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Büro für bestimmte dinge Sonnenallee 147, 12059 BERLIN / Neukölln A LIVE-IN STUDIO, laboratory and sweet presentation space with a shop window and a backroom in the Wildlife of Neukölln. * REsidency → FACTS & IMAGES * Residency → SCHEDULE → MAP ← GO BACK |
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[05.05. – 12.05. 2013]
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DIRECT ACTION 2013 / Berlinon
FÜR ALLE, DIE SCHON ALLES GESEHEN HABEN UND SICH VOR NICHTS MEHR FÜRCHTEN ALS VOR DEM NICHTS. BERLINON BIETET EINE EINWÖCHIGE REISE INS LEERE HERZ DER METAMODERNE. MIT AN BORD SIND TOTAL VERUNSICHERTE MENSCHEN, EXTREM SELBSTBEWUSSTE TIERE UND EINE STATTLICHE SAMMLUNG AN SCHREIBMASCHINEN. SONST NICHTS. NON IST WEDER HIGH NOCH LOW UND SCHON GARNICHT GEIL. NON IST EINFACH NUR NON. EINE VERWEGENE HORDE BLOGGER, ROCKER, PLAYER UND MEDIENINTERVENTIONISTEN AUS BERLIN, DÜSSELDORF, KÖLN, HAMBURG UND HEIDELBERG BEGRÜNDEN DAS ZEITALTER DER METAMODERNE UND SCHREIBEN UND ADDEN IN EINER EINWÖCHIGEN KONFERENZ EIN NEUES KAPITEL ZUR KUNSTGESCHICHTE. WEITERES UNTER: WWW.MAECHTIGES-NON-OF-METAMODERNE.NET NOCH WEITERES UNTER: WWW.PERISPHERE.DE |
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[30.04. – 04.05. 2013]
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* / Les parcimonies / Little savings
Pascale Bonenfant / Québec, Canada OPENING: 30.04. / 7 PM OPEN: 30.04. – 04.05.2013 Cette exposition présente une centaine de planches originales élaborées pendant une résidence de création à Strasbourg et à Berlin. Exceptionnellement réalisé à l’aquarelle, ce corpus d’oeuvres miniatures explore le potentiel poétique du rapport texte-image et joue sur l’aspect énigmatique du décalage entre les deux médiums. Il aborde certains contrastes fondamentaux tels que la nature et la civilisation, la vie et la mort, l’esprit et la matière, par une série de métaphores et une esthétique ludique. This exhibition presents one-hundred original artworks produced during a residency in Strasbourg and Berlin. Exceptionally made with watercolor, this body of miniature work explores the poetic potential of the text-image relationship and plays with the enigmatic aspect of the gap between these two mediums. It approaches certain fundamental contrasts like nature and civilization, life and death, spirit and material through a number of metaphors and playful aesthetics. PLUS / MORE: http://pascalebonenfant.blogspot.ca/ |
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[Opening: 13.04. at 7 pm]
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Morgenvogel Real Estate zu Gast in der Sonnenallee
Der Frühling kommt, und so auch Morgenvogel Real Estate. Das Vogel-Immobilien-Unternehmen der Berliner Künstler Maria-Leena Räihälä und Manuel Bonik bietet perfekte Immobilien an für Meisen, Spatzen, Kleiber und Trauerschnäpper, einfach anzubringen am Fenster oder Balkon oder an Bäumen im Garten, an der Straße oder im nächsten Park. Vom 1. bis zum 13. April macht Morgenvogel Real Estate Station im Büro für bestimmte Dinge in der Sonnenallee 147. Am Samstag, dem 13. April, von 19 bis 23 Uhr feiern wir dort dann einen musikalischen Abend, mit Morgenvogel-Musik und finnischem Tango. Zeiten: di, 02.04. – sa, 06.04. jeweils 14 bis 20 uhr Morgenvogeldisko: Sa, 13.04. Ab 19 uhr Näheres auch unter: www.morgenvogel.net - Morgenvogel Real Estate on Sonnenallee Spring is coming, and so is Morgenvogel Real Estate. The bird housing company by the Berlin artists Maria-Leena Räihälä and Manuel Bonik provides perfect houses for tits, sparrows, nuthatchs, and pied flycatcher, to be attached easily to windows or balconies or to trees in the garden, on the street or in a park close-by. From April 1st through 13th Morgenvogel Real Estate is to be found at the Büro für besteimmte Dinge on Sonnenallee 147. On Saturday, April 13th, from 7 to 11 pm, we’ll celebrate a music evening, with Morgenvogel music and Finnish tango. hours: tue, 02.04. – SAt, 06.04. from 2 to 8 pm MORGENVOGELDIScO: SAt, 13.04. from 7 pm More information at: www.morgenvogel.net |
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[13.03.2013 / 6 – 9 pm]
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* / open studio: "PAY & P(L)AY"
MILENA JOVIĆEVIĆ / Montenegro My work is inspired by everyday-life situations and paradoxes of contemporary society and world we live, that strange place saturated with the media, with an exaggerated production and exaggerated consumption. Everything is poised on the edge between the real and the virtual. In one side we constantly talk about freedom, democracy and better life, but the truth is violence, suffering, bizarre relationships, disease and death. The more we talk, less we do. In this general disarray, where many systems of values have been fundamentally shaken up and devoid of elementary emotions, every kind of addiction and slavery is sold for “freedom”. This society of depression and sedatives, shopaholics, betting addicts, Internet addicts and the most vulgar voyeurism is a very intriguing field for artistic research. The life in harmony with nature and its rules is quite impossible; destruction is key word of our time. My works are ironic, subversive. Latest works explore anxiety and human body as object in the consumer society, with an emphasis on male- female relations in socio- political context. I work in various of media, from drawing to object- sculpture, painting, computer graphic and wall painting. MORE AT: www.milenajovicevic.com |
