Plovdiv in Bulgaria, what a great place to be and do contemporary arts. Great food, sunny weather – interesting historic and modernist architecture and welcoming people mark this unique city.

Thanks to the invitation of Emil Mirazchiev from the Art Today Association I was able to attend 3 days of the 5 days long Facade Video Festival in September 2011, joining the video jury and presenting films from Detroit.

The setting of this international videofilm festival has been the exteriors and walls of the picturesque part of the Old Town in Plovdiv. On public market places the festival organizer screened over 5 days the 93 competition entries. While sitting outside we were watching videos with neighbors, invited guests, interested people and the art crowd from town. What a great way of experiencing for the most part experimental art videos with a wide range of people.

The jury of the video festival consisted of Plovdiv artist Sevdakina Kochevska, Sofia artist Adelina Popnedeleva, Sofia critic Svetlana Kujumdzhieva, Emil Mirazchiev, artist, festival initiator and director of Art Today Association  and me. The decision making process was not easy. Since the entries reached from emerging to advanced video artists, authors from 24 different countries, it took a while to come to a thoughtful decision. The FAÇADE VIDEO AWARD winner is Baptist Coelho - Something Terrible Has Happened. The selected Indian artist will be able to stay at the art residency of Art Today Association in 2012 and gets support in producing a new work. Congratulations.

During the Facade Video Festival I gave a presentation on my work in relation to art. Since I followed an invitation from a video festival I presented film projects of artist and filmmakers that spend time at the FILTER Detroit residency. The presentation ‚FILTER Detroit: transformation and observation’ included three film projects that worked with space, urban intervention and transformation. A music video by Nina Könnemann (D), a slide lecture performance by Fieke van Berkom (NL) and a feature film produced by New Hard Entertainment (USA).

Go to Plovdiv, if you get a chance it is a beautiful city!

In November and December this year the The New Hard Entertainment film crew came to live as artist in residences in the FILTER Detroit house to work on their film project with Detroit artists and actors from out of town. As a site for their film they used the former Woods cathedral church building, which they first had to clean out before using it. With the support and help of Detroit’s arts community and the immediate neighborhood they transformed it  into an active space for live film shoots while hosting brunches or organizing parties.

After three months of intensive on-site work they finished their film feature “The Man of Dodge City“. A film that somehow is a documentary of time and place in Detroit. Take a look on Vimeo to watch the trailer. Just before Christmas the crew dismantled and backed to go their homes in Oregon, Washington State and New York.

End of December 2010 FILTER Detroit welcomed the new long-term residents in the house. One of the resdidents is Detroiter Anderson Walworth, also known as the vocalist, guitar and bass player of the Detroit rock band ICrime and IT- Coordinator of the Allied Media Conference. Anderson shared the house together with the performance couple The Hinterlands (Liza Bielby and Richard Newman), who just moved from Milwaukee to Detroit to look for a sustainable environment for their physical theater company.

After a few months of location scouting they found the perfect place to stage their newly developed theater piece at the historic Jam Handy Film Studio. After a hot summer of rehearsals and puppet making they premiered their their site-specific, psychedelic Western „Manifest Destiny (there was blood on the saddle)“ on the 4^th of August in Detroit, followed up by three further sold out performances.

Manifest Destiny is involving the Wild West Show Culture as background material. The language of Cormac McCarthy and William S. Burroughs has inspired it. As a variety format of the Western tradition the Hinterlands involved different styles into the piece, from a puppet show to foot races – making it a participatory experience for the theater goers. As Richard Newman stated it was not a forced act, but rather gave the opportunity of participation- as a matter fact the audience had to move throughout the space to follow the play. A play that is looking at history, the western frontier, the pioneering and yet asks questions about this process and culture that extends into today’s engagement with and in the world. The Detroit audience was thrilled and if you want to experience and learn more about the multi-disciplinary work of the Hinterlands and their future projects check out their website. http://thehinterlandsensemble.org

Read also more about pioneering Detroit in July’s New York Times Article including the Hinterlands background and experience in the world of theater.

The Hinterlands (artist in residence FILTER Detroit), Chris Köver (guest resident) and neighbor Guido Marsille (artist in residence of the Power House Production project) chilling out on the porch after dancing.

Detroit resembles this living potpourri of different cultures and artistic agency that to the most part engages community. One may ask what do you mean by community? Good question – it is such an overused terminology for all sorts of contexts that it almost lost its meaning. In this case it is concerning the people that live in a city like Detroit and that shape and make Detroit.

End of May Kerstin Niemann and FILTER Detroit residency guest Chris Köver (Missy Magazin) experienced the Detroit Electronic Music Festival called Movement. An annual series of electronic dance music showcases held in Detroit since 2000. Thanks to the support of Underground Resistance we were able to access and witness old school and emerging acts of electronic dance music. An amazing experience seeing about 100.000 people invading the city center of Detroit.

Growing up with electronic music let us appreciate initiatives and acts as well as old-fashioned techno dress code obedient visitors of the festival. We enjoyed the most the adjacent acts and events that were taking place outside the festival territory. Derrick May organized an amazing art show at his place with artists such as Jessica Care Moore or mash street culture artist Mike Han. For the most part Omar-S blew our minds, he made us jump and dance all night at 1515 Broadway. By the way during daytime you can enjoy excellent Croissants and Café at 1515 Broadway.

But dancing makes hungry and we made sure to eat the good stuff. Thanks god Aladdins Sweets & Cafe is only 8 minutes walking from the FILTER Detroit residency on Conant Street. This Indian and Bangladeshi restaurant provides noutricious dishes and certainly sweets.

The Bangladeshi neighbors of FILTER Detroit are much more inclined in growing and cooking their own foods. Around lunch time you have these great mélange of home cooking scents in the air. Since the beautiful backyard of the FILTER Detroit residence provides space it was time to look into growing your own food. And it makes sense because Detroit somehow evolved into this Mecca for urban farming, so there are ways of starting out without knowing too much about gardening and without investing too much money into it.

Together with Liza Bielby (The Hinterlands), the residents of the FILTER Detroit residency I signed up for the Garden Resource Program in Detroit. Through urban gardening and agriculture projects they engage with community. They count ca. 15.000 urban gardeners in Detroit, Hamtramck and Highland Park. As participants of this program we received practical advice, seeds (sunflower, chamomile, etc.) transplants (peppers, tomatoes, eggplants, etc) and were encouraged to volunteer and network into the neighborhood cluster programs. First of all Chris Köver and me built a small raised garden bed with four wooden timber posts and fresh garden mould. Liza and me hardened the transplants for about 48 hours and then planted the transplants and seeds end of May. Hoping that something will come out of it by late summer, fall.

