TJORG DOUGLAS BEER
Menno Aden, Angelika Arendt, Hannah Becher, Andreas Becker, Tjorg Douglas Beer, Viola Bendzko, Roland Boden, Betty Böhm, Joanna Buchowska, Andreas Burger, Corentin Canesson, Diego Castro, André Catarino, Albert Coers, Francisco Da Mata, Ursula Döbereiner, Mirjam Dorsch, Knut Eckstein, Alexandra Erlhoff, Alex Flemming, Frederik Foert, (...)
Moritz Frei, Peter Freitag, Tom Früchtl, Jane Garbert, Gfeller + Hellsgård, Lukas Glinkowski, Maurus Gmür, Marco Goldenstein, Ben Greber, Malcom Green, Jens Hanke, Peter Hartinger, Gregor Hildebrandt, Daniel Hoflund, Alekos Hofstetter, Birgit Hölmer, Julien Hübsch, Marianna Ignataki, Thomas Jocher, Jase Kala, Patrick Kaufmann, Klaus Killisch, Astrid Köppe, Annekatrin Lemke, Lukas Liese, Ignacio Lobera, Catherine Lorent, Barbara Lüdde, Frank Maier, Jules Maillot, Oliver Mark, Rei Matsushima, Matthias Mayer, Anna Mieves, NIHILS, Justine Otto, Andrea Pichl, Matthias Pilsz, Kristina Popov, Franziska Reinbothe, Franz Schmidt, Nina E. Schönefeld, Marcus Sendlinger, Soji Shimizu, Martin Skauen, Charlie Stein, Songwen Sun-von Berg, Philip Topolovac, Anke Völk, Helena Walter, Witte Wartena, Sador Weinsčlucker, Linda Weiss, Claudio Wichert, Albrecht Wild, Markus Willeke, Ila Wingen, René Wirths, Hansa Wißkirchen

Opening
December 15 2022, 6—9 pm

Dates
December 16 2022 - January 28 2023

Location
LAGE EGAL
Greifswalder Str 34
10405 Berlin
Germany
lage-egal.net


A small shell of hope drifting lightly above the dangerous world`s waves
Tjorg Douglas Beer (*1973) wurde in Lübeck geboren, wuchs in Hamburg auf und studierte dort auch an der Hochschule für Bildende Künste. (...)
In seinen Arbeiten beschäftigt sich der Künstler auf subjektive Art mit politischen und gesellschaftlichen Themen sowie persönlichen Perspektiven auf Alltagsszenarien. Seine Skulptur „Simsalabim“ verbindet auf poetische Weise Assoziationen von Flucht und Krieg mit einer utopischen Leichtigkeit. Die Keramiken, sind Abformungen von kränklich-blassen Antlitzen von fast erwachsen aussehenden Kinder-Schaufensterpuppen. Eine kindliche Figur fliegt sitzend auf einem fliegenden Teppich über die Gipfel der Bad Gasteiner Bergpanoramen.
“Simsalabim” is an outside sculpture. A memorial to the Future. A small shell of hope drifting lightly above the dangerous world`s waves.“

Tjorg Douglas Beer (*1973) was born in Lübeck, grew up in Hamburg and also studied there at the University of Fine Arts. In his works, the artist deals with political and social issues as well as personal perspectives on everyday scenarios in a subjective way. His sculpture „Simsalabim“ poetically combines associations of flight and war with utopian lightness. The ceramics are impressions of sickly pale faces from almost adult-looking kids-mannequins. A childish figure flies sitting on a flying carpet over the peaks of the Bad Gastein mountain panoramas.

Location
July 14 - September 2 2022, Kraftwerk


A / A, Christian Achenbach, Johannes Albers, Tjorg Douglas Beer, Olivia Berckemeyer, Julia Beliaeva, Fritz Bornstück, Birte Bosse, Vajiko Chachkhiani, Claudia Comte, Hiu Tung Ching, Tobias Dostal, Björn Geipel, Philip Grözinger, Lothar Hempel, Gregor Hildebrandt, Stefan Hirsig, Leiko Ikemura, Timo Klöppel, Lara Koch, Alicja Kwade, (...)
Lindsey Landfried, Via Lewandowsky, Inge Mahn, Toshihiko Mitsuya, Jonathan Monk, Frank Nitsche, Aris Papapaschalis, Manfred Peckl, Hannu Prinz, Thomas Rentmeister, Anselm Reyle, Michael Sailstorfer, Thomas Scheibitz, Severin Spengler, Martin Städeli, Fiete Stolte, Milen Till, Philip Topolovac, Geerten Verheus, Luca Vitone

Opening
April 27 2022 7 pm

Duration
April 27 – May 21 2022

Location
Galerie KWADRAT Berlin temporary
Möckernstraße 120
Berlin


Katharina Arndt, Tjorg Douglas Beer, Benjamin Bergmann, Louisa Clement, Charlott Cobler, Phillip Fuerhofer, Phillipp Hochmair, Myriam Jonas, Kathrin Kampmann, Lars Langemeier, Annemie Martin, Linus Muellerschoen, Martin Ogolter, Michael Ornauer, Margriet van Veenen, Anselm Reyle (...)

A small shell of hope drifting lightly above the dangerous world`s waves
Tjorg Douglas Beer (*1973) wurde in Lübeck geboren, wuchs in Hamburg auf und studierte dort auch an der Hochschule für Bildende Künste. In seinen Arbeiten beschäftigt sich der Künstler auf subjektive Art mit politischen und gesellschaftlichen Themen sowie persönlichen Perspektiven auf Alltagsszenarien. Seine Skulptur „Simsalabim“ verbindet auf poetische Weise Assoziationen von Flucht und Krieg mit einer utopischen Leichtigkeit. Die Keramiken, sind Abformungen von kränklich-blassen Antlitzen von fast erwachsen aussehenden Kinder-Schaufensterpuppen. Eine kindliche Figur fliegt sitzend auf einem fliegenden Teppich über die Gipfel der Bad Gasteiner Bergpanoramen.
“Simsalabim” is an outside sculpture. A memorial to the Future. A small shell of hope drifting lightly above the dangerous world`s waves.“

Tjorg Douglas Beer (*1973) was born in Lübeck, grew up in Hamburg and also studied there at the University of Fine Arts. In his works, the artist deals with political and social issues as well as personal perspectives on everyday scenarios in a subjective way. His sculpture „Simsalabim“ poetically combines associations of flight and war with utopian lightness. The ceramics are impressions of sickly pale faces from almost adult-looking kids-mannequins. A childish figure flies sitting on a flying carpet over the peaks of the Bad Gastein mountain panoramas.

Location
August 6 – September 20 2021, Kraftwerk


Dimitri Angelini, Tjorg Douglas Beer, Luca Bertolo, Chiara Camoni, Olimpia Cavriani, Guenter Foerg, Erró, Konstantinos Giotis, Francesco De Grandi, Hristos Hantzis, Dimitris Karatzas, Dionisis Kavallieratos, Ilias Koen, John Kørner, Angela Liosi, Charlie Masson, Olga Migliaressi-Phoca, Yoko Ono, Manuel Osterholt, Malvina Panagiotidi, (...)
Panos Papadopolous, Katerina Papazissi, Benedetto Pietromarchi, Marieta Roussou, Valinia Svoronou, Filippos Telesto, Pavlos Tsakonas, Alexandros Tzannis, Malte Urbschat, Jannis Varelas, Vassilis H, Marina Velisioti, Woozy

The german art collectors from Kiel Gunda and Peter Niemann have started their engagement in Athens a few years ago by opening Haus N as an exhibition space for the athenian art scene.
www.haus-n.com

The exhibition I CAN SEE YOUR HOUSE FROM HERE. takes place in a second location Haus N2.
The exhibition is a collaboration between the parttaking artists.

It takes place only for 4 Hours on the opening day June 28 from 3pm until 7 pm.

Hours
2pm - 9pm

Location
Haus N Athen 2
Vatsaxi 6
10438 Athens
Greece
www.haus-n.com

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Filippos Telestos work I CAN SEE YOUR HOUSE FROM HERE. is inspired by a shop with sanitary ware opposite the exhibitions location.
Filippos Telesto is a Greek artist who lives and works in Berlin. His artistic and creative influences are drawn from an ever-ending dialogue between his close entourage of friends, family, fellow artists and surroundings.

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Konstantinos Giotis is an artist based in Athens. In his paintings, desires, fantasies or autobiographical deviations function as starting points from which to explore ideological constructions, the limits of representation and painting tropes as building blocks for the construction of a contemporary imaginary. Imagined figures blend with real world references in unlikely atemporal scenarios.

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Marina Velisioti is an artist, scolar of U.F.O’s, Occult and Sci-fi culture. She is the founder and editor of the art zine Bebabebo. She lives in Athens.
Marina Velisioti work DAY DREAM is a metallic yarn knitting, a sexual coat of arms. Her 2nd work EMPIRE OF THE PACIFIC is Inspired by a Pre-Columbian tapestry detail.

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Olga Migliaressi-Phoca creates narratives that reflect popular culture of today and echo current viewpoints and attitudes of western society through a layer of irony. Her work is informed by visuals of the everyday, from street culture to high fashion campaigns, from everyday consumer products, to brands and product logos that one comes across in abundance daily.
EVERYBODY BE COOL, THIS IS A ROBBERY is a humorous piece, commenting on the craze around Maurizio Cattelan’s 2019 Miami Art Basel piece titled Comedian, and all the appropriated copies that were created and reproduced based on his piece.

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Valinia Svoronou is an artist that lives and works in Athens. Ice Queen Chair, Endymion's Repose , 2021 is the work she will present, inspired by epic design moments of 80s furniture and soap operas. Her works draws from romanticism, mythology, the celestial world and the cynicism of the everyday.

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Malte Urbschat“s paintings visualize a Post Apokalyptic World. Colorfull psychedelic Landscapes full of Bonbon like Colours and Glitter-Nailpolish are covered by abstract geometrical Structures which seem to build Figures or Emojis.

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Charlie Masson`s practice is intrinsically related to his environment whether depicting rural and urban landscapes or inherently intimate subjects. His work and style is influenced by Post-Impressionist and Old Master painters, with particular interest in vanitas paintings. Since his move to Italy in 2018 Masson's palette has transmuted in favor of more vibrant colors, emphasizing the existing contrast between natural and man-made shapes and forms.


Galerie Elisabeth & Klaus Thoman is pleased to present the first solo exhibition by German-born artist Tjorg Douglas Beer in Vienna. 
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Five monumental ceramic sculptures are located in the major room of the exhibition space. Each of them is placed on a base in different heights, of which the ones in steel are designed by the artist. Formally, they are reminiscent of rockets and bombs. While at the same time, they show human features. Stamped with various objects from the artist's studio, the works function as a symbiosis of anthropomorphic representation and inanimate thing. Or as assemblages of a figure and a technical object.

Tjorg Douglas Beer generates situations, scenarios and objects in his works. He translates influences from literature, music, politics and life in general in exaggerated form into new contexts. Themes such as war and destruction, which echo in the works, also form the background of the sculpture SIMSALABIM (2017). A ceramic sculpture of a child figure, that raises its middle finger, is sitting on a pedestal, appearing as a flying carpet. The utopian monument of the future combines a sad reality marked by flight and war with the lightness of fairytale worlds (like of 1001 Nights).

In addition to the ceramics, the exhibition features three recent wall works and three new bronze figures. The small bronze AI (2021) is inspired by sculptures that idealise the human figure, revealing parallels to classical Greek sculpture. Conceived as an assemblage, it contains echoes of a plastic fork, a plastic soldier and even a vinegar bottle. The principle of assemblage also characterises the three paintings from 2015. Beer breaks through the classical two-dimensional painting by incorporating pieces of fabric and mirrors into the canvas, while allowing the application of paint to oscillate between thick sections of colour and thin glazes. The compilation of works not only demonstrates Tjorg Douglas Beer's diverse artistic approach and his use of media and materials. It also enables visitors to delve deeper into his artistic cosmos, in which images of the future between utopia and dystopia emerge under the evocative magic formula "Simsalabim".

Tjorg Douglas Beer, born in Lübeck in 1973, studied at the HFBK, University of Fine Arts in Hamburg. His work is shown internationally in museums and galleries, including Kunstverein Hamburg, Weserburg, Museum für Moderne Kunst Bremen, Projektraum Kunsthalle Vienna, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, Tate Modern, London, X-Initiative, New York, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Remap3 Athens, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, basedinberlin, Neue Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin. Solo exhibitions at Kunsthaus Hamburg, Stadsgalerij Heerlen, Institut für Moderne Kunst Nürnberg, Contemporary Art Institute Sapporo, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, among others. In Austria, his works were shown in a solo exhibition at Kunstraum Innsbruck (2009), as well as at Belvedere 21 - Museum for Contemporary Art Vienna.


Galerie Mikael Andersen would like to welcome you to Tjorg Douglas Beer’s solo exhibition NEW COMPOSITIONS, with new paintings, ceramics and bronze sculptures and by the artist.
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mikaelandersen.com/exhibition/tjorg-douglas-beer

In his recent series of paintings, Beer focuses on the process of painting itself. The development of the paintings is an intense ongoing process of interaction and improvisation. The results are paintings composed of abstract forms; some still carrying titles that refer to narratives that subsequently appear throughout the paintings’ development.
Beer uses acrylics, oils and spray paint, with the acrylics predominantly providing the background. Beer then uses spray paint and oils to cover larger areas with geometric shapes. The use of neon colours and metallic spray paints, and the resulting texture of these materials, contribute to a contemporary palette that Beer perceives to be somewhat evocative of sounds in electronic music, i.e.
The bronze sculptures featured in the exhibition are in part inspired by classical Greek sculptures and their idealized versions of the human form. The bronze sculptures are utopian / dystopian Statues. They are composed from plastic Ken Doll or Barbie Puppets, and other plastic objects, such as fast-food containers, cutlery, bottles, and other small plastic objects cemented to their bodies. The figures are then cast in bronze and patinated. The sculpture 2B has a classic greenish patina, while AI has a more vibrant green patina invoking a more jarring, artificial quality. The ceramic sculptures have both anthropomorphic qualities as well as holding a resemblance to rockets and bombs, some a symbiosis of both man and object.
Tjorg Douglas Beer (b. 1973) lives and works between Athens and Hamburg.
Beer´s works are part of some of the most prestigious art collections and his work has been shown in galleries, institutions and Museums in Europe, the US, South America and Asia, i.e. Palais de Tokyo, France; Heart Herning Museum for Contemporary Art, Denmark and the Manifesta Biennial 11, Zurich, Switzerland. For more information on the exhibition and for press photographs please contact the gallery on tel. 33 33 05 12 or email: cph@mikaelandersen.com.

Dates
June 4. - August 14 2021

Hours
Tuesday–Friday 12–18, Saturday 11–15

Location
GALERIE MIKAEL ANDERSEN COPENHAGEN
Bredgade 63
1260 Copenhagen
Denmark

all works © VG Bildkunst / 
Courtesy the artist and Galerie Mikael Andersen Copenhagen



Exhibition opening Saturday May 29th

The Treeline Residency project was born in 2017, conceived and created by Benedetto Pietromarchi and Maria Concetta Monaci.

It is among the most interesting artist residency programs in Europe, which takes place in Capalbio in the Tuscan Maremma biennially. This third edition entitled North to Northwest (the direction of the Parco dell’Uccellina from Capalbio) is the theme of this new edition which takes place from 15 to 20 June 2021 in Capalbio.

Three artists Chiara Camoni, Francesco De Grandi, and Tjorg Douglas Beer are invited to dialogue with the territory, in order to interpret it through their personal languages of expression. The works will be the result of the stimulating meeting between the artists and the park. The exhibition, which will open on May 29th, 2021 in the presence of the artists, will host the original works produced during the unique experience and accompanied by previously selected works from their studios or corresponding galleries.

The production of the works will be the result of a two-week journey, which includes excursions within the Uccellina Park such as Cala di Forno, the Abbey of San Rabano, Torre di Collelungo and Talamone. The intention is to create the right opportunities to meet as well as to raise awareness amongst involving participants for this year's theme, while also deepening the study of the Maremma area and its history. Over the course of the two weeks, two meetings will be organized and livened by experts in their chosen fields including professors and curators close to these issues.

During the residency there will be two round table discussions. The first held by Carlo Alberto Pratesi, professor of marketing and innovation in Roma Tre, and Uberto Resta, founder of Rete Imprese Agricole, on the themes of sustainability and innovation while the second talk there will be the curators in conversation on the topic of the residency.

The whole itinerary will end with the North to Northwest exhibition at the gallery space of Il Frantoio. - Residency from May 15th to the 29th Exhibition from May 30th to June 20th

Opening
May 29 2021 6 pm

Location
IL FRANTOIO
Piazza della PROVVIDENZA 10
Capalbio

treelineresidency.com



Magdalena Abakanowicz, Horst Antes, Tjorg Douglas Beer, Ulrich Behl, Heinz Breloh, Thorsten Brinkmann, Abraham David Christian, Chiara Dynys, Bogomir Ecker, Philine Fahl, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Thorsten Goldberg, Carsten Höller, Leiko Ikemura, Res Ingold, Thomas Judisch, Menashe Kadishman, Bernd Kastner, Jan Koblasa, Brigitte Kowanz, Pit Kroke, Mischa Kuball, Via Lewandowsky, Markus Lüpertz, Olaf Nicolai, Katsuhito Nishikawa, Morio Nishimura, Mimmo Paladino, Jörg Plickat, Anne und Patrick Poirier, Norbert Prangenberg, Birgit Ramsauer, Hans Martin Ruwoldt, Tina Schwichtenberg, Manfred Sihle-Wissel, Stefan Sous, Thomas Stimm, Manolo Valdés

20 Jahre Herbert Gerisch-Stiftung
Eine Erfolgsgeschichte, die es mit der Ausstellung OUTSIDEINSIDE zu feiern gilt.
 
Mit mehr als 200 Exponaten, spektakulären Neuerwerbungen, Schenkungen und Leihgaben präsentiert sich der Sammlungsbestand der 38 im Park vertretenden Künstlerinnen und Künstler der Stiftung in allen Ausstellungsbereichen.

Startend mit den Caféräumen und dem bekannten Ausstellungsbereich im Obergeschoss der Villa Wachholtz über die Remise, den roten Bungalow, die Galerie, das Pfauenhaus bis in die privaten Bereiche mit Souterrain und Wohnhaus geben weitere ergänzende Bilder, Kleinskulpturen, Installationen, Zeichnungen und Fotos vertiefende Einblicke in das Schaffen der Künstlergemeinschaft des Gerisch-Parks.

Bereits in der Diele der Villa Wachholtz empfangen uns die neue Bronzearbeit „Osiel“ der Künstlerin Magdalena Abakanowicz und drei schillernd farbig gefasste Ballons des Künstlers Jeppe Hein. In den Caféräumen spiegelt ein Querschnitt die Ausstellung „Trasher Island“ von Thorsten Brinkmann.

Mit den Künstlern der ersten Stunde Menashe Kadishman, Magdalena Abakanowicz, Abraham David Christian, Pit Kroke, Norbert Prangenberg und dem Künstlerduo Anne und Patrick Poirier sowie Horst Antes und Via Lewandowsky werden die Ausstellungsräume im Obergeschoß der Villa eindrucksvoll bespielt.

Katsuhito Nishikawa, der japanische Künstler unseres Kleeblattes, richtet seine Werkgruppe in der Remise ein und vis á vis präsentiert sich Tjorg Douglas Beer mit seinen Arbeiten im Roten Bungalow.

Die weiteren Werke der 20 Künstler und Künstlerinnen, von denen es mitunter nur wenige ergänzende Arbeiten gibt, teilen sich die Galerieräume. Dazu gehören Chiara Dynys, Bernd Kastner, Brigitte Kowanz, Stefan Sous, Mischa Kuball, Thorsten Goldberg, Birgit Ramsauer, Heinz Breloh, Bogomir Ecker, Carsten Höller, Olaf Nicolai, Morio Nishimura, Ulrich Behl, Tina Schwichtenberg, Jörg Plickat, Manfred Sihle-Wissel, Mimmo Paladino, Thomas Judisch, Ian Hamilton Finlay und Markus Lüpertz.

Im Privaten zeigen sich Manolo Valdés, Jan Koblasa, Philine Fahl und die Sammlung Hans Martin Ruwoldt. Im Souterrain und der Außenterrasse präsentiert sich die Schenkung Thomas Stimm und das frisch restaurierte Pfauenhaus ist der Arbeit der japanischen Künstlerin Leiko Ikemura gewidmet.

Und ganz aufregend ist die neue Außeninstallation „Skulpturenbrüter“ von der Performance-Künstlerin Birgit Ramsauer, die zusammen mit der Porzellan Manufaktur Nymphenburg 31 Vogelnistkästen im Farbkreis nach Johannes Itten gestaltet hat.


Julia Bornefeld, Tjorg Douglas Beer, Thomas Feuerstein, Kerstin von Gabain, Begi Guggenheim, Martin Grandits, Michael Kienzer, Angelika Loderer, Constantin Luser, Jonathan Meese, Oswald Oberhuber, So a Gosinsky, Tal R, Elisabeth von Samsonow Hans Schabus, Gisela Stiegler, Daniel Spoerri, Gottfried Bechtold, Toni Schmale, Lois Weinberger, (...)
Franz West, Johannes Wohnseifer, Erwin Wurm, Heimo Zobernig

About PARALLEL VIENNA

PARALLEL VIENNA takes place for the 11th time in Vienna from 5th of September to 10th of September 2023 and sticks to its approach of using temporarily vacant buildings as a presentation platform for contemporary art.
PARALLEL VIENNA presents young and emerging as well as established artistic practices and brings together art initiatives of every kind – art associations, galleries, project spaces, off spaces and artist spaces – , both Austrian and international, all under one roof. It thus combines local artistic creation with international trends and contributes to building networks and fosters exchanges between artists, curators, collectors and exhibition visitors.
 
PARALLEL VIENNA is a hybrid between art fair, exhibition platform and artist studio. It unites exhibitions made by commercial galleries (GALLERY STATEMENTS — each with a solo presentation of an artist), off-spaces and art associations (PROJECT STATEMENTS – a solo or group show) and solo presentations by selected artists (ARTIST STATEMENTS or artistic INTERVENTIONS in the building invited directly by PARALLEL VIENNA). Instead of the usual booths at art fairs, each exhibitor occupies a separate room of the building in which the exhibition is presented. These site-specific artworks and interventions are the trademark of PARALLEL VIENNA and make the fair a unique and alternative exhibition format outside the“white cube. As a curated art fair participation is upon invitation by the curatorial team only.


Jeder neue Tag hat zwei Griffe.
Wir können ihn am Griff der Ängstlichkeit oder am Griff der Zuversicht halten.
(H. Beecher, 1813-1887) (...)


Nevin Aladag, Jan Albers, Axel Anklam, Christian Awe, Tjorg Douglas Beer, Matthias Bitzer, Jonas Burgert, Claudia Comte, Jose Davila, Henrik Eiben, Fort, Henriette Grahnert, Anne Graph, Katharina Grosse, Jeppe Hein, Gregor Hildebrandt, Fabian Knecht, Lilia Kovka, Alicja Kwade, Rupprecht Matthies, Olaf Metzel, Paul Morrisson, Timo Nasseri, Ewa Partum, Anselm Reyle, Pia Stadtbaeumer, Stefan Strumbel, Hoda Tawakol


initiated by Margarita und Christian Holle

Dates

June 18 - November 6 2020

gartendergegenwart.de


Tjorg Douglas Beer, born in Lübeck in 1973 and grew up in Hamburg where he studied at the College of Fine Arts. Tjorg currently lives and works in Athens while focusing on the creation of his new series of clay sculptures. Tjorg mostly works with mixed media creating collages and sculptures. (...)
Within a dystopian concept Beer’s artworks often involve figures of children and military themes, such as rockets and atomic bombs. These are the artist’s common commentaries upon the current political landscape. In fact, he suggests his artworks can be used as both: for example an outdoor manifesto (i.e. demonstration banners); or as an indoor art piece in a private collection.

Beer uses a punk attitude to satirise politics: for him, politics is almost the canvas upon which he paints - the human condition exists within a political context. Music and literature combine in Beer’s consciousness with his art and this concoction delivers the sophisticated political commentary that he is trying to convey. This almost propagandistic function of the work takes place without the need for support elements: his works in fact retain their media power whether they are in a gallery, or exhibited in a private house or on the street. The latter type of location is particularly dear to the artist who in 2010 inaugurated the project of the Berlin Kreuzberg Biennale, a traveling happening on the streets of the famous Berlin district during which the works were inserted in the city context, bringing art and his political manifesto in direct contact with the city, without the need for intermeation.

Beer‘s works have been exhibited in some of the most important national and international museums and galleries, including Tate Modern, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Project Space Kunsthalle Vienna, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, based in Berlin, and the New National Gallery at Hamburger Bahnhof.

Maria Abramenko

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22 Grafton Street
W1S 4EX - London - UK
+44 20 34 09 9633
VAT: UK 205367229


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Dear members, ladies and gentlemen,
together with the artist Tjorg Douglas Beer, we would like to invite you to visit our current exhibition.
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Tjorg Douglas Beer deals in his own way with topics that interest him: In his abstract paintings, collages, and sculptures, the artist opens up personal perspectives on everyday scenarios and alternative, fictional realities, or sometimes addresses political and social issues. Beer says about his work: „There are people who write songs - I make things.“

The exhibition at the Kunstverein Jesteburg brings together around 50 works from various creative phases of the artist, including numerous contemporary paintings and ceramic sculptures, and thus provides an overview of the multifaceted oeuvre of Tjorg Douglas Beer.
An audio guide and simultaneously mediating instance is a sound work by Tjorg Douglas Beer from 2009 (41 ANSWERS / MYSELF 2009 audio sequence produced for the exhibition SHOW. AN AUDIO TOUR THROUGH BERLIN BY KARIN SANDER December 5, 2009 - January 10, 2010, Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin 1:30 min).

Like Beer‘s paintings, collages and sculptures, 41 ANSWERS / MYSELF also offers an open space for interpretation - whether the work is the documentation of an existential self-questioning by the artist, a method intended to encourage visitors to reflect, or the articulation of an inner voice of the exhibition visitors presumed by the artist, Tjorg Douglas Beer leaves open. Tjorg Douglas Beer was born in 1973 in Lübeck and grew up in Hamburg, where he studied at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste. Beer‘s works have been exhibited in some of the most important national and international museums and galleries, including Tate Modern, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Project Space Kunsthalle Vienna, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, basedinberlin, and the New National Gallery in Hamburger Bahnhof.

In addition, works by the artist are represented in some of the most internationally renowned public and private collections, such as Melva Bucksbaum, New York, Margulies Collection, Miami, Collection of Mikki and Stanley Weithorn, New York, Beth Rudin de Woody, Florida, CAP Collection, Southhampton, Herbert Gerisch Foundation, Neumünster, Deichtorhallen Hamburg / Sammlung Falckenberg, Hamburg, Herbert F. Johnson Museum, NY, Albertinum - Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden / Sammlung Gercken,

In addition to participating in biennials such as Manifesta11 - European Biennial for Contemporary Art 2016 in Zurich, the Socle du Monde Biennial 2017 in Herning and the Mykonos Biennial 2019, Beer has dedicated himself as the initiator of projects such as Galerie im Regierungsviertel Berlin, the Berlin Kreuzberg Biennial and Galerie Utopia to creating situations that allow existential concerns to be placed in an exhibition context.

