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Neuer Berliner Kunstverein Chausseestrasse 128 / 129 10115 Berlin Tel. 030 - 280 70 20; 280 70 19, Fax 030 - 280 70 19 Di + Fr 12 - 18 Uhr, Sa + So 14 - 18 Uhr nbk@berlin.snafu.de www.nbk.org aktuelle Ausstellung / current exhibition vorausgegangene Ausstellung / previous exhibition   12.11. - 23.11. 2008 Conceptual Art From California KuratorInnen: Helen Adkins, Kathrin Becker, Hans Winkler   Please scroll down for the English version   Max Almy, Ant Farm, John Baldessari, Aristarkh Chernyshov / Vladislav Efimov, Timothy Collins, Lowell Darling, Christoph Draeger / Martin Frei, Terry Fox, Ingo Gerken, Lucy Gunning, Doug Hall, Mel Henderson, Gary Hill, David Irelands House, Joanne Kelly, Ned Khan, Marlene Kos, Paul Kos, Tony Labat, Paula Levine, Chip Lord, Mary Lucier, Tom Marioni, Paul McCarthy, Bruce Nauman, Nicole Raufeisen / Ryan Witt, John Roloff, Darryl Sapien, Ira Schneider, Corinna Schnitt, Ilene Segalove, Richard Serra / Nancy Holt, Bonnie Sherk, Survival Research Laboratories, Mark Thompson, Bill Viola. Kuratorin: Kathrin Becker     Kalifornien war in den 1960er Jahren das Zentrum der Gegenkultur und das Mekka der Hippiebewegung. Die Auseinandersetzung mit Fragen nach der Definition des Kunstwerks mündete in neue Ausdrucksformen wie Aktionskunst, Performance, Happening und Videokunst. Das Konzeptuelle, Prozesshafte und Ephemere tritt an die Stelle "retinaler" Kunst wie Malerei und Skulptur. Untersuchungen zu phänomenologischen Erscheinungen wie Raum, Licht und Ton, Fragen nach Identität und Geschlechterpolitik sowie das Verhältnis von Kunstwerk und BetrachterIn werden zu dominanten Themen innerhalb der Kunst.     Die kalifornische Kunstszene leistete einen wichtigen Beitrag zur Durchsetzung der Neo-Avantgarde. Jedoch sind die Positionen konzeptueller kalifornischer Kunst - mit Ausnahme einiger weniger zentraler Künstlerfiguren wie Bruce Nauman, Garry Hill und Bill Viola - heute vergleichsweise unbekannt. Das Ausstellungsprojekt Conceptual Art From California richtet den Blick auf diese Szene und präsentiert Arbeiten aus der Sammlung des n.b.k. Video-Forum sowie ausgewählte Positionen außerhalb der Sammlung. Ein zentrales Kernstück der Präsentation ist das von Constance Lewallen für die Ausstellung Facing Eden: 100 Years of Bay Area Landscape im M.H. de Young Museum, San Francisco, 1995, kuratierte Video-Programm mit zahlreichen KünstlerInnen, die sich mit Themen wie Ökologie, der Entfremdung des Menschen von der Natur, aber auch sozio-politischen Themen wie Migration und Sicherheitspolitik auseinandersetzen. Ergänzt wird die Ausstellung durch eine Reihe von Werken nicht-kalifornischer KünstlerInnen, die sich entweder auf konkrete Werke von Künstlern wie Bruce Nauman oder Chris Burden beziehen oder einen allgemeinen Bezug zur kalifornischen Situation entwickeln.     Eröffnung: Dienstag, 11. November, 19 Uhr   English Version Conceptual Art From California Max Almy, Ant Farm, John Baldessari, Aristarkh Chernyshov / Vladislav Efimov, Timothy Collins, Lowell Darling, Christoph Draeger / Martin Frei, Terry Fox, Ingo Gerken, Lucy Gunning, Doug Hall, Mel Henderson, Gary Hill, David Irelands House, Joanne Kelly, Ned Khan, Marlene Kos, Paul Kos, Tony Labat, Paula Levine, Chip Lord, Mary Lucier, Tom Marioni, Paul McCarthy, Bruce Nauman, Nicole Raufeisen / Ryan Witt, John Roloff, Darryl Sapien, Ira Schneider, Corinna Schnitt, Ilene Segalove, Richard Serra / Nancy Holt, Bonnie Sherk, Survival Research Laboratories, Mark Thompson, Bill Viola Curated by Kathrin Becker   In the 1960s California was the centre of the counterculture and the Mecca of the hippie movement. Grappling with questions