CMK x Schau Fenster

Last Friday we visited Schau Fenster Berlin and met manager Jan Kage aka ‘Yaneq’. Jan is a Berlin-based rapper, singer, actor, journalist and author and since 2010 also head of art space Schau Fenster. For Creative Match Kreuzberg he invited art historian and curator Marc Wellmann to select some of his favorite art pieces and bring them together in an exhibition entitled ‘What I Like’.

Artists like Heather Allen, Philip Grözinger, Geka Heinke, Iris Kettner or Ulrich Kretschmannas well as Gerhard Mantz and Rebecca Thomas came together to show their works in the sustained, strait room of the old Butzke Werke, a bit of a different art gallery. The public was a vigorous mixture of young an old, experts and just interested passersby. Due to the location, there are not only art connoisseur but a lot of different people getting in touch with art in a new and very easy way. If you missed it, take your chance and have a look. The exhibition is running until the 11th of November at Schau Fenster – Schauraum für Kunst, Lobeckstraße 30-35, 10969 Berlin.

The exhibition is part of Creative Match Kreuzberg 2012. Find the rest of the program here.

in and out

The Paris design agency 2FACTORY has animated a short video clip about the state of play. We learn in beautifully illustrated and animated images today’s definition of ‘in’ and ‘out’. Be it transportation, the latest technology products or just how to go grocery shopping, how to dress and how to eat the right food at the right time of day

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Niem

Maren Bönsch presented her project ‘Niem’ at this years DMY in Berlin. Niem is to be defined as a portrait of a person, encoded in a textile medium. It is not to the concrete image of the person, it is rather a visualization of its memories and desires – the result is always an individual carpet, made for one specific person.

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Martin Ilgner

Martin Ilgner creates beautiful, sensitive photographs that evoke tender memories of a place called home. Where a life surrounded by nature is waiting and you can walk barefoot over grassland, picking blackberries while a fresh breeze is playing around your legs. In his photography, Ilgner has always strived for an honest, organic and authentic aesthetic.

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Playtime

‘Playtime’ is the first collection by Ying Zhang and Ida Thonsgaard. The idea behind the collection was to create a playful, easy-to-assemble interior and to make the process of putting together the pieces, as folding and joining, an interesting and fun part of the design.

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Alias

The sculpture ‘Alias’ seems like a strange indefinable creature. It was created for the Orangery Palace Rheda by Miriam Jonas. In forty seconds rhythm the structure made of transparent PVC is filled with air from a blower. Once the fan is turned off, air escapes from the Sculpture and almost breathing, it seems as if it is has come to life.

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the serpent that ate it’s tail

‘The serpent that ate its own tail’. Under this title the photographer Catherine Losing photographed the work staged by food stylist Iain Graham. Grotesque and mesmerizing images. We are overpowered by an almost childlike curiosity pushing us to discuss the observed system.

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Shaping Air

We already introduced Japanese artist Yasuaki Onishi here on iGNANT. Onishi usually spins his web around abstract phenomena. Now the artist turned his attention to matter, using the shape of the CLA from Mercedes-Benz to create one of his unique installations and mb! by Mercedes-Benz followed him with their camera.

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Summer Basics

Finally summer arrived in Berlin and the temperatures start rising up to 30 degrees. Time to present some nice and handy summer favorites in our Daily Basics. Have fun and see you at the bathing lakes.

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House in Nagahama

Located in Nagahama city, Japan, this house was designed by the Comma Design Office . Aiming at creating a space that provided a certain ‘buffer zone’ between the peaceful landscape on the northeast, where rice fields and open space spread all the way to the foot of mount Ibuki and the busy street on the north.

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Negative Space

Negative space in art is what you call the space that surrounds a subject or is between two or more subjects of an image. The negative space is most evident when it creates an interesting pattern or figure around the subject. It is often used as a kind of a tool to emphasize the relevant part of an image.

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