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27/6/2015

Tino Sehgal

Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin

For the first time Tino Sehgals work can be seen extensively in Berlin. The presentation of the works of Tino Sehgal can be seen in two houses: An exhibition at the Martin-Gropius-Bau and a further work by Tino Sehgal can be seen during the international performing art s festival Foreign Affairs at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele.

Like no other artist of his generation, Tino Sehgal represents a radical redefinition of art and its experience. Seh gal constructs situations rather than material objects. His media are the human voice, physical movements and social interaction that are initiated and enacted by the interpreters of the work who address visitors through conversation, song and choreography. Although Sehgal’s works never materialise in the form of an o bject, they conform to all the conventions of exhibition art: they are present thro ughout the institution’s opening hours and are bought and sold like conventional mate rial artworks and are as well included in museum collections and private collecti ons. This practice produces a fundamentally new understanding of the work of art that can have both a lasting value as well as an intense and sustained impact on a given space.

Following the exhibition of Sehgal’s works worldwid e over the last 10 years in the most diverse range of museums and exhib ition centres (including the already legendary presentations at New York’s Gugge nheim Museum and in the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern, London), his first maj or solo exhibition will take place in Berlin this summer. Sehgal’s work evolved during t he 1990s and early 2000s under the influence of interdisciplinary practices from B erlin’s dance, theatre and art scenes. This unique artistic environment established a particularly distinctive union between the live event and a high art ambition at lo cations such as the Podewil or the Hebbel-Theater among many other institutions.

Tino Sehgal was born in London in 1976 and studied economics and dance in Berlin and Essen. His work has been freque ntly exhibited in Europe and North and South America, as well as in Asia. He too k part in the Venice Biennal in 2003 and 2005 (German pavilion along with Thomas Sch eibitz). He took part in the 2006 Berlin Biennale, the 2008 Yokohama Triennale a nd the 2010 Gwangju Biennale. In 2012 his work was exhibited at the documenta in Kassel. In 2013 he was awarded the Golden Lion for best artist at the 55th Venice Biennale.

Image: Tino Sehgal, June 2015 Tino Sehgal © Mathias Völzke

From 28 June – 8 August 2015 Tino Sehgal will be presenting a mise-en-scene consisting of five works on the ground floor of the Martin-Gropius-Bau.

Other than that, “This Progress” can be seen at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele during the international performing arts festival Foreign Affairs from 25 June until 5 July 2015 (except 29 June) always between 5 p.m. and 9 p.m.
Further information at: www.berlinerfestspiele.de

Press contact:
Christiane Zippel Phone +49 30 25486-236 Fax +49 30 25486-235 presse@gropiusbau.de

Martin-Gropius-Bau Berlin
Niederkirchnerstraße 7 10963 Berlin
Hours:
Wednesday to Monday 10:00–19:00
Tuesday closed
The box office closes at 18:30.
There will be no exhibitions at Martin-Gropius-Bau 24 August to 3 September 2015.
Admission fees:
€ 10 / reduced rate € 7, groups (5 or more persons)
€ 7 per person
Admission free for those of 16 and under

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