Nevin Aladag, Julieta Aranda, Tjorg Douglas Beer, Tobias Bernstrup, Marc Bijl, Mauro Bonacina, Monica Bonvicini, Ulla von Brandenburg, Eli Cortinas, Carola Dertnig, Stephan Dillemuth / Nils Norman, Antje Ehmann, Harun Farocki, Anna-Catharina Gebbers, Andreas Golder, Alex Heim, Gregor Hildebrandt, Christian Jankowski, Daniel Jensen, Oskar Korsár, Alicja Kwade, April Elizabeth Lamm, Annika Larsson, Joep van Liefland, Mark Lombardi, Luca Maffei, Klaus Mettig, Olaf Metzel, Eric B. Mitchell, Christopher Miner, Stephan Moersch, Laurent Montaron, Deborah Schamoni, Christoph Schlingensief, Katharina Sieverding, Franz Stauffenberg, RothStauffenberg, Polina Stroganova, Alexandros Tzannis, Malte Urbschat, Costa Vece, Sebastian Zarius
For OPEN SPACE Tjorg Douglas Beer has invited several colleagues to realise the installation CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM. The installation includes paintings, sculptures, objects with an hourly program of videos, performance and music.Further information and detailed program at www.galerieimregierungsviertel.org
GALERIE IM REGIERUNGSVIERTEL is a module fed by a group of artists, curators and others. The first exhibition took place in the area of government administration - the Regierungsviertel - in Berlin in April 2007. Since April 2007 GALERIE IM REGIERUNGSVIERTEL has realised several exhibitions around Europe including GINNUNGAGAP / PAVILLION OF BELIEF, Venice, THE FOUR HORSEMEN / DIE RAND COOPERATION, Berlin, Turin, THE END WAS YESTERDAY, Berlin, Innsbruck and THE FORGOTTEN BAR PROJECT, Berlin, Turin, Stockholm.
Program (hourly presentations of videos, performances and music)
April 21 to April 26, daily from 12.00 to 20.00
Tuesday April 21
11.00 Christopher Miner, Videos
Auction, 2000, The Best Decision Ever Made, 2004, Self-Portrait, 2000
12.00 Anna-Catharina Gebbers, Kreislaufsysteme
"...Videos and films about circuits, circulations, cycles, recycling, rotations, round tours of money, bodies, bottles, fortune, planets, life and death by Ulla von Brandenburg, Carola Dertnig, Stephan Dillemuth / Nils Norman, Alex Heim, Laurent Montaron and Christoph Schlingensief..."
13.00 Nevin Aladag, In Takt, Four videos
Familie Tezcan, 2001, Lowrider Bellydance, 2004, Voice Over, 2006, Raise the Roof, 2007
"...Musik und Tanz als Ausdrucksformen von kultureller Identität und subkulturelle Interaktionen und Artikulationen in urbanen Räumen markieren zentrale Themen..."
14.00 Polina Stroganova, Chimera & Chronos, Videos
Polina Stroganova presents Aspects of Hybridity and Time in films and video works by Chris Marker, William Burroughs / Anthony Balch / Brion Gysin and Eli Cortinas
15.00 Tobias Bernstrup, Midnight Blue And Other Songs About The Dark, Performance I
"...With unmistakable stage persona dressed in elaborated latex costumes and heavy make-up he performs his own music accompanied by his digital animations.
... intimate live show inside the installation CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM."
16.00 Klaus Mettig, Stay Hungry, 1976, Video and Eric B. Mitchell, Kidnaped, 1977, Video
Klaus Mettig presents Stay Hungry, 1976, Video and Franz Stauffenberg presents "...Mitchell's first film, a stark unedited recreation of Andy Warhol's Vinyl, this super-8 film purports to be the story of bored terrorists who kidnap a businessman. Stars Mitchell, Anya Phillips, Patti Astor and Duncan Smith among a crowd of hip poseurs talking sex, manners and politics. A classic look at the No Wave ennui ideal..." (MWF Video Club)
17.00 Annika Larsson, 3l33t, BEND II and D.I.E., Three videos
"...Even though Annika Larsson’s video stages only men and deals with primarily male themes and its symbolic language, playing with concepts such as power, submission or violence, her work must not be simply understood as a mere criticism of these preestablished codes. Rather than developing an analytical discourse, she tries to submerge us into a peculiar atmosphere, in order to confront us with our own ambivalence towards the power of seduction and indisputable eroticism which emerges from her images. Regarding her video Dog, Annika Larsson says the following in the magazine Zoo: “The video Dog is a work that follows closely my earlier works in which reduction, power and control play important roles. (...) The work also deals with seduction and my ambivalence toward image..."
