 Foto: Didem Pekün
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Dear readers of our newsletter, dear friends of the BAS and the Graduate School,
we would like to share some news with you today. Since the beginning of March we have a new (shared) Chair of the Joint Committee BAS: Prof. Dr. Alberto de Campo and Prof. Dr. Ariane Jeßulat.
We are particularly pleased to introduce our seven new fellows and associates of the Graduate School, whose fellowship programme will begin this October.
The publication of the current fellows, Imagine Something New, Like Justice, is about to go into print with Archive Books. We would also like to draw your attention to the Graduale - the final exhibition of the current cohort - at Galerie Wedding in September and cordially invite you to the conference Secrets, Treasures, and Sharing – Forschen und Teilen?
As always, there are also exciting announcements from our fellows, associates and alumni.
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New fellows
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 Foto: Johannes Berger
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Future fellows
from October 2021: The following artists were selected in the application process for a Graduate School fellowship: -
Sonja Hamad with the project Lamento, -
Amy Lien and Enzo Camacho with the project The Angry Christ, -
Shehzil Malik with the project A Woman Online: Can the Internet be Feminist?, -
Okhiogbe Omonhinmin with the project ARCHIVING THE MO(VE)MENT: Documenting the Black and African Experience in Knowledge Decolonisation as well as -
Adnan and Nina Softić with the project Toxic Textile Tales.
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Imagine something new, like justice
May 2021: In a few weeks, the joint publication of our current fellows, Imagine Something New, Like Justice, will be published with Archive Books. The book explores the complexity of social, historical, physical and environmental justice in artistic theory and practice. We would like to take this opportunity to thank Seda Yıldız, who has actively driven the realisation of this collective project. The publication will also be presented at the BAS conference in June. more
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 Foto: Graduiertenschule / Archive Books
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 Foto: Övül Ö. Durmusoğlu
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Graduale 21: Imagine Something New, Like Justice
16 - 28 September 2021: This year's final exhibition of the fellowship programme artistically explores global crises as well as the reconfiguration of normality(s) and coexistence. The event will take place in September at Galerie Wedding. more
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Conference: Secrets, Treasures, and Sharing – Forschen und Teilen?
25 - 26 June 2021: The Berlin Centre for Advanced Studies in Arts and Sciences (BAS) organises the conference Secrets, Treasures, and Sharing – Forschen und Teilen? Important topics are the documentation of research data and work, different materialities as well as inter- and transdisciplinarity. Through an exchange with UdK-internal actors as well as international partners and guests, new perspectives for an adequate research infrastructure will be discussed on the basis of concrete, current projects. Within the conference we organise a colloquium for the entire 3rd cycle of the UdK Berlin. Project proposals can be submitted until 6 May. more
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 Foto: BAS UdK
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Current fellows
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 Foto: Kyle Knodell
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Law of Large Numbers: Our Bodies
25 March - 02 August 2021: The first solo museum exhibition of our fellow Rindon Johnson includes newly commissioned sculptures, rawhide works and videos on view at SculptureCenter. The New York presentation will be followed by a companion exhibition - Law of Large Numbers: Our Selves - with additional works opening at Chisenhale Gallery, London in autumn. more
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Exhibition initiative 84 STEPS
09 April 2021 - 20 March 2022: Our fellow Romily Alice Walden is part of the art education initiative 84 STEPS, which transforms one floor of Kunstinstituut Melly into a dynamic space with event-based art projects during the exhibition period. The programming within these installations will give special attention to issues surrounding mental health. more
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 Foto: Afra Eisma
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 Foto: Didem Pekün
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Art of Internationalism
March 2021: Our fellow Didem Pekün is part of the new artistic platform Art of Internationalism of the political movement Progressive International. So far, the artist has designed two posters for the project: "The search for love continues even in the face of great odds" and "Yalla Comrade". more
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Die Balkone 2
30 April - 02 May 2021: The exhibition initiative Die Balkone was initiated and curated by our visiting professor Övül Durmusoglu and Joanna Warsza in April last year. Now, for the second time, Die Balkone invites members of the artistic community in Prenzlauer Berg to activate their windows and balconies with signs of life, art, connection or isolation. Among the participating artists is our fellow Salwa Aleryani.
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 Foto: Ulf Aminde
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Former fellows
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 Foto: Charlotte Eifler & Clarissa Thieme
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Step Out of the Strange Light
26 March - 09 May 2021: As part of the group exhibition at Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, our alumna Clarissa Thieme is showing two cinematic works: ARCHIVAL GRID (Preview) with Charlotte Eifler and CAN'T YOU SEE THEM? - REPEAT. with Hamdija Kresevljakovic Video Arhiv, Sarajevo. Our future associates Nina and Adnan Softić present their latest film. more
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HOLOBIONT. LIFE IS OTHER
17 April - 20 June 2021: Our alumna Lucie Strecker, curated the exhibition at the Bregenz Town Hall/Magazin4 together with Judith Reichart, Thomas Feuerstein, Jens Hauser and Magazin4. In addition to Lucie Strecker, our former fellow Agnes Meyer-Brandis is one of the participating artists. HOLOBIONT shows bodies, environments, texts, media, machines and biological organisms - condensed into ten pictorial spaces, each of which represents a narrative about another life and about the lives of others. more
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 Foto: Agnes Meyer-Brandis
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