Satellite of Platform: Dreh und Angel (Pivot and Catch) PLATFORM
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Satellite of Platform: Dreh und Angel (Pivot and Catch) PLATFORM
Satellite of Platform: Dreh und Angel (Pivot and Catch) SEPTEMBER 24, 2013 TO OCTOBER 27, 2013 by Benjamin Lange and Tim Freiwald Satellit of Platform at the Department of Labor and Economic Development As a satellite of Platform, the foyer at the Department of Labor and Economic Development becomes a presentation forum for an exhibition series in 2013 for the Munich Cultural and Creative Industries. After a successful start, the second project “Dreh und Angel” (“Pivot and Catch” or “Crucial Hub”) is dedicated to the synthesis of interior design and painting. Together engineer of interior architecture Benjamin Lange (*1985) and painterTim Freiwald (*1986) have developed a piece of furniture which interweaves interior design and pictorial thinking. The observer is compelled to use and adjust the mobile wooden construction, in order to create both new spatial planning and a new communication situation. Side-event: Monday, 21 October, 2013 at 6 p.m. “Stories between Banks” with Silvia Angel brings back to life a tradition that is gradually falling into oblivion: the oral lore of experience and knowledge. As a side-event of the exhibition "Dreh und Angel" by Benjamin Lange and Tim Freiwald, currently on show in the foyer of the Department of Labor and Economic Development, the storyteller Silvia Angel presentsan evening of diverse fables and anecdotes from around the world. Inspired by a project in Israel, she bridges gaps between generations, religions and cultures with her stories. With "Dreh und Angel" differing systems literally mesh together: haptic and visuality, functionality and aesthetics. The connection between wood and paint here creates an interesting tension in the relationship between material and surface. The minimalistic seeming furniture acts as image carrier for the smooth and shiny color fields that have been applied. These add a further, associative level to the wood by creating shifting images, depending on the constellation. Despite the sculptural appearance of the installation, Lange and Freiwald manage to link artistic strategies with functional considerations, thereby generating social fields of action. Benjamin Lange (born 1985) and Tim Freiwald (born 1986) intertwine the systems of haptic and visuality in their collaboration. Lange initially graduated as a carpenter from the Ebenisterie – a workshop for fine furniture in Bayreuth and subsequently studied Interior Architecture and Design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. Freiwald began his studies in painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich in 2007 and has been Meisterschüler (master student) since 2011. His works have been shown among others in Dachau, Ingolstadt and Los Angeles. Silvia Angel studied storytelling at the International School of Storytelling in Forest Row in England. Initially she narrated at primary and lower secondary schools, as well as at smaller events and workshops at festivals, conferences and other settings. Currently she is studying “Management of Social Innovation” at Munich University (MUAS). Find out more information about the artists at http://madeintaunus.de/ andhttp://timfreiwald.de The exhibition is curated by Karen Klauke. PLATFORM: SPACE IS GOD SEPTEMBER 19, 2013 TO OCTOBER 09, 2013 von Roland Burkart, Zora Kreuzer, Kriz Olbricht und Julien Viala SPACE IS GOD – For the reconceptualized PLATFORM in Munich, SPACE IS GOD is the title of the exhibition as well as a programmatic declaration. To create space in Munich for the production and presentation of culture as well as room for questions relevant to culture and society are the two primary intentions of this special, municipal cultural institution. Through highlighting the architectural and functional coordinates of the central exhibition hall, the current exhibition SPACE IS GOD presents an overture. The theme at play will be the room as a forum for dialogue and creative processes. Julien Viala and Roland Burkart, who work in the PLATFORM studios, developed the theme together with the guest artists Zora Kreuzer and Kriz Olbricht. Opening: Wednesday, 18 September 2013, 6pm, the artists will be present // Music: Philipp Ernst (Ritournelle) // Opening Hours: Monday to Friday, 10am – 7pm Four different positions on architecture meet each other in the PLATFORM exhibition hall. While Viala sets up his work between architecture, sculpture and design, playing with the relevance of things and space, Burkart places architecture itself in the foreground. He structures rooms with walls made from lights. With the help of drawings, he then analyzes various kinetic and cognitive patterns. Perception also links to Olbrichts’ work: he makes minimal interventions mostly in open spaces, which can be read as run-ins with equivalent structures. In contrast, Kreuzer is inspired by open space and transforms colours through carefully composing fluorescent tube lights. The new PLATFORM itself will also be a venue en route, taking place in various spaces across the city and will be open to new themes and forms. Formally PLATFORM3, the 3 has disappeared to make room for a more open approach. It is a cultural PLATFORM in Munich, now with a new interface designed by Bureau Mirko Borsche. At the same time as the exhibition, six cultural managers, Natalie Cada, Erinn Carstens, Sasha Gora, Mirko Kahl, Sarah Nowak und Frédéric Singer are beginning a yearlong traineeship. With these new developments there will be a kick-off in November with events and talks marking the official start of this new phase. You are cordially invited. We are looking forward to your attendance! Your PLATFORM Team Satellite of Platform3: Chris Goennawein JULY 23, 2013 TO SEPTEMBER 13, 2013 Chris Goennawein: Untitled Satellit of Platform3 at the Department of Labor and Economic Development The foyer – a border area between inside and outside, an interface between working space and the public, a meeting place as well as thoroughfare. A space with such versatility is also the entrance area to the Department of Labor and Economic Development. As a satellite of Platform3, the foyer is simultaneously a presentation forum for the Munich Cultural and Creative Industries. In the year 2013 artists and designers in graphic design, interior design and product design are developing three installations with accompanying events. The temporary interventions explore the spatial and content-related coordinates of this unique exhibition venue and convey the impression of the complexity of today’s design concepts on the threshold of these various disciplines. Chris Goennawein deals with the multi-layered facets of perception in his work "Untitled". Opening: Monday, 22 July, 2013 at 6 p.m. Finissage: Thursday, 12 September, 2013 at 6 p.m.: “Round Table with Rough Edges” with Chris Goennawein and other protagonists. Symbols of significant world currencies are the defining elements of the installation by Chris Goennawein. The internationally active artist and graphic designer questions accustomed perception patterns with his arrangement of currency symbols in relation to the English word “yes”. The brightly lit neon lettering represents on the one hand an affirmative basic statement, and on the other it epitomizes ironic, critical commentary on economic circumstances. The complexity of worldwide commercial relationships becomes radically reduced by the mainstream symbolism. Chris Goennawein (born 1979) deals with the multi-layered facets of perception in his work. With numerous awards as a graphic artist, he is editor of the publication “Parabol Art Magazine” in Vienna and operates the graphic label “Funny Paper” in Munich. With other artist friends he organizes the gallery and label for art editions “Off White” in Brooklyn, New York. For more information about the artist please visit: www.goennawein.com PRESENTATION OF THE PUBLICATION: THE AESTHETICS OF OCCUPYING- DISCOURSE RESEARCH STRATEGIES NOVEMBER 21, 2012 - 07:30 PM This summer the trainees of PLATFORM3 have realized an interdisciplinary project rooted in the Occupy movement: B∃SETZT – Discourse on Art, Politics and Aesthetics. They invited the artists' collective Magicgruppe Kulturobjekt to create a temporary intervention for the exhibition hall of PLATFORM3. The result was a forum for discussion and interaction, as well as a space for research, thought and interaction. The Publication The Aesthetics of Occupying- Discourse Research Strategies, PLATFORM3- Spaces for Contemporary Art Munich, both documents and expands the project B∃SETZT. It builds on its process and experimental character, collects existing results and unleashes new viewpoints. Like every project at PLATFORM3 in the year 2012, B∃SETZT is also characterized by the activating of the spectator through strategies of participation which extend beyond traditional participative approaches. The director Marlene Rigler defines the role of the spectator in her essay. Karen Klauke describes the installation sweatroom, a site-specific work exploring its significance as a space for communication. While Zdravka Bajovic illuminates occupying strategies and disrupting moments in art based on three exemplary projects, Simon Teune contributes a social-scientific perspective with his written lecture Protest as Occupation – On the Aesthetics of a Bottom-up Politics. Gürsoy Dogtas, in conversation with PLATFORM3, discusses the relationship between art and activism in an email interview. The essay by Anabel Roque Rodriguez deals with the transfer of political content into aesthetic strategies. Carina Essl addresses the International Video Call´s submissions and describes occupying strategies in public spaces. The winner of the Video Call, Vienne Chan, contributes an artistic contribution, which accompanies an essay by the curator Hila Cohen-Schneiderman. Editors: Sarah Braconnier, Carina Essl, Karen Klauke, Marlene Rigler und Anabel Roque Rodriguez für PLATFORM3 Spaces for Contemporary Art Munich. ISBN 978-3-00-039328-0, Price: 5 € CRITICAL VOICES - Dialogues between Munich and Stuttgart NOVEMBER 21, 2012 - 07:30 PM Experimenting with circulation of knowledge, image transfer, mobility, time management, contextuality and the constitution of a given (local) audience, Critical Voices aims at creating a dynamic discursive environment in two neighboring German cities. The project is a collaboration, yet reflects each location's specific programming policy. At Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, "Critical Voices" complements a series of solo projects entitled “Artistic Dialogues” and at PLATFORM3 it is part of this year's engagement with the "spectator". The series Critical Voices will investigate how diverse critical practices approach an audience and how the presence of the spectator, the temporality of his/her gaze and potentiality of their participation shape artistic and curatorial content in relation to various forms of social critique, contribution and critical knowledge production. Each keynote speaker will present his/her work in both cities. The geographical distance between them, although a matter of space, will also be considered as an analogy of time, inviting the guests to play with the different local contexts in Stuttgart and Munich. The initial encounter with a given audience in the first city will set a point of reference for the guest speaker's presentation in the second city. Keynote speakers: The artist Ana Hoffner (1980, Serbia) is currently based in Vienna and Berlin. Most frequently in the form of lecture performances, her work deals with issues related to queer and postcolonial politics. Marta Popivoda (1982, Serbia) is a video artist and freelance cultural worker living in Belgrade and Berlin. She is part of the TkH collective of theorists and artists, which deals with the problematics of performance paradigm in art, culture and theory. Lars Bang Larsen (1972, Denmark) is an art historian at the University of Copenhagen. He focuses on art from the 1960s, contemporary experimental art practices and their impacts on culture at large. In 2005, he co-curated “Populism,” an exhibition and accompanying reader exploring the relationship between contemporary art and populist political and cultural ideologies. Writer, playwright and visual artist, Jean-Charles Massera (1965, France) uses multiple artistic forms such as fiction, theatrical work, performance, songs, as well as visual art to deal with the processes of the everyday alienation within the contemporary political paradigm of consumerist democracy. Critical Voices will be ending up with Anselm Franke’s (DE, *1978) lecture Figur-Grund / Figure-Ground. MONIKA HUMM: GLOBAL 2012 (WORK-IN-PROGRESS) NOVEMBER 05, 2012 TO NOVEMBER 28, 2012 Monika Humm’s starting point is painting over photographs. RAW employees are invited to contribute their own photo material on the topic of city sights and urban space, their input making them an active part of creating the exhibition: the collected photos are digitally modified in an artistic process and integrated in new works. By weaving personal souvenir photos and artistic abstraction, a new approach to city landscapes is created. The artist will be working one afternoon per week at the exhibition site. The works are available for viewing at the RAW showroom anytime in between. The project will be presented in its final form at the closing celebrations. Closing celebrations: November, 28, 2012, from 6pm. Where: In the foyer of the department of labor and economic developement, Herzog-Willhelm- Str. 15 Opening hours: Mon-Thurs 8am-6pm; Fri 8am-3pm (visible from outdoors anytime) ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE PRESENTATION: ELENA BAJO - "THE ABSENCE OF WORK" OCTOBER 10, 2012 TO NOVEMBER 21, 2012 In Munich, Elena Bajo is planning to research moments of fracture and repositioning in an attempt to entertain fissures in a world of crystallized sensibility. Her stay in Munich will result in an exhibition, and a publication. Exhibition opening on October 9th, at 7 p.m., PLATFORM3. Elena Bajo (*Madrid) holds Masters Degrees in Architecture from ESARQ and in Fine Arts from Central Saint Martins School of Art, London. Recent solo exhibitions include »The Factory of Forms«, Manifesta 9 Parallel Events, Genk, BE (2012), and Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht NL (2012). At D+T Project Gallery, Brussels she presented »Reconstructing of the Common« (2012) and was invited to Frieze Frame Art Fair London (2011). She participated in PERFORMA11 Biennial, New York (2011) and in group shows at The David Roberts Art Foundation, London; MUHKA, Antwerp; LAXART, Los Angeles. Her publication, »The Factory of Forms« was recently released by Onomatopee, Eindhoven NL (2012). She lives and works in Berlin and LA. More information about the artist: http://www.elenabajo.com/ Funded by the Department of Culture of the State-Capital of Bavaria. In cooperation with D+T Project Gallery, Brussels (BE). Kollektiv für situatives Handeln "Artistic Spirit" SEPTEMBER 20, 2012 TO OCTOBER 17, 2012 The project “Künstlergeist” [Artistic Spirit] brought to you by the "Kollektiv für situatives Handeln" invites the employees at the Department of Labor and Economic Development to discover the topic “artistic spirit” through a physical experience in an experimental medical environment. The exploration of the “artistic spirit” as a mythic element of the artistic process questions what the artist actually is and how much of the artist’s work is genius or learned. The artists Birthe Blauth, Annegret Bleisteiner, Jutta Burkhardt und Cornelia Oßwald-Hoffmann create in their installation a medical atmosphere. As in a medical surrounding common the employees of the Department of Labor and Economic Development can make an appointment to get the Artistic Spirit transferred. Opening: September, 19, 012 Where: In the foyer of the department of labor and economic development, Herzog-Wilhelm-Str. 15 The English publication to the project can be downloaded here. B∃SETZT – Discourse on Art, Politics and Aesthetics JULY 05, 2012 TO AUGUST 04, 2012 International Video Call What effects does this occupying have on artistic forms of expression? Is this establishing a new, artistic aesthetic of criticism? How is art taking up public space? How is it influencing urban or social infrastructures by doing this? With “B∃SETZT” PLATFORM3 would like to get to the bottom of all these questions. Therefore the Call for Videos was being issued to ALL city strollers who have discovered something special on this topic in their city. The submissions should focus on the urban, public surroundings, in the sense that artistic occupying strategies create interfaces with the everyday, thereby yielding new perspectives. These insights into various cities and countries illustrate the most diverse strategies with which art and creativity occupy their space. PLATFORM3 proudly presents the winner of the International Video Call: "and to the city" von Vienne Chan The jury statement: The contribution “and to the city” by artist Vienne Chan captivates with the multifacetedness of the political and social backgrounds as well as the subtle aesthetic that silently fascinates the spectator. Her artistic endeavors on Tel Aviv are based not only on current protest movements but also the city’s past. Using sign language, the artist projects the verse “and the city no beginning and no end” from an Israeli poem of the 1950s onto an exterior wall. By referencing the poem, which addresses urban development, Vienne Chan metaphorically stages the duality between upheaval and borders, advancement and limitation. The small gesture of a projection takes up space – the notion of boundlessness occupies the city. In “and to the city” Vienne Chan unites poetry and protest as well as art and urban space in a convincing way, integrating herself in the overall concept of the project “B∃SETZT – Discourse on Art, Politics and Aesthetics”. Watch the Video Call here: The presentation of the International Video Call contains following videos: ( ולעירV'La'Ir, and to the city) Vienne Chan, 