Sparwasser Hq
Offensive für zeitgenössische Kunst und Kommunikation
Torstrasse 161
10115 Berlin Mitte
Telefon 0174-2577729
mail@sparwasserhq.de
Öffnungszeiten: Mi -Fr 16-19 Uhr, Sa 14-18 Uhr
www.sparwasserhq.de
aktuelle Ausstellung
/ current exhibition
vorausgegangene Ausstellung
/ previous exhibition
Öffnungzeiten:
Mi-Fr 16.-19., Sa 14-18
Erweitete Eröffnungszeiten wärend art forum berlin
2007:
Samstag, 29. Sept. 18 - 22 Uhr + Dienstag, 2 Oct 2007 18-22 Uhr
Artists Talk mit
Søren Lose und Lise Harlev
Samstag / Saturday 6. Oktober um 20:00 Uhr
Die Sprechere sind Künstler der Ausstellung
/ Harlev and Lose are artists of the exhibition
I know the World, 1
in Sparwasser HQ : http://www.sparwasserhq.de
die Ausstellung endet diesem Samstag
/ the exhibition ends this Saturday
SØREN LOSE
is a Berlin based visual artist working with photography, video
and installation.
Søren Loses project "Ud!Ude.Hjem!", of which
a part is currently shown in
Sparwasser HQ, is taking a starting point in the classical Grand
Tour to
Rome.
On a residency in 2004, Søren Lose followed the beaten
track of the Danish
artists going to Rome in the beginning of the 19th Century. Ironically
many of these places are exactly the same as modern tourists
are visiting
today, however in a very different perspective and with another
purpose.
By juxtaposing both found holiday snapshots, postcards and his
own
photographs, the project is discussing the meaning of place and
representation in a historical as well as contemporary perspective.
How is it possible to work with a super-mediated and overloaded
place like
Rome as a contemporary artist today, bearing the countless historical
representations and the 10.000 tourist snap-shots taken every
day in mind?
Does mass tourism as a phenomena and the massive accumulation
of
representations that follows along with it, change the way we
emotionally
and physically experience a certain place?
Can we, in this context, talk about a visual "exhaustion,
or does the
desire to travel and see simply become stronger due to our omnipresence
and unlimited visual access on the internet, etc. ?
Søren Lose is currently on a 4 month residency in Istanbul.
During the artist talk some of these questions will be addressed
in an
open discussion and the artist will also present examples of
his previous
works.
LISE HARLEV
In her presentation, Lise Harlev will show examples of her work
from the
past five-six years. Since 2000 her work has been an investigation
of national
identity and other factors which influence how we define ourselves.
Harlev
touches on the insecurities, but also curiosities related to
speaking a new
language, travelling in foreign cultures, living together, etc.
These issues
are "cooled down" through the use of visual codes from
public and corporate
design and the short, humorous statements in her works.
Lise Harlev was born 1973 in Odense, Denmark, and lives and
works in Berlin.
Recent solo shows include 'Speak like Americans' in Galleria
Maze, Turin, and
she recently took part in group shows in Museu de Pollença,
Mallorca, and
Wyspa Institute of Art, Gdansk. She is currently developing a
work for the
re-opening of Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, in January
2008.
http://www.liseharlev.com
13. September - 6. Oktober
I know the World 1
Lise Harlev, Søren Lose, J&K, Sascha Pohle
Opening on Wednesday 12. September the exhibiton 7-11 p.m
I Know The World, 1
Aus der Reihe von
I Know The World
präsentiert Sparwasser HQ volgenden Vortrag:
Samstag 1. September um 20:00 Uhr
in
Sparwasser HQ, Torstrasse 161, Berlin Mitte (U-8 Rosenthaler
Platz)
Frederikke Hansen erzählt und zeigt Videos von
"Rethinking Nordic Colonialism: A Postcolonial Exhibition
Project in Five Acts".
(Vortrag in dt. Sprache)
5.-8. September
Mittwoch-Freitag 16:00-20:00 Samstag 14:00-20:00
DVD mit mehr als 18 Stunden Ton- und Videodokumentation sowie
Kunstwerke und Essays des Projekts "Rethinking Nordic
Colonialism: A Postcolonial Exhibition Project in Five Acts"
sind zugängig für das Publikum Sparwassers.
