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kunstraum tapir shows Becky Slemmons gatherings 26.02.-16.03.2012 opening: Saturday, February 25, 2012, 18-21h + tapir residency open studios with Annuska Dal Maso Allison Ann Reimus artist talk: 03.03.16h open Thursday 16-19h 
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gatherings gatherings is a project that began on September 5, 2010—an assignment I gave to myself. Within my home city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, during a period of 13 months, I attended 100 different places of worship, choosing from Pittsburgh's pool of 3000 temples, churches, synagogues and mosques. I made a white dress. I wore this dress to every worshipplace visit. In response to each experience (in my own studio between visits), I added pieces of fabric and/or embroidery to the dress; with my accumulation of experiences, it grew and changed in appearance. I created a drawing during each visit (or afterwards, when this was not possible nor appropriate) and documented gatherings with photographs, off-site video and this blog: www.gatheringspittsburgh.blogspot.com. Through gatherings, I wish to question whether the ritual of art-making and the spiritual ritual are not at odds. I also wish to raise an awareness of and hope for tolerance. I am not a specifically religious person (I do not embrace a specific set of beliefs), but I am fascinated with: The role that belief plays in society, the need it fulfills for those who partake. The similarities in differently-labeled spiritual mythologies. The conflict unfortunately perpetuated. I am intrigued by people who don't need proof. And I am interested in the role that these ideas play in art-making, the common questions that both pursue to answer: In what way do I see the world? How am I to live in it? Who am I within the larger scheme of things? www.beckyslemmons.com |
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takt artist residency open studios
at asme gallery Saturday, February 25, 2012, 18-21h with Mariana Coan Harold Hollingsworth Diane Meyer Celina Teague 
asme gallery * jessner straße 21 * 10247 berlin-f'hain |
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kunstraum tapir shows Lachlan Anthony Spending money is the only thing i'm good at. 19.-29.12.2011 opening: Sunday, December 18, 2011, 7 - 10pm open Wednesday 4-8pm
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Spending money is the only thing i'm good at. fitnessfisting.blogspot.com/ |
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takt presents at tamtam 1 + 1 = 11 Hsi Wen Fang Constanza Gianola Mariam Haji Hyojung Jung Natalya Kochak Lachlan Anthony Jacqueline Larcombe Susie Nelson Güneş Oktay Rebeccah Power Birde Vanheerswynghels 10. - 17.12.2011 opening: Friday, December 9 8pm open hours: Wednesday - Saturday 3 - 7pm 
tamtam ART · weichselstraße 8 · 10247 berlin-f'hain |
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1 + 1 = 11 Eleven. One beyond ten and one below twelve. The first number which cannot be counted by human fingers. Stays the same written upside down. Indicates hour before midnight - the last possible moment to take care of something. Posses the qualities of intuition, patience, honesty, sensitivity and spirituality. The number of years in which the sun spot cycle repeats. The length of the largest cat Siberian Tiger. The quantity of dimensions which may exist in the universe. Number of players on the field in games such as soccer, cricket or American football. The distance from the deepest point of the ocean floor to the bottom of the Mariana Trench. Speed in kilometers per second at which the rocket must travel to escape the Earth’s gravity. Weight in ounces of the average adult male heart. The hour, day and month of the date the World War I ended. The record number of Oscar awards for one movie. The number of artists from Takt residency which showing their works at Tamtam. |
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kunstraum tapir shows Natalya Kochak Of Man 10.-16.12.2011 opening: Friday, December 9, 2011, 5 - 8pm open Wednesday 4-8pm
