KUNSTHALLE
BERLIN-LICHTENBERG
A space on the move to dwell on
Opening:
Monday, 29th October 2007, 8 pm
First stage runs until 30th November 2007
Mondays from 8 pm
Thursday to Sunday, 3 pm – 7 pm
Anton-Saefkow-Platz 13, first floor
10369 Berlin
KUNSTHALLE
BERLIN-LICHTENBERG is a space, a place, a frame for art, for
discussions, lectures, actions, screenings and an exhibition that extends
and changes constantly.
The term “Kunsthalle“ usually describes a state-subsidized
institution containing public collections or presenting temporary exhibitions.
The KUNSTHALLE BERLIN-LICHTENBERG tests how spaces for
art can be thought about and arranged – as places above all for
temporary, process oriented and direct political activities and sociological
and artistic research. We stretch the relational frame from Lichtenberg,
as an immediate environment, to projects in different parts of the world.
The visitor is not only invited to act as recipient, but to actively participate
in molding the KUNSTHALLE.
The launching of KUNSTHALLE BERLIN-LICHTENBERG will take
place in a 330 square meter space utilized in varied ways. In a fist stage,
for five weeks, it will become, on the one hand, a site for an imaginary
and real collection of projects, ideas and works. At the same time it
will be a meeting point for different individuals and groups, and also
just a lounge to listen to music or play ping pong.
Different groups are invited to alternately use the space as their space
for internal and public events. In this way, the KUNSTHALLE
will be defined and redefined again and again.
"The reality of the public realm relies on the simultaneous presence
of innumerable perspectives and aspects in which the common world presents
itself and for which no common measurement or denominator can ever be
devised. For though the common world is the common meeting ground of all,
those who are present have different locations in it, and the location
of one can no more coincide with the location of another than the location
of two objects. Being seen and being heard by others derive their significance
from the fact that everybody sees and hears from a different position."
Hannah Arendt, Vita activa,
Piper München Zürich, 1981, S. 71.
A project of
Dorothee Albrecht
and Ludwig Seyfarth
Berlin, October 2007
with:
Franz Ackermann, Juan Carlos Betancourt, Hans D. Christ, Daniela Comani,
Crosskick Academy Berlin, Dreams of Art Spaces Collected, Iris Dressler,
Antje Ehmann, Pia Euro, Harun Farocki, Katya Gardea, Eva Grubinger, Paz
A. Guevara, Frauke Hehl, Eva Hertzsch und Adam Page, Lutz Hieber, Institut
Lichtenberg, Friederike Klotz, Tanja Koponen, Kunst-Stoffe/ workstation
ideenwerkstatt berlin eV, Sarat Maharaj, Julia Lazarus, Thomas Locher,
Alanna Lockward, Elke Marhöfer, Passenger Books, Peter Piller, Reynold
Reynolds, Lotty Rosenfeld, Miguel Rothschild, Karin Sander, Gabi Schaffner,
Meggie Schneider, Susanne Schuricht, Ulrike Solbrig, Leif Magne Tangen,
UNWETTER, Corinna Vosse, Elena Zanichelli, Moira Zoitl, Christof
Zwiener and others
Mo, 29.10.2007,
8 pm Opening with Dr. Ute Müller-Tischler, Kunst- und Kulturamt Lichtenberg
Introduction: Dorothee Albrecht and Ludwig Seyfarth
Mo, 5.11. 8 pm, Notes on Places: Mai Hofstad Gunnes,
Lisa Glauer, Andrea Loux, Marit Neeb, Amy Patton, Amy Stafford, Amelia
Saul, Eve K. Tremblay, Doreen Uhlig, Gabriela Vainsencher
curated by Alanna Lockward and Leif Magne Tangen; Juan Carlos Betancourt:
Cuba: The post-soviet touch
Mo, 12.11. 6 pm, Lutz Hieber: Artistic Activism
in New York; Gabi Schaffner:Texan Houses & Trailers, Meni Nehri Monte-Archives
Do, 15.11. Crosskick Academy Berlin: 3 pm, Getrud Sandqvist:
Spaces of art and knowledge production; 5 pm, Discursive Picnic,
UNWETTER; 7 pm, lecture by Iris Dressler and Hans D. Christ:
Ways of working; www.crosskick.de
Mo, 19.11. 8 pm, The Political Landscape. Recent
Chilean Video Art, Paz A. Guevara with Lotty Rosenfeld, Michelle Letelier,
Rodrigo Salinas, Iván Navarro, Manuela VIera-Gallo, Marcela Moraga,
Giancarlo Pazzanese, Cristóbal León, Alejandro Moreno, Instituto
Divorcado
Mi, 21.11. 8 pm, Karin Sander, Ludwig Seyfarth: Invisible
Collections; Katya Gardea: Mirroring Gestures - Mexico; Moira Zoitl, Julia
Lazarus: True to Life
Mo, 26.11. 8 pm, Antje Ehmann, Harun Farocki: On Archives
of Images
