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Almuth Baumfalk, Tania Bedriñana, Tine Benz, Christine Berndt, Dagmar Binder, Harald Birck, Vicente Blanco Mosquera, Ronald de Bloeme, Roland Boden, Mari Brellochs, Katja Brinkmann, Laura Bruce, Salvador Cidrás Robles, Ben Cottrell, Ulrike Dornis, Hannah Dougherty, Markus Draper, Sae Esashi, Norman Gebauer, Christiana Glidden, Franziska Goes, Agnès Hardy, Eberhard Havekost, Martin Henkel, Herr Sphen, Olaf Holzapfel, Sybille Hotz, Christiane John, Stephan Kurr, Wing Yip Lap, Ingrid Lill, Stefan Lux, Saskia Meesters (CBK-Studio), Barbara Morgenstern, Wessel Muller, Aino Nebel, Esther Neumann, Alien Oosting, Daniel Pflumm, raumlabor_berlin (Francesco Apuzzo, Markus Bader, Benjamin Förster-Baldenius, Jan Liesegang, Matthias Rick, Axel Timm), Nicole Riegel, Adrian Rovatkay, Viola Rusche, Sophia Schama, Wolfgang Schlegel, Margot Schmitt, Despina Stokou, Jörg Suermann, Ines Tartler, Ona Tav, Joël Verwimp, Vanessa Wood, Dominic Wood, Frank Zucht. | › 2008 › 2006 › 2005 › 2004 › 2003 › 2002 › german |
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| Nezaket Ekici: Nazar Dressed in a long robe composed of 600 shiny blue glas amuletts Nezaket Ekci makes her way through the Kreuzbergian Wrangelstrasse. These “blue eyes” from Turkey (turkish: nazar) shall protect the bearer and are said to avert “the evil eye”. But here the artist draws all glances on her and her dazzling robe of 40 kilos weight. In consequence, she becomes both: a powerful bearer of the amulett and the possible victim of these glances. The performance “Nazar” creates an attractive picture and thereby thematises the paradoxes of defense. “Nazar” was first performed in Istanbul in 2005. |
Duo Stoll & Wachall: Dis-Infection The German Medical Handbook defines disinfection as “turning dead or living material into a state of no longer being infectuous”. In the name of defense the duo Stoll & Wachall was engaged to patrol through the “Schlesischer Busch”, dressed up in protection suits, carrying tanks on their backs. Their mission: “Disinfection of the park and its visitors, to prevent them and us against all thinkable infections. By this security measure we increase both, the general hygenie and the general hysteria. We take care for all invisible killing cells. We fight back all attacks from bacteria, germs, and viruses. |
Anny and Sibel Öztürk:
NÖ-Performance Experience the remake of the legendary Beuys art performance “ja ja ja ja ja, nee nee nee nee nee”, first performed at the Staatliche Kunstakademie Dusseldorf in 1986 ! Anny and Sibel Öztürk meet on the green meadow where they skillfully practice what our fellow citizens of turkish origin like to do in the public greens of Berlin: they have a picnic. And what are they doing besides having a picnic in the public green of Berlin? Right: they do the Joseph Beuys ! In accordance with the historical original, the sisters are taking turns in the acts of confirmation and negation while in their performance they substitute the german “nee” (no) by the more emphatic “nö”. |
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Ona Tav: The Well-Spring Body You are wandering through a park. On one of its trees you see a white knight’s armour tied to its stem and two of its branches. Tears of red wine are running down from the eyeholes, slashing the white body on its way down to the feet into a basin so to satisfy one’s thirst. Day after day the tree keeps on standing. The cloud is the ceiling of the skies and we are drinking from its sweat. We dunk our cup into these tears of wine so that in our throat they will turn into fire and we can await the tears from the skies. There is no soul without a world and no tears without a soul. He dressed up in metal to prevent the world from pain but he couldn’t stop his own crying. |
Nevin Aladag: Raise The Roof Nevin Aladag stages a sort of dance on the roof of the Kunstfabrik. Four dancers move to the beats of four different pieces of music which the audience will not hear but only learn titles and length. Instead, they hear the amplified sound of kitten heels piercing through the prepared dance floor.This dance on the roof – where in earlier times GDR border soldiers patrolled – is not a mutual dance. In twofold isolation, marked-off from each other and from the audience, the gestures of attraction and defense constituted in this dance have lost all points of reference. |
