{"id":24600,"date":"2015-09-16T15:08:08","date_gmt":"2015-09-16T13:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/?p=24600"},"modified":"2015-09-16T15:08:08","modified_gmt":"2015-09-16T13:08:08","slug":"welcome-to-the-jungle-at-kw-a-rewarding-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/welcome-to-the-jungle-at-kw-a-rewarding-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"&#039;Welcome to the Jungle&#039; at KW &#8211; a Rewarding Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"size--small\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24603\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/kw_welcome-to-the-jungle_Photo_Timo_Ohler_02.jpg\" alt=\"Marianne Vlaschits, MALIBU MOONRISE, 2012\/2015, Various materials, Dimensions variable, Courtesy Marianne Vlaschits, Installation view, detail Photo by Timo Ohler\" width=\"716\" height=\"524\" \/> Marianne Vlaschits, MALIBU MOONRISE, 2012\/2015, Various materials, Dimensions variable, Courtesy Marianne Vlaschits, Installation view, detail Photo by Timo Ohler<\/p>\n<p>Unfurling a seductive recapitulation of American hard rock band Guns N\u2019 Roses\u2019 hit song \u201cWelcome to the Jungle\u201d, the KW Institute of Contemporary Art kicks off Berlin Art Week with the eponymous group show curated by Ellen Blumenstein and Filipa Ramos as part of the citywide museum initiative STADT\/BILD.<\/p>\n<p>The original song was first released in 1987 on the album \u201cAppetite for Destruction\u201d. It was the first time President Reagan first challenged Premier Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall. It was also the year AZT (the AIDS treatment drug) was approved; worldwide nuclear tests were rampant, and the Dow Jones was booming as tensions in the Persian Gulf were heating up. Axl Rose and Slash\u2019s \u201cjungle\u201d was not an invitation to bathe resplendent in the awe and inspiration of the raw wilderness, but an invitation to participate in a romanticised version of a masochistic civilisation. According to the exhibition\u2019s press release, \u201cThe jungle is seen here as a symptom, which incorporates a common absence, our desires, but also our fears, that is out of our control.\u201d Manipulated images of lush green plant foliage, isolated animals, desert and urban landscapes are coupled with depictions of humans struggling to come to terms with changing technologies and the complexities of realising self and nature in unfamiliar environments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"size--small\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24604\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/kw_welcome-to-the-jungle_castro-olafsson_DSC_0049.jpg\" alt=\"Libia Castro &amp; O?lafur O?lafsson, DEIN LAND EXISTIERT NICHT, 2013 (From the ongoing campaign YOUR COUNTRY DOESN\u2019T EXIST, seit 2003) Neon sign, 190 x 700 cm Installation view, Courtesy Libia Castro &amp; O?lafur O?lafsson\" width=\"716\" height=\"479\" \/> Libia Castro &amp; O?lafur O?lafsson, DEIN LAND EXISTIERT NICHT, 2013 (From the ongoing campaign YOUR COUNTRY DOESN\u2019T EXIST, seit 2003) Neon sign, 190 x 700 cm<br \/>Installation view, Courtesy Libia Castro &amp; O?lafur O?lafsson<\/p>\n<p>Entering first through the basement, the exhibition begins with Marianne Vlaschits\u2019 \u201cMalibu Sunrise\u201d (2012\u20132015). Outside the doorway hangs a small square canvas with a loose and symbolically painted landscape of a full moon rising over a darkened barren island with an isolated palm tree. The piece functions like a placeholder for an Instagram image of the real life behind the curtain. In her installation Vlaschits mixes live models with life-size illustrations of their skinny underwear-clad selves, ionic columns, palm trees and clouds in an erotic bathhouse setting and feels like moving through a theater set remake of Fassbinder\u2019s film \u201cQuerelle\u201d with a dose of innocence and insecurity. Exotic presentations of real and artificial objects and dreams blend together.<\/p>\n<p class=\"size--small\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24605\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/kw_welcome-to-the-jungle_Photo_Timo_Ohler_04.jpg\" alt=\"Installation view, V.l.n.r.\/F.l.t.r.: Ulu Braun: THE PARK, 2011 Basim Magdy: MY FATHER LOOKS FOR AN HONEST CITY, 2010, Klaus Weber: SANDFOUNTAIN, 2012 Sophie-Therese Trenka-Dalton: From the series ROUNDABOUT MONUMENTS IN THE UAE, 2014, Photo by Timo Ohler\" width=\"716\" height=\"441\" \/> Installation view, V.l.n.r.\/F.l.t.r.: Ulu Braun: THE PARK, 2011<br \/>Basim Magdy: MY FATHER LOOKS FOR AN HONEST CITY, 2010, Klaus Weber: SANDFOUNTAIN, 2012<br \/>Sophie-Therese Trenka-Dalton: From the series ROUNDABOUT MONUMENTS IN THE UAE, 2014, Photo by Timo Ohler<\/p>\n<p>In the main space, video art, sculptural installations and photography dominate the exhibition with a surprisingly clean and ordered effect considering the messy precariousness alluded to. Although the tedium of sitting through multiple thirty minute video works in succession may overwhelm the short attention spans of art-going audiences, taking time to process the narratives built by each artist in the exhibition proves a rewarding experience. Olaf Breuning travels the globe in his video \u201cHome 2\u201d (2007), touring from Japan to Switzerland and Polynesia, finally ending up in New York City, incessantly commenting on the relative similarities, aesthetics and cultural exceptions of the places and people he meets, with witty sarcasm and playful humour. Across the way, Melanie Bonajo\u2019s video \u201cNight Soil\/Fake Paradise\u201d (2014) contributes a spiritual element to the exhibition, waxing poetic on internet culture, sex energy, shamans and ayahuasca trips as costumed and nude characters move between forest and urban locations documenting their experiences on their phones and iPads. In the video \u201cLandscape Painting (Jungle)\u201d (2015), Julius von Bismarck plays out a futile exercise of envisioning and acting upon the natural environment as he whitewashes a section of jungle, then paints it green again.