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26/06/2022

10/06/2022

We're so sad to share the news! Till the end of this month we're still in Schillerpromenade 4.

We would like to see you to join us at our recent events in this space.

10/06/2022

Workshop

Time & Location:
09.06 Thu Futurium 17:00 - 19:45
16.06 Thu (location will be announced soon) 17:00 - 19:45
30.06 Thu Futurium 17:00 - 19:45
21.07 Thu Futurium 17:00 - 19:45
28.07 Thu Futurium 17:00 - 19:45

Let’s unleash the potential of fungi together and develop sustainable solutions for the construction industry. During this workshop you will learn cultivation techniques to grow edible mushrooms an build your own mushroom material, get in touch with the Berliner transacademic mushroom community, experience how to set up a self-organized mycology lab at home and fabricate a modular block made of mycelium composite materials.

Link to workshop registration:
https://futurium.de/de/open-lab-abend/open-lab-abend-13/open-lab-abend

For further information:
http://www.top-ev.de/mycobuild/

25/05/2022

Zdzisław Jurkiewicz. The sun in the kitchen /Zdzisław Jurkiewicz. Sonne in der Küche

Soft Opening / Vernissage: 26.05.2022, Thursday / Donnerstag: 17:00

Exhibition on view: 26.05.2022 – 07.06.2022
Visiting hours / geöffnet: 17:00 – 20:00

24/04/2022

Solo exhibition
Exhibition on view: 26.05.2022 – 07.06.2022
Visiting hours: 17:00 – 20:00
Soft Opening: 26.05.2022, Thursday 17:00

In 1964 Zdzisław Jurkiewicz moved to a small flat in Łaciarska Street in Wrocław, which would become the figure connecting the various aspects of his artistic work, and more – a point of intersection of all the numerous matters and issues that he found interesting. It was there that all the works featured at the exhibition at Wrocław Contemporary Museum were created: objects, paintings, photographs, but the role and function of the flat far exceeded the traditionally understood art studio; it was not about genius loci either. In the 1970s, the flat became a kind of lab-capsule and a botanical garden in one. Jurkiewicz conducted astronomical observations from the window of his room. At the same time, he set a kind of “trap” for the Sun in his kitchen and created a photographic record of it. This is how the work The Sun 1.VII.1972 (1972) was made – a sequence of black-and-white photographs shows the solar disk moving across the kitchen wall amidst ordinary objects, dishes, chives in a jar. It is one of Jurkiewicz’s seminal works and a key element of the exhibition, which perfectly illustrates his ability to combine what is distant and unattainable with that which is close, mundane, ordinary.

Curator: Marika Kuźmicz, PhD.

Organizer: Culture and Art Centre in Wrocław – Cultural Institution of the Lower Silesia Region
Co-organizer:TOP e. V. Association for the Promotion of Cultural Practice
Co-financed by the Lower Silesian Voivodship Government and the Polish-German Cooperation Foundation
Honorary Patronage: Cezary Przybylski, Marshall of the Lower Silesian Voivodship, Artworks loaned by private collectors and The Zachęta Lower Silesian Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts.
Collaboration: Agnieszka Chodysz-Foryś

For further information:

http://www.top-ev.de/exhibition/zdzislaw-jurkiewicz-the-sun-in-the-kitchen/

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23/04/2022

Group exhibition & Performances
Exhibition on view: 06.05.22 – 20.05.22
Visiting hours: Thursday – Sunday, 16:00 – 21:00
Soft Opening: 06.05.22, Friday, 18:00 with a Performance by Lux Venérea

Performance
14.05.2022, Saturday, 18:00
Mariama Nzinga Diallo & Vivian Crespo Zurita

Reading & Talk
19.05.2022, Thursday, 19:30
Adelaide Ivánova, Sarah Berger

Finissage: 20.05.2022, Friday, 18:00 with Performances by Birte Opitz and Lotti Seebeck

Participating artists:
Christa Joo Hyun D’Angelo, Lilian Robl, Marleen Rothaus, Ivana Pavlíčková, Đejmi Hadrović, Cleo Kempe Towers, Lux Venérea, Vivian Crespo Zurita, Mariama Nzinga Diallo, Birte Opitz and Lotti Seebeck

The group exhibition Like Water explores the complex relationship between rage and femininity from diverse angles and through different artistic media, explicitly taking femininities outside of a binary gender system into account as well.

