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G r i m p r o j e c t 3 _ H i g h l i g h t W h a t Yo u L o v e

WHAT WILL THE FUTURE BRING? curated by Ina Otzko April 30th - May 30th 2010 OPENING 30th 19:00-23:00 GRIMMUSEUM is pleased to present: What will the future bring? curated by Ina Otzko. The exhibition explores contemporary challenges and issues concerning identity. The invited artists, from six countries, work across a wide range of media including photography, video, drawing, painting and installation. The title of this exhibition is taken from the book ‘The Undiscovered Self’ by C.G. Jung; a text highlighting the importance of individual responsibility and freedom within the context of today’s mass- society. Humanity is widely categorized and generalized by gender, status, cultural background, religion, social hierarchy, appearances and profession, to mention a few definitions. Man exposes self, and is imposed upon; adapts and rejects both self and the other. In a world of constant flux man is challenged to adapt rapidly to keep and protect the self as an original and genuine identity. Jung suggests that individuals must organize themselves as effectively as organized mass society if they are to resist joining it. Individuals constantly perform self, they adapt or are pressurized to adjust to society’s expectations; to fit in. People find ways to be accepted or rejected, to live their individual cultures and heritages,

reinventing themselves as an individual, unique brand or, conversely, simply accepting an externally designated role as one of the many generalized and readily available stereotypes belonging to a mass media constructed market of roles. Man’s freedom of choice, and with it humanity’s quest for authenticity and selfhood is without a question going to affect what the future will bring. Participating artists: Caitlin Berrigan (US) lives and works in Berlin. She received her M.S. Visual Arts Program in 2009 from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, and her B.A. Art History & Art Production in 2004 from Hampshire College, Amherst, MA and visited Brown University Paris, France, Exchange at Vincennes-St. Denis Paris VII in 2003. http://www.membrana.us/ Stefan Bressel (GER) lives and works in Frankfurt am Main and Palermo, Italy. He received his BA from Städelschule Frankfurt with Prof. R. Jochims and MA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths, London. He also studied furniture design at HBK Kassel. http://www.stefanbressel.de Mai Hofstad Gunnes (NO) lives and works in Berlin and Oslo. She received her MFA in 2004 from Trondheim Academy of Fine Art, Norway where she did an exchange program in

2000-2001 at Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weissensee and HdK w/ prof. Sieverding, Berlin. In 1997-1999 she studied at Einar Granum Art School, Oslo, Norway. http://www.maihofstadgunnes.com Henna-Riikka Halonen (FIN) lives and works in Newcastle, UK. She received her MFA in Fine Art in 2006 from Goldsmiths, London and is currently in the process of doing a practice led PHD in Teeside University, Middlesbrough, UK. Narve Hovdenakk (NO) lives and works in Oslo. He studied at the Art Academy in Trondheim (NTNU), Norway and the Art Academy In Malmö (KHM), Sweden. Yaron Lapid (ISR) lives and works in London. He received his MFA in Fine Art in 2007 from Goldsmiths, London and his BFA Fine Arts in 2003 from Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem. http://www.finderandkeeper.co.uk/ Ellen Nolan (UK) lives and works in London. She received her MFA in Fine Art in 2008 from Goldsmiths, London and her BA (Hons) Photography in 1993 from Nottingham Trent University. http://www.ellennolan.com/ Wednesday-Sunday 14-19 h. Fichte Strasse 2, 10967 Berlin w w w.grimmuseum.com info@grimmuseum.com

Gr improjec t 4 _ What will the Future bring?

where gravity makes you float curated by silja Leifsdottir June 12th-July 11th 2010. OPENING 12th 19:00-23:00 GRIMMUSEUM is pleased to present Where gravity makes you float, curated by Silja Leifsdottir. According to 20th century myths, the laws of aerodynamics prove that the bumblebee should be incapable of flight, as it does not have the capacity in terms of wing size or beat per second to fly. Not being aware of scientists ‘proving’ it cannot fly, the bumblebee succeeds under ‘the power of its own ignorance’. Gravity is well known as a force of nature that is just as inevitable as death. It is responsible for keeping the earth and all the other planets in the orbits around the sun. Without it, life as we know it, would not exist. In spite of this knowledge, mankind have been attempting to conquer this force for centuries, dreaming about weightlessness and the ability to fly. Where gravity makes you float is a group exhibition presenting seven international artists working within a wide range of media, including sculpture, photography, video and drawing. The exhibition is looking at contemporary artists, who in different ways play with the nature and limitation of knowledge through their exploration of existential ideas.