KUNSTVEREIN JESTEBURG
TJORG DOUGLAS BEER
June 5 - August 5 2020

Location

Kunstverein Jesteburg
Hauptstraße 37
21266 Jesteburg
Germany

Hours
Thu to Sun: 3:30pm to 6:30pm

Visites can be be arranged via e-mail
team@kunstverein-jesteburg.de


Tjorg Douglas Beer
Ronja Beer
Christian Hahn (...)
Dimitri Horta
Johannes Hueppi
Yun Jang
Nadja Kirschgarten
Evelyn Kutschera
Patrick Lambertz
Mike MacKeldey
Stefan Kiss
Diana Manole
Michele Melillo
Katharina Renneisen
Max Renneisen
Fabienne Spiller
Sebastian Zarius

Opening
March 29 2020

Location
Kunstraum Reinart Schaffhausen
Laufengasse 17
Neuhausen am Rheinfall
Switzerland



Live Act
Hoolshopper
February 1 2020, 8.30 pm

Duration
February 2 - March 21 2020

Location
Reich für die Insel
Glaskubus
Rennweg 4
6020 Innsbruck
Austria

Hours
wed-sat
3pm - 8 pm

Reich für die Insel is initiated by Hanna Obholzer, Severin Sonnewend

Contact
Reich für die Insel
Verein für projektbasierte Öffentlichkeitsarbeit
Hanna Obholzer
Severin Sonnewend
+43 650 89 098 92
mailfuerdieinsel@gmail.com



On the occasion of the opening artist and curator Lydia Venieri will introduce the Mykonos Biennale 2019.
08.10.2019, 6-7pm

Duration
October 09 2019 – January 15 2020

Location
GRZEGORZKI SHOWS BERLIN
Prinzenallee 78-79
13357 Berlin
Germany

Hours
Wed - Fri 2 pm - 6 pm
and by appointment

grzegorzkishows.com
info@grzegorzkishows.com

Grzegorzki Shows Berlin presents new works by the German artist Tjorg Douglas Beer, who works in various fields and creates collages, paintings, and sculptures. The exhibition title, Under the Octopus Tree, is a reference to the artist’s interest in escape scenarios: since 2019, Beer has spent a lot of time in Greece, and the Octopus Tree is a synonym for the fantasma of utopian life. Beer generates his work from life experiences rather than from a conceptual point of view. In his paintings, he mixes ink, markers, lacquer, acrylic, oil paint, and oil stick and develops arrangements and sceneries out of the process of painting. As a result, faces and figures appear from the transition of overlapping colors. These figures are preserved and then arranged in fragmented scenarios that could be landscapes, interiors, or sculptures. Unfinished figures, squares, and color transitions lead to collage-like paintings.

In the exhibition, Beer also shows ceramic sculptures made in collaboration with a Greek ceramist. After the series of figure paintings, Beer has developed a more technical form of figures and heads in the ceramic works. Here, the shapes also resemble rockets and bombs: a symbiosis of human and thing. These sculptures are then stamped with various objects from the artist’s studio. Describing his work, Beer says: “Some people write songs. I make things.”

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Tjorg Douglas Beer was born in Lübeck in 1973 and grew up in Hamburg. There, he studied at the College of Fine Arts. His work has been shown in some of the most important national and international museums and galleries, including the Tate Modern, London; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo; Kunstverein Hamburg; Museum of Modern Art Bremen; Arizona State University Art Museum; Project Space – Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna; Timothy Taylor Gallery, London; X-Initiative, New York; Remap3 + 4 Athens; basedinberlin: Neue Nationalgalerie in Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin; 21er Haus – Museum for Contemporary Art Vienna; and Konsthall Varberg. Beer has had solo exhibitions at Kunsthaus Hamburg; Kunstraum Innsbruck; Stadsgalerij Heerlen; Institute for Modern Art Nuremberg; Contemporary Art Institute Sapporo; and Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York.

Beer is also represented in some of the most prestigious public and private collections: B. Melva Bucksbaum New York; Margulies Collection, Miami; Mikki and Stanley Weithorn Collection, New York; Beth Rudin de Woody, Los Angeles; CAP Collection, Southhampton; Falckenberg Collection, Hamburg; Herbert F. Johnson Museum, NY; Sammlung Gercken, Albertinum – Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden; Montblanc Cultural Foundation, Hamburg; Persol Collection, Milan; and the Sohohouse Group Collection, Berlin/London.

In addition, Beer has participated in the following biennials: Artgenda 2002 in Hamburg; Manifesta11 – European Biennale for Contemporary Art 2016 in Zurich; the Socle du Monde Biennale 2017 in Herning; the Berlin Kreuzberg Biennale 2012; and the Mykonos Biennial 2019.



Opening
Thursday October 10 2019, 7pm

Lecture
On the occasion of the opening of the exhibition Lydia Venieri introduces the Mykonos Biennial.
Thursday October 10 2019, 7pm - 8pm

Dates
October 11-October 18 2019

Hours
Sat - Sun: 3 - 7 pm
Wed - Fri: 5 - 7 pm

Künstlerhaus FAKTOR
Max-Brauer-Allee 229
22769 Hamburg
http://faktor.hamburg

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About The Exhibition
The Künstlerhaus Faktor Hamburg presents new works by the Hamburg artist Tjorg Douglas Beer.
In addition to his own artistic work, Beer has realized projects such as Gallery in the Government District Berlin, Gallery Utopia Athens, Berlin Kreuzberg Biennale international exhibitions including the Palais de Tokyo, Paris, X-Initiative New York and the Tate Modern.
These projects are always collaborations of the artist with artist friends and curators or artists of personal interest.
In the Künstlerhaus Faktor, in addition to new paintings and sculptures, a group exhibition of international artists will be shown in a glass showcase.

About Tjorg Douglas Beer - paintings and ceramic sculptures
Tjorg Douglas Beer works in various fields and creates collages, paintings and sculptures.
In his paintings, Beer mixes ink, markers, lacquer, acrylic and oil paint and oilstick and develops arrangements and sceneries out of the painting process. As a result, faces and figures appear from the transition of overlapping colors. These figures are preserved and then arranged in fragmented landscapes that could be landscapes, interiors or sculptures. Unfinished figures, squares and color transitions lead to collage-like paintings.

The ceramics are made in collaboration with a Greek ceramist. After a series of figures, Beer developed a more technical form of figures, heads. The shape resembles rockets and bombs. These are then stamped with various objects from the artist's studio. The sculptures get faces and resemble a symbiosis of human and thing.
The depicted sculpture is made in the form of a mini nuke (small atomic bomb).

About NOWHERELAND (Part II)
The exhibition NOWHERELAND (Part II) unites 20 small to very small works of art presented in a mobile exhibition showcase. The works were created and selected by the artists for NOWHERELAND (Part II) - works that deal with utopian visions, pessimistic expressions, fragility and destruction or are fragments of the sometimes personal background of the individual.
The exhibition NOWHERELAND (Part II) has no home or place to be. The exhibition NOWHERELAND was first shown during the opening days of Documenta14 in Athens in 2017 - NOWHERELAND (Part II) is the continuation of the project.
The exhibition format, the short presentation and the works presented reflect a certain uncertainty in our time. At the same time, NOWHERELAND is a valuable collection of thoughts, sketches, personal fragments, tools against fear, utopian plans. NOWHERELAND is not a curated exhibition. The artists and curators have provided the works in an artistically collaborative manner. It can be seen as a small symphony of different voices in a choir. The exhibition and the works of art contained therein have their own voice.

About Lydia Venieri und die Mykonosbiennale
APATHIA
Time has aged, fashion repeats itself and the future looks nostalgic. With order globalism has created a new civilization/culture, excessively controlled, unprotected and depressed. Ambition for power and money floats without substance like a bored familiar junkie who has abused everyone and everything. Ancient cities, and treasures of nature disappear. People and animals are abused and all this in a world that is educated with democratic principles and religions touting love. The mind refuses to understand and the repugnant visions accumulate in the bowels of existence. A Pandemic of indigestion overcasts humanity. This serenity is not reminiscent peace. Its an uncomfortable silence, a charged stillness. It is the Silence of the Lambs. Is it love that gives them the power to survive the bloody centuries? Their healing look gifts forgiveness and they who feels it know the answer.

Lydia Venieri, Apathia, Mykonos Biennale 2019

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lydia_Venieri
mykonosbiennale.com



Locations
Train Station, Chora, Mykonos (25-30 / 09)
Yellow Tower, Ano Mera, Mykonos (26/09)
Delos Island (28/09)
Marathi, Mykonos (29/09)

Website
www.mykonosbiennale.com

Contact
info@mykonosbiennale.com

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APATHIA
Time has aged, fashion repeats itself and the future looks nostalgic. With order globalism has created a new civilization/culture, excessively controlled, unprotected and depressed. Ambition for power and money floats without substance like a bored familiar junkie who has abused everyone and everything. Ancient cities, and treasures of nature disappear. People and animals are abused and all this in a world that is educated with democratic principles and religions touting love. The mind refuses to understand and the repugnant visions accumulate in the bowels of existence. A Pandemic of indigestion overcasts humanity. This serenity is not reminiscent peace. Its an uncomfortable silence, a charged stillness. It is the Silence of the Lambs. Is it love that gives them the power to survive the bloody centuries? Their healing look gifts forgiveness and they who feels it know the answer.

Lydia Venieri, Apathia, Mykonos Biennale 2019

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Press release

Apathy is the theme of the 4th Mykonos Biennale which begins on Wednesday 25 September in Mykonos Town. The five-day event will be full of art, music and dance activities, video art screenings as well as an international short film festival with artists from all over the world where tradition meets contemporary art.

At the Biennale Transition Station, the former island country bus station, actions will be hosted and exhibited by: Francisco Alvarado-Juárez, Tjorg Douglas Beer, Lydia Venieri, Anna Vekri, Giorgos Butoretis, Giorgos Butokakis, Gazetopoulos, Khadim Dai, Karl Grümpe & Rene PG, Yiannis Iliopoulos, Vassilis Kavouridis, Haris Kontosfyris, Alexandros Maganiotis, Konstantinos Bouras, Margarita Myrogiannis, Polly Patsy, Vikos Stamopoulos, Viki Stamatopoulos, Viki Stamatopoulos

At the same venue will be the Dramatic Nights Short Film Festival where the films will be presented: BATHERS by Florian Goralsky (FR), BURQA CITY by Bracq Fabrice (FR), DESOLATION by Thomas Giannakis (GR), DIRTY WHITES by Joseph Laguidice (USA), ESCAPE by Amr Singh (NOR), GO BACK 3 SPACES by Stefano Schiavone (IT), KOPACABANA by Marcos Bonisson & Khalil Charif (BR), LITTLE MAID'S DOLL by Dima Proykova ( BGR), PEEPING NICHOLAS by Emanuel Cossu (IT), PRISON by Ramazan Çardak (TUR), STILL BORN by Leila Abdelrazaq (USA), SUNSHINE VICE by Joseph Laguidice (USA), THE PASSPORT by Hanieh Bavali (IRN).

At the same time, in the narrow streets of the country and around the Passenger Station there will be screenings of Video Graffiti featuring the following projects: Sara Koppel's EMBRACES & THE TOUCH OF SKIN (DNK), DIVINE COMEDY by Behnaz Zahmatkesh (IRN), HOLIDAY COLORS by Marco Cucurnia, IN THE RIVER '' FLOW by Alexandria Searls (USA), INVISIBLE SCULPTURE 019 by Capitana F (GER), KOMPONG KHLEANG FLOATING VILLAGE by Matthew Gibson (Cambodia), RIVANNA RIVER DIARIES: THE SCHOOL by Alexandria Searls (USA) , ROOFTOP REFUGEE by Alexandra Brodski (UK), SEVEN KINDS OF SATISFACTION by Amir Monfared (GER), STORMCHOIR - SPAWN OF ERDENVOLK by Matthew Gibson (RUS); Montferrato (GR), and AUTANT EN EMPORTE LA MER by Olia Verroio gingiva (GR).

For another year the magical treasure hunt in Delos will take place with the participation of artists from all over the world. Artists in detail: Francisco Alvarado-Juárez, Michelle Andrade, Tjorg Douglas Beer, Kostis Velonis, Ioanna Vlachou, Aruro Brena, Medri Davide, Peter D. Gerakakis, Maria Georgoulas, Thalia Gatzoulis, Chris Giannakos, Zhen Guo, Vassi Vaso, Zhen Guo, Keramea, Amanda Kiritsopoulou, Peggy Cliafa, Barbara Knight, Konstantinos Ladianos, Thanassis Lalas, Irene Linardakis, Aphrodite Liti, Jenny Marquetou, Steve Miller, Dimitris Barouhos, Margarita Piriassi, Sebastian Miriapanas, Miriamas Pairiassan, Pairia Myrogianni Joanna Przybyla, Hamid Razmkhah, Georgia Sagri, Nicolas Charles, Vicky Stamatopoulou, Angel Spiropoulos, Ni Mr. Tranos, Cleopatra Charitou, Manolis Charos and Dionysis Christofilogiannis.

The artists' antidotes will be on display before the treasure hunt and will be unveiled on the final day of the Biennale at the Country Bus Station.

The Biennale events also include: Maria Christara's dance performance on Wednesday September 25th, the unique musical performance by composer and musician Vasilis Jawara at the Passenger Station on Friday September 27th, the Secret Party at Upper Day on Thursday September 26th with musicians Sikininiotis - Kantanasso (toumpaki, tsampouna) and Michalis Babelis (tsampouna) accompanied by local dance groups:
Windmills, Manto, Mykonos Vegera and Ano Mera. On Sunday, September 29, there will be a Myconian Festival at the Church of the Cross in Marathi organized by the Apollo Group and danced by the Mykonos Vegera, the Biennale will be there enhancing the local activities of the island. The closing of this year's Biennale, Monday, September 30, will feature a video we created in honor of sculptor Takis. A procession of artists will then release lanterns in the night sky in his memory, accompanied by acclaimed saxophonist and musician Dimitris Vassilakis and dancer Silvia Macci.

More information and a detailed program can be found on the Biennale website.


This month will mark the 10 year anniversary of the innovative and inclusive Art Barter project that questions notions of value within the art market and within ourselves.
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Each Art Barter event is a physical exhibition featuring works from a selection of artists working and living in the host city at that time. Upon entering the exhibition, you will see a list of the included artists, however each work will only be allocated a number; no name, price tag or description will be ascribed. The public are then invited to participate by making offers on the works, they can offer anything at all, except for money! This encourages visitors to engage with the works in a new way and to think about what appeals to them based on the visual aspect alone, as well as asking themselves what they have to offer that is different. The offers are made by completing barter forms which become an integral part of the exhibition, as time goes on the barter board grows and visitors try to outdo each other, yet, there is no rhyme or reason to the offers that the artist will eventually choose.

Most popular exchanges that have taken place in the past include 30 hours of French tuition for Tracey Emin’s monoprint; a handmade guitar for a photograph by Bob Gruen, art shipping to Venice for Gavin Turk’s screen-print and an intern for 300 hours in exchange for a sculpture by Tom Sachs. Other examples include the young art student Noriaki Hattori being offered an all expense paid trip to Egypt for his large painting but deciding to exchange with a 5 year old boy for a remote control car. Some outrageous offers that have been made but respectfully declined include ‘a human kidney’, ‘a woman’s first born’ and ‘a child’s skeleton’. You can see an overview of all offers made and exchanged on the website: www.artbarter.co.uk

Since the inaugural exhibition in London’s East End at the end of 2009, Art Barter has put on events throughout the world including Berlin, New York, Madrid, Istanbul, México City, Dubai and Oaxaca as well as further exhibitions as part of Herning’s Socle Du Monde Biennale in Denmark, The Strummer of Love Festival in Somerset and three Mini Barter exhibitions in unusual locations coinciding with London’s Frieze Art Fair. Each event is unique in its selection of artists, its curious location and most importantly the way that participating visitors in different countries receive the project, this has lead critics to deem the ongoing series a sociological experiment.

Following the recession of 2008, Art Barter founders Alix Janta-Polczynki and Lauren Jones teamed up to offer an alternative to the typical way of acquiring art. They were aware of artists throughout time using barter as way of life, such as Picasso exchanging meals for doodles on napkins. They wanted to bring this system to a greater audience and allow a community to be born that would include people of all ages and all walks of life, offering everyone the opportunity to collect art without the use of money.

This September will see the 10th international event, featuring artists currently living and working in Athens.


Participating artists
Antonakis, Nina Amber, Tjorg Douglas Beer, Elina Belou, Romain Cadilhon, Despina Charitonidi, Marie d’Elbée & Andrew Bunsell, Bryony Dunne, Eloise Fornieles, Neal Fox, Florent Frizet, HOPE, hypercomf, Eva Isleifs, Evi Kalogiropoulou, Katerina Kana, Stelios Karamanolis, Lito Kattou, Navine G. Khan-Dossos, Aristeidis Lappas, Manolis D. Lemos, Nicolas Melemis, Theo Michael, Olga Migliaressi-Phoca, Petros Moris, Charlotte Nieuwenhuys, Malvina Panagiotidi, Ivy Papadakis, Panos Papadopoulos, Vasilis Papageorgiou , Zoe Paul, Anastasia Pavlou, Theo Prodromidis, Panos Profitis, Camille Romagnani, William Roper-Curzon, Nana Sachini, Venetia Sacret Young, Eric Stephany, Sofia Stevi, Petros Touloudis, Amalia Vekri, Marina Velisioti

Opening event
20th September 2019 7-10 pm

Exhibition hours
21st - 24th September 2019 1pm - 8pm

Address
Alkinois 6
118 52 Petralona Athens
Greece

info@artbarter.co.uk
www.artbarter.co.uk



Duration
May 4 until May 31 2019

Location
NATIONALMUSEUM BERLIN
Urbanstrasse 100, 1st Yard
10967 Berlin

Hours
Wed - Thu 1 pm – 4.30 pm
or by appointment +49 176 57826886
thenationalmuseum.de

About Tjorg Douglas Beer
Tjorg Douglas Beer was born in Lübeck in 1973 and grew up in Hamburg. There he studied at the College of Fine Arts. Since then his work has been shown in some of the most important national and international museums and galleries, eg. Tate Modern, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Kunstverein Hamburg, Weserburg, Museum of Modern Art Bremen, Arizona State University Art Museum, Project Space Kunsthalle Wien, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, X-Initiative, New York, Remap3 + 4 Athens, basedinberlin, Neue Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, 21er Haus - Museum for Contemporary Art Vienna, Konsthall Varberg. Beer had solo exhibitions, etc. at Kunsthaus Hamburg, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Stadsgalerij Heerlen, Institute for Modern Art Nuremberg, Contemporary Art Institute Sapporo, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York.
He is also represented in some of the most prestigious public and private collections. B. Melva Bucksbaum New York, Margulies Collection, Miami, Collection of Mikki and Stanley Weithorn, New York, Beth Rudin de Woody, Florida, CAP Collection, Southhampton, Falckenberg Collection, Hamburg, Herbert F. Johnson Museum, NY, Albertinum - Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden / Sammlung Gercken, Montblanc Cultural Foundation, Hamburg, Persol Collection Milan, Sohohouse Group Collection, Berlin / Miami). Sculpture Park, Herbert-Gerisch Foundation Neumuenster. Beer has participated in the biennials Artgenda 2002 in Hamburg, Manifesta11 - European Biennale for Contemporary Art 2016 in Zurich, the Socle du Monde Biennale 2017 in Herning and the Berlin Kreuzberg Biennale 2012.
In addition to his artistic work, Beer, as the initiator of projects such as Galerie im Regierungsviertel Berlin, the Berlin Kreuzberg Biennale or Galerie Utopia.

About Panos Papadopoulos
Panos Papadopoulos lives and works in Athens Greece. Panos Papadopoulos work is a mixture of conceptual, minimal, abstract and expressionist art. Departing from his earlier works – text-populated, noisy, post punk abstract oil paintings –, Papadopoulos here allows space to emerge, creating interiors and replacing often the text with objects; yet the objects still hold on to their linguistic potency, often acting as symbols of language. It is the empty space, the sound of silence that adds tension to these objects. Basically, he turns drawings into paintings, leaving the viewer with the impression of the absent, the incomplete, the unfinished. Is their appearance deceiving; is there more than meets the eye?

1995 - 1999 MA & BA in Painting, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna; Awarded with the “Meisterschulpreis”, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna; Awarded with the “Golden Fügerpreis” Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna.
Shows at Eleni Koroneou Gallery, Athens, Martinetz Gallery, Cologne, Irene Laub Gallery, Brussels, Cranbrook Museum, Detroit, USA, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 4th Athens Biennale, Athens, Kunsthalle Athena, Athens, Hooper Projects Residency, Los Angeles, Torri Gallery & Lucile Avenue Space Project, Los Angeles, 1st prize and Commission Palais Weihburg, Vienna, Parallel Vienna I, II III, IV, V, Vienna, Vienna Contemporary Fair, Art Brussels, Art Cologne, Artissima, Torin, Art Athina, Athens, UIC 400 Gallery, Chicago, Gabrielle Senn Galerie, Vienna, Galerie CRONE, Berlin, Belvedere Collection, Vienna, Vogiatzoglou Collection, Athens, Lenikus Collection, Vienna, Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Galerie Kunstbuero, Vienna, Remap 3&4, Athens, Family Business Gallery, New York, Christopher Green Space, London, Buero Weltausstellung, Vienna, Dio Horia, Mykonos, Greece, Spinnerei , Leipzig, Germany, Contemporary Art Center & Corridor Gallery, Plovdiv, Bulgaria, Kunstraum am Schauplatz, Vienna, Gallery Ileana Tounta, Athens, Berlin Kreuzberg Biennale, Berlin, Kunstverein Koelnberg, Cologne, Ve.Sch, Vienna



Location
GRAND THE SUSHI CIRCLE COLOGNE
Lütticher Straße 7 (Entrance: Brabanter Straße)
50674 COLOGNE

About Tjorg Douglas Beer
Tjorg Douglas Beer was born in Lübeck in 1973 and grew up in Hamburg. There he studied at the College of Fine Arts. Since then his work has been shown in some of the most important national and international museums and galleries, eg. Tate Modern, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Kunstverein Hamburg, Weserburg, Museum of Modern Art Bremen, Arizona State University Art Museum, Project Space Kunsthalle Wien, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, X-Initiative, New York, Remap3 + 4 Athens, basedinberlin, Neue Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, 21er Haus - Museum for Contemporary Art Vienna, Konsthall Varberg. Beer had solo exhibitions, etc. at Kunsthaus Hamburg, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Stadsgalerij Heerlen, Institute for Modern Art Nuremberg, Contemporary Art Institute Sapporo, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York.
He is also represented in some of the most prestigious public and private collections. B. Melva Bucksbaum New York, Margulies Collection, Miami, Collection of Mikki and Stanley Weithorn, New York, Beth Rudin de Woody, Florida, CAP Collection, Southhampton, Falckenberg Collection, Hamburg, Herbert F. Johnson Museum, NY, Albertinum - Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden / Sammlung Gercken, Montblanc Cultural Foundation, Hamburg, Persol Collection Milan, Sohohouse Group Collection, Berlin / Miami). Sculpture Park, Herbert-Gerisch Foundation Neumuenster.
Beer has participated in the biennials Artgenda 2002 in Hamburg, Manifesta11 - European Biennale for Contemporary Art 2016 in Zurich, the Socle du Monde Biennale 2017 in Herning and the Berlin Kreuzberg Biennale 2012.
In addition to his artistic work, Beer, as the initiator of projects such as Galerie im Regierungsviertel Berlin, the Berlin Kreuzberg Biennale or Galerie Utopia.

About Malte Urbschat
Malte Urbschat was born in 1972 in Kellinghusen, Schleswig-Holstein. He lives and works in Berlin and Hamburg, His work reaches from drawings to collages, from sculptures to installations. Glittering and gleaming materials dominate his arrangements.
The works are charged with such pertinent issues as surveillance or migraine headaches, the phenomenon of lucid dreams, conspicious camouflages or the dynamics of chase and persecution. Each of them offers a huge potential of meanings and seems to keep a secret knowledge. Cultural myths, social phenomenons and alleged truths get reflected.
Urbschat´s work has been shown internationally i.e. at Kunstverein Braunschweig, Kunstverein Hamburg, New Positions/ Art Cologne, GINNUNGAGAP / PAVILLION OF BELIEF, Galerie im Regierungsviertel, Venice, Galerie Mikael Andersen, Copenhagen, Artissima Torino, Galerie im Regierungsviertel, Milan. Künstlerhäuser Worpswede, SPIEGEL-Kulturflur, Hamburg, Golden Pudel Club, Hamburg, KLING OG BANG, REYKJAVIK, Island, Bad Gastein, Österreich, Museum Weserburg, Bremen, Figge von Rosen Galerie, Berlin, Produzentengalerie Hamburg, Sammlung Falckenberg, Hamburg Temporäre Kunsthalle, Berlin, Wiensowski & Harbord, Berlin, Autocenter Berlin, Kunsthaus Hamburg, Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, CCA Andratx, Mallorca – Kunstraum Innsbruck, Galerie Adamski, Aachen, Kunstverein in Hamburg, AYRAN & YOGA, Berlin-Kreuzberg Biennale.


Tonino Mattu
Walter Pfeiffer
Lou Ros

Opening
November 23 2018

Location
Kunstraum Reinart Schaffhausen
Laufengasse 17
Neuhausen am Rheinfall
Switzerland


Darüber hinaus werden aber auch Arbeiten von Künstlern gezeigt, die für Beer auf unterschiedliche Weisen wichtig waren und sind. Als dritte Ebene sind von Beer überarbeite Arbeiten wie zum Beispiel Plattencover oder Schriften Teil der Ausstellung.

Während der Ausstellung wird an einem Tag in der zweiten Oktober-Hälfte in einem von Tjorg Douglas Beer gestalteten Zelt im Innenhof des Haus am Lützowplatz ein Ephemeral Dinner von Yulia Belousova ausgerichtet. Im Zelt werden Arbeiten der jungen griechischen Künstlerin Valinia Svoronou gezeigt.

Tjorg Douglas Beer wurde 1973 in Lübeck geboren und wuchs in Hamburg auf. Dort studierte er an der Hochschule für Bildende Künste. Seitdem sind seine Arbeiten in einigen der wichtigsten nationalen und internationalen Museen und Galerien gezeigt worden, z. B. Tate Modern, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Kunstverein Hamburg, Weserburg, Museum für Moderne Kunst Bremen, Project Space Kunsthalle Wien, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, X-Initiative, New York, Remap3+4 Athen, basedinberlin, Neue Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, 21er Haus – Museum for Contemporary Art Vienna, Konsthall Varberg, Arizona State University Art Museum. Beer hatte Einzelausstellungen u.a. im Kunsthaus Hamburg, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Stadsgalerij Heerlen, Institute for Modern Art Nuremberg, Herbert Gerisch-Stiftung, Neumünster, Contemporary Art Institute Sapporo, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York.
Seine Arbeiten sind Teil einiger der interessantesten Sammlungen zeitgenössischer Kunst z.B. Melva Bucksbaum New York, Margulies Collection, Miami, Collection of Mikki and Stanley Weithorn, New York, Beth Rudin de Woody, Florida, CAP Collection, Southhampton, Falckenberg Collection, Hamburg, Herbert F. Johnson Museum, NY, Albertinum - Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden / Sammlung Gercken, Montblanc Cultural Foundation, Hamburg, Persol Collection Milan, Sohohouse Group Collection, Berlin / Miami).

Beer hat an den Biennalen Artgenda 2002 in Hamburg, Manifesta11 – European Biennale for Contemporary Art 2016 in Zürich, der Socle du Monde Biennale 2017 in Herning und der Berlin Kreuzberg Biennale 2012 teilgenommen.

Neben seiner künstlerischen Arbeit hat Beer sich als Initiator von Projekten wie Galerie im Regierungsviertel Berlin, der Berlin Kreuzberg Biennale oder Galerie Utopia der Schaffung von Situationen gewidmet die existentiellen Anliegen einen Ausstellungskontext ermöglichen.

Yulia Belousova ist eine in Moskau geborene, in Berlin lebende Kunsthistorikerin. 2012 gründete sie die Non-Profit-Ausstellungsreihe Ephemeral Dinner und die Kunst Residenz Ephemeral Residency in Südfrankreich. Belousova entwickelt Präsentationsformen, die den Ausstellungsbesucher zu einem aktiven Teilhaber des Geschehens machen.
Sie kreiert Situationen in denen eingeladene Künstler mit ihren Werken einen Raum schaffen, in dem während des Ephemeral Dinner’s die gezeigte Kunst, die KünstlerInnen, das soziale Event und die Betrachter gemeinsam zum Gegenstand des Geschehens/Werkes werden. Belousovas kuratorische Arbeit konzentriert sich auf die Ethik des sozialen Engagements. Der Ursprung des Konzeptes wurzelt in der bereits in der Kunstgeschichte vorhandenen Formaten: von French Salons über die Eat Art-Bewegung von Spoerri zu Relational Aestetics. Ephemeral Dinner stellt die Idee des Mentorings zwischen den Künstlern und ihrer gegenseitigen Unterstützung und Zusammenarbeit in den Vordergrund.

