Galerie Crystal Ball

Category: Exhibitions

Kathi Kaeppel/ Jim Avignon – binary hulahoop

Opening of the exhibition on Wednesday, 30. April, 12 noon – 24 o’clock
Open: 1.5. – 4.5.2014, 12 – 20 o’clock; Pictoplasma and from 5.5. – 16.5.2014, Tue., Thu., Fri.: 2 – 7 p.m.
The presentation takes part in the Festival Pictoplasma    

binary hulahoop Gallery Crystal Ball

Berlin-based artists team up to show their very different work in kinetic installations. Kathi Kaeppel combines graphical forms familiar to the eye in a rhythmic counterpart to Jim Avignon’s more painterly works.  In Kathi Kaeppels work grafical basic forms conclude in innumerous combinations and harmonic colours. Every image is the result of a joyful play. The way to let the works move seems very logic.  Jim Avignons Oeuvre abound with productivity and a specific mutinous charm. The characters and sujets have an unadapted inspirational style, that is also independantly found in the performance works and projects of Jim Avignon.
The outcome, binary hula hoop, invites you on a lucid and lively journey through a world filled with colour and creatures en miniature. The Exhibition takes part in the yearly Festival Pictoplasma.

Binary Hulahoop, Jim Avignon, Galerie Crystal Ball Berlin2014
Binary Hulahoop, Jim Avignon, 2014
Kathi Kaeppel Biddy with Bowler, Galerie Crystal Ball Berlin
Kathi Kaeppel, Biddy with Bowler, 2014
left: Binary Hulahoop, Jim Avignon, 2014
right: Kathi Kaeppel, Biddy with Bowler, 2014

Heavy Rotation, Volume 1

Opening on Sun. 16. March from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m. in the reception of Pension Berlin and Galerie Crystal Ball

The End Part One Sabine Wewer Manfred Kirschner
The End Part One – Sabine Wewer in The End #1, Baden 2014

With Heavy Rotation, Volume 1, Galerie Crystal Ball and Pension Berlin in Schönleinstraße are showing an installation video exhibition together. The format projects films and video works that have been shown either new, non-present, or rarely. In the first issue we show works by:

with: Sarah Björnsdéttir – Bonne Maman – Jesse Dell – Marco Goldenstein – Ronald Gonko – Elke Graalfs – Marcus Gryscok and Dirk Markham – Content & Sinn – Boris Jöns and Thorsten Schwarz – Manfred Kirschner – Kirsty Kross – Frank Schoppmeier – Juwelia St. St. – Sabine Wewer

Frank Schoppmeier
Farewell to yesterday, Frank Schoppmeier, photo

Die Sammlung

Vernissage with performance on Fri. 3. January 2013 at 8 p.m.

The Collection, Galerie Crystal Ball Berlin

From 3rd of january until 14th of march we present our collection. This includes diverse works of videos, prints, multiples and paintings from artists like Ioana Alexe, Jim Avignon, Francoise Cactus, Henrik Jacob, Juwelia St. St., Kirsty Kross, Stu Mead, Verena Müller, Veronika Schumacher and more. You get entrance by a direct apply at our door. Please note our contact details for it.

We look forward to your visit !

Kirsty Kross, Performance

T.I.C. / Tourist Information Center

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

Attention- Leave West Berlin now, Jesusboutique,

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.

  • Original fragment Berlin Wall Gallery crystal Ball Berlin
  • TIC Galerie Crystal Ball Berlin

Monstergirls

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

Francoise_Cactus_Acid_Girls Gallery Crystal Ball Berlin
Acid_Girls, Francoise Cactus

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.

  • Stu Mead How Is Sargy Now? Gallery Crystal Ball Berlin
  • Veronika Schumacher, Life is a Short Dream, Galerie Crystal Ball Berlin
left: Who Is Sargy Now?, StuStu Mead
right: Life is a short dream, Veronika Schumacher

Silke Thoss – The Return Of Moby Dick

Vernissage on Friday 16 August 2013 at 8 pm
Finissage on 14 September 2013 at 8 pm with Silky and the Thossers

Hermann Melville Silke Thoss Galerie Crystal Ball Berlin
Hermann Melville, Silke Thoss, 50 x 30 cm, Acryl/ Holz, 2013

In „The Return of Moby Dick“ Silke Thoss gives the spectator an insight to her free world and variety of ideas. Inspired by the famous novel by Hermann Melville, the artist develops in her pointedly humorous paintings, an ironical, freaked out series of pictures, which also refers to the art production and its conditions with much esprit. The show is completed by objects, a painted product series of consumer items that look like from a parallel world. For example: Joke Soap is presented in the shop window which, after use, makes you laugh about everything. Just like in our complex designed consumer society, there is a big assortment of „mind-expanding“ cremes and soaps of the brand Silky, that work just contrary through its visual presence.

  • Silke Thoss The return of moby dick Galerie Crystal Ball Berlin
  • Joke Soap Silke Thoss Galerie Crystal Ball
links: The Return Of Moby Dick, Silke Thoss, 70 x 90 cm, Acrylic/ Wood, 2012
rechts: Joke Soap, Silke Thoss

At the finissage on friday, september the 14th, Silky and the Tossers will perform in the exhibition, wich is also „Die lange Nacht der Bilder“ at Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg.

