March 29,      16.00 – 22.00, Vernissage:      20.00 – 22.00

March 30,      14.00 – 20.00

As a trained dancer Jill is particularly drawn to the lightness of being, of fleeting movement and the grace, of dancers. This elusive quality is what she tries to find with line. She works with models who will hold poses for a brief amount of time, changing to another, often at will. The unknown time constraint causes her to work gesturally and minimally, giving rise to a dynamic line quality. The drawings of the poses are laid over each other, challenging the viewer to see the figure this way or that.

With Looking At You, Jill is asking whether we are viewing the model in a celebratory way, appreciating her female agency, or are we viewing her in a possessive, predatory way?

Historically the female model was passive, eyes cast down, non-confrontational. In a few paintings, Manet’s Olympia and Goya’s The Naked Maja, the model looks directly at the viewer. These were shocking for their time.

Today, in the current climate of consent and Me Too, the model holds our gaze.

Is she provoking or inviting?

The Rap Critics

a first experiment in freestyle art criticism

Thursday February 28th 2019 | 19:00 – 21:00

In this first experiment, PremArts will be hanging a bunch of forgotten and lost artwork found at markets and where ever.  Then there will be a freestyle cypher where rappers are encouraged to spit upon the the work hanging on the walls.

Sometimes, people find it hard to talk about art and sometimes, freestyle cyphers find it hard to remain on topic. We’re hoping to help out both of these circumstances and just see what happens.

Come by if you want to get into the cypher or if you just want to see how this experiment turns out. It’s just for the fun of it.

All languages welcome for the freestyle!

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.

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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.

 

From 1941-1966, 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.