16:9, colour, stereo, 0:35’’, Tel Aviv, 2012 Drang 8th Ave" Simon Tarr, iPhone video, New York City Niemandsland Topp & Dubio, video, 2:34", Berlin, 2012 The Things and the Hands Marco (Malcolmo) Tavolaro, 2’’, Madrid, Spain, 2011 Concealing (is) a brutal act Marco (Malcolmo) Tavolaro, 2’’, Madrid, Spain, 2012 Same path, different route Armando Costantino, 2’’, Sofia, Bulgaria, 2011 U-Bahn Antigone: Sophocles Meets Performance Meets the BVG Das ist doch keine Art! (Yael Sherill, Magdalena Frankiewicz), iPhone 4 video, Hermannsplatz station, U7 platform, Berlin, 2012 track one eteam, video, HD 1280x720 px,1:37’’, 2011 The occupied Zuccotti Park on Friday October 28th, 2011 Pantea Karimi, video, San Jose California, USA, 2011 Biennale 2011 - Attack on the Chinese Pavilion Karl Kilian, film, 6:32’’, Venice, 2011 The Days of the Commune Zoey Beloff, scene 9, HD 1920x 1080 px, 3:44’’, New York, USA, 2011 B∃SETZT – Discourse on Art, Politics and Aesthetics JULY 04, 2012 TO AUGUST 04, 2012 Having begun on Wall Street, Occupations are extending as a non-verbal expression of protest across the globe. In contrast to conventional demonstrations, Occupy sheds light on ground-breaking ways of practicing democracy, thereby also bestowing the public expression of criticism with a new, collective aesthetic. Yet what impact will Occupying have on artistic forms of expression? How does art occupy the public space? On the 4th of July at 7pm PLATFORM3 opens its program series “B∃SETZT – Discourse on Art, Politics and Aesthetics“: with a room installation, a video montage of contributions sent from across the globe, talks, open discussion rounds as well as a subsequent publication PLATFORM3 addresses the complex relationship between forms of art and politics. July 5 –August 4: “sweatroom” An international artistic collective – ensuing from members of the existing“Magicgruppe Kulturobjekt” Marcel Hiller, Michael Dobrindt, Max Schulze, Markus Hahn and Sebastian Walther – has formed especially for this project. At the moment of being in the situation and working together, a location-specific installation emerges, which simultaneously transforms the exhibition space into a “sweat room”, art work and forum for discussion. Similar to an Occupation, various artistic as well as theoretical approaches are united here in one space. *Notice: Part of the artist collective "Künstlergruppe Kulturobjekt" will open another exhibition under the title "Tektonika" at Kunstverein Nürnberg (opening July 6, 6.30pm) July 18, 7 pm: Talk by specialist Simon Teune “Protest as Occupation. On the Aesthetics of a Bottom-up Politics”, concluding with an open discussion on the topic “Occupy in Munich?” Simon Teune is a protest researcher and scholarship PhD. student at the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB). Apart from his research on communication strategies of groups critical of globalization, Simon Teune has also explored the worldwide consequences of the Occupy movement. Curated by: Anabel Roque Rodriguez, Carina Essl, Karen Klauke. In cooperation with: STEFANIE UNRUH - TAUSCHLEIHE MAY 24, 2012 TO JUNE 27, 2012 In "Tauschleihe" the mutual interaction between the artist and spectator forms the core of the piece. Both direct dialogue and the exchange of everyday items and works of art are elementary components of the artistic creative process. The employees of RAW have agreed to house an artwork by Stefanie Unruh at their place of business for a limited amount of time, and in return they are showing a decorative object from their office in the exhibition space. Eliminating the borders between art and everyday life generates not only new intellectual inspiration; it should also offer concrete points of contact with the fine arts. The exhibition is visible from outdoors anytime until July 13. EDITION TAUBE: DON'T LOOK NOW MAY 17, 2012 TO JUNE 06, 2012 The publisher and artist collective Edition Taube (Jonas Beuchert, Jan Steinbach, Tilman Schlevogt) has conceived a new video installation for PLATFORM3 that addresses the production and reception of books: “Don’t look now” explores and negotiates the relationship between author and reader from prevailing viewpoints. To depict the currently shifting power relationships in the medium of the book, the collective reinvents terms like “editor” and “receiver”. The “editor” in this case comprises the functions of author, publisher or graphic designers. The “receiver” is the addressee, reader and recipient. Parallel to the development of the printed word into virtual text, our involvement with the book as a medium is also changing. The codes that the user originally learned are no longer effective. Edition Taube deals with the shifting of the author and reader roles and the resulting new interfaces between them using graphically modified books. “Don't look now” unites possible approaches to the re-medialisation of the book in terms of graphics as well as content. A PUBLIC MOMENT. EXHIBITION, OPEN STUDIOS, PROGRAMME OF EVENTS MARCH 24, 2012 TO APRIL 28, 2012 For PLATFORM3's 3rd anniversary, the international artist Franck Leibovici (*1975, France) initiated a research dealing with artists' "forms of life" and "ecosystems" produced by an artistic practice: "Let us assume that an artwork cannot be reduced to an object, but rather it encompasses gestures the artist has conceived specifically for it, repeating actions, ethical views, political decisions and economic considerations in this project we understand all of this as the "form of life" of an artwork, its entirely unique ecosystem." An experimental exhibition situation locates and connects the individual positions by means of a set of 34 keywords. Starting from these keywords, one can compose customized thematic tours through a total of 20 open studios at PLATFOM3. A Public Moment strives to examine the relationship artist-work-spectator by means of opening up the landscape of the artistic process for the viewer. The exhibition features: Jess Walter, Johannes Karl, Patricia Lincke, Annegret Bleisteiner, Nikolai Vogel, Ute Heim, Silvia Wienefoet, Brigitta Reuter, Hubert Hasler, Anne Wodtcke, Nicola Hanke, Monika Humm, Nana Dix, Jessica Kallage-Götze, Ryo Kawasaki, Susanne Thiemann, Stefanie Unruh and Silke Markefka Exhibition Design: Pierre Jorge Gonzalez (AAS Gonzalez Haase) Graphic Design: Tilman Schlevogt (Studio Taube) Special thanks to the studio AAS Gonzalez Haase for their exhibition design support. ARTIST IN RESIDENCY -PRESENTATION: JUAN DUQUE "MEDIATION" JANUARY 26, 2012 TO FEBRUARY 18, 2012 Juan Duque's own constant displacement allows him to inhabit multiple worlds, multiple places, multiple borders and multiple temporalities simultaneously. Taking the place of an outsider, an observer in the field, the artist is interested in revealing which processes and actions take place parallel to the daily routine in the peripheral context of PLATFORM3: Distortion, fragmentation, repetition, dislocation, translation and accumulation are all irregularities that emerge in the gaps of a city's fixed, efficient and stringent infrastructure. Their dynamic, almost organic condition raises questions about the relationship s between memory, temporality and space in the context of generic industrial clusters. The title of the project, Mediation, refers to a position in the context of a negotiation. The outcome of a two-month residency at PLATFORM3, the exhibition proposes an open form of dialogue with the spectator: showing a wide range of media from photographs to video and in situ installation, it sets the scene for an encounter, possible entanglement and transfer of (the memory or traces of) other possible landscapes. In the exhibition space, the arrangement of objects as well as processes used for capturing and transferring traces and images allow for multiple associations that tear down the perceptual paradigm of "inside" vs. "outside". The works' site specificity arouses awareness for the precarious nature of urban space, as opposed to the hierarchical organization and imposed structural functionality of urban planning and architecture. Juan Duque (*1974, CO) is an architect, urban designer and artist who holds a master’s degree obtained at Sint-Lukas, Brussels. His site-specific practice led him to realize projects in various countries in Europe, including UK, Austria, Spain, the Netherlands and Germany. He participated in the group exhibitions “No Soul for Sale” in Tate Modern, UK (2010) and “Nomadic Settlers – Settled Nomads” in Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin (2011). He lives and works in Ghent, Belgium. Find more information on the artist's website: www.betweencorners.eu/ JANUARY 26, 2012 TO FEBRUARY 18, 2012 opening: January, 25th, 2012, 7 p.m PLATFORM3 presents Juan Duque's first solo exhibition in Germany. During his two-month residency in Munich, the artist conceived a series of site-specific works with perishable, fleeting materials: paper, photography and video. He subverts the conventional urban reality of the periphery and examines it for natural phenomena, like wind, rain or vegetation which create fractures in urban areas and their stringently organized infrastructure. Juan Duque selected a conveying position in a process which is constantly redefining the borders between “inside” and “outside”, “natural” and “urban”, as well as “nomadism” and “identity”. Juan Duque lives and works in Ghent, Belgium. His residency in Munich is the result of a cooperation between the Belgian artist-studio-programme Nucleo and PLATFORM3. Kindly supported by Kulturreferat der Landeshauptstadt München. PLATFORM3 2012 : SEE (TO) IT - A QUEST FOR ARTISTIC PRACTICES TO INCLUDE THE VIEWER JANUARY 01, 2012 TO DECEMBER 31, 2012 In all our 2012 projects, PLATFORM3 attempts to break apart the widespread theory of the passive spectator – not through preprogrammed participation, but rather through various strategies of making public the genesis of a project. In this way the audience is no longer an unpredictable variable appearing at the conclusion of the artistic production process, but an integrative component of every artistic project – whether exhibition, performance or lecture series. The “fourth wall” exists in theatres, and in museums works are separated from visitors by barriers, vitrines and security guards. Strategies – both spatial and symbolic – to overcome the barriers to the viewer shape the 20th and beginning of the 21st Century: artists as well as institutional agents and curators actively seek an encounter with the audience, even if this does not always take place on an equal footing or under egalitarian conditions. The viewer, respectively the audience, is and remains the unpredictable variable in every artistic project: with the selection of specific artistic positions, or names of curators as well as by means of the exhibition context, it is possible to anticipate theperception of the audience to a certain degree. In the face of the artwork, however, the individual, the actual exhibition visitor remains incapable of being influenced – and is in advance unreachable. How they approach the work, with which means they grasp it, is always an experiment. Works, according to French writer Alain RobbeGrillet, can also be read against the intention of the author. This is especially true for all contemporary art which is dedicated to more experimental, aesthetic forms and that breaks from the genre principle. Would it not therefore be interesting to include the audience right from the very beginning? From the very conception of the project, to generate interest in the public, to seek an exchange with those who will later appear behind the fourth wall, behind the barriers, as a visitor? However, the general direction of art during the modern period is – surprisingly – initially the opposite: with the increasing professionalism of artists as well as through the structural organisation of the “artworld” (P. Bourdieu, A. Danto) as a relatively hermetic system, little by little the spectator is ousted from the production context. Through strategies of participation and relational aesthetics (N. Bourriaud), the viewer is now increasingly making a comeback once again. The return of the viewer is, however, not what it seems: the viewer, according to Jacques Rancière, was never physically or intellectually ‘absent’. In fact viewing is not a strictly contemplative moment. Someone who sits in a chair and follows an artistic act is not automatically behaving in a passive way. So perhaps viewers do not have to be freed from their apparent rigidity through emotionally charged messages and offensively formulated invitations at all. On the contrary: Seeing is always an active, individually shaped act to perceive and analyse reality. From the entirety of his impressions and associations, references and experiences, the observer construes his/her most personal visual experience. Limiting it to viewing is not sacrificing the analysis of meaning. In the opposite way, the imperative of taking part does not guarantee the active involvement of the viewers with what is happening. Participation takes many forms – participative art projects are simply the most obvious, most widespread of them all today. In all PLATFORM3 projects in the year 2012 the viewer as individual, and the audience as the entire public, is therefore the origin of an artistic idea, not just its target. DRAWING A LINE | VOM WIDER-STEHEN DECEMBER 08, 2011 TO DECEMBER 22, 2011 Opening: December 7, 2011, 7pm Opening Hours: Dezember 8 - Dezember 15, 2011, Mon-Sat 11am-7pm, Wed 12-20h December 16 - December 22, 2011, Mon-Fri 12am-7pm, Sat and Sun closed with Ehud Darash/ Na'ama Landau, Falk Haberkorn, Andreas Sell research project with Antifun, Gürsoy Dogtas, Lisa Erb, Ehud Darash/ Na'ama Landau, Helga Lutz, Falk Haberkorn, Wilma Renfordt, Uzrukki Schmidt/ Helene Hellmich, Andreas Sell The exhibition and research project Drawing a line | Vom Wider-Stehen is dedicated to moments of pausing, of waiting and stasis, of stagnation and of hesitation. They stand in opposition to the ideal of continuous progress, growth and stringency. The focus here is on the entire spectrum these moments can have: from ‘Wider-Stehen’ (literally ‘with standing’) in everyday things and situations and in one’s own work, all the way to with-stand prevailing structures and political systems. Simultaneously the question of the future is raised, so what the ‘next step’, what progress, is. Drawing a line | Vom Wider-Stehen questions these moments, depicting linearity as a figment of the imagination. It addresses going astray, doubt and supposed stagnation, and recognises these as completely unique, resistive and productive elements. Bildatlas The Bildatlas is a research and production tool deployed for the exhibition. It serves the purpose of making the artistic and curatorial process accessible and able to be visualised. At the same time it sets itself apart from the illusion of linear progress. It creates an open structure, making it possible to be observed while searching for the embodiment of form. Exhibition Drawing a line conceives of ‘Wider-Stehen’ as an uprise against established structures. The exhibition brings together artists distinguished by their resistive thinking and actions as well as their ability to be critical. In questioning the resistive potential of art, the artists have conceptualised new works especially for this exhibition which challenge social, political or physical “regularities”. Research Project The research project Vom Wider-Stehen is a loose collection associated with the term ‘with-stand’ as a moment of stasis and vacuum. People of differing fields are invited to contribute miniatures. With the varying methods and thematic approaches, the collection itself is able to resist linearity and contingency. It can be viewed by visitors during the opening hours of the exhibition. A project conceived and curated by Greta Hoheisel | Sven Christian Schuch, PLATFORM3 ART CENTRES- CITY MARGINS: BEST PRACTICE, SHARED EXPERIENCE NOVEMBER 28, 2011 - 07:00 PM As closing event of the programme series Art Centres - City margins, PLATFORM3 hosts a round table which will investigate artistic and curatorial practice in the urban periphery of European metropolises together with the following guests: Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez, Co-Director, Les Laboratoires d'Aubervilliers (FR) Tadej Pogačar, founder and director of P74 Centre and Gallery, Ljubljana (SI) Anke Hoffmann, Curator at Shedhalle, Rote Fabrik, Zürich (CH) Halle14, Leipzig (DE) Supported by Robert Bosch Stiftung's programme DUO for German-French cultural exchange. ART CENTRES- CITY MARGINS: BEST PRACTICE, SHARED EXPERIENCE NOVEMBER 28, 2011 - 07:00 PM All art spaces participating in the panel share a strong interest in artistic production, taking into consideration the geographic as well as the social context they exist in. Rather than focusing on collecting and preserving art, they tend to be research- and process based. For institutions located at the urban periphery, networking is a key element to extend their practice into the city's core institutions, andto create exchange with curators and professionals in the "centre". Additional information on the participating spaces and projects: Les Laboratoires d'Aubervilliers are a tool dedicated to artistic research. The modalities of each residency adapt themselves to the hosted proposals. P74 is a non-profit project space founded by the artist and curator Tadej Pogačar. Activities include exhibition projects as well as publishing. HALLE 14 is an independent, non-profit art space in Leipzig, hosting exhibitions and a library. The Shedhalle, located on the grounds of the Rote Fabric in Zurich, is an art space that tests and develops new forms of artistic practice. Mit freundlicher Unterstützung des Programms DUO der Robert Bosch Stiftung zum deutsch-französischen Kulturaustausch. Stefan Wischnewski - busy OCTOBER 19, 2011 TO NOVEMBER 25, 2011 Exhibition in the showroom of RAW (Department of Labor and Economic Development), Herzog-Wilhelm-Str. 15 For his new project, Stefan Wischnewski will be moving his work studio, materials and tools, in particular his so called “Nähflügel”, a hybrid of piano and sewing