18.00 Tobias Bernstrup, Midnight Blue And Other Songs About The Dark, Performance II
"...With unmistakable stage persona dressed in elaborated latex costumes and heavy make-up he performs his own music accompanied by his digital animations.
... intimate live show inside the installation CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM."
19.00 Marc Bijl plays Records
Wednesday April 22
12.00 Joep van Liefland, Major Meat II, 2007, Video
"..from a series of black and white silent videos- invites you to a filmic landscape without sound or objects in which cool minimalism relates to overexaggerated explicity, shock'nmentary and exploitation film elements..."
13.00 Costa Vece, The Long Voyage Home, 2002, Video
"...A study in slow motion of the artist as an animal behind of a cage in a dark room lighted by a flashlight..."
14.00 Deborah Schamoni, Dead Devils Death Bar, 2008
Anna-Catharina Gebbers presents Schamoni`s Dead Devils Death Bar, "... in one continuous 360 degree tracking shot, without any cuts, the film tells the story of a night in the ”Devils Bar“. The 21 guests, represented by only eight actors/actresses and friends, constitute a loosely connected, urban, hedonistic society of persons which revolve around themselves and their hybrid roles..."
15.00 Polina Stroganova presents Eli Cortinas, 2 or 3 things I knew about her, 2007, Lovers - all the same in front of God, 2007, Dial M for Mother, 2008
Three video pieces by Eli Cortinas revolving around psychgrams of several females and their roles, approaching the genre of portrait in cinematographic language. The artist will be present.
16.00 April Elizabeth Lamm, A Crash Course in Saddam Hussein's Favorite Films
Private screening, selection of videos, The Day of the Jackal, 1971, The Conversation, 1974, Enemy of the State, 1998
17.00 Christian Jankowski, Kunstmarkt TV / Art Market TV 2008, Video
Invited to the art fair Art Cologne, Jankowski brought contemporary artworks on sale by using the rules and habits of TV shopping shows. Promoted by two professional TV presenters, the visitors of Vernissage TV were able to buy original artworks directly from the OPEN SPACE studio at the art cologne. “In today’s constantly accelerating and self-defining art market, art itself starts resembling a randomly overrated table vacuum-cleaner.”
18.00 Tobias Bernstrup, Mantis City, 2006, Video
19.00 Christopher Miner, Videos
Auction, 2000, The Best Decision Ever Made, 2004, Self-Portrait, 2000
Thursday April 23
12.00 Anna-Catharina Gebbers, Kreislaufsysteme
"...Videos and films about circuits, circulations, cycles, recycling, rotations, round tours of money, bodies, bottles, fortune, planets, life and death by Ulla von Brandenburg, Carola Dertnig, Stephan Dillemuth / Nils Norman, Alex Heim, Laurent Montaron and Christoph Schlingensief..."
13.00 Christian Jankowski, Kunstmarkt TV / Art Market TV 2008, Video
Invited to the art fair Art Cologne, Jankowski brought contemporary artworks on sale by using the rules and habits of TV shopping shows. Promoted by two professional TV presenters, the visitors of Vernissage TV were able to buy original artworks directly from the OPEN SPACE studio at the art cologne. “In today’s constantly accelerating and self-defining art market, art itself starts resembling a randomly overrated table vacuum-cleaner.”
14.00 Christopher Miner, Videos
Auction 2000, The Best Decision Ever Made 2004, Self-Portrait 2000
15.00 Nevin Aladag, In Takt, Four videos
Familie Tezcan, 2001, Lowrider Bellydance, 2004, Voice Over, 2006, Raise the Roof, 2007
"...Musik und Tanz als Ausdrucksformen von kultureller Identität und subkulturelle Interaktionen und Artikulationen in urbanen Räumen markieren zentrale Themen..."
