Masashi Echigo
The foundation of Masashi Echigo’s work are intermittent interactions with other individuals and groups of society. His artistic practice is based on travelling in particular, as well as on the temporary sharing or borrowing of things as an attempt to open up to others and simultaneously participate in their lives. In 2013 Echigo lived mainly […]
Ron Tran
Ron Tran’s artistic practice is interdisciplinary ‒ expressed most often as unscripted performance and subtle intervention which may incorporate sculpture, drawing, video, photography and the work of other artists. Tran’s work tends towards the ephemeral as imagined artistic expression filtered through the viewer’s experience. Using his particular method Tran wishes to break open socially sanctioned […]
Priscila Fernandes
Priscila Fernandes develops her works from an interest into didactics, education and the conveyance of knowledge. In Against the Enamel Fernandes presents an installation incorporating video and sculpture. As in other currents works, Fernandes creates references to Neo-Impressionism and ideological shifts at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. The large LED video screen […]
Emma Waltraud Howes
Emma Waltraud Howes integrates movement, objects, drawing and collage, video and sound into live performances and installations, whereby one emphasis of her research is on the extendibility of media boundaries. Howes’ projects are influenced by her intense interest in absurd theatre and her personal training in the fields of dance, performance theory and fine art. […]
Window Display
Im Schaufenster presents a video work by Erez Israeli documenting the becoming of his firewall mural at Kottbusser Strasse 10. (Video documentation, 2014; 2.57 min)
Erez Israeli
Besides Das mechanische Corps, the focal project of our anniversary year is the artistic design of the firewall at Kottbusser Str. 10, ceremonially opened on 21st August. As the result of a closed competition, a design by Israeli artist EREZ ISRAELI was recommended for realisation. Israeli’s idea centres on the subject of memory and remembrance […]
In Memory of Peter Lang
Yesterday, on August 11th at about 9 pm, the Berlin curator, art critic, author and editor PETER LANG died unexpectedly in Munich of a heart attack. He was 56 years old. Peter Lang was repeatedly a guest curator in our institution in the past few years. Only recently the exhibition The Mechanical Corps. On the […]
Window Display
Brenna Murphy, *1986, lives and works in Portland, Oregon (USA) Im Schaufenster presents Murphy’s video work Siat nousevat vuorelle from 2011 (USA/Finland, 5:02min). The American artist Brenna Murphy (http://bmruernpnhay.com) explores the diverse representational forms of digital surfaces. Frequent initial element is self-shot video footage that is rhythmized by Photoshop filters and amplified to lucid kaleidoscopes. In the […]
Vera Kox
It is generally the static to the monumental that is understood as sculpture, but the sculptural works by Vera Kox concentrate far more on the fleeting and the transformable, on the transitory nature of her starting material. It sticks, spills over, crumples, folds, bulges and plays with the cognitive patterns of our perception like a […]
Jenny Lindblom
Primarily taking the form of paintings and sculptures, Jenny Lindbloms practice is an inquiry into the possibilities as well as the limitations of representation, expression and identity. Equally influenced by the aestheticized realities framed/ filtered by the canons of Instagram and art history, her imagery can be described as a constellation of eclectic reactions to […]