Studio Mondial / Kunsthaus Kurfürstendamm, Berlin, Kurfürstendamm 47
For the first time ever, the Gallery Weekend Festival will take place as part of Berlin Art Week. Held at Studio Mondial on Kurfürstendamm, formerly a hotel, the festival will feature an extensive programme of performances, screenings, sound pieces, readings, and installations. More than 40 of Gallery Weekend Berlin’s galleries will participate in the festival, presenting contributions by their represented artists alongside their concurrent gallery exhibitions. Curated by Sandra Teitge, the programme’s focus is mostly on younger positions that oscillate between traditional disciplines in a non-hierarchical way and thus open up new spaces of experience.
During the festival weekend, the common areas of the former restaurant will come to life hosting performances on the ground floor, courtyard, and underground parking garage. Artists Nicholas Grafia (Peres Projects) and Mikołaj Sobczak (Capitain Petzel) will present a version of their performance It’s 10pm. Do you know where your children are? which deals with the challenges of queer youth in various family dynamics and socio-political realities; Leyla Yenirce (Capitain Petzel), together with vocalist Vienna Gist, will open a resonance space where noise meets the voices of the protagonists; Anna Ehrenstein (KOW) will activate her installation Zen for Hoejabi with texts and sounds featuring Göksu Kunak and Yara Mekawei.
The performances will be presented on two stage situations: indoors, in the former restaurant, and outdoors in the courtyard, on a swamp-like structure including a pond in which mochis float, designed by the artist duo Fortuna Forest. Readings will be held by Angharad Williams (Schiefe Zähne), Sofia D. Leiby (Sweetwater), and Karl Holmqvist (Galerie Neu), amongst many others.
Other spaces will feature both short and long video works by artists such as Pauline Curnier Jardin (ChertLüdde), Cemile Sahin (Esther Schipper), Kandis Williams (Heidi), Cornelia Schleime (Galerie Judin) and Penny Goring (Galerie Molitor).
In the restaurant and foyer, free-standing works by artists Jasmin Werner (Guido W. Baudach), Frieda Toranzo Jaeger (Barbara Weiss), Raphaela Vogel (BQ), Lap-See Lam (Nordenhake) and others will form associative links to the site’s history and context. On the building’s façade looking out onto Kurfürstendamm, Raul Walch (Galerie Eigen + Art) will show a site-specific installation made of various fabrics that stretches the entire length of the first floor and, together with Dan Peterman’s work Accessoires to an Event (1996), will set the scene on the famed avenue.
Gallery openings by Gallery Weekend Berlin
Simultaneously, as part of Berlin Art Week, 51 Gallery Weekend Berlin participants will extend their exhibition opening hours until 9pm on Friday evening, September 15. The gallery openings offer visitors the opportunity to see a wide-ranging program of international artists at more than 50 locations in Berlin. Alongside established solo positions like Bettina Pousttchi at Buchmann or Anicka Yi at Esther Schipper, group shows will also be presented, such as Rudolf Stingel, Richard Prince and Albert Oehlen at Max Hetzler or the exhibition My Demons My Angels at ChertLüdde, which also celebrates the gallery’s 15th birthday.
Participating galleries
Bastian / Galerie Guido W. Baudach / Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi / BQ / Galerie Buchholz / Buchmann / Capitain Petzel / Carlier I Gebauer / Chertlüdde / Mehdi Chouakri / Contemporary Fine Arts / Crone Berlin / Dittrich & Schlechtriem / Ebensperger / Efremidis / Galerie Eigen + Art / Konrad Fischer Galerie / Galerie Lars Friedrich / Galerie Friese / Heidi / Max Hetzler / Hua International / Galerie Judin / Kewenig / Klemm’s / Noah Klink / Klosterfelde Edition / KOW / Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler / Levy Galerie / Alexander Levy / Meyer Riegger / Galerie Molitor / Galerie Neu / Neugerriemschneider / Galerie Nordenhake / Galerie Georg Nothelfer / Peres Projects / Plan B / PSM / Schiefe Zähne / Esther Schipper / Galerie Thomas Schulte / Société / Soy Capitán / Sprüth Magers / Sweetwater / Galerie Barbara Thumm / Galerie Tanja Wagner / Galerie Barbara Weiss / Wentrup / Galerie Michael Werner.
The Gallery Weekend Festival is supported by the Senate Department for Economic Affairs, Energy and Public Enterprises. We would also like to thank our longtime partner BMW for sponsoring Gallery Weekend Berlin.
Gallery openings by Gallery Weekend Berlin: September 15, 6–9pm
Gallery Weekend Festival
Studio Mondial, Kurfürstendamm 47, 10707 Berlin
September 16, 12–9pm & September 17, 12–7pm
More information can be found here.
