A warm Friday evening in July: where to go? An outdoor cinema, an opening, a bar? One place you could head for is the Berlinische Galerie, where on the gallery’s forecourt you’ll find all three courtesy of the Mobile Kino. Together with Jung und Artig, the museum’s young friends membership scheme, contemporary video works will be shown in the open air accompanied by artist talks, drinks and music. The series will begin tomorrow (07.07.2023) with Pınar Öğrenci, whose works were shown at Documenta Fifteen and who uses poetic images and profound expression to address politically and socially complex themes: migration and flight, state violence and resistance, and displacement and existence. She uses archive material to create poetically multi-layered narratives, as seen in the 2021 work “Turkish Delight” (31 minutes) which will be screened at the event. In the film, images, video and sound tell the stories of migration between Greece and Turkey after the end of the First World War using reference to the gelatinous sweet, Turkish delight. In the preceding artist talk, curator Anne Bitterwolf and Öğrenci will explore the work as well as the artist’s body of work generally. Before and after the screening, there will be drinks and music and plenty of space for conversation and exchange. Incidentally, the programme continues as strongly as it begins: on 17.08.2023 it’s the turn of Gernot Wieland, whose fantastically sensitive video works have often moved the author of this article to tears.

Text: Hilka Dirks / Photos: Jung & Artig / Poster: Önder Sakıp Dündar for Turkish Delight

Berlinische Galerie, Alte Jakobstr.124–128, 10969 Berlin–Kreuzberg; map

Jung & Artig Open Air Video Screening & Artist Talk with Pınar Öğrenci, 07.07.2023 20h music & drinks, 21h artist talk, 21h45 video art screening

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Thickly-applied paint, fragile fragments, sensitive material and abstract figuration. Destroyed Men Come and Go is the title of the current exhibition by the Italian artist Enrico David, which can be seen in the main hall and ground floor of KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Mitte’s Auguststraße. As so often, KW’s curation (Krist Gruijthuijsen and Sofie Krogh Christensen) shows a flair for sensitive and poetic works that escape the genius narrative that characterizes the broader art market. The first German institutional solo exhibition by the 1966-born artist, the show focuses on David’s sculptural works and spans a period of 20 years. Five of the 15 works shown were produced specifically for the exhibition. In it, you enter David’s world: the bodies and forms seem to have been washed into the gallery at random, yet are so purposefully placed that you cannot help but understand them in relation and conversation with each other. They tell of failure and break-up, of departure and transformation, of becoming and being.

Without walls and separations, metamorphoses and dialogues arise, evoking emotion and reaction in the viewer. If the silent language of the objects is not enough, the free guided tours on Saturdays and Sundays are recommended. On 10.08.2023 assistant curator Sofie Krogh Christensen will conduct them herself. There’s also the KW x Café Bravo Courtyard Party on 16.07 with drinks, music and mingling in one of the most beautiful courtyards in Mitte.

Text: Hilka Dirks / Photos: Davd von Becker für KW Institute for Contemporary Art / Credit: Enrico David, Untitled, 2015. Courtesy Michael Werner Gallery, New York und London

KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Auguststr.69, 10117 Berlin–Mitte; map
Wed–Mon 11–19h, Thu 11–14h, closed Tues. On Thursday evenings (18–21h) admission is free.

Enrico David: Destroyed Men Come and Go runs until 20.08.2023

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