WERY WOR! opening reception + group exhibition hosted by Exgirlfriend
May
20
to Jun 11

WERY WOR! opening reception + group exhibition hosted by Exgirlfriend

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WERY WOR!

Hosted by Exgirlfriend

Lankwitzerstrasse 14, 12107

May 21st - June 11th, 2023

www.exgirlfriendberlin.com

www.HERcontemporary.com


Opening Reception

Saturday, May 20th, 2023

17:00-22:00

HER & Exgirlfriend are pleased to present “WERY WOR!”, a group exhibition by a selection of artists working in the HER + BBK studio community.


Artists include:

Daniel Greenfeld

Margaux Compte-Mergier

Magdalena Paz 

Stefanie Loveday 

Saskia Reis 

Tonia Aurfali Lindner 

Liz Miller Kovacs 

Sara Herrlander

Ana Cantoni

Pavlos Ioannides

Paulina Radic 


WERY WOR!” will directly and indirectly address the precarity of the current social, political, and environmental global situation from a diverse set of vantage points. Established in 2019, the HER & BBK artist community at Lankwitzerstrasse has been a microcosm of the Berlin art scene, housing the studios of artists from a multitude of geographic and socio-political backgrounds, now co-existing on the outskirts of Berlin. While each practice represented in “WERY WOR!” is unique, the exhibition coalescences these individual practices into a cohesive, multi-dimensional representation of pressing contemporary topics. Each artist in “WERY WOR!” approaches a given issue utilizing various modes of research, production, and presentation. Approaches range from abstraction to corporeality, and draw from influences ranging from affect theory to theories of time and space. The exhibition will include painting, sculpture, installation, photo, and video. 



www.danielgreenfeld.com

www.margauxcompte-mergier.fr

www.magdalenapaz.com

www.stefanieloveday.com

www.saskiareis.com

www.miller-kovacs.art

www.anacantoni.com

www.pavlosioannides.com

www.saraherrlander.com

www.paulinaradic.com

www.aurfalindner.de

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Nice To See You 2022 - Open Studio & Block Party
Nov
26
to Nov 27

Nice To See You 2022 - Open Studio & Block Party

ANOTHER BIG PARTY

HER & Exgirlfriend presents…

*Nice To See You*

An Open Studio Block Party

Saturday, November 26th, 2022
From 2pm until 10pm
Afterparty until midnight

Join us for a self-guided tour of the HER & BBK studio buildings at Lankwitzerstrasse 14, 12107 as well as Exgirlfriend’s first small works and editions sale of the year. Over 40 artists will open their studios to the public while we celebrate another year together on the “block”. We will also have DJs, food, booze, and performances!

DJ lineup:
Super Bush 7pm-8pm
NIFTI 8pm-9pm
Alexander Holland 9pm-10pm
Jonny McTernan 10pm-11pm
Guest DJ 11pm-12am

Food:
Las Chilangas Mexican Streetfood
Jian Bing Town

Current Participating Artists include:

Margaux Compte-Mergier
Hannah Lansburgh
Bernadette Wolbring
Daniel Greenfeld
Roberta Maddalena
Liz Miller Kovacs
Ebb Bayley
Saskia Reis
Regina Schneider
Marina Ebert
Sara Herrlander
Elizabeth Glauser
Sebastian Abarbanell
Magdalena Paz
Davide Caldarini
Saša Tatić
Martina Mezak
Bozidar Katic
Stefanie Loveday
Claudia Reinhardt
Per Teljer
Meike Kuhnert
Michel Aniol,
Joshua Zielinski
Xiao Yu
Ana Cantoni
Euan Williams
Zora Kreuzer
Abdul Razzak Shaballout
Abdulkarim Majdal Albeik
Matthias Esch
Barbara Wrede
Susanne Bürner
Lucia Fischer
Britta Lehmann
Surya Gied
Federico Maddalozzo
Constantin Hartenstein
Martin Blake
Carrick Bell
Tobias Sternberg
Simon Blume
Laurent Pellissier
Anna Hentschel
Tiziana Krüger
Martyna Poznanska
Katy Cowan

and the list keeps growing!

Save the date and follow us for more information over the next weeks.