machine, into the gallery space. Using mostly recycled work clothing, the artist will work there three days a week and create a site-specific patchwork installation: visitors to the gallery are encouraged to look on as the work takes shape. The artists working hours are Tue from 10am to 6pm. Finissage: 23. November, 18h. The showroom of the Referat für Arbeit und Wirtschaft is in Herzog-Wilhelm-Str. 15, U3/U6 Sendlinger Tor or U4/U5/S Karlsplatz (Stachus). Opening hours: Mo-Th 8am-6pm, Fr 8am-15pm VERDECKTE ADRESSATEN NOVEMBER 09, 2011 TO NOVEMBER 25, 2011 In Memoriam Anneliese Knoop-Graf The second part of a curatorial project on the relationship between information and the public; with contributions by Katrin Mayer and the artist group Metahaven; curated by Doreen Mende and Axel J. Wieder Opening: November 8, 2011 7pm Opening Speech | Lichthof LMU 7:30pm Artist talk with Katrin Mayer | DenkStätte Weiße Rose PLATFORM3 is delighted to present a joint project initiated by the White Rose Foundation e.V., which explores the role of pamphlets as a means of political resistance. Verdeckte Adressaten examines historical forms of media communication as well as the distribution paths of regime-critical content, with the goal of transposing them into the present and developing new artistic formats to house them. The design and research studio Metahaven (NL) initiates a large scale mailing campaign. In the letters generated by Metahaven, the recipient will find enclosed a “credit card,” whose one side has a mirror finish, and whose other side is magnetized. With their surfaces that have opposite effects, these cards become carriers of a compelling paradox. This artistic intervention will be documented in an exhibition at the Weiße Rose memorial site. Katrin Mayer (D) is conducting a research project that will culminate in a brochure. Her research focuses on oppositional behavior and activities by youth during the Nazi era and draws on recent studies that reveal a richer, more nuanced image of resistance during the Third Reich. Special attention is given to counter-culture youth clubs that have been all but forgotten in the post-war history of the Federal Republic of Germany, for example the Swing Jugend, the Edelweißpiraten, the Blasen etc. This project was initiated in memory of Dr. h.c. Anneliese Knoop-Graf. She was the younger sister of Willi Graf, one of the members of the Weiße Rose murdered by the Gestapo, and worked tirelessly until her death on August 27th, 2009 to further the legacy of the Weiße Rose. In his farewell letter on the day of his execution on October 12, 1943, Willi Graf asked his sister to convey one last wish to their friends: "They must continue what we have started." Thanks to: Family Knoop, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, RischArt_Projekt as well as Unipas Leerdam. PETER DOWNSBROUGH OCTOBER 27, 2011 TO NOVEMBER 19, 2011 Peter Downsbrough's black and white photographs both neutralize and refresh our view of the urban landscape peripheral or central, residential or industrial neighborhoods; here, architectural spaces are transformed into sites where one can experience an altered perception of time and space, a perception that finds its three-dimensional counterpart in Downsbrough's other work - in this case, a room and a wall piece. The artist book AS SET will be published on the occasion. Opening: Oct. 26 th, 7 p.m, PLATFORM3. Exhibition: Oct 27th -Nov 19th, Mo-Sa 11 11 a.m -7 p.m; We 12 a.m- 8 p.m. On view are a new series of photgraphs shot in Munich as well as a Room Piece. Publication: The book "AS SET" (free limited edition) will be published on this occasion. Film screening: Oct. 27th, 7 p.m, Filmmuseum München, St. Jakobsplatz 1. A selection of recent work will be on view. Introduction to the artist's work by curator Moritz Küng. Since the 1960s, Peter Downsbrough has been one of the leading figures in the field of conceptual art. At the core of his explorations are space and the relationship between architecture, language and typography. Besides being featured at documenta 6, Downsborough’s sculptures, interventions, photographs, films and books have been celebrated in a number of international exhibitions in the last several years. The artist’s first artistic dialogue with Munich took place twenty years ago, with his work "Open Column" for the Glyptothek, followed by a series of photographs of the city published in the local newspaper Abendzeitung. PLATFORM3 is delighted to welcome Peter Downsborough back to Munich in 2011. In the context of this commissioned project, he is exploring the city’s urban periphery starting out from our site in Obersendling. The artist’s photographic research and his walking expeditions of the city have resulted in a series of twenty-five photographs accompanied by a film, in which urban space is portrayed as an entity that is not only structured in and of itself, but that also enforces structure on its members. Seen through Downsborough’s lens, both the architecture in its physical mass and form as well as the city’s linear gridlike space exude a formal austerity: Here is a city formed by aesthetic habits and architectural order, a city that is both a construct as well as a system that actively imposes order. Its flow is tightly controlled, its procedures are closely regulated. The exhibition space itself is also part of this examination. Peter Downsbrough’s site-specific installation Room Piece acts as a counterpart to his photographs, designating the PLATFORM3 venue as a ‚legible’ space. A grid made of words, of adverbs describing time and space, covers the walls of the exhibition gallery and opens up new physical and associative ways for the observer to experience this locale. Peter Downsborough has been featured in Munich a number of times, first with his project "Open Column" commissioned by the Glyptothek München (1991), followed by his series of photographs of the city that were published in the local newspaper AZ (Abendzeitung) in the 1990s. Most recently, the artist’s work was included in an exhibition on the conceptual art collector Herman Daled at the Haus der Kunst (05/2010). This one-man exhibition brings the international artist back to Munich. See the video recording of Moritz Küng's presentation of Peter Downsbrough's work recorded on Oct, 27th, 2011. (in German language) JENNIFER LACEY: I HEART LYGIA CLARK OCTOBER 10, 2011 TO OCTOBER 14, 2011 Public presentation: October 12, 2011, 19 Uhr with Alice Chauchat (Les Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers), Jennifer Lacey, Barbara Manzetti, Audrey Gaisan, Alex Baggaley and PLATFORM3. Inspired by the artistic practice of Lygia Clark (1920-1988, Brazil), I heart Lygia Clark aims at creating an aesthetic experience within the framework of a series of individual “beauty” treatments. The chorographer Jennifer Lacey (USA/FR), together with Audrey Gaisan and Barbara Manzetti connects elements of performance, therapy and psychology in response to Clark's physical and sensorial exploration of the body. Treatment sessions will take place in a beauty parlor at PLATFORM. To participate in one of the treatment-sessions between October 10th and 14th, participants are required to follow an artistic protocol: 1. Register by telephone until Oct, 5th, Mo-Fr, from 10. am to 5p.m: 089 3249009-13. 2. Answer a questionnaire in preparation for your individual treatment 3. Return the filled-out questionnaire by Oct. 7th to: 4. Take part in an hour-long treatment at PLATFORM3 from Oct 10th -14th. Working with archival footage’ from previous sessions, the British artist Alex Baggaley creates an artistic documentation of the project. An artist book will be published in 2012 by Les Presses du Réel (Dijon, France).www.lespressesdureel.com Jennifer Lacey, American choreographer living in Paris; Co-founder of the Megagloss company; Projects include: Projet Bonbonnière, a travelling research about "théâtres à l'italienne"; Robin Hood, a mythical and invisible performance with Cerith Wyn Evans; Resident at Les Laboratoires d'Aubervilliers in 2010. I heart Lygia Clark is a collaboration between PLATFORM3 and Les Laboratoires d'Aubervilliers that receives support by Robert-Bosch-Foundation's exchange-programme Duo. Filmstill © Marta Popivoda, 2010. ART CENTRES - CITY MARGINS: ART AT THE PERIPHERY OF EUROPEAN METROPOLISES OCTOBER 09, 2011 TO NOVEMBER 28, 2011 Together with international curators, project partners and artists, PLATFORM3 is exploring the conditions of art production and curatorial practice at the outer edges of Europe's cities. Art spaces from France, Switzerland and Slovenia participating in this project share a strong interest in specific types of artistic and curatorial practice, taking into consideration the geographic as well as the social context they are dealing with. An international panel will discuss strategies for artistic and cultural production and presentation within Art centres located on City margins. Aperformance by Jennifer Lacey aims at creating an aesthetic experience within the framework of a series of individual “beauty” treatments open to everybody. Finally, an exhibition by Peter Downsbrough projects the spectator into the surrounding areas of PLATFORM3, where the artist took a series of new photographs. Mobile Archive: „I don’t know what to do with climate change, so I wear a new dress and come here.“ – Meka Maratova OCTOBER 05, 2011 TO OCTOBER 21, 2011 Karin Bergdolt Adorned with a warning west, a performance artist makes interventions in the streets of Munich: she engages passersby in conversations about climate change, she distributes bibliographical lists and postcards to spread and continue the dialogue. Her work is to spread the information and increase the dialogue on this timely topic. The mobile archive is part of the project ClimateSights – organized by PLATFORM3 and WECF in September 2011., Oct. 19, 2011, 6:30 p.m (lecture starts at 7.30 p.m) TU Munich, Room 1100 Arcisstraße 21, Munich Conceived by artist Karin Bergdolt, the "mobile archive" resonates an international workshop on the topic of climate change. For the workshop, artists from Bosnia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Germany, as well as scientists from different disciplines, were invited to discuss climate change, working together to develop artistic responses. Karin Bergdolt’s mobile archive looks back at the project, documenting and transforming it into her own artistic response. The mobile archive will be present at a number of different events taking place in Munich as part of the city-wide celebration Klimaherbst. CLIMATE SIGHTS. Artistic Examinations on Climate Change. WORKSHOP SEPTEMBER 04, 2011 TO SEPTEMBER 14, 2011 ClimateSights. Artistic Examinations on Climate Change is an artistic experiment. It is a workshop, think tank and platform for artistic research and production. As a collaboration between the NGO Women in Europe for a Common Future (WECF) and the art project PLATFORM3 – Spaces for Contemporary Art, CLIMATE SIGHTS focuses on the topic of climate change, proposing a dialogue between the arts, science and society. CLIMATE SIGHTS renegotiates the current alarming situation through artistic methods and proposes new approaches and future concepts for dealing with contemporary global challenges. ClimateSights is interested in the specific regional characteristics of dealing with these topics, both in everyday life and in artistic practice. Artists from different cultural backgrounds, namely Central Asia, Bosnia and Germany, are invited to research the actual topic, to develop concrete future scenarios, alternative models and trendsetting artistic concepts that deal with the causes and challenges of climate change in their particular surroundings. Artistic director workshop: Lisa Erb www.lisaerb.com Workshop: 04. - 14.09.2011 Vernissage: 14.09.2011, 19h Exhibition: 14. - 30.09.2011 Panel discussion: 21.09.2011, 19h CLIMATE SIGHTS. Artistic Examinations on Climate Change. WORKSHOP SEPTEMBER 04, 2011 TO SEPTEMBER 14, 2011 Panel discussion: September 21, 2011, 7pm, PLATFORM3 Guests from different disciplines will reflect on new multi-disciplinary alliances and hybrids in questioning the topic of climate change. Participants: Wilma Renfordt: holds a degree in theater and arts, works in the project office Friedrich von Borries (Berlin), editor of KLIMAKUNSTFORSCHUNG (Merve publisher, Berlin 2011). Svenja von Gierke: Head of communications at Green City e.V. organised the first Carrotmob in southern Germany, works in the campaign „Munich for Climate Protection“, the bike campaign „Radlhauptstadt (bike capital) and in the EU campaign „Energy Union“.Trudel Meier-Staude: works in the projekt21plus, consults environmental organisations and organises different campaigns on energy. As well as an artist and a scientist. Presentation: Beatrice Voigt: Beatrice Voigt art and cultural projects to develop a „culture of sustainability“, member of the management circle BenE Munich e.V., Regional Centre of Expertise (RCE) of the UN decade „Education for Sustainable Development“ Mobile archive: Münchner Klimaherbst, October 5 to 10, 2011 An artistically transformed mobile archive documents the project and collects and stores information about climate change. The archive can be seen, explored and used at different events within the Klimaherbst and in public places in Munich. Artist: Karin Bergdolt Verdeckte Adressaten JULY 15, 2011 TO JULY 28, 2011 A curatorial project on the relationship between information and the public, in two parts. With contributions by the artists Loek Grootjans, Katrin Mayer and the artist group Metahaven. Curated by Doreen Mende, Axel J. Wieder and PLATFORM3. PLATFORM3 is delighted to present a joint project initiated by the White Rose Foundation e.V., which explores the role of pamphlets as a means of political resistance. <Verdeckte Adressaten> examines historical forms of media communication as well as the distribution paths of regime-critical content, with the goal of transposing them into the present and developing new artistic formats to house them. This project was initiated in memory of Dr. h.c. Anneliese Knoop-Graf. She was the younger sister of Willi Graf, one of the members of the Weiße Rose murdered by the Gestapo, and worked tirelessly until her death on August 27th, 2009 to further the legacy of the Weiße Rose. In his farewell letter on the day of his execution on October 12, 1943, Willi Graf asked his sister to convey one last wish to their friends: "They must continue what we have started." Opening and Performance: 14. July 2011 19h Performance: Loek Grootjans (NL) 20h Curator's talk: "Strategien des Gedenkens/Kulturen des Erinnerns" Part 1: 15. - 28. July, 2011 Exhibition: Loek Grootjans (NL) Thomas-Mann-Halle, LMU München Opening hours: Mo-Fr 11-17h, Wed 12-18h Part 2: 8. - 25. November, 2011 Exhibition and publication: Metahaven (NL), Katrin Mayer (D) Lichthof/ Denkstätte Weiße Rose, LMU München Opening hours: Mo-Fr 10-16h Thanks to: Family Knoop, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München, Rischart_Projekt Project management: Marlene Rigler | Project coordination: Sven Christian Schuch freisprechanlage. staging opinion JULY 13, 2011 TO JULY 24, 2011 The festival freisprechanlage. staging opinion asks Munich for its opinion: the interdisciplinary art project features the manifold ways of making freedom of expression audible and visible in Munich - accompagnied by an artistic conversation with Cairo. During the festival, different events and formats will bring together the performative, the political and the poetic. Bi-, tri-, multilingual. A positioning, an identification, a delineation. Dates: July 13 to 21, 2011: Complaints Choir Workshop. PLATFORM3 July 20, 2011, 8pm: Redefreiheit! Poetry Jam. IMPORT EXPORT, Goethestr. 30 July 22, 2011, 9pm: Choir Project Performance and Soundcollage/Party. PATHOS TRANSPORT THEATER, Dachauerstr. 110d July 24, 2011, 7pm: Closing event: Audio, Film and Talk. IMPORT EXPORT, Goethestr. 30 Kindly supported by Ausländerbeirat München Freedom of opinion means that anyone can express their opinion openly. This assumes, however, that one actually has an opinion, and it also includes the right to abstain from making a statement. How does this 'freedom' manifest itself in Munich? What happens when opinions are given center stage? With a Complaints Choir Workshop, a series of different events and formats, a film work and installations in public space, the festival will stage opinion being voiced and examined with a critical eye. It will take free speech literally and will make opinions visible and audible, which also means to open the term 'freedom' up for discussion. In this context the festival will draw the connection from Munich to Cairo and the so called 'Generation Tahrir' (an allusion to the main site of the Egyptian Revolution), where the term 'freedom of expression' has recently taken on a whole new meaning. Conceived and curated by Sara Duana Meyer (PLATFORM3) --------------------------------- More about the events and happenings: Freedom of Speech! Poetry Jam with the Expressbrassband Festival opening: July 20 | 8pm | IMPORT EXPORT, Goethestr. 30 A Poetry Jam starts off the festival freisprechanlage. staging opinion with a literary take on: well-known poets, writers and Spoken Word Artists from Munich and Cairo will perform literary opinion pieces and demonstrate how they understand freedom of speech. Supported, accompagnied and followed by equally well-known musicians who will convey their opinion in their own and unmistakeable expressive way. Bi-, tri-, multilingual. The spoken word holds. Christine Auerbach, www.write-club.de Daniel Graziadei, www.danwillschreiben.de Franziska Holzheimer, www.franziskaholzheimer.de Salam Yousry, www.evelyn-bassem-salam.com www.expressbrassband.de --------------------------------- Freedom to listen, hear and move! Choir Project Performance / Live-Stream Soundcollage / Party Juli 22| 9pm | PATHOS TRANSPORT THEATER, Dachauerstr. 