"Die Berliner Zeitung und die Berliner Bank laden ein zur Podiumsdiskussion zum Thema "Berlin: Welthauptstadt der Kreativen - Herausforderungen und Chancen". Der Live-Stream im Internet beginnt um 19 Uhr.

Berlin gilt für Viele als der Ort, an dem man sein muss. Künstler und Kreative aus aller Welt ziehen in die Stadt. Die meisten suchen und finden in Berlin einen guten Nährboden, um ihre Kreativität zu entfalten. Entsprechend hoch sind die Erwartungen. Aber die Lebens- und Arbeitsbedingungen der kreativen Branche sind oftmals unsicher, und gleichzeitig werden die Fördermittel nicht genügend ausgeschöpft.

Braucht Berlin deshalb einen Masterplan? Wie können Künstler und Kreative besser gefördert werden? Bringt die Branche Geld in die Stadt? Die Berliner Zeitung und die Berliner Bank veranstalten eine Podiumsdiskussion. Ab 19 Uhr als Live-Stream ins Internet."

Live broadcast by Ustream

Saturday 5th SALON with lecture discussion music

Saturday 12th of Nov Finissage and Gallery closure.

Bündnis fordert Moratorium für Liegenschaftsverkäufe und stellt Positionspapier für eine neue Liegenschaftspolitik vor

Über 200 Erstunterzeichnerinnen unterstützen das Positionspapier „Moratorium für Liegenschaftsverkäufe jetzt! Für eine konsequente Neuausrichtung der Berliner Liegenschaftspolitik“.

Ein breites Bündnis aus Kulturschaffenden, ArchitektInnen, WissenschaftlerInnen, Initiativen und Verbänden hat in einem Positionspapier Anforderungen für eine Neuausrichtung der Berliner Liegenschaftspolitik formuliert. Die Entwicklung und Vergabe von öffentlichen Liegenschaften solle zukünftig als Instrument zur Förderung sozialer und kultureller Vielfalt eingesetzt werden.

Um die Dringlichkeit einer Neuausrichtung der Berliner Liegenschaftspolitik zu unterstreichen, fordert die Initiative ein Moratorium für Liegenschaftsverkäufe. Eine Aussetzung von Liegenschaftsverkäufen solle erfolgen, bis eine Neuausrichtung der Liegenschaftspolitik beschlossen ist.

Die seit Jahren angekündigte Neuausrichtung erlaube kein „weiter so“, „andernfalls machen sich Berlin - wie deren langjährigen politischen Repräsentanten - unglaubwürdig und verschenkt wesentliche Raumressourcen für eine zukunftsorientierte Stadtpolitik, welche maßgeblich auf kommunalen Optionen der Mitgestaltung basiert“, betont Arno Brandlhuber, Architekturprofessor und langjähriger Kritiker der Berliner Liegenschaftspolitik.

Leonie Baumann, Rektorin der Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee und Mitinitiatorin der Initiative fordert: „Direkt nach der Bildung des neuen Senats sollte ein öffentlicher Dialog über die Neuausrichtung der Liegenschaftspolitik, neue Entwicklungsziele und Vergabeverfahren beginnen. Dazu könnte z.B. ein Runder Tisch mit Vertretern aus Verbänden, Initiativen und Wissenschaft eingerichtet werden.“

Die Initiative Stadt Neudenken plant, in den nächsten Monaten das Bündnis für eine neue Liegenschaftspolitik auszubauen und mit anderen Initiativen für eine nachhaltige und soziale Stadtentwicklung zu vernetzen.

Das Positionspapier kann hier gezeichnet werden.

Kontakt zur Initiative Stadt Neudenken
www.stadtneudenken.net
kontakt@stadtneudenken.net
0160 964 12 60

Wieder einmal steht ein Berliner Künstlerhaus vor dem Aus. Der Atelier- und Ausstellungsort in der Landsberger Allee 54 wurde am 20.10.2011 offiziell für die Öffentlichkeit gesperrt.

Grund: Bauliche Mängel und Gefahr in Verzug für Mieter und Besucher. Viele der 70 ansässigen Künstler und Galeristen reagierten geschockt auf diese Nachricht. Hofften sie doch noch am Mittwoch, die drohende Räumung durch den neuen Eigentümer, die Estavis AG, abwenden zu können. Das nun das Berliner Bauaufsichtamt als letzte Instanz in einem Konflikt auftritt, der seit Monaten zwischen Pächter Daniel Künzel, der Estavis AG und den Mietern herrscht ist trauriger Höhepunkt in dieser Angelegenheit.

Denn immer wieder wiesen die Mieter, die Verantwortlichen auf gravierende Mängel am Gebäude hin, ohne dass diese reagierten. Um die nötigsten Reparaturen zu finanzieren, gründeten die Kunstschaffenden im Jahre 2010 den Kunstverein LA54. Im Glauben bis 2015 in den Räumen bleiben zu können, investierten sie gemeinsam in die Renovierung des maroden Gebäudes und hielten so den Ausstellungs- und Atelierbetrieb am Laufen. Dass ihre Bemühungen umsonst sein sollten, erfuhren die Künstler aus einer offiziellen Pressemittelung, die am 3.3.2011 in der Berliner Immobilien Zeitung erschien. Die Estavis AG informiert darin die Öffentlichkeit über ihre anstehenden Sanierungspläne für die Patzenhofer Brauerei. Geplant sind Eigentumswohnungen im höheren Preissegment. Weder Pächter noch Investor kontaktierten die Künstler persönlich, um sie über die neue Situation zu informieren. Erst auf Initiative der Mieter sind Pächter und Investor bereit für Gespräche. Diese führten zu keiner Einigung, doch die Estavis AG lehnt jedes weitere Gespräch mit den Künstlern ab. Zwar sicherte der Pächter den Künstlern ein Bleiberecht bis Ende des Jahres zu, doch nur unter der Bedingung, danach bindend in ein Ausweichquartier in Hohenschönhausen umzuziehen. Doch der Bezirk Hohenschönhausen ist für viele der Mieter keine Alternative zu ihrem jetzigen Standort in Friedrichshain. Auch die Aussicht auf weitere Verträge mit Daniel Künzel lockt wenige der Künstler. Denn viele der Mieter, die sich in der Vergangenheit wegen fehlender Renovierungsarbeiten beschwerten und sich gegen die geplante Räumung durch die Estavis AG zur Wehr setzten, wurden durch den Pächter unter Druck gesetzt und schikaniert. Mitten in diesen anhaltenden Konflikt fällt nun die Entscheidung des Bauaufsichtamts, das Haus sofort zu schließen. Für die Mieter eine Katastrophe, da sie nicht nur ihren Arbeits- und Lebensraum verlieren, sondern auch noch mit finanziellen Ausfällen zu rechnen haben. Daniel Künzel und der Estavis AG dagegen, kommt die sofortige Räumung des Künstlerhauses sehr gelegen.

Doch mit der Schließung des Kunststandortes in der Landsberger Allee verlieren nicht nur die Mieter ihre Arbeits- und Lebensgrundlage. Auch die Berliner Kulturlandschaft ist wieder um einen einzigartigen künstlerischen Freiraum ärmer. Angesichts des anhaltenden Trends, alternatives Berliner Kulturgut zu veräußern, sollte sich der Berliner Senat fragen, was die Lebensqualität einer Stadt ausmacht, die weltweit mit seiner Kreativenfreundlichkeit wirbt. Innovative Kunsträume oder vereinheitliche Luxusquartiere?

Text: Gesa Steeger, freie Publizistin

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BASES 2011 - ALESSANDRO CANNISTRA'

Curated by Fabio Campagna

“To construct an image for juxtaposition and pairing is thinking in mythological terms. The mythological idea, instead of distinguishing in opposites what is juxtaposed, unite them as a pair. Infact, the opposites present themselves in very few descriptive types: contradictions, contrasts, complements, formal and logical negations. The pairings, instead, as in brothers, or enemies, or lovers are displayed in an infinite variety of styles (…).
Anima creates attachments and connections. It makes love possible.” J. Hillman

Bases by Alessandro Cannistrà is a site specific project composed of paintings, video installation, and photography which celebrates the dualistic resonance of human within nature and conversely of the given nature of humanity. Giving birth to an alive and dual semantic organism. Source of an initial juxtaposition, which is resolved in the fluidity of multiple linguistic morphisms.

The painting works enter into those of photography, opening then, new figurative codifications within the video installations. A metamorphic process, both lyrical and metaphysical. Revealing the given phenomenological progress of natural life within the imaginary of the body, in order to describe a path of common significance and tracing a line from the elementary nature of reality.

The structure. The basis, - the human and nature- are individuated to describe a unique and shared subjectivity. The “chemical marriage” of alchemists. The base which, scientifically speaking, secures a physical connection to a complementary counterpart, acids, through an interchange of particles. Undivided yet composite, units.

Bases as foundations of a potent mythopoetic imaginary constructed inside an uninterrupted dialogue of the nature within man.

This very genesis, specifically, is child of an expressive polysemy; possessed by the poetic that Cannistrà adopts to construct the figuration of his canvases. It is this stratification, slow, methodical, unpredictable, made of layers of smoke, which opens an access. From here emerges a grouping of dense signs. Darkness. Bucolic landscapes. Whose physicality remains inaccessible. Filled as if with other allusions. And it is exactly this surreal, liquefied dimension that presents itself as the profoundest source of Bases.

