BERLIN ART EXHIBITIONS JULY - OCTOBER 2009
Berlin is always worth a travel is a saying which is at least true regarding the blooming arts scene.
Regarding all those events happening in the following months in Berlin, all those - hopefully less than more - summer showers open some brand new positive perspective, as you can spend some entertaining and enlightening time inside some of the Berlin museums and galleries.
As it would be impossible to present a complete list of all events happening throughout the upcoming season, find the most interesting listed below.
July 11 - September 6, 2009
Allora & Calzadilla
Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla have developed a complex artistic vocabulary utilizing film, installations, performances, and sculpture. For the Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin the artists conceived the work Compass, which creates a new spatial and acoustic experience.
Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin
Schlossplatz, Berlin-Mitte
daily 11 am - 6 pm; mondays until 10 pm
http://www.kunsthalle-berlin.com/
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January 25 - December 29, 2009
Art in Berlin - Focus on the Years around 1900
The earliest works in the collection of the Berlinische Galerie were created in the second half of the 19th century, an epoch characterized by radical changes. The art of the epoch, which produced a wealth of very different reactions to the changing condi-tions, is presented with works from the museum’s collection illustrating the pairs of opposites of Woman and Man, Rich and Poor, Town and Country.
February 27 - August 31, 2009
As Time Goes By - Artworks concerning time
May 29 - August 31, 2009
Klaus Staeck. Nice Prospects
Klaus Staeck retrospective - tradition of Berlin Dada
Berlinische Galerie
Alte Jakobstrasse 124-128, Berlin-Kreuzberg
Wed - Mon 10 am - 6 pm, closed on Tue
http://www.berlinischegalerie.de/
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June 13 - August 11, 2009
Talents 15 . In Our Time . Anne Lass / Katja Melzer
The places in the photos seem familiar, the people almost recognizable, the situations common, everyday. They show normality—so normal that it’s disconcerting. Where and when were the photographs taken? Who are the people in them? How are they connected? In the search for details that might provide answers, the viewer cannot find or decipher either meanings and identities, or relationships and histories in the photographs of Anne Lass. Anne Lass’ skillful experimentation with anonymity and the lack of references is what makes her photographs so fascinating.
Juli 25 - October 04, 2009
Pierre et Gilles . Retrospective
Pierre et Gilles’s cosmos is a colorful world between baroque sumptuousness and earthly limbo. The worldwide renowned French artist pair create portraits of pop divas and film icons, sailors and princes, saints and sinners, mythological figures and unknowns in unique hand-painted photographs. Fairy paradises and lowest depths, popular iconography and History of Art - everything is considered in order to achieve an aesthetic perfection and their vision of the world, corresponding to the artists’ dreamed reality.
October 10 - December 06, 2009
Robert Frank . The Movies . 1959 - 2002
In his films, Robert Frank examines the public and private aspects of American everyday life—the modern odysseys, the familiar speechlessness, bacchanalian revelries, and sexual freedom—without pathos, but with a touch of irony. The first exhibition and only show in Germany of Robert Frankʼs entire body of audiovisual work: a total of 30 films and videos from one of the most important photographers and filmmakers of the twentieth century.
C/O Berlin – International Forum for Visual Dialogues
Postfuhramt, Oranienburger Straße / Tucholskystraße, Berlin-Mitte
daily 11 am - 8 pm
http://www.co-berlin.com
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March 27 - August 30, 2009
Mercedes- Benz Award for South African Art and Culture 2009
Fashion Design
May 15 - September 13
Art from one hundred years 1909 - 2009
Highlights of the Daimler Art Collection: The Daimler Art Collection reflects the most important developments in 20th century abstract art, starting with prestigious groups of work from the Concrete and Constructive Art, Minimal Art and Concept Art movements, then moving on to the most recent international art trends. The exhibition shows painting, sculpture, photography and video art thematically, thus cutting across generations and classifications.
Daimler Contemporary
Potsdamer Platz, Haus Huth, U108
Alte Potsdamer Str. 5, Berlin-Mitte
daily 11 am - 6 pm
http://www.sammlung.daimler.com/
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May 19 - September 4, 2009
In The Making…
“In The Making…” sets off various dialogues with works from the collections of the National Gallery in the Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart - Berlin. The summer months this year will be used in the Hamburger Bahnhof to reveal a range of core aspects within the collections, opening up a playing field for experimentation, as well as for construction and deconstruction.