Anger is a multi-layered emotion. It can be destructive and transformative, rational and impulsive, empathetic and isolating. In its ability to point the finger at injustice and reinforce boundaries, it’s one of the most powerful emotional tools we have.

Like Water lets various artists take a stand on the topic. Sometimes serious, sometimes playful, painting, ceramics, video, installation and live performances serve as a means to illuminate female rage and its underlying structures, histories, aesthetics and potentials. The works on view invite visitors to engage with the questions raised and their own emotions.

Like Water is funded by Stiftung Kunstfonds, Bonn as well as Bezirksamt Neukölln – Fachbereich Kultur and is also realized with the support of Stiftung wissensART, Berlin.

For further information:
http://www.top-ev.de/exhibition/like-water/

Flyer Design:

19/04/2022

Open Call – Zur Teilnahme an der Vernetzungs-Konferenz von Artist-Run Network Europe (ARNE)
>top e.V. veranstaltet am 09. und 10. September 2022 eine Konferenz zur Vernetzung Berliner Projekträume mit acht Europäischen Partnern von ARNE.

Dafür laden wir zehn Berliner Projekträume/ Initiativen ein, sich auf einem Ministand sowohl mit einem Plakat (Gestaltung und Produktion macht >top) über die Struktur und Infodaten zum Projektraum, als auch mit einer künstlerischen Präsentation darzustellen.

Ein gemeinsames Dinner und ein kleines Honorar sind geplant. Bei Interesse schreibt uns bitte eine Email mit Kontaktperson und Link zur Webseite Eures Projektraumes/Initiative und einem Satz warum Ihr an der Veranstaltung interessiert seid bis 03.05.2022 an: top [at] artistsinitiatives [dot] com

Weitere Informationen: http://www.top-ev.de/arne/open-call-zur-teilnahme-an-der-vernetzungs-konferenz-von-artist-run-network-europe-arne/

Die Veranstaltung im Rahmen von Artist-Run Network Europe (ARNE) wird unterstützt von der Berliner Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Europa und dem Creative Europe Programm der Europäischen Union

01/04/2022

Krit-Kölln Online, Zeitraum für Zweifel

Group exhibition
Exhibition on view: 03.04.22 – 09.04.22
Visiting hours: 17:00 – 20:00
Soft Opening: 03.04.22, Sunday, 17:00

Zeitraum für Zweifel is the conclusion of Krit-Kölln Online, a two-month program where they regularly met to analyze their artistic practice.

During their sessions, different Berlin-based artists joined them as guests. Andres Villarreal, Ana María Millan, Ellinor Aurora Aasgaard, Mario Asef and Sofía Lomba thought together with them and also, shared their experience in relation to their own work and their previous involvement in different academic programs and participation in residencies etc.

The title of the show translates into English as period for doubts but also, in a literal way, as time-room for doubts. Doubting is often considered a sign of weakness or lack of conviction, instead, in their time-room, asking questions was the method they used to deconstruct both the presented artworks and their means of production.

The exhibited works which deal with issues of loneliness, care, urbanism and expanded notions of the traditional art mediums, were the main protagonists of their sessions. However, they were also an excuse to bond and connect with other artists unknown to them until that moment.

Besides their steady gatherings and exhibition, the program also aimed to encourage what cannot be planned nor organized in a framed period of time and space, such as future collaborations and projects among its participants, hoping for contingency to lead the way for what is yet to come.

For further information:

http://www.top-ev.de/exhibition/krit-kolln-online-zeitraum-fur-zweifel/

https://kritkolln.com/

26/02/2022

A poetry/text-reading event

Mon, 28.02.2022
Time: 18:00 – 22:00

Readings by:
Nat Marcus .marcus
Monilola Olayemi Ilupeju Maru Mushtrieva etaïnn zwer
Cru Encarnação

All proceeds go to Casa T

Poster Design by Saïx

This is a 2G+ event – Covid-19 vaccination or recovery proof will be checked at the entrance. Please bring either a valid digital vaccination certificate or recovery certificate and an official ID plus a negative test. Both rapid tests and PCR tests are accepted. Persons who cannot be vaccinated (and those under 18) can visit the exhibition with proof and a negative test. Please wear a medical mask inside the exhibition space.

