EXBERLINER Issue 164, October 2017

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WHAT’S ON — Art ART NEWS König of London Citing a wider international art market and Brexit on the horizon, Johann König of König Galerie in Berlin will open his first gallery space outside of Germany in a former parking lot in Central London on Oct 5 to coincide with Frieze. Called König Archiv & Souvenir, its inaugural show will include the debut of a new biannual magazine The German Surplus. Schubert moves on After 11 years in Kreuzberg, Micky Schubert has closed the doors to her eponymous gallery, but rumour has it that she is working with Wallspace cofounder Janine Foeller in New York to launch the Brooklyn-based project space Grand Army Collective. New Brücke Alongside its 50th anniversary, the Brücke Museum in Dahlem announces Lisa Marei Schmidt, a former curator at the Hamburger Bahnhof, as the new director this month. She succeeds Magdalena Moeller, who served the institution for almost 30 years. Editor’s Choice Yesterday’s utopia, today’s reality On view this month in Berlin: expressionist visions and cat memes. Can one find utopia in interior design? At the centre of the Martin-Gropius-Bau’s new retrospective on the German expressionist Wenzel Hablik is a full-scale reproduction of his breathtakingly beautiful 1923 design for the dining room of his villa in Itzehoe, northern Germany. Covered up by Hablik a year before his death in 1934, it was only rediscovered in 2013, when the neutral wallpaper over it was removed to reveal multi-coloured geometric forms from floor to ceiling. Borrowing from Dutch De Stijl and Russian Constructivism, this “masterpiece” is shown alongside documentary images of Hablik’s home and custom-designed furniture, and is further complemented by a survey of his early artistic career. A proponent of the Gesamtkunstwerk concept, Hablik was influenced by everything from his early training in cabinetry to his studies in painting at the School for Applied Arts in Vienna to his collection of crystals, which he saw as a symbol of natural creativity. By 1902, drawings of his crystals had become fairytale castles and he set out to develop a crystalline architecture to house a utopian society in tune with nature. Later works, influenced by the futuristic writings of H.G. Wells and the poet Paul Scheerbart, integrated technological By Sarrita Hunn solutions alongside more cosmicoriented fantasies. He designed flying machines and air colonies while translating these elements into weaving patterns, furniture, wallpaper, jewellery, lighting and even silverware – many times in collaboration with his wife, master weaver Elisabeth Lindemann. The retrospective highlights Hablik’s many connections to Berlin, including a presentation of the first etchings in his 1912 Creative Forces cycle, drawings from the “Exhibition of Unknown Architects” by the Workers’ Council for Art in 1919, for which he was included at the invitation of Walter Gropius, and concept designs for the short-lived group Gläserne Kette (Crystal Chain) gathered together by the architect Bruno Taut. These drawings and prints better represent Hablik’s skill and vision than most of the nature-inspired paintings also included in the exhibition – which literally spatially fall flat – but as a whole, Wenzel Hablik – Expressionist Utopias is a colourful, inspiring and certainly fantastical sight to behold until January 14. Wenzel Hablik, “Entwurf für einen Festsaal”, 1924 While we may have achieved many of the technologies Hablik and his contemporaries envisioned in their utopian futures, we find ourselves farther from nature than they ever could have imagined. It turns out that contemporary city life is alienating and exhausting, so for an updated take on a transcendental view, stop by the corner of Oranienstraße and Adalbertstraße for a window vitrine containing Supermenschenaufladestation 3000 TO GO, the current installation at the artist-run space known as Sox. The young Canadian Berlin-based artist Nika Fontaine attempts to combat the daily stress of our oversaturated existence by providing a micro-break fuelled by “precisely selected memes and carefully edited video material” (read: inspirational kittens and flowers blooming) to positively stimulate endorphins to a healthy degree. If that is not enough enlightenment for you, also see Fontaine’s solo exhibition Akasha near Gesundbrunnen, featuring glowing glittery paintings representing spiritual (re)birth. n Wenzel Hablik – Expressionist Utopias Through Jan 14 Martin-Gropius- Bau, Kreuzberg | Nika Fontaine: Supermenschenaufladestation 3000 TO GO Through Oct 20 Sox, Kreuzberg | Nika Fontaine: Akasha Through Nov 15 Purple Space Contemporary, Wedding Wenzel-Hablik-Stiftung, Itzehoe 38 EXBERLINER 164
WHAT’S ON — Art Preview Eyes on the prize This year’s Preis der Nationalgalerie finalists exhibit side by side at Hamburger Bahnhof. Every two years since 2000, the board of Berlin’s Nationalgalerie has nominated four artists under age 40 who are based and active in Germany for its Preis der Nationalgalerie. Since 2013, the prize no longer includes cash, but provides a solo exhibition at one of the Nationalgalerie’s locations the following year alongside a dedicated publication. Starting this month, Hamburger Bahnhof presents the work of the four 2017 nominees, all of whom are based in Berlin, none of whom were born in Germany. They include Sol Calero (co-founder of project space Kinderhook & Caracas), whose painting and sculpture hybrid installations engage her Venezuelan roots; Iman Issa, from Egypt, whose conceptual investigation of monuments bridge many mediums; American Jumana Manna, who creates visual narratives across film and sculpture; and Polish Agnieszka Polska, whose diverse film, animation and photo works use found materials to (re)construct illusionary documentaries. They’ll be coming together for an artist talk on October 12 (19:00, in English) before the prize is awarded on October 20. Considering past winners have included current art-world stars like Omer Fast (2009), Cyprien Gaillard (2011) and Anne Imhof (2015), these four are undoubtedly ones to watch. — SH Left to right: Jumana Manna, Sol Calero, Iman Issa, Agnieszka Polska Sol Calero, Casa de Cambio, 2016 Iman Issa, Heritage Studies, 2015 Jumana Manna, A Magical Substance Flows into Me, 2015 Andy Keate Iman Issa Andrea Rossetti David von Becker museum für gestaltung berlin 22.3.– 23.10.2017 jasper morrison. thingness bauhaus.de Preis der Nationalgalerie Sep 29-Jan 14 Hamburger Bahnhof, Mitte Agnieszka Polska, I Am the Mouth II, 2016 Agnieszka Polska OCTOBER 2017
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