Perfomance Art Seminar by GlogauAIR at Erciyes University in Kayseri 07/11 - 15/11 2010

Performance Art Seminar for 20 students of the Fine arts Faculty of Erciyes University with participation of GlogauAIR representatives
07/11 - 15/11 2010

Permonce Art Seminar was sucessfully finished in form of final presentation in the Faculty's Conference Hall. T

he theme of the workshop will be around Home Sweet Home/ Alien in My Space. Examples from the Home Sweet Home Festival will be presented an discussed and the young artists will develop their own live art works and show them in the final presentation. For that occasion a documentary will be filmed by a professional team that are interested in international exchange experiences. The workshop was incredibly successful, many ideas came out and we did a final presentation in front of more then 200 persons. At the beginning Performance Art was really an Alien reality for our students but at the end we where very surprised of the deep and diverse works the students did. We where really surprised for their reception and creativity. Although it was really exhausting to build up a festival in only one week the effort was really worth it.

Moving Buildings 2010 video art festival in Amstelveen 24/11/2010 - 28/11/2010

Alien in my space partners taking part on video art festival Moving Buildings 24/11/2010 - 28/11/2010

During 10 days from the end October till Novembre 2010, on the glass front of P60 and Schouwburg, international artists will be showing their visual projections. With the use of projected video and innovative artistic design Moving Buildings will animate the nightlife of the Stadsplein. The artists will create interaction with the public through visual arts and architecture. It offers to the residents of Amstelveen a new way to experience their daily environment.The windows of the buildings will be coverd with lime paper. There will be a beamer for each projection repeating the artistic results the whole evening till midnight. The videos will be made with the use of grafics, animation, digital technics, camera recordings and edit results.

"Aliens in my space" theme

In Europe, different cultures live very close geographically but often don’t know each other at all. We are Aliens to each other although we live only a few kilometres away, and too often we become trapped into holding on to prejudices and clichés. War was a normal factor for many years between the different European communities: To fight against your neighbours is a long European tradition. Although today we have laid down our arms, former conflict is a fact that still influences us as a structural point of our history. The frontiers are open between our countries and we can now travel and live abroad with near absolute freedom, yet we still need to learn more about our former “enemies” and our different realities. We understand Aliens as catalysers and information transmitters; the ones who travel abroad and spread new possibilities and ideas. Afterwards we try to fit them into their own spaces -- their city, their landscape, their homes. In these spaces we feel more able to recognise their own particularities and traditions; the subjectivity of every culture can be seen as an object in the space in which it takes place.

SOLARIS Lena Braun (Berlin)
GLOGAUAIR Irene Pascual, Johny Amore, Belen Rodriguez, Heiko Pfreundt (Berlin)
ERCIYES UNIVERSITY Hakan Pehlivan (Kayseri)
p60 Marcel Verschoor, Nicole van Rietschoten (Amsterdam)
CENTRE FOR CULTURE AND SOCIETY Martina Nováková, Michal Maruška (Brno)

GRID Photo Bienale of Amsterdam 24/09 - 30/11/2010

Participation of partners from Alien in my space partnership on GRID 2011
24/09 - 30/11/2010

GRID is a biennial, international photography event initiated to showcase the freshest and most innovative trends in contemporary photography, as well as the diverse subject matter explored via the photographic medium. GRID is an initiative of Stichting Amsterdam Photo (Foundation Amsterdam Photo). GRID2010 has been extended this year to the cities Almere, Amstelveen, Haarlem and Zaanstad. Spin-off’s of the festival are being established in Bergen and Purmerend. With more than eighty projects across sixty locations and around twenty participating countries, GRID is currently Holland's biggest international image based event.
http://www.gridphotofestival.com/

GRID aims to create an environment that showcases the diverse styles and themes in contemporary photography and visual communication and to provide a platform for both renowned and emerging photographers to display their work. Via special 'image routes', GRID2010 visitors will be lead through different themed exhibitions. In Amsterdam for example an exciting and innovative music-photography route will be created. In addition to the visual exhibitions of GRID2010 a wide range of workshops, panel discussions and seminars will be supplementing the event as well as a portfolio review weekend.

GlogauAIR was represented by: Ali Hanoon, Lorenzo Rodriguez, Ignacio Chavarri, Irene Pascual, Paco Vallejo, Johnny Amore, Ángel de la Rúbia, Sonia Orfila
Solaris were presented works by Lena Braun
Centre for culture and society was represented by phographer Radek Brousil and experimental artist Jiří Havlíček
p60 exhibited there art pieces by Marcel Verschoor, Nicole van Rietschoten and Laura von Nierop
Erciyes University has there works by Hakan Pehlivan, Vedat Çolak, Ahmet Albayrak, Kürşat Albayrak

WORKSHOP

For the occasion Hakan Pehlivan from Kayseri Erciyes University did an art workshop in the Gymnasium of Amstelveen.

