Berlin Art House SomoS provides a spacious gallery, beautiful and comfortable ateliers and guest rooms, a semi-public salon and kitchen; and unique music production facilities.
The SomoS Art House is situated on the first floor of a 1890's mixed residential/commercial building at Kottbusser Damm 95 in the popular creative area dubbed Kreuzkölln, where the Kreuzberg and Neukölln neighborhoods meet; a stylishly renovated historic space that has functioned through the years as a 1920's Kaffeehaus; an erotic cinema complex and pool hall. Within walking distance are numerous cafes/restaurants/clubs, art spaces and institutions like Künstlerhaus Bethanien, the BBK Print Facilities and Media Studios, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien and NGBK.
From this lovingly renovated and inspiring space SomoS organizes its own cultural events and closely works with artists and curators to realize their own projects.
SomoS' organizers have extensive experience in curating, educational, and audio visual and food-art event organization, music production, media- and visual art. At SomoS’ new location the creative projects of the former art space Kunstraum Richard Sorge and the Playground Berlin crew are continued; embedded in a broader practice, involving cooperation, art production and education.
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On 400 qm SomoS offers several ateliers, guest rooms, a sound studio, a gallery/event space of 120 qm; a 110 qm semi-public salon/kitchen area. The studios are suitable for various disciplines and purposes and are equipped with working table, chairs, couch, workbench and professional led light. The residents have an art library and a range of art equipment and tools at their disposal. A well-equipped sound lab facility with integrated living accommodation is available as well. SomoS is well-prepared for events like talks, dinners, conferences etc. as well as digital and analog sound production.
Mission: To create an international open platform for innovative arts, exhibitions, education, music and creative cooperation.
Multidisciplinary artist Emi Brener's new work, made in Berlin early 2020. View more of the artist’s mixed-media paintings along with SomoS Artist Interview here: https://somos.media/kt
(Due to the Covid-19 crisis this presentation is completely virtual)
Working primarily in mixed media works that poetically merge the mediums of oil painting and embroidery, visual artist Emi Brener aims to convey moments of human intimacy and vulnerability.
Under the banner "Under the Skin," SomoS premieres Brener’s latest work, conceived and made in early 2020 during Emi’s Berlin artist residency, along with an interview that offers deeper insight into the unique creative world of this engaging young Uruguayan artist.
Conducted at SomoS, March 2020
Interview: Paulus Fugers
Editing: Carlos Vivero
Music: Ricardo Ferreira: “Boys & Girls”
View the online presentation of Emi's work: https://somos.media/kt
Working primarily in mixed media works that poetically merge the mediums of oil painting and embroidery, visual artist Emi Brener aims to convey moments of human intimacy and vulnerability.
Under the banner "Under the Skin," SomoS premieres Brener’s latest work, conceived and made in early 2020 during Emi’s Berlin artist residency, along with an interview that offers deeper insight into the unique creative world of this engaging young Uruguayan artist.
Conducted at SomoS, March 2020
Interview: Paulus Fugers
Editing: Carlos Vivero
Music: Ricardo Ferreira: “Boys & Girls”
View the online presentation of Emi's work: https://somos.media/kt
"Art must go on!" While SomoS is hard at work at our upcoming virtual shows of Emi Brener - Under the Skin (Online Presentation) and Jiyeon Kim - After the Flood (Online Presentation), we take inspiration from other online art shows, such as this lovingly-made one from our friends and colleagues at GlogauAIR.
GlogauAIR Open Studios March 20th and 21st. Art Residency Programm located in Kreuzberg (Berlin), opens its doors to art lovers and enthusiasts, inviting them to visit 13 studios of contemporary artworks by 15 international resident artists and the site-specific work of So&So Studio in the Project S...
Unfortunately, due to the current international health concern surrounding COVID-19, SomoS’ public events are on hold, to help prevent spreading the virus.
However, we will still be featuring the work and projects of our artists online, and are considering different formats. Keep an eye on our social media and website https://www.somos-arts.org/ for updates. Stay well, we hope to welcome you back to SomoS soon.
SomoS Art House Berlin presents curated exhibitions, organizes an Artist-in-Residency program, hosts workshops, conferences and meet-ups.
Thank you to Ukrainian artist Daniil Galkin's and everyone who supported his engaging solo show Daniil Galkin - Schwäne-Gänse (Exhibition/Reception) at SomoS! Below are some exhibition views.
Anna M. Szaflarski will be featured during the Futureless Group Exhibition with her video project "Will you please be quiet?" which demonstrates the liberating potential of dismantling the domestic realm. In this work, three common domestic items appear as if they are falling autonomously from the sky; rejected by a force greater than an individual, like a planetary immune system that pushes them out of the body.
More information: https://somos.media/kx
Will you please be quiet? 2009, Video Still, courtesy of the artist.
Thursday evening, SomoS is hosting Ukrainian Artist-in-Residence Daniil Galkin's one night exhibition and reception 'Schwäne-Gänse' from 6-9pm. Till then, check out Artforum's article on Galkin's previous installation 'Tourniquet' at KW Institute for Contemporary Art. Looking forward to seeing you all tonight!
