Exhibition October 16. – December 11, 2020

For corona protection reasons only online with guided tour through the exhibition, photos of the works, videos of the exhibition and program.

TENTAKEL, (C) Jochen Schnepf

The Corona pandemic demands our attention. But the other existential issue, climate change, is still important. Our main question is, “What do we learn from the current Corona affliction to avoid the climate crisis?” We use the term crisis instead of change, because change sounds too soft and manageable.

Both crises have in common, as one cause, strong global mobility. Another is our lifestyle and our plundering of resources. The threat is different. With Corona it is acute. The state is reacting strongly, following the advice of science. Epidemiologist (german): At Corona we have seen what it looks like when a crisis is taken seriously. In contrast, the climate crisis poses a particular threat to future generations. This threat will soon no longer be kept in check by acute measures. The state is reacting insufficiently and not following the science.

What do we learn from this, what do we change? With Corona, the home office functions as a substitute for travel, and closed shops limit our consumption. This has advantages for coping with the climate crisis as these measures also reduce CO2 emissions.

We do not know what good habits will remain post-Corona to counter the climate crisis. The new bike paths on the streets of Berlin are here to stay. That is not enough though, society must not leave it at that. Scientists are proposing an intergenerational “climate-corona treaty (german)” that is based on reason and the principle of social justice.

We see Corona as a global pandemic which, like the climate crisis, is forcing us to far-reaching changes in behaviour. We no longer want to submit to our fate, we want to shape it!

Artists

We show works by 14 international artists with object, sculpture, installation, photo, painting, drawing, printmaking, video, performance, reading.

Tom Albrecht, Silvia Amancei & Bogdan Armanu, Ann Besier, Kateryna Bortsova, Natasha Cantwell, Clarissa Falco, Mariel Gottwick, Ines Kaufmann, Maria Korporal, Annegret Müller, Keri Rosebraugh / Adam Guy, Jochen Schnepf, Manuela Viera-Gallo,
Violeta Vollmer

Tom Albrecht – Crisis Club, (2020) Object interactive, charred wood, screw hooks, instructions, (C) A.H.The club strikes against the head of the partner in a dosed manner as agreed. In the best case well dosed. In Corona's case, this stands for the relationship between the spreader and the virus recipient. And secondly, for the climate crisis which, if we continue to release so much fossil energy, will strike violently against heads all over the world. Unavoidable. Forever.

Silvia Amancei / Bogdan Armanu – Unlovable Prospects. Saba’s look on the Future, (2020), video, 14:40min (C) S.A/B.A"Unlovable Prospects. Saba’s look on the Future" is a short film that takes the form of a sci-fi (twilight zone type) miniseries, produced during the COVID lock-down spring 2020, Iasi, Romania. Before the COVID-19 crisis, the scenarios that have now become a daily routine were specific to Hollywood, being isolated in the field of fiction. Starting from the parallel between fiction / film and reality ”Unlovable Prospects. Saba’s look on the Future ”proposes 4 dystopian scenarios of the post-COVID future. Combining empirical information with speculation and creative modeling, this project aims to critically analyze the capitalist system and how people can organize (or not) at critical times. The video was commissioned by "Fundatia 9" within their ARTISTSROOMS fellowship.

Ann Besier – DANTE Serie, (2020) Acrylic on linen I Bookcover I Wood, 21-22x33cm (C) A.B.Based on Dante Alighieri‘s Inferno from the Divine Comedy, which closes with Paradise, the works show excerpts from current world events, such as the corona pandemic, forest fires in Australia, California and South America and the associated clearing.

Kateryna Bortsova – The fall of Europe, (2020) acrylic on paper, 124x86cm (C) K.B.Since I like traveling, the map displays in my project have been brought by me from various trips, during which they have served me good stead. On top of the map tiles are imposed images of men and women in various poses. Avenues, streets and lanes like veins are breaking through theirs body. We are all with you some kind of parasites living in the body of our cities. Some of our activities are for the benefit of our abode, others harm him. Very important aspects of my project are displaying the difficult situation that has arisen with the migration crisis in Europe and pandemic situation in World. So any member of the audience can stop for a minute and wonder: "How to find the way to my heart?"

Natascha Cantwell – Chicken Dinner, (2020) video, 47sec (C) N.C.Made during the COVID-19 pandemic, this film is a play on ‘winner winner, chicken dinner’, a phrase often used by Australians to celebrate personal victory. It reflects on the selfishness that was prevalent in Melbourne as we headed into a lockdown. The hoarding started with canned food, then moved to frozen goods, and before long even the fresh food aisles of the supermarket were stripped bare. Panic buying was causing people to surround themselves with food they’d never be able to eat, without thinking of the wastage or environmental impact.

