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.
Video from the MOMENTUM Collection screening at Tate Britain
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 announces Partnership with Ikono TV
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.
MAP OFFICE Return for RUNSCAPE BERLIN
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
DSLCOLLECTION EXHIBITION EXTENDED UNTIL JUNE 17
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
Press for SKY SCREEN
The press are loving SKY SCREEN!
Next Opening at MOMENTUM | Berlin
PRESS PLAY: New Perspectives in Contemporary Chinese Art
The dslcollection at MOMENTUM | Berlin
OPENING: TUESDAY APRIL 24, 2012 at 7pm
APRIL 25 – JUNE 12
Cao Fei, Chen Chieh Jen, Liang Juhui, Zhang Peili, Cui Xiuwen, Jiang Zhi
PARTNERSHIP with MUSRARA SCHOOL of ART
MOMENTUM | Worldwide is happy to announce our partnership with the Musrara School of Art in launching our Jerusalem Residency on 21 May 2012. To mark the beginning of our collaboration, the MOMENTUM Collection will be screened at the Musraramix Festival in Jerusalem, 22 – 24 May. Artists and organizers of the Festival are invited to a special event to open the MOMENTUM Jerusalem Residency on May 21.
The MOMENTUM | Jerusalem Residency is designed to further the mission of MOMENTUM as a global platform for time-based art, serving as a bridge joining professional art communities across national borders, by means of Collaboration, Exchange, Education, and Exploration. Uniquely located inside the walls of the Old City in Jerusalem, Residencies are 3 – 6 months, by invitation. Artists and curators undertaking the Residency will have access to the facilities and support of the Musrara School of Art, and will in turn conduct a workshop and exhibit their work in the school’s public galleries. The Musrara School of Art will send a lecturer annually to undertake a program of curation or exhibition at MOMENTUM | Berlin.
Musrara, the Naggar school of Photography, Media, New Music, Animation and Phototherapy was founded in 1986 in Jerusalem’s Musrara neighbourhood. Musrara, perhaps more than any other place, symbolises the complexity of the Israeli experience: a neighbourhood situated at the divide between West and East Jerusalem, overlooking the walls of the Old City. The Naggar School works within a framework of practice based research, taking into consideration the visual biographies and unique identities that comprise society in Jerusalem. The school is strongly committed to providing a socially engaged community based art programme that is sensitive and inclusive of the multicultural communities in Jerusalem, and in Israel.
MUSRARAMIX FESTIVAL
MOMENTUM Collection screening at Musraramix Festival in Jerusalem 23 – 25 May 2012
We’re proud to announce the MOMENTUM Collection will be screened at the Musraramix Festival in Jerusalem to mark our partnership with the Musrara School of Art and the launch of the MOMENTUM Jerusalem Residency.
Musraramix is an annual outdoor public art festival focusing on moving image and performance art. For the Musraramix Festival, we curate the MOMENTUM | Collection into 3 programs:
1. Subjects and Objects looks at works which address the individual as both subject and object of the gaze, of scientific enquiry and biological necessity, of the material expectations of beauty, and as objectified by the material traces of individual histories. Including works by: Tracey Moffatt, Nezaket Ekici, Hye Rim Lee, Mark Karasick, Gabriele Leidloff, Fiona Pardington
2. Rituals and Ghosts brings together works which look at the stories, traditions, and games we repeat to ourselves and to others, which define both the stark differences between cultures, and the sometimes uncanny similarities between them. Including works by: Osvaldo Budet, David Medalla, Martin Sexton, Eric Bridgeman, TV Moore, Hannu Karjalainen
3. Evolution/Revolution begins with the purity of nature, and moves on to ancient civilizations, the beginnings of society, racing in to the present day to address the many ways mankind misuses its hard-earned civilization. Including work by: Janet Laurence, Mariana Vassileva, Eric Bridgeman, Martin Sexton, James P Graham, Map Office, Doug Fishbone, Sumugan Sivanesan
ARTISTS from the MOMENTUM COLLECTION at the KYIV BIENNALE
Artists from the MOMENTUM Collection being shown in the Kyiv Biennale: Map Office, Tracey Moffatt, and Fiona Pardington.
See the full artist list and more info: click here
BE.BOP 2012
MOMENTUM is proud to feature two works from our Collection in BE.Bop 2012. Black Europe Body Politics – A Transdisciplinary Roundtable and Screening Program taking place across international locations in Europe and Africa.
The works shown are:
Tracey Moffatt’s Other (2009), A Tracey Moffatt and Gary Hilberg video collaboration
Sumugan Sinavesan’s Children’s Book of War (2010), Digital Animation
BE.BOP 2012- BLACK EUROPE BODY POLITICS is an international screening program and transdisciplinary roundtable centered on Black European citizenship in connection to recent moving image and performative practices. In Berlin, it will take place at The Ballhaus Naunynstrasse, a translocal theatre space which serves as point of arrival for artists from (post) migrant communities and beyond, founded in 2008 by Shermin Langhoff with the support of Fatih Akin. The international program will then travel to Goldsmith’s College, University of London, The Bioscope Johannesburg, the Havana Biennale, and other international locations. More information can be found on: http://blackeuropebodypolitics. wordpress.com/ , and on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/BLACK-EUROPE-BODY-POLITICS/351469631543521?ref=tn_tnmn
First stop: Johannesburg! The Bioscope
STAGING THE WORLD | PERFORMING THE FLOOR
Coming up Exhibition by MOMENTUM: Staging the World – Performing the Floor
Title of the exhibition: Staging the World – Performing the Floor
Exhibition venue: Momentum Berlin
Exhibition dates: 11.05./12.5.
Artists: Nadja Verena Marcin (NYC), Kathryn Garcia (NYC) et al.
Curator: Veit Rieber (Berlin)
Fore more information, visit our Coming Up section!
VIMEO
MOMENTUM | Berlin now has a VIMEO Channel, check it out!
http://vimeo.com/channels/308530
SKY SCREEN
Momentum Worldwide collaborates with Uslu Airlines to present the Sky Screen in Rosenthalerplatz – Berlin. Coming Soon!!
MOMENTUM COLLECTION
MOMENTUM | Worldwide is proud to screen the MOMENTUM Collection in Venice at the Palazzo Albrizzi during the opening week of the Venice Biennale. This screening gratefully features two new donations to the MOMENTUM Collection by Hye Rim Lee and Gabriele Leidloff.
The MOMENTUM Collection features works generously donated by artists showcased at MOMENTUM | Sydney, the inaugural Event of MOMENTUM | Worldwide, as well as artists invited to future MOMENTUM Events. Works from this Collection are available to collectors, with all proceeds going to support the activities of MOMENTUM, which is a non-profit platform supporting time-based art practices and practitioners. The Collection can be viewed on this site under the MOMENTUM Collection tab.