Mark von Schlegell

Please join us for a reading by Mark von Schlegell,
a screening and celebratory book launch.
Tuesday, June 30th at 7PM
99 Bowery, 2nd Floor

This event is co-hosted by Bridget Donahue and Gladstone Gallery.

Susan Cianciolo's solo exhibition
if God COMes to visit You, HOW will you know? (the great tetrahedral kite)
is on view Wednesday-Sunday 12-6PM through July 12th

Current Press on Susan Cianciolo:
The New Yorker, The Brooklyn Rail, Artforum.com, Interview, Art In America, Bad Day

For more information call 646-896-1368 or email info@bridgetdonahue.nyc

parfümiert mit dynamit


parfümiert mit dynamit - sommerschau der studios 2015

sofia duchovny, jennifer gelardo, wiebke grösch, özlem günyol, sandra havlicek, olivia hyunsin kim, mustafa kunt, timo lenzen, frank metzger, sabine rak, hannes seidl, simon speiser

17.07.2015 to 20.08.2015

opening
thursday, 16.07.2015 - 7:00 pm

opening hours
tuesday - friday 11.00 - 19.00
saturday, sunday 12.00 - 18.00

finissage
thursday, 20.08.2015 - 7:00 pm

location
basis e.v.
gutleutstraße 8-12
60329 frankfurt am main

04.07


Je suis Madame Bovary

Le 4 Juillet
à 19h00
Olga Pedan & EidfloConcert à 21h00

hébergé par Hélène Fauquet

Studio 5411
15 rue Geoffroy l'Asnier, Cité Internationale des Arts, 75004 Paris
+33 (0) 778255904

T r a n s i t i o n

T r a n s i t i o n

with

Sebastian Dacey
Inga Danysz
Dorothee Diebold
Ørjan Einarsønn Døsen
Hannah Levy 

Fiebach, Minninger Gallery

Venloer Strasse 26
50672 Cologne

Opening 10th of July 2015 / 07 pm
On view from 11.07.2015 till 08.08.2015
Opening hours: Tuesday - Friday 12-18 h & Saturday 12-16 h

THE LAST OFFICE // MMODEMM TAPE RELEASE 4.7.

THE LAST OFFICE // MMODEMM TAPE RELEASE
4.7. // 22.00 - ~                                                     

Office du Pain opens its elevators for the last time.
Join the inauguration of a new MMODEMM Tape-release
 and say goodbye to the best after-work-venue in Frankfurt!
Come and have a last drink, last soup, last dance and a fancy tape-box! ALLNITELONG 

Live:
Das Ding (NL | Minimal Wave Tapes)
https://soundcloud.com/das-ding-1

F#X (PAN | Ultrawave | Golden Pudelclub) 
https://soundcloud.com/fsharpx

Djs:
Phuong Dan (Gatto Muscoloso | Golden Pudelclub) 
https://soundcloud.com/l-i-e-s/l-i-e-s-podcast-22-phuong-dan

Nikae (Next Time / Golden Pudelclub) 
https://soundcloud.com/nikacis

Philip Berg (Tropic Rhonda / Frankfurt)
https://soundcloud.com/philip_berg
+++++++++++++++
Release of MDM-B: 
Hypnobeat (James Dean Brown & Helena Hauff), 
Das Ding, N-Chtbttte, F#X, Nika Son, Windbreaker

Charlotte, Zink, Giovanni, Jonathan, Aislinn
Wächtersbacherstr. 82
U4/7 >  Gwinnerstr., POCO left, meatfactory, Erodis...

all night bus n5 in front of the door
Schlitzerstr.

