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Bonniers Konsthall

Wednesday Evenings at Bonniers Konsthall
Five Wednesday evenings during Against Time.
Bonniers Konsthall
Torsgatan 19, Stockholm
Phone: +46 8 736 42 48
Fax: +46 8 736 58 04
info@bonnierskonsthall.se

http://www.bonnierskonsthall.se

Wed, Nov 7
1984 and Beyond
In the work 1984 and Beyond, Irish artist Gerard Byrne challenges our views on the past, the present and the future. With the starting-point in a Playboy interview in 1963 with a group of science fiction writers, Gerard Byrne stages a past vision of the future. Gerard Byrne in an artist talk.
Introduced and concluded by assistant curator Camilla Larsson.

The talk will be held in English

Wed, Nov 21
The Invisible
A night of performances featuring several artists from the show Against Time. Ján Mancuska shows his performance work The Invisible involving eight actors. Ulla von Brandenburg and Julia Horstmann perform a shadow play based on a short story by Selma Lagerlöf. Melvin Moti is presented in an artist talk and screens his film No Show. Ján Mancuska sets out from private memories in his work and has exhibited at, among others, the 2006 Berlin Biennial. Ulla von Brandenburg’s art is rich in references, particularly in relation to the theatre. This autumn, she participates in a group exhibition at Tate Modern, London. Melvin Moti works with film based on historical events. He lives and works
in Rotterdam.

All works and talks are in English. The Shadow Play is in Swedish.

On September 12 this autumn’s main group exhibition Against Time opened at Bonniers Konsthall. The exhibition gathers 20 artists and authors who, from different perspectives and using different methods, work with time, history and storytelling. Common to them all is a fascination to recreate the past; a past that is reinterpreted, re-used and given new meanings through creative rewritings and new writings. The exhibition questions the methods of storytelling: how is continuity created, how is it broken down, are there other ways of telling? But it is also concerned with the way we create history through our narratives and with the function that the image and the reconstruction of the past performs in
the present.

A main theme in the exhibition is an interest for literature’s forms of narration and its function in contemporary visual art. The exhibition is devised as a crossover between visual art and literature in which several of those contributing to the exhibition also work as fictional authors. An important element in the exhibition is the comprehensive anthology Anachronisms in which the artists and authors participate. Their respective roles overlap in some cases in the same way that their contributions shift between text and image.

Against Time is an exhibition where time is an expressed dimension. The architecture devised for the exhibition by Klas Ruin, from the Swedish architectural firm SPRIDD, emphasises this by leaving a space for reading to occupy the heart of a labyrinthine series of rooms. It underscores the artists’ play with time and history, and counteracts the Konsthall’s transparency and clarity by using textiles to create darkness. A wide-ranging programme of readings, performances, discussions and lectures will be given during the course of the exhibition. Several of the contributing artists have produced new works especially for the exhibition.

Contributors:
Ulla von Brandenburg (Germany), Gerard Byrne (Ireland), Marcel van Eeden (The Netherlands), Annika von Hausswolff (Sweden), Johannes Heldén (Sweden), Leif Holmstrand (Sweden), Martin Karlsson (Sweden), Fabian Kastner (Sweden), Joachim Koester (Denmark), Robert Kusmirowski (Poland), Lotta Lotass (Sweden), Ján Mancuska (Czech Republic), Melvin Moti (The Netherlands), Gerald Murnane (Australia), Lina Selander (Sweden), Marie Silkeberg (Sweden), Johan Thurfjell (Sweden), Dubravka Ugresic (Croatia), Per Wizén (Sweden), Ulrika Minami Wärmling (Sweden)

Curator for the exhibition is director of Bonniers Konsthall, Sara Arrhenius.

For more information and high-resolution images please visit http://www.bonnierskonsthall.se

DIE PLANUNG / A TERV

New issues:
June/July 2011 / Issue No. 25
June/July 2036 / Issue No. 117
June/July 2048 / Issue No. 247
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DIE PLANUNG / A TERV is a publication for the utilization of the future, now. Each of the three issues of the print magazine carries a different date from the future (June/July 2011, 2036 and 2048). In fact, these issues are an advance from the future, and they will be published in those same future years in order to be verified. Around 60 international authors and artists have been contributing to this operation with historical, futurological, sociological, philosophical, literary and artistic work from one of those specific future dates.