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Of Man In 1955, when Edward Steichen assembled the collection of photographs known as The Family of Man, the adjective of the time was growth. Ten years prior the developed societies were in the final stages of World War II, a historical event that connected the peoples of this planet on a magnitude never before seen. In the years that followed these peoples reorganized themselves in the light that shone from the dawn of a global society, and though many governments and nation borders were defined the walls of provincialism dwindled. It was in this expanding atmosphere that the Family of Man emerged in New York to show, in a single exhibition, the beautiful and fundamental unity of our species. After fifty-plus years, the nations find themselves living in the product of a unified society in development. Such a short amount of time it has been, but in that time our civilization has grown into a new and technologically powered manifestation that challenges the older ways of living together. We have struggled in these early years of growth, channeling historic modes of conduct into modern context. Finding ourselves now at the hurdle of what can be called our first global economic depression, the truth of our unity has finally reached our pocketbooks, alerting many people, and all progressive thought, to the collaborative effort of living on this planet in a way that suits the dignity of our being. My intention with the body of work that is Of Man is to visually capture both the micro and macroscopic realms of human existence. In portraits and group scenes, with or without setting, I explore both tangible subjects concerning culture and politics, as well as less physically obvious ideas as they relate to Spirit and substance. The nature of my technique allows for this duality to exist, because even though I paint the ‘dust of daily life’, scenes of roadsides and strangers in the field, the images born speak through the material veil and into the waters of mystery. Each facet of Of Man serves as both an independent and related window, offering the viewer reflections and analysis for identity, material substance, and time. Such dissections are beneficial because they allow thoughts to further stimulate feelings. However, it is the immediacy of my work that is of primary importance, the experience that I create through my art where there are no words or voices, only the visions distilled through paint and other medium that serve as a looking glass into life. natalyakochak.com |
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kunstraum tapir shows Constanza Gianola below 1.-7.12.2011 opening: Wednesday, November 30, 2011, 06 - 9pm open Wednesday 4-8pm
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below A recurring image of my childhood is finding me in a large swimming pool, engrossed in the world and time. As an adult I observe that solitude that allows me to abstract from the outside to reconnect with what my heart wants to say at this point. I seek to express metaphorically being under the water of that large pool, looking at the surface the space to do so. I want my paintings represent the dialogue between my artistic expression and those who observe them. Through the slots on the surface I pass the filters that encounter on the road and communicate throwing up the paint. With my works I reflect on communication. There are too many obstacles in the messages which complicate the flow of transparent and sincere dialogue, causing the distance and isolation from those who want to talk. constanzagianola.blogspot.com |
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Susana Lopez Fernandez LAST CALL at takt showroom 28.11. - 11.12. 2011 opening: Sunday 27 2011, 16 - 19h open by appointment
takt kunstprojektraum * grünberger straße 1 · 10243 berlin-f'hain |
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LAST CALL An airport is a tract of levelland where aircrafts land and take off, usually equipped with hard-surfaced landing strips, a control tower, hangars, aircraft maintenance and refueling facilities, as well as accommodations for passengers and cargo. Airports are public and busy spaces, they are the most complex and dynamics station owed to the importance of the air traffic in our times. But an airport is much more than that. An airport is a conglomeration of all cultures, it is a place of floating bodies of people in limbo, a place where everyone is waiting to be somewhere else, it is a place of contradictions. It is a so called "No-Land", where dead time seems constantly present. An airport is the ultimate waiting room. And yet, it is a center of contemporary culture, a place where identity is scrutinized thoroughly, and also shed like a snakeskin. We become anonymous and homogeneous. Nowdays most of the airports are big terminals where we can do a lot of things instead of flying in or out of. Airports are not only a station for passengers, with most of them being amazing architectural buildings, they are a new kind of building, something in between a station and a mall. Like big cities outside a normal city. The first and last view of such city, area, or country. Airports are places where people from everywhere can meet. This Exhibition focusses on Tegel and Schönefeld, the two berlin airports which soon will have their LAST CALL and will disappear. more susanalf.es lastcall-susanalf.blogspot.com |