Shahram Entekhabi/Becky Ofek: Boxing Box My dearest sport fans, the shadow lighted area is filled with the poisoned dirty smell of no return. This is not about fighting, this is about living, my dear friends. Come and see the warm aggressed blood of 2 dangerous fools exploding like a Russian nuclear power station in an unforgettable century fight between the sexes. Woman versus Man, Bitch versus Bastard. Be witness of the battling Cyclops high up in the sky, fighting their gender pain away. Bäng bäng buff. |
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| 2yk Galerie Heidi Sill/Wolfgang Schlegel/Martin Pfahler: Finissage 18.11. - 17.12.2006 After a successful exhibition program with national and international artists, the Kunstfabrik am Flutgraben e.V. is now marking an end to its seven-year existence as art gallery. We would like to celebrate this appropriately with you, the supporters, friends and all enthusiasts of the 2yk gallery. Deciding as curators for contemporary positions lastly also had its seeds in the experience that we have from being artists ourselves. The mutualities and differences of both roles were the basis of our teamwork. This is why the team of curators - Martin Pfahler, Wolfgang Schlegel and Heidi Sill - would like to bid farewell from their audience with their own exhibition: Martin Pfahler transfuses moments of physical lability into the physics of spacial construction. In his latest sculpture collapsed structure he designs a space that acts as a piece of clothing which is both analogous and a counterpart to the human body. The functions of statics are reversed, the space is in the process of convolution. |
 Heidi Sill, Finissage, 2006 In Fassaden, Wolfgang Schlegel reconstructs marginal industrial products. The constructed perspective of the large-scale wall relief awaits the active participation of the perceiving observer. He becomes witness to the metamorphosis of view, in which self-recognition and irritation, foreignness and intimacy constantly alternate. With her works of art, Heidi Sill is on the tracks of the physiognomy of death in an artistic-scientific cooperation of the Brandenburgischer Kunstverein in Potsdam in 2006. Her work is based on forensic photographies, from which she didn't derive the spectacle of violence but a gentle, fictitious reconstruction of the human countenance - a manifold overlay of pathological traces, which in the end do seem to melt together into a human portrait. |
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2yk Galerie Open since 1999, the gallery offers 250 square meters exhibition space, thus being one of the biggest non-profit gallery spaces in Berlin. The exhibtions curated by own and guest curators invite to experiment with new forms of exhibiting and presenting art. The curators team of the 2yk Gallery 2006 was represented by Martin Pfahler, Wolfgang Schlegel, and Heidi Sill. 2yk Gallery Am Flutgraben 3 - 12435 Berlin fon: +49 30 5321-1592 fax: +49 30 5321-1591 2yk [ett] kunstfabrik [punkt] org www.2yk.de Transport connection: Bus 265 Heckmannufer/U1 Schlesisches Tor/ S-Bahn Treptower Park Nicolas Chardon Rob Voerman DESIGNMAI YOUNGSTERS Andreas Fohr: embedded Iris Kettner Michael Marwick - QUIET APOCALYPSE |
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Gasag Art Award 2006  Ulrike Kuschel: from the series Ausstellungshallen am Funkturm 1926-1954, 2006, courtesy of Ulrike Kuschel Ulrike Kuschel, Stand No. 130/Bibliothek Ulrike Kuschel’s work deals with German history, in particular Nazi Germany and the history of former East Germany. For Ulrike Kuschel it is alongside the historical research, rather important to use different reproduction techniques on the one side and to connect / confront photography and text on the other side. Her work "Ausstellungshallen am Funkturm 1926 – 1954" in the Art Forum’s library deals with the documentation of 31 exhibitions, fairs and political events from the years 1926 – 1954. Central to each poster is a quote from the relating exhibition or fair catalogue that indicates the political |
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Hereby it is for
her rather important to point out the linguistic characteristics and
the thematic main focus. At the stand of Kunstfabrik am Flutgraben e.V.