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[25.02.2013 / 7 PM]
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tischgesellschaften [08]
dieses mal mit: • sekt mit granatapfelkerne und selbstgemachte grissini • rote beete salat mit walnüssen und äpfeln - brot und selbsgemachter petersilienbutter • topinambursuppe mit pastinakenchips • orangenmandelkuchen |
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[21.–23.02.2013]
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* / Once More With Feeling
'Once More With Feeling' explores a possible love affair between two German actresses working in early 1970’s Ireland. Comprising of video, photography, and installation the work playfully combines segments of dialogue from the Irish TV show ‘The Riordans’ translated and performed in German, digitally altered internet images of 1970’s Ireland, email, digital sketches and tourist bric-a-brac to explore issues around National ideology, nostalgia, and xenophobia. by david nugent / www.davidnugentphotography.com |
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[01.02.2013 / 7 PM]
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* / Madonnarama, Berlin style
(OPEN STUDIO - ANETTE FRIEDRICH JOHANNESSEN) Underneath the disco lights, she is free, happy and inches close to stardom. This is the times of heavily mediated culture and an extreme access to people’s personal lives. Through social media we daily are feeding and consuming privacy, intruding upon personal affairs and evolve maniac voyeuristic tendencies. There is an exchange of emotions as pleasure, pain, artificial happiness and simulated “perfect” lives. By inciting this curiosity and mania of x-factor, 15 minutes of fame and obsession with celebrities, my performances merely exists within a multi media space. Adapting the emotions of voyeurism, and intruding upon a person’s private space, by staging familiar actions, such as singing to ones favourite tune or rehearsing on a popular dance, is the key element of all my performances. Habituating intimates spaces or recreating them with as abstract substances as possible, is significant. The viewer should leave with blushed cheeks, a sick stomach and a sense of embarrassment, embarrassment for intruding a secret affair. My performances are often done in more private/home-like spaces; my work here in Berlin has focused on the time one uses to feel at home somewhere. Feeling at home means letting go, sing, dance and move to music. I would like to invite you to my special evening. An evening of intimate character, where you up close can see me perform naturally and free. How it is viewed is by your own choice: there will be a live streaming, a YouTube site for you to watch, or you can peek through the door and watch. Either way, my door is open ... MORE: http://www.youtube.com/user/anefrij |
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[23.01.2013 / 7 PM]
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tischgesellschaften [07]
DIESES MAL MIT: • orangensalat mit schwarzen oliven, zwiebeln und schafskäse • topfenknödel mit bergkäse auf gemischtem salat • schokoladeningwertarte mit zimtsahne |
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[05.01.2013 / 7 PM]
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tischgesellschaften [06]
DIESES MAL MIT: • Poireaux Vinaigrette – gedünsteter Lauch mit einer Kapernvinaigrette • Kartoffel - Ingwersuppe mit Petersillien - Knoblauchbutterbaguette • Gallete de Rois – Dreikönigskuchen |
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[22.12.2012 / 2 – 6 PM]
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* / Reflective History
Reflective History is a series of work examining the blurry crossover of memory and imagination. Often viewed through a mask of reality, the alternate views of the present reflect fantasies of the past, and encourage discoveries for the future to surface. Shawn Dicey works with text, found objects, historical information, paint, pens, musical instruments, and surroundings to create multimedia works of personal and global narrative. Shawn explores and shapes a personal idea of art as statement as life. THE CENTRAL PIECE TITLED 'ORIGINS RISING' IS MEANT TO BE PART FUNERAL SERVICE FOR A GUITAR BEING LAID TO REST, AND PART PERFORMANCE PIECE. THE CASSETTE MACHINE WAS PLAYING A 3 HOUR IMPROVISED SOLO GUITAR PIECE, THE LAST MUSIC MADE BY THE INSTRUMENT, RECORDED BY ME IN THE DAYS LEADING UP TO THE PERFORMANCE. THE HEADSTOCK WAS BAKED INTO A LOAF OF BREAD ON THE MORNING OF THE PERFORMANCE, REPRESENTING AN ENTOMBING AND POSSIBLE SOURCE OF FUEL. THE DRAWINGS AND SCULPTURES ON DISPLAY REFLECT MY TIME IN BERLIN, AND ARE BASED ON EXPERIENCES, DREAMS, OBJECTS FOUND, AND OBSERVATIONS DURING MY TIME HERE. Dicey hails from the shadow of the Rocky Mountains: Calgary, Alberta, Canada. |
