ACUD Galerie

17/08/2022

Join us tomorrow :3
resonant companions ♡ (ू•ᴗ•ू❁) ☆ﾟ.*·。

In conjunction with the exhibition Fasting of my Fantasies at ACUD Gallerie as an accompanying offering to Danielle Maggee´s work.

❁ Thursday 17th August 2022

❁ 18.30 - 20.30

❁ Meeting Point : Corner of
Thomasstrasse / Hermannstrasse in Neukölln

☆ﾟ.*· ritual - objects - movement - play - for potential clarity and release - a wind down .*·☆

Eddy Levin will facilitate a sequence of playful rituals, embracing the wisdom of the physical - our tactile moving bodies, hand-held objects and a landscape to experience these within. Three guided questions ask for introspection, the practice of verbalizing intentions to another and to listen to someone’s in return.

We will be accompanied by handmade q***r objects from visual artists Danielle Magee, Tone F Pony and Helah Cooper along with found objects.

We will meet at Thomas Strasse and Hermanstrasse, waiting 10 minutes fo arrivals and beginning a walking mediation to an outdoor space 5 minutes away. There will be a short physical warm-up (shaking, stretching, repetitive and grounding movements) followed by a sensory opening exercise. We will then work in pairs with the guided questions into setting intentions, and translate these into miniature playgrounds, moving altars, configuring puzzles for resonance.

Open for all who are curious. Especially those who feel the need for more playful and collaborative ritual space in their lives 🙂

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Eddy Levin is an artist from Tkaronto, currently based in Berlin. Their practice is expansive and various, a playground for cross-disciplinary collaborative making, re-patterning subsumed narratives into relational becoming, slowing down, deep listening, q***r neurodivergent expression, and personal / communal transformation. They work with dance, sound arts, video, installation while sometimes facilitate arts residencies, community spaces and workshops. They are also a somatic bodyworker, and Transwitch.

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25/07/2022

꧁•⊹٭Fasting of my Fantasies٭⊹•꧂ fantasy/artist:

Bimal Fabbri -“I was born in 1993 in Nepal and adopted by an Italian family.
I work through the use of different media. At the moment, I mainly focus on video, photography and poetry.
In my work, images and words are used as a tool to reconstruct my Nepalese roots: a mutual relationship between reality and representation.
My intention is to understand fragmented and hybrid identities created by the change of a geographical place and habitat.
Memory and childhood imagery are taking shape in a personal introspection”

Opening: THU 28.7 at 18H

💠Curated by: & &

25/07/2022

Already on Thursday 28.7 at 18H
꧁•⊹٭Fasting of my Fantasies٭⊹•꧂ will open its doors to another realm.
Till then, everyday, we will introduce to you one mind behind the fantasy:

Danielle Magee is a Berlin based artist, born and raised on Squamish,Tsleil-Waututh and Musqueam territories in so-called Canada. Her practice serves as a modality for healing. Symbolic plant forms rendered in earth act as a kind of incantation, calling into being cycles of change, growth and necessary death. She has built a body of sacred objects, re-centring folk traditions and conjuring suppressed knowledges by embracing the intuitive, the ritual, the communal , and the body-mind. Working with clay she feels a kinship to the material through her experience with chronic illness. The processes of supporting, binding, resting and controlling environmental factors for stability of the clay body are all experienced as an act of care.

💠Curated by: & &

13/05/2022

We are looking forward to two special, live performance pieces by happening this weekend!
👾Today (13.5) at 18H , Exhibition Opening .kontempo: Part 1
👾Tomorrow (14.5) at 18H
Exhibition Opening .kontempo: Part 2



💜Billy Ngalamulume💜, commonly known as Kill Bill, was born in Kinshasa. He lives and works there as a multidisciplinary artist: performance, graffiti artist, slammer, etc. He is a member of the Farata collective and has graduated in interior design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kinshasa in 2013.
He has taken part in several artistic activities in Kinshasa including the Kinact festival, the Art Tembo art competition and the Kinshasa performance art meeting called "Kin-Etelemi-Telemi" organised by the Farata collective of which he is the co-founder.

