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We are very pleased to present you our new website! With the help of the kind and skillfull people at graphic design studio Burrow, www.nbk.org got a make-over – from now on it provides new and improved possibilities to stay informed about our extensive program. In particular, we invite you to explore our two collections n.b.k. Artothek and n.b.k. Video-Forum in their full range. _ Premiering with the re-launch of our website is our new Oral History series, in which artists and other contemporary witnesses provide insights into the history of video art and the n.b.k. Video-Forum. _ We hope you enjoy the new formats! _ Design, programming: Burrow, Berlin Concept: Michaela Richter, Anna Lena Seiser Editing: Michaela Richter Editorial assistance: Aron Lesnik, Katharina Reinsbach _ @neuerberlinerkunstverein #neuerberlinerkunstverein @imburrow #graphicdesign #webdesign #webdevelopment #artonline #nbkonline #nbkvideoforum #videoartcollection #oralhistory #videoarthistory #artcollectionsonline #nbkartothek #kunsteinfachleihen #leihenstattkaufen #borrowart #kunstfüralle #artforall #artinberlin #kunstinberlin

Save the date! Our projects during Berlin Art Week 2022 _ Opening Sept 14, 6 pm, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein _ Mona Hatoum Sept 15 – Nov 13, 2022 A cooperation between Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.), KINDL – Center for Contemporary Art, and Georg Kolbe Museum Supported by Hauptstadtkulturfonds _ n.b.k. Showroom Aristide Antonas. The Pulp of Things Sept 15 – Nov 11, 2022 _ n.b.k. Facade Haris Epaminonda. VOL. XXVIII Sept 15, 2022 – Aug 31, 2023 _ n.b.k. Billboard Gülsün Karamustafa. Irreversible Remnants Sept 15, 2022 – Feb 26, 2023 _ Opening on Sept 14, 12 pm, Uferhallen Kulturstandort _ Uferhallen Kunstaktien Dokumentation einer Publikumsgesellschaft

Opening today, June 3, at 7pm! Barricading the Ice Sheets, a solo exhibition by Oliver Ressler, at Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.)! _ With Ressler’s multi-perspective approach to the climate crisis at its core, the exhibition investigates the complex links between economics, politics, the environment, and social change, illuminating the mechanisms and potential of worldwide protest actions. Ressler’s “Barricading the Ice Sheets” research project (2019–present) chronicles the mobilization of global climate movements with their activities, gatherings, and working meetings. In film projects, including several new productions, Ressler examines pivotal moments in climate justice and focuses on regional phenomena to shed light on systematic failures in global climate policy. Instead of aiming for apparent objectivity, he constantly reflects on his position as an involved participant and observer, thereby placing documentary and artistic strategies into dialogue with one another. _ In cooperation with Camera Austria, Graz; Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb; Tallinn Art Hall; The Showroom, London _ With the support of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF: AR 526) and the Austrian Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, the Civil Service and Sport

On Sunday, the Tomas Schmit retrospective at Neuer Berliner Kunstverein comes to an end – the exhibition Pieces, Actions, Documents 1962–1970 illuminates a period during which Schmit challenged the auratization of art by examining seemingly banal actions in his own performance pieces. In doing so, he paved the way for numerous forms of artistic expression, above all long-established performative and collective practices. _ The exhibition at n.b.k. presents the original scores of his performance pieces and actions, which have never before been shown in their entirety, supplemented by photographic and video material and documents from the Fluxus festivals that Schmit helped to organize, showing how Schmit’s focus was less on individual works than on the collective realization of actions and, not least, the exchange with other participants. _ Tomas Schmit. Pieces, Actions, Documents 1962–1970 Until Jan 23, 2022 Tue–Sun 12–6 pm, Thu 12–8 pm _ The Tomas Schmit Retrospective is a project by Neuer Berliner Kunstverein and Kupferstichkabinett – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, in collaboration with Arsenal – Institute for Film and Video Art, Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart, tomas schmit archiv, Berlin

There are just a few days left to see the exhibition by Shilpa Gupta in the n.b.k. Showroom! The exhibition includes the installations Words Come From Ears (2018), on view for the first time in Germany and a new version of the work Untitled (Spoken poem in a bottle, 2018–ongoing) along with a new work that addresses the legacy of poet Nâzım Hikmet. _ Poetry, the politics of language, as well as notions of legality and illegality, security and censorship, and belonging and isolation, recur in Gupta’s works. For over two decades, Shilpa Gupta has been examining situations in which the definitional power of state apparatuses and other structures that shape individual and social life come into play. _ Shilpa Gupta Until Jan 21, 2022 Tue–Fri 12–6 pm, Thu 12–8 pm Neuer Berliner Kunstverein

Last chance to experience Action without Audience by Tomas Schmit! On Saturday, Jan 8, from 3 – 6 pm, we’ll present Alexandra Pirici’s take on the iconical piece one last time. Committed to the gesture of “anti-action,” Schmit envisaged a performance only carried out when no visitors were present. It marked the artist’s turning away from Fluxus and the increasing self-display of its protagonists. _ Pirici takes this radical questioning underpinning the format of the performance as a starting point to formulate questions about presence as well as visible and invisible work. Performer and choreographer Susanne Grau presents the potential of a situation that completely eludes the spectacle of performative staging. The time spent with the audience thus becomes a kind of void, an undefined space of possibility for the exchange between performer and visitor. _ Final iteration: Saturday, January 8, 2022, from 3 – 6 pm _ Part of the exhibition Tomas Schmit. Pieces, Actions, Documents 1962–1970 Sept 15, 2021 – Jan 23, 2022 Tue–Sun 12–6 pm, Thu 12–8 pm Neuer Berliner Kunstverein _ The Tomas Schmit Retrospective is a project by Neuer Berliner Kunstverein and Kupferstichkabinett — Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, in collaboration with Arsenal — Institute for Film and Video Art, Hamburger Bahnhof — Museum für Gegenwart, tomas schmit archiv, Berlin

Sneak peek: Words Come From Ears (2018, 15 min, loop) by Shilpa Gupta in her upcoming solo exhibition at n.b.k.! The installation can be seen for the first time in Germany and is presented along with a new version of the work Untitled (A spoken poem in a bottle, 2018–ongoing), a. o. _ Shilpa Gupta Sept 15, 2021 – Jan 21, 2022 Tue–Fri 12–6 pm, Thu 12–8 pm Opening on the occasion of Berlin Art Week on Sept. 15, 12–10 pm