Here's a link to the event at SomoS...
https://www.facebook.com/events/1522274347920843/
There is no easy access to “Fire and Forget. On Violence.” Visitors have to negotiate Daniil Galkin’s Tourniquet, 2015, a labyrinth of metal turnstiles, just to enter the exhibition space. What greets them after is an exploration of violence in its various manifestations, as ordered by the cur...
Join us Thursday evening, 12 March from 6 - 9pm for the one night only exhibition and artist reception "Schwäne-Gänse," in which Ukrainian artist Daniil Galkin presents his ongoing research into the ideological underpinnings of public design and architecture.
Daniil Galkin - Schwäne-Gänse (Exhibition/Reception) from 6 - 9pm at SomoS, Kottbusser Damm 95. Entry is free.
The womb of a fish, a buried river and the voices of the city come together in LIQUID ENTITIES, a multidisciplinary installation by ecofeminist artist duo Areej al Huniti & Eliza Goldox that is presented during the Futureless Group Exhibition. In this work combining virtual reality, video, writing and sound, the artists turn towards mythological interpretations of a dried-up river in Amman, Jordan to generate feminist imaginations of the personal and societal.
More information: https://somos.media/kx
Image from VOICES FROM THE INTERIOR by Areej al Huniti & Eliza Goldox, multi-reality experience to be viewed with VR glasses.
Fallon Mayanja, featured in the Futureless Group Exhibition presenting the video installation, 'Or the Inescapable III.' The video utilizes electronics and technology as tools to share, feel, and listen, to combine the audible and the inaudible, the unspoken and unspeakable, the world inside and outside of sound. It is an exploration of bodies and identities, particularly their plurality and multiplicity, considering the intersections of Blackness, queerness and femininity.
Futureless opens April 1, running until April 18.
More information:
https://somos.media/kx
Heather Renée Russ' multidisciplinary installation, 'Tidewrack' is featured in the Futureless Group Exhibition which traces the myriad of possibilities for queer/feminist futures. Her work explores the conflict between celebration and anxiety; celebrating nature while feeling its precarity, celebrating queer togetherness while also feeling anxious for the next displacement.
More information: https://somos.media/kx
"Political ideologies have always been spread more easily with the help of a child’s image, Ukraine has started introducing modern playgrounds, e.g. in the form of warships, as part of the process of creating space for implementation of the patriotic endeavors program." - Danill Galkin
Join us on March 12th, 6 - 9pm for Daniil Galkin - Schwäne-Gänse (Exhibition/Reception) by Ukrainian Artist-in-residence Daniil Galkin. Galkin will exhibit recent work on the political indoctrination of youth, presenting viewers with video sketches and small sculptural forms. Entry is free.
Don't miss this chance to view the work of this engaging political artist!
We are excited to announce our first artist participating in the Futureless Group Exhibition, opening Wednesday, 1 April from 6-9pm.
Artist Zhen Guo (ZhenGuoart) is exhibiting part of her sculpture series, Punching Bags that demonstrates the resilience and survival of women against patriarchal oppression, by appropriating boxers' punching bags and covering them with textile breasts. Guo utilizes techniques such as patch-working and tapestry in her mixed media sculptures to acknowledge the legacy of craft in feminist art.
Watch this space, we will be announcing more artists soon!
More information: https://somos.media/kx
We have a spot left for the Fantastic Beings Workshop - Body Sculpting & Assemblage #2 with Iria do Castelo! Don't miss out on this unique opportunity to immerse yourself in Iria Do Castelo creative process and make your own sculpture at SomoS. We still accept spontaneous participants. Drop us a line at [email protected], or join us at SomoS, Saturday, March 7th, shortly before 11am to register.
The workshop is 90€ for both days and all materials will be provided, but participants are encouraged to bring along curious objects that they may wish to incorporate into their sculptures.
There's still time to sign up for the Fantastic Beings Workshop - Body Sculpting & Assemblage #2 from 7-8 March with Iria do Castelo, who will teach you how to build a human-like sculpture using plaster bandages, homemade papier-mâché, clay and found objects.
Iria do Castelo presents the workshop as a way to highlight the imaginative opportunities that are possible when sculpture, assemblage and the body come together.
Registration closes this Thursday, 5 March and spots are limited. Please email [email protected] to register, or for more information head to https://somos.media/kq.
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Saturday, Feb. 29 from 2-7pm is your last chance to view SomoS' current exhibition Manami Uetake - Imagining Something Unknown. This is the last chance to experience this three-part video installation looking at the private ways trauma is processed and shared, its possibilities, but also its limits. Entry is free.
SomoS is looking forward to the Fantastic Beings Workshop - Body Sculpting & Assemblage #2, in which Spanish multidisciplinary artist Iria Do Castelo will teach you how to build a human-like sculpture using plaster bandages, homemade papier-mâché, clay and found objects. The workshop at SomoS is designed to give an opportunity for participants to improve their creative process and explore new paths of sculpture and assemblage together with an established and experienced artist.
