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WHO NEEDS VENICE? YAEL BARTANA’S VIDEO ART AT CAPITAIN PETZEL

WHO NEEDS VENICE? YAEL BARTANA’S VIDEO ART AT CAPITAIN PETZEL

If you can’t make it to the Venice Biennale next week, Capitain Petzel has a little consolation for you. This Saturday, the gallery is hosting a film screening by artist Yael Bartana, who is co-designing the German pavilion this year alongside theater director Ersan Mondtag. Bartana’s trilogy “And Europe Will Be Stunned,” created in Poland between 2007 and 2011, will be will be featured. Born in Israel in 1970, Bartana repeatedly intertwines history and fiction in her films to grapple with questions of ideology. She ironically creates an exaggerated present and conjures imaginary visions of the future. Bartana is particularly fascinated by how fantasies of power mobilize people.

The three films comprising “And Europe Will Be Stunned” also delve into an alternative reality. In the style of a propaganda film, the video work imagines what it would look like if a kibbutz were established in the center of Warsaw. Bartana, in her exploration of her origins, does not sugarcoat anything, nor does she preach. Her films are contradictory in the best sense: Bartana exposes political propaganda from all angles by appropriating oversized images, compelling soundtracks and poetic words. In Venice, we can expect nothing less from her.

Text: Laura Storfner / Photos: Stefan Müller / Credit: Capitain Petzel / Film Stills: Yael Bartana

Capitain Petzel, Karl–Marx–Allee 45, 10178 Berlin–Mitte; map
Yael Bartana – Film Screenings: 13.04.2024 17h

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@yaelbartana

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FACING THE SUN: NANCY HOLT AT GROPIUS BAU

FACING THE SUN: NANCY HOLT AT GROPIUS BAU

Her sculptures were not just meant to be looked at. Nancy Holt intended for them to transform the way people see their environment and themselves. In 1973, she installed one of her best-known works in the Utah desert: The “Sun Tunnels”, four concrete tubes three meters in diameter, frame the sunrise and sunset. At night, constellations glimmer through holes in the building material giving the illusion that they are within arm’s reach. Holt found a way to depict the movement of the celestial bodies that is both minimalist and poetic — without being kitschy. Although the sun tunnels in the Gropius Bau can only be experienced as studies, the museum impressively demonstrates how the land art pioneer used her art as a visual amplifier. The museum traces Holt’s career, spanning five decades, from her beginnings in concrete poetry to experimental films and installations that transcend spatial boundaries. Holt, who had studied biology and worked as an editor, had a deep understanding of how to combine text, image and nature. She often worked with scientists, architects and astronomers. Light is a visual medium that runs through much of her work. This is the case with Holt’s “Electrical System” from 1982, which fills the entire inner courtyard of the museum. Using light bulbs and curved metal pipes, Holt created a meadow of light for visitors to stroll through. What connects her work is the relationship between man, nature and the cosmos. Despite their enormous scale, her work blends into their surroundings and landscape. Holt illuminates what holds the world together. Today, ten years after her death, her land art explorations can be viewed as memorials against climate change: objects that can be used to align ourselves with the world and seek our place in it.  

Text: Laura Storfner / Credits: Holt/Smithson Foundation, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024, Courtesy: Sprüth Magers, Photos: Luca Girardini

Gropius Bau, Niederkirchnerstr.7, 10963 Berlin–Kreuzberg; map

Nancy Holt: Circles of Light – Experiments with Sound, Image, Objects 1966–1986 until 21.07.2024

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BERLIN, YOU’RE WONDERFUL, EVEN OUTSIDE THE RING — WITH AB INS B! DISCOVERY DAYS EXPERIENCE THE CITY ANEW
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BERLIN, YOU’RE WONDERFUL, EVEN OUTSIDE THE RING — WITH AB INS B! DISCOVERY DAYS EXPERIENCE THE CITY ANEW

Like new leaves, spring is unfurling in Berlin. And while it felt perfectly okay to limit our radius of movement to work, sofa and late-night bars in winter, it doesn’t anymore. We can all feel it: the tingling in our bodies, the desire for new experiences. If you’re not southward-bound this Easter but still fancy a breath of fresh air, why not explore the city in a whole new way? “Ab ins B!” by Berlin Discovery Days is an opportunity to do just that. From 30.03. to 14.04.2024 over 250 different events are waiting to be explored across ten districts — all outside the Ring. Looking at the program, there’s so much to check out it’s hard not to get FOMO. Easter bonfires in the Britzer Garten in Neukölln, discounts at the boat rental in Treptow-Köpenick on the Müggelspree, or secret views of Berlin at a height of over 70 meters in Marzahn-Hellersdorf are just a few stand-outs on the program. Are you more interested in architecture? No problem, how about Hans Scharoun in Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf, a guided tour of Bruno Taut’s Waldsiedlung in Steglitz-Zehlendorf, or a tour of industrial history in Siemensstadt?

Or is art more your thing? Then I recommend the textile wonders of Sofie Dawos in Dahlem, Carol Rhodes and Jenna Bliss in the Zehlendorfer Haus am Waldsee, or the guided tours in the Liebermann Villa in Wannsee. Want to get into summer vacation mode? Visit the indoor surf wave on Landsberger Allee. Have you been to the Köpenicker Strandbad Wendenschloss? Still too cold to go for a swim? Then let’s go to the sauna in Spandau. I don’t know about you, but I’m struggling to decide what I’ll be attending, everything sounds so good. A look at the full program only makes deciding harder. From forest bathing and scavenger hunts to bondage courses and literary tours in the footsteps of Rainer Maria Rilke, there’s something for everyone. Spring in Berlin is finally here, so off to the B with you. The whole program is available here.