Das Projekt erstreckte sich über acht Länder im
Norden und setzte sich in Ausstellungen, Performanceevents, öffentlichen
Diskussions-veranstaltungen und Tagungen mit den heutigen Auswirkungen
des nordischen Kolonialismus auseinander. (Pressemittelilung
unten im Mail)
:::: English ::::
Saturday at September 1. at 8 pm (presentation in German)
Frederikke Hansen talks about and shows videos from
"Rethinking Nordic Colonialism: A Postcolonial Exhibition
Project in Five Acts".
September 5.-8.
Wednesday-Friday 4 p.m. - 8 p.m., Saturday 2 p.m. - 8 p.m.
DVD containing more than 18 hours of sound and video documentation
along with art work and essays from the exhibiton preject
"Rethinking Nordic Colonialism: A Postcolonial Exhibition
Project in Five Acts" available for the public.
(see press release below)
:::: Biografie :::
Through curating and writing, Frederikke Hansen has been engaging
feminist and queer politics within Western contemporary art since
the mid-1990s. Situating herself and her practice in a critical
dialogue with fellow cultural workers and activists, she is steadily
developing a curatorial methodology that is consistent with her
social and ethico-political principles. In short, her principles
and practice could be described as deconstructing privilege.
Part of that process entailed emigrating from increasingly xenophobic
and right-leaning Denmark and settling in Kreuzberg, Berlin in
1997 and, eight years later, founding the curatorial platform
Kuratorisk Aktion together with Tone Olaf Nielsen.
Hansen has been involved in running and curating several independent
art spaces, including LXX (Aarhus), Galleri Campbells Occasionally
(Copenhagen), and Frø (Berlin). From 2000-04, she was
working as curator at the Shedhalle in Zurich, Switzerland and
from 2005-06 she worked as co-curator at NIFCA, Nordic Institute
for Contemporary Art in Helsinki, Finland.
Projects include:
* Pedigree Pal: New Definition of Family (2001),
* Making Peace: Shifting Paradigms of Peace and War (2003),
* Musik Didactique: Content and Message in Electronic Pop-Music
'After' Techno (2003),
* Citizen Queer (2004), and
* Rethinking Nordic Colonialism: A Postcolonial Exhibition Project
in Five Acts (2006).
:::: press release ::::
from http://www.rethinking-nordic-colonialism.org/files/pdf/pra1/Act%201%20Press.General%20Release%20(English).pdf
(2006)
Nordic Amnesia
The colonial history of the Nordic region is a dark
chapter that seems to have slipped the memory of
some of the Nordic populations. A comprehensive exhibition
project titled Rethinking Nordic
Colonialism: A Postcolonial Exhibition Project in Five Acts
will shed light over this memory loss
and at the same time show that lines can be drawn from
the colonialism of former times and
contemporary problems of intolerance, xenophobia, and nationalism
in the Nordic countries today.
NIFCA, The Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art, has initiated
this visionary project, which
combines exhibitions with workshops, conferences, hearings, and
happenings in the locations of
Iceland, Greenland, The Faroe Islands, and the Sámi area
of Finland. 56 internationally recognized
artists, theorists, politicians, and grassroots activists from
all over the world participate in the project,
which runs from March 24 - November 25, 2006.
Colonialism
For centuries, the European nations have seized new foreign
territories and exploited them,
disregarding that these territories were already inhabited. Where
colonialism has interfered in the
native societies, great destruction and oppression has resulted.
When European colonialism was at
its height in the 1930s, it covered 84 percent of the world.
The colonial history of the Nordic region
must be seen in relation to this process, where in keeping with
a hegemonic mindset it was thought
justifiable to colonize other peoples and extracting more riches
from the colonies than was being
returned.
A Postcolonial Nordic Region
Even if the Nordic colonies are (almost) dismantled, colonialism
is not a closed chapter. The region
today could be said to be in a postcolonial state with clear
traces of colonialism. In the former
colonies, one can encounter frustration at not being heard, understood,
and respected, as well as
split feelings towards the colonizers of the past. Among those
former colonizers, on the other hand,
one can encounter romantic and trivializing conceptions of the
colonial era, for instance the idea
that colonization was a gift to the native people, who were provided
wealth, development, and skills.
