Exhibition | 12.06.2010 EXTENDED TIL 03.10.2010
Olaf Metzel
Any More Questions?
When there is talk of the connection between art and life, then Olaf Metzel's sculptures and installations derived directly from life, as well as his interventions impacting upon life itself, occupy a special place in the art landscape of Europe. Metal scaffoldings, guardrails, a burst-apart piece of gym equipment, rows of seats from a sports bleacher, bistro tables from snack bars, metal lockers, and other objects and materials utilized and sometimes forcefully altered by the artist seem to take quite literally the relationship between art and everyday life which has been repeatedly postulated by various avant-gardes. But Metzel is not concerned with a renewed "material aesthetic," and certainly not with a "poetry of the trivial" residing in and to be coaxed out of objects. Instead the sculptor, object artist and draftsman, who lives in Munich, aims at a direct encounter with the viewer and his social, urban and social-political environment.
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Exhibition | 01.05.2010 - 29.05.2011
Chronische Fluxitis
Sammlung Maria und Walter Schnepel
Seit vielen Jahren begeistert sich das Bremer Sammlerpaar Maria und Walter Schnepel für jene Künstlergeneration, die man heute unter dem Begriff „Fluxus“ zusammenfasst. Ihr sowohl avantgardistischer, als auch aufrührerischer, ja neodadaistischer Geist manifestierte sich seit den 1960er Jahren in Europa, den USA und Japan. Die Fluxus Künstler verweigerten sich den Museen, veranstalteten die ersten Happenings und Aktionen und nutzten alle damals verfügbaren Medien für ihre antibürgerlichen und nicht affirmativen Kunstwerke. Die Ausstellung „Chronische Fluxitis“ folgt einem ungewöhnlichen Konzept. Sie ordnet die Werke der Ausstellung nach ihrem Entstehungsdatum und setzt sie in Beziehung zum Zeitgeschehen der 1960er, 1970er und 1980er Jahre. Die Ausstellung entwirft damit ein spannungsreiches Beziehungsgeflecht zwischen Kunst, Gesellschaft und Politik.
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Exhibition | 08.05.2010 - 11.09.2011
Doppelte Rotation
Works from the Lafrenz Collection
The Lafrenz Collection has substantially influenced the self-concept and image of the Weserburg, the collector’s museum in the middle of the river Weser, since its inception. As early as the 1970s, the Hamburg-based pharmacist Dr. Klaus Lafrenz had assembled a powerful and unmistakable collection of key positions in Minimal Art, Conceptual Art, Arte Povera, and related art trends from the United States and Europe. What particularly stands out is their questioning of the media and materials as well as of the basic conditions of the artist’s perception of these. Indeed, most of Lafrenz’s paintings, sculptures, and installations do not represent anything in a mimetic sense, do not depict anything that might exist outside of themselves. Instead, they create in a sensorial way unmistakable situations and confrontations that are immediately transferred into the space and ultimately to the viewer as well.
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Exhibition | 18.09.2010 - 30.10.2010
Thomas Hartmann
Unruhe - Bilder 1979-2010
Exhibition | 21.08.2010 - 31.10.2010
Götz Diergarten
Photographs
Through his photographs, Götz Diergarten (*1972 in Mannheim) encourages us to look at the familiar things in our surroundings with greater sensitivity. In his typological series he investigates ordinary architecture: German fagades, Belgian beach huts, British beach buildings, and European subways. The ostensible banality of plaster and fake brick, windows, garage doors, and simple architecture is transformed into a typology of everyday culture through the photographic series. His works are characterized by the clear, documentary style of his teacher Bernd Becher. House fagades, beach huts, and subways are photographed according to strict compositional criteria—frontal view, diffuse light, and dose cropping; the only variant is the type.
