Laure Prouvost at Carlier Gebauer
The fifth annual Berlin Art Week takes place this month. With its extensive programme that includes exhibitions, art fairs and art awards as well as an auxiliary programme featuring talks, films, and tours, it’s important to craft the perfect game plan. Luckily for you, we’ve compiled a list of the 10 exhibitions deemed utterly essential. Read below for the SLEEK guide to Berlin Art Week 2016.
Laure Prouvost
Carlier Gebauer
Markgrafenstraße 67, 10969
French video artist and Turner Prize winner Laure Prouvost returns to veteran Berlin gallery Carlier Gebauer this year. Prouvost is known for her ambiguous cinematic imagery, which she says is “just hinting and suggesting possibilities, the audience is making its own image in its head.”
Sterling Ruby
Sprüth Magers
Oranienburger Straße 18, 10178
Sterling Ruby’s second solo exhibition at Sprüth Magers contains works from his “SCALES” series of mobile sculptures. This exhibition, entitled “The Jungle”, opens on 17 September and comprises a wide range of media including painting, sculpture, video, photography, ceramics and textiles.
Jerome Bel at Hebbel am Ufer
Jérôme Bel
Hebbel am Ufer
Stresemannstraße 29, 10963
At 8pm on 17 September, French choreographer Jérôme Bel will bring “Gala” to Berlin. Consisting of 18 dancers, actors and lay people, the performance aims to question the idea of what individuals and bodies can bring to the stage.
Goshka Macuga
Schinkel Pavillon
Oberwallstraße 1, 10117
Schinkel Pavillon host a two part exhibition for Polish-born Goshka Macuga this year. Part one opened earlier this summer, while the second instalment will go on view for Berlin Art Week this month. Macuga addresses the subject of overcoming the human body through work on artificial memory and artificial intelligence.
Project Space Art Award at Bar Babette
Project Space Art Award
bar Babette
Karl-Marx-Allee 36, 10178
This will be Berlin Art Week’s fifth ceremony to celebrate artistic project spaces and initiatives in the field of visual arts. The Project Space Art Award with panels, awards ceremony and party will take place on 16 September 2016, beginning at 5:30pm.
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Galerie Thomas Schulte
Charlottenstraße 24, 10117
Running until 5 November, Galerie Thomas Schulte presents a series of photographs from the Seventies by acclaimed artists Birgit Jürgenssen, Katharina Sieverding, Cindy Sherman and Francesca Woodman.
Arist Films at Kino International
Artist Films
Kino International
Karl-Marx-Allee 33, 10178
Kino International, in cooperation with The Haubrok Foundation, is hosting a 13 hour programme dedicated solely to artist’s films. Curated by Marc Glöde, a team of internationally renowned artists will have films on show.
Marianne Vlaschits
DUVE Berlin
Gitschiner Straße 94, 10969
Austrian artist Marianne Vlaschits’ work entitled “A Disturbance Travelling Through a Medium” is said to “offer us the new cosmos as a social system, where females hold the primary power“. Vlaschits will transform the DUVE gallery space into a utopian, feminist spaceship, the home of a (fictional) female commander.
Chiharu Shiota, Blain Southern
Chiharu Shiota
Blain|Southern
Potsdamer Straße 77-87, 10785
For her first exhibition in her home country in eight years, Shiota has created a new site specific monumental installation. The installation dominates the large space, and symbolises “the interior of the body and the complex network of neural connections in the brain”.
Constant Dullaart at Future Gallery
Constant Dullaart
Future Gallery
Schöneberger Ufer 59, 10785
For the second year running, Constant Dullaart will show at Future Gallery for Berlin Art Week. Dullaart works primarily with the internet as an alternative space of presentation and misrepresentation and will be displaying his newest work “Synthesising the Preferred Inputs” until the 15 October.
Berlin Art Week takes place from 13 to 18 September