Billy puts his body forward. He uses it, in collusion with other recycled materials, as a medium to deal with subjects related to his personal journey in the art world, as well as subjects of general interest such as questions about the environment, the history of his country and disapproval of the media's postures towards the masses. He has also been able to combine his practice with information and communication technologies via video projections during his performances. With hardcore performances, this expressive and sometimes shattering subject-body emits echoes through gestures and actions raising question towards the society.

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12/05/2022

⚠️SAVE THE DATE⚠️
Exhibition Opening .kontempo : Part 2
ACUD Galerie SA 14.5, 18H-23H

👾Exhibition duration: 14.5 - 11.6
👾Opening Hours: Thursday till Sunday 2pm - 7pm

💟Participating artists: Sinzo Aanza, Jasmina Al-Qaisi & Ralf Wendt, Koko Kabamba, Jean Kamba, Billy Ngalamulume alias Kill Bill, Rachel Nyangombe, Gabriella Torres-Ferrer, Raul Walch
💜Performance: Kill Bill
🥘Malewa Laba – congolese cuisine with Laba Adebi

Kontempo is a term that emerged as a neologism in Kinshasa's independent art scene. As a counter narrative to Western-influenced academic discourse, "Kontempo" has established itself as a new code and a reinterpretation of the term "contemporary" in Kinshasa.

In Kinshasa, artists who are considered "contemporary" often work within a system of codes shaped by Western artistic norms, while at the same time negotiating so-called "typically African" themes from a supposedly Western perspective. This trend dominates international contemporary art and is part of the neo-colonial power structures. Laboratoire Kontempo questions these structures and therefore aims to develop new strategies for artistic creation in order to find new codes and use the existing ones differently.

Laboratoire Kontempo Kinshasa/Berlin therefore focuses on artistic working methods from Kinshasa. Specific formats have developed as reactions to political, economic and social instability. Transgressive artistic strategies between performance, urban intervention, experimental videos, temporary painting and installations, react to rapid social changes and uncertainties.

Laboratoire Kontempo Kinshasa/Berlin sees itself as a laboratory for interactions, processes and conflicts in the historical, social and economic field of tension between Europe and the Democratic Republic of Congo. A space in which multi layered perspectives, practices and concepts are and concepts are given space.

Laboratoire Kontempo began in Kinshasa in October 2021: artists and researchers from Berlin took part in discussion rounds and presentations with the participating artists and researchers from Kinshasa

12/05/2022

⚠️SAVE THE DATE⚠️
Exhibition Opening .kontempo : Part 2
ACUD Galerie SA 14.5, 18H-23H

👾Exhibition duration: 14.5 - 11.6
👾Opening Hours: Thursday till Sunday 2pm - 7pm

💟Participating artists: Sinzo Aanza, Jasmina Al-Qaisi & Ralf Wendt, Koko Kabamba, Jean Kamba, Billy Ngalamulume alias Kill Bill, Rachel Nyangombe, Gabriella Torres-Ferrer, Raul Walch
💜Performance: Kill Bill
🥘Malewa Laba – congolese cuisine with Laba Adebi

Kontempo is a term that emerged as a neologism in Kinshasa's independent art scene. As a counter narrative to Western-influenced academic discourse, "Kontempo" has established itself as a new code and a reinterpretation of the term "contemporary" in Kinshasa. In Kinshasa, artists who are considered "contemporary" often work within a system of codes shaped by Western artistic norms, while at the same time negotiating so-called "typically African" themes from a supposedly Western perspective. This trend dominates international contemporary art and is part of the neo-colonial power structures. Laboratoire Kontempo questions these structures and therefore aims to develop new strategies for artistic creation in order to find new codes and use the existing ones differently. Laboratoire Kontempo Kinshasa/Berlin therefore focuses on artistic working methods from Kinshasa. Specific formats have developed as reactions to political, economic and social instability. Transgressive artistic strategies between performance, urban intervention, experimental videos, temporary painting and installations, react to rapid social changes and uncertainties. Laboratoire Kontempo Kinshasa/Berlin sees itself as a laboratory for interactions, processes and conflicts in the historical, social and economic field of tension between Europe and the Democratic Republic of Congo. A space in which multi layered perspectives, practices and concepts are and concepts are given space. Laboratoire Kontempo began in Kinshasa in October 2021: artists and researchers from Berlin took part in discussion rounds and presentations with the participating artists and researchers from Kinshasa