110d The Choir Project performs the results of the workshop – in German, English and Arabic. Afterwards Munich goes face to face, or rather, ear to ear with Cairo: soundartists from Munich will interact and jam live with the audience in Munich and soundartists in Cairo via live-stream. DJ Dompteur Mooner adds tracks and tunes to this virtual soundcollage. Listen, speak up, and dance! Sound: Marcel Ralle, Munich (Kidstardust) Adham Hafez, Cairo DJ Dompteur Mooner, Munich Visuals: VJanes zoo.pks and NEONouveaux The Egyptian filmmaker Ahmed Zeidan shows another part of his ongoing video project WHAT YOU MUST NOT HEAR --------------------------------- Expressing opinion between Munich and Cairo. Audio, film, talk. Final Event: July 24 | 7pm | IMPORT EXPORT, Goethestr. 30 Concluding this festival, the participating artists and guests will be asked to voice their own opinions in a podium discussion. Film and audio tracks will document the festival and present works created during the festival period. --------------------------------- WHAT YOU MUST NOT HEAR Documentary and film work July 13 - 24, 2011 The Egyptian film maker Ahmed Zeidan will document the festival by taking on a (seemingly) exterior viewpoint on how freedom of expression is being voiced in Munich. His work will contribute a narrative and aesthetic strand to the theme by collecting 'confessions' by random people. What you never dared to say loud - here you can voice it. Recorded without sound, by someone who doesn't speak your language. To participate call 0151-43511542. ---------------------------------SORRY I CAN'T HEAR YOU. SPEAK UP Installation and Intervention July 13 to 24 | ART BABEL, Dachauer-, Augusten-, Karlstraße The Munich-based artist Anna McCarthy creates a wall mural: the work in progress visualizes the arbitrariness of what is heard by whom - before it will be painted over again shortly after being finished. In collaboration with: www.thechoirproject.webs.com Special thanks to: Stefan Winkler, Ghada El-Sherbiny and Goethe-Institute Cairo IMPORT EXPORT Expressbrassband Caram Kapp and OMRAS Greta Hoheisel Complaints Choir WORKSHOP: first part of the festival freisprechanlage. staging opinion JULY 13, 2011 TO JULY 21, 2011 The festival freisprechanlage. staging opinion starts with your voice! PLATFORM3 invites the director of The Choir Project from Cairo to hold a Workshop in Munich from July 13 to 21, 2011. From crises to revolutions to delayed subways: This workshop invites people from all walks of life to say everything you’ve always wanted to say, and put your hopes and concerns, your feelings and thoughts, your jokes and woes into song. During a week-long workshop of lyric-writing and composition, participants will improvise and create together in German, English and Arabic, followed by a short performance. The workshop is designed and directed by Salam Yousry, director of the Choir Project in Cairo. No previous choir experience is required: everyone is welcome ب ه مرحب ال كل Registration: workshop(at)platform3.de Dates: July 13 – July 21, 2011 Weekdays: 6pm - 9 pm Saturday and Sunday: 1pm - 5pm Attendance is flexible - come when you can. Location: PLATFORM3 Kistlerhofstr. 70 / Haus 60 / 3rd floor U 3 Aidenbachstraße / Bus lines 51, 53 und 133 Parking only available at the bus stop In collaboration with: www.thechoirproject.webs.com The workshop is being organized as part of the festival freisprechanlage. staging opinion which will take place in Munich from July 13 to 24, 2011. Conceived and curated by Sara Duana Meyer (PLATFORM3) More information can be found on our website. More information about the initial concept of a 'complaints choir':www.complaintschoir.org GASTKÜNSTLER MARIJAN CRTALIC JULY 10, 2011 TO AUGUST 20, 2011 Marijan Crtalic’s works are based on an intense exploration of his places of residence. He scrutinizes these locations through the lens of their respective histories, as well as placing them in the context of current political and social issues. These issues are voiced and are made accessible through the artist’s interactive projects, interventions and performances. During his residency in Munich, Marijan Crtalic will apply his location-based approach to this city and its topographies. This Residency launches the new Residency Program within the network SWAP, which was developed by the Department of Arts and Culture of the City of Munich and connects a number of partners across Europe. Marijan Crtali’s residency is made possible by the kind support of the Department of Arts and Culture of the City of Munich. Marijan Crtalic’s works are based on an intense exploration of his places of residence. He scrutinizes these locations through the lens of their respective histories, as well as placing them in the context of current political and social issues. These issues are voiced and are made accessible through the artist’s interactive projects, interventions and performances. One such project was „Communication Games,“ where the artist opened a new line of communication between Zagreb and Belgrade using video and audio broadcasting techniques. With the help of live streaming that was set up in public areas, pedestrians from both cities could choose to establish contact with each other across the distance, or they could simply observe everyday life in the streets of the other city. „Communication Games“ represents an artistic connection between two cities that were once separated by war and conflict. During his residency in Munich, Marijan Crtalic will apply his location-based approach to this city and its topographies. He intends to focus on the social and cultural particularities of life on Munich’s periphery, in particular the „relations between local people and immigrants, relations between tradition and modernity, industry, crafts and culture.“ During his residency, Marijan Crtali will create an intervention in Munich’s public space. This Residency launches the new Residency Program within the network SWAP, which was developed by the Department of Arts and Culture of the City of Munich and connects a number of partners across Europe. Marijan Crtalic’s residency is made possible by the kind support of the Department of Arts and Culture of the City of Munich. DIS/PLAY/GROUND. Exhibitions on sites of creative practice: famed & osa (office for subversive architecture) JULY 07, 2011 TO JULY 20, 2011 An exhibition – the side-by side presentation of different artistic positions – has many components: besides the objects, their artistic creation, and the curatorial vision that contextualizes them, the architectural and institutional space in which they are presented also plays an integral role. dis/play/ground uses various means to explore the spatial parameters that shape exhibitions. Sites of creative practice are places where the production, presentation and dissemination of contemporary art occurs under one roof, together with the evaluation of creative processes and the negotiation of the various themes addressed by the works. As a research project, DIS/PLAY/GROUND uses different methods to explore how these places use space, how they treat issues surrounding display, exhibition space and exhibition design. Attention will first turn to PLATFORM3’s own site: artists and architects have been asked to survey its architectural and institutional characteristics, and to create works based on their findings. DIS/PLAY/GROUND is presenting works by: Famed www.famed.us osa - office for subversive architecture (for osa in Munich: Oliver Langbein and Anke Strittmatter) www.osa-online.net OPENING AND PRESENTATION: July 6, 2011, 7pm DIS/PLAY/GROUND ongoing: Following a further trajectory, dis/play/ground will expand its research field, moving from the PLATFORM3 site to include other, similarly structured sites throughout german speaking areas. What does the exchange/comparison between PLATFORM3 and other similar sites tell us about current ways of exhibiting contemporary art, and what tendencies can be observed? dis/play/ground is a work in progress. Check for updated findings and information, soon to be posted on www. platform3.de. Conceived and curated by Birgit Pelzmann (PLATFORM3) Curator in Residence: Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez JULY 04, 2011 TO JULY 11, 2011 Born in Ljubljana, Slovenia, Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez is an independent curator and art critic, based in Paris. Since 2010 she is co-director of Les Laboratoires d'Aubervilliers (with Alice Chauchat and Grégory Castéra). She also coorganises a seminar on artistic and curatorial practices at EHESS, Paris, together with Patricia Falguieres and Elisabeth Lebovici. Johannes Karl/Florian Baumgartner - Tambosi JUNE 29, 2011 TO AUGUST 05, 2011 Johannes Karl and Florian Baumgartner transform the lobby of the Referat für Arbeit und Wirtschaft into a veritable amusement park for art. The artists create a landscape peppered with quotes and references from the artworld, with a model train that literally makes its way through art history. With a frankness that seems almost childlike, the artists turn a critical eye on the mechanisms involved in the creation of art. Exhibition opening: June 28th, 2011 at 18h Open Hours: Mon – Thurs 8 am-6pm, Fri 8 am -3 pm (The gallery space is always visible from the outside) The exhibition will take place in the RAW showroom (Referat für Arbeit und Wirtschaft), Herzog-Wilhelm-Str. 15. Public transportation: U3/U6 Sendlinger Tor or U4/U5/S Karlsplatz (Stachus). Curator in Residence: Fatou Male MAY 30, 2011 TO JUNE 12, 2011 From Mai 30 to June 12, 2011, Fatou Male joins the team at PLATFORM3. The culture manager from Senegal participates in the Goethe-Institute's further education programme "Culturemanagement in Africa" and will have a two-weeks peek into the everyday work at the platform in Munich. Fatou Male was born in 1968 in Dakar, the capital of Senegal, and has been working as a project administrator for more than 12 years. In Senegal she co-organized the festival Les Blues du Fleuve of the musician Baaba Maal and was part of the curatorial team for the series La Caravane de la Poésie,a literary journey from Gorée to Timbuktu. Since November 2010 Fatou is programm-manager for the Raw Material Company. Sie lives and works in Dakar. hb lankowitz - Rabies in space APRIL 20, 2011 TO MAY 27, 2011 In their new photo series, the artist collective hb lankowitz experiments with the camera obscura as an archaic means of capturing images on paper. A fox, who joins the artists in their studio, is featured as a recurring motif. The large format prints from this series are contextualized by a scenic installation that points to the process of their creation and includes a brief history of the medium. Exhibition Opening: April 19th, 2011 at 6 pm Open Hours: Mon – Thurs 8 am-6pm, Fri 8 am -3 pm (The gallery space is always visible from the outside) The exhibition will take place in the RAW showroom (Referat für Arbeit und Wirtschaft), Herzog-Wilhelm-Str. No. 15. Public transportation: U3/U6 Sendlinger Tor or U4/U5/S Karlsplatz (Stachus). ARTIST-RESIDENCY 2011: ALLARD VAN HOORN APRIL 11, 2011 TO MAY 13, 2011 Von 11.04. bis 13.05. ist der niederländische Künstler Allard van Hoorn Gast an der PLATFORM3 und entwickelt für sein Projekt Urban Songlines eine spezifische Arbeit für München. Allard van Hoorn arbeitet als bildender Künstler disziplinenübergreifend in den Feldern Architektur, Sound und Design und entwickelt Szenarien und Drehbücher, die, basierend auf urbanen Strukturen in unterschiedlichen Städten weltweit, unsere Beziehung zu unserer Lebensumwelt untersuchen und festhalten. Das Gastatelier wird unterstützt vom Kulturreferat der Landeshauptstadt München. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Aslı Toy: Crying, Waiting, Hoping APRIL 01, 2011 TO APRIL 07, 2011 Exhibition in the display window of E324 | Space for Art, Gabelsbergerstraße 65 PLATFORM3 presents “Crying, Waiting, Hoping”, a video installation by Aslı Toy, in the display window of E324. The famous Turkish actress Türkan Şoray, known for her “worth a lifetime” eyes, is shown in slow motion Crying Scenes from twenty-one different Turkish melodrama films dating from 1964 throughout 1978. These films and in particular the crying scenes are of crucial significance for the Turkish popular cinema or Yeşilçam. Yeşilçam refers to the Turkish film industry in the same way that Hollywood refers to American film and dominated the Turkish cinema sector especially in the 1950s and 80s. In 1966 Turkey was 4th, just behind India in world film production with 238 films. The Rotterdam-based artist Asli Toy is in-residency at PLATFORM3. Her stay in Munich was made possible due to a cooperation between TENT Rotterdam and PLATFORM3, on the occasion of this year’s TENT-ACADEMY Awards. The artist created and presents a new work in Munich. The guest-studio is supported by the Department of Arts and Culture. In cooperation with TENT Rotterdam and E324 Munich. Opening hours: continuous E324 | Raum für Kunst is located in Gabelsbergerstraße 65; U2 Theresienstraße. PLATFORM3 Futures MARCH 19, 2011 TO APRIL 13, 2011 In celebration of its second anniversary, PLATFORM3 presents 'Futures'. From March 19th to April 13th 2011, 'Futures' will celebrate work by artists based at PLATFORM3 through a group exhibition, a weekend of open studios with readings, performances, guided tours, screenings and much more. Opening: March 19th, 19pm Opening hours of the exhibition: Mo-Sa 11am-7pm, Mi 12pm-8pm. Open studios: March 19th and 20th, from 2 to 7pm. Events during the open studio weekend: performances, public reading, concert, lecture, screenings, guided tours, Junges Atelier: Ausstellungs-Miniaturen für Kinder. PLATFORM3 Futures MARCH 19, 2011 TO APRIL 13, 2011 In celebration of its second anniversary, PLATFORM3 presents "Futures". This ambiguous term evokes two different, seemingly incongruous spheres that are brought together by the current multidisciplinary project: for one, it refers to the vibrant and fluctuating financial trade market with its economization of time; while on the other hand, 'Futures' in the plural invites the projection of various possible cultural scenarios in the coming years. PLATFORM3 Futures opens on March 19th, 7pm: The group show features the work of 32 artists within a specially conceived exhibition space. Christine Czaika (Berlin/Graz) has created a display system that ties together the various different media represented at PLATFORM3: Painting, Photography, Sculpture, Drawing, Installation, Video and Publications/Printed Matter. These will be presented side-by-side and sometimes grouped thematically, without denying each individual work its own autonomy. On March 19th and 20th, visitors will have the special opportunity to take a closer look at the creative process that takes place every day in the art spaces of PLATFORM3. During Open Studios, the artists will open their private work studies for personal visits - walk-ins will be welcome! There will also be guided, thematictours of the studios that give a comprehensive overview of the various works in progress. Upon request, tours can be taylored to individual interests. The exhibition features: Jovana Banjac, Vinicio Bastidas, Annegret Bleisteiner, Rita de Muynck, Nana Dix, Ina Ettlinger, Nicola Hanke, hb lankowitz, Ute Heim, Margarete Hentze, Monika Humm, Jens Kabisch, Jessica Kallage-Götze, Johannes Karl, Ryo Kawasaki, Silke Markefka, Siyoung Kim, Patricia Lincke, Frank Maier, Nina Märkl, Marc Melchior, Masayo Oda, Wolfgang Stehle, James Sutherland, Susanne Thiemann, Stefanie Unruh, Nikolai Vogel, Walter Jess, Christian Weiß, Silvia Wienefoet, Stefan Wischnewski and Anne Wodtcke. Visitors are also invited to attend the special events during the open studio weekend organized by the artists based on PLATFORM3. Saturday, March 19th 2pm "Seaweed" video by Monika Humm 3pm Public Reading: Jess Walter, Nikolai Vogel, Uwe Oldenburg 4:30pm "wartungen" Performance by Anne Wodtcke und Ruth Geiersberger 5pm "Post-, Trans- und Metahumanismus. Philosophien der Zukunft" Lecture by Dr. Stefan Lorenz Sorgner, BA(KCL/London), MA (Durham), University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Moderation by Dr. Rita de Muynck 6pm Guided tour in the studio space 7pm Opening of the group exhibition PLATFORM3 Futures 8pm Concert Balkan Dzukboks Sunday, March 20th 2pm "baufix duchamp" Interaktive installation by Dorothea Seror, duration: until 5pm 2pm Childrens art workshop: Ausstellungs-Miniaturen. Workshop for children from the age of 7 up. Duration: until 5pm 3pm "mobile cinema" A site inspection of Sendling with Annegret Bleisteiner 4pm Guided tour in the studio space 4pm "Im Viertel" (series Stadtkörper) video from the project "mobile cinema" by Annegret Bleisteiner 5pm "Doing nothing all day" and "Demokratie auf Super8" Präsentation of the film project by Margarete Hentze and Christiane Huber Artist-in-Residency 2011: Asli Toy MARCH 15, 2011 TO APRIL 12, 2011 The Rotterdam-based artist Asli Toy will be in-residency at PLATFORM3. Her stay in Munich was made possible due to a cooperation between TENT Rotterdam and PLATFORM3, on the occasion of this year’s TENT-ACADEMY Awards. The artist will create and present a new work in Munich. The guest-studio is supported by the Department of Arts and Culture. In cooperation with TENT Rotterdam Murmurs from the Future MARCH 10, 2011 TO MARCH 11, 2011 Murmurs from the Future Screening – Lecture – Discussion – Screening With worldwide economic and political changes happening at breakneck speed, new technological forms of communication being developed almost on a weekly basis, and philosophical orientations shifting continually, we are becoming actors and witnesses of radical upheavals. Horst Seehofer’s proclamation that “multiculturalism is dead,” as well as David Cameron’s summary of what he calls the Islamic “process of radicalization,” which he presented during the Munich security conference in February, give rise to the need for interrogating Germany’s definition of ‘identity:’ Murmurs of the Future is an invitation to explore these questions together. March 10th, 2011, 7 pm Murmurs from the Future: what comes after the Capital? Screening im Filmmuseum Admission: € 4. March 11th, 2011, from 6 pm Murmurs from the Future: what comes after Identity? Lecture – Discussion – Screening at PLATFORM3 This event is free of charge Murmurs from the Future MARCH 10, 2011 TO MARCH 11, 2011 Murmurs from the Future Screening – Lecture – Discussion – Screening With worldwide economic and political changes happening at breakneck speed, new technological forms of communication being developed almost on a weekly basis, and philosophical orientations shifting continually, we are becoming actors and witnesses of radical upheavals. Horst Seehofer’s proclamation that “multiculturalism is dead,” as well as David Cameron’s summary of what he calls the Islamic “process of radicalization,” which he presented during the Munich security conference in February, give rise to the need for interrogating Germany’s definition of ‘identity:’ Murmurs of the Future is an invitation to explore these questions together. March 10th, 2011, 7 pm Murmurs from the Future: what comes after the Capital? Screening im Filmmuseum, Admission: € 4. The film program features a music video and two British art films - both screened for the first time in Gemany - that address the limits and boundaries of capitalism: Corporate Cannibal, Grace Jones/Nick Hooker, 2008, 6min About Now MMX, William Raban, 2010, 28min Hydra Decapita, The Otolith Group, 2010, 32min The films will be introduced and contextualized by Maxa Zoller, who will also lead the Q&A at the end of the session. This program is being presented as part of the program Open Scene, organized by the Filmmuseum München. March 11th, 2011, from 6 pm Murmurs from the Future: what comes after Identity? Lecture – Discussion – Screening at PLATFORM3 This event is free of charge. 