Saturday/Sunday March 7/8. Conducted in English and suitable for anyone, artist or not, from 18 and above. All materials will be provided, but participants are also encouraged to bring along curious objects that they may wish to incorporate into their sculptures. Registration is required.
More information: https://somos.media/kq
You might remember Jiyeon Kim's well-known series in which she painted 100 portraits of people she saw on Tinder. The paintings sparked controversy about privacy on the internet, and led us to question how we portray ourselves on social media.
For her latest exhibition, Jiyeon Kim - After the Flood, the artist explores other aspects of the internet, moving from the selfie to the "story," documenting the effects of the flood of visuals and information that we are faced with everyday. She depicts this visually in her fragmented, collage-style paintings, which will be on view at SomoS, opening on Tuesday March 17th at 6pm.
Using abstraction to tell the human story of internet dating.
For all those interested in joining the next Fantastic Beings Workshop - "Body Sculpting & Assemblage" #2 taking place 7- 8 March - here is a look back at our last workshop from December 2019!
In the Fantastic Beings workshop, Spanish multidisciplinary artist Iria do Castelo will teach you how to build a human-like sculpture using plaster bandages, homemade paper mache, clay and found objects. The workshop is designed to give an opportunity for participants to improve their creative process and explore new paths of sculpture and assemblage together with an established and experienced artist.
Conducted in English and suitable for anyone, artist or not, from 18 and above. All materials will be provided, but participants are also encouraged to bring along curious objects that they may wish to incorporate into their sculptures. Registration is required.
Iria do Castelo presents the workshop as a way to highlight the imaginative opportunities that are possible when sculpture, assemblage and the body come together. Inspired by Gothic art, eroticism, dreams and the dark depths of the human psyche, in her own work, do Castelo creates perverse and disruptive settings in which sculpture draws on emotion rather than formal rules. What often emerges from do Castelo’s creative process are fantastical creatures that bear resemblance to human figures. With do Castelo as a guide and teacher, participants of the Fantastic Beings workshop will be led to replicate their own bodies, transforming their moulds into new non-human, biomorphic compositions with the aid of assemblage techniques.
𝗪𝗢𝗥𝗞𝗦𝗛𝗢𝗣 - Saturday - Sunday, March 7-8, 11:00 - 17:00
90€ for both days, including material (you can bring additional objects) and a final display of your work
Language : English
𝗣𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗴𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗯𝘆 𝘀𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗻 𝗲𝗺𝗮𝗶𝗹 𝘁𝗼: [email protected]
Final deadline - March 5th, 24h
Cancellation and reimbursement policy:
Cancellation between 02.03 - 06.03 – 50% of the payment will be refunded
No reimbursement after 06.03
𝗔𝗕𝗢𝗨𝗧 𝗜𝗥𝗜𝗔 𝗗𝗢 𝗖𝗔𝗦𝗧𝗘𝗟𝗢:
Iria do Castelo's installations draw from the hidden tensions and impulses of human’s psychology. She uses the body and the unconscious perception that we have of it, as a starting point, materializing it into sculpture. Looking at eroticism as a very unique way to approach the physical limits and the animal condition of the human body, do Castelo's work draws on emotion rather than formal rules.
In 2012, do Castelo graduated with a Masters in Graphic Design from Fundación CIEC. A Coruña, Spain and is represented by galleries in Spain, Hong Kong and Melbourne. She has exhibited extensively in a number of solo shows, group exhibitions and art fairs internationally. Her work has been featured at MAC Contemporary Art Museum in Coruña, Spain. She has participated in Art Madrid, Swab Art Fair Barcelona and Affordable Art Fair Hong Kong.
𝗔𝗿𝘁𝗶𝘀𝘁'𝘀 𝗧𝗮𝗹𝗸 & 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 - Tuesday, March 10, 19:00 - 21:00
Free participation, by Iria do Castelo including the display of the Fantastic Beings Workshop participant's final results.
Iria will speak about the workshop process; her work; and about the small Artist-in-Residence project she organizes in her studio in a rural area of Northern Spain.
Language: English
For more information: https://www.facebook.com/events/676912002849272/
𝗖𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗼 𝗦𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗼: https://www.castelostudio.com/
For all those interested in joining the next Fantastic Beings Workshop - "Body Sculpting & Assemblage" #2 taking place 7- 8 March - here is a look back at our last workshop from December 2019!
In the Fantastic Beings workshop, Spanish multidisciplinary artist Iria do Castelo will teach you how to build a human-like sculpture using plaster bandages, homemade paper mache, clay and found objects. The workshop is designed to give an opportunity for participants to improve their creative process and explore new paths of sculpture and assemblage together with an established and experienced artist.
Conducted in English and suitable for anyone, artist or not, from 18 and above. All materials will be provided, but participants are also encouraged to bring along curious objects that they may wish to incorporate into their sculptures. Registration is required.
