Retrospