For further information look there: www.kunst.gasag.de.
Heidi Sill, skins #2, 2004
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| Office Kunstfabrik Am Flutgraben 3 - 12435 Berlin Monday to Wednesday, 11 am to 2 pm phone: +49 30 53 21-96 58 fax: +49 30 53 21-15 70 info [ett] kunstfabrik [punkt] org Directions to the Kunstfabrik (pdf) Letzte Überprüfung Watchtower Schlesischer Busch Am Flutgraben 3 - 12435 Berlin Thursday to Sunday, 2 pm to 7 pm (May-Oct) fon: +49 30 5321-9658 LUe [ett] kunstfabrik [punkt] org |
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| A forum for artistic
production
and presentation on 3800 m²
The
non-profit art association
Kunstfabrik am Flutgraben e.V. was founded in 1996. It administers and
maintains a large studio house situated in Berlin-Treptow, where on
average 60 international artists are working at any one time. With its
many and various artistic and cultural activities it provides an
essential contribution to the cultural life of Berlin. Former guest artists at the Kunstfabrik: Leander Eisenmann (CH), Maureen Jeram (USA), Jone Krie (N), Markus Labs (D), Wessel Muller (NL), Ron Rocco (USA), Neil Wing (AUS). |
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artists 2008 The activities are based on more than 40 studios, used at present by Almuth Baumfalk, Tania Bedriñana, Tine Benz, Christine Berndt, Dagmar Binder, Harald Birck, Vicente Blanco Mosquera, Ronald de Bloeme, Roland Boden, Mari Brellochs, Katja Brinkmann, Laura Bruce, Salvador Cidrás Robles, Ben Cottrell, Erik Sep (CBK studio), Ulrike Dornis, Hannah Dougherty, Markus Draper, Norman Gebauer, Christiana Glidden, Franziska Goes, Agnès Hardy, Eberhard Havekost, Martin Henkel, Herr Sphen, Olaf Holzapfel, Sybille Hotz, Christiane John, Stephan Kurr, Wing Yip Lap, Ingrid Lill, Stefan Lux, Barbara Morgenstern, Wessel Muller, Aino Nebel, Esther Neumann, Alien Oosting, Daniel Pflumm, raumlabor_berlin (Francesco Apuzzo, Markus Bader, Benjamin Förster-Baldenius, Jan Liesegang, Matthias Rick, Axel Timm), Nicole Riegel, Adrian Rovatkay, Viola Rusche, Sophia Schama, Wolfgang Schlegel, Margot Schmitt, Jörg Suermann, Ines Tartler, Ona Tav, Joël Verwimp, Vanessa Wood, Dominic Wood, Frank Zucht. |
** | The studios The allocation of the studios is regulated by a board elected by the plenary assembly in co-operation with the Atelierbüro (studio-office) of the Berufsverband Bildender Künstler BBK Berlin. The different approaches and media represented in the Kunstfabrik, cover the whole spectrum of contemporary artistic forms of expression. These includes painting, graphic, sculpture, installation, concept art, photography, video, public interventions, new media, visual communication, and textile art. Through our distribution of guest studios an important relationship with international institutions has been developed. For example the Centrum Beeldende Kunst CBK Dordrecht offers six-months'-scholarships to Dutch artists, providing not only a studio in Kunstfabrik but also an involvement with the activities of the association. Former CBK-scholarship holders at the Kunstfabrik were Saskia Meesters, Anja de Jong, Frans van Lent, Albert Zwaan, Michael Markwick, Katja Diallo, Jeroen Fransen, Fred van Rijen, Kathelijne Montes, Nico Parlevliet, and Ton Kraayeveld. |
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Berndt: Opera Sculpture "Dorle" in conjunction with Helmut Oehring (composition) and Natalia Pschenitschnikowa (vocals/recorder) as well as Torsten Ottersberg (GOGH sound production)  Christine Berndt: Opera sculpture"Dorle", "Wir waren auch fröhlich", installation in the ground floor, 15 min Taking the former watch tower in the “Schlesischer Busch” in Berlin Treptow-Koepenick as the medium, the artist Christine Berndt developed the opera sculpture “Dorle”. The project, in conjunction with the composer Helmut Oehring and the singer Natalia Pschenitschnikowa, came to life staging GDR history as a conjunction of documentary, contemporary music and architectural intervention. Starting point is the watch tower as a relic and architectural witness of the GDR regime. It forms the framework for the biography of “Dorle”, a woman whose family history paradigmatically retells German history. The multimedia exhibition refers to “Dorle’s” life on three levels and in this way follows the given vertical structure and architecture of the watch tower: On the first floor the video installation “Propaganda” with excerpts from the German Wochenschau, newsreel broadcasts, in the time between 1942 to 1945 refers to the Second World War, which “Dorle’s” father, a general in the German Wehrmacht experienced in Stalingrad. This is the backdrop to “Dorle’s” family history. |
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these years are shaped by the war, the choice is restricted to everyday
and seemingly insignificant occurrences
which by being staged in a
rather propagandist manner are just as much part of the collective
subconscious or awareness as are the representative pictures and images
of war of that time. – On the second windowless floor a surrounding
text encircles the visitor. This represents excerpts from “Dorle’s”
diary which tell of “Dorle’s” attempted escape from the GDR, her
following imprisonment and lastly her position as an unofficial
employee of the Stasi. The visitor is included in this torturing self
assessment and self questioning,
which “Dorle” conducts after the demise of the GDR and until her death
with increasing intensity. – The so called Freiwache, an open space, on
the top floor is filled with the mono song of “Dorle”. The libretto
lasting 20 minutes, a composition by Helmut Oehring, varies excerpts
from the diaries. By transposing these diary excerpts into song,
Natalia Pschentschnikowa, “Dorles” conflict is brought into our awareness and attains present
significance. In this tripartite
installation, this is the element with the most immediate impact on the
viewer. The composition will be performed live only once to celebrate
the opening of the exhibition. On the evening of May 6th 2008 the watch tower turned into a closed shell which was enclosed by the singer and the  Christine Berndt: Opernskulptur "Dorle", untilted (excerpts from "Dorle's" diary), installation at first floor, 45 min |
 Christine Berndt: Opera sculpture"Dorle", first release instrumentalist in place of “Dorle”. Four surveillance cameras recorded the happening inside the building and project the solo performance onto the outer layer of the building while the instrument and the voice were transmitted to the outside via amplifiers, through the illumination of the projectors and the emerging instrumental and voice the outer walls of the watch tower dissolved. The well fortified tower underwent a temporary metamorphosis into a transparent sculpture. Only after the performance the visitors permitted the opportunity to dive into the stillness of the tower with its silent projections on the first and second floor. During the next four weeks the multimedia-based installation including the tape from the live-recording of the performance was available to visitors (more/pdf) First Release/Opening: 6.5.08, 9 pm Duration of exhibition: 8.5. – 8.6.08, Thu – Sun, 2 – 7 pm, incl. 12.5. (Whit Monday) A project of the Kunstfabrik am Flutgraben e.V. as part of the series "Letzte Überprüfung" (Final Inspection") at the watchtower Schlesischer Busch. With the friendly support of Kunstfonds Bonn, Köstritzer Schwarzbierbrauerei, Hypo-Kulturstiftung München, and Kulturamt Treptow-Köpenick. |
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** | Concept The former watchtower in the park Schlesischer Busch is the starting point for artistic examination with borders in the form of site-specific, interventional, and situational presentations of international artists. Letzte Überprüfung (Last Inspection) is enjoying an increasing popularity among the Berlin people as well as the tourists. Within the context of memorials and other places reminding of the Berlin Wall and the time of division, the project frames an outstanding and individual position, particularly by its approach of applying artistic interventions to the linking of the past with the present. In addition, the Border Watch Tower Schlesischer Busch presents an important local element within the Berliner Mauer-Konzept. Letzte Überprüfung is a project of the Kunstfabrik am Flutgraben e.V., directed by Svenja Moor since 2007. With friendly support of the district office Treptow-Köpenick, and the senate administration for science, research and culture. |
* | Exhibitions LÜ 2007 Ulrike Kuschel: Diese Mauer Georg Klein: turmlaute.2 Frans van Lent: Raam LÜ 2006 Roland Boden: Konfuse magnetische Wirbel Tina Born: Pavillon Nocturne Dave Allen: One Way, Another Way, Then Any Other Way raumlabor_berlin: Wohnen im Turm. Bauvorhaben: Wohnanlage Schlesischer Busch Sofia Hultén: Events With Unknown Outcome LÜ 2005 Ines Tartler: offen Shahram Entekhabi: kilid Sigalit Landau: Barbed Hula E-Mail: LUe [ett] kunstfabrik [punkt] org How you to find us! |
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Gasag Art Award 2007 Jorinde Voigt, O.T. 1-14(detail), 2006, Courtesy Sammlung Rosenkranz Berlin, Copyright: Jorinde Voigt The Berlin artist Mandla Reuter is awarded with the Gasag Art Award 2007. The artists Nevin Aladag and Jorinde Voigt both receive a promontional prize. It is now the 10th anniversary that Gasag is awarding its prize for the promotion of young Berlin artists. In the beginning this award was designed as a Master Class Students Award in cooperation with the Hochschule der Künste (HdK). Since 2002, the award attained a new profile through the cooperation with the Kunstfabrik am Flutgraben e.V. Every year up to 16 artists are nominated in a two-step procedure. A maximum age of 35 and a Berlin residence are the only formal limitations. From step 1, the preselection, the jury – which every year consists of different Berlin art scene representatives - nominates the winner of the Gasag Art award as well as two artists awarded with a promotional prize. In honor of the anniversary Gasag increased its formerly prize money of € 5,000 which now comes with € 7,500 for the Gasag Art Award and for the promotional prizes from € 1,000 up to € 2,500 each. The prize money includes the accquisition of one piece of |
work by
Gasag. Furthermore, an extended work catalogue of the laureate Mandla
Reuter will be
produced and all three laureates will present some of
their oeuvres at an exhibition. This concept reflects the Gasag claim
to go one step beyond the mere
awarding of a promising artist’s
work by actually supporting the start-up of an artist’s carreer. Since
1997 a total of 26 Berlin artists benefitted from this approach. By awarding Mandla Reuter the jury (Ursula Prinz, Berlinische Galerie; Mari Brellochs, Kunstfabrik am Flutgraben e.V., and Gabriele Knapstein, Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart) honours a genre-crossing work that offers multifacetted ways of dialogue to the audience. His situation-specific installations are reflections of the general conditions under which art represents itself. It is Mandla Reuter’s approach that his investigations in this field are sometimes of a playful, sometimes of a conceptual nature. The topics of the video works and installation of Nevin Aladag derive from everday culture; they are motivated by the different languages, forms of expressions, and codices that groups do use for their internal and external communications. - With an aspect-drawn promotion the jury honours the approach to redirect and channel the artistic work to the outward so that the work steps into a communicative circle. Jorinde Voigt is awarded with a work-oriented promotional prize for the consequence and self-reliance of her oeuvre. In her drawings, different incidents like pop songs, current flows, definite and indefinite descriptions of actions, or temperature profiles are listed on score and put into relation to each other resulting in a complex spatial texture. All three laureates will present some of their oeuvres at the exhibition "Neue Heimat. Berlin Contemporary" at the Berlinische Galerie, Landesmuseum für Moderne Kunst, Fotografie und Architektur. The exhibition, curated by Ursula Prinz, assembles the works of 29 international artists thereby displaying a wide range of the contemporary international Berlin art scene. The exhibition will be opened on 12 september 2007 and will end on 7 january 2008. |
 Nevin Aladag, Alles auf Anfang, installation detail, 2007, Copyright: Nevin Aladag  Mandla Reuter: ohne Titel (BG), 2007 Gasag Art Award 2006: Ulrike Kuschel Gasag Art Award 2005: Clemens von Wedemeyer Gasag Art Award 2004: Nezaket Ekici Gasag Art Award 2003: Judith Hopf Gasag Art Award 2002: Carsten Fock For further information look there: www.kunst.gasag.de. |
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im Bau After a five-years cooperation, the collection of 38 art works, created by 42 artists, has been completed, having found its permanent residence in the historical-listed building at the Reichpietschufer. On six floors, the corridors and stairways have considerably changed their look, left behind their usual monotony and offer some relief to Gasag employees and guests. The artworks try to get in contact, they challenge visual habits, they do riddle and open perspectives. The "Kunst im Bau“-collection is marked by a notable relation towards its location, to its people working there, its architecture, its product. Quite frequently, the employees themselves were invited to take part in the process of creation. By presenting a wide scope of different media – from painting, print and drawing to photography and computer visuals as well as installations and sculptural works – the collection reflects a balanced profile of contemporary art production. From 2002 to 2006, Gasag and Kunstfabrik am Flutgraben invited artists being in association with Kunstfabrik am Flutgraben to taking part in an annual contest, with the result of a total of 215 artists participating. Every year, a jury got together to decide on the artworks to be realised which subsequently were acquired by Gasag. The jury consisted of Berlin art scene representatives as, among others, Gabriele Horn, Ute Tischler (Brandenburgischer Kunstverein Potsdam), and the artist and former gallery owner Andreas Koch, of representatives without-a-vote of monument and employment protection authorities and an yearly alternating Gasag representative. |
The conception of this undertaking had been developed and
realised by
Kunstfabrik am Flutgraben e.V. in cooperation with Gasag. As project
director of Kunstfabrik am Flutgraben e.V., Mari
Brellochs advised
project management, coordination and accomplishment of the contests as
well as the actual implementation of the
awarded artworks at the Gasag
building (in 2002/2003 in cooperation with Ulf Wetzka). Project
management on behalf of Gasag was effected by Dr. Klaus Haschker and
Birgit Jammes. Roland Boden, Bei Gasgeruch muß Hilfe her!, 2004  Katja Brinkmann, o.T. (Wandbild), 2004 |
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The
following enlists the artists who "since 2002
and in four phases have cared for the inner values of the GASAG
building" (Qpferdach, art editor of "tip" magazine, in the catalogue
"Kunst im Bau. Unternehmen Kunstsammlung"): Almuth Baumfalk, Stefan
Beck, Tine Benz, Blank & Jeron, Roland Boden, Armin Bremicker,
Katja Brinkmann, Daniel Buchheit, Carsten Eggers, Slawomir Elsner,
Franziska Goes, Pierre Granoux, Hauenschild Ritter, Geka Heinke,
Sybille Hotz, Patrick Huber, Christiane John, Steve Johnson, Frank
Kästner, ++kooperation PRIVAT (Jörg Finus, Torsten Hennig),
Stefan
Kurr, Ute Lindner, Alena Meier, Florian Merkel, Wessel Muller, Esther
Neumann, Valeska Peschke, Adrian Rovatkay, Sarah Schönfeld, Henrik
Schrat, Heidi Sill, Markus Strieder, Caro Suerkemper, Axel
Timm/Francesco Apuzzo, Elke Ulmer, Moritz Wiedemann, Maik Wolf, Tristan
Wolski.
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