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open studio day takt kunstprojektraum artist residency The artists of the residency program show their new works. Sunday, November 27 2011, 4 - 7pm
takt artist residency * grünberger straße 1 · 10243 berlin-f'hain Participating artists: Hsi Wen Fang Mariam Haji Hyojung Jung Natalya Kochak Lachlan Anthony Jacqueline Larcombe Susana Lopez Fernandez Susie Nelson Rebeccah Power Birde Vanheerswynghels Sunday, November 27 2011, 6 - 9pm
kunstraum tapir * weserstraße 11 * 10247 berlin-f'hain Participating artists: Constanza Gianola + Finissage Sebastian Fäth |
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kunstraum tapir shows Sebastian Fäth WHEN I FIGHT THE GOOD FIGHT opening: Saturday, November 19 2011, 6 - 10pm music: HYPNODROM finissage: Sunday, November 27 2011, 6 - 9pm open Wednesday 4-8pm
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WHEN I FIGHT THE GOOD FIGHT Sebastian Fäth, painter, musician (AMIGO TROPICAL, MORNINGS, FINNEGAN ON WHEELS), lives and works in Berlin. sebastianfaeth.de |
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kunstraum tapir  shows Simoni Symeonidou LULLABY 23.10. - 18.11.2011 opening: Saturday, October 22, 2011, 05 - 09pm artist talk: Monday, October 24, 2011, 5pm open we and fr 4-8pm, sa 12-4pm + Open Studios mit Güneş Oktay Lyndal Walker
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LULLABY
Cypriot artist Simoni Symeonidou presents her recent work at a solo show at kunstraum tapir in Berlin. The works presented were created during her stay at takt artist residency in Berlin in the summer of 2011. The title, Lullaby, felicitously pronounces what one will come upon when entering the space. Inspiration comes through the world of 'Hypnos' and the contrasts between dreams and nightmares. An important part of Symeonidou's practice is her series of shadow sculptures. The abstract forms of the sculptures are lit from a certain angle and cast shadows of figures on surfaces. On this show, a shadow sculpture is presented among other sculptures within an installation with multiple sources of light and sound. During the opening night the artist will also perform, by placing herself among her sculptures and becoming part of the installation. artist-website |
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open studio day takt kunstprojektraum artist residency The artists of the residency program show their new works. Saturday, October 22 2011, 3 - 6pm
takt artist residency * grünberger straße 1 · 10243 berlin-f'hain Participating artists: Hsi Wen Fang Mariam Haji Hyojung Jung Natalya Kochak Lachlan Anthony Jacqueline Larcombe Susie Nelson Rebeccah Power Birde Vanheerswynghels |
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takt presents at tamtam Salat Fieber Marla Botterill Jenna Corcoran James Eisen PK L. Ying Chiu Rhiannon Sophie Leyland Quenton Miller 24.09. - 30.09.2011 opening: Friday, September 23 7pm open hours: Wednesday - Saturday 3 - 7pm
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SALAT FIEBER Collecting impressions, amassing images, picking up the remains of actions – the group of international artists reside in Berlin have been exploring surrounding environment. Subjectively. Unpretentiously. Carefully. In continuous amplification of occurring views and adrift mirages of visions. Giving a forms and shapes to what used to appear as something inscrutable, unspecified and immersed in thoughts – they reappeared the everyday reality. This collage of multifarious glances and approaches makes intriguing artistic mixture. Salat Fieber! |
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kunstraum tapir shows Emma Coulter VISCERALITY 18.09. - 08.10.2011 opening: Saturday, September 17 2011, 5 - 9pm open hours: Wednesday, 4 - 8pm + Open Studios mit Francesco Berti Lauren Simmonds
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VISCERALITY
'Viscerality', marks UK born, Australian artist, Emma Coulter's first exhibition abroad, having exhibited widely in her home country in the cities of Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane. Currently completing a three month international residency at TAKT kunstprojektraum, in Friedrichshain, this new body of work, entitled, 'viscerality', has been conceived and produced during her stay in Berlin. Coulter's new work explores Berlin and its' 'melting pot' of ideas and influences, combined with issues of feminity, biology and identity. On description of her artwork, Coulter explains, "Influenced heavily by context, my works are visual references that underpin a conceptual narrative through experimentation within the process of painting. Specific elements such as 'place', 'society' and 'experience' combine to inform the process and outcome, whilst the juxtaposition of traditional elements, such as colour, shape and form