KINDL – Centre for Contemporary Art is showing the new series "Berlin Fassaden" by the sculptor Asta Gröting. The point of departure for the sculptures in "Berlin Fassaden" is stories that are inscribed in the walls of buildings in Berlin—facades that still contain traces of the war in the form of bullet holes. Asta Gröting replicates the damaged walls in sculpture by making silicone impressions of them.
Shows & Exhibitions : Fine Art & Fine Craft
As a sculptor, Yang is known for her use of a variety of materials and diverse working methods. Her materials range from industrial mass-produced items to organic and immaterial things such as smells or noises. Her working method is labour-intensive both conceptually and in regard to the craftsmanship involved. At the KINDL she will use her most well-known material: window blinds, which have become a signature of her work.
Badischer Kunstverein presents the first survey exhibition by Lubaina Himid in Germany. As an artist, writer, and professor, Himid has dedicated her work to the discourse on migration, race, slavery and the representation of the Black body. Lubaina Himid played an active role in the Black Arts Movement in the 1980s and 1990s and curated a number of significant exhibitions of Black female artists.
To Become Two is the first comprehensive solo exhibition of artist Alex Martinis Roe in Germany. Martinis Roe’s project is driven by the parallel histories of several interconnected feminist communities in various places and imagines futures from them in conversation with groups of women from different generations. Over the last four years, she has worked dedicatedly with international feminist communities and institutions in Europe and Australia to develop a series of films and ongoing workshops.
Commissioners’ Exhibition suggests every noteworthy architectural endeavor is the result of a competent architect paired with an engaging commissioner. However, this relationship is often portrayed as antagonistic instead of being articulated as a common ground for production. In a considerably widespread perspective where the architect claims other experts and implementers as enemies of her/his design, the commissioner is also caricatured as “ignorant and tasteless.”
Co-curated by Huma Kabakcı and Mine Küçük, a group exhibition titled Past Meets Present will showcase a selection of works by 16 Turkish and international artists at Anna Laudel Contemporary from September 7 to October 13, 2017. All participating artists come from different artistic and cultural backgrounds yet their individual art practices are informed by a shared interest in the research, excavations and discoveries of historians, scientists and archaeologists.
Karshan-Schlitz: In Dialogue features drawings by Linda Karshan dating from 1996 – 2004, selected for this exhibition by curator Dr. Mark McDonald of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Prints & Drawings Dept.; and two large works on paper and a series of small drawings by Frauke Schlitz.
Land/Sea (Tir/Môr) is a major new solo exhibition by Wales-based artist Mike Perry, with an accompanying new Ffotogallery publication. Perry’s work engages with significant and pressing environmental issues, in particular the tension between human activity and interventions in the natural environment, and the fragility of the planet’s ecosystems.
Mesonya/ is sculptor Katinka Bock’s exhibition of new work made for Siobhan Davies Studios. This is the first of three visual artists’ commissions taking places in the Studios as part of the Traces Commissions programme. For her first solo presentation in the UK, Bock creates an installation in the extraordinary Roof Studio that responds to and emphasises the space’s constantly changing use.
Pilevneli Gallery of Istanbul to open its doors for the very first time. Located in the historical district of Dolapdere in Istanbul, Pilevneli Gallery is the realization of Murat Pilevneli's long term ambition to mark an exciting new chapter in contemporary art scene in Istanbul and in the region with an international perspective.