11/05/2022

SAVE THE DATE!
Exhibition Opening .kontempo : Part 1
13.5 at 18H

Haus der Statistik ,Haus A
Exhibition duration: 14 .5 - 11.6
Opening Hours:Thursday till Sunday 2pm - 7pm

with: Jasmina Al-Qaisi & Ralf Wendt, Miguel Buenrostro, Jérôme Chazeix, Paulvi Ngimbi & Prisca Tankwey, Luiza Prado, Mukenge/Schellhammer
Partagisme – collective painting
The History of Memory - Performance by Koko Kabamba

The opening of the exhibition of Laboratoire Kontempo at the Haus der Statistik will be introduced by the performance "The history of Memory" by Koko Kabamba. Visitors are also invited to participate in a "Partagisme", a collective painting technique from Kinshasa.
The exhibition presents artistic collaborations between Berlin and Kinshasa that were created during the two phases of Laboratoire Kontempo 2021 and 22.

Laboratoire Kontempo Kinshasa/Berlin sees itself as a laboratory for interactions,
processes and conflicts in the historical, social and economic field of tension between Europe and the Democratic Republic of Congo. A space in which multi-layered perspectives, practices and concepts are and concepts are given space.

Read more about concepts of participating artists on our website! (link in bio)

07/04/2022

ACUD Galerie updated their business hours.

ACUD Galerie updated their business hours.

11/02/2022

🐚Today we open y is everything so exhausting

Can't wait to welcome you to the gallery. ✨

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For the opening, please bring proof of vaccination or recovery PLUS a negative test. The test is needed also for boostered people. Both rapid tests and PCR tests are accepted.
Information on the nearest testing centres is provided below.

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14/09/2021

It's Not Your Fault is now open and we continue with the off program! Don't miss the chance to both visit the exhibition and join the reading with Tamara Antonijević and Henrike Kohpeiß. 🐚

This Thursday, September 16, at 7 pm in the open-air yard of ACUD

Tamara Antonijević and Henrike Kohpeiß read from their text „I know you’ve been hurt - Solace and Semblance of Selfcare“ and talk about slow catastrophes and the difficulties of care in a dying world.

16/10/2020

Loss ~ Sauda was a sound-driven multidisciplinary experience, conceived as a meditative and introspective environment. Presented by Unfolded Memories at Acud Galerie on 8.10.20. Simone Antonioni, Kate Chen, FluxGeist and Frank Wang drove us in a suspended, sonic space of uncomfortable intimacy with four different performances: Loss, Elegy, Neverborn & Sauda.

ABOUT

The music is all original material composed by Simone Antonioni and features isolated melodies, stolen dialogues, personal notes, as well as music released on Verlag in 2020 and unreleased material recorded between 2017 – 2020. Fashion plays a role in Unfolded Memories visions, which is encapsulated in the still melancholy of cold manufactured beauty and in the staging of aesthetic gestures.

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Unfolded Memories – Loss ~ Sauda is a collaborative project between:

Simone Antonioni
... is a Berlin based Artist that releases music with few aliases, one of which is Unfolded Memories. His music has been featured in XLR8R, Vice, Kaltblut and CoS. An obsession towards fashion images led him to work on sound for design related projects both in Italy and Berlin.

Kate Chen
... is an artist and architect living in Berlin. Her projects take the form of installation, video, drawing, text, and scenography. The concepts focus on entanglements between the body, cybernetics, and architecture, especially how they relate to perception and mythologies of space. For this performance, Kate designed the scenography and a site-specific fragrance installation.

FluxGeist
... is a platform of collective work that facilitates technology in the creative process. The studio offers developments in human-computer interaction systems by covering a spectrum of light, sound, embedded electronics and online webpages for use creative in applications. For this performance, a site-specific light installation was conceived to further the immersion into the world of Unfolded Memories.

Frank Wang
... works as an architect and photographer in Berlin. His recent work includes an essay on urban rituals and responses to terrorism for the Cornell Journal of Architecture, a photo essay exploring one of Shenzhen’s last urban villages for Metropolis magazine, and a restaurant/flower shop hybrid in Beijing. His work usually gravitates towards urban rituals, statistical anomalies, and dirty things. For this performance, Frank designed the scenography.