unite to create a visual reference." Artist biography information. Emma Coulter is a UK born, Australian visual artist with a background in both fine art and interior architecture. She holds a Bachelor of Visual Art (Painting) and a Bachelor of Built Environment (interior design), with distinction, both from the Queensland University of Technology. As an undergraduate she received multiple awards for her excellence in academic achievement. Slightly unusual in her approach of combining the two disciplines, Coulter asserts that; 'The two have supported each other in a symbiotic fashion, feeding each other in conversation and dialogue; heightening the creative process.' Her Australian exhibition history includes being selected for 'New Breed', in Sydney (2006) and also for her inaugural solo show 'Unseen', at Fox Galleries in Brisbane (2005). In 2007 she was selected for interview in ANZ's lifestyle magazine, 'Inspired', for 'Talent trial', an article on Australia's most up and coming creative talent. Whilst living in Melbourne, she has had three major solo shows, 'Twofold' (2007), 'Memory space' (2009) and 'Shedding Skin' (2011). Her artwork is included in various corporate collections, such as Citigroup Wealth Advisors, Fisher Adams Kelly Patent Law Attorneys, Tower Books and private collections throughout Australia and Europe. Born in Northern Ireland, Coulter has always felt a natural affinity with Europe, and has been frequenting back here since 2002. This first exhibition in Berlin is a natural progression and extension of her arts practice. artist-website |
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open studio day takt kunstprojektraum artist residency The artists of the residency program show their new works. Saturday, September 17 2011, 3 - 6pm
takt artist residency * grünberger straße 1 · 10243 berlin-f'hain Participating artists: Marla Botterill Emma Coulter James Eisen Patrick Kalyanapu Leung Ying Chiu Rhiannon Sophie Leyland Alanna Lynch Quenton Miller |
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open studio day takt kunstprojektraum artist residency The artists of the residency program show their new works. Saturday, August 27 2011, 5 - 9pm
takt artist residency * grünberger straße 1 · 10243 berlin-f'hain Participating artists: Marla Botterill Emma Coulter James Eisen Patrick Kalyanapu Leung Ying Chiu Rhiannon Sophie Leyland Alanna Lynch Quenton Miller Simoni Symeonidou Stefano Bartoli Uguccioni |
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open studio day kunstraum tapir artist residency The artists of the residency program show their new works. Sunday, August 21 2011, 3 - 8pm
kunstraum tapir * weserstraße 11 * 10247 berlin-f'hain Participating artists: Jennifer Martin Noilin O'Kelly Carolyn Treacy + open gallery: "Fairy Ring" by Grace Wawa Yang |
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open studio day takt kunstprojektraum artist residency The artists of the July residency program show their new Berlin works. Sunday, July 31 2011, 3 -8pm
takt artist residency * grünberger straße 1 · 10243 berlin-f'hain Participating artists: Marla Botterill Emma Coulter James Eisen Patrick Kalyanapu Leung Ying Chiu Rhiannon Sophie Leyland Alanna Lynch Quenton Miller Simoni Symeonidou |
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kunstraum tapir shows Grace Wawa Yang FAIRY RING 25.07. - 14.08.2011 opening: Sunday, July 24, 2011, 11am - 3pm open hours: Wednesday, 4 - 8pm
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FAIRY RING
Kunstraum Tapir is pleased to present Fairy Ring, an exhibition of new works by Grace Wawa Yang. Through installation and photography, Yang meditates on cycles of life using the unlikely metaphor of fungus. Specifically, she examines the phenomenon of a fairy ring, a naturally occurring ring of mushrooms that has numerous legends associated with it. In European folklore it was believed that a fairy ring was a gateway to other worlds. Fairy rings were also said to represent the path made by fairies dancing in a ring. Some legends associated fairy rings with danger, whereas others viewed them as sites of luck and fortune. While there are many myths that honor the strange beauty and fragility of a fairy ring, the reality is they are actually a lawn disease caused by certain types of fungus. In her installation at Kunstraum Tapir, Yang contrasts fantastic myth with unsatisfying reality and offers her measured vision of a path that leads between the two. Fairy Ring is inspired by the time when Yang was a child and a mushroom grew in the corner of her bathroom. Adults might be inclined to see this event as quirky and a little bit revolting, however for Yang it was a fantastic occurrence representing a moment when magic entered mundane reality. This divergence of responses between childhood and adulthood—as represented by the contrasting terms of "fairy ring" (magical) versus "fungus" (natural)—is where Yang situates her practice, as notions of innocence and fantasy are pitted against more critical perspectives. In Fairy Ring Yang re-stages the event of finding wild little pieces of fungus in an unexpected location. Through installing black mushrooms throughout the gallery, Yang investigates the feelings of curiosity and trepidation she felt upon discovering a mushroom as a child. Is it safe? Is it real? Will it grow? Will it die? These are reasonable questions, yet the myths associated with fairy rings imply we hope any answer is possible. Yang's photograph Grandma Playing Nintendo further documents how the uncanny in our world can feel quite natural. Yang's grandmother actually plays video games everyday, an activity she finds relaxing and fun. Yang's photograph of a fairy circle around grandmother at her games draws gentle connections between the two. Both grandmother and mushrooms are fragile and revered, and in Yang's image neither is conforming to the life cycle convention has laid out for them. Fairy Ring will be exhibited from the 25th of July to the 14th of August. An opening reception at the gallery will be held on the 24th of July from 11am to 3pm. During this reception the artist will stage a butterfly release as an extension on the theme of the transient nature of life. Grace Wawa Yang was born in Taiwan and raised in Canada. She has a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Emily Carr University of Art and Design (Vancouver) and a Master of Fine Arts in Photography from Parsons The New School For Design (New York). Yang currently works and lives in New York City and Vancouver. graceyang.ca |
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open studio day takt kunstprojektraum artist residency The artists of the June residency program show their Berlin works. Sunday, June 26, 2011, 3 - 8pm
takt artist residency * grünberger straße 1 · 10243 berlin-f'hain Participating artists: Mary Beth Carolan Jui-Pin Chang Seo Young Chang Bella Ann Townes Henriette Kassay-Schuster Miguel Lorenzio Hermione Merry Weronika Trojanska |
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kunstraum tapir shows David Dotson Monkeys in our Midst 20.06. - 10.07.2011 opening: Sunday, June 19, 2011, 11am - 3pm artist talk: Sunday, July 10, 4pm open hours: Wednesday, 4 - 8pm + Open Studios with Linda Armstrong Mary Beth Carolan
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Monkeys in our Midst
Mythologies have always addressed very big scary issues; Death, Time, Sex, all of the things that push on and preoccupy the human psyche. It is intriguing how we use myth and folklore to view and interpret the world and ourselves. We love and relate to our heroes and our monsters alike. 'Monkeys in our Midst' is a sculptural interpretation of but one of my realms of myth. There are many worlds we inhabit, some of them we see, some we avoid, many are hidden from us, and still others are of our own creation. In truth, there is very little difference between them, but it is at the crossroads of these spaces that discovery happens, and it is discovery that keeps our minds in motion. My work is a tangible, poignant and playful connection to my understanding of those crossroads. dotsonart.viewbook.com |
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Miki Watanabe A - Z at takt showroom 30.05. - 12.06. 2011 opening: Sunday, May 29, 2011, 3 - 8 pm open hours by appointment
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A - Z About my latest "Eating memory" Useally we connect our memories to time somewhere in the past. But is there another way to show this? I could get the chance to work in Berlin three months. I was trying to collect trash from eating in these months I made. Therefore this question: "How can I materialize a way to show how long three months are?" This is part of my ecological footprint left. mikiwatanabe.com |
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open studio day takt kunstprojektraum artist residency The artists of the May residency program show their Berlin works. Sunday, May 29, 2011, 3 - 8pm
takt artist residency * grünberger straße 1 · 10243 berlin-f'hain Participating artists: Linda Armstrong Will Boast Jui-Pin Chang Seo Young Chang Bella Ann Townes Dan Hudson Miguel Lorenzio Weronika Trojanska Ilyn Wong |
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kunstraum tapir shows Linda Armstrong EXCERPTS 23.05. - 12.06.2011 opening: Sunday, May 22, 2011, 11am - 3pm open hours: Wednesday, 4 - 8pm
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EXCERPTS
