WHY BERLIN ! No. 13
Exhibitions in Berlin
September – December 2008
ART FORUM BERLIN 2008
International Fair for Contemporary Art
31 October – 3 November 2008
Berlin Fairgrounds, Halls 18-20
Masurenallee, Berlin-Charlottenburg
daily noon – 8 pm, Wed. until 6pm
until 13 October 2008
Ronald de Bloeme: Piracy
Vattenfall Art Award Energy 2007
until 20 October 2008
Die Riess
until 20 October 2008
Marcellvs L.
Amir Fattal, Jay Chung & Q Takeki Maeda
GASAG Art Award 2008
3rd European Month of Photography Berlin 2008:
2 November 2008– 2 February 2009
Mutations II – Moving Stills
2 November 2008 – 2 February 2009
Hans Robertson
The Berlin Years, 1926 – 1933
2 November 2008 – 16 February 2009
As Far As the Eye Can’t See
Panoramic Photographs of Berlin, 1949 – 1953
Berlinische Galerie
Alte Jakobstrasse 124-128, Berlin-Kreuzberg
Wed – Mon 10 am – 6 pm, closed on Tue
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19 July – 5 October 2008
Leonard Freed . Worldview
Retrospective
until 5 October 2008
Leonard Freed . Worldview
Judith Joy Ross . Living With War
Talents 12 . Talents 12 . Thirteen . Janina Wick / Ann-Christin Bertrand
Sebastião Salgado . In Principio
11 October – 7 December 2008
agnes b . Collection of Photographs
Talents 13 . Leaving Again . Sebastian Stumpf / Stefanie Hoch
C/O Berlin – International Forum for Visual Dialogues
Postfuhramt, Oranienburger Straße / Tucholskystraße, Berlin-Mitte
daily 11 am – 8 pm
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until 21 September 2008
Private/Corporate V
A Dialogue of the Collections Lafrenz, Hamburg and Daimler, Stuttgart/Berlin
11 October 2008 – 1 March 2009
Art Scope 2008. Contemporary Art from Japan and Germany:
Izumi Kato, Yuken Teruya, Eva Teppe, Ascan Pinckernelle
Mercedes-Benz Award for South African Art Projects in Public Space 2008:
Kevin Brand, Samson Mudzunga
Emerging Artist Award 2008, Berlin/Detroit:
Annica Leah Cuppetelli
Daimler Contemporary
Potsdamer Platz, Haus Huth, U108
Alte Potsdamer Str. 5, Berlin-Mitte
daily 11 am – 6 pm
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until 5 October 2008
Freeway Balconies
Contemporary American Art curated by Collier Schorr
30 November 2008 – 1 February 2009
Anish Kapoor
Commissioned Work for Deutsche Guggenheim
Deutsche Guggenheim
Unter den Linden 13-15, Berlin-Mitte
daily: 11 am – 8 pm, Thur until 10 pm
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13 September 2008 – 11 January 2009
Ayşe Erkmen
3 October 2008 – 25 January 2009
Cult of the Artist: Beuys. We are the revolution
supported by the Friends of the Nationalgalerie
3 October 2008 – 11 January 2009
Cult of the Artist: Celebrities. Andy Warhol and the Stars
3 October 2008 – 22 February 2009
Cult of the Artist: „I can’t just slice off an ear every day”.
Deconstructing the Myth of the Artist
Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin
Invalidenstr. 50-51, Berlin-Tiergarten
Tue – Fri 10 am – 6 pm, Sat 11 am – 8 pm, Sun 11 am – 6 pm
www.hamburgerbahnhof.de
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until 24 September 2008
Sculptures in the Park:
Simon Faithfull, Gregor Hildebrandt
9 November – 28 December 2008
Via Lewandowsky – Applause
Haus am Waldsee
Argentinische Allee 30, Berlin-Zehlendorf
daily 10 am – 6 pm
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permanent display:
Helmut Newton´s Private Property
20 June – 16 November 2008
Pigozzi and the Paparazzi
with Salomon, Weegee, Galella, Secchiaroli, Angeli, Quinn and Newton
Helmut Newton Foundation
Jebensstr. 2, Berlin-Charlottenburg
Tue – Sun 10 am – 6 pm, Thur until 10 pm
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until 12 October 2008
On stage: nature – Living at the Edge
24 October 2008 – 11 January 2009
Spot on… Bamako 2007
VII. Rencontres Africaines de la Photographie
ifa-Gallery Berlin, Institute for Foreign Culture Relations e.V.
