Concrete Art Space: “FUN & FUNDS for JAPAN”
Workshop, food, drinks & music.

March 26, 2011, from 5 pm

5 pm: Origami Workshop “Let’s create a nice town with Origami” by SHOXXX and her friends

7 pm: Japanische Vokü “Oh!! Bento!!!” Vegetarisch / Vegan - 3,00 EUR by Kana

japanische spezielle Dinner-Box mit heiße Miso-Suppe.

Musik

7.30 pm: Sho-Ro - acoustic Gitarre & Melodion

8 pm: GARP - Live suprise :-)

9 pm: Tatsumi Ryusui - Live - ambient noise - www.myspace.com/tatsumiryusui

10 pm: Raving Mad Carlos - Live - electro trash - www.myspace.com/ravingmadcarlos

12 pm -open end: Christoph Chiaki - minimal techno Bill Robin - electronic experimental techno - www.myspace.com/billrobin

Breizh’art oh! - Artist Groupshow from Brittany /France

April 9 - 30 2011 
Opening on Saturday the 9th of April at 7pm

Maël Nozahic, Cedric Le Corf, Marceau Couve, Julien Charroin, Klervi Bourseul, Arnaud Rochard, Julie Laignel

About Breizh’art oh!
The collective Breizh’art oh! brings together artists from Brittany or having studied in one of its four art schools.

Anthropomorphism

Anthropomorphism is the tendency to measure everything from a human perspective. It was originally based on a spiritual fascination for such animal, which under the shape of a totem identified the tribe, conferring to its members strength, wisdom, or whatever quality it was supposed to embody. Beyond the simple projection of behaviour, anthropomorphism is also an interesting tool to think and express human nature. In fables for instance, the personification of objects or animals allowed authors to bypass the censorship of repressive societies or expressing freely their opinions on the social and existential conditions of men.

Nonetheless may the use of personification not only be critical: through such process can the poet make us see our environment as a vast body, where Mother Nature is sung within the rhythm of emotions, where the river flows and birds sing their love. Others drew analogies between the human body and landscape: a Whole made of curves, reliefs and complex networks; veins and rivers, hills and busts, as inner life also goes through tides, storms and blue skies…

Whether it stands for allegorical, poetical, mystical, critical or artistic purposes, anthropomorphism - from primitive totemism to its more contemporary manifestations - has always settled our perception of the world.

Breizh’art oh! - Artist Groupshow from Brittany /France

April 9 - 30 2011
Opening on Saturday the 9th of April at 7pm

Maël Nozahic, Cedric Le Corf, Marceau Couve, Julien Charroin, Klervi Bourseul, Arnaud Rochard, Julie Laignel

About Breizh’art oh!
The collective Breizh’art oh! brings together artists from Brittany or having studied in one of its four art schools.

Anthropomorphism

Anthropomorphism is the tendency to measure everything from a human perspective. It was originally…

Under the Radar, the Berlin DIY Music, Art and Ideas Festival
Friday, March 25, 8 pm
Rufreaktor, LA54, Old Brewery, Landsberger Allee 54, Berlin

Under the Radar, the Berlin DIY music, art and ideas festival, promises to give “a glimpse of Berlin’s fertile underbelly”.

Playing live are Gestammelorchester, Mary Ocher (of Mary + Baby Cheeses fame) and The Dolphins (motorik rock).

Additionally, there is a group show of work from emerging Berlin-based visual artists Jane Hughes, Oliver Rivera-Drew and Tulip Enterprises.

DJ Paracetemol and DJ Unholy Spider will round off the night.

Last.fm: www.last.fm/festival/1869822

Under the Radar: Berlin DIY music, art and ideas
Gestammelorchester + The Dolphins + Mary Ocher
DJ Paracetemol + DJ Unholy Spider
Art: Jane Hughes + Oliver Rivera-Drew + Tulip Enterprises

Gestammelorchester: www.myspace.com/gestammel
The Dolphins: www.myspace.com/dolphinsberlin
Mary Ocher: www.myspace.com/maryocher
DJ Unholy Spider: www.myspace.com/unholyspidersound
Jane Hughes: www.janehughes.ie/
Tulip Enterprises: twitter.com/TulipArtProject

Friday, March 25, 8 pm at Rufreaktor, LA54, Old Brewery, Landsberger Allee 54, Berlin

Under the Radar, the Berlin DIY music, art and ideas festival, promises to give “a glimpse of Berlin’s fertile underbelly”.

Playing live are Gestammelorchester, Mary Ocher (of Mary & Baby Cheeses fame) and The Dolphins (motorik rock).

Additionally, there is a group show of work from emerging Berlin-based visual artists Jane Hughes, Oliver Rivera-Drew and Tulip Enterprises.

DJ Paracetemol and DJ Unholy Spider will round off the night.

