There’s a nice exhibition in Munich till the 24th of September: Isabel Bernheimer presents the multimedia cross-over-project »vanitas« with the artists Victor Alaluf and Jan Kuck at the Bernheimer-Gallery. You can discover plenty of drawings, collages and a video-installation by Victor Alaluf and objects, sculptures and an installation by Jan Kuck. These modern works are put into relation to historic objects from the cabinet of wonder, an anatomic skeleton, as well as a painting by Hendrick de Fromantiou. Go there, it’s a good visit. >> More Information >>
[Thanx to Bernheimer Contemporary for the invitation!]

»Nix verstehen ist besser als gar nichts« [Not understanding is better than nothing at all]. That was the theme of Gülbin Ünlü’s latest exhibition. Gülbin Ünlü is Gülbin Ünlü! And Gülbin Ünlü would not be Gülbin Ünlü if she wouldn’t produce those nice pieces of art like Gülbin Ünlü does. At the art:ig gallery in Munich for example. Gülbin presented a very tight and nice variety of her legislation in mixed media: Ebru, painting, collage and digital artworks. Especially this first picture was my absolute favorite. Sorry for the shitty quality of the photos. I should get used to take a better cam with me at all times. [Thanx for this nice view on your work Gülbin!]

Sunday was Groszday. I mean it was a beautiful day. The weather was tiptop and we made a trip for once. We drove down to the lovely Lake Starnberg to visit the opening of an exhibition at the Buchheim Museum. And that was the place were it got amazingly Grosz. Because they are just showing over 200 great works by George Grosz: grafix, sketches, paintings, sculptures and multimediadocuments. I have been a Grosz fan already since quite a while, so I was overwhelmingly happy getting the chance looking at the intense pieces of this unique artist (1893 – 1959). [Thanx a lot to Annette & Marlene for the invitation and thanx so much to Ira, Hélène & Giacomo for joining.]

You should go to the Buchheim Museum and check out this very special exhibition, if you are around that area >> it’s running till the 2nd of November 2014. Don’t miss it!

»Friedrichstrasse« 1918, fotolithograph

»Der Mädchenhändler« 1918, coloured offsetprint

»Blutiger Karneval« 1915/1916, transferlithograph

»Ach, knallige Welt, Du seliges Abnormitätenkabinett« 1916, coloured offsetprint

»Aus dem Zyklus Parasiten« 1919, fotolithograph

»Paris« 1925, watercolour over pen drawing

»Maul halten und weiter dienen« 1927, manual gravure printing

»Tumult« 1916, indian ink on paper

[These are just some impressions from my lousy phonecamera. There is a very nice designed catalogue of the exhibition made by Bureau Mirko Borsche. Grab the limited book when you exit through the giftshop! Or maybe you will find it here in the museum-shop some day >>]

Yesterday I visited this vernissage at MMA – Mixed Munich Arts. It was the exhibition of NOMNOMVEGA and AUGUSTCC, two extraordinary persons and well ambitious photographers. NOMNOMVEGA is Nadya Vanessa Vega. Rawness but squareness seems to be a motto of her partly quite erotic pictures which look like taken from the real surreal life. Unordinary crooked people in a well-balanced camera-captured environment. AUGUSTCC is August Castell-Castell. In his photos you find the effervescence of euphoric inebriate people sucking in the captivating damp of the world in one moment or two. Snatches of instant happenings, key moments of auspiciousness and insensibility for aggravating inconveniences.

NOMNOMVEGA – Hanna head over [sorry for leaving a selfy in that]

AUGUSTCC – Global Warming [sorry for leaving a selfy in that one too]

The vernissage was very well-visited. Due to reflexions I was unable to shoot accurate photos of the single framed pictures. Thats why I will only show a few impressions here. You should definitely visit the artists websites to get a fully loaded indentation about the distinguished works of them two.

