EXHIBITIONS

AUSSER HAUS

Opening 24 June 2011 at 17.30
Exhibitions and performances in the public space
from 25 June to 17 July, 2011

Project in public space at the Anatomieplatz
with Galerie im Regierungsviertel / The Forgotten Bar Project invited by Tjorg Douglas Beer, Cedric Bomford,
Boran Burchhardt and LIGNA

A room of two metres width and ten metres length, not more. Nevertheless, the "Forgotten Bar" already made history. The initiative was launched by a group of artists and other free thinkers who aimed at showing and making art beyond the confines of conventional exhibition practices. In 2007 they placed a small glass-pavilion in the government district of Berlin and presented daily alternating exhibitions. The concept called "Galerie im Regierungsviertel" evolved quickly into an insiders` tip and conquered new spaces from Venice and London to New York.

The concept is as simple as it is seductive: Artists invite other artists, who again activate their networks. A snowball effect starts to happen and every night a new show evolves. In 2008 the accelerated gallery found a longer-term home at Kreuzberg in Berlin which was only made possible through the strong commitment of the artist Tjorg Douglas Beer. The 20 square metres of the gallery were shared by internationally renowned artists as well as upcoming talents, curious passers-by and local neighbours.

For a period of seven days the "Forgotten Bar" finds its way into Heidelberg. At Tjorg Douglas Beer`s invitation guest-curators will launch one-night-exhibitions in an ephemeral architecture by the artist Cedric Bomford. Every night an exhibition opening starting at 8 pm is accompanied by another event mostly in the form of an artist performance. As every evening a different guest-curator together with his selected artists will realise a new exhibition, it is worth to visit the "Forgotten Bar" every night anew.

Parallel to the "Forgotten Bar", the artist Boran Burchhardt creeps into Heidelberg`s public space by using the backside of no parking and no stopping signs. For a period of a few days Boran Burchhardt will stick stickers on the backside of these signs with the help of medical students from Heidelberg, who are involved in the so-called "Medibüros." On these stickers one can read in fifty different and less common languages: "Ill and without documents?" - accompanied by a reference to the internet address of the "Medibüro." In 25 German cities the "Medibüro" and its volunteers put people without required documents in contact with doctors who preserve their anonymity. People who are outlawed and not able to utilise public space and services with the common implicitness gain visibility through Burchhardt`s strategy.

In a similar way the media and performance artists of LIGNA are concerned with the margins of society and challenge the order of public space. By means of moduls of performative radio use the three actors behind the label LIGNA, Ole Frahm, Michael Hüners and Torsten Michaelsen, intervene in public space. Among different formats developed by LIGNA for this purpose is the radio-ballet: Via headphones radio listeners receive a choreography consisting of forbidden and excluded gestures at a formerly public, meanwhile privatised space and thereby undermine its means of control. The prohibited takes place everywhere and at the same time. For the "Ausser Haus"-project LIGNA will produce a new work in collaboration with the theatre of Heidelberg. On three fixed dates the free radio station "bermuda.funk" will broadcast the radio-ballets. All people of Heidelberg are encouraged to participate and to indulge in idleness, purposeless dissipation and in the subversion of established orders.

By means of "Ausser Haus" the Kunstverein aims at encouraging dialogue, action as well as participation and wants to draw attention to the suppressed and marginal. "Ausser Haus" is an experimental firework with some risks but many chances. Cedric Bomford`s pavilion as starting point and stage for the project consists of non-standardised materials and scales. It makes a reference to the logo of the Kunstverein - two rectangles having a different length on every side - a demand against routine and a reminder of the Kunstverein`s self-conception.

Venue: Anatomieplatz, Hauptstraße 47-51

FURTHER INFORMATION

Download exhibition magazine in German (pdf)
Download press release in German (pdf)
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FRAME PROGRAMME

Fr. 24.06.2011 | 5:30 pm | Prelude to the project "Ausser Haus". Greetings: Michael Sieber. Introduction: Susana Sáez

From 24. to 30.06.2011 | "Tabularasa". Galerie im Regierungsviertel / The Forgotten Bar Project invited by Tjorg Douglas Beer.

