about
Centrum is a project space in the Flughafenkiez district of Neukölln, Berlin. We work with international and local artists, offering space and support for experimentation and the development of new work.
Centrum was founded in 2009 and since September 2014 is currently run by Mareike Spendel; since March 2015 supported by Max Weiland. In September 2016 the team was joined by Aurica Kastner. Since 2020, Centrum is run by Jorgina Stamogianni as artistic director and Katerina Gnafaki as curator of sound.
Bemerkungen
Today is the last chance to visit this Exhibition 🔥 come by from 3 to 7 pm and you might even meet the artist 💅🏻
Berlin Art Prize 2022:
Melanie-Jame Wolf - Sarcasm Expires Quickly
Abstracted arcs of flowing blue fabric translate the usually sterile white walls of an exhibition space in a meta-theatrical register. And beyond this choreography of textiles, Melanie-Jame Wolf places a video, which itself allows us to look in front of and behind a stage. Two anachronistic, archetypal comedian personas - Stand Up Ron and Pierrot the Clown - amuse an audience in the eternal loop of the two-channel video work. You can hear them laughing, but the theater auditorium's rows are empty. The film Acts of Improbable Genius (2021) celebrates a certain type of comedian, recently deceased: the mythologies he represents and the violence perpetuates. But it also pays respect to the highly specialised skill set of professional performers, usually rendered invisible as part of the act.
In Melanie-Jame Wolf's exhibition Sarcasm Expires Quickly at Centrum, the stage becomes the venue of a temporal and psychological entanglement of representation and performer. Where does performance begin, where does it end? And who does the social machinery of desire allow to entertain others? The dichotomous body, as seen by oneself and as seen by others, becomes a political enigma in this exhibition. The humor in Melanie-Jame Wolf's texts, performances, films, and installations is a strategy for subliminally posing this riddle.
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Opening tomorrow at 6pm. Come by! 🥂
Melanie-Jame Wolf (b. Launceston, Australia), one of the eight Berlin Art Prize 2022 nominees, is a visual artist and choreographer. She works solo and with friends, making interdisciplinary pieces about power, flows of capital, and the phenomenon of 'show business'. She examines these economies and entanglements in works for gallery, theater and screen spaces. Coming from a background in contemporary performance she approaches installation and moving image as an expanded choreographic practice. She is invested in humour as a strategy for critical possibility, and in working with language in subliminal and surprising ways. Spaces that have presented her work include: Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Kunstmuseum Basel - Gegenwart, KW - Institute of Contemporary Art, HAU - Hebbel am Ufer; Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, nGbK, The National 2019: New Australian Art biennial, VAEFF Film Festival NYC, Arts Santa Monica, Schwules Museum, Sophiensaele, Münchner Kammerspiele, & Institute of Modern Art Brisbane.
SAVE THE DATE// Opening this Friday 2 September, at 6pm:
Melanie-Jame Wolf, Sarcasm Expires Quickly
Solo show as part of the Berlin Art Prize 2022
Melanie-Jame Wolf (b. Launceston, Australia), one of the eight Nominees for this year's Berlin Art Prize, is a visual artist and choreographer. She works solo and with friends, making interdisciplinary pieces about power, flows of capital, and the phenomenon of 'show business'. She examines these economies and entanglements in works for gallery, theater and screen spaces. Coming from a background in contemporary performance she approaches installation and moving image as an expanded choreographic practice. She is invested in humour as a strategy for critical possibility, and in working with language in subliminal and surprising ways. Spaces that have presented her work include: Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Kunstmuseum Basel - Gegenwart, KW - Institute of Contemporary Art, HAU - Hebbel am Ufer; Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, nGbK, The National 2019: New Australian Art biennial, VAEFF Film Festival NYC, Arts Santa Monica, Schwules Museum, Sophiensaele, Münchner Kammerspiele, & Institute of Modern Art Brisbane.
More information 👉 centrumberlin.com
BAP 2022 nominee:
Melanie-Jame Wolf
Sarcasm Expires Quickly, solo show
3 September - 14 October 2022 at Centrum
opening -> Friday 2 September 6 - 9 pm
Photo:
Melanie-Jame Wolf, Acts of Improbable Genius, 2021, video still
See what’s on this weekend in Berlin at Centrum, HAU Hebbel am Ufer, KINDL - Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst, Schinkel Pavillon and other venues across the city:
Collecting Stones From Hypnagogia
with Ana Pascu & Yen Chun Lin
curated by
Rachel Monosov and CTG Collective
Centrum | Reuterstr.7,12053 BERLIN
August 7th
6-10 PM
Through experimenting the hypnagogic state collectively, the artists wander between realities, between mental spaces, between bodies, between different states of consciousness, between dreamscapes, between sleeping and awaking. Residues of their visits melt into the installation. Fragments of slippery memories crystallized in material matter, waiting to be reactivated.
