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KW Institute for Contemporary Art aims to approach the central questions of our times through the production, display, and dissemination of contemporary art. Since its inception, 30 years ago, KW has established itself, not only as an institution, but also as a dynamic and lively spac
e for progressive practices within the Berlin art scene, as well as in an international context. By means of exhibitions and various event formats, KW has aligned itself towards the current tendencies of the national and international art and cultural discourse, and has actively developed them on a collaborative level with artists, institutions, and by means of commissioned works. As an institution for contemporary art without a collection of its own, the team at KW maintains a high degree of flexibility in creating its programs and addressing its audience. Under the responsibility of director Krist Gruijthuijsen, the current program evolves around the central objective of using the participating artists’ perspective as a starting point, entailing their subjects and points of view as ways to reflect on social and political issues. The institution is thereby conceived as a social space that facilitates contemplation and exchange between different protagonists and cultures, consistently challenging its audience. The building complex includes exhibition halls, apartments, offices, and event spaces, as well as the Café Bravo in the courtyard, that was designed by Dan Graham in 1999. In addition to its internationally renowned exhibition program, KW collaborates on a regular basis with national and international partners, such as MoMA PS1, the Biennale di Venezia and Documenta in Kassel. KW Institute for Contemporary Art is institutionally supported by the Senate Department for Culture and Europe. The program of KW is kindly supported by the KW Freunde e.
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2/3 Does the exhibition 'Atiéna R. Kilfa – The Unhomely' play with our perception? We get to know more at KW Studio with Curator Anna Gritz .a.g.
You can visit Atiéna's exhibition until 15 January 23.
Get your ticket and come by! 🔜
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2/4 Part of 'Christopher Kulendran Thomas – Another World' exhibition is the work 'The Finesse'. Let's find out more about it at KW Studio with curator Krist Gruijthuijsen, Assistant Curator Sofie Krogh Christensen and the artist himself.
Learn more about 'Christopher Kulendran Thomas – Another World' 📣
Together, the video works 'Being Human' and 'The Finesse' form two parts of an ongoing trilogy probing alternative possible futures through the prism of diaspora and displacement. The works themselves form and perpetuate creative networks that lend voices to an ethnic community who have been and continuously are deprived of a place to speak from.
Come by and have a look at the exhibition until 15 January 23 at KW! Further information via link 🔗 in our bio.
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Christopher Kulendran Thomas,The Finesse (2022), in collaboration with Annika Kuhlmann; filmstill
Watch 'The Landlords' as part of the exhibition 'Atiéna R. Kilfa – The Unhomely' ✨
Amidst an all-consuming installation that plays with scale, material, and proportion, 'The Landlords' (2022), a video work presented on an architectural stage made of used floorboards at KW, places the viewer inside the camera. The narrative of the video unfolds inside a staircase that is perceived as a huis clos, a never-ending loop.
'Atiéna R. Kilfa – The Unhomely' is currently on view until 15 January 23. More information on our website – link in bio 🔗
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Atiéna R. Kilfa, The Unhomely, 2022, video still (woman looking down). Courtesy the artist
'Oreet Ashery – Selfish Road' is now available on the KW Production Series platform 🎬
KW Production Series is an annual commissioning project dedicated to artists’ moving image works. The project takes inspiration from KW Institute for Contemporary Art’s founding principles as a place for production, critical exchange, and thoughtful collaboration.
The screening is online until 30 January 23. Visit our 🔗 website for further information.
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Oreet Ashery, Selfish Road, 2022, Video, A KW Production Series commission. Courtesy the artist and KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Photo: Frank Sperling
2/4 ‚Michel Majerus – Early Works': Who was Michel Majerus? 👀
How to describe his way of working? Learn more about the artist at KW Studio with curator Krist Gruijthuijsen and Ruth Kißling from . Go check the video on our website – link in bio 🔗
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Join us on an Art Walk on Michel Majerus 🥾
The Germany-wide exhibition series Michel Majerus 2022 is dedicated to various aspects and work phases in the artist’s œuvre. As part of the Art Walk, we will visit three of these exhibition venues together: KW, and . In direct comparison, techniques, materials, conceptual starting points and the development of artistic style in the work of Michel Majerus can be traced and offer a deep insight into his work.
