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In the Studio: Collectors Agenda

Voices of Contemporary Art and Culture
Interview with Sophia Pompéry

"Sophia Pompéry is an observer. In quiet concentration she draws poetic truths from the seemingly mundane. Her conceptual art works utilize everyday things and their underlying physics, inviting us to examine and get to know these presumed already known articles anew. In greeting us at her Berlin studio Sophia ignited a candle, suspended from the ceiling, with a wick at each end. Burning from each end towards the center, the double-candle sets the duration of our conversation, similarly to an hourglass. ..."

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In the Studio - Sophia Pompéry

FACULTY

See Up - Zentrum für Absolvent*Innen
der Weissensee Kunsthochschule Berlin From this semester on Sophia Pompéry develop See Up - Zentrum für Absolvent*Innen the Professional Practice Program at Weissensee Kunsthochschule Berlin. See Up is open to all alumni and is designed to offer skills and knowledge for the work in the years after graduation. The program offers a range of workshops and discussions about how to launch a career, including introductions to management skills, seminars related to build up a network, applying for residencies, aswell as personal coachings. And while we offer a set of fixed sessions with professionals and experts scheduled throughout the year, the program also responds to current alumni need with pop-up sessions when an interest arises.

100 Künstler und einer / Ein Künstler-ABC der Nachkriegsmoderne


Dirk Schwarze, B&S Siebenhaar-Verlag, Berlin, 2016, 224 S.
ISBN-10: 3943132412
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Marina Abramovic und Ulay • Ai Weiwei • Gerhard Altenbourg • Carl Andre • Richard Artschwager • Elvira Bach • Francis Bacon • Stephan Balkenhol • Georg Baselitz • Thomas Bayrle • Bernd und Hilla Becher • Barbara Beisinghoff • Joseph Beuys • Claudia Blume • Manfred Bluth • Alighiero Boetti • Marcel Broodthaers • James Lee Byars • Sophie Calle • Christo und Jeanne-Claude • Albert Cüppers • Salvador Dalí • Mo Edoga • Maria Eichhorn • Rolf Escher • Guillermo Faivovich und Nicolas Goldberg • Lutz Freyer • Dieter Froelich • Bert Gerresheim • Gabriele Grosse • Johannes Grützke • Mehmet Güler • Hans Haacke • Richard Hamilton • Mona Hatoum • Eva Hesse • Horst Hoheisel • Jenny Holzer • Jörg Immendorff • Horst Janssen • Ilya Kabakov • Gülsün Karamustafa • Kazuo Katase • Tadashi Kawamata • William Kentridge • Edward Kienholz • Per Kirkeby • Konrad Klapheck • Joseph Kosuth • Harry Kramer • Wolfgang Laib • Roy Lichtenstein • Urs Lüthi • Björn Melhus • Mario Merz • Pitt Moog • Bruce Nauman • Shirin Neshat • Floris Neusüss • Ansgar Nierhoff • Claes Oldenburg • Tony Oursler • Nam June Paik • A.R. Penck • Giuseppe Penone • Frauke Petersen • Michelangelo Pistoletto • Sigmar Polke • Sophia Pompéry • Norbert Radermacher • Robert Rauschenberg • Christine Reinckens • Gerhard Richter • Ulrike Rosenbach • Johann Rosenboom • Reiner Ruthenbeck • Niki de Saint Phalle • Ali Schindehütte • Rob Scholte • HA Schult • Thomas Schütte • Fritz Schwegler • Richard Serra • Paul Sharits • Willi Sitte • Daniel Spoerri • Klaus Staeck • Norbert Tadeusz • Maarten Thiel • Werner Tübke • Luc Tuymans • Cy Twombly • Günther Uecker • Timm Ulrichs • Emilio Vedova • Wolf Vostell • Jeff Wall • Andy Warhol • Franz West • Penny Yassour • Thomas Zipp


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Kühlhaus, Berlin

Bottom Up

22.April - 28.April, Daily 16-20h

Axel Anklam, Cornelia Baltes, John Bock, Fritz Bornstück, Anina Brisolla, Jessica Buhlmann, Thomas Draschan, Sven Drühl, Nezaket Ekici, Anna Fasshauer, Wolfgang Flad, Heike Gallmeier, Jay Gard, Lena von Goedeke, Philip Grözinger, Gudny Gudmundsdottir, Thomas Henninger, Zora Jankovic, Stephan Kaluza, Franziska Klotz, Karsten Konrad, Susanne Kutter, Jeewi Lee, Sebastian Meschenmoser, Monika Michalko, Jan Muche, Frank Nitsche, Dorothea Nold, Manfred Peckl, Sophia Pompéry, Tanja Rochelmeyer, Sophia Schama, Christian Schwarzwald, Sinta Werner, Michael Wutz, Annett Zinsmeister