It is the underlying semantic richness of the quality of execution, which drives the intense abstraction of the linguistic process of Bases. Combining a representation of the given reality with further suggestions. And starting an anthropomorphic process of thickening and enrichment of the symbolic apparatus of departure.

The bleak stretched woods - the dark and repetitive shadows multiplied, within the canvases, into compact and homogeneous structures, - become petrified organic formations in the photographic works.
Where x-rays of bodies open themselves to unfold a potent narration of what is natural within the human. Here flows a derive of forms. A morphic resonance - to use an expression important to the biologist Rupert Sheldrake - of sharing and of approach, a communion of imaginary that finds its own conclusion within the four video installations shown on monitors. Where the juxtaposition of the painted works and of the x-rays are counterpointed by four small, concrete musical compositions, with which Cannistrà, manipulating the different sound materials, articulates further his own personal poetic in an initiation that is both inter-symbolic and metamorphic.

“…An audio that is a noise, as in the first example, where the torso expands and contracts with breath, the second where the cranium of a child, with its internal wrinkles, pulsates in articulation to the sound of a TC compound computed tomography, in the third the same category of noise only amplified with an image that slowly reveals – the interior of a torso with an undergrowth of butterflies- to be something else, in the fourth where a nature grows inside of a skull or better, dreams of nature, in so much as a noise clearly defines an image, being that it is the amplified sound produced in our brain when dreaming in an REM state.” A.C.

It is in this way that the physical space of 91 mQ reconfigures itself through Bases, in a text of an obscure yet eternal and dense narration. In which the communion of the two identities, that of nature and man, is resolved in an inseparable subjectivity.

A living unity, as locus of truth and hope.

Critical text: Fabio Campagna

28 May 2011 | opening h 19:00

91mQ art project space
Landsberger Alle 54 - Berlin
30 / 3 June by appointment: fabiocampagna@yahoo.it

Am 28. Mai 2011 ab 15 Uhr bis spät werden auf mehr als 2000 Quadratmetern Performances, Installationen, Ausstellungen, Essen Trinken und Musik geboten:

"Open Artpartments mit offener Tür für alle; ohne Spree vom Weizen zu trennen denn wir wollen keine Namen nennen. Wir öffnen unser Leben für die Kunst denn sie bringt das Leben wieder zurück zu uns. Unser Haus lädt alle ein ob schwer, gemütlich, groß oder klein um zu bewahren was nicht; beherrschbar zu seien scheint. Zwar haben wir keine Moneten mehr, aber mit unsern Gedanken ist das Haus nie leer.

Wenn`s klappt fangen wir mit Samba, Masken und Vokü an dann hangeln wir uns an interaktiver Installation, mit lauter und schräger Musik entlang bis hin zum Abendprogramm. Noch mehr Installationen, Performance und Ausstellungen konspirieren zu dem begleitenden Vibrieren der Bass- und auch Gesangsmaschinen."

Am Samstag 28. Mai 2011
Beginn: 15:00 bis spät in die Nacht
Landberger A llee 5 4 ..wie's aussieht ab jetzt jeden letzten Samstag im Monat!

Against all odds, and fully self-supporting, the art spaces G11, 91 MQ, Marzia Frozen, KunstKliniKum and Kunstraum Richard Sorge continue to present cutting edge exhibitions that would not be possible in this way in any other place in Berlin.

The weekend of May 28th and 29th, starting at 3 pm daily, the curators invite you to a joint weekend of exhibitions, art events and receptions. The weekend coincides with the “Artpartment” Festival organized by the artist located in the Old Brewery, offering special installations, open studios, performances and live music throughout the building.

Participants:: G11 Galerie, 91 mQ Art Project Space, Marzia Frozen Cont. Art, KunstKliniKum, Kunstraum Richard Sorge

G11 Galerie

Founded in the internationally recognised Baumwollspinnerei Leipzig, and originating from very diverse cultural backgrounds, the G11 Galerie aims to cross boundaries and find common ground. They are dedicated to regularly exhibiting international artists, gallery exchange initiatives, organizing artistic salons, aiming through these activities to further an open discourse beyond the boundaries of art. G11 Galerie's current exhibition of paintings by Aya Onodera perfectly exemplifies these ideals. 0n the evening of May 28th G11 presents a Japanese Salon.

http://www.g11-galerie-berlin.de/

91 mQ

91mQ believes in art as a line of thought that is vital to our understanding of the development of the world in which we live. Its initiators wish to encourage a dialogue between a variety of people be they artists filmmakers, video artists, writers or critics. 91mQ exhibits a wide variety of work from across Europe, in addition to work from the local community and gives marginalized practices (film, video, performance) equal status with the visual arts. May 28th, from 7.30 pm, 91 mQ invites to the opening reception of "Bases” by Alessandro Cannistrà; a site specific project composed of paintings, video installation, and photography which “celebrates the dualistic resonance of the human within nature and conversely of the given nature of humanity.”

http://www.91mq.org/

KunstKliniKum

Galerie KunstKliniKum is located on the 2nd floor of the Old Brewery in Berlin Friedrichshain. Since early 2011 it presents work by artists like Martin Bech-Ravn, Anne Sophie Lorange, Pascal Piron, Javier Ramirex and Sven Stuckensmidt. Until the end of May, KunstKliniKum presents the first Berlin solo show of Javier Ramirex, "Ultra-Super Painting," featuring the Berlin-based Colombian artist's recent day-glo colored paintings and sculptures that combine the vibrant colors of the Latin painting tradition with the hard-edged angular East German influences of the Old Brewery's urban surroundings.

http://www.kunstklinikum.com/

Marzia Frozen Contemporary Art

In the Old Brewery's spacious 3rd floor hall overlooking Berlin Friedrichshain, Marzia Frozen Contemporary Art has been presenting group shows by international artists since 2009. It's current apocalyptically themed “Post + Humans” exhibition features paintings, sculptures, photographs, performance art and videos by Jari Di Giampietro, Lily Lesniak, Riccardo Mayr, Olivia Hallstein, Javier Ramirex, Ari Iimatainen, Fabrizio Sanna, Alia Spizzichino and Robekkah Ritchie.

http://www.marziafrozen.com/

Kunstraum Richard Sorge

The art space is named after the communist spy (Ian Fleming's model for James Bond) that reputedly saved the Western world from Nazism. From its bountiful and lovingly renovated space it reaches a young and international audience, but adventurous discerning art lovers as well. Its well researched curatorial projects focus on craftism, club/kinetic art, alternative sexualities and identities, and subcultures. Like its namesake, the initiative independently works from a marginal, yet cosmopolitan position to ultimately save the world. In the commemoration month of May KRS presents a war mural installation by noted conceptual artist jens Kloppmann.

http://www.kunstraumrichardsorge.org/

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Gänzlich selbstverwaltet und ohne jegliche Förderung, setzen sich die Betreiber der Galerien G11, 91 MQ, Marzia Frozen, KunstKliniKum und des Kunstraum Richard Sorge mit viel Engagement dafür ein, dass in den markanten Räumen einzigartige Ausstellungen zu sehen sind wie sie es in Berlin immer weniger gibt.

Am Wochenende des 28. und 29. Mai 2011, jeweils ab 15 Uhr, laden die Kunsträume und Galerien in der Alten Brauerei an der Landsberger Allee 54 in Friedrichshain ein zu Empfängen, Performances und anderen Events im Rahmen ihrer aktuellen Ausstellungen.

Teilnehmende Galerien:
91 mQ Art Project Space
G11 Galerie
KunstKliniKum
Kunstraum Richard Sorge
Marzia Frozen Contemporary Art

91mQ

Die Galerie 91mQ versteht Kunst als eine gedankliche Disziplin, die
lebenswichtig ist für das Verständnis unserer Umwelt. Die Initiatoren von 91mQ möchten den Dialog zwischen verschiedenen Fachleuten fördern, aus Bereichen wie Film, Literatur, Video und Kritik.
Im 91mQ wird Kunst aus ganz Europa gezeigt, wobei Kunstformen wie Performances, Film und Video besondere Aufmerksamkeit zukommt. Am 28. Mai ab 19.30 Uhr wird im 91mQ die Ausstellung "Bases" eröffnet; ein Projekt von Alessandro Cannistrà, das Malerei, Video und Fotografie verbindet.
http://www.91mq.org

G11 Galerie

Die Gründer der G11 Galerie, die selbst aus verschiedenen Kulturen stammen, möchten Grenzen überschreiten, auch im übertragenen Sinne.
Regelmäßige Ausstellungen internationaler Künstler sind ebenso Teil des Programms wie Galerie-Austausche. In den regelmäßig stattfindenden Salons wird der Gedankenaustausch mit anderen, auch kunstfernen, Disziplinen angeregt.
Am Abend des 28. Mai präsentiert die G11 Galerie einen Japanischen Salon mit Gemälden von Aya Onodera.
http://www.g11-galerie-berlin.de