Dutch Dinner Party - Photographer artist and long time Detroit resident Corine Vermeulen (of Dutch decend) as well as 9 weeks Dutch artist in residence Guido Marsille from the Power House Production project cooked for invited guests and neighbors.  Starter: Cheese hedgehog - than we neighbors were served a delicious “Stamppot met worst” (mashed potatoes with kale and meat balls) and certainly not missing desert. Welkom. I guess socio cultural projects start right there - across the street, with your neighbor or in your backyard…

PUBLICATION LAUNCH: WEDNESDAY, 25th of MAY, 7-9pm

P12645, FILTER Detroit

Volume 1: In collaboration with Bauhaus Universität Weimar and the College for Creative Studies.

FILTER Detroit proudly presents after a series of researchers, visitors, projects and investigations, the FIRST VOLUME OF A PUBLICATION about a collaborative project with the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar and the College for Creative Studies.

P12645 has been a transnational experimental research project about the structural and creative developments in a neighborhood in Detroit shaped by insider and outsider perspectives.

Enjoy this publication in various ways:

as a documentation of time and place,

a reader,

a travel diary

a theoretical starter kid

a qualitative researched data analysis of the neighborhood

a photobook

Get it and ORDER ONLINE: Lulu Online Printing or through Half Letter Press

P 12645 FILTER Detroit, Volume 1 started as a series of discussions and seminars in and outside of Detroit. Over the course of one year it evolved into a 10-day research field trip of 8 Urban Heritage PhD students to FILTER DETROIT. A collaboration with the graphic design department of the College for Creative Studies, by name Susan LaPorte and her class and a series of on site visits and investigations to artists, urban farmers, activists, cultural institutions and urban planners in Detroit resulted in a series of essays and visuals, written by PhD students, Kerstin Niemann, Prof. Dr. Frank Eckardt, Susan LaPorte and Jessica Tiernan. A class of design students from CCS added their perspective and styles in correlation to the texts. P12645, a group of three amazing young designers , Amanda Matzenbach, Jessica Tiernan and Martin Wysor, offered one of the most challenging design solutions and made this publication come to live.

The publication launch took place at the FILTER DETROIT RESIDENCE ON MORAN STREET.

Designers, residents, intitiators, neighbors and interested parties engaged in talks, discussions, food and fun.

Künstlerhaus Sootbörn, Sootbörn 22, Hamburg

How is Detroit shaped by art and cultural initiatives? How does Detroit shape them? And what are the effects of these developments for the immediate vicinities and the development of the city itself? Questions, that can’t be answered in a weekend. But questions that can evoke further questions about (post) urban negotiation of space, transformative processes and textures particularly with regard to urban development projects in Hamburg.

Rick - “Your town tomorrow”, photo by Corine Vermeulen

Friday, 26th of November, 6pm

People, Places and Products made in Detroit

An installation performance by Dutch photographer Fieke van Berkom. Fieke has been a guest of the FILTER DETROIT Research Residence this summer. „ It’s not about who or what isn’t there. It’s all about the people and the places who are there. Struggling with love and hate. I show you.”

Moran Street neighborhood, FILTER DETROIT

Saturday, 27th of November,

(Post) urban life and transformation in the neighborhood of Detroit

How do people shape their life’s in an urban area as Detroit now and which forms of transformation can be seen in their immediate neighborhoods?

4pm: Lecture demonstration by artists Nikos Doulos | João Evangelista. In “Translation Process: Archive of Impressions - Station #3: applied translation” they talk about their experience living in Detroit. In the summer of 2010 they have been the first artists of the residency pilot program organized by Expodium (Utrecht), platform for young art, in collaboration with 555 Gallery and the Yes Farm in Detroit. Expodiumwants to establish a long-term relationship with institutions and people in Detroit. The results of the three months stay of Nikos and João in Detroit have been presented in 3 Stations back in Europe; Hamburg will be Station Number 3.

Tea and waffles will enrich the program of the afternoon and invites to stay till the evening for the following program

7pm: Lecture by Prof. Dr. Frank Eckhardt (Bauhaus University of Weimar) about the research field trip to FITLER DETROIT with his „Urban Heritage” PhD research group. He will talk about „Urban Heritage and transformation in the Moran Street neighborhood“. In collaboration with design students from the College for Creative Studies the PhD students submitted their ideas, analysis and research on Detroit and the design students from Detroit will pick up their content and shape it into a publication also in relation to their visual and contextual experience of the city.

Detroit, Foto by Fieke van Berkom

Sunday, 28th of November

Myths, Stereotypes, Histories and Facts about Detroit

How is Detroit presented in the (mass) media?

3 to 5pm: moderated film program with documentations, music videos and commercial campaigns. Who is staging image campaigns and how are social networks used? Which influence has that on the perception of a city? Look forward to a feature of Underground Resistance amongst others.

FILTER DETROIT and the Künstlerhaus Sootbörn are looking forward to your visit and your participation in the program.

The program is realized by Kerstin Niemann (FILTER DETROIT).

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Künstlerhaus Sootbörn is sponsored by the city council for the arts; media and sports of the city of Hamburg and with kind support of Verein Ateliers für die Kunst e. V. Hamburg.

Special thanks to: all participating artists and initiatives, Danielle Aubert, Volker Lang, Roland Helmus, Gesa Lange and Thomas Jehnert.

Opening hours Künstlerhaus Sootbörn:

26.11, 7pm – open end

27.11, 3-8pm

28.11, 3-8pm

Address:

Sootbörn 22, 22453 Hamburg, Phone: + 49 o4o - 58 91 76 36

w w w . k u e n s t l e r h a u s – s o o t b o e r n . d e

What is FILTER DETROIT: FILTER DETROIT is the little sister of FILTER; a platform for international contemporary art and culture. FILTER DETROIT researches structural and cultural processes of transformation in the urban landscape of Detroit. / FILTER DETROIT is a research residence for artists and cultural producers and makers from Detroit and outside of Detroit. /FILTER DETROIT collaborates with Detroit’s cultural institutions and initiatives as well as internationally. / FILTER DETROIT is building up a living archive, a constantly transforming archive of information, documentation, knowledge, activity and space about urban interventions as well as social and artistic movements in Detroit and particularly on Moran Street in Detroit.