16.00 Eric B. Mitchell, Kidnaped, 1977, Video
Franz Stauffenberg presents "...Mitchell's first film, a stark unedited recreation of Andy Warhol's Vinyl, this super-8 film purports to be the story of bored terrorists who kidnap a businessman. Stars Mitchell, Anya Phillips, Patti Astor and Duncan Smith among a crowd of hip poseurs talking sex, manners and politics. A classic look at the No Wave ennui ideal..." (MWF Video Club)
17.00 Annika Larsson, 3l33t, BEND II and D.I.E., Three videos
"...Even though Annika Larsson’s video stages only men and deals with primarily male themes and its symbolic language, playing with concepts such as power, submission or violence, her work must not be simply understood as a mere criticism of these preestablished codes. Rather than developing an analytical discourse, she tries to submerge us into a peculiar atmosphere, in order to confront us with our own ambivalence towards the power of seduction and indisputable eroticism which emerges from her images. Regarding her video Dog, Annika Larsson says the following in the magazine Zoo: “The video Dog is a work that follows closely my earlier works in which reduction, power and control play important roles. (...) The work also deals with seduction and my ambivalence toward image..."
18.00 Tobias Bernstrup, Mantis City, 2006, Video
19.00 Joep van Liefland, Major Meat II, 2007, Video
"..from a series of black and white silent videos- invites you to a filmic landscape without sound or objects in which cool minimalism relates to overexaggerated explicity, shock'nmentary and exploitation film elements..."
Friday April 24
12.00 Tobias Bernstrup, Mantis City, 2006, Video
13.00 Deborah Schamoni, Dead Devils Death Bar, 2008
Anna-Catharina Gebbers presents Schamoni`s Dead Devils Death Bar, "... in one continuous 360 degree tracking shot, without any cuts, the film tells the story of a night in the ”Devils Bar“. The 21 guests, represented by only eight actors/actresses and friends, constitute a loosely connected, urban, hedonistic society of persons which revolve around themselves and their hybrid roles..."
14.00 Costa Vece, The Long Voyage Home, 2002, Video
"...A study in slow motion of the artist as an animal behind of a cage in a dark room lighted by a flashlight..."
15.00 Klaus Mettig, Stay Hungry, 1976, Video
16.00 Anna-Catharina Gebbers, Kreislaufsysteme
"...Videos and films about circuits, circulations, cycles, recycling, rotations, round tours of money, bodies, bottles, fortune, planets, life and death by Ulla von Brandenburg, Carola Dertnig, Stephan Dillemuth / Nils Norman, Alex Heim, Laurent Montaron and Christoph Schlingensief..."
17.00 Nevin Aladag, In Takt, Four videos
Familie Tezcan, 2001, Lowrider Bellydance, 2004, Voice Over, 2006, Raise the Roof, 2007
"...Musik und Tanz als Ausdrucksformen von kultureller Identität und subkulturelle Interaktionen und Artikulationen in urbanen Räumen markieren zentrale Themen..."
18.00 Annika Larsson, 3l33t, BEND II and D.I.E., Three videos
"...Even though Annika Larsson’s video stages only men and deals with primarily male themes and its symbolic language, playing with concepts such as power, submission or violence, her work must not be simply understood as a mere criticism of these preestablished codes. Rather than developing an analytical discourse, she tries to submerge us into a peculiar atmosphere, in order to confront us with our own ambivalence towards the power of seduction and indisputable eroticism which emerges from her images. Regarding her video Dog, Annika Larsson says the following in the magazine Zoo: “The video Dog is a work that follows closely my earlier works in which reduction, power and control play important roles. (...) The work also deals with seduction and my ambivalence toward image..."
19.00 Christian Jankowski, Kunstmarkt TV / Art Market TV 2008, Video
Invited to the art fair Art Cologne, Jankowski brought contemporary artworks on sale by using the rules and habits of TV shopping shows. Promoted by two professional TV presenters, the visitors of Vernissage TV were able to buy original artworks directly from the OPEN SPACE studio at the art cologne. “In today’s constantly accelerating and self-defining art market, art itself starts resembling a randomly overrated table vacuum-cleaner.”