Artists: AY-O, Matthew Barney, Joseph Beuys, Günter Brus, Isa Genzken, Franz Gertsch, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Ceal Floyer, Via Lewandowsky, Allan Kaprow, Anselm Kiefer, Kurt Kren, Jeff Koons, George Maciunas, Gordon Matta-Clark, Michaela Meise, Mario Merz, Otto Mühl, Bruce Nauman, Nam June Paik, Mark Quinn, Robert Rauschenberg, Dieter Roth, Daniel Spoerri, Thomas Struth, Hans Jürgen Syberberg, Cy Twombly, Wolf Vostell, Andy Warhol
Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin
Invalidenstr. 50-51, Berlin-Tiergarten
Tue - Fri 10 am - 6 pm, Sat 11 am - 8 pm, Sun 11 am - 6 pm
http://www.hamburgerbahnhof.de/
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May 08 . August 09, 2009
Ernst Wilhelm Nay and Colours - Paintings of the 1960s
Film: Impressions of the exhibition at Haus am Waldsee
Haus am Waldsee
Argentinische Allee 30, Berlin-Zehlendorf
daily 10 am – 6 pm
http://hausamwaldsee.de/
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August 14 - September 13, 2009
Ostzeit Exhibition
Sibylle Bergemann, Ute and Werner Mahler, and Harald Hauswald, four of the best-known East German photographers and the founders of OSTKREUZ agency, take us with their photographs to the country in which they lived. They show everyday life, work, and people of the GDR from their own subjective point of view. The photographs date from 1972 onward, and they offer an authentic and unadorned tale of a country that no longer exists but is preserved in these photographs.
September 02 - September 30, 2009
The Spirit of the Haus Parties and Artistic Interventions
Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the bipolar order, the Haus der Kulturen der Welt is celebrating its twentieth anniversary.
Haus der Kulturen der Welt
John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10, Berlin-Tiergarten
Tue – Sun noon – 7 pm
http://www.hkw.de/
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permanent display
Helmut Newton´s Private Property
Current exhibiton
Helmut Newton: Sumo
With sumo, the helmut newton foundation presents what might just be the most spectacular and expensive photography book project ever. Ten years ago, publisher benedikt taschen persuaded helmut newton to agree to produce a gigantic book with a print run of 10,000 copies, all signed by the photographer. Accompanied by a custom-made book holder by philippe starck, the book found its way into the homes of well-heeled buyers. Now, for the first time, its 394 photographs will go on display to mark the 10th anniversary of a photography publication that today is a much sought-after collector’s item.
Helmut Newton Foundation
Jebensstr. 2, Berlin-Charlottenburg
Tue - Sun 10 am – 6 pm, Thur until 10 pm
http://www.helmutnewton.com/
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July 03 - October 25, 2009
Emil Nolde. Man – Nature – Myth. Watercolours and Graphic Works in Berlin’s Museum of Prints and Drawings
Kupferstichkabinett
Kulturforum Potsdamer Platz
Matthäikirchplatz 8, Berlin-Tiergarten
Tue - Fri 10 am – 6 pm, Sat & Sun 11 am – 6 pm
http://www.smb.museum/
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May 3 - August 9, 2009
Annette Kelm, Sergej Jensen, Wolfgang Breuer – Organic Food Shop
October 23 - October 18, .2009
Ceal Floyer
KW Institute for Contemporary Art
Auguststr. 69, Berlin-Mitte
Tue - Sun noon - 7 pm, Thur until 9 pm
http://www.kw-berlin.de/
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April 09 - August 10, 2009
Gandhara. Pakistan’s Buddhist Legacy. Legends, Monasteries and Edens
July 09 - October 05, 2009
Le Corbusier – Art and Architecture
about the exhibition click here
July 17 to November 01, 2009
Herlinde Koelbl. Photographs 1976–2009
about the exhibition click here
Martin-Gropius-Bau
Niederkirchnerstraße 7 Corner Stresemannstr. 110, 10963 Berlin
Wed - Mon 10 am–8 pm
http://www.gropiusbau.de
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August 22 – September 27, 2009
Prison is always the others
The exhibition’s approach to the prison system sees it as a part of our society with restrictions and freedoms of its own that allow the development of particular forms of discourse and exchange. The intention is to fetch the institution - prison - out of its isolated corner and to address it as a real and concrete place within society. The specially commissioned participatory works provide a link to the local prison system in Berlin.
Artists :ArtSourceLab, Angelika Böck, Mauricio Dias und Walter Riedweg, Wannes Goetschalckx, Susanne Hanus, Katharina Heilein, Heide Hinrichs, Nadin Reschke, Laurie Jo Reynolds, Judith Siegmund, M.B. und Doreen Uhlig, Karen Weinert, Eyal und Ines Weizman, Artur Zmijewski
NGBK - Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst
Oranienstr. 25, Berlin-Kreuzberg
daily: noon – 7 pm, Thu – Sat noon -8 pm
http://ngbk.de/
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SAVE THE DATE
24 – 27 September 2008
art forum berlin 2009
International Fair for Contemporary Art
Berlin Fairgrounds, Halls 18-20
Masurenallee, Berlin-Charlottenburg
daily noon - 8 pm
http://www.art-forum-berlin.com