August Castell-Castell >> augustcc.com / Nadya Vanessa Vega >> nomnomvega.tumblr.com

Suggested by friends we did this Street-Art-Tour through London East. With nicest 28° we followed the leader to discover plenty murals, past-ups, stick-ups, graffitis and stencils. Karim gave a lot of insights and background-stories on the many artists working there legally and illegally. Within the four hours tour [!] we’ve seen works by Christiaan Nagel, Stik, Invader, Obey Giant, C215, Eine, Xylo, dr.d, Phlegm, Roa, Ben Wilson, Dal East, El Mac, Thierry Noir, Clet Abraham and Pablo Delgado who has a current exhibition at Howard Griffin Gallery where the tour ended. The tour was definitely good and I have the straight feeling I will do it again some day. There is too much to see and the pieces of work change quite rapidly. And well, I took too many fotos to show them all here, so I dropped a lot of them on >> flickr >> check them out if you like. Sorry if I forgot to name a few important artists here, it’s just too much to handle. I did my best. [Thanks a lot to Ira, Assia, Schucko, Laura and J.J.F. for a splendid time and thanx to Karim and the crew from streetartlondon.co.uk/tours >>]

This is just a random selection of pictures. For more images check out the flickr-site >>

About two weeks ago Gabriela von Habsburg showed plenty of her lithographies and some of her smaller iron-sculptures at the German Hop Museum in Wolnzach. Listen up: It’s Hop Museum, not Hip Hop Museum. Exactly, it’s the stuff you make beer from. Joking aside: Eduard Kastner from the Kastner AG opened the evening with a speech on the upcoming european elections. The vernissage was very well visited. A few hundred people, I would guess, started absorbing the artworks of Gabriela before heading over to the amazing buffet waiting outside. The tables were stuffed with characteristic snacks from all european nations. All in all it was a pretty interesting event. [Thanks a lot to Eduard Kastner for the invitation!]

Claudia Macias and Rafael Ruz Valencia had this lovely exhibition today at Atelier Hermann Rosa in Munich. Sneaking through hedges and trees we found this beautiful atelier-place of the sculptor Hermann Rosa were Claudia and Rafael showed some of their impressive works. Surrounded by nice people we did experience fine oil-paintings. I wish we could have stayed much longer. [Thank you for this very special private view!]

Claudia Macias and Rafael Ruz Valencia [Claudia lives and works in Munich, Rafael came the long way from Chile for this occasion]

Claudia Macias, “two worlds”, 2014, oil on canvas, 120 x 100 cm

“Silencio al interior”, 2014, oil on wood, 110 x 80 cm (left) and “Zapallo mantel II”, 2014, oil on wood, 80 x 110 cm, by Rafael Ruz Valencia

Claudia Macias, “broke”, 2013, oil on canvas, 230 x 150 cm

Rafael Ruz Valencia, “Televisor con decoración Kich”, 2014, oil on wood, 110 x 80 cm

Works by Claudia Macias

Rafael Ruz Valencia, “Maquinaria del recuerdo”, 2014, oil on wood, 80 x 100 cm

A little bird-sculpture by Hermann Rosa (1911 – 1981)

Die Landung [The Landing] – Gülbin Ünlü and Helene Gette are presenting an installation of hanging paintings at the Akademiegalerie in Munich. Their ambition is to push the room into new scenarios by not using the usual walls it provides. As result they created a parkour of their artworks relating to the escape plans of the “New World”, like “MarsOne 2023”. At the opening the two artists gently took the visitors hooked under and showed them around, explaining all the certain bits of their works, handing over their own interpretation personally.

Gülbin Ünlü works in different layers with oil, ebru and oilchalk on canvas. “Camofleisch – Schinken” on the left and “Camofleisch – Döner” on the right, both 2014

Helene Gette is using mixed media and collage on canvas. The picture on the left is called: “damit wäre das auch erledigt – Aufruf zur Glättung der heiligen Dreifaltigkeit” 2013. And the other one on the right: “Prachtvoll Lang” 2013

“Sign of the Ü” and “NAA’H!” by Gülbin Ünlü. Oil, Ebru and Oilchalk on canvas, 2014

On the left: „Zur Wiedereröffnung des Asybewerberheims in Hoyerswerda“, mixed media, MRT-Images, serigraph in collage on canvas and on the right: „Russ Meyer on Canvas – Statement zu Russland” mixed media on canvas, both 2014

And finally there was the performance-concert of their band “Big Bezness”

Gülbin & Helene did rock the performance right

Gülbin Ünlü is Gülbin Ünlü!