Exhibition "TITLED" with Khaled Barakeh - Viola Bittl - Lena Ditlmann - Christoph Esser - Young Joo Lee - Att Poomtangon



TITLED

Khaled Barakeh - Viola Bittl - Lena Ditlmann
Christoph Esser - Young Joo Lee - Att Poomtangon
Curated by Adela Demetja

Opening: 26. June 2015, 7pm
Duration: 27. June - 15. August 2015

GALERIE HEIKE STRELOW
Schwedlerstraße 1-5
D-60314 Frankfurt am Main
Phone +49 (0) 69-48 00 544-0

The group exhibition “Titled” brings together six emerging artistic positions. All the exhibiting artists, apart from having in common the connection with the city of Frankfurt, share - in their practice - an analogous aesthetic articulation.  By using a variety of mediums like painting, drawing, sculpture, video and installation the exhibited works propose a similar approach of apprehending the political nature of aesthetic representation. Though some of the works are abstract representations, other ones figurative and some of them explicit, they all share one common attribute; that of creating a space where questioning the given becomes possible. As Jaques Rancière argues in The Politics of Aesthetics, a dispute over what is given and the frame within which we sense something is given - generating dissensus - is for him the core of the politics. As a result of the controversial aesthetic regime of art, which for Rancière consists on the tension  and confusion between autonomy and heteronomy, the selected artworks inherit this conflict, producing elements capable of speaking twice: from their readability and from their unreadability.

For Rancière, esthetics enables the freedom in judgment, suggesting the politics, where questions how the world is organized emerge, opening up possibilities of changing and redistributing the same world.

The starting point for the exhibited artworks are the personal realities, situations, and relationships of the artists. Issues and struggles driven by the reality contribute to their artistic creation. Although at times the final artwork is transformed and translated in a way that its distance to reality is enormous, essential elements remain inherited in the work, enabling to retrace and reread those initial conditions from an universal point of view.

The artistic practice of these artists is mainly a conscious process of identifying, analyzing, understanding and depicting, resulting in compact and elaborated artworks, naming and visualizing a specific reality or condition, a process from where the exhibition takes its title.

The core of the exhibition and its artworks are the inter-human relations and the human correlation with the environment in the present.

Adela Demetja

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Adela Demetja is a curator and writer born in 1984 in Tirana, Albania. She holds a Master in Curatorial and Critical Studies from Städelschule and Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. She is one of the founders and director of Tirana Art Lab – Centre for Contemporary Art based in Tirana. She curated a number of international exhibitions and events in different European countries. Thematic exhibitions she has curated include: „The aesthetic of the small act at Action“ Field Kodra in Thessaloniki and „Voices of Truth“ in Villa Romana in Florence, Italy. Recently she co-curator the third edition of the international contemporary Project Biennale D-0 Ark Underground taking place in Bosnia and Herzegovina. She lives and works between Germany and Albania.

Khaled Barakeh, born in 1976 in Damascus Suburb in Syria, graduated in 2005 from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Damascus, and completed his MFA at Funen Art Academy in 2010 in Odense, Denmark. He has exhibitied at the Künstlerhaus Stuttgart; Golden Thread Gallery, Northern Ireland, Kunsthalle Brandts, Overgarden, Denmark, Smack Mellon in New York City, and many other institutions. Barakeh finished his Meisterschüler with Simon Starling, at the Städelschule Art Academy in Frankfurt am Main in 2013. He lives and works in Frankfurt/Main.

Viola Bittl, born in 1980 in Bavaria, Germany. She studied at the Art Academy in Munich by professor Sean Scully and further studied and graduated in 2011 from Städelschule in Frankfurt/Main by Professor Christa Näher. In 2013 she was a scholarship holder of Else- Heiliger-Fonds, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, Berlin and her works have been shown in solo and group exhibitions among others in institutions like Kunsthaus Wiesbaden, Eigen+Art Lab Berlin, LeRoy Neiman Center for Print Studies, Columbia University New York, Konrad-Adenauer- Stiftung Berlin, basis project space, Frankfurt am Main, Zollamt, Museum of Modern Art Frankfurt/Main, Tirana Art Lab.

Lena Ditlmann, born in 1982 in Augsburg, Germany. She studied at the University of Art and Design Offenbach (hfG) from 2005 - 2012 by professor Heiner Blum with the focus on photography and design. In 2012 she was a scholarship holder of Dr. Marschner foundation.

Since 2014 she studied at the Städelschule Art Academy by Judith Hopf. Her works have been shown in solo and group exhibitions in the 1822- Forum in Frankfurt/Main, Darmstädter Tage der Fotografie and basis project space in Frankfurt/Main. She lives in Frankfurt/Main.

