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Deimantas Narcevicius

Revisiting Solaris
12 May –17 June 2007

daadgalerie
Zimmerstr. 90-91
10117 Berlin
Opening hours: daily from 11am – 6pm, closed Sundays
Opening: 11 May 2007, 7 – 9 pm

Along with Donatas Banionis, Deimantas Narcevicius sought and found the actor who played Kelvin, the main character in Tarkovsky’s famous 1972 filming of Solaris based on the novel by Stanislaw Lem. Banionis now lives near Vilnius in Lithuania, the home town of Narcevicius. In numerous conversations between the two, the idea arose to re-film the quintessence of this legendary science-fiction film in a modern form and, most importantly, with Deimantas Narcevicius stylistic language. The result is a kind of film collage. Narcevicius shows, between black and white landscape photography shot in the 19th century in the area around Anapa on the Krim, documentary sequences of a former Russian television station that seem, on their part, surreal in their pure architecture. (The building has, in the meantime, been demolished.) The old figure of the silent actor, Donatas Banionis, is at the centre of the sparse action, where Deimantas Narcevicius himself appears as a character. Revisit
ing Solaris thus seems to present a film visit to surreal places on a different planet that is nevertheless thoroughly realistic.

Deimantas Narcevicius was born in Lithuania in 1964 and works in Vilnius. Since the 1990s his films and videos have received international recognition. In 2003 he represented Lithuania at the Venice Biennale. He participated in the exhibition Utopia Station in the Haus der Kunst in Munich in 2004. In 2006, his work could be seen at a solo exhibition in the Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst in Leipzig and in conjunction with the DAAD at the Akademie der Künste in Berlin.

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Bonniers Konsthall

Salla Tykkä
Zoo
April 4 – June 17, 2007

Bonniers Konsthall
http://www.bonnierskonsthall.se

From April 4 to June 17, Salla Tykkä’s latest film Zoo will be shown for the first time in Sweden, at Bonniers Konsthall. Tykkä principally investigates women’s experiences. More specifically, she depicts decisive moments in women’s personal development. Her films are close-ups of inner processes and magnifications of the significance of the moment. Rooted in the female perspective, Tykkä’s works problematise the relationship with the spectator. Viewer and viewed merge, and the division between subject and object becomes hard to sustain. The inspiration for Tykkä’s films unmistakably comes from Hollywood classics. Especially Zoo, which is a blatant pastiche of Hitchcock.

Salla Tykkä’s works have been shown in solo exhibitions and film festivals all over the world. Zoo won her the Arte Short Film Award at the 22nd Hamburg International Short Film Festival in 2006. Tykkä is represented by Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris & New York.

Bonniers Konsthall in the centre of Stockholm is a new venue for Swedish and international contemporary art. With exhibitions, seminars, publications, a studio for guest artists and much more, Bonniers Konsthall aims to support the emergence of and to promote encounters with new art. Jeanette Bonnier is the founder of Bonniers Konsthall. Sara Arrhenius has been Director since 2005. The Konsthall is run on a non-profit basis by the Bonnier family under the auspices of The Bonnier Group. The Bonnier Group is one of Scandinavia’s biggest media concerns with operations in the daily press, magazines, books, film and television.

For more information go to: http://www.bonnierskonsthall.se

Netwerk, center for contemporary art

BAROQ at the GRIDIRON HOTEL

48hours initial hospitality incident (48hihi)

with: Mari Brellochs, Heman
Chong, Armin Chodzinski,
Barbara Frieß & Adi Hoesle,
Florian Feigl, Nicolas Galeazzi,
REINIGUNGSGESELLSCHAFT,
Jan Van Lierde, Agata Zwierzyñska

Artistic guidance: Joël Verwimp

Opening from Friday 4th of May till Sunday 6th of May

Can we use art as a metaphor for the entire world – similar, perhaps, to the way Baroque theatre considered the stage as a metaphor for the greater whole (topical art discourse and knowledge production)? JOËL VERWIMP

Netwerk / center for contemporary art gives substantial emphasis to process-based research and presents a.o. situation-based and/or context-oriented forms of mediation (such as interventions, encounters, performances, events, talks, presentations, publications, web logs …). In these reflective (and self-reflective) processes Netwerk tries to stimulate various forms of exchange (e.g. between music, performance and the visual arts) that may be able to generate new and meaningful artistic entities. The versatile and modular infrastructure – a former textiles warehouse – offers every opportunity to keep close track of such developments and attracts numerous artists whose work crosses disciplinary divides.

BAROQ at the GRIDIRON HOTEL is a collective project under the artistic guidance of Joël Verwimp, a Belgian Berlin based artist who is also member of the board of the Kunstfabrik am Flutgraben. The project starts its public activities with a three days opening, the 48 hours initial hospitality incident (48hihi). During their stay at the GRIDIRON HOTEL the artists will organize meetings, performances, workshops, screenings and interventions in public space. On Saturday night Joël Verwimp will moderate a public debate with Bettina Steinbrügge, director of Halle für Kunst in Lüneburg, Lillian Fellmann, artistic director of White, Wide, Wild Space (Zurich) and Simon Sheikh, curator and critic. One of the central questions will be in what way art worlds (informal and heterogeneous networks and formal institutions) can be regarded and used as research fields for social change and co-operation.

Simultaneously, the exhibition Cabinet Reclus / Potential Estate will be accessible in preview. Potential Estate is the umbrella title of a scenario, put together by a group of artists examining the possibilities of a collaborative residential format. After an exploratory mission in the U.S., Belgium, a small suburban entity situated in Wisconsin – founded by their Belgian and Luxemburg ancestors, has been identified as a potential terrain for a residential-annex-exhibition-project. On May 4th Cabinet Reclus takes a run-up to its opening on Saturday June 9th. At that time the cabinet will be presented in its completeness.

With: Simona Denicolai & Ivo Provoost, David Evrard, Ronny Heiremans & Katleen Vermeir, Pierre Huyghebaert, Adam Leech, Vincent Meessen

Exhibitions
from May 4th till June 9th 2007
from Wednesday till Saturday from 2 till 6 pm (May 17th - closed)

Netwerk, Center for Contemporary Art
Houtkaai z/n
9300 AALST
+(32)53 709773
http://www.netwerk-art.be

For more information go to: http://www.netwerk-art.be