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4/3/2012

Presentation of the Archive of Publications

Daad Galerie, Berlin

For the next month, the daadgalerie will be presenting archive publications that were produced in collaboration with artists, writers, and composers of the Berliner Künstlerprogramm since its founding in 1963. In addition to the numerous well-known exhibition catalogues such as Ed Kienholz's “Art Show,” Ilya Kabakov’s “Ausstellung eines Buches” or Bethan Huws's “Il est comme un saint dans sa niche: il ne bouge pas” many of the artist books were produced as extended projects that eventually took the form of a book and were designed as such. Among these, for example, were Stephen Willat’s “Living within Contained Conditions– 4 Islands in Berlin,” Alfredo Jaar’s “Two or three things I imagine about them” or Steve McQueen’s “Barrage.”

Recently published were books by Jalal Toufic, Dane Mitchell, Robert Fenz, Suk-Jun Kim, Armando Andrade Tudela, Artur Żmijewski, Cyprien Gaillard, Anne-Mie van Kerckhoven, Agnieszka Brzeżańska, Kateřina Šedá, Ian White, Paul DeMarinis, and Nora Iuga.

In mid-March, the following will be published: Abraham Cruzvillegas’s “The Self Builders’ Groove,” Cécile Wajsbrot’s “Die Köpfe der Hydra” (Hydra Heads), and Peter Cusack’s “Sounds from Dangerous Places.”

Here and There
The interview film “Here and There” (2012) is a part of the extensive research conducted by the Los Angeles based art historian and curator Doris Berger about the artistic exchange between California and Germany. Berger investigates the mechanisms and effects of the artistic exchanges between artists, curators, galleries and institutions in Germany and California in the 1960s and 70s. The art historian and curator Eckhart Gillen, long before he co-curated the exhibition “Art of Two Germanys / Cold War Cultures - Kunst und Kalter Krieg - Deutsche Positionen 1945- 1989” has been researching the mutual influence of American and German art from the 1960s and 70s. For 2014, he is preparing an exhibition about art in Berlin after 1945 with a special emphasis on art in the 1960s.

In preparation for the series of exhibitions “Pacific Standard Time – Art in L.A. 1945- 80,” which has been on view since October 2011 in Los Angeles (parts of which will be shown from 15.3.-10.6. in the Martin Gropius Bau), Berger conducted numerous interviews with contemporary witnesses. The film “Here and There” gathers together a series of exemplary interviews with Californian artists that lived and exhibited in Germany in the 1970s, including Eleanor Antin, John Baldessari, Joe Goode, Richard Jackson, Nancy Reddin Kienholz, David Lamelas, and Ed Ruscha.

Dr. Doris Berger is currently a postdoctorate fellow at the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles. Her dissertation about artists in biographical feature films was published as “Projected Art History” in 2009. Up until 2004, she was the director of the Kunstverein Wulfsburg.

Dr. Eckhart Gillen is a curator at the Landesgesellschaft Kulturprojekte Berlin GmbH and research associate, at the Museumspädagogischen Dienst, Berlin. In 2009, together with Stephanie Barron, he curated the exhibition “Art of Two Germanys / Cold War Cultures - Kunst und Kalter Krieg - Deutsche Positionen 1945-1989” (Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nürnberg, Deutsches Historisches Museum).

Image: Bild: Catalog cover: Ilya Kabakov, Ausstellung eines Buches, daadgalerie, 1989

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Presentation of the Archive of Publications From March 5 to April 7, 2012

Here and There: March 23, 2012, 7 pm, Film screening and conversation with Doris Berger and Eckhart Gillen about the artistic exchange between Germany and the USA in the 1960s and 70s

daadgalerie
Zimmerstr. 90/ 91 - 10117 Berlin
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