By working through philosophical problems visually, they question a fully rational understanding of the world. The works in the exhibition all reveal a deep curiosity about the nature of reality and embody a constant dialogue between fact and fiction. Participating artists: Henrik Menné (DK) lives and works in Copenhagen. He received his BFA and MFA from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, in Copenhagen, year 2002, and is represented by Galleri Tom Christoffersen, Copenhagen, Denmark. Josefine Lyche (NO) lives and work in Oslo and Paris. She studied Philosophy at the university of Bergen before she studied at Strykejernet Art School in Oslo 1998-99. She received her BA and MFA in Fine Arts from the national Academy of Fine Arts in Oslo, Norway in 2004. Kristina Bengtsson (SE) lives and works in Copenhagen. She studied Photography at Fatamorgana- The Danish school of Art photography in Copenhagen in 2004, and received her BA in Fine Art Photography at The Glasgow school of Art in 2007, where she also did an exchange program in 2005 at the HGB in Leipzig, Germany. Katharina Kiebacher (DE) lives and works in Berlin. She did her Diploma

at Folkwangschule in Essen, and received her MFA at Glasgow school of Art in 2009. Michael John Whelan (IE) lives and works in Dublin and Berlin. He studied at the Institute of Art, Design and Technology - Dun Laoghaire in Ireland where he received his National Diploma in Photography and his BA in Fine Art. (1st class Honours). He received his MFA at Chelsea College of Art and Design in London, year 2004. Simen J. Helsvig (NO) lives and works in Oslo and Berlin. He studied at the School of Photography in Oslo, year 2002-04. He then received his BA in Fine Art Photography at The Glasgow school of Art in 2007 where he also did an exchange program in 2005 at The San Francisco Art Institute. Sinta Werner (DE) lives and works in Berlin. She studied painting at Kunsthochschule in BerlinWeiensee and received her BA at HdK Berlin in the class of Henning Kürschner in 2004, where she also did an exchange program at Hunter College, New York. In 2004 she did her Meisterschülerprüfung at the Universitat der Kunste, Berlin, before she received her MFA at Goldsmiths College in London, year 2007. Wednesday-Sunday 14-19 h. Fichte Strasse 2, 10967 Berlin w w w.grimmuseum.com info@grimmuseum.com

G r i m p r o j e c t 5 _ W h e r e G r a v i t y m a ke s y o u f l o a t

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the broken ornament Opening: 09 Sept. 2010, 19.00 09 September – 26 September 2010 Concert September 17th: Head of Wantastiquet With work by: Özlem Altin, Laurent Dupont – Garitte, Yoko Enoki, Maartje Fliervoet, Anouk Kruithof, Paul Labrecque, L.R.J. Martens, Nele Tas, Stijn Van Dorpe and Ada Van Hoorebeke

Artists: Özlem Altin, lives & works in Berlin www.ozlemaltin.com Laurent Dupont – Garitte, lives & works in Brussels http://residency.wiels.org Yoko Enoki, lives & works in Tokyo www.yokoenoki.com Maartje Fliervoet, lives and works in Amsterdam www.maartjefliervoet.nl Anouk Kruithof, (1981) lives & works in Berlin www.anoukkruithof.nl Paul Labrecque, lives & works in Brussels www.myspace.com/headofwantastiquet L.R.J. Martens, (1981) lives & works in Antwerp http://cetaceannationcommunications. blogspot.com/ Nele Tas, (1978 BE) lives & works in Antwerp www.bamart.be/persons Stijn Van Dorpe, (1970 BE) lives & works in Ghent www.stijnvandorpe.be Ada Van Hoorebeke, (1982 BE) lives & works in Brussels and Berlin http://adavanhoorebeke.blogspot.com/