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Exhibition | 28.02.2009 - 02.01.2011
Noble Gäste
The Weserburg Hosts the Kunsthalle Bremen
In the spirit of genuine hospitality, welcoming someone into one’s home means not only accommodating him or her, the proverbial “dedication” of separate space, but also active exchange—dialogue and correspondence, as behooves an attentive host. On this premise, the selection of outstanding works that the Kunsthalle is sending to the collector’s museum Weserburg—a former warehouse in the middle of the Weser River—for two years is automatically placed in relationship to the Weserburg’s existing works from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This also applies for the building, a former coffee roasting facility, and its labyrinthine spaces. It is about hospitality of a special kind—not side by side and in unison, but questions and answers, dialogues, replies, and boundaries.
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Exhibition | 03.09.2010 - 26.09.2010
Mit | Auf | Aus einem Boot
Eine Ausstellung in den Räumen der Kunstvermittlung
Das Vorhaben „Boote bauen und damit ein Stück auf der Weser fahren!“ wollte diese Sommerferien in einem zweiwöchigen Projekt gemeinsam mit Jugendlichen im Alter von 11 bis 15 Jahren neue Räume – visionäre und reale – öffnen. Der Ort hierfür war das Atelier von Achim Bertenburg im Güterbahnhof. Von Anfang an bestimmte das ganze Team demokratisch den Ablauf des Projekts: Arbeitsphasen, Pausen, Mittagessen, Diskussionen. Jeder suchte sich seinen Raum, in dem er Wissen abgeben oder gewinnen konnte.
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Exhibition Studienzentrum | 19.06.2010 - 15.09.2010
Clemente Padín
Word, Action and Risk
During his over forty years of artistic activity, Clemente Padín condensed several profiles: poet, critic, curator, editor and networker, acting in a territory where art and activism mingled.
His trajectory reveals an effort to overcome the canonical forms of artistic creation and circulation, as well as the limits imposed by the military dictatorships which devastated the Latin American continent in the years 1960/70. In his works, Padín applies strategies of reproduction and dissemination of information according to technological, social and subjective changes related to the transformations of the artistic communicating circuits.
He follows the variations in the techniques of reproduction over time: typewriting machine, off-set, photocopy, serigraphy, video, photography and, finally, digital art. In Mail art network, within the orbit of exchange established among artists from all over the world, Clemente Padín represented a point of reference in South America.
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Exhibition Studienzentrum | 09.07.2010 - 24.10.2010
Allen Ruppersberg
Artist's Books
Für den kalifornischen Konzeptkünstler Allen Ruppersberg stehen Sprachfragmente des Alltags und der Dichtung im Zentrum seiner Arbeit. Die Literatur, die Sprache überhaupt spielt eine wichtige Rolle für den 1944 in Cleveland geborenen Künstler. So dienten literarische Vorlagen vielfach als Inspiration für seine frühen Arbeiten und Projekte, die sich auch in seinen Künstlerbüchern widerspiegeln. Zu seinen legendären Künstlerbüchern und Arbeiten zählt unter anderem Al’s Grand Hotel (1971). Bei diesem Projekt realisierte Ruppersberg ein Hotel auf Zeit, bei dem sieben individuell eingerichtete Zimmer angemietet werden konnten, darunter ein ‚Jesus Zimmer’ und ein ‚Hochzeitszimmer’. Als Inspiration diente der Roman Menschen im Hotel (1929) von Vicky Baum, der 1932 auch als Film mit Greta Garbo unter dem Titel Grand Hotel umgesetzt wurde.
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guided Tours
Die Ästhetik der Gewalt
Thursday 09.September, 18.00 Hour
Olaf Metzel
Sunday 12.September, 11.30 Hour
Noble Gäste
Thursday 16.September, 18.00 Hour
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Events
Thomas Hartmann
Saturday 18.September, 18:30 Hour
Unruhe-Bilder 1979-2010
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REM Concert 78
Sozialstudien und Auferstehung
Thursday 21.October, 20:00 Hour
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Thursday 10:00 a.m.–9:00 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday 10:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m.
Closed on Monday
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Adults: €8.00
Reduced: €5.00
Families (2 adults/4 children): €14.00
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