HANNE LIPPARD
AT mAsA BERLIN #10 HOSTED BY
APARTMENT PROJECT BERLIN
HERTZBERGSTRASSE 13 • 12055 BERLIN
OPENING • SATURDAY • 12 APRIL 2014 • 7 pm
• PERFORMANCE 8 pm
ORGAN by PAUL ARAMBULA
• EXHIBITION • 14-15 APRIL 6-9 pm
mAsA BERLIN is curated by Göksu Kunak
CLEANSE
It is a fact. People today lead toxic lifestyles. The food we eat is loaded with chemicals, the air we breathe is polluted, and our daily lives are riddled with so much stress, doubt, and anxiety that our bodies just deal with it. Corrupted souls suffer from bad digestion, ending up stealing years off your life. As there’s no guarantee for an afterlife, this bodily possession is not lightly to be taken for granted Take a tip: Exorcise enough to avoid this happening. Ginger, anger, blender, soul, no salt, stir, add a little water, a drop of oil, then serve immediately. It’s time for a cleanse.
http://hannelippard.com/
OFRI LAPID
AT MASA BERLIN #9 HOSTED BY
APARTMENT PROJECT BERLIN
HERTZBERGSTRASSE 13 • 12055 BERLIN
OPENING • SATURDAY • 29 MARCH 2014 • 7 pm
EXHIBITION • SUNDAY • 30 MARCH and 2-3-4 APRIL 2014 • 5-8 pm
ARTIST TALK • 5 APRIL 2014 • 5 pm
MASA BERLIN is curated by Göksu Kunak
Berlin based artist Ofri Lapid (*1983) created a display, a part of a larger body of works, which concerns the Amazon region as a terrain for entanglements of myth in history. Through a nonchronological observation of historical documents and objects, she exposes the bipolar character of Western material culture.
Mythographs makes a special use of the historic wet plate collodion photographic technique, to create ambrotypes, hybrid images of positive and negative on glass.
http://www.ofrilapid.com/
FLORIAN WÜST
AT MASA BERLIN #8 HOSTED BY
ARCHIVE BOOKS
DIEFFENBACHSTRASSE 31 • 10967 BERLIN
U8 Schönleinstrasse
OPENING • SATURDAY • 14 JANUARY 2012 • 7 pm
EXHIBITION • SUNDAY • 15 JANUARY 2012 • 3-7 pm
MASA BERLIN is initiated and organized by Isabel Schmiga and Sandra Teitge.
Florian Wüst's (*1970) ongoing artistic research project DIENST AN DER NOTWENDIGKEIT
[SERVICE TO NECESSITY] examines shifting forms of political protest. The story of Hartmut
Gründler, a West German teacher and anti-nuclear energy activist who burned himself publicly
in 1977, hereby functions as a vantage point. Besides the tragic course of this swift path to
self-immolation, set as an example of resistance against "continued governmental
misinformation" in nuclear policy, Gründler stands out as a great communicator and author of
countless pamphlets and open letters. For MASA BERLIN #8, Wüst presents various artefacts,
fabricated and real, that reflect and actualize Gründler's manic writing, verbal sophistication
and critique of technocratic language. For more information please click here: www.fwuest.com
ASLI SUNGU
AT MASA BERLIN #7 HOSTED BY
WEST GERMANY
SKALITZER STRASSE 133 • 10999 BERLIN
U1 Kottbusser Tor
OPENING • SATURDAY • 3 DECEMBER • 7 pm
EXHIBITION • SUNDAY • 4 DECEMBER 2011 • 3-7 pm
MASA BERLIN is initiated and organized by Isabel Schmiga and Sandra Teitge.