of how to define the artwork gave rise to new forms of expression such as performances, happenings and video art. A focus on the conceptual, process-based and ephemeral aspects of art took the place of "retinal" art forms such as painting and sculpture. Studies of phenomenological matters such as space, light and sounds, explorations of identity and gender politics, along with the relationship between artwork and viewer became dominant themes in art. The Californian art scene played a significant part in ensuring that the neo-avant-garde gained ground. However, nowadays relatively little attention is paid to the major developments in Californian conceptual art - with the exception of a few central artists such as Bruce Nauman, Garry Hill and Bill Viola. The exhibition project Conceptual Art From California turns its gaze on this scene and presents work from the n.b.k. Video Forum's collection along with selected works from other sources. One of the core elements in this presentation is the video programme curated by Constance Lewallen for the exhibition Facing Eden: 100 Years of Bay Area Landscape at M.H. de Young Museum, San Francisco, 1995. This brings together numerous artists examining topics such as ecology and human alienation from nature, along with socio-political issues such as migration and security policy. The exhibition is complemented by a series of works by non-Californian artists, which either relate to specific pieces by artists such as Bruce Nauman or Chris Burden, or reference the Californian situation in general.     Conceptual Art From California 12. November­23. November 2008 Dienstag-Sonntag 12-18 Uhr Donnerstag 12-20 Uhr   Programm Kunstvermittlung Donnerstag, 13. November 2008, 19 Uhr Artist/Politician: A California Statewide Artists Collaboration, 1978 Vortrag von Lowell Darling (Künstler) in englischer Sprache Donnerstag, 20. November 2008, 19 Uhr Ausstellungsgespräch mit Silke Wittig (n.b.k. Video-Forum) Sonntag, 23. November 2008, 20 Uhr STUPID GREEN (Jochen Arbeit / Vania Rovisco) Musik-Performance     English Version Conceptual Art From California November 12­November 23, 2008 Tuesday­Sunday noon­6 pm Thursday noon­8pm   Programme Thursday, November 13, 7pm Artist/Politician: A California Statewide Artists Collaboration, 1978 A lecture by Lowell Darling (artist) in English language Thursday, November 20, 7pm Guided tour with Silke Wittig (n.b.k. Video-Forum) Sunday, November 23, 8pm STUPID GREEN (Jochen Arbeit / Vania Rovisco) Music-Performance       Chausseestraße 128/129 - 10115 Berlin - +49 [0]30 280 70 20 /21 /22 /fax 19 - nbk@nbk.org n.b.k. Please scroll down for the English version   Donnerstag. 13. November 2008, 19 Uhr Artist/Politician: A California Statewide Artists Collaboration, 1978 Vortrag von Lowell Darling (Künstler) in englischer Sprache "I didn't like the idea that I wasn't an artist because I hadn't sold anything," says Darling, who set out to prove the IRS (Internal Revenue Service) wrong: He'd make an art of ideas that wasn't for sale. Das kollaborative Kunstprojekt "Artist / Politician" aus dem Jahre 1978 wird vorgestellt. Im Mittelpunkt des als politische Kampagne gestalteten Projekts in Kalifornien, an dem neben Lowell Darling auch die Künstler John Baldessari, Chris Burden, Terry Fox, Tom Marioni, Alexis Smith und Ed Ruscha beteiligt waren, stand die Frage nach der offiziellen Definition des "Künstlers" und eine Kritik an der dominanten Rolle der Staatlichen Steuerbehörde, der IRS, bei der Bestimmung dieser Frage. Lowell Darling ist bekannt für seine außergewöhnlichen öffentlichen Aktionen als "Comic Conceptualist".   - English Version   Thursday, November 13, 2008, 7pm Artist/Politician: A California Statewide Artists Collaboration, 1978 A lecture by Lowell Darling (artist) in English language "I didn't like the idea that I wasn't an artist because I hadn't sold anything," says Darling, who set out to prove the IRS (Internal Revenue Service) wrong: He'd make an art of ideas that wasn't for sale. "Artist / Politician" ­ an collaborative art project of the year 1978 will be introduced. As a political campaign the project that operated statewide in California was questioning the official definition of the "artist" by the IRS, which played a dominant part to answer this question. Lowell Darling is known for his outlandish acts as a comic conceptualist operating in the public sphere.     Conceptual Art From California 12. November ­ 23. November 2008 Max Almy, Ant Farm, John Baldessari, Aristarkh Chernyshov / Vladislav Efimov, Timothy Collins, Lowell Darling, Christoph Draeger / Martin Frei, Terry Fox, Ingo Gerken, Lucy Gunning, Doug Hall, Mel Henderson, Gary Hill, David Irelands House, Joanne Kelly, Ned Khan, Marlene Kos, Paul Kos, Tony Labat, Paula Levine, Chip Lord, Mary Lucier, Tom Marioni, Paul McCarthy, Bruce Nauman, Nicole Raufeisen / Ryan Witt, John Roloff, Darryl Sapien, Ira Schneider, Corinna Schnitt, Ilene Segalove, Richard Serra / Nancy Holt, Bonnie Sherk, Survival Research Laboratories, Mark Thompson, Bill Viola Kuratorin / Curated by: Kathrin Becker   Programm Kunstvermittlung Donnerstag, 20. November 2008, 19 Uhr Ausstellungsgespräch mit Silke Wittig (n.b.k. Video-Forum) Sonntag, 23. November 2008, 20 Uhr STUPID GREEN (Jochen Arbeit / Vania Rovisco) Musik-Performance     English Version Conceptual Art From California November 12­November 23, 2008 Tuesday­Sunday noon­6 pm Thursday noon­8pm   Programme Thursday, November 20, 7pm Guided tour with Silke Wittig (n.b.k. Video-Forum) Sunday, November 23, 8pm STUPID GREEN (Jochen Arbeit / Vania Rovisco) Music-Performanc     Buchreihe "n.b.k. Ausstellungen" Begleitend zur Ausstellung erscheint im Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln, eine Monographie in Deutsch und Englisch, 208 Seiten mit zahlreichen farbigen Abb., 19,80 EUR.     Showroom "Editionen 2008/09" Montag bis Freitag von 10 Uhr bis 17 Uhr können im Showroom im 1. Stock die Editionen 2008/09 angesehen werden: Monica Bonvicini, Antje Engelmann, Thomas Hirschhorn, Elke Krystufek, Olaf Metzel, Ciprian Mures¸an, Kirstine Roepstorff u. a.     n.b.k. Video-Forum zu Gast in der Temporären Kunsthalle Freitag, 19. Dezember 2008, 20 Uhr, Videoscreening "Art is a man's name" KünstlerInnen: Nevin Aladag, Marc Aschenbrenner, Pash Buzari, Shahram Entekhabi, Annika Eriksson, Patrycja German, Mathilde ter Heijne, Takehito Koganezawa, Bjørn Melhus, Hajnal Nemeth, Larissa Sansour, Erik Schmidt Kuratiert von Kathrin Becker (Leiterin n.b.k. Video-Forum)   English Version Anetta Mona Chis¸a Lucia Tkácová   Curated by Marius Babias   Opening: Friday, December 12, 7 pm 7 pm­10 pm Performance "Uncomfortable Heritage" Anetta Mona Chis¸a (Prague) and Lucia Tkácová (Bratislava) have been working together since 2000, while at the same time pursuing individual careers. In their shared work, they explore gender relations as well as the role of eastern European artists in a western-dominated art world. With videos, installations, textual work, and performances, they refract consumer expectations and trigger processes of reflection about gender questions, the art market, and making art. The exhibition and publication are conceived as an overview of their work. The following publication is their first comprehensive monograph. The post-communist world with its numerous refractions and discontinuities marks out the thematic