Christoph Esser, born in 1982 in Essen, Germany. He studied at the Folkwang University of the Arts from 2004- 2008 with the focus on photography and experimental design by Gisela Bullacher and Jörg Eberhard. 2007 - 2008 he completed a nine-month study abroad at the Academy of photography in Gothenburg, Schweden by Karl-Johan Stigmark and Niklas Östholm. From 2009 he studied at Städelschule Art Academy with professor Tobias Rehberger, and graduated in 2013. His works have also been shown in solo and group exhibitions at basis in Frankfurt/Main, foundation Opelvillen in Rüsselsheim, platform for young artists in Essen, Laden No. 5, Balmoral in Bad Ems, the Zollamt, Museum of Modern Art in Frankfurt/Main and at So Ba in Tokyo, Japan. Christoph Esser lives in Frankfurt/Main.

Young Joo Lee, born in 1987 in Seoul, Korea, she started her Bachelor of Fine Arts in the field of painting at the Hongik University in Seoul before she continued at the Städelschule Art Academy in the field of film by Douglas Gordon in Frankfurt/Main. She finished her Meisterschüler at the Städelschule Art Academy in Frankfurt in 2013. Her works have been presented in international institutions like the HAU in Berlin, at the Curitiba Biennial in Brazil, the foundation Opelvillen in Rüsselsheim, Lichter Filmfestival in Frankfurt and at the Kunsthaus Bregenz. Young Joo Lee lives in Seoul and Frankfurt/Main.

Att Poomtangon, born in 1973 in Bangkok, Thailand studied sculpture at the University of Chiangmai in 1999, Thailand. He finished his Meisterschüler with Tobias Rehberger at the Städelschule Art Academy in Frankfurt/Main in 2009. In 2008 he participated with a site-specific installation at the exhibition "Fare Mondi - Making Worlds", 53rd International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale. His works have been shown in numerous international group and solo exhibitions, among others at Pinakothek der Modern in Munich, Nassauischer Kunstverein in Wiesbaden, Portikus in Frankfurt/Main, Irish Museum of Modern Art Dublin. Att Poomtangon lives in Frankfurt/Main.

http://www.galerieheikestrelow.de/

BODIES


BODIES

Sonja Borstner
Daisy von Mitzlaff
Leonie Döpper
Hannah Levy

Opening: June 26th 7 pm

Opening Hours: Saturday and Sunday 12-6pm

Zollamt Galerie
Frankfurter Straße 91
63067 Offenbach

OFFM Art Panels Opener Party


OFFM Art Panels Opener Party

2.7.2015 Freitagsküche, Mainzer Landstrasse 105
20 Uhr

join us on thursday the second of july to celebrate the start of our billboard exhibition at freitagsküche.

free drinks & fresh music

Dj Blue Ivy
Dj Drogba

looking forward

http://www.publicartpanels.de/
http://freitagskueche.de/

participants:

Mara Ploscaru, Bryony Hussey , Daan Lievense, CT /Matteo Castigliano, OX, Dimension Emotionnelle, Robert Brambora, Alessandra Hoshor, Jose Chema Padilla, Christoph Roßner, Grazyna Roguski, Julia Boswank, Joséphine Kaeppelin , Lodoe Laura, Manuel Rossner, Maria Justus, Michael Angelo, Oliver Dignal, Robert Schittko, Ruben Fischer, Stefan Schwarzer, Tobias Dona, Paul Barsch, Goda Gontyte, Jemma Egan, Andreas Ullrich, Jill Senft, Steven Quinn, Kat Martian, Marie Luise-Marchand, Alexander Endrullat, Andrew de Freijtas, Dana Lorenz, Daniel Wind, Svenja Wichmann, Daniél Niederkofler, Vincent Rumahloine, Jacopo Rinald, Marta Niedbał, Peggy Pehl, Stefan Stark, Jan Domicz, Helfried Strauß, Kalinka Gieseler, Ben Clement, Buck Ellison, Etsy Netflix, Albert Schwarz