KunstKliniKum

Die Galerie KunstKliniKum befindet sich im 2. Stock der Alten Brauerei.
Seit Anfang 2011 werden hier Arbeiten von Künstlern wie Max Bech-Revn, Anne Sophie Lorange, Pascal Piron, Javier Ramirex und Sven Stuckensmidt präsentiert. Bis Ende Mai zeigt das KunstKliniKum die erste Berliner Einzelausstellung des Kolumbianers Javier Ramirex: "Ultra-Super Painting". Die Schau besteht aus knallbunter Malerei und Skulpturen, die die Farbwelt Südamerikas mit der strukturierten, geometrischen Nachkriegsarchitektur Friedrichshains verbindet.
http://www.kunstklinikum.com

Kunstraum Richard Sorge

Die Ausstellungen des Kunstraum Richard Sorge ziehen ein junges und internationales Publikum, jedoch auch experimentierfreudige anspruchsvolle Kunstliebhaber an. Es werden Ausstellungen zu Themen wie Craftism, Politik, Geschichte, Sexualität, Identität und Subkultur gezeigt.
Dem Spion Richard Sorge gleich, arbeitet der unabhängige Kunstraum von einer marginalen, jedoch kosmopolitischen Position aus, mit dem edlen Ziel, die Welt zu retten.
Im Monat Mai, in dem vielerorts in Europa der Befreiung gedacht wird, zeigt KRS die Ausstellung "schlachten" des Konzeptkünstlers Jens Kloppmann, die sich mit dem Thema Krieg auseinandersetzt. Finissage am 28. Mai ab 19 Uhr.
http://www.kunstraumrichardsorge.org

Marzia Frozen Contemporary Art

Im großen Ausstellungsraum im 3. Stock mit Blick über die Stadt präsentiert Marzia Frozen Contemporary Art seit 2009 Gruppenausstellungen internationaler Künstler.
Die aktuelle, post-apokalyptisch inspirierte Schau "Post + Humans" zeigt Malerei, Skulptur, Fotografie, Performance und Videoarbeiten von Jari di Giampietro, Lily Lesniak, Riccardo Mayr, Olivia Hallstein, Xavier Ramirez, Ari Iimatainen, Fabrizio Sanna, Alia Spizzichino und Robekkah Ritchie.
http://www.marziafrozen.com

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O. by Orvar (1984, Mexico) is a site-specific project, of drawings and performance, operating a semantic analysis of the mythopoetic mechanisms of the body. A process of writing, of and with the body, that proceeds through a descriptive and ritualistic approach.

91mQ art project space _ Landsberger Alle 54 _ Berlin

http://www.landsberger54.org/91mq_orvar

GALLERY WEEKEND events Landsberger Allee 54!

Saturday: Walpurgisnacht
Concerts, bands, dj's, performance, open studios & galleries and partys.

www.landsberger54.org/

Janko Katic: Matter State, Phase 1
An exhibition of Serbian artist Janko Katic's recent work

Opening: April 30th, 2011
Time: 19.00
Exhibition Dates: April 30th - May 3rd 2011

Nature has always served as a source of investigative as well as allegorical inspiration, providing an endless supply of riddles for scholars and poets alike. When examined at close range, its myriad phenomena are complex, requiring one to ask questions about their existence and origins. There are various methods of answering them, including engaging with external parties in debate and, should one want empirical evidence, designing experiments in which things can happen under specified, monitored circumstances.

As part of his continuing research into occurences in nature, Janko Katic's latest works delve into the properties of water, with each piece a series of repeated exercises that reveal distinct patterns and discrepancies. Every one of his controlled environments in Matter State, Phase 1 isolates a single behaviour -- fluidity, vibrations, buoyancy -- by subjecting the human body, often his own, within an artificial microcosmos. From this orderly, disciplined approach comes the explicit connection Katic draws between the self and the creator's hypothetical "water world": our changeability and ambiguity; our dialectical tendencies; our dependency on water without which no biological processes could be possible.

Katic's propensity for extracting ideas from nature and turning them into artistic experiments means the concept dictates the form, which in the case of in Matter State, Phase 1 are chiefly photography, video, and installation. The exhibition is conceived as the first of numerous presentations that showcases the artist's observations in biology and nature.

- Sunshine Wong, curator

neon>videoselection

a project coordinated by

Marco Strappato, B (M) II.

In recent years neon>campobase has focused on the european production of video in artistic context. Thanks to in-depth reviews such as Playlist and Focus on video artists, curators, critics and artists have been invited to show to a wider audience their own work with a direct and participative approach, thus contributing to the enrichment of neon's video archive.

neon>video selection is not a mere contest, but it is a survey that has become part of neon's projecting methods, made of collaborations and exchanges.

neon>campobase aims at opening its own project to new and more interesting experiences connected to the use of the video as a medium, thus letting a platform for reflections on current expressions arise.

Starting from the stuff collected during these months (video art, video performance, archive video, antropology documentary, experimental animation, stop motion), the jury, composed by artists and curators, has selected 6 videos that will be exhibited at 91 mQ (Berlin) and at neon>campobase project room.

Thanks to the collaboration of UnDo.net, the jury will have the possibility to choose, among all the participants, the videos that will be part of 2video transversal review of video art. neon>campobase and UnDo.net are sharing again the respective researches, connecting different projects aiming at mapping the production of video in the last years.

The jury:

Elena Bellantoni artist (91mQ Berlin)

Andrea Bruciati curator (Galleria comunale Monfalcone TS)

Francesca di Nardo curator

Vincenzo Estremo curator (neon>campobase)

Maurizio Finotto artist (Bologna university)

Gisella Gaspari artist

Cecilia Guida curator

Mirco Santi (Home Movies Video Bologna)

Anna Santomauro curator (neon>campobase)

Anna Stuart Tovini - Vincenzo Chiarandˆ artists (UnDo.net Milano)

April 9 - 30 2011
Opening on Saturday the 9th of April at 7pm

Maël Nozahic, Cedric Le Corf, Marceau Couve, Julien Charroin, Klervi Bourseul, Arnaud Rochard, Julie Laignel

About Breizh'art oh!
The collective Breizh'art oh! brings together artists from Brittany or having studied in one of its four art schools.

Anthropomorphism

Anthropomorphism is the tendency to measure everything from a human perspective. It was originally based on a spiritual fascination for such animal, which under the shape of a totem identified the tribe, conferring to its members strength, wisdom, or whatever quality it was supposed to embody. Beyond the simple projection of behaviour, anthropomorphism is also an interesting tool to think and express human nature. In fables for instance, the personification of objects or animals allowed authors to bypass the censorship of repressive societies or expressing freely their opinions on the social and existential conditions of men.

Nonetheless may the use of personification not only be critical: through such process can the poet make us see our environment as a vast body, where Mother Nature is sung within the rhythm of emotions, where the river flows and birds sing their love. Others drew analogies between the human body and landscape: a Whole made of curves, reliefs and complex networks; veins and rivers, hills and busts, as inner life also goes through tides, storms and blue skies...

Whether it stands for allegorical, poetical, mystical, critical or artistic purposes, anthropomorphism - from primitive totemism to its more contemporary manifestations - has always settled our perception of the world.

In May 2011 Kunstraum Richard Sorge presents Jens Kloppmann's "slachten". Opening on the historically significant date of May 8th, the day of German capitulation in WWII, the solo exhibition by the noted Berlin-based conceptual artist thematizes war.

The main piece of "slachten" will be a large mural work made out of fretwork. Hundreds of painstakingly hand cut figures will be installed by the artist, amounting to a huge ornamental "war painting". Liberally using and recombining familiar silhouettes and vignetters from our collective memory, art history, and war reportage, Kloppmann depicts a broad panorama of war in all its stages: attack, counter attack, displacement.

A selection from Kloppmann's Bulllet Boulevard series will also be on view; gypsum replicas of war damages taken from facades of the cityscape of Berlin.

http://www.kloppmann.org/
http://www.kunstraumrichardsorge.org/

STYX Projects Berlin is pleased to present the first German solo exhibition of Iwajla Klinke. The exhibition will consist largely of works from her »Ritual Memories« series, as well as related photographic works.

At the heart of Iwajla Klinke's work is a fascination with the sacred and the ways in which it manifests itself in bodily adornments. The work utilizes classical portraiture as a departure point for exploring the cross-sections between identity construction and spirituality. Her subjects typically appear shirtless or nude, stylized with accessories denoting ritual and devotion, though the signification can rarely be assigned to one single faith. Her costumes serve as appendages to the bodies of her subjects, and can take the form of carnal matter (fish, birds, and worms have all been used) or traditional ritual cloths and silk. With their stern gaze and often classical poses, the works call to mind early Netherlandish portraiture. In sum, they seem to have emerged from some parallel universe, spirits from an after-life that is markedly human in design.

Klinke's work process is both intimate and intensive. Her eye for unconventional beauty is instantly recognizable in surveying her portfolio of models, who overwhelmingly tend to be positioned at that precious point just beyond adolescence, or else retain some aspect of youthfulness well into adulthood. The costume is prepared prior to the photo session, oftentimes in concert with the model, and the shoot takes place against a wall in her apartment in the Kreuzberg district of Berlin, assisted by natural light. Klinke's photo shoots can take several hours and produce hundreds of photographs, among which the artist selects a single one, which is rarely touched-up or post-processed. In her approach, Iwajla Klinke thus rates among the most organic practitioners of digital photography.

