Crystal Ball Berlin – Page 8 – Gegenwartskunst und Performance

Salon Weirauch

In April 2016, Salon Weirauch will be a guest at Crystal Ball. The salon provides artistic and playful support for our future. Participating artists are Elke Graalfs, Frank Schoppmeier, Veronika Schumacher, Silke Thoss and others.

Analog Cut – Record Release Performance

Mireille & Matthieu Analog Cut Performance

For this happening the artsong Duo Mireille & Matthieu are heading the evening with the release of their first live recorded 7 inch. Marco Pellegrino (Rome) from Analogcut Records is recording and directly cutting a record from the live set. Other bands and artists joining the happening and will play and record live and the audience will be able to get a copy of a unique designed vinyl single of their favourite artist or even directly contribute to a record.

Analog Cut Performances Gallery Crystal Ball

jesusboutique – The Collection

The collection, Performance on 10. January 2015 at 7 p.m.

The collection Jesusboutique Galerie Crystal Ball Berlin Manfred Kirschner — Frank Schoppmeier, Manfred Kirschner, Collection

The Collection, Jesusboutique, Berlin, January 2015

On the 10th. On January 1, Jesusboutique presents a fashion performance for visual arts at the Crystal Ball.

Die unterirdische Galerie – Sieben Jahre Crystal Ball

Seven Years of Crystal Ball – Artists of the Galleries – in the underground gallery

Opening of the exhibition on Friday, 17. October at 8 p.m., performances by Lydia Karstadt, Matthias Wyder

Program

Fridays from 7 p.m. to midnight: silverdiscotheque Performance Programming & Food
Fri.24.10. Shellak Discotheque with Pretzel Göring and Francoise Cactus, Mireille & Matthieu: public rehearsal for P.I.B.
Fri.31.10. Trio Surprise, Performance and Potato Soup
Fri. 7. 11. -fails – (rail strike)
Fri. 14.11. Patricia Lippert: The Eternal Return of the Carrot, Lecture and Artist Talk, Underground Performance/ Lydia Karstadt
Fri. 21.11. Senor Depressivo, the November & DJ Catastrophé & edible poems by M. Kirschner
Sat. 10.1.2015 Jesusboutique/ future art fashion performance

Taking its title from the science fiction novel of the same name, Crystal Ball presents in october, “the subterranean gallery.” For its seventh anniversary, Manfred Kirschner, visual artist and gallery director of Crystal Ball has curated a futuristic salon. Bringing together artists from Berlin, Bremen, Basel and Sao Paulo. The exhibition is focused on the future of art and its production. As in Science Fiction, Crystal Ball speculates on the future forms of artistic creation through actual tendencies. The participating artists are invited to propose a vision through text, pictures and objects of a work of art, or its future conditions of production. The gallery space will be transformed into a silver futuristic salon wich only opens on friday, becomes the Silver Discotheque, hosting events, readings, performances and artist talks.Silver Discotheque; events, readings, performances and artist talks.

With Ioana Alexe, Jim Avignon, Francoise Cactus, Stefan Demming, Brezel Göring, Stephanie Hanna, Mareike Hube, Henrik Jacob, Lydia Karstadt, Karen Koltermann, Werner Kuhrmann, Jonathan Kroll, Patricia Lippert, Isolde Loock, Martin Löhr, Matthias Mayer, Stu Mead, Claudia Medeiros, Martin Mindermann, Pataphysisches Institut Basel, Veronika Schumacher, Frank Schoppmeier, Annette Stemmann, Zoe Thorne, Silke

right: Brezel Göring’s Shellack Discotheque in the underground gallery
below: Creation 4, Manfred Kirschner

Pretzel Görings Shellack Discotheque Galerie Crystal Ball Berlin — right: Brezel Göring’s Shellack Discotheque in the underground gallery
below: Creation 4, Manfred Kirschner

Anna Müllers Faden

Installation and performance, curated by Monika Müller Kroll & Manfred Kirschner
Opening with performance on Fr. 19 September at 7 p.m.
until 11.10.2014 Finissage with performance at at 7 p.m.