"Vedere con le mani" ⁓ Paola Anziché


"Vedere con le mani" ⁓ Paola Anziché
Opening Wednesday 4 July 2015, 6.00 – 8.45 pm

Pavillon social kunstverein
Via A. Mordini n°64 (già Via Nuova)
Lucca Italy

info@pavillonsocial.com
www.pavillonsocial.com

SNEAKING HOME- ANI SCHULZE


SNEAKING HOME- ANI SCHULZE
29 June- 25. October 2015

Opening: 28. June, 12am

Opelvillen Rüsselsheim
Ludwig-Dörfler-Allee 9
65428 Rüsselsheim

Exactly
All your attention is required
Really
You will shut your eyes
You will close your eyes
You will close your eyes
You will not bat an eyelash
Shut your eyes
Your attention
Advertence
Attendence
Alertness, attentiveness
You will cross your fingers
Fingers crossed
Cross
Pacta sunt servanda
Tell me how you spent the summer?

Nur mal kurz tanzen gehen mit NOBLE INTENTIONS


Nur mal kurz tanzen gehen mit NOBLE INTENTIONS
24.06.2015 21:00

Snare Silk-A-Lot
Fürst Pückler
Harlequin-Ice (Live)

https://soundcloud.com/sillymovement
https://soundcloud.com/rstckler
https://soundcloud.com/harlequin-ice

Neglected Grassland
Neue Kräme 29
60311 Frankfurt am Main

Erika Landström, Dana Munro and Anna Zacharoff at Vilma Gold / Matt Copson at 6A Minerva St Opening Fri 26 June 6.30 - 8:30 pm

ERIKA LANDSTRÖM, DANA MUNRO AND ANNA ZACHAROFF
Nein ist für lange weile

27 June - 1 August
Private view Friday 26 June 6:30 - 8:30 pm

Vilma Gold
6 Minerva Street
London E2 9EH

DOUBLE FEATURE SCHIRN FRANKFURT- 24. JUNI


DOUBLE FEATURE
MITTWOCH 24. JUNI
19.30 UHR

HANNA HILDEBRAND
HELIANTHUS COCO
(2015)

BILLY WILDER
ACE IN THE HOLE
(1951)

Die Künstlerin wird anwesend sein.
Eintritt frei

http://www.schirn-magazin.de/Double_Feature_Hanna_Hildebrand.html
https://www.facebook.com/events/1657268104505979/

Julian Irlinger with Timo Hinze, Hanne Lippard, Falke Pisano, Rebecca Stephany Curated by A.R. practice


ON VIEW

Interferences of digital and physical re-/presentations

2 displays | 1 exhibition | 2 openings
June 20, 7 pm,  opening online | www.on-view.de
June 26, 7 pm, opening in Leipzig | KV – Leipzig,   Kolonnadenstraße 6

With Timo Hinze, Julian Irlinger, Hanne Lippard, Falke Pisano, Rebecca Stephany
Curated by A.R. practice | Ann Richter and Agnieszka Roguski
In cooperation with KV – Verein für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig e.V.

Please join us for two exhibition openings of ON VIEW, taking place on Saturday, June 20, 7 pm at www.on-view.eu and on Friday 26 June, 7 pm in the space of KV – Leipzig.

Artist: Exhibition: Title: Date: Click here to view slide-show. Can it still be said that exhibitions are considered from an autonomous view? Or have the faces of online image circulation created their own perspective? ON VIEW puts the relationship between exhibitions and their digital availability in perspective . /////////////// The exhibition opens online on www.on-view.eu and will be shown at KV – Leipzig as (re-)interpretation of the works in the web and its subsequent view in space.