Iwajla Klinke (* 1976) is a Berlin- based photographer and filmmaker. She studied Political Science, Jewish Studies, and Islamic Studies at Free University in Berlin and worked as a freelance journalist for many years before directing her first film, »Moskobiye«, in 2004. Her second film, »The Raging Grannies Anti Occupation Club«, was released to critical acclaim in 2007. In recent years, Klinke has devoted herself to photography, gaining a wide following for her efforts on the Internet. This is the first major exhibition to explore her prolific photographic work.

23 March - 20 April 2011
Opening Reception: Wednesday, 23 March 2011, 7-10 pm
Opening hours: Wednesdays to Sundays: 3-5 pm or by appointment

http://www.styx-berlin.de/
http://foto.ogniana-film.de/

Curated by Viviana Checchia and Eleonora Farina.
Video screening at 91mQ Art project space

Saturday, March 19th 2011, 7 pm

In "TWIST -An open office on Romanian and Slovak contemporary art", curators Viviana Checchia and Eleonora Farina present a selection of video works by artists from Romania and the Slovak Republic at 91mQ Art project space.

The selection criteria are directly related to the topic: the human as social body. The generalized social body is a conventional boundary between the individual and the context, in which it dissolves in a fluctuating field of continuous movement. This context, in which the human being is discussed as a space of energy and action, represents the place where the body reflects and transmits itself as a living part of its wider field of social and cultural action.

More info:
http://www.91mq.org/images/CS_TWIST2.pdf

Under the Radar, the Berlin DIY Music, Art and Ideas Festival
Friday, March 25, 8 pm
Rufreaktor, LA54, Old Brewery, Landsberger Allee 54, Berlin

Under the Radar, the Berlin DIY music, art and ideas festival, promises to give "a glimpse of Berlin's fertile underbelly".

Playing live are Gestammelorchester, Mary Ocher (of Mary + Baby Cheeses fame) and The Dolphins (motorik rock).

Additionally, there is a group show of work from emerging Berlin-based visual artists Jane Hughes, Oliver Rivera-Drew and Tulip Enterprises.

DJ Paracetemol and DJ Unholy Spider will round off the night.

Last.fm: www.last.fm/festival/1869822

Under the Radar: Berlin DIY music, art and ideas
Gestammelorchester + The Dolphins + Mary Ocher
DJ Paracetemol + DJ Unholy Spider
Art: Jane Hughes + Oliver Rivera-Drew + Tulip Enterprises

Gestammelorchester: www.myspace.com/gestammel
The Dolphins: www.myspace.com/dolphinsberlin
Mary Ocher: www.myspace.com/maryocher
DJ Unholy Spider: www.myspace.com/unholyspidersound
Jane Hughes: www.janehughes.ie/
Tulip Enterprises: twitter.com/TulipArtProject

With the help of the sculptor Ciro Chavez; Olivier Moisan and Thomas Levesque from Quebec, as well as Emmanuel Njike from France present their new work produced in Berlin. This exhibition features paintings, drawings, screen prints and sculptures in an installative environnement.

From March 18th until April 1st.

Opening reception on friday, March 18th in Atelier Ciro Chavez, 6th floor of the Landsberger Allee 54.

Organized by Sunshine Wong & 91m2

Feb. 26, 2011, 8 - 10 pm

in English / German; free entry

Artists: Ofir Feldman, Ofir Raul Graizer, Eva Kietzmann

How we perceive ourselves, act around others, and hide/emphasise character traits are but a small number of actions we perform to reinforce and/or reconfigure our constantly-shifting "identity". What dictates its fluctuation is the context by which we are surrounded: are we amongst like-minded company or do we clearly stand apart from them? Do we confront, retract, or somehow compensate the difference? The three artists in this event all work with the moving image and have each chosen to present one work from their practice, exploring identity as it relates to otherness (Ofir Feldman), gender (Eva Kietzmann), and duty (Ofir Raul Graizer).

Ofir Feldman is an Israeli artist currently residing in Berlin. His work explores the tentative relationship between the individual and his/her surroundings, addressing particularly those moments in which we acknowledge the extent of our alienation. Having concluded the ambitious 6-year WordBank project in which the banking institution -- arguably the most influential force in our daily life -- is subverted in the name of art and sociolinguistic experimentation, Feldman is now preparing some new video pieces.

Like Feldman, Ofir Graizer is also originally from Israel and has been based in Berlin since 2010. He is a film editor and more recently a film / video artist. In just a few short years, he has amassed an impressive catalogue of work that has as a common theme the ways we combat and succumb to incessant societal pressure. His films / videos have been shown at the Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis and the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival amongst others.

Berlin artist Eva Kietzmann works across disciplines as a solo artist and as a collaborator. She was a founding member of the all-female artist group SEA and the artistic research collective Ex-For, and places communicative exchanges -- with her subject or the audience, ideally with both -- in the heart of her practice. Often employing spontaneous and humorous performative tactics that expose an underlying truth, Kietzmann's work is a demonstration of her code-switching talents that permit a constant reexamination of perspective.

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The "RufReaktor" is in the rooftop of our old brewery complex in Berlin, Friedrichshain. The building is now used as an environment for artists from all over the world and people who are collaborating with them.

Originally taken as a painting studio, our focus is to extend the use and provide space for all kinds of creations. The "RufReaktor" is meant to be a rotating atom of various ideas and their explosions. The forms of those have no limits. we welcome any style of creative activity such as theater, music, exhibitions, cinema, performances, installations, artists in residence and so forth.

http://www.rufreaktor.de/
http://www.landsberger54.org/rufreaktor

Feb. 26th 2011, from 10 pm - late
at zmf, Brunnenstrasse 10, Berlin-Mitte:
Warehouse - The Return of the Big Old Nose
Hiroki Otsuka, Musk Ming & Amit Elan at Warehouse

Image courtesy Hiroki Otsuka. All rights reserved.

Feb. 26th 2011, from 10 pm the art of Hiroki Otsuka (image), Musk Ming & Amit Elan is on display in an art presentation on a queer and Asian theme curated by Kunstraum Richard Sorge at Warehouse, the art & music extravaganza organized by Maria Psycho and Thomas Götz von Aust at zmf club/art space.

Club culture and art may not be such strange bedfellows after all. A whole tradition of artists seeking the proximity to another, cooler, (sub) culture can be invoked. Kunstraum Richard Sorge will use the gallery space of zmf to showcase the works of Otsuka, Elan and Ming (gallery doors open at 10 pm). In deliberate innocence, Warehouse celebrates the happy convergence of gender confusion, club culture and art.

DJs: Helga P, Steve Morell, Herr von Wildsau, Mary Velo, Aviv Netter, Andreas Schwarz.
Live: Plastic Poney, Musk Ming.
Hosts: Pepsi Light, Lulu Las Vegas, Maria Psycho, Thomas Götz von Aust.

Full exhibition text: http://www.kunstraumrichardsorge.org/warehouse
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/warehousewarhouse

Urban photography @ Kunstraum Richard Sorge, Landsberger Allee 54, 10249 Berlin...

Virginia Garfunkel: Moloch & Abenteuerspielplatz

Vernissage: 26. November, 19 Uhr.
Ausstellung: 27. November, 13 - 19 Uhr.

Virginia Garfunkel zeigt in ihrer Ausstellung Moloch & Abenteuerspielplatz, 13 fotografische Werke über das Phänomen Großstadt.

Großstadt ist beides: Chance und Risiko, Ort der Träume und der Neurosen, Möglichkeit des Zurückziehens aber auch des Kommunizierens, Moloch und Abendteuerspielplatz...

Die Künstlerin setzt die komplizierten Dimensionen moderner Städte und die Rolle des Menschen darin in Szene und reflektiert die Stadt über Aspekte wie Dichte, Agglomeration, Konsum, Konstruktion und Destruktion.

Homepage: www.virginiagarfunkel.com.ar
Facebook event page: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=131306663591678

Wednesday 24 November h 19:00:
The ABJECT_ ZABLOUDIL/A

The Abject (MX/AU) and Zabloudil/a (CZ) will present an
unique experimental electronic and video installation platform
that palces an empahsis on the notion of panic and horror.

www.theabjectduo.blogspot.com
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LHGtRVZzzg

Saturday 27 November h 19:00 :
1 Night of 15 Video Installations, Performance and Live Set

ART SHAKE FESTIVAL . 3rd edition
Curated by Fabio Campagna and Emanuela de Notaris

Art Shake festival analyses the connection between visual and
performing art moving forward the discourse within the current
crossing-media art practises.

www.artshakefestival.blogspot.com
www.myspace.com/artshake
www.facebook.com/artshake

3 Jahre kunstauto – REIFEPRÜFUNG
Vernissage 20.11.2010 ab 19:00 Uhr
- 20:00 Uhr Eröffnungsrede
- anschließend Taufe vom kunstauto
- Video-und Diapräsentation
- kunstauto als Ausstellungsfläche

Ausstellungsdauer: 22. – 24.11.2010, 14:00 bis 18:00 Uhr

Kunstraum Richard Sorge, Alte Brauerei
Landsberger Allee 54
10249 Berlin-Friedrichshain
http://www.kunstraumrichardsorge.org

October 16 - November 14, 2010

Mit verschiedenen Techniken (Gouache, Tusche, Papier) arbeitet Lexander Prokogh auf großem Format und konzentriert sich dabei auf das Thema Zeit in Erinnerungsbildern seines Heimatlandes und auf innere Landschaften.

