Opening with T.I.C. – Performance on Friday the 15th November at 8 p.m. to 8 p.m. December 2013

with: Jim Avignon, Stefan Demming, Mel Garland & Luc Berger, Marco Goldenstein, Elke Graalfs, Maike Hartwig, Henrik Jacob, Jesusboutique, Juwelia, Manfred Kirschner, Kirsty Kross, Mandie Minx, Frank Schoppmeier, Annette Stemmann, Silke Thoss, Zoe Thorne and others.

Crystal Ball Gallery is transforming into a sociocritical tourist information and offers from ironical to political correct Berlin-Souvenirs of international artists in an all over installation.

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Saturday the 21st Sept. 2013 at 8 p.m.
Exhibition opening with performances
Extended until 26. October, with Finissage at 8 p.m.

with: Francoise Cactus, Jule K., Stu Mead and Veronika Schumacher
Performances: The Anna Thompsons, dj vicious vroni and others

Against a pseudoliberal atmosphere, the exhibition „Monstergirls“ points out different contrary imaginations of the female sexual role and is backing to science fiction and horror films, inspired through personal and popcultural phenomena. The image of the girl seems in a society which spreads out over-individualised visions as a mass idol, increasingly dominated by an unrealistic egocentric stardom.

Firstly the idea of the equal status of women is fullfilled in it´s true realisation rather than in the promise that every girl can become a fotomodel or a popstar. The exhibition and the performances shift casually around these opinions and the spectrum of the works and techniques unite drawings, paintings, comic stills and performance art.

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Opening with performance on 16.12.2011 at 8 p.m.
Exhibition until January 6, 2012

A group exhibition with works by Nora Below, Marion Bösen, Elke Graalfs, Manfred Kirschner, Astrid Küver, Andreas Kotulla, Jörg Lange, Frank Schoppmeier, Veronika Schumacher, Line Wasner, Sabine Wewer, Ole Wulfers and others

The war of apples is over. Last year, Apple Records, the Beatles’ record company, and Apple Inc. finally agreed to the computer giant.  Apple Inc. at the time did not promise to distribute any music or artistic content under this company name.  But the changes the big apple designed became more extensive than was thought then. The regulation and its constant break now supported the unique gap and phenomenon, even in times of general retrieval and access: The Beatles and their music were not yet to be found on I-Tunes. Now
that this void has been filled peacefully, we are pleased to present artistic works on the Beatles at the Crystal Ball Gallery for the first time and especially at Christmas.

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Opening of the exhibition at the Crystal Ball Gallery:
Sat. 1. October 2011 at 8 pm with a performance by Nicolas Puyjalon.

Attention: An exhibition in two locations. Palace of Culture Wedding International, opens the first part with performance on the previous day: Fr. the 30th September at 8 p.m.
The exhibitions are curated by Kurt Forever

Group exhibitons/ participating artists:

Roger Caillois notes the extreme case of these insects which, because they imitate so perfectly their habitat, end up disappearing completely in the uniformity of the same uninterrupted texture. Some will talk about tactic of predation or defence mechanism, but Caillois refutes this interpretation. He deduces: this mimicry aiming to decrease differences between the organism and his environment would actually cause a depersonalization – because an effective imitation can erase any variation or boundary from one to the other, the individual being resorbed in this surrounding space he wanted to merge with.

Caillois raises the question of the limit or outline; and against this radical ontological erasing of camouflage, he pleads in favour of dissimilarities. The animal mimicry, ultimate example of an ideal of harmonization between the figure and the background, points the risk of entropy. A solution: set against the laws of the semblance the effervescence of the irregularities. DEPLATZIEREN, to fight against this deletion of the distinctions which the repetition of the same generates. DEPLATZIEREN, so disorder and disruption can take shape. As metonymy, moving the value of the representations. And assert, beyond what conventions indicate as good shape or tolerate as manifest content, these incongruities – all these things which, precisely because they clash, also incite to reconsider connections and to open new fields.

Text written by Marion Delage de Luget

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Opening on Friday 12. February 2010 at 8 pm
February 12 – 20. March 2010

In his 1899 text “Screen Memory,” Sigmund Freud considers how memories are permeable and can be recalled in an altered state. The screen memory refers to the temporal separation between the consciousness and the object of memory. In 1925, Freud revisits this concept in “A Note on the ‘Mystic Writing Pad,’” in which he suggests a common children’s toy might be a metaphor for the way that memories accumulate in the mind. With the lifting of the transparent top page, figures are erased, and new drawings can be made; however, the pressure of the writer’s hand leaves behind traces, recorded on a medium just beneath this diaphanous surface. With reference to these ideas, the exhibition “In a Shadow Box” will transform the gallery space into a dark room for exploring the ontology of drawing. Like a shifting archive of images, unique drawings will appear and dematerialize into shadow and light through the media of transparency and glass. The viewer is invited to take part in an associative thinking process about the latent strategies of remembrance. Images will fluctuate upon the wall as if those imaginings of the mind, which Schopenhauer once described as a kind of cognitive projection, can be rendered ever more fleeting and ephemeral.

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29. 11 – 31. 12. 2008
Friends/ artists of the gallery
Within the exhibition time there is the “Salon Arbiträr” with DJ Catastrophe every Friday from 8 pm

The third group exhibition of Crystal Ball associate artists of the program with good friends and companions of the gallery for a big versatile presentation of art works. The exhibition should help to secure the gallery work in the future. Parallel to this the “Circle of Friends Kristallkugel” is launched under the protectorate of Svea Lena Kutschke. I want to thank the artist who participate or donate their works for this presentation and all of the debut members of the Circle of friends Kristallkugel!

Participating artists are: Julia Baier, Norbert Bauer, Thomas Behling, Matthias Bösche, Marion Bösen, Francoise Cactus, Alexander Callsen, Stefan Demming, Marcia Farquhar, Anja Fußbach, Elke Graalfs, Marco Goldenstein, Christian Haake, Mareike Hube, Juwelia, Aylin Kayser, Andreas Kotulla, Ins A Kromminga, Max Müller, Wolfgang Müller, Astrid Küver, Jonathan Kroll, Monika Müller Kroll, Henrik Jacob, Michael Jungblut, Lydia Karstadt, Martin Löhr, Stu Mead, Kay Michalak, J. Maizlish Mole, Sugár Meliton, Flowrian Pauly,  Hannes Niepold, Veronika Schumacher, Alexander Steffens, Annette Stemmann, Zoe Thorne, Silke Thoss, Bob Tooke, Heike Walter, Barbara Wagner, Daniela Weber, Sabine Wewer, Ming Wong und weitere

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