Category: Past Exhibitions

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EMBROIDERY WORKSHOP

Erick Costa Kohl

Beginners Course| 10 Participants |3 Stitches

Workshop: Sunday, 19.08.2018, 2:00 – 6:00 pm

Embroidery artist Erick Costa Kohl invites to his Embroidery workshop for Beginners at PremArts. Participants will be shown and have the chance to practice 3 different stitches for contouring and filling techniques.Through embroidery, creative mind Erick Costa Kohl found another way to to express his creativity and is now sharing his skills in workshops.
Learn and practice embroidery in a small group of 10 people in a pleasant atmosphere.
All materials (embroidery hoop, thread, sketches, pens, needles and fabric) will be provided for the 4-hour workshop.

Workshop fee: 30 €

Number of participants: 10

If you are interested to participate in this workshop, a payment fee of 10 € needs to be paid until 15.08.2018

Contact: berlinstickerei@gmail.com

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5. BEATBOX BATTLE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP

 

WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP – KICK OFF

The History of Beatbox Battle exhibition includes a remarkable multimedia show in the gallery PremArts, where the previous four Beatbox Battle World Championships will be illuminated in detail with the help of touch screen monitors and graphic video and photo installations. Beatbox Battle TV will show up exclusive images and graphic installations from the past years 2002-2017. We invited some of the worlds best human beatboxer on the loop station for a funky fresh music showcase.

Oppening times :

02/08/18 : 13uhr – 17uhr
03/08/18 : 13uhr – 17uhr

ARTISTS ###
– Balance (UK Loop Station Champion 2017)

### SCHEDULE ###
19:00-20:00pm – Opening Ceremony
20:00-20:30pm – Beatbox & Didgeridoo Showcase
20:30-21:00pm – Loop Station Showcase
21:00-22:00pm – Open Mic Cypher

The event is powered by Vodka23 & RedBull.

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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.

 

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.

 

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Storyboard Abossey Okai

EXHIBITION | OPEN STUDIO | PERFORMANCE

Prem Arts, Berlin (8-12 June, 2018)

SCHEDULE

Dates: 8-12 June, 2018

Open Studio: 12 PM – 8 PM each day

Performance: 11 June (6:30 – 7:30 PM)

 

DESCRIPTION

Storyboard Abossey Okai (Prem Arts, Berlin)

Map of the Gold Coast Railway. Showing Feeder Road and the Principal Agriculture and Mineral Areas. March 1922. Colonial Office photographic collection at The National Archives, UK as part of the Africa Through a Lens project.

 

Unearths the role that memory, community, evolution and continuity play in African storytelling and the construction of identity and consciousness reflected through a timeline of events. In contemporary discourse, a probe to dissect the methods of designing narrations by organising or disorganising spatial relationships. A contribution for rethinking urban mythology, navigating time travel and escapism while engaging the socio-political realities of global warming associated with an electronic waste site and salvaged auto parts market. A storyboard of thought-provoking visual poetry on diverse themes including migration, labour and global economy. A social commentary approach merging abstraction with street photography, collage, sound and poetic documentary.

BIOGRAPHY

KWAME AIDOO

(Ghana, 1986)

Kwame Aidoo is a Ghana-based writer, educator and artist whose text, visual, sound, installation and performance pieces are inspired by African oral folklore, cadence and symbolism to interrogate sociopolitical contexts. He is the founder of Inkfluent, Nkabom Literary Arts Festival and Afrovims; a journal on creative processes and projects from Africa and the diaspora. He makes social commentary music with Dearly Deported(GH), Lucked In(FR/US), Blood Drum Spirit(US), Break Ya Bones(FR) and Kwasaba(DK). He graduated from KNUST-Kumasi in biochemistry and biotechnology and has shown work at Chale Wote – Accra, Nasjonalmuseet – Oslo, Prem Arts – Berlin, FLUPP – Rio, among others.