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
HALEH REDJAIAN
AT MASA BERLIN #3 HOSTED BY
BETAHAUS
PRINZESSINNENSTRASSE 19-20 • 10969 BERLIN
U8 MORITZPLATZ
OPENING • FRIDAY • 3 JUNE 2011 • 7 pm
EXHIBITION • SATURDAY • 4 JUNE 2011 • 2-7 pm
MASA BERLIN is initiated and organized by Isabel Schmiga and Sandra Teitge.
HALEH REDJAIAN’S (*1971 in Frankfurt/M) visual research explores the creation of variable patterns and organizational systems derived from primary forms such as lines, triangles and grids. Both patterns and systems are highly pliable and are developed directly from objects and architectural fragments found inthe artist’s immediate surroundings. This fluency allows for the creation of a new visual space that is notfixed but has the capacity to manifest and regenerate itself in different ways. The work for MASA BERLIN, MERSIN, was inspired by a Turkish woven cloth pattern Redjaian came across in a book on textiles of the Islamic world. MASA BERLIN installed in the cafeteria of the Betahaus, a workspace for creative freelancers, opens up a dialogue between the MASA BERLIN Project and the simultaneously occurring International Design Festival DMY.
Special thanks to: Sven Holm, Madeleine von Mohl, Mardo Ohanoğlu, Jens Teitge and Vahit Tuna