<\/p>\n<p class=\"size--small\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24606\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/kw_welcome-to-the-jungle_Photo_Timo_Ohler_07.jpg\" alt=\"Installation view V.l.n.r.\/F.l.t.r.: Sophie-Therese Trenka-Dalton: From the series ROUNDABOUT MONUMENTS IN THE UAE, 2014, Ulu Braun: THE PARK, 2011 (Detail) Roman Schramm: From the series SATELLITE CITY, 2014, Photo by Timo Ohler\" width=\"716\" height=\"473\" \/> Installation view V.l.n.r.\/F.l.t.r.: Sophie-Therese Trenka-Dalton: From the series ROUNDABOUT MONUMENTS IN THE UAE, 2014, Ulu Braun: THE PARK, 2011 (Detail) Roman Schramm: From the series SATELLITE CITY, 2014, Photo by Timo Ohler<\/p>\n<p>An outstanding addition to the exhibition is a photographic series by Roman Schramm. The artist has been using the design software Cinema 4D to render images of both sumptuous and grotesque organic objects and their representations, along with architectural and natural environments, playing with the multiple dimensions of vision and clarity that art can offer.<\/p>\n<p>At the heart of the exhibition is Klaus Weber\u2019s large baroque concrete fountain \u201cSandfountain\u201d (2012). Sand granules glisten under the low dramatic lighting, eternally spewed forth from the gaping mouths of the adorning lion heads. Here, the slow accumulating effects of a disturbing clash between natural and constructed environments offer a mesmerising moment of pause. Growth, development and change cannot be stopped. Bit by bit, the mounds continue to rise with a silent violence of covering up and wiping away what came before. The jungle is momentary, existing only in the fleeting moment as you envision it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Text by Arielle Bier<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Welcome to the Jungle&#8221; is on show at KW Institute of Contemporary Art, Berlin, until 15 November<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>More Berlin Art Week: <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/showroom\/2015\/09\/simon-njami-on-xenopolis-and-berlin-as-a-free-zone\/\">Simon Njami on \u2018Xenopolis\u2019 and Berlin as a \u2018Free Zone\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>More Berlin Art Week:<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/showroom\/2015\/09\/camille-henrot-brings-blue-chaos-to-st-agnes\/\">Camille Henrot Brings Blue Chaos to St Agnes<\/a><\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marianne Vlaschits, MALIBU MOONRISE, 2012\/2015, Various materials, Dimensions variable, Courtesy Marianne Vlaschits, Installation view, detail Photo by Timo Ohler Unfurling a seductive recapitulation of American hard rock band Guns N\u2019 Roses\u2019 hit song \u201cWelcome to the Jungle\u201d, the KW Institute of Contemporary Art kicks off Berlin Art Week with the eponymous group show curated by&#8230;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":24602,"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":[11856,139],"tags":[2832,3224,1671,3249,247,3250,168,3251,3252,3253,954,3254,3255],"class_list":["post-24600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sleek-art","category-art","tag-arielle-bier","tag-baw15","tag-berlin-art-week","tag-guns-n-roses","tag-julius-von-bismarck","tag-klaus-weber","tag-kw","tag-libia-castro-olafur-olafsson","tag-marianne-vlaschits","tag-melanie-bonajo","tag-olaf-breuning","tag-roman-schramm","tag-welcome-to-the-jungle"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&#039;Welcome to the Jungle&#039; at KW - a Rewarding Experience &#039;Welcome to the Jungle&#039; at KW - a Rewarding Experience<\/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\/welcome-to-the-jungle-at-kw-a-rewarding-experience\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"de_DE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"&#039;Welcome to the Jungle&#039; at KW - a Rewarding Experience &#039;Welcome to the Jungle&#039; at KW - a Rewarding Experience\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Marianne Vlaschits, MALIBU MOONRISE, 2012\/2015, Various materials, Dimensions variable, Courtesy Marianne Vlaschits, Installation view, detail Photo by Timo Ohler Unfurling a seductive recapitulation of American hard rock band Guns N\u2019 Roses\u2019 hit song \u201cWelcome to the Jungle\u201d, the KW Institute of Contemporary Art kicks off Berlin Art Week with the eponymous group show curated by...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/welcome-to-the-jungle-at-kw-a-rewarding-experience\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Sleek Magazine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sleekmag\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2015-09-16T13:08:08+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@sleekmag\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@sleekmag\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Verfasst von\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"sleek team\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Gesch\u00e4tzte Lesezeit\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"4\u00a0Minuten\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/\",\"name\":\"Sleek Magazine\",\"description\":\"Sleek is Germany\u2019s leading independent media house\/brand for creativity and innovation located in Berlin the creative capital of the world. 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