she is represented with her work "Ausstellungshallen am Funkturm, 3
Kataloge (1936-1938)". Gitte Schäfer, Talk Lounge Both in painting and sculpture as well as installation work, Gitte Schäfer transforms familiar predominantly folk objects and motives into subtle transformed, abstract artefacts. The artist disassembles the objects, mainly found on flee markets, unerringly and rearranges them intuitively to new phantasy entities, that are taken out of their context and function. On this years Art Forum Gitte Schäfer designs the Talk Lounge with her piece "Der zerbrochene Krug", by letting the podium happen in a classical 'peek box'. An alienated stage is situated in the existing architecture of the Palais. The stage is equipped with carefully chosen requisites, that Gitte Schäfer chooses partly by superficial criteria such as colour and texture. In the conscious composed arrangement these requisites suggest – like emblems – a known, but not explicitly ascribed milieu: Suggesting a kind of room of a farmhouse or folk theatre. Just a kind of … though.  View of the Talk Lunge by Gitte Schäfer |
 video sculpture | architectural device | rotating figure inscribing a circle, photo: rem, Berlin, copyright: Peter Welz Peter Welz, Kleiner Stern Peter Welz is showing his piece "video sculpture | architectural device | rotating figure inscribing a circle" in the Lounge "Kleiner Stern" on this year’s Art Forum. The piece deals with the human figure in spaces. The artist documents with two cameras a moving human figure that describes a circle on a turning disc and at the same time is being moved by the disc. Thus a moment of standstill in full movement is being created. Through the variations of the cameras’ perspectives, Welz manages to show the human figure in its reverse position in the room. By projecting these different moving sequences on a wall construction, his work obtains an architectural sculptural character. The almost constructivist wall arrangement allows the viewer open sight on the technical, raw behind-the-scene construction. Peter Welz manages to show time through moving standstill with assistants of the medium video. Gasag Art Award 2007: Mandla Reuter Gasag Art Award 2005: Clemens von Wedemeyer Gasag Art Award 2004: Nezaket Ekici Gasag Art Award 2003: Judith Hopf Gasag Art Award 2002: Carsten Fock For further information look there: www.kunst.gasag.de. |
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| Office Kunstfabrik Am Flutgraben 3 - 12435 Berlin Monday to Thursday, 10 a.m. to 1.30 p.m. phone: +49 30 53 21-96 58 fax: +49 30 53 21-15 70 info [ett] kunstfabrik [punkt] org 2yk Galerie Am Flutgraben 3 - 12435 Berlin Thursday to Sunday, 2 p.m. to 7 p.m. phone: +49 30 53 21-15 92 fax: +49 30 53 21-15 91 2yk [ett] kunstfabrik [punkt] org Letzte Überprüfung Grenzwachturm Schlesischer Busch Am Flutgraben 3 - 12435 Berlin Do-So 14-19 Uhr fon: +49 30 5321-9658 LUe [ett] kunstfabrik [punkt] org |
Francesco Apuzzo, Almuth Baumfalk, Tania Bedriñana, Julia Beister, Tine Benz, Christine Berndt, Dagmar Binder, Harald Birck, Vicente Blanco Mosquera, Ronald de Bloeme, Roland Boden, Mari Brellochs, Katja Brinkmann, Laura Bruce, Salvador Cidrás Robles, Ben Cottrell, Katja Diallo (CBK-Atelier), Ulrike Dornis, Hannah Dougherty, Markus Draper, Norman Gebauer, Helga Geng, Christiana Glidden, Franziska Goes, Agnès Hardy, Martin Henkel, Eberhard Havekost, Martin Henkel, Herr Sphen, Olaf Holzapfel, Sybille Hotz, Christiane John, Jörg Kreutzer, Stephan Kurr, Wing Yip Lap, Ingrid Lill, Stefan Lux, Michael Markwick (CBK-Atelier), Barbara Morgenstern, Wessel Muller, Aino Nebel, Esther Neumann, Daniel Pflumm, Nicole Riegel, Jean-Christopher Roelens, Adrian Rovatkay, Viola Rusche, Sophia Schama, Wolfgang Schlegel, Margot Schmitt, Despina Stokou, Ines Tartler, Ona Tav, Axel Timm, Joël Verwimp, Vanessa Wood, Dominic Wood, Frank Zucht. | › 2008 › 2007 › 2006 › 2004 › 2003 › 2002 › german |
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Vision Interfaces and boundaries between art and economy is the subtitle of the project Product & Vision, initiated by Mari Brellochs and Henrik Schrat and implemented in cooperation with Kunstfabrik am Flutgraben e.V. and a group of international artists, researchers and consultants.  Workshop at Cornelsen in April 2005 The project explored parallels in artistic and business enterprises. How do organizations learn, e.g. corporations, and how do individuals learn, e.g. artists? What does social responsibility mean within an art context, what does it mean in the business world? What sophisticated survival techniques have been developed in both fields? In the project, the business, the enterprise became a model, a starting point for artistic work. |