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The Tree of Heaven Woodshops: Annette Weisser, Ingo Vetter und Mitch Cope as well as other helpers from Detroit worked more on the ‘Tree of Heaven Farm’ this summer. They set up a new fence out of tree of heaven branches for the farm, which looks great next to the FILTER DETROIT research residency.

Fieke van Berkom was the last guest at FILTER DETROIT this summer. While traveling through North America the Dutch photographer decided to stop in Detroit. For FILTER DETROIT she organized a bike and was cruising around in the city with it all the time exploring the visual landscapes.

Fieke van Berkom in Detroit

30th of JUNE 2010, 3 pm MEZ

The Autonomy Project - redefining autonomy in contemporary art

Skype session at FILTER DETROIT with students and professors from the PhD program „Urban Heritage“ of the University of Weimar as well as the College for Creative Studies in Detroit with participants and initiators from the Summer School: the Autonomy Project. http://theautonomyproject.ning.com

The Autonomy project is an international collaboration, which seeks to redefine autonomy in the age of a globalizing contemporary art industry. Participating institutions include: Dutch Art Institute, NL, Grizedale Art Centre, UK, Filter-Hamburg, DE/Detroit, USA, Liverpool Art and Design Academy, UK, Lectoraat Kunst en Publiek Ruimte, NL, Onderzoekschool Kunstgeschiedenis, NL, Onomatopee, NL, University of Hildesheim, Kunstwissenschaft, DE and Van Abbemuseum, NL.

Naira, Delphine, Jerzy and Kerstin ( who is taking the pic) skyping with the participants of the Autonomy Summer School in Eindhoven, Location: Cafe 1923 in Detroit

Location: Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, NL

www.vanabbemuseum.nl

20th of June - 1st of July 2010

Research field trip from „Urban Heritage“ PhD students of the Bauhaus University of Weimar in collaboration with the College for Creative Studies (CCS) in Detroit.

FILTER DETROIT asks the PhD students to explore the immediate vicinity of the Moran Street using their own research skills and practices. Under the guidance of Prof. Dr. Frank Eckhardt (Bauhaus University in Weimar), Susan La Porte and Doug Kisor (CCS) as well as Kerstin Niemann (FILTER DETROIT) they will document their findings. Their visual, theoretical or physical input will be taken over by students from theCollege for Creative Studies and then further worked on. The collaborative results become part of the Living Archive of FILTER DETROIT.

Bi-national PhD Program Urban Heritage: The doctorate program is dedicated to the research complex of cultural heritage in the context of contemporary and future urban development. It operates with an expanded concept of “heritage”, transcending historic preservation and urban development policies characterized by awareness of history. This concept considers the political and sociological constitution of the city as deserving conservation in regard to its capacity for social integration and local democracy.

Location: FILTER DETROIT, 12645 Moran Street, MI 48212 Detroit

The hospitality of Design 99, an experimental project and retail space for art, design and architecture, enables FILTER to travel to Detroit from 22nd of August till the 26th of August 2009.

Storefront Design 99, Foto: Mitch Cope/Gina Reichert

In their retail storefront Design 99 will present a documentation of the work of Hamburg artist Jörn Stahlschmidt together with a CD of his collaborative music project Dissamonix. FILTER already exhibited sculptor, drawer, painter and musician Stahlschmidt in a single and several group presentations in and outside of Hamburg.

With the support of “WSW#3″ aka the Association for Contemporary Art Hamburg, FILTER is able to spend time in Detroit. The third edition of „WSW“ (dt.-Wir sind woanders / engl. -we’re somewhere else) is relating to the issues of “traveling” and “demonstrating presence”. As part of the “WSW#3” missions every participant, such as FILTER, introduces Hamburg’s art initiatives and activities to the visited city and its citizens. Therefore FILTER asked Design 99, who believe that contemporary architecture and design is not reserved for a select audience, to develop a design for the so-called „Hamburger Koffer“ (dt. Hamburg suitcase), a suitcase full of information about various independent art spaces and initiatives in Hamburg.

For more information about the participating initiatives please visit their websites:

Association for Contemporary Art - http://www.wirsindwoanders.de
Design 99 - http://www.visitdesign99.com

The introduction of Jörn Stahlschmidt’s work to the city of Detroit as well as the collaborative work of Design 99 for the „Hamburg Koffer“ is the beginning of a pursuing investigation of FILTER with artists, musicians, designers, architects and cultural activists in and with the city of Detroit.

Together with Design99 (US), Partizan Publik (NL), Femke Lutgerink (NL), Toby Barlow (US) and others FILTER tries to refurbish an empty house in Detroit.  It is planned to establish a cultural exchange with the house and its immediate neighborhood. Among others Hamburg artists should be enabled to investigate and work there in the future.

House in Hamtramck neighborhood, Foto: Mitch Cope

Gina Reichert in backyard of Hamtramck house, Foto: Mitch Cope

Opening: 12th of December, 7pm

Duration: December 12^th 2008 till January 11^th 2009

// Shotgun Architecture at P40

A sound and light installation by Justin Bennett

Can one make sound visible? What happens to our thought processes and emotional perception when sound and its movement is performed or even manipulated in space?

Mapping urban space and its architecture through the sound of a gunshot, the method Justin Bennett is currently using, entails numerous domains of expression. FILTER invited Bennett for his first solo presentation in Hamburg to work on a site-specific presentation at P40. P40 is a turn of the century building with an ornamental red brick façade, a cupola roof and spaces with high ceilings. Built as pathology department for the Eilbek hospital until its privatization the space has been used and redefined for different purposes over the last decade.

Justin Bennett analyzed this piece of architecture with a gunshot and recorded its echoes. A gunshot is a simple sound element that we seem to know how to identify and detect. But what happens if your initial senses are deceived? Sound and vision can transpose a physical space and illustrate an imaginary space. Shotgun Architecture at P40 is the result of this interaction, a site-specific sound and light installation with a set of “Noise Maps”.

This exhibition is a collaborative project with the Dutch edition label ONOMATOPEE. Together with the artist ONOMATOPEE produced a 10 inch record and poster of Shotgun Architecture by Justin Bennett (www.onomatopee.net)

Further information on the artist please visit:

http://this.is/justin

http://this.is/bmbcon

http://spore.soundscaper.com

Contact ONOMATOPEE  

Freek Lomme/ Remco van Bladel

Kanaalstraat 8
5611 CT Eindhoven
The Netherlands
office: 0031 (0) 40 202 78 85

www.onomatopee.net

www.remcovanbladel.nl

opening hours: Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays: 3 till 6 pm and on appointment (closed 24.12 and 31.12)

location: FILTER zu Gast bei P40, Alte Pathologie, Friedrichsberger Strasse 32, Hamburg

directions FILTER-:

U2 until Hamburger Straße, then take Holsteinischer Kamp until the end (ca. 500 m), then cross the street to the left until the old red brick building.

