#atb110 On Seeking #2)

Yane Calovski, Hristina Ivanoska, Gergely László, Nóra Lukács, Katarina Šević, Sonya Schönberger, Harry Sachs, Susanne Schröder

Opening / iteration #2: 13 December 2024, from 7pm

Performance at 8pm with Hajnal Német – Copy Nothing
Delivered by Mark Ballyk and Julia Koffler

Opening hours:
December 17. and 20.: 11am-3pm

January 7., 10., 14.: 11am-3pm

January 11.: guided tour at 2 pm 

or by appointment 0176 618 133 03 or mailto@after-the-butcher.de

The Seeker is doomed to wander, albeit not to some final destination. The Seeker’s attention is dedicated to the journey itself and navigation tactics. Along the way, the Seeker gathers information, orientates, deconstructs, and rearranges the imprints of the present, filters out the superfluous, the false, the deceptive, what is untrue or what seems even more real than reality itself. What will be gleaned from these movements and rituals? Can their knowledge be preserved for the future in more than a set of rites? And will the Seekers of the future be able to read their pasts? 

Developed as an episodic installation that unfolds through three iterations, punctuated by public events, On Seeking aims to acknowledge Berlin’s critical artistic community and dialogue in a state of uncertainty marked by the disintegration of social structures, the crisis of counterculture or the erosion of solidarity. The project gathers artists in Berlin who share a background in the (post-)socialist context as well as research-based practice, reflecting on images of the future shaped by a possible dystopia. All participants have a history of running independent spaces and initiatives for art, in Budapest, Skopje and Berlin. 

The project is about embracing the fluidity of artistic inquiry, emphasizing the value of process over the formality of presentation, turning the exhibition space into a site of ongoing collective experimentation, spontaneous and responsive artistic practice and dialogue. Alongside research-driven approaches, the presented works and performances attempt to reinterpret and reimagine archival material and biographies, to (re)archive the ephemeral, the discarded, the waste of history or archival waste, and to address practices of remembrance. All the while, these artistic endeavors reflect on the act of seeking itself, as a response to our time that demands new forms of knowing.

In November 2024 a temporary collective took over the running of After the Butcher with the project On Seeking. Over the course of three months, the exhibition space unfolds as an evolving, morphing installation in which individual works are replaced and repositioned, refocusing the initial constellation and keeping the dialogue fluid and ongoing. 

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atb#109 On Seeking

Yane Calovski, Hristina Ivanoska, Gergely László, 

Nóra Lukács, Katarina Šević, Sonya Schönberger

Opening: 22 November, from 7pm, 

Zsolt Sőrés – MUT NAQ FO MUS (IC) sound performance 8pm

Exhibition: 23 November 2024 – 28 February 2025

Opening hours: Tuesdays and fridays 11am-3pm or by appointment: 0176 618 133 03 or mailto@after-the-butcher.de

After the Butcher – exhibition space for contemporary art & social issuesSpittastr. 25 – D-10317 Berlin

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atb#106, Patterns of Seeing and Not Seeing

Patrik Thomas, Valério de Araújo Silva, Anna Scherbyna, Anna Sopova, Michalina Musielak & Aya Ganor, Dana Kavelina 

Sunday afternoon finissage 

May 26, from 3-6pm

at 5:00pm sharp live music intervention by Johann Bärenklau (drone/music concrète) 

open by appointment: mailto@after-the-butcher.de

or +49 178 3298 106 

The exhibition ‘Patterns of Seeing and Not Seeing’ presents works by Meisterschüler*innen of the expanded cinema class at the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig (HGB). The exhibition includes video works, installations and drawings. In their works, the artists address questions about the production of visible and invisible patterns that define how we see. How can we create images that question these patterns? How can the act of seeing be transformed from an exploratory gaze to a gaze of resistance? 

The works discuss self-images and forms of emancipation through the camera lens, a self-organised film project in Portugal or the GDR gaze in Tanzania. Another installation deals with the sound of surveillance, while another video is on contemporary interpretations of the image of Nefertiti (Nofretete). Private … utopian … politicised … embodied & redirected patterns. 

Patterns of Seeing and Not Seeing presents works by Patrik Thomas, Valério de Araújo Silva, Anna Scherbyna, Anna Sopova, Michalina Musielak & Aya Ganor, Dana Kavelina. Expanded cinema class is headed by Prof. Clemens von Wedemeyer and Mareike Bernien, PhD. Link: / http://excine.net/

after-the-butcher, showroom for contemporary art and social issues, Spittastr. 25, 10317 berlin, www.after-the-butcher.de

Mobil: +49 178 3298106, mailto@after-the-butcher.de

#105, Anike Joyce Sadiq . Thomas Locher

“Apartheid was legal. The Holocaust was legal. Slavery was legal. Colonialism was legal. Legality is a question of power, not justice.”

Jose Antonio Vargas

(from Emila Roig, Why We Matter, Aufbau-Verlag 2021) 

after the butcher, exhibition space for contemporary art and social issues cordially invites you to a discussion event with 

Kerstin Stakemeier, Anike Joyce Sadiq, Thomas Locher and Helmut Draxler.

The discussion will take place in the context of our current exhibition by Anike Joyce Sadiq and Thomas Locher. 

The works of both artists deal with elementary questions of law – Anike Joyce Sadiq in the context of German colonialism, Thomas Locher in the context of war and the question of whether soldiers may be labelled as potential murderers. 

Both works are highly topical in politically polarised times. They develop a concrete concept of law as an elementary pillar of the power of the state. And they make it clear that this pillar is not static, but in constant motion and development: what is right and wrong is a question of the balance of power between us, the forces of society and the forces of the state.

The exhibition is open Sunday 7 April from 3-6pm

The discussion starts at 4 pm

Exhibition: March 2 – April 7, 2024

open by appointment: +49 1783298106

or mailto@after-the-butcher.de