MY BAUHAUS IS BETTER THAN YOURS is a group of friends who create, produce and distribute furniture, prints, fashion and books amongst many other objects. The collective evolved from a group exhibition in 2009 and has shown its work in Milan, Berlin, Leipzig, Beirut and Weimar. The aim is to enable the designers and artists of MY BAUHAUS IS BETTER THAN YOURS to generate a creative and financial capital for the collective. This way, the group can continue working independently, developing and producing new concepts and objects … more

www.betterbauhaus.com

Group Affinity – A summer school and exhibition dedicated to self-organised
practice and the notion of affinity in cultural production.

Summer School August 1 – 14, 2011 Opening August 1, 6pm
Exhibition August 15 – September 11, 2011 Opening August 14, 2pm
Kunstverein Muenchen

The notion of affinity has increasingly gained significance in contemporary social movements that underline self-organised and non-hierarchical models of public assembly. Group Affinity aims to examine and negotiate this form of public-alliance where definitions of social and cultural significance are constructed and interacted with by the people who share and support them – and to extend it as a model for mutual learning, communal living and emerging artistic and cultural production.

In the form of a two-week summer school and a four-week exhibition, Group Affinity offers a diverse curriculum of five participatory faculties run by international collectives in the field of art and design: Chicago Boys, Grand Openings, Cinenova, Andreas Müller & Susanne Pietsch and Slavs and Tatars. Despite the fact, that each collective works with a different method of research and action, the project has given them common ground, whereupon their practices accommodate inter-subjective alliance as a primary condition in their public engagement. As such, the summer school provides a pretext to pursue this common interest within a broad range of experiences and opinions on the notion of how collective agency is formed.

The academy and exhibition will be accompanied by a publication designed and developed by Berlin based designer Manuel Raeder. For Group Affinity, Raeder has especially developed a mobile architectural structure for the space and its furniture, based on his long time research into communal architecture of Brazilian architect Lina Bo Bardi.

MARIANA CASTILLO DEBALL
March 24 to May 15, 2011
Museo Experimental EL ECO; Mexico City

Mariana Castillo Deball has produced a large installation in the main gallery, whose rectilinear metal structure unfolds through the space like a giant serpent. Supported by this frame are irregular constructions made from papier mâché. Printed on the papers from which these forms are made are hundreds of images taken from diverse contexts: ethnographic objects, tropical plants, architecture and mathematical models. A dialogue between geometric and organic elements is established within the installation, while the textured paper pieces create shapes and enclosures that recall rock configurations found in caves. Castillo Deball is interested in how figurative rock formations are often visually confused with the background of cave walls, creating a ¨figure-ground reversal¨; a perceptual experience she has referenced through her use of images imbedded within the papier mâché structures. Informed by anthropology, fables and natural science, the installation speaks to her on-going investigation of what she calls Uncomfortable objects —the things that humans make, as emotive products of desire, research and imagination— and how these objects, in turn, change us and transform our conception of the world.

Esquemas para una oda tropical (a cuatro voces) segunda intención, Carlos Pellicer, Lomas de Chapultepec 1973

Mariana Castillo Deball (1975, Mexico City) lives and works in Berlin and Amsterdam. She studied visual arts at Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas, UNAM and Philosophy at Universidad Iberoamericana, both in Mexico City. She completed her graduate studies in Jan Van Eyck Academie in Maastricht, The Netherlands. Her recent solo exhibitions include: Between you and the image of you that reaches me, Museum of Latin American Art, CA (2010); Kaleidoscopic Eye, Kunsthalle St. Gallen, Switzerland (2009); Nobody was tomorrow, Barbara Wein Gallery, Berlin (2008); Estas Ruinas que ves, MACG, Mexico City (2006); among others. She has obtained several awards, including: Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation Grant (2006) and the Prix de Rome, first prize, Amsterdam (2004). Along with Irene Kopelman is a founding member Uqbar Foundation. Museo Experimental El Eco is grateful to Mondriaan Foundation for the support on this project.

Several prints are being realized on an analog printing machine made by Nora Schultz,
printed in cooperation with Manuel Raeder. The printing process
and this collaboration will be continued during the exhibition.
On display at Nora’s exhibition at Isabella Bortolozzi till the 03.04.10

The term hoist identifies devices proper for lifting bulks.
Elevators are hoists. Chains, ropes and ramps are hoists.
The weight at a crane’s base enables the crane to hoist itself.
If weights are counterfeit, hoists are their missing parts.
Templates are hoists.
A half-finished sentence at the end of a page is a hoist.
A hoist within a slide projector.

02.03.10–03.04.10
Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin

Join us at ELGARAFI, Grolmanstrasse 46, 10623 West-Berlin, www.elgarafi.com
Opening 27th February 5pm-8pm

Open line into times Tic-tac-tic-tac by Manuel Raeder
27th February – 28th March

The relationship between open lines (directions)
and circles (enclosures)
The relationship between time and space
The relationship between movement and position
The relationship between a ray of light and a wall
The relationship between chairs and legs
Tic-tac-tic-tac-tic-tac-tic-tac-tic-tac-tic

Artists Space

Just reopened with a new program by Stefan Kalmár,
a new architecture by ifau & Jesko Fezer, Berlin & Common Room, NYC
new graphic design by Manuel Raeder, Berlin and a new exhibition

“Enough Tiranny Recalled, 1972 - 2009”
by Marc Camille Chaimowicz

September 29 – November 14
Tuesday – Saturday noon - 6pm
Sunday and Monday closed

Artists
Space

38 Greene Street
3rd Floor
New York
NY 10013
T 212 226 3970

Smoczek Policzek / Atelier Hopfmann / Deborah Schamoni / Judith Hopf

Deborah Schamoni, Berlin based filmmaker, and founder of Smoczek Policzek
Film- and Videoproduction, directed and produced many musicvideos for bands
like Selig, Die Goldenen Zitronen, Whirlpool Productions, Die Sterne, Culcha
Candela, FSK, Blumfeld, Egill Säebjörnsson, Chicks on Speed etc.

Under “Atelier Hopfmann”, in collaboration with Judith Hopf, Schamoni produces
experimental shortfilms, which are shown in various art institutions and galleries
and she works as a director and DoP for commercials, represented by the
The Directors Club Frankfurt and Film Domäne, Hamburg.