Alternative:

S1 until Friedrichsberg, then cross the terrain of the hospital until you reach

Friedrichsberger Straße, on your left-hand side you see an old red brick building.

Shotgun Architecture at P40

curators: Kerstin Niemann and Freek Lomme

initiative: FILTER/Kerstin Niemann and ONOMATOPEE/Remco van Bladel

assistance: Inga-Lena Vöpel

in collaboration with:

ONOMATOPEE (Eindhoven, NL) / KuBaSta Kunst Bauen Stadtentwicklung e. V (Hamburg, D)

with kind support of:

Stroom Den Haag (NL), KuBaSta Kunst Bauen Stadtentwicklung e. V. (Hamburg, D) und/and Lebenswertes Barmbek-Süd (Hamburg, D)

special thanks to:

Matthias Lintl, Gabriel Dubois, Plus GbR, Quartiersbüro Barmbek Süd, Dieter Söngen, und/and Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven (NL)

COMMON PLACE

Taking the idea of „common space“ as a starting point, Filter’s next exhibition features the work of urban photographer Akinbode Akinbiyi exploring cityscapes in Lagos, Nigeria and elsewhere. The word “commonplace” invokes the idea of something pedestrian, familiar and therefore often overlooked. Reflecting on the realities of everyday urban life in not only West Africa but also elsewhere, Akinbiyi’s work exposes the politics of place in a city’s common space. After having spent the last decades in constant transition between Berlin, Lagos and many other metropolises, Akinbode Akinbiyi’s images relate his autobiographical experience walking the city’s many surfaces – places which have been marked by the globalizing forces of media and business, and still others being negotiated in multicultural neighbourhoods.

The project is initiated by FILTER in collaboration with South-African curator Clare Butcher. Together with the exhibition of Akinbode Akinbiyi, FILTER is organizing a workshop. A selection of Akinbiyi’s works will be presented together with the results of the photo workshop, images taken by young people living in the immediate P40 neighbourhood.

“Common Space” is the first single exhibition of Akinbode Akinbiyi in Hamburg. The exhibition of his works at FILTER comes at the same time as the European Month of Photography in Berlin. Here, Akinbiyi, as a well known photographer and curator (Founder of  “Recontres 2007”, the international photography biennial in Bamako, Mali), will present a selection of current African photography based on the subject of urbanism. Ifa-gallery Berlin, will present these works as part of the series, “Spot on”,from the 24.10.2008 until 11.01.2009. For further information please visit http://www.mdf-berlin.de/

Curator:         Clare Butcher

Initiative:        FILTER/Kerstin Niemann

Assistance:   Inga-Lena Vöpel

Opening:       “Common Place” 19th of October, 3pm

Duration:       19th of October until 2nd of November 2008

Opening hours: Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays: 2 till 6 pm

and after appointment

Workshop Theme:    What are you favourite locations and space in your neighbourhood? Where do you spend time with your friends?

Workshop Time: 18th of October, 2-5pm

Calre Butcher (curator) with workshop guests

Workshop in Barmbek

Workshop display

Location: FILTER at P40, Alte Pathologie, Friedrichsberger Strasse, Barmbek-Süd

 Directions FILTER/P40: U2 until Hamburger Straße, then take Holsteinischer Kamp until the end (ca. 500 m), then cross the street to the left until the old red bricklike building.

Alternative: S1 until Friedrichsberg, then cross the terrain of the hospital until you reach

Friedrichsberger Straße, on your left-hand side you see an old red brick building.

„Suppport Structure”

Celine Condorelli (UK) presents the idea of ” Eastside Projects “, a recently opened experimental exhibition space for contemporary art and culture in Birmingham. *The lecture of Celine Condorelli is in English!

5th of June 2008, 7pm

location: P40, Alte Pathologie, Friedrichsberger Strasse, Barmbek-Süd

„Support Structure”

“Eastside Projects” is an organization led by artists, promoted from the Arts Council England West Midlands (ACEWM) in connection with the Birmingham City University (BCU), which understands itself as an incubator of new ideas and forms of art related activities in the city of Birmingham and beyond.
At this place it is worked on the development of a new type of exhibition platform, a complex, developing program with reference to radical historic positions and a gallery space specific identity.

“Eastside Projects” is a unique example of an art space where design, organization and architecture are an integral component of the program. The gallery manager Gavin Wade cooperates with the architect Celine
Condorelli and the graphic designer James Langdon to maintain a visual and spatial development in the course of the time. The building allows developing itself, to change and to grow in accordance with creative needs.

These conditions are dependent on a flexible and changing exhibition structure and depend on a strong integration in its direct as well as bigger context. (www.eastsideprojects.org)

We are looking forward to present this form of co-operation and conceptual development particularly in regards to the conceptual future of P40. In connection with this lecture we invite you to a small dinner in P40 where you will have the possibility to discuss concepts and strategies for the advancement of P40 together with locally involved guests from the area of art and culture, architecture, design, but also from the field of urban development.

We ask you to register for this event. Please contact: info@filter-hamburg.com

Realization Kerstin Niemann
Celine Condorelli is a London-based architect, whose practice is concerned with architecture as support and interface, developing critical models towards exhibition making and public space.
Location: P40, Alte Pathologie, Friedrichsberger Strasse, Barmbek-Süd

Directions: U2 until Hamburger Strasse, then take Holsteinischer Kamp until the end (ca. 500 m), then cross the street to the left unti the old red bricklike building.
Alternative: S1 until Friedrichsberg, then cross the terrain of the hospital until you reach Friedrichsberger Strasse, on your lefthand side you see an old red brick building.
Filter is a plattform for international contemporary art in Hamburg

FILTER Kerstin Niemann
Bachstrasse 85
D -22083 Hamburg
info@filter-hamburg.com
www.filter-hamburg.com
with kind support of:
KuBaSta Kunst Bauen Stadtentwicklung e.V. and Lebenswertes Barmbek-Süd

special thanks to:
P 40 Team and Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven

Images

Support structure Eastsidegaller

„In der Bar um die Ecke”

Powerplant präsentiert erstmalig in Deutschland ihre neue Multi-Media Performance-Installation „In der Bar um die Ecke”, die eine post-nukleare Landschaft im Jahr 2087 nach dem VII Weltkrieg portraitiert. In Form eines Miniaturpuppenspiels, dessen Szenen zeitgleich in großen Projektionen in den Zuschauerraum übertragen werden, liefert das Künstlerkollektiv ein „live expanded cinema” Erlebnis sonder Gleichen.

