Crystal Ball Berlin – Page 9 – Gegenwartskunst und Performance

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 !

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

Manfred Kirschner – Plastik Revue

Plastic Revue, opening on Sun. 26th. January at 6 p.m.
Galerie M, Marzahner Promenade 46, 12679 Berlin

Plastic Revue Manfred Kirschner — Plastik Revue, Manfred Kirschner, Installation

The work of Manfred Kirschner is characterized by its conscious diversity. Often the expectations and the relationship of the artist to the audience, the subject of the works in the fields of drawing, video, painting and performance. Since 2009, M.K. a new emphasis on painting, in which, in addition to colours and glitter, collage, quotations and language are used laconically and arrogantly. Many of the paintings have painted eyes and their titles are looking for the “conversation”. It is always about the anerite and the moment of the viewer’s reception. In the presentation for Gallery M, Kirschner refers to the local shopping center “Eastgate”. In a world increasingly full of plastic, his installation humorously asks about our needs, our future lives, and puts painting and video in context with a spatial installation of various plastic bags from around the world that cover the gallery’s walls like a color-intensive collage. At the opening, Kirschner will also present a performance on the topic of shopping: The Miracle Of Shopping. At the finissage at the end of March, the title-giving “Plastik Revue” will start, with performances and musical performances by fellow artists by Manfred Kirschner.

Monstergirl kidnapped!

26.10.2013

MONSTERGIRL KIDNAPPED!
Francoise’s Monstergirl has been stolen by an unkown person at the closing party of Françoise Cactus’, Jule K.’s, Stu Mead’s and Veronika Schumacher’s group art show at Gallery Crystal Ball. Who has seen her since then? Please contact us here on facebook: https://de-de.facebook.com/StereoTotal or at the gallery: Schönleinstrasse 7, 10967 Berlin. Telefon: 030 60052828

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 — left: Who Is Sargy Now?, StuStu Mead
right: Life is a short dream, Veronika Schumacher

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 — links: The Return Of Moby Dick, Silke Thoss, 70 x 90 cm, Acrylic/ Wood, 2012
rechts: Joke Soap, Silke Thoss

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 – Artist’s Flower Shop

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

Gehörlose Musik – DVD Release

Film screening 8.12. to 9.12.2012

A DVD has been released for the workshop “Deaf Music” which took place within the exhibition curated by An Paenhuysen and Wolfgang Müller: Sign Signs Art, in cooperation with change of heart and Action Mensch, which can be obtained free of charge in the Crystal Ball Gallery.

The film documents the workshop in the Art Space of Bethany, led by the artists Namosh and Daniel Berwanger in December 2012 with deaf and hearing children.

jesusboutique – Wenn wir tot sind

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

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.