Saturday April 25
12.00 Tobias Bernstrup, Mantis City, 2006, Video
13.00 Christian Jankowski, Kunstmarkt TV / Art Market TV 2008, Video
Invited to the art fair Art Cologne, Jankowski brought contemporary artworks on sale by using the rules and habits of TV shopping shows. Promoted by two professional TV presenters, the visitors of Vernissage TV were able to buy original artworks directly from the OPEN SPACE studio at the art cologne. “In today’s constantly accelerating and self-defining art market, art itself starts resembling a randomly overrated table vacuum-cleaner.”
14.00 Deborah Schamoni, Dead Devils Death Bar, 2008
Anna-Catharina Gebbers presents Schamoni`s Dead Devils Death Bar, "... in one continuous 360 degree tracking shot, without any cuts, the film tells the story of a night in the ”Devils Bar“. The 21 guests, represented by only eight actors/actresses and friends, constitute a loosely connected, urban, hedonistic society of persons which revolve around themselves and their hybrid roles..."
15.00 Polina Stroganova, Chimera & Chronos, Videos
Polina Stroganova presents Aspects of Hybridity and Time in films and video works by Chris Marker, William Burroughs / Anthony Balch / Brion Gysin and Eli Cortinas
16.00 Costa Vece, The Long Voyage Home, 2002, Video
"...A study in slow motion of the artist as an animal behind of a cage in a dark room lighted by a flashlight..."
17.00 Christopher Miner, Videos
Auction 2000, The Best Decision Ever Made 2004, Self-Portrait 2000
18.00 Annika Larsson, 3l33t, BEND II and D.I.E., Three videos
"...Even though Annika Larsson’s video stages only men and deals with primarily male themes and its symbolic language, playing with concepts such as power, submission or violence, her work must not be simply understood as a mere criticism of these preestablished codes. Rather than developing an analytical discourse, she tries to submerge us into a peculiar atmosphere, in order to confront us with our own ambivalence towards the power of seduction and indisputable eroticism which emerges from her images. Regarding her video Dog, Annika Larsson says the following in the magazine Zoo: “The video Dog is a work that follows closely my earlier works in which reduction, power and control play important roles. (...) The work also deals with seduction and my ambivalence toward image..."
19.00 Joep van Liefland, Major Meat II, 2007, Video
"..from a series of black and white silent videos- invites you to a filmic landscape without sound or objects in which cool minimalism relates to overexaggerated explicity, shock'nmentary and exploitation film elements..."
Sunday April 26
12.00 Klaus Mettig, Stay Hungry, 1976, Video
13.00 Eric B. Mitchell, Kidnaped, 1977, Video
Franz Stauffenberg presents "...Mitchell's first film, a stark unedited recreation of Andy Warhol's Vinyl, this super-8 film purports to be the story of bored terrorists who kidnap a businessman. Stars Mitchell, Anya Phillips, Patti Astor and Duncan Smith among a crowd of hip poseurs talking sex, manners and politics. A classic look at the No Wave ennui ideal..." (MWF Video Club
14.00 Tobias Bernstrup, Mantis City, 2006, Video
15.00 Anna-Catharina Gebbers, Kreislaufsysteme
"...Videos and films about circuits, circulations, cycles, recycling, rotations, round tours of money, bodies, bottles, fortune, planets, life and death by Ulla von Brandenburg, Carola Dertnig, Stephan Dillemuth / Nils Norman, Alex Heim, Laurent Montaron and Christoph Schlingensief..."
16.00 Annika Larsson, 3l33t, BEND II and D.I.E., Three videos
"...Even though Annika Larsson’s video stages only men and deals with primarily male themes and its symbolic language, playing with concepts such as power, submission or violence, her work must not be simply understood as a mere criticism of these preestablished codes. Rather than developing an analytical discourse, she tries to submerge us into a peculiar atmosphere, in order to confront us with our own ambivalence towards the power of seduction and indisputable eroticism which emerges from her images. Regarding her video Dog, Annika Larsson says the following in the magazine Zoo: “The video Dog is a work that follows closely my earlier works in which reduction, power and control play important roles. (...) The work also deals with seduction and my ambivalence toward image..."
17.00 Christopher Miner, Videos
Auction 2000, The Best Decision Ever Made 2004, Self-Portrait 2000
