28 August – 10 October 2010
Opening: 27 August, 7pm
NGBK & Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien
Over the past two years, the interdisciplinary project Transient Spaces – The Tourist Syndrome has been addressing current issues of mobility through workshops, seminars, lectures, artist-in-residence programmes and exhibitions in Italy, Lithuania, Romania and Germany. The themes examined by artists and cultural producers in the context of the project include tourism, migration and new forms of flexible living and being permanently on the move.
The exhibition in Berlin, taking place at the NGBK and Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien and concluding the two-year project initiated by Marina Sorbello and Antje Weitzel, offers a multifaceted parcours through the topics via a selection of artistic positions. Parallel to the exhibition, the programme of events includes performances, discussions, and a film programme in cooperation with Ballhaus Naunynstrasse on the weekend 4/5 September 2010.
The 25 artists and groups involved in the exhibition come from seventeen countries, of which twelve are in Europe. Their works relate in the most diverse ways with the topics underlying the exhibition: the artists use research, documentation, fiction, design, irony and invention and various media. The exhibition features also works produced within the Transient Spaces – The Tourist Syndrome residency and production grant scheme (by Alex Auriema, Isa Andreu / Timothy Moore, Carsten Does / Gerda Heck, Bettina Hutschek, Eléonore de Montesquiou, Joanne Richardson / David Rych, Romana Schmalisch, Eugenio Tibaldi).
Artists: Isa Andreu (ES) / Timothy Moore (AU), Alex Auriema (USA), Federico Baronello (IT), Ursula Biemann (CH), Aslı Çavuşoğlu (TR), Raphaël Cuomo / Maria Iorio (CH), Carsten Does / Gerda Heck (DE), G-Lab (LT), Daniel Gontz (RO), Sandra Hetzl (DE), Bettina Hutschek (DE), J&K (DE/DK), Thomas Kilpper (DE), Sara Kolster / Suzanne Valkenburg / Eefje Blankevoort (NL), Emanuel Licha (CA), Ives Maes (BE), Plinio Avila Marquez (MX), Eléonore de Montesquiou (FR), Christoph Oertli (CH), Joanne Richardson (USA) / David Rych (AT), Romana Schmalisch (DE), Société Réaliste (FR/HU), Pilvi Takala (FI), Eugenio Tibaldi (IT), Oraib Toukan (USA/JO)
Film programme at Ballhaus Naunynstrasse 04. – 05.09.2010, 16:00–23:00
with films by: Christian von Borries (DE), Raphaël Cuomo / Maria Iorio (CH), Sandra Hetzl (DE), Christoph Oertli (CH), Maxim Pozdorovkin / Joe Bender (UK), Paul Rowley / Nicky Gogan (IE), Marie Voignier (FR)
The book on the project is published by argobooks, Berlin, www.argobooks.de
Venues:
Exhibition: Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Oranienstrasse 25, 10999 Berlin, www.ngbk.de
Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Mariannenplatz 2, 10997 Berlin, www.kunstraumkreuzberg.de
Film programme: Ballhaus Naunynstrasse, Naunynstr. 27, 10997 Berlin, www.ballhausnaunynstrasse.de
Initiators: Marina Sorbello, Antje Weitzel
Curators film programme: Tobias Hering, Marina Sorbello, Antje Weitzel
TRANSIENT SPACES – THE TOURIST SYNDROME
Main Organizer: uqbar, Berlin
Co-organizer: Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin; E-M Arts, Napoli; CIAC/ICCA, București; Meno Parkas, Kaunas
Funded with support from: European Commission, Culture Programme; Foundation of German Lottery Berlin; Italienisches Kulturinstitut Berlin; Österreichisches Kulturforum Berlin; Pro Helvetia
Organizer Berlin: Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst and Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin
Partners Berlin: Ballhaus Naunynstrasse; Collegium Hungaricum Berlin; Fonds BKVB Amsterdam