theme opening program exhibition visit
Design: Rimini Berlin
I only work with lost and found – Goldrausch 2024
Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien
Mariannenplatz 2, 10997 Berlin
• Belia Zanna Geetha Brückner • Isabelle Heske • Leonie Kellein • Jeanna Kolesova • Eva-Fiore Kovacovsky • Mizi Lee • Marei Loellmann • Gülsah Mursaloglu • Laura Nitsch • Egle Otto • Evelina Reiter • Noor us Sabah Saeed • Dior Thiam • Cora Wöllenstein • Sofiia Yesakova •
I only work with lost and found brings together recent works by the 15 artists participating in this year’s Goldrausch Künstlerinnenprojekt. Despite their diversity, these works are united by themes evoked in the exhibition’s title: cyclical processes of artistic work, as well as examinations of aesthetic, narrative, historical, and political ruptures and continuities.
Lost and found refers to the actions of unlearning and losing, to what is hidden or repressed, and at the same time hints at a wide range of possibilities for rediscovering, intervening, and reassembling. At the heart of many of the artworks on display is an engagement with found materials. The inherent qualities and histories of these materials offer opportunities to identify and rediscover buried knowledge, to critically examine memory and to imagine the future, or even to develop activist strategies within and beyond the field of art.
The exhibition includes painting, photography and multimedia installations, process-based experimental arrangements, performances, research-based assemblages, and sculptures. Many of the works combine genres to defy categorization and are based on a cumulative, sustainable, exploratory approach to nature, sources, and material.
The group exhibition is a cooperation between the Goldrausch Künstlerinnenprojekt and the Department of Culture and History of the Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg district office of Berlin and is curated by Mona Hermann (Goldrausch graduate 2020) and Hannah Kruse.
Artist talks and a catalogue will accompany the exhibition.
Media partner
Opening
30.08.2024, 6 pm – 11 pm
From 18.00
DJ set by Afida and Mia Duni
The FLINTA DJ duo Afida and Mia Duni create cross-genre vinyl sets with a groovy vibe. Together they have recorded guest shows for Noods Radio, Radio Relativa, and RBL, and performed at various venues in Berlin.
19.00
Welcome address and introduction by Micha Klapp, State Secretary for Labor and Equality, SenASGIVA (video message); Clara Herrmann, District Mayor of Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg; Stéphane Bauer, Director of Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien; and Mona Hermann and Hannah Kruse, exhibition curators
21.00 – 22.00
Music performance by Horizontaler Gentransfer
Mizi Lee (Goldrausch 2024) performs with her K-punk band Horizontaler Gentransfer (HGT), which she founded with five other women migrant artists in 2022. HGT combines visual art, performance, and theatre to explore themes such as fashion, infection, and migration.
Program
Thursday, 19.09.2024
18.00 – 19.30: Exhibition tour with Lena Fliessbach, curator and author, and 5 exhibiting artists. In German.
20.30 – 22.00: Lecture-performance by Jeanna Kolesova (Goldrausch 2024) and Elena Ishchenko, curator and researcher
Which political narratives are produced by shaping collective memory? Drawing on a research-based practice, Jeanna Kolesova and Elena Ishchenko examine the consequences of Russia’s colonial and imperial policies in their performance lecture When the past becomes a weapon the future disappears. They explore the question of how a repressive politics of memory contributes to exerting state sovereignty and justifying continuing expansion and wars.
In English.
Sunday, 29.09.2024
15.00 -–16.30: Exhibition tour with Hajra Haider Karrar, curator and author, and 5 exhibiting artists.
In English.
16.30 – 19.00: Workshop on trial observation with Justice Collective, invited by Belia Zanna Geetha Brückner (Goldrausch 2024)
Justice Collective aims to document racism in the legal and criminal justice system. This workshop walks participants through the processes of criminal trials in order to prepare them to serve as observers.
In German.
www.justice-collective.org
Sunday, 13.10.2024
13.30 – 14.30: Listening session with Mizi Lee (Goldrausch 2024)
Mizi Lee, founder of the band Horizontaler Gentransfer (HGT), presents the songs that inspired her, from Georg Kreisler, Udo Jürgens, and Goldene Zitronen to Aespa and BTS.
In German.
15.00 – 16.30: Exhibition tour with Tomke Braun, curator and author, and 5 exhibiting artists.
In German.
16.30: Pop-up sorbet tasting with Eva-Fiore Kovacovsky (Goldrausch 2024)
Eva-Fiore Kovacovsky serves sorbet made from fresh beech leaves that she collected in a forest on the outskirts of Berlin. Beech-Leaf Sorbet (2024) is part of the Vernal Unfolding project presented in the exhibition, which features Kovacovsky’s work with common beech leaves (Fagus sylvatica).
17.00 – 19.00: Reading group with Eva-Fiore Kovacovsky (Goldrausch 2024) and Sina Ribak, researcher in ecology and art
This exhibition hosts the 51st iteration of the reading group Between Us and Nature. In this transdisciplinary space for exchange, participants will be introduced to narratives inspired by bacteria, algae, fungi, and soil. A text will be read from the fields of natural science, art, anthropology, postcolonialism, and the (post)anthropocene.
In English.
Register at: office@goldrausch.org
Exhibition Visit
Runtime: 31.08–03.11.2024
Opening: 30.08.2024, 5-10 pm
Opening hours:
Sun – Wed 10 am – 8 pm
Thu – Sat 10 am – 10 pm
Free admission
Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien
Mariannenplatz 2, 10997 Berlin
Impressions of the exhibition:
Photos: Dorothea Dittrich, VG Bild-Kunst 2024
Goldrausch Team
Project management: Hannah Kruse
Course coordination: Veronika Bartelt
Course support and public relations: Manon Frugier
Finance and Accounting: Ulrike Riebel, Klara Hülskamp
Exhibition management: Mona Hermann, Hannah Kruse
Team Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien
Management of the Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien: Stéphane Bauer
Programme coordination: Sofía Pfister
Production management: Kristoffer Holmelund
Project collaborators: Melina Gentner, Dani Hasrouni, Johanna Janßen, Viktoria Weber
Other collaborators: Josef Stöhr
Medienpartner
The Kunstraum Kreuzberg is an institution of the Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg district authority.