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month process, participants focussed on the Berlin-based publishing
house Cornelsen Publishing for educational media. As "model business",
Cornelsen gave insight into its organisational structures and working
processes. Employees of the company were interviewed by artists and
consultants or directly involved into project development. The systemic
organisational consulting firm osb-i accompanied the project as
observer and conceptual advisor In September 2005, the results of the
focus on the model business were presented in an exhibition at the
Kunstfabrik am Flutgraben besides more general works relating to the
field of arts & business. Furthermore the reader "Sophisticated survival techniques. Strategies in art and economy", exploring the field from 22 different theoretical positions, has been published as part of the project at publishing house Kulturverlag Kadmos (appointment form). In March 2006 a second edition, entitled "Product & Vision. An experimentation between art and business" will be published at Kadmos as well. It is exhibition catalogue, project documentation and forum in one book. Further information at www.produktundvision.com Photographies: Kai Ziegner/Tobbias Kruse and Reinigungsgesellschaft |
 Product & Vision. Exhibition view  Project by the artist group Reinigungsgesellschaft  Exhibition's architecure, designed by Raumlabor and Beeke Bartelt |
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im Bau On the occasion of the Lange Nacht der Museen on 29th January 2005 the Gasag and the Kunstfabrik am Flutgraben will celebrate the grand opening of the new restyled floors "Kunst im Bau" in the Gasag-Haus on the Reichpietschufer.  Frank Kästner, Haltung (Attitude), 2004  Esther Neumann, Seestück Waldstück (Sea and forest scenery), 2004 |
So the third round of the joint venture
of the Gasag and the Kunstfabrik, based on sponsorship, has been
reached and the art collection of the Gasag is extended by ten pieces
of art. Stefan Beck, Roland Boden, Katja Brinkmann, Daniel Buchheit, Frank Kästner, Esther Neumann, Adrian Rovatkay, Sarah Schönfeld, Heidi Sill, and Tristan Wolski in the fourth and fifth floor of the building, that stands under monumental protection put into practice their site-specific works of art. The basis for the project "Kunst im Bau" is established by a closed competition in the form of an annual announcement. It's adressed to artists, which are associated with the Kunstfabrik am Flutgraben e.V., the carrier of Berlin's largest studiohouse for fine Arts. The invited artists are requested to develop proposals for every two floors in the Gasag-Building. In this way not only a collection with current positions of contemporary art come into existence, but primarily a collection, which excels as visual response to the architecture of Emil Fahrenkamp, by the use of communication projects with the employees of the Gasag or by artistic interventions in their working and living reality. |
To choose the very best of the art work
behoove to an independent expert jury, in that were associated Gabriele
Horn (Executive KW Institute for Contemporary Art Berlin), Veronika
Kellndorfer (artist), Andreas Koch (Gallery Koch und Kesslau), Dr.
Eberhard Maria Richter (Gasag) und Ute Tischler (Cultural Department
Lichtenberg). Roland Boden, Bei Gasgeruch muß Hilfe her! (In case of gas smell call for help!), 2004  Katja Brinkmann, untitled, 2004 |
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| Gasag Art Award 2005 The Gasag Art Award which promotes and supports young Berlin artists goes to the film and video artist Clemens von Wedemeyer. Pauline Kraneis and Slawomir Elsner are both decorated with a promotional prize. The award ceremony will take place on September 29th, 2005 at 7:30 pm at the talklounge of the Art Forum Berlin, which will be designed by the laureates. The three laureates were selected in a two step procedure: The freelance curators Inke Arns, Ulrike Kremeier, and Johannes Schmidt, as well as the journalist Brigitte Werneburg nominated the following artists - each of them not younger than 35 years and with a Berlin address: David Adam, Hamra Abbas, Tobias Buche, Stef Burghard, Hannah Dougherty, Slawomir Elsner, Pauline Kraneis, Sebastian Lütgert, Eleonore de Montesquiou, Jenny Rosemeyer, Jorinde Voigt, Suse Weber, Clemens von Wedemeyer and Florian Wüst. |
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the curators Zdenek Felix and Harm Lux as well as Martin Pfahler from
the 2yk gallery chose the laureates. The selection of the winners is made by a jury, consisting of the freelance curators Zdenek Felix and Harm Lux, and Martin Pfahler from 2yk gallery. The award ceremony will take place in the evening hours of September29th, 2005 at Art Forum Berlin. Gasag Art Award 2007: Mandla Reuter Gasag Art Award 2006: Ulrike Kuschel Gasag Art Award 2004: Nezaket Ekici Gasag Art Award 2003: Judith Hopf Gasag Art Award 2002: Carsten Fock |
