Der Ausstellungsbereich im M12 trägt den Titel Werkschau. Wir zeigen hier zeitgenössische Arbeiten unterschiedlicher Genres, die sich im Idealfall mit dem Raum und der Umgebung auseinandersetzen.
Die Ausstellungen folgen einem experimentellen Ansatz, da sich Werkschau auch als Labor versteht und Kunst jenseits eines Verkaufskontexts präsentiert. Die Ausstellungen werden durch Auftritte, Konzerte und Diskussionen ergänzt, um den prozesshaften Ansatz zu betonen.

WERKSCHAU | KALENDER

20.01. - 28.03.2006

Berlin Alexanderplatz -
Kaufhof Reverse, 2005
von Heike Klussmann

Heike Klussmann konstruiert den Blick des Gebäudes auf seine Umgebung. 4081 Einzelbilder, aufgenommen von innen nach aussen durch jedes Loch der Fassade, werden wieder zu vier Fassadenseiten zusammengesetzt. Werkschau zeigt bis Ende März eine dieser 5,60 m langen Fassadenseiten, mit Blickrichtung Alexanderplatz. Auf zwei beigestellten Monitoren sind die gesamten Bilder in einer Animation zu sehen.

artnet.de

06.04. - 28.04.2006

Two Abstract Paintings

An Audio-Visual Concert + 20 Photograms

Andreas Bertilsson - live (Mitek/Malmö)
Angela Lorenz (Berlin)

The piece is a poetic soundscape, carefully constructed of microscopic pieces, made up almost entirely of the recorded sounds of things like dry leaves, bits of wood, paper and dust -- things that can hardly even be called things, mere particles of matter, most of them on the verge of falling apart. Bertilsson turns matter into material, treating each of his recordings with utmost care and minutely crafting them into a vibrant mesh, a still life that is by no means still, an anthology of very small things that is alive with crackling, sparkling, shimmering beauty. As a visual counterpoint, the booklet holds a collection of twenty black and white photograms, portraits of the very same bits and pieces that the music is made of -- twenty individual bits of dust, singled out against nothingness, their shadows frozen into paper by means of 0.8 seconds of light.

mitek-web.net
andreasbertilsson.com
alorenz.net

11.05.06 - 04.06.06

Shimmy Shimmy Grass -
Installation by qubo gas

(Courtesy Galerie Anne Barrault)

Shimmy Shimmy Grass is a virtual garden in which unreal flora grow in interaction with real-time meteorological datas/ in this case from the city Berlin - an ephemeral virtual vegetable microcosm whose autonomous and random evolution is controlled by a data-processing program.
A digital and imaginary flora spreads out and overruns the space, being part of the place which shelters it in a poetic way.
This wild garden -inspired by « L’Île Derborescence » of the landscape designer Gilles Clement- is introduced in an inaccessible and protected place and appears to the spectator by its external vision only. This project of in situ installation is presented under the form of a data sound projection on a glass screen. The evolution of this garden is inspired by simple life systems and is specific to this ecosystem type: life, death, reproduction, tension and duality. This project marked by poetry and fragility is a continuation of qubo gas's graphic and thematic interests and their attachment to subtle and delicate compositions. The main theme of this project is the creation of a data bank of graphic elements that give birth to an uncontrolled and imaginary flora with uncertain outcome and perenniality.

The floral structure of the garden and its graphic composition are set up in a completely autonomous and uncontrollable way according to precise criteria. Once started, the garden is completely left to itself and gradually evolves in real time in a cyclic and natural way over the duration of the exhibition. The program is linked to Internet in real time and collects weather data provided by Metar (the system transmitting the climatic data to the international airports).

The garden is permanently connected to the "Metar" of the nearest airport to the place of exhibition and recovers in real time the temperature level, the humidity rate, the sunshine level, the cloudbank, which have an effect on the development of the garden. This wild flora evolves day and night during the whole time of the exhibition and develops two phases: diurnal and nocturnal. According to weather data - the sunshine level or the humidity rate, for example -, the garden activity is more or less intense. The plants can completely invade the space and abound or do badly according to the climatic conditions. The evolution of this flora can thus become uncertain and the degeneration of the garden completely plausible.

qubogas.com

07.09.06 - 16.09.06

adaptateur 6x4
Licht-Video Installation

Licht + Video:
lft . u-matic . telematique

Musik:
El Puma (Elektro Music Department)
Mo (Elektro Music Department)

lft, u-matic und telematique präsentieren mit "adaptateur 6x4" das aktuelle Ergebnis ihrer Discoforschung.
Für die Licht- und Videoinstallation werden Leuchtstoffröhren in einer Sequenz angeordnet, die Lichtpattern generiert und als Video-Projektionsfläche fungiert. Das Objekt wird live bespielt zu einem Instrument, das die Musik in reduzierter Form visualisiert. Zur Eröffnung spielen El Puma und Mo, weitere Termine mit einer Live-Bespielung des adaptateurs werden folgen / s.Kalender M12.

telematique/-adaptateur.de
elektro.fm

Sa / 07.10.06 / 22 h / Werkschau

realiTV
ubiquitous media reality

Take Remote-Controls with
John Dekron, Peter Castine and
realities:united

realiTV makes use of almost ubiquitous high bandwidth information streams: Satellite TV. It removes some boundaries which are often kept in artistic work. The machine unleashes a stream of images at such a rate and intensity, that there is no time to reflect and to construct something like an artistic comment or conduct.

thisserver.de
bek.no
realu.de

08.12.06 - 22.12.06

Bear Reflux - Preromanbritain
serving tea, biscuits, sounds and visions

Preromanbritain propose to exhibit a one-to-one scale replica of an American black bear cub and Linnet songbird. Both will be constructed from gardening foam giving the impression of weathered public monuments. Connected to the base of the sculpture will be headphones playing a soundtrack. This will consist of various forest sounds and birdcalls generated using a Roland 808 drum machine and Roland 303 bass synthesizer – both legendary instruments of the “acid house” movement of the early ’90s.

The Berlin show will be a mirror image of another one produced simultaneously for the NADA Miami Beach art fair in the US. There, Preromanbritain will be presenting a sculpture of a taxidermied bear and songbird placed on a Bauhaus-style plinth. The speakers for the soundtrack will be placed inside the animals’ bodies, giving them a semblance of new life. Each exhibition will operate as a distorted facsimile of the other.

Opening night in Berlin - M12

The Berlin show will open with a club night featuring music by gwEm, manou and a range of UK DJs. Preromanbritain will perform their slide show narrative piece Questing and create a series of video projections to be played during the musical performances.

Preromanbritain are an international group of artists and musicians. They have collaborated to produce exhibitions, events and music together. Exhibitions and performances in 2006 include: The Coloring Book Project, PS1-MoMA, Queens, USA; Lisa Kirk’s Greatest Hits, Wayward Cannon, London, UK; LEGION, NADA Art Fair, Miami, USA.

Alexandre Singh is a British artist based in Brooklyn, USA. He graduated from the MFA program of the School of Visual Arts, New York in 2005. Colin Perry is a London-based artist and writer who graduated from the Ruskin School, Oxford, 2001. Musicians Gareth Morris (gwEm) and Manuela Krause (manou) both perform regularly at live events across Europe and have released records on numerous independent labels including Shitkatapult, Microdisco, Muller and Monika Records.