>top e.V. reserves the right to change the corona admission criteria according to the evolving situation and instructions of authorities

If you have questions, write at [email protected]

24/01/2022

“Urban Surveillance Bureau” A Sequence of work in process by

Exhibition on view: 02.02.22 – 09.02.22 (Due to circumstances beyond our control, we have to postpone our exhibition opening date to: 02.02.2022)
Visiting hours: 14:00 – 19:00 and by appointment
Pre-closing event: 05.02.2022, Saturday

*** Part of transmediale / Vorspiel 2022 ***



Most of the world human population lives in cities nowadays; they are mostly online but sometimes offline. Cities are considered commodities; they are contemporary tools for consumption. The city is consumed and experienced as entertainment by those who can afford it; space becomes the privileged instrument for capital to unfold, to happen through the social realm. With the help of emerging technologies, concepts of smart cities, cities have become more digital. But in the digitalized city, also citizens are commodified, becoming, in turn, the “privileged instrument” of capital by using “smart” tools’ and allowing data extraction.

Urban Surveillance Bureau is initiated by Yelta Köm and mimics bureaucratic gestures to offer dissident urban imaginaries and progressive articulations beyond conventional critics. Urban Surveillance Bureau is tasked with establishing fictional realities through surveillance systems and providing information on how it is possible to hide within the system and empower dissident movements.

Throughout the transmediale Vorspiel, the Bureau will show a sequence from its work in process, with drawings, speculations, videos and objects at This installation will provide the groundwork for assemblages and discussions for the bureau’s practice. Urban Surveillance Bureau was partially developed during the Forecast Platform Mentorship Programme in 2020.

Project Assistant: Serap Kaçmaz

For further information:
https://urban-surveillance.com/

24/01/2022

Thank you all for coming to Installation and the participatory event in Vorspiel Opening on Friday 21.01.2022

*** Part of transmediale / Vorspiel 2022 ***




📷: Başak Tüsüz

17/01/2022

We would like to inform you that this year TOP participates in Vorspiel / transmediale: an installation and participatory event "You and I, You and Me" by Mindaugas Gapševičius and Maria Safronova Wahlström.

Participatory event on 21 January 2022 Friday, 17:00 – 21:00
Location: Atelier, Silent Green, Gerichtstraße 35, 13347 Berlin

Mindaugas Gapševičius invites to take part in a participatory event “You and I, You and Me”. The installation and the participatory event explore the possibilities of communication through electricity. The project proposes that electricity could help to reveal the imperceptible connections between different actors within the environment. How far could electricity help in understanding the other? Is there a possibility to alter human senses by electric impulses?
The participatory event will take us to the future scenario, where humans, computing machines, and various hybrids share the space they inhabit. In this environment senses are altered, and some have inextricable linkage to computing devices. In this narrative, humans take responsibility to reshape social ties to avoid being controlled by corporations and machines.

Photo credit: Arūnas Baltėnas

For further information: https://www.facebook.com/events/156739902694669

01/12/2021

Thank you all for coming to the opening of Atlas of Databodies on Saturday!

Check out the exhibition in the next days!

09/11/2021

You are warmly invited to join
"Signs of the Times – collecting material traces and memories" by Karolina Żyniewicz, a bio-sociological experiment and a participatory event at Top on 13.11 from 4pm to 6:30pm.

Masks (medical/textile) became symbols of these challenging times, confinement, uncertainty, and fear. Pictures of people wearing masks will be historical documents of this period. With time, they will have different meanings. Masks are dedicated to protecting us from the virus but are used for too long; they can also be dangerous for our health, accumulating everything coming from our nose and mouth while breathing and talking. After a few hours of wearing, they are soaked with body secretions and individual micro-flora. We should not absorb it back.

Besides pictures of masks being worn, they are also masks lying in the streets. After usage, they become trash, biohazardous trash. They are then anonymous; we can’t know who was wearing them. Maybe it was a coronavirus carrier or a person being sick with various illnesses. In Spring 2021, I decided to collect masks from the streets of Berlin to use them as laboratory samples in the future. Then I realized that I wanted to listen to people and collect their masks and memories from the covid 19 pandemic. The pandemic is not over yet, and the presentation of the project required of it is definitely ended. The laboratory stage of the project is planned for 2/3 years from now. Hopefully, it will be enough time to see the collections from a different perspective.

This is a 2G event – Covid-19 vaccination or recovery proof will be checked at the entrance.

The space is limited to 12 people. Please do register via email: top [at] top-ev [dot] de. By registering, you agree to be part of the project. But your participation can be off-the-record. The consent documents will be provided on-site.

(Photo credit Adam Bogdan - from the event in Gdańsk)