6pm Lecture by Edgar Schmitz The artist and theoretician Edgar Schmitz will present the idea of an ‘intensified identity denial’ by using the film treatise Get Rid of Yourself by the Bernadette Corporation (2003) as a backdrop. In their film, the artist group has created a spatial diagram that reaches from their vacation spot at the beach to the violent streets of Geneva during the G8 Protests in 2001. In his lecture, Schmitz engages philosophical concepts developed by Giorgio Agamben and Antonio Negri as well as Jacques Rancière. In a discussion following the lecture, Maxa Zoller und Edgar Schmitz will invite the audience to trace the existence of a so-called ‘glocal’ identity – between global and local – here in Munich. 7:30 pm film screening: Identitätswechsel (‘change of identity’) The film program Identitätswechsel explores different answers to the question of identity in a world defined by the prefix ‘post.’ Three artistic video works document the ways in which identity changes in the face of global political and economic upheavals. Concept and introduction by Anja Lückenkemper DIE KUNSTMASCHINE: MIT DEM ODER GEGEN DAS SYSTEM? MARCH 10, 2011 - 10:00 AM Ganztägiges Videoseminar zur Frage nach künstlerischer Praxis im globalen Kapitalismus Mit Maxa Zoller Das Videoseminar befasst sich mit theoretischen und künstlerischen Fragen zu Möglichkeiten und Problemen der kritischen Produktion in zeitgenössischer Film- und Videokunst. Ausgehend von ihrer Erfahrung als Dozentin und Filmkuratorin wird Maxa Zoller die Teilnehmer dieses Seminars einladen, anhand einer Reihe von Filmbeispielen gemeinsam eine Diskussion über die Beziehung zwischen der globalen ‘multitude’ und den spezifisch subjektiv-lokalen Bedingungen der Münchner Kunstszene zu entfalten. Maximale Teilnehmerzahl: 16 Personen. Bitte anmelden unter: Zeit: 10.3., 10h - 17h Ort: salong, Akademie der Bildenden Künste (Altbau) Diese Veranstaltung ist kostenfrei. Wir freuen uns auf Eure Teilnahme! Past, presence and future of the art scene in Central Asia MARCH 02, 2011 - 07:00 PM Talk with Ekaterina Serebryanaya Ekaterina Serebryanaya will provide an insight into issues of culture censorship during Cold War and try to show the link to contemporary arts in Kazakhstan and Central Asian region. She will present some works by artists from the region who are also part of the international art scene. Thanks to the Initiative Culture And Development (Goethe-Institut) Ekaterina Serebryanaya has joined PLATFORM3 for four weeks and contributes to ongoing projects. She graduated from University of Nottingham, UK with BA in Art History. Her BA thesis was about 'Censorship during Cold War'. After university Katya spent 6 months in Venice, working for Educational Department of 53rd Venice Biennale. At the moment she's working in a contemporary art gallery in Almaty and doing research on Central Asian art. The talk will be in English. Foto: (c) hb lankowitz, 2011 DIE KUNSTMASCHINE: MIT DEM ODER GEGEN DAS SYSTEM? FEBRUARY 18, 2011 - 10:00 AM Ganztägiges Videoseminar zur Frage nach künstlerischer Praxis im globalen Kapitalismus Mit Maxa Zoller Das Videoseminar befasst sich mit theoretischen und künstlerischen Fragen zu Möglichkeiten und Problemen der kritischen Produktion in zeitgenössischer Film- und Videokunst. Ausgehend von ihrer Erfahrung als Dozentin und Filmkuratorin wird Maxa Zoller die Teilnehmer dieses Seminars einladen, anhand einer Reihe von Filmbeispielen gemeinsam eine Diskussion über die Beziehung zwischen der globalen ‘multitude’ und den spezifisch subjektiv-lokalen Bedingungen der Münchner Kunstszene zu entfalten. Ort: salong, AdBK. Altbau: salong_A_EG_11. Maximale Teilnehmerzahl: 16 Studenten. Bitte anmelden unter: Diese Veranstaltung ist kostenfrei. Wir freuen uns auf Eure Teilnahme! DIE KUNSTMASCHINE: MIT DEM ODER GEGEN DAS SYSTEM? FEBRUARY 18, 2011 - 10:00 AM Ganztägiges Videoseminar zur Frage nach künstlerischer Praxis im globalen Kapitalismus Mit Maxa Zoller Das Videoseminar befasst sich mit theoretischen und künstlerischen Fragen zu Möglichkeiten und Problemen der kritischen Produktion in zeitgenössischer Film- und Videokunst. Ausgehend von ihrer Erfahrung als Dozentin und Filmkuratorin wird Maxa Zoller die Teilnehmer dieses Seminars einladen, anhand einer Reihe von Filmbeispielen gemeinsam eine Diskussion über die Beziehung zwischen der globalen ‘multitude’ und den spezifisch subjektiv-lokalen Bedingungen der Münchner Kunstszene zu entfalten. Ort: salong, AdBK. Altbau: salong_A_EG_11. Maximale Teilnehmerzahl: 16 Studenten. Bitte anmelden unter: Diese Veranstaltung ist kostenfrei. Wir freuen uns auf Eure Teilnahme! Das Seminar wird sich zwischen zwei theoretischen Positionen bewegen: Es wird einen Bogen spannen von Dekonstruktion (Brecht) zu Beschleunigungstheorie nach Deleuze, von Post-Kolonialismus zu Afrofuturismus, von ‘first wave’ Feminismus bis zum Cyborg Manifesto. Filmbeispiele beinhalten Arbeiten von Jean-Luc Godard, Black Audio Film Collective, Harun Farocki, Grace Jones, The Otolith Group, Paul Sharits, Dara Birnbaum und anderen. Dieses Seminar, mehr aktive Anregung als ‘top-down’ Veranstaltung, ist offen für Studenten jeder Fachrichtung und Schaffensphase. Es findet im Rahmen eines Veranstaltungsformats (10. und 11. März) von und in Zusammenarbeit mit PLATFORM3 statt. Maxa Zoller ist Dozentin für Moving Image Art am Sotheby’s Institute of Art und Goldsmiths College, London. Sie arbeitet als freie Kuratorin und Kritikerin. Jess Walter: OHIO'65 FEBRUARY 17, 2011 TO MARCH 25, 2011 Exhibition in the showroom of RAW (Referat für Arbeit und Wirtschaft), Herzog-Wilhelm-Str. 15 PLATFORM3 is launching its series of 2011 satellite exhibitions with a monumental linocut on painted canvas that seems to take up the entire RAW showroom. In this work from Jess Walter’s 1994 series, “OHIO’65,” the artist draws out all the stops to heighten a sense of self-display, public disclosure and the gaze. The showcase-like exhibition space is echoed by a vitrine of drawings, and a sense of photographic „ready exposure“ culminates in an over-life-sized rendering of an open car trunk that takes up more than half of the wall. Yet things stop short at a void created by the blackened interior of the trunk, and we are reminded that disclosure, self-presentation and excessive exposure are indelibly linked to concealment and denied access. Exhibition Opening: Feb. 16th, 2011, 6:30pm. Opening Hours: Mon-Thurs, 8am-6pm, Fr 8am-3pm. (the exhibition space is always visible from the outside) Jess Walter: OHIO'65 FEBRUARY 17, 2011 TO MARCH 25, 2011 In his “OHIO’65” series from the mid nineties, Jess Walter explores the daily lives of Germans who had chosen to immigrate to Cincinnati in the U.S. The motifs used in these linocuts are based on snapshots taken by emigres who felt they had successfully „arrived“ in their new land, and wanted such pictures to demonstrate their privileged status and high standard of living to their relatives back home. PLATFORM3 is launching its series of 2011 satellite exhibitions with a monumental linocut on painted canvas that seems to take up the entire RAW showroom. In this work from Jess Walter’s 1994 series, “OHIO’65,” the artist draws out all the stops to heighten a sense of self-display, public disclosure and the gaze. The showcase-like exhibition space is echoed by a vitrine of drawings, and a sense of photographic „ready exposure“ culminates in an over-life-sized rendering of an open car trunk that takes up more than half of the wall. Yet things stop short at a void created by the blackened interior of the trunk, and we are reminded that disclosure, self-presentation and excessive exposure are indelibly linked to concealment and denied access. In 2011, the RAW showroom will host four exhibitions organized by PLATFORM3, acting as a satellite for contemporary art. In keeping with the broad range of artistic production that takes place at PLATFORM3, the RAW exhibition series will feature various different formats, discourses, and critical exchanges, making different facets of contemporary art more accessible to the public. Critics delight JANUARY 26, 2011 - 07:00 PM Part 2/3: A Constructive Engagement with Contemporary Art Enough talk about the role of criticism and what it ‘can and should’ do. Critics Delight takes a hands-on approach to current exhibitions in Munich. Concept: The format is straight and simple: two different critics with two different opinions examine a single exhibition. All are invited to take part in this critical exchange! Guests: Julia Voss (FAZ) and Jennifer Allen (frieze, mousse, taz) Critics delight DECEMBER 08, 2010 - 08:00 PM A Constructive Engagement with Contemporary Art Concept: Enough talk about the role of criticism and what it ‘can and should’ do. Critics Delight takes a hands-on approach to current exhibitions in Munich. The format is straight and simple: two different critics with two different opinions examine a single exhibition. All are invited to take part in this critical exchange! Guests: Anne Faucheret (camera austria, art21) und Dominikus Müller (artforum, artnet, taz, spex) Following dates: 26.01.2011 and 23.02.2011 More information will be soon posted! SPARE TIME, GREAT WORK. HAFRIYAT at PLATFORM3 DECEMBER 02, 2010 TO JANUARY 12, 2011 Hafriyat, a cutting edge Istanbul artist group, has been invited to test out PLATFORM3 as a site of artistic production and presentation. By means of a “self-curated” exhibition and an artist talk the visual-arts based collective Hafriyat will immerse the city of Munich in an exciting dialogue with their hometown Istanbul. Opening: Mon-Sat 11am-7pm, Wed 12am-8pm Hafriyat means “construction debris and fundament“ in Turkish. By adopting this name, the Istanbul artist collective has positioned itself in a critical stance towards the ambivalent working and living conditions in their hometown. The changing collaborations within the collective and with outside performance artists attest to the flexibility of the Istanbul art scene. In 2007, Hafriyat opened a new exhibition- and project space in Istanbul’s Karaköy quarter, known for its ubiquitous car repair shops and brothels. Despite having to face ongoing censorship and repeated confrontations with government authorities, Hafriyat has been active as an influential artistic and political platform for over 15 years. The artists Murat Akagündüz, Antonio Cosentino, İnci Furni, Ayhan Hacıfazlioğlu, Mustafa Pancar and Ekin Saçlıoğlu participate in the exhibition. For more information about this artist group, please visit the website www.hafriyatkarakoy.com As part of the cultural exchange project Byzantion Reloaded, Hafriyat has been invited to spend time at the international artist residence Villa Waldberta (Kulturreferat München), where they will explore the vivid contrasts between the two cities of Munich and Istanbul. In the resulting exhibition/performance project "Spare Time, Great Work" on the PLATFORM3 site, this artist group will present their artistic statements with the goal of stimulating intercultural dialogue. PUBLIC AFFAIRS - IRREGULAR ART PRACTICES IN THE CITY OCTOBER 27, 2010 TO OCTOBER 30, 2010 PLATFORM3 – Spaces For Contemporary Art will host an international workshop that collects perspectives on the complex theme of “Art and the Public Sphere“, from the 27th to the 30th of October 2010. The practice of temporary use, that makes a formerly private place a public one, and potential artistic intervention, will be on the discussion agenda. Reflecting the workshop's topic of temporary artistic intervention in public spaces, the exhibition "Bucharest Munich: Re-reading the city" by Romanian artist Anca Benera will be on display: Upon invitation of PLATFORM3, the artist will search the city for temporary -and randomly created- artistic situations that are being photographed and thus documented. Exhibition: Oct, 28th to Nov, 17th, 2010 download flyer The workshop is an element of the ongoing project "Hot Spots - What comes after Oil?". As an element of the ongoing project, “HOT SPOTS – What comes after Oil?“, the petrol station embodies the starting point for a series of questioning processes based on the public sphere, participation and artistic intervention. The location of a petrol station represent an example of the public possession becoming private: The creation of public awareness through a temporary intervention in this location makes visible the process of privatisation of the universal good that is oil. The workshop combines artistic and site-specific perspectives; it links theoretical examples with practical experience and includes visits of temporary artistic and cultural projects in Munich. Workshop Programme Moderation: Ralf Homann Wednesday, 27th October 2010, 2-5 pm UNEXPECTED SPACES/PERSONAL PLACES #1: Munich-based cultural experts present locations selected within the topic of public space and artistic intervention.WALK with photographer Jörg Koopmann and the artist collective Department für öffentliche Erscheinungen. Meeting point: PLATFORM3, 2 pm Wednesday, 27th October 2010, 7.30 pm BELGRADE/BERLIN/MUNICH: Specific views on use and intervention in public space. Public TALK with Milica Pekić and Ralf Homann at PLATFORM3. Thursday, 28th October 2010, 2-5 pm CONTEMPORARY PRACTICES: What is public in public art? An experimentalSEMINAR conceived by Milica Pekić at PLATFORM3. Want to join? Please register: workshop(at)platform3.de Friday, 29th October 2010, 10 am-1 pm UNEXPECTED SPACES/PERSONAL PLACES #2: Munich-based cultural experts present locations selected within the topic of public space and artistic intervention.WALK with urban planner Hajo Bahner and art historian Dr. Heinz Schütz. Meeting point: Gasteig, main entrance, 10 am Bucharest - Munich: Re-reading the city OCTOBER 27, 2010 TO NOVEMBER 17, 2010 PLATFORM3 hosts an exhibition by Romanian artist Anca Benera (*1977): starting in 2008 on the occasion of the 4th Bucharest Biennial, Benera carries out research into public space as a stage for temporary interventions; yet, at second glance, that which reminds of a particular artist's handwriting - André Cadere, Jeff Koons, Erwin Wurm or Sol Le Witt- turns out to be leftovers of roadworks, litter strewn on the floor or even a bundle of cables hanging from a lamppost for local electricity supply. Not artists are at work here, but the city's inhabitants, accomodating their daily life. However, through the artist's gaze those "leftovers" in public space can be appropriated and transformed into fictious representations of the artworld's established codes. Documenting these falsely assumed traces of artistic presence by means of photography and sometimes writing, Benera dislocates questions of aesthetics, artistic value and authorship into the public sphere, thus adding new layers of meaning to the city. Following PLATFORM3's invitation, the artist will continue her research in Munich. This project is ongoing and meant to continue in different locations Opening: Wednesday 27th, 7pm Exhibition: Oct 28th - Nov 17th, 2010 Opening Hours: Mo -Sat, 11am - 7pm / Wed 12am - 8pm Carolin Wenzel: UHOR OCTOBER 21, 2010 TO NOVEMBER 12, 2010 Installation in the showroom of the Department of Labor and Economic Development, Herzog-Wilhelm-Str. 15 The installation UHOR is the first satellite project in cooperation with theDepartment of Labor and Economic Development of the city of Munich. An old, nostalgic petrol pump and a sign with the label UHOR (Czech for wasteland) are standing in the showroom. A reverse rotating counter is inside this petrol pump, like an endless countdown. The temporary installation changes the room in an abandoned petrol station. Together with the projection of Roadmovie-experiments an unreal atmosphere is produced. Opening: 20th October 2010, 6:30 pm Opening hours: Mo-Thu, 8-18h, Fr 8-15h finissage and film programme OCTOBER 13, 2010 - 07:00 PM musing architecture The film programme musing architecture contemplates architectural structures. Four artistic videos examine on architecture in relation to time, transience as well as the people inhabiting this architecture. Screening free of charge. Among others with the following works: Dear Adviser, Vincent Meesen, BE 2009, 8' City of Progress, Justin Bennett, NL 2008-2010, 11' A Necessary Music, Beatrice Gibson, UK 2008, 28' Os Candagos, Guillaume Linard Osorio, F 2010, 8'. Modifications at short notice possible. Lecture Series 2010: Contemporary Curatorial Practices #3 SEPTEMBER 29, 2010 - 07:00 PM Pooja Sood (India) With the third and last edition of the lecture series, “Contemporary Curatorial Practices 2010“, Platform3, in cooperation with the ifa-Galerien Stuttgart andBerlin, sets foot on non-European soil: For the first time in Munich, the Indian curator Pooja Sood will present her own curatorial