Iria do Castelo presents the workshop as a way to highlight the imaginative opportunities that are possible when sculpture, assemblage and the body come together. Inspired by Gothic art, eroticism, dreams and the dark depths of the human psyche, in her own work, do Castelo creates perverse and disruptive settings in which sculpture draws on emotion rather than formal rules. What often emerges from do Castelo’s creative process are fantastical creatures that bear resemblance to human figures. With do Castelo as a guide and teacher, participants of the Fantastic Beings workshop will be led to replicate their own bodies, transforming their moulds into new non-human, biomorphic compositions with the aid of assemblage techniques.
𝗪𝗢𝗥𝗞𝗦𝗛𝗢𝗣 - Saturday - Sunday, March 7-8, 11:00 - 17:00
90€ for both days, including material (you can bring additional objects) and a final display of your work
Language : English
𝗣𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗴𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗯𝘆 𝘀𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗻 𝗲𝗺𝗮𝗶𝗹 𝘁𝗼: [email protected]
Final deadline - March 5th, 24h
Cancellation and reimbursement policy:
Cancellation between 02.03 - 06.03 – 50% of the payment will be refunded
No reimbursement after 06.03
𝗔𝗕𝗢𝗨𝗧 𝗜𝗥𝗜𝗔 𝗗𝗢 𝗖𝗔𝗦𝗧𝗘𝗟𝗢:
Iria do Castelo's installations draw from the hidden tensions and impulses of human’s psychology. She uses the body and the unconscious perception that we have of it, as a starting point, materializing it into sculpture. Looking at eroticism as a very unique way to approach the physical limits and the animal condition of the human body, do Castelo's work draws on emotion rather than formal rules.
In 2012, do Castelo graduated with a Masters in Graphic Design from Fundación CIEC. A Coruña, Spain and is represented by galleries in Spain, Hong Kong and Melbourne. She has exhibited extensively in a number of solo shows, group exhibitions and art fairs internationally. Her work has been featured at MAC Contemporary Art Museum in Coruña, Spain. She has participated in Art Madrid, Swab Art Fair Barcelona and Affordable Art Fair Hong Kong.
𝗔𝗿𝘁𝗶𝘀𝘁'𝘀 𝗧𝗮𝗹𝗸 & 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 - Tuesday, March 10, 19:00 - 21:00
Free participation, by Iria do Castelo including the display of the Fantastic Beings Workshop participant's final results.
Iria will speak about the workshop process; her work; and about the small Artist-in-Residence project she organizes in her studio in a rural area of Northern Spain.
Language: English
For more information: https://www.facebook.com/events/676912002849272/
𝗖𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗼 𝗦𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗼: https://www.castelostudio.com/
Kottbusser Damm 95
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10967
Public visiting hours (only during exhibitions): Tuesday to Saturday, 2pm-7pm, and by appointment
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| Mittwoch | 14:00 - 19:00 |
| Donnerstag | 14:00 - 19:00 |
| Freitag | 14:00 - 19:00 |
| Samstag | 14:00 - 19:00 |
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Working primarily in mixed media works that poetically merge the mediums of oil painting and embroidery, visual artist Emi Brener aims to convey moments of human intimacy and vulnerability. Under the banner "Under the Skin," SomoS premieres Brener’s latest work, conceived and made in early 2020 during Emi’s Berlin artist residency, along with an interview that offers deeper insight into the unique creative world of this engaging young Uruguayan artist. Conducted at SomoS, March 2020 Interview: Paulus Fugers Editing: Carlos Vivero Music: Ricardo Ferreira: “Boys & Girls” View the online presentation of Emi's work: https://somos.media/kt
MANAMI UETAKE – IMAGINING SOMETHING UNKNOWN (Excerpt) 3-Channel Mixed-Media Video Installation, Berlin 2020 In her mixed-media video installation Manami Uetake - Imagining Something Unknown, Japanese artist Manami Uetake ponders the (im)possibility of remembering and recounting the Fukushima disaster. Uetake’s work deals with individual and collective trauma, and how its memory can be meaningfully processed, both privately and publicly, officially and unofficially, a challenge to commemoration culture at large, and a subject topical in Germany as well. As Manami Uetake states, "Imagining Something Unknown is a collaborative work aiming to imagine another person's personal narrative. One day, I met a man who lost his house after the Tsunami attack happened in 2011 Japan. After the Tsunami, great seawalls which are about 400km long in total were built alongside the coast, including his hometown. He told me that he lost not only his house, but also the landscape with a view of the sea. This phrase which never seen in the news articles or other public resources remained in my mind. Since then, I often remember his story and have tried to imagine the lost landscape. I started wondering to what extent I could share his experience by listening to him. Creating the work, I asked a non-Japanese speaker to read Japanese text written in the English alphabets about his experience and try to interpret it based on the sound of the text. I also asked him to imagine the landscape with a view of the sea mentioned in the sufferer's monologue and draw it on a piece of paper. Through this process, I tried to see how possible or impossible it is to imagine and reach the unknown person's narrative.” Presented at SomoS, Kottbusser Damm 95, 10967 Berlin, February 26th-29th, 2020, 2-7pm, and by appointment Opening Reception: February 25th, 2020, 6-9pm More information: https://somos.media/km http://manamiuetake.moo.jp/imagining.html
Interview with Multi-Disciplinary Irish artist Alannah Louët discussing her inspiration and works from her February 2020 solo exhibition @Alannah Louët - Emanations presented by SomoS Art House in Berlin. With "Emanations," Louët initiates a multilayered discourse involving feminism, occultism and history, bridging the past and the present. Using topics such as Home Economics classes and Victorian Spiritualism as a starting point for creative reflections on gender roles, domesticity, female agency, physicality and its taboos, Louët invites the audience to follow her inventive narratives. These themes are presented through the media of performative videos, installations, and expanded photography. For more information on the exhibition, visit https://somos.media/kg For more information on the artist, visit https://somos.media/h3
'Expensive' a video work made by previous Korean Artist-In-Residence Berry Kim. Kim critiques the South Korean luxury lifestyle by mirroring the fetishized consumer culture. Through colorful mixed-media drawings, illustrations, paintings, sculptures, and wearable art, Kim celebrates individuality and expression of character in her hypothetical “Berryland.” Her work explores the lived experience of a hyper image/status-focused society, such as that of her home country.
