Marius Babias Libros

These Are the Only Times You Have Known' presents the work of 11 international artists who were awarded the Berlin Senate?s Visual Arts Grant.The range of artistic positions they represent re?ects the diversity of artistic forms of expression in Berlin and includes the examination of different layers of time, hidden narratives, and issues of belonging and performativity. The search for meaning in the present is an element shared by all of the artistic works presented, whose spectrum ranges from paintings, photographs, prints, and video installations to virtual reality techniques. The title These Are the Only Times You Have Known underscores the contemporaneity of the positions assembled in the exhibition, while at the same time pointing to the individual artistic achievements, each of which formulates questions about the present, past, and future in its own way. Exhibition: Neuer Berliner Kunstverein n.b.k., Berlin, Germany (0703. - 10.05.2020).

A meditation on the ideological conditions shaping contemporary American artistic and architectural practices Accompanying an exhibition featuring 37 works by 19 US-based artists, this publication explores the presence of American ideology in art, architecture and design. Artists include John Steuart Curry, Jimmie Durham, Andrea Fraser, Dan Graham, Renée Green, Jill Magid, Adrian Piper, Martha Rosler and more.

This dense script, which has been unearthed during the archival research for the exhibition of Neuen Berliner Kunstverein, assembled from a universal collection of materials, can now be presented to the public. VALIE EXPORT?s work was ahead of its time in its anticipation of the body?s emplacement in digital capitalism and the latter?s interactions with new media, artificial intelligence, and social media. One aspect of what makes The Virtual Body. From the Prosthetic to the Post-biological Body significant and worth studying is its insistence that, in the face of the symbolic instability of entertainment cinema, commercial TV, and digital broadcasting (YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, and other platforms) that cannot articulate more than their utter disconnect from reality, expanded cinema still has something important to say about the contemporary world.

There Is Fiction in the Space Between presents eleven outstanding positions of the international art scene in Berlin. Using a variety of media, styles and approaches, the artists address current social issues. The works by William Engelen, Fehras Publishing Practices, Nina Fischer & Maroan el Sani, Jean-Pascal Flavien, Eva Grubinger, Hanne Lippard, Antonia Low, Dafna Maimon & Ethan Hayes-Chute, Emeka Ogboh, Peles Empire and Sophie Reinhold cover a wide range of topics and artistic practices. The works introduced here are representative of the working methods of the artists and reflect current debates in the art field. They stand out due to their critical view of the present and examine, for example, architecture, specific places and collective experiences. With research-based projects historical references are made usable for the present and social conditions are depicted. The works presented reflect various aesthetic uses of form as well as transformative processes and provide insights into the diverse art production in Berlin. Text: Eva-Maria Gillich, Klaus Lederer, Emine Sevgi Özdamar, Michaela Richter, Misal Adnan Yıldız

Die Publikation gibt Einblick in aktuelle Tendenzen und Themen der zeitgenössischen Kunstproduktion, indem sie Werke von elf internationalen, in Berlin lebenden KünstlerInnen präsentiert: Bettina Allamoda, Diana Artus, Olga Balema, Fritz Balthaus, Mariechen Danz, Christine Sun Kim, Wolf von Kries, Sandra Schäfer, Roman Schramm, Heidi Sill und Sophie-Therese Trenka-Dalton. Hours and Hours of Inactivity stellt die Diversität der künstlerischen Arbeiten in den Vordergrund und umfasst die Medien Fotografie, Film und Video, Zeichnung, Skulptur und Installation. Die Ausstellung hebt unterschiedliche Ansätze und Zeiten innerhalb einzelner Werke der KünstlerInnen hervor, indem sie einen Fokus auf Langzeituntersuchungen und Serialität, unerwartete Begegnungen und vergessene Ephemera legt. Die Vielfalt der Arbeitsweisen und behandelten Themen reflektiert politisch, kulturell und kunsttheoretisch virulente Fragestellungen gleichermaßen.