 29 April 2018
Opening hours Wed – Sun, 1 – 7pm

@ MOMENTUM
Kunstquartier Bethanien
Mariannenplatz 2, Berlin

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SAVE BAR BABETTE!
Sign the petition: http://barbabette.com/petition/
 

A celebration of International Women’s Day, hosted by Berlin Art Link, Schlachthaus. fresh&fine art, and MOMENTUM. Join us for an evening filled with drinks, music, performances, video art and more – all to SAVE BAR BABETTE!

9:00pm – 10:00pm

Complimentary welcome drink and performances

10pm – late

Immersive DJ set by: Mieko Suzuki

All-night floor-to-ceiling art by:

Inna Artemova, Mariana Hahn, Bjørn Melhus, Andi Olsen, Jesus Pastor, Varvara Shavrova, Ming Wong

More than just a party to celebrate women and art, this event will also help prevent the disappearance of yet another Berlin underground cultural landmark: Unless a petition reaches 11,000 signatures, Kosmetiksalon Babette will be forced to shut. Follow this link to sign the petition and save one of Berlin’s most unique art event venues:

SAVE BAR BABETTE – http://barbabette.com/petition/

aaajiao <> Claudia CHASELING <> JANG Jaerok <> Kira KIM + Hyungkyu KIM <> Zinu KIM <> David KRIPPENDORFF <> Hye Rim LEE <> Milovan Destil MARKOVIĆ <> Jihye PARK

Curated by Rachel Rits-Volloch & Jung Me Chai
 

EXHIBITION: 26 January – 11 March 2018
 

ARTIST TALK: 28 January @ 3:30 – 4:30pm
 

@ MOMENTUM

Mariannenplatz 2, Berlin 10997
 

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To mark the end of 2017, which is the year of friendship between Australia and Germany, MOMENTUM holds two concurrent shows with an all-Australian line-up, taking us back to our Australian roots (MOMENTUM having been founded in Sydney before moving to Berlin in 2011).

MOMENTUM’s two exhibitions, taking place in parallel at the Kunstquartier Bethanien, are Kate McMillan’s solo show The Past Is Singing In Our Teeth, and DOWN UNDER featuring three Australian women from the MOMENTUM Collection: Kate McMillan, Janet Laurence, and Shonah Trescott.

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Landscapes of Loss

The Exhibition for the UN Climate Change Conference, COP23

3 – 5 November in Berlin // 6 – 17 November in Bonn

An Initiative of the Ministry of Environment, Berlin > >

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For Berlin Art Week 2017 MOMENTUM presents:
 
Hole Within the Whole
Installation & Performance by Hobart Hughes

8 September – 8 October 2017
 

OPENING 8 September @ 7-10pm
 

MOMENTUM AiR Open Studio
Performance & Artist Talk with Hobart Hughes
 

10 September @ 5-6pm

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ARTIST TALK

with

CONCEPTUAL COOKING

BEATING THE MEAT

Nezaket Ekici, Mariana Hahn, Ian Haig, Sarah Lüdemann, and Li Zhenhua

13 July @ 7-10pm

At Momentum, Mariannenplatz 2, 10997 Berlin

Part of the Exhibition

FLESH on FLESH

In Cooperation With

FOOD ART WEEK

In 2017 with the theme “vs. Meat”, Berlin Food Art Week addresses topics such as human and animal rights, conscious consumption, environmental issues and sustainability. We are many, and as we all must eat, our diet has a huge influence on our environment. How we deal with our nature and animals, the overproduction, food quality, the impact on the planet and its cultures? These are the issues that are brought to the stage, using art and food to bring attention and awareness.

Inverting the vegetarian premise of this edition of Food Art Week, MOMENTUM uses the occasion of our partnership to engage with five artists from the MOMENTUM Collection and our Artist Residency Program (MOMENTUM AiR) who work with meat as an artistic medium, and as an effective commentary upon cultural practices and taboos. Raw meat, the very visceral building block of all animal life, whether in a kitchen or under a surgeon’s knife, is a substance which in some elicits hunger, in others disgust. Indifference is not an option – especially in this exhibition where the artists each in their own way, some gruesome and others humorous, subvert the loaded meanings of meat.

