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.

Thunder in Your Throat präsentiert Arbeiten von elf internationalen Künstler*innen, deren Werk mit dem Arbeitsstipendium Bildende Kunst des Berliner Senats ausgezeichnet wurde: Navild Acosta & Fannie Sosa, Catherine Biocca, Kamilla Bischof, Giorgi Gago Gagoshidze & Tekla Aslanishvili, Anne Duk Hee Jordan & Pauline Doutreluingne, Theresa Kampmeier, Ezgi Kılınçaslan, Nathalie Anguezomo Mba Bikoro, Jens Pecho, Matheus Rocha Pitta, Eva Seufert. Kennzeichnend für die vorgestellten Werke ist nicht nur eine Beschäftigung mit Gegenwartskultur, sozialen Missständen, fortwirkenden historischen Verbrechen und emanzipatorischen Gegenbewegungen, sondern auch eine Etablierung ganz eigener künstlerischer Handschriften. Sie formulieren einen kritischen Blick auf zeitgenössische Bildpolitiken, Wertschöpfungsmechanismen, ökonomische Ungleichheit und die Ausbeutung von Mensch und Natur. Bildgewaltig und atmosphärisch dicht lassen die Künstler*innen soziopolitische Handlungsweisen greifbar werden und stellen diese zur Disposition. Texts: Layla Burger-Lichtenstein, Nicoleta Esinencu und Michaela Richter