Lexander Prokogh stellt Überlegungen zur Vergeblichkeit des Festhaltens von Zeit an. Er unternimmt den Versuch, sichZeit als etwas Lebendiges und Sichtbares vorzustellen.

Welche Bedeutung hätte unser Leben, wenn man in der Zeit springen könnte, wenn sie sich vor- und zurückspulen liesse?
Zeit und Zufall spielen beim Entstehen von Kunstwerken ebenso eine Rolle wie im realen Leben.

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Curated by Fabio Campagna

Opening: October 30, 7pm
November 1 - 18, 2010

"Anything that is not direct shall be null"
E. M. Cioran

Lager is a photographic series realized by Marcello di Donato in 2008. It documents the organization of death and its consequent monetary amelioration, through the analysis of a typical work day, within the interior of an artisanal swine slaughterhouse/butchery/charcuterie located in the suburbs of Naples Italy. Here, the focus of Marcello di Donato, filtered by a digital camera, follows, articulating itself in a chronologically ordered rhythmic succession, the brutal, mundane, daily process of butchery.

During the opening, Daniela Schmidtke and Félix Arjona Conejero will present a danced performance. Reacting to the conceptual core of the exhibition, they will represent, through their act, the crisis of isolation as a form of control, perceived and executed. Original music composed by H4.project.

Félix Arjona Conejero (Sevilla, Spain) is a dancer-performer, therapist and Impro-Contact teacher. After he concluded his Modern Dance Education at the C.A.D in Sevilla and Endanza, he moved to Berlin to start the specialization at Tanzakademie Balance 1. He is performing and leading some training within O.G.M. (Butoh Dance Group) and "Criaturas de Laboratorio" (Sevilla). He also collaborates with the choreographer Abraham Hurtado.

Daniela Schmidtke (1981), is a dancer and cultural manager. She lives and works in Berlin. Co-Founder of the Performance Collective O.G.M., member of the Minako Seki Workgroup, General Manager of the Minako Seki Comany.

Text: Fabio Campagna

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Born of a Christian mother and Muslim father, Brussels-based French-Moroccan artist Mehdi-Georges Lahlou learned early on the value of relativism. The theme of crossing boundaries set by culture, religion and gender is present in all of his installations and performances. While his works appears at first sight political, for instance tackling Orientalism and gender issues in Islam, it is important to the artist that it be viewed first and foremost as an open, poetic autobiographical gesture to be judged on art's own terms.

The artist draws not only on the history of performance and installation-art, but also incorporates references to Belgian Surrealism in his works. In Lahlou's art we find humor, poetics, guts, dedication, refined artistic intuition, personal risk taking and social relevance.

For his one-man show at Kunstraum Richard Sorge, in Berlin, Mehdi-Georges Lahlou will present his performance/installation/restaurant "Dar_Koom" and the large scale installation "Cocktail, Self-portrait in Society" and more recent works.

Artist's Statement:
"My work is, for a great part, autobiographical. I am one of the major subjects of my own work, I'm at the crossroads of two cultures, an western one coming from my Spanish mother and a Muslim one from my father, living in Morocco. My work also aims at finding impossible connections between the two, trying to position myself, to acquire certain knowledge, to create new nostalgias - if that's possible. So clearly, I'm using symbols that are dear to me, which were given to me, sometimes slightly imposed on me, but I was never forced to do anything. You cannot force someone in Islam, although you might want to sometimes. The Muslim aesthetic is something which really strikes me, which I chose and I try to mix with the Western one. This is how you really get to see how the West and the East co-exist."

Kunstraum Richard Sorge, Landsberger Allee 54, 10249 Berlin.
Exhibition duration: Sept. 17th - Oct. 10th 2010, Wednesday - Saturday, 2 - 6 pm.

Opening reception: Sept. 16th, 7 pm.
Closing reception: Oct. 10th , 7 pm.

Performances:
Special performance during the opening reception at Sept.16th.
"Dar_Koom" one-on-one performances (10 min. each) on Sept.17 th & 18 th from 3 - 6 pm.

Artists:
Dave Ball
Low Profile
Oliver Walker

Curator:
Sunshine Wong

Nude as the News is a programme of 4 live art events spanning over 2 dates:
26.08.10 (Thursday), 19:00 at Mindpirates
28.08.10 (Saturday), 06:00 at 91mQ Art Project Space and from 19:00 Kunstraum Richard Sorge

Initiated by curator Sunshine Wong as a collaboration with artists Dave Ball (UK/DE), Oliver Walker (UK/DE), and Rachel Dobbs (IRL) and Hannah Jones (UK) of Low Profile, Nude as the News is an art project that has evolved into a reclamation site for the mundane, whose content is dissected and anecdotalised for reconsumption. The result is a programme of 4 live events that investigate people, places, and objects at close range through performative gestures. Using experience both as a topic and method of inquiry, the four artists set about achieving intimacy with their respective subjects, the process of which is shared with a live audience. The premises are mostly prosaic, ordinary occurrences that come with a hitch: watching back-to-back episodes of the '80s hit series "MacGyver", paying weekly visits to a specific painting in a gallery for a 6-month period, ruminations on the joys and anxieties of falling in love. Through the intrusive act of "looking on" and being privy to an event as it unfolds, the viewers adopt a complicit role within the narrative. The staged situation thus collapses the distance between art, creator, and audience, exposing everything immediate, reflexive, or (un)intentional with minimal obstacles. It is this first hand basis that allows the public to not only vicariously (re-)live an experience, but become an integral part of it.
Free entry to all events.

26th August (Thursday) 2010

at Mindpirates, Schlesische Str. 38 (in the backmost Hinterhof), Berlin 10997:
19.00 - 20.00: Oliver Walker - "A Performance Lecture on Love, Part 1"
Partly autobiographical and partly fictional, Oliver Walker's lectures are notes and observations on the complex emotional workings of falling in love.
20.00 - 22:00: Drinks and music.

28th August (Saturday) 2010

at 91mQ Art Project Space, Landsberger Allee 54, Berlin 10249:
06.00 - 23.00: Low Profile - "MacGyver'thon," an 18-hour MacGyver marathon
Through the repetitive and unforgiving act of cataloguing the scenarios in the 2nd series of "MacGyver", Low Profile intend to extract as much "useful" information as possible to deal with any crisis or emergency. Snacks, popcorn, and comfortable cushions provided for the entire duration.

at Kunstraum Richard Sorge, Landsberger Allee 54, Berlin 10249:
19.00 - 20.00: Dave Ball - "The Painting"
Dave Ball visited Berlin's Alte Nationalgalerie weekly for a period of six months in order to look at one particular painting. The relation between the act of looking at the painting and the act of looking at the world is the focus of the work. No imagery or references to the specific identity of the painting feature.

20.00 - 21.00: Oliver Walker - "A Performance Lecture on Love, Part 2"
The second part of Oliver Walker's talks serves as a reflection on the first as he complements and refutes his prior position.

From 21.00: drinks & music with Adjazz.

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During the Sandbox art event, July 10, from noon, Trial&Error presents one of their Upcycle it! workshops in front of Kunstraum Richard Sorge at the former Patzenhofer brewery in Berlin Friedrichshain:

Come make shoes with us!

Experimental flip flops, shoes and sandals, futuristic bags and hats – from bike tires, textile, plastic!

Welcome to the Upcycle it! workshop space at:
10th of July @ SANDBOX (by LA54 Berlin) at Landsberger Allee 54,
13:00 – 18:00 (free)

See you there!

Nick Dewar uses digital animation, sound and analogue objects such as televisions, cable and domestic homeware to create his installations. He also works in the painting format, utilising a variety of materials such as dust, ash, car oil, dirt, paint, and found objects.

Let's Dance was presented to great popular acclaim as an installation at R.E.D., a well visited happening/exhibition, May 2010 at the Old Brewery in Berlin Friedrichshain. The art event was organized by LA54 Berlin, a hyperactive artist association presenting art exhibitions and installations in the romantically crumbling landmarked building.

July 10, 2010, from noon, a sound installation by the artist can be experienced at Sandbox, another day of joint gallery openings, workshops, and art events at the Old Patzenhofer Brewery, Landsberger Allee 54, Berlin.

Is Stalin Alive? - An evening with films by Attila Birho.

Different sources

Location: Old Brewery, Landsberger Allee 54, 10249 Berlin
www.landsberger54.org/

Opening hours: Sunday and Monday 4 - 8 pm

In spite of how physically impossible it might feel like in the mind of someone living, death is the only certain truth of our life.

Far away from any spectacular showing of it or any taphiliac and decadent aesthetic delight, which had been haunting the visual culture of the last decades of the 20 century, this exhibition expresses an urgent need to face the end as a significant aspect of existence and art.

As life reveals its precious value through its fragility, the end can be taken as a start. Beside social and personal issues, the theme of the exhibition defines the actual existence of the artwork in space and time as a transforming process. Most of the featured interventions are temporary and tend to be physically immaterial, no matter if this condition is obtained through digital media or as a result of an accurate use of simple and traditional art techniques. In spite of their difference and their autonomy, all the works contribute to achieve an homogeneous activation of the venue and to make up a sort of organic summative installation, pivoting on the dialectic combination of light and shadow, that is formally embodied by the clash between ruled geometries and some kind of formless thick black matter.