Art Walk with Raoul Zoellner
17 December 22, 2–4 pm, in German
Participation is free of charge. Limited capacity.
Prior registration via [email protected]
Looking forward to walk with you 👀
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KW Institute for Contemporary Art, exhibition opening fall program 2022, Berlin. Photos: Julia Zoooi
Hello Robot 🤖
Michel Majerus borrows and reproduces existing images of the Roman figure Lucretia, the rock star Mick Jagger, the Disney version of Alice in Wonderland, but also robot monsters, poodles, or horses!
Michel Majerus – Early Works
on view until 15 January 23
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Michel Majerus, Robot, 1990, © Michel Majerus Estate, 2022. Courtesy Private Collection. Photo: Wolfgang Pulfer
1/4 Find out more about our exhibition ‚Christopher Kulendran Thomas – Another World ' in collaboration with Annika Kuhlmann featuring Aṇaṅkuperuntinaivarkal Inkaaleneraam in conversation at KW Studio with curator Krist Gruijthuijsen, Assistant Curator Sofie Krogh Christensen and the artist himself.
Come by and visit us until 15 January!
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Why was Michel Majerus obsessed with the theme "cleanness"? 🧼
The symbolic dimension of cleanness and explicit clinical activities and diseases in his works may be seen as instances of rebellion against bourgeois society and its way of life.
'Michel Majerus – Early Works'
on view until 15 January 23.
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Michel Majerus, Antibakteriell, 1991, © Michel Majerus Estate, 2022. Courtesy neugerriemschneider, Berlin and Matthew Marks Gallery. Photo: Jens Ziehe, Berlin
'The Finesse' by Christopher Kulendran Thomas examines some of the lost legacies of this liberation movement in Kulendran Thomas’ family homeland. It traces the Tamil liberation movement’s attempt to imagine a cooperative economy based on renewable energy, communal ownership and computational coordination.
Come by and have a look at 'Christopher Kulenadran Thomas – Another World' until 15 January 23 at KW!
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Christopher Kulendran Thomas,The Finesse (2022), in collaboration with Annika Kuhlmann; filmstill
1/4 What is the exhibition ‚Michel Majerus – Early Works' about? Learn more about the artist at KW Studio with curator Krist Gruijthuijsen and Ruth Kißling from Michel Majerus Estate.
We warmly invite you to our next workshop with Nikhil Vettukattil .ne on upcoming Saturday and Sunday ⛓
10 December 22, 1–5 pm
11 December 22, 10 am – 4 pm
in English
free of charge
rsvp in advance via [email protected]
The workshop is for ages 16+
The Institute of Scene Experiments is an ongoing project to investigate the properties, limits and possibilities of cinematic scenes. In the context of Atiéna R. Kilfa’s exhibition 'The Unhomely', the Institute stages a two day camera-based workshop experimenting with scenes derived from the works of Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Participants will analyse, deconstruct and reconstitute elements of the scenes for camera, exploring alternative ways of staging narrative, framing, sound, etc.
Come by and join the workshop! 🎥
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Installation view of the exhibition 'Atiéna R. Kilfa – The Unhomely' at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin 2022; Photo: Frank Sperling
The artist is supported by the Office for Contemporary Art Norway
Get ready for BPA// x Pogo Bar this Friday at 8 pm 💥
'what cannot be said will be wept' is an evening of storytelling by Dina El Kaisy Friemuth and her mother Maha El Kaisy in collaboration with creative platform Alvozay and writer Duygu Ağal .39. Together they will expand on the meaning of storytelling, the collective revision of history through our told stories, and the importance of collectivity from a historical perspective.
