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atb #56 | Refugees‘ Library

Marina Naprushkina, Holger Wüst

Opening Friday, January 30, 2015 at 7 pm
Exhibition January 31 – March 7, 2015
open by Appointment on +49 178 3298106 od. 107

Refugees‘ Library

Marina Naprushkina (court drawings), freelance translators in seven languages: Tobias Weihmann, Nele Van den Berghe, Leaticia Kossligk, Markus Baathe, David Ey, Anna Toczyska, Charlotte Stromberg, Judith Geffert, Sara Dutch, Sarah Neis, Josie Nguessi, Anouk De Bast, Bojana Perišić, Elvira Veselinović, Ruth Altenhofer, Inara Gabdurakhmanova
Online archives: www.refugeeslibrary.wordpress.com

The booklets of the “Refugees’ Library” (2013-2014) are a documentation of the judicial processes of refugees. The personal fates of the plaintiffs are used to depict worldwide conflicts and reasons for flight. “Refugees’ Library” is a collaborative project. Several people are working on the translations of the court books into the languages of the refugees. The main intention of the project is to make the library available to refugees as an information tool to prepare them for their own processes.

Holger Wüst
Venedig Refugee/Non-Citizen Protest Camp –
Against borders, nations and all that economic shit.
A picture as a film.

Foto: Holger Wüst

atb #54 | Die Miniaturen aus Ravensbrück und der sterbende Soldat von Les Milles

Antje Majewski, Maya Schweizer

Die Miniaturen aus Ravensbrück und der sterbende Soldat von Les Milles

Opening Friday,  October 24, 2014 at 7 pm
Exhibition 25. October 25 – November 29, 2014
open by Appointment on +49 178 3298106 or +49 178 3298107

Closing event: November 29 at 6 pm ab 18 Uhr, Screening at 8 pm
Zement, 2014, a short film by Bettina Nürnberg and Dirk Peuker
Übertragung, 2007, a film by Harun Farocki, Idea: Antje Ehmann
followed by a discussion.

Antje Majewski & Maya Schweizer: Die Miniaturen aus Ravensbrück und der sterbende Soldat von Les Milles

The Miniatures of Ravensbruck

In recent years, Antje Majewski’s paintings and videos have questioned the social significance and use of objects, specifically in the context of museums. In 2013 she painted a series of works based on miniature objects from the collection of the Memorial Museum Ravensbrück. These miniatures had been made in secret by women of different nationalities during their time of imprisonment in the concentration camp Ravensbrück. Many of the miniature objects were carved out of plastic toothbrushes and show amongst others tiny animals or motives like clover leaves or horse shoes.

Half of the revenues of the paintings help to finance restauration work and 3D-scans of the original objects by the Memorial Museum Ravensbrück. The other half is donated to „STAY! Düsseldorfer Flüchtlingsinitiative“, a NGO organisation that helps refugees who seek asylum in Germany.

www.antjemajewski.de, www.ravensbrueck.de, www.stay-duesseldorf.de


A MEMORIAL, A SYNAGOGUE, A BRIDGE AND A CHURCH

Maya Schweizer HD Video, 11 min, 2012

„In Maya Schweizers Video „A Memorial, A Synagogue, A Bridge and A Church“ wird ein Platz zur Laborsituation, die Künstlerin zur minutiösen Beobachterin alltäglicher Verhältnisse. Wo sind wir? Der Ort ist der Fischplatz, Rybné námestie, in Bratislava. Dort steht „The Holocaust Monument“, eine fünf Meter hohe Bronzestatue des slowakischen Künstlers Milan Lukáč. Sie wurde 1996/97 an der Stelle der alten Synagoge aufgestellt. Von der detailreichen Beobachtung der Materialien, aus denen die Skulptur und der Platz bestehen, führt Maya Schweizer den Betrachter filmisch um den Ort. Die merkwürdigen Überlagerungen der Epochen und deren Gestaltungsparameter an diesem Platz wären ohne die Zerstörungen des 2. Weltkrieges, aber auch ohne die Erfindung des Automobils, sicher völlig anders ausgefallen. Die Zeit nach 1945 wirkt hier exemplarisch wie ein Übergriff der Nachkriegsmoderne. Sie resultiert in einer nicht wiedergutzumachenden Versehrtheit, die seitdem diesen Ort beherrscht und jeden seiner Bestandteile, das Denkmal, die Synagoge, die Brücke und die Kirche, betrifft.“

Brigitte Franzen

www.mayaschweizer.com

http://www.aspngalerie.de/

atb #53 | Discoteca Flaming Star

Dierk Schmidt

Discoteca Flaming Star
Wright of Derby + Looschen of Berlin

Opening Friday, September 5, 2014 at 7 pm
Exhibition September 6 – bis October 19, 2014

Oktober 19, 2014 at 7 pm: closing event
Performance by
Discoteca Flaming Star (CGB, WM, Sara Pereira)
+ special guest: Anti-Humboldt

open by Appointment on +49 178 3298106 or +49 178 3298107

text human remains_Dierk Schmidt & alfombra_DFS

atb #52 | FlipFlop Dancefloor

Bianca Rampas

FlipFlop Dancefloor

Saturday, August 23 — 11:00 – 19:00

As part of the Berlin Project Space Festival after the butcher will present „FlipFlop Dancefloor” on Saturday, August 23rd. Therefore artist Bianca Rampas will be covering the entire space’s floor with the used-up dance floor from the Berlin State Ballet, which she will transform bit by bit into flip-flop shoes, that eagerly await to be carried out into the world.

atb #49 | „V“ – Joachim Blank Heidi Specker

Joachim Blank, Heidi Specker

Opening Friday, March 14, 2014, at 7pm
Exhibition March 15 – April 19, 2014

V like „Victory“ – perhaps – V like Viktoria-Kiez in Berlin-Lichtenberg …

The exhibition title V refers to the inclined window position and the striking shop window facade of the Kunstraum after the butcher. Opposite it is an equally sloping wall, installed as an intervention in the interior. It forms the counterpart to the window surface in the interior and creates the V. The wall is part of an installation and at the same time a display for other exhibits. It obstructs the view into the interior and makes access to the exhibition space more difficult. However, room lighting, small glimpses and two pictures in the shop window refer to the interior.

atb #48 | Niina Lehtonen Braun & Jutta Eberhard

Opening Friday, January 24, 2014 at 7 pm
Exhibition Januar 25 – March 1, 2014
open by Appointment on +49 179 947 30 40 or +49 179 663 69 79

Workshop „rethink, reclaim & cut apart“ with Jutta Eberhard
on March 1, 2014 from 1-6 pm at After the Butcher.
application and contact: +49 160 96 200 688

Niina Lehtonen Braun – ohne Titel, 2014, Aquarell auf Papier

…otherwise you’ll catch your death…PDF
by Anita Seppä, Professor of Artistic Research, Helsini Art University

Jutta Eberhard – obj. 13, 2013, verschiedene Textilien

Was, wenn ich nicht dazu gehöre? oder
„I would prefer not to“ (Bartleby, der Schreiber)
About the works of Jutta Eberhard
by Nora Mayr  PDF