Der nur 2.34 Sekunden andauernde Weltkrieg transformiert die chemischen Parameter des Planeten Erde auf so unermessliche Weise, dass nur eine Handvoll Lebewesen diesen überleben. Aber wie lebt es sich eigentlich umgeben von Luxusgütern, die einem bei der Transformation des eignen Körpers nicht weiter behilflich sein können? Unter den Überlebenden befinden sich unter anderen ein mutiertes Riesenbaby und zwei ausrangierte Power Ranger, Ex-Helden, arbeitslos und ohne Superheldenstatus, auf der Suche nach dem Sinn ihrer Existenz…

Powerplant das sind Krista Burger und Nina Thibo mit der Unterstützung von Antoinette Thiery, Komposition Jakob Diehl.

Powerplant sieht sich selbst als zeitgenössisches Produkt der westlichen Konsumgesellschaft. Wichtige Themenschwerpunkte in ihren Arbeiten sind der Einfluss der Menschheit auf die Natur und die sich daraus ergebenden Konsequenzen. Weitere Informationen zu den Performance und der Arbeit von Powerplant finden sie unter: www.powerplant.nl

Datum: 18.4.2008, Beginn 21.00 Uhr
Ort: P 40 (Alte Pathologie AK Eilbek, Friedrichsberger Strasse, Hamburg)
Eintritt: 3 EUR

Anfahrt: U 2 bis Hamburger Straße, dann Holsteinischer Kamp entlang bis zum Ende (ca. 500 m), dann schräg links über die Straße. S 1 bis Friedrichsberg, dann durchs Krankenhaus Gelände bis Friedrichsberger Straße.

Diese Veranstaltung ist eine Kooperation von FILTER mit KuBaSta e.V. Der Verein Kunst Bauen Stadtentwicklung (KuBaSta e.V.) nutzt in den kommenden Monaten die ehem. Pathologie des AK Eilbek, P 40, um verschiedenste Kunst- und Kulturformate zu erproben und zusammen mit Interessenten und Investoren ein künftiges Nutzungskonzept zu entwickeln. Im Herbst soll das Gebäude saniert werden und fortan eine neue Bestimmung haben. Weitere Infos unter www.p-40.de

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LaufzeitDuration: 20.11-26.11.2007

Die Aufbauphase ist bereits Teil der AusstellungThe installation period is already part of the exhibition project.

EröffnungOpening: 22.11.2007, 7pm

ÖffnungszeitenOpening times;
Di. - So, 15 bis 20 Uhr und nach telefonischer VereinbarungTue. - Sun., 3-8pm and by appointment

Ausstellungsort / Location:
FILTER c/o SKAM e. V.
Beim Trichter 1 (Reeperbahn), D-20359 Hamburg

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Special: Filmabend / Special event: film screening
23.11.2007, 9pm

FROZEN CIRROSTRATUS RETURNS presents:
Guerrilla Scope spezial from Eindhoven

Guerrilla Scope Mobiles Kino mit Film, Video und audiovisueller Kunst von
über 20 Eindhovener Künstlern ausgewählt von Luk Sponselee / Guerrilla Scope
Mobile cinema with film, video and audio-visual art by over 20 Eindhoven
artists selected by Luk Sponselee.

Präsentation in Zusammenarbeit mit FILTER und Brachmanns Galeron, Hamburg /
Presentation in collaboration between FILTER and Brachmanns Galeron, Hamburg

Ort / Location:
Brachmanns Galeron, Hein-Hoyer-Straße 60 (U St. Pauli), Hamburg

Texte/texts

WEbinfo FRozen Cirrostratus returns

Bilder/images

Aaron van Erp
Aaron van Erp, Untitled, 2004, 80 x 180 cm

Aelot (Ramon Hulspas and Erik Vermeulen), De wereld vol met spullen, 2007, installation view EDIT festival 2007, Eindhoven

Mark Kent, Rough Sleeping Patterns, 2007, installation view Art Forum Berlin

Martijn Sanders, Isn’t it enough to see a garden, 2007, installation view Galerie Saekkers / Other Things, Eindhoven

11.11, 3-5pm

Wonderful occurrences and other fairytales

Mythical creatures, forms and colors – to understand life and the world as it is, as it is told to be, as it can be, as it must be or shall never be. The combination of imagination and reality in stories, oral traditions, images and objects can create new structures of thinking and possibilities to obtain knowledge, to recognize relations and to ask questions. Angela Carter, a journalist and storyteller, summarized the characteristic of oral story telling, classic fairy tales like the Brothers Grimm as well as the postmodern fairy tale as follows: “As fairy tales, folk tales, stories from the oral tradition, all of them are the most vital connection we have with the imaginations of the ordinary men and women whose labor created our world. ”

In how far three different artistic positions reflect these stories in their own way sharpen the perception or activate thoughts, you can eventually experience in this exhibition. In her series of 16 drawings, Nina Lola Bachhuber (USA) is using the medium of drawing as a lyrical element. Within one drawing occur changes between the realms of abstraction and figuration. The detailed lines and organic structures play with the human perception of familiar shapes and bodies. Yesim Akdeniz Graf (D) produced specially a collage painting for the exhibition. You can see a young woman next to a portrait of an elderly lady. Loaded with drama the image is represented like a performative act. Thus the painting is an ideal breeding ground for a narrative. Referring to the question about her subjects and motives Akdeniz Graf states: “Images are metaphors of the stories that interest me. I am developing certain logic for my pictures and then they do resolve again. The resolution opens the way to something else.” Whereas Henk Visch (NL) exposes the traditional lines of modern sculpture, between figuration and abstraction. His provocative presentation of details, and the abstraction of his objects are suspense. In association to that the viewer may create new forms between perception and memory.

Furthermore FILTER invited interested contemporary fairy- and storytellers to send their story to FILTER. All incoming stories can be looked at during the exhibition, among others documentations and stories from: David Tompkins (USA), Dirk Meinzer (D), Georges Le Bar (USA), Gil + Moti (NL), Birgit Schlieps (D), Andreas L. Hofbauer (D), Konstantin Griesser (D), Doris Kollmann (D), Christian Klose. A selection of the fairytales and stories sent in will be presented on the 11th of October, 3-5pm, if not even of the fairytale tellers personally.

