Suse Bauer
With the programmatic exhibition title Die Werkzeuge gehorchten ihr sie stellten sich in Reihen auf und Steine wurden zu Städten (The tools obeyed her, they formed a line and stones became towns), Suse Bauer opens up a construction-like system of materialized possibilities. Her works on paper and relief ceramics are elaborately readable, open constructions, options with utopian potential, which defiantly convey the hope for the beauty of thought. Bauer forms the motifs of her works on paper by utilizing pastose layers of oil paint and oil pastels. From multifaceted surface structures, geometric abstract compositions emerge with a pronounced ductile presence. In the most recent ceramics, Bauer composes modular elements on a grid and realizes small lyrical islands. Both in her works on paper and her relief ceramics, Suse Bauer transforms emblematic gestures of the modernistic formal vocabulary into her individualized pictorial language. Isolated figurative picture elements, signs, and symbols merge collage-like through subjective appropriation and restructuring, producing an abstract medium for picture strategies of charging meaning. Notwithstanding their indissolubility, revoking prefabricated pictorial formulas, the works of Suse Bauer resolutely stipulate an individual process of interpretation and knowledge: Man creates his world!
29 April – 11 June 2011
Secret Universe
With Secret Universe, Hamburger Bahnhof begins a series of exhibitions focusing on artists who have so far remained largely neglected by the established art discourse. The first exhibition in this series is devoted to Horst Ademeit.
This artist has devoted more than 20 years of his life to the photographic documentation of what he called “cold rays” and other invisible radiation that he thought harmed him and his environment. In the complex reference systems developed by Ademeit, certain motifs play a constant role: electricity meters, peepholes, building sites, electric cables, collections of bulky trash or bikes. Ademit began to cast the flood of images he produced in a concrete form in October 1990: he arranged measuring instruments and a compass on a newspaper and photographed them with a Polaroid camera. Over the course of 14 years, he made 6006 numbered Polaroids.
Born in Cologne in 1937, Horst Ademeit first trained as a house painter, and then studied textile design before joining the Werkkunstschule in Cologne. In 1970, he was a student of Joseph Beuys for a short time. His first documentary photographs were taken during renovation work in run-down houses. From the end of the 1980s, the artist concentrated on the documentation of “cold rays.” His oeuvre was discovered and exhibited for the first time in 2008. He died in July 2010. The exhibition at Hamburger Bahnhof is Horst Ademeit’s first museum show.
The series Secret Universe has been made possible by the About Change Stiftung.
Horst Ademeit
13 May - 25 September 2011
http://www.hamburgerbahnhof.de
Sailing the Great Seas of Cheese
West Berlin Gallery is pleased to present Sailing the Great Seas of Cheese, the first gallery show of the collective, Hot Cheese Crew, in Berlin. Hot Cheese Crew is a gang of four artists and designers with a background in graffiti and urban art, who also have a fashion label under their wing. Like a deep melting pot, in which all kinds of unique ingredients are combined together to make the most delicious of brews, the crew thrives on collective action via the individuality and different methods and interests of each member. Collaboration is the essential ingredient. Â Inspired by pop-art, club-culture, street art, music and fashion, their works consist of painted worlds of colour combined with graphic design, illustration, a love of life and a constant lust to create.
Sailing the Great Seas of Cheese was the name of their first exhibition as a collective in 2008 at the Carrera Bar in Berlin. When they were just starting out, unrestricted by the forces of the art market and the constant pressure to produce, it was all done for the fun and love of the game. Despite their professional success , the crew is determined to stick to their convention-bending ways, working freely and passionately. This show thus celebrates the strength of their creative energy three years on and is dedicated to the revival of the raw spirit and energy of their formative years.
POP MEETS POP
For about a half-century, pop music and fine arts influence each other. The exhibition focuses on the close friendship between Andy Warhol and pop idol John Lennon. The 80 works on display by Warhol, one of the most popular representatives of the artistic movement of Pop Art, are on loan from the Museum of Modern Art of Andy Warhol in Slovakia.
BEATLEMANIA Hamburg
Nobistor 10/ Reeperbahn, 22767 Hamburg
www.beatlemaniahamburg.com
