Virtual Artist Talk With Yuichiro Tamura
Virtual Artist Talk With Lei Lei
Virtual Artist Talk With aaajiao
Palm Reader
Palm Reader
By Christine Sun Kim and Thomas Mader
Commissioned by Times Art Center Berlin
In Christine Sun Kim and Thomas Mader’s new collaborative work Palm Reader, the two artists continue their ongoing exploration of American Sign Language (ASL) from the points of view of a native ASL speaker and of an ASL learner. In this new commission, Kim and Mader focus on so-called “initialized signs”—signs which incorporate the manual alphabet and are executed in an up-to-down motion using an open palm as a surface. This artist interview video will tell us more from behind the scene.
Part of the group exhibition:
READINGS FROM BELOW
September 10 – December 12 2020
Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Elom 20ce & Musquiqui Chihying & Gregor Kasper, Hao Jingban, Christine Sun Kim and Thomas Mader, Nguyen Trinh Thi, Yuichiro Tamura, Yau Ching
Curated by Ariane Beyn
Presented by Times Art Center Berlin
Online publication: readingsfrombelow.timesartcenter.org
Image rights for featured artworks: Christine Sun Kim and Thomas Mader
Video production: pure production
Translation: Denise Kahler-Braaten
Assistance: Tang Han
We are excited to launch our new website and announce our reopening on May 30, 2020!
We have also extended Zhou Tao: Winter North Summer South until August 1, 2020 with summer hours: Thursdays through Saturdays, 12 PM – 7 PM.
To ensure a safe and healthy environment, we kindly ask you to book your visit in advance via: www.timesartcenter.org/visit-us
Before our physical reopening, we’ll also host an online screening event organized by Heidi Ballet, presenting films by Rosa Barba and Ben Rivers at the end of the month. Stay tuned!
#timesartcenterberlin #reopening #berlinartscene
Times Art Center Berlin | Interview with Curator Nikita Yingqian Cai
We recently interviewed Nikita Yingqian Cai, the chief curator at the Guangdong Times Museum and the curator of our current exhibition “Zhou Tao: Winter North Summer South.” We talked about how the Times Museum has coped with the COVID-19 pandemic in China, about how Zhou Tao's practice is relevant to topics such as nature, human, and mobility, and about the public role of museums and cultural institutions in times of crisis.
How do we deal with the crisis and rethink the public role of cultural institutions? How do we reconsider the social meaning of art?
Check out our YouTube channel (Times Art Center Berlin) for the full interview with Nikita Yingqian Cai on April 8, 2020.
Neither Black / Red / Yellow Nor Woman
Have you visited our current exhibition "Neither Black / Red / Yellow Nor Woman"?
This 2-minute video reflects the wonderful opening, having attracted 800 visitors, taking place at the end of September.
We feel privileged to have worked with a group of inspiring curators, artists, designers, art professionals, advocates, creators, and producers. The collective efforts have contributed to a curious, critical conversation that explores new dimensions of subjectivity and interrelation beyond the East/West divide.
Through cross-border storytelling and historical/fictional juxtaposing, the exhibition embraces solidarity and celebrates differences. It questions whether there could be more empathy and resonance regardless of our different personal trajectories, cultural identifications, ideological positions, and understandings of gender.
Come to visit us to be part of the conversation. We are open from Tuesdays through Saturdays, 11 am-6 pm.
Curated by Nikita Yingqian Cai and Xiaoyu Weng
Participating Artists: Chang Wen-Hsuan, Dachal Choi, Chitra Ganesh, Jane Jin Kaisen, Iris Kensmil, Sylbee Kim, Mai Ling, Laura Huertas Millán, Sara Modiano, Mai-Thu Perret, Thao Nguyen Phan, Arin Rungjang, Shen Xin, Trinh T. Minh-ha, Evelyn Taocheng Wang, Wang Zhibo, Luka Yuanyuan Yang & Carlo Nasisse, Mia Yu
He says, “Of course I don’t want to be forgotten, but I really don’t want her to be forgotten.”