Maybe it was too loud for people with tender ear canals. You can visit the exhibition still till the 25th of April at the Akademiegalerie [Subwaystation, University]. Further details and opening-times you may find here >> [Thanx to Gülbin and Helene for a funky evening! Thanx to Felix for the company! I Hope your tinnitus is gone by now.]

“Maschinen lügen nicht– Machines do not lie” was the theme of the exhibition Tim Wolff gave today at the Nusser & Baumgart Gallery. Tim’s works within the lines act like words and he puts them together into new constructions and ever new assemblies. It is like he is seeking for the basic language everyone spoke before, before culture was even invented … a long time before, a long time before everything became so complicated … and the machines speak this language today, and they speak it simple, clear and easy. The machines they shout it out at us in a straight way. The machines, they don’t care, they don’t lie. [Thanx for a great evening with a lot of philosophical impulse and thanx for being there with such nice people]

In a hidden room, behind draperies, a massive video-play is waiting for you. You have to watch this clash of commercials and cut-outs, put together into a damn nice screening, absorbing the mind and spilling out a lot of inspiration into the brains of the people consuming it at all times. Five TVs, in a set, producing an atmosphere of confusion and desire. The sound of the thing really got me freaking. You have to feel the basslines and the choreography of the screens together with their own single sounds; it’s mind-blowing … well done Tim! The exhibition will last till the 8th of April. Further Information you may find here: www.nusserbaumgart.com and here: www.timwolff.com

Last Friday, the 17.1.2014, Claudia Macias, Timor Miscevic and myself had the pleasure throwing an exhibition at the Weltraum in Munich. We where completely astonished that so many nice people came along. At this point we would like to shout out a big “thank you all”, especially to Rudi for hosting us. Here we go with some impressions before the thing took place. [Dani Schvarcz took a lot of cool photos during that evening, thank you so much for that. As well our biggest thanx to Claudia Hofmair for additional photos! Here you can find a gallery with a lot of photos from the event on fakebook >>]

Weltraum with >>Big Red I<< and >>Big Red II<< by Timor Miscevic

A glance into the first room

>>Reflexion<< by Claudia Macias

>>Asian Dragon<< by Timor Miscevic

>>The great Philosophy of not doing the things you would like to do and how to stop worrying about it<< by Falk v. Schönfels

Various works from Falk v. Schönfels, Claudia Macias and Timor Miscevic

>>Flow<< by Timor Miscevic and >>Mona Lisa<< by Claudia Macias

>>Schlangengrube armer Würmer<< by Falk v. Schönfels

The three of us: Falk v. Schönfels, Timor Miscevic and Claudia Macias

After some time Galeria Autonomica comes back with a great show at the Citymuseum Munich. The whole thing is curated by Christian Minke and Christoph Pankowski. Sadly the exhibition only lasts for 48 hours. But it was a good comeback with a lot of artists displaying a nailing variety of works. Inter alia: André Hemer [>>], Attila Stark [>>], Balázs Szabó [>>], Bianca Kennedy [>>], Brad Downey [>>], Christian Minke [>>], Daniel Weissbach [>>], Eliot [>>], Ernie & Bert, Felix Kraus [>>], Frank Balve [>>], Filippo Minelli [>>], Josephine Kaiser [>>], Klone [>>], Leonid Hrytsak [>>], Malte Sänger [>>], Markus Butkereit [>>], Markus Mai [>>], Martin Meschede, Paul Hiller [>>], Thekra Jaziri [>>], Veronika Christine Dräxler [>>], Volker Ruprich [>>], Vörös Krisztián [>>], Young-in Son [>>]. Thanx to the Galeria Autonomica for a felicitous event! Here we go with a few impressions:

