Exhibition | 21.01.2012 verlängert bis 29.04.2012
John Smith
Worst Case Scenario. Films from 1975-2003
The British artist John Smith (*1952 in London) has been making experimental films for more than three decades now. With their calculated idiom and ironic playfulness they count among the most important works of the contemporary film avant-garde. They are puzzling, sharp-witted, and above all funny. John Smith challenges us not to take anything we hear or say at face value, and in doing so puts the criteria of fact and fiction to the test. Focus is placed on his creative treatment of sound and image and the lightness and irony with which he creates space for viewers to rethink their own perception.
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Exhibition | 25.02.2012 - 28.05.2012
CIRCUS WOLS
An Homage
He is one of the most prominent artists of the 20th century, yet scarcely anyone knows his name. Art history views him as the pioneer of Art Informel painting, and yet the complexity of his artistic existence defies any categorization. In 1932, just nineteen years old, he leaves Germany to have his finger on the pulse of time in Paris. He gains access to bohemian circles there but continues to be a loner. For throughout his life he struggled for an existence beyond the middle-class, and in doing so not lastly slid into the vicissitudes of the National Socialist war against European culture.
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Exhibition Studienzentrum | 09.03.2012 - 13.05.2012
Roma Publications
This exhibition features the publications released from 1998 onwards by Roma Publications, the publishing house founded in Amsterdam by the artist Mark Manders and the graphic designer Roger Willems. In close collaboration with artists and writers, Roma Publications has produces individual and very diverse publications in editions ranging from two to 150,000 copies. Their artists’ books, artists’ magazines as well as the graphic works they release are circulated widely, as supplements in other publications or as “give aways”.
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Exhibition Studienzentrum | 09.03.2012 - 20.05.2012
Tobias Premper - Boxenbücher
His personal notes and his unique perception of the world form the foundation of the so-called “Box Books”, the text and image publications composed of groups of lose pages realized by Tobias Premper, Berlin-based artist, writer and freelance author. These cardboard-box treasure chests are produced in signed and limited editions. Each individual box contains between 50 and 100 pages that have been partially made by hand (e.g. original drawings), collaged, stamped, glued, torn, sprayed, printed or simply copied.
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Exhibition | 16.03.2012 - 01.07.2012
Rebecca Horn
Federn tanzen auf den Schultern
Rebecca Horn is one of the most prominent contemporary artists. Known worldwide for her space-consuming installations, her protean oeuvre comprises drawings, collages, performances, films, as well as objects and moving sculptures that develop a secret life of their own. Concurrent with the TANZ BREMEN festival, the Weserburg is going back to the beginnings of her creative work and is mounting an exhibition centered around her films and performances. Her early works already exhibit striking poetic force and iconographic diversity; their point of departure and source of energy is the human body, whose possibilities and limitations she explores and seeks to overcome.
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Events Film | Thursday 26.04. 19:00 Uhr
Buster's Bedroom
Die Weserburg präsentiert parallel zur Ausstellung Rebecca Horn|Federn
tanzen auf den Schultern den Spielfilm Buster's Bedroom. Mit einer Einführung durch den Kurator Ingo Clauß.
8,- /5,- Euro (inkl. Eintritt in das Museum)
Inhalt: Mischa Morgan, eine junge Filmstudentin, ist auf dem Weg in das Sanatorium Nirvana House, auf den Spuren ihres großen Idols Buster Keaton. Die Stummfilm-Legende soll sich in der südlich von Santa Barbara gelegenen Anstalt einst einem Alkoholentzug unterzogen haben. Heute dient das Nirvana House als Refugium einer kleinen Gruppe skurriler Persönlichkeiten, die dort in vollkommener Abgeschiedenheit und friedlicher Eintracht miteinander leben.
Für Mischa beginnt eine Odyssee durch eine magische Traumwelt. Immer wieder droht sie sich in dieser zu verlieren – wäre da nicht der Geist Keatons, der sie zu beschützen scheint.
Events Eröffnung | Friday 11.05. 19:00 Uhr
Kabinettstücke
Vorhut aus dem Hinterland Teil 2
Zur Ausstellung sprechen Carsten Ahrens | Direktor der Weserburg und Peter Friese | Hauptkurator und Stellvertretender Direktor.
Der Eintritt ist frei.
Exhibition | 12.05.2012 - 05.05.2013
Kabinettstücke | Cabinet Pieces
Vanguard from the Back Country Part 2
Jürgen Wesseler has been presenting works by international artists in a small, former store in Bremerhaven since 1967. The special thing about his exhibition concept is that he succeeds in convincing the artists he has invited to let themselves in for exhibiting in a space that measures thirty-five square meters and has a display window. And they have been doing this for forty-five years how in a way that has meanwhile become exemplary for the international art and curator scene! It is not an overstatement to maintain that the small space opposite Bremerhaven’s Municipal Theater has been inscribed in the annals of art history and enjoys an international reputation.
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Works of Art from the Collections
Double 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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Sunday 22.04. 11:30 Uhr
Seitenweise Kunst – Zu den aktuellen Ausstellungen des Studienzentrums | Mit Bettina Brach
Thursday 26.04. 18:00 Uhr
Rebecca Horn | Mit Ingo Clauß
Thursday 03.05. 18:00 Uhr
Rebecca Horn
| Mit Britta Petersen
Sunday 06.05. 11:30 Uhr
CIRCUS WOLS
| Mit Detlef Stein
Thursday 10.05. 18:00 Uhr
CIRCUS WOLS
| Mit Guido Boulboullé
Sunday 13.05. 11:30 Uhr
CIRCUS WOLS
| Mit Britta Petersen
guided Tours
Bildsprachen
Thursday 23.May, 18.00 Hour
Das Material der Kunst | Führung zu ausgewählten Werken
Sunday 26.May, 11.30 Hour
Vom Sinn der Farbe | Führung zu ausgewählten Werken
Thursday 30.May, 18.00 Hour
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Adults: €8.00
Reduced: €5.00
Families (2 adults/4 children): €14.00
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