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Almuth Baumfalk, Tania Bedriñana, Julia Beister, Tine Benz, Armin Bicker, Dagmar Binder, Harald Birck, Vicente Blanco Mosquera, Ronald de Bloeme, Roland Boden, Mari Brellochs, Katja Brinkmann, Salvador Cidrás Robles, Markus Draper, Jereon Fransen (CBK-Atelier), Norman Gebauer, Helga Geng, Franziska Goes, Agnès Hardy, Diana Hartung, Christiane Hause, Eberhard Havekost, Jeppe Hein, Herr Sphen, Olaf Holzapfel, Sybille Hotz, Patrick Huber, Christiane John, ++Kooperation PRIVAT (Jörg Finus, Torsten Hennig), Ton Kraayeveld (CBK-Atelier), Jörg Kreutzer, Wing Yip Lap, Ingrid Lill, Ute Lindner, Barbara Morgenstern, Wessel Muller, Aino Nebel, Julia Neuenhausen, Esther Neumann, Daniel Pflumm, Fred van Reijen (CBK-Stipendiat), Nicole Riegel, Adrian Rovatkay, Martin Ruge, Viola Rusche, Wolfgang Schlegel, Margot Schmitt, Heidi Sill, Despina Stokou, Jörg Suermann, Ines Tartler, Ona Tav, Axel Timm, Joël Verwimp, Ed Wiesinger, Corinna Wittke, Vanessa Wood, Dominic Wood, Bas Zoontjens, Frank Zucht. | › 2008 › 2007 › 2006 › 2005 › 2003 › 2002 › german |
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| Kunst im Bau The collection "Kunst im Bau" is continously growing. Meeting once a year, the jury selected the submissions of the following artists for the realization in the Gasag building at the Reichpietschufer: Stefan Beck, Roland Boden, Katja Brinkmann, Daniel Buchheit, Frank Kästner, Esther Neumann, Adrian Rovatkay, Sarah Schönfeld, Heidi Sill and Tristan Wolski.  Almuth Baumfalk, Konstruktionsanleitung (Construction manual), 2002 |
The independent jury consisted of
Gabriele Horn (Senatsverwaltung für Wissenschaft, Forschung und
Kultur/Administration for science, research and culture Berlin),
Veronika Kellndorfer (artist), Andreas Koch (Gallery Koch und Kesslau),
Dr. Eberhard Maria Richter (legal adviser Gasag) and Dr. Ute Tischler
(Kulturamt Lichtenberg, curator). Based on sponsorship the team project of Gasag and Kunstfabrik am Flutgraben e.V. goes now on its 3rd round. Since 2002 within the scope of an internal art competition the corridors of the Architecture Monument at the Landwehrkanal are the showroom for works of art. An invitation to tender is issued to artists who are associated with the Kunstfabrik am Flutgraben e.V., operator of Berlin's largest studio house.  Axel Timm/Francesco Apuzzo, Switch, 2003 They are invited to develop concrete suggestions for two floors each in the Gasag building. In this manner a collection of current positions of contemporary art and above all a collection of the company is formed, characterized by creativ reactions to the architecture of Emil Fahrenkamp, by cooperation and communication projects with the employees of Gasag or by interventions to their respective reality of work and life. |
 Alena Meier, Fluchtweg (Escape route), 2002 The increasing collection "Kunst im Bau" raises the interest of the public of Berlin. Thus more than 4000 visitors crowded the Gasag building during the "Lange Nacht der Museen" last January and took the opportunity to see the collection guided by an expert. The new selection of the art works is solemnly inaugurated in the framework of the "Lange Nacht" in January 2005.  Steve Johnson, Pedestrian Island No. 5, 2003 |
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| Gasag-Kunstpreis The Gasag Art Award 2004 goes to Nezaket Ekici, Laura Horelli and Gregor Hildebrandt Nezket Ekici receives the Gasag Art Award 2004. Laura Horelli and Gregor Hildebrandt will be distinguished with a Promotion Prize. The is donated by the Gasag is awarded in cooperation of Gasag and Kunstfabrik am Flutgraben e.V. It promotes and supports young Berlin artists who aren't older than 35 years. A jury consisting of Prof. Karin Sander from the Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee, Prof. Tony Cragg from the Universität der Künste Berlin as well as of Petra Prahl from the 2yk Galerie of Kunstfabrik am Flutgraben selected the three winners from a list of 15 nominated artists. The three winners included the following artists had been nominated for the Gasag Art Award this year: Lutz Braun, Andrea Büttner, Heman Chong, Andrew Gilbert, Lise Harlev, Sofia Hultén, Claudia Hummel, Deborah Ligorio, René Lück, Kristofer Paetau, Astrid Sourkova, and Christina Zück. The Gasag Art Award is endowed with 5.000 €. The prize endowment of 5.000 Euro includes a work purchase by Gasag in the value of 2.500 Euro. Furthermore the Gasag finances a comprehensive art cataloque of the prize-winner. This year the promotion prizes endowed with 1.000 € each are awarded for the first time and underline the high claim of the prize to promote and support young and not yet established Berlin artists. An exhibition in the 2yk Gallery at Kunstfabrik am Flutgraben shows works from Nezaket Ekici, Gregor Hildebrandt, and Laura Horelli from September 10th to October 8th (Thurday to Sunday 2-7 p.m.). Gregor Hildebrandt  Gregor Hildebrandt, Es ist nicht alles Gold,