EXHIBITION PERIOD
www.on-view.eu
21 June – 4 July 2015
KV – Leipzig
27 June – 4 July 2015

PROGRAM
Guided tour, 4 July at 5 pm in KV – Leipzig
Table talk, 4 July at 6 pm in KV – Leipzig
Finissage, 4 July at 8 pm in KV – Leipzig

www.on-view.eu
www.kunstverein-leipzig.de

ZUZANNA CZEBATUL: OPUS SECTILE

ZUZANNA CZEBATUL
– OPUS SECTILE
JUNE 28 - JULY 31, 2015
OPENING RECEPTION: JUNE 28, 6PM

http://ludlow38.org/2015/06/zuzanna-czebatul/

Ausstellungseröffnung: LET ME SEE YOU SEE ME


LET ME SEE YOU SEE ME

Eröffnung: Dienstag, 16. Juni 2015, 19 Uhr

Ein Ausstellungsprojekt mit Arbeiten von Studierenden der Hochschule Darmstadt, der Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach, der Kunsthochschule Mainz, der Staatlichen Hochschule für Bildende Künste – Städelschule und der Hochschule RheinMain Wiesbaden.

KünstlerInnen:
Zakaria Bergadi, Amy Ball, Janusch Ertler, Max Eulitz, Isabelle Faragallah, Rouven Faust, Lisa Gehrig, Philipp Grünewald, Markus Hau, Alexander Kilian, Johannes Lenzgeiger, Malte Sänger, Elif Saydam, Robert Schittko, Sarah Schweizer, Marcello Spada, Dominik Schneck sowie eine Auswahl an Künstlerpublikationen, präsentiert durch den UP Pop-Up Shop der HfG Offenbach.

Kuratiert von Regine Ehleiter.
Eine Kooperation mit ATELIERFRANKFURT. www.ray2015.de

Öffnungszeiten:
Dienstag bis Donnerstag, 15–18 Uhr Freitag bis Sonntag, 12–18 Uhr Montag (nach Vereinbarung)

Ausstellungsort:
ATELIERFRANKFURT, Schwedlerstraße 1-5, 60314 Frankfurt www.atelierfrankfurt.de
Ausstellungsdauer: 17. Juni – 28. Juni 2015

Am 24. Juni findet ein Symposium mit dem Titel „Vom Verschwinden der Dinge“ in der Hochschule für Gestaltung in Offenbach statt.

Sandra Kranich - Dynamic Memory


Sandra Kranich
Dynamic Memory

Kunst- und Kulturstiftung
Opelvillen Rüsselsheim
http://www.opelvillen.de/ausstellungen/vorschau/

Ausstellungseröffnung
28. Juni 2015, 11.00 Uhr

1. Juli – 25. Oktober

MILENA BÜSCH | Opening Friday, June 12, 2015 | 7-10 PM


MILENA BÜSCH
Opening Friday, June 12, 2015 | 7-10 PM

June 13 - July 10, 2015
open by appointment

DIANA LAMBERT
Fendigasse 23/19
A-1050 Wien

http://dianalambert.org

Michael Seidner


Michael Seidner
Eröffnung: Donnerstag, 18. Juni 2015, 20 Uhr
Einführung: Dries Verstraete
Dauer der Ausstellung: 19. Juni bis 1. August 2015
lounge im zumikon
Großweidenmühlstraße 21, 90419 Nürnberg
Mittwoch bis Freitag 14 bis 18 Uhr und Samstag 12 bis 15 Uhr

Laura Schawelka - Muscle Crystal Glamourcon


Laura Schawelka - Muscle Crystal Glamourcon

17.06.2015 - 05.07.2015
OPENING 16.06.2015, 19h

Don't wanna wait til tomorrow, why put it off another day? One more walk through problems, built up, and stand in our way, ah, one step ahead, one step behind me, now you gotta run to get even, make future plans, don't dream about yesterday, hey, c'mon turn, turn this thing around, right now, hey, it's your tomorrow, right now, c'mon, it's everything, right now, catch a magic moment, do it, right here and now, it means everything, miss the beat, you lose the rhythm, and nothing falls into place, no, only missed by a fraction, slipped a little off your pace, oh, the more things you get, the more you want, just trade in one for the other, workin so hard, to make it easier, whoa, got to turn, c'mon turn this thing around, right now, hey, it's your tomorrow, right now, c'mon, it's everything, right now, catch that magic moment, do it, right here and now, it means everything, it's enlightened me, right now, what are you waitin for? Oh, yeah, right now, right now, hey, it's your tomorrow, right now, c'mon, it's everything, right now, catch that magic moment, and do it right, right now, right now, oh, right now, it's what's happening? Right here and now, right now, it's right now, oh, tell me, what are you waiting for, turn this thing around.