The Open Call deadline for the "Futureless" queer/feminist group exhibition is coming up on Sunday January 26! For more information and to submit your work: https://somos.media/k0
Have you read our recent interview with South Korean Artist-in-Residence and feminist activist Black Jaguar? "𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙢𝙮𝙩𝙝𝙤𝙡𝙤𝙜𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙡 𝙥𝙡𝙤𝙩 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙥𝙖𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙣 𝙞𝙣 𝙬𝙝𝙞𝙘𝙝 𝙢𝙖𝙡𝙚 𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙤𝙚𝙨, 𝙨𝙪𝙘𝙝 𝙖𝙨 𝙃𝙚𝙧𝙘𝙪𝙡𝙚𝙨, 𝙙𝙚𝙘𝙖𝙥𝙞𝙩𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙨𝙚 𝙢𝙤𝙣𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙞𝙣𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙞𝙧 𝙥𝙤𝙬𝙚𝙧 𝙝𝙖𝙨 𝙗𝙚𝙚𝙣 𝙧𝙚𝙥𝙚𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙜𝙝𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙀𝙖𝙨𝙩 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙒𝙚𝙨𝙩. 𝙏𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙚, 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙢𝙮𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙡 𝙛𝙚𝙢𝙖𝙡𝙚 𝙢𝙤𝙣𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙨 𝙙𝙚𝙥𝙞𝙘𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙞𝙣 𝙢𝙮 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙠 𝙘𝙖𝙣 𝙗𝙚 𝙨𝙚𝙚𝙣 𝙖𝙨 𝙖 𝙧𝙚𝙛𝙡𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙤𝙛 𝙖𝙣 𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙢𝙞𝙨𝙤𝙜𝙮𝙣𝙮 𝙞𝙣 𝙖 𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙢𝙥𝙤𝙧𝙖𝙧𝙮 𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙭𝙩." - 𝘚𝘰𝘮𝘰𝘚 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘸 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘉𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘑𝘢𝘨𝘶𝘢𝘳, 2019 Take a read and don't miss out on Black Jaguar (KR) - Spiegel/반사! Solo Exhibition, opening December 12! Black Jaguar Interview: https://somos.media/ju
We are looking forward to Black Jaguar (KR) - Spiegel/반사! Solo Exhibition, opening Dec. 12, 6-9pm! Black Jaguar's "Ghost Dance" performance (pictured) takes place halfway the show, Tuesday, Dec. 17 at 7pm at SomoS. Entry free. Info: https://somos.media/i1
With the registration deadline for Iria Do Castelo's Fantastic Beings: Body Sculpting & Assemblage Workshop coming up on December 1, let's take a look at this video documentation of her interactive sculpture "Olympia and Vivian Heimlich". The work draws on Freudian psychoanalytical notions and consists of an automotive that responds as if it were breathing to the proximity of the viewer. In the Fantastic Beings Workshop, do Castelo will teach participants to create human-like sculptures that take imaginative forms, as is the case with her "Olympia and Vivian Heimlich". The workshop is open to anyone, artist or not, from 18 years and above. Please register by sending an email to [email protected] by December 1. 60 euros for both days, December 7-8, including material (can bring additional objects to incorporate into sculpture) More information on the Fantastic Beings Workshop: https://somos.media/ht
Pei-Chi Wu has been adding daily to her live painting performance "It's a Long Story" for the Un_Real Desires – Group Exhibition. Day by day, the piece is growing, revealing new meaning on the truth/untruth of personal narratives. Make sure you pass by SomoS this weekend to see her work develop. She will be painting daily at 7pm. The Un_Real Desires group exhibition is now into it's final weekend. It will be open Saturday and Sunday, October 26-27, 2-8pm.
