“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

It’s getting fresh in Munich, but it is still not a winter yet. So I just remembered that Germs have founded a colony on the island of Samos in Greece a while ago. Documenting the bacteriological branch in Vathy coursed quite some stress. Just by mistake, of course, I had some battleships in the background. And a minute later a car stopped in front of me with screeching tires, a guy with a broken nose inside pointing his finger at me, very angry, almost hateful. Screaming some rough greek at me and my lady. Two police-members arrived and saved me from that shitass. But they made me delete all photos on my camera where the ships were visible. They have been quite nice to me and felt sorry about it. At least they did know how to treat a tourist. Anyway they have never heard about rescue-programs for SD-cards though. Well, this is for the guy who scared the hell out of me: F ⨆ ⊂ K Y ∅ ∪ !

This last Germ was found in the cave of Pythagoras on Mount Kerkis. Some people think that Pythagoras was hiding there because of the tyrant Polycrates, others rather mean he went there for the reason of meditation with his followers.

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

A while ago some Germs have slaped their way through to Patagonia to infiltrate the pure waters of the Perito Moreno Glacier in Argentinia [Thanx to Go&Jo Once again].

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…

Today was the opening of the exhibition “Individualism – pixel rock & optic shock” at the Ethnological Museum in Munich presenting some nice interactive videoart made by Betty Mü, Alice Strunkmann Meister, Hiltmayer.Inc, Sabine BB König and Raphael Kurig. You can still see the exhibition till next Sunday (Fakebook link >>). Here we go with a few impressions:

The Club Autonomica events (Facebook-group >>) have become a quite famous thing these times in the Munich clubbing-scene (@Kong >>). Apart from that they are organizing massive rave-partys, openair-style, with various areas. I haven’t been to a proper rave in years. So I was more than thrilled to get the opportunity to join this one. And truly, especially outside in the garden the sound and the whole flair was damn nice. Pretty young but happy people, big beats, Carlsberg and from time to time some drizzling rain. I didn’t now a single name on the line-up, sorry guys, I am out of it since a long time, but I did enjoy the tunes anyway.

Like all good things the Autonomica-Team started in the underground with their urban-art gallery project “Galeria Autonomica” initiated by Christoph Pankowski and Christian Minke. They have been supporting urban- and installation-artists with making exhibitions in untenanted flats or on public space mixing it up with party and music (OFF/ON FORUM >>). For further events you should join their facebook-group >>. As well you can grap a funky fanzine for 2,50 € (Email to thiszinelovesyou@gmail.com; Kleine Schwester Verlag >>) [Thanx to Veronika, Natalie, Christoph, Goran, Dominik and Joe for having a good time! The next rave must come and we will be there!]

Bacterias have made their way to Wellington (Māori: Te Whanganui-ā-Tara) in New Zealand a while ago. [Thanx a lot to Johanna & Goran]

Today I had the great pleasure to look at the works of Peter Schaffhauser at Weltraum 26 in Munich. Peter is collecting nostalgic stuff and he puts the things together into new context. As viewer you instantly start puzzling about the meaning. And you will find a lot of those meanings yourself. When I entered at first I thought the titels of the artworks are blank, but it turned out that you can open the little cards displayed next to the pieces, to find truly great conclusions about the things put together. Apart from doing those cool things Peter writes columns for the online-paper agitano [>>]. If you want to look at his works, the exhibition is still on for the whole week. Make an appointment at Weltraum26 [>>] to see all of it. You shouldn’t miss it. [Thanx to Rudi for the invitation and thanx to Peter for the nice works to look at and think about; also thanks to Goran, Jochen, Felix & Bianca, Andi & Angie, that we have met there… I really enjoyed that evening!]

Back in the USA! Germs made a grand tour through the beauty of the Grand Canyon. Hitting from the Rainbow Bridge over the Vermillion Highway to the North and the South Rim. Mostly they occupied rare geological-site-signs. The perfect habitat. [Thanx again to Annöle!]

The UAMO (Urban Art and Media Organisation) festival is back in town. After the world city tours UAMO is now taking place at the EINSTEIN, with installations, photography, paintings, performances, objects and illustrations from more than 5o artists. The fully loaded program [>>] will be going on till sunday the 24th. Check it out and make a visit. We had fun and collected a lot of congenial impression. [Thanx to Suse, Stefan & Adrian for joining]

Love in times of automatisation: the installation “Vincent and Emily” by Carolin Liebl and Nicolas Schmid-Pfähler. [More infos & videos: nachtproduktion.de | carolinliebl.de]

Tanja Kischel shows her interactive portraits “Ancestors Pling Plong”. On each work you can touch or screw or just do something. [Further Infos: jigjag.de]

Illustrations by Estudio Flotante. [pablopino.com | pinoilustro.com]

“Playing Lines & Shapes” by Gregor Micheler. [gregormicheler.de]

“For my City” by Lori Nelson. [lorinelson.com]

“Floating memory” by Taejun Yoon and “Moment of chaos” Hakyung Kim.

“Grau” Photography by Stefan Ortmanns [stephanortmanns.de].

Vincent and Emily playing in front of the painting “Art Department” by Dawn Hunter. [dawnhunterart.com]

In next hall this work of Gohar Petrosyan welcomes the visitors.

It seems that this collage was made during a performance at the beginning. Damn I was late. [productionerror.tumblr.com]

“Expendedores De Paz” by L P – U.

At the end they made me howling with the wolves. What ever that was about… maybe we will find out on the UAMO Website some day >>.