Linienstr. 139/140, Berlin-Mitte
Tue – Sun 2 pm – 7 pm, Sat noon – 8 pm
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19 September – 5 October 2008
Martin Skauen – “Servant Swept the Sand Smooth”
An Te Liu – “Matter”
“Pjöngjang Pjöngjang” – Jenny Rosemeyer, Eva-Maria Wilde & Guests
24 October – 11 November 2008
Patrick Tuttofuoco
Christian Niccoli
28 November – 14 December 2008
Pia Lindman
Sophia Tabatadze
Kuenstlerhaus Bethanien GmbH
Mariannenplatz 2, Berlin-Kreuzberg
Wed – Sun 2 pm – 7 pm
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27 June – 19 October 2008
Invented Reality
Dutch Drawings and Prints from the Collection Christoph Müller
27 June – 19 October 2008
The Connoisseur in the Museum
Max J. Friedländer (1867–1958)
7 November 2008 – 8 February 2009
Katharina Meldner: Spirits. Drawings and Videos
(Hannah-Höch-Prize 2008)
Kupferstichkabinett
Kulturforum Potsdamer Platz
Matthäikirchplatz 8, Berlin-Tiergarten
Tue – Fri 10 am – 6 pm, Sat & Sun 11 am – 6 pm
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28 September – 16 November 2008
Geschlossene Gesellschaft
Manon de Boer, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Gianni Motti, Chloe Piene, Gregor Schneider et al.
28 September – 16 November 2008
Hotel Marienbad 004
Wolfgang Breuer: Pizza Prekär
30 November 2008 – 25 January 2009
POLITICAL/ MINIMAL
curated by Klaus Biesenbach
KW Institute for Contemporary Art
Auguststr. 69, Berlin-Mitte
Tue – Sun noon – 7 pm, Thur until 9 pm
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12 September 2008 – 5 January 2009
The Tropics
Views from the Middle of the Globe
19 October 2008 – 19 January 2009
Richard Avedon. Photographs 1946 – 2004. Retrospective
30 October 2008 – 12 January 2009
Time Perspectives. Acquisitions from the Collection of Contemporary Arts of Federal Republic of Germany 1998-2008
Martin-Gropius-Bau
Niederkirchnerstraße 7 Corner Stresemannstr. 110, Berlin-Kreuzberg
Wed – Mon 10 am–8 pm
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until 31 October 2008
Reflections III: Francis Zeischegg „Ableger”
installation in the vegetable patches
27 September – 7 December 2008
Reflections V: Jörg Bürkle „Recherchen”
13 December 2008 – 1 March 2009
Reflections VI: Heidi Specker “Landhaus Lemke – Mies van der Rohe”
Mies van der Rohe Haus
Oberseestraße 60, Berlin – Hohenschoenhausen
Tue – Sun 11 am – 5 pm
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20 September – 2 November 2008
Megastructure Reloaded
Visionary Architecture and Urban Design of the Sixties Reflected by
Contemporary Artists. With Archigram, Ryan Gander, Tobias Putrih,
Tomás Saraceno, Superstudio et al.
Alte Münze (old mint) Berlin
entrance: Molkenmarkt 1, Berlin-Mitte
www.megastructure-reloaded.org
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20 September – 2 November 2008
German Angst
11 – 16 November 2008
Conceptual Art from California
13 December 2008 – 2 February 2009
Anetta Mona Chisa / Lucia Tkácová
n.b.k. Neuer Berliner Kunstverein
Chausseestr. 128/129, Berlin-Mitte
Tue–Sun noon–6 pm, Thur noon–8 pm
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4 July – 5 October 2008
Hiroshi Sugimoto
31 October 2008 – 8 February 2009
Cult of the Artist: The Universe Klee
31 October 2008 – 8 February 2009
Cult of the Artist: Jeff Koons. Celebration
Neue Nationalgalerie
Potsdamer Str. 50, Berlin-Tiergarten
Tue/Wed/Fri 10 am – 6 pm, Thur 10 am – 10 pm; Sat/Sun 11 am – 6 pm
www.neue-nationalgalerie.de
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13 September – 19 October 2008
Der Blinde Fleck – The Blind Spot
1 November – 30 November 2008
PÖPP 68.
Privat / Private, Öffentlich/Public, Politisch/Political, Persön-lich/Personal
6 participative projects, conference, exhibition, publication
NGBK – Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst Oranienstr. 25, Berlin-Kreuzberg
daily: noon – 6:30 pm
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