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ART FULL OF SENSITIVE URGENCY: THE EXHIBITION “LUC TUYMANS – EDITH CLEVER” AT THE AKADEMIE DER KÜNSTE

ART FULL OF SENSITIVE URGENCY: THE EXHIBITION “LUC TUYMANS – EDITH CLEVER” AT THE AKADEMIE DER KÜNSTE

Whispered words in the foyer as you enter the Akademie der Künste’s location on Pariser Platz: it is Edith Clever’s voice that seeps almost imperceptibly into the ear canals in an invisible sound installation – and the first work in the exhibition “Luc Tuymans – Edith Clever” (until 26.11.2023), shown there. The show is the first in a new series by the Visual Arts department of the Berlin Akademie der Künste: members invite other members from different disciplines. So now the painter and the actress begin. And what a start it is! What at first seems like a contrast dissolves into almost self-evident parallels: Clever’s language, subtle and intense like Thyman’s colors and motifs; Thyman’s complex themes, pressing like the force of Clever’s monologues; their unique, brutal physicality as present as the violence in his visual oeuvre. Paintings and installations, video and textiles complement each other effortlessly, perhaps also supported by the works created for the exhibition, some of which are site-specific. The new concept of the Akademie der Künste succeeds brilliantly here. And whets the appetite for what comes next.

Text: Hilka Dirks / Credit: Luc Tuymans, Private collection; David Zwirner, New York London On loan from the Gesellschaft für Moderne Kunst in Dresden e.V. im Albertinum, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden; Syberberg Clever Monologe, film@syberberg.de / Photos: Studio Luc Tuymans, Ben Blackwell & Hans-Jürgen Syberberg

Akademie der Künste, Pariser Platz 4, 10117 Berlin–Mitte; map
Tue–Fri 14–19h & Sat–Sun 11–19h, entrance is free on Tuesdays.

Luc Tuymans – Edith Clever bis 26.11.2023

@akademiederkuenste

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FASTEN YOUR SEATBELTS — 26 ARTISTS IN THE FAST LANE OF AN OLD GARAGE

FASTEN YOUR SEATBELTS — 26 ARTISTS IN THE FAST LANE OF AN OLD GARAGE

Where once tires and oil were changed, there is now art on display. The group exhibition “Full Stop” takes us into a former garage. Architect and curator Inga Krumme brings together 26 artists for a pit stop: The works tell a nuanced and cross-media story of what moves the present on a large and small scale. Like splinters of the present, they come together to reveal a snippet of our world where things that were once broken have been made whole again. Paintings, sculptures and video works can be discovered in combination with the industrial flair of the rooms. Krumme juxtaposes well-known names such as Burkhard Held, who works as a professor at Berlin’s Universität der Künste, with newer artists. Among the exhibitors are many of Held’s former master students – including Shen Han, whose fragmentary color landscapes draw you deep into the surface.

Anna Nero’s candy-colored forms, which nestle together on the canvases, and Aline Schwörer’s fictional archaeological finds from a distant future can be physically experienced. Ulrike Bull’s wall objects shine like psychedelic comets, while Jinhee Kim’s figures gaze coolly out of backdrops into the distance. Together with the artists, Krumme constructs a show that always comes back to one question: What is the engine that drives the painterly?

Text: Laura Storfner / Credit: Julius Bobke & Ulrike Buhl

Full Stop at Art Kreuzberg e.V., Prinzessinnenstr.21, 10969 Berlin–Kreuzberg; map
11.–26.11.2023 Sat 16–22h & Sun 14–19h. Opening 10.11.2023 19h.

@warmgray8
@artkreuzberg

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SERIOUS MUSIC FOR THE AVANT-GARDE: MORITZ VON OSWALD AT THOMASKIRCHE & IDEAL ORCHESTRA AT KANTINE AM BERGHAIN

SERIOUS MUSIC FOR THE AVANT-GARDE: MORITZ VON OSWALD AT THOMASKIRCHE & IDEAL ORCHESTRA AT KANTINE AM BERGHAIN

Experimental music has a long tradition in Berlin. And even though Berlin Atonal is over and the CTM Festival is still a long way off, there are still two concerts this November that all friends of sound and noise should not miss. Next Thursday (16.11.2023), St. Thomas Church in Kreuzberg will open its doors to a pioneer of electronic music: “Silencio” is the name of Moritz von Oswald’s new project, which will be released by Tresor Records (10.11.). Instead of hard techno, the sounds become contemplative in keeping with the location: a 16-voice choir helps von Oswald with his latest explorations, which focus on the similarities and differences between human and electronic sounds. And the mood? “In Silencio, von Oswald digs out a damp haze and draws clouds over a distant pulse.” How very contemporary. And how very Berlin in November. Incidentally, the tickets are refreshingly affordable in the spirit of community. From the church to the Sunday service: the Kantine am Berghain will be a little less melodic, but similarly progressive, when Leipzig’s Ideal Orchestra plays (26.11.). The orchestra’s 23 musicians will generate a synergy of conducted improvisations and carefully crafted compositions, making themselves at home in a wide-ranging repertoire. From brutalist walls of noise to cinematic soundscapes, everything is included. Let this recharge your batteries at least until next year.

