September 02, 2020, 2 pm
Many thanks to the curator Hauke Zießler introducing our participants to the history, development and concept of the Bärenzwinger and guiding us through the group exhibition sound.nodes. The visit is part of the BAI Studio Program | Berlin Artist Residency, Art School, Arts Incubator, and Live Online Courses & Classes.
Exhibition Dates: July 09, 2020 – October 25, 2020
Location: Bärenzwinger
Opening Hours: Tuesday – Sunday, 11 AM – 7 PM
Address: Im Köllnischen Park, 10179 Berlin
With works by Iskandar Ahmad Abdalla, Mario Asef, Anna Bromley, Akash Sharma & Shazeb Arif Shaikh
“The Bärenzwinger is an exhibition space that has been exploring the traces of its past as a bear enclosure from a wide range of contemporary perspectives since 2017. The building’s silent, intangible legacy still, however, hangs heavy in the air.
With the Bärenzwinger’s transformation into a cultural location, we’ve asked ourselves how to open up to the public not as an animal enclosure, but as a landmarked cultural site that inquires into present-day sociocultural issues. The process of addressing this question will be investigated cumulatively in the first exhibition of our new annual program “Openings, not Openings.” It remains uncertain how the Bärenzwinger will be able to continue its work, whether there will be “no show” and “no opening,” or whether we will finally be allowed to return to the situation as it was before.
In the exhibition “sound.nodes,” artistic approaches and perspectives expand the rooms of the Bärenzwinger in a self-reflective manner. New information and a change in circumstances are forcing the Bärenzwinger to adopt a self-critical, fusilli-shaped process of opening, offering different possibilities, dynamics, and perspectives for connecting and creating “nodes.” These, in turn, continue to evolve in a self-reflective manner and link together in new ways.” (Text excerpt from the Website by courtesy of Bärenzwinger)
More information on the Bärenzwinger Website.
