How did I not know the documenta founders were members of Nazi organizations? I mean, the German Pavillion in Venice (rebuilt by Ernst Haiger's design in 1938) has been deconstructed and reconstructed and poked and probed over the years through various artistic interventions ( all very civilized, of course).

 

Kontext ist König ausser der Deutsche The discussion around documenta and its founders past is ongoing with this very useful and informative Hito Steyerl article in yesterday's Zeit ( June 3rd), in German. Google translating a small abstract here:

 

In more local news, the 12th Berlin Biennale is opening this week with the title Still Present! You can visit the exhibition for free on June 10, from 7–10 pm at all six venues. After that tickets cost 18euro for the whole duration of the show.  

JUNE 8TH 20h, @OYOUN: NOMAD is a show about an immigrant in Europe and her quest for legal status; a physical theater performance based on the life of Ayşe, an immigrant in Europe. Through movement, comedy and tragedy, we explore the experience through the eyes of three characters: Ayşe - the heroine and the two institutional monsters: Eric (policeman and immigration officer) and the paper creature (an absurd embodiment of bureaucracy).

Physical theatre without language.

JUNE 9th at the Showroom Galerie Nothelfer. There are two more dinner evenings with the artist trio Pegasus Product  09 June: A Jausen and  23 June: Schön, dass es immer noch allen schmeckt.

In the Sülzensaal you will celebrate the comeback of the Abendbrot together with the artist trio Pegasus Product. Dignified dining with the goût du rue! The Sülze (aspic) made especially for the Sülzensaal stands for more transparency and loosens the palate - tout comme il faut.
The meat is supplied by one of the best master butchers in town, the "Blutwurstritter" Marcus Benser from Berlin-Neukölln. A vegetarian option is also available on request. The dinners cost 25 €/person. RSVP.: nothelfer@galerie-nothelfer.de

Exhibition Opening with artist talk (Akinbode Akinbiyi) and livestream. Opening 6pm, talk moderated by Muhammad Salah Abdulaziz from 8pm in Oyoun’s garden
The exhibition presents a delicate collection carefully selected from Akinbiyi’s personal archival images of 1996, documenting and mourning - and celebrating the timelessness of May Ayim's work and its disclosure of undeniably uncomfortable truths.
"May Ayim: Dichterin. 1996." is part of rongin shagor, an artistic intervention connecting a number of multidisciplinary and multilingual artists to a poem by May Ayim.

Presented By : Aleksandra Vladimirova and Ming Lu

Our agenda for the night is to have a look at the traditions and history of Chinese porcelain, examine contemporary artworks of Ming Lu, and how she balances traditions with her artistic vision. Our guests will be able not only to follow the digital presentation but also have a look at some of Ming Lu's artworks in real life. Followed by Q+A with the artist Ming Lu 

 

Panels: Nina Prader, Jae Kyung Kim, Claudia de la Torre and Esther Samuels
On June 11th, the first Micro Book Symposium will take place in Berlin which will magnify the international phenomenon of “micro books”. An artist talk panel will celebrate the book releases in the gumball machines, activating the installation of gumball machines.

as part of the Micro Books Gumball Universe  with Tine Fetz, Sophia Hirsch, Katharina Kamp, Johannes Mundinger, Esther Samuels-Davis Claudia de la Torre

The photographic and cinematic sketches in the omprehensive work of Maslowski/Grenzhaeuser are based on fictional stories in which they are always the protagonists. Maslowski/Grenzhaeuser has been an artist duo since 1993. In the course of their collaboration, a comprehensive work of fictional stories has emerged in which they are always the protagonists. Their photographic and cinematic sketches are inspired by very different social spheres, cultures and genres.

Opening performance from 6pm Human Polygraph by Johanna Ackva

After two years, Display comes back in its cherished former space, hosted now by the project space Fraeym, for the time of the exhibition "Darling You Should Feel Lucky" by Christina Huber. The exhibition will open June 4, with the intervention "Human Polygraph" by the dancer and choreographer Johanna Ackva and close June 11 with "Sandbox", performance by Nina Wesemann and Emeka Ene. The performances are part of the exhibition and intend to foster the discursive and choreorgraphic qualities of the exhibition.
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Eigen Art Lab: LŐRINC BORSOS FEAR NOT THE HEAT AHEAD, IT'S THE FIRE THAT FOLLOWS

pyropoetic visions at the end of the world fear not the heat ahead, it's the fire that follows, so fear not the thermal conditions of the inferno, but worry about all the cursed souls you will have to burn with, so fear not the blaze of hell, but brood about the scorching fire plumes of the mundane purgatory, so fear not the dystopian reality you are fully immersed into, but worry about the selfdestructing hedonism that makes you find pleasure in it…

OTHERING  with Yalda Afsah, Julian Charrière, Albrecht Dürer, Francisco de Goya, Andreas Greiner, Jenna Sutela, Analisa Teachworth, Jol Thoms, Sung Tieu und Jonas Wendelin

The twelve artists explore how certain lives—human and nonhuman—are designated as alien, and the possibilities of forging relationships across the yawning chasm of self and other.

 Based on the worldwide correspondence of the renowned architect Helene Syrkus (1900-1982), the artist couple Maja Wirkus and Eric Pries develops installative-scenic units, i.e. moments of exchange translated into images and spatial structures, whereby the artistic medium is always photography and its extensions. To this end, a series of animated films, objects, photographs and text fare superimposed as constantly overwriting, constantly renewing knowledge spaces.

SAVE THE DATES for the 10th A L'ARME! Festival edition!  Ticket presale starts June 8th!! @alarmefestival
10 – 13 AUG 2022 at Silent Green & Radialsystem Berlin!
International festival for avant-garde jazz & vibrant experimental music in Berlin since 2012.
The artists:
ANJA LAUVDAL, HEIDA JOHANNESDOTTIR, MAJA S. K. RATKJE (NO) / ARA (DE) / CLAIRE ROUSAY, MACIE STEWART & KEN VANDERMARK (US) / EUROPEAN SPORTS CAR (DE) / FARIDA AMADOU (BE) / FRANK BRETSCHNEIDER & JAN JELINEK: BEISPIEL (DE) / IGNAZ SCHICK & OLIVER STEIDLE: ILOG (DE) / KATHARINA ERNST: VENTIL (DE/AT) / LISA CAY MILLER & VICKY METTLER (CA) / LUKE STEWART & WARREN G. CRUDUP III: BLACKS’ MYTHS (US) / MARIA REICH, EVE RISSER & LAURA TOTENHAGEN (DE/FR) / MOOR MOTHER (US) / NAKAMA (NO/JP) / KEE AVIL (CA) / SHINING PLAYS BLACKJAZZ (NO) / VINCENT VON SCHLIPPENBACH aka DJ ILLVIBE (DE)