This Pogo Bar event accompanies the artist’s work, presented as part of the concurrent exhibition at KW, which deals with repatriation of art and religious objects.
The event takes places at , please register in advance via [email protected]. For more information 🔗 visit our website!
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Videostill KA. Im Bild: Ebow, Maha El Kaisy-Friemuth. Cinematography: Diara Sow. Courtesy the artist
1/3 Let's talk about our exhibition 'Atiéna R. Kilfa – The Unhomely' at KW Studio with Curator Anna Gritz .a.g. Who is the artist Atiéna? What is the exhibition about? Find answers in the video!
You can visit Atiéna's exhibition until 15 January 23.
Get your ticket and come by! 🔜
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Astrit Ismaili's Performance and Listening Session is happening next week 💎
Astrit Ismaili and The Performance Agency invite the audience on a journey through the world of ‘The First Flower: Prelude’, an experimental pop music album produced in collaboration with Europa, Katuchat, Lotic and Colin Self to be released in 2023. ‘The First Flower’ is Astrit Ismaili’s second album that tells the story of the transformation of a plant into the first flower on earth—using beauty as a coping mechanism and means of seduction to promote their dissemination, while pioneering in extremely fluid sexual interaction.
The event is already fully booked, but you can register for the waiting list via 🔗 [email protected]!
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Astrit Ismaili photographed by Ville Vidø. Clothing by Tra My Nguyen.
Digital Roundtable: 'Planetary Architectures' on 5 Dec, 7 pm 💥
Alongside the exhibition 'Christopher Kulendran Thomas – Another World', which recounts lost histories of revolutionary architecture, artist Rachel-Rose O’Leary, architect Galen Wolfe-Pauly and others discuss new kinds of architecture for citizen autonomy and self-determination beyond the logic of nation states.
This event kicks off a series of conversations presented in collaboration with the Institute of Contemporary Art London, introducing presented by earth.net, a new project bringing together collaborations across art, architecture and technology to build shared tools for cooperative economies.
Join us upcoming Monday, 5 Dec, 7 pm online! Please register in advance via [email protected] 💡
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Get ready for Museum Sunday Berlin on 4 December 22! 💡
Every first sunday of the month, the admission to KW as well as many other institutions in Berlin is free as part of .berlin. Visit our current exhibitions and participate in the mediation and public program including an open studio with , 1–5 pm, a public guided tour with german sign language through 'Michel Majerus', at 2 pm, as well as a public guided tour through 'Christopher Kulendran Thomas', at 4 pm.
Book your day ticket in advance at the Museum Sunday Berlin Website 🔗 Link in Bio!
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'BPA// Exhibition 2022' starting this Friday 💥
We warmly invite you to the exhibition opening together with this Friday, 2 December 7–10 pm.
The exhibition runs from 3 December 22 – 15 January 23 during the regular openings hours of KW.
Featuring the artists: Orawan Arunrak, Benjamin Busch, Dina El Kaisy Friemuth, Sarah Friend, Julian Irlinger, Paul Kolling, Shirin Mohammad, Nnenna Onuoha, Tang Han and Ernie Wang
Looking forward to welcoming you at KW! Tell your friends and drop by 📢
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KW Institute for Contemporary Art, exhibition opening fall program 2022, Berlin. Photos: Julia Zoooi
'BPA// Exhibition 2022' starting next week 📢
KW and are pleased to present the 'BPA// Exhibition 2022', featuring works that second year BPA// participants produced over the course of their working period with the program. The exhibition takes place on two floors of KW’s front house, and allows for the individual positions as well as for cross-references to be explored.
Participating artists: Orawan Arunrak, Benjamin Busch, Dina El Kaisy Friemuth, Sarah Friend, Julian Irlinger, Paul Kolling, Shirin Mohammad, Nnenna Onuoha, Tang Han and Ernie Wang
Curator: Léon Kruijswijk
Assistant Curator: Anna-Lisa Scherfose
The exhibition runs from 3 November 22 – 15 January 23, pop by! Visit our website for further information 🔗 link in bio.