Realized by Kerstin Niemann

Facts about the exhibition

Duration

3.11 until 11.11

Opening

2.11, 7pm

Story telling hour: Storytellers introduce their fairytales!
11.11, 3-5pm

Opening times

3.11, 3-7pm / 4.11, 3-7pm
5.11-9.11 by appointment
10.11, 3-7pm /11.11, 3-7pm

Location

General Public
Schönhauser Allee 167c
D-10435 Berlin

FILTER is an international platform for contemporary art in Hamburg
FILTER Kerstin Niemann
Bachstrasse 85, D-22083 Hamburg
info@filter-hamburg.com
www.filter-hamburg.com

With kind support of and in cooperation with:

General Public
Schönhauser Allee 167c, D-10435 Berlin
info@generalpublic.de
www.generalpublic.de

Special thanks to:
die teilnehmenden KünstlerInnen,
Produzentengalerie Hamburg,
YOSHIKO MATSUMOTO GALLERY,
Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven sowie
Julia Reinicke und Oliver Baurhenn

Texts

Images

1.
Yesim Akdeniz Graf
Untitled, 2007
Acryl and oil on canvas
170 x 140 cm

4.
Yesim Akdeniz Graf
do you know where you are going to, 2007
Acryl and oil on canvas
230 x 200 cm

Henk Visch
Which of us do you think is right?
2007
Mixed media sculpture, 2 parts
Height 60 cm

Henk Visch
Ik was een vrouw
2007
Mixed media sculpture
Height 150 cm

Nina Lola Bachhuber
Untitled,
2005
Series of 16 drawings, ink and pen on paper
24 * 32 cm each

PLEASE NOTE:
Die Werke dieser Ausstellung stehen zum Verkauf. Die Preise erhalten Sie auf Anfrage! | The works of he exhibition are for sale. Prizes upon request.

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Exhibition view: Wunderbare Begebenheiten und andere Märchen / Wonderful occurences and other fairytales

Presents-
Infiltration and Sound(e)scape:

A collaborative exhibition project of Senda-Espai 2nou2 (Barcelona) and
FILTER (Hamburg) initiated by Jocelyn Adele Gonzales Junco with
BOGOMIR ECKER (D), CAO FEI (C), JAKOB JENSEN (DK), STEFAN ROIGK (D) and
CARLOS ROQUE (P/USA). Curated by Kerstin Niemann (D/NL)

Opening 13th of June, 7pm

with visual sound performance by Rubin van Kooyk, Younes Riad, Van Kooyk & Siem Nozza

Duration:
13th - 30th of June 2007

Location:
Senda-Espai 2nou2
Consell de Cent, 292
ES-08007 Barcelona

Tel:+34 93 4875711
Espai2nou2@formabinari.com

Hours:
Thursday to Saturday from 5 to 8 pm

Contact:
Senda-Espai 2nou2
Jocelyn Adele Gonzales Junco
Consell de Cent, 292
ES-08007 Barcelona
www.galeriasenda.com

Tel:+34 93 4875711
Espai2nou2@formabinari.com
< Texte/texts

INFILTRATION AND SOUND(E)SCAPE
Wanna get away >from it all? Tired with the daily routine?
To listen to music can be like entering another dimension,
an escape from reality, but it can also be like travelling in time,
something that triggers memory, so that places and situations
connected to the sound are coming to mind. The five invited
artists of Infiltration and Sound(e)scape examine and
contextualize sound experiences and acoustic environments of
the everyday life in (urban) space,
Including scientific ways of looking at things Bogomir Ecker´s
themes are scene perception and communication, in particular sight and hearing.
He infiltrates the gallery space with a metallic ear sculpture.
Cao Fei?s video Hip Hop Fukuoka (2005) captures every day people
moving to a steady rhythm that appears like a performative
re-enactment of music video of the early days of MTV.
Rock is my Life, and this is my Song is a quote from a
Bachman-Turner-Overdrive? record that becomes the focus
point of Jakob Jensen´s sculptural sound installation.
In his paper drawings Carlos Roque mixes popular culture
and comic books that visually examines urban culture and the
predominant role of the values of rock music.
Stefan Roigk creates a black and white wall piece.
It is a sound piece without hearing sound, paper collage,
an assemblage of photographs and text fragments,
put together in form of a score.

Bilder/images

Bogomir Ecker
Ohr (engl. Ear)
1986
lackiertes Eisenblech, rot
32,5 x 23,4 x 6 cm
Courtesy Produzentenfalerie Hamburg
Photo: Peter Sander, Hamburg

Cao Fei
Hip Hop Fukuoka
2005
single channel color video, with sound
duration 7 minutes
Courtesy of the artist and Lombard-Freid Projects

Carlos Roque
Bklyn#12
2005
permanent markers on paper
96,5 x 127 cm (framed)
Courtesy Casado Santa Pau Gallery

Jakob Jensen
Rock is my Life, and this is my Song
2005
stereo, record, wood, paint, mdf, cardboard, found photo
installation view
Courtesy of the artist

Stefan-Roigk

Tjorg Douglas Beer
Gabriel Dubois
Volker Hüller
HÜX’L
Kora Jünger
Eske Schlüters
Jörn Stahlschmidt/Cordula Ditz
Malte Urbschat
Anke Wenzel/Dirk Meinzer

realized by Kerstin Niemann

Als ein Austauschprojekt werden in Eindhoven Hamburger Kuenstler gefeatured und im Herbst/Winter 2007 werden Eindhovener Kuenstler in Hamburg vorgestellt.

Eroeffnung: 18 Mai, 19-24 Uhr

Laufzeit: 18 May bis Mitte Juni/ nach Absprache

Ort:
SAEKKERS Gallery
Leenderweg 110-112
Eindhoven
Netherlands

www.myspace.com/saekkers
stichtingaelot@hotmail.com

ENGLISCHE VERSION:

FROZEN CIRROSTRATUS
is a collaborative exhibition project betwen SAEKKERS gallery from Eindhoven and FILTER from Hamburg.

As an exchange project it featurs Hamburg artists in Eindhoven and will continue in fall/winter 2007 featuring Eindhoven artists in Hamburg.