Intentions
Rethinking Nordic Colonialism revisits the colonial
past of the Nordic countries in order to locate
the root of some of the hierarchies, inequalities, and intolerances
that structure the Nordic societies
today. In addition, the project wants to show that the region's
postcolonial state also provides a
breeding ground for cultural clashes and short-circuits, which
in turn lead to new qualities and
values. Qualities and values that are often overlooked, but which
nonetheless pose fruitful
alternatives to existing values.
A Remarkable Project
This project is a first attempt at writing a comprehensive
history of Nordic colonialism. It is the first of
its kind in the region and remarkable in its format inasmuch
as it mixes art forms such as visual and
video arts, film, performance, music, and action art, with postcolonial
critique and political theory. It
involves all the Nordic countries and is based on extraordinary
partnerships between important art
and culture institutions in the region: The Living Art Museum
and The Reykjavik Academy in
Iceland; Greenland National Museum and Archives as well as the
Teachers' Training School of
Greenland in Nuuk; The Faroe Islands Art Museum and The Nordic
House in Tórshavn; The Arctic
Centre and Finnish Railways Remise in Rovaniemi in Northern Finland
(Sápmi).
Nordic Relay Race
Rethinking Nordic Colonialism is structured
as a relay race in five acts, with each of the first four
acts consisting of an exhibition on a specific theme combined
with a workshop, conference, hearing,
or happening. Each of these acts runs three weeks and it is an
inbuilt premise that each act delivers
the baton to the next. The result is a continuous accumulation
of experiences and a continuous
communication of the project's conclusions. In the fifth act,
the results of the project will be
documented on a DVD, which is released on November 25, 2006 during
simultaneous
events in the four Nordic metropolises. These launches constitute
the finishing line of the relay race.
List of Participants
M. Jacqui Alexander (works in Canada), Pia Arke
(Greenland/Denmark), Nadiah Bamadhaj
(Malaysia/Indonesia), Bolette Benedictsen Blaagaard (Denmark/The
Netherlands), Stephanie
Black (USA), Randi Broberg in collaboration with Tine
Bryld (Greenland/Denmark & Denmark),
Center for Land Use Interpretation (USA), Katrine Dirckinck-Holmfeld
(Denmark), Godfried
Donkor (Ghana/United Kingdom), Anida Yoeu Esguerra
(Cambodia/USA), Paul Gilroy (United
Kingdom), Tamar Guimarães (Brazil/Denmark),
Archana Hande (India), Laila Hansen
(Greenland), Julie Edel Hardenberg (Greenland), Marja
Helander (Sámi, Finland), Imani Henry
(The Caribbean/USA), Richard William Hill (Cree, Canada),
Geir Tore Holm (Sámi, Norway),
Høgni Hoydal (The Faroe Islands), Inuk Silis
Høegh & Asmund Havsteen-Mikkelsen
(Greenland/Denmark & Denmark), Maryam Jafri (Pakistan/USA/Denmark),
Ívar Jónsson
(Iceland), Isaac Julien (United Kingdom), Jane Jin
Kaisen & Tobias Hübinette (South
Korea/Denmark & South Korea/Sweden), Rauna Kuokkanen
(Sámi, Finland/Canada), Moshekwa
Langa (South Africa/The Netherlands), Reina Lewis
(United Kingdom), Mikela Lundahl (Sweden),
Aviâja Egede Lynge (Greenland), Kobena Mercer
(Ghana/United Kingdom), Kent Monkman
(Cree, Canada), Rannvá Holm Mortensen (The Faroe
Islands), New Meaning (Norway), Alanis
Obomsawin (Abenaki, Canada), Steve Ouditt (Trinidad,
West Indies), Pratibha Parmar
(Kenya/United Kingdom), Humphrey Polepole (Tanzania),
Gillo Pontecorvo (Italy), Kaisa Raitio
(Finland), Henriette Rasmussen (Greenland), Ruangrupa
(Indonesia), Vandana Shiva (India),
Katarina Pirak Sikku (Sámi, Sweden), Paul-Anders
Simma (Sámi, Norway/Sweden/Finland), Slut
(Sweden), Makere Stewart-Harawira (Waitaha, New Zealand/Canada),
Fatimah Tuggar
(Nigeria/USA), 200 (The Faroe Islands), Ósk
Vilhjálmsdóttir (Iceland), VISION - den
om lighed
(Denmark), Voima (Finland) & Kara Walker (USA).
of September... in Torstrasse 161, 10115 Berlin (U8- Rosenthaler
Platz
September 13. - October 6.