Eröffnung
Freitag, 21. September 2018, 19 Uhr

Ausstellungsdauer
22.9. 4. November 2018

Ort
Haus am Lützowplatz
Fördererkreis Kulturzentrum Berlin e.V.
Lützowplatz 9
10785 Berlin

Öffnungszeiten
Dienstag–Sonntag 11–18 Uhr
Montag geschlossen (außer an Feiertagen)

Kontakt
Haus am Lützowplatz
Fördererkreis Kulturzentrum Berlin e.V.
Lützowplatz 9
10785 Berlin
Tel. +49 30 - 261 38 05
office@hal-berlin.de
www.hal-berlin.de


Anissa Touati and Tjorg Douglas Beer, Draft for MAXIMUS (2018) / for ETERNITY by Maurizio Cattelan at ARTBASEL CITIES Buenos Aires 2018 © VG Bildkunst
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MAXIMUS
ANISSA TOUATI AND TJORG DOUGLAS BEER

MAXIMUS is a synonym for the dependence and relationship of the french curator Anissa Touati and the german artist Tjorg Douglas Beer.

It represents the absolute existential sacrifice for the beauty of life and the arts.

Maximus is a two cell Mausoleum representing their relationship and it´s end. Touati and Beer have met in 2012 working together on an exhibition called THE GARDEN OF EDEN at Palais de Tokyo in Paris. Since then they have celebrated an intense friendship and work relationship in work and sex & drugs and rock’n roll. Projects and exhibitions and intense life experiences in Paris, Miami, Brussels, Berlin, Athens and Antiparos.

After a longer period of being away from each other Touati and Beer accidentally met again in Greece. Full of happiness and excitement about their reunion they started again. After 3 weeks of complete madness full of inspiration and drowned in greek white wine they decided to die together virtually for Maurizio Cattelan’s ETERNITY.

MAXIMUS shows the curator and the artist in their wedding dresses. Each of them is floating inside a huge white wine bottle. They look like still alive water-corpses. They are connected through a snorkel from mouth to mouth. The snorkel connects the bottles on their top. Air bubbles are coming from their mouths.


You are cordially invited to a Talk and Exhibition Tour through the exhibition with Dr. Anette Huesch, Director Kunsthalle Kiel and Tjorg Douglas Beer.
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Wednesday July 25 2018 at 7 pm

Herbert Gerisch-Stiftung
Brachenfelder Str. 69
24536 Neumünster
Germany

gerisch-stiftung.de


KATJA AUFLEGER | TJORG DOUGLAS BEER | SIMON HEHEMANN | VERENA ISSEL | STEFAN KERN | HARALD POPP | LAWRENCE POWER | SONJA VORDERMAIER
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IN KOOPERATION MIT:

FEINKUNST KRÜGER
GALERIE KARIN GUENTHER
GALLERY UNOFFICIAL PREVIEW, SEOUL
PRODUZENTENGALERIE HAMBURG
STAMPA GALERIE, BASEL


DIENSTAG, 27. JUNI 2017
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Galerie Mikael Andersen would like to welcome you to the opening of Figures and Paintings with new paintings and ceramic works by German artist Tjorg Douglas Beer on Wednesday 25th of April 2018, 5-7 pm.
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FIGURES AND PAINTINGS is Beer’s first solo exhibition with Galerie Mikael Andersen. The exhibition presents ceramic sculptures and paintings on canvas. The paintings are of a poetic-utopian transfigured alternative reality.

In Beer's recent works arrangements and scenes develop during the painting process. Beer mixes ink, marker, paint, acrylic, oil paint and oil stick. As a result, faces and characters appear in the transition of overlapping colors. These figures are preserved and then arranged into fragmented sceneries akin to landscapes, interiors or sculptures. Squares of color ‘cover’ areas of the canvas; these unfinished figures, squares and color transitions come together in collage-like paintings.

Beer regularly visits Athens where he works with ceramics. The exhibition includes two large-scale ceramic figures. The figures are made in collaboration with a Greek ceramist. Beer develops almost stereotype shapes that deform during the process of modeling them. Before the surface dries Beer uses everyday materials from his studio such as plastic flowerpots, shower tubes, locks and marker caps to stamp faces and other details onto the figures. The titles of the works are also stamped onto the figures. After the firing of the sculptures they are covered with thick layers of glaze. The overlapping layers of clay, glaze and stamps create a ‘noisy’ look. The faces and shapes of the bodies recall both ancient and alien statues.

Tjorg Douglas Beer was born in Lübeck in 1973 and studied at the Hochschule für Bildende Kunst, Hamburg. His work has been shown in important national and international museums such as Tate Modern, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, and Kunstverein Hamburg. He is also represented in the collections of B. Melva Bucksbaum, New York, Margulies Collection, Miami, Collection of Mikki and Stanley Weithorn, New York, Beth Rudin de Woody, Florida, Falckenberg Collection, Hamburg, Herbert F. Johnson Museum, NY, Albertinum, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Montblanc Cultural Foundation, Hamburg, and Persol Collection Milan.

Tjorg Douglas Beer will present his works at a large solo exhibition at Herbert Gerisch Foundation Neumuenster. The exhibition runs from May 6, 2018 - August 19, 2018.

For more information on the exhibition and for press photographs please contact the gallery on tel. 33 33 05 12 or email: cph@mikaelandersen.com. The exhibition ends the 16th of June 2018. Daily opening hours: Tuesday-Friday 12-18, Saturday 11-15.


In the summer of 2018, the Herbert Gerisch Foundation is dedicating a major solo exhibition to Lübeck-born internationally renowned artist Tjorg Douglas Beer. The exhibition will include sculptures, paintings and collages.
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The first part of the exhibition in the Gerisch Gallery presents works from the last 15 years. The second part, at Villa Wachholtz, will show new paintings and ceramic sculptures. In addition, two outdoor sculptures become a part of the Foundation's collection in the Sculpture Park.

The exhibition’s first part at the Gerisch Gallery shows works from international public and private collections, including Deichtorhallen Hamburg / Falckenberg Collection. Collages, objects and sculptures thematize media driven religious confrontation, war and chaos. Through his choice of materials and an element of playfulness Beer is concerned with an ambivalent scale of despair and solemnity and a positive outlook. He generates his ideas based on everyday perceptions and experiences of personal, medial and political realities.

Bee has taken regular visits to Athens, where he works with a Syrian ceramist from Aleppo; the unending social state of emergency and ubiquitous existential threat, the refugee crisis seen there since then and Greece's geo-political situation on the border with the Middle East have significantly influenced Beer’s works. Contemporary phenomena become visible as associations in collages and ceramic figures.

The second part of the exhibition at Villa Wachholtz shows paintings of a poetic-utopian transfigured alternative reality. In Beer's more recent works, arrangements and scenes develop from the painting process. Beer mixes ink, marker, paint, acrylic, oil paint and oil stick. As a result, faces and characters appear from the transition of overlapping colors. These figures are preserved and then arranged in fragmented landscapes that could be landscapes, interiors or sculptures. Squares of colour ‘cover’ areas of the canvas; these unfinished figures, squares and color transitions lead to collage-like paintings.
The series ÜBLER WALD shows fairytale-like landscapes painted on small canvases. The landscape varies between apocalyptic dreams and utopian moments, populated with figures traveling these worlds: lost beggars, dazed magicians, and altogether strange creatures.

The outdoor sculpture Abracadabra Simsalabim combines the sad reality characterized by flight and war with a utopian lightness of the fairytale world of 1001 Nights.

Simsalabim is very likely to encounter medieval Christians with Muslims, who were often described as "magicians" until the late Middle Ages (also because of the technological and scientific progress of the Islamic-influenced world compared to the European one). The bi-smi llāhi r-raḥmāni r-raḥīm (in the name of God, the All-merciful), spoken by practicing Muslims before any meaningful activity, was therefore loudly understood in vernacular narratives as a conjuring magic formula.

Tjorg Douglas Beer was born in Lübeck in 1973 and grew up in Hamburg. There he studied at the College of Fine Arts. Since then his work has been shown in some of the most important national and international museums and galleries, eg. Tate Modern, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Kunstverein Hamburg, Weserburg, Museum of Modern Art Bremen, Arizona State University Art Museum, Project Space Kunsthalle Wien, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, X-Initiative, New York, Remap3 + 4 Athens, basedinberlin, Neue Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, 21er Haus - Museum for Contemporary Art Vienna, Konsthall Varberg. Beer had solo exhibitions, etc. at Kunsthaus Hamburg, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Stadsgalerij Heerlen, Institute for Modern Art Nuremberg, Contemporary Art Institute Sapporo, Arizona State University Art Museum, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York.
He is also represented in some of the most prestigious public and private collections. B. Melva Bucksbaum New York, Margulies Collection, Miami, Collection of Mikki and Stanley Weithorn, New York, Beth Rudin de Woody, Florida, CAP Collection, Southhampton, Falckenberg Collection, Hamburg, Herbert F. Johnson Museum, NY, Albertinum - Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden / Sammlung Gercken, Montblanc Cultural Foundation, Hamburg, Persol Collection Milan, Sohohouse Group Collection, Berlin / Miami).
In addition, Beer has participated in the biennials Artgenda 2002 in Hamburg, Manifesta11 - European Biennale for Contemporary Art 2016 in Zurich, the Socle du Monde Biennale 2017 in Herning and the Berlin Kreuzberg Biennale 2012.
In addition to his artistic work, Beer, as the initiator of projects such as Galerie im Regierungsviertel Berlin, the Berlin Kreuzberg Biennale or Galerie Utopia, dedicated himself to the creation of situations that make existential concerns an exhibition context.

Exhibition opening on Sunday, May 6, 12 o'clock
Welcome and opening in the presence of the artist.

Introduction by Dr. Marcus Hurttig,
Curator Graphic Collection, Museum der bildenden Kuenste Leipzig

Admission to the opening free.

Thanx to all the private lenders and to Produzentengalerie Hamburg, Galerie Mikael Andersen Copenhagen, Galerie Clemens Gunzer Zurich / Kitzbuehel and Galleria Poggiali Florence.

The exhibition is supported by the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture of Schleswig Holstein.

Caption: TJORG DOUGLAS BEER Two Men/Rays II 2018, acrylic paint, oil paint, lacker marker, ink on canvas, 200 cm x 160 cm, Courtesy Galerie Mikael Andersen Copenhagen

Herbert Gerisch Foundation
Brachenfelder Straße 69
24536 Neumünster

Admission: adults 8 €, reduced 5 €, annual ticket 30 €. Sunday tour at 12 o'clock: 9 € p.P.
Opening hours: Wed. 11-18, Apr.-Sept. Wed-Fri 11-18 clock and Sat./So. 11-19 clock
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Art Barter is part of "The Incubator", curated by Olivier Varenne- Chapter 7 of the Socle du Monde Biennale 2017: To Challenge the Earth, the Moon, the Sun and the Stars. Artists based in Denmark or Danish artists abroad have been selected to take part in the project taking place at Herning Højskole. (...)
For 4 months, the public is invited to come and make offers to the works on display in the rooms of the Højskole.

Featuring artists
Katja Angeli, Ninna Bohn Pedersen, Anders Bonnesen, Julie Born Schwartz, Julie Boserup, Troels Carlsen, Asger Carlsen, Christine Clemmesen, Tjorg Douglas Beer, Jason Dungan, Andrea Jespersen, John Kørner, Steffen Levring, Sarah McNulty, Karl Monies, Anna Margrethe Pedersen, Kristine Roepstorff, Yngvild Saeter, Marie Søndergaard Lolk, Charlotte Thrane, Maria Zhale.


The exhibition is now live on Collectionair. For the first time, you can barter online and try your luck digitally on:
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Olivier Varenne, is co-director of Exhibitions and Collections at Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) in Tasmania, Australia. He has acquired a wide range of contemporary works for the collection at MONA and has curated solo exhibition of Matthew Barney, Marina Abramovic, Gilbert&George, Wim Delvoye, Hubert Duprat amongst others.
As his chapter of the Socle du Monde Biennale, The Incubator suggests, the venue shows works by artists who are not yet firmly established, but certainly up-and-coming on the contemporary art scene. The works share a focus on art as something performative – here art makes something happen, usually in a social context and by engaging with the exhibition space in new ways. Art Barter is one of the guest projects of the Incubator.



FRAGMENTS FROM NOWHERELAND
edited by
PAOLO FALCONE

Marcel Broodthaers
and
Tjorg Douglas Beer
Letizia Battaglia
Manfredi Beninati
Angela Bulloch
Jonas Burgert
Olimpia Cavriani
Jimmy Durham
Lionel Estève
Hans-Peter Feldmann
Guenther Foerg
Ernest Mancoba
Olaf Metzel
Yoko Ono
Maria Papadimitriou
Bernhard Prinz
Henning Rogge
Thomas Schuette
Luca Vitone
Franz Erhard Walther


Venue
Kunsthochschule Kassel
Nordbau, Raum 0322
Menzelstrasse 13
34121 Kassel
Germany

Breakfast Reception and Opening
June 8 2017, 9 am to 11 am
June 9 2017, 9 am to 11 am
RSVP essential until June 6 2017 at mail@galerieutopia.com

Opening Hours
June 8/9 2017, daily from 11 am to 6 pm

Contact
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Thanks to
ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS KASSEL
STUDENTS OF THE SEMINAR OF PROFESSOR BERNHARD PRINZ
GALERIE MIKAEL ANDERSEN COPENHAGEN

Detailed Information

FRAGMENTS FROM NOWHERELAND

The exhibition FRAGMENTS FROM NOWHERELAND brings together 20 small to tiny artworks being presented inside a mobile exhibition vitrine. The works have been created and selected by the artists for FRAGMENTS FROM NOWHERELAND - works that deal with utopian visions, pessimistic expressions, fragility and destruction or they are fragments from the individual’s sometimes personal backgrounds.

The central piece is a 4 cm by 3 cm miniature book by Marcel Broodthaers THE CONQUEST OF SPACE - Atlas for the Use of Artists and the Military.

„Atlas - measuring 1 5/8 by 1 1/8 in. (4 by 3 cm), with a simple black slipcase - is a miniature book by Marcel Broodthaers, made after the model of the fifteenth-century incunable. It was originally published in 1975 in an edition of fifty numbered copies, and it is Broodthaers`s last book, created shortly before his death, in 1976. The object plays on language and functions in a manner characteristic of Broodthaers`s sense of humor: it refers to the use of atlases by militaries pursuing territorial conquest - a task for which this tiny edition is absurdly unsuitable - in order to make artists aware of their own such victories. Broodthaers deepened the level of intrigue by not following any established geographical organization; instead, he chose to present a small selection of countries in alphabetical order, each represented graphically at the same size.“ (Museum of Modern Art, New York)

Works included in the exhibition are i.e. the work Atlas Marcel Broodthaers THE CONQUEST OF SPACE - Atlas for the Use of Artists and the Military) - a 4 cm x 3 cm book, a rarely seen tiny sketch on paper from the painting universe of Jonas Burgert, three gold-plaid puppy seeds by Lionel Estève, a small bell against the Greek crisis from the Venice Biennale from the Greek Pavillon 2015 by Maria Papadimitriou, Frucht gegen Furcht (English: Fruit against Fear) by Thomas Schütte.

The exhibition FRAGMENTS FROM NOWHERELAND has no home or place to be. The exhibition FRAGMENTS FROM NOWHERELAND can be seen on the opening days of Documenta14 in Kassel.
The exhibition format, the short presentation and the works presented are reflecting a certain uncertainty in our time. At the same time FRAGMENTS FROM NOWHERELAND is a precious collection of thoughts, sketches, personal fragments, tools against fear, utopical plans.

It is shown inside GALERIE UTOPIA`s Lightbox - a custom-made aluminum vitrine by the German artist Tjorg Douglas Beer. 20 artworks by 20 international artists are displayed inside this vitrine.

FRAGMENTS FROM NOWHERELAND is curated by the sicilian curator Paolo Falcone.

The presentation of FRAGMENTS FROM NOWHERELAND in Kassel is a collaboration between GALERIE UTOPIA, PRODUZENTENGALERIE HAMBURG and the Palermo based foundation FONDAZIONE SAMBUCA.
The project has been developed by Juergen Vorath from PRODUZENTENGALERIE HAMBURG in conjunction with Tjorg Douglas Beer and Paolo Falcone with the kind support of ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS KASSEL, STUDENTS OF THE SEMINAR OF PROFESSOR BERNHARD PRINZ, GALERIE MIKAEL ANDERSEN COPENHAGEN

Dates + Hours
June 8 + June 9 2017
daily from 11 am - 6 pm

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About PAOLO FALCONE
Paolo Falcone curated exhibitions and projects in Italy and abroad with important artists as: Jannis Kounellis; Richard Long; Carsten Höller & Rosemarie Trockel, Ilya & Emilia Kabakov, Martin Creed, Grazia Toderi; Luca Vitone, Shobha, Josef Koudelka, Letizia Battaglia, Jonathan Monk, Giovanni Anselmo, Aleksandra Mir; and many more. Special consultant of Maurizio Cattelan – Hollywood for 49° Biennale di Venezia, he curated also Are you experienced? With Nicolas Bourriaud on different venues in Europe, the projects Visions with Nobuyoshi Araki, Nan Goldin, Thomas Struth, Thomas Ruff, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Poetical Politics amd many more.

He collaborated to realized the art programs of Cantieri Culturali alla Zisa of Palermo, from 1996 to 2000. On 2001 he founded micromuseum, the smalles official museum of contemporary art in the world. He collaborated with museums and institutions as Palazzo delle Esposizioni di Roma, Serpentine Gallery London, l’ARC/Museè d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Istanbul Biennale, Sidney Biennale, la Biennale di Venezia (2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2017) l’Historischer Museum Frankfurt, Acax Budapest, MNAC/National Museum of Contermporary Art Bucarest, MAXXI, Roma and many more.

Consultant for contemporary art for the Sicilian Region, creates the first Museum of Contemporary art of Sicily and he create the collection and he define the identity of the Museum (Riso, Museo d’arte contemporane della Sicilia). On 2009 he curated for Riso, Museum of Contemporay art of Sicily Passage to Sicily, the collection of Riso and more, first presentation of the collection of the new museum.On 2006 consultant for contemporary art for the Minister of Economy to develop arts on the south of Italy. On 2012-13 member of the Committee guide for the Sicilian Region to address the politics to develop contemporary art on Sicily. On 2013 consultant of Palermo City Council to create Zac, the new center of contemporary art of the City of Palermo.

From 2008 cofounder and artistic director of Fondazione Sambuca,.were he curated, supported and produced exhibitions, projects, workshop, residencies with: Tomas Saraceno, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Philippe Parreno, Luca Trevisani, Rosa Barba, Rossella Biscotti, Shobha, Rä di Martino, Laboratorio Saccardi, Martin Creed, Mariana Castillo Deball, Stefania Galegati, Letizia Battaglia Michael Beutler, Olafur Eliasson and many more.

Paolo Falcone is a member of CIMAM - International Commetee for ICOM for Museums and Collections of Modern Art (UNESCO); member of ICOM - International Council of Museums (UNESCO), member of IKT - International Association of Curators of Contemporary Art.

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About GALERIE UTOPIA
Beer has developed the idea for Galerie im Regierungsviertel (Regierungsviertel = German: the area in Berlin where most of the Administration of the German Government and Parliament is located) as a first manifestation of his interest in Influencing the context of his own artistic work - by defining situations and contexts as an extension of it. As the main tool for Galerie im Regierungsviertel´s work Beer developed a mobile aluminum lightbox that was positioned next to the German Parliament in the center of Berlin`s Regierungsviertel. The idea was to create a tool that would allow presentations in any kind of setting - even in outside locations and that reflects the general idea of spreading these presentations into the world like a transmitter.

The Lightbox itself appeared in many of the projects as the mobile exhibition tool. In 2010 Beer has changed the name to Galerie Utopia.

Since April 2007 Galerie Utopia has realised different exhibitions in Europe and the US, i.e. GINNUNGAGAP/PAVILLION OF BELIEF, Venice, THE FOUR HORSEMEN/DIE RAND COOPERATION, Berlin, Torino, THE END WAS YESTERDAY, Berlin, Innsbruck, THE FORGOTTEN BAR PROJECT, Berlin, Milan, Turin, Stockholm, NARCOTICA, Basel, ELEVATOR TO THE GALLOWS at No Soul For Sale / X-INITIATIVE, New York, DEFENDING OUR VALUES Kunstraum Innsbruck, Austria, THE GREEN VALLEY DISASTER at No Soul For Sale, TATE modern London, RESPONSOLIDARITY REMAP3 Athens. In 2010 Galerie Utopia has realised the 1st BERLIN KREUZBERG BIENNALE called AYRAN & YOGA. For the Re-opening of the Palais de Tokyo in September 2012 Galerie Utopia has realised the exhibition THE GARDEN OF EDEN. The second edition of The Berlin Kreuzberg Biennale was presented at Palais de Tokyo aswell as at Open Museum / Hamburger Kunsthalle in September 2012.

The work has been introduced in talks and lectures or workshops i.e. at Schaulager, Basel, Muthesius Kunsthochschule Kiel, Hochschule für Künste Bremen, Staatliche Akademie der bildenden Künste Karlsruhe, Kunstakademie Münster, Made in Germany II, Hannover, Artforum Berlin and Art Karlsruhe.

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About FONDAZIONE SAMBUCA
The Fondazione Sambuca, is a no profit organization established on 2009 by Paolo Falcone and Marco e Rossella Giammona to develop contemporary art projects and exhibitions and to evaluate the historical patrimonium of Sicily and the Mediterranean Sea. The Foundation created a system to connect the territorial stakeholder to build programs with the local and international institutions, museums, foundations, companies in a cultural net to lead contemporary culture, international recherche and experimentation on the global scenario.

Major projects (selection)
2017 Support Olafur Eliasson with Green Light for Viva Arte Viva at 57. Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte, la Biennale di Venezia. Co-producer Michael Beutler Shipyard for Viva Arte Viva at 57. Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte, la Biennale di Venezia; Producer of the exhibition Letizia Battaglia, Per Pura Passione Maxxi, Museo Nazionale del XXI Secolo, Roma. 2016 Producer of the exhibition Letizia Battaglia, Anthologia at Zac ai Cantieri Culturali alla Zisa, Palermo; Stefania Galegati Shines, 6x6x5,9 public project at Cantieri Culturali alla Zisa, Palermo. 2014/15 Michelangelo Pistoletto Rebirth-day 2014 public project at Porta Felice, Palermo; Producer of the exhibition Jonathan Monk, Senza Titolo 2012 at Cappella dell’Incoronazione and Riso, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea della Sicilia. Giovanni Anselmo e Jannis Kounellis at Riso, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea della Sicilia. 2013 Michelangelo Pistoletto: Rebirth-day 2013 public project at Quattro Canti Piazza Vigliena, Palermo; Produced Rossella Biscotti - I dreamt that you changed into a cat… gatto… ha ha ha for Il Palazzo Enciclopedico/The Encyclopedic Palace 55. Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte, la Biennale di Venezia; Co-produced Luca Vitone - per l’eternità (2013), per Vice versa for 55. Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte, la Biennale di Venezia. Padiglione Italia. 2012/2013 Restoration of Torre del Tempo by Emilio Tadini at Cantieri Culturali alla Zisa, Palermo. 2011 Shobha: a journey at 54. Venice Biennale at Palazzo Sambuca. 2011 Supported Mariana Castillo Deball with Aqui el ombre desnudo se enflorò la cabeza, Martin Creed with The lights going on and off and Philippe Parreno with Marqueee for Illuminazioni // Illumination 54. Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte, la Biennale di Venezia; Ambassador for Ariane de Rothschild Foundation Palazzo Reale, Milano; 2010. Laboratorio Saccardi - Sikania rising project at Museo della Mafia di Salemi/ Temporary Museum and Oratorio di San Lorenzo Palermo; Rossella Biscotti - The undercover man at Museo della Mafia di Salemi; Rä di Martino - The dancing kid at Teatro Massimo, Sala degli Stemmi, Palermo; Michelangelo Pistoletto - Stracci d’Italia 150° celebrazioni dell’Unità d’Italia at Castello di Salemi, Torre Cilindrica; International Art Campus at Favignana, Ex stabilimenti Florio delle tonnare di Favignana e Formica. Isola di Favignana with Laboratorio Saccardi, Gianni Gebbia e Filippo Giuffrè. Luca Trevisani, Rosa Barb, Shobha. 2010 Sicilian Pavillion for 52. Biennale di Venezia con Aleksandra Mir, Marion Franchetti, Luca De Gennaro e Salvatore Prestifilippo. 2009 Passaggi in Sicilia – La collezione di Riso ed oltre at Riso – Museo d’Arte Contemporanea della Sicilia and Palazzo Sambuca. Coproducer Tomas Saraceno Galaxies Forming Along Filaments, Like Droplets Along the Strands of a Spider’s Web per Fare Mondi // Making Worlds for 53. Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte, la Biennale di Venezia..

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Sonja Alhäuser, Axel Anklam, Said Baalbaki, Alexandra Baumgartner, Matthias Beckmann, Ida Bekic, Tjorg Douglas Beer, Norbert Bisky, Simon Blume, Peter Böhnisch, Fritz Bornstück, Birte Bosse, Bram Braam, Laura Bruce, Joanna Buchowska, Ulrike Buhl, Jessica Buhlmann, Michael Conrads, Peter Dobroschke, Thomas Draschan, Stefan Draschan, (...)
Sven Drühl, Wolfgang Flad, Heiner Franzen, Philip Grözinger, Stefanie Gutheil, Eckart Hahn, Thomas Henninger, Christian Hoischen, Nicolai Huch, Markus Huemer, John Isaacs, Isabel Kerkermeier, Franziska Klotz, Karsten Konrad, Jerry Kowalsky, Katharina Kritzler, Jeewie Lee, Werner Liebmann, Oliver Mark, Monika Michalko, David Moses, Muche, Rainer Neumeier, Manfred Peckl, Thomas Rentmeister, Tanja Rochelmeyer, Benja Sachau, Daniel Schubert, Bettina Scholz, Julia Lia Walter, Roger Wardin, Maik Wolf, Ulrich Wulff, Michael Wutz, Michaela Zimmer, Thomas Zipp

Opening
October 26 2017, 6.30 pm

Location
Galleria Opere Scelte
via Matteo Pescatore 11/d
10124 Torino Italy

Duration
October 27 - November 25 2017

Hours
From Tuesday to Saturday, 3.30 - 8 pm
and by appointment

Contact
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About the exhibition
The title of the exhibition is taken from the book ‘Wir nennen es Arbeit – die digitale Bohème oder: intelligentes Leben jenseits der Festanstellung’ by economist and journalist Holm Friebe (b. 1972) and publicist Sascha Lobo (b. 1975). The book describes the origin of a new, freelance working-class, whose people autonomously decide their own jobs through the use of new technology.Their touching analysis of a life form orientated towards the future is inspired by the idea of working in the same way one want to live. In this way the artists called to join this big collective exhibition are, in an almost self-ironic way, stating their passion for their own work and for being an artist today.There is no specific theme tying together the works of the 56 artists who live and work in Berlin and relate themselves to painting, photography, sculpture and drawing, but there is an aesthetics which is common to all their works: all of them have small dimensions and are mainly in black and white. Hence the exhibition presents the mapping of today’s artistic scene in Berlin, putting in contact the renowned artists with the young emerging ones.



Duration
September 7 - October 14 2017

Hours
Wed - Fri 1.30 pm - 6.30 pm
Sat 2 pm - 6 pm
Sun 11 am - 2 pm

Location
Washington186
186 rue Washington
1050 Brussels
Belgium

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PRODUZENTENGALERIE HAMBURG shows the exhibition TJORG DOUGLAS BEER AUFKLAERUNG THREATENED BY DARK POWERS at AEROPLASTICS CONTEMPORARYJEROMEJACOBS @ WASHINGTON 186 BRUSSELS from September 7 2017 until November 10th 20017. The Opening takes place during BRUSSELS GALLERY WEEKEND 2017

AUFKLAERUNG THREATENED BY DARK POWERS is a small painting on canvas that gives the Title for TJORG DOUGLAS BEER`s exhibition. The work emerges from a Universe of collages, paintings and sculptures that Beer generates from his „own mental round cinema“(Beer). Beer generates his work based on all day life influences aswell as fragments from media or music and literature. He turns different impressions and influences into sculptures, collages and paintings. The works Aufklärung Threatened by Dark Powers (2011) is a work from a series of utopical poetic landscapes where in this case a sculpture-alike figure is threatened from a figure carrying a knife.

In Beers`s recent canvases arrangements and sceneries develop from the process of painting. Beer mixes ink, marker, lacker, acrylic and oil paint and oil stick. By doing so figures appear from the transition of overlapping colours. These figures are kept and then arranged in fragmented sceneries that could be landscapes, interiors or sculptures. Some of the canvas`areas are „blacked out“ by square surfaces of paint. Unfinished figures, squares and colour transitions lead to collage-alike paintings.