framework of their work. The gaze of the artist is thus directed less at the repressed past and the devastations of eastern European biographies as at the concrete experiential world of individuals being subjected to the so-called process of transformation to capitalism. They ask what experiential spaces remain in the current state of affairs. Chis¸a's and Tkácová's work has not been the expression of a search for identity, as can often be seen in the work of artists of the older generation of eastern Europeans; instead, their artistic interest lies in making transformation visible and the new formation of the New Europe. The preferred medium of the two artists is video, because it can quickly be used in a DIY technique and because, at least in Eastern Europe, it usually was appropriated by male artists. A twofold self-empowerment: the artists take the freedom to transgress the past as well as to choose an artistic medium that they in a sense tear from the male domain. Without explicitly picking up on feminist positions in the historical neo-avant-garde, a few of their works are founded in gender politics. Self-empowerment in their own Eastern European context is opposed by exclusion in the Western European context. Then as now, background and gender still control artistic success on the art market.   Book series "n.b.k. Exhibitions" The exhibition is accompanied by a monograph in German and English, published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln, 208 pages with full colour illustrations, ¤19,80.     Showroom "Editions 2008/09" Monday to Friday from 10 am to 5 pm the annual editions can be viewed at Showroom (1st floor): Monica Bonvicini, Antje Engelmann, Thomas Hirschhorn, Elke Krystufek, Olaf Metzel, Ciprian Mures¸an, Kirstine Roepstorff et al.   n.b.k. Video-Forum at Temporäre Kunsthalle Friday, December, 19, 2008, 8 pm, video screening "Art is a man's name" Artists: Nevin Aladag, Marc Aschenbrenner, Pash Buzari, Shahram Entekhabi, Annika Eriksson, Patrycja German, Mathilde ter Heijne, Takehito Koganezawa, Bjørn Melhus, Hajnal Nemeth, Larissa Sansour, Erik Schmidt Curated by: Kathrin Becker (Head of n.b.k. Video-Forum)     Programm Kunstvermittlung Donnerstag, 15. Januar 2009, 19 Uhr Book release und Ausstellungsgespräch mit Sophie Goltz (Kunstvermittlung n.b.k.) Freitag, 23. Januar 2009, 19 Uhr Eröffnung der Dokumentationsausstellung "Public Art Bucharest|Spat¸iul Public Bucures¸ti " mit Einführungen von Sabine Hentzsch und Marius Babias (KuratorInnen) Sonntag, 1. Februar 2009, 18 Uhr Trilogie: "Videogramme einer Revolution" (mit Harun Farocki, D 1994), "Out of the Present" (D/F/RUS 1995), "Die Autobiographie des Nicolae Ceaus¸escu" (Work in Progress) Gespräch mit Andrei Ujica (Filmemacher) und Sophie Goltz und Screening "Out of the Present" (96 Min) anlässlich von "Public Art Bucharest|Spat¸iul Public Bucures¸ti" Donnerstag, 5. Februar 2009, 19 Uhr "Reclaiming Space. Dokumentation Public Art Bucharest|Spat¸iul Public Bucures¸ti ", D/RO 2007, 27 min Screening und Gespräch mit Katharina Koch (Filmemacherin), Daniel Knorr (Künstler), Marius Babias und Sabine Hentzschanlässlich von "Public Art Bucharest|Spat¸iul Public Bucures¸ti" Sonntag, 15. Februar 2009, 20 Uhr Britta Konzert   English Version Anetta Mona Chis¸a Lucia Tkácová   December 13, 08­February 15, 09 Tuesday­Sunday 12­6 pm Thursday 12­8pm (The exhibition will be closed from Monday, December 22, 2008 to Monday, January 5, 2009.)   Programme Friday, January 23, 2009, 7 pm Opening "Public Art Bucharest" together with Goethe-Institut Bukarest and Allianz Kulturstiftung Sunday, February 15, 2009, 8 pm Britta Concert
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