Last.fm: http://www.last.fm/festival/1869822

Under the Radar: Berlin DIY music, art and ideas
Gestammelorchester, The Dolphins & Mary Ocher
DJ Paracetemol + DJ Unholy Spider
Art: Jane Hughes, Oliver Rivera-Drew & Tulip Enterprises

http://www.landsberger54.org/rufreaktor_radar

March 18 - April 1, 2011
Opening reception: Friday, March 18, 7 pm

ONGOING is a project initiated by a collective from Quebec to share and document their experience in Berlin. The main idea was to establish themselves in a foreign city to have a production inspired by the place, to work with found materials and produce pieces of art. In a short period of time, the project has transformed into a multicultural experience. In this building filled with a lot of creative people from around the world, a strong exchange of techniques, ideas, inspiration and culture took place.

With the help of the sculptor Ciro Chavez, Olivier Moisan and Thomas Levesque from Quebec, as well as Emmanuel Njike from France present their new work produced in Berlin. This exhibition features paintings, drawings, screen prints and sculptures in an installative environnement.

The “RufReaktor” is in the rooftop of our old brewery complex in Berlin, Friedrichshain. The building is now used as an environment for artists from all over the world and people who are collaborating with them.

Originally taken as a painting studio, our focus is to extend the use and provide space for all kinds of creations. The “RufReaktor” is meant to be a rotating atom of various ideas and their explosions. The forms of those have no limits. we welcome any style of creative activity such as theater, music, exhibitions, cinema, performances, installations, artists in residence and so forth.

http://www.rufreaktor.de/
http://www.landsberger54.org/rufreaktor

Organized by Sunshine Wong & 91m2

Feb. 26, 2011, 8 - 10 pm

in English / German; free entry

Artists: Ofir Feldman, Ofir Raul Graizer, Eva Kietzmann

How we perceive ourselves, act around others, and hide/emphasise character traits are but a small number of actions we perform to reinforce and/or reconfigure our constantly-shifting “identity”. What dictates its fluctuation is the context by which we are surrounded: are we amongst like-minded company or do we clearly stand apart from them? Do we confront, retract, or somehow compensate the difference? The three artists in this event all work with the moving image and have each chosen to present one work from their practice, exploring identity as it relates to otherness (Ofir Feldman), gender (Eva Kietzmann), and duty (Ofir Raul Graizer).

Ofir Feldman is an Israeli artist currently residing in Berlin. His work explores the tentative relationship between the individual and his/her surroundings, addressing particularly those moments in which we acknowledge the extent of our alienation. Having concluded the ambitious 6-year WordBank project in which the banking institution — arguably the most influential force in our daily life — is subverted in the name of art and sociolinguistic experimentation, Feldman is now preparing some new video pieces.

Like Feldman, Ofir Graizer is also originally from Israel and has been based in Berlin since 2010. He is a film editor and more recently a film / video artist. In just a few short years, he has amassed an impressive catalogue of work that has as a common theme the ways we combat and succumb to incessant societal pressure. His films / videos have been shown at the Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis and the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival amongst others.

Berlin artist Eva Kietzmann works across disciplines as a solo artist and as a collaborator. She was a founding member of the all-female artist group SEA and the artistic research collective Ex-For, and places communicative exchanges — with her subject or the audience, ideally with both — in the heart of her practice. Often employing spontaneous and humorous performative tactics that expose an underlying truth, Kietzmann’s work is a demonstration of her code-switching talents that permit a constant reexamination of perspective.

http://www.landsberger54.org/91mq_crisis

Feb. 26th 2011, from 10 pm - late at zmf, Brunnenstrasse 10, Berlin-Mitte:

Warehouse - The Return of the Big Old Nose Hiroki Otsuka, Musk Ming & Amit Elan at Warehouse

Image courtesy Hiroki Otsuka. All rights reserved.

Feb. 26th 2011, from 10 pm the art of Hiroki Otsuka (image), Musk Ming & Amit Elan is on display in an art presentation on a queer and Asian theme curated by Kunstraum Richard Sorge at Warehouse, the art & music extravaganza organized by Maria Psycho and Thomas Götz von Aust at zmf club/art space.

Club culture and art may not be such strange bedfellows after all. A whole tradition of artists seeking the proximity to another, cooler, (sub) culture can be invoked. Kunstraum Richard Sorge will use the gallery space of zmf to showcase the works of Otsuka, Elan and Ming (gallery doors open at 10 pm). In deliberate innocence, Warehouse celebrates the happy convergence of gender confusion, club culture and art.

DJs: Helga P, Steve Morell, Herr von Wildsau, Mary Velo, Aviv Netter, Andreas Schwarz.

Live: Plastic Poney, Musk Ming.

Hosts: Pepsi Light, Lulu Las Vegas, Maria Psycho, Thomas Götz von Aust.

Full exhibition text: http://www.kunstraumrichardsorge.org/warehouse

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/warehousewarhouse

Graphite. will be presenting a collection of new paintings, drawings, and prints by New York’s flourishing Japanese artist Hiroki Otsuka.