The works Aufklärung Threatened by Dark Powers (2011), Toothless Poet (2015) and Panellinio Arma Politon (Nwad Nedlog) (2012) are some works being shown.

Panellinio Arma Politon (Nwad Nedlog) (2012) shows a group of children-sized ceramic figures. Some show a racist salute while pulling a shopping cart carrying another figure in a leather coat. The group represents some kind of a Bangladeshi fascist parade. An absurd scenario made in Greece for an exhibition during the peak of the crisis reflecting the political situation and the impressions in the streets of Athens. The children figures doing a fascist parade in a shopping cart that is typical for people from Bangladesh collecting metal, i.e.The title is a play of words. Panellinio Arma Politon is greek for armed chariot of the peoples movement while (Nwad Nedlog) is the name of the greek fascist party Golden Dawn written backwards.
Since 2010 Beer has spend half of his time in Greece. He has been working there with a syrian ceramist from Aleppo. Also the experience in Greece in an ongoing State of Emergency and the daily perception of Greece`s position on the edge towards the Middle-East have influenced his work.

About Tjorg Douglas Beer
Tjorg Douglas Beer was born 1973 in Lübeck and raised in Hamburg. He studied in Hamburg at Hochschule für Bildende Künste. Since then his work has been shown internationally in museums and galleries e.g. at Kunstverein Hamburg, Weserburg, Museum für Moderne Kunst Bremen, Project Space Kunsthalle Wien, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, Tate Modern, London, X-Initiative, New York, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Remap3+4 Athens, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, basedinberlin, Neue Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, 21er Haus - Museum for Contemporary Art Vienna, Manifesta11 - European Biennale for Contemporary Art 2016, Socle du Monde Biennale 2017, Beer has had solo exhibitions e.g. at Kunsthaus Hamburg, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Stadsgalerij Heerlen, Institute for Modern Art Nuremberg, Contemporary Art Institute Sapporo, Arizona State University Art Museum, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York. His work is part of some of the most prestigious collections in Europe and the US. (i.e.: Melva Bucksbaum New York, Margulies Collection, Miami, Collection of Mikki and Stanley Weithorn, New York, CAP Collection, Southhampton, Falckenberg Collection, Hamburg, Herbert F. Johnson Museum, NY, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden)

Besides his own artistic work Beer has initiated projects like the Berlin Kreuzberg Biennale, The Forgotten Bar Project and Galerie Utopia Berlin/ Athens.

Since April 2007 Galerie Utopia has realised different exhibitions in Europe and the US, i.e. GINNUNGAGAP/PAVILLION OF BELIEF, Venice, THE FOUR HORSEMEN/DIE RAND COOPERATION, Berlin, Torino, THE END WAS YESTERDAY, Berlin, Innsbruck, THE FORGOTTEN BAR PROJECT, Berlin, Milan, Turin, Stockholm, NARCOTICA, Basel, ELEVATOR TO THE GALLOWS at No Soul For Sale / X-INITIATIVE, New York, DEFENDING OUR VALUES Kunstraum Innsbruck, Austria, THE GREEN VALLEY DISASTER at No Soul For Sale, TATE modern London, RESPONSOLIDARITY REMAP3 Athens. In 2010 Galerie Utopia has realised the 1st BERLIN KREUZBERG BIENNALE called AYRAN & YOGA. For the Re-opening of the Palais de Tokyo in September 2012 Galerie Utopia has realised the exhibition THE GARDEN OF EDEN. The second edition of The Berlin Kreuzberg Biennale was presented at Palais de Tokyo aswell as at Open Museum / Hamburger Kunsthalle in September 2012.

Massimiliano Gioni
Catalogue Text Exhibition Stipendium Kunstverein Hamburg curated by Jens Hoffmann published by Revolver Books in 2005

The first thing that Tjorg Beer told me when we first met was that somehow he had refused the travel grant from the Hamburg Kunsteverein. Or better, he hadn’t refused it; he had simply decided to use it in a more personal way. Instead of choosing just one destination, he had allowed himself the freedom of letting things open, and decide where to go as different opportunities came along. It was a choice that seemed at the same time perfectly efficient and yet rather absurd: was it about traveling more or about traveling less? Was he interested in staying in one place or run around everywhere he could? Either way you looked at it, it seemed a generously chaotic decision to make, as if Beer knew it was important to allow oneself the luxury of the unexpected. More importantly, such a choice made me immediately realize that so much of Tjorg Beer’s work is about finding a balance between apparently opposing tensions, almost as if he was trying to come to terms with two different personalities. In fact, Beer seems to find himself at ease in a variety of roles. He is an artist, but he also likes to play the role of the catalyst, and organize spaces, exhibitions and other situations around himself. And then, again, when he comes to his own work, to his own art, everything seems to come out of a very personal, somehow intimate space, and yet it is taken often to a very large, almost environmental scale. Beer himself describe this tension as something rather infantile, as the anger of a young child who, frustrated by the world of the adults, decides to trash his room and everything at hand. It is an aggressive universe that Beer occupies in his work. There are plenty of explosions in his paintings and drawings, and plenty of strange machines destroying the space all around. But Beer’s work is very far from being a celebration of nihilism. It is instead the desire to re-imagine one’s own universe and reconstruct it according to one’s own desires and needs. There is, in this sense, something almost naïve and yet very powerful in Beer’s attitude, in his attempt to re-build the world from scratches. Beer’s preference for the medium of the assemblage is yet another signal of his understanding of the world as a series of fragments, bits and pieces. So it comes as no surprise that he hasn’t chosen one final destination but an endless set of possibilities: in the end, the world is probably a collage to him, and you can never experience it by standing still. Massimiliano Gioni
Associate Director, New Museum, New York and curator of the 55th Venice Biennale

more info: http://tjorgdouglasbeer.com


Antonakis, Tjorg Douglas Beer, Socrates Fatouros, Rui Miguel Leitao Ferreira, Vaggelis Hoursoglou, Lakis & Aris Ionas / The Callas, Georges Jacotey, Robert Jelinek, Stelios Karamanolis, Albert Mayr, Panos Papadopoulos, Elisabeth Penker, Tula Plumi, Nana Sachini, Sofia Stevi, Sofia Touboura, Amalia Vekri, Vincent Verhoef, Lee Wells (...)

Opening
April 3 2017, 8 pm

Venue
IFAC Athens
Galaxia 11
11745 Athens
Greece

Opening Hours
April 9 - May 27 2017

„And this unprofessional, unexpressed question is the one worth answering. A zoo is a place where as many species and varieties of animals as possible are collected in order that they can be seen, observed, studied. In principle, each cage is a frame round the animal inside it. Visitors visit the zoo to look at animals. They proceed from cage to cage, not unlike visitors in an art gallery who stop in front of one painting, and then move on to the next or the one after next. Yet in the zoo the view is always wrong. Like an image out of focus.“

Why look at animals, John Berger, 2009

http://dadadaacademy.org


Marcel Broodthaers
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Tjorg Douglas Beer, Jonas Burgert, Olimpia Cavriani, Zhivago Duncan / Norman Hyams, Lionel Estève, (...)
Vaggelis Hoursoglou, Dionisis Kavallieratos, John Kørner, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Olaf Metzel, Yoko Ono, Maria Papadimitriou, Panos Papadopoulos, Henning Rogge, Thomas Schütte, Andreas Slominski, Alexandros Tzannis

Live Ambient Set by GOODROOM / Johannes Fricke Waldthausen

Opening
April 8 2017, 5 pm to 9 pm


Venue
Perikleous 34 (Syntagma)
10562 Athens
Greece

Opening Hours
April 9/10/11 2017, daily from 5 pm to 7 pm

Contact

mail: mail@galerieutopia.com
http://galerieutopia.com

mail: info@nonspaces.com
http://nonspaces.com
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Detailed Information

NOWHERELAND
The exhibition NOWHERELAND brings together 18 small to tiny artworks being presented inside a mobile exhibition vitrine. The works have been created and selected by the artists for NOWHERELAND - works that deal with utopian visions, pessimistic expressions, fragility and destruction or they are fragments from the individual’s sometimes personal backgrounds.

The central piece is a 4 cm by 3 cm miniature book by Marcel Broodthaers THE CONQUEST OF SPACE - Atlas for the Use of Artists and the Military.

„Atlas - measuring 1 5/8 by 1 1/8 in. (4 by 3 cm), with a simple black slipcase - is a miniature book by Marcel Broodthaers, made after the model of the fifteenth-century incunable. It was originally published in 1975 in an edition of fifty numbered copies, and it is Broodthaers`s last book, created shortly before his death, in 1976. The object plays on language and functions in a manner characteristic of Broodthaers`s sense of humor: it refers to the use of atlases by militaries pursuing territorial conquest - a task for which this tiny edition is absurdly unsuitable - in order to make artists aware of their own such victories. Broodthaers deepened the level of intrigue by not following any established geographical organization; instead, he chose to present a small selection of countries in alphabetical order, each represented graphically at the same size.“ (Museum of Modern Art, New York)

Works included in the exhibition are i.e. the work Atlas Marcel Broodthaers THE CONQUEST OF SPACE - Atlas for the Use of Artists and the Military) - a 4 cm x 3 cm book, a rarely seen tiny sketch on paper from the painting universe of Jonas Burgert, three gold-plaid puppy seeds by Lionel Estève, a small bell against the Greek crisis from the Venice Biennale from the Greek Pavillon 2015 by Maria Papadimitriou, Frucht gegen Furcht (English: Fruit against Fear) by Thomas Schütte.

The exhibition NOWHERELAND has no home or place to be. The exhibition NOWHERELAND can be seen on the opening day of Documenta14 in Athens.
The exhibition format, the short presentation and the works presented are reflecting a certain uncertainty in our time. At the same time NOWHERELAND is a precious collection of thoughts, sketches, personal fragments, tools against fear, utopical plans.

It is shown inside GALERIE UTOPIA`s Lightbox - a custom-made aluminum vitrine by the German artist Tjorg Douglas Beer. 18 artworks by 19 international artists are displayed inside this vitrine.

NOWHERELAND is not a curated exhibition. The artists have provided the works in an artistic collaborative way. It can be seen as a small symphony of different voices in a choir. The exhibition and the included artworks have their own say.

The presentation of NOWHERELAND in Athens is a collaboration of GALERIE UTOPIA and the Athens based initiative NON SPACES founded by Marina Nicoletopolou.
The project has been developed by Juergen Vorath from Produzentengalerie Hamburg in conjunction with Tjorg Douglas Beer.

The opening will be accompanied by a Live Ambient Set by GOODROOM / Johannes Fricke Waldthausen.

Dates + Hours
April 9 2017 until April 11 2017
daily from noon - 3 pm

Contact
mail: mail@galerieutopia.com
http://galerieutopia.com

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About GALERIE UTOPIA

Beer has developed the idea for Galerie im Regierungsviertel (Regierungsviertel = German: the area in Berlin where most of the Administration of the German Government and Parliament is located) as a first manifestation of his interest in Influencing the context of his own artistic work - by defining situations and contexts as an extension of it. As the main tool for Galerie im Regierungsviertel´s work Beer developed a mobile aluminum lightbox that was positioned next to the German Parliament in the center of Berlin`s Regierungsviertel. The idea was to create a tool that would allow presentations in any kind of setting - even in outside locations and that reflects the general idea of spreading these presentations into the world like a transmitter.

The Lightbox itself appeared in many of the projects as the mobile exhibition tool. In 2010 Beer has changed the name to Galerie Utopia.
The exhibition will also be shown during the Opening days of the Venice Biennale 2017.

Since April 2007 Galerie Utopia has realised different exhibitions in Europe and the US, i.e. GINNUNGAGAP/PAVILLION OF BELIEF, Venice, THE FOUR HORSEMEN/DIE RAND COOPERATION, Berlin, Torino, THE END WAS YESTERDAY, Berlin, Innsbruck, THE FORGOTTEN BAR PROJECT, Berlin, Milan, Turin, Stockholm, NARCOTICA, Basel, ELEVATOR TO THE GALLOWS at No Soul For Sale / X-INITIATIVE, New York, DEFENDING OUR VALUES Kunstraum Innsbruck, Austria, THE GREEN VALLEY DISASTER at No Soul For Sale, TATE modern London, RESPONSOLIDARITY REMAP3 Athens. In 2010 Galerie Utopia has realised the 1st BERLIN KREUZBERG BIENNALE called AYRAN & YOGA. For the Re-opening of the Palais de Tokyo in September 2012 Galerie Utopia has realised the exhibition THE GARDEN OF EDEN. The second edition of The Berlin Kreuzberg Biennale was presented at Palais de Tokyo aswell as at Open Museum / Hamburger Kunsthalle in September 2012.

The work has been introduced in talks and lectures or workshops i.e. at Schaulager, Basel, Muthesius Kunsthochschule Kiel, Hochschule für Künste Bremen, Staatliche Akademie der bildenden Künste Karlsruhe, Kunstakademie Münster, Made in Germany II, Hannover, Artforum Berlin and Art Karlsruhe.

More info:
http://galerieutopia.com


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About NONSPACES

NON SPACES (www.nonspaces.com) –an ongoing project on spaces and brands– relates to emerging communities co-existing with culture. Currently operating in the city ofAthens, NON SPACES is reviving abandoned or underused buildings, as well as established, contemporary and historic value buildings, private or public. Examples are schools, museum spaces, artist studios, warehouses, lofts, apartments, shared spaces, commercial properties, foundations, collectors spaces, branded spaces, containers, constructionsites and off-site.

Following the international wave of re-usage and sustainability culture, NON SPACES is aware of expanding communities, short-term rent needs, remote working, and new agecommunication channels.

The objective is to bridge architecture with culture in an innovative way using technology.

Its spaces archive consists of profiling the spaces and operations. Volunteers, members and employees, institutions, curators, brands, foundations, individuals, freelancers, producers, agencies, other creative’s all become involved with matters relating to the city, to everyday life, to buildings, and the history of the spaces.

NON SPACES’s platform also hosts virtual spaces: spaces designed with photogrammetry or 3D or 360 technologies. Viewers navigate through virtual tours in a highly realisticrecopy of each space selected and tenants can digitize objects and e-curate them, e-display them in the spaces using the same techniques. This is a way to virtually display shops, galleries, e-auctions, e-lectures, educational tours, animation etc, live stream.

NON SPACES aims to become community-based and to expand to emerging markets.

There are details in this fast-paced contemporary tech-world of images, media and high demands that make people rethink of their surroundings. NON SPACES is a platformwelcoming creative ideas. The team behind this project are aware of expanding communities, shared spaces needs, and market shifts in funding resources for the creativeindustry.

More info:
http://nonspaces.com


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About GOODROOM

GOODROOM is an international curatorial label and creative-agency-initiative by Johannes Fricke Waldthausen. Evolving around interdisciplinary creativity and fostering 21st century value-chains highlighting arts, perception and consciousness, GOODROOM generates context and content through production of experiences and advisory services on creative direction, collaborations, and shared artistic vision. GOODROOM engages in experiences and communications with institutions, collections and companies to create creative spaces, environments and experiences, that invite innovation, alternative experiments, open-mindedness and curiosity to both better relate to others and to be more present. GOODROOM Founder and Creative Director, Associate Curatorial Advisor Sprüth Magers Berlin London Los Angeles, Associate Curator Arts & Design DLD Conference, collaborations a.o. with Studio Olafur Eliasson, DAAD, Embassy of the United States Berlin / Cultural Department. Previous curatorial work includes MoMA PS 1, New York, Palais de Tokyo, Paris and Robert M. Wilson Foundation, New York and Sprüth Magers Berlin.

Recent I upcoming projects (sel.): Goodroom - Good for Nothing, Munich (2015), Dreaming Mirrors Dreaming Screens, conceived by Johannes Fricke Waldthausen I Goodroom at Sprüth Magers, Berlin (2016), DLD Arts: Angelo Plessas & Goodroom, Munich (2017), DLD ARTS, Goodroom with Angelo Plessas, Online I Offline Ballance: Exploring Consciousness, Munich (2017) , Jon Rafman I Stan Vanderbeek- an immersive experience, curated by Johannes Fricke Waldthausen I Goodroom, Sprüth Magers Los Angeles (2017), Goodroom AMBIENT London, Los Angeles (2018), Goodroom & Edition Popol Vuh: Popol Vuh – The Ambient Remixes (2018).

More info:
http://thegoodroom.de



curated by Juliet Kothe and Annika von Taube
exhibition design by Jay Gard
Tjorg Douglas Beer, Dirk Bell, Julius von Bismarck, Fritz Bornstück, Carla Chan, Su Hwan Choi, Jeff Cowen, (...)
Zuzanna Czebatul, Björn Dahlem, Roger Eberhard, Martin Eder, Janine Eggert & Philipp Ricklefs, Yassir Ali Eldalaty, Lorenz Estermann, Ornella Fieres, Pius Fox, Jay Gard, Andreas Golder, Amélie Grözinger, Philip Grözinger, Gregor Hildebrandt, John Isaacs, Jeffrey James, Michelle Jezierski, Klaus Jörres, Markus Keibel, Felix Kiessling, Caroline Kryzecki, Lindsay Lawson, Florian Meisenberg, Bjørn Melhus, Toshihiko Mitsuya, David Nicholson, Przemek Pyszczek, Anselm Reyle, Peter Rösel, Michael Sailstorfer, Erik Schmidt, Pola Sieverding, Katja Strunz, Philip Topolovac, Iris Touliatou, Ulrich Urban, Elmar Vestner, Anna Vogel, Jorinde Voigt, Thomas Zipp

Opening
Friday January 20 2016
6 pm - 9 pm

Duration
January 20 2017 - March 20 2017

Hours
Tue - Sat 1 pm - 6 pm

Location
Sexauer Gallery
Streustrasse 90
13086 Berlin
Germany

http://sexauer.eu

a project by Zhivago Duncan
Christian Achenbach, Tjorg Douglas Beer, Slater Bradley, Jonas Burgert, James Capper, Max Frisinger, Andreas Golder, Norman Hyams, John Isaacs, Nick Jeffrey, Marin Majic, Polly Morgan, David Nicholson, Dorothea Steigemann, Andrea Stappert, Tim Noble and Sue Webster

Diktatur der Dilettanten
Since 2010 Beer has spend half of his time in Greece. The experience in Greece in an ongoing State of Emergency and the daily perception of Greece`s position on the edge towards the Middle-East have influenced his work. Being confronted with that situation Beer has made a series of banner-alike collages. These works refer to a series of large-scale collages mostly made on plastic tarpaulins he has since 2004. These works have in common that they include slogans like i.e. Diktatur der Dilettanten (Dictatorship of Dilettants), General Threat, Government of Birds. These works are treated like object, demonstration tools, banners. "The slogans and the naive way of illustrating them with the pictures that are included are a helpless cry for resistance in a world of dis-connected elites not realizing their impact on the people in the streets.“ (Tjorg Douglas Beer)

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The Poggiali Gallery of Florence presents Faith & Fathom, a group show of eighteen international artists curated by the American artist Zhivago Duncan, which will open on Saturday 17 December 2016 at 6 p.m. With this show the Gallery confirms the new direction of its programme, underscoring the vocation towards the experimentation of languages and poetics of stringently consolidated relevance.

The protagonists of Faith & Fathom are the 18 artists selected for the group show presented by the Poggiali Gallery, brought together for this project by the flamboyant and multifaceted figure of Zhivago Duncan, an artist born in the United States to a Danish father and Syrian mother, who also exhibits one of his works at the Florence show. All the exhibitors are transgenerational artists expressing themselves in different media, but bound by a shared vision of the practice of quality contemporary art, with experiences in the experimental international avant-gardes and already present at the most important shows and the most influential galleries.
Each artist was requested to address the subject of ‘Faith & Fathom’, taking up the Zhivago Duncan’s cue to trace an association between the two worlds epitomised by the two words, such as a route from Faith/Belief to Fathom/Reason through works made specially or reconceived for this show.

To explore this journey from Faith to Fathom, Duncan has collected over 50 paintings, photographs, sculptures and video stills from 17 artists: Christian Achenbach, Tjorg Douglas Beer, Slater Bradley, Jonas Burgert, James Capper, Max Frisinger, Andreas Golder, Norman Hyams, John Isaacs, Nick Jeffrey, Marin Majic, Polly Morgan, David Nicholson, Dorothea Steigemann, Andrea Stappert, Tim Noble and Sue Webster.
The works presented at the show, some of them made specifically for the Florence event, belong to the threshold between Faith and Reason. They inhabit the spaces between unreason and reason, impenetrability and understanding, chaos and order. The 50 works making up the display itinerary of Faith & Fathom are slippery and elusive, something like the dreams and hallucinations that come to us between sleep and waking. They are neither intangible nor tangible but they are materialising. They inhabit a land of shadows: not exactly in the darkness of Faith, but nor as yet entirely in the light of the sun of Reason.

At the Galleria Poggiali, the director of the project Zhivago Duncan examines the making of art as a form of spiritual journey in which the artists and their works ferry the observers between the ethereal land of faith and the pragmatic terrain of reason. This is because, as Zhivago Duncan explains: “Man has always found inspiration for art in the dark depths of Faith, and nowadays this descent is more than a metaphor, since to find art we have to probe the depths of our unconscious through memories, dreams, verses of songs and poems and intimate beliefs. In the midst of these creative fragments we also gradually discover order and consistency and, slowly, we translate all this into a concrete work of art: we bring it forth from the murky, from the intangible realm of Faith, into the realm illuminated by the sun of reason in which the contours of reality are clear and distinct.”

Catalogue with essay by William Hunt | 196 pages | 160 colour illustrations


Opening
Saturday December 17 2016
6 pm

Duration
December 17 2016 - March 19 2017

Hours
Tue - Fri 10 am - 1 pm + 3 pm - 7 pm
Sat contact the gallery

Location
Galleria Poggiali Florence
Via della Scala 35/A and Via Benedetta 3r
Florence
Italy

http://galleriapoggiali.com

130 artists, 250 artworks, 30 new productions, 30 documentary films about the new productions, a guild of artists, a swimming pavillon with its own pool and 38 parallel events: It all adds up to Manifesta 11 in Zurich. Here is an overview of what you can look forward to this summer. We can’t wait to see you!

What People Do for Money: Some Joint Ventures – under this title, 30 international artists have joined forces with their Zurich hosts from diverse professions to produce new artworks. Each new production will be presented in three ways: once in a satellite venue, once in either Löwenbräukunst or Helmhaus and once as a film screened at the Pavillon of Reflections.

The Historical Exhibition: Sites Under Construction brings together selected historical and contemporary positions to explore how work can be the subject of investigation and artistic reflection. The exhibition is divided into eleven theme chambers and is being presented in the Löwenbräukunst and the Helmhaus.

The Pavillon of Reflections, the floating platform docked Bellevue is the architectural icon of Manifesta 11, offering space for exchange and reflection. This is where the films about the newly created artworks will be screened. During the day, the Pavillon of Reflections will operate like one of Zurich’s traditional open-air swimming areas.

At Cabaret der Künstler – Zunfthaus Voltaire, artists and people from other professions will perform together on the stage. Anyone with the courage to go on stage before the guild audience and perform will automatically become a member of the newly founded guild of artists.

The Parallel Events offer a window into local and regional cultural life, presented in the international context of Manifesta 11. The Parallel Events include projects from the visual arts, performance, video, photography, dance, theatre, music and design.

http://manifesta.org
curated by Oskar Nilsson, Joakim Ojanen
Idun Baltzersen, Tjorg Douglas Beer, Martha Colburn, Love Dahlstedt, Rose Eken, Daniel Jensen, Joakim Ojanen, Oskar Nilsson, Allison Schulnik

Beer`s sculptures, the ceramic figures are casts of pale-looking children shop window puppets that are painted and glazed and combined with contemporary materials like clothes, plastic bags. Some of the sculptures look like fascist children with mutated dogs, homeless people in military clothing, beggars or a fortune-teller on an oil drum. They are representatives of a stagnating youth movement and utopical way of thinking.

Since 2010 Beer has spend half of his time in Greece. He has been working there with a syrian ceramist from Aleppo. Also the experience in Greece in an ongoing State of Emergency and the daily perception of Greece`s position on the edge towards the Middle-East have influenced his work.

Panellinio Arma Politon (Nwad Nedlog) (2012) shows a group of children-sized ceramic figures. Some show a racist salute while pulling a shopping cart carrying another figure in a leather coat. The group represents some kind of a Bangladeshi fascist parade.
The title is a play of words. Panellinio Arma Soliton is greek for armed chariot of the peoples movement while (Nwad Nedlog) is the name of the greek fascist party Golden Dawn written backwards.

Opening
Saturday September 24 2016
2 pm - 3 pm

Duration
September 24 2016 - January 15 2017

Hours
Tue - Thu noon - 5 pm
Fri - Sun noon - 4 pm

Location
Varbergs Konsthall
Engelbrektsgatan 7
Varberg
Sweden

http://varbergskonsthall.se/
Horst Antes, Armando, Felix Droese, Per Kirkeby, York der Knoefel, Stephan Balkenhol, Tjorg Douglas Beer, Werner Büttner, Felix Droese, Valérie Favre, Anselm Kiefer, Gustav Kluge, Uwe Kowski, Markus Lüpertz, Carsten Nicolai, Carsten Nicolai, Frank Nitsche, A. R. Penck, Dieter Roth, Thomas Scheibitz, Norbert Schwontkowski

An exhibition by the Albertinum and the Kupferstich-Kabinett
Since the 1950s Günther and Annemarie Gercken have been collecting contemporary prints, paintings and sculptures. In numerous publications these two art connoisseurs have also discussed the contents of the works they have collected.

Mr and Mrs Gercken are now giving a large part of their collection to a foundation that will be based at the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden. The foundation currently holds 30 paintings and more than 250 prints, and further works are to be added at a later date. To mark the establishment of the foundation, the Albertinum and the Kupferstich-Kabinett are presenting a selection from among this outstanding collection in an exhibition.

The title “Sehgründe” is a reference to an introduction written by Günther Gercken for an exhibition of works by Gustav Kluge at the Kunstverein Göttingen in 1996. “What would be the value of pictures,” says Günther Gercken in his summary, “if they did not express that which is unspoken and is unspeakable. They can teach us to look properly by making that visible which we do not see directly or do not wish to see. […] The canvases are ‘Sehgründe’ (visual grounds), which draw the viewer’s gaze into backgrounds and chasms.” The profound interest of Günther and Annemarie Gercken in the visual grounds of the fine arts is a recurrent theme extending throughout their very personal collection. The works selected for the Albertinum invite careful scrutiny and contemplation.

The focal point of the exhibition consists of works from all periods of the creative career of Georg Baselitz, whose paintings, drawings, woodcuts and etchings have occupied an eminent place in figurative art in Germany since 1960. Along with works by Horst Antes, Anselm Kiefer and Markus Lüpertz, they constitute important items of figurative painting produced in the Federal Republic of Germany between the 1960s and 1980s. In addition, the exhibition also contains works by Armando, Felix Droese and Gustav Kluge. A second complex consists of paintings by younger artists such as Tjorg Douglas Beer, Valérie Favre, Uwe Kowski, Carsten Nicolai, Frank Nitsche, Thomas Scheibitz, Norbert Schwontkowski as well as sculptures by Stephan Balkenhol.

Among the prints, which make up the largest group of works held by the foundation, lithographs and zinc etchings by Horst Antes are presented alongside works by Baselitz. In addition, works on paper by Felix Droese, Per Kirkeby, York der Knoefel and Carsten Nicolai as well as portfolios by Werner Büttner, A. R. Penck and Dieter Roth are on display. The prints also include numerous test prints or early impressions, many of which are being shown in public for the first time. A series of drawings by Antonius Höckelmann produced in 1970/71, which critically reflects the tabloid press of the period, is also on view.

Opening:
April 22 2016, 7 pm

Exhibition duration:
April 23 - August 7 2016

Exhibition place
Dresden, Albertinum, Salzgassenflügel

Opening hours
daily 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
closed on Mondays

Location
Albertinum & Kupferstichkabinett Residenzschloss
Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden
01067 Dresden

Maxime Ballesteros, Marc Bijl, Olivia Berckemeyer,Tjorg Douglas Beer, Amir Fattal, Christoph Girardet & Matthias Müller, Rayk Goetze, Andreas Golder, Gregor Hildebrandt, Alana Lake, Berit Mücke, Jana Müller, Susanne Schuricht, Noé Sendas

Michael Fuchs Galerie
Auguststraße 11-13
10117 Berlin
T +49 30 2200 2550
F +49 30 2200 25510
sk@michaelfuchsgalerie.com
http://www.michaelfuchsgalerie.com

Tjorg Douglas Beer, Jonas Burgert, Andreas Golder, Lori Hersberger, Gregor Hildebrandt, Christian Jankowski, Annika Kahrs, Dirk Meinzer, Isa Melsheimer, Sofia Papapolyzou, Anja Schaar, Charlie Stein, Malte Urbschat (...)

