4 new exhibitions at ZAK - Zentrum für Aktuelle Kunst - Center for Contemporary Art

Exhibition until May 5

Sat. May 4 - Finissage
3:00 pm Exhibition tour with the curators
4:30 pm Concert "Hannelore":
Catherine Lorent: drums and voice Tom Früchtl: guitar with effect devices and loop machine. Hannelore's
improvisations are nourished by various musical genres and always have the touch of "metal", a kind of
foundation that is used again and again during the performance.

Admission free
- also on MuseumSunday, 5.5. for all exhibitions at the Spandau Citadel.


AntE-Landscapes
- Abie Franklin
The term "anti-landscapes" describes desolate areas that are hostile to human life - also as a result of
economic exploitation. Value attributions are applied beyond resources to people and ways of life: as less
valuable, less human. The exhibition AntE-Landscapes by Abie Franklin (* 1995 in Jerusalem) takes up
this entanglement of the micro and macro levels on the basis of two current groups of works:
"A piece of the pie" zooms in on fragmented landscapes. The works form a closed system and consist
of materials that humans extract from them, such as coal, tar and rare earths.
"Frontiers" shows us an open series of lines and nets that structure the space. As modular elements,
however, they are not fixed, but invite visitors to reconfigure constellations both in the works and in the
space itself. Empty spaces are exposed and nodes created.
Franklin's exhibition title is based on the Latin "ante: before" and focuses on the temporal-spatial conditions
of when and where life can begin. The de/reconstruction of spatial relationships is created here by focusing
on boundaries. These reorganizations of space can thus also be related to the geopolitical level of meaning
of extractivist struggles for minerals.
Based on a structuralist examination of the dynamics of power AntE-Landscapes poses questions about the
possibilities and limits of agency.


Flesh & Bone
- Jürgen Baumann & Birgit Dieker
The human body as an object of media staging, political appropriation and projection site of collective
attributions, but also as a topic of human aestheticization is the focus of the works of Berlin artists Jürgen
Baumann and Birgit Dieker. In a jointly developed exhibition concept, they juxtapose sculptural and photo-
graphic groups of works in a dialogical manner, thus creating an artistic space for the complex discussion
of body-specific aspects of the present.
Birgit Dieker (* 1969) works as a sculptor and uses various materials such as textiles and leather, as well
as everyday objects, to create objects analogous to the body, which are in turn deconstructed through some-
times seemingly martial interventions and applications. The predominantly female body becomes the scene
of fragmentation, it is alienated and experiences numerous aggregate states of metamorphosis. These signal
both collective access and a view into the inner constitution.
Jürgen Baumann's (* 1958) large-format photographic tableaus focus on the surfaces of bodies and take signifi-
cant details and internal structures as an occasion for artistic investigations.
Contrary to contemporary medialization, he scans bodies in detail with the camera and develops largely abstracted
spaces and aesthetic "landscapes" from these fragmentations, which construct new visual realities beyond the
epresentational.


3 art-in-architecture projects
In 2023, three art-in-architecture competitions were announced in the district of Spandau. A total of 16 entries
by 24 artists from Berlin will be presented in a joint exhibition.

Participants in the competition:
New construction of the STEIG youth leisure center
- Il-Jin Atem Choi, Philip Eichhorn, Anna Ehrenstein (competition winner)

Renovation of an external location of the adult education center and music school
- Andreas Amrhein, Ivana de Vivanco, Marta Vovk (competition winner)

New construction of an elementary school at Fehrbelliner Tor
- Neda Saeedi / Alex Lebus / Mary-Audrey Ramirez (competition winner) / Hannah Sophie Dunkelberg + Malte
Bartsch / Raphaela Vogel + Lennart Wolff / Irene Fernández Arcas + Lorena Juan with Luciana Massarino /
Julia Meyer-Brehm + Daniel Hahn + Johannes Mundinger / Aileen Treusch + Catharina Szonn + Felix Anatol
Findeiß / Kira Dell + Laura Seidel with Lillian Morrissey + Maria Thrän / Elmar Zimmermann

The competition for the school was commissioned by the Senate Department for Urban Development,
Building and Housing and the other two competitions for the district of Spandau.


Boosted Mimicry
- Tom Früchtl, Sabine Groß, Barbara Hindahl
"The picture is an object of desire, the desire for the signifi cation that is known to be absent." (Douglas Crimp,
Pictures, New York 1977, p. 183) Painting, sculpture and drawing strategies of artistic appropriation are central
for the exhibition Boosted Mimicry.
As typical representatives of a post-postmodern generation, the three artists Tom Früchtl (* 1966), Sabine Groß
(* 1961) and Barbara Hindahl (* 1960) dedicate themselves to a critical examination of the art context and investi-
gate the different categories of our perception when we look at art.
Camouflage, fake and trompe-l'oeil play a central role in their paintings and drawings as well as in their three-
dimensional works. The neuralgic questions of original and reproduction play a central role in the (hyper)realistic
practice of how the three artists reflect on and realize things.
Not only do their works move beyond the traditional assertion of the truth of the original, but they also focus
besides icons of modernism on everyday objects that generally play no role in contemporary perception.
Processes of defectiveness, of accident and of failure are made worthy of images and are transformed into new
artistic-material aggregate states. The mimetic imitation often turns into a (self-)analysis of the artist's own artistic
practice, the materials used and the value categories within the operating system of art.

Kategorien: Kunst, Kultur, Ausstellungen

Bezirk: Spandau