WHY BERLIN ! No. 12 – Exhibitions in Berlin May – August 2008
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5 April – 15 June 2008
5th berlin biennial for contemporary art
KW Institute for Contemporary Art and further venues
Auguststr. 69, Berlin-Mitte
Tue/Wed/Fri 10 am – 7 pm, Thur 10 am – 10 pm; Sat/Sun 11 am – 7 pm
www.berlinbiennale.info/index.php?lang=en
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16 May – 25 August 2008
Glances and Desire . The Photographer Herbert Tobias (1924 – 1982)
23 May – 13 October 2008
Ronald de Bloeme . Piracy
6 June – 5 October 2008
Die Riess . Photographic Studio and Salon in Berlin, 1918-1932
Berlinische Galerie
Berlin’s Musem of Modern Art, Photography and Architecture
Alte Jakobstrasse 124-128, Berlin-Kreuzberg
Wed – Mon 10 am – 6 pm, closed on Tue
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until 11 May 2008
Bettina Rheims . Can You Find Happiness?
16 May – 13 July 2008
Deutsche Börse Photography Prize
18 July to 5 Oktober 2008
Leonard Freed . Worldview
C/O Berlin – The Cultural Forum for Photography
Postfuhramt, Oranienburger Straße / Tucholskystraße, Berlin-Mitte
daily 11 am – 8 pm
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2 May – 7 June 2008
Mona Hatoum . Hanging Garden
daadgalerie
Zimmerstrasse 90/91, Berlin-Mitte
Mon – Sat: 11 am – 6 pm
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7 March – 1 June 2008
Classical : Modern II
Abstraction, Informel, Stuttgart and Karlsruhe painting school
20 June – 21 September 2008
Private/Corporate V : Minimal Art and Minimalism
A Dialogue with works of the Collection Lafrenz, Hamburg and Daimler
Daimler Contemporary
Potsdamer Platz, Haus Huth, U108
Alte Potsdamer Str. 5, Berlin-Mitte
daily 11 am – 6 pm
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26 April – 22 June 2008
Freisteller – Villa Romana Fellows 2008:
Dani Gal, Julia Schmidt, Asli Sungu, Clemens von Wedemeyer
5 July 2008 – 21 September 2008
Freeway Balconies
Contemporary American Art curated by Collier Schorr
Deutsche Guggenheim
Unter den Linden 13-15, Berlin-Mitte
daily: 11 am – 8 pm, Thur until 10 pm
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until 24 August 2008
Wolfgang Tillmans – Lighter
until 10 August 2008
Anna & Bernhard Blume – Reine Vernunft / Pure Reason
20 June – 24 August 2008
Alicja Kwade: Piepenbrock Sculpture Prize 2008
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 8 June 2008
Olav Christopher Jenssen – At times
21 June – 3 August 2008
Peter Ablinger – Listen to listening
4 August – 30 September 2008
Building under Construction: Sculptures in the Park + Loft Cube
Haus am Waldsee
Argentinische Allee 30, Berlin-Zehlendorf
daily 10 am – 6 pm
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Permanent Exhibition:
Helmut Newton’s Private Property
7 June – 16 November 2008
Pigozzi and the Paparazzi
with Newton, Salomon, Weegee, Galella, Angeli, Secchiaroli and Quinn
Helmut Newton Foundation
Jebensstr. 2, Berlin-Charlottenburg
Tue – Sun 10 am – 6 pm, Thur until 10 pm
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until 4 May 2008
URBANreVIEWS. Brave New World
On the Transformation of Central and Eastern European Cities
16 May – 20 July 2008
On stage: nature: Water: misery and delight
1 August – 12 October 2008
On stage: nature: Living at the Edge
ifa-Galerie Berlin, Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen e. V.