Pei-Chi Wu – It’s a Long Story, live painting and performance at Un_Real Desires – Group Exhibition at SomoS. Pei's performance takes place 7pm daily.
Pei-Chi Wu – It’s a Long Story, live painting and performance 7pm, daily, except Thursday at 6:30pm at the Un_Real Desires – Group Exhibition at SomoS.
The Vaginal Arts Ensemble will present "Sexual Saint" through performance and video installation during our upcoming show Un_Real Desires – Group Exhibition. Follow the Ensemble here: Vͣͤæ̨͙̤̮͕̘ͮ̏ͭ
A glimpse of the artist at work: Mikhail Haramati working towards her upcoming solo exhibition at SomoS #Berlin. Opening Tuesday, September 24th, 6-9pm, the Mikhail Haramati: Alchemy, Solo Exhibition visualizes the alchemy of water recycling. Mikhail Haramati Solo Show: Alchemy Opening: September 24, 6 pm Exhibition: September 25-28, 2-7 pm entry free
So excited for Corinna Berndt's solo exhibition Corinna Berndt: Streaming Data, Solo Exhibition! Opening on Tuesday, 6 - 9 pm at SomoS.
SomoS is pleased to present Teiko Ang Zheng: 25 - Solo Photography Exhibition, opening on Tuesday, August 20, 6-9 pm. For his upcoming show, Zheng has focused on visual and written storytelling, depicting queer migrations to Berlin, specifically by members of his own generation: 25 years olds. More info: Opening: Tuesday, August 20, 6-9pm Duration – August 21-24, 2-7pm "25" event page - https://somos.media/fz Teiko Ang Zheng Artist page - https://somos.media/ft
Cobble Paintings, a Solo Exhibition by Jameson Grant opens on Tuesday, August 13, 6-9 pm at SomoS! Grant took Berlin cobblestones as a starting point for his new series of gorgeous abstract paintings, made during his Berlin artist residency at SomoS. More info: Opening: Tuesday, August 13, 6-9pm Duration – August 14-17, 2-7pm Exhibition info - https://somos.media/g4 FB event page - https://somos.media/g2 Jameson Grant artist page - https://somos.media/ev Animated by Cheryl Chan
See you on the evening of Tuesday, July 23rd for the opening reception of Touch Me Tenderly - Sophie Morrow at SomoS! Until July 27th, the exhibition will showcase Morrow's mixed media installation 'An Intimate Drama' and include the performance "Americum" by guest Ainsley Tharp and Nathaniel Moore during the opening. Opening Reception: Tuesday July 23, 6-9pm Duration: July 24-27, 2-7pm Entry free Video by Cheryl Chan
OPEN CALL: PAS #65 Your Perception May Not Be My Reality A performance art learning program at SomoS with PAS - Performance Art Studies and BBB Johannes Deimling. Closing date for applications 15. July 2019, 23:59 Photo: Monika Deimling for PAS. https://somos.media/ep #performance #workshop #Berlin
Marcia Vaitsman, PhD, is a multi-disciplinary artist born in Brazil and currently based in New Jersey, USA. Her work focuses on the practice of games as perceived experiences and how games relate to art. During her show Marcia Vaitsman - Spielraum, taking place from June 26 until June 29 at SomoS, the artist will present five sets of art-games playable by the audience within the exhibition space. Here is a video introducing her work. Though the process of participating in the game, we discover the purpose of the game is not winning, but to cooperate and enjoy the game. What we can learn is not only to imitate others like a mirror, but also the ethics, ideology and behaviour of other human beings. To get further information about the exhibition, see here: ➡️ https://somos.media/ei To discover Marcia Vaitsman's work, go there: ➡️ https://somos.media/d6
Today is the opening of the Orphaned Memories - 48h NK Festival group exhibition for 48 Stunden Neukölln. Here is a little glimpse of the artpieces produced by SomoS' Artists-in-Residence Ivetta Sun Young Kang*, Dongyan Chen and Elena Amabili (Slavaroid). If you can make it for tonight opening, you will have until June 22 to come and see by your own eyes this fascinating show. Better not miss it! To find out further information about the 'Orphaned Memories' exhibition, go there: https://somos.media/ef To get a better overview of the artists' works, check their pages here: Elena Amabili: https://somos.media/dy Ivetta Sunyoung Kang: https://somos.media/dx Dongyan Chen: https://somos.media/c7 *Ivetta Sunyoung Kang’s participation was kindly supported by the Arts Council Korea - ARKO, 한국문화예술위원회
In less than a week, SomoS' current Artist-in-Residence, Ivetta Sun Young Kang, will give you a short introduction on how to document your artwork through video. During her Video Documentation Workshop for Artists on Saturday, June 22 (1pm - 5pm), you will get insights on how to use shooting, editing and processing techniques from an expert in those areas. If you are interested in participating in this workshop, don't forget to register by email at [email protected] Remember, spots are limited, don't miss your chance to be a part of this exceptional workshop! To get further information about the event, see there: https://somos.media/eb Interested in Ivetta Sunyoung Kang's work ? Check her artist page here: https://somos.media/dx - Level: For beginners Cost: 85€ Ivetta Sunyoung Kang’s participation was kindly supported by the Arts Council Korea - ARKO, 한국문화예술위원회
Don't miss the B-LA Connect festival starting June 7th. “B-LA Connect,” is an international project in which 20 Art Spaces form LA engage in a cultural exchange with 22 Art Spaces in Berlin. SomoS is delighted to host “Nothing Special,” a 11 by 11 foot artist-run space based in West Adams, Los Angeles as part of the festival. Founded and curated by Frank J. Stockton, Nothing Special’s exhibitions revolve around simple themes that make a virtue of the gallery’s limitations, featuring projects that either expand upon or exist in parallel to the participants’ usual artistic practice. Featuring Mark Flores, Julienne Fusello, William E. Jones, Anthony Miserendino, Jeff St. Andrews, Frank J. Stockton, Willa Wasserman. More Information: http://www.b-la-connect.org/
Berry Kim - B E R R Y L I N - Solo Exhibition at SomoS. Clip of the opening night by Berry Kim. The show is still open this week on Tuesday and Wednesday, 2-7pm, entry is free.
