Kategorie: Skulpurenprojekt

BEL ETAGE “Draußen ist feindlich” wird von der Berliner Künstlerin Renata Kaminska und Susanne Prinz, Leiterin des Vereins zur Förderung von Kunst und Kultur am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz e.V., kuratiert. BEL ETAGE wird einmal jährlich von Renata Kaminska veranstaltet und findet 2011 zum dritten Mal statt.

*Mit der Unterstützung der Kulturverwaltung des Berliner Senats.
*Mit freundlicher Unterstützung des Vereins zur Förderung von Kunst und Kultur am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz.
*Gefördert durch das Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (IFA) aus Mitteln der Kulturabteilung des Auswärtigen Amtes.

„Es wird hell“, bandleader Bixa Bargeld is singing in the song by the Einstürzende Neubauten: „Draußen ist feindlich“. After having shown several videos, light-installations, slideshows and illuminated boxes last year, this year on Gallery Weekend 2011 BEL ETAGE is going outside into the daylight. All around the Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz in Berlin Mitte we will find many interesting works, concerning the topical and formal reality of that special spot. Our short-lived reality, performance and sustainability will be the main themes of the exhibition. The participating artists are invited to create something new, which stands out of the artist’s common work. The temporary existence of these artworks at such a place of cultural and artistic relevance visualizes the historical discontinuity of the space. Something new and unique will be created right there, where many changes occurred in history. For one weekend fifteen artists will examine hidden identities, new forms and old relations of the well-known place.

Im Experiment mit isolierten Aspekten, wie Verortung, Maßstab, Funktion, Zirkulation und Schnittstellen werden die Objekte zum assoziativem Rohstoff für das erste Haus. Anders als beim klassischen Werkstück, in dem die Bearbeitungsmethode keine Rolle spielt, werden im Verarbeitungsprozess Fragen und Konflikte erzeugt, die zu Ideen für Architektur, Raum und den in ihm stattfindenden Situationen führen. Über die entzifferbaren Zusammenhänge hinaus, stellt der Arbeitsprozess ein Phänomen dar, das sowohl von unseren alltäglichen Erfahrungen als auch von glücklicher Koinzidenz geprägt ist.

Bettina Kraus and Nandini Oehlmann, Mathias Peppler with
Gerburg Brilling, Rebecca Galley, Vithujan Gengatharan, Branko Gudlin, Rafael Herzberger, Dennis Hildebrandt, Leana Hahn, Izabella Jadwiga Milto, Aleksandra Oracz, Adrianna Rauer, Aaron Schedler, Burhan Sezdi, Maximilian Springer, Hanna Strahl

Fotos: Irina Hoppe

English

The exhibition is taking place in Wechselstuben, a temporary, site specific installation by Michael Beutler at Rosa Luxemburg Platz. On view are the first object and house produced by the architecture students of the Atelier Bettina Kraus at the University of Technology Cottbus.

The process of creating these works began with the choice to work with one material – wood, felt, stone or metal, as well as the parameter of a limited number of work processes. The choice of material, its fabrication and handling has a defining influence on the expression of each object. Through a simple series of dividing and manipulating, different raw materials are transformed into a group of remarkable figures with a sculptural presence that make us aware of the possibilities and limitations of the respective materials. In the process of dividing, re-building and de-forming the different materials, which are largely industrially produced, the connections between form, structure and the material-specific properties are discovered.

Within the experiment of dealing with isolated aspects of situatedness, scale, function, circulation and points of intersection, the objects become associative resources for the house. Different from the traditional Werkstück, for which the treatment of materials is not in itself of interest, the process of working brings forth questions and conflicts that lead to ideas for architecture, space and the situations taking place within. Beyond its classifiable connections this work process also presents itself as a phenomenon in itself, one that is informed by both everyday experience and fortuitous coincidence.

Paula Doepfner’s installation Ease Your Window Down is dedicated to the life and afterlife of Polish-German politician Rosa Luxembourg, after whom the place and adjoining street of the exhibition site are named. Under three maple trees, a block of ice dimensioned to melt within approximately 24 hours is situated on a carpet of round-leaved mint, a plant that as well as the trees and other plants on the urban green can be found in the herbarium Rosa created while imprisoned. In the heart of the block – readable with difficulty – is a text excerpt from Heiner Müller’s Hamlet Machine talking about the woman rather than the politician.

Ease Your Window Down is to be read as an original and aktive endevour to combine history, science and visuelle culture in ordert to shift perception.