"Right Now", Van Halen, Crystal Pepsi Super Bowl commercial 1993

TheTip
Oppenheimer Landstraße 85H
60596 Frankfurt am Main, Germany 
TheTip.de

The Best Answer You Can Give Is Symmetry - Lina Hermsdorf


The Best Answer You Can Give Is Symmetry
Lina Hermsdorf

Performance:
The Best Answer You Can Give Is Symmetry, 22 June, 7pm
Exhibition continues: 25 June - 27 June
Opening times: 12 - 6pm, Thurs - Sat
Rowing, 3 Leighton Place NW5 2QL

Episode I
Performance with Andrew Hardwidge

Life as a worldly being, knowing that the best answer you can give is the quality of being made up of exactly similar parts facing each other or around an axis, guided by the correct or pleasing proportion of the parts of a thing and the similarity or exact correspondence between different things, i.e. a law or operation where a physical property or process has an equivalence in two or more directions, like Romanesco, honeycomb and snowflakes or new degrees of freedom and possible obedience of space and time.
ET

You hear a song and think it is there to keep you waiting. Slow paced, dull rhythmic patterns, almost imperceptible sounds that resemble the static atmosphere of a waiting room. A voice is addressing you. It belongs to someone who looks in from the outside. The person introduces himself: he talks about how he had met with a friend who asked him to perform, their exchange and what they got up to. He says that where he stands is colder than where you are standing, making you feel as if he is talking to you from far away in time and space. His presence seems holographic. Sometimes he walks around, looking for a word by staring at the ground, stretching a limb in one direction or an other: imitating an animal or showing the invisible connections that go from the tips of your fingers to your legs. His words are elliptical. He jumps from one thing to another, following a logic that you cannot fully grasp.
BF

Link to full press release: http://rowingprojects.com/projects/lina-hermsdorf


3 Leighton Place
NW5 2QL
+44 (0)20 3417 4093
mail@rowingprojects.com
www.rowingprojects.com

TAYLOR MACKLIN

BEA SCHLINGELHOFF, LINA HERMSDORF, NINA KOENNEMANN

Bea Schlingelhoff ‘Bazaarro’
Nina Koennemann
Lina Hermsdorf ‘The Best Answer You Can Give Is Symmetry‘
Episode II, with Andrew Hardwidge
Lecture Performance 5pm, invited by Fabian Schöneich
13.6 – 19.7, 2015
Opening 13.6, 4pm
Luegislandstrasse 105
8051 Zürich

Kaspar Hauser’s effort


Kaspar Hauser’s effort
avec Nik Geene, Eidflo, Riccardo Paratore, Seyoung Yoon
Opening: Tuesday, June 16, 7pm
Opening hours: Wed- Sat 2-8 pm ends: 21.07.2015
Hébergé par Oliver Falk
Horburgstrasse 70
(in the basement of the rear house)
4057 Basel, Switzerland

I1

I1
Wednesday, June 10 at 21:00

Dreikönigskeller Frankfurt
Färberstraße 71, 60594 Frankfurt

Techno / hardcore / hardstyle / hardbass / gabber & related.
Entrance 2 €, free vodkashots for the first to arrive.
Come & push it, greetings
/

Hilda Stammarnäs, Julian Tromp & Leon Eisermann.

PAF SUMMER UNIVERSITY 2015

PAF SUMMER UNIVERSITY 2015

http://www.pa-f.net/node/25103

After last year’s success PAF invites you to the second annual Summer University. The month-long gathering brings together the unique opportunities that PAF can offer with four curatorial teams who will design and animate four different weeklong sections: music, philosophy, dance, text. Where these weeks will bring the participants should remain a mystery, as we consider curation to imply an invitation to a multiplicity of practices, processes, presentations, modes of documenting and sharing, dialoguing, discussing and talking. The motivation is to produce four shared adventures with the support of aesthetic expression and in-depth thought. We understand each week as a preparation leading up to the weekend where the emphasis is presentation, concert, performance, festival, fête, lectures or seminar that we build together.