Spirits and Landscapes is an exhibition without definite form. Its incarnation at the Grimmuseum could be seen as an ephemeral landscape, a brief encounter of autonomous particles. This total installation is brought together by the Broken Ornament, a little figure with the physical appearance of a cracked cup that wanders between worlds. Its open brainpan and leaking content suggest a direct connection with its surroundings. An appearance of Spirits an Landscapes was shown earlier this year at the Wiels Porject Room in Brussels.

daily 14-19 h. Fichte Strasse 2, 10967 Berlin www.grimmuseum.com info@grimmuseum.com

G r i m p r o j e c t 6 _ D12 _1 - S p i r i t s a n d L a n d s c a p e s

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➤➤ Tell me about yourself... ➤➤ My name is Bruna, or Nonna Bruna as my lovely grandchildren call me. I was born in 1933 in a village in hills of Umbria, where I still live. My parents, and their parents, were farmers. If I could describe where and how I grew up in a single word, that word would be rural. Wide-open land, wildflowers, field of sun-flowers, tree-speckled hills, cool river swims, birds and insects always humming, food grown in our fields, this is the landscape of my life. Everyone can bring to mind a

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known—this land I love, which has given so much. My children, and their children, have spread themselves out to big cities, searching for… well, many things, things that are different from here. Life moves slowly here, the

Opening: 16 Sept. 2010, 19.00 16 September – 30 September 2010

seasons set the rhythm I live by. Young people want change and excitement—it’s all about TV and computers. I’m from a time when everything was done with ours hands.

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living in cities, chaos all around them. Always

Marinella Senatore

too busy, always looking for some new thing

John Kleckner

that never satisfies them. Everything I will

Dan Attoe

ever need is right outside my front door. The

Antonio Ballester Moreno Mario Consiglio Ryan McLaughlin Mark Flood David Levine James Krone

country life gives so much… ➤➤ Do you like art? ➤➤ I can’t say I know much about art. I suppose I enjoy a nice painting as much as anyone does. There isn’t much art around here, other than what Mother Nature makes. What I like are simple pictures with people and animals and places in them. I like stories. I like when you can see someone has a story to tell and the best way they can tell it is by making something with their hands.

daily 14-19 h. Fichte Strasse 2, 10967 Berlin www.grimmuseum.com info@grimmuseum.com

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Curator Jan Van Woensel presents his latest paintings. Jan Van Woensel is an independent curator and art critic. He is the founder and editor-in-chief of New York Magazine of Contemporary Art and Theory, a curatorial advisor for Artist Pension Trust (NYC) and an active contributor to PILOT (London) and Curating Degree Zero Archive (Zurich).

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Opening: 30 Sept. 2010, 19.00 30 September – 06 October 2010

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exhibition with Lee Ranaldo (Sonic Youth).

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visiting professor at ISCP, Location One, and LMCC (NYC); Spike Island (UK); The National Academy of the Arts, Oslo (Norway); LHI Fine Arts (Belgium).Currently he is working on a retrospective, interactive, audiovisual

Jan Van Woensel attended Karel de Grote’s art program in Antwerp; initially enrolled in the universities’ painting course, his growing interest for other media, such as installation and video art and rapidly moved away from the personal need to make an artwork, a concrete object, the need to position himself as a creator. He indulged more and more in art critical and philosophical discourse and writing. Supported by his philosophical studies, this newly found way of expressing his thoughts and art related concepts eventually resulted in Van Woensel’s début appearance as an independent curator with the international group exhibition titled ‘Scenery 1: Curating the space between’, (June 2002, Antwerp, Belgium). Then, after repeated, failed attempts to paint the perfect and final monochrome painting, he abandoned art making in the same year, and moved to New York City and then Los Angeles to further develop his curatorial ambitions. In the spring of 2010, eight years after his farewell to art making, and as a rediscovered form of expression, Van Woensel started making paintings again. In his works he combines his experiences of traveling through the United States with his personal history of loss, despair, disorder, and homesickness, as well as his strong affection for Joshua Tree’s wasteland (California, USA), and the Scottish Highlands (Scotland, Great Britain).