practice, focussing on video art, and give an overview of India's contemporary art scene. People from Munich interested in arts and culture will thus have the unique chance to take part in and learn about the curatorial pathways and new formats of globally operating, international cultural exchanges outside of the occidental art network. The lecture take place in the rooms of Platform3 München, in English. Admission is free. In cooperation with: Pooja Sood is the director of the Artist Pension Trust in Mumbai. She is the director of the KHOJ – International Artists’ Association in New Delhi. Khoj international Artists' Association is an artist led, alternative space for experimentation and international exchange based in India. Part of the global Triangle Arts Trust, KHOJ sees its role as an incubator for art and ideas, artistic exchange and dialogue in the visual arts. Through our programming we aim to assist and develop, forms of art such as media art, performance, video, environmental, public and community based art, sound and other experimental modes of cultural production. As a deliberate policy our core invitees have been from South Asia which has resulted in the development of an active network of artists in the region. KHOJ seeks to promote cross cultural exchange within the visual practices of the 'Global South'. Since our inception in 1997 artists from Iran, Egypt, Cuba, Argentina, Brazil, Lebanon, Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand, Japan, Mainland China, Taiwan and several countries in Africa, have participated in our workshops and residencies. http://khojworkshop.org Since 2002, Sood has been the director of the Apeejay Media Gallery in New Delhi, a gallery mainly for new media. In 2003 she published the first work on Indian video art, »Video Art in India«. She curates video art exhibitions for the Musée d’Ethnographie in Genf, as well as the Freewaves Media Festival in Los Angeles. In cooperation with Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen e.V., ifa-Galerie Stuttgart. PAST LECTURES: Nat Muller (Netherlands / Lebanon) June 9, 2010, 7 pm As an independent curator and critic Nat Muller examines the areas of interplay between aesthetics, mixed-media art, and politics. A particular focus is her interest in the media art of the Middle East. She is a founding member of »Stichting Foam« in Amsterdam and curates video festivals and exhibitions in Beirut, Dubai and Cairo, as well as the Transmediale in Berlin. Muller writes regularly for Springerin and MetropolisM while working on her first book. In cooperation with Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen e.V., ifa-Galerie Stuttgart. SOCIETE REALISTE : THE FOUNTAINHEAD AND OTHER ARTWORKS SEPTEMBER 15, 2010 TO OCTOBER 13, 2010 Opening: Sept, 14th, 2010, 7 pm Exhibition from Sept, 15th – October, 13th, 2010 at PLATFORM3 and from Nov, 10rth – Dec, 5th, 2010 at Galerija Škuc, Ljubljana. THE FOUNTAINHEAD AND OTHER ARTWORKS is Société Réaliste's first exhibition in Munich, Germany. The show's title refers to Société Réaliste's debut full length motion picture that is to premiere at PLATFORM3: THE FOUNTAINHEAD proposes an experimental rereading of the eponymous 1949 Hollywood motion picture in order to disclose, almost palimpsest-like, the film's underlying labyrinthine relations between capitalism, Promethean architecture and doctrinaire modernism. Deconstruction is at the core of this exhibition: The processes at work in THE FOUNTAINHEAD are paralleled by a series of artworks displayed in PLATFORM3's central exhibition space all of which aim to destabilise our well-established order of commonly accepted sets of symbols, be it monetary, geographic or political. THE FOUNTAINHEAD AND OTHER ARTWORKS is to premiere at PLATFORM3 and will subsequently travel to Galerija Škuc in Ljubljana, Slovenia. THE FOUNTAINHEAD AND OTHER ARTWORKS receives substantial support from ALLIANZ KULTURSTIFTUNG, whom PLATFORM3 wishes to thank in particular. Watch the Trailer here! With substantial support by: In cooperation with: The show's title refers to Société Réaliste's debut full length motion picture that is to premiere at PLATFORM3: THE FOUNTAINHEAD proposes an experimental rereading of the eponymous 1949 Hollywood motion picture directed by King Vidor. Based on a novel by Russian-born, American writer and philosopher Ayn Rand, the movie advocates libertarianism through the figure of an uncompromising, highly individualistic architect. Rand's firm belief in rational self interest, economical prosperity through free markets as well as her abjection of public welfare make her the founder of objectivism as well as a committed spokeswoman of modern capitalism. Projected in PLATFORM3's first of two exhibition spaces (180m2), THE FOUNTAINHEAD conveys a formal experiment: Société Réaliste systematically erased all characters from the original movie's footage, thus transforming the film into 111 minutes of pure architectural setting in total silence. Deprived of its most prominent layer – the fictional account – THE FOUNTAINHEAD discloses, almost palimpsest-like, the film's underlying labyrinthian relations between capitalism, Promethean architecture and doctrinaire modernism. Deconstruction is at the core of this exhibition: to the processes that are at work at THE FOUNTAINHEAD corresponds a series of artworks displayed in PLATFORM3's central exhibition space (200m2): all along the walls, WATCHING OVER THE REICHSTAG (2010) revisits history by exhibiting step by step those (ever so slight) visual manipulations used for the sake of propaganda. Here, not only our most representative clichés of historical moments are put at stake, but our visual recognition of symbols is challenged by textual works using the typeface FUTURA FRAKTUR (2009), a hybrid of two of the most popular type fonts forbidden by the Nazis. Symbols certainly convey power in no matter what context: standing for an attempt to organise and control what is disordered and arbitrary by nature, they have allowed to shape unities such as nation states each with their own attributes in terms of language, flags, monuments, monetary systems and national anthems. Yet, NEW ALPHABETICAL ORDER (2009), SPECTRAL AEROSION (2010) and CARTOPHONY OF THE LAND OF THE FREE (2009) all aim at destabilising our well-established order for the sake of a critical revision of commonly accepted sets of symbols, be it monetary, geographic or political. Pushing this logic to its paroxysm, ZERO IMPACT (2010) deals with the striking dichotomy of symbol and anti-symbol, overthrowing it all for anarchy. COUNTERFORMISM (2009), based on the Hexatopia typographic pattern, and QUOTE END OF QUOTE (2010) suggest graphic rearrangements of common codes. THE FOUNTAINHEAD AND OTHER ARTWORKS is to premiere at PLATFORM3 and will subsequently travel to Škuc Gallery in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Its presentation changes according to the specific space and time of display at each venue. Société Réaliste thus emphasises their process-oriented, interdisciplinary approach. The exhibition is curated by Marlene Rigler assisted by Anja Lückenkemper and produced by PLATFORM3, together with Société Réaliste. THE FOUNTAINHEAD AND OTHER ARTWORKS receives substantial support from Allianz Kulturstiftung Munich, whom PLATFORM3 wishes to thank in particular. The video THE FOUNTAINHEAD has been produced by JAN VAN EYCK ACADEMY, Maastricht and realised by Gregg Langlois, Paris. Société Réaliste is a Parisian cooperative created by Ferenc Gróf and Jean-Baptiste Naudy in June 2004. It works with political design, experimental economy, territorial ergonomy and social engineering consulting. Polytechnic, it develops its production schemes through exhibitions, publications and conferences. Société Réaliste is represented by Galerie Martine Aboucaya (Paris) and Kisterem (Budapest). Société Réaliste's most recent group shows include: 2010 Rennes Biennial (FR) Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella (IT) Mŭcsarnok/Kunsthalle, Budapest (HU) Walter and McBean Galleries, SFAI, San Francisco (USA) 2009 Istanbul Biennial (TK) Lyon Biennial (FR). Société Réaliste's most recent solo exhibitions include: 2010 Kisterem Gallery, Budapest (HU) 2009 Martine Aboucaya Gallery, Paris (FR) Uqbar, Berlin (DE) Hold & Freight, London (UK) Contact: # Press contact PLATFORM3, Munich /www.platform3.de, [email protected] # Tevž Logar, Škuc Gallery, Ljubljana / www.galerija.skucdrustvo.si, [email protected] # Coopérative Société Réaliste, Paris / www.societerealiste.net. [email protected] Auszeit / Arbeit - FILM PROGRAMME AUGUST 25, 2010 - 07:00 PM yesterday’s future The film program by Florian Wüst addresses itself to the transformation of work within the 20th century. It combines historical and contemporary footage dealing with industry and efficiency topics as well as documentary and experimental movies. With the following works: Round & Round, A: General Motors, USA 1939, 6' Think of the Future, John Halas & Joy Batchelor, UK 1953, 8' Reaktionen – Menschen in der Automation, Erik Wernicke, A: Chemische Werke Hüls AG, BRD 1961, 11' Der Tag eines unständigen Hafenarbeiters, Leonore Mau & Hubert Fichte, BRD 1966, 13' Free To Choose, Vol. 1 – The Power of the Market: The Pencil Story, Milton Friedman, USA 1980, 2' Hammer and Flame, Vaughan Pilikian, UK 2005, 10' Hay que gastar dinero, Angelika Levi, ES/D 2004, 4' Arbeit 2.0, Clemens Kogler, A 2007, 4' Ian Ingram - Artist Talk JULY 28, 2010 - 07:00 PM Ian Ingram (1977) lives and works in Pittsburgh, USA. In July he participates in PLATFORM3's artist-in-residence program. On Wednesday 28th of July Ian Ingram will talk about his work as well as about his experiences in Munich. Ingram's primary interest is in making kinetic and behavioral objects. Ingram's approach lies in trials and researches on human and natural forms of behaviour and communication. His works and documentations created during his residency will be shown in his studio at PLATFORM3. inner colors JULY 21, 2010 TO AUGUST 11, 2010 Opening: 21 July 2010, 7pm Artist Talk: 21 July 2010, 7.30pm For PLATFORM3 Vujičić (Croatia) creates a new installation based on pigments as part of his ongoing body of work. The exhibition inner colors is developed as a response to the specific context the artist encountered during his field trips to Munich. As of his previous works, Vujičić initiates processes of transformation and develops a singular language allowing him to give form to his conceptual approach. Artist: Silvio Vujičić (Zagreb, Kroatien) Silvio Vujičić (1978) lives and works in Zagreb, Croatia. He studied fashion design at the faculty for textile technologies and graphic design at the Academy of Fine Arts, Zagreb. Visiting lecturer at the Designskolen Kolding, Denmark. Selected Soloshows: 2010 Caput mortuum, SC-Gallery, Zagreb 2009 Alchemic Polyptic, Museum for Contemporary Art, Zagreb 2005 Under the daisies, Gallery Josip Račić, Zagreb. Curated by Christine Kaiser and Petra Vidović (fellow of Robert Bosch Stiftung) opening hours: mon - sat, 11 am - 7 pm, wed 12 am - 8 pm Contact for further information: Christine Kaiser [email protected] Tel +49-89-324 9009-12 Petra Vidović [email protected] Tel +49-89-324 9009-13 Supported by Zagreb City Office for Culture: Auszeit / Arbeit - FILM PROGRAMME JULY 14, 2010 - 07:00 PM exchange relations Six videos of international artists, curated by Katrin Mundt, look into the psychology of work relationships. They open our view on a topic, where teamplayer rhetoric, personal strain, universal formula for success, individual exit strategies, technological progress and emotional uncertainty often exist together in a strange manner. Amongst others with the following works: Resonance, Karel de Cock, BE 2008, 18'30''; 3 Legged, Paul Harrison & John Wood, GB 1996, 5'; Gesang der Jünglinge, Korpys & Löffler, DE 2010, 14'30''; Le nouveau OMIZA, se promenant derrière le miroir, Ute Hörner & Mathias Antlfinger, DE 2007, 5'. concrete paper preview JUNE 28, 2010 TO JULY 02, 2010 PLATFORM3 are happy to announce the presentation of its new publication concrete paper on June 25th 2010. concrete paper preview JUNE 28, 2010 TO JULY 02, 2010 PLATFORM3 are happy to announce the presentation of its new publication concrete paper on June 25th 2010. concrete paper deals with artistic research practices in the urban spaces of Istanbul and Munich. It includes contributions by Pelin Tan, Derya Özkan, Övül Durmuşoğlu, Hafryiat, amongst others. The free trilingual magazine is available at PLATFORM3 (as well as online:www.platform3.de) starting on June 25th. URBAN TRIALS JUNE 25, 2010 TO JULY 01, 2010 Workshop – Magazine – Exhibition From the 16th – 23rd June Platform3 hosts an international workshop by students ofMunich’s Akademie der Bildenden Künste and Istanbul’s Fine Arts Academy, Mimar Sinan University. Stemming from research performed in Munich and Istanbul in parallel, participants elaborate artistic proposals that use the distinctive perception of space in each city as a pivotal element. The workshop caters for urban, artistic and personal encounters. A free magazine featuring a selection of texts by Turkish and German authors as well as artist contributions provides further reading. Workshop: 16 – 23 June PUBLIC EVENTS: June 16 +17, 7 p.m: Presentation of students' work and discussion with the workshop's participants June 25, 7 pm : Exhibition and publication presentation: concrete paper - free magazine with contributions by Pelin Tan, Derya Özkan, Övül Durmuşoğlu, Hafryiat and others, 28p, in English and German. Artist contribution İstanbul: Şeyla Arditti, Gökçe Erhan, Hande Gür, Duygu Sabancılar, Behice Başak Sel, Gülçin Uzun, Eşref Yildrim Artist contribution Munich: Babylonia Constantinides, Quirin Empl, Katharina Knaus, Verena Ledig, Nele Müller, Sinan von Stietencron, Helin Yildirim Project leaders – Munich: Res Ingold, Nezaket Ekici. Project leaders – Istanbul: Yasemin N. Toksoy, Bahar Enşici Aksel, Melih T. Görgün, Mahir Namur Concept & Coordination: Anja Lückenkemper, Marlene Rigler and the Team of PLATFORM3 The project is supported by Istanbul 2010 European Capital of Culture Agency. kreativORTungen – Industry, Work and Life in the Cultural and Creative Sector MAY 28, 2010 TO MAY 29, 2010 Symposium – Walking Conference – Open Space – Installation How would you like to live and work in the future? kreativORTungen invites artists, alongside cultural and creative professionals, to discuss the future make-up of their profession. The project deals with the interdependent work and lifestyle patterns of freelancers and entrepreneurs in the cultural and creative sector. It challenges these patterns and raises questions about the collective organisation of the players in the field. Platform3 transforms into a space for action and reflection: Theorists and practitioners from the cultural and creative industry work together to pose questions on self-awareness, workspace and organisation. A goal is the development of positions, ideas and utopias for the future of their work. The framework for this exchange is provided by a Symposium and a Walking Conference with deeper insights into current discussions on the subjects. An Open Space offers additional room for networking, discussion and exchange. An On-Site Installation reflects Platform3 as a temporary, collaborative workplace. Speakers: Christoph Fahle (Berlin), Ela Kagel (Berlin), Elisabeth Mayerhofer (Vienna), Janet Merkel (Berlin), Sebastian Sooth (Berlin), Inga Wellmann (Potsdam/Berlin) On-Site Installation: about studio: Joschua Brunn/Sebastian Kofink/Tobias Nitsche Partners: KunstWohnWerke, München 852, Die Repüblik Lecture Series 2010: Contemporary Curatorial Practices #2 MAY 26, 2010 - 07:00 PM Internationally-active artists and curators, as well as dynamic display formats, are currently characteristics of the latest in artistic productions; but what effects do these new exhibition formats produce? This is the question Platform3 will raise in the second part of its lecture series Contemporary Curatorial Practices throughout the year 2010. This programme has been conceived in cooperation with ifa-galleries Stuttgart and Berlin. Our guests are international curators and artist collectives working in Turkey, France, South Africa and Romania. Their lectures will cover curatorial approaches and present actual exhibition projects with regards to the respective on-site working conditions. Contemporary Curatorial Practices offers Munich -based cultural workers and people interested in the arts to experience curatorial visions firsthand. Lectures take place at Platform3, Munich: Free admission. O UR PAST LECTURES: March 24, 2010, 7 pm, Övül Durmuşoğlu (Turkey) In cooperation with Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen e.V., ifa-Galerie Stuttgart. April 7, 2010, 7 pm, Campement Urbain: Sylvie Blocher and Francois Daune (France) May 5, 2010, 7 pm, Gabi Ngcobo (Southafrica) In cooperation with Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen e.V., ifa-Galerie Stuttgart. May 26, 2010, 7pm, Cosmin Costinaş (Rumania / Netherlands) In cooperation with Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen e.V., ifa-Galerie Stuttgart. Lecture Series 2010: Contemporary Curatorial Practices #2 MAY 26, 2010 - 07:00 PM Internationally-active artists and curators, as well as dynamic display formats, are currently characteristics of the latest in artistic productions; but what effects do these new exhibition formats produce? This is the question Platform3 will raise in the second part of its lecture series Contemporary Curatorial Practices throughout the year 2010. This programme has been conceived in cooperation with ifa-galleries Stuttgart and Berlin. Our guests are international curators and artist collectives working in Turkey, France, South Africa and Romania. Their lectures will cover curatorial approaches and present actual exhibition projects with regards to the respective on-site working conditions. Contemporary Curatorial Practices offers Munich -based cultural workers and people interested in the arts to experience curatorial visions firsthand. Lectures take place at Platform3, Munich: Free admission. OUR PAST LECTURES: March 24, 2010, 7 pm, Övül Durmuşoğlu (Turkey) In cooperation with Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen e.V., ifa-Galerie Stuttgart. April 7, 2010, 7 pm, Campement Urbain: Sylvie Blocher and Francois Daune (France) May 5, 2010, 7 pm, Gabi Ngcobo (Southafrica) In cooperation with Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen e.V., ifa-Galerie Stuttgart. May 26, 2010, 7pm, Cosmin Costinaş (Rumania / Netherlands) In cooperation with Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen e.V., ifa-Galerie Stuttgart. OUR PAST LECTURES: March 24, 2010, 7 pm Övül Durmuşoğlu (Turkey) Can the issue of difference be a more mass-produced item than a Starbucks latte in our times? Interested in how difference-minded thinking can end up in invisible separations, Övül Durmuşoğlu will open up the background ideas, notions and images of her coming project Another Country at ifa-gallery Stuttgart. Istanbul based, Durmuşoğlu conducted the EXOCiTi series of talks and (street) performances and coordinated Radikal Art: Face to Face billboard project for Radikal newspaper. She has been awarded the Lorenzo Bonaldi Prize for young curators (2008) for her project Data Recovery. Durmusoglu is currently a guest in Akademie Schloss Solitude and collaborates with IFA Stuttgart for the exhibition Another Country. April 7, 2010, 7 pm: "Wasted time" in the process of Campement Urbain Campement Urbain: Sylvie Blocher and Francois Daune (France) Founded in 1999 by visual artist Sylvie Blocher, Campement Urbain is an interdisciplinary collective that sets up its logic according to each project's specificity. Advocating "non-specialised" ways of approaching public space, Campement Urbain invents temporary initiatives in places such as Sevran (France) or Tiradentes (Sao Paolo, Brasilien). Its participatory projects have been exhibited at 2003 Venice Biennial and at Centre Pompidou, Paris. Currently, Campement Urbain implements the project The Panthers of the Future - The Future of the Panthers in Penrith, Australia. May 19, 2010, 7 pm Gabi Ngcobo (Southafrica) "Please Remove Your Shoes" “Please Remove Your Shoes,” a series of lectures by Gabi Ngcobo will shed light into issues of migrations, traversing large and small territories, local and global in attempts to map out, from a South Africa perspective, artistic and curatorial trends that have emerged in the last few years. The lectures will also focus on her collaborative practice and curatorial strategies she has experimented with both in South Africa and elsewhere. Gabi Ngcobo is an independent curator, writer and artist from Durban, South Africa. She has worked as Assistant Curator at the South African National Gallery and co-curated Cape Africa Platform’s CAPE 07 exhibition where she also worked as Head of Research and was instrumental in initiating Cape’s Young Curator’s Programme. Other exhibitions include Olvida quen soy/ Erase me from who I am co-curated with Elvira Dyangani Ose, Khwezi Gule and Tracy Murinik for CAAM, Canary Islands, Las Palmas 2006, Titled/Untitled, a curatorial collaboration with Cape Town collective Gugulective and Scratching the Surface Vol.1 a “manje-manje projects” initiative at the AVA Gallery, Cape Town. Recently she co-curated rope-a-dope: to win a losing war with Sohrab Mohebbi at Cabinet, New York city. She is the co-founder of collaborative platform manje-manje projects (m-mp) and co-founded “Third Eye” a collective of artists operating in Durban between 2000 -2005. Ngcobo is currently completing a masters program at the Centre for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, New York. In cooperation with Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen e.V., ifa-Galerie Stuttgart. May 26, 2010, 7 pm Cosmin Costinaş (Rumania / Netherlands) Cosmin Costinaş will discuss the issues surrounding the realization of two of his curatorial projects, Like an Attali Report, but different: On fiction and political imagination at Kadist Art Foundation in Paris, in the summer of 2008 and After the Final Simplification of Ruins. Forms of historiography in given places at Centro Cultural Montehermoso Kulturunea in Vitoria-Gasteiz, in late 2009. Costinaş will look at theintellectualand contextual premises behind the projects, at the questions and dilemmas that came along during the work, as well as at the curatorial methodology employed. Cosmin Costinaş is a curator and writer currently working at BAK - Basis voor actuele kunst in Utrecht (NL). He recently curated the exhibition Surplus Value by Mona Vătămanu and Florin Tudor, and co-edited the first monograph on the artists’ work. Co-editor of several magazines and advisory board member for PATTERNS of ERSTE Foundation, Costinaş worked for venues like Kadist Foundation (Paris), Documenta 12 (Kassel) and Stedelijk Museum Bureau (Amsterdam). In cooperation with Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen e.V., ifa-Galerie Stuttgart. A8 Richtung Wien (A8 towards Vienna) APRIL 22, 2010 TO MAY 05, 2010 21st March 7 pm, opening 7.30 pm, „Wohlstand für alle“ (welfare for all), film and opinion-table with the artist Martin Krenn 8.30 pm, music-performance with Kosmoprolet Between the 22th of April and the 5th of May 2010, Platform3 will invite artists from Vienna and Munich to examine employment and industrial activity from a multitude of angles. This will provide a valuable Austrian viewpoint to Platform3's theme of ‘Labor’. Production conditions and contexts will be examined and re-framed. Migrating workers and the A8 as a vital East-West corridor will be looked at. An temp agency will be out-sourced and thus questions will be raised concerning employment. Procedural and open exhibition methods will be trialed and the political and social function of art put under inspection. Participarting artist and initiatives: Andreas Familler (Munich), Kosmoprolet (Vienna), Michael Hieslmair (Vienna), Martin Krenn (Vienna), Lernen am Bau (Munich), monochrom (Vienna), Oliver Ressler (Vienna), Silvia Wienefoet (Munich), Michael Zinganel (Vienna) Partners: Kultur & Mehr - Bürgersaal Fürstenried, Münchner Volkshochschule, Münchner Stadtbilbiothek Fürstenried Supported by Österreichischen Generalkonsulats München, Bezirksausschuss 19 der Landeshauptstadt München and Baugeräte Geith und Niggl. One way stop and go, Michael Zinganel and Michael Hieslmair (Vienna) The A8 is one of the main throughways for European mobility and migration. Via serial and comparative research on multiple stops on the route, transnational routes and local day to day working life will be connected. In this way conclusions on regional structural change can be drawn: Rest stop and lorry driver, petrol stations and cashier, rest area and travelling groups. Michael Zinganel and Michael Hieslmair will show their research and body of evidence that they will examine in an experiment on their way to Munich and the central space of Platform 3 in an installation at the final location. Dienstleistung: Fluchthilfe (Border Crossing Services), Oliver Ressler and Martin Krenn (Vienna) The video, “Dienstleistung: Fluchthilfe“ by Oliver Ressler and Martin Krenn shows employment migration from another angle. The borders of the EU are impenetrable for many refugees, at least through legal means. In four sections; “Who is allowed to migrate?“, “Party and reclusion“, “To the Escape Aid“, and “Against Racism“, the video takes up these themes through interviews and shows positive aspects to terms such as 'People Smugglers'. The service provider character of the business is put at the fore and the social profile of enabled migration put to the test. Wohlstand für alle (Welfare for All), Martin Krenn (Vienna) In his comprehensive project that already took place in a similar form at the Festival der Regionen 2009 in Linz, Martin Krenn looks at the discussion of poverty, basic income and justice. A table of opinions will be created on which visitors can write and that questions the population's awareness of democracy and wealth. In parts, answers from Austrian citizens are already included in order to compare opinions. This table will constantly be present at the exhibition and can be written on at any time. You can also send your statement via [email protected] or by publishing of the Sendlinger Anzeiger. Kiki and Bubu, monochrome (Vienna) With their philosophical sock-puppets, Kiki and Bubu, monochrom present lessons in neo-liberalism: Free markets, supply and demand, networking, and new economy, are all exmined in socratic dialogues. "Bubu wants to know why his dad is busy all the time. And Kiki explains to him why... because of the neoliberal shift." The short film showcasing the sock-puppets will be available for viewing throughout. Go active(at)platform3aktive@platform3, Andreas Familler (Munich) Especially for “A8 Richtung Wien” Platform 3 outsources a temp agency: “Go active(at)platform3active@platform3.” Andreas Familler will live, sleep and go about his daily work in the exhibition room as a guest-worker. Over the space of 2 weeks a bizarre room construction will be created which will become part of the Familler collection and afterwards will be put into a flat to be used in real life. The working model artist and creative worker as a flexible, self-suffiecient worker will be examined. The status of art as watchable on the one hand and useable on the other is revealed. Mine is mine is my work, Silvia Wienefoet (Munich) In a project with the qualification enterprise Lernen am Bau Wienefoet is mainly questoning the ownership of work. The participants will be asked to produce a creative work for a fee. Afterwards these works will be shown in the exhebition. Who's owning the work? Platform3 works MARCH 20, 2010 TO APRIL 07, 2010 The exhibition “PLATFORM3 works” encompasses works from 21 studio spaces and thereby addresses the location as a space of production. The various artistic positions in the group exhibition enable insight into the artists’ engagements. The exhibition demonstrates a wide spectrum of works. However, unexpected familiarities of studio neighbors emerge. The exhibition includes installations, objects, collages, paintings, photography and video. The catalog "PLATFORM3 works" is not reflecting the show itself but gives an overview about the artistical forms which were elaborated at PLATFORM3. Thanks to Hypo Kulturstiftung for sponsoring. Opening hours: Monday-Saturday 11-7pm, Wednesday 12-8pm, Sundays closed. Closed: 2nd April and 5th April. Wednesday, 7th April Finissage with subsequent lecture of Campement Urbain "Wasted times in the process of Campement Urbain" Platform3 works MARCH 20, 2010 TO APRIL 07, 2010 The exhibition “PLATFORM3 works” encompasses works from 21 studio spaces and thereby addresses the location as a space of production. The various artistic positions in the group exhibition enable insight into the artists’ engagements. The exhibition demonstrates a wide spectrum of works. However, unexpected familiarities of studio neighbors emerge. The exhibition includes installations, objects, collages, paintings, photography and video. The catalog "PLATFORM3 works" is not reflecting the show itself but gives an overview about the artistical forms which were elaborated at PLATFORM3. Thanks to Hypo Kulturstiftung for sponsoring. Opening hours: Monday-Saturday 11-7pm, Wednesday 12-8pm, Sundays closed. Closed: 2nd April and 5th April. Wednesday, 7th April Finissage with subsequent lecture of Campement Urbain "Wasted times in the process of Campement Urbain" Participating artists: Jovana Banjac, Vinicio Bastidas, Annegret Bleisteiner, Rita de Muynck, Nana Dix, Judith Egger, Gerwin Eipper, Ina Ettlinger, Lucia Falconi, Nicola Hanke, Ute Heim, Margarete Hentze, Susanne Hesping, Monika Humm, Georgia Iliaki, Jens Kabisch, Jessica Kallage-Götze, Johannes Karl, Siyoung Kim, Patricia Lincke, Frank Maier, Silke Markefka, Nina Märkl, Marc Melchior, Masayo Oda, Wolfgang Stehle, James Sutherland, Stefanie Unruh, Nikolai Vogel, Jess Walter, Christian Weiß, Silvia Wienefoet, Stefan Wischnewski, Anne Wodtcke. PLATFORM3 WORKS MARCH 19, 2010 TO MARCH 21, 2010 Platform3 is celebrating a year of existence with an anniversary exhibition and a weekend with open studios. The jubilee exhibition is organised and arranged by Heike Ander (Curator of kunstraum muenchen, Exhibition and Cooperation Consultant at Kunsthochschule für Medien, Cologne) and Kathleen Rahn (Director of the Kunstverein Nürnberg-Albrecht Dürer Gesellschaft) together with the involved artists and the Team of Platform3. This year's theme at Platform3 being “Work“, the exhibition “Platform3 works” itself will also envelop aspects of the 21 studios and working spaces. Based on the fact of the different artistical positions the group exhibition will show some insight views. The first show uniting all the artists will demonstrate the wide spectrum and concurrently the extremes, similarity and the not so obvious connections of the studio neighbours in a dialogical way. Installations, objects, collages, paintings, photography and video will be shown at Platform3. Furthermore the open studios will invite for a personal talk and an intense debate with the artists during the weekend of March 20th and 21st, 2010. 19th March 7pm opening with Dr. Anneliese Durst and J.-Peter Pinck "Rose Gegessen, Wasser getrunken", vocals by Ute Heim catalog presentations from 8:30h on music with DJ Piko Be (Kamerakino) 20th March 7pm performance SUPER A "Common Sense" 2-7pm open studios 21th March 1-5pm art workshop for children "my platform" (download flyer) 3pm guided tour through the exhibition 12-5pm open studios Exhibition: Monday-Saturday, 11-7pm and Wednesday, 12-20pm. Sundays closed. Closed 2nd April and 5th April. Participating Artists: Jovana Banjac, Vinicio Bastidas, Annegret Bleisteiner, Rita de Muynck, Nana Dix, Judith Egger, Ina Ettlinger, Lucia Falconi, Nicola Hanke, Ute Heim, Margarete Hentze, Susanne Hesping, Monika Humm, Georgia Iliaki, Jens Kabisch, Jessica Kallage-Götze, Johannes Karl, Siyoung Kim, Patricia Lincke, Frank Maier, Silke Markefka, Nina Märkl, Marc Melchior, Masayo Oda, Wolfgang Stehle, James Sutherland, Stefanie Unruh, Nikolai Vogel, Jess Walter, Christian Weiß, Silvia Wienefoet, Stefan Wischnewski, Anne Wodtcke. Performance SUPER A: Common Sense Saturday, 20th March, 7pm In his talk the Melanesian theorist and theologian SUPER A presents an affectionate chronicle into the future of cargo cult. Extracted from the practices of his home island, New Hanover, SUPER A elaborates on the basics of the cult and shows the difficult implications of simulation and over-identification today. While under the influence of US Army in the mid 1940’s and 50’s the islanders of Melanesia developed an ostentatious practice mimicking the US culture, worshipping the wealth (cargo!) of the foreigners in the hope of its return. What became hereafter ridiculed by many for its naivety -- the islanders cleared the indigenous forests, built faked airplanes and landing stripes, even elected Lyndon Johnson to be their president -- poses a challenge to the dialectics of economy and creativity. It is both a model for marketing as well as political resistance. In this performative step-to-step manifesto SUPER A draws from the rich heritage of cargo cult and shows its renewed promise for the 21st century. "No Breaks Allowed..." - Animated Film Workshop, Film Presentation and Concert FEBRUARY 15, 2010 TO MARCH 03, 2010 "No Breaks Allowed..." is an interdisciplinary project with a week-long animation workshop for schoolchildren and students at its core. It is accompanied by screenings of films from the Škola animiranog filma, including films from the 25 FPS festival in Croatia (curated by festival director Sanja Grbin), and a concert by the band CINKUŠI. The leaders of the workshop will be Edo Lukman and Jasminka Bijelić Ljubić, both of the Škola animiranog filma in Čakovec, Croatia. The animation school, the eldest in Croatia, celebrates its 35th anniversary in 2010 and is experienced in the organisation and realisation of film workshops. "No Breaks Allowed..." Animation Workshop February 15 to 20, 2010, 10 am - 4 pm Film Presentation and Concert on Saturday February 20, 2010, 7 pm Free Entry This project was conceived by Petra Vidović who is a cultural manager from Croatia supported by the "No Breaks Allowed..." - Animated Film Workshop, Film Presentation and Concert FEBRUARY 15, 2010 TO MARCH 03, 2010 "No Breaks Allowed..." is an interdisciplinary project with a week-long animation workshop for schoolchildren and students at its core. It is accompanied by screenings of films from the Škola animiranog filma, including films from the 25 FPS festival in Croatia (curated by festival director Sanja Grbin), and a concert by the band CINKUŠI. The leaders of the workshop will be Edo Lukman and Jasminka Bijelić Ljubić, both of the Škola animiranog filma in Čakovec, Croatia. The animation school, the eldest in Croatia, celebrates its 35th anniversary in 2010 and is experienced in the organisation and realisation of film workshops. "No Breaks Allowed..." Animation Workshop February 15 to 20, 2010, 10 am - 4 pm The animation workshop, "No Breaks Allowed..." („Pause machen gilt nicht…“) allows the creation of animations under the watchful eye of Croatian professionals from the Škola animiranog filma. A large animation table will be used to work through the animations step by step. The main theme will be the Pause as a time for reflection, a regenerative and social moment. Film Presentation and Concert on Saturday February 20, 2010, 7 pm "Best Of" from the animation school and animations from the festival, "25 FPS Internacionalni festival eksperimentalnog filma i videa" from Zagreb. Curated by festival director Sanja Grbin. Presentation of the animation diplomas, and results. Followed by a concert by the Croatian band, CINKUŠI. This project was conceived by Petra Vidović who is a cultural manager from Croatia supported by the Lecture Series 2009/2010: Contemporary Curatorial Practices FEBRUARY 03, 2010 - 07:00 PM During 2010 Platform3 continues its series of lectures that presents ideas and practice of international curators. Aim of the lectures is to initiate a stronger exchange between international curators and local cultural actors. Curatorial visions, individual research