Text: Rosa Herbel / Photos: Hendrik Wolter, Reederei Lüdicke & CanvaPro

Ab ins B! 30.03.–14.04.2024

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THREE EXHIBITIONS BRIMMING WITH VISUAL POETRY: GALLERY VISIT AT EIGEN+ART LAB, MEYER-RIEGGER & VON RACKNITZ+BAER

THREE EXHIBITIONS BRIMMING WITH VISUAL POETRY: GALLERY VISIT AT EIGEN+ART LAB, MEYER-RIEGGER & VON RACKNITZ+BAER

One of the privileges of living in a capital like Berlin is enjoying the free cultural offerings provided by the city’s many galleries. Perfect for leisurely weekends when you lack the energy needed for larger galleries, for moments of creative stimulation during lunch breaks, or for inspiring excursions after work. Before the city’s art dealers gear up for Gallery Weekend, here are three small exhibitions that are too good to miss. Away from the usual hot spots, Kreuzberg-based Racknitz+Baer is hosting the first solo exhibition by Canadian photographer and artist Alex De Brabant until 21.04.2024. Titled “On Earth“, the exhibition explores the uncanny interconnectedness of earthly life. De Brabant’s images depict unique ecosystems and still lifes, paying careful attention to symbolism, composition, and often a psychedelic use of color to offer viewers an experience of nature that borders on the numinous — a spiritual encounter with the natural world. Until 13.04., the Charlottenburg branch of the Meyer-Riegger mega-gallery is showcasing works by painter Alma Feldhandler that transcend time. With incredible ease, Feldhandler evokes a pulsating luminosity from the most subdued colors, blending clear motifs into blurred compositions whose diffuseness lingers long after the viewer has closed their eyes. A gentle drama arises from the aesthetics of contradiction: an ancient painting by a young French artist, Feldhandler was born in Trappes in 1996.

Eigen+Art Lab in Mitte specializes in young art and is currently hosting the exhibition “Vulnerable State” by Jens Kothe, which will only be on display until 06.04. This exhibition touches on one clear theme: skin. Everything oscillates between miracle and wound, fragility and self-exposure, pain, sensuality, and vulnerability. The result is highly aesthetic, yet it causes an almost physical reaction that’s difficult to shake off after leaving the exhibition. These small doses of art break through everyday life in the big city, just as they should.

Text: Hilka Dirks / Photos: Peter Oliver Wolff / Credit: Alma Feldhandler, Who Is the Captain of All These Boys of Death?, 2023, Meyer Riegger, Berlin/Karlsruhe/Basel; Jens Kothe, Vulnerable State, Galerie EIGEN + ART; Alex de Brabant, von Racknitz + Baer

Alex De Brabant “On Earth” until 21.04.2024
VRB Gallery, Wiener Str.18, 10999 Berlin–Kreuzberg; map

Alma Feldhandler “Who’s the Captain of All These Boys of Death?” until 13.04.2024
Meyer-Riegger, Schaperstr.14, 10719 Berlin–Charlottenburg; map

Jens Kothe, “Vulnerable State” until 06.04.2024
Eigen+Art Lab, Torstr.220, 10115 Berlin–Mitte; map

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EXPERIENCING ART WITH ALL FIVE SENSES — THE SPREEPARK ART SPACE OPENS WITH A GREAT PROGRAM FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY
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EXPERIENCING ART WITH ALL FIVE SENSES — THE SPREEPARK ART SPACE OPENS WITH A GREAT PROGRAM FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY

The bridge between art and science is constantly shifting form and finding new places of expression. Whether at universities, in exhibitions or in educational programs, artistic research is booming. This weekend, another Berlin location that’s dedicated to interdisciplinary, experimental science is opening. The Spreepark Art Space in Treptow is located in the “Eierhäuschen”. The historic location opens on 23.03.2024 with the exhibition “Park Insights: Four Positions from Artistic Research“. Once an amusement park, the Spreepark is set to become a place of change and exploration, as well as a point of discussion for changing exhibitions. The park is a laboratory and source of inspiration for the hidden layers of the past, present and future. Participating artists and researchers of the first group exhibition include Marcus Maeder, Sabine Scho, Sissel Tolaas and Annett Zinsmeister. In “Park Insights”, the Spreepark is explored and experienced using all the senses. Sabine Scho’s park alphabet invites visitors to redefine the park through a linguistic and visual collage. Marcus Maeder creates a soundscape that overlays archived sounds of the park with images of the species living there.

With “Tracing Spreepark”, Annett Zinsmeister opens up a space for explorative searches for clues and transports visitors into an otherwordly spatial installation. Scent researcher and artist Sissel Tolaas presents a section of her scent mapping and explores the historical polarities of the park. Accompanying the exhibition, the opening program of the Spreepark Art Space invites visitors to a variety of events. Children and families can take part in an exciting search for clues through the “Eierhäuschen”, exploring its history. A flavorful journey through the Spreepark awaits visitors at the Kräuterbräu-Bar by Edible Alchemy, while Marcus Maeder brings the acoustic world of the park to life with a memorable sound performance, opening up new perspectives on a place of change and transformation.

Text: Hilka Dirks / Photos: Frank Sperling

Spreepark Art Space at “Eierhäuschen / Spreepark”, Kiehnwerder Allee 2, 12437 Berlin–Treptow; map

Free admission.

@spreeparkartspace

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