As a result of a collaborative strategy, such a project reflects in its display the need for breaking individual boundaries in the name of a supportive temporary community, gathered to celebrate an atheistic ritual. The intangible quality of materials like ashes,
different sort of shadow play, thin lines, together with the recurring use of sound and light as pervasive and connecting substance, provide the viewer with a delicate sensory experience, in which artworks are strong because of their transient nature. Just like life.

Participating Artists:

GUIDO AFFINI (b. 1977, Genoa, ITALY), Unknown.
Sound acts like some sort of space catalyst in Guido Affini's research and involves the viewers in a direct experience of the work through their senses. A suspended subwoofer, positioned horizontally above the floor, hold some ashes in its cone. Some powerful bass sounds, periodically boosted by the diffuser, propel the ashes in the air. They keep on floating in the space even when the wave compressions are over and, eventually, gently fall on the floor around the cone while making up an intangible sculpture.

SIMONA BARBERA (b. 1971, Genova, ITALY), The Shivering Cold Continues.
The large and black figures evoked by Simona Barbera's wall paintings are unconscious projections taking place whenever the hollow darkness is explored. As powerful as mythical creatures, their black shapes become blurred forms coming to life thanks to thedim lighting of the venue and the thick sound of the artist's compositions. Originated from an accurate blend of black metal and minimal electronic sounds, her sonic work conceives the sound as matter to turn images and space in to transcending
installations.

DAVIDE CALVARESI (b. 1981, Offida (AP), ITALY), Tear.
By hiding a system of rubber tubes on the ceiling of the gallery, Davide Calvaresi's installation aims to simulate the tear secretion and to extend it to an architectural scale. The dripping on the floor of the venue of previously collected rainwater evokes the structural and metaphorical leaks compromising the safety of human condition. Davide Calvaresi dedicates his work to the memory of Alfredo, who died of uncertain causes in Dijon th on February 5, 2010 during the rehearsals of the show Inferno by Societas Raffaello Sanzio.

ANDREA CILLO (b. 1973, Cagliari, ITALY), Somber.
The deepest darkness is often related to the irreversible cessation of vital functions in living organisms. Somber shows the slow motion of a thick liquid blob obtained by shooting the still water of an artificial lake turned into that undefined dense matter gently sparkling. A process of aimless transformation is at stake, involving light and sound through water in a whole sensorial experience, triggered by Simona Barbera's soundtrack.

DANIELE DEL NERO (b. 1979, La Spezia, ITALY), Dancers. A dancer and a ballerina draw an ironic choreography of life in stop motion. Some black and white illustrations from an old dance handbook move until the final figure at the obsessive pace of a clock ticking. Daniele Del Nero's clip is visible online at http://www.undo.net/2video/.

MASSIMO PALAZZI (b. 1969, Genova, ITALY), Vanishing point.
The drawing reproduces an illustration taken from an Italian school book dating back to the Fascist era. Based on the geometric coincidence of the vanishing point with a war memorial standing in the end of the main street of a metaphysic village, it shows how death can be reduced to a simple exercise of central perspective.

TEO PIRISI aka MONEYLESS (b. 1980, Milano, ITALY), struttura berlino 01. Moneyless' installations are based on the interaction between pure 3D line constructions and different sites, roughly textured by nature and time. His ephemeral stereographic forms are defined by thin strings, strong enough to suggest the presence of some volumes suspended in space.
The clash of such precise intellectual constructions and the surroundings - usually ruined buildings and natural
environments - enacts a puzzling combination of natural and artificial and impact on the viewer's aptic perception of space.

THOMAS JAKOB REICHEGGER (b. 1973, Brunico (BZ), Süd Tirol, ITALY), Everything is going in the right way.
By using site-specific
interventions, sculptures and drawings, the work of Thomas Jacob Reichegger reflects on the notions of landscape and social context, often related to the local tradition of South Tyrol. On the occasion of This Is The End, the artist decided to adopt the fotoceramica, a traditional process used to transfer photographic portraits on ceramic to identify graves, to suggest the hypothesis of death as the ultimate orgasm. With the ecstatic attitude of his female and male portraits, Thomas Jacob reenacts the ancient relationship of Eros and Thanatos while winking at Catholic iconography.

INES TARTLER (b. 1969, Esslingen am Neckar, GERMANY), Dimming Piece.
Ines Tartler's site- specific interventions play with the interaction between architectural and urban context and individuals. The project she conceived specifically for this exhibition consists in a manipulation of the venue's lighting, affecting the whole perception of the show. From being washed out by a stronger than usual lighting in the beginning, the room and the works on display will smoothly sink in the complete darkness thanks to a digitally operated dimming process that will eventually extinguish the light and let projections and screens on display glow in the dark.

FELICE SERRELI (b. 1974, Cagliari, ITALY) A tre metri dal cielo, Divisione, Ottagono distratto.
The sculptures, photographs, drawings and videos of Felice Serreli focus on the use of delicate materials to visualize precarious and disordered structures, based on some kind of biomorphic formlessness that takes over any regular geometry. By letting transparent paper randomly overlap or by framing some cotton fiber, he formally and metaphorically challenges the idea unity and balance. Eventually boundaries are blurred: both the cut out shape and its negative paper leftover become form.

SUITE-CASE Francesco Cardarelli [b. 1981, Offida (AP), ITALY] Guia Del Favero [b. 1983, Genova, ITALY], A4
Photography has been dealing with death since its origin. In Suite-case's work, the simple action of tearing a DIN A 4 sheet of paper acts as a plastic equivalent of an irreversible loss that is eventually denied by the illusion of an image. A slide projected on one of the exhibition walls temporarily recomposes that paper transfigured in light. A4 propose a definition of time that pivots on the instant making time before different from time after.

JAE UK JUNG (b. 1980, Busan, SOUTH KOREA), Take Place.
The work of Jae Uk Jung is based on the making up of extremely fragile pieces of furniture, cast in plaster thanks to a sophisticated
technique developed by the artist and performed with extreme meticulousness and patience. The installation presented in the exhibition features a series of extra thin tiles laid on the gallery floor that eventually will be reduced to a heap of debris by the moving visitors.

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Juan Gris
Jochen Handwerk
Robert Haussner
Bartlomiej Kiszka
Ola Lewin
Stavros Panagiotakis
John Power
Henning Reimann
Bärbel Schulte Kellinghaus
Victor Walsh

Der Kopf ist der oberste Teil des Körpers, eine Kapsel, ein Behälter. Eine Struktur, die Schädel, Gehirn, Augen, Ohren, Nase und Mund enthält und in der alle Sinneseindrücke, wie sehen, hören, riechen und schmecken verarbeitet werden. Sämtliche Organe und Muskeln sowie die Sekretion von Transmittern und Hormonen werden vom Gehirn gesteuert. Es ist kompakt innerhalb des Kopfes angelegt und erlaubt schnelle Koordination und Reaktionen auf Veränderungen in der Umgebung.

Die hoch entwickelte Kontrolle des Verhaltens auf der Grundlage von Sinneseindrücken verlangt ein zentralisiertes Gehirn mit schneller Informationsverarbeitung und integrierten Fähigkeiten. Trotz des schnellen wissenschaftlichen Fortschritts bleibt noch vieles von dem wie der innere Teil des Kopfes - das Gehirn - funktioniert ein Mysterium. Methoden der Beobachtung wie z.B. die EEG - Aufnahme und funktionelle Gehirnbildaufbereitung sagen uns, dass das Gehirn hochgradig organisiert ist, aber wie individuelle Zellen komplizierte Vorgänge auslösen, ist noch nicht vollständig entschlüsselt. Der Neuroanatomist Floyd Bloom witzelte mit dem Wortspiel "the gain in the brain is mainly in the stain," was soviel bedeutend dass die Fortschritte der Neurowissenschaften überwiegend auf der Entwicklung besserer Farbmarker und Mikroskope beruhen.

Anatomie ist die älteste Methode um das Gehirn zu studieren. Descartes in seiner Zeit glaubte, dass der Mensch eine Dualität besitzt. Das Göttliche, das im Kopf angesiedelt ist, und der Körper, der rein als eine sehr komplizierte und hochentwickelte Maschine fungiert. In seiner Zeit in Leyden, Holland, wo er zur Zeit Rembrandts lebte, wohnte Descartes oft dem damals populären Sezieren von Toten bei. Er war überzeugt, dass die menschliche Seele im Kopf tief innerhalb des Gehirns in der Zirbeldrüse zu finden sei. Zu Descartes Bedauern war dieses winzige Organ jedes Mal schon geschrumpft, wenn das Chirurgen-Messer bis dahin vorgedrungen war. Die schwer fassbare Seele sollte nirgends gefunden werden.

Geschützt durch einen robusten Schädel ist das Gehirn eines der zentralen Themen in der Geschichte der Philosophie. Diese eigenartige und zweideutige Beziehung zwischen dem physischen Gehirn, der Materie und dem bewusst - unbewusst kognitiven Geist.
Die menschliche Vorstellungskraft ist unglaublich. Sie hat die Fähigkeit ganze Sphären innerhalb unserer eigenen Köpfe zu erfinden, die auf unsere Sinneswahrnehmungen aus der Außenwelt zurückzuführen sind.

Antike Gesellschaften verehrten den Kopf nicht nur als den Sitz der Seele sondern auch als eine fortwährende Quelle großer geistiger Kraft. Die Faszination hält noch immer an. Heute werden jährlich Milliarden ausgegeben für die Erforschung von Neurologie, Psychologie und Psychiatrie.