See you there
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www.exgirlfriendberlin.com
www.HERcontemporary.com
https://www.margauxcompte-mergier.fr/
hannahlansburgh.net
www.danielgreenfeld.com
www.robertamaddalena.com
www.ebb-bayley.com
www.saskiareis.com
http://saraherrlander.com/
elizabethglauser.com
https://www.instagram.com/sebastian.abarbanell/
www.magdalenapaz.com
www.sasatatic.weebly.com
www.bozidarkatic.net
www.stefanieloveday.com
www.meikekuhnert.com
http://michelaniol.com/
https://joshuazielinski.com/
www.anacantoni.com
euanwilliams.com
zorakreuzer.com
www.shaballout.cm
https://1306905.site123.me/
www.matthiasesch.me
www.olompia.de
https://xn--susannebrner-klb.de/
www.lucia-fischer.de
https://www.beelle.weebly.com
www.suryagied.com
www.federicomaddalozzo.com
www.constantinhartenstein.com
mjblake.com
carrickbell.com
www.tobiassternberg.com
laurentpellissier.com
anna-in-space.com // invisibleplayground.com
tizianakruger.com
martynapoznanska.com

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Rebounder– HER Open Studio event #2
Sep
13
5:00 PM17:00

Rebounder– HER Open Studio event #2

We are finally ready to bounce back after a summer of closed doors and solo work with our next HER & BBK joint open studio event :

Rebounder
HER Open Studio Party #2
joined by the BBK artists-in-studio
organized by Exgirlfriend

Sunday, September 13th
from 17 h - 22 h
HER & BBK studio building
Lankwitzerstrasse 14, 12107

The unofficial pre-after party for Berlin Art Week – A number of artists-in-studio between the HER & BBK buildings will open their studios to visitors for the first time since COVID rocked our collective worlds in a pretty bad way. Exgirlfriend also makes its grand return with an exhibition by Fiona Valentine Thomann in the main Exgirlfriend space. Please come show your support and also enjoy some food, music, performances, etc, in our shared COVID free hof! More details coming soon!

Veteran Exgirlfriend event One Night Stands is back with a
Pop up Print sale in our back room project space

Food by
Eatyourbohnen
https://www.instagram.com/eatyourbohnen/

Drinks by your good 'ole folks at Exgirlfriend

DJs, Performances, and much more

COVID guidelines are in place to ensure everyone's safety

Masks are REQUIRED inside the buildings.
social distancing guidelines will be enforced in the outdoor areas.
an RSVP is required to attend the event. This is for safety purposes.

More info coming soon.

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Behind Closed Doors – HER open studios+
Mar
6
to Mar 7

Behind Closed Doors – HER open studios+

HER warmly welcomes you to join us for our first edition of :

Behind Closed Doors – HER Open Studios+

HER is hosting a block party-style night with food, drinks, music, and performances from those involved in the HER and EXG community. Exgirlfriend, our resident gallery, will also be hosting their current exhibition "Valume", with works by Mark Walker, Alexander Norton, and Margrit Barner. Guests can visit the artists-in-studio as well as enjoy a rich program of additional events. Please check back here for more info on the artists, musicians, groups, and other exciting participant updates.

Where: HER & Exgirlfriend
Lankwitzerstrasse 14, 12107
When: Friday, March 6th 2020
Open from 5pm - 1am

Schedule:

*Exgirlfriend open hours:*
"Valume" featuring works by @alexlovesworking @margritbarner & @markwalkermark
5:00pm - 11:00pm

*Open Studios:*
artist studios will be open
from 5:00pm - 9:00pm
Performances and talks will take place in individual studios during this time. Schedule TBA.

*Literary Performances*
6:00- HER Artist (in-studio)
6:15-7:00- TBA
7:00-8:00- Panel discussion on “Debt,” the topic of their upcoming issue out in May, by the FU Review
Participants: Ruth Wishart, Marina Reza, Charles Wong
Moderated by: Kelsie Renehan
8:00-9:00- Kunstler/Kunstlerin performances
Performers: Alexander Norton

*Music:*
9:00-10:30- lolo noir
https://www.instagram.com/lolo____noir_/?hl=en

10:30-12:00- Rain Dog
http://www.pushedbutton.com/

12:00-1:00- lolsnake
https://soundcloud.com/lolsnake

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'Man Falls – Preparation for a Wake' Marius Presterud & Chaveli Sifre
Aug
30
to Aug 31

'Man Falls – Preparation for a Wake' Marius Presterud & Chaveli Sifre

Man Falls – Preparations for a Wake

Marius Presterud & Chaveli Sifre

Hosted by Lose Ties and HER

When:
Friday Aug 30th 18:00-22:00- Vernissage and Scent Conversation
Saturday Aug 31th 12:00-15:00- Counter-Transcendental Grounding Ceremony

Where:
HER Studios Lankwitzer Str. 14, 12107 Berlin

Artists:
Marius Presterud, Chaveli Sifre

We cordially invite you to the two part exposition of Man Falls - Preparations for a Wake, occurring as part of Lose Ties’ event and publication series, as hosted by HER Contemporary. The exposition will occur over the course of two days. Friday August 30th will feature a vernissage and scent conversation and Saturday August 31st a group counter-transcendental grounding ceremony will be conducted.