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Orawan Arunrak, Bacadi, 2022, Drawing. Courtesy the artist
Shirin Mohammad, A house then, a museum now, chapter one: wind of 120 days, 2019, still frame from three channels video Asbestos factory town. Courtesy the artist
Announcing our Program 2023 🎉
Looking forward to exhibitions by Martin Wong, Enrico David, Coco Fusco, Win McCarthy, Karen Lamassonne, Emily Wardill, Hervé Guibert, and Kameelah Janan Rasheed amongst others as well as projects by Alexis Blake, The Noa Eshkol Chamber Dance Group, and the Metabolic Museum-University.
Click on link in bio for all details and the entire program! 🔗
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Karen Lamassonne, La Venida de la Ceiba (The Coming of the Ceiba), 1989, acrylic on paper. Courtesy the artist
Have your already visited our current exhibitions? 🫧
‘Michel Majerus – Early Works'
'Christopher Kulendran Thomas – Another World'
'Atiéna R. Kilfa – The Unhomely’
Wed – Mo 11 am – 7 pm
Thu 11 am – 9 pm, free entry 6–9 pm
Tue closed
Spend the cold days at KW and visit our current exhibitions until 15 January 2023. Visit our website for more information about our upcoming program – link in bio 🔗
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Installation view of the exhibition ‘Michel Majerus – Early Works' at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin 2022; Photo: Frank Sperling
Installation view of the exhibition 'Christopher Kulendran Thomas – Another World' at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin 2022; Photo: Frank Sperling
Installation view of the exhibition 'Atiéna R. Kilfa – The Unhomely' at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin 2022; Photo: Frank Sperling
Soon on view: 'Oreet Ashery – Selfish Road' 💥
Oreet Ashery is a visual artist who works across established art institutions and grassroots social contexts. Using film, photography, performance, 2D and textiles, they narrate stories of precarious identities and combine autoethnography, collective knowledge and biopolitical fiction.
Pop by and have a look at 'Selfish Road' between 23 November – 28 November on the 4th floor of KW! More information via link in our bio 🔗
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Oreet Ashery, Selfish Road, 2022, video, 30 mins. A KW Production Series commission courtesy the artist and KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin.
We are happy to announce Léon Kruijswijk in his new position as Curator from 2023 onwards! 💥
The Berlin-based curator and art critic addresses themes on the intersection of q***r and gender theory, activism and institutional critique, and navigates the crossovers between visual art, literature, film, experimental music and performance with his curatorial practice. In the Netherlands, he organized exhibitions and events as a freelancer at Framer Framed, NEVERNEVERLAND, De School Amsterdam, ROZENSTRAAT – a rose is a rose is a rose, and Perdu among others. His most recent writings have been published on Mister Motley, in Metropolis M, and in the forthcoming publication 'Q***r Exhibition Histories' (Valiz, 2023) and he is a guest mentor of BPA// Berlin program for artists. Prior to his new role as Curator, Léon Kruijswijk was Assistant Curator and Project Manager at KW.
Congratulation, dear Léon! 💙
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Léon Kruijswijk, Photo: Frank Sperling
We are delighted to announce 'Selfish Road' by artist and filmmaker Oreet Ashery 🎬
KW Production Series presents 'Selfish Road' (2022), a 30-minute film by artist and filmmaker . From 23–28 November, this 2022 KWPS commission screens daily on KW’s 4th floor. Journeying through their homeland and recalling autobiographical memories along the way, Ashery observes how both senses of belonging have and continue to fuse with the vertiginous and winding flows of nation-building, infrastructure and land use. In addition, an artist talk will take place on Thursday evening, 24 November at 7 pm.