Syed Shoaib Mahmood’s solo exhibition is open at SomoS until 23rd February, 2pm - 7pm. The artist's work from the descriptive to the ungraspable is traced, documenting a preoccupation with surface, reflectivity, illusion and notions of transcendence and the sublime. Video shows view of work 'Even Our Dreams Are Alike', 2019.
Positions Berlin Art Fair Galerie van Cauwelaert Presents SomoS We are excited that Galerie van Cauwelaert has invited SomoS to select work by some of its associated artists for their gallery’s Positions Berlin Art Fair 2018 booth. Participants are Nándor Angstenberger, Goran Tomcic, Todd Reece Johnson, Winston Chmielinski, with special appearances of pieces by Moran Sanderovich and Alexei Gordin. There's some amazing works on view, hope to see you there! The Positions Art Fair is open until September 30th 2018 at Tempelhof Airport. More info: https://somos.media/11
September 14th 2018, SomoS presents Anamnesi, an interactive and controversial performance combining elements of dance-theater, performance art, live music, and visual art, in which the audience is called to participate. The reminiscence, also called Anamnesis from Ancient Greek ἀνάμνησις, (literally, a “lifting up of the mind”) stems from Plato’s philosophy and consists of the idea of the awakening of the inner knowledge rooted in everyone’s spirit that, through reincarnation, has been forgotten from our soul at the moment of birth. It describes an unintentional deep awareness that can emerge during the course of one’s life. It is the personal perception of the immortality of one’s own spirit that has chosen to incarnate in the bodily form that characterizes us in the here and now. The effects of this awakening are the achievement of an inner calm, given by the absent fear of dying, and the euphoria, given by an vibrant desire to celebrate life. The Anamnesi project is a collaboration between choreographer Marta Antonucci aka Kiraly, musician Eugenio Petrarca, and visual artist T.S. Sanchez. Through the interactive performance the audience’s comfort zone will be abandoned in order to reach a state of anamnesis together with the performers. Date: Friday, September 14th 2018 Time: doors: 6;30 pm, performance begin: 7pm sharp SomoS – Kottbusser Damm 95, 1st floor 10967 Berlin Entry is donation-based. https://www.somos-arts.org/anamnesi/
SomoS Artist-in-Residence, performance artist Lara Salmon (L.A.) presented her performance work in Berlin in the solo exhibition R/evolving: Lara Salmon at SomoS, August, 2018. In this interview, she shares her personal experience of why she loves #performance #art, her connection to #Berlin, and her interest in #refugee rights. Contributing artists: Lara Salmon Interview by: Zoe Soo Producer: Zoe Soo Camera: Zoe Soo Lighting: Yolanda Chan Learn more: https://www.somos-arts.org/r-evolving-lara-salmon/
SomoS #interviews Los Angeles-based #artist #LaraSalmon! She is devoted to #performance and passionate about challenging assumptions. Her art project at SomoS focuses on the relationship between longstanding #communities and recent #migrants to #Berlin. Salmon's new performance “Tower 13” will be presented at her exhibition: R/evolving: Lara Salmon, opening Tuesday Aug 21 6–9 PM and on view from 22 - 25 August at SomoS/ Full version of the interview: https://www.somos-arts.org/r-evolving-lara-salmon/
SomoS Artist-in-Residence artist Joaquin Margulis Luchsinger (Chile) shared his sound-art installations which amplified the 24/7 buzz of work and economics into an aural smog of productivity, in which the Wheels of Industry keep on turning and turning at the “ Routine & Happiness ” exhibition on May 2018. Luchsinger joined SomoS March-May 2018 in Berlin to concentrate on new work that critiques the expectation of instant gratification in today’s society and explores the interruption of routine. Joaquin Margulis Luchsinger was born in Santiago, Chile in 1990 and graduated with maximum distinction from Escuela de Artes Visuales de la Universidad Finisterrae. Luchsinger’s work is driven by constant use of and experimentation with sound. He divides his artistic production into two lines of work: Looking for the sound through the object and applying concepts drawn from the world of sounds in different artistic mediums in order to reach an image. His work has been exhibited at the Universidad Finisterrae and Casa Central Universidad de Chile. Contributing artists: Joaquin Margulis Luchsinger Editing: Cassidy Hart Camera: Paulus Fugers/Cassidy Hart Interviews: Cassidy Hart Music: freemusicarchive.org Learn more: https://www.somos-arts.org/routine-happiness-mari-nagem-joaquin-margulis-luchsinger/ #art #interview #artist #installation #sound
Here is the overview of Noah Fields: WITH-Poetry Book Launch and Reading at SomoS! It was a lovely night with #reading, #music and #performance by five artists: #NoahFields and their friends, #MariaCortesCalle, #GiselleMapp, #ArtaRexhepi, #PedroCadoreWinter.