Video Program "We are now beginning our descent" curated by the french curator Anissa Touati including the artists Samuel Boutruche, Gonzalo Lebrija, Dineo Seshee Bopape.

LOVE is an assemblage of paintings, collages, sculptures and videos.

Galerie Utopia has initiated projects at X-Initiative, New York, Tate modern, London, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, Remap3+4, Athens and basedinberlin, Neue Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin. It has initiated the Berlin Kreuzberg Biennale 2010 and 2012 as well as The Greek Pavillon at Galerie der Gegenwart Hamburg and Palais de Tokyo, Paris.

Dates + Hours
VIP Preview / only with VIP Invitation
June 4 5 pm - 10 pm
June 5 3 pm - 5 pm

Opening / only with Opening Invitation
June 5 9 pm - 11 pm

Public Opening Hours
June 6 / 7 noon - 9 pm

Platform Section
Stand Number P29

Venue
Faliro Pavilion (TaeKwonDo), Hellenic Olympic Properties
2 Moraitini str., 17 561 P. Faliro (Faliron Delta)
(Opposite the P. Faliro Village Cinemas complex)

Contact
mail: mail@galerieutopia.com
http://galerieutopia.com

TJORG DOUGLAS BEER GOVERNMENT OF BIRDS
by Sonja Švec Španjol

Iskonska težnja za reimaginacijom svemira, kao i njegovom rekonstrukcijom prema vlastitim željama i potrebama odvela je njemačkog umjetnika Tjorga Douglasa Beera u područje eksperimentalnih projekata obilježenih kontinuiranim istraživanjima i pomicanjima granica percepcije i iskustva. Riječ je o umjetniku koji svoje djelovanje ne ograničava na područje umjetničkog rada, već djeluje kao katalizator i organizator prostora, izložbi i niza drugih eksperimentalnih situacija. Pritom područje slike i kolaža ostavlja za sebe poimajući ga kao intiman prostor koji istovremeno obuhvaća široko područje djelovanja. Tjorg Douglas Beer objedinjuje dječju naivu, mladenačko buntovništvo i iskustveno promišljanje svijeta u svojim kolažima koje istovremeno definira kao predmete i kao slike. Još za vrijeme studija odbija akademsku maniru klasičnog crtanja i slikanja te koristi boravak na akademiji za niz eksperimenata koji ga dovode do krajnjeg apsurda. Gradio je ogromne instalacije, od kojih je najveća težila čak 36 tona, da bi ih potom nizom eksplozija raznio i izložio ostatke ovih kontroliranih nesreća.
Beerovi interesi za život, društvo i politiku rezultat su biografski razvijene egzistencijalističke želje za promjenom. Materijal je odigrao ključnu ulogu tijekom Beerovih istraživanja i stalne potrage za slobodnim djelovanjem, jer mu je pomogao stvoriti nekontrolirane ili slučajne, kako ih sam naziva 'žive trenutke' u svom radu. On razvija kolaž napravljen od drva, sićušnih zrcala, ljepljive trake i plastične ambalaže sa zračnim balonima. Kolaži sastavljeni od niza različitih materijala savršeno ističu ključnu težnju u njegovom djelovanju – pronalazak ravnoteže između naizgled suprotstavljenih tenzija, odnosno dviju nasuprotnih osobnosti. Ta potraga dinamično se odvija kroz bijes, ljutnju i frustraciju koju sam umjetnik opisuje kao energični bunt malog djeteta koje, frustrirano svijetom odraslih, odluči napraviti nered demoliranjem svoje sobe. Spomenuti nered očituje se u nizu eksplozija i razaranja u Beerovom radu. Agresivan svijet zaposjeda njegove slike gradeći strukture čudnih strojeva koji uništavaju okolinu pritom ne prelazeći u nihilizam, već ostajući na samoj granici naivnog, no istodobno čvrstog stava da izgradi svijet počevši od nule – na krhotinama raznesenih ostataka. Metaforom uništavanja najintimnijeg područja, vlastite sobe, autor suprotstavlja dječju naivnost u želji za idealnim svijetom i okrutni realitet odraslih iskazujući pritom želju za izgradnjom novog i boljeg svijeta. Stilizirani imaginarni likovi smješteni u apstraktnom prostoru predstavljaju kaos današnjeg svijeta. Kolorističke kompozicije definirane su nizom sitnih razbacanih fragmenata koji povezuju prostor i figuru smještenu u središte zbivanja.
Kolaži postaju utopijski gobleni odnosno zastave nepoznatih zemalja te odabirom materijala ističu njihovu krhkost, kao i tvrdoglavu pretpostavku vjerovanja u stvaranje i oblikovanje vlastite realnosti. Polimaterijalizam izražava krhkost, ali i fleksibilnost svijeta kroz upotrebu savitljive i izdržljive cerade, te promjenjivost reflektirajućih materijala čija se vizura mijenja ovisno o količini svjetlosti.
Od samih početaka, oblikovanjem raznovrsnih instalacija, objekata, kasnije kolaža i asamblaža iščitava se Beerovo poimanje svijeta kao niza fragmenata, djelića i komadića. Dopuštajući si luksuz nepredvidivosti i neočekivanog, Tjorg Douglas Beer svojim radom potvrđuje kako ne postoji samo jedan izraz ili finalna destinacija već beskrajan niz mogućnosti, jer na kraju svijet za njega jest kolaž satkan od niza nepredvidivih elemenata koje ne možemo spoznati stojeći na jednom mjestu.

Opening
March 26 2015 6 pm

Duration
March 27 - May 20 2015

Location
GALERIJ CONTRA
Frankopanska 22
10000 Zagreb
Croatia

Contact
Mladen Bosanac
+385995493988
galerija.contra@gmail.com

Tjorg Douglas Beer, Sean Crossley, Francesco Irnem, Amir Mogharabi, Caterina Silva

The Reconfigured Painting
by Raffaele Gavarro
Painting has changed. It changes constantly. it is changing right now. Its reconfigure is therefore continuous, as the nature of all things during time. Although this sort of initial declaration appears common in it’s evidence, however, it’s much easier to be confronted with arguments and type declarations contrary, identifying elements of the painting of immutability or at least of continuity with the past.This isn’t wrong in principle, of course, in the sense that membership in story is as much physiological as inevitable for any form of expression. But often the way of painting, for those who realizes as for those who interpret it, prevails a feeling of stubborn longing.The form framework, or even the simple gesture of rolling out the color of a surface, are in fact instinctively associated with the original idea of expressiveness and to the representative necessity that has determined it from the beginning of history.A sort of conditioned reflex that holds painting in a limbo of relativity against its time.At this point the issue is setting the terms for which painting today can be consistent with its time.
In one of the most interesting texts appeared recently on the subject "Provisional painting” by Raphael Rubinstein, published in two parts, the first one in May 2009 and the second one in February 2012, on "Art in America”, the key element of the actual painting, and specifically of some painters, is identified in the temporariness denounced also in the title,along with a corollary of fragility, incompleteness, attempts and thoughts,inability to the awareness of failure. Rubinstein doesn’t fail to track down ,in the past ,significant priors to this state of painting,citing exemplary cases such as Cezanne and Mirò or the most recent Polke and Kippenberger.A reflexion that therefore seeks and finds continuity with those strategies of refusal and that acts of denial that have characterized the history of modernism , in particular North American interpretation.
No doubt the impermanence-the precariousness we would say in Europe-is the typical condition of our time and life and maybe it is ,first of all, the consequence of speeding time in which events, objects and resulting feelings occur and persist.
A speeding that reduces inevitably the capacity of influence and consequent reassurance both the past and the future, making the present, its own present,an absolute size and in fact extremely provisional of existence.
A speeding which incidentally, and not secondary to the sense of our arguments, has suddenly made obsolete modernism and also its post,certainly not making more stable the cultural level on which we move. Let’s begin saying that the speeding corresponds literally and concretely to the speed that today paint painters use, less and less interested in giving shape to an image referring to another image, rather committed to correspond instantly to the stresses of their present. It’s therefore the experience of the latter which is spread on the canvas with a rapidity and eagerness that in some cases brings to the dragging on the same floor of some real elements of the painting,such as subjects, objects and shapes;while in other occasions the drafting overflows from the frame of the canvas, invading the space and becoming the trace of a real pursuit of the present itself. [...]

CANAL|05
Boulevard Barthélémy 5
1000 Bruxelles
Belgium
http://www.canal05.com


Thomas Arnolds, Tjorg Douglas Beer, Michael Biber, André Butzer, Ralf Dereich, Hedwig Eberle, Sophie von Hellermann, Lothar Hempel, Franziska Holstein, Friedrich Kunath, Monika Michalko, Michael Riedel, Christoph Ruckhäberle, Adam Saks, Philipp Schwalb, Henning Strassburger, Claudia Wieser, Ulrich Wulff

Mit der programmatischen Frage nach der Gegenwart – »Wo ist hier?« – positioniert sich der Kunstverein 2014 neu, um in den kommenden Jahren beantworten zu können, wie uns die Kunst im 21. Jahrhundert noch einen Zugang zur Welt ermöglichen oder sogar Welterklärungen liefern kann.
Kunst ist kulturelles Gedächtnis und Seismograf für das Neue einer sich rapide verändernden und nur wenig Halt oder Orientierung bietenden Welt. Deshalb ist auch unsere Arbeit, seit über 60 Jahren und mehr als 300 Ausstellungen der Förderung und Vermittlung der Gegenwartskunst verpflichtet, noch lange nicht abgeschlossen.

Dafür bilden zwei Gruppenausstellungen zu Malerei und Bildhauerei (»Wo ist hier? #2: Raum und Gegenwart« folgt im Herbst 2015) die thematisch-inhaltliche Klammer. Sie geben einen vielfältigen Überblick über die jüngsten künstlerischen Entwicklungen und Strömungen nach 2000 und treffen zugleich eine erste kritische Auswahl der herausragenden Positionen, Werke und Persönlichkeiten.
Nach der Gegenwart befragt sind dabei:
a) die Künstlerinnen und Künstler (Was sind Motive und Ausdrucksweisen, Einflüsse, Themen und Möglichkeiten?),
b) wir alle als Betrachter (Wo stehen wir in der Welt? Wie wollen wir leben? Was hoffen?) und
c) der Kunstverein selbst (Wie kann eine Institution der Kunstvermittlung klassische Ausdrucksformen wie Malerei und Skulptur in einer immer digitaleren Welt behaupten?).

Den Anfang macht: »Wo ist hier? #1: Malerei und Gegenwart«!
Eine Ausstellung, die von den Grenzen her gedacht ist, von dort, wo ein Gemälde gerade noch Malerei ist oder eben gerade erst. Eine Ausstellung, die konfrontativ angelegt ist und äußerst konträre Ausgangssituationen, Stile und Haltungen offen gegeneinander – und damit doch zueinander – führt.
Und wenn man die Antwort auf die Frage nach der Gegenwart zuletzt wohl nur für sich persönlich finden kann – Gegenwart als das je eigene Dasein zwischen Herkunft und Zukunft –, ist es genau dies, worin die Herausforderung besteht.
Ganz wie der französische Philosoph Louis Althusser schon 1977 in »Machiavellis Einsamkeit« fragte: Wie gelingt es, das Neue in der völligen Abwesenheit seiner Bedingungen zu denken?

Opening
September 20 2014, 11 am

Duration
September 21 - November 23 2014

Opening Hours
Mi–Fr 14–18 Uhr
Sa–So und an Feiertagen 11–17 Uhr

Location
Kunstverein Reutlingen e.V.

Eberhardstraße 14
72764 Reutlingen
+49 7121 33 84 01
+49 7121 37 04 23 (F)
kontakt(at)kunstverein-reutlingen.de
http://kunstverein-reutlingen.de

Anna Steinert, Veronika Gabel, Kling & Bangs, Kristinn Már Pálmason, Felix Krebs, Julia Frankenberg, Gernot Faber, Carola Deye, Johannes Lotz, Katharina Karasjewa, Sandra Poppe, Silke Silkeborg, ONandBrrr, Jonas Brandt, Paulina Allmanah, Michael Göster, Dirk Meinzer, Marko Mijatovic, David Chieppo, Anke Wenzel, Andrea Tippel, (...)
Tillmann Terbuyken, Claus Becker, Fabienne Mueller, Sebastian Zarius, Ida Lennartson, Isa Schmidlehner, David Hardy/Suisse Marocain, Fernando de Brito, Heiko Neumeister, Dorota Jurczak, Jin Lie, Verena Issel, Thor Sigurthorsson, Malte Struck, Brynjar Helgason, Pall Banine & Hafsteinn Michael, Mette Thiessen, Oliver Ross, Anna Hartlaub, Sebastian Burdach, Claudia Apel, Thomas Ehgartner, Michael Heering, Katrin Sirru, Peter Klucik, Malte Urbschat, Philipp Schewe, Tjorg Beer, Peter Stoffel, Franziska Opel, Stefan Pfeiffer, Abel Auer, Marco P. Schaefer, Carl Gross, Erling T.V. Klingenberg & Kalli 25, Gylfi Sigurðsson, Henrik Malmström, Dieter Roth, Ruprecht Matthies, Henning Rogge, Uwe Lewitzky, Goscha Steinhauer, Dorothy Iannonne, Daniel Tschernich, Emil Sedlák, Christoph Blawert, Tilmann Haffke, Sophie Ernst, Lennart Münchenhagen, Stefan Mildenberger, Arnar Asgeirsson, INDRA, Christian Ertel, Daniela Prochaska, Conni Brinzinger, Philipp Meiers, Nicole Bianchet, Michael Steinhauser, Uwe Lindau, Wolf Pehlke, Urs Stadelmann, Peter Kamm, Rados Vujaklija, Axel Heil, Jan Sudeck, the Shits, Stefan Mitchell, Jacqueline de Jong, Nicolaas Schmidt, Thomas Lehnerer, Michael Blum u.v.m.

Opening
June 25 2014, 6 pm

Duration
June 25 - June 26 2014

Location
Kling og Bang
Hverfisgata 42
101 Reykjavik
Iceland
http://this.is/klingogbang

Tom Anholt, Tjorg Douglas Beer, Fritz Bornstück, Jesper Christiansen, Olafur Eliasson, Leonard Forslund, Günther Förg, Poul Gernes, Amélie Grözinger, Phillip Grözinger, Signe Guttormsen, Shara Hughes, Sören Jensen, Eske Kath, Martin Kippenberger, Moshekwa Langa, Robert Lucander, Lars Nörgard, Ernest Mancoba, Sonja Ferlov Mancoba, (...)
Wonga Mancoba, Eddie Martinez, Albert Oehlen, Julia Oschatz, Morten Straede, Lucie Teasdale, Elisabeth Toubro, Kathrine Aertebjerg, i.a.

Opening
June 20 2014, 6 pm

Opening Hours
June 20 - July 12 2014
Tue - Sat 12 pm- 6 pm daily

Location
Galerie Mikael Andersen Berlin
Pfefferberg, Haus 4
Christinenstrasse 18/19
10119 Berlin
Germany
http://mikaelandersen.com

Contributions by Snorri Ásmundsson, Tjorg Douglas Beer, Mike Blumentopf, Morgan Chalk-Levy, Elin, Fredrik Fermelin, Michael Fischer, Sara Glaxia, Les Tardes Goldscheyder, Franz Graf, Mario Grubisic, Michael Klaar, Eskil Loftsson, Cecilie Meng, Simon Mullan, Linus Nyström, Tamara Dinka, Oliver Schlegelmilch, Linnéa Sjöberg, Nino Stelzl, Jeanne Susin, Tin Man, Rade Petrasevic. (...)

Opening hours
Friday May 23 2014, 7 pm - midnight

Location
BELVEDERE
21ER HAUS - MUSEUM FOR CONTEMPORARY ART
Schweizergarten
Arsenalstraße 1
1030 Vienna
Austria
http://21erhaus.at/

Food and drinks by Schorsch Böhme.

Galerie Utopia
mail@galerieutopia.com
http://galerieutopia.com/

Saâdane Afif, Maurizio Anzeri, Aaron Aujla, John Baldessari, Roger Ballen, Davide Balula, Charles Baudelaire, Hilla and Bernd Becher, Tjorg Douglas Beer, Olivia Berckemeyer, Ghyslain Bertholon, Matthias Bitzer, John Bock, Melanie Bonajo, Dineo Seshee Bopape, Marcel Broodhaers, Jonas Burgert, Étienne Chambaud, Pauline Curnier- Jardin, (...)
Salvador Dali, Lionel Estève, Bernard Frize, Sara Glaxia, Lori Hersberger, Andreas Golder, Philipp Goldscheyder, Franz Graf, Gregor Hildebrandt, Melissa Ichiuji, Adrien Missika, Ekaterina Juskowski, Dionisis Kavallieratos, Kristof Kintera, Kolkoz, Terence Koh, Michael Kunze, Thomas Lerooy, Vincent Mauger, Marcel Marien, Alexej Meschtschanow, Isa Melsheimer, Klaus Mettig, Theo Michael, G.P. Monroe, Bruce Nauman, Yoko Ono, Jürgen Ots, Kirsten Pieroth, Daniel Richter, Henning Rogge, Brie Ruais, Benjamin Sabatier, Santiago Sierra, Jean Tinguely, Alexandros Tzannis, Guido van der Werve, Paul van Hoeydonck, Jannis Varelas, Costa Vece, Andy Warhol, Yarisal & Kublitz

Preview + Bar Open
Tuesday April 22, 5 pm to 9 pm, (rsvp to mail@galerieutopia.com)

Opening + Bar Open
Wednesday April 23, 5 pm to 9 pm, (rsvp to mail@galerieutopia.com)

Dinner Performance + Party
«Les Nourritures Terrestres » by Samuel Boutruche (Kolkoz), James Henry (chef from the Bones, Paris), Svante Forstrop (independent cook, Paris) - Only by reservation - 65 EUR, Friday April 25, 9.30 pm, (rsvp to info@ramapano.com)

STALACTICA Party (List & doorman)
Friday April 25, midnight until late, (rsvp to info@ramapano.com)

Opening Hours
April 25 until April 27 2014 10 am to 6 pm

Location
Quincaillerie Vander Eycken 66, rue du Viaduc
1050 Ixelles
Brussels

http://ramapano.com
http://galerieutopia.com

In collaboration with and with the kind support of
Atelier uto, Olivia Battard, Hecham Bouliez, Galerie Clearing, Moses Guez, Collection Frédéric de Goldschmidt, Clemens Gunzer, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Thanh Lam, Collection Patrick Letovsky, Collection Vincent Matthu, Jean-Philippe Notterman, Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Rabo Art Collection, Galerie Almine Rech, Collection Ariel Roger-Paris, Collection Ronald Rozenbaum, Collection Alain Servais, Collection Pascaline Smets, Stevenson Gallery, Galerie Micheline Szwajcer

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About Galerie Utopia

Galerie Utopia is a module fed by a group of artists, curators and others concerned with notions of access, involvement and intervention.
Galerie Utopia promotes contributions that critically and sensually confront existential phenomena.

(Initiated in April 2007 as GALERIE IM REGIERUNGSVIERTEL by the artist Tjorg Douglas Beer in the Government Quarter, i.e., the „Regierungsviertel“ next to the Federal Press Center and the Parliament in Berlin.)

Since April 2007 Galerie Utopia has realised different exhibitions in Europe and the US, i.e. GINNUNGAGAP/PAVILLION OF BELIEF, Venice, THE FOUR HORSEMEN/DIE RAND COOPERATION, Berlin, Torini, THE END WAS YESTERDAY, Berlin, Innsbruck, THE FORGOTTEN BAR PROJECT, Berlin, Milan, Turin, Stockholm, NARCOTICA, Basel, ELEVATOR TO THE GALLOWS at No Soul For Sale / X-INITIATIVE, New York, DEFENDING OUR VALUES Kunstraum Innsbruck, Austria, THE GREEN VALLEY DISASTER at No Soul For Sale, TATE modern London, RESPONSOLIDARITY REMAP3 Athens. In 2010 Galerie Utopia has realised the 1st BERLIN KREUZBERG BIENNALE called AYRAN & YOGA.

For the Re-opening of the Palais de Tokyo in September 2012 Galerie Utopia realised the exhibition the Garden of Eden including about 150 international artists and a changing program of performances, screenings and exhibitions during the time of the exhibition.

The second edition of The Berlin Kreuzberg Biennale was presented at Palais de Tokyo as well as at Open Museum / Hamburger Kunsthalle in September 2012.

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About Tjorg Douglas Beer

Tjorg Douglas Beer was born 1973 in Lübeck and raised in Hamburg. He studied in Hamburg at Hochschule für Bildende Künste. Since then his work has been shown internationally in museums and galleries e.g. at Kunstverein Hamburg, Weserburg, Museum für Moderne Kunst Bremen, Project Space Kunsthalle Wien, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, Tate Modern, London, X-Initiative, New York, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Remap3+4 Athens, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, basedinberlin, Neue Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin. Beer has had solo exhibitions e.g. at Kunsthaus Hamburg, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Stadsgalerij Heerlen, Institute for Modern Art Nuremberg, Contemporary Art Institute Sapporo, Arizona State University Art Museum, Mitchell- Innes & Nash, New York. His work is part of some of the most prestigious private collections in Europe and the US. (i.e.: Melva Bucksbaum New York, Margulies Collection, Miami, Collection of Mikki and Stanley Weithorn, New York, CAP Collection, Southhampton, Falckenberg Collection, Hamburg, Herbert F. Johnson Museum, NY)

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About Ramapano

Anissa Touati has created Romapano in 2013, a space where she has organised and produced exhibitions and installations in France, Japan, Italy and United States. The main point is to consider a world as a « layer territory « without any borders on which we move to organise shows, performances, events in or out art space, free as we could do.

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About Anissa Touati

Born in France in 1981, Anissa Touati is an independent curator. From 2012 until now, she developed videoprograms, installations & exhibitions including “Lost and Found” and “MiddEast evening” at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, - “Luna Park” – an installation by Kolkoz on the occasion of Art Basel Miami with the support of Perrotin gallery – “UBIK” , a public art project presented by Galeria OMR on the occasion of Zona Maco Mexico, - “Yodeling Circus” (in association with the Chalet Society) during the last Venice Biennale’s opening, - “Under the Volcano”, a group exhibition in Nara (Japan) and “Babylon, Baby” a videoprogram during the Berlin Art Week in Germany (in association with Galerie Utopia).
She does speeches at Université de Paris, Audencia & Sothebys Institute London.
Her projects are monitored by the international press and were relayed in The Independent, The Huffington Post, Le Figaro, El Mondo,The Art Newspaper, Flash Art, Monopol, BlouinArt, Whitewall M19 etc

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About Nanda Janssen - Videoprogram

Nanda Janssen is a Dutch curator and writer. She writes and blogs for Dutch art magazines like Museumtijdschrift and Kunstbeeld. She developed the exhibitions ‘Material World’ (2013) for Nest in The Hague, ‘Afterlife – Art About our Final Destination’ for an Amsterdam cemetery (2011), ‘Carried Away - Procession in Art’ for the Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem (2008) and ‘Changez! een Belgenshow’, solo exhibitions of Bruno Peinado, Wendy Morris, Het Harde Potlood and various solo shows of young Dutch artists for 21rozendaal, Enschede (2008-2010).

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About the Dinner performance - Les Nourritures Terrestres

Dinner performance «Les Nourritures Terrestres » by Samuel Boutruche (Kolkoz), James Henry (chef from the Bones, Paris), Svante Forstrop (chef from Les deux Amis, Paris) - Only by reservation - 65 euros

« The negative does not have to be specifically related to silver photography.
The settlement of humankind has started through the negative. The cave was hollowed out from the rock before becoming a construction springing from it.
The refinement of cooking and the history of the oven went through a "negative shape" period too. We can still find contemporary examples in the form of the barbacoa in Mexico, the hagis in New Zealand and the boodog in Mongolia. All these processes have in common the heat's transfer from the fire to the stones and the use of the soil's ground as insulation. It is this particular combination of mineral and telluric substances as much as the interest in the minimal and the essential that I share with chefs James Henry and Svante Forstorp. » Samuel Boutruche

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About Samuel Boutruche

Samuel Boutruche is one of the member of the french art duo Kolkoz who have a network internationally and are known for their artistic practise, interventions in performance, installation, nomadic sculpture and sound. They are founding members of La Clique, hosts to the artworld and dance-floors around the world they have invented a language through music and culture that is unparalleled with their social sculpture ‘le baron’. They have been celebrated for their contribution to contemporary art and social libations and exhibited in Mexico City, Paris, New York, Dubai and participated in a panel discussion on the social aspects of art -in a relatively progressive science experiment and sound lecture with Simon De Pury.
Represented by Galerie Perrotin (Paris, Hong-Kong, New-York), one of the most influential French galleries in the industry, Kolkoz has held numerous solo and group exhibitions in UCCA Beijing, Wentrup (Berlin), Perrotin (Paris) and OMR (Mexico City) Gallery, at The Museum of Modern Art (Paris), Fondation Ricard, BASS Museum (Miami). Their artwork has been acquired for the collection of public institutions at Beaubourg Centre Pompidou and The Museum of Modern Art of Paris in Paris, France, the Fond National d ́Art Contemporain in Bordeaux, France, and Colección Jumex in Mexico City, Mexico. Their work has also been acquired for private collections in France, England, Mexico, Argentina, and Dubai.

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About James Henry, chef from the Bones, Paris

It's been about a year since Australian chef James Henry opened the doors to his first restaurant in the 11th arrondissement of Paris. Bones — which, true to its name, is stripped down in both vibe and menu — was a highly anticipated arrival thanks to Henry's reputation and resume. The chef had gotten his start in Paris cooking at Daniel Rose's Spring and later captured the attention of Parisian diners with a turn at Au Passage.

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About Svante Forstrop, chef from le Nüba, Paris

Svante Forstorp is from Scandinavian origin and has shaped his gipsy palate from kitchens of Rome, Chicago, San Francisco, New York and Paris. He holds a jazzy approach to cooking and believes that the greatest acts of a meal are performed spontaneously, under high pressure. Also, whatever the circumstances might be, when personality shines through food, he is happy. Svante loves olive oil and citrus.

