Adel Abidin
Johanna Adeback
Merve Ertufan
Nevin Aladag
Halil Altındere
Fikret Atay
Maja Bajevic
Rosa Barba
Claus Bohmler
Candice Breitz
Jae Eun Choi
Sunah Choi
Braco Dimitrijevic
Maria Eichhorn
Ayse Erkmen
Andrea Faciu
Florin Bobu
Asta Groting
Mona Hatoum
Pravdoliub Ivanov
Christian Jankowski
Annika Kahrs
Gulsun Karamustafa
Ali Kazma
Kimsooja
Jaroslaw Kozlowski
Alicja Kwade
Jonas Mekas
Olaf Metzel
Bjorn Nøorgaard
Ahmet Ogut
Sener Ozmen
Dan Perjovschi
Sonja Rentsch
Mario Rizzi
Michael Sailstorfer
Anri Sala
Sarkis
Superflex
Cengiz Tekin
Hale Tenger
Rasa Todosijevic
Endre Tot
Thu Van Tran
Rosemarie Trockel
Nasan Tur
Lawrence Weiner
Maaria Wirkkala
Reni Block
Exhibition and performance program. Turkey is the starting point of the investigation, but invited are artists, performers and musicians from different generations and geopolitical spaces, who work on and with social intersections and create links and connections to the lived concepts of an exemplary global citizenship within the cultural field.
curated by René Block
In cooperation with TANAS Berlin
Artists: Adel Abidin, Johanna Adebäck & Merve Ertufan, Nevin Aladağ, Halil Altındere, Fikret Atay, Maja Bajević, Rosa Barba, Claus Böhmler, Candice Breitz, Jae Eun Choi, Sunah Choi, Braco Dimitrijević, Maria Eichhorn, Ayşe Erkmen, Andrea Faciu & Florin Bobu, Asta Gröting, Mona Hatoum, Pravdoliub Ivanov, Christian Jankowski, Annika Kahrs, Gülsün Karamustafa, Ali Kazma, Kimsooja, Jarosław Kozłowski, Alicja Kwade, Jonas Mekas, Olaf Metzel, Bjørn Nørgaard, Ahmet Öğüt, Şener Özmen, Dan Perjovschi, Sonja Rentsch, Mario Rizzi, Michael Sailstorfer, Anri Sala, Sarkis, Superflex, Cengiz Tekin, Hale Tenger, Raša Todosijević, Endre Tót, Thu Van Tran, Rosemarie Trockel, Nasan Tur, Lawrence Weiner, Maaria Wirkkala.
Neuer Berliner Kunstverein and the project space TANAS, founded in 2008, stand for a practice of transnational dialogue between the cultures. After the political and cultural rapprochement between Turkey with its neighboring regions and the European Union, the time is ripe for a survey exhibition, which is designed in a prospective way. Turkey is the starting point of the investigation, but the show is looking much further, to the regions formerly belonging to the periphery, which during the last 20 years have experienced a boost of modernization and internationalization. Invited to the exhibition The Unanswered Question. İskele 2 are artists, performers and musicians from different generations and geopolitical spaces, who work on and with social intersections and create links and connections to the lived concepts of an exemplary global citizenship within the cultural field. The exhibition and performance program try to explore the materiality of the interstices, the transit, and to open a space, which brings about a new perspective of the relationship between audience – work – space. The project, together with the artists, aims at temporarily creating a space, in which cultural representation and attribution are not at the forefront.
Publications
Within the n.b.k. book series “Discourse” a publication in German and Turkish language will be published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne, with an introduction by Marius Babias, René Block, and Sophie Goltz, an essay by Boris Buden and short texts about all participating artists. The exhibition is accompanied by a booklet with artists’ materials.
Program
Saturday, September 21 2013, 7—10 pm
Schwanengesang (swan song)
Performance program with: Johanna Adebäck & Merve Ertufan, Mehtap Baydu, Sunah Choi, A K Dolven, Ayşe Erkmen, Zeynep Gedizlioğlu, Annika Kahrs, Jarosław Kozłowski, Gordon Monahan, David Moss, Athanasios Pogkas & stefanpaul, Nasan Tur, Ute Wassermann
Venue: Hebbel am Ufer (HAU1), Stresemannstraße 29, 10963 Berlin
Admission: 11 Euro / 7 Euro (reduced)
Berlin Art Week ticket holders receive reduced admission.
A cooperation with Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, TANAS and HAU in frame of Berlin Art Week (September 17–22, 2013)
Friday, October 18, 2013
Global Citizenship
6 pm: Keynote by Charles Esche (Director Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven), followed by Pecha Kucha Night with Gülsen Bal (curator, author, Vienna), Rosa Barba (artist, Berlin), Boris Buden (philosopher, author, Berlin), Dan Perjovschi (artist, Bucharest), Gülsün Karamustafa (artist, Istanbul)
9 pm: Performance and music by Capacete (artists, Rio de Janeiro / São Paulo)
Venue: Neuer Berliner Kunstverein
Thursday, October 24, 2013, 7 pm
Curator Talk
With René Block (Director TANAS) and Marius Babias (Director n.b.k.)
Venue: Neuer Berliner Kunstverein
TANAS in Dialogue
Saturday, September 14, 2013, 2 pm
Michael Glasmeier (Professor of Art Theory and Aesthetics, HfK Bremen)
Saturday, September 21, 2013, 2 pm
Marta Smolińska (Assistant professor of Art History, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Torún)
Saturday, September 28, 2013, 2 pm
Saskia Bos (Curator, Dean of the School of Art at The Cooper Union, New York)
Saturday, October 5, 2013, 2 pm
Gabriele Knapstein (Curator Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin)
Saturday, October 12, 2013, 2 pm
Angelika Nollert (Director Neues Museum, Nuremberg)
Saturday, October 19, 2013, 2 pm
Charles Esche (Director Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven)
Saturday, October 26, 2013, 2 pm
Kasper König (Curator, Berlin)
Saturday, November 2, 2013, 2 pm
Zdenka Badovinac (Director Moderna Galerija / Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, Ljubljana)
The series "TANAS in Dialogue“ takes place at the project space TANAS
Free admission to all events taking place at Neuer Berliner Kunstverein and TANAS
Image: Bjørn Nørgaard, Şener Özmen & Cengiz Tekin, Ahmet Öğüt,Exhibition view Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, photo: Jens Ziehe, 2013
Opening: Saturday, September 7, 2013, 5 pm TANAS / 7 pm Neuer Berliner Kunstverein with BBQ party
Neuer Berliner Kunstverein
Chausseestrasse 128/129 10115 Berlin
Admission free
Hours Ground floor:_
Tuesday—Sunday 12—6 pm
Thursday 12—8 pm
Hours Showroom:
Tuesday—Friday 12—6 pm
Thursday 12—8 pm
The exhibition by Andreas Slominski will be closed from 24 to 26 December 2013 and on 1 January 2014, the n.b.k. Showroom will be closed from 24 December 2013 to 6 January 2014.