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

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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

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““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:

Ming Wong + Hu Jieming

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

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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.

MOMENTUM panel discussion:
ON HOW TO COLLECT AND EXHIBIT VIDEO ART – for more information follow this link

 
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 Berlin
 

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.

For more information click here.

Learn more about DO NOT GO GENTLE INTO THIS GOOD NIGHT as Arte TV online talks to the curator/collector behind this remarkable exhibition.

http://creative.arte.tv/fr/space/The_Karte___interview/message/22523/Berlin___Momentum___Lost_and_Found__Do_Not_Go_Gentle_Into_That_Good_Night/

http://www.artslant.com/ber/articles/show/33387

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.

THE MOMENTUM COLLECTION
 

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.

With Mariana Hahn, Jarik Jongman, Sarah Ludemann