KÜNSTLERHAUS

BETHANIEN

Exhibition

SUPER 8

Part 2

SUPER 8 is an artist-curated, video art exhibition organized by the Los Angeles-based Christopher Grimes Gallery, where it first premiered July 8 through September 3, 2011. This ambitious video exhibition features the works of forty international contemporary artists. For this exhibition the gallery invited eight artists to curate a week-long program with fellow artists from their respective cities. Each week SUPER 8 focuses on a different city: Berlin, Dublin, Lisbon, London, Los Angeles, Rio de Janeiro, San Francisco, and Tokyo. Within that week, a day is dedicated to the work of one artist. In addition to highlighting key video artists, SUPER 8 contextualizes their work within a global community of artists working in the same medium. Super 8 / Part 1 was presented from March 1st through March 21st, 2012 at Künstlerhaus Bethanien. The participating artists of Super 8 / Part 2 are from Berlin, Rio de Janeiro, San Francisco and Tokyo.

Programm

Fri, 17.8.2012 SUPER 8 / Part I
John Smith // Worst Case Scenario, 2001-2003
London. Kuratoren: Wood & Harrison

San Francisco

Curator: Richard T. Walker
Sat, 18.8.2012 Richard T. Walker // The hierarchy of relevance, 2010
Sun, 19.8.2012 Kota Ezawa // Home Video 2, 2010
Tue, 21.8.2012 Michael Damm // Passenger Film: city is a bell (the eyestrikes), islands, opposite daylight, 2008
Wed, 22.8.2012 Nate Boyce // Untitled, 2011
Thu, 23.8.2012 Desiree Holman // Magic Window, 2009

Rio de Janeiro

Curator: Tunga
Fri, 24.8.2012 Tunga // Cooking, 2010
Sat, 25.8.2012 Louise Botkay Courcier // Mammah, 2006
Sun, 26.8.2012 Thiago Rocha Pitta // Homage to JMW Turner, 2002
Tue, 28.8.2012 Laura Erber // The funambulist and the diver, 2008
Wed, 29.8.2012 Marta Jourdan // Zona de Lancamento #5, 2011

Tokyo

Curator: Takehito Koganezawa
Thu, 30.8.2012 Takehito Koganezawa // Sea of Bills,2011
Fri, 31.8.2012 Tatsuo Majima // California, 1997
Sat, 01.9.2012 Yuki Okumura // Anatomy Fiction – Zenbei’s Eyeballs, 2007-2008
Sun, 02.9.2012 Mai Yamashita & Naoto Kobayashi// Dogsled, 2008
Tue, 04.9.2012 Meiro Koizumi // Portrait of a Young Samurai, 2009

Berlin

Curator: Reynold Reynolds
Wed, 05.9.2012 Reynold Reynolds // Six Easy Pieces, 2010
Thu, 06.9.2012 Marc Aschenbrenner // Rotweiss, 2011
Fri, 07.9.2012 Julian Rosefeldt // The Perfectionist, 2005
Sat, 08.9.2012 Rui Calçada Bastos // The mirror Suitecase Man, 2004
Sun, 09.9.2012 Bjørn Melhus // Murphy, 2008

Excerpt

SUPER 8 / Part I + Part II
Tue,11.09.2012 Grace Wein // Dust defying gravity, 2003
Dublin. Curators Walker & Walker
Wed,12.09.2012 João Onofre // Untitled (N’en Finit Plus), 2011
Lisbon. Curator:  Julião Sarmento
Thu,13.09.2012 Rui Calçada Bastos // The mirror Suitecase Man, 2004
Berlin. Curator: Reynold Reynolds
Fri,14.09.2012 Julie Orser // Bloodwork, 2009
Los Angeles. Curator: Marco Brambilla
Sat,15.09.2012 Mai Yamashita & Naoto Kobayashi // Dogsled, 2008
Tokyo. Curator: Takehito Koganezawa
Sun,16.09.2012 Wood & Harrison // Notebook, 2004
London. Curators: Wood & Harrison

 

 

Exhibition
17.08. – 16.09.2012
Tue - Sun: 2 - 7pm
Admission free

Opening
16.08.2012
7pm - 10pm