Clarissa Falco – SIX FEET Welcome in 2020, (2020) Performance (C) C.F.Six feet, or 1.82 meters, is the safety measure in these coronavirus times. Mark Fisher writes in Capitalist Realism: “The pandemic of mental anguish that plagues our time cannot be adequately understood, or cured, when viewed as a private problem suffered by damaged individuals.” Can dealing with a situation of this kind by stemming sociality offer us a moment of reflection on it? To date we are divided and ruled by decrees that speak of distances and demands, designed to regulate our daily life in order to allow us a timely escape from this crisis.

Mariel Gottwick – Heated Up, (2020) Video installation, 20cm diameter, (C) M.G.A few months ago: “Following the Corona hygiene rules, I subjected my mouth-nose protection to the usual measures for reuse. The mask did not survive heating to at least 70°C in the oven.“ The video installation shows a section of a blue sky with dazzling, bright sunlight. A light-blue, amorphous form in front of this theatrically exaggerated backdrop. The deformed, apparently molten object makes you think. Might the intense sunlight be responsible for melting the protective mask? Is increasing global warming the cause of the corona pandemic? What does one have to do with the other? Two global crises are currently coinciding, the Corona pandemic and climate change, the crisis in the crisis. They are not directly dependent on each other, require very different measures to avoid the crisis, but can be attributed to the same causes.

Maria Korporal – Corona Tree Travelling, (2020) video 2min, digital print, 42x30cm each, (C) M.K.It is a further development of the interactive project Tree Travelling, a video of the world map with all airplanes that are currently flying. In front of the monitor there is a small tree trunk. When you move it, you fill the world with growing trees, while the airplanes slowly disappear. When this project was conceived, we were in the middle of a global tourism boom. But then the corona virus came. The tourism boom collapsed in no time. The real-time radar view of the aircraft has changed drastically. I created a new video work, Corona Tree Travelling, which is not interactive – the corona crisis make the trees grow without human intervention. The Tree Travelling Journal, digital prints on A3, follows the development of the project in times of coronavirus and climate change. It is a work in progress – what the future holds…

Annegret Mueller – untitled, (2020) drawing paper, twine, metal clips, 70x70x125cm, (C) A.M.a space to live, to love, to dream a space for a certain time, borrowed only a space made of paper loss what remains

Keri Rosebraugh / Adam Guy, virUS, (2020) video (C) K.R / A.GThe goal of this piece is to express humanity’s strength and resilience to the global pandemic, but not without the truth that accompanies it: fear, anxiety, grief and more. Currently the west coast of the United States is fighting almost 8,000 wildfires. Global warming has been proven to be a large cause. The smoke now is irritating our lungs, causing inflammation and affecting our immune system which makes us more prone to the virus. This installation shares our frustration and current challenges while conveying that we are all in this fight together. When we take care of our earth we are taking care of us at the same time. We are all one.

Jochen Schnepf – TENTAKEL, (2019-2020) Photography with staged porcelain elements, 80x80cm, (C) J.S.Hundreds of tentacles, spikes formed from pure porcelain, burned at 1,200 degrees. A new, even though fictional species. Resistant to acid, poison and rays. Lethal | itself immortal | cruelly beautiful. What, if nature changes the rules of the game? Corona and the climate crisis are abstract threats. We cannot see, feel, hear, smell or taste them. TENTACLES is the attempt to give shape to the intangible. Through a physical representative. A real protagonist in a real setting. Images free from the projection of human views of the world.

Manuela Viera-Gallo – Capital Wearcapital wear, (2013) video, 6:56min, (C) M.V.G.A beautiful woman in formal, feminine, flowing clothing runs around an empty unfinished corporate space with floor to ceiling windows as the sun gradually descends behind the Andes,Santiago-Chile.The sound of her heels hitting the cement floor along with the traffic of the city outside are deafening. We see blisters emerge on her feet from the frantic, continuous running a state of capitalist anxiety. In Chile since 2013 protests began, with calls to reform the social inequalities overlooked in the neo-liberal economic system.A capitalist dream that emerged from dictatorship, never completely reconciling itself with its past of human and environmental horrors. Covid 19 in 2020, put a state of catastrophe, to many of what a prosperous South American country could be.

Violeta Vollmer – Die Plage II-2, (2020) three-dimensional collage, recycled postcards on cardboard, 3-part series 70x100cm each, (C) V.V.exhibition at Heike Arndt DK Gallery.About 500 of 1000 postcards remained.Those were used sustainably to create my series "The Plague II". The drastic effects of climate change, environmental degradation, economic distortions, social polarization, political frictions, a severe lack of quality education for all, a significant loss of shared common values and on top of them the current Sars-CoV-19 virus pandemic are impacting globally all sectors of modern life like plagues. In the absence of a single prescription (panacea) for the cure there is the necessity for unity in global crisis management based on a common set of shared values.

