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The Week in Germany: Culture May 4, 2007 German Art Roundup - Brooklyn Takes Europe Out on a Blind Date, East Germany Goes Baltimore and Weimar Revisits Anna Amalia
May 9th is Europe Day, which will be celebrated in Washington DC with the first ever "EU Open House" event during which more than 20 European embassies and the European Commission will open their doors to the public on May 12. To celebrate Europe Day in New York, Jim Avignon, Katja Loher and the Goethe-Institut New York will transform Galapagos with a sampler of European culture by New York-based European artists and special guests, who will fly in for the event directly from Europe. Blind Date Europe presents concerts, theater, video screenings, multimedia shows, paintings and DJs. The stage in the front room will feature concerts by special guest Felix Kubin, Neoangin and Dorit Chrysler, and the stage in the back room there will be the premiere of Katja Loher's new short movie The Chess Field, Ant Hampton's experimental theater piece The Other People / La Otra Gente, several short films by Marie Losier and a multimedia event by PotiPoti. Galapagos will be decorated with paintings by Jim Avignon. Later at night, DJs will spin while the audience can dance or digest all the delicious art they have seen. And for techno music devotees, legendary Berlin-based DJs Lexy & K-Paul, along with fellow German DJs Andy Slate and Dominik Schöller, will be playing some hypnotic and harmonious beats at a "Techno de Mayo" event on Saturday, May 5, at Galapagos. (TWIG/Goethe-Institut New York) Galapagos Art Space is located at 70 North 6th Streete, Brooklyn, NY 11211, Phone: 718-782-5188. Admission to the Blinddate Europe event is $10. EU Embassies Open House in Washington East Germany Goes Baltimore
"East Germany in Baltimore" is an exhibition of works by three German artists spawned by a personal connection. Andreas Barth, Mathias Kanter and Michael Strauch are all part of the so-called New Leipzig School. Based in Dresden and Berlin, all three are established artists who exhibit their works at the A.G. Gallery for contemporary art. "Mike Strauch alienates the landscape and organic forms in his paintings and creates a new artificial atmospheric scenery. The conceptual approach followed by Andreas Barth and Matthias Kantor has essentially made color the material and theme of their work, and has developed a much reduced pictorial language," says the gallery's owner, Peter Kreissl, a former doctor and a musician. The personal connection that brings their artworks to Baltimore comes in the form of a German couple, Wilfried and Susanne Briest, who work at Johns Hopkins University as medical researchers. Through their friendship with Kreissl in Germany, these art enthusiasts have arranged a showing of this contemporary German art at the Antreasian Gallery in Baltimore. All three artists experienced the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989. As eastern Germans, their experiences of art and life were not only shaped by both the unification of East and West Germany in 1990 and the rich cultural histories and institutions of Leipzig, Dresden and Berlin. Craftsmanship and fundamental techniques were stressed in state-run schools. Many renowned German artists, such as A.R. Penck and Georg Baseltiz, however, went westwards during the pre-1990 period in search of more artistic freedoms. Ralf Weingart, of the National Museum in the northern German city of Schwerin, has written a review of the artists available on the gallery's website at http://www.antreasiangallery.com/ The Antreasian Gallery is located at 1111 West 36th Street in the Hampden neighborhood of Baltimore. The exhibition opens on May 4 with a short gallery talk by Kreissl and runs through May 31. Admission is free and open to the public. The gallery is wheelchair accessible. For more information contact robert@antreasiangallery.com or call 410-235-4420. The New York Times on the New Leipzig School (January 8, 2006) The Weimar Phenomenon - Anna Amalia, Carl August and the Genesis of Classicism
A visit to Weimar, with its excellent Bauhaus museum, former residences of Goethe and Schiller and picture-postcard-perfect architecture is like peering through a looking-glass into Germany's collective cultural past. Goethe, Schiller, Herder and Wieland are names that have continued to draw the world's attention to this provincial city up to the present day. But how did Weimar become the center of German intellectual history? To what extent did the policies of Duchess Anna Amalia and her son Duke Carl August contribute to this development? Answers to these questions are provided by the exhibition "Ereignis Weimar", organized by the Klassik Stiftung Weimar to mark the 200th anniversary of Anna Amalia's death. It opened in mid-April and runs through November 4, 2007, and coincides with the "Anna Amalia Year". Made in Germany - Contemporary Art from Germany
Hanover's Sprengel Museum, the kestnergesellschaft and the Kunstverein
Hannover are jointly mounting a major review exhibition presenting current
positions in contemporary art from Germany at which works by more than
50 artists are on display. The focus is on the younger generation of artists
- some of German, some of international origin - living and working in
Germany. The title of the exhibition, Made in Germany, can be understood
as programmatic in that it does not couple artistic identity solely with
place of birth and biography but with the place the artist produces the
work. This exhibition opens on May 25 - to coincide nicely with Hanover's
mammoth documenta 12 international contemporary art exhibition (June 16
to September 23) - and closes on August 26, 2007. Related stories about art in Germany: Year in Review: Culture and Zeitgeist (TWIG, Dec. 22, 2006) Documenta
Art Expo Discovers Color (Deutsche Welle) Berlin
Exhibition Tells the Story of Picasso's Guernica (Deutsche Welle) |
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