Home Sweet Home Festival at GlogauAIR 09/07 - 11/07/2010

Home Sweet Home Festival, Berlin, in cooperation with Werkstatt der Kulturen.

09/07 - 11/07/201

Home Sweet Home Festival, Berlin, in cooperation with Werkstatt der Kulturen.

09/07 - 11/07/2010

Performance and Videoart Festival. 20 performances / 8 videoart selections / 2 workshops (see program: http://glogauair.net/home%20sweet%20home.htm)

Curatorial statement / Concept:

Our starting point is to establish the home or the living space as a place where our private life is carried out, the intimate place, the private scene: A revealing room of our cultural identity; A place where the life of the family and the individual develops; in any part of the world, in all the cultures, it exists in a million different forms.

Many people think of home in terms of where they grew up or where they lived, a place that brings back old memories or feelings, and a home can even be a feeling rather than an actual place. The phrases, "There's no place like home." or "Home is where the heart is." come from these sentiments.

The home is a testimony of our existence, where the going on of our lives is revealed in a physical form; it can be represented through the movements which inside this space happen, in the objects that we accumulate or in the proper form and dimension that the space takes. At home we keep our most valued goods and receive our most dear hosts. When we want to disconnect and be in intimacy, it is the place where we are more in pleasure, our proper portion of the world: Our island, our castle.

We believe that the Home can be an interesting topic for a multicultural project since with a very clear and explicit subject-matter, a space, we can talk and reflect other topics with big anthropological and social interest: The diversity. The differences the home takes are representative of social class, customs, ideology, climate, education... The home speaks by itself and about the persons who inhabit it, about us.

Panel discussion in Seminaarraum / Werkstatt der Kulturen:

"Art as a social transforming tool" in a frame of Alien in my Space Learn partnership

Irene Pascual, Patrick Morarescu, Heiko Pfreundt (from GlogauAIR), Lena Braun (Solaris Künstlerverein), Marcel Verschoor, Monica Aggio (P60), Inma Prieto & Stephan Kruhl (representing Centre for culture and society Brno)

With edition of a catalogue.

3rd Symposium for coorganizers of Alien in my space project 25/07 - 01/08/2010

3rd Symposium for of AIM in Brno during festival Month of Author´s Reading 2010
25/06/ - 01/08/2010

Content of meeting

common learning of aspects of cultural managment/discussion about sustainability of commercial subject orientated on alternative and non-commercial art, literature and music/ concrete planned activities on Amsterdam biennale on September 2010/collection professional opinions about general problems of distributing of “young” visual art – specially in media and video art area/

Participants from AIM project: Mrcel Verschoor, Nicole van Rietschoten, Irene Pascual, Stephan Kruhl, Petr Minařík, Pavel Řehořík, Michaela Velčková

OPEN STUDIOS in GlogauAIR 24/06/ - 26/06 2010

Bilateral activity between GlogauAIR, P60, Su de CouCou gallery
24/06/ - 26/06 2010


OPEN STUDIOS with Gianni Moretti /// Bruno Olle /// Kuno Ebert /// Sidonie Zou Zou /// Ruth Murray /// Gabriel Dufour /// Hannelore Van Dijck /// Luis L. Carrasco /// Melissa Ramos /// Vessna Perunovich /// Boja Vasic ///+ Guest artist from Grundtvig Marcel Verschoor (P60 Amstelveen)

see our programme!

Workshop of P60 and Erciyes University at Guzel Sanatlar Fakultesi in Kayseri 7/05/-22/05/2010

Perfomance, workshop, exhibition and lectures of representatives of P60 and Erciyes University
07/05 - 22/05/2010

In occasion of the Spring University Fest, Marcel Vershoor was invited to perform and participate in their many activities.
Marcel Vershoor and Laura van Nierop went to visit Erciyes university to meet students to exchange ideas about education in Turkey and The Netherlands.
http://baharsenligi.erciyes.edu.tr/program.html

Public reading of authors from Centre for culture and society in Saloon Su de Coucou 17/04/2010

Public reading of authors from Centre for culture and society (Brno, Czech republic) in space of Saloon Su de CouCou (Berlin)

17/04/2010

Czech authors Kateřina Tučková und Petr Čichoň are interested in problematic of historical and contemporary relationship between Czechia and Germany in space of gallery Su de CouCou

