{"id":21108,"date":"2015-05-05T11:35:06","date_gmt":"2015-05-05T09:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/?p=21108"},"modified":"2015-05-05T11:35:06","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T09:35:06","slug":"ngorongoro-gallery-weekend-berlin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/ngorongoro-gallery-weekend-berlin\/","title":{"rendered":"The Old Guard Hits Back: Ngorongoro For Gallery Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"size--small\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-21150\" alt=\"Installation view, Ngorongoro. Images courtesy of Lepkowsi Studios, Berlin\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/K4A4806.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" \/> Installation view, Ngorongoro. Images courtesy of Lepkowsi Studios, Berlin<\/p>\n<p>The first sight upon entering the 5000 m<sup>2<\/sup> former factory site for <a href=\"http:\/\/artistweekend.com\/exhibition.html\" target=\"_blank\">Ngorongoro<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/tag\/gallery-weekend\/\">Galerie-Wochenende<\/a>\u2019s largest side-event, is a 20 metre wall piece by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/showroom\/2014\/05\/the-8th-berlin-biennale-dancing-in-the-shadows\/\">Anri Sala<\/a>, consisting of thousands of tiny, hand-drawn notes is affixed in an open-sided structure. Elsewhere in the courtyard, a grave has been dug for Gregor Schneider\u2019s sculpture Hannelore Reuen, the \u2018house slattern\u2019, his most famous work and a b\u00eate noire he wants to symbolically lay to rest here.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe idea was to mix it up, to allow a meeting of works outside the gallery system or museum,\u201d initiator of the exhibition, Jonas Burgert told Sleek. \u201cThe idea was to bring the works back to the studio, to enable a different type of encounter.\u201d The show takes over a huge compound studios and nearby derelict buildings &#8211; a mammoth project involving\u00a0300-plus works by 133 artists.\u00a0The location itself, a GDR-era semiconductor factory in Weissensee, with buildings from the 1850s on in various stages of repair is a window on to the spaces 90s Berlin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"size--small\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-21153\" alt=\"Installation view, Ngorongoro. Images courtesy of Lepkowsi Studios, Berlin\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/K4A4849.jpg\" width=\"433\" height=\"650\" \/> Installation view, Ngorongoro. Images courtesy of Lepkowsi Studios, Berlin<\/p>\n<p>As you&#8217;d expect, a huge variety of work is on show. A swimming pool shimmers in the afternoon sun, above which a large Andreas Golder oil painting hangs, exposed to the elements. A Manfred Pernice sculpture rusts gently in the nearby grass, a clash of media, styles and pieces, while a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/print-features\/2015\/01\/berlinde-de-bruyckere-retrospective-at-s-m-a-k-review\/\">Berlinde de Bruyckere<\/a> wax sculpture of a male torso (lent by collector Thomas Olbricht) in a glass case abuts a delicate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/print-features\/2014\/10\/studio-visit-polly-morgan\/\">Polly Morgan<\/a> stuffed finch, perched delicately on a painting. \u00a0Indeed, a 15 metre high Bj\u00f6rn Melhus video projection of a dancing gorilla fills a former boiler house, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/showroom\/2013\/02\/mat-collishaw-comments-on-financial-crisis\/\">Mat Collishaw<\/a> video of a homeless man puking lurks in the cellars, while paintings and works by the initiators Jonas Burgert, Christian Achenbach, Zhivago Duncan, Andreas Golder, John Isaacs and David Nicholson are scattered throughout. John Bock\u2019s three day performance took place in a tiny attic, with the performance artist sculpting heads of visitors throughout the exhibition. A dancer was twisting in front of Anri Sala\u2019s monumental musical score.\u00a0 The event had the atmosphere of a Happening, given the wild juxtapositions of moods and styles, albeit underpinned with some very tight organisation at a not insignificant cost.<\/p>\n<p class=\"size--small\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-21154\" alt=\"Installation view, Ngorongoro. Images courtesy of Lepkowsi Studios, Berlin\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/K4A4877.jpg\" width=\"716\" height=\"487\" \/> Installation view, Ngorongoro. Images courtesy of Lepkowsi Studios, Berlin<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe invited friends and friends of friends, and were interested in the confrontations of different positions,\u201d Burgert says. The exhibition teems with works, and the large-scale studios each of the artists, who are mainly painters, are hung scattershot with works. There is no narrative thread, the volcanic crater Ngorongoro with its unique biosphere serving as a metaphor for the exhibition, in which both well-known and local positions co-exist. The common thread tying the positions together is that they have or had an association with Berlin. However, a generational divide does become apparent: the works, with their clearly defined media, where something is either a painting, or a sculpture, or a video, represent a different, older view of artistic practice than the current crop of Berlin-based young artists, with their focus on the slippage of artistic media. Ngorongoro then perhaps best represents a snapshot of a particular generation of Berlin art-making, and of its diversity.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Text von <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/author\/jeni-fulton\/\">Jeni Fulton<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mehr: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/berlin\/2015\/04\/interview-johann-koenig-gallery-weekend\/\">Johann K\u00f6nig opens St. Agnes Church <\/a>as part of Gallery Weekend Berlin<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/print-features\/2015\/01\/berlinde-de-bruyckere-retrospective-at-s-m-a-k-review\/\"><br \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>More: For Snake&#8217;s Sake: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/print-features\/2014\/10\/studio-visit-polly-morgan\/\">Studio Visit With Polly Morgan<\/a><\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Installation view, Ngorongoro. Images courtesy of Lepkowsi Studios, Berlin The first sight upon entering the 5000 m2 former factory site for Ngorongoro, Gallery Weekend\u2019s largest side-event, is a 20 metre wall piece by Anri Sala, consisting of thousands of tiny, hand-drawn notes is affixed in an open-sided structure. Elsewhere in the courtyard, a grave has&#8230;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,10172],"tags":[2664,2665,34,2077,2666,2667,51,2668,2669,2670,2671,2672,2673,670,2674,1735,1440],"class_list":["post-21108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-berlin","category-film","tag-andreas-golder","tag-anri-sala","tag-berlin","tag-berlinde-de-bruyckere","tag-bjorn-melhus","tag-christian-achenbach","tag-gallery-weekend","tag-gdr","tag-gregor-schneider","tag-hannelore-reuen","tag-john-isaacs","tag-jonas-burgert","tag-manfred-pernice","tag-mat-collishaw","tag-ngorongoro","tag-polly-morgan","tag-zhivago-duncan"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Old Guard Hits Back: Ngorongoro For Gallery Weekend The Old Guard Hits Back: Ngorongoro For Gallery Weekend<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/ngorongoro-gallery-weekend-berlin\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"de_DE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Old Guard Hits Back: Ngorongoro For Gallery Weekend The Old Guard Hits Back: Ngorongoro For Gallery Weekend\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Installation view, Ngorongoro. 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