Nach dem großen Erfolg der Gruppenausstellung BOTTOM UP im Jahr 2018 bietet deren zweite Ausgabe erneut einen Überblick über das künstlerische Schaffen in Berlin. Durch den selbst-organisierten Zusammenschluss von Künstlerinnen und Künstlern fand eine Gruppe zusammen, die geschätzte Kolleginnen und Kollegen eingeladen hat, das Kühlhaus Berlin gemeinsam für die Dauer einer Woche auf drei Stockwerken virtuos zu bespielen. Die Auswahl wurde nicht durch eine Einzelperson oder Institution getroffen und weder thematisch oder medial eingeschränkt noch durch Altersvorgaben oder Ähnliches begrenzt; was die beteiligten Künstlerinnen und Künstler verbindet, ist die Stadt Berlin als Bezugs-, Lebens- oder Arbeitsmittelpunkt. Der Ausstellungstitel BOTTOM UP ist angelehnt an die gleichnamige Methode aus der Soziologie. Diese bezeichnet als Gegensatz zu TOP DOWN den Vorgang der Selbstorganisation in sozialen Systemen „von unten nach oben“, bei dem von einem Zusammenschluss aus Einzelnem auf das große Ganze geschlossen wird — Induktion statt Deduktion. Zudem bedeutet es umgangssprach-lich so viel wie „den Arsch hochkriegen“, d.h. nicht in einer Post-Covid-Starre zu verharren, sondern die Dinge selbst anzupacken und in Bewegung zu bringen. Nach drei Jahren pandemiebedingter Einschränkungen will BOTTOM UP dazu Anstoß und Gelegenheit geben: 19 Künstlerinnen und 17 Künstler werden in den großzügigen zentralen Räumen des Kühlhauses in musealer Dimension zusammengebracht.

BOTTOM UP TOUCH DOWN!

www.bottomup.berlin
Arter, Istanbul

ThisPlay

27. February 2022 - 23. April 2023

Gökçen Dilek Atay, Nevin Aladağ, Volkan Aslan, Selim Birsel, Barbara Bloom, Rada Boukova, Luchezar Boyadjiev, Claus Böhmler, Handan Börüteçene, George Brecht, Fatma Bucak, Jacob Dahlgren, Cevdet Erek, Ayşe Erkmen, Ceal Floyer, Hreinn Friðfinnsson, İnci Furni, Leylâ Gediz, Şakir Gökçebağ, Asta Gröting, Carla Guagliardi, Kristján Guðmundsson, Deniz Gül, Nilbar Güreş, Karl Horst Hördicke, Jytte Høy, Peter Hutchinson, IRWIN (Miran Mohar), Pravdoliub Ivanov, Rolf Julius, Žilvinas Kempinas, Gunilla Klingberg, dolt Kovač, George Maciunas, Jonathan Monk, Sirous Namazi, Navid Nuur, Füsun Onur, Erkan Özgen, Serkan Özkaya, Ebro Özseçen, Michal Pěchouček, Goran Petercol, Sophia Pompéry, Anni Rapinoja, Dieter Roth, Sai (Chen Sai Hua Kuan), Karin Sander, Erinç Seymen, Hassan Sharif, Stuart Sherman, Viktor Takáč, Cengiz Tekin, Andrea Tippel, Kata Tranker, Gabriela Vanga ,Mariana Vassileva, Stefan Wewerka, Maaria Wirkkala

Drawn from the Arter Collection, the group exhibition ThisPlay revolves around the concepts of childhood and play. The exhibition aims to explore the liberating aspect of play, its defiant capacity to suspend and reconstruct reality, and the ways it transcends the humdrum of daily life to create unique systems and structures of meaning of its own, within the context of artworks, and the experiences they offer. Approaching art both as a maker and breaker of play through concepts such as competition, tension, chance, imitation, ritual, magic, trance, and pleasure, ThisPlay opens up space for both adults and children to indulge in a play where there is no winner, or everyone wins.

Throughout the exhibition, the journey of play and related concepts, starting with their inception in the imagination of the artists until their manifestation in the form of a completed artwork, is accompanied by different ways of thinking, interpretation, and alternative production processes.

Changing the rules of the game with their unusual forms and sizes, unexpected encounters and surprising ways of forming relationships, some of the works featured in the exhibition convey the idea of play itself and its tools to the context of art, and act as intermediaries for new meanings, propositions, and questions. Other works that are presented in ThisPlay highlight the methods, attitudes and approaches of the design and production processes of art by putting forth its similarities with the nature of play that defies the daily flow of life and welcomes chance, ambiguity and chaos while creating its own language and order.

Taking place in Arter’s first and second floor galleries, the exhibition also interprets, through playful interventions, the architecture of the spaces occupied by the artworks. By attempting to open a door that swings both ways, ThisPlay aspires to bridge the worlds, oscillating between reality and fantasy, of a child who takes dreaming seriously and a grown-up who never gives up playing.

www.arter.org.tr