There is a saying among beekeepers, Una apis, nulla apis, translated One bee, no bees. Man Falls - Preparations for a Wake is a mixed media installation and visceral happening that uses a story of geological movements to talk about dying worlds. Ecological collapse will influence different communities and individuals in different ways, surely, however the end of the livable Earth entails an inclusive end for and of all. A bee who believes itself to be a singular subject, is doomed to stop being (a honey bee)

The man in question is Mannen (transl.: the Man), a mountain in the municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. The mountain range has shown signs of collapse since 2009, and its rate of disintegration was measured to 80 cm a day in October, 2018. Underneath Mannen lies the European highway route E-136 and the small town of Rauma, which has been regularly evacuated over the years. Avalanches have also been frequently observed in a lower area of the mountain-range, named Lille-Mannen (transl.: the Little Man).

In a time and a city which invites fluid identity formation, the 'man' in Man Falls also refers to the fall of ‘men’ as the generalized subject—a looming figure that transforms everyone and everything into a backdrop—while parrying this with a sober reference to our common materiality in a time of climate crisis.

In a period of earthly degradation, holding a ritual observance for a falling mountain invites to sympoiesis, a becoming with immanent processes like erosion, corrosion, and decomposition.

Exhibition Elements:
Man Falls is a preparatory wake and exhibition, inspired by the emerging field of Queer Death Studies (QDS). It consists of several sculptural elements as well as two happenings.

Man on Stone (2019) is a video installation featuring a live-feed from Mannen, Rauma, Norway. Work Relief (2018) is a series of wax reliefs, previously showed at Norway's 131th National Art Exhibition. In conjunction to these two visual elements, Presterud will produce a ‘grave-mead’ (No: ‘grav-mjød’) to be sold with Mead Openers (2019), a series of functional ceramic sculptures inspired by the top-bar beehive honeycomb.

Scent Conversation
For the opening reception, Chaveli Sifre will lead a talk on the destructive and assimilative aspects of smells and smell production, while actively distilling beeswax derived from Presterud's wax reliefs - destroyed for the occasion.

Counter-Transcendental Grounding Ceremony
Mind–body therapies have been gaining ground in recent years, with a growing acknowledgment of the indivisibility our mental and physical well-being. At the same time, these practices show little or no criticality of the transcendental-humanistic model of subjecthood the therapies build on and recreate. On the last day of the exhibition, Presterud will lead a small group through a short grounding ceremony which includes beeswax-oil tasting.

Man Falls is produced with the support of the Norwegian Association for Arts & Crafts.


Artist Bios:
Marius Presterud (born 1980, Drammen) is a Norwegian artist and psychologist based in Oslo and Berlin. He works across a variety of media, including performance, poetry, sculpture, installations and ecoventions. He has toured Europe and been a featured poet at venues in Paris, Berlin and Istanbul, as well as performed in established galleries, such as Henie Onstad Art Center, Norway, and Hamburger Bahnhof, Germany. In 2018 he was a debutant at Norway's 131. National Art Exhibition. With the practice Oslo Apiary & Aviary he inspects arts didactic and remedial potential, as well as a repository for non-commodifiable knowledge. Common themes throughout his work are a focus on selfhood, significant otherness and societal health.

Chaveli Sifre (1987) was born in Germany, to Puerto Rican parents. Sifre has participated in a variety of exhibitions including “Welt ohne Außen” in Gropius Bau “Perspektive Wechseln” in Hamburger Bahnhof and her recent solo show, “Personal Attention” at La Estacion Espacial in Puerto Rico. Her work is Informed by alternative forms of healing and inspired by belief systems while reimagining the exhibition arena as a space where contemporary subjects can regain access to sensorial, spiritual experiences. In its most revolutionary form, Sifre proposes the radical idea that artistic experiences and spaces may abolish religious ones. In Berlin Sifre co-founded Scent Club Berlin, a community of artists, designers, and scientists focusing on scent and olfaction as a medium.

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