For MASA BERLIN #7, the Berlin-based artist Asli Sungu (*1975) presents her video installation
UNVERMEIDBAR [INEVITABLE]. The films show four daily domestic situations, in which the
artist loses control; the viewer is tempted to prevent these mishaps by wanting to physically
intervene. The surface of a mirror captures the reflections of the little accidents and
simultaneously represents the boundaries of intervention. The theme of UNVERMEIDBAR is
helplessness, a feeling that we try to manage and control by intervening in situations in order
to withstand the uncontrollable emotional experience. The intentional actions and the attempt
to intervene metaphorically reveal futility and loss in the form of familiar activities.
YUKI JUNGESBLUT
AT MASA BERLIN #6 HOSTED BY
tamtamART
WEICHSELSTR. 8 • 10247 BERLIN
U5 Frankfurter Allee
OPENING • SATURDAY • 19 NOVEMBER • 8 pm
EXHIBITION • SUNDAY • 20 NOVEMBER 2011 • 3-7 pm
MASA BERLIN is initiated and organized by Isabel Schmiga and Sandra Teitge.
For MASA BERLIN Berlin-based artist Yuki Jungesblut (*1974) explores the metaphoric power
of the concepts virus and superstar in our everyday life. Originated in the sciences in the last
century, the term virus has since entered other fields (»computer virus« p.e.). The superstar is
also a creation of the 20th century and closely linked to mass media. In a growing mental map
of associations, the artist invites the audience at MASA BERLIN to either draw, write down, or
verbally communicate ideas concerning notions of VIRUS/SUPERSTAR. Jungesblut will
subsequently structure and model the collected remarks in the further development of the
project. More info you can find here: yukijungesblut.net and www.tamtamart.de.
GRIMMUSEUM
FICHTESTR. 2 • 10967 BERLIN
OPENING • SATURDAY • 1 OCTOBER 2011 • 7 pm
EXHIBITION • SUNDAY • 2 OCTOBER 2011 • 2-7 pm
MASA BERLIN is initiated and organized by Isabel Schmiga and Sandra Teitge.
For MASA BERLIN US-American artist Wiley Hoard (*1984) relates the dimensions of the MASA (Turkish for „table“) to his own working table. Adapted to the size of the MASA, Hoard‘s work 110x150+140cm shows the humble abstract beauty of the traces and remnants of artistic work and recognizes the unforeseen possibilities of a banal object. In line with his other works, Hoard investigates, challenges, and elaborates on existing systems. Installed in the office of the Grimmuseum, a non-profit artist-run exhibition space, MASA BERLIN #5 is a grateful guest of the simultaneously occurring exhibition, Never Odd or Even‘ curated by Solvej Helweg Ovesen.
NATALIA STACHON
AT MASA BERLIN #4 HOSTED BY
MISCHEN
ERKELENZDAMM 11-13 • 10999 BERLIN
U8 KOTTBUSSER TOR
OPENING • SATURDAY • 9 JULY 2011 • 7 pm
EXHIBITION • SUNDAY • 10 JULY 2011 • 2-7 pm
MASA BERLIN is initiated and organized by Isabel Schmiga and Sandra Teitge.
NATALIA STACHON (*1976 Katowice, Poland) shows her installation RAJ. “‘Raj’ is Polish for ‘paradise’, but in everyday use the term ‘jak w raju’ donates something that is too good to be true” writes Dorothea Strauss. Stachon chose very thin copper sheets in A4 size and, in a laborious almost meditative process, hand-polished them to a high gloss. The sheets are so thin that they really seem almost like sheets of paper. Stachon crumpled each of these copper sheets like letters one wishes to rewrite. Here, the act of crumpling additionally turns into a sculptural gesture. Time is one of the themes this poetic work touches upon – the successive oxidation through air, breath, or touch. In parallel with RAJ, Stachon presents her new catalogue Natalia Stachon. Matter Shifted, edited by Dorothea Strauss for the Museum Haus Konstruktiv in Zurich and designed by Vera Rammelmeyer from MISCHEN, the July-host of MASA BERLIN.
Special thanks to: Barbara Bättig, Sven Holm, Harri Kuhn, Mardo Ohanoğlu, Jens Teitge, Vera Rammelmeyer and Vahit Tuna