"To see a world in a grain of sand, And a heaven in a wild flower." William Blake Chance movements across continents provide for moments of reflection, and the collecting of images and raw materials. How do you explore the reality of a new place? I begin by stopping and looking, sensing, discovering small details that would be overlooked in more familiar surroundings. I create a task to be completed: to explore a new place, whether city or country. When I left the artist residency, Sanskriti Foundation, in New Delhi, India I brought with me a stack of diaphanous, anonymous shopping bags. The storekeeper was quite perplexed as I walked out with 150 bags,. They lingered in my studio for over a year. Remembering the work I did at Takt two years ago, using gathered seedpods; I realized each 'bag' could act as a specimen 'container' in which to explore the intersection of nature and a cosmopolitan city. (Berlin) Memories of the Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum in Berlin- Dahlem propelled my search for a method of gathering. It is an exquisite place to visit but obviously my specimen gathering is limited to photographs. Chance guides my task of creating a specific specimen collection of my Berlin explorations. The subjective nature of a natural history collection is the subtext. The topological contour drawings constitute an aesthetic terrain entangled with a narrative of marks subtly alluding to my movements through Berlin. Linda Armstrong |
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A.I.R. takt kunstprojektraum presents Elena Duff My Fairytale Life at alice gryphius 29.04 - 04.05.2011 opening: Thursday, April 28, 2011, 8pm 
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Sunyung Im Going Back Home at takt showroom 25.04. - 08.05.2011 opening: Sunday, April 24, 2011, 3 - 8pm open hours by appointment
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Sunyoung Im lives and works in South Korea. She deals with memory and elements of
fate and recurrence. She aims to express conflicts that can arise in social structure or the
quotidian life in an allegorical way. She is interested in the psychology of people and
space where contradictions are expressed in inevitable structures. She usually works with
photography and installations. "Going Back Home" was a piece that used familiar objects and images through which the 1970s or 1980s when the patriarchal system of Korean society was becoming westernized can be inferred, based on memories of father of the artist, who passed away. The sobriety of the father has disappeared from the household because of his absence, and mixed feelings of yearning and instability are evoked instead. The absence of her father provides the artist with a turning point to communicate with the past again. Remembering something is a sacred thing that turns back time and revives the past, like a shaman traveling the subconscious world. To humans, who live in an inevitable structure where they have to go back to dirt, our memories are a way of continuously communicating with the past and reconfirming our existence. The "Going Back Home" series expresses a paradoxical psychology where a foreboding sense that symbolizes the omen of death and a cozy feeling of home co-exists, through installations and photography. www.imaien.com |
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open studio day takt kunstprojektraum artist residency The artists of the April residency program show their Berlin works. Sunday, April 24, 2011, 3 - 8pm
takt artist residency * grünberger straße 1 · 10243 berlin-f'hain Participating artists: Linda Armstrong Will Boast Jui-Pin Chang Seo Young Chang Bella Ann Townes Dan Hudson Miguel Lorenzio Weronika Trojanska Ilyn Wong |
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kunstraum tapir shows Anna Steele Krumme Lanke - this side of the lake 18.04. - 08.05.2011 opening: Sunday, April 17, 2011, 11am - 3pm
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Krumme Lanke - this side of the lake
Krumme Lanke lies in the south west of Berlin, about 15 km from the city centre. It is a popular swimming spot in the summer for Berliners, however, during the winter months the lake freezes over, the land goes quiet and time seems to slow down. With damp feet and numb fingers, I took a few photographs on site but the feeling and the memory of the day holds strong as a place to paint from. This body of work is a painterly documentation of the changing light throughout the afternoon until dusk. annasteeleart.blogspot.com |
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Johannes Gerard Autumn Diaries of a Metropolis at takt showroom 28.03.- 17.04.2011 opening: Sunday, March 27, 2011, 3 - 8pm open hours by appointment