was glänzt, 2004If you write, "Not all that glitters is gold," in golden letters, it reads curiously paradoxical. As a general statement these words apply to many things and to many situations. But this work of art is at variance with itself, since it is written in 24 carat gold foil letters on a free standing wall in the gallery. The general truth of this sentence contradicts itself here.The strangeness this common-place dictum aquires as the artist's golden handwriting on the wall is emphazised by traces of work and smudges of grey on this wall. As the certainty of these words dissolves, the visitor is left with an odd feeling of ambiguity and dejection. Also Hildebrandt's second work is all about appearances and their deceptiveness. |
"The Mirror" reflects everything that takes place in front
of it. Yet the black surface built up of lines of videotapes doesn't
give a clearly defined reflection, but a fractured image. You have to
move up closely to see things clearly. Thus we do not see ourselves in
the usual way but as if a stranger emerges from the dark to draw us
into the mirror. Laura Horelli  Laura Horelli, Media spree, Work in progress,
2004Laura Horelli lets a random collection of documents speak for itself. The installation "media spree" shows a work of art in progress. A sequence of various documents demonstrates how the media landscape Spree slowly emerges and develops. Horelli visited the new media- and production places on the former industrial areal that hosts the building of the Kunstfabrik, too. In the 2yk gallery of the Kunstfabrik Horelli presents the result of her six month's research: A wall of images, brochures and texts in loose sequence. There even is a settee and chairs that belonged to the former 'Senats-verwaltung für Kultur in Berlin'. The stark presentation contrasts with the sometimes rather humorous and entertaining content of the documents presented - some of them unintentionally funny, like commentaries of people living near by, or like some of the exaggerated commercial poetry of advertizing material and real estate leaflets. Yet in her photography Horelli transcends the documentary. She focusses on apparently random details that reveal obvious contradictions to things claimed in brochures or in interviews, or that seem like symbols of things felt and said. |
Nezaket Ekici Nezaket Ekici, from the threepart work
"Schlaraffenland" (Land of milk and honey), 2004Ekici's monumental photography "Land of Milk and Honey" (Schlaraffenland) refers back to three of her former performances. In her performance "I had a Dream" (2003) Ekici knelt on a lawn and bit off individual leaves of grass, while she was watched by visitors of the Landesgartenschau Gronau-Losser. "180 Wishes" (2002) alludes to a Spanish custom on New Year's Eve. Those who eat 12 grapes as the clock stirkes Twelve, have 12 wishes free. In her performance Ekici tried to gobble up 12 kilograms of grapes in three minutes, thus pushing to its limits the idea behind this Spanish custom. Finally, "Emotion in Motion" (2000) tries to give bodily expression to the act of taking possession of a room and its furniture by kissing every single object and space. Seen as a whole, these performances express the oral act of taking possession. In "Schlaraffenland" there is an almost medieval sense of demonstrating temperance by showing intemperance. Those who cannot do anything in moderation will finally choke on an excess of grapes, of kisses and of self-imposed odd disciplines. |
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** | Nezaket Ekici On the Art Forum Berlin the Turkish artist Nezaket Ekici executes two performances. In the performance "Fountain", on the occasion of the private view to 17.09. at 18 o'clock, Ekici stands for as a kind of living sculpture on a white pedestal. She wears a transparent dress, which is compound from water-filled urine bags. Around her five water buckets suggest a well basin. In the process of the performance the artist, balancing with considered movements on the high pedestal, empties the individual closed with valves water bags of her dress, whereby aiming with the water jet into the buckets, that thereby produced plash noise and the taken positions consciously evokes the comparison with a piddling male figure. Parallel to the performance