Justin Adian Kevin Aeschbacher Frank Ahlgrimm Harold Ancart Robert Barta Christiane Baumgartner Becker Schmitz Tjorg Douglas Beer Olivia Berckemeyer Bigert & Bergström Beni Bischof Antje Blumenstein Armin Boehm Sandra Boeschenstein Clifford Errol Bruckmann Rick Buckley Florian Buehler Marcel Buehler Matthew Burbidge Stefan Burger (...)
BURGHARD Lou Cantor Peter Coffin Simon Collet Aldo Cristofaro Martin Dammann Mariechen Danz Sabine Dehnel Stephanie Dost Stéphane Ducret Frederik Foert Max Frisinger Heike Gallmeier Axel Geis Deenesh Ghyczy Jeff Gibbons Eva Grubinger Mark Hagen Bernhard Hegglin Katrin Heichel Lori Hersberger Gregor Hildebrandt Christian Hoischen Franziska Holstein Andy Hope 1930 Alexandra Hopf Cathrin Jarema JocJonJosch Klaus Jörres Lisa Junghanss Michael Kalki Renata Kaminska Daniel Kannenberg Markus Keibel Bettina Khano Halina Kliem Jürgen Krause Bettina Krieg Coco Kühn Susanne Kühn Michael Kunze Alicja Kwade Peter Langer Bo Christian Larsson Anna Lehmann-Brauns Miriam Lenk Lou Cantor Los Carpinteros Christian Manss Mia Marfurt Kris Martin Francisco da Mata Flavio Merlo Isa Melsheimer Adam Milner Toshihiko Mitsuya Thomas Moor Trevor Morgan Sophie Mühlenburg Olaf Nicolai Frank Nitsche David Ostrowski Philippe Parreno Tobias Pils Robert Powell Hannu Prinz Rebecca Raue Jen Ray Zach Reini Anselm Reyle David Renggli Cornelia Renz Nina von Rössing Ricarda Roggan Sterling Ruby Michael Sailstorfer Karin Sander Linda Semadeni Sebastian Schaub Martin G Schmid Reto Schmid Erik Schmidt Jonas Schnyder Kerim Seiler Josh Smith Dash Snow Kasper Sonne Tobias Spichtig steinbuehl.com Shawn Michael Taylor Oliver Lee Terry Philip Topolovac Oscar Tuazon Markus Uhr Costa Vece David Weiss Peter Welz Ulrich Wulff Henry Woller Urban Zellweger Ralf Ziervogel Thomas Zipp Julia Znoj

Opening
Thursday, March 20 2014, 8 pm

Duration
March 20 until March 24 2014

100plus
Hohlstrasse 100
8004 Zurich
Switzerland


Belvedere
21er Haus - Museum for Contemporary Art
Schweizergarten
Arsenalstraße 1
1030 Vienna
Austria
http://21erhaus.at

Marc Adrian, Ferdinand Andri, Raphaela Anouk, Nobuyoshi Araki, Magnús Árnason, Snorri Ásmundsson, Rudolf Bacher, Franz Barwig d. Ä., Lothar Baumgarten, Selina de Beauclair, William S. Burroughs, Tjorg Douglas Beer, Binär, Herbert Boeckl, Herbert Brandl, Geta Brătescu, Arik Brauer, Günter Brus, Nina Canell, Anna Ceeh, Tamara Dinka, (...)
Marcel Duchamp, Dejan Dukic, Valie Export, Helmut Federle, Padhi Frieberger, Ernst Fuchs, Walther Gamerith, August Gaul, Allen Ginsberg, Sara Glaxia, Gottfried Goebel, Karl Iro Goldblat, Martin Grandits, Fritz Grohs, Mario Grubisic, Kristján Guðmundsson, Tatjana Hardikov, Friedrich Hartlauer, Carl Michael von Hausswolff, Gunnhildur Hauksdóttir, Rudolf Hausner, Florian Hecker, Herbert Hinteregger, Benjamin Hirte, Marcel Houf, Françoise Janicot, Ali Janka, Hildegard Joos, Donald Judd, Tillman Kaiser, Felix Kalmar, Mike Kelley, Richard Kern, Imi Knoebel, Zenita Komad, Svetlana Kopystiansky, Brigitte Kowanz, Elke Silvia Krystufek, Zofia Kulik, Doreen Kutzke, Marcellvs L., Eskil Loftsson, Daniel Löwenbrück, Victor Man, Mark Manders, Michaela Math, Paul McCarthy, Andrew M. McKenzie, Bjarne Melgaard, Chiara Minchio, Milan Mladenovic, Klaus Mosettig, Otto Muehl, Wladd Muta, Gina Müller, Hermann Nitsch, Oswald Oberhuber, Goran Petercol, Rade Petrasevic, Raymond Pettibon, Begi Piralishvili, Natascha Plum, Rudolf Polanszky, Franz Pomassl, Arnulf Rainer, Konrad Rapf, Gerwald Rockenschaub, Dieter Roth, Alexander Ruthner, Nino Sakandelidze, Markus Schinwald, Eva Schlegel, Claudia Schumann, Rudolf Schwarzkogler, Frederike Schweizer, Björn Segschneider, Sigtryggur Berg Sigmarsson, Tamuna Sirbiladze, Linnéa Sjöberg, Dominik Steiger, Nino Stelzl, Curt Stenvert, Alexander Stern, Ida Szigethy, Lilli Thießen, Bjarni H. Thórarinsson, Manfred Unger, Franz Vana, Jannis Varelas, Peter Weibel, Herwig Weiser, Adam Wiener, Oswald Wiener, Judith Weratschnig, Stefan Wirnsperger, Iwona Zaborowska, Thomas Zipp and Heimo Zobernig.

Opening
Tuesday, January 28 2014, 7 pm

Duration
January 28 until 25 May 2014

Belvedere
21er Haus - Museum for Contemporary Art

Schweizergarten
Arsenalstraße 1
1030 Vienna
Austria

Opening remarks
Agnes Husslein-Arco, Director
Severin Dünser, Curator

Performance
Binär

Franz Graf (born 1954 in Tulln) is now playing his characteristic game with emptiness and abundance, black-and-white contrasts, letters and words, small, delicate details and large iconic, archaic, and modern elements at the 21er Haus. For this he is not only meshing the many aspects of his oeuvre with a new series but also juxtaposing this with works by international and local artists, contemporary and historical positions in an elaborately structured display. The sum of its parts results in an exhibition brimming with art, rather like a stage where performances and collaborative art productions regularly take place and Graf is expanding his installation throughout the entire duration of the show.

Tjorg Douglas Beer, Marc Bijl, Nico Glaenzel, florian Heinke, Gregor Hildebrandt, Annika Hippler, Christian Hoischen, Oliver Jordan, Markus Keibel, Franziska Klotz, Sandra Mann, Jakob Mattner, Marcel Odenbach, Henrik Olesen, Manfred Peckl, Jack Pierson, Bernadi Roig, Marcus Sendlinger, Björn Wallbaum, Kaethe Wenzel, Hansa Wisskirchen, Michael Wutz, Thomas Zipp, (...)

Opening
Friday November 8 2013, 7 pm

Duration
November 9 - December 21 2013
Tue - Fri noon - 6 pm
Sat noon - 4 pm

JRGallery
Luetzowstrasse 20
10785 Berlin
fon:+493025794222
mail: jr@jrgallery.de

Opening
Saturday, November 2 2013, 7pm
Rainer Neumeier, Manfred Peckl and Tjorg Douglas Beer, selected by Rene Schmitt
Performance by B-MEN (...)

Through the usual ‘blah blah’ of private views, and via quick categorizations we come across works that render us completely isolated.

As a matter of course, the Entrée comprises a broad spectrum of colors, forms and materials.
Thereafter, the industrial character is served alongside a dialog of recurring motifs of the military and war, and Picasso’s abstraction.
As light refreshment between courses we have the bizarre, almost eerie impact.
And, as a grand finale, the parade of the chefs: loud, radical, at times brutal, we serve words and hidden messages at the boundaries of legibility and illegibility, and ultimately of familiarity and strangeness.
Ho-hum.

Cryptic, bizarre, eerie.
Nein?
“Crystal-chinking glance. Freshly caught frogs, tadpoles. Beautiful sheen.” (“Kristallklirrer Blick. Fangfrische Frösche, Kaulquappen. Schöner Schimmer.”)

What do you see? What effect do these works have on you?
Hard to digest? Feeling dizzy yet?
Too much of a good thing? A bit too loud?

Nein?
Maybe you ought to spend more time. Trust yourself.

Unfamiliar? Is it hurting? You want more? Sure?
Then see for yourself. Without ‘blah blah’, without somebody else’s category.
Enjoy!

CHOI&LAGER Gallery
Wormser Str. 23
50677 Cologne
Germany

Opening hours
Wednesday to Friday: 11.00 am - 1.00 pm and 2 pm - 6 pm
Saturday: noon - 4 pm
and by appointment
Tel. + 49 (0)2 21/16 99 25 40
Tel. + 44 (0)2 03/17 67 30 3

www.choiandlager.com

UTOPIA
Sadaane Afif, Tjorg Douglas Beer, Olivia Berckemeyer, Marc Bijl, Matthias Bitzer, John Bock, Erró, Lionel Estève, Andreas Golder, Thomas Helbig, Gregor Hildebrandt, Volker Hueller, Christian Jankowski, Dionisis Kavallieratos, (...)
Kolkoz, Michael Kunze, Alicja Kwade, April Lamm, Isa Melsheimer, Klaus Mettig, Olaf Metzel, Yoko Ono, Daniel Richter, Henning Rogge, Santiago Sierra, Katharina Sieverding, Orson Sieverding, Pola Sieverding, Franz Stauffenberg, Costa Vece, Jorinde Voigt

Babylon, Baby
Videoprogram curated by Anissa Touati & Maud Lourau
Basir Mahmood, Amanullah Mojadidi, Roy Dib, Barbad Golshiri, Emeric Lhuisset, Raafat Hattab, Dor Guez, Ammar Al Beik, Mehraneh Atashi, Niyaz Azadikhah, Abdulnassur Gharem

In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida
Videoprogram curated by Anna-Catharina Gebbers
Pia Greschner, Lisa Junghanss, Sophie Kluge, Jennis Li Cheng Tien, Nicole Wermers

presented by Galerie Utopia Berlin/Athens

Preview
October 8 2013 7 pm - midnight

Opening Hours
Oct 9th - Oct 13th, noon - 7 pm

Location
PARALLEL VIENNA
Altes Telegrafenamt
Börseplatz 1
Vienna

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About PARALLEL VIENNA
PARALLEL VIENNA 2013 is a platform for innovative forms of presentation of contemporary art - project spaces, artist-run spaces, artists and art collectives as well as new and established galleries.
PARALLEL VIENNA 2013 is open October 9–13, coinciding with Viennafair, in the “ehemalige K. u. K. Telegrafenamt at Börseplatz 1 in Vienna; 4 subway stops away from the fairgrounds.
The building offers thousands of square meters of unconventional exhibition spaces in the impressive architecture of a viennese city palais from the 19th century.
The initiators - a team of galerists, organizers and curators - intend to make a diverse selection of projects and perspectives accessible to a large audience and under a single roof.
The kafkaesque building sets an exceptional stage for a large variety of contemporary art practices, where innovative and established art can be discovered and recontextualised.
The organisers see the participants as the essential foundation of the internationally renowned Vienna art scene. These galleries and spaces are responsible for helping to develop and establish local and international artists and art movements in this city. An innovative curatorial model allows to integrate commercial and experimental initatives without introducing any kind of hierarchy.
An exciting program of events and performances is set to take place throughout the entire weekend. Details to be announced soon.

http://parallelvienna.com/


Kerstin Abraham, Ai Weiwei, Moritz Altmann, Ardmore Ceramic Art, John Baldessari, Ernst Barlach, Tjorg Douglas Beer, Bertozzi & Casoni, Rob Birza, Birgit Brenner, Eduardo Chillida, Tony Cragg, Johan Creten, Natalija Jakovlevna Danko, Richard Deacon, Marcel Duchamp/Alfred Stieglitz, Ruth Duckworth, Chiara Dynys, Ian Hamilton Finlay, (...) Gilbert & George, Liam Gillick, Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys, Mona Hatoum, Horst Hellinger, Matthias Hirtreiter, Bernhard Hoetger, Carsten Höller, Huang Yong Ping, Leiko Ikemura, Invader, Thomas Judisch, Bernd Kastner, Per Kirkeby, Milan Kunc, Alicja Kwade, Liu Jianhua, August Macke, Aristide Maillol, Jeanne Mammen, Kris Martin, Fausto Melotti, Joan Miró, Piotr Nathan, Emil Nolde, A.R. Penck, Manfred Pernice, Grayson Perry, Pablo Picasso, Danijela Pivasevic-Tenner, Anne & Patrick Poirier, Norbert Prangenberg, Tobias Rehberger, Anselm Reyle, Susanne Ring, Sterling Ruby, Michael Sailstorfer, Yvonne Lee Schultz, Andreas Schulze, Emil Schumacher, Thomas Schütte, Cindy Sherman, Charles Simonds, Carolein Smit, Daniel Spoerri, Annette Streyl, Jan Svenungsson, Tal R, Gert & Uwe Tobias, Nicola Torke, Elmar Trenkwalder, Rosemarie Trockel, Sergei Tschechonin, Elisabeth Wagner, Ina Weber, David Zink Yi

Back to Earth is devoted to ceramics in the fine arts. Whereas the use of ceramics was frowned upon in the world of art for many years, it has recently enjoyed a surprising renaissance. For the first time, ceramic objects by 75 internationally renowned artists will come together to form a unique panorama. They range from large-scale installations to small curios, the unexpected, the extraordinary and the experimental. They are placed in a historical context with artists such as Ernst Barlach and Marcel Duchamp and the exhibition focuses on thematic questions of our time, from spirituality to provocation, from myth to explosiveness. Is ‚Back to Earth‘ a symptom of our age? After abstraction, virtuality and conceptuality, are we now seeing a return to handwriting, the body, materials? The 130 exhibits from throughout the world will be presented not only in the regular exhibition spaces of Gerisch-Stiftung. A series of glass pavilions designed by the architect Roger Bundschuh will be installed in the extensive sculpture park and the home of Herbert and Brigitte Gerisch will also be used as an exhibition space, lending the exhibition a special character.

Herbert Gerisch-Stiftung
Brachenfelder Straße 69
24536 Neumünster
www.gerisch-stiftung.de

Opening: September 8 2013 , Noon - 8 pm
Galerie Utopia Athens/Berlin @ REMAP 4, Athens (...)

ΚΑΦΕΝΕΙΟ Η ΑΡΤΑ
OUTSIDE AREA
ΔΙΕΥΘΥΝΣΗ ΙΑΣΟΝΟΣ 52
10436 ΑΘΗΝΑ

http://remapkm.org/4/

Psycho Cowboys curated by Anna-Catharina Gebbers

Tjorg Douglas Beer
Tjorg Douglas Beer was born 1973 in Lübeck. He studied in Hamburg at Hochschule für Bildende Künste. His work has been shown internationally in museums and galleries e.g. at Kunstverein Hamburg, Weserburg, Museum für Moderne Kunst Bremen, Project Space Kunsthalle Wien, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, Tate Modern, London, X-Initiative, New York, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Remap3 Athens, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, basedinberlin, Neue Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin. Solo exhibitions e.g. at Kunsthaus Hamburg, Institute for Modern Art Nuremberg, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Stadsgalerij Heerlen, Contemporary Art Institute Sapporo, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York.

‘Kids with Guns’ by Anna-Catharina Gebbers
‘Kids with Guns’ explains that you have to become a type of monster to fight monsters. The song is performed by the virtual supergroup Gorillaz, a taciturn punk, a prepubescent Asian girl, a misanthropic rocker and a good-natured hip-hop hunk with a tendency to tantrums. They are symbols of extremely marketable forms of youth protest. These comic pop star prototypes were created by the Tank Girl artist Jamie Hewlett and the musician Damon Albarn. Their protagonists take over promotion dates and the role of projection surface. Hewlett, Albarn and varying colleagues, like Prometheus, Frankenstein and Faust rolled into one, pull the strings in the background. They articulated their unease with the lack of substance of the MTV world neither by making appearances as themselves, shouting protest slogans, identifying physically with the aesthetic of truth, nor as a theatrical embodiment, with the aesthetic of a production. They did it as cool-headed studio musicians. They hold up a mirror, with the aesthetic of resistance, to an aesthetic of rebellion that has become anaemic. With this aesthetic of resistance Tjorg Douglas Beer’s works highlight social topics. According to Jacques Derrida, things happen not by art representing, imitating or putting a political reality on the stage that takes place elsewhere but by politics or the political being allowed into the structure of art and thus the present also breaks apart. Figures made of ceramics, holding up their middle fingers and making Nazi salutes, as in Beer’s work, do not really represent a political message. They are much too fragile for that. Their glaze is much too sugary and their faces are painted too sickly pale. The form and material cause the preconditions for judgement to falter: the present-day breaking apart, interruption of the regular, deconstruction of political simulacra. Like figures from ancient mythology. - ’is she real, is she’ asks Neneh Cherry’s voice softly, accompanied by a repetitive funky bass. Artificial beings. Staged with borrowed gestures and poses. Dead, lifeless eyes stare into the barrel of the gun. Monster versus monster.
Anna-Catharina Gebbers

Anna-Catharina Gebbers is a Berlin based independent exhibition maker, writer and director/curator for Anna-Catharina Gebbers | Bibliothekswohnung, Berlin. She teaches i.e. at the University of Bayreuth, the Berlin University of the Arts. She recently works on an exhibition about Christoph Schlingensief that will be shown at Kunstwerke Berlin in autumn 2013 and 2014 at MOMA New York.

Tjorg Douglas Beer
Ο Tjorg Douglas Beer γεννήθηκε το 1973 στο Λούμπεκ της Γερμανίας. Σπούδασε στο Αμβούργο στη Σχολή Καλών Τεχνών ‘Hochschule für Bildende Künste’. Η δουλειά του έχει εκτεθεί διεθνώς σε μουσεία και γκαλερί όπως παραδείγματος χάριν στα παρακάτω Kunstverein Hamburg, Weserburg, Museum für Moderne Kunst Bremen, Project Space Kunsthalle Wien, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, Tate Modern, London, X-Initiative, New York, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Remap3 Athens, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, basedinberlin, Neue Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin. Solo exhibitions e.g. at Kunsthaus Hamburg, Institute for Modern Art Nuremberg, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Stadsgalerij Heerlen, Contemporary Art Institute Sapporo, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York.

‘Kids with Guns’ της Anna-Catharina Gebbers
Το ‘Kids with Guns’ εξηγεί ότι πρέπει κανείς να μετατραπεί σε τέρας πρωτού του ζητηθεί να πολεμήσει με άλλα τέρατα. Το τραγούδι ενσαρκώνεται από το εικονικό υπεργκρουπ Gorillaz, ένα ανείπωτο punk συγκρότημα, ένα προεφηβικό Ασιάτικο κορίτσι, ένας μισάνθρωπος ροκάς και ένας φιλικός γοητευτικός χιπ χοππερ με μια τάση ,για παιδικά ξεσπάσματα οργής. Είναι όλοι σύμβολα ενός τύπου νεανικής διαδήλωσης που είναι υπερβολικά εμπορεύσιμη. Αυτοί οι κωμικοί ποπ σταρ αρχέτυποι χαρακτήρες είναι δημιούργημα της καλλιτέχνιδας Jamie Hewlett και του μουσικού Damon Albarn. Οι πρωταgωνιστές τους αναλαμβάνουν προωθητικές ημερομηνίες και το ρόλο της ανάδυσης στην επιφάνεια. Η Hewlett, ο Albarn και ποικίλλοι συνάδελφοί τους όπως ο Προμηθέας, ο Φρανκεστάιν και ο Φάουστ κύλισαν στο χρόνο και έγιναν ένα, και τραβάνε τα σκοινιά στο βάθος της σκηνής. Εξέφρασαν την δυσφορία τους σε σχέση με την έλλειψη νοήματος που πρεσβέυει το MTV world κανάλι, μην κάνοντας εμφανίσεις ως οι εαυτοί τους, παρά φωνάζοντας σλόγκαν διαμαρτυρίας, με το να ταυτίζονται σωματικά με την αισθητική της αλήθειας, αλλά και μην κάνοντας εμφανίσεις ούτε ως θεατρική εκπροσώπηση ταυτιζόμενοι με την αισθητική της παραγωγής. Έκαναν εμφάνιση σαν παγωμένοι στούντιο μουσικοί. Κράτησαν ψηλά έναν καθρέφτη, συμβολίζοντας την αισθητική της αντίστασης έως ότου έφτασαν στην αισθητική της επαναστασης η οποία έχει καταντήσει αναιμική.

Μέαω αυτής της αισθητικής της αντίστασης, η δουλειά του Tjorg Douglas Beer θίγει κοινωνικά θέματα. Σύμφωνα με τον Jacques Derrida τα πράγματα διαδραματίζονται όχι μέσα από την αντιπροσώπευση της τέχνης, μιμούμενη ή ‘φορώντας‘ μια πολιτική πραγματικότητα πάνω στη σκηνή που συμβαίνει κάπου αλλού, παρά μέσα από την πολιτική ή μέσα από το πολιτικό ον που εντάσσεται ελεύθερα στο πεδίο της τέχνης και επομένως το παρών διασπάται. Κεραμικές φιγούρες που κάνουν κολωδάχτυλο ή τείνουν το Ναζιστικό χαιρετισμό, όπως και στη δουλειά του Beer, δεν συμβολίζουν στα αλήθεια κάποιο πολιτικό μήνυμα. Είναι πολύ εύθραυστα για κάτι τέτοιο. Η μπογιά τους είναι υπέρ του δέοντος ζαχαρώδης και τα προσωπά τους υπερβολικά χλωμά. Η φόρμα και το υλικό δημιουργούν την προδιάθεση για την κριτική του κλονισμού : Η παρούσα μέρα διασπάται, η διακοπή του προγραμματισμένου, του συνηθισμένου, η αποδόμηση του πολιτικού ομοιώματος. Όπως και οι φιγούρες από την αρχαία μυθολογία. ‘Είναι αληθινή, είναι’ ρωτά απαλά η φωνή του Neneh Cherry συνοδευόμενη από την επαναλαμβανόμενη υπόκρουση ενός ευφάνταστου μπάσου. Ψεύτικα όντα. Στημένα με δανεικές κινήσεις και στάσεις. Νεκρά, ακίνητα μάτια κοιτάζουν τη σκανδάλη ενός όπλου. Τέρας εναντίον τέρατος.
Anna-Catharina Gebbers

Η Anna-Catharina Gebbers είναι μια ανεξάρτητη διοργανώτρια εκθέσων , συγγραφέας με βάση το Βερολίνο και director/curator για το Anna-Catharina Gebbers | Bibliothekswohnung, στο Βερολίνο. Διδάσκει ανάμεσα σε άλλα πανεπιστήμια στο University of Bayreuth, το Πανεπιστήμιο των Καλών Τεχνών του Βερολίνου. Πρόσφατα εργάστηκε για την έκθεση του καλλιτέχνη Christoph Schlingensief που θα εκτεθεί στο Kunstwerke Berlin το φθινόπωρο του 2013 και το 2014 στο MOMA της Νέας Υόρκης.


GALERIE UTOPIA
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UTOPIA
Saâdane Afif, Maxime Ballesteros, Tjorg Douglas Beer, Olivia Berckemeyer, Marc Bijl, Matthias Bitzer, John Bock, Borena Bodin, Erró, Lionel Estève, Andreas Golder, Thomas Helbig, Gregor Hildebrandt, Volker Hueller, (...)
Christian Jankowski, Dionisis Kavallieratos, John Kørner, Kolkoz, Michael Kunze, Alicja Kwade, April Lamm, Catherine Lorent, Isa Melsheimer, Klaus Mettig, Olaf Metzel, Yoko Ono, Daniel Richter, Henning Rogge, Thomas Scheibitz, Santiago Sierra, Katharina Sieverding, Orson Sieverding, Pola Sieverding, Franz Stauffenberg, Costa Vece, Jorinde Voigt, Raul Walch

Babylon, Baby
Videoprogram curated by Anissa Touati & Maud Lourau
Basir Mahmood, Amanullah Mojadidi, Roy Dib, Barbad Golshiri, Emeric Lhuisset, Raafat Hattab, Dor Guez, Ammar Al Beik, Mehraneh Atashi, Niyaz Azadikhah, Abdulnassur Gharem

In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida
Videoprogram curated by Anna-Catharina Gebbers
Pia Greschner, Lisa Junghanss, Sophie Kluge, Jennis Li Cheng Tien, Nicole Wermers

presented by Galerie Utopia Berlin/Athens

In Situ
Public site-specific works
Julius von Bismarck, Santiago Sierra, Nasan Tur

presented by Senatsreservenspeicher Berlin

Preview
September 18 2013 7 pm - 10 pm
The Preview will be followed by a Party

Opening Hours
September 19 - September 21 2013 noon - 2 pm

Galerie Utopia Berlin/Athens
Senatsreservenspeicher Berlin

Cuvrystrasse 3-4
10997 Berlin-Kreuzberg
Germany
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Herrmann Aber, Saadane Afif, Guy Avital, Tjorg Douglas Beer, Marion Benoit, John von Bergen, Matthias Bitzer, Borena Bodin, Jonas Burgert, Louisa Clement, Martin Dammann, Peter Duka, Martin Eder, Marcel Eichner, Katharina Fengler, Axel Geis, Giulia Ghezzo, Alex Grein, Eberhard Haverkost, Mathias Held, Lothar Hempel, Uwe Henneken, (...)
Gregor Hildebrandt, Christian Hoischen, Johannes Hüppi, Edyta Jaworska, Renata Jaworska, Lisa Junghanß, Klaus Jörres, Michael Kunze, Alicja Kwade, Nikolaus List, Stefan Panhans, Anselm Reyle, Stefan Rinck, Julia Rüther, Anri Sala, Thomas Scheibitz, Katja Strunz, Anna Vogel, Sylke von Gaza, Andrea Winkler

Opening Reception July 17th, 2013, 6pm

Please note that the exhibition will be closed from July 20th to July 30th 2013
The exhibition can be visited by appointment only.

Via Pietro Garzoni 5
30126 Lido di Venezia
Italy
Fon: +393463564814
Mail: info(at)cinquegarzoni.com
http://cinquegarzoni.com

Kerstin Abraham, Ai Weiwei, Moritz Altmann, Ardmore Ceramic Art, John Baldessari, Ernst Barlach, Tjorg Douglas Beer, Bertozzi & Casoni, Rob Birza, Birgit Brenner, Eduardo Chillida, Tony Cragg, Johan Creten, Natalija Jakovlevna Danko, Richard Deacon, Marcel Duchamp/Alfred Stieglitz, Ruth Duckworth, Chiara Dynys, Ian Hamilton Finlay, (...)
Gilbert & George, Liam Gillick, Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys, Mona Hatoum, Horst Hellinger, Matthias Hirtreiter, Bernhard Hoetger, Carsten Höller, Huang Yong Ping, Leiko Ikemura, Invader, Thomas Judisch, Bernd Kastner, Per Kirkeby, Milan Kunc, Alicja Kwade, Liu Jianhua, August Macke, Aristide Maillol, Jeanne Mammen, Kris Martin, Fausto Melotti, Joan Miró, Piotr Nathan, Emil Nolde, A.R. Penck, Manfred Pernice, Grayson Perry, Pablo Picasso, Danijela Pivasevic-Tenner, Anne & Patrick Poirier, Norbert Prangenberg, Tobias Rehberger, Anselm Reyle, Susanne Ring, Sterling Ruby, Michael Sailstorfer, Yvonne Lee Schultz, Andreas Schulze, Emil Schumacher, Thomas Schütte, Cindy Sherman, Charles Simonds, Carolein Smit, Daniel Spoerri, Annette Streyl, Jan Svenungsson, Tal R, Gert & Uwe Tobias, Nicola Torke, Elmar Trenkwalder, Rosemarie Trockel, Sergei Tschechonin, Elisabeth Wagner, Ina Weber, David Zink Yi

Back to Earth is devoted to ceramics in the fine arts. Whereas the use of ceramics was frowned upon in the world of art for many years, it has recently enjoyed a surprising renaissance. For the first time, ceramic objects by 75 internationally renowned artists will come together to form a unique panorama. They range from large-scale installations to small curios, the unexpected, the extraordinary and the experimental. They are placed in a historical context with artists such as Ernst Barlach and Marcel Duchamp and the exhibition focuses on thematic questions of our time, from spirituality to provocation, from myth to explosiveness. Is ‚Back to Earth‘ a symptom of our age? After abstraction, virtuality and conceptuality, are we now seeing a return to handwriting, the body, materials? The 130 exhibits from throughout the world will be presented not only in the regular exhibition spaces of Gerisch-Stiftung. A series of glass pavilions designed by the architect Roger Bundschuh will be installed in the extensive sculpture park and the home of Herbert and Brigitte Gerisch will also be used as an exhibition space, lending the exhibition a special character.

Herbert Gerisch-Stiftung
Brachenfelder Straße 69
24536 Neumünster
www.gerisch-stiftung.de

Tjorg Douglas Beer is an artist. He was born 1973 in Lübeck and raised in Hamburg. He studied in Hamburg at Hochschule für Bildende Künste. Since then his work has been shown internationally in museums and galleries e.g. at Kunstverein Hamburg, Weserburg, Museum für Moderne Kunst Bremen, Project Space Kunsthalle Wien, (...)
Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, Tate Modern, London, X-Initiative, New York, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Palais de Tokyo, Paris. Beer has had solo exhibitions e.g. at Kunsthaus Hamburg, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Stadsgalerij Heerlen, Contemporary Art Institute Sapporo, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York. Besides his own artistic work he has appeared initiator of projects like GALERIE IM REGIERUNGSVIERTEL BERLIN, THE FORGOTTEN BAR und The Berlin Kreuzberg Biennale.

Tjorg Douglas Beer was born 1973 in Lübeck and raised in Hamburg. He studied in Hamburg at Hochschule für Bildende Künste. Since then his work has been shown internationally in museums and galleries e.g. at Kunstverein Hamburg, Weserburg, Museum für Moderne Kunst Bremen, Project Space Kunsthalle Wien, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, Tate Modern, London, X-Initiative, New York, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Neue Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof / basedinberlin, Palais de Tokyo, Paris. Beer has had solo exhibitions e.g. at Kunsthaus Hamburg, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Stadsgalerij Heerlen, Contemporary Art Institute Sapporo, Institute for Modern Art Nuremberg, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York. (...)

His work is represented in Collections in Europe and the US, i.e. Falckenberg Collection, Hamburg, CAP Collection Southhampton, Bucksbaum Collection, New York, Herbert F.Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaka, NY.