'Oreet Ashery – Selfish Road'
KW Production Series commission
23–28 November 22
Daily screening on KW’s 4th floor
Curator: Mason Leaver-Yap
Curatorial Assistant: Linda Franken .a
Visit our website for more information – link in bio 🔗
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Oreet Ashery, Selfish Road, 2022, video, 30 mins. A KW Production Series commission courtesy the artist and KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin.
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In two weeks our exhibition ‘KW on location: Rachel Rossin – THE MAW OF’ will open! 💎 The exhibition space @tieranatomisches_theater is mapped through the creation of a world whose virtual reality may be accessed through various portals. These portals are entry points to digital spaces of contemplation and poetic representation authored by artist @rachelrossin. Get ready to explore the coming together of flesh, machine, cognition, and code provoked by current research into brain-computer interfaces. We will provide you with more information in the near future, until then you can also visit our website 🔗 link in bio. Exhibition ‘KW on location: Rachel Rossin THE MAW OF’ On view 15–18 Sep 22 at Tieranatomisches Theater Berlin, daily 12–7 pm Opening, Wed, 14 Sep 22 at 7 pm Daily introduction 4:30 pm Artist Talk: Sat, 17 Aug 22 at 3 pm THE MAW OF is made possible by @metaopenarts In cooperation with @tieranatomisches_theater @humboldt.uni The web component is co-commissioned with @whitneymuseum As part of @berlinartweek Curator: Nadim Samman @nadim.samman Curatorial Assistant: Linda Franken @lin__d.a ________________________ #kwinstituteforcontemporaryart #rachelrossin #contemporaryart #contemporaryartberlin #artberlin #metaopenarts #tieranatomischestheater #rachelrossin #themawof #vrart #netart Rachel Rossin, THE MAW OF (2022) © the artist Design © KW Institute for Contemporary Art
Mark your calendar for our Spring Program 2022 👀 We are looking forward to welcoming you back at KW from 19 February onwards for 'Peter Friedl: Report 1964–2022', 'Rabih Mroué: Under the Carpet' and 'Oraib Toukan: What Then'. Visit our website to get more information about our upcoming exhibitions 🔗 link in bio ___ #kwinstituteforcontemporaryart #peterfriedl #rabihmroué #oraibtoukan #contemporaryartberlin #contemporaryart #artberlin Peter Friedl, The Dramatist (Black Hamlet, Crazy Henry, Giulia, Toussaint), 2013. Mixed media, dimensions variable. Collection Carré d’art contemporain de Nîmes. Courtesy the artist and Guido Costa Projects, Turin. Photo: Maria Bruni Elias Khoury and Rabih Mroué, Three Posters, 2000, Video still from performance. Courtesy the artists Oraib Toukan, Via Dolorosa, 2021. Image study in a single-channel video (colour, sound). Courtesy the artist
Renée Green: 'Inevitable Distances' is still on view until 9 January 22! It is one of the largest exhibitions of her work since 2010, which presents recent productions in conversation with some of Green’s earliest and rarely exhibited works. Indicating the encounters and distances travelled in a life’s journey, the exhibition puts her artistic production into a speculative and, at times, fictional constellation. Spend the cold Berlin winter days in our exhibitions ☃️ ____ #kwinstituteforcontemporaryart #RenéeGreen #InevitableDistances #contemporaryart #artberlin #contemporaryartberlin #masonleaveryap @bortolamigallery @nageldraxler @skchris_ @kathrinbentele Renée Green, Mise-en-Scène: Commemorative Toile, 1992-93, Courtesy of Free Agent Media and Bortolami
RSVP now for our next 'Pogo Bar' 🥂✨ '-165 meters, times zero and 18 suns in space' with Elisabeth Molin 25 November 21, 9 pm In English Venue: KW, 4th floor Elisabeth Molin will perform an evening of associative storytelling, poetic stimulation of the senses, and new modes of belonging, interweaving text, taste, smell, sound, and moving image. Curated by Sofie Krogh Christensen More Infos: Pogo Bar: Elisabeth Molin '-165 meters, times zero and 18 suns in space' _____ #kwinstituteforcontemporaryart #ElisabethMolin #pogobar #contemporaryart #contemporaryartberlin #artberlin Elisabeth Molin, Set of Ends Still; SUNREALTY88; The Basement, Courtesy the artist
