[spectre] FW: VALIE EXPORT exh. in Berlin

[Andreas Broeckmann]

(come and visit during transmediale.03, 1-5 feb!!)

>  VALIE EXPORT
>  Mediale Anagramme
>
>  18 January to 9 March 2003
>  Opening: Friday, 17 January, 7 p.m.
>
>  You are cordially invited to the opening press conference on Thursday,
>  January 16, at 11:30 a.m. at the Akademie der K=FCnste.
>  The artist will be present.
>
>
>  An exhibition organised by the RealismusStudio of the New Society for Fin=
e
>  Arts Berlin (NGKB) in cooperation with the Akademie der K=FCnste,=
 sponsored by
>  the Hauptstadtkulturfonds with the support of the Federal Chancellery of
>  Austria and the Cultural Department of Vienna.
>
>  Place: Akademie der K=FCnste, Hanseatenweg 10, D-10557 Berlin-Tiergarten
>  Opening hours: Tuesdays to Sundays 11 a.m. =96 8 p.m.
>  Admission fee: Euro 5.00, reduced Euro 3.00
>
>  VALIE EXPORT Mediale Anagramme is the first comprehensive presentation of
>  this important Austrian artist in Germany.  Her media-critical work explo=
res
>  the influences and impacts technical and electronic medias have on human
>  perception, our communication and social behavioural forms, indeed, on ou=
r
>  whole way of life.
>  The question of how, with what, and in what way cultural processes are
>  constituted and constructed through media has been thematised in the arti=
st=92
>  s work, which spans over three decades.  The main focus of her intellectu=
al
>  and artist interest is the media=92s power of influence, which is the obj=
ect
>  as well as the means of her analysis.  EXPORT=92s media-reflective=
 approach is
>  thus never confined only to the widening of artistic possibilities, rathe=
r
>  continually strives for intervention in the social sphere.
>
>  The title of the exhibition originates from the artist.  =93Mediale Anagr=
amme=94
>  was the title VALIE EXPORT gave a text in 1990 that expounds the paradigm=
s
>  of her work: an uncompromising reference to media and an anagrammatic met=
hod
>  as artistic strategy.
>
>  VALIE EXPORT (born 1940 in Linz, Austria) is one of the first and most
>  renowned and influential media artists worldwide.  Today younger creators=
 of
>  art orient themselves on her critical concepts, her artistic challenge, a=
nd
>  her radicality. Pioneering the way, VALIE EXPORT coined the name =93media
>  artist=94 for herself back in the 1970s.  Materialising in her work is he=
r
>  theoretical and artistic research on contexts in which images, symbols,
>  languages first gain their semantic significance.  By deconstructing or
>  constantly reconfiguring these referential systems, the artist demonstrat=
es
>  the determinedness of our patterns of perception, thoughts and values.
>
>  EXPORT=92s diverse and complex work resists popular exhibition concepts w=
hich
>  place the contemporary production of the =93artist=94 in the centre eithe=
r
>  within a chronological structure or by organising exhibits according to
>  groups of works.
>  To match EXPORT=92s anagrammatic method of alternating construction and
>  deconstruction of visual and linguistic contexts, RealismusStudio has
>  conceived a discourse parcours for the exhibition which condenses works f=
rom
>  each of her creative periods into six thematic arenas =96 a principle tha=
t
>  establishes cross-references to the different phases of her artistic work=
=2E
>  Leitmotifs of the arenas are: deconstruction of perception, reality and
>  representation, feminist analysis of images of femininity and gender
>  difference, the public realm, communication structures, and technology an=
d
>  reality production.
>
>  Between arenas, congenial key works, such as =93Adjunct Dislocations=94 (=
1973),
>  =93abstract film no. 1=94 (1978/68), =93Body Sign Action=94 (1970),=
 =93Tapp- und
>  Tastkino=94 (=93Tap and Touch Cinema=94) (1968), =93Der Schrei=94(=93The =
Scream=94)
>  (1994), and =93Die un-endliche/-=E4hnliche Melodie der Str=E4nge (=93The =
Un-ending
>  Un-ique Melody of Chords=94) (1998), refer from the accents of each prece=
ding
>  arena to the main thematic emphases of the following arena.  The most
>  significant works from each large complex of works, such as her early
>  Expanded Cinema projects, action photography and action video, Body
>  Configurations, Conceptual Photography, Digital Photography, experimental
>  film, video works and installations, as well as the large installations o=
f
>  the 1990s, are well represented in the exhibition, as are also rough pape=
rs
>  on realised and unrealised projects.
>
>  NGBK and the RealismusStudio of the NGBK have succeeded in realising this
>  extensive presentation of and tribute toVALIE EXPORT in Berlin.
>  Collaboration with the Akademie der K=FCnste and the support of the
>  Hauptstadtkulturfond and the Federal Chancellery of Austria has made it
>  possible to present her work in its entirety.  The exhibition will be
>  presented in the Akademie der K=FCnste in all three halls, altogether
>  approximately 2000 m".
>
>  The exhibition will be supplemented by a lecture and discussion series in
>  the Akademie =96 and a film programme  in Arsenal/ Freunde der Deutschen
>  Kinemathek e.V. at Potsdamer Platz.  A 224-page catalogue (hardcover,
>  numerous colour and black-and-white illustrations) on the exhibition is
>  available at the exhibition for the price of Euro 24.00 and in bookshops =
for
>  Euro 28.00.
>
>  Further information can be found at www.ngbk.de.
>
>  The artist will be present at the press conference and the exhibition
>  opening.  She will also be available in Berlin for interviews from 13-19
>  January 2003.
>
>  Project management
>  Dr. Hildtrud Ebert, Frank Wagner
>
>
>