5th berlin biennial

view from "Ground Control" Ahmet Öğüt, 400 sqm of asphalt, 2007-2008

5th berlin biennial

Curators: Adam Szymczyk and Elena Filipovic

Artists

Day ( When things cast no shadow )

Caner Aslan, Michel Auder, Nairy Baghramian, Pedro Barateiro, Cezary Bodzianowski, Manon de Boer, Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Thea Djordjadze, Jos De Gruyter & Harald Thys, Aleana Egan, Haris Epaminonda, Patricia Esquivias, Cyprien Gaillard, Masist Gül, Daniel Guzmán, Susan Hiller, Sung Hwan Kim, Daniel Knorr, Susanne Kriemann, Gabriel Kuri, Luciana Lamothe, Lars Laumann, Janette Laverrière, Goshka Macuga, David Maljković, Babette Mangolte, Jacob Mishori, Ulrike Mohr, Ania Molska, Melvin Moti, Nashashibi / Skaer, Ahmet Öğüt, Paulina Olowska, Giulia Piscitelli, Paola Pivi, Pushwagner, Lili Reynaud-Dewar, Pamela Rosenkranz, Kilian Rüthemann, Kateřina Šedá, Paul Sietsema, Ettore Sottsass, Zofia Stryjeńska, Stefan Thater, Piotr Uklański, Mona Vătămanu / Florin Tudor, Tris Vonna-Michell, Susanne M. Winterling, Kohei Yoshiyuki, Zhao Liang

Night ( Mes nuits sont plus belles que vos jours )

Danai Anesiadou, Alexandra Bachzetsis, Balázs Béla Studio, Ludovic Balland, Ursula Block, Augusto Boal, Manon De Boer, Oksana Bulgakowa, Banu Cennetoğlu & Philippine Hoegen, Dorit Chrysler, Holk Cruse + Luc Steels, Aleana Egan, Maria Eichhorn + Seth Siegelaub, Matthias Einhoff + Philip Horst + Markus Lohmann + Harry Sachs + Dan Seiple, Chris Evans, James McFarland, Cyprien Gaillard + Koudlam, Goodiepal, Dieter Hacker, Emma Hedditch, Susan Hiller, IDEA Arts + Society, Cameron Jamie + Keiji Haino, Tellervo Kalleinen & Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen + Miss Le Bomb, Joachim Koester, Susanne Kriemann + Philipp Gutbrod + Urs Stäheli + Alexander Tull, Thomas Macho, Goshka Macuga + Johansson/Schlippenbach Quartett, Babette Mangolte, Kobe Matthys (Agency) + Lina Lindheimer + Björn Frank, Melvin Moti + Olaf Blanke, Rabih Mroué, Nikakoi, Kristina Norman + Paul Davies, Ahmet Öğüt, Pil and Galia Kollectiv, Falke Pisano, The Production Unit, Claus-Dieter Rath, Rebond Pour La Commune + Arbeiter- und Veteranenchor Neukölln, Lili Reynaud-Dewar, Jimmy Robert, Dieter Roelstraete + Renate Flagmeier, Wilhelm Sasnal, Aaron Schuster, Superflex, Pilvi Takala, Harald Thys & Erik Thys, Roi Vaara, Annie Vigier & Franck Apertet, Vinyl-Terror & -Horror & Dr. Nexus, Bettina Vismann, WHW – What, How & For Whom, Susanne M. Winterling, Dolores Zinny & Juan Maidagan, Artur Žmijewski + Slawomir Sierakowski, Andrzej Žuławski

organized by KW and funded by the Kulturstiftung des Bundes/German Federal Cultural Foundation

http://www.berlinbiennale.info

Informal Incidents | Kayıtdışı Vukuatlar

Ahmet Öğüt: Informal Incidents | Kayıtdışı Vukuatlar

art-ist contemporary art series

artist book-1

Editor: Halil Altındere

Design: Gülşah Kılıç

Writers:
Halil Altındere

Sezgin Boynik

Mika Hannula

November Paynter

Azra Tüzünoğlu

ISBN: 978-975-00290-5-9

March 2008//80 pages//English+Turkish//Colored//Plastic Cover

www.art-ist.org

2008 Biennale of Sydney Online Venue

Today in History's online version at 2008 Biennale of Sydney Online Venue:
http://www.bos2008.com/revolutionsonline/?p=403

Ashkal Alwan: Home Works IV

http://www.ashkalalwan.org

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=4&article_id=91326

when things cast no shadow

5th berlin biennial

SAVE THE DATE 05.04. – 15.06.2008

When things cast no shadow

When things cast no shadow, the 5th berlin biennial for contemporary art, curated by Adam Szymczyk and Elena Filipovic, brings together artists from different generations and nationalities in an exhibition by day and night that aims to trace the diversity of art practices today. Eschewing a singular theme, form, or temporality, and determined instead by a critical engagement with artists’ processes, When things cast no shadow could be said to take the form of an open structure in five movements without a plot.

The day part of the 5th berlin biennial will be on view at four distinct venues and include mostly newly commissioned works by 50 artists, while the night part of the show will feature still more artists and cultural producers in 63 nightly events taking place in locations spread across the once-divided city.

The exhibition spaces of KW Institute for Contemporary Art, founded in 1991 in Berlin-Mitte will hold, among other projects, films by Babette Mangolte, Michel Auder, and Patricia Esquivias as well as an intervention by Ahmet Öğüt that comments on state power and its means of control. The attic will be turned into a studio/installation activated by Tris Vonna-Michell’s storytelling.