Visit our digital exhibition 'Open Secret' for the newly commissioned video 'The Bots (Greek Market)' by @evaandfrancomattes featuring Alexandra Marzella @artwerk9999 We know that everything we post on social media is screened and surveilled—reportable and deletable—subject to 'community guidelines' and 'content restrictions'. Whose community? Whose restrictions? There must be some algorithm involved, right? The Bots are no robots. They are human beings in offices. The Bots apply rules that they have received from elsewhere (perhaps from some other office, in California) while assessing your vacation photos, your uncle's pornography, your neighbor's glorifications of Hitler, your friend trying to make a living selling herbal teas, or your local MP's anti-immigrant diatribe. Somewhere—let's say, in Berlin—people sit behind screens in drab office buildings and decide what stays and what goes. They are not supposed to speak to anyone about their job. The Bots recounts interviews we conducted with the workers social media keeps hidden. To watch & read 'The Bots (Greek Market)', please visit the 'Open Secret' website, 🔗 Link in bio. Curated by Nadim Samman @nadim.samman _____ #kwinstituteforcontemporaryart #kwdigital #opensecret @dis Eva & Franco Mattes, The Bots (Greek Market), Featuring Alexandra Marzella, Courtesy the Artists.
Now available on KW's website ✨ ClumpTV's latest episode "Reflections" by Colin Self and Zander Porter ✨ Tune in! For episode six, ClumpTV looks into performances and collective gatherings of the recent past amidst current cogitation around liveness, togetherness, and socially-distanced intimacies, experiences, and communication. As a hesitation to expand too soon towards post- and ongoing-pandemic narratives, episode six provides a meditative and reflective anchor within the waters of uncertainty. Born out of a need to assemble in alternative forms and spaces, the archive of ClumpTV compiles performative experiments from autumn 2019 into February 2020. Link: https://www.kw-berlin.de/en/berlin-sessions-colin-self/
Need a bit of uplifting? Today Thursday—the last Thursday before our summer break begins—you can visit our two exhibitions on Hassan Sharif and by Jasmina Metwaly & Yazan Khalili free of charge from 6–9 pm☀️ Come and get a new view on things!
Last week! Come by KW to see our exhibitions on Hassan Sharif and Jasmina Metwaly & Yazan Khalili before they close this Sunday July 19!
In Yazan Khalili’s installation at KW, the materiality of the interface is emphasized. Far from a transparent, unnoticed device, the screen is foregrounded and beset with cracks, smartphones and tablets superimposed. The palimpsest of plastic and glass renders the interface contingent and fissured, as opposed to intangible and detached. In a similar vein, the viewer cannot dip in and out of Medusa, as in a more comfortable art installation. As an audience, we only get the full picture if we submit to a claustrophobic itinerary between the screens. We hope you have enjoyed this insight into Jasmina Metwaly’s and Yazan Khalili’s intriguing artistic practices and hope you will be able to come see the exhibitions at KW, which run until July 19. Image: Yazan Khalili, Medusa, 2020, Installation view at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin 2020, Courtesy the artist and Mophradat, Photo: Sofie Krogh Christensen
In the six visual narratives that comprise Yazan Khalili’s work at KW, technology itself is not an untouchable abstraction, floating somewhere ethereally, beyond human agency; it is concocted by humans and their respective weaknesses. It relies on images, histories, codes, decisions, regulations and glitches, all of which allow for a host of options in turn. Technology, the work argues, can and should be considered in terms of the overtly emancipatory capacity of human imagination. Image: Yazan Khalili, Medusa (detail), 2020, Installation view at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin 2020, Courtesy the artist and Mophradat, Photo: Sofie Krogh Christensen
