exhibition: 02.12.2017 – 04.02.2018, wed - sun 5 - 9 pm

“mise-en-scène – architectural portraits” presents a series of reinterpretations of iconic modernist buildings. Shown alongside videos by artist Peter Welz – and at Welz’s invitation – film and video works by David Maljkovic and Christopher Roth are presented and transform buildings into the subjective actors of new stories.

BDA President Heiner Farwick, art historian and curator Dr. Julian Heynen, and DAZ artistic Director Matthias Böttger spoke at the opening.

photo: Peter Schneider
Peter Welz, Casa Malaparte (curved wall | double), 2014 (Courtesy the artist and Galerie Crone, Berlin/Wien)

In “Casa Malaparte” (2014), Peter Welz presents as an actual character  the Capri villa built by Curzio Malaparte based on a design  by Adalberto Libera. He separates the elements of the house and treats them like the organs of a living being.

photo: Jochen Arentzen
David Maljkovic, Images With Their Own Shadows, 2008 (Courtesy the artist and Sprüth Magers, Los Angeles/London/Berlin)

In “Images With Their Own Shadows” (2008), David Maljkovic combines the spirit of missed opportunities and resigned optimism of socialist modernism in Yugoslavia with an alternative narrative of cultural movements in the postwar period.

photo: Andrea Rossetti
Christopher Roth, Blow Out (The Film), 2016; Pilgrim Viewer (in collaboration with Sam Chermayeff and Arno Brandlhuber), 2015 (Courtesy the artist and Esther Schipper, Berlin)

“Pilgrim Viewer” (2015), an installation by Christopher Roth together with Sam Chermayeff and Arno Brandlhuber, presents Roth’s movie “Blow Out” (The Film), (2016). The piece was shot at Dante Bini’s “La Cupola” on Sardinia, a house commissioned in the late 1960s by director Michelangelo Antonioni and actress Monica Vitti as a summer home.

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exhibition opening mise-en-scène: Dr. Julian Heynen, Matthias Böttger, Heiner Farwick
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exhibition opening mise-en-scène: Matthias Böttger, Peter Welz
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exhibition opening mise-en-scène

opening hours: wed - sun 5 - 9 pm