at the stall of the Kunstfabrik the photo editions "Fountain blue" and "Fountain pomp" (by courtesy of Andrea Breitengraser) are issued. Beside "Fountain" with "Believe #2" and "Emotion in Motion" two further performances in short film sequences are presented to, for which likewise the argument with the body as living sculpture is the basis. "Hullabelly" is the second performance of Ekici on Art Forum (20.09., 18 o'clock). Up to the exhaustion the scarf wearing artist swings a Hula Hoop to the sounds of Turkish belly dance music and accommodates the reverse opinions of sport, dance and physicalness to accordance. In a similarly clear way the homonymous phototrilogie "Orient and Okzident" correlate with (starting from 20.09.). Three complete body figures show the artist, in the characteristic style of old-masterly painting equipped with attributes, which retrieve the cliché of the Turk and Muslime, in order to dismantle it immediately again: The scarf wearing woman swings a Hula Hoop around her neck, those by the black garb of a Tschador completely cloaked believer exposed bangred made up lips and the coquettish movement of the belly dancer congeal in the gypsum arm. The films "Hulla Belly ", "Schleierkampf-Wedeln" and "Gypsum Belly Dance" presented at the stall dedicate themselves in different form to the topic of the cultural identity. Nezaket Ekici (* 1970) was just decorated with the Gasag Art Award. The award, endowed with €5.000, promotes fine artists from Berlin in the age of up to 35 years and is assigned since three years in co-operation by Gasag and Kunstfabrik am Flutgraben. The catalog "Nezaket Ekici. Gasag Art Award 2004" is available at the stall of the Kunstfabrik to the subscription price of €12. Gasag Art Award 2007: Mandla Reuter Gasag Art Award 2006: Ulrike Kuschel Gasag Art Award 2005: Clemens von Wedemeyer Gasag Art Award 2003: Judith Hopf Gasag Art Award 2002: Carsten Fock |
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Almuth Baumfalk, Tania Tania Bedriñana, Julia Beister, Tine Benz, Armin Bicker, Dagmar Binder, Harald Birck, Ronald de Bloeme, Roland Boden, Mari Brellochs, Katja Brinkmann, Markus Draper, Jeroen Fransen, Garderobe23, Norman Gebauer, Franziska Goes, Sparka Lee Hall, Agnès Hardy, Christiane Hause, Eberhard Havekost, Radka Hladka, Olaf Holzapfel, Sybille Hotz, Patrick Huber, Christiane John, ++Kooperation PRIVAT (Jörg Finus, Torsten Hennig), Ingrid Lill, Ute Lindner, Barbara Morgenstern, Wessel Muller, Aino Nebel, Julia Neuenhausen, Ester Neumann, Manuela Ostadal, Daniel Pflumm, Nicole Riegel, Adrian Rovatkay, Viola Rusche, Heidi Sill, Wolfgang Schlegel, Margot Schmitt, Despina Stokou, Ines Tartler, Ona Tav, Axel Timm, Joël Verwimp, Marion Westerhof, Ed Wiesinger, Corinna Wittke, Wing Yip Lap, Thomas Zawarty, Frank Zucht. | › 2008 › 2007 › 2006 › 2005 › 2004 › 2002 › german |
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| Kunst im Bau The project Kunst im Bau is a major concern of Kunstfabrik. The Berliner gaz company Gasag is building up a collection of contemporary art by inviting artists to show their work in the public spaces of the Gasag headquarter which is located in the former Shell-House at Reichpietschufer. The Shell-House is one of the most attractive architectural sites in Berlin. Every year two new floors (staircases, corridors, lounges) will be provided with new art works from artists that are selected during a competition run by the Gasag and the Kunstfabrik. The number of invited participants to this competition has triplicated in comparison with the previous year.  Tine Benz, Pipelines, Simulation, 2003 |
 Blank & Jeron, Energie (Energy), Simulation, 2003 Moreover, the participants are more international than before. The jury consisted of five people: Christian Hanussek, artist; Gabriele Horn, head of fine arts division of Berlin Senat; Andreas Koch, Gallery Koch und Kesslau; Dr. Ute Tischler, freelance curator and director of cultural board Berlin-Lichtenberg; Uwe Zeterberg, head of department Gasag. The works were judged for their aesthetic qualities, their reference to the place either by form or by content, their consideration of the architectural situation of a listed building and their compatibility with the offices. This year's winners convinced the jury by eye-catching proposals, including the whole spectrum from decoration to abstraction: Tine Benz, Blank & Jeron, Pierre Granoux, Geka Heinke, Steve Johnson, Florian Merkel, Markus Strieder, Caro Suerkemper, Axel Timm, Francesco Apuzzo and Maik Wolf. |
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artist and guest professor at
the Academy Berlin Weissensee Judith Hopf is the holder of the
Gasag-Kunstpreis 2003 (Gasag-Kunstpreis Award), sponsored by the Gasag.