The teams have been given complete freedom to design the seven days as they feel, gathering artists and scholars, commissioning works, inviting everybody at PAF to share and produce together weeks and weekends that celebrate our practices, giving them new frames to gain visibility, response and momentum.

4 in 1: MUSIC, PHILOSOPHY, DANCE, TXT

04 - 10 August - Talking Music
11 - 17 August - Philosophy: (In)Formalizing the Outside: Sex, Mathematics, Cybernetics
18 - 24 August - Indigo Dance 2: Choreographic Practice in bed with Contemporary Dance
25 - 31 August – MEADOW (it’s all writing) - TXT In Contemporary Aesthetic Practices - http://sutxt1000.tumblr.com

PAF is a self-sustained privately ran artist centre initiated 2005, located 150 Km north-east of Paris. PAF can host up to 100 people and offer opportunities for individuals and groups to utilize its resources including kitchen, studios, technical equipment and it’s social wealth. PAF is located in the small village of St Erme, close to nature and wildlife. The 19th century mansion offers good comfort and extensive work opportunities for artists and others independent of expression or format. PAF does not charge for participation and does not engage in a selection process.

http://www.pa-f.net

»The Second Look«



»The Second Look«
June 13 – July 18, 2015 
Opening hours: Wed – Fri 2 pm – 6 pm, Sat 12 pm – 4 pm

Grand Opening of Galerie Scharmann & Laskowski at Schaafenstraße 10:
Birgit Laskowski and Marion Scharmann are new gallery partners.

»The Second Look«
Group Show with works by Anders Dickson, Hervé Garcia und Vladimír Houdek
 
The title of the exhibition is ambiguous: A second look often reveals what the first had yet to show. In the technological age, where the bombardment of available images has conditioned the viewer to rapidly discern between what is perceived to be of interest from the less interesting, images compete for even the most superficial consideration. 

This may in contrast establish the attraction and quality of images in art: They challenge the viewer to look closer: This allows most often on the second look, a more exact, focused and even analytical observation in which the viewer may grasp insight into the deeper layers leading to a greater understanding, a new logic of attribution and further inspiration for the imagination – ultimately, and in the optimum circumstances, the result is a cessation of the need to search for references, since the work itself can be seen to have defended its autonomous validation.

The participating artists direct their second look not only toward the repertoire of images of the everyday world that surrounds them, as in the case of French artist Hervé Garcia who in the process of creating, questions its assumed interpretation, but they also reflect on art history, as with Czech artist Vladimír Houdek, who feeling especially connected to early modernism from the early part of the twentieth century, seeks relevance in new interpretations. 

Connected associatively with the second look and additionally with the term the ›other face‹, is the belief in clairvoyant perception attributed to certain people who are thought to see things beyond the sensory range of others. This peripheral area of interpretation against a background of mythical and literary sources is of interest to the American artist Anders Dickson. 

Finally and of equal importance, the appearance of a second person in the gallery means that another view of the art scene has been introduced and henceforth exhibitions and other events will be conceptualized through the eyes of two gallerists. 

Anders Dickson (*1988 / Richmond, Wisconsin, USA) creates small drawings on paper, and along with his paintings, assemblages, sculptures, and installation works, they represent self-contained worlds that draw their inspiration from American culture and are pervaded by bizarre and spiritual elements. 

References to literary classics like Moby Dick by Herman Melville or the involvement with figures and motifs from American Indian mythology like the Trickster, who emerges as an ambivalent character in many cultures and which C.G. Jung explored as the ›divine prankster‹, are woven together with found objects and everyday topics from contemporary culture. In Anders Dickson’s painterly and plastic works the representational dissolves into atmospheric color zones, construction and destruction lie close together, physical force and spiritual energy become perceivable in their constructive and destructive possibilities.

