Crystal Ball Berlin – Page 10 – Gegenwartskunst und Performance

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 and perhaps possibly Found, Kirsty Kross, Performance, Installation

Lost and perhaps possibly Found, Kirsty Kross, Performance, Installation

Magnús Pálsson – Clutch Disc

Vernissage on Fri. 7. September 2012 at 8 p.m.
Tue. – Sat. 8 p.m. until 10 p.m.

Magnús Pálsson is regarded as an master of intermedia art. In the early 80ths he was one of the first icelandic artists making connections to theatre, radio play and film. Together with Dieter Roth, Magnús Pálsson founded The Living Art Museum in Reykjavík. Inspired by the Fluxus art movement, it offered an alternative to the classic art museum. Magnús Pálsson exhibited at Documenta VI in Kassel in 1977, and represented Iceland at the Venice Biennale in 1980. His art is an art of the invisible; which occupies the imperceptible interstices between objects. His sculptures give form to the empty spaces using plasticized molds. His performances and installations opens up and enrich the meanings of human existence.The video “Clutch Disc” was made in 1998. The text coming from it is about melancholy in very ordinary life but really for anyone to understand in their own way. The recording was done on a blue background with Mágnus Pálsson sitting on a blue box. At the time this work told him something about the importance or unimportance of scale. The title has nothing to do with the video. It is more about the nature of titles. Sometimes they are descriptive of the work, sometimes symbolic. Here it is totally unrelated to the theme of the work – but still known by its silly aspect which is what Mágnus Pálsson wanted. A clutch disc is a part of a car engine and has to do with the changing of gears.Basic for the video is a series of little hand cut silver chairs. In the exhibition we´ll see one original chair from the series and the video projected in the gallery space. We are very happy to present this work of Mágnus Pálsson in a two week feature.

Manfred Kirschner – The Artist Formerly Known As The Artist

Installation/ Performance/ Painting
Opening of the exhibition on Friday, 29. June at 8 p.m. until 13.07.2012
at the Wedding International Palace of Culture

Henrik Jacob – Bjuti

Exhibition opening on Fr. 25. May 2012 at 8 p.m.
25.05.2012 – 03.08.2012
In concert: Hazi Bros.

BJUTI is the imitation BEAUTY. Like a new coffee pot, raw glued together from the shards of the old. And that sounds different. Because you make music with coffee pots these days.

http://youtu.be/hMpydA6eHtI

Bjuti, Henrik Jacob

You can see:

Current kneading images and other pictorial objects: Yetis, African Sculptures, Bodymen, Closed Clubs, the Hairy Tales, collages and drawings as well as kneading records played with conventional turntables.

The basis of the work of Henrik Jacobs is an exuberant fund, a random noise of post-modern images. After being motivated by complexity and philosophical research, Jacob’s installations show off his artistic skills with a comedic-analytical strategy, a humorous combinatorial technique of the mass and its consensual images with the private, the materials and working methods of the hobby that can merge with those of the museum-like. A very simple worked out multimedia aesthetic.
In his modeling pictures that have been shown in London (black and white clay), the artist uses a rather non artistic, living material, which helps in conveying a very aesthetic and realistic result, discarding the notion and the desires of an eternal and monumental work of art.

The variability, the moldable, is that life is itself the materiality of art. Just as in frozen states of aggregation, this completed art, shows its return to transformation again. In the impressionist paintings, its kneaded information (image pixels) is translated by the artist in a sculptural, three-dimensional experiential reality. He presents the subject as an elastic-solidified whole with personal fingerprints. Object and image are intertwined things about its physicality. The classic gestures of his own body are therefore also an equal material, as is a blurred picture of a Yeti in the snow storm or the tattooed body of “Colourful” – the artist’s corner neighbour who is also, a bodybuilder.
Henrik Jacobs’ method of insulation, installation and collage has different levels of meaning and therefore frees the content. In previous shows, a feng shui master was consulted or advice has been given through reading from coffee leftovers. For this show in Crystal Ball Gallery, the artist presents a new series, which is on the verge of achieving the “perfect image”. The “Hairy Tales” are a series of portrait landscapes: Behind a wood painted portrait with a hole-for-a-head, Jacob has assembled landscape images that automatically take (as in head-through mock-ups) the functions of a face. That view demonstrates our archetypes: clouds build eyes, groups of trees form nostrils and dimples, all visions of an imaginary face. Our view and thoughts demonstrate through the pictures that we remain always in search of the reliable and real, but in the end it’s our own heads that are being put through these holes by Henric Jacob . Bravo!

