Ralf Ziervogel / Nico Dockx & Helena Sidiropoulos / Moonjoo Lee / Open Studios
MOONJOO LEE Urban Detritus
18th January – 3rd February 2008
Studio 2
NICO DOCKX& DOUGLAS PARK Untitled
18th January – 3rd February 2008
Studio 3
NICO DOCKX & HELENA SIDIROPOULOS Untitled
17th January 2008
Studio 240
RALF ZIERVOGEL Equilibrist
17th January 2008
Studio 1
Curator: Peter Lang, Berlin
JOINT OPENING
+ OPEN STUDIOS
+ DJ CHRISTOPH TANNERT Thursday, 17th January 2008, from 7 pm
“In the past, RALF ZIERVOGEL has been known for his sharply detailed, imploding and exploding apocalyptic drawings in outsized and mini formats. The spatial installation “Equilibrist” is inserted into the given space - the former chapel of Bethanien Hospital and now Studio 1 of the Künstlerhaus - in a strict, minimalist way. An almost corporeal "UD" model construction (2007, 384 x 150cm, mixed media), the striking apparatus under grey tarpaulin, and a blind spot, deep black and matt - pure black ivory -, are located in the apse. The room reflects an arena as object space. There is distance to everything. Randomly, the tent interior rushes outwards to create plastic forms. Bud Spencer and Achilles seem to be standing on a tortoise. The black hole in the apse represents the drawing together of interior space, the opposite of the tent. The question of outside and inside, of the causal agent, of the empty space of a higher being is posed without pathos.” (Peter Lang, curator)
“Equilibrist” is being realised with kind support from the Governing Mayor of Berlin, Senate Offices – Cultural Affairs.
NICO DOCKX, together with the artist HELENA SIDIROPOULOS, will be presenting a specially conceived poster in Studio 240 on 17th January; this shows a reproduced image from each of the artist’s personal archives and is therefore an illustration of two personal standpoints rather than an ‘artwork’. It will be distributed among visitors on the spot.
OPEN STUDIOS: The following artists will be opening their studios to the public from 7 pm on 17th January 2008, and look forward to your visit: Can Altay (Turkey), Daniel Barroca (Portugal), Catherine Bolduc (Canada), Libia Castro & Ólafur Ólafsson (Iceland), Markus Degerman (Sweden), Nico Dockx (Belgium), Hadassah Emmerich (Netherlands), Haris Epaminonda (Cyprus), Nathalie Latham (Australia), Moonjoo Lee (Republic of Korea), An Te Liu (Canada), Søren Lose (Denmark), Charlotte Schleiffert (Netherlands), Martin Skauen (Norway), Sophia Tabatadze (Georgia), Luca Trevisani (Italy) and Ming Wong (Singapore).
+ from 9 pm in the foyer: DJ Christoph Tannert!
Künstlerhaus Bethanien
Mariannenplatz 2 - 10997 Berlin
Wed - Sun 2 pm – 7 pm