Tjorg Douglas Beer
Gabriel Dubois
Volker Hüller
HÜX’L
Kora Jünger
Eske Schlüters
Jörn Stahlschmidt/Cordula Ditz
Malte Urbschat
Anke Wenzel/Dirk Meinzer

realized by Kerstin Niemann

Opening: 18 of May, 7-12pm

18th of May until midst of June/ after appointment

Location:
SAEKKERS Gallery
Leenderweg 110-112
Eindhoven
Netherlands

www.myspace.com/saekkers
stichtingaelot@hotmail.com

Texte/texts Bilder/images

33rd question by Sabine B. Vogel, Kunstundbuecher, Wien, Austria:
Why are we so much in love with explanations?

43rd question by Lars Grambye, Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, Sweden:
What is important?

Eröffnung / Opening
4. November 2006, 18 Uhr / November 4th, 6 pm

Ausstellungsdauer / Duration of Exhibition
3. bis 5. November 2006 / 3rd until 5th of November 2006

Öffnungszeiten / Opening Hours*
Freitag: ab 17 Uhr/ Friday starting from 5pm
Samstag: ab 18 Uhr/ Saturday starting from 6pm
Sonntag: jederzeit von Außen sichtbar/ Sunday: any time visible from the outside

* Die Installation ist zu jeder Tageszeit von Außen sichtbar ist! /
The installation can be seen from outside any time of the day!

Zusammengetragen von / Organized by
Kerstin Niemann

Realisation im Rahmen der Veranstaltung/ Realization in reference to
Wir Sind Woanders (2.11.06 -12.11.06)
Symposion der Hamburger Kunstorte / Symposia of art spaces in Hamburg www.wirsindwoanders.de

Vielen Dank an / Many thanks to:
Erwin van Doorn, Eric de Haas, Nils Kunz and Tim Voss,

Texte/texts
Informationen zur Installation / Information to the installation

Erwin van Doorn
Escape Tour

Idee
2003, eine Gruppe von KünstlerInnen aus Eindhoven haben das dringende Bedürfnis ein Kollektiv zu gründen:
Um die Grundprinzipien für ein Manifest dieser Gruppe festzulegen wurde ein Fragebogen konzipiert.
Dabei stellte sich schnell heraus, dass die Fragen keine Antworten bedingen, aber stattdessen weitere Fragen hervorrufen.
In Reaktion auf diese Feststellung begründet der Künstler Erwin van Doorn (Eindhoven, NL) die Idee der Escape Tour.

Prozess und Realisation
Welche Frage provoziert eine Antwort? Angeregt durch den Fragenprozess forderte der Eindhovener Künstler Erwin van Doorn Direktoren, Initiatoren,
Organisatoren, Kuratoren, Schreiber und andere kultureller Institutionen auf, eine Frage zu stellen.

Nachdem die ersten Fragen eingegangen waren wurde überlegt wie es weiter gehen soll und was als nächstes zu tun ist.
In Anbetracht der Verhältnisse der Fragen und von wem oder aus welcher Motivation sie gestellt wurden,
überlegte sich Erwin van Doorn, wie diese beantwortet werden können.

Möglicherweise kann eine Antwort durch die Einrichtung eines Archivs der Fragen generiert werden,
die in einer mobilen Einheit zusammen getragen werden. In dieser mobilen Einheit tourt man zu den gestellten
Fragen um nach möglichen Antworten zu suchen. Die Antworten können an den Orten, von denen die Fragen stammen,
zum Beispiel in Form von Performances, Videos, Zeichnungen, Installationen und Ausstellungen gegeben werden.
Zwischenzeitlich wird jede Form von Antwort dokumentiert, archiviert und zur Präsentation während der Tour bereitgehalten.

Bei FILTER besteht die Möglichkeit einige der Fragen zu erforschen!

Erwin van Doorn
Escape Tour

Idea
2003, a group of artists from Eindhoven (NL) with an urge to start a collective:
To form some ground rules for a manifest they applied the method of a questionnaire.
It was soon figured out that the questions don’t call for answers, but instead evoke more questions.
In reaction to that Erwin van Doorn (Eindhoven based artist) shaped the idea of the Escape Tour.

Process and Realization
Which question provokes a reaction? Encouraged through this process Erwin van Doorn started to ask directors,
initiators, organizers, curators, writers etc. from cultural institutions for a question.

After receiving the first questions it was time to think about how to continue and what to do next.
Considering where the questions are coming from and what the circumstances of the questioners are,
Erwin van Doorn thought about how to achieve answers?

Therefore the answer could be generated by establishing a traveling archive in a mobile unit and tour to the
questions to look for possible answers. These answers are supposed to be given at the location it came from as,
for example, an imaginative performance, video, drawing, installation and exhibition.
In the meantime each form of answer will be documented, archived and presented during this tour.

At FILTER you are able to explore some of these questions!

Bilder/images

Image realization: Rob Looman

Filter präsentiert die Gruppenausstellung a forest.
Sie erforscht zeitgenössische Positionen der Kunst zu dem Wald, ein Sujet, das eine weltweite Renaissance erlebt als bevorzugte Landschaft für künstlerische Szenarien.

KünstlerInnen:
Abel Auer (Hamburg),
Ulla von Brandenburg (Hamburg),
Cang Xin (Beijing),
Matias Faldbakken (Oslo),
Gabrìela Fridriksdòttir (Reykjavik/Brüssel),
Oliver Lutz (New York),
Guadalupe Ruiz Cifuentes Rihs (Zürich),
Aaron Spangler (Brooklyn),
Luis Vidal (Barcelona)

ENGLISH VERSION:

Dancing Descenarios - Luis Berrios Negrón und Jörn Stahlschmidt besetzen FILTER

Ausstellung mit /exhibition with Luis Berrios Negrón(Berlin/San Juan) und/and Jörn Stahlschmidt(Hamburg)

Die ausgestellten Künstler reden über die Spezifität ihrer Arbeiten
im Kontext von FILTER und präsenteren ausgewähltes Dokumentationsmaterial.
Alle sind herzlich eingeladen über die vorhandenen Arbeiten,
insbesondere im Hinblick auf Industrie Architektur/Design
als auch Ortsspezifität, zu diskutieren,

Mit freundlicher Unterstützung von Nils Kunz wird es während der FINISSAGE Kaffee satt geben!

Luis Berrios Negron (Berlin/San Juan) und Jörn Stahlschmidt (Hamburg) besetzen FILTER Republic Empire.
Jörn Stahlschmidt erschließt die Ausstellungsplattform FILTER durch einen Korrdinationsplatz der Zerstückelung.
“nyalathosteps’ darewisch - gate of annihilation - way of the flesh.”
Eine rotierende Einheit bewegt sich im Raum und greift tanzend auf die Umgebung über.
Dazu gesellen sich Bilder parasitärer Konstruktionen aus dem Video “People’s Republic of Zpod”
von Luis Berrios Negron.

