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Gure Artea is the joint exhibition by the three prize-winners
in the most important Basque competition for young contemporary
art, won last year by José Ramón Amondarain, Jon Mikel
Euba and Pepo Salazar.
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The competition is organised by the Basque government’s
Ministry of Culture and was first shown in the Artium, the Basque
Museum for Contemporary Art.
The illustrations show a neon variation on the band name "Iron
Maiden" by Pepo Salazar and a large-format drawing by Jon Mikel
Euba, whom the Berlin public have known since his period of residence
here as the guest of Künstlerhaus Bethanien.
>> Artium exhibition
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20th February – 14th March 2004, Studio 1 |
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SO is a new project by Markus Popp, realised together with
the Japanese artist Eriko Toyoda. The British specialist publication
"Wire" refers to Popp’s album as one of the CDs
of the year in the two categories “electronic” and "regular".
Popp’s double concert (60-70 minutes duration) is the SO project's
Berlin premiere.
Casino Bethanien, ground floor, 19th February,
9 pm, entrance free |
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Sergio Belinchón considers architecture and urbanity
from anthropological standpoints. Examining people's housing, he
analyses lifestyles rather than architectonic styles, seeing a collective
reflection of people’s way of life in urban buildings. Video
material - originally documentary - is thereby converted until it
demonstrates very specific aspects of human life in urban surroundings,
while in his photographs, spaces are shown separate from their inhabitants
in order to create a more eloquent image of people.
20th February – 7th March 2004, Studio 3 |
 
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Marike Schuurman works with photos, films and videos which
depict reality without aiming to be mere documentation. The artist
attempts to track down the small, hidden irritations concealed behind
the appearance of reality; those that question our familiar view
of things. Her large-format photo works challenge the public to
investigate subliminal picture content and to develop their own
perceptual scenarios. In Schuurman’s Berlin exhibition, the
viewer is thus confronted by the remains of a former Russian military
camp which is being reconquered by nature in the midst of a biosphere
in Brandenburg. A different, disturbing world appears from behind
its obvious realities.
20th February – 7th March 2004, Studio 2 |
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Künstlerhaus Bethanien offers its congratulations
to Wilfried Hou Je Bek. The Dutch artist - who was a guest of
the Media Arts Lab with his Quaternion.walk at the beginning of
February - is this year’s winner of the Transmediale Award
in the category "Software".
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The Norwegian artist and curator Annette Kierulf
is not only presenting an exhibition in Studio 227, but also a
system of curating. As in the exhibition space "By the Way"
in Bergen, of which she was co-founder, here it is also a question
of the site-specificity of art works, of "connectivity"
as the curator herself calls her aesthetic practice, which seeks
local connections and thereby analyses local power structures.
This exhibition, with works by Endre Aalrust, Øyvind Farstad,
Thomas Kilpper, Janne Lervik, Beathe Rønning, Arve Rød/Stefan
Schröder, will convert her curating concept – for which
Kierulf has already received a curator’s fellowship from
the Office of Contemporary Art Norway – into striking practice.
20th – 22nd February 2004, Studio 227
Artist talks & drinks with Beathe Rønning and Thomas
Kilpper:
20th February, 7 pm
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Interfaces of art and music. 25th March –
18th April 2004.
18th March: RECHENZENTRUM, special concert at the Kunstwerke as
guests of bb3. >> Tickets
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