Fr. 24.06.2011 | 7 pm | Bar opening | 8 pm | Opening of the exhibition "Put The SPK In Amanda Lear`s Poket". Franz Stauffenberg invites: Saâdane Afif, Julieta Aranda, Braco Dimitrijevic, Arfus Greenwood, Eva Grubinger, Beat Huber, Annika Larsson, April Lamm, Paul Smith, Franz Stauffenberg, Erik Steinbrecher | 9:30 pm | Performance "SPACE ECHO 2011", selected by Pola Sieverding and Orson Sieverding

Sa. 25.06.2011 | 7 pm | Bar opening | 8 pm | Opening of the exhibition "Artachment presents: The Travelling Artist". Sarah Bernauer invites: George Audet, Sarah Bernauer, Dominico Billari, Andy Boot, Raphael Bottazzini, Martin Chramosta, Pawel Ferus, Clare Kenny, Viktor Korol, Alfred Lenz, Barbara Müller, Garrett Nelson, Jan van Oordt, Mirjam Spoolder, SZAF | 9:30 pm | Performance "Domenico Billari & SZAF", with Miklos Mecs and Judith Fischer Su.

Sun. 26.06.2011 | 7 pm | Bar opening | 8 pm | Opening of the exhibition "A Skeleton in the Closet". Rebecca Lamarche-Vadel invites: Aids 3D, Jean-Baptiste Bouvet, James Capper, Mathieu Cherkit, Cecile B. Evans, Kasia Fudakowski, David Kröll, Anne Neukamp, Daniel Otero-Torres, Emilie Pitoiset, Antoine Renard, Vanessa Safavi, Jeremy Shaw, Alexandre Singh, Timur Si-Qin, Shingo Yoshida | 9:30 pm | Talk

Mo. 27.06.2011 | 7 pm | Bar opening | 8 pm | Opening of the exhibition "untitled". Tjorg Douglas Beer invites: Klaus Auderer, Holger Becker, Ronja Beer, Marianne Eigenheer, Robert Gfader, Klaus Haas, Thomas Helbig, Vaggelis Horshouglou, Ben Hübsch, Caspar Hüter, Urban Hüter, Henning Kannemann, Daniel Kiss, Chris Koch, John Körner, Isa Melsheimer, Norbert Nolte, Henning Rogge, Marco Peter Schäfer, Sebastian Tröger, Alexandros Tzannis, Jannis Varelas, Christian Wener | 9:30 pm | Performance

Tue. 28.06.2011 | 7 pm | Bar opening | 8 pm | Opening of the exhibition "Denkmalpflege". Anna-Catharina Gebbers invites: Olivia Berckemeyer, Sascha Hahn, Jennis Li Cheng Tien, Alex Martinis Roe, Irina Novarese, Yorgos Sapountzis, Madeline Stillwell | 9:30 pm | Talk between curator and writer Anna-Catharina Gebbers, Susana Sáez and the initiator of the project Tjorg Douglas Beer.

Wed. 29.06.2011| 7 pm | Bar opening | 8 pm | Opening of the exhibition: "grrr" & "hmmm" . Stefan Bidner invites: Ramesch Daha, Christian Eisenberger, Sara Glaxia, Roland Maurmair, Albert Mayer, Judith Rohrmoser, Chris Rosa, Alex Ruthner, Reneé Stieger, Lilli Thiessen | 9.30 pm | | Performance: "jonnyhawaii - in the office" & 200 years bumsen&pennevienna-happeningset.

Thu. 30.06.2011 | 7 pm | Bar opening | 8 pm | Opening of the exhibition: "With The Titanic to The Moon". Marianne Eigenheer invites: Tjorg Douglas Beer, Nicky Deeley, Marianne Eigenheer, Bea Emsbach, Rebecca Griffiths, Alan Johnston, Udo Koch, Yasimin Kunz, Patrick Fabian Panetta, Sven Sachsalber, Edwin Schäfer, Ruth Scheel, Young Wha Song, Richard Wentworth, Oliver Wetterauer | 9:30 pm | Performance "Digital Picnic" by Daniela Wolfer

From 07.07.2011 | "Difference and repetition" . Participative Radio Ballet by LIGNA.

Thu. 07.07.2011 | 5 pm | Debut performance. Followed by talk with Torsten Michaelsen (LIGNA) and Susana Sáez.

Tue. 12.07.2011 | 5 pm* | Second performance radio ballet

Thu. 14.07.2011 | 5 pm* | Second performance radio ballet

Fr. 15.07.2011 | 5 pm* | Third performance radio ballet

* bermuda.funk broadcasts the radio ballet at these days at 5.30 pm

Subject to change without prior notice.

THANKS

Supported by Kulturamt, Psychologisches Institut der Universität Heidelberg, Theater Heidelberg, Amt für Verkehrsmanagement der Stadt Heidelberg, bermuda.funk, C. Josef Lamy GmbH, Heidelberger Volksbank, Brauerei zum Klosterhof, aulfinger, abcdruck GmbH, Weinhaus Fehser, Weingut Clauer

LIGNA

Galerie im Regierungsviertel

Boran Burchhardt