Yazan Khalili presents Medusa (2020), a video installation building on the Ramallah-based artist’s long-standing engagement with digital archiving in times of political unrest. Khalili asks whether digital archives can be a media that emancipates memory from overdetermined, institutionalized narratives. More specifically, Medusa engages with the rise of facial recognition technologies. The human face is quickly becoming an everyday mode of personal identification, prompting a host of well-known dystopic scenarios. Image: Yazan Khalili, Medusa, 2020, Installation view at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Courtesy the artist and Mophradat, Photo: Sofie Krogh Christensen
We are thrilled to introduce you to our newest art mediation concept: InsideOut KW 👀✨ InsideOut KW attempts to establish proximity between private and public spaces. With InsideOut KW, the mediation team of KW Institute for Contemporary Art introduces artists and topics from the current exhibition program and aims to encourage readers to engage in dialogue with one another and to be creative together. Be it with their own family, their flat-sharing community, with neighbors, or perhaps the whole neighborhood—there are no contact restrictions with InsideOut KW. Check out more about the concept and the first edition on Hassan Sharif on our website: https://www.kw-berlin.de/en/artmediation/insideout-kw/
On the occasion of our dear colleague Cathrin Mayer leaving #kwinstituteforcontemporaryart after 4 good years, she may take the next #felixgonzaleztorres fortune cookie. 🍀 We will miss you—all the best for your future endeavours! 😘 #fgt🥠exhibition
On the occasion of today's announcement that Krist Gruijthuijsen will continue as Director of #kwinstituteforcontemporaryart until 2024, he may take the first #felixgonzaleztorres fortune cookie. 🍀 All the best for the next four years! 😘 #fgt🥠exhibition
We have just installed Félix González-Torres' work "Untitled“ (Fortune Cookie Corner) from 1990 and are together with the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art (AAA) thus part of a large-scale, geographically dispersed exhibition to keep González-Torres' legacy alive. 👏 Thanks to AAA and Jacob Proctor for becoming a part of the largest ever project dedicated to the late Cuban-American conceptualist. The Archives of American Art has been invited to participate in the exhibition curated by Andrea Rosen. But due the current pandemic, AAA’s exhibition spaces are closed why KW hosts their presentation for the first half of the exhibition from May 25 to June 14, at which point the work will travel to New York and be reinstalled there from June 15 till July 5. Come by and get a 🥠 from one of González-Torres' iconic pieces! We will open our doors again on May 30. #FGT🥠exhibition
This week is the last week of KW’s digital program before we reopen on Saturday! You can watch all content on our website until Sunday May 31. Please find intriguing films by Simone Fattal, Laura Horelli, Basma Alsharif, Jasmina Metwaly & Philip Rizk; online Pogo Bars with Haku Sungho & Misantrop, Lilly Pfalzer, and Maria Małpecki & Tomek Pawłowski Jarmołajew; images, documentaries, and texts on the exhibitions of Hassan Sharif, Kris Lemsalu Malone & Kyp Malone Lemsalu, and Jasmina Metwaly & Yazan Khalili; and much more!
Basma Alsharif’s film "Ouroboros" (2017) is a part of the accompanying film program of our exhibition on Hassan Sharif "I Am The Single Work Artist". “The film is an homage to the Gaza Strip, a place I have a personal connection to and which I have seen deteriorated in the course of my life (...) so I wanted to connect what happened there with other sites and other histories and other people—and collapse these into each other as a way to look at what colonisation has allowed and destroyed,” Basma Alsharif explains in her intro to her film. Please watch the full introduction by Basma Alsharif here and the full version of Ouroboros on our website: www.kw-berlin.de.
In 2015, artists Jasmina Metwaly and Phillip Rizk made the film “Out on the Street” revolving around ten workers conducting an acting workshop in Helwan, Egypt, recounting and rehearsing cases of state oppression, exploitation, corruption and protest. Scenes are enacted and reimagined, at times combined with found footage and material evidence. Please watch Jasmina’s introduction and “Out on the Street” on our website: www.kw-berlin.de!