SomoS' new video interview of multi-disciplinary artist Anahita Norouzi (Anahita Rouzi) is released! She shares information about her background as a child of the Iranian Revolution and work leading to her project entitled “a space in between”. Watch the full version of the interview: http://www.somos-arts.org/anahita-norouzi-exhibition/ #SomoS #interview #teaser #artist #AnahitaNorouzi #Iran
A quick tour through the Personae - Behavior & Authenticity exhibition at SomoS!
Here's a glimpse of the setup of the Personae - Behavior & Authenticity exhibition at SomoS! Everyone was devoted and excited for this exhibition, come and join us at the opening night from 6-9pm! #SomoS #48StundenNeukölln #Berlin #Art #Installation #Video #Visualart #Exhibition #timelapse Music: www.bensound.com
SomoS Artist-in-Residence visual artist Syed Shoaib Mahmood (India) shares his thoughts on mixed media and sculpture, as well as visual symbols incorporating language and philosophical questions. Mahmood is curently busy preparing new sculptural and language-based works to be presented at SomoS Fall 2018. Contributing artists: Alexandre Baptista & Syed Shoaib Mahmood Editing: Jessica Lam Camera: Zack Soltes Interviews: Helle Cheng Sound: Jessica Lam Technical equipment: Zack Sotles Mentoring: Zack Soltes Learn more: http://www.somos-arts.org/introducing-syed-shoaib-mahmood/ #SyedShoaibMahmood #SomoS #Art #Reflexive #mixedmedia #sculpture #ArtistInResidence
Artist and researcher Alexandre Baptista discusses his love of combining text, video, image and object to show how he understands the world and his project at SomoS titled Language Matters #1: Reflexive - Alexandre Baptista was presented at SomoS on 14 July - 22 July, 2017. Contributing artists: Alexandre Baptista & Syed Shoaib Mahmood Editing: Belinda So Camera: Zack Soltes Interviews: Helle Cheng Sound: Belinda So Technical equipment: Zack Soltes Mentoring: Zack Soltes Music credit: “Oceans (2014)” Evegny Teilor Learn more: http://www.somos-arts.org/alexandre-baptista/ #AlexandreBaptista #SomoS #Art #Reflexive #mixedmedia
Graphic designer and scenic painter Anna Laing-Fraser discusses her love of typography and her project at SomoS titled Building Characters - Anna Laing-Fraser which will be presented at SomoS on April 25th, from 6-9pm. Editing: Cassidy Hart Camera: Cassidy Hart, Paulus Fugers Song: "Cylinder Six" - Chris Zabriskie
Exactitudes Studio / Ari Versluis & Ellie Uyttenbroek are back at SomoS to produce a new group of their famed Exactitudes #photography series. #berlin #photography #art #kunst #exactitudes
SomoS Artist Interview: Isabel Ramos Visual artist Isabel Ramos (UK) works in a multi-disciplinary way, employing and combining mediums such as video, #NewMedia, #VR, participatory performance, choreography and installation. Ramos uses the body to explore its position and traces in our increasingly accelerating technological age. She develops solo projects as well as working as part of the UK based Keiken Collective. In this interview, Isabel Ramos discusses her #VR installation piece entitled "Will You Hold Me or Just Watch " featured at the group exhibition "Neues Dasein" presented at SomoS from 23-25.6.2017 during the 48 Stunden Neukölln Festival, #Berlin. “Neues Dasein” featured immersive performative installations exploring concepts surrounding the self, virtuality, human interaction and simulation. http://www.somos-arts.org/isabel-ramos/ Directed and edited by Zack Soltes http://zacksoltes.com/ Music Credit: "Shores of Avalon" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ https://vimeo.com/231441382 #lookback2017 #art #ArtistInResidence
Agnes Tam and Michiyasu Furutani present ‘Lamentation’ for The Beholder group exhibition
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