Manfred Kirschner – Art Resistance Academy Award

Exhibition opening on Fri. 21. June at 7 p.m.,
Performance: Mireille & Matthieu

Please continue Manfred Kirschner Gallery Crystal Ball Berlin
Please go on!, Manfred Kirschner, 120 x 100 cm, oil/ glitter on canvas, 2013

For the first time and unique, the internalionally noted ARAA Art Price was given this spring  to the artist Manfred Kirschner. Crystal Ball gallery is very fortunate to be able to show the award winning works exclusively in an exhibition in Berlin. At the opening the artist duo Mireille & Matthieu debuts with a musical performance. The works are presented until mid of July. The exhibition will have a preview whose date will be communicated through inquiring at the gallery.

Art is Shit Manfred Kirschner Gallery Crystal Ball Berlin
Art is shit, Manfred Kirschner, 110 x 180 cm, acrylic/ glitter on canvas, 2013

Beau Rivage – Künstlerblumenladen

Opening on Fri. 26th. April at 5 p.m.
Fr. 26.4.2013, 5 – 11 p.m., Sat. April 27, 2013, 3 -8 pm, Sun. April 28, 2013, 3 – 8 p.m.

Beau Rivage - Artist's Flower Shop, Frank Schoppmeier
Beau Rivage – Artist Flower Shop, Frank Schoppmeier, Installation

Manfred Kirschner, creative director of Crystal Ball Gallery, is transforming the gallery space into a flower shop with “Artist – Flowers”, on the 26th of April 2013 (gallery weekend). The flower shop  concept is especially addressed to art lovers, gallery owners and art educators, inviting them to explore these  self-centered floral excesses of the art world of the city. Kirschner’s “Beau Rivage” flower shop offers decorative plants and houseplants, with regional and international artists lending their names to each and every one of them. With the motto “Everything has to go!”, Kirschner is offering a cynical and detailed  inside view on how to care for the palm tree “Wehmüller”, the cyclamen  “E-Graal”, the cactus “GMS” and many other artist-plants. The reason why the Beau Rivage flower shop openins with what could be described as a yard-sale, is, according to Kirschner “… just the nature of things. Development and decay are also art motifs of this yard sale, as shown by the often nerve wrecking Egomania of the concept’s protagonists. “

  • Beau Rivage Artist Flower Shop Gallery Crystal Ball Berlin
  • beau rivage flower shop Gallery Crystal Ball Berlin
Beau Rivage – Artist’s Flower Shop

jesusboutique – Wenn wir tot sind

Opening on Thursday, 22 November at 3 pm
22.11.2012 – 10.1.2013

Jesus boutique

With their Christmas Show: “When we are dead” the artist collective “Jesusboutique” are creating an arbitrary presentation, ironically focused on new nerve-racking tendencies in art context. Jesusboutique will work as always on things they just want to do and the connected expactations with. There has been speculation that their first record will be published at the end of the show, January next year. We are most certainly excited for what they are going to hammer this time at Crystal Ball because that is said here could be different. In order of the concept the showing does not have regulary opening times – so give the gallery a call before or a knock on the door.

  • Jesusboutique-When We Are Dead Gallery Crystal Ball Berlin
  • Jesusboutique When We Are Dead Gallery Crystal Ball Berlin
When we are dead, Jesuboutique, exhibition opening M
anfred Kirschner/ Ole Wulfers in the installation

Kirsty Kross – Lost and maybe even possibly Found, featuring the performance "We are so happy, really, really happy. We are so happy, yes, yes"

A conversation on German with the accent of the bourgeoisie of Sydney to the melody of Kylie Minogue.
Opening: 19.10.2012, 8 p.m. – Finissage & Performance: 16.11 2012, 8 p.m.

Kirsty Kross Lost and possibly possibly Found Gallery Crystal Ball Berlin
Lost and perhaps possibly Found, Kirsty Kross, Performance

Kirsty Kross about her installation and performance: “I analyze and compare a series of objects from my childhood focusing mostly on my bedspread from the age of 2 to 20 years old, with the bedspread I desperately wanted at the age of 12. The bedspread from my childhood was by the Finnish design brand, Marimekko. The bedspread I desperately wanted was by the Australian designer Ken Done, who my parents hated. I will also analyze other objects from my childhood. This sounds highly self indulgent, but I actually want to explore memories associated with growing up in Australia that reflect beliefs of cultural insecurity and inferiority in relationship to Europe, the complex relationship of many European Australians to the landscape and indigenous Australians and the anxiety many Australians feel in trying to construct a sense of authenticity. In doing so, “Lost and perhaps even possibly Found” explores the varied and changeable meaning of objects and how objects reflect, but also construct identity.”

Biography: Born in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, and based in Berlin since 2004. Kirsty Kross performed for ten years with the art and music group, Team Plastique. The band experimented with the relationship between the Performer and the Audience. Now Kirsty Kross explores similar contexts in relation to her artwork. Her work deals with History, Post-Colonialism, Myth, Feminism and Autobiography as well as the Human Condition.

  • Kirsty Kross Gallery Crystal Ball Berlin
  • Lost Kirsty Kross Gallery Crystal Ball Berlin
Lost and perhaps possibly Found, Kirsty Kross, Performance, Installation
Crystal Ball Berlin