Love Parade
Sort of spontaneous piano concert in the street during “Fete de la Musique” Berlin I stumbled into two days ago. Public Space is just the best place for art.
Current Events
Decoding the Black Box
27. January – 2. June 2024
Group Show, Galerie Stadt Sindelfingen, Sindelfingen
Die Ausstellung Decoding the Black Box bringt Künstlerinnen und Künstler zusammen, die Licht in diesen dunklen Raum und die Prozesse werfen, die sich in ihm ereignen. Sie legen dabei nicht nur die Funktionsweisen digitaler Technologien wie beispielsweise von künstlicher Intelligenz offen, sondern visualisieren zugleich die Auswirkungen, die sie auf unsere Wahrnehmung von Realität und unser In-der-Welt-Sein haben. Während sie die ökonomischen und machtpolitischen Strukturen der digitalen Technologien und insbesondere des Internets transparent machen, zeigen sie Gegenentwürfe für eine dezentralisierte, humanere und demokratischere Nutzung ebendieser auf.
Recent Events
Killyourphone workshop
13. April 2024
Workshop, Transmediale exhibition hosted by Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin
14:00 – 16:00
Killyourphone is an open workshop format. Participants are invited to make their own signal blocking phone pouch. In the pouch the phone can’t send or receive any signals. It is dead! This workshop was run for the first time at the Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg end of 2013.
Stitch Incoming!!
25. March 2024
Curatorial, Speed Show at Web Cafe, Athens
Monday 25th of March, 7:00 PM at Web Cafe, Eptanisou 40, 113 61 , Kypseli – Athens
with:
!Mediengruppe Bitnik with Selena Savić & Gordan Savičić , Ingrid Hideki, Joanna Bacas, Kyriaki Goni, Maria Mavropoulou, Marina Gioti, Marsunev, Nadja Buttendorf, Theo Triantafyllidis
Curated by Aram Bartholl & Socrates Stamatatos
Speed Show lands in Greece, the country of souvlaki, the sun (yes we can claim that they originated a celestial body), ouzo, feta, an enormous financial debt. Currently, Greece is also trending for all the wrong reasons namely, gentrification, queerphobia, state crimes and more dystopic incidents.
As 2024 unfolds, we find ourselves amidst a whirlwind of confusion, bombarded with a cacophony of online horrors to consume, an attention span further abbreviated by TikTok’s algorithm and the barrage of incoming stitches.
Stitches Incoming serve as a conduit for creators to engage and converse, traversing from one topic to the next. They have evolved into a new social fabric, weaving connections within an ever-shifting digital and physical landscape while also serving as a testament to personal and collective traumas, both past and present.
What unites the participating digital artists? Perhaps everything and nothing simultaneously… Departing from the traditional Speed Show setup, where artworks are carefully stacked inside internet cafe computers, and drawing inspiration from the structure of TikTok stitches, each piece seems to propel the conversation forward, or perhaps uses the next as a springboard for its own narrative.
Stitch this and stitch that, we have everything you ever wanted (maybe) ! Are we stuck in an infinite loop of sh*tposting, valuable content, the highlight of social issues, personal and interpersonal experiences?
Maybe! Come and find out…
More info on Speed Shows at https://speedshow.net/stitch-incoming/
Killyourphone workshop
23. March 2024
Workshop, Transmediale exhibition hosted by Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin
14:00 – 16:00
Killyourphone is an open workshop format. Participants are invited to make their own signal blocking phone pouch. In the pouch the phone can’t send or receive any signals. It is dead! This workshop was run for the first time at the Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg end of 2013.
Killyourphone workshop
9. March 2024
Workshop, Transmediale exhibition hosted by Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin
14:00 – 16:00
Killyourphone is an open workshop format. Participants are invited to make their own signal blocking phone pouch. In the pouch the phone can’t send or receive any signals. It is dead! This workshop was run for the first time at the Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg end of 2013.