Coby and Stephen Are in Love (2018-2019)
A film by Luka Yuanyuan Yang & Carlo Nasisse
The installation version is now on view at Times Art Center Berlin as part of the exhibition Neither Black / Red / Yellow Nor Woman curated by Nikita Yingqian Cai and Xiaoyu Weng.
Join us for the 8th Para-curatorial Symposium at Spike Berlin now.
Printing transforms words into action. The mesmerizing flow in this video is turning a new chapter, quite literally, of the forthcoming program at Times Art Center Berlin.
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NEITHER BLACK/RED/YELLOW NOR WOMAN
An exhibition striving to merge “them” with “us” and to form polyphony of cross-border storytellers👏
Curated by Nikita Yingqian Cai and Xiaoyu Weng
Participating Artists: Chang Wen-Hsuan, Dachal Choi, Chitra Ganesh, Jane Jin Kaisen, Iris Kensmil, Sylbee Kim, Mai Ling, Laura Huertas Millán, Sara Modiano, Mai-Thu Perret, Thao Nguyen Phan, Arin Rungjang, Shen Xin, Trinh T. Minh-ha, Evelyn Taocheng Wang, Wang Zhibo, Luka Yuanyuan Yang & Carlo Nasisse, Mia Yu
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Design & video by @eps51
Art is a reflection of what we allow ourselves to see. At the moment, our new location in Berlin-Mitte is inviting pedestrians to encounter the reflections of themselves. In a month’s time, this empty space will be filled with artworks to form cross-border storytelling through a large thematic exhibition.
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Stay tuned!
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Our New Address in Berlin-Mitte
The last week of Kan Xuan‘s solo show 'Racing Gravels' has begun – don‘t miss it! 💥
On view till June 29.
Artist Interview: Kan Xuan
Kan Xuan’s solo exhibition “Racing Gravels” at Times Art Center Berlin opens up a complex and humorous universe in the context of Berlin’s rapidly changing urban environment of Potsdamer Strasse. Her subtle yet powerful video works give impulses for critical reflection on global commodity circuits and the role of the individual within these complex contemporary scenarios.
In this one-minute video, the artist talks about her creative intention behind the works exhibited at “Racing Gravels”.
The exhibition is on view through 29th June 2019.
Curated by Tan Yue.
Supported by Guangdong Times Museum.
This is a nice moment from @isaacchongwai ‘s performance “Rehearsal of the Futures: Police Training Exercises” at the Finissage of our first exhibition last Saturday.
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We look forward to seeing you at our upcoming exhibition soon!
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@marie_france_rafael is making the introduction of tonight’s panel discussion with @lzhenhua and @olafstueber
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As a closing event of “Episode II: Towards Autonomy” of the inaugural three-part exhibition “The D-Tale: Video Art from the Pearl River Delta”, Times Art Center Berlin hosts a panel discussion between Li Zhenhua and Olaf Stüber, moderated by Marie-France Rafael. Throughout the discussion, the panelists will give an insight into their curatorial approaches and further investigate certain specifications of the time- and technology-based art form in terms of authenticity, curation, and distribution.
#throwback to the opening of our inaugural exhibition “The D-Tale, Video Art from the Pearl River Delta” on 30 November 2018.
Three more days left to catch the first episode: Urban Explosion!
A 30-sec excerpt of “Golden Journey” (2011) by LIN Yilin.
"Golden Journey" resulted from the artist’s three-month residency in San Francisco in 2011. After observation of the city’s geographical and cultural environments and exploration of its histories of migration and immigration, Lin conceived and created a series of performances with political metaphors at San Francisco’s landmarks and obvious tourist locations. Through his provocative urban interventions, through repetitive and continuous performing simple actions and gestures that people would not usually conduct– such rolling on the ground – so as to disrupt the general order of daily life on the street and interfere with the normal behaviors of people around, Lin creatively explores the complex relationships between humans and the built environment, the materialisation of the body, and its social impacts.
LIN Yilin is noted for a conceptual practice that embraces sculpture, installation, photography as well live performance and video. His works integrate social architecture and everyday life in an energetic and witty manner.
Come visit our inaugural exhibition “The D-Tale, Video Art from the Pearl River Delta” to watch the whole piece.