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WHAT’S ON — Art ART NEWS Art Week moves The annual Berlin event is moving to the end of September to coincide with the Art Berlin fair, announced for Sep 27-30 at the Tempelhof airport. Demand is in demand Last month, Berlin and LA-based sculptor and photographer Thomas Demand won the Berlin Art Prize, an annual award worth €15,000. Five further prizes of €5000 were presented by the Akademie der Künste on behalf of the federal state of Berlin. Biennale takes Berlin The 10th Berlin Biennale (Jun 9-Sep 9) has just announced its four main venues: Akademie der Künste, KW, Volksbühne Pavilion, and ZK/U. Beckmann‘s back The widow of Erhard Göpel, Hitler’s art dealer instrumental in Nazi looting during WWII, has bequeathed 100 works by the Max Beckmann to Berlin’s state museums. Alongside 46 drawings and 52 prints are two paintings: a self-portrait in a bar from 1942 and a portrait of Göpel in 1944. Editor’s Choice In the age of the omnipresent selfie, it’s no wonder there’s an appetite for something quieter. This month offers three chances to contemplate the sedate beauty of unpopulated industrial landscapes through the lenses of talented photographers from the 1960s to the present. At the Museum für Fotografie, Photographs: Architecture and Nature is a retrospective on the 91-year-old Sigrid Neubert, who spent 30 years as a photograher for German architectural firms. Among immaculate black and white photographs of sleek modernist homes, office complexes and stadiums are Neubert’s shots of Hans Maurer’s Earth Radio Station, designed in 1964. She captures the majesty of Maurer’s creation from behind, its solid base firmly planted into the rural Bavarian landscape as its dish inclines up towards a moody sky. A white country church in the distance contrasts the modernity of her subject. In another photo she sets nature against technology, the foreground focussed on a lone tree with the enormous antenna dish relegated to the background. Neubert gave up all other work in favour of nature photography in 1990, so it’s perhaps not surprising to see her employ it as a narrative device in her images of the Märker Cement Plant in Harburg. Taken between 1964 and 1980, her compositions often place the plant’s raw materials in front of Tanks for the memories Photographers find beauty in industrial architecture and landscapes across three Berlin exhibitions. By Anna Larkin the actual buildings. In one photo she seems to equate industry with religion: the vast smoking stacks and silos are backdrop to a modest pile of stones and dirt, laid out as if in votive offering to the enormous plant. Over two floors at Konrad Fischer Galerie, German couple Bernd and Hilla Becher’s ubiquitous black and white photographs are out in force in the form of Gas Tanks (photo). The Bechers are well known for their relentless documentation of industrial structures, among them innumerable water towers, cooling towers, blast furnaces and winding towers. Here, the titular tanks dominate every frame, perfectly centred, cylindrical brick and metal versions alongside futuristic spheres with supports resembling mid-century rocket launchers. Staying faithful to the late Bechers’ obsessive interest in typology, the gallery doesn’t miss the chance to arrange the subjects in grids such as the 15-photo Typologie Gasbehälter, 1965–1992. These photographs successfully elevate the gas tanks to something beautiful and ask the viewer to look again at what they might otherwise dismiss. Handily located in the same building is Primož Bizjak’s new series of large-format photographs of the Apuan Alps’ marble quarries. The Munich-based Slovenian artist spent three years exploring the vast sites, resulting in seven colour prints depicting the still-active sites and the marks left behind by thousands of years of mining. First dug up by the Romans, the quarries’ white marble has inspired artists from Michaelangelo to Louise Bourgeois, and probably a few bathroom designers along the way. Presented frameless and seemingly floating on the gallery walls, Bizjak’s photos of pools of water surrounded by what look like abandoned buildings play on Romantic compositions of classical ruins, but are in fact ghost structures, simply the negatives left behind by the mining of marble blocks. Bizjak’s images challenge traditional ideals of the picturesque: he doesn’t present scenes of pristine untouched nature, but rather draws out the beauty of a landscape visibly ravaged by man, its geometrically sliced marble terrain occasioned with the glimpse of an industrial digger. n Photographs: Architecture and Nature Through Jun 3 Museum für Fotographie, Charlottenburg | Primož Bizjak: Alpi Apuane Through Apr 21 Galerija Gregor Podnar, Kreuzberg | Bernd and Hilla Becher: Gas Tanks Through Apr 21 Konrad Fischer, Kreuzberg Courtesy Konrad Fischer Galerie / Estate Bernd & Hilla Becher 38 EXBERLINER 170
WHAT’S ON — Art Round-up The big gallery hop Gallery Weekend returns at the end of this month, with 46 galleries hosting some of the year’s biggest openings. Here are our top seven picks. 1 British artist Becky Beasley presents her graceful photography and sculpture alongside a new floor work in Depressive Alcoholic Mother at Galeria Plan B. 2 Known for his surreal performances, Berlin-based Julius von Bismarck converts Gallery Alexander Levy into one enormous treadmill. 3 At Esther Schipper, don’t miss an overview of Canadian artist AA Bronson’s 50-year career, including work from his time as a founding member of the pioneering General Idea collective plus later solo works. 4 Andreas Greiner – the Olafur Eliasson protégé who made a dinosaursized skeleton of a chicken for the Berlinische Galerie in 2016 – presents a narrative sound installation for his first solo show at Dittrich & Schlechtriem. 5 Abstract painter and original YBA Fiona Rae presents a series of new paintings with titles referring to fairy tale characters at Buchmann Galerie. 6 At Galerie Max Hetzler, German photographer Thomas Struth displays portraits of dead animals taken at Berlin’s Leibniz Institute for Zoological and Wildlife Research. 7 American artist Kara Walker, best known for her epic black paper-cut silhouette scenes, premieres a new video work at Sprüth Magers. — AL Gallery Weekend Apr 27, 6-9pm, Apr 28-29, 11am-7pm Full programme at gallery-weekend-berlin.de ASISI PANORAMA BERLIN Friedrichstraße 205 10117 Berlin IMMERSE YOURSELF IN THIS MONUMENTAL PANORAMA AND EXPERIENCE THE EVERYDAY LIFE IN THE 1980S IN BERLIN KREUZBERG. asisi.de | die-mauer.de/en Mouth (for L’Oréal), New York, 1986 © The Irving Penn Foundation IRVING PENN CENTENNIAL DER JAHRHUNDERTFOTOGRAF 24.03.——01.07.2018 C/O Berlin Foundation . Amerika Haus Hardenbergstr. 22–24 . 10623 Berlin Täglich / Daily 11:00–20:00 . www.co-berlin.org
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