Kateřina Tučková

Prosaschriftstellerin, Publizistin, Kuratorin. Wurde vor neunundzwanzig Jahren in Brno geboren. Sie hat Bohemistik und Kunstgeschichte studiert und seither zahlreiche Ausstellungen zeitgenössischer tschechischer Malerei in Tschechien und im Ausland kuratiert. Sie ist die Verfasserin einer Monographie über die Schriftstellerin Věra Sládková (2009) und der Novelle „Montespaniáda“ (2006). Für den Herbst plant sie den Roman „Gerta“: „Zu dieser Geschichte haben mich wirkliche Begebenheiten inspiriert, die sich unmittelbar in der Straße, dem Haus, der Wohnung, in der ich wohne, ereignet haben: die gewaltsame Aussiedlung der Brünner Deutschen in der Nacht vom 30. auf den 31. Mai 1945. [...] Gerta, die in Brno den Krieg erlebt hat, dem Transport entkommen ist und sich in Südmähren verborgen gehalten hat, kehrt Anfang der 1950er Jahre an Orte zurück, die schon ein ganz anders Aussehen haben, als die, an die sie sich erinnern kann.“

Petr Čichoň

Dichter und Musiker, geboren am 23. Juni 1969 in Ostrava, Autor von Bänden spirituell-folkloristischer Lyrik: „Chilia“ (1995), „Villa diabolica“ (1998) und „Preußische Balladen“ (Pruské balady, 2007). Er studierte an der Technischen Universität in Brno, in den 1990er Jahren arbeitete er als Verlags- und Zeitungsredakteur, seit 1998 betreibt er sein eigenes Architekturstudio. Über sein letztes Buch, das zweisprachig deutsch-tschechisch erschien und durch einen CD-Tonträger ergänzt wurde, sagt er: „Ich habe vor allem auf dem Gebiet der Inspiration experimentiert. In den Balladen durchdringen sich thematisch die peußisch-schlesische Gegenwart mit diabolischen Aufzügen deutscher Figuren aus dem Zweiten Weltkrieg...“

Exhibition in Saloon Su de Cou Cou/Solaris Kunstverein, Berlin 03/04/2010 - 04/05/2010

03/04/2010 - 04/05/2010

Exhibition in Su de Cou Cou gallery and project space/Solaris Kunstverein, Berlin

Cihangir Guemuestuerkmen /performance/music by NAMOSH/Berlin

Marcel Verschoor/Mixed Media/Amsterdam

Hakan Pehlivan/Mixed Media/Kayseri

Mirko Lange/Sculptures/Berlin

Cihangir Guemuestuerkmen stammt aus der türkischen Hafenstadt Izmir und lebt seit 1977 in Berlin. Seit seiner frühesten Kindheit malt und zeichnet er. Cihangir arbeitet genreübergreifend. In seiner neuesten Arbeit widmet Cihangir sich dem Thema Kopftuch, einem Kleidungsstück, welches vertraut wirkt, aber immer wieder polarisiert. Auf einer Gradwanderung zwischen modischem Accessoire, religiösem Symbol und politischer Provokation, kann dieses Stück Stoff identitätsstiftend, ausgrenzend und vereinnahmend wirken oder sich einfach nur gut anfühlen. Cihangir setzt sich mit dieser Bedeutungsschwere spielerisch auseinander und transformiert die Thematik in seinen ganz eigenen Kosmos. Erstmalig arbeitet er dabei mit großflächigen Fotocollagen, die er mittels Leuchtkästen präsentiert. Flüchtig betrachtet wirken sie wie Reklametafeln aus einem türkischen Imbiss, doch wer sie genauer hinsieht, wird mit jedem weiteren Blick frappiert und entdeckt überrascht Neues.
Das Repertoire Cihangirs umfasst Fotographie, Malerei, Keramik, Bildhauerei und Performance-Art. Sein Debüt gab er 1993 mit "Transformation“, Bildern von Dragqueens. 1999 überraschte der Künstler mit "PUMPS 2000", bizarren Schuhplastiken aus Keramiken, Blech, Spitze, Perlen, Lego-Bausteine und Nudeln. 2005 folgte "Noire", eine abstrakte Acrylbildserie, die sich mit dem Spannungsfeld zwischen der Farbe Schwarz und der Struktur von Metallfarbtuben auseinandersetzt.

Marcel Verschoor

"Die wichtigste Thematik in meinen Arbeiten war lange Zeit ,Leben und Tod'."