Kurator/Künstler John Power sagt: "Als wir KOPF zum Thema für unsere Ausstellung in der Galerie G11 wählten, entschieden wir uns dafür, das Thema völlig offen zu lassen. Es ist den teilnehmenden Künstlern erlaubt für sich selbst zu entscheiden auf welche Weise und in welche Richtung sie es interpretieren - und eine Skulptur schaffen bezüglich Körper - Geist - Gehirn - Seele."
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From noon till midnight on July 10, Kunstraum Richard Sorg will present "Das Kunstauto im Mini Kleid" by Mehrmagda. The lovingly renovated Wartburg functions as a mobile piece of art and mini gallery.

The car will park at the Sandbox festival, featuring a special Ceramixed Plates presentation inside.

More info:
http://www.mehrmagda.de/kunstauto/
http://www.kunstraumrichardsorge.org/sandbox

Kunstraum Richard Sorge is proud to present 18 x 24: a fundraising exhibition fully benefiting non-profit art association LA54 Berlin.

Only limited by the 18 x 24 cm size, a large group of international Berlin-based artists generously contributed small works to this exhibition project that will amount to an kaleidoscopic token of the city's artistic exuberance and wealth of artistic positions.
Within its prosaic restraints, 18 x 24 comprises an inspiring array of traditional, conceptual, ephemeral and poetic positions.

The beneficiaries of the fundraiser exhibition, art association LA54 Berlin, organize an ambitious range of exhibitions and art events. The goals of this multicultural artistic community (consisting of artists, musicians and curators) are international artistic cooperation, maintaining affordable spaces for art, and propagating Berlin's underground spirit against the ruins of the "Creative Cities" ideology.

Artists graciously taking part in 18 x 24 include Art-Erhaltung, Mehrmagda, J.Jackie Baier, Willi Tomes, Astrid Küver, Bernard Föll, Petra von Schmude, Daniele Bordoni, Renzo Marasca, Marco Giani, Elena Bellantoni, Nick Dewar, Serena Vestrucci, John Power, Hendrik Voerkel, Risako Yamamoto.

The 18 x 24 exhibition opening on July 10th is part of the Sandbox festival which will turn the surroundings of Kunstraum Richard Sorge into a participatory art playground. The exhibition will be on view until the end of July.

July 10, 2010: Doors open 12 pm, festive opening reception from 7 pm.

Using this idea as impetus, the galleries and art spaces of the newly founded LA54 Association at the former Patzenhofer brewery will be presenting an interactive, multi-disciplinary happening.

The event will be in the spirit of action art and will provide the public with the opportunity to engage and take part in artistic activities.

Over the course of the day, residents of the neighborhood as well as passers-by will be welcome to join in for a full schedule of participatory art programs. Screenings, art interventons, guided tours and soundscapes will be seen and heard throughout the building's studios, galleries, art spaces as well as the courtyard and corridors. To round off the day, there will be an art auction with pieces by the artists of LA54 and an after-party with a diverse musical line-up.

German version:

Der Begriff Sandbox steht im Programmiererjargon für ein routinemäßig aufzusuchendes Testfeld. Einem Freiraum, in dem nach eigenen Regeln experimentiert, kreativ gearbeitet und gespielt werden kann.

In diesem Sinne präsentiert die internationale Künstlervereinigung LA54 der ehemaligen Patzenhofer Brauerei in Kollaboration mit den ansässigen Galerien und Kunsträumen ein aktionistisches, interaktives, multidisziplinäres Happening. Der Strömung der Aktionskunst folgend, bietet diese Veranstaltung dem Publikum die Möglichkeit durch aktive Teilnahme die künstlerische Rahmenhandlung zu lenken und aktiv mitzugestalten.

Über den Tag verteilt werden in den Ateliers, Galerien, Kunsträumen, Fluren sowie im Hof des Geländes Workshops für Kinder und Erwachsene, Performances, Installationen, Screenings, Soundscapes, partizipatorische Kunstaktionen und Führungen veranstaltet, die Kunstinteressierte, Anwohner und Flaneure zum experimentieren und entdecken einladen.

Der Tag wird abgerundet durch eine Kunstauktion der teilnehmenden KünstlerInnen der LA54 und eine After Party mit Acts unterschiedlicher Genres.

LA54 Berlin, Landsberger Allee 54, 10249 Berlin
www.landsberger54.org/sandbox
RSVP at Facebook.

D_LA54_P : Digital LA54 Platz

Project by and curated by

FABIO CAMPAGNA

featuring:

ADE STUDIO // EMANUELA DE NOTARIIS // JORGE GARCIA VELAYOS // ALEANDRO MONCADA //

LIAM WARD // NOCODE PROJECT ...

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10 th JULY _ h 23.00

Landsberger Alle 54 _ Berlin

@ SANDBOX art event

Free entry

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D_LA54_P - a digital square gathering new modes of interacting within the functioning of the city.

The LA54 main facade, facing the main old factory courtyard, will present itself as an open and growing public video projection platform. A new mode of rethinking the square as a sociable city unit.

An entire textured brewery wall will be set, combining different modes of video languages, as a practical screen in order to investigate the semantic definition of the square as physical vector within democratic use of public space.

D_LA54_P will start an experimental and international video archive collecting different expressions of creative video production related to the urban city’s identity negotiation. From graphic animated images to experimental short video, to video installation and experimental fiction. An linguistic organism will open up new angles in the stereotypical perception of cities.

// text: Fabio Campagna

Save the date!

July 10, 2010, from noon till dawn, ouside & inside

SANDBOX

Interactive multimedia festival: workshops, exhibitions, art tours, happening.

Old Brewery
Landsberger Allee 54
10249 Berlin

RSVP at Facebook.

www.landsberger54.org/sandbox

Flyer by Andre Wakko

Saturday May 29, from 7 pm, the international group of curators, musicians and artists of the Old Brewery, Landsberger Allee 54, Berlin-Friedrichshain invite you to R.E.D. - A festive evening of performance- and light art, concerts, dj-sets, fashion performance, visuals, video art, live painting and exhibitions.

Not to be mistaken for a Socialist meeting extolling artistic victim culture, R.E.D. rather stands for the "Rapturous Extension of Disciplines," and aims to be a highly interactive, multi-disciplinary happening, committed to Dionysian politics, if any. As a color, red stands for vitality, empowerment, passion, the morally and sexually forbidden, as such it's fitting theme for this Spring art event.

With exhibition spaces of the architectonic landmark building spanning 1000 square meters open up to the public, and numerous concerts and performances, it promises to be a vibrant evening.
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GERMAN VERSION:

Samstag 29. Mai /19 Uhr: Die Kuratoren, Musiker und Künstler der Künstlervereinigung LA 54, in der Landsberger Allee 54, Berlin-Friedrichshain, laden ein zu R.E.D.:

Ein Abend der Performances, live Musik, dj-sets, fashion performances, visuals, live painting, Videoinstallationen und Ausstellungen zu einem interaktiven Gesamtkunstwerk verknüpft und Künstler sowie Besucher zu einer aktiven Teilnahme einlädt.

R.E.D ist nicht etwa zu verwechseln mit einem Kürzel für einen sozialistischen Zirkel, der sich der Hervorhebung der Opferrolle von Künstlern verschrieben hat, sondern steht für "Rapturous Extension of Disciplines". Intention der beteiligten Künstler, Musiker und Kuratoren ist es ein aktionistisches, interaktives, multidisziplinäres Happening zu veranstalten, dass sich eher an der Dionysischen Politik orientiert als an realgeschichtlichen Ereignissen und politischen Tendenzen.

Symbolisch steht R.E.D für Vitalität, politische und sexuelle Selbstbestimmung, Leidenschaft und für das, was der deskriptive Begriff von Moral als unmoralisch sowie sexuell verwerflich bewertet. Versehen mit dieser Konnotation bildet R.E.D den idealen Ausgangspunkt und Auftakt für eine Reihe von Events, die in diesem und nächstem Jahr von LA54 realisiert werden.

Mit einer Ausstellungsfläche von 1000 qm, die von den teilnehmenden Künstlern bespielt wird und die den Besuchern für Erkundungen auf eigene Faust offen steht, verspricht R.E.D ein lebendiger und vielschichtiger Abend zu werden.
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PROGRAM:

Kunstraum Richard Sorge (ground level entrance):
Gert-Jan Akerboom (live mural painting)
Adar Aviam (painting)
Amit Elan (painting, performance)
Daniele Bordoni (video installation)
Lorge Martinez Sanchez (fashionperformance)
Alice Morey (sculpture)
Polaris (architectonic interventions)
Risako Yamamoto (painting)
Xolelani Pat Matshikiza (painting)
Heimatlose Volkskunst (installation)
Liam Scott Ward (light installation)
Nick Dewar (video)
Daniel Turner (painting)

Music:
Oliver Markreich (Orphik rec / orphik spezial
Andre Wakko (B.I.S.C.A.T.E, Azzucrina rec, Tonkind rec.)
Ricardo Ferreira (The Bastards, B.I.S.C.A.T.E, Tonkind rec.)
Isys - (France)
Altiplano - live (Ambient/Etnotronic music)
Lorge Martinez Sanchez - live drum
Peter Kipp - live bass

8.30 - 9.30 pm: Caylin Rose Janet (living sculpture, courtyard)

Zoran Stevanovic (top floor, installation)

STYX Project Space (2nd floor):
7.30 pm: Performance by New York artist Raul de Nieves.