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[01.12.2012 / 4-6 pm]
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* / Open Studio (Works in Progress)
Abbey Hepner / www.hepnerart.com / http://abbeyhepner.tumblr.com/ Abbey Hepner is a multimedia artist who explores the relationship between humans and the landscape. Mediums include photography, performance, video, sculpture and interactive technologies. Public outcry in Germany following the events at Fukushima immediately resulted in 8 nuclear plant closures, with all remaining nuclear facilities to be closed by 2022. Outside of Japan, no other country responded to the Fukushima disaster as dramatically as Germany. Never keen on nuclear energy in the first place, many Germans feel confident about abandoning the old strategy and the tremendous progress they have made in developing renewable energy, which now accounts for over 25% of the country’s electricity. Germany’s decisions are not without heavy criticism however as opponents point out the inconsistent production of some renewable energy sources and possible need for coal to pick up the slack during the nuclear phase-out. In Hepner’s newest series, Scars On The Landscape, she has created a series of videos filmed at both decommissioned and currently active nuclear power facilities in Germany. Using her body in a performance-like gesture she creates a mark in time in the landscape surrounding the building as it is in flux between active and abandoned. Hepner’s series includes interviews, materials from her travels and a look at renewable energy in Germany’s shifting landscape. She also includes a look into the alternative view; neighboring country France, which has 58 nuclear reactors and relies on nuclear power for over 77% of its energy needs. |
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[19.11.2012 / 7 PM]
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* / Carousel
Lise Latreille presents the project "Carousel" at the Büro Für Bestimmte Dinge – a looped slide show of images taken by ten different people in the week of November 8 – 15 in Berlin. |
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[13.11.2012 / 7 PM]
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tischgesellschaften [05]
DIESES MAL MIT: • Grünkernsalat mit Orangen und Fenchel • Kartoffel - Brokkolisuppe mit Ziegenkäse • Bratäpfel in Holunderblüttensirup mit Vanillejoghurt |
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[04. – 18.11. 2012]
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* / LISE LATREILLE, Canada → WEB
Lise Latreille is a photographer who explores the relationship between people and environments. She is inspired by rural and urban life, natural phenomena, travel snapshots, modes of transit, and the lives of objects. Sequencing images is an important part of her process- she enjoys creating atmospheric narriatives, and how the relationships between pictures can generate their own symbolic or psychological world. |
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[09. – 31.10. 2012]
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* / Heather Smith, Canada → WEB
Heather Kai Smith has been collecting and documenting personal artifacts and found photography from Berlin during her stay. These drawings attempt to narrate a subjective self-understanding, and simultaneously create objective nostalgic experiences for the viewer. The finished works, including a bookwork and small sculptural elements will be collectively installed at the Institut fur Alles Moglisches in January. |
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[06.10.2012 / 4 – 7 PM]
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* / open studio
As an ending to the period of living and working at Institut für alles mögliche, Signe-lill opens her studio for visitors to come inside and have a look at her workspace. Signe-Lill will be showing drawing, sculpturE, PHotography. More at: www.signe-lill.com |
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[10.09.2012 / 7.30 PM]
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tischgesellschaften [04]
DIESES MAL MIT: • Möhren-Sesamsalat mit Rauke und Schafskäse • Zucchini - Buttermilchsuppe • Heidelbeertarte mit Katzenzungen |
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[09.09. – 07.10. 2012]
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* / signe-lill valkvæ, Norway → WEB
