Opening: Metamorphosis of Japan after the War. Photography 1945-1964 (Berlin)
Thursday March 08th, 2012 04:20 PM
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Gerhard Richter is 80 – Happy Birthday
Thursday February 09th, 2012 04:58 PM
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“The Prose of Events” Opened at ARD-Hauptstadtstudio, Berlin
Wednesday February 08th, 2012 11:51 PM
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Categories: Reviews 9/11, Afghanistan, Africa, Exhibitions, Balkans, Fine Arts, China, Germany, Culture of Remembrance, First World War, Photography, Iraq, Iran, Cold War, Korea, Latin America, USSR, Ukraine, USA, Video, Vietnam, Second World War
Kata Legrady: Bombs & Candies – Dulce et decorum (Bazon Brock, Berlin)
Thursday January 26th, 2012 06:15 PM
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From 26 January until 26 February 2012, Kata Legrady presents her exhibition “Bombs & Candies. dulce et decorum” at Bazon Brock’s recently opened location “Denkerei/Amt für Arbeit an unlösbaren Problemen” (Thinkery/Bureau for Working on Irresolvable Problems) in Berlin. Grenades, pistols and assault rifles (the iconographic AK-47, of course) have been decorated with candies and remind of Antonio Riello’s “Ladies Weapons” while taking the same track between aesthetics and destruction.
Wartist presents: “Jens Kloppmann – The Prose of Events” at ARD-Hauptstadtstudio
Wednesday January 25th, 2012 02:32 PM
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We are pleased to announce another exhibition at ARD-Hauptstadtstudio, Berlin: “Die Prosa der Ereignisse” (The Prose ov Events), to be opened on 7 February 2012. Several cycles and other individual works by Jens Kloppmann will form a cross-section of his work. Both the materials and techniques used are manifold and reach from video installations and retouched photos to plaster casts and fretworks, to name a few. Ulrich Deppendorf, Head of ARD-Hauptstadtstudio, will open the exhibition that is curated by Martin Bayer . This exhibition, too, will be kindly supported by Deutsche Atlantische Gesellschaft e.V. and SONY Deutschland.
Categories: Pointers, Events 9/11, Afghanistan, Africa, Exhibitions, Balkans, Fine Arts, China, Germany, Culture of Remembrance, Installation, Iraq, Iran, Cold War, Korea, USSR, Ukraine, USA, Openings, Video, Vietnam, Second World War
“War” – Photographs by James Nachtwey at the Military-Historical Museum, Dresden
Tuesday January 24th, 2012 02:56 PM
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From 12 February until the end of May 2012, the Militärhistorische Museum (MHM, Military-Historical Museum of the Bundeswehr1) in Dresden will show the exhibition “Krieg” (war) with photographs by James Nachtwey. He is one of the most important contemporary photojournalists; not the least, he is famous for his touching pictures from zones of war and conflict. Nachtwey will receive the Dresden Peace Award; in this course, he will open the MHM’s first special exhibition after its recent reopening. Krieg will include some 60 of his works, including his impressive 11m-long frieze that had only been on show in two exhibitions in the USA and France.
- German Armed Forces ↩
Categories: Pointers, Events 9/11, Afghanistan, Africa, Exhibitions, Photography, Iraq, Israel, Latin America, Palestine, Openings
Achim Riethmann: “The Blue Sky” at Galerie Anke Zeisler
Monday January 23rd, 2012 04:23 PM
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From 26 January until 28 March 2012, Galerie Anke Zeisler presents the exhibition “Der blaue Himmel” (the blue sky) with works by Achim Riethmann. His watercolours illustrate the book “Kleine Tragödien” (small tragedies, 2011) by the Vietnamese author Le Minh Khue. “The Blue Sky” is the title of one of the book’s stories and refers to the view from a tank’s open hatch.
Wartist presents: “6:57 P.M.” by Jens Kloppmann at Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin)
Wednesday December 07th, 2011 07:34 PM
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Berlin-based artist Jens Kloppmann will present his impressive video installation “6:57 P.M.” as artistic supporting programme to the international symposium “Memorial Mania – Negotiating Social and Political Strategies of Memory” of the American Academy Berlin at Haus der Kulturen der Welt (9-10 December 2011, see this Wartist article). The conference will address various issues of the culture of remembrance, including the tenth anniversary of the terrorist acts of 9/11, with an emphasis on memorials and both German and American approaches.
Wartist Exclusive: “Trümmerfrau” by Jens Kloppmann
Friday December 02nd, 2011 02:10 PM
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Since years, Berlin-based artist Jens Kloppmann is addressing issues of visual reality and collective memory that he is realising with many different media. Today, I am proud to present to you an edition that he has manufactured exclusively for Wartist and which will solely be offered via Wartist. His work “Trümmerfrau”1 does not only bring back memories of Germany’s old currency, but is a strong statement of humility and not the least of German identity.
- Trümmerfrau literally means “rubble women” and refers to the millions of German women that cleared the rubble after World War II ↩
Tyrannenmord (Tyrannicide): New Work by Jan Bejšovec
Thursday December 01st, 2011 08:47 PM
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Jan Bejšovec, a textile artist working in Berlin on his label “Konfliktstoff” 1 has made a new work, “Tyrannenmord” (tyrannicide). It addresses both actual developments in the Arab world and the general dealing with dictators: for more than 30 years, Muammar Gaddafi ruled Libya with an iron fist. The world was able to come to terms with him, especially since he departed from his previous support of international terrorism. Thus, the external perception was mainly reduced to his high entertainment value. Quite unexpectedly, the uprising that begun in February 2011 lead to Gaddafi’s escape and his homicide, including the presentation of his dead body. Read more…
- German Konfliktstoff means “causes of conflict”, put together by Konflikt (conflict) and Stoff, literally meaning fabric ↩
