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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