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For Food Art Week 2017 MOMENTUM presents:
 

FLESH on FLESH

An Exhibition of Artists
from the MOMENTUM Collection
and Residency Program

Featuring:
Nezaket Ekici, Mariana Hahn, Ian Haig, Sarah Lüdemann, Li Zhenhua
and guest starring Jan Svankmajer

OPENING
6 July 2017 @ 7-10pm

EXHIBITION
7 July – 6 August 2017

PERFORMANCES & ARTIST TALK
13 July @ 7-10pm

ARTIST DIALOGUE Beating the Meat with Ian Haig and Sarah Lüdemann
PERFORMANCES by Mariana Hahn and Li Zhenhua

@ MOMENTUM
Kunstquartier Bethanien
Mariannenplatz 2, Berlin

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For Berlin Gallery Weekend 2017
 

Sunday 30 April @ 6 – 8pm

Live Performance:
Premiere of The O Zone
by Clark Beaumont

&

21 April – 21 May 2017

IN PROCESS:Two Parallel Solo Exhibitions

by Amir Fattal & Clark Beaumont

Amir Fattal: Tristan Resurrected
&
Clark Beaumont: The O Zone

@ MOMENTUM & Studio 2
Kunstquartier Bethanien
Mariannenplatz 2, Berlin<    

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29 January – 30 April:
MOMENTUM AiR Studio Residency with Clark Beaumont

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20 March – 30 April:
MOMENTUM AiR Residency with Janet Laurence

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21 April – 21 May:
Berlin & Beyond: In Process
Parallel Exhibitions by Amir Fattal & Clark Beaumont

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1 May – 30 June:
MOMENTUM AiR Residency with Emily Geen

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27 May – 25 June:
There’s No Place Like Time: A Novel You Walk Through
Exhibition by Andi & Lance Olsen

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6 – 8 June:
MOMENTUM Partnership with MusraraMix Festival Jerusalem

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1 July – 23 August:
MOMENTUM AiR Residency with Ian Haig

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7 – 14 July:
MOMENTUM Cooperation with Berlin Food Art Week

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Its finally online! Watch the video of the brilliant performance “Return of the Chthonian – This Is My Land” by MOMENTUM Collection artist Sarah Lüdemann!
Originally performed at the Finissage of “LOVE, ACTUALLY…” at Momentum Worldwide, in partnership with the Oktobarski salon

[fve] http://player.vimeo.com/video/205379183 [/fve]

Title: Return of the Chthonian – This Is My Land
Artist: Sarah luedemann
Recording Date: 26/11/2016
Duration: 02 min 34 sec
Part of Love, Actually… Exhibition

You can watch all our performances in Performance Archive

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Introducing MOMENTUM’s Artists-in-Residence:

29 January – 30 April 2017: Studio Residency with Clark Beaumont

20 March – 30 April: Residency with Janet Laurence

1 May – 30 June 2017: Residency with Emily Geen

5 July – 23 August 2017: Residency with Ian Haig

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Limited edition artworks by Amir Fattal are available to raise funds for the completion of his video work ATARA!

For more information please see Amir Fattal’s Indiegogo campaign – only on until 14 March 2017!

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[UN]SOUNDS OF BUCHENWALD
 

Angelica Baron, Vincent Brière, Vienne Chan, Rafaella Constantinou, Sophie Foster, Kathryn Gohmert, Anke Hannemann, Yihui Liu, Matthew Lloyd, Nasir Malekijoo, Mila Panić, YunJu Park, Mariya Pavlenko, Denise Rosero Bermudez, Feng Runze, Malak Yacout Saleh, Saša Tatić, Sze Ting Wong, Yi Weihua, Ina Weise

(UN)SOUNDS OF BUCHENWALD is an artistic research project by the MFA-Program “Public Art and New Artistic Strategies/ Kunst im öffentlichen Raum und neue künstlerische Strategien”, Faculty of Art and Design, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar resulting in two exhibitions in Weimar/Buchenwald and in Berlin.