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dirty dozen

despina stokou Opening: 30 Sept. 2010, 19.00 30 September – 31 October 2010 plus TITHONUS live in Berlin

I am an artist. I am not blond. I am not sure. He said: I am sorry. I am soooo drunk. Of course I am not happy. I still am Nadja...sometimes. I am both a woman and a jew. I am sorry I find this quote a bit weird. You’re not jewish but uhm... i recommend editing it maybe? This is apretty antisemetic, Victorian thing to say.... We have an alter ego employee, that is our head of communication. He might curate shows in the future. For now he works mostly in the office.

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She is also happy! Stralsunder str ist es egal. Haloo Despina, using undercover name Jamesdin, witch it is often between Balkan gypsy’s, with Elvis, Rambo and Roki as well .Im using this pseudonym that Polizei cant trace me to find out haw long im staying in EU beacuse im not EU citizen.Already was having a problems but i fuck them.1:0 Honey you have an ego the size of Alasca do you really think you need another one? You have to leave your art ego aside at some point. Women don’t need a big ego. In New York it would be a scandal if a gallery director curated a show at an independent space. Ahm please don’t start this about artists being superior human beings again. Oh please artists are whores, artists are zombies who cares as long as artists are selling? Like; seriously...zombies? Not even vampires? Selbstausbeutung. What does that even mean? Like masturbating?? I am sorry Kippenberger organised shows, parties, edited fanzines, made stickers, flyers, posters, gave all night lectures in bars, even bought a club. He only started painting when the money was out. Was treibt Künstler Ausstellungen zu kuratieren? You curate curators, that makes you an organisator. An arttator! Tatort? Oh potato –tomato who cares... I used to be an artist too you know... I am telling you - watch out! If you continue like this you will end up a curator like me.

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saccharine

“Saccharine” examines “intimacy” in its various guises - sincere, induced, fabricated or imagined. The artists on view will show work expressing the priceless nature of their own intimate connections or the

presented by

ana finel honigman and “nadja veblen” Opening: 09 October 2010, 19.00 09 October – 19 October 2010 + EDEN BERLIN, Burlesque Performance, 21.30

intricacies, boundaries and implications of selling artificial intimacy. Alongside the art on display will be this on-line catalogue featuring an interview between co-curators Ana Finel Honigman and “Nadja Veblen.” “Nadja Veblen” is the pseudonym of an academic who Honigman befriended in England. She is a highly educated 28-yearold British-based feminist scholar who is funding her degree working as an escort.

Group show with: Awst & Walther Maxime Ballesteros Bruce la Bruce Jules Kim Terence Koh Sameer Reddy David Nicholson Alex McQuilkin Sue de Beer Amie Dicke Antonia Dias Leite Zhivago Duncan Cecile Evans Amir Fattal John Kleckner Heiko Laschitzki Laurel Nakadate Jen Ray Dean Sameshima and Aurel Schmidt

Nadja’s real identity will remain a mystery, but she will curate as her doppelganger. “Nadja Veblen’s” given name evokes Andre Breton’s surrealist novel about an elusive muse. Her surname refers to the economic theory of “Velben Goods” - the notion that a luxury commodity’s value increases as a result of its price, as opposed to the principle that the price is a reflection of its inherent, or even perceived value. This

theory

postulates

possible

explanation for the fluctuating “value” of Veblen’s sexual and emotional services. Veblen’s experiences in selling “intimacy” can also mirror the arbitrary, emotionally invested and complex pricing of art. These ideas will be developed within the on-line catalogue interview between Honigman and “Velben.” The on-going website for the show will also include original essays by Shamim M. Momin, Emilie Trice and Anthony Haden Guest, and an interview between Honigman

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and Prof. Martin Kemp. The art itself will

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explore forms of romantic and sexual

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intimacy, including the artists’ own ability

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to achieve intimacies with their viewers.

Special thanks to: Javier Peres of Peres Projects, Margherita Belaief of Peres Projects, Johann Konig, Alonso Dominguez and Peter Henssen of Sugarhigh, Prof. Martin Kemp, Leigh Ledare and Emilie Trice

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syncopation

SYNCOPATION brings together work that explores the intersection between art and music. The aim is to demonstrate how artists are inspired and interpret sound and music in text, photographs, video, perform-

presented by

ance works and painting.

francesca gavin

The title was chosen to play on the idea of artworks as a form of rhythm or melody – playing concurrently and creating something new and stimulating when placed

Opening: 21 October 2010, 19.00 21 October – 31 October 2010 + francesca gavin Performance accompanied by Julien Quentin, 21.00

together. Much of the work touches on the difficulty to arrange and reason with musical experience, turning the aural into something aesthetic. The show also loosely touches on how the spiritual aspect of music manifests in the modern forms of hip hop, rave and other musical tribalism.

Group show with: The exhibition’s basis is an unusually perCory Arcangel and Frankie Martin

sonal one. It was conceived around the

Ajit Chauhan

jazz singer alter ego of writer and curator

Paolo Chiasera featuring DJ Shablo

Francesca Gavin – a factual rather than fic-

Samuel Levack and Jennifer Lewandowski

tional persona.

Oliver Laric Jayson Scott Musson

“I learnt to read music before I learnt to

Jeremy Shaw

read words. I attended a Suzuki school aged

Matt Stokes

3, studying rhythm and chord structures as

Mark Titchner

a toddler. My grandmother started Dial Recordings, which released many of Charlie

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Parker’s recordings. My father was a folk

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singer who grew up around Count Basie,

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Leadbelly and opened for John Lee Hooker.

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As a teenager, I worked playing piano and

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singing jazz below fleapit cinemas and in

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hotel bars. I sang in St Pauls Cathedral. My

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vocals appeared on a cheap London garage 12”. Aged 21, my voice dropped an octave and I hardly sang again.” Playing with the idea of the curation as a form of performance, curator Francesca Gavin will also sing a jazz set accompanied by pianist Julien Quentin alter ego at the opening of the show on October 21.

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the drawing club // tegneklubben

Tegneklubben (The Drawing Club) is a collaborative artist collective consisting of Paul Dring, Terje Nicolaisen, Ulf Carlsson, Martin Skauen and Bjørn Bjarre. They meet sporadically to drink beer, eat cheese doodles, draw and chat about almost everything, except the unchatable. During the sessions the drawings turn from promising to bad, and sometimes from uninteresting to funny. Of all the thousands of drawings the club has produced, there are some that we actually like! Tegneklubben never erase a line, they never sign a drawing, and they never talk about Tegneklubben. Their mission as artists is to fight the power of the art bureaucracy and the instrumentalization of meaning, and they also work hard to blur the line between drawing and their drawing equipment. Together they yearn for a certain kind of uncompleteness that can only be accomplished by accumulating endless

Opening: 04 November 2010, 19.00

piles of paper.

04 November – 14 November 2010 Some of their most popular subjects include the power of language, meta art-world

TEGNEKLUBBEN

commentary, sublimity, bad painting, eroticism and the nasty body, color-field psy-

Martin Skauen

chosis, dysfunctional furniture, portraits

Terje Nicolaisen

of gnomes and ideas for unrealizable public

Paul Dring

art projects.

Ulf Verner Carlsson Bjørn Bjarre

For more information see: w w w.tegneklubben.org

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feather throat curated by

christopher kline Opening: 25 November 2010, 19.00 25 November – 17 December 2010 Featuring works by Özlem Altin, Sarah Cain Sol Calero, Ethan Hayes-Chute Annice Kessler, Bill Kouligas Kathryn Politis, Shon Mahoney Ryan McLaughlin, Jim Peluso Laura Piasta, Amy Porter Annika Rixen, Marcel Türkowsky Brent Wadden

Feather Throat is a publication put together by Christopher Kline in summer 2010 featuring the work of 13 kindred spirits. Grimmuseum has co-published a second pressing of the booklet for the exhibition. The second issue of Feather Throat will be released in spring 2011 featuring 13 different artists, with an accompanying exhibition. Opening and special performance by Family Battle Snake on November 25th, 19-23h Accompanying Listening Salon each Sunday of the exhibition co-curated with Michael Northam

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