During the last years Beer has developed a wide repertoire of types of work. In his collages, paintings, sculptures and installations he generates sceneries around the perception of the realities that surround him, i.e social, poiltical and personal themes, that he turns into an overdrawn new order.

Doing this he acts less as as pseudo-scientist that developes art history, more than that his work complies to the work of a musician that transforms various layers of thoughts in texts and arrangements.

In SCHEINHEILIGEN / SPECIOUSNESSES Beer shows new collages, paintings and sculptures.

The ceramic figures are casts of pale-looking children shop window puppets that are painted and glazed and combined with contemporary materials like clothes, plastic bags. Some of the sculptures look like fascist children with mutated dogs, homeless people in military clothing, beggars or a fortune-teller on an oil drum. They are representatives of a stagnating youth movement and utopical way of thinking; poor-fascistoid children figures with mutated dog creatures, militant homeless, beggars or a fortune-teller on an oil drum.

Collages from the series THE MIND OF THE CEO are based on pictures of faces of these puppets that he combines with cut-outs of models, diamonds, fragments of lifestyle magazines combined with portraits of dictators.

The paintings show portraits and landscapes.

OPENING
FRIDAY APRIL 12 2013, 6 PM

DURATION
APRIL 13 till MAY 11 2013


Produzentengalerie Hamburg
Admiralitätstraße 71
D - 20459 Hamburg
Tel. +49 (40) 378232
Fax.+49 (40) 363304
info(at)produzentengalerie.com
www.produzentengalerie.com
Tue - Fr 11am - 6pm, Sa 11am - 3 pm


Since 2007 Galerie Utopia operates as a module that has realised exhibitions and projects like GALERIE IM REGIERUNGSVIERTEL BERLIN, THE FORGOTTEN BAR and The Berlin Kreuzberg Biennale. In autumn 2012 the Palais de Tokyo in Paris has shown the exhibition THE GARDEN OF EDEN with more than 150 participants. At PRODUZENTENGAERIE HAMBURG ABENDLAND will show a small excerpt from that exhibition. (...)

List of Participants
Tjorg Douglas Beer, Matthias Bitzer, Erró, Gregor Hildebrandt, Dionisis Kavallieratos, John Kørner, Catherine Lorent, Isa Melsheimer, Yoko Ono, Henning Rogge, Jannis Varelas, Costa Vece

Opening
March 14, 2013, 6 pm

8 pm Live
GRAN HORNO (Catherine Lorent)
Song of Relegation

8.30 pm Records
Matthias Bitzer / Gregor Hildebrandt

March 15 to April 6, 2013

Produzentengalerie Hamburg
Admiralitätstraße 71
D - 20459 Hamburg
Tel. +49 (40) 378232
Fax.+49 (40) 363304
info(at)produzentengalerie.com
www.produzentengalerie.com
Tue - Fr 11am - 6pm, Sa 11am - 3 pm

in collaboration with Galerie Utopia Berlin/Athens
www.galerieutopia.com
The Installation THE GARDEN OF EDEN will be a landscape of objects and sculptures positioned between the columns of the cellar of The Palais de Tokyo. These objects are part of GALERIE UTOPIA`s Inventory of FORGOTTEN art works or works that deal with utopical visions, pessimistic expressions, fragility and destruction or other things that find place in a contemporary GARDEN OF EDEN. (...)

Program:

The program of changing exhibitions, lectures screenings includes:

Lectures about the Motivation and projects being realised by GALERIE UTOPIA / THE FORGOTTEN BAR PROJECT by Tjorg Douglas Beer.
Exhibitions, screenings and concerts by paris-based curators, artists, DJs and publishers such as Martha Kirszenbaum, Clément Dirié, Samuel Boutruche, Olga Rozenblum and others. Clément Dirié and his Paris-based Magazine CODE 2.0 i.e. will create several live-editing sessions producing a special edition of CODE Magazine during the duration of the exhibition. THE BERLIN KREUZBERG BIENNALE will show THE GREEK PAVILLON curated by one of the most interesting greek curators Marina Fokidis.

List of participants:

Evgeny Antufiev, Davide Balula, Ronja Beer, Tjorg Douglas Beer, Matthias Bitzer, John Bock, Samuel Boutruche / Kolkoz, Björn Dahlem, Erró, Cecile B. Evans, Lionel Estève, Rainer Ganahl, Andreas Golder, Dionisis Kavallieratos, John Kørner, Terence Koh, Alicja Kwade, April Lamm, Gregor Hildebrandt, Christian Jankowski, Constantin Luser, Isa Melsheimer, Olaf Metzel, Benjamin Moreau, Yoko Ono, Raymond Pettibon, Daniel Richter, Henning Rogge, Tom Sachs, Thomas Scheibitz, Thomas Schütte, Andreas Slominski, Franz Stauffenberg, Alexandros Tzannis, Costa Vece, Jannis Varelas, Stas Volyazlovsky, Erwin Wurm

Martha Kirszenbaum, Francesca Gavin, Marina Fokidis, Nadia Agiropoulou, Alexandre Daletchine, Lionel Esteve / Alexandros Tzannis, Olga Rozenblum
Clément Dirié CODE 2.0 Paris, OMMU DISTRIBUTION Athens, 032C Berlin, SOUTH MAgazine, NewSchool.Athens, THE GREEK PAVILLON / BERLIN KREUZBERG BIENNALE

About GALERIE UTOPIA

GALERIE UTOPIA is a module fed by a group of artists, curators and others concerned with notions of access, involvement and intervention.
GALERIE UTOPIA promotes contributions that critically and sensually confront existential phenomena.

(Initiated in April 2007 as GALERIE IM REGIERUNGSVIERTEL by the artistsTjorg Douglas Beer in the Government Quarter, i.e., the €œRegierungsviertel,” next to the Federal Press Center and the Parliament in Berlin.

GALERIE UTOPIA now operates from Berlin and Athens.

Since April 2007 GALERIE UTOPIA has realised different exhibitions in Europe and the US, i.e. GINNUNGAGAP/PAVILLION OF BELIEF, Venice, THE FOUR HORSEMEN/DIE RAND COOPERATION, Berlin, Torini, THE END WAS YESTERDAY, Berlin, Innsbruck, THE FORGOTTEN BAR PROJECT, Berlin, Milan, Turin, Stockholm, NARCOTICA, Basel, ELEVATOR TO THE GALLOWS at No Soul For Sale / X-INITIATIVE, New York, DEFENDING OUR VALUES Kunstraum Innsbruck, Austria, THE GREEN VALLEY DISASTER at No Soul For Sale, TATE modern London, RESPONSOLIDARITY REMAP3 Athens.

In 2011 GALERIE UTOPIA has realised the 1st BERLIN KREUZBERG BIENNALE called AYRAN & YOGA.
In 2010 GALERIE UTOPIA has realised the 1st BERLIN KREUZBERG BIENNALE called AYRAN & YOGA.
About the THE GREEK PAVILLON - The 2nd BERLIN KREUZBERG BIENNALE at OPEN MUSEUM / GALERIE DER GEGENWART / KUNSTHALLE HAMBURG. (...)

From September 6 until September 9 2012 GALERIE UTOPIA shows an exhibition and program at OPEN MUSEUM / GALERIE DER GEGENWART / KUNSTHALLE HAMBURG.
As part of the celebration of the 15th Birthday of the Contemporary Museum GALERIE DER GEGENWART GALERIE UTOPIA will show The 2nd BERLIN KREUZBERG BIENNALE in a pavillon-like structure by OPEN MUSEUM.

THE GREEK PAVILLON - The 2nd BERLIN KREUZBERG BIENNALE will be shown in Paris at THE PALAIS DE TOKYO during the exhibition THE GARDEN OF EDEN presented by TJORG DOUGLAS BEER and GALERIE UTOPIA.
September 27 2012 - November 19 2012

THE GREEK PAVILLON will be curated by the greek curators Nadja Agyropolous and Marina Fokidis.
In many larger cities there are project rooms existing alongside museums and art associations. These are independent art spaces established by artists or independent curators where the way art is handled is continually being reinvented and other forms and rituals of art presentation developed. (...)
MADE IN GERMANY ZWEI has invited the founders of project rooms from a number of different cities to present their program. In the second part of the event, the heads of museums and art associations will discuss formats of art presentation between the traditional and the experimental. This day’s topic will explore the potential of the medium of exhibition, as well as the institution of the future and the future of the institution.
“Portrait of a Generation” where over 100 artists who make up the art scene (...) will make portraits of each other to give image to a community of people. The works will be hung salon style on our gallery walls, and include painted, drawn and photographic portraits. (...)

Bijoux Altimirano, Assume Vivid Astro Focus, Donald Baechler, Kevin Baker, Tjorg Douglas Beer, Marc Bell, Brian Belott, Hisham Bharoocha, Libby Black, Lizzi Bougatsos, Joe Bradley, Slater Bradley, Kadar Brock, Alison Blickle,Cass Bird, Tim Biskup, Stefan Bondell, Brengar, Ben Brock, Bruce High Quality, Eric Cahan, Rachel Chandler, Matthew Craven, Mark Cross, Cody Critcheloe, Donald Cummings, Brian Degraw, Lance De Los Reyes, Jack Donoghue, Jim Drain, Cheryl Dunn, Jesse Edwards, Scott Ewalt, Yamataka Eye, Naomi Fisher, Joey Frank, Fab Five Freddy, Jonah Freedman, Erik Foss, Ry Fyan, Micah Ganske, Francesca Gavin, Seana Gavin, Jesse Geller, Billy Grant, Kathy Grayson, Tim Hull, Leo Fitzpatrick, Evan Gruzis, Joe Grillo, Jeanette Hayes, John Holland, Scott Hug, Gordon Hull, Parker Ito, Jo Jackson, Todd James, JIM JOE, Chris Johanson, Ben Jones, Matt Jones, Kris Kahler, Body By Body,KATSU, Brian Kenney, Sandy Kim, Terence Koh, Jeremy Kost, Andrew Kuo, Bruce Labruce, Jeff Ladouceur, Wes Lang, Josh Lazcano, Robert Lazzarini, Kristy Leibowitz, Matt Leines, Isaac Lin, Justin Lowe, Ashley Macomber, Ari Marcoplolous, Maripol, Kunle Martins, Eddie Martinez, Taylor McKimens, McDermott & McGough, Barry McGee, Ryan McGinley, Keegan McHargue, Brain McPeck, Miz Metro, Slava Mogutin, Jane Moseley, Sam Moyer, Mike Namer, N Dash, Sharon Needles, Tim Noble, Glenn O’Brien, Susy Oliveira, Anders Oinonen, Yoko Ono, Clayton Patterson, Raymond Pettibon, Jack Kembra Pfahler, Pierson, Steve Powers, Bill Powers, Alex Prager, Vanessa Prager, Scott Reeder, Renee Ricard, Angeline Rivas, Colette Robbins, Maria Robledo, Clare Rojas, Christian Rosa, Theo Rosenblum, Aaron Rose, Holton Rower, Cynthia Rowley, Joe Rushe, JD Samson, Andre Saravia, Lele Savieri, Kenny Scharf, Adam Schleimer, Aurel Schmidt, Lola Schnabel, Karley Sciortino, Allison Schulnik, Chelsea Seltzer, Shoplifter, Alexey Sizov, Andrea Sonnenberg, Casey Spooner, Caroline Snow, Dash Snow, Matt Stone, Matthew Stone, Malcolm Stuart, Bec Stupac, Peter Sutherland, Spencer Sweeney, Levi Tate, ThreeAsFour, Enno Tianen, Adam Tullie, Jorge Ulrich, Jiannis Varelas, Jeff Vespa, Jaimie Warren, Sue Webster, Grant Worth, Andrew Jeffrey Wright, IO Tillet Wright, Eric Yahnker, Dustin Yellin, Olivier Zahm
The German artist Tjorg Douglas Beer (b. 1973) is one of the most striking talents of his generation, and his artistic expression ranges wide. Installation projects, sculptures and especially work with painting in an expanded field are explored and are now being unleashed in the artist’s first solo exhibition, Snow in the Jungle, at the Martin Asbæk Gallery. (...)
The works are a personal sampling of impressions from everyday life with inspiration from popular culture, social and political aspects and many everyday impressions from Berlin and Hamburg, where the artist is active.
Tjorg Douglas Beer’s works are unpredictable, spontaneous, profoundly original and unique in expression. The idiom is colourful and raw, with both figurative and abstract elements.
Snow in the Jungle is the title of the new series of paintings that shows a number of utopian landscapes with misplaced persons either warming themselves at a fire or going exploring in the jungle. Painted ceramic sculptures scattered over the exhibition space are hardly distinguishable from child mannequins, but have a thoughtful, adult expression. The figures are painted and glazed and combined with contemporary materials like clothes, plastic bags. Some of the sculptures look like fascist children with mutated dogs, homeless people in military clothing, beggars or a fortune-teller on an oil drum.
Throughout the works, from sculptures to collages, the artist reflects on the political realities and social inequalities facing society. Despite the serious subjects the works have an ironically playful character.
The installations, such as Hirnwaschanlage – Brainwashing Plant from the exhibition at Mitchell-Innes & Nash in New York, Central Services from the Museum für Moderne Kunst in Bremen, Narkose#2 from Stadsgalerij in Heerlen and Future Islands from the Institut für Moderne Kunst in Nürnberg, deal with themes like the collective numbness of society, religious conviction, the political apparatus and the hopelessness of modern society.

A new publication UTOPIA ( StrzeleckiBooks 2012, Tjorg Douglas Beer „UTOPIA“ Text by Max Henry ) will be presented at the gallery.
Dimitrios Antonitsis, Alexandros Vasmoulakis, b., Tjorg Douglas Beer, Apostolos Georgiou, Konstantin Kakanias, Elias Kafouros, Paris Koutsikos, Lucas Lenglet, Dafni Barbageorgopoulou, Margarita Myrogianni, Socratis Socratous, Sofia Touboura, Gabriel Vormstein, Tao Xue (...)

The Breeder presents the group exhibition “The Newspaper Show” with works by young international artists whose central core is the newspaper. Contrary to the digital revolution and the economic recession that threatens the printed media with extinction, the artists with their own extraordinary ways assist for the perpetuation of the medium.

Appropriations of printed matter, most commonly newspapers first appeared in the Synthetic Cubism of Picasso, Braque and Juan Gris, in 1912. A century ago it was a radical concept: ephemera intended for disposal incorporated into fine artwork that was expected to have timeless value. Fifty years later Pop and Arte Povera artists took up the enterprise, with different objectives but undiminished impact. And although the conceptual premises behind the use of found printed matter may have changed over the decades, its appeal to artists perseveres.

The artists that participate in the show use the newspaper either as a raw material or as a conceptual canvas for the work that they present.

Socrates Socratous coats the gallery walls with pages of Cypriot newspaper “New Times” from 1960-1974 that he collected from a military outpost in the green line of Nicosia. The Junta and the coup in Cyprus, Vietnam war, the man on the moon, Middle East and Cuba make headlines along with other news that aren’t far from today’s reality. The installation “Page Range” also includes an artistic intervention on the wide distribution Cypriot newspaper “Fileleytheros” (“The Liberal”) which on the day of the opening transforms its front page into an artwork co-signed by the artist and the publisher of the newspaper Nikos Pattichis. Copies of the newspaper will be available at the exhibition but will also circulate as usual at their regular retail outposts. Part of the same work is the current issue of the Athenian free press Lifo which has a work by Socratous at its back cover and will be exhibited-distributed at the gallery from Lifo’s well recognized metal stand. Lucas Lenglet shows us “what the Greeks don’t know” with his collage from press clippings from the Dutch press on the Greek financial crisis. Dimitrios Antonitsis presents his series “Keep Calm and Carry On” which are reproductions from actual photo-romances from the 70s that present a bankrupt Greece managed by Bavarians, a concept that comes back with the IMF today. Elias Kafouros examines the newspaper as a symbol whose components are time and recording through language and image. He is interested in the psychological dimensions of its function, the familiarity of its aesthetics and also the fact that it is an actual archetypical plan of the psychological perception of our relation with time and place in the Western World. Chinese artist Tao Xue takes newspaper and twists it into rope from which he makes sculptures. Thus the print medium is converted into durable construction material. In many ways Tao Xue’s practice reflects the experience of life in today’s China, caught in a struggle between tradition and progress with its contractions, dichotomies, and dizzying social changes. The recurrent element in Gabriel Vormstein’s work is the use of newspaper as the artist’s chosen canvas along with classical female figures, which he draws after Egon Schiele’s models. Paris Koutsikos and b. transfer their personal imaginary worlds from the streets of Athens where we first encountered them onto newspapers. Konstantin Kakanias paints his reknown heroine Mrs Tependris on printed advertisements offering her the lead role that she so much deserves. Dafni Barbageorgopoulou picks a fabric with a newspaper print on which she imprints the traces of a motif of her own. Alexandros Vasmoulakis presents a series of portraits collaged from small colorful pieces of newspapers. Apostolos Georgiou depicts on his acrylic on canvas painting the newspaper as an ally in desperation, since the protagonist has covered his face with it. Sofia Touboura combines in her sculptures newspaper with neon plexiglass and synthetic resin with unexpected results. Margarita Myrogianni presents a photographic diptych of a still life with newspaper used as an object while at Tjorg Douglas Beer’s collages a puppet is surrounded by images of celebrities, actors, pop stars, dictators and war criminals that he has cut out of newspapers.
StrzeleckiBooks is pleased to announce it’s first publication of Tjorg Douglas Beer.
UTOPIA will be presented at Cologne Contemporaries 2012.
On the occasion of the book presentation Tjorg Douglas Beer presents sculptures and collages from the book. (...)

UTOPIA is a sequence of collages paintings and sculptures from the mental round cinema of Tjorg Douglas Beer.
The publication is accompaigned by a text by Max Henry, a poet maudit and mercenary curator. He writes for Flashart The Art Newspaper, Art Agenda. He has written catalogue texts for Kunsthalle Nuernberg, Kunsthalle Vienna and Saatchi Gallery.
Tjorg Douglas Beer is born in 1973 in Lübeck and raised in Hamburg.
He studied in Hamburg at Hochschule für Bildende Künste.
Since then his work has been shown internatianally at museums and galleries i.e. Kunstverein Hamburg, Weserburg, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Kunsthalle Wien, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, Tate Modern, London, X-Initiative, New York, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo.
Solo exhibitions at Kunsthaus Hamburg, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Stadsgalerij Heerlen, Contemporary Art Institute Sapporo, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York.
Besides his own work Beer has been the initiator of projects like GALERIE IM REGIERUNGSVIERTEL BERLIN, THE FORGOTTEN BAR and AYRAN & YOGA - The 1st Berlin Kreuzberg Biennale 2010.
ISBN: 978-3-942680-20-2, 15 EURO
Tjorg Douglas Beer, artist / initiator GALERIE IM REGIERUNGSVIERTEL BERLIN
Tjorg Douglas Beer introduces examples of his own work and initiatives like GALERIE IM REGIERUNGSVIERTEL BERLIN, THE FORGOTTEN BAR or AYRAN & YOGA - The 1st Berlin Kreuzberg Biennale 2010. (...)

Tjorg Douglas Beer is artist and lives in Athens and Berlin. He studied at Hochschule für bildende Künste in Hamburg. Since five years he has been around in the international artworld. Exhibitions in Japan, Europe and the US, aswell as parttaking in several artfairs have influenced his life as a young artist. Besides his own artistic activity in which he deals with subjects like society, political or media perception that he turns into installative settings he has been recognized as initiator of projects like GALERIE IM REGIERUNGSVIERTEL BERLIN, THE FORGOTTEN BAR or AYRAN & YOGA - The 1st Berlin Kreuzberg Biennale 2010.

At the Academy of Fine Arts Kiel Beer shows a review of projects and experiences of the last years.

A combination of a lecture being held at Schaulager Basel about self-organised work and examples of developing exhibitions. The presentation gives an inside view in the relation of self-organised work structures and the experiences of a young artist in a humorous way.

Pictures and videos of projects at X-Initiative New York, Kunstraum Innsbruck, TATE Modern, GALERIE IM REGIERUNGSVIERTEL BERLIN are being shown.
In den neuen Räumen der Galerie Karlheinz Meyer zeigt Tjorg Douglas Beer neue Arbeiten.
DICTATORSHIP OF DILLETANTS (Diktatur der Dilettanten) zeigt eine Installation aus Keramiken, Malerei und Kollagen. (...)

Die Keramiken, sind Abformungen von kränklich-blassen Antlitzen von fast erwachsen aussehenden Kinder-Schaufensterpuppen, die er bemalt und glasiert und kombiniert mit zeitgenössischen Materialien. Sie sind desperate Hoffnungsträger eines verlorengegangenen Kampfes; Repräsentanten einer stagnierten Jugendbewegung und utopischen Denkweise; faschistoid-ärmliche Kinderfiguren mit mutierten Hundskreaturen, militante Heimatlose, Bettelnde, Wahrsagende auf Ölfässern und Beschwörer von Kübeln idealisierter Pflanzungen.

Tjorg Douglas Beer generiert in seinen Arbeiten Situationen und Szenarien in denen er soziale, politische und sonstige aus dem Leben gegriffene Einflüsse in überzeichneter Form in neue Zusammenhänge übersetzt. In raumgreifenden Installationen, Skulpturen, Malereien und Kollagen werden die menschliche Evolution, politische Realitäten und soziale Missstände reflektiert und auf spielerisch ironisierende Weise zu Pamphleten der Hilflosigkeit.
In Installationen wie HIRNWASCHANLAGE-BRAINWASHING PLANT(Mitchell-Innes&Nash, New York), CENTRAL SERVICES(Museum für moderne Kunst Bremen), NARKOSE#02(Stadsgalerij Heerlen), FUTURE ISLANDS (Institut für moderne Kunst Nürnberg) werden Themen wie kollektive Taubheitszustände von Gesellschaften, religiöse Verwirrtheitzustände und deren politische Mechanisierung sowie Hoffnungslosigkeit gegenwärtiger Gesellschaftszustände thematisiert. Die oft grossflächigen Kollagen aus Plastikfolien und Klebebändern bilden hierbei den Hintergrund seiner Malereien. Sie entspringen einer objektartigen Auffassung des Bildträgers als Banner, Transparent oder Pamphlet. Diese Art der Malerei zeigt sich in grosformatigen Kollagen aus zum Beispiel Palästinensertüchern und Stoffen. Das Bild ist hierbei oft Kommunikationsmittel seine Interessenfelder zu transportieren.

In den Kollagen und Malereien wird das Individuum als sich auflösende Form teil einer desperaten Zukunftsvision die Utopien nur noch als leere Behauptungen ansieht und mit Hilfe der kombinierten Maleri-Kollage-Technik die gezeigten Figuren zur Auflösung bringt (Dictatorship of Dilettants (PRINCESS UTOPIA) (2011)). Darüberhinaus werden Slogans und Headlines als Titel in die Arbeiten eigebaut deren Inhalt wie Hülsen leerer Pamphlete erscheinen Dictatorship of Dilettants (GRÖSSENWAHN UND UNVERMÖGEN) (2011), GENERAL THREAT (2011).

Tjorg Douglas Beer ist 1973 in Lübeck geboren und aufgewachsen in Hamburg.
Studiert hat er in Hamburg an der Hochschule für Bildende Künste.
Seitdem ist seine Arbeit international in Museen und Galerien gezeigt worden unter anderem im Kunstverein Hamburg, Weserburg, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Kunsthalle Wien, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, Tate Modern, London, X-Initiative, New York, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo.
Einzelausstellungen u.a. im Kunsthaus Hamburg, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Stadsgalerij Heerlen, Contemporary Art Institute Sapporo, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York.
Neben seiner eigenen künstlerischen Arbeit ist er in den letzten Jahren immer wieder als Initiator von Projekten wie GALERIE IM REGIERUNGSVIERTEL BERLIN, THE FORGOTTEN BAR und AYRAN & YOGA - The 1st Berlin Kreuzberg Biennale 2010 in Erscheinung getreten.
Aids 3D, Judith Albrecht, Andy Hope1930, artsyfartsyrecords, Rossina Baltatzi, Ronja Beer, Tjorg Douglas Beer, Tobias Bernstrup, Marc Bijl, John Bock, Monica Bonvicini, Madelaine Boschan, Jean-Baptiste Bouvet, Daniele Buetti, Chicks on Speed, Stefano Cagol, James Capper, Mathieu Cherkit, (...)
Vangelis Choursoglou , Ramesch Daha, Björn Dahlem, DaDaDa Academy, Carola Dertnig, Stephan Dillemuth / Nils Norman, Antonis Donef, Erró, Giannis Ganas, Anna-Catharina Gebbers / Christoph Schlingensief, Marianne Eigenher, Christian Eisenberger, Cecile B. Evans, Giorgos Fameliaris, FLATZ, Harun Farocki, Thomas Feuerstein, Kasia Fudakowski, Rainer Ganahl, Vasso Gavaisse, Gelitin, Sara Glaxia, Andreas Golder, Martin Gostner, Thomas Helbig, Alex Heim, Christoph Hinterhuber, Thomas Hirschhorn, Myriam Holme, Andreas Holzknecht, Christian Jankowski, Lisa Junghanß, Dionisis Kavallieratos, Apostolos Karastergiou, Maria Kaxramanoglou, Christoph Keller, John Kørner, Christos Kondos, Terence Koh, David Kröll, Elke Krystufek, Rebecca Lamarche-Vadel, April Elisabeth Lamm, Annika Larsson, Sifis Lykakis, Marko Lulic, Sara Lunden, Kallina Maiopoulou, Roland Maurmair, Albert Mayer, Isa Melsheimer, Klaus Mettig, Olaf Metzel, Jonathan Meese, Laurent Montaron, Anne Neukamp, Mario Neugebauer, Yoko Ono, Daniel Otero-Torres, Leonidas Papadopoulos, Panos Papadopoulos, Raymond Pettibon, Dan Perjovschi, Emilie Pitoiset, Daniel Pflumm, Antoine Renard, Daniel Richter, Henning Rogge, Judith Rohrmoser, Chris Rosa, Martha Rosler, Alex Ruthner, Susana Saez, Vanessa Safavi, Nino Sakandelidze, Deborah Schamoni, Thomas Scheibitz, Hank Schmidt in der Beek, Markus Selg, Jeremy Shaw, Katharina Sieverding, Orson Sieverding, Pola Sieverding, Alexandre Singh, Timur Si-Qin, Andreas Slominski, Franz Stauffenberg, Reneé Stieger, The Krautcho Club* invited by AC Gebbers, lilli Thiessen, Alexandros Tzannis, Ulla von Brandenburg, Atelier van Lieshout, Jannis Varelas, Costa Vece, Jorinde Voigt, Hans Weigand, Franz West, Ulrich Wulff, Erwin Wurm, Shingo Yoshid, 2champonvinyl

The exhibition RESPONSOLIDARITY will be permanently installed in GALERIE UTOPIA`s FORGOTTEN BAR.

A weekly changing program of more exhibitions, performances, lectures will be shown at GALERIE UTOPIA’s kittchen. (Full program see GALERIEUTOPIA.COM, REMAPKM.COM)

GALERIE IM REGIERUNGSVIERTEL BERLIN was founded 2007 in the Regierungsviertel Berlin, by Maike Cruse and Tjorg Douglas Beer. GALERIE IM REGIERUNGSVIERTEL is a module fed by a group of artists, curators and others to keep control of art being a field of existential exchange.

Since April 2007 GALERIE IM REGIERUNGSVIERTEL has realised several exhibitions around Europe and the US for example GINNUNGAGAP/PAVILLION OF BELIEF, Venice, THE FOUR HORSEMEN/DIE RAND COOPERATION, Berlin, Turin, THE END WAS YESTERDAY, Berlin, Innsbruck and THE FORGOTTEN BAR PROJECT, Berlin, Milan, Turin, Stockholm, NARCOTICA, Basel, ELEVATOR TO THE GALLOWS at No Soul For Sale / X-INITIATIVE, New York, DEFENDING OUR VALUES Kunstraum Innsbruck, Austria, No Soul For Sale at TATE modern London.

In 2011 GALERIE IM REGIERUNGSVIERTEL has realised AYRAN & YOGA -The 1st Berlin Kreuzberg Biennale 2010.

GALERIE IM REGIERUNGSVIERTEL is a mobile exhibition format.
THE FORGOTTEN BAR PROJECT is a local institution bringing together the artists sharing their work in a music business everynight gig-like way.
BERLIN KREUZBERG BIENNALE has happened in 2010 first.