Ich suchte nach ständiger Veränderung und Prozessen, die die Zeit transzendieren. Das übertrug ich auf eine Serie von Skulpturen, die aus geometrischen Formen bestanden, die ihren Ursprung im Sonnenkreuz haben. Nach dieser Periode suchte ich nach der inneren Gefühlswelt des Menschen und entdeckte eine konstante Suche nach Gleichgewicht.
Der Mensch versucht, das Chaos in den Griff zu bekommen und erschafft dadurch nur noch mehr Chaos. Die Formen, die in dieser Zeit meine Arbeit bestimmten sind Kreis, Rechteck und Quadrat. Mein Werk hat oftmals eine ähnliche Struktur, egal ob es offensichtliches Chaos beinhaltet oder nicht. Das zuvor erwähnte Thema ist immer noch ein wichtiges Ausdrucksmittel in meiner Arbeit. Ich versuche Prozessen zu folgen, die der Mensch durchlebt und beobachte die Balance verschiedenster Situationen. Ich versuche das in Bilder zu übersetzen, in denen der Betrachter sich selbst erkennt. Häufige Themen sind Furcht, Zerbrechlichkeit, Ausgeglichenheit und Unausgeglichenheit.
Mein Werk hat sich in letzter Zeit vom Abstrakten zum Figürlichen hinentwickelt. Die Technik, die Formensprache und die Farben meiner abstrakten Arbeiten haben sich mit figurativen Elementen verbunden.

Hakan Pehlivan

"Wenn ich auf kosmische Weise darüber nachdenke wie kapitalistische Expansionspolitik und Europäischer Imperialismus die Modernen Zeiten geprägt haben, denke ich an eine Luftblase, einen Luftballon. Der Fesselballon war die Geburtsstätte der Reise in das All, Aufbruch und Experiment zugleich. Aus diesen sehr verschiedenen Gründen sind in meiner aktuellen Arbeit Ballons enthalten."
In der Ausstellung ist zu sehen: BALLOON PHILOSOPHY 65 cm x10 cm (triple) mixed media.

Mirko Lange

Mirko Lange wurde 1980 in Schwelm geboren und machte 2001 seinen Gesellenbrief als Möbeltischler in Hagen (NRW). Er ist der Newcomer der Gruppenausstellung ALIEN IN MY SPACE. Lange stellt seine Alien-Skulpturen aus Fahrradteilen seit 2003 öffentlich aus.
2007 holte er sein Abitur mit Schwerpunkt Kunst in Berlin nach. Seid dem ist er freischaffend tätig. Besonders erwähnenswert sind seine Ausstellungsbeteiligungen "Querschnitt" im Bethanien, Berlin, 2008 und "Bilder Skulpturen Objekte" mit Sybille Eckhorn in der Galerie des Max Planck Instituts Greifswald, 2009.

2nd Symposium of the partners in Amstelveen

23/03/- 25/03/ 2011
2nd Symposium Alien in my space

Here we had the occasion to visit the infrastructure of our partner P60 in Amstelveen and to plan the next bilateral activities. We also made a review of our main discussion getting the vision of all the partners and analysing practical examples.

Residence of respresentative of Erciyes University at GlogauAIR February 2010

February 2010
Bilateral activity Erciyes University-GlogauAIR in space of GlogauAIR

We host our representative Partner Hakan Pehlivan to stay in our residency during one month, to get in contact with our 9 resident artists and developing his own artistic project.
Alien in my space concept: Being a foreigner in Berlin, what means to be a Turkish visitor in a city with a big Turkish minority.

OPEN STUDIOS Exhibition - GlogauAIR and Erciyes University 17-19/12/2009

17-19/12/2009
Bilateral activity Erciyes University-GlogauAIR in space of GlogauAIR: OPEN STUDIOS.

Exhibition by Daniele Giuseppe Bornino /// Lucia Egaña Rojas /// Paula Fernández /// Kuno Ebert /// Fernando García Dory /// Seung-Bok Roh /// Jorgos Loukakos /// Andre Hemer /// Verónica Lahitte /// Oliver Roura /// + Guest artists from Grundtvig partnership: Serife Aksin /// Saliha Baratali /// Ozgur Sanli (from Erciyes University in Kayseri).

Alien in my space project - 1st meeting in Berlin

ACTIVITIES in the frame of Grundtvig project “Alien in my Space” done and planned until October 2010:

October 10, 2009. 1st meeting in Berlin. Organised by GlogauAIR and Solaris Kunstverein.
The presentation took out in the frame of Nacht und Nebel Event. AN ocasion where Lena Braun organised an "alien in my space exhibition" with her artists and offered a Performance.


Getting to know each other and establishing the base for a discussion about our main theme: “How art can affect social structures/ Art as a social transformer” a theme that we will be treating through practical examples (bilateral activities: exhibitions, festivals and cultural events) that will be held in the different partner institutions.