In the work of Hervé Garcia (*1971 / Dakar, Sénégal) an image of reality is simultaneously constructed and deconstructed in various media: sculptures, painting, photography, and collages are robbed of their conventional application and are transposed into new syntheses. For example, by piercing through a picture carrier a painting is transformed into a three-dimensional object. Images from magazines, book covers, and other set pieces collected and integrated by the artist, are hidden or destroyed, something new arises yet refers back to that which already existed along with its art historical context. The concealment of pictorial information by overpainting or pasting over, in addition to cutting out, separating, deletion, and erasure, forces and tempts the viewer to penetrate the surface. The artist’s gesture is virtually characterized by a ›sensitive aggression‹ and is in the spirit of Robert Rauschenberg’s radical act, when he erased a drawing by Willem de Kooning.

Vladimír Houdek (*1984 / Nové Město na Moravě, Czech Republic) applies a form of artistic language that lies between abstraction and representation, and which points to his discourse with the Czech, Russian and western European avant-garde of the twentieth century. The background of his serial paintings in oil and acrylic on canvas is confined to a reduced, somber range of colors. The paint is applied impasto over the edges of the canvas like an uncertain original ground yet from which, clear geometric forms of great precision distinctly stand out. Chaos and order form a dialectical unit in Houdek’s paintings: Most of the paintings presented in the exhibition belong to the series Grid, which is based on a grid pattern, a kind of referential system. Like Descartes he seems on one hand to measure the world, only to allow on the other hand, disorder to hold sway. In the process, the circle as a complex symbolically charged geometric basic form surfaces often, as do other representational forms like bows, cords, or fanned out elements – all suitable to be grasped as symbols and links and interpretive points of departure – or not, as the case may be. 
In an additive process paper cut-outs are integrated into the pictorial like collages. The artist does not work with preliminary sketches, but rather proceeds in an alternating process of application and ablation through the layers of the painting, a movement in itself, comparable to the movement of memory through both individual and collective cultural consciousness – a motif uniting the work of all three artists. 

Galerie Scharmann & Laskowski presents international, contemporary art both in its gallery spaces in Cologne and also nationally and internationally in cooperation with its supraregional partners. In addition to traditional gallery activities, we strive to direct our energy in exhibitions more towards the establishment of a sustainable ›echo space‹: exhibitions will be accompanied by lectures, artist talks, and multidisciplinary events. In particular it is intended that light be shed on the spiritual cosmos in which the work of the presented artists is rooted. 

In reflecting on the programmatic definition in the 1960s of the gallery as a place in which art is not only sold but where the content and background of art production is discussed, we will, while avoiding any misplaced nostalgia for that era, aim with the greatest possible vigor and pleasure to arrange both discourse and sales in the most productive way for all participants—artists, collectors curators, clientele, and gallerists.

The second Look 
June 13 – July 18, 2015 
Opening hours: Wed – Fri 2 pm – 6 pm, Sat 12 pm – 4 pm

Galerie Scharmann & Laskowski, Schaafenstrasse 10, D-50676 Köln 
Marion Scharmann, Mobil +49 173 344 28 44, ms@scharmann-laskowski.com
Birgit Laskowski, Mobil +49 178 847 47 86, bl@scharmann-laskowski.com

www.scharmann-laskowski.com

The Elephant In The Shipping Room (Simply Wild)


Artun Alaska Arasli
Brendan Jaks

The Elephant In The Shipping Room (Simply Wild)
13/06 - 25/07/15

Opening: Friday 12/06 7 pm

Jenifer Nails
Kaiserpassage, Laden 41
Kaiserstraße 62-64
60329 Frankfurt am Main

www.jenifernails.com
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R U W !!! THE PRESENTATION! June 12


R U W ! III

THE PRESENTATION!!!
Join us on Friday the 12th of June at 19.00 for
the release of the third issue of R U W !

NACH DEM DANACH

with the collaboration of

HANS KÖNINGS
MARIAN WIJNVOORD
KATHRIN RANK
PAULA MUHR
THOMAS HILLIG
JAKOB KIRCHHEIM
HANNAH BECHER
POUL R. WEILE
LINN FISCHER
HANNAH GOLDSTEIN
ANJA SCHREY
APRIL GERTLER
GREGOR CÜRTEN
EVA SCHWAB

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