Since June 2011 GALERIE IM REGIERUNGSVIERTEL BERLIN operates the name GALERIE UTOPIA.
Fr. 24.06.2011 | 7 pm | Bar opening | 8 pm | Opening of the exhibition „Put The SPK In Amanda Lear`s Poket“. Franz Stauffenberg invites: Saâdane Afif, Julieta Aranda, Braco Dimitrijevic, Arfus Greenwood, Eva Grubinger, Beat Huber, Annika Larsson, April Lamm, Paul Smith, Franz Stauffenberg, Erik Steinbrecher (...)
Fr. 24.06.2011 | 7 pm | 9:30 pm | Performance „SPACE ECHO 2011", selected by Pola Sieverding and Orson Sieverding

Sa. 25.06.2011 | 7 pm | Bar opening | 8 pm | Opening of the exhibition „Artachment presents: The Travelling Artist“. Sarah Bernauer invites: George Audet, Sarah Bernauer, Dominico Billari, Andy Boot, Raphael Bottazzini, Martin Chramosta, Pawel Ferus, Clare Kenny, Viktor Korol, Alfred Lenz, Barbara Müller, Garrett Nelson, Jan van Oordt, Mirjam Spoolder, SZAF | 9:30 pm | Performance „Domenico Billari & SZAF“, with Miklos Mecs and Judith Fischer Su.

Sun. 26.06.2011 | 7 pm | Bar opening | 8 pm | Opening of the exhibition „A Skeleton in the Closet“. Rebecca Lamarche-Vadel invites: Aids 3D, Jean-Baptiste Bouvet, James Capper, Mathieu Cherkit, Cecile B. Evans, Kasia Fudakowski, David Kröll, Anne Neukamp, Daniel Otero-Torres, Emilie Pitoiset, Antoine Renard, Vanessa Safavi, Jeremy Shaw, Alexandre Singh, Timur Si-Qin, Shingo Yoshida | 9:30 pm | Talk

Mo. 27.06.2011 | 7 pm | Bar opening | 8 pm | Opening of the exhibition „untitled“. Tjorg Douglas Beer invites: Klaus Auderer, Holger Becker, Ronja Beer, Marianne Eigenheer, Robert Gfader, Klaus Haas, Thomas Helbig, Vaggelis Horshouglou, Ben Hübsch, Caspar Hüter, Urban Hüter, Henning Kannemann, Daniel Kiss, Chris Koch, John Körner, Isa Melsheimer, Norbert Nolte, Henning Rogge, Marco Peter Schäfer, Sebastian Tröger, Alexandros Tzannis, Jannis Varelas, Christian Wener | 9:30 pm | Performance

Tue. 28.06.2011 | 7 pm | Bar opening | 8 pm | Opening of the exhibition „Denkmalpflege“. Anna-Catharina Gebbers invites: Olivia Berckemeyer, Sascha Hahn, Jennis Li Cheng Tien, Alex Martinis Roe, Irina Novarese, Yorgos Sapountzis, Madeline Stillwell | 9:30 pm | Talk between curator and writer Anna-Catharina Gebbers, Susana Sáez and the initiator of the project Tjorg Douglas Beer.

Wed. 29.06.2011| 7 pm | Bar opening | 8 pm | Opening of the exhibition: „grrr“ & "hmmm" . Stefan Bidner invites: Ramesch Daha, Christian Eisenberger, Sara Glaxia, Roland Maurmair, Albert Mayer, Judith Rohrmoser, Chris Rosa, Alex Ruthner, Reneé Stieger, Lilli Thiessen | 9.30 pm | | Performance: "jonnyhawaii - in the office" & 200 years bumsen&pennevienna-happeningset.

Thu. 30.06.2011 | 7 pm | Bar opening | 8 pm | Opening of the exhibition: "With The Titanic to The Moon“. Marianne Eigenheer invites: Tjorg Douglas Beer, Nicky Deeley, Marianne Eigenheer, Bea Emsbach, Rebecca Griffiths, Alan Johnston, Udo Koch, Yasimin Kunz, Patrick Fabian Panetta, Sven Sachsalber, Edwin Schäfer, Ruth Scheel, Young Wha Song, Richard Wentworth, Oliver Wetterauer | 9:30 pm | Performance „Digital Picnic“ by Daniela Wolfer
Judith Albrecht, Ronja Beer, Tjorg Douglas Beer, Tobias Bernstrup, Marc Bijl, John Bock, Madelaine Boschan, Björn Dahlem, Erró, Anna-Catharina Gebbers / Christoph Schlingensief, Marianne Eigenheer, Harun Farocki, Rainer Ganahl, Andreas Golder, Thomas Helbig, Christian Jankowski, (...)
Lisa Junghanß, Dionisis Kavallieratos, Christoph Keller, John Kørner, Terence Koh, April Elisabeth Lamm, Annika Larsson, Sara Lunden, Isa Melsheimer, Klaus Mettig, Olaf Metzel, Yoko Ono, Raymond Pettibon, Daniel Pflumm, Martha Rosler, Thomas Scheibitz, Markus Selg, Katharina Sieverding, Orson Sieverding, Pola Sieverding, Andreas Slominski, Franz Stauffenberg, The Krautcho Club invited by AC Gebbers, Alexandros Tzannis, Jannis Varelas, Costa Vece

THE FORGOTTEN YEARS is part of a series of exhibitions featuring GALERIE IM REGIERUNGSVIERTEL BERLIN`s inventory of forgotten artworks.
These works have been left by the artists, being donated by the artists or just been forgotten after one of the hundreds of exhibitions that have been realised by GALERIE IM REGIERUNGSVIERTEL since 2007.

At Hamburger Bahnhof GALERIE IM REGIERUNGSVIERTEL BERLIN shows a monumental wall installation of 40 different artworks from the artists above positioned around the central piece, the publication called THE FORGOTTEN YEARS 2007-2011.
GALERIE IM REGIERUNGSVIERTEL BERLIN was founded 2007 IN THE REGIERUNGSVIERTEL BERLIN BY MAIKE CRUSE AND TJORG DOUGLAS BEER.

Since April 2007 GALERIE IM REGIERUNGSVIERTEL has realised several exhibitions around Europe and the US for example GINNUNGAGAP/PAVILLION OF BELIEF, Venice, THE FOUR HORSEMEN/DIE RAND COOPERATION, Berlin, Turin, THE END WAS YESTERDAY, Berlin, Innsbruck and THE FORGOTTEN BAR PROJECT, Berlin, Milan, Turin, Stockholm, NARCOTICA, Basel, ELEVATOR TO THE GALLOWS at No Soul For Sale / X-INITIATIVE, New York, DEFENDING OUR VALUES Kunstraum Innsbruck, Austria, No Soul For Sale at TATE modern London.

In 2011 GALERIE IM REGIERUNGSVIERTEL has realised AYRAN & YOGA -The 1st Berlin Kreuzberg Biennale 2010.

GALERIE IM REGIERUNGSVIERTEL is a mobile exhibition format.
THE FORGOTTEN BAR is a local institution bringing together the artists sharing their work in a musicbusiness everynight gig-like way.
BERLIN KREUZBERG BIENNALE has happened in 2010 first.
Tjorg Douglas Beer, artist / initiator GALERIE IM REGIERUNGSVIERTEL BERLIN
Tjorg Douglas Beer introduces examples of his own work and initiatives like GALERIE IM REGIERUNGSVIERTEL BERLIN, THE FORGOTTEN BAR or AYRAN & YOGA - The 1st Berlin Kreuzberg Biennale 2010. (...)

Tjorg Douglas Beer is artist and lives in Athens and Berlin. He studied at Hochschule für bildende Künste in Hamburg. Since five years he has been around in the international artworld. Exhibitions in Japan, Europe and the US, aswell as parttaking in several artfairs have influenced his life as a young artist. Besides his own artistic activity in which he deals with subjects like society, political or media perception that he turns into installative settings he has been recognized as initiator of projects like GALERIE IM REGIERUNGSVIERTEL BERLIN, THE FORGOTTEN BAR or AYRAN & YOGA - The 1st Berlin Kreuzberg Biennale 2010.

At the Academy of Fine Arts in Münster Beer shows a review of projects and experiences of the last years.
A combination of a lecture being held at Schaulager Basel about self-organised work and examples of developing exhibitions. The presentation gives an inside view in the relation of self-organised work structures and the experiences of a young artist in a humorous way.

Pictures and videos of projects at X-Initiative New York, Kunstraum Innsbruck, TATE Modern, GALERIE IM REGIERUNGSVIERTEL BERLIN are being shown.
In den Räumen des Instituts für moderne Kunst Nürnberg zeigt Beer neue Arbeiten.
Auf dem angebauten Balkon gibt es eine Aussenskulptur, in den Innenräumen eine Installation aus Keramiken, Malerei und Kollagen zu sehen. (...)

In den installativen Arbeiten mischt Beer Keramiken, die Abformungen von kränklich-blassen Antlitzen von fast erwachsen aussehenden Kinder-Schaufensterpuppen sind, die er bemalt und kombiniert mit zeitgenössischen Materialien wie Kleidung und Waffen, zum Beispiel Bomber-Pilotenjacken, Fahnen oder Maschinengewehren.

FUTURE ISLANDS liefert den Assoziationsrahmen in dem Beer ein Szenario entwickelt zwischen Schiffbrüchigen auf einer Insel, Piratenangriff und Traumsequenz.
Vereinzelt und in Gruppen, desperate Hoffnungsträger eines verlorengegangenen Kampfes. Sie sind Repräsentanten einer stagnierten Jugendbewegung und utopischen Denkweise.

Eine panoramaartige Wandmalerei vereint Malereien und Kollagen unterschiedlicher Formate und Techniken.
Beers Installationen, Skulpturen, Kollagen und Malereien liegt immer eine Ausgangssituation zu Grunde.

Er generiert unterschiedliche Szenarien und nähert sich Themen an ohne diese zu moralisieren und assoziiert sich durch Themen wie Krieg, Politik, Armut, Soziale Probleme.
Eine überzeichnete Darstellung stellt eine Distanz her zwischen Betrachter und Objekt.
So werden Krieg, Verletzlichkeit, Armut nicht zu Schockerlebnissen sondern meandern in einer oft grotesk erscheinenden Mischung aus Cartoon, Graffiti und Mise en Scène durch den White Cube.
In Produzentengalerie Hamburg’s new Berlin location (ph-projects), Beer shows new work.
On the balcony of the yard building, an outside sculpture; inside, an installation made from ceramics, paintings and collages. (...)

In his installations Beer mixes ceramics cast from sick/pale looking children, shop window puppets that he paints and combines with contemporary materials like clothes and weapons, e.g. pilot jackets, flags or machine guns. They are representatives of a stagnated youth movement and utopical way of thinking. Additionally, Beer shows large sized new works on fabric—combinations of painting and collage.

Tjorg Douglas Beer was born 1973 in Lübeck and raised in Hamburg. He studied in Hamburg at Hochschule für Bildende Künste. Since then his work has been shown internationally in museums and galleries e.g. at Kunstverein Hamburg, Weserburg, Museum für Moderne Kunst Bremen, Kunsthalle Wien, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, Tate Modern, London, X-Initiative, New York, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo. Beer has had solo exhibitions e.g. at Kunsthaus Hamburg, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Stadsgalerij Heerlen, Contemporary Art Institute Sapporo, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York. Besides his own artistic work he has appeared initiator of projects like GALERIE IM REGIERUNGSVIERTEL BERLIN, THE FORGOTTEN BAR und AYRAN & YOGA – The 1st Berlin Kreuzberg Biennale 2010.

His installations, sculptures, collages and paintings always refer to a specific situation. He generates different scenes and approaches topics without moralising them and associates himself along topics such as war, politics, poverty, social problems.

By exaggerating, Beer creates a distance between the viewer and the object. This war, fragility, poverty do not appear as shocks—they meander in an often grotesque mix of cartoon, graffiti, and mise en scène through the white cube.
AYRAN & YOGA – 1st Berlin Kreuzberg Biennale for Contemporary Art opens June 10 2010.
AYRAN & YOGA / Crosswalks
A walkaround Berlin Kreuzberg featuring circa 40 different works by participating artists, positioned at mapped-out locations in the landscape of Berlin Kreuzberg. (...)

Terence Koh Deer Diary / Eoin Donnelly Golden Morning Plague / John Kørner Alles zusammen inklusive 100 Probleme / Sara Lunden Vielen Dank / Dionisis Kavallieratos Double Nazi / Tjorg Douglas Beer Three Monkees / Olaf Metzel Turbokapitalismus / Julieta Aranda / Malte Urbschat The Sheriff-Project / Ingo Gerken For The Free / Christoph Schlingensief Anna-Catharina Gebbers 10 Animal Films / Raul Walch Corner Bar / Raul Walch First and Only Kreuzberg Hinterhof Fountain / Christian Jankowski Die Jagd / The Hunt / Julia Abstädt Ulrich Wulff Sculpturegarden Jenseits / Julia Abstädt Ulrich Wulff Wishing Well / April Lamm This Is a Single Sock / Franz Stauffenberg In God We Trust III / Thomas Helbig STUPOR / Cecile B. Evans Believe We’ve Never Met Before / Trevor Lloyd Stay, stay, stay, stay, stay / Dominik Halmer Man of Sorrows / Lado Darakvhelidze Museum TV Station / Stephan Moersch The Jungle Mosque / Calais France / Trine Borg-Kristensen BEYOND THE PALE / James Krone WAIST VERSUS / Madeleine Boschan Daniel Kannenberg Un Chien Adalbert / Daniel Knorr 1 Year Warranty | 1 Jahr Garantie / Marc Bijl Silver `n Gold / Arno Auer Hauser / John Kleckner Never Take Advantage Of Anyone / Isa Melzmeimer Zwischengebirge / Pola Sieverding I Like Revolutions / Gregor Hildebrandt Es schlaeft ein Lied in all den Dingen / Marcus Weber A&O Strassen / Elisa Vournasu INSTRUCTIONS / Klaus Mettig Tien an men 1978 / Thomas Julier Emanuel Rossetti Tbilisi Pattern I / Arfus Greenwood the dog is a wolf and that bitch is dope / Rainer Ganahl I hate Karl Marx / Kimberly Clark Sherry Arnett / Tobias Madison LASERBLUE / Black & White Photography / California Citrus Summer / Antoine Renard The Jewel

AYRAN & YOGA / Studio Nights

Program of lectures, screenings, dinners, presentations and events at artists’ studios and other locations in Berlin Kreuzberg.

Marc Le Blanc James Krone Bachus Apotheke / Nevin Aladag Hochparterre / Raised Ground Floor / Martin Kwade Dinner in the Backyard / Ulrike Gerhard, Paul Sochacki Integrational Aesthetics / Cecila Szalkowicz, Gastón Pérsico, Hella Gerlach, Roman Schramm REUNIÓN – Interior al aire libre / Elshopo collective WHO EATS WHO? Silva Agostini, Mariechen Danz, Alicja Kwade Screening Conversation Dinner / Malte Urbschat The Sheriff-Project and other non-lethal weapons / Thomas Winkler / Ulrich Wulff / Raul Walch / Dj Ute: Micky Maus Club / Solveij Ovesen, IEPE & Helmut Kuhn Painting Reality and Chess-Boxing / Christopher Kline Snakebraid / Dionisis Kavallieratos Sifis Lykakis Three Movies / Tobias Bernstrup Neon Love / THE-NEW-WORLD.TV / Salam Berlin by Judith Albrecht / Tjorg Douglas Beer What was first? The egg or the hen? AND OTHER CONSPIRICIES Rebecca Lamarche-Vadel Julien Quentin Piano Piano Bar Night / Berliner Vereinigung der Verfolgten des Naziregimes – Bund der Antifaschistinnen und Antifaschisten e. V Jugend im Widerstand

AYRAN & YOGA / Fresco Mondo
A collective work on THE FORGOTTEN BAR’s ceiling featuring more than 180 artists.

Dates:
Thursday June 10 2010
PROFESSIONAL PREVIEW 9 am till 6 pm
Various locations
OFFICIAL OPENING RECEPTION 9 pm till midnight (rsvp by June 9 to info@BERLIN-KREUZBERG-BIENNALE.ORG)
Location: Admiralstrasse 17a 2nd Yard 10999 Berlin

Friday June 11 2010
EXHIBITION OPEN 11 am till 6 pm
Various locations
FRESCO MONDO COCKTAIL RECEPTION FOR THE ARTISTS 9 pm till 11 pm
Location; THE FORGOTTEN BAR BOPPSTRASSE 5 10967 BERLIN

Saturday June 12 2010
EXHIBITION OPEN 11 am till 6 pm
Location; THE FORGOTTEN BAR BOPPSTRASSE 5 10967 BERLIN

For Dates / Program / Locations / Map / Artists list visit www.BERLIN-KREUZBERG-BIENNALE.ORG

The Berlin Kreuzberg Biennale for Contemporary Art is initiated by GALERIE IM REGIERUNGSVIERTEL BERLIN.
Galerie im Regierungsviertel / Forgotten Bar Project is a module fed by a group of artists, curators and others concerned with notions of access, involvement and intervention.
Galerie im Regierungsviertel promotes contributions that critically and sensually confront existential phenomena.
(Established in April 2007 in Berlin by Maike Cruse and Tjorg Douglas Beer in the Government Quarter, i.e., the “Regierungsviertel,” next to the Federal Press Conference Center).
To celebrate Tate Modern’s 10th anniversary, the gallery will host No Soul For Sale – A Festival of Independents. The festival will bring together over 70 of the world’s most exciting independent art spaces, non-profit organizations and artists’ collectives, from Shanghai to Rio de Janeiro, to take over the iconic Turbine Hall with an eclectic mix of cutting-edge arts events, performances, music and film on 14-16 May 2010. (...)

Ranging from monumental structures to witty interventions, epic performances to interactive installations, participants will exhibit alongside each other without partitions or walls, creating a pop-up village of global art for visitors to explore. All participants will host a live event of their choice on the dedicated performance space on the Turbine Hall bridge, ranging from talks and screenings to performances.

2nd Cannons Publications | 98weeks | Alternative Space LOOP | Arrow Factory | Arthub Asia | Artis | Artists Space | Artspeak | Auto Italia South East | Ballroom Marfa | Barbur | Black Dogs | Capacete Entertainment | Casa Tres Patios | Cinematheque de Tanger | cneai= | Collective Parasol | Dispatch | e-flux journal, Elodie Royer and Yoann Gourmel-220 jours | Embassy gallery | Filipa Oliveira + Miguel Amado | FLUXspace | FormContent | Galerie im Regierungsviertel / Forgotten Bar Project | Green Papaya Art Projects | Hell Gallery | Hermes und der Pfau | i-cabin | Intoart | K48 | Kling & Bang | Latitudes | L’appartement 22 | Le commissariat | Le Dictateur | Light Industry | Lucie Fontaine | Lugar a dudas | Mousse | New Jerseyy | Next Visit | no.w.here | Not An Alternative | Or Gallery | Oregon Painting Society | Para/Site Art Space | Peep-Hole | PiST/// Interdisciplinary Project Space | Post-Museum | PSL [Project Space Leeds] | Rhizome | Sala-Manca + Mamuta | Sàn Art | Scrawl Collective | studio1.1 | Swiss Institute | The Mountain School of Arts | The Museum of Everything | The Royal Standard | The Suburban | The Western Front Society | Thisisnotashop | Torpedo | tranzit.cz | Viafarini DOCVA | Vox Populi | Western Bridge | White Columns | Y3K
Though wilfully renouncing any form of conceptual self-assertion and formal stringency of artistic means, certain topics may be made out regularly in Tjorg Douglas Beer’s work (b.1973, lives in Berlin). For instance, his imagery circles around global questions of war, politics, as well as social and power structures. (...)
He generates various scenarios out of elements that bear reference, among other things, to the absurdities of the world of the media. And he approaches these topics without becoming moralistic.
For GALERIE DER STADT BACKNANG the artist now has developed two installations. The main room presents DIAMONDS & BONES, a scenario combining the illustrious company from the war room in Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove, the sad remains of an orgy held in an executive assembly room, and the laboratory of a diamond factory. A crossbone-cum-boardroom-cumlast-supper table holds the fragments of a failed society. A frozen mise-en-scene of life-size paper figures surrounded by the ruins of one of the last great orgies of a dying elite.
Beside the installation, the exhibition presents sculptures and new portraits. The templates for the latter were colour photocopies, etchings and heliogravures. They depict the sickly pale faces of mannequins that have have been pasted over and painted. Mutated subjects of an inexplicable experiment. The applications cut out of carton, meanwhile, provide us with fragmentary headlines or slogans.

The second installation is formed by THE-NEW-WORLD.TV. Housed in a room in the basement of the building, it is a sort of television studio from which the TV station THE-NEWWORLD.TV, initiated by Beer, broadcasts its programme via online streaming. The TV station is both installation and broadcasting instrument. THE-NEW-WORLD.TV has been on air since 1st January 2010 with a test card from Studio I at the basement vault of THE FORGOTTEN BAR in Berlin Kreuzberg. Now the first actual programme is produced and broadcast in Innsbruck.

In addition to his own artistic work, Beer is one of the iniators of Galerie im Regierungsviertel, THE FORGOTTEN BAR, and The-New-World.TV.
The exhibition will be accompanied by an artist book published in cooperation with Kunstraum Innsbruck.

PROJECT ROOM:
In the Project Room, simultaneously, Beer will present a group exhibition, a mixture of Korova Milk Bar and Merzbau. LIGHTBOX/THE MODULE brings together works by twenty-one artists inside a glass cabinet that was installed for the first exhibition at the Berlin Regierungsviertel (Government District) on a building plot between the Federal Press Conference and the offices of the German Bundestag. Now LIGHTBOX/THE MODULE travels to various exhibition sites. The first locations, beside the Government District, were THE FORGOTTEN BAR in Berlin and the Centro Cultural Andratx in Majorca.

GALERIE IM REGIERUNGSVIERTEL / THE FORGOTTEN BAR presents
DEFENDING OUR VALUES (LIGHTBOX/THE MODULE)

Nevin Aladag, Julieta Aranda, Tjorg Douglas Beer, Marc Bijl, Monica Bonvicini, Gregor Hildebrandt, Christian Jankowski, John Kørner, Terence Koh, April Elizabeth Lamm, Josephine Meckseper, Klaus Mettig, Olaf Metzel, Stephan Mörsch, Yoko Ono, Martha Rosler, Katharina Sieverding, Andreas Slominski, Franz Stauffenberg, Malte Urbschat, Costa Vece

plus additional works by
Julieta Aranda, Klaus Auderer, Tjorg Douglas Beer, Tobias Bernstrup, Marc Bijl, Matthias Bitzer, Veronica Brovall, Hansjoerg Dobliar, Robert Gfader, Gregor Hildebrandt, Stephan Mörsch, Markus Selg, Esther Sibiude, Orson Sieverding, Pola Sieverding, Raaf van der Smaan, Taliban Record Store, Costa Vece
Tjorg Douglas Beer, Marc Brandenburg, Carsten Fock, Hans-Jörg Mayer
Hans-Jörg Mayer, born in 1955, takes us in a trip to cruel and happy clowns, blue bean babies, black and white soldiers of the Bundesrepublik Deutschland, vague waves and tender horizons – all his pieces are bittersweet odes to life, treating neglect, extreme hysteria and his gestures endanger at the same time – repeatedly. (...)
The meanest maledictions lead to the most beautiful reconciliation drawings. It’s life, not easy nor comfortable, never, but always true.

Carsten Fock, born in 1968, is into the thematic of religion, the transcendental, even an inner eye, or perhaps a third eye. He is located without doubt between Christian iconography and outsider art, forgetting romanticisms and expecting to extreme expressivity and anger; raw anger with his hypnotic search still astonished. His dialogue daily confronts history of art, especially with german stand. Fock is a sea of questions that search for a mouthful of air, Fock has an irritating calm and avoids answers that don’t solve anything, telling nothing.

Tjorg Douglas Beer, born in 1973, his anarchic vocabulary is belligerent and denounces the media exaggerations and the political and social structures. He will never adopt a moralist tone; one must try to concentrate in the silence while contemplating his work, in spite of the visual cacophony. It is attractive and offensive at the same time. It seems desire but it’s pain …however, we must dare to enter in this unpleasant labyrinth.

Marc Brandenburg, born in 1965, observes attentively the frivolous aspect of the art world, frivolity that serves him as a metaphor on the racist and sexist tendencies of the occidental highclasses. His thematic is inspired on nightlife, as night erases the differences on the colour of the skin or what some call race. These night raid allow him to breathe freely and to stop thinking of the differences devised by men. These incursions at night have permitted him to find his maincharacters, people at the limit of society, whose neo-humanistic ideas have made them leave rigid and conservative schemes behind. Being different doesn’t mean being a victim – and his drawings seem to state it very clearly.
Though wilfully renouncing any form of conceptual self-assertion and formal stringency of artistic means, certain topics may be made out regularly in Tjorg Douglas Beer’s work (b.1973, lives in Berlin). For instance, his imagery circles around global questions of war, politics, as well as social and power structures. (...)
He generates various scenarios out of elements that bear reference, among other things, to the absurdities of the world of the media. And he approaches these topics without becoming moralistic.
For the Kunstraum Innsbruck the artist now has developed two installations. The main room presents DIAMONDS & BONES, a scenario combining the illustrious company from the war room in Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove, the sad remains of an orgy held in an executive assembly room, and the laboratory of a diamond factory. A crossbone-cum-boardroom-cumlast-supper table holds the fragments of a failed society. A frozen mise-en-scene of life-size paper figures surrounded by the ruins of one of the last great orgies of a dying elite. Beside the installation, the exhibition presents sculptures and new portraits. The templates for the latter were colour photocopies, etchings and heliogravures. They depict the sickly pale faces of mannequins that have have been pasted over and painted. Mutated subjects of an inexplicable experiment. The applications cut out of carton, meanwhile, provide us with fragmentary headlines or slogans.

The second installation is formed by THE-NEW-WORLD.TV. Housed in a room in the basement of the building, it is a sort of television studio from which the TV station THE-NEWWORLD.TV, initiated by Beer, broadcasts its programme via online streaming. The TV station is both installation and broadcasting instrument. THE-NEW-WORLD.TV has been on air since 1st January 2010 with a test card from Studio I at the basement vault of THE FORGOTTEN BAR in Berlin Kreuzberg. Now the first actual programme is produced and broadcast in Innsbruck.

In addition to his own artistic work, Beer is one of the iniators of Galerie im Regierungsviertel, THE FORGOTTEN BAR, and The-New-World.TV.
The exhibition will be accompanied by an artist book published in cooperation with Galerie der Stadt Backnang.

PROJECT ROOM:
In the Project Room, simultaneously, Beer will present a group exhibition, a mixture of Korova Milk Bar and Merzbau. LIGHTBOX/THE MODULE brings together works by twenty-one artists inside a glass cabinet that was installed for the first exhibition at the Berlin Regierungsviertel (Government District) on a building plot between the Federal Press Conference and the offices of the German Bundestag. Now LIGHTBOX/THE MODULE travels to various exhibition sites. The first locations, beside the Government District, were THE FORGOTTEN BAR in Berlin and the Centro Cultural Andratx in Majorca.

GALERIE IM REGIERUNGSVIERTEL / THE FORGOTTEN BAR presents
DEFENDING OUR VALUES (LIGHTBOX/THE MODULE)

Nevin Aladag, Julieta Aranda, Tjorg Douglas Beer, Marc Bijl, Monica Bonvicini, Gregor Hildebrandt, Christian Jankowski, John Kørner, Terence Koh, April Elizabeth Lamm, Josephine Meckseper, Klaus Mettig, Olaf Metzel, Stephan Mörsch, Yoko Ono, Martha Rosler, Katharina Sieverding, Andreas Slominski, Franz Stauffenberg, Malte Urbschat, Costa Vece

plus additional works by
Julieta Aranda, Klaus Auderer, Tjorg Douglas Beer, Tobias Bernstrup, Marc Bijl, Matthias Bitzer, Veronica Brovall, Hansjoerg Dobliar, Robert Gfader, Gregor Hildebrandt, Stephan Mörsch, Markus Selg, Esther Sibiude, Orson Sieverding, Pola Sieverding, Raaf van der Smaan, Taliban Record Store, Costa Vece

DATES:
Premiere THE-NEW-WORLD.TV NEWS
22 January 22 2010 7 p.m.

Saturday, 23/01/2010, 6.30 p.m.
FILM PROGRAMME: Tjorg Douglas Beer presents extracts from Dr. Strangelove, Grey Gardens and other films