Curated by: Bojan Vuletić, Anke Hannemann, Ina Weise // Coordinated by: Jirka Reichmann // In cooperation with Rachel Rits-Volloch
 

EXHIBITION:
 

20 – 24 January 2017 | Opening 20 January @ 3:00pm

@ Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation, Former Disinfection Hall

Weimar Opening Hours: 10:00 am – 4:00 pm (closed on Monday)
 

27 – 29 January 2017 | Opening 27 January @ 7:00pm

@ MOMENTUM, Kunstquartier Bethanien, Mariannenplatz 2, Berlin

Opening Hours: Sat & Sun: 1:00 – 7:00 pm
 

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MOMENTUM Collection Carte Blanche
for ikonoTV Month of the Environment

1 – 30 November 2016

Every Tuesday and Friday – Three Times per Day:

9pm Berlin / NY / Shanghai Time
[Berlin Time: 9pm, 3am, 3pm]

Stefano Cagol // Thomas Eller // James P. Graham // Janet Laurence // Kate McMillan

Selected Works from the MOMENTUM Collection

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Nezaket Ekici, Mariana Hahn, Gülsün Karamustafa, Janet Laurence, Sarah Lüdemann, Tracey Moffatt, Mariana Vassileva
 

Works from the MOMENTUM Collection by Artists Featured in:

The Pleasure Of Love: the 56th October Salon in Belgrade
 

8 October – 27 November 2016

Opening: 8 October @ 5-9pm

Opening Performance by Mariana Hahn @ 6-8pm

Interactive Performance: the Artist Reading an Oracle from Clarice Lispector’s Stream of Life ‘Aqua Viva’
 

Discussion: 26 November 2016

Dialogue with Artists and Curators from the October Salon and MOMENTUM Collections
 

@ MOMENTUM

Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin
 

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28 September – 27 October 2016

1st Daojiao New New Art Festival

Artistic Director: Li Zhenhua

Curatorial Team:
Rachel Rits-Volloch, ABI (Art Bureau of Investigation)

Guangzhou, China

Selected Works from the MOMENTUM Collection

Video Program Featuring:

Qiu Anxiong, Stefano Cagol, Theo Eshetu, Mark Karasick, Hannu Karjalainen, Janet Laurence, Kate McMillan, Tracey Moffatt, Varvara Shavrova, Sumugan Sivanesan
 

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Selected Works from the MOMENTUM Collection

at

Hors Pistes Tokyo 2016

16 – 24 September 2016
 

 

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Y – Why?

Opening: 13 September 2016 @ 7pm

Exhibition: 14-22 September 2016 @ 3-8pm

Curated by Constanze Kleiner & Isabel Bernheimer

@ Ballhaus Secret Garden, Gartenstrasse 6, Berlin

Featuring Artists from the MOMENTUM Collection:

Janet Laurence, Sarah Lüdemann, Fiona Pardington

&

Andreas Blank, Jan Cuck, Via Lewandowsky, Viet Bang Pham, Hella Santarossa, Daniele Sigalot, Alexandra Vogt, Gabriela Volanti, Johannes Vetter

Exhibition initiated by BC – Bernheimer Contemporary in cooperation with Constanze Kleiner, MOMENTUM, and Moritzgruppe
 

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Stefano Cagol’s

PROVOKE EVOKE (THE BORDER) (2011)

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MOMENTUM is on Summer Break

But check out all the great stuff we have coming up this autumn with an international program focused on The MOMENTUM Collection!

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MOMENTUM is proud to welcome into the MOMENTUM Collection

Varava Shavrova’s

THE OPERA. 3 TRANSFORMATIONS (2010-2016)

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Alysha Creighton & Hale Ekinci

Artists-in-Residence Open Studio

23 July 2016

At MOMENTUM

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ROCKELMANN & MOMENTUM

A Gallery Talk with Rachel Rits-Volloch and Alex Rockelmann
 

Two of Berlin’s best international galleries team up to discuss the art of teaming up in the art world.
 

A USArtBerlin Event
 

23 July @ 7 – 9pm
 

At ROCKELMANN &, Schönleinstr. 5, 10967 Berlin

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Beyond BALAGAN ! ! !

HERO MOTHER:

Contemporary Art by Post-Communist Women Rethinking Heroism
 

Let’s Conclude

SYMPOSIUM & FINISSAGE
 

12 June @ 1 – 9pm
 

@ Studio 1 & MOMENTUM Gallery

Kunstquartier Bethanien
Mariannenplatz 2, Berlin Kreuzberg

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Beyond BALAGAN ! ! !

HERO MOTHER:

Contemporary Art by Post-Communist Women
Rethinking Heroism
 

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A Performance by
Luana Wojaczek Perilli

6 May 2016

@ 19.00 – 20.00

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