Centrum is excited to partner up with Berlin Art Prize for this year's edition, introducing the work of Melanie Jame Wolf ✨
Today
Wednesday, June 22nd
Berlin 18:00 | Lagos 17:00
Discussion with , and Ella Finer.
Taking its starting point from Ella Finer's Burning House / Burning Horse, the three artists explore forceful forgetting. Finer’s work in sound and performance spans writing, composing, and curating with a particular interest in how women’s voices take up space; how bodies acoustically disrupt, challenge, or change the order of who is allowed to occupy—command—space.
Join us for next weekend 🍾
OBSIDIAN curated by with is open through June 26th. Artists and will over the duration of two-weeks the occupy Ajasa- .co in Lagos, Nigeria and in Berlin, Germany. Connected by live video stream projected onto life-sized screens, Sheila Chukwulozie in Lagos and Jasminfire in Berlin interact through the virtual portal to create a new performance work that examines the power of emotion.
OBSIDIAN builds from two sound and movement works made by Chukwulozie and Jasminfire separately. Chukwulozie takes us through a ceremony of personal yantras using the seven tones of seven singing bowls, while Jasminfire works within viola, cello and voice meditations. Drawing from their personal experiences of repression and release, the two artists address how suppression in a "society of niceties" can shape an individual into a shadow self.
OBSIDIAN makes use of everyday technologies in public space to bridge the global North and South. The shared virtual space allows the two artists to explore the limitations of separate physicality caused by our new post-COVID era but also regularly faced by many living without the privilege of a Western passport.
From June 13th to 23rd, Chukwulozie and Jasminfire activate Centrum and Ajasa-hFACTOR spontaneously. Through impromptu performances and organic open format discussions with visitors in Berlin and Lagos, the two artists aim to take audiences through an array of emotional states, while simultaneously creating a collaborative performance played out as a series of fiery releases essential to living within balance.
For its Finissage OBSIDIAN will make part of 48-stunden-neukoelln in Berlin with scheduled performances:
June 24th - 19:00-22:00 in Berlin & 18:00-21:00 in Lagos
June 25th - 15:00-21:00 in Berlin & 14:00-20:00 in Lagos
June 26th - 15:00-19:00 in Berlin & 14:00-18:00 in Lagos
A special thanks to for hosting the project in Centrum.
And production support from .
Join us this coming weekend Saturday and Sunday from 4 pm - 7 pm
OBSIDIAN curated by with is open through June 26th. Artists and will over the duration of two-weeks the occupy Ajasa- .co in Lagos, Nigeria and in Berlin, Germany. Connected by live video stream projected onto life-sized screens, Sheila Chukwulozie in Lagos and Jasminfire in Berlin interact through the virtual portal to create a new performance work that examines the power of emotion.
OBSIDIAN builds from two sound and movement works made by Chukwulozie and Jasminfire separately. Chukwulozie takes us through a ceremony of personal yantras using the seven tones of seven singing bowls, while Jasminfire works within viola, cello and voice meditations. Drawing from their personal experiences of repression and release, the two artists address how suppression in a "society of niceties" can shape an individual into a shadow self.
OBSIDIAN makes use of everyday technologies in public space to bridge the global North and South. The shared virtual space allows the two artists to explore the limitations of separate physicality caused by our new post-COVID era but also regularly faced by many living without the privilege of a Western passport.
From June 13th to 23rd, Chukwulozie and Jasminfire activate Centrum and Ajasa-hFACTOR spontaneously. Through impromptu performances and organic open format discussions with visitors in Berlin and Lagos, the two artists aim to take audiences through an array of emotional states, while simultaneously creating a collaborative performance played out as a series of fiery releases essential to living within balance.
For its Finissage OBSIDIAN will make part of 48-stunden-neukoelln in Berlin with scheduled performances:
June 24th - 19:00-22:00 in Berlin & 18:00-21:00 in Lagos
June 25th - 15:00-21:00 in Berlin & 14:00-20:00 in Lagos
June 26th - 15:00-19:00 in Berlin & 14:00-18:00 in Lagos
A special thanks to for hosting the project in Centrum.
And production support from .
Please join us tomorrow 12.05 at 6 pm
