SomoS
SomoS’ mission is to create an international open framework for innovative arts and creative cooperation. SomoS finds meaning in a pragmatic innovative hybrid of art-presentation, production, education and reflection that engages with, and celebrates an ever-changing dynamic international community; working together in a multi-generational, multi-cultural setting.
Selected by Artslant Magazine as one of Berlin’s best non-profit art spaces, SomoS organizes an ambitious exhibition and event schedule and Artist-in-Residency program, closely working with artists, organizers and curators to realize their art and projects.
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SomoS is proud to present 'HOLDING THE LINE' - Creative Resistance from Ukraine a fundraising exhibition for Ukraine.
SomoS presents the emergency group exhibition Holding the Line – Creative Resistance from Ukraine. It features work from refugee artists and activists in Berlin forced to flee their home country due to the brutal Russian invasion, next to contributions from their colleagues back home involved in raising awareness and funds for defense and humanitarian help.
Their plight is articulated through video, photography, performance, painting, and installation.
Confirmed Participants: Gorsad, Maria Kulikovska, Nataliia Lushnikova, Maria Lutsak, Sergey Melnitchenko, Somari Ptichka, Zhenia Stepanenko, Alena Yarysh
OPENING SATURDAY 23rd APRIL FROM 4PM - 8PM.
On view until April 30th, Tuesday - Saturday, from 2 to 7pm.
SomoS Art House
Kottbusser Damm 95, 10967 Berlin
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Entry is donation-based. 100% of the work proceeds will directly flow to the participating artists. Collected donations benefit the nonprofit organization “Artists at Risk,” assisting affected creatives.
NEVER AGAIN, NIE WIEDER?
Somari is one of the Ukrainian artists who found refuge at SomoS in March. Over the last week, Somari along with 3 other street artists from Ukraine and Belarus painted a large mural on the facade of a building at Falckensteinstraße 48, 10997. The diptych style mural stands over 5 stories tall, and reflects their feelings and personal experience of the Russian Invasion of Ukraine. From the U1 and U3 trains passing through U Schlesisches Tor station you can see the mural, make sure to look out for it next time you pass through!
Click on the link for more information about the mural as well as statements by the artists invovled:
https://www.artforukraine.de/en
https://www.instagram.com/so.ma.ri/
Impressions of the 'Beyond The Frame' Photography Exhibition. Thank you to all the artists involved and to everyone that attended and supported the exhibition!
Artists:
Valie Djordjević
Tamara Granatkina
Klaus W. Eisenlohr
Kordula Horn
Claus Köllner
Monika Lache
Irene Mauch
Sebastian Schmidt
Photocentrum der Gilberto Bosques VHS Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg
Kordula Horn - SpielRäume
Artist Statement: "Creative leeways, or the opportunity to imagine the city differently than it is. Avoidance of narrowing public spaces, discovering multilayered utilization. In the process – with uncommon solutions – reacting to the constantly changing conditions of the “Dense City Of Diversity,” creatively participating in the process. Is human or capital at the center of the city? Where do you stand?"
Image:
Kordula Horn
SpielRäume
Image courtesy of the artist
Kordula Horn's work is on view in the conceptual photography exhibition "Beyond the Frame" (@beyondtheframebln). The group show is on view March 18 – 26, 2022, Tue – Sat, 2 – 7 pm at SomoS Arts in Berlin.
It gathers the results of a one-year project course led by Klaus W. Eisenlohr at the Photocentrum of Gilberto-Bosques-Volkshochschule Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg @photocentrum.berlin.
On view until March 26th
https://fb.me/e/35Wq464hL
Klaus W. Eisenlohr – Lithuanian Rhapsody
Artist statement: "Lithuanian Rhapsody" was conceived during a 2021 artist residency in Rokiskis, Lithuania. Its two screens create virtual panoramas of different neighborhoods: the historic village, soviet style residential areas, and new single-family houses. They are complemented with two screens showing images of young people from Rokiskis Cultural Center who perform in the urban space, relating habitat with joyful uses of space."
Image:
Klaus W. Eisenlohr (@_richfilm)
Lithuanian Rhapsody
Image courtesy of the artist
Klaus W. Eisenlohr's work is on view in the conceptual photography exhibition "Beyond the Frame" (@beyondtheframebln), March 18 – 26, 2022, Tue – Sat, 2 – 7 pm at SomoS Arts in Berlin.
On view until March 26th
Beyond The Frame - Photography group exhibition
It gathers the results of a one-year project course led by Eisenlohr at the Photocentrum of Gilberto-Bosques-Volkshochschule Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg @photocentrum.berlin.
Valie Djordjević – Im Bilderstrom
Image:
Valie Djordjević (@validd)
Im Bilderstrom: Gegenstände, Getränke, Hände, Wörter 2019 - ongoing
Image courtesy of the artist
Artist Statement: "How does photography change, when we have a camera in our pocket 24/7? When we don‘t have to choose which photo to make because you can make them all? When the value of your photo is the same as a scrap of paper where your write down a fleeting idea (or your grocery shopping)? When the photo gallery on your smartphone becomes your external memory? Is this still photography?"
