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atb #40 | Thinking Like A Stone

Florian Zeyfang, Clemens Krümmel, Julie Doucet, Romana Schmalisch, Moritz Fehr

Florian Zeyfang : Clemens Krümmel : Guests
Thinking Like A Stone
with Julie Doucet, Romana Schmalisch, Moritz Fehr

Opening Friday, November 16, 2012, 7 pm
Exhibition November 17 – Dezember 30, 2012
open by appointment on +49(0)179.947 3040

Filmshow & Talk
Friday, Dezember 14, 7 pm
“Nowhere Man”, Japan 1991, Director: Naoto Takenaka 

«The pebble is not an easy thing to define. If we content ourselves with a simple description, we can say first of all that it is a form or a state between a rock and a stone. But this proposition implies a notion of stone that must be justified. I don’t want to be accused here of going back even further than the Flood.» Francis Ponge

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atb #39 | CIVIC VIRTUE Grand Tour

Geirthrudur Finnbogadottir Hjorvar, Ruchama Noorda, Gijsbert Wouter Wahl, Brian McKenna, Kinga Kielczynska

CIVIC VIRTUE (a neoclassical revival),
in collaboration with Kinga Kielczynska,
present their recent work on the topic of divination, pseudo-sciences and self-fulfilling prophesies. 

Opening Friday, September, 28, 2012, ab 19 Uhr
Performance at 9 pm

Exhibition September 29 – November 3, 2012
open by appointment on +49(0)179.947 3040

Reading the entrails of sacrificial animals was an important religious duty performed by the priests of antiquity. From the level of personal relations to matters of state and conquest, the interpretation of chance embodied an appeal to the authority of the gods. CIVIC VIRTUE asserts that prophecy is a worthy course of investigation, for an understanding of a past which may or may not have already happened, and for an insight into what we may expect from a world yet unborn. Representing the architecture of temples, the ambiguity of oracles and the underlying structures within games of chance, CIVIC VIRTUE explores the potential of narrative evolution in space, the augury of modern economics, and the problems of repeatability.

Participating artists:
Geirthrudur Finnbogadottir Hjorvar
Ruchama Noorda
Gijsbert Wouter Wahl
Brian McKenna
Kinga Kielczynska

Based in Amsterdam, CIVIC VIRTUE was established in 2010 around a shared interest in social communities who organize themselves around symbols of power and virtue, as well as the continual re-emergence of these signs over the course of history. CIVIC VIRTUE seeks to place these symbols and allegories beyond any specific historical, political or social appropriation. As a platform for research and performance, CIVIC VIRTUE are currently on their Grand Tour around Europe, through the entrails of history and past important monuments of revival. 

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atb #37 | ‚Research

Kristian Byskov, Pia Eikaas, Martin Haufe, Benny Henningsen, Margarita del Carmen, Anna Ørberg, Vladas Suncovas

‚Research is a collective exhibition put together by seven students from the School of Walls and Space, at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen. The School is led by Professor Nils Norman who describes the School as: „(…) a multi-layered micro-institution that encourages the development of an inter-disciplinary research-based practice.“*
It is our ambition to focus on this certain kind of research-based practice and to take it into an experimental and more risky field. 
What ever event occurs in this process will act in an immediate change in the bodies of the participants and therefore undoubtedly react into the space. 
We hereby present what will only be known on the date of the 14th of April (but may be will never be fully understood).

‚Research: Kristian Byskov, Pia Eikaas, Martin Haufe, Benny Henningsen, Margarita del Carmen, Anna Ørberg, Vladas Suncovas

*The apostrophe is a reference to the science of ‚pataphysics, conceptualized by Alfred Jarry, 1893, as: „The science of imaginary solutions…“

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Opening Friday, April 13, 2012 at 19h
Exhibition April 14 – May 19, 2012
open by appointment

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atb #34 | Hidden Parts

Micki Tschur

Florian Zeyfang, Nicole Messenlehner, Manfred Peckl, Kaj Osteroth & Lydia Hamann, Michael Kalmbach, Heide Deigert, Klaus Winichner, Isabelle Fein, Heike Foell, Thomas No:sler, Philip Wiegard, Lutz Braun, Undine Goldberg, Caro Suerkemper, Amelie von Wulffen, Endre Aalrust, Anton Stoianov, Norbert Witzgall, Katja von Helldorff, Petra Trenkel, Mariechen Danz, Johannes Raether, Judith Raum, Thomas Seidemann, Sophie-Therese Trenka-Dalton, Nuri Koerfer, Olivier Foulon, Yusuf Etiman, Christina Morhardt

Opening Friday, October 21, 2011 at 19 h

Performance at 22 h: chose infinie vert qui recule – klang: katja von helldorff + bild: bettina hohorst.

22. October – 2. December 2011
Open by appointment: +49 179 947 3040

endreaalrust.com
philipwiegard.com
nicolemessenlehner.net
petratrenkel.de

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atb #33 | Little Body Heart Beating

Achim Lengerer

Little Body Heart Beating
Stellprobe für Rehearsals with Sally

Opening Friday, September 2nd 2011 at 19 h
3. September – 15. October 2011
Open: Thursdays, 15-19 h

During the opening Sally Musleh Jaber and Achim Lengerer will performe for a limited group of people. Please register in advance for one of the times listed below at mailto@after-the-butcher.de
19:30, 20:30 or 21:30 hours 

Thursday, 29th September 2011, additional event by Achim Lengerer and Scriptings.

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atb #32 | It’s all Chinese to me

Fouad Asfour, Ingo Gerken, Khwezi Gule, Bandile Gumbi, Amos Letsoalo, Sharlene Khan, Eva Seufert, Claudia Schneider

Opening Friday, 17 June – from 7 pm
18 June – 7 August 2011
open by appointment +49 (0)157 783 304 98

invited in the context of beyond language, an exchange project between South Africa and Germany, curated by Eva Seufert and Fouad Asfour, in collaboration with the Dead Revolutionaries Club, Johannesburg

After exhibitions, discussions, workshops and readings in Johannesburg, Soweto and Polokwane in winter 2011, for which Berlin based artists Eva Seufert and Ingo Gerken had been in South Africa, the exhibition in Berlin tries to focus on some of the raised questions.
Therefore we are happy to invite the South African artists Bandile Gumbi, Sharlene Khan und Claudia Shneider as well as the artist and curator of the Polokwane Art Museum Amos Letsoalo and the curator of the Hector Pieterson Museum Khwezi Gule.

The title of the exhibition relates to a constitutive misunderstanding in communication, caused by the volatility of meaning, which on the other hand generates the subversive potential of language.
The suggestion for direct speech would be to use language as material and material as language.

On June 30 Khwezi Gule, curator of the Hector Pieterson Museum in Soweto, will talk about the Soweto uprising against the implementation of Afrikaans as school language and the consequences of Bantu Education in South Africa.
for the first part of the project please visit : http://byndlanguage.blogspot.com/

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