"Daydreams & Dark Sides" presents works by:
ATAK (Georg Barber), Tilo Baumgärtel, Thomas Helbig, Andreas Hofer, Britta Lumer, Bernhard Martin, Sophia Schama, Markus Selg, Ruprecht von Kaufmann, and Ralf Ziervogel

The exhibition "Daydreams & Dark Sides" pays witness to our indefinable age – transitory moments as the counterpart to a reduction of art to simple functions and platforms of discourse that deliberate over the merely superficial.
Every person probably has his dreams, every night, but they evaporate with his first look into the mirror next morning. The exhibition searches for those obsessive experiences between night and day, for dark inner images and scorching daydreams. The dream has always played a great part in the work of many artists, although it is rarely found in a directly narrated form. Their works celebrate the material texture of dreams in painting, drawing and sculpture until it becomes a dream in its turn; in other words – it becomes a riddle, a mystery.
"Daydreams & Dark Sides" is presented as the reverse of (perhaps also a background, underground, counter position to) the Berlin Biennial 2008; rich in subtle, surprising insights, it appears as a textbook of emotions, deceptions and transformations. The participating artists aim to resist the commonplace, asserting a select personal language in the field of total communication.

"Daydreams & Dark Sides" is being realised with kind support from the Governing Mayor of Berlin, Senate Offices – Cultural Affairs.

Daydreams & Dark Sides
6th – 30th April 2008, Studio 1
Finissage on 30th April: open until 10 pm!

Luca Trevisani’s works are experiments aiming at a definition of the manifold relations between space, object, architecture and the viewers within it. Partly, they are manifest as performances in real time with audience participation, or else they take the form of sculptures and photographs documenting past experiments. Trevisani’s objects often resemble hand-made apparatuses or bizarre experimental set-ups, and they sometimes illustrate fundamental physical laws such as the principle of communicating tubes.
“When centimetres feels like miles” involves the spatial conditions of the exhibition space in the presentation’s form, transforming Studio 3 into a walk-in installation with various sculptures, which – as often in Trevisani’s work – are made of ultra-light, stable and malleable materials such as balsawood or fibre-glass. Following nature’s example, these objects display hardly any right-angles. This makes “When centimetres feels like miles” into an equally sensual and intellectual experience, also illustrating the artist’s thesis that space cannot be reduced to geometric units of measure: “The attempt to bring space back to measure, geometry, is always destined to fail, the obsession of measuring the world, due to its utopian impulse for order, is condemned to endless repetition. “ (Luca Trevisani)
In 2007, Luca Trevisani won the FURLA Prize, presented by Viafarini.

It’s oh so strange
When centimetres feels like miles
2nd – 18th May 2008, Studio 3
Opening: Wednesday, 30th April 2008, from 7 pm
(Closed on 1st May)

Nathalie Latham travels to very different countries all over the world, seeking to understand the universal quality within the manifold forms of human experience and to express it by artistic means. Documenting the living conditions, cultures and emotional concerns of the people that she meets, she wants her artistic work to sharpen each individual’s awareness of his/her shared global responsibility for humanity as a whole, for the conservation of our environment, and for a universal yet diverse cultural heritage that is threatened in many places.
“safeguarding” is part of a long-term project of the same name; it examines the conditions and problems of some countries that Latham has visited in five video projections and a series of large-format photographs. Her themes include the material poverty and spiritual wealth of India; the destruction of the environment in China, where it is impossible – as a consequence of tradition or politics - to voice certain matters openly; or accounts of the lives and suffering of political refugees.
Nathalie Latham uses her photos, videos and texts to create vivid and extremely beautiful images, which direct the viewer’s attention to ecological problems and human destinies, but also to the beauty of our world and its diversity of cultures.
Nathalie Latham holds a fellowship from the Australia Council for the Arts in the context of our International Studio Programme.

Nathalie Latham – safeguarding (a work in progress)
2nd – 18th May 2008, Studio 2
Opening: Wednesday, 30th April 2008, from 7 pm
(Closed on 1st May)

Discussions with the artist in the exhibition (English): 6 pm on May 3, 4, 10, 11 and 18