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No. 25, 2011 (ISBN: 978-963-06-2501-2), 183 Pages
Aspassia Kouzoupi: Perpetual Entelechy; Roland Nolte: How Sustainable is our Energy System?; János Sugár: If We’re So Good, Why Aren’t We Better?; J.A. Tillmann: The Forgetters; Deane Simpson & Jörg Stollmann: The future is now – the future is Old; Ferda Kolatan: Instant Bodies (IBs); Peter Kerites: Cyber-Medical Applications Rock Japanese Voice Market on 2011 First Quarter; László Garaczi: 1 brain; Ulrich Gutmair: umma means communism; Martin Burckhardt; Open Letter; Ulrike Feser: expectance crisis; Beatriz Colomina: A House of Ill Repute; Daniela Comani: Beautiful Girl’s; Michaela Melián: A trip to 433 Eros; Rachel Baker: Witness Testimonial by Zabdiel Levi. Google VS The Unplugged Re-enactors Society; Zsófia Bán: Love Is All You Need?; Jason Danziger: Sing Sing; Aaron Mo: Artists and gentrification in London; Balázs Irimiás: Sutra of the Earth Goddess; Vera Tollmann: Again in Berlin; Kathrin Röggla: the right people to talk to; Intercultural Orientation a
nd the RandomRoutines: Save your past in the future!

No. 117, 2036 (ISBN: 978-963-06-2502-9), 209 Pages
Intercultural Orientation group and the RandomRoutines; Balázs Bodó: Diary; László Garaczi: 1 brain; János Sugár: A New Celebrity Arrives; Benedek Jávor: Notes from the house of past; Stephan Trüby: ESWTNJB - Notes for a conspiracy-theoretical architecture novel; Elizabeth Felicella: Rochester, Minnesota; Sebastian Cichocki: Bloody Exhibition Opening; J. A. Tillmann: hyaena reclama; Ines Schaber: Radio Activity; Reiner Maria Matysik: sexual vegetation; Róbert Szabó-Benke: Konyi Shiva showing; Ferenc Kömlodi: Transhuman Tales; Carolee Schneemann: Parts of a Body House; Far Severö Sapirico: YESTEM (excerpt); LIGNA: read carefully; Guy van Belle: views of the decade; Ronald Düker: Ventoux protests turn violent; Yona Friedman: A museum of the 21st century, in Paris; Levente Polyák: Shelves - The Discovery of Yona Friedman’s A Museum of the 21st Century, in Paris; McKenzie Wark: Between times; Charles Holland: it’s a small world.

No. 247, 2048 (ISBN: 978-963-06-2503-6), 217 Pages
Luc Merx; Hanna Cheng Maas Mandlova & Laurlene Gwk Nganeland: Report on the Visit of the Anthropological Task Force to Kov; Intercultural Orientation and the RandomRoutines: tccp opens new recollecting yard; Ingo Niermann: The Return of the Pyramid; Terre Thaemlitz: 105,120,000′33″ A Sound Score In Two Movements; László Garaczi: 1 brain; Velimir Abramovic: Ontology of Time; a42.org: Kimilsungia; J. A. Tillmann: The Advent of Avatars; Richard W. Wilkie: Time Realities and Memories of Place; János Sugár: The Golden Age; Martin Conrads: Letter to the Editors; SKART: (What / For Whom / How) Hands Don’t Fear!!!; Maja and Reuben Fowkes: The Art of Post-Ecological Subjectivities; zeitguised: faller world model, biodigital; Hilmar Schmundt: Future instead of Origin or …; Detlev Arendt: “Harmonised Partnershipâ€� from an Evolutive Perspective; Erik Bünger: Have I seen your face before?; Ferenc Gerlóczy: Communism as Follow-up Care; Donna Haraway: A Cyborg Manifesto; Iassen
Markov & Giulia Tubelli: Verwaltungshefte Januar.