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Autumn Diaries of a Metropolis The photographic work shown in this exhibition is a selection from a series of nearly 800 photos taken during my stay at taktberlin between 2nd of November and 19th of December 2010. Generally returning themes in my works are dealing with philosophical and political matters, melancholy, loneliness, broken dreams, inner strife, transit and lost. I pay close intention to the candid subtle details within the environments we create or life in. My interpretations are at the end embedded experiments through alternations observations and analysis of our visible and non visible environments and human behavior . In the process of my work. I threat objects and images equally. Sometimes there is a order in the sense of a cause and effect. At other times it seems to be the other way around. The means of expressions are different but for my work it all belongs together. The images including a wide variation of motives within the borders of an urban environment A night scenery with autumn leafs covered by a blue light. The paper pattern of a billboard. Details of a Metro station. Reflecting lights on a water or the grid work of abounded railway bridge .At the same time the work can be seen as a visual diary, portraying comment, casual, often unnoticed and sometimes decayed locations, images and situations of a metropolis. johannesgerard.com |
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open studio day takt kunstprojektraum artist residency The artists of the March residency program show their Berlin works. Sunday, March 27, 2011, 3 - 8pm
takt artist residency * grünberger straße 1 · 10243 berlin-f'hain Participating artists: Irini Bachlitzanaki, Greece Nia Burks, USA Jennida Chase, USA Leigh A Cole, USA Kal Fadem, USA Ariele Gout, France Igor Mihajlovic, Australia Hassan Pitts, USA Miki Watanabe, Japan |
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kunstraum tapir shows Gilad Shachar Living the Dream: Urban Landscapes of Atlantic City 21.03.2011 - 10.04.2011 opening: Sunday, March 20, 2011, 11am - 3pm open: Wednesday 16 - 20h
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Living the Dream: Urban Landscapes of Atlantic City
Atlantic City is a place which has in recent years, seen an enormous influx of money and correspondingly radical changes to the touristic sections of the city, changes that have also left the once vibrant and thriving local residential landscape dilapidated and neglected. The juxtaposition of decay and ostentation is jarring, and it is in the very disconnect between these two unbridgeable worlds that the photographic story of Atlantic City lies. Behind the garish and glittering facades of the casinos is hidden a city whose existence remains overshadowed by the towering new construction. This is no claim of historical authenticity: the casinos have been and are an integral and inextricable part of the city, and must be seen as such. At the same time, it is undeniable that their more recent impact on the landscapes of Atlantic City whether physical, social, or psychological has been significantly dislocating. In this body of work I do not aim to downgrade the city nor its potential but to simply document aspects of its current state. This exhibition is not intended as a critique of the casino-driven model of tourism, neither is it intended to bemoan the effects of this touristic model on the city itself. I instead conceived this project to capture the visual "mood" of a place undergoing yet another profound transformative moment in its history. These are places that are concerned with identity and history, and their interaction with the "non-places", as Marc Augè calls "spaces which are not themselves anthropological places and which...do not integrate the earlier places". Instead of social critique, I wish to capture the interaction or lack thereof between place and non-place. The photographer Zoe Leonard said, "I photograph what I see". It is a similar approach that I was attempting in capturing these images. It is up to the viewer to take these images and reflect on the issues that are addressed. Arriving on the Atlantic City Expressway and crossing the tidal channel - the marsh covered partly by seawater - as they are called in New Jersey, the city's hotels, casinos, urban landscape, the boardwalk and the ocean. In a 1982 interview, the architect Robert Venturi said about Atlantic city, " you come to analyze the combination of the ocean, the beach, the boardwalk and the great hotels, you realize that the dramatic quality came because you had on one side the vast space of the ocean - purely a natural phenomenon, always the same, never touched - and on the other side you had this highly artificial, very urban, constantly changing space ". giladshachar.org |
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A.I.R. takt kunstprojektraum presents S/N Coalition and Nia Burks Symbiotic Output at alice gryphius Thursday, March 17, 2011, 8pm - Wednesday, March 23, 2011, 3pm opening and artist talk: Thursday, March 17, 8pm