In the 1980s, Hassan Sharif began creating his Semi-Systems. This video “Horizontal Lines” shows the artist at work: when constructing his Semi-Systems, Sharif invented a set of rules and followed this system merticulously to create line drawings which transform within a grid. Please see our installation views of the exhibition and join the walk-through of curator Krist Gruijthuijsen on our website: www.kw-berlin.de Hassan Sharif, "Horizontal Lines", 2006
A message from our new Associate Curator Clémentine Deliss: "Conceptual intimacy. Sometimes announced, sometimes sensed, sometimes vehicled through vectors of art, rare in any case. Sometimes confused with relationships that override intentions. Sometimes too latent to be drawn upon and recognised. Sometimes built into fearfulness, the fear of ridicule in the act of withdrawal, and that clumsiness of disengagement. Sometimes not even requested or highlighted as that specific contact that punctuates apparently aimless communication. So do we need a crisis to bring conceptual intimacy into play?" Clémentine Deliss, new Associate Curator at KW: On Conceptual Intimacy (Letter from a Curator to an Artist)
A message from Nadim Samman, our new Curator for the digital sphere: "Now we are alone together in higher resolution than ever.“ For now, we are #alonetogether—but looking forward to having you back in Berlin creatively intervening in the expanded political and social landscape of digital systems.
We hope you are well and keeping healthy! KW has now already been closed for five days and we have managed to setup our home offices and been wondering how to bring a closed art institution back to life? How can we make our exhibitions come alive despite closed doors? In the coming weeks we will let various voices speak: voices of curators, journalists, and artists. On our website and social media channels, you will gradually find a selection of videos, images, press reviews, and walk-throughs that will give you a lively insight into our exhibitions and other projects of KW. Let’s go! www.kw-berlin.de
As promised, we have cooked something up for you! 🔥 As of next week, our program will continue in the digital sphere with interviews, walk-throughs, and screenings covering many aspects of our current exhibitions. Join us and follow us on social media. Looking forward to it!
🧡 Opening: Hassan Sharif "I Am The Single Work Artist" 🧡 on 28 February, 7 pm. Looking forward >> Swing by! Images: Courtesy of Hassan Sharif Estate; Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah; Alexander Gray Associates, New York; gb agency, Paris; Gallery Isabelle van den Eynde, Dubai; Photographs by Sharjah Art Foundation
💜 Opening: Kris Lemsalu Malone & Kyp Malone Lemsalu 💜 on 28 February, 7 pm. Come by! Looking forward!
KW Institute for Contemporary Art aims to approach the central questions of our times through the production, display, and dissemination of contemporary art. Since its inception, 25 years ago, KW has established itself, not only as an institution, but also as a dynamic and lively space for progressive practices within the Berlin art scene, as well as in an international context. By means of exhibitions and various event formats, KW has aligned itself towards the current tendencies of the national and international art and cultural discourse, and has actively developed them on a collaborative level with artists, institutions, and by means of commissioned works. As an institution for contemporary art without a collection of its own, the team at KW maintains a high degree of flexibility in creating its programs and addressing its audience. Under the responsibility of director Krist Gruijthuijsen, the current program evolves around the central objective of using the participating artists’ perspective as a starting point, entailing their subjects and points of view as ways to reflect on social and political issues. The institution is thereby conceived as a social space that facilitates contemplation and exchange between different protagonists and cultures, consistently challenging its audience. The building complex includes exhibition halls, apartments, offices, and event spaces, as well as the Café Bravo in the courtyard, that was designed by Dan Graham in 1999. In addition to its internationally renowned exhibition program, KW collaborates on a regular basis with national and international partners, such as MoMA PS1, the Biennale di Venezia and Documenta in Kassel. KW Institute for Contemporary Art is institutionally supported by the Senate Department for Culture and Europe. The program of KW is kindly supported by the KW Freunde e. V.
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