Weserburg: Program

Exhibition | 01.08.2009 EXTENDED TIL 18.04.2010

A.R. Penck

Deutschland

Sixty years of the Constitution, twenty years since the Fall of the Wall and reunification. In 2009/10, we in Germany are commemorating a number of historical events which have decisively defined the development of our country. This has prompted the Weserburg, Bremen’s museum of modern art, to introduce a two-part series of exhibitions that focus on the subject of Germany. It starts with the exhibition A.R. Penck—Deutschland (A.R. Penck—Germany), followed by Freibeuter der Utopie (Buccaneers of Utopia) next year. [more...]

Aydan Mürtezaoğlu: Ohne Titel, 2000, Sammlung Block

Exhibition | 29.08.2009 - 05.04.2010

Who killed the Painting?

Works from the Block Collection

René Block has left his unique and vivid imprint on the art scene of the last few decades. His collection, with works by Joseph Beuys, Nam June Paik, George Brecht, Wolf Vostell, Arthur Køpcke and others, numbers among those with the most international significance in the area of Fluxus. And yet the committed curator, gallerist, publisher, collector and honorary professor at the Hochschule für Künste in Bremen has always, ever since the nineteen-sixties, moved deliberately beyond established norms and outside narrow borders. What interests him are not the well-known names already absorbed by the art market, but instead the artistic movements and meaningful contexts located on the fringes. Thus Block has demonstrated a talent, for more than four decades now, for discovering and supporting early on those artists who work outside the mainstream at a high level of excellence. The fact that he has remained true to this maxim and continues to seek close contact and intensive collaboration with artists is also reflected in his collection and renders it utterly distinctive.[more...]

Exhibition | 17.01.2010 - 18.04.2010

kek - Kindermuseum

Gestatten, ich bin dein Schatten! – Bilder, Geschichten und Theater

Der Schatten ist unser ständiger Begleiter. Mal steht er neben uns, mal geht er hinter uns, mal ist er ein Riese, mal ein Zwerg. Kleinere Kinder lieben es mit ihrem Doppelgänger zu spielen: Sie versuchen, ihn zu überlisten und physikalische Gesetze außer Kraft zu setzen. Größeren dient er gerne als Projektionsfläche für ein anderes Ich. In den verschiedenen Stationen der Ausstellung ist der Schatten als Spielpartner erlebbar und wird als Projektion und Inspiration erfahrbar. "Gestatten, ich bin dein Schatten!" wurde 2006 bereits im Krankenhaus-Museum präsentiert. In der Weserburg erhält diese Ausstellung einen neuen Kontext und schafft Verbindungen zu zeitgenössischen Kunstwerken im Haus.[more...]

Exhibition Studienzentrum | 31.10.2009 - 14.02.2010

Joan Rabascall

Production 1964-1982

Mass media, the role of woman. Militarization, violence, the “American way of life”, the recreation culture and computerization – these are Joan Rabascall’s main themes. The Study Centre for Artists’ Publications is now showing more than 150 hitherto little-known productions by the Spanish artist. The works on view date from the 1960s to the 1980s, which can be regarded the key period of his oeuvre. In an era in which most American artists submitted to the fascination of industrial production, Rabascall undertook to criticize the modern consumption culture, an approach he shared with many of his European colleagues. Within this context, he was interested above all in the increasing dominance of the media. The exhibition “Joan Rabascall: Produktion 1964–1982” inquires into the visual image and its transmission.[more...]

Exhibition Studienzentrum | 14.11.2009 - 21.02.2010

Pro musica nova

A Radiofestival and the Spirit of Fluxus

The “Pro musica nova” was one of the leading festivals worldwide in the area of twentieth-century new music. Its interdisciplinary conception called for the involvement of both literary work and the avant-garde art of the time. Until 2000, the radio festival founded in 1961 by Hans Otte – senior head of the deparment of music at Radio Bremen at the time – offered a great number of artists working in a wide range of media a forum for extremely productive exchange.[more...]

Exhibition Studienzentrum | 29.01.2010 - 02.05.2010

Dietmar Kirves

art information

“Information from artists and artists’ groups in whose working fields a consciousness-building concept is discernible.” – It was with this short sentence that publisher/artist Dietmar Kirves – also known to many as a German member of the “NO!art” movement – characterized his two publication series “art information” and “media news”. In the exhibition “Dietmar Kirves – art information”, the Research Centre for Artists’ Publications will now be presenting a survey of the editions put out by “mediacontact”, the publishing company founded by Kirves in Düsseldorf in 1970. With the art information and media news series, his aim was to create a platform for making information on contemporary art accessible to a broad public inexpensively, and thus to encourage a creative dialog with the public. [more...]

divers | 11.February 2010, 19.00 Uhr

Kunst Club Bremen

Offenes Atelier für Jugendliche zwischen 14 – 19 Jahren

Der Kunst Club Bremen bietet dir ein offenes Forum, in dem du dir jede Menge Raum für eigene Gedanken und Ideen nehmen kannst. In Gesprächen nähern wir uns der Welt der Kunst spielerisch und assoziativ an. Eine Veranstaltung der Kunsthalle Bremen und der Weserburg. Mit Britta Petersen

Kosten: 1,- € pro Person

divers | 13.February 2010, 11.30 Uhr

Kindersamstag

Und was siehst Du?

Eine Veranstaltung der Kunsthalle Bremen in der Weserburg. Mit Johanna Schmidt

Presentation | 17.February 2010, 19.00 Uhr

Love it or Leave it

Die politische Situation der Türkei im Spiegel der Kunst

Mit Dr. Erkan Taskira, Universität Izmir

divers | 18.February 2010, 19.00 Uhr

Kunst Club Bremen

Offenes Atelier für Jugendliche zwischen 14 – 19 Jahren

Kosten: 1,- € pro Person

REM Concert | 15.April 2010, 20.00 Uhr

Frédéric Acquaviva

REM Spezial

Frédéric Acquaviva ist Klangkünstler und Komponist experimenteller Musik. Seine chronopolyphonen Installationen werden in Galerien und Museen (Palais de Tokyo, Centre Pompidou, Musée des Beaux-Arts in Nantes...) sowie an alternativen Orten gezeigt. Acquaviva liebt ungewöhnliche Präsentationsformen und erforscht in seinen verwirrenden Kreationen stets neu das Verhältnis von Stimme und Sprache, von Klang und Sinn sowie die Idee, den Körper in die musikalische Komposition zu integrieren, der jedoch während der Aufführungen (Akusmatik und Installationen) abwesend ist.

Eine Veranstaltung in Kooperation mit dem Institut français.

Eintritt: 5 €

guided Tours

Künstlerscheiße und Kartoffeloper
Thursday 11.February, 18.00 Hour

Familienführung
Sunday 14.February, 11.00 Hour

A.R. Penck
Sunday 14.February, 11.30 Hour

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