interests as well as the presentation of past exhibition projects offer the opportunity to understand the approaches of experienced practitioners and to get in touch with central discourses of the international art scene firsthand. Equally, these visits enable the development of a closer knowledge of the local cultural arena (artists, exhibition makers, institutions). February 3, 7 pm Admission free, in English language Hou Hanru (Frankreich / USA): What can Biennials do? In his talk “What can Biennials do?” Hou Hanru questions the structural goals and curatorial strategies of biennials. Special emphasis is put on the relationship with local contexts in the process of globalization. At the center of his presentation are the large scale exhibition projects 10th Lyon Biennale (2009) and the 10th Istanbul Biennale (2007) that he curated OUR UPCOMING LECTURE RS 2010 ARE: March 24, 2010, 7 pm, Övül Durmuşoğlu (Turkey)- In Cooperation with ifa-Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations. April 7, 2010, 7 pm, Campement Urbain (France) May 19, 2010, 7 pm, Gabi Ngcobo (South Africa) -- In Cooperation with ifa-Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations. May 26, 2010, 7 pm, Cosmin Costinaş (Romania / Netherlands) The increase of large scale exhibitions like biennials has been widely critiqued. However, Hou Hanru re-emphasizes the great potential of these cultural events, particularly in negotiating between the global and the local, politically transcending the established power relationship between the local and the global but going beyond conformist regionalism. Thus, biennials of contemporary art inevitably have cultural and geopolitical ambitions and seek to be nationally and even internationally significant. The challenge that we face is how to imagine and realize a biennial that is culturally and artistically significant in terms of embodying and intensifying this negotiation. In his talk “What can Biennials do?” Hou Hanru questions the structural goals and curatorial strategies of biennials. Special emphasis is put on the relationship with local contexts in the process of globalization. At the center of his presentation are the large scale exhibition projects 10th Lyon Biennale (2009) and the 10th Istanbul Biennale (2007) that he curated. Hou Hanru (*1963, China) is a prolific and dynamic critic and curator based in Paris and San Francisco. He is Director of Exhibitions and Public Programs and also Chair of Exhibition and Museum Studies at the San Francisco Art Institute (SAFI). He has curated numerous exhibitions across the world. The most recent ones include the 10th Biennale de Lyon. E+VA, 2008, the 10th International Istanbul Biennial, the2nd Guangzhou Triennale, the 3rd Tirana Biennale (Albania, 2005). The Exhibitions and Public Programs in SFAI are considered as one of the most international and experimental in the US while his engagements with the global art scene covers a much wider geographic span. Hou is one of the first curators and thinkers to examine postmodern issues of nomadic identity, hybridity, globalized mobility, what he calls “in-betweeness,” and artists living in the diaspora. Described as a significant international voice on cultural difference, Hou is a regular contributor to several journals on contemporary art and publications and has lectured at numerous institutions including the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam. Press Conference FEBRUARY 03, 2010 - 06:00 PM Platform3 presents a look back and what is to come through a public press conference: Catalogue Presentation 2009: A look back at the work of 4 interns and a Robert-Bosch scholar under the program initiated and led by Dr. Elisabeth Hartung. At the end of the first year of existence of the Platform3 project, a publication highlights this multi-faceted experiment. Programme Presentation 2010: With a new bilingual online presence and an ever-growing list of participating internationally-recognised artists and institutions, Platform3 is moving forward into 2010 with focus on the theme "Work": Under the artistic responsibility of Marlene Rigler, artists and cultural production processes will be revealed, economic models analysed, and the notion of "finished (cultural) products" will be questioned. Presented by Dr. Elisabeth Hartung (Kulturreferat München), J- Peter Pinck(Wohnforum gemGmbh) , Marlene Rigler and Achim Sauter together with Platform 3’s team of volunteers. In attendance will be the Paris-based artist's collective "Société Réaliste" (Istanbul-Biennial 2009, Bienniale de Lyon 2009. Uqbar Berlin 2009). Accompanied by a Musik-Text Performance from Nikolai Vogel, artist permanently working at Platform3. Liquid Archives – Notes on Relations, Ruptures and Silences DECEMBER 10, 2009 TO FEBRUARY 03, 2010 “History is the fruit of power, but power itself is never so transparent that its analysis becomes superfluous. The ultimate mark of power may be its invisibility; the ultimate challenge, the exposition of its roots.” Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History. Opening in December 2009, the exhibition Liquid Archives – Notes on Relations, Ruptures and Silences, presents new and existing works of emerging and established contemporary artists. The central concern of the exhibition is to critically rethink the production of history, particularly with regard to the production of national histories which are characterized by a focus on the narration of shifting national borders, their administrative structures and leading individuals. A critical investigation of ocean-space, as a counter-space to land territory thus enables a productive change in perspectives. Ocean-space functions under its own paradigms and is embedded in complex relations and that are inherently multi-literal, or rather, global. It therefore comes with a wider spatial and temporal trajectory, one that enables new modes of access to global history as well as to the present moment. As an historical space, the ocean recounts of the formation of the global capitalist world-system. However, as an imaginary space it highlights infinite stories of relations, but also of boundaries. The fine line between truth and fiction, between the reception of histories and their production, that inevitably is characterized by an uneven access to the means of the production of history (language, translation and its mediation), are fundamental structural aspects that are equally relevant in exhibition-making. By evoking an imaginary, by staging a narrative, an exhibition fictionalizes the real and thereby is itself a part of the production of history. The exhibition Liquid Archives – Notes on Relations, Ruptures and Silences aims to make these structural antinomies that entail their own discourse of power, visible though curatorial concept and exhibition design. Opening: December 9, 2009, 7pm Participating Artists Nadim Asfar (Lebanon), Ursula Biemann (Switzerland), Annegret Bleisteiner (Germany), Frédéric Bruly Bouabré (Ivory Coast), Carolina Caycedo (Puerto Rico) , Raphael Cuomo & Maria Iorio (Switzerland/ Italy), Nina Fischer & Maroan el Sani (Germany), Stephan Huber (Germany), Xavier Krilyk (Germany/ France), Marcos Lora Read (Dominican Republic), Silke Markefka (Germany), Tiago Mestre (Portugal), Ghassan Salhab (Lebanon), Zineb Sedira (France/UK), Nikolai Vogel (Germany), Hamid Zenati (Germany/Algeria) Texts by Iain Chambers, Florian Grosser Exhibition design Tiago Mestre Curated by Anna Schneider HOT SPOTS – Lecture, concert and video screening: What comes after oil? NOVEMBER 13, 2009 TO NOVEMBER 18, 2009 ”Hot Spots – What comes after Oil?“ is both an artistic and sociopolitical proposal initially launched by artist Karin Bergdolt. During November, PLATFORM3 transforms into a space for discussion and distinct sound scapes. The question of alternative propulsions will be tackled by means of a lecture on the future of individual transport as well as the experimental, musical transcription of a scientific measuring-curve. Turbulences - Concert by EMU-Laptop-Ensemble November 13, 2009, 7 pm Alternative propulsions – browsing a field of research Lecture by Dr. Lutz Marz November 18, 2009, 7 pm FOLLOWED BY FILM SCR EENINGS Recipes for Disaster John Webster, 2008, 85‘, Finland, English subtitles. Alternative propulsions – browsing a field of research Lecture by Dr. Lutz Marz November 18, 2009, 7 pm The automobile is a paradigmatic product and a vital part of modern societies. Due to climate change and the limited nature of natural resources, the 21st Century forces a shift in energy technology. What does this entail for individual transport and present society? Which social, cultural and artistic factors promote, and which restrain, the development of new innovative sources of energy? Lecture by Dr. Lutz Marz, Research fellow of the research unit ”Cultural Sources of Newness“, Social Research Center Berlin FOLLOWED BY A SELECT ION OF WORKS ON VIDE O Le Corso Bertrand Dezoteux, 2008, 14', France, English version Unfinished Harbour (Narcissus) Etta Säfve , 2008, 5'54, Netherlands/Sweden, English subtitles Brown Verena Maas, 2009, 28', Germany/Great Britain, non-spoken Reise zum Wald (Journey to the Forest) Jörn Staeger, 2008, 7'03, Germany, non-spoken Unwavering (Sisyphus) Etta Säfve, 2006/07, 4'11, Netherlands/Sweden, non-spoken 24/7 (Into the Direction of Light) Michael Aschauer, 2008, 9', Austria, non-spoken NADIM ASFAR: EVERYDAY MADONNA SEPTEMBER 24, 2009 - 07:00 PM Screening of Everyday Madonna [DigiBeta, 40’, 2009] To crown Lebanese artist Nadim Asfar’s two-month residency at PLATFORM3, there will be a projection of his current video Everyday Madonna. Everyday Madonna is a multifaceted and poetic deconstruction of the production and reproduction of pictures. Public and private space, exterior and interior, merge here vibrantly. The video is at once a passionate homage to pop-icon Madonna, a deep reflection over photography, and an intimate self-portrait. SOFIA SPIONAGE SEPTEMBER 24, 2009 TO OCTOBER 14, 2009 Sofia Spionage is a series of events that elaborate the visual existence of a city and capital through various “small stories”. The face of Sofia: The City in Pictures (Photography exhibition), The City in Words (Lecture), The City in Colours and Sounds (Film), and The City in Melodies (Musical performance). Sofia Spionage shows the city as a stage for Bulgarian contemporary art and as a living microcosm. The superficial ‘shine’, brought about by systems geared towards globalisation stems from an urbanisation of thought and feelings. What is the future of this city after the period of transition between socialism and EU membership? How does its fate affect the visual and sensory consciousness of its inhabitants? What social factors govern the new aesthetic presentation of an Eastern European capital city? Possible answers and food for debate on the question of the love/hate relationship between local artists and their city are raised in the private tales and artistic visions presented by curator Yanna Varbanova (Robert-Bosch grant 2009) in this exhibition. Participants Boyan Hristov | Ivan Paskalev | Vladiya Mihaylova | HR-Stamenov | Vladislav Illiev & Kliment Dichev Doors open Wednesday, September 23, 2009, 7 pm Closing Event Wednesday, October 14, 2009, 7 pm Veranstalter: PLATFORM3 und Kulturreferat der Landeshauptstadt München Das Projekt wird gefördert durch die Robert Bosch Stiftung -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ZEHNkampf (Decathlon) | Wand zu Wand (Wall to Wall) SEPTEMBER 17, 2009 TO SEPTEMBER 19, 2009 Opening Times Thu./Fri. 10.00 - 18.00 Sat. 11.00 - 17.00 ZEHNkampf (Decathlon) | Wand zu Wand (Wall to Wall)is the prelude to a series of exhibitions in cooperation with the Academy for Visual Arts, Munich. 10 young artists from Hermann Pitz’s sculpture class at the Munich Academy for Visual Arts will be exhibited new works of sculpture, room installation, video and performance in the main exhibition space at PLATFORM3 from the 16th to the 19th of September. Through sculpture and performance, the artists translate tried structures into new forms. New tracks are laid and old paths are made visible. Space is seen as motion in the physical sense and emotion in the psychological sense using a wide palette of artistic methods. The multitudinous contexts, presentation and the rearrangement of a space play constantly with habitual spatial awareness, something that can lead to an experience of freedom. Artists Johannes Brechter | Wona Cho | Karen Ernst | Johannes Evers | Funda Gül Özcan | Stephan Hutton | Florian Lechner | Claudia Marr | Kathrin Partelli | Angela Stiegler Opening of the Exhibition Wednesday, September 16, 2009, 7 pm The exhibition is curated by Jan T. Wilms. QIU ANXIONG - Screening und Lecture JULY 22, 2009 - 06:00 PM Free Entrance The Shanghai-based artist Qiu Anxiong (Born 1972 in Chengdu), is known as a particularly politically charged and influential operator. There are not many in the new generation that can float freely as he does between media like painting and video to photography and installation. The exhibition on the July 22, 2009 at PLATFORM3 showcases one of his newest works, the animation Minguo Landscape and explores Chinese 20th century history. ”Minguo“ is the Chinese word for “Republic of China”. The lecture will be given by Jin Ye-Gerke, lecturer for Sinology at the LMU München. RAUMSONDE ALPENBLICK JULY 16, 2009 TO SEPTEMBER 12, 2009 Over summer PLATFORM3 will become part of “Raumsonde Alpenblick”. It transforms into the communications hub and HQ for the space probe that allows artists to begin actions in the space and surrounding city, working together with the inhabitants. The artistic projects are centred around the location and are specially developed for Raumsonde. Concerts, workshops, projects for children, art actions and film screenings will take place. Opening - Moon beaches are different... Wednesday, July 15, 2009, 7 pm Landing of the space probe... Then sounds with Coconami and the Moon Beach Party with the Djs and VJs fromdept.audio.exe and tps nostromo. Information and enquiries www.raumsondealpenblick.blogspot.com SEASON II – IN BETWEEN ARTS MAY 29, 2009 TO MAY 30, 2009 Two evenings between arts: Presence, lectures, new horizons. Dialogues, quotes, fakes. Talks on the bank of the river. Bookmarks for the mind. Nothing is how it used to be: Author-art, Art-authors. Recitals, speeches, location-inspired text installations in combination with performances. BELIEF UNLIMITED MAY 28, 2009 TO JULY 07, 2009 Opening times Mon. to Thu. 10:00 – 17:00 Fri. 10:00 – 15:00 18 contemporary artists from various countries show their work on the subject of belief and religion from the 29th May to the 7th July 2009 during the exhibition BELIEF UNLIMITED. The artists delve into the belief systems and other aspects of Christianity, Islam, Judaism and Buddhism. The exhibition therefore opens up an intercultural dialogue and allows for self-reflection based on belief. Through individual application and nine forms of artistic expression, varied discourses on the relationship of beliefs are developed. Opening Thursday, May 28, 2009 19:00 Vernissage 20:00 Performance by Rabi Georges to finish Opening party with the Global Fusion Sound System Team DJ Rupen & DJ Dimitri For guided explanations of the exhibition please call 089-3249009-12 or send a mail to [email protected] Munich – Creative City? MAY 06, 2009 - 07:30 PM The “Creative Class” is high on the agenda. Anne von Streit, LMU-München, is the author of the study “Creativity in Munich”, commissioned by the Department of Labour and Industry of the City of Munich with the aim of developing creative potential in the region. In the connection with the study there will be a round of discussions to work over subjects brought up by it: How attractive is Munich for creative potential? What does the city offer? What problems are there? What ways are there to a new cultural dialogue? Where are the spaces for this new creative development? Lectures Closing of the exhibition “Doing Boundless” Performances By Daniel Kluge and Anton Kaun: Tableaux sessions and Rumpeln HOT SPOTS – WHAT COMES AFTER OIL? APRIL 29, 2009 - 07:30 PM As of autumn 2010, petrol stations will become locations for artistic and industrial-political intervention. The exhibition on the 29th April in PLATFORM 3 aims to be a process of discourse. It forms the start of a series and raises the questions such as how central political and social issues can be handled through art. After a presentation by Karin Bergdolt there is a discussion moderated by Hildegard Kurt (Leader of the “Institut für Kunst, Kultur und Zukunftsfähigkeit e.V.”, Berlin) between Heinz Schütz ( Art theorist and curator), Dida Zende (Artist, “FIT freie internationale tankstelle”), Albert Fußmann (Culture expert and educator), Karin Bergdolt (Artist) and others. To close proceedings there will be a screening of the multi-award-winning film, “The Oil Crash” by Basil Gelpke and Ray McCormack. As an accompaniment, PLATFORM3 will be exhibiting photography on the theme “Hot Spots” by Karin Bergdolt and the video installation, UHOR by Caro Wenzel. DOING BOUNDLESS APRIL 09, 2009 TO MAY 06, 2009 Shortly after opening, the central space of PLATFORM3 hosts an interactive project bringing together young designers, photographers, musicians, dancers, and filmmakers. Partcicipants VVORK, Hort, The smalpaze, ILEK, Mirko Hecktor, Ayzit Bostan, Daniel Kluge and Katarina Agathos, Felix Müthe, and Simon Herkne Opening Wednesday April 08, 2009, 7:30 pm With dance performance Vektoren, by Mirko Hecktor, then GommaGang, DJs Valentino & Marvin Open Studios MARCH 21, 2009 TO MARCH 22, 2009 In March the artists will open their ateliers to the public and show current work. The exhibition room will be used to showcase projects, works and video presentations, as well as a round of talks. There will also be a children’s art workshop and a cafe; “Coffee and Cake”. Kick-off: Official opening of Platform3 MARCH 20, 2009 - 06:30 PM Platform3 gets ready for spring and opens its spaces for the first time to the public. Together with many artists, Platform3’s new curatorial team hosts a series of artistic actions, exhibitions and musical performances.