Blog Archive for Tag: public space
“FICKT EUCH”
(“Fuck you all!”)
Daniel Pflumm 2004
at MOUNT WARNING facade gallery,
on Auguststr. (across KW 😉 , Berlin:
One of the best pieces that gallery ever showed. It’s a pitty they are not active anymore.
Mark Jenkins in Berlin?
This “Installation” looks like a Mark Jenkins piece, but the guy is unfortunately real and serious about his begging effort. I keept seeing him at Hackescher Markt Berlin lately. He reminded me so much of Mark’s “invisible” sculptures. Nobody takes notice.
Great work Mark! Was goo to meet you at the Open City exhibition last year!
Skulpturenpark Berlin
Skulpturenpark Berlin do have interesting public space exhibitions (and also made my Sanbox Berlin project possible, thx!)
“LANDSCAPES OF DESIRE” CONTEMPORARY ART STRATEGIES IN THE URBAN CONTEXT.
NOVEMBER 2007 – Skulpturenpark Berlin_Zentrum
Wednesday 28th of November 7:30 pm
The Lecture will take place in the atelier and exhibition space of the artists
Neue Grünstrasse 20 Berlin-Mitte
Subway Stop U2 Spittelmarkt.
Skulpturenpark Berlin_Zentrum is a project by five artists who founded KUNSTrePUBLIK e.V. Matthias Einhoff, Philip Horst, Markus Lohmann, Harry Sachs and Daniel Seiple. Skulpturenpark Berlin_Zentrum is located on an urban wasteland which was formerly the “Mauerstreifen,” the military zone within the Berlin Wall. It remains vacant to this day. With approximately 5 hectares of open lots, it offers a vast space and unique history to host various socio-cultural activities. Modecentrum, a former fashion center, sits on the southwest boundary of this area. On the third floor, KUNSTrePUBLIK e.V. has rented an 800 square meter hall with windows which face this vacant land. Rather than encouraging “plop art” or following the tradition of many open-air museums, Skulpturenpark Berlin_Zentrum is interested in sculpture as a process that has the potential to reveal and critique the social, historical, and structural contexts provided by the site. It is not interested in placing objects into an already cultivated urban or park landscape.
http://www.skulpturenpark.org
move.it!! beta – Bremen, 20.10.2007
BNC in Bremen has organised a city tour questioning role of city planning an PR. And they laser tagged 🙂
“move.it!!
An einem Abend im Oktober zieht move.it!! nach Anbruch der Dunkelheit an verschiedene Plätze der Stadt. Alle diese Orte prägen das Leben in der Stadt. Mit Projektionen, Geschichten, Licht- oder Toninstallationen etc. interpretiert und verändert move.it!! die ursprünglichen Funktionen und Bedeutungen dieser Koordinaten städtischen Lebens temporär…..”
link
pics on flickr
Urban hacking
Nice urban intervention by Mexican artist ,Gilberto Esparza. Urban Parasites
via Jonah www.coin-operated.com
“Mitting” performance by Oliver Hangl during Urban Interfaces Berlin
The ongoing Urban Interface exhibition in Berlin features some really nice public space pieces and performances. Tomorrow I will definately check out the Mitting performance by Oliver Hangl. I saw his talk at TESLA some days ago and his wireless headphone walk concept for 70 people seamed to be very promising. Who wants to join? By the way I like the name Mitting. A nice combination of Mitte and Wedding.
Thu, April 26, 6 pm Performance-tour Mitting, starting point: uib headquarters. Torstraße 161, Berlin-Mitte. The tour lasts 2-3 hours. the number of participants is limited to 70. Please bring your ID for deposit.
Magical Mirrors
Mirjam and me during the opening event on 1.2.06 in front of the latest interactive fassade project “Magical Mirrors” made by Daniel Michelis and Hendrik Send. Nice piece. Rosenthalerstr. Berlin