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Yesterday the 7th edition of Berlin Art Week started and it is my first Berlin Art Week since I moved back to Berlin and I was really looking forward to it. My expectation will not be disappointed. It is going to be a full-immersion of art, culture, projects, events, party…his is a week of art as much as there are Fashion week in Milan or Paris. The coolest and nicest things are going to be presented all around town through galleries, museums, private collections, art fairs, project spaces and more unusual places. Basically everywhere.
“Since its founding, Berlin Art Week - says Berlin’s Senatore of Culture and Europe, Klaus Lederer - has developed to become a prominent event in the world of contemporary art that attracts attention far beyond the city borders and has now become a fixture on the international art calendar”.
Ramona Pop, Senator for Economics, Energy and Public Enterprise says: “Berlin is a hotspot for the art trade and the creative economy. I am pleased that we support this outstanding week of event”.
Today at the press tour we have been guided through some of the venues around town.
Among the many exhibitions that will open this week, there is the video-installation by Lawrence Abu Hamdan “Walled Unwalled” at the daadgalerie. The film shows the architecture of sounds. In the recording studios of broadcasting of DDR in the Funkhaus Berlin the artist puts on stage the ways in which sounds of scream and torture are absorbed by the walls of a prison. The exhibition will open the 26. September at 7 pm and will be on show until 18th november.
The same night GASAG Kunstpreis will present the exhibition by Julian Charriere “As we used to float”, at the Berlinische Galerie on view until 8. April 2019. Charriere’s site-specific project immerses the viewer into the deep water of the Pacific Ocean contaminated by the atomic tests of the United States in the Bikini Atoll. Together with the show it has been presented a book written by Charriere and Nadim Samman about the history of the trip to the island.
The same evening Deutsche Bank will open the new space, Palaispopulaire in Unter den Linden with a selection of about 300 works “The World on Paper”.
On the 26th september there will be opening also Agnieszka Polska “The Demon’s Brain” at Hamburger Bahnhof on view until 3.March2019. The artist, winner of the Preis der Nationalgalerie 2017, will show a new multi-channel video installation in a solo exhibition produced with the support of BMW Group.
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| Agnieszka Polska
The Demon’s Brain, 2018 © Agnieszka Polska, Courtesy ŻAK | BRANICKA, Berlin and OVERDUIN & CO., LA |
At the same time, The KW will open an exhibition of Evelyn Toacheng Wang at it’s own premises. Further, KW presents the KW Production Series at the Julia Stoschec Collection Berlin, a new commissioning project which is organized by KW Institute for Contemporary Art in collaboration with the Julia Stoscheck Collection Berlin and OUTSET Germany_Switzerland. The first artist introduced will be Jamie Crewe with a double-channel video “Pastoral Drama” and Beatrice Gibson with a 16 mm “I Hope I’m Loud When I’m Dead”.
On thursday 27th september, it is the round of the art fairs’ opening: Art Berlin Fair and Positions Berlin Art Fair at the Tempelhof Airport.
I have great expectation also over Gropius Bau’s first solo exhibition of the Korean artist “Lee Bul: Crash” which come as the first show of Stephanie Rosenthal curated as new director of Gropius Bau. The exhibition will open friday 28th september at 7.30 pm.
During the week there will be special openings for Private Collections. Among the others, EAM Collection, Salon Dahlmanhttps://www.salon-dahlmann.de/index.php/en/ and Sammlung Boros.
On September 28th the Senate Department for Culture and Europe will award a Project space in collaboration with Netzwerk Freier Berliner Projekträume und initiativen and Bar Babette .
Among the candidates spaces to the prize there are b_books, Kinderhook & Caracas, zwanzigqquadratmeter (zqm), GSL Projekt.
The same night there will be presented the winner of Hannah-Hoech_preis, Christiane Moebus and Sunah Choi and also there will be official the gallery winner of VBKI-Price Berliner Galerien 2018 and the artist winner of Berlin Art Prize 2018. On September 28, 2018, the 8th European Month of Photography Berlin will open for the second time at C/O Berlin at AmerikaHaus with Nicholas Nixon, Martin Parr, Matthew Brandt, Spiros Hadjidjanos, Thomas Mailaender, Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs, Johan Österholm, among others.
Here the link to the program: http://www.berlinartweek.de/en/berlin-art-week/