Henrik Jacob The Colorful Kneading Picture Gallery Crystal Ball Berlin — Bjuti, Henrik Jakob

Henrik Jacob Bjuti Gallery Crystal Ball Berlin — Bjuti, Henrik Jakob

Annette Stemmann – Jobcenter

In the summer of 2012, the artist Annette Stemmann created a new wallpaper for the exhibition “Endstation Künstler” in the “Ostfriesland” (Studio by Elke Graalfs), which we would like to present here. The artist brings a closely taboo topic of the cultural enterprise into a public context and at the same time amusingly visualizes the symptoms of a faulty and human “managing” apparatus, the ALG2. (To enlarge the details please click on the wallpaper )

Jobcenter Tapete, Annette Stemmann, Berlin 2012

Komoteereeo – The Greek Hair cut

Opening on Fri. 27. April 2012 at 8 p.m.
with Greek delicacies and hair performances
27.04.2012 to 6.05 2012.
Exhibition and hair salon open daily from 3 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Akis Akila Komoteereeo Hair Salon Gallery Crystal Ball — Akis Akila Komoteereeo Hair Salon

Komoteereeo Hair Salon : Katia – Hair by Akis Akila
Komoteereeo – The Greek Haircut

The gallery transformes into a hair-dressing salon. Young, talented Greek hair-dresser Akis Akila will be showing off
his skills on cutting and styling your hair, while you can enjoy a hair-themed exhibition illustrating the financial
crisis. At the same time, you´ll be able to taste traditional greek delicacies.

Participating artists:

Nina Byttebier, Marion Bösen, Die Tödliche Doris, Elke Graalfs, Henrik Jacob, Juwelia, Manfred Kirschner, Frank Schoppmeier, Rania Aravidou , Sabine Wewer, Silky,Veronika Schumacher and Tzortzis Tatavlalis .

Komoteereeo – Galerie Crystal Ball, 4/2012, Berlin

Akis Akila doing Nikkis Hair at Komoteereeo - Galerie Crystal Ball Berlin — Komoteereeo – Galerie Crystal Ball, 4/2012, Berlin

Rolf Thiele – In der Kunst sein

A lecture in two parts, in two places, on two evenings

Rolf Thiele: “Being in art” Contemplates a Feeling
No Theory, but Speaking and Showing as Artistic Practice

Academy Galan Rolf Thiele — Galan Academy

Part
1.” Being in art, impersonal. The indifference.” Art
can only be taught, explained by speaking in art, and not by talking about art. (RT) Mr President, I would like to thank

on Saturday the 21st April 2012 at 8 p.m. at Kulturalast Wedding International in Berlin/Wedding

Part 2
.” Being in art, personally conceived. Responsibility.” In
art you can only do what you can’t. (RT) Mr President, I would like to thank

on Sunday 22 April 2012 at 8 p.m. at Galerie Crystal Ball in Berlin/KreuzbergIn both p
arts of the lecture, pictures from the art project Akademie Galan in southwest France will be shown.

Rolf Thiele

Art Professor at the University of arts Bremen. Lives and works for 15 years in France in the art project Akademie Galan

Michaele Howler – Nylon Superstructure

Opening of the exhibition on Fri. 9. March 2012 at 8 p.m.
to Thu. 5. April 2012

The artist Michaele Brüll works with nylon stockings. She mainly uses the top part of the stretchable pants to create images, objects and installations. She can always draw inspiration from an always renewable fashion of various colours, shapes and textures. The results have a versatile aesthetic. Each image, as well as compiled objects and canvases, that she covered with nylon approach a sensitive picturesque position as well as an abstract conceptual progression. In her exhibition in the Crystal Ball gallery Michaele takes on a structuralistic approach, which maintains throughout a sequence of repeated forms a wonderfully ironic architectural character. Stocking after stocking, a rhythmic fabric finds itself by citation in a great shape construction. The artist laces and copies them in such way using the arcs that are formed so as to create an bridge inside the gallery. This opens up a variety of interpretations and associations, which derive from the installation´s narrative form, between the corporeal and a cinematic urban ambience. The setting will be specially illuminated during the night, making it visible from the gallery´s window. The space is accessible at our opening times and features further works by the artist as well.

Michaele Howler Nylon Superstructure Gallery Crystal Ball Berlin — Nylon Superstructure, Michaele Howler

Michaele Bruell Nylon Superstructure Gallery Crystal Ball Berlin — Nylon Superstructure, Michaele Howler

Florian Pauly – Neuro und die Erleuchtungsdroschke / Filmabend

Film evening on Fri. 2. March at 7 p.m.

Florian Pauly If I turn 30, then! Gallery Crystal Ball Berlin — If I turn thirty, then!, Flowrian Pauly

In rememberance of the 2011 deceased artist and friend Florian Pauly, alias Flowrian we show a documentation video of his 2008 correspondent performance realized at the gallery Crystal Ball. The next day there will be an opening of a retrospective exhibition of Florian´s work at the gallery R 31 at Reuterstraße in Berlin – Neukölln (Sat. 3rd of March, 7 p.m.)

Crystal Ball – Lagerverkauf

Until the beginning of March 2012, the gallery will be showing a wide range of works, works and multiples of its artists from their collections and the Bouique at discounted prices! Be sure to watch!
7.2.2012 to 1.3.2012