I Know the World, 1
Lise Harlev, Søren Lose, J&K, Sascha Pohle
Eröffnung
Mittwoch, 12. September 19-23 Uhr
Artists Talk
Samstag 15. September um 20 Uhr: Sascha Pohle
Erweitete Öffnungszeiten während art forum berlin
Samstag, 29.September,18-22 Uhr
Dienstag, 2. Oktober, 18-22 Uhr
Artists Talk
Samstag 6. Oktober um 20 Uhr: Søren Lose
Specialists Talk
Dienstag, 9. Oktober um 20 Uhr: Russell Martin, Artquest,
London
I Know the World
Event- und Ausstellungsreihe::
29. August
the world as a world map
(and other cartographic experiments)
Lize Mogel, Artists Talk
31. August
Astrid Mania präsentiert Kain Picken und Rob McKenzie (Künstler
magazine SLAVE)
1. September
RETHINKING NORDIC COLONIALISM
Präsentation von Kuratorin Frederikke Hanse
5.-8. September Mitwoch-Freitag 16-20 Uhr, Samstag 14-20 Uhr,
Video-archive
Artists Talk with Sascha Pohle
Samstag 15. September um 20 Uhr:
/ Saturday at 8 P.M.
in Sparwasser HQ Torstrasse 161, 10115 Berlin (Rosenthalerplatz
U-8)
Sascha Pohle is a participating artist in the exhibition
I Know The World, 1, which opened in Sparwasser HQ on Wednesday,
he is therefore visiting Berlin and we used the great oppertunity
to invite him to present two of his newest works, on Saturday
evening at 8 P.M., The talk will be held in English or German,
according to the wish of our audience present.
There will also be the oppertunity to see his video in the exhibition,
"The Swimmer", just before and just after the talk.
Pohle, educated 1996-2002 in Staatliche Hochschule für
Bildende Künste (Städelschule), Frankfurt am Main,
lives and works in Amsterdam, where he is an artist-in-residence
in the Rijksakademie van beeldende Kunsten. In 2005 he was an
artist-in-residence in Ssamzie Space, Seoul. He participated
in 2007 in +Plus+, Vordemberge-Gidewart, Museum Wiesbaden und
Nassauischer Kunstverein and in 2004 in group exhibitions in
22Wallstr., Frankfurt am Main and Zeithaus, Wolfsburg and in
'realityreal' in Galerie Gebrüder Lehmann, Dresden, In 2004
he also showed in 'Situations construites' in Espace d'arts contemporaines
- Attitudes, Genève, and in 2003 in 'Make it new' in Portikus
in Kooperation mit Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, Frankfurt
am Main, DE.
http://www.gl.tugraz.at/wunderwelten/wausstellungarbeiten.html
http://www.kunstverein-wiesbaden.de/seiten/2007_2008_015.html
http://www.22wallstr.de/pages/kuenstler/pohle01.html
http://www.zuviel.tv/2005.html
NEWSLETTER :
September-Oktober-Novemeber-Dezember
13. September - 6. Oktober
I know the World 1
Lise Harlev, Soeren Lose, J&K, Sascha Pohle
Artists Talk
Samstag 15. September um 20 Uhr: Sascha Pohle
Öffnungzeiten wäremd Art Forum Berlin 2007:
Samstag, 29. Sept. 18 - 22 Uhr + Dienstag, 2 Oct 2007 18-22 Uhr
Artists Talk
Samstag 6. Oktober um 20 Uhr: Søren Lose
Specialists Talk
Dienstag, 9. Oktober um 20 Uhr: Russell Martin, Artquest,
London
13. Oktober - 10. November
I know the World 2
Tamar Guimaraes, Tanja N. Paulsen/ Grete Aagaard (Künstler-in-Residence
Oktober-November) Tommy Stöeckel
Eröffnung Freitag 12. Oktober um 19. Uhr
17. November - 15. Dezember
I know the World 3
J&K und Künstler
Eröffnung Freitag 16. November um 19. Uhr
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