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Dmitri Prigov
Dmitri Prigov: Abieter der Kunst / Art Worker
Until 29 March
Galerie Sandmann
Linienstrasse 139-140
T +49 30 28 04 53 23
www.artsandmann.de
A leader of Russia's conceptual art movement, Dimitri Prigov wrote literally tens of thousands of poems, worked as an architect and planner, and founded the collective the Prigov Family Group (relations symbolic, not genetic). On display at Sandmann are Prigov's meticulous ink drawings - the first exhibition the artist's work since his death in July 2007.
Marepe
Marepe
Until 1 March
Max Hetzler
Zimmerstrasse 90-91
T +49 (0)30 229 24-37
www.maxhetzler.com
The north-Brazilian artist Marepe is known for his exuberant utilitarianism. Max Hetzler's Zimmerstrasse space may be a bit of a small container for it.
John Pilson
John Pilson: Dark Empire
Until 15 February
Galerie Zink
Schlesische str. 27
T +49(0)30/69 81 43 20
www.galeriezink.de
Zink shows work of American photographer John Pilson, in connection with this year's Transmediale festival of new media art. The connection is oblique. Pilson shows stills from 'Interregna' - twilight scenes from inside New York's corporate highrises shot in black and white. The series creates an unusual synergy with the grey on grey 'Dark Empire' - a video Pilson made during a blackout which hit New York City in 2003. (Not much happens. Ocassionally a plane flies by.)
Orit Raff
True North
Deutsche Guggenheim
Unter den Linden 13/15
T + 49 (0)30 20 20 93-0
www.deutsche-guggenheim-berlin.de
Seven pieces from the Guggenheim collection are presented as "historically and politically reflexive" contemporary reinterpretations of the northern Romantic Landscape. Take the rubric it or leave it - there are some excellent pieces on display including Orit Raff's video Palindrome (2001). Stan Douglas's 1996 video piece mesmerizes with two interwoven asynchronic tracks, which occasionally come close to convergence. Roni Horn's series 'Pi' plumbs the circumscribed existence of a couple on a remote island, and is as much about texture as geometry.
Thomas Zipp
Thomas Zipp: SSBSM
Until 1 March
Guido W. Baudach
OsramHoefe
Oudenarderstr 16 - 20
T +49 (0) 30 28047727
www.guidowbaudach.com
Thomas Zipp's tight-looking show includes two faceless stone busts, flags, a sculptural piece punning on "bollocks," and an series of exegetic two-dimensional works that run an eye-level ring around the gallery. In Zipp's new paintings, dots have appeared.
Dan Perjovschi
Dan Perjovschi
Galerija Gregor Podnar
Lindenstr. 35
T +49 178 390 89 84
www.gregorpodnar.com
Galerija Podnar, a recent Slovene import to Berlin, mounts a show by Romanian artist Dan Perjovschi. Or rather not; most of the work is drawn with black marker directly with onto the gallery's temporary floor. (Apparently linoleum was a favorite DIY art medium in the eastern bloc.) Perjovschi has also recently drawn on New York's MoMA by invitation, and concluded a mid-career retrospective at the Nasher Museum.
Beyond the Screen
[DAM] Berlin
Until 8 March
Tucholskystrasse 37
T +49 030 280 98 135
www.dam-berlin.de
www.generatorx.no
Berlin-based, New York-bound digital art maven Marius Watz organized a week-long charette in connection with Transmediale 08 - and invited a cast of architects, digital artists to experiment with new digital "fabbing" techniques. The idea of the unique, mass-produced object is undeniably sexy - so are the objects which the workshop participants have produced, on display for the coming month.
'Five Minutes Later'
Kunstwerke
Auguststrasse 69
T +49 (0) 30 24 34 59 0
www.kw-berlin.de
Kunstwerke has unexpectedly embraced the notion that less is in fact sometimes more - taken here as both the theme and the new curatorial mantra. 'Five Minutes Later' includes "sketches" by Ceal Floyer, Martin Boyce, Andreas Slominski, Thomas Demand and others. It is mercifully small.
Sejla Kameric
Sejla Kameric: What I Do Know
Until 15 March
DAADgalerie
Zimmerstrasse 90/91
T +49 (0)30 2613640
www.daad-berlin.de
During Berlin film festival, the German Academic Exchange makes it a point to show a grantee working primarily in film or video - in this case young Serbian Sejla Kameric. 'What I Do Know '(23 min), which premiered last year in Venice, is projected as a four-screen installation.
Timo Kube
Timo Kube: This
Until 29 February
Wilma Tolksdorf
Zimmerstrasse 88-91
T +49 30 200 588 12
www.wilmatolksdorf.de
Timo Kube's two best works are unfortunately described as "wall-based pieces." The burnished mirror-like planes are in fact both paintings and sculptures - deep and palpable. The artist is a recent graduate of London's Chelsea College of Art, and a former philosophy student. This is his first major solo show.
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Alix Rule writes on art and politics. She has worked for In These Times and Dissent magazine, and her writing has appeared in a variety of other publications. Alix grew up in New York and studied at the University of Chicago at then at Balliol College, Oxford. After graduating she worked briefly as an organizer of low-wage workers in London, UK. Alix is interested in interior and outer space, organizing communities, "social entrepreneurship" and above all, clothing. She has recently moved to Berlin. You can contact her at alix.rule@gmail.com. |
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