Jochen Schnepf – TENTAKEL, (2019-2020) Photography with staged porcelain elements, 80x80cm, (C) A.H.

Jochen Schnepf – TENTAKEL, (2019-2020) Photography with staged porcelain elements, 80x80cm, (C) A.H.

Corona and Climate Crisis, (C) A.H.

Corona and Climate Crisis, (C) A.H.

Corona and Climate Crisis, (C) A.H.

Violeta Vollmer – The Plague II, (2020) three-dimensional collage, recycled postcards on cardboard, 3-part series 70x100cm each, (C) A.H.

Corona and Climate Crisis, (C) A.H.

Videos

Silvia Amancei, Bogdan Armanu Unlovable Prospects

Natasha Cantwell Chicken Dinner

Maria Korporal Tree Travelling

Keri Rosebraugh virUS

Tour with video and commentary through the exhibition (video, 14:34 min., in german)

Program

Since we limit the number of guests, we invite you to participate in the vernissage, lecture and finissage via lifestream from home. You will find the links to click and look in your browser in our program. All in German language.

Since the Corona crisis still requires restrictions, we are adapting the exhibition organization and the program according to our hygiene concept. We are planning analog and online offers here in the program for
Vernissage, performance, workshop, lecture, artist talk and finissage .

Since we limit the number of guests to a maximum of seven at a time for half an hour or an hour each, we ask you to register at https://nuudel.digitalcourage.de/WAWhCRvq4unmjDsT
It is possible to stay in the front garden.

You do not need to register for our gallery visits without event. The number of guests is limited to seven.

Vernissage Fri. Oct. 16, 2020, 7 p.m.

Welcome and introduction Tom Albrecht
Live stream at 19:15:

Performance: Clarissa Falco “SIX FEET, Welcome in 2020” Tue. Oct. 20., 7 pm

The live performance is cancelled due to corona-related travel restrictions. We show the video of the performance here online.

Video 6:04min. Six feet, or 1.82 meters, is the safety measure in these coronavirus times. Mark Fisher writes in Capitalist Realism: “The pandemic of mental anguish that plagues our time cannot be adequately understood, or cured, when viewed as a private problem suffered by damaged individuals.” Can dealing with a situation of this kind by stemming sociality offer us a moment of reflection on it? To date we are divided and ruled by decrees that speak of distances and demands, designed to regulate our daily life in order to allow us a timely escape from this crisis.

Gallery remains closed 23.10. due to illness

Workshop “Corona hygiene and climate protection” Fri. Nov. 6., 7 pm

We work together to develop solutions to protect ourselves from the coronavirus during the cold season and save energy in the process. With introduction to the topic: Basics, virus clouds, risk, masks, ventilation, measuring CO2. In German.

Link to workshop in german here. Lecture “Coronahygiene und Klimaschuetzen” 13 pages in german.

Fri. Nov. 13., 7 p.m. Lecture: Theresa Sieverding “#fighteverycrisis- parallels and interactions between corona and climate crisis”.

Research Assistant, Environmental Psychology, University of Magdeburg. Active in the research project “The Corona Crisis as ‘Gamechanger’ for the Transformation to Sustainability?” which deals with sustainable willingness and behavior and the connection of corona with sustainability. Lecture in German, pdf, 23 pages

Only online: We would like to invite you to participate in the lecture with dialogic lifestream. You are also welcome to attend with your camera switched off and without a microphone. You will find the link for your normal browser at 18:30 here. We are looking forward to seeing you!Only online: We would like to invite you to participate in the lecture with dialogic lifestream. You are also welcome to attend with your camera switched off and without a microphone. You will find the link for your normal browser at 18:30 here. We are looking forward to seeing you!

Artists talk Fri. Nov. 20., 7 p.m.

Artists of the exhibition talk to guests about their works. Moderated by Alexa Helbig. We would like to invite you to participate in the lecture with dialogic lifestream. You can find the link at 18:45 here.

We ask corona-conditionally for registration under https://nuudel.digitalcourage.de/WAWhCRvq4unmjDsT. Admission is possible without prior notice if seats are available.

We would like to invite you to participate in the lecture with a dialogic lifestream. You can find the link here at 18:45.

Finissage Fri. Dec. 11, 7 p.m. Text Performance: Ines Kaufmann

Man’s interaction with nature, the damage, the approach to natural spheres and the transformation of our world view.

Video Pandemia, 1:20 min., German

Location

Gallery in the Project space of Global 3000 Group e.V., Leuschnerdamm 19, 10999 Berlin, www.gg3.eu

Jury: Team GG3, Curators: Tom Albrecht, Alexa Helbig

51st exhibition