Marzia Frozen Contemporary Art (3rd floor):
Performance Night/Finissage of "Fucking Kunst," group show curated by Javier Ramirex.
7.00 pm: Lan Hungh
8.00 pm: Altiplano - Live (Ambient Music)
9.00 pm: La Suite Bizarre - Live (Electrofunk)

G11 Galerie (3rd floor):
Finissage, The Machinery of Perception: John Power, Lexander Prokogh and Hendrik Voerkel.

91mq Art Project Space (1st floor):
music & video projection.

"Kali Yuga Parafernalia" - Heimatlose Volkskunst cellar installation.

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May 7 - 15, 2010
Opening reception: Friday May 7, from 7.00 pm
Opening hours: every day 4 - 8 pm

For one week, 91mQ in Berlin will host Border Transits and become the site for a dialogue between visual art and music. The event is conceived by the two curators as a sort of festival or working week. A group show of Italian artists will be presented along with two concerts, workshops and lectures. As the title recalls the event is dedicated to the concept of border, or better, of border trascending with a particular attention to border crossers and to that specific area known as border zone where access is rather prevented or encouraged, that area where border is a point of contact.

In the Autumn of 2010 the group exhibit Border Transits will be hosted in the neighbourhood of San Salvario in Turin as part of the 6th edition of the Paratissima event.

The conceptions of border are many and they are continually subject to change. As developed in the 19th century border referred to a limit, a barrier, and was specifically related with topography, geography and law. Originally border was intended as a visible line of separation between political, social, cultural and economic spaces. During the years many fields of application developed this concept, from philosophy to mathematics, from psychology to art, with different
implications and connotations.

Borders develop in our every day lives and discourses and therefore are to be considered very dynamic phenomenons with a transitorial character. Often we find ourselves in cross border regions where the
lines of separation are not clearly defined; they emerge, disappear and re-emerge. Although in the last decades we conceived a borderless world as part of a globalization theory, borders are all around us. What is our grade of permeability?

Culture and art have a fundamental role in tracing these lines of demarcation and at the same time in renegotiating them. Through narratives and symbolic forms culture and art represent the passages
for crossing, unvealing both the subjective dimensions, the personal experiences, as well as the perceptions and interactions of society.
The group exhibit Border Transits brings together the work of ten artists as a dialogue about cultural boundaries from a variety of perspectives and through different forms of expression such as photography, video, painting, drawing and installation.

The artists focus on the symbolic, abstract borders, on the mental barriers and metaphorical landscapes. They investigate sub-sets of conceptual borders, like temporal, epistemological or textual
barriers. It emerges a need to express themselves, as well as the a desire for clarification and for a deeper understanding of human existence.

The venue becomes a special space for encounter and transformation, a contact zone between the real and the imaginary.

Group show with works by: Alessandra Baldoni (photography), Daniela Carati (photography), Juan Carlos Ceci (painting), Silvia Chiarini (installation), Francesco Lauretta (painting), Nico Macina (video), Elisa Monaldi (video), Silvia Noferi (photography), Michela Pozzi (video), Micheal Rotondi (drawing)

BORDER TRANSITS
May 7 - 15, 2010

Events:

May 7 - from 7.00 pm
Vernissage
Opening of the group show with: Alessandra Baldoni, Daniela Carati, Juan Carlos Ceci, Silvia Chiarini, Francesco Lauretta, Nico Macina, Elisa Monaldi, Silvia Noferi, Michela Pozzi, Michael Rotondi

May 8 - 6.30 pm
Concert by Duo Messieri/Selva

Saxophone and live electronics
Music by J.C. Risset, M. Messieri and F. Rossé

May 10 - 5.30 pm
Lecture by Stefano Lombardi Vallauri
Not all has been said

May 12/14 - 4.00 pm
Workshop by Massimiliano Messieri
The border of sound

May 13 - 6.30 pm
Drone
Live performance based on the concept of Drone, applied to electronic, classical music and images by Marco Giani (laptop electronic and video) and Cecilia Ferron (violin).

May 15 - 6.30 pm
Concert by Nicola Baroni
XXI Century the Italian cello
Music by J. Harvey, C. Benzi, M. Messieri, A. Costantini, C. Cardew,
S. Bussotti and G. Scelsi.

IL CONFINE MEDIATICO by Antonio Prenna

In collaboration with:
91 mQ - art project space, Berlin
DAC - De Simoni Arte Contemporanea, Genova
MASK, San Marino
Gruppo PARA, Torino

Feat. Shepard Fairey, Gert-Jan Akerboom, Peeter Allik, Art-Erhaltung, Musk Ming, Jürgen Wittdorf, Heimatlose Volkskunst, a.o.

The masterful linocuts and paintings of Estonian artist Peeter Allik explore Europe's traditional values, murderous political history and not quite so innocent folklore.

Berlin-based Chinese artist Musk Ming’s paintings and drawings cunningly appropriate a saccharine Maoist illustration style to unearth China’s bountiful GLTBQ history.

Shepard Fairey manages a unique balance of the political, counter-cultural and commercial, freely bending and deconstructing the aesthetics of propaganda and liberation. His oeuvre amounts to a rich visual research into the history of ideology, either exposing its cynicism, or re-evaluating the validity of ideals along the way.

The nationalist and totalitarian sites and symbols of commemoration are some of the more sinister objects and themes that inspire Dutch artist in Berlin Gert-Jan Akerboom's highly detailed ink drawings.

Within the confines of the early 1960s government-controlled art scene of the GDR, Jürgen Wittdorf was miraculously able to publicly develop a historically unique group of homoerotic socialist woodblock prints and linocuts, proving either the naivety or open-mindedness of the state patrons and audiences of the time.

The exiled South-American installation artist who has been working for nearly two decades under the label “Heimatlose Volkskunst,” uses the civilisational waste (often of GDR origin) found in the streets and abandoned buildings of Berlin, fusing it with the relics and symbols of other ideologies and religions.

Art-Erhaltung, is an agglomerate of creative minds keenly interested in presenting artworks with a conceptual and philanthropic outlook. They encourage a polemical and philosophical discourse that questions the art world's unwritten conventions.

May 1-27, 2010, We-Fr: 1-6 pm, Sa: 3-7 pm, So: 2-6 pm.
More info: www.kunstraumrichardsorge.org/vorwaerts

Part of the Landsberger 54 Galerierundgang (gallery walk) taking place during Berlin Gallery Weekend.

Drawing courtesy Gert-Jan Akerboom.

The three artists who operate the gallery see the new premises as a platform not only for their own work but that of international artists. A vibrant atmosphere for exhibitions, artists meetings, art initiatives and other events will be part of the programme. The artists first met in the internationally recognised Baumwollspinnerei (former cotton mill) Leipzig, where they already have many contacts with galleries and other artists from Germany and overseas. The artists running Gallery G11 do not let the grass grow under their feet! Art works of many different kinds will find a place under their roof. For the visitor the gallery opens a provocative and challenging journey through today's European schools and artists studios. The opening exhibition will be a presententation of the three artists own work entitled "The Machinery of Perception," running from the 30 April to the end of of May 2010. It places the individual work of the artists in the foreground ( see details below, pictorial material enclosed). After this first exhibition the works of other international artists will be shown.

John Power, Lexander Prokogh and Hendrik Voerkel became acquainted in the artist studios of the Leipziger Baumwollspinnerei (cotton spinning mill) in building Number 11 in 2006. The work the approach to the work and the national backgrounds of the artists are very different, yet they united with a common vision of showing exactly these differences. From 2006 onwards they began exhibiting work together as Group 11 in the Baumwollspinnerei gallery tours. But it did not stop there. The desire to exhibit and bring together the work of other artists grew and the idea to open a G(ruppe)11 Gallery was born in 2008. 200 kilometers away from the artists studios in Leipzig in the delightful old Schultheiss brewery Landsberger Allee Berlin they founded their own Gallery in 2009.

Special Gallery Opening on Friday, 30 April 2010, 3-9 pm, Preview: April 28, 7 pm Saturday and Sunday, 1 and 2 May 2010, 11-10 pm

Part-time Playtime is an attempt to investigate work itself, specifically its mundane nature. Like the characters in the urban anthill of Jacques Tati's film Playtime, the artists' "fruits of labour" result from a series of ritualised motions, at different times obsessive, compulsive, and arbitrary. The work experience is stripped away from its normal everyday context in order to reveal its fundamental symptoms, the most significant of which is repetition.

Stemming from instinct rather than reaon, Renzo Marasca canvasses are said to be "war-like painting, a battle field of shapes and colors that have no chance of any peaceful solution."

Daniele Bordoni's videos, paintings and drawings are influenced by cinema and photography. The analysis of architectural structures and natural forms are basic features of his work.

Daniel Turner's practices range widely, including painting, sculpture, photography, and site-specific installations. He uses a number of unconventional materials, such as vinyl, antiseptics, kerosene, soot, and liquid aluminum. Turner's work often provokes opposing sensations in the audience; while his pieces induce a feeling of psychological or physical threat, they appear at the same time vulnerable and project a sense of calmness. One approaches them keenly yet tentatively.

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