Signe-Lill works in an interchanging exploration between drawing and writing to collect and transform merging different impressions. This is supported by various media, digital-media, paper mache sculptures, "ready mades" and many more. Her residency will act as an intense selfstudy, supplemented by continuous guiedences by artist Marie Aly. Subjects such as recreation and rewriting will be explored for example by using elements from older drawings in a new context, or removing a found object from its original purpose using it simply as a form or color in a bigger installation. |
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[07.09.2012 / 7 PM]
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aline benecke - Picture this
Aline Benecke arbeitet als Performerin und Kuratorin in verschiedenen Zusammenhängen und Netzwerken. 'picture this‘, ihre erste Soloperformance, entstand 2011 im Rahmen einer Residenz bei aktör&vänner Göteborg mit der Unterstützung vom Goethe-Institut und während eines weiteren Aufenthalts bei ‚ausland‘ Berlin. Die Arbeit wurde zu zahlreichen Festivals eingeladen, u.a 'Duisburger Akzente' und 'Göteborgs Dans & Teater Festival'. Während ihrer Residenz im Büro für bestimmte Dinge wird Aline zusammen mit Hendrik Quast präzise Elemente der Performance strukturieren und zudem die Proben und Vorgänge als solche untersuchen, um mehr Freizeit zu haben. Zurück zum Fremdsein: Ich bin aufgewachsen mit den Geschichte über das là-bas, war aber hauptsächlich im europäischen ici. Meine Erfahrung von, über und mit Algerien ist genährt von Fotografien und orientalischen Mythen. Diese Bogen spinne ich weiter. Ich habe eine beachtliche Sammlung an fremden Fotografien und Geschichten wie aus 1001 Nacht im Gepäck mit denen ich mir meine morgenländische Identität erdichte. Stell Dir vor.... picture this... Dramturgie: Florian Ackermann, Hendrik Quast |
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[27. + 28.08.2012 /
opening 27.08. at 7 PM] |
berlin now
Monika Oechsler, Ron Hagell und Birte Endrejat zeigen foto, film, zeichnung und Text! Opening: 27.08. at 7 pm times: 27.08. 7 – 10 pm + 28.08. 12 – 6 pm Monika Oechsler explores the modalities of performative assemblage and the production of transitional spaces in relation to viewer experience. Her practice includes video installation, sound, photography, performance and animation. Oechsler teaches at Chelsea College of Art and Design, London and at the University of the West of England, Bristol, UK. Her recently completed PhD research explored the interstitiality of the multi-screen video installation space. During the residency at I-A-M the artist will develop a new film based on the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin. (More at: www.monikaoechsler.co.uk) Ron Hagell will be showing a new digital print series made in response to this residency in Berlin. Having lived and worked in Frankfurt/M from1990 to 1995 and visiting Berlin often at that time (including running in the first marathon through both West & East Berlin) and the wrapping of the Reichstag, Ron has now traveled around the "new" Berlin on his little orange cycle (provided by I-A-M). The little cycle has had an historical adventure. Also, planned before the residency and realized this month here in Berlin , Ron has made a new dance video/film based on a previous work, "Dancer on Glass". This new abstract work features video projection as a main light source on solo improvisational contemporary movement. The starting points are the female form - fabric - color - light and movement. BIRTE ENDREJAT IS PRESENTING HER PIECE "WATCHING SOMEONE WATCHING". (MORE AT: WWW.BIRTEENDREJAT.COM) |
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[02. – 30.08. 2012]
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* / RON HAGELL, UK & MONIKA OECHSLER, UK → WEB
Ron Hagell; MFA, Film Directing and Screenwriting, Columbia University. Ron is now a media artist and practice lecturer having had several former careers including a television producer/director with PBS and Lifetime, a narrative film maker and a US Army officer in Vietnam. Most recently Ron has been teaching film and video practice at Royal Holloway - University of London where he created various tracks of courses in studio video and contemporary media art. His current practice is in installation art with large screen projections, digital prints and documentary centred on topics related to diaspora and family. 
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[01.08.2012 / 7 pm]
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opening of the Büro Für bestimmte dinge The INSTITUT FÜR ALLES MÖGLICHE opens a new space - this time in Neukölln - and is looking forward to see you there! there is: * the first institutional hitparade ... we asked you to send your favorite song via youtube or any other way and received 24 songs ... the first sampler with 20 copies ... * THE TINIEST ARTSPACE EVER (http://ttae.i-a-m.tk/) * Mojitos * honest white walls Thank you all! |