Text: Hilka Dirks / Photos: Robin Lambrecht / Credit: Gellért Szabó’s Ideal Orchestra / Still: Moritz von Oswald

Moritz von Oswald – “Silencio” Release Concert at St. Thomas Kirche, Mariannenplatz 28, 10997 Berlin–Kreuzberg, map
16.11.2023 at 20h30

Ideal Orchestra at Kantine am Berghain, Am Wriezener Bahnhof, 10243 Berlin–Friedrichshain; map
26.11.2023 at 20h

@moritzvonoswald
@gellertszabo

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ART INTERVENTION: THE GROUP EXHIBITION MENTAL HOT SPOT AT OOW ARCHITEKTEN — RECOMMENDED BY LOUIE VAN NIEUWENBORGH

ART INTERVENTION: THE GROUP EXHIBITION MENTAL HOT SPOT AT OOW ARCHITEKTEN — RECOMMENDED BY LOUIE VAN NIEUWENBORGH

Imagine coming to an exhibition and finding yourself in an office where employees are going about their daily business amidst the art on display. This will be the case at the OOW architecture office on Leipziger Straße (09.11.2023). Architects Sebastian Blancke and Mathis Malchow asked artist and curator Tim Plamper to put together an exhibition and gave him carte blanche to do so. For the “mental hot spot” exhibition, he assembled sixteen exciting artist positions from Berlin. The works are not to be shown in an empty room but in an everyday environment. For example, there is a perfume by Christian Kölbl, who offers his new car perfume (edition for 250 euros) on a screen, which smells of pepper, violets, varnish, leather, plastic, and ozone.

The artist Billie Clarken has placed a two-meter-high and four-and-a-half-meter-wide PVC chipboard hedge on tables, disrupting the work process and communication among office workers. Some works make direct reference to architecture, such as the cork model of a socialist-classical building in Berlin created by Philip Topolovac. It has strict proportions and elongated windows. If you look closely, you can also identify the building—it’s the Berghain dance temple, often considered the ultimate ‘mental hot spot.’ Other works can be seen by Emma Adler, Patrick Alt, Maxime Ballesteros, Rebekka Benzenberg, Lukas Glinkowski, Jason Gringler, Charlotte Klobassal, Anna Nezhnaya, Tim Plamper, Alona Rodeh, Fette Sans, Yorgos Stamkopoulos, and Lisa Tiemann.

Belgian Berliner Louie Van Nieuwenborgh discovered his passion for architecture, art, and baking as a teenager. His “mental hot spot” is Flouxus Food, a collective he founded that combines food and intermedia. Inspired by the Fluxus art movement and sprinkled with the current zeitgeist, they publish zines and music.

Text: Louie Van Nieuwenborgh / Credit: Alona Rodeh, Christian Kölbl & Maxime Ballesteros

Mental Hot Spot bei oow, Leipziger Str.56, 10117 Berlin–Mitte; map
Mon–Fri 9–18h bis 08.12.2023. Opening 09.11.2023 18– 21h.

@oow.berlin
@timplamper 
@flouxusfood
@louievn

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JAZZFEST BERLIN: PLAYFUL & INVENTIVE SOUNDS FOR THE 60TH EDITION OF THE MUSIC FESTIVAL

JAZZFEST BERLIN: PLAYFUL & INVENTIVE SOUNDS FOR THE 60TH EDITION OF THE MUSIC FESTIVAL

Hardly any other genre of music is as diverse and multifaceted as jazz, and it is precisely this versatility and diversity that the Berliner Festspiele is again demonstrating with this year’s program. You can expect 36 projects from different generations, including playful and imaginative music. I associate jazz with my father, who burned his favorites for me on CD when I was young; reverently listening to classics like Miles Davis, Count Basie, and Keith Jarrett in my first flat-share, I felt so significantly grown up. Female artists, however, were not only underrepresented in this collection; no, they were completely absent. And so it is my pleasure that in the 60th edition of Jazzfest, a special effort was made to feature female artists across four full days of programming. To name just a few, trumpeter and jazz avant-gardist Steph Richardsand her quartet on Friday night will reflect on the influence of the sense of smell on our listening experience through experimentation with sound.

Saturday will feature the acclaimed, free jazz collective Irreversible Entanglements with U.S. spoken word artist Camae Ayewa, aka Moor Mother, and music from her new album “Protect your light.” Infectious grooves meet vocal intensity and tightly woven improvisations. The French pianist Eve Risser and her Red Desert Orchestra present the result of an intensive exploration of music from West Africa. Most concerts will take place at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele, but surrounding venues such as QuasimodoA-Trane, or the Kaiser Wilhelm Gedächtniskirche also host original shows. Some tickets are already sold out so close to the festival, as expected, but it’s worth taking a chance on the unknown – especially when it comes to jazz.

Text: Laura Luisa Iriondo / Photos: Jade Sastro, Juri Hiensch & Piper Ferguson

Jazzfest Berlin
02.–05.11.2023, various locations. Schedule, tickets and details are available here.

@berlinerfestspiele

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