Linienstr. 139/140, Berlin-Mitte
Tue – Sun 2 pm – 7 pm
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23 April – 30 May 2008
Made in Germany: Photo-exhibition. Philine von Sell
2 July – 1 August 2008
EHF 2010 Sales Exhibition: Donations by EHF-Scholarship recipients
Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung
Tiergartenstr. 35, Berlin-Tiergarten
Mon – Fri 9 am – 5 pm
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1 – 18 May 2008
Nathalie Latham, Luca Trevisani
5 – 22 June 2008
Haris Epaminonda, Ming Wong
10 – 27 July 2008
Libia Castro/Olafur Olafsson, Markus Degerman
Kuenstlerhaus Bethanien GmbH
Mariannenplatz 2, Berlin-Kreuzberg
Wed – Sun 2 pm – 7 pm
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until 1 June 2008
Grünewald – Drawings and Paintings
until 8 June 2008
”I bought the Brooklyn Bridge”
Ten Years of Acquisitions by the Graphische Gesellschaft zu Berlin
27 June – 19 October 2008
Invented Reality
Dutch Prints and Drawings from the Collection Christoph Müller
Kupferstichkabinett
Kulturforum Potsdamer Platz
Matthäikirchplatz 4, Berlin-Tiergarten
Tue – Fri 10 am – 6 pm, Sat & Sun 11 am – 6 pm
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until 1 June 2008
Dani Karavan – Retrospective
9 May – 28 July 2008
Jewgeni Chaldej – The significant moment. Retrospective
17 May – 14 July 2008
Good Prospects – Young German Photographers 2007/2008
Martin-Gropius-Bau
Niederkirchnerstraße 7 Corner Stresemannstr. 110, 10963 Berlin
Wed – Mon 10 am–8 pm
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until 29.June 2008
Reflections II – Ulrich Erben
29 June – 31 October 2008
Reflections III – Francis Zeischegg “Ableger”
4 July – 21 September 2008
Reflections IV – Klaus Schmitt
Mies van der Rohe Haus
Oberseestraße 60, Berlin – Hohenschoenhausen
Tue – Sun 11 am – 5 pm
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5 July – 17 August 2008
Silke Wagner
n.b.k. – Neuer Berliner Kunstverein
Chausseestr. 128/129, Berlin-Mitte
Tue – Fri noon – 6 pm, Sat & Sun 2 pm – 6 pm
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4 July – 5 October 2008
Hiroshi Sugimoto
18 July – 5 October 2008
Rupprecht Geiger – 100 years
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
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until 19 May 2008
Katastrophenalarm
…an exhibition focusing on the media presentation and political instrumentalization
of ecological disasters
31 May – 13 July 2008
RealismusStudio presents:Klaus Mettig – DON’T BE LEFT BEHIND
Photographic Work and Projection 1978 – 2007
26 July – 31 August 2008
Ein Leben lang – All your life
…examines the visual representation of the human aging process within western cultures
NGBK – Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst
Oranienstr. 25, Berlin-Kreuzberg
daily: noon – 6:30 pm
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16 May – 28 June 2008
Claudia Schneider – Clangerdropper
31 July 2008, 8 pm
Chiyoko Szlavnics: Sound-Installation Concert Performance
23 August – 30 August 2008
Chris Newman – Base Phrase and a Ramble
Opera without Music. Premiere with Chris Newman and David Kern:23 August, 8 pm
2nd and 3rd performance: 27 and 30 August, 8 pm
7hours HAUS 19
at Park Campus North Humboldt-University
Entrances: Philippstrasse 13, Reinhardtstrasse 4 or Reihardtstrasse 18-20, Berlin-Mitte
Wed – Sat 2 pm – 6 pm; 17 – 23 August: 10 am – 6 pm
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SAVE THE DATE
31 October – 3 November 2008
ART FORUM BERLIN 2008
International Fair for Contemporary Art
Berlin Fairgrounds, Halls 18-20
Masurenallee, Berlin-Charlottenburg
daily noon – 8 pm, Wed. until 6pm
Why Berlin! listings are being provided by the Association of Berlin Curators from Contemporary Art Institutions, initiated by ART FORUM BERLIN.