The Berlin gaz company presented this young artist award to Judith
Hopf, born 1969, on the occasion of a ceremonial act at the Kunstfabrik
am Flutgraben on September 18, 2003. At the same occasion the Berlin
kunstherbst<03 celebrated its start. It was the second time
that the Gasag in co-operation with the
Kunstfabrik am Flutgraben placed this award in order to promote young
Berlin artists up to 35 years. The Gasag-Kunstpreis is endowed with 5.000 EUR including a purchase of an art work to the amount of 2.500 EUR, plus an exhibition in the 2yk Gallery in the Kunstfabrik am Flutgraben and the production of a catalogue sposored by Gasag. The artist was chosen in a procedure of two steps. First 16 Berlin artists were nominated for the Gasag-Kunstpreis. Secondly a specialized selection committee consisting of Ute Meta Bauer (berlin biennale); Angela |
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Schneider (Neue
Nationalgalerie) and Ulf Wetzka (2yk Gallery) decided in favour of
Judith Hopf. The winner was chosen after two rounds. In the first round 16 Berlin artists were nominated for the Gasag- Kunstpreis by the jury constisting of Ute Meta Bauer (berlin biennale); Angela Schneider (Neue Nationalgalerie) and Ulf Wetzka (2yk Gallery). In the second round they decided in favour of Judith Hopf. Judith Hopf's works owe something to drawing, installation, performance-art and video. The often result out of a process of communication with several other artists. On the occasion of the exhibition a catalogue was published with essays by Holger Kube Ventura and Sabeth Buchmann. The catalogue of 60 pages and numerous illustrations is available at the 2yk Galerie. Gasag Art Award 2007: Mandla Reuter Gasag Art Award 2006: Ulrike Kuschel Gasag Art Award 2005: Clemens von Wedemeyer Gasag Art Award 2004: Nezaket Ekici Gasag Art Award 2002: Carsten Fock |
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Judith Hopf, award winner of the Gasag
award 2003, also works on free space. Her bronze sculpture is titled:
"A cherry tree-like staghorn sumac's perch". The staghorn sumac, symbol
of an unbeloved plant that occupies urban wastes and that hobby
gardeners fight against merges with the cherry tree, the symbol of a
romantic idea of nature. The "can", a mobile, spontaneous and temporary architecure, will show up at the opening night with canned beer, DJs, video and live acts in front of the fair's entrance. (entrance Masurenallee, from 8 p.m. on)  Stand Kunstfabrik Art Forum 2003, Arrangement by Joël Verwimp |
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Almuth Baumfalk, Armin Bicker, Dagmar Binder, Harald Birck, Ronald de Bloeme, Roland Boden, Ma.Ri. Brellochs, Heike Ebner, Jörg Finus, Garderobe23, Norman Gebauer, Franziska Goes, Sparka Lee Hall, Torsten Hennig, Radka Hladka, Sybille Hotz, Patrick Huber, Christiane John, Ingrid Lill, Ute Lindner, Frank Marks, Wessel Muller, Aino Nebel, Ester Neumann, Daniel Pflumm, Nicole Riegel, Adrian Rovatkay, Viola Rusche, Wolfgang Schlegel, Margot Schmitt, Ona Tav, Axel Timm, Marion Westerhoff, Ed Wiesinger, Corinna Wittke, Lap Wing Yip, Thomas Zawarty, Frank Zucht. | › top › 2008 › 2007 › 2006 › 2005 › 2004 › 2003 › german |
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1996. The selection committee had to consider different criteria of
selection: the conditions of monument protection, the formal relations
and as to content with regard to architectural preconditions and also
the office situation.  Franziska Goes, Mitarbeiter - Bilder - Landschaft (Employees - Images - Landscape), 2002 A neutral selection committee has chosen 9 artists among 35 conceptions who will accomplish their art works in 2002: |
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Baumfalk, ++Kooperation PRIVAT, Franziska Goes, Sybille Hotz, Patrick
Huber, Christiane John, Ute Lindner, Alena Meier, Wessel Muller. ++Kooperation PRIVAT, Transit I-V, 2002 The committee of selection 2002: Carsten Döring, head of department Gasag; Gabriele Horn, official in charge of graphic art, senate for science, research and culture; Dr. Ute Tischler, Gallery in the Parkhaus; Andreas Koch, Gallery Koch and Kesslau; Christian Hanussek, artist. Up to the end of 2002 the works will be presented in the 1st and 2nd floor and in January 2003 they will be shown to the public during an inauguration. |
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and the first presentation of the Gasag Kunstpreis 2002 in a gallery for contempory art. The Gasag-Kunstpreis includes a sum of 5.000 EUR, inclusive a purchase to the amount of 2.500 EUR and a catalogue of the prize-holder. The selection committee that consisted of Stephan Berg (art association Hanover), Britta Schmitz (Hamburger Bahnhof), |
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