The iconic glass hall of Mies van der Rohe’s ultra-modernist Neue Nationalgalerie in former West Berlin has inspired various responses from artists. Among them, a film installation by Susanne M. Winterling explores the water condensation that flaws van der Rohe’s masterpiece, while Gabriel Kuri builds up a participatory sculpture that reorganizes one of the building’s regular service operations. Cyprien Gaillard brings an unpretentious public sculpture from a housing project in Paris to the terrace of the museum thus positioning a symbol for one failed social-architectural ideal on the grounds representing an opposed, triumphant architectural ideal.

The outdoor exhibition site of the Skulpturenpark Berlin_Zentrum, in the area formerly adjoining the Berlin Wall, presents, among other works, a new community-based project by Kateřina Šedá, who goes over the fences that separate neighbors in her home village of Líšeň in the Czech Republic. Lars Laumann screens a film about a woman who married the Berlin Wall, while Ania Molska installs a sculpture used as a prop in her new film.

The first of five alternating, artist-curated solo shows at the Schinkel Pavillon will feature works of Paris-based Swiss-born designer Janette Laverrière, presented by Nairy Baghramian. It will open on March 20, 2008, preceding the official opening of the 5th berlin biennial on April 5 and upsetting the demand for a single, spectacular biennial beginning.

The night part of the biennial, entitled Mes nuits sont plus belles que vos jours (My nights are more beautiful than your days), comprises 63 nocturnal acts involving artists and other thinkers and takes place throughout the city. Neuro-scientist Olaf Blanke demonstrates an out-of-body experiment, at the encouragement of artist Melvin Moti. The curatorial collective WHW holds a lecture on Modernism in the former Yugoslavia, and Augusto Boal, founder of the Theater of the Oppressed and this year’s Nobel Peace Prize candidate, runs a workshop according to his context-sensitive teaching method. Cameron Jamie screens his recent film JO at the Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz with a live score by Japanese noise artist Keiji Haino, and more, night after night.

A comprehensive publication has been conceived as an interpretative tool in parallel with the 5th berlin biennial. It includes a visual and textual anthology of source material submitted by participating artists.

The visitors guided tours program Secret Service offers diverse formats of made-to-measure exhibition tours that enable the visitors to investigate the biennial from different angles. Further information and booking at www.berlinbiennale.de.

Venues:
KW Institute for Contemporary Art
Auguststraße 69
10117 Berlin-Mitte

Neue Nationalgalerie
Potsdamer Straße 50
10785 Berlin-Tiergarten

Skulpturenpark Berlin_Zentrum
Kommandantenstraße / Neue Grünstraße
10969 Berlin-Kreuzberg

Schinkel Pavillon
Oberwallstraße 1
10117 Berlin-Mitte


Mes nuits sont plus belles que vos jours
Every night except Mondays at various places in Berlin.
Detailed program available soon at www.berlinbiennale.de.


Curators: Adam Szymczyk and Elena Filipovic

Director: Gabriele Horn


The presence of the 5th berlin biennial for contemporary art at its various venues is made possible by a co-operation between Kunst-Werke Berlin e. V. and the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin – Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz (for the Neue Nationalgalerie), KUNSTrePUBLIK e. V. (for the Skulpturenpark Berlin_Zentrum), and the organizers of the Schinkel Pavillon (for the Schinkel Pavillon).

The 5th berlin biennial for contemporary art is organized by KW Institute for Contemporary Art and is funded by the Kulturstiftung des Bundes/German Federal Cultural Foundation.

The publications accompanying the 5th berlin biennial for contemporary art are generously supported by the LUMA Foundation.

Mes nuits sont plus belles que vos jours, the night part of the 5th berlin biennial for contemporary art, is kindly supported by the Fundación Almine y Bernard Ruiz-Picasso para el Arte (FABA).

The 5th berlin biennial for contemporary art is supported by Peter Marino Architect.

http://www.berlinbiennale.info

tank.tv

“She doesn’t think so but she’s dressed for the h-bomb.”-Gang of Four 15th March 2008 - 21st May 2008 Curated by Negar Azimi for tank.tv

Ziad Antar
Shahryrar Nashat
Rosalind Nashashibi
Yael Bartana
Iman Issa
Hassan Khan
The Atlas Group
Ahmet Ögüt
Haris Epaminonda

The current moment is one marked by an abundance of mega-narratives, sweeping arm gestures, climactic dips, and ascents. How we talk about the present is almost always wrapped up in some version of the past. Visual culture inevitably brushes up against those histories, whether real or imagined (for that is not the point). A selection of short videos by Ziad Antar, Yael Bartana, Haris Epaminonda, Iman Issa, Hassan Khan, Rosalind Nashashibi, Shahryar Nashat, Ahmet Ögüt, and The Atlas Group reveal the weight of diverse histories in defining the current moment - whether manifest in the form of national myth, ritual, architecture, or pop culture. In the end, these are not static narratives; they are dynamic, promiscuous, enigmatic.
http://tank.tv/

Sampling

Sampling
March 13th – May 11th 2008
Athens, Greece
Curated by locus athens

Leyla Gediz
Cengiz Tekin
Köken Ergun
Ahmet Ögüt
Fikret AtayÖzlem Günyol
Mustafa Kunt

enter of Popular Arts & Traditions
6 Agg. Hatzimichalis Str., Plaka

Private View March 13th, 20:00
Opening Times:
Tuesday - Thursday 9.00-13.00 & 17.00-21.00
Saturday – Sunday 9.00-13.00

http://www.locusathens.com

*locus athens is a nomadic experiment with no central offices or exhibition space, to contact locus athens please just send an email to locus@locusathens.com and we'll get back to you.