Zusammengetragen von Kerstin Niemann

Invitation to the FINISSAGE, 5th of August,2-6 pm
and Artist Talk at 4pm!

The exhibited artists will talk about the specificality of their
works in the context of FILTER and present selected documentation material.
All of you are cordially invited to discuss the exhibited works,
especially in regards of Industry architecture/design and site specifity.

With friendly support of Nils Kunz who will serve coffee during the hours of the FINISSAGE!

Luis Berrios Negron (Berlin/San Juan) and Jörn Stahlschmidt (Hamburg) occupy FILTER
Republic Empire. Jörn Stahlschmidt is devoloping a dwelling dismember coordiantion place
in the exhibition platform FILTER. “nyalathosteps’ darewisch - gate of annihilation - way of the flesh.”
A rotating unit is moving in the space and is taking over the environment while dancing.
Parasitic constructions taken from the video “People’s Republic of Zpod”
by Luis Berrios Negron are joining the scenario.

Realized by Kerstin Niemann

Texte/texts

Bilder/images

Jörn Stahlschmidt

Jörn Stahlschmidt, nyalathosteps’ darewisch - gate of annihilation - way of the flesh, 2006, Part of mixed media installation

Jörn Stahlschmidt curtain of reason

Jörn Stahlschmidt tabletopflesh

Jörn Stahlschmidt- way of the flesh

Luis Berrios Negrón

Luis Berrios Negrón, People’s Republic of Zpod, 2003, filmstill


Luis Berrios Negron, ZPod IIVideo


Luis Berrios Negron, ZPod Video


Luis Berrios Negron - Zpod C-Prints

23. Maerz 2006, 19h /23rd of March 2006, 7pm

E P I S O D E N   und   F R A G M E N T E - Visualisierungen gemeinschaftlicher Beteligungsformen

+++ENGLISH VERSION+++
FILTER, the project space for international contemporary art, hows a group exhibition that sets the focus on different forms of artistic collaboration. According to that, it concerns either the negotiation of independent artistic positions, that become part of a process in a group, or around collective projects, in which the individual handwriting is no longer recognizable. FILTER invites you to explore how different forms of collaboration, especially in an international frame, have been applied and which dynamics emerge at the same time.
Curated by Kerstin Niemann, assistant Anna-Lena Wenzel.

Text about the TM Sisters written by Kathleen Hudspeth

The signal color red is a frequently recurring element in the work of Naomi Fisher (Miami). In her photo piece >>Whats a little blood amongst friends<< Naomi Fish
ortrays her protagonists in interplay of forces out of sexuality, nature and power. The presentation of her body or those of others serve as a tool for the expression of destructi
desire and love. Jeroen Jongeleen (Paris/Rotterdam), aka >>Influenza<<, questions the constant battle of architecture and advertising in his works. Frequently in the public space acting Jongeleen plays with the codes from the advertising industry in order to destroy its hegemony in space and question its existence. Expressly for the group show >>crash test<< Jongeleen works with the exhibition space. In a ca. 15-minutes documentary >>United States of Exceptions<< Olaf Sobczak (Hamburg) introduces his observational studies of security precautions in front of US-embassies in different countries. The constant armament and exclusion of the terrains as well as persons remind us of fortresses. What kind of influence this has on the environment and the function of the space itself is commented on here without words.

>crash test< runs from the 16th of December 2005 until 22nd of January 2006.

c r a s h t e x t s Texts and thoughts on the subject of the exhibition introduced by Kerstin Niemann, Julia Reinicke and Hilmar Schaefer

c r a s h t e s t

Ausstellung mit /exhibition with Naomi Fisher (Miami), Jeroen Jongeleen (Paris/Rotterdam) und Olaf Sobczak (Hamburg)

Dauer /Duration 16.12.2005 bis /until 22.01.2006

Als ein neuer Ort fuer internationale zeitgenoessische Kunst in Hamburg eroeffnete FILTER am 16. Dezember 2005 seinen Raum. Unter dem Titel >>crash test<< werden in einer Gruppenausstellung drei kuenstlerische Positionen vorgestellt, die sich den aktuellen Themen Angst, Gewalt und Sicherheit widmen.

Die Signalfarbe Rot ist ein haeufig wiederkehrendes Element in den Arbeiten von Naomi Fisher (Miami). In ihrer Fotoarbeit >>Whats a little blood amongst friends<< portraitiert Naomi Fisher ihre Protagonisten in einem Zusammenspiel aus Sexualitaet, Natur und Gewalt. Die Darstellung des eigenen Koerper oder der von anderen dient als Werkzeug fuer den Ausdruck von Zerstoerung, Lust und Liebe. Jeroen Jongeleen (Paris/Rotterdam), aka >>Influenza<<, hinterfragt den steten Kampf von Architektur und Werbung in seinen Arbeiten. Haeufig im oeffentlichen Raum agierend spielt Jongeleen mit den Codes aus der Werbung, um ihre Hegemonie im Raum zu zerstoeren und ihre Existenz zu hinterfragen. Eigens fŸr die Gruppenausstellung >>crash test<< arbeitet Jongeleen mit dem Ausstellungsraum.In einem ca. 15-minuetigem Dokumentarfilm >>United States of Exception<< stellt Olaf Sobczak (Hamburg) seine Beobachtungsstudien von Sicherheitsvorkehrungen in verschiedenen US-Botschaften vor. Die stete Bewaffnung und Absicherung der Gelaende und Personen wirken wie Festungen. Was für einen Einfluss diese auf die Umgebung und die Funktion des Raumes haben, wird hier ohne Worte kommentiert.

>crash test< läuft vom 16. Dezember 2005 bis 22. Januar 2006.

Texte/texts
Text Hilmar Schaefer ueber Olaf Sobczak

Bilder/images

NAOMI FISHER

What’s a little blood amongst friends, 2003, C-print, 102 x 127 cm

Ausstellungsansicht N. Fisher und J. Jongeleen / Installation view N. Fisher and J. Jongeleen

JEROEN JONGELEEN
Oneliner, 2005, space installation

Ausstellungsansicht Jeroen Jongeleen / Installation view Jeroen Jongeleen

OLAF SOBCZAK
Filmstill from >>United States of Exception<<, 2004, Mini DV, ca. 15 minutes

Ausstellungsansicht Olaf Sobczak / Installation view Olaf Sobczak