The first room: Young-in Son [>>] on the left and Markus Butkereit [>>] on the right

Photoworks by Filippo Minelli [>>]

Great works in paper by Felix Kraus [>>]

Looking into the magic box “In Vitro” by Bianca Kennedy [>>]

“In Vitro” inside [Source: www.biancakennedy.com]

Screening by Veronika Christine Dräxler [>>] and Leonid Hrytsak [>>]

“Ohne Titel” by Josephine Kaiser [>>]

Crystalized cans by Markus Mai [>>]

A whole wall spraypainted by Klone [>>]

“Contemporary” by Christian Minke

Illustrations by Thekra Jaziri [>>]

Masks by Leonid Hrytsak [>>]

And finally the so called Club Installation with a lot of human specimen

It happend in an old bank in Munich Over-Giesing (Hypo Banque Ostfriedhof, Tegernseer Landstraße): The Dönage. And it will happen again next saturday. With works upstairs from Benedikt Braun, Caroline von Eichhorn, Christin Büttner, Konstantin Egerndorfer, Oliver Würffell and Stefan Geisberger. A couple of my acrylic painting are displayed there too. The dark celler-rooms were rocked with music by Die Hauselektriker, Für Kerstins Letzte and Jason Saint. Thanx to the whole Dönage-Team for such a nice event and thanx to everyone who came along! Cheers! Next saturday, the 13th, there will be the Finissage with Knarzfunk and Charly Rush rocking the bottom. [Fakebook-Event >>]

World-wall-clocks by Stefan Geisberger [Studio Munique >>]

Wax-crayon-works by Konstantin Egerndorfer

Photo-works by Christin Büttner [>>]

Photo-works by Caroline von Eichhorn [>>]

Acrylic paintings by Falk von Schönfels; who is actually me [My new site >>]

Installation which spits out cash every few minutes by Benedikt Braun [>>]

»Eineiiger Döner«, Videoinstallation by Oliver Würffell [>>]

Jason Saint [>>] rocking the celler-rooms

Die Hauselektriker [>>] bringing tunes to the undergound

Ah Venezia! Venice is of course a beautiful city and for people interested in arts it’s a hot and long pavement. The two main-areas (Giardini and Arsenale) of the Biennale are big and not so overcrowded like the small paths (Impossible to walk in that mud Hunter would say) but it is also impossible to see all the Biennale in one day. It’s just too much to experience and some of the things are truly damn nice. Scattered over the city you can also find a lot of other pavilions. Some of them are not easy to find, but exactly that makes it even more charming: getting lost again and again and discovering always new places. Altogether it was a very nice journey. I am sure I will return to check out the rest some day. [Thanx to Ira, Lizzy & Joe to be present]

Don’t worry they are not wasted; it’s a performance by Tino Sehgal [>>] with changing performers. Honestly I heard better beatboxing before and the singing scared the hell out me.

The israeli pavilion showed some nice technocratic tunes on screen and some kind of a horrorshow by Gilad Ratman [>>]. I liked the dark atmosphere in there.

Shinro Ohtake [>>] fills big books with lots of stuff he collects and paints over it. Nice!

Cathy Wilkes [>>]; on the road, installation in The Encyclopedic Palace.

Sarah Sze [>>]: Triple Point in the USA pavilion. Here some strange Foucault pendulum.

Ai Wei Wei [>>]: Everybody already knows his installation in the german pavilion I guess.

The russian pavilion: Part of Vadim Zakharov’s Danaë [>>].

Pawel Althamer’s sculptures with real faces of venetian people [>>].

The book Genesis as comic by Robert Crumb [>>].

Pavilion of Montenegro: Image Think by Irena Lagator Pejovic [>>].

Some stranger submitted this work with double-meaning.

Of course Falschetto El Fluctibosso himself couldn’t resist leaving a bacteria there…