Valie Djordjević's work is presented in the conceptual photography exhibition "Beyond the Frame" (@beyondtheframebln), on view March 18 – 26, 2022, Tue – Sat, 2 – 7 pm, at SomoS Arts in Berlin.
It gathers the results of a one-year project course led by Klaus W. Eisenlohr at the Photocentrum of Gilberto-Bosques-Volkshochschule Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg @photocentrum.berlin.
On view until March 26th
Beyond The Frame - Photography group exhibition
Monika Lache – Hinterm Zaun – Innensichten
Artist Statement: "When you are out and about in cities, small towns, and villages, you see fences that mark people’s private space. People live behind the fences, but how do they live? What do they do? What moves them? What expectations and hopes do they have in life? My foto series "Behind the Fence – Inside Views" combines photographs of fences with a young person’s diary entries – dreams of life."
Image:
Monika Lache (@monikalache)
Hinterm Zaun – Innensichten
Image courtesy of the artist
Monika Lache presents her work in the conceptual photography exhibition "Beyond the Frame" (@beyondtheframebln). The group show is on view until March 26, 2022, Tue – Sat, 2 – 7 pm at SomoS Arts in Berlin.
"Beyond the Frame" gathers the results of a one-year project course led by Klaus W. Eisenlohr at the Photocentrum of Gilberto-Bosques-Volkshochschule Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg @photocentrum.berlin.
On view until March 26th
Beyond The Frame - Photography group exhibition
Tamara Granatkina – Imagine a Journey
Artist Statement: "The human body is very fragile and sensitive. Imagine what happens when an unprotected human body comes into contact with radiation from space? Human consciousness as we know ceases to exist. Does it transform into something else?"
Image:
Tamara Granatkina (@granatkinatam)
Imagine a Journey
Image courtesy of the artist
Ukrainian artist Tamara Granatkina's presents her work in the conceptual photography exhibition "Beyond the Frame" (@beyondtheframebln). The group show is on view March 18 – 26, 2022, Tue – Sat, 2 – 7 pm at SomoS Arts in Berlin.
Granatkina, who lives in Kyiv and Berlin, has extended her contribution to the exhibition with new, intimate work addressing the devastating effects of the Russian attack on her country.
"Beyond the Frame" gathers the results of a one-year project course led by Klaus W. Eisenlohr at the Photocentrum of Gilberto-Bosques-Volkshochschule Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg (@photocentrum.berlin).
On view until March 26th
Beyond The Frame - Photography group exhibition
Claus Koellner – I Fancy Red
Artist Statement: "The color red is perceived in the most different ways. Red can appear to be vivid or arousing, but also exhilarating and aggressive. My collection of images seeks to display the color red in its different shades and expressions. The possibilities of digital photography and editing were used in varying ways."
Image:
Claus Koellner
Blonde Dame vor roter Wand
Image courtesy of the artist
Claus Koellner's work is on view in the expanded photography exhibition "Beyond the Frame," until March 26, 2022, Tue – Sat, 2 – 7 pm at SomoS Arts in Berlin.
It gathers the results of a one-year project course led by Klaus W. Eisenlohr at the Photocentrum of Gilberto-Bosques-Volkshochschule Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg.
On view until March 26th
Beyond The Frame - Photography group exhibition
Irene Mauch - Nature as Concept / Natur als Idee
Artist Statement: Like windows showing what is locked out, photographs can connect us with views otherwise not here. In the work Nature as Concept („Naturals Idee“), photographs are used both: as a medium for absent natural views and as objects which can be framed, arranged, painted on. In this way, the installation shows not only the original „memories“ of natural sights but also the process of „thinking“ about them.
Irene Mauch's work is on view in the current photography exhibition "Beyond the Frame. It gathers the results of a one-year project course led by Klaus W. Eisenlohr at the Photocentrum of Gilberto-Bosques-Volkshochschule Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg.
On view until March 26th
Beyond The Frame - Photography group exhibition
Sebastian Schmidt - Mutterliebe / Karla und Elliot, 2019
Artist Statement:
"In my photo project "Mutterliebe," I talk about motherly love regarding life with children with severe mental disabilities. How does it work, how do mothers manage to care for their children for years, to love them? How does a mother look back on 16, 18 or 24 years in which the state of emergency is normality: hospital stays, battles with bureaucracy, rejection by society, family that breaks away, or marriages that fail. I aim to give visibility to these women and their stories."
https://schmidtsviews.de/
Sebastian Schmidt's work is on view in the current photography exhibition "Beyond the Frame." It gathers the results of a one-year project course led by Klaus W. Eisenlohr at the Photocentrum of Gilberto-Bosques-Volkshochschule Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg.
On view until March 26th
Beyond The Frame - Photography group exhibition
🌻 Tuesday, March 22nd from 14:00 to 15:00 h, SomoS offers a consultation group session for Ukrainian artists and art professionals in Berlin. We offer advice on how to get started as an artist in Berlin, help and tips with bureaucracy, translation, networking. Feel free to join us.
