MADE IN BERLIN
At Premarts artist Bernard Bolter will be leading an open work space for the collective with the idea of working together and brainstorming about how to make a living in Berlin doing what we love. We invite Berlin artist to come join us and discuss on how to make replicas of their own work and eventually go to the markets of Berlin.
From 9th of July to the 22nd we’re are going to be starting a collective to help Berlin artists enter the free market.
Open Workshop at the gallery :
Monday to Friday
12:00 till 17:00
We’re are going to the market as the collective on Sunday.
If you are an artist based in Berlin and would like to talk to us about joining the collectif feel free to come by the gallery and say hello.
In a time when everything is changing in a city, artists need to learn new ways to survive. Berlin is changing, the rents are rising, there’s less affordable space, and the subsidies aren’t necessarily going to cover everything in the future.
In the Da Fen Oil Painting Village in Shenzhen, China, artists (where a lot are recent art school graduates) come there to survive off their painting skills. In China, subsidies for art are hard to get
and the part-time jobs around to survive are not really part-time and most likely are 7 days a week at the iPhone factory. These artists use their skills to make replicas for foreigners who come just over the border from Hong Kong. This is one of the only hustles that these artists have to live off their skills and still have the means to make their own art on the side. There’s something to be learned from them.
and the part-time jobs around to survive are not really part-time and most likely are 7 days a week at the iPhone factory. These artists use their skills to make replicas for foreigners who come just over the border from Hong Kong. This is one of the only hustles that these artists have to live off their skills and still have the means to make their own art on the side. There’s something to be learned from them.
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941-1966, Marcel Duchamp created 300 “Box”’s filled with miniature replicas of all his major artworks, La boîte en valise. Duchamp is known for his early cubist paintings and for giving the world his “Readymades”, found objects that he exhibited in art galleries and made conceptual art. At a certain point he slowed down his artistic production, mainly to play chess, but still made these miniature “Portable Museum”’s, which now have ended up in most major museums around the world. There’s something to be learned from him too.
941-1966, Marcel Duchamp created 300 “Box”’s filled with miniature replicas of all his major artworks, La boîte en valise. Duchamp is known for his early cubist paintings and for giving the world his “Readymades”, found objects that he exhibited in art galleries and made conceptual art. At a certain point he slowed down his artistic production, mainly to play chess, but still made these miniature “Portable Museum”’s, which now have ended up in most major museums around the world. There’s something to be learned from him too.
MADE IN BERLIN is a collective of Berlin based artists that create replicas and derivatives of their own artwork and bring them to the markets, learning together.
12th Anniversary of Premarts
Oppelner Strasse –Summer in the City, 10997 BERLIN
Oppelner Strasse and its neighbourhood has its histories that wears on it in layers, vibrating to the contemporary tempo of the city in it and around it. Kreuzberg is based on settling, dynamism and remodelling. The city is ever changing and unique. In 2017, a collaboration between PremArts gallery and artists including Joe Hayes and Kwame Aidoo who found a new home in Berlin through the creative spark of its indegenes, started a conversation which has now become the seed project called Görlitzer Park Arts Festival. We look forward to an interactive, exploratory, educative and impactful festival where we can learn and have fun at the same time and breathe love into the city and inhale the beauty of humanity, interconnectedness and community.
MISSION AND VISION
On the topic of sustainability in global cities like Berlin, while addressing the prospects of change agents, we look at ourselves as artists, community members, children of the metrof the urban dynamics, makers, users of space, consumers, curators, bikers, merchants, food lovers, plastic waste collectors, etc. We focus on our direct and indirect responsibilities and how our body languages affect the things around us which in turn affect our anatomies. As such, the project will shine light on key sustainability issues, inclusion, and introduce us to change agents from a variety of disciplines.
PROPOSED DATES – AUGUST 2018
Kwame Aidoo – Inkfluent (Berlin, Paris, Accra)
Kenneth Balfelt – Kenneth Balfelt Team (Copenhagen)
Joe Hayes – Joe by Joe (New York)
Minnie Griffith, Photographer and PR (Berlin, West UK, Marseilles)
Elle Peril , Femina non Grata
PROJECT SPACE
PremArts Gallery, Oppelner Str 34, 10997 Berlin
Public Space: Oppelner Strasse 34- 15 (between PremArts and Streetfountain
Fountains – Strassenbrunnen Oppelner Str.,
THEME:
BODY LANGUAGE
Body language embodies the embedded reflections and silent choreographies of political agency In today’s reality of mass migration, voluntary and forced, where bodies resettle away from war and poverty to create diasporic public spheres where new identifications take place and new identities have to be negotiated. The governing maps of migration show that for refuge seekers, there are still key arbiters that define
who belong to the political community (e.g. citizens) and who remain outside (e.g. undocumented migrants). The affinities or rejections from nation states and local forces apropos to migrant bodies enforces codes of conduct that the settler has to adapt to, to survive. Bodies navigate a new language by losing the language their bodies already knew, new gestures and rhythms are engulfed on their anatomies which are also nonetheless ‘political sites’ Furthermore, migrant’s bodies are also sites of collective memory on which collective history, including colonialism, is written.
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