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 Nia Burks, USA Jennida Chase, USA Hassan Pitts, USA |
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Andrea Breuer Flashs at takt showroom 28.02. - 20.03.2011 opening: Sunday, February 27, 2011, 3 - 8pm open hours by appointment
takt kunstprojektraum * grünberger straße 1 · 10243 berlin-f'hain |
 Flashs Die Reihe "Flashs" wurzelt im Yoga, hier vor allem in der Chakrenlehre und in der meditativen Erfahrung von aufsteigendem Licht. Diese Arbeit hat eine Schlüsselstellung in meinem Werk, weil sich hier der künstlerische und der yogische Bereich verbinden und damit mein Interesse an der Kunsttherapie begann. Andrea Breuer |
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open studio day takt kunstprojektraum artist residency The artists of the February residency program show their Berlin works. Sunday, February 27, 2011, 3 -7pm
takt artist residency * grünberger straße 1 · 10243 berlin-f'hain Participating artists: Irini Bachlitzanaki, Greece Nia Burks, USA Jennida Chase, USA Leigh A Cole, USA Kal Fadem, USA Ariele Gout, France Igor Mihajlovic, Australia Joanna Mortreux, Australia Niamh O'Beirne,Ireland Hassan Pitts, USA Miki Watanabe, Japan |
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A.I.R. takt kunstprojektraum presents Baback Tscharandabi at alice gryphius Thursday, February 24, 2011, 8pm - Wednesday, March 2, 2011, 3pm opening: Thursday, January 13, 8pm
alice gryphius * gryphiusstraße 10 * 10245 berlin-f'hain more |
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kunstraum tapir shows eins Maria José Ambrois Oscar Castillo Chris Held, USA Roxanne Jackson Siobhan McGibbon Beatriz Morales, Mexico Joanna Mortreux Anthony Keith Giannini Anna Steele 21.2.2011 - 13.3.2011 opening: Sunday, February 20, 2011, 11am - 3pm open hours: Wednesday, 4 - 8pm
kunstraum tapir * weserstraße 11 * 10247 berlin-f'hain |
 kunstraum tapir was founded by takt in January 2011 |
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Yujin Lee Benumbed at takt showroom 31.01. - 20.02.2011 opening: Sunday, January 30, 2011, 3 - 8pm artist talk: February 3, 2011, 4pm open hours by appointment
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Cloud Series explores the contradictory nature of beauty and violence. It consists of pencil drawings depicting smoke from volcano eruptions, military explosions, factory emissions, and car accidents. The work is larger than the average human body, and the central smoke-image stands isolated in the mist of vertical pencil marks. Emerging from the atmospheric background, they have abstract forms and shapes, both recognizable and puzzling at the same time. Contextually, some forms are results of intentional human violence while others are residues of uncontrollable natural phenomenon. The clash between the surface meaning and the context catalyzes an ambiguous discomfort, which leads to perceive the notion of violence beyond the surface of its image. On another note, the ethereal depth created by the layers of pencil lines raining in a vertical direction transforms the experience of violence into a completely different sphere; it is reminiscent of the transcendent story of Statue of Laocoon. As a typical Hellenistic sculpture, Statue of Laocoon captures the acme of the myth. Like a stone that is about to fall off a tip of a clif, its motionlessness vibrates a tension that fortells the conclusive event that is about to happen. The Cloud Series emerges from my interest in exploring different perceptions and meanings of violence, its moral contraversiality and yet existing as a perpetual part of human history. Starting from historic and catholic perspective of violence, I want to continue on exploring its presence underneath the skin of our daily lives. Yujin Lee |
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open studio day takt kunstprojektraum artist residency The artists of the January residency program show their Berlin works. Sunday, January 30, 2011, 3 -7pm
takt artist residency * grünberger straße 1 · 10243 berlin-f'hain Participating artists: Irini Bachlitzanaki, Greece Nia Burks, USA Jennida Chase, USA Leigh A Cole, USA Kal Fadem, USA Ariel Gout, France Igor Mihajlovic, Australia Joanna Mortreux, Australia Niamh O'Beirne,Ireland Hassan Pitts, USA Miki Watanabe, Japan |
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A.I.R. takt kunstprojektraum presents Ariel Gout Fluids and Organisms at alice gryphius Thursday, January 13, 2011, 8pm - Wednesday, January 19, 2011, 8pm opening: Thursday, January 13, 8pm
alice gryphius * gryphiusstraße 10 * 10245 berlin-f'hain more |
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