Cover & Layouts: Sandra Bartoli, Silvan Linden, Katarina Sevic
Logo Design & Basic Typographical Concept: Anna Mándoki

DIE PLANUNG / A TERV is edited and published from Berlin and Budapest by Sandra Bartoli, Martin Conrads, Silvan Linden, Levente Polyák and Katarina Sevic. Nos. 25, 117 and 247 were funded by “Bipolar German-Hungarian Cultural Projects” (an initiative of the German Federal Cultural Foundation) and institutionally supported by the Secretariat for Futures Studies (Berlin/Dortmund) and nextlab (Budapest).

Kunsthalle and Kunstverein, Düesseldorf

PALERMO
Red, Yellow and Blue, 1975
Acrylic on Aluminum
26.7 x 147 x 0.3 cm
Four parts, each one 26.7 x 21 x 0.3 cm respectively
Kunstmuseum Bonn
Copyright: VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2007
Photo: Kunstmuseum Bonn

PALERMO
21st October 2007 - 20th January 2008
Grabbeplatz 4 D-40213 Düsseldorf
Tel: +49 (0)211 8996 243 / +49 (0)211 32 70 23
http://www.kunsthalle-duesseldorf.de
http://www.kunstverein-duesseldorf.de

The Kunsthalle Düsseldorf and the Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen present the first comprehensive exhibition of Palermo’s works in Düsseldorf

“Palermo, the name had been found and slowly it came to stand for the hand belonging to the greatest painter of this generation …�, wrote Georg Jappe in 1977, shortly after Peter Heisterkamp (1943-1977), whose artist’s pseudonym was Palermo, died unexpectedly at the age of 33. The Kunsthalle Düsseldorf and the Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen celebrate their 40th anniversary in their home on the Grabbeplatz with an exhibition of his works specifically conceived to accommodate the spatial properties of the building itself. In conjunction with this celebration, which has been designed to render visible both the architecture as well as the institutions themselves, for which it was originally built, a comprehensive overview of Palermo’s work is shown for the first time in the town that was at the centre of his life for many years.

Together with the guest curator Susanne Küper, Ulrike Groos (Kunsthalle Düsseldorf) and Vanessa Joan Müller (Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen) and their team have prepared this presentation of Palermo’s pioneering Å“uvre. Artworks from pivotal groups of works — cloth pictures, metal paintings, objects, drawings — chart in exemplary fashion the development of an artist’s career which was cut short prematurely and which not only exerted a great influence on his contemporaries, but also on the artistic practices of today.

Palermo came to Düsseldorf in 1962 in order to study at the Academy initially under Bruno Goller and then under Joseph Beuys. He developed his unmistakeable abstract pictorial language here and later in the USA (1973-1976) that decisively extended the concept of the picture and explored a new relationship between composition and space.

The characteristic balancing act between composition and object is equally a theme of the exhibition as is the physical quality of his works. The development from traditional composition on the one hand to the object on the wall on the other, all the way through to wall paintings, themselves redolent of categories such as surface, space and time, is exemplified in the selection of works on show, some of which are being exhibited in public for the first time. It is not the individual composition that takes the limelight, but rather the overall effect and interaction of many works in the space provided, very much in accordance with the artist’s ideas. Works on loan from international museums and private collections supplement the exhibition to provide a comprehensive view of an artist whose work remains abidingly current.

A catalogue is published by the DuMont Literatur und Kunst Verlag in which Palermo’s work and his characteristic method of working is discussed in conversations between art historians, critics, artists and contemporaries. The differing and equally valid perspectives on Palermo’s work coalesce to form a richly facetted image underlining Palermo’s overall art historical merit and status. Publication
(approx. 240 pages).

Opening hours: Tue - Sat 12 noon - 7 pm, Sundays and public holidays 11 am - 6 pm
Admission: Young people under 18 and the disabled: free admission
Free guided tours: Wednesdays, 6 pm as well as Sundays, 12.30 pm

The exhibition is sponsored by:

KUNSTSTIFTUNG NRW, Der Ministerprasident des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen and Ernst & Young.

The Kunsthalle Düsseldorf is funded by:

Landeshauptstadt Düsseldorf

The Kunstverein is supported by:

Stadtwerke Düsseldorf AG