Russians in Berlin
Art of the 20s from the collections of the Berlinische Gallery ....

"Showpieces from the then contemporary exhibitions such as Puni's 'Synthetic Musician', Gabo's 'Torso' and the competition sketches for the Palace of the Soviets, the Proun Room and photographs by El Lissitzky enter in dialogue with major works of the Dada movement, New Realism and the November Group. Thus an attempt is made to rekindle the intellectual and mental climate of the 20s, a time when hundreds of thousands of Russian emigrants, numerous artists among them, lived and worked in Berlin. It was this very collision and exchange of cultures that shaped the artistic wealth of those years and is preserved in the collections of the Berlinische Gallery ".

The exhibition runs from October 2 to January 10, 2003.

Berlinische Galerie
Regional Museum of Modern Art, Photography and Architecture
Foundation of Public Law
www.berlinischegalerie.de

Location:
Kunstforum in der GrundkreditBank,
Budapester Str. 35, 10787 Berlin
tel.: (030) 26 55 85 64

Opening times: Daily, except Mondays, 10 am - 6 pm

Entry: 4, - euro / 3, - euro (reduced)

Bruce Nauman: Theaters of Experience

"The work of American artist Bruce Nauman (b. 1941) is particularly characterised by his provocative and multifaceted working method. The spectrum of media utilised by Nauman - from holography to neon tubes and video work - reflect the his oeuvre's diversity of themes that range from the conditions of art production to questioning the 'conditio humana'.

Through a representative selection of 13 works, the exhibition 'Bruce Nauman: "Theaters of Experience"' examines his employment of performance strategies as a means to an increased awareness of artist and viewer. Like many artists of the 60s, Nauman in this work, too, threw out the traditional, self-contained art object as a form of expression."
Curator: Susan Cross (Guggenheim Museum NY)

The exhibition runs from October 31 to January 18, 2004.

Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin
Unter den Linden 13-15
10117 Berlin Tel: 20 20 93-0
www.deutsche-guggenheim.de
daily 11 am - 8 pm, Thu 11 am - 10 pm
tickets: 3 EUR ; concession 2 EUR, Mon: free admission.
Free guided tours: 6 pm daily

Anarchy in Art. The Donations of Otto van de Loo, Berlin/Emden

"Alongside the Cobra and Spur Groups, these two hundred paintings, sculptures and drawings introduce further groups and individual artists. Jean Dubuffet, Arnulf Rainer, Antonio Saura or Wolf Vostell, to name but a few, are linked above all by their expressive, representational pictorial language which triggered hefty controversy in the 1950s and 60s.

The Munich-based gallerist Otto van de Loo, whose generous donations to the Kunsthalle Emden and the National Gallery are shown together for the first time in this exhibition, took up the cause of these belligerent and controversial artists with great commitment."

The exhibition runs from November 19 to January 11, 2004.

Neue Nationalgalerie Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Potsdamer Straße 50
10785 Berlin-Tiergarten
Tues, Wed, Fri 10 am - 6 pm, Thu 10 am-10 pm, Sat & Sun 11 am-6 pm

"Moscow Conceptualism"
Donated by the Haralampi G. Oroschakoff Collection and other loans

"With thematic proximity to the Berlin-Moscow/Moscow-Berlin exhibition, the Kupferstichkabinett devotes itself through the underground phenomenon of Moscow Conceptualism to an important trend of (post-) Soviet art that draws its creative potential from the tension between strategies of conceptual art and the playfully critical tempering of it."

The exhibition runs from November 24, 2003 - April 18, 2004.
Opening hours: Tue - Sat 10am - 6pm; Sun 11am - 6pm

Kupferstichkabinett am Kulturforum
Matthäikirchplatz
Berlin-Tiergarten
Tel: 266 20 23

"Berlinskaja LAZUR"
Young art photography from Berlin

On show are works by Nina Karadimas, Christoph Keller, Andreas Koch, Suzanne Lauterbach, Albrecht Schäfer, Maria Sewcz, Heidi Specker and Wolfgang Stahr.

Within the framework of the German-Russian Cultural Encounters 2003/2003 and a NBK exhibition.
The exhibition runs from December 19, 2003 - February 16, 2004.
December 23 - open. December 24 - closed.
December 30 - open. December 31 - closed.

Martin-Gropius-Bau
Niederkirchner Strasse 7
D-10963 Berlin/Kreuzberg
Tel: 030 254 86-0
www.gropiusbau.de
Wed - Mon 10am -8pm

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