The exhibition is dedicated to the work and the craft of Anna Müller. Long before terms like “up-cycling” came into use, Anna Müller was working with discarded “superfluous” thread material from a textile factory, weaving it together to crochet various mysterious objects. Monika Müller Kroll, the granddaughter of Anna Müller, wants to present and preserve the wealth of her work. Work, which also shows a fundamental post-war attitude, in which the appreciation, use, and recycling of materials is very evident. This consistency of thought puts into perspective the claims and attitudes of today’s eco-trends. The exhibition, presented in the form of an audio-visual installation, focuses on pieces created between 1980 and 2000. Anna Müller was born in 1910 in rural Franconia, where she lived all her life, near the Lucas-Cranach-Stadt, Kronach. She died in 2006. Her legacy, hundreds of crochet rugs and blankets, stored away for many years compelled Monika Müller-Kroll to pick up Anna Müller’s thread, creating several exemplary new pieces from the work she has left behind. And while Anna Müller might be surprised what her granddaughter has done with her craft, she would be happy to know that her work is appreciated, seen and used.

Anna Müllers Faden Galerie Crystal Ball Berlin — Anna Müllers Faden

Barbara Wagner – Weiß Ich

Painting/ Installation
Opening on Fr. 1 August, 7 – 11 p.m. until Fr. 29 August 2014

Weiß Ich Barbara Wagner Galerie Crystal Ball Berlin — Weiß Ich, Barbara Wagner

Barbara Wagners exhibition concept combines a series of paintings and collages effectively incorporating the complete gallery space. The different meanings of the title “weiß ich” points out the relation between the subject, the ego to the colouring of the object world. Therefore the artist will neutralize the colours of the room and work with the white of the walls, the ceiling and the floor wich she will cover. The space itself will be a medium for sensitive put gestures, materials and coloureffects of her paintings, as to support a calm perception of the viewers. So the two main sides of the oeuvre, conceptual and intuitive strategies of Barbara Wagners peculiar work are present in her installation.

Ausstellungsansicht/Detail, Barbara Wagner, Ausstellungseröffnung

Pataphysisches Institut Basel – UMO

Pataphysical Studies of 15 July 2014
Umossage on Fr. 25 July at 7 p.m.

Pataphysisches Institut Basel Galerie Crystal Ball — UMO Grußkarte, Pataphysisches Institut Basel

In the middle of Juli the 2013 founded Pataphysic Institute Basel is visiting Berlin and stops by at Crystal Ball gallery. For the tour via Schweden the institute uses its Ubomobile, short UMO, a mobile antiinstitutional social labratory base and vehikel. Pataphysic includes absurd settings, solutions for imaginary problems and actions that can´t be described or foreseen. Vistors of Umo and the Patphysic Institue are invited and very welcome to take part in the process. The Institute will open the doors from the 15th of Juli and show its results of the UMO Tour Stop Berlin on friday the 25th of Juli. For making contact please use the following UMO phone number: +49 152 3852 7186

UMO in Berlin Galerie Crystal Ball Berlin — UMO on Tour

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Ersatzcafé Unst – Unst Künstlergruppe

Ersatzcafé Unst – We are the decoration for your life !
Opening on Sat. 1. June 2014 at 3 p.m.

At the same time as three new cafés open in Schönleinstraße, we are opening another café. The 51st in the Gräfekiez. Yeah!

Under the motto: “Whatever you want”, the replacement café Unst offers delicious freeze-dried coffee and wonderful confectionary simplicity and is clearly avant-garde because art will get the boot!

While the global power consumption is increasing gigantically (55 million new individualistic photos every day at instagram! ) and huge storage cities are being created for this, we are only running one kettle. Photography and phone calls are prohibited! Not on facebook, twitter, instagram & Co!tagram & Co!

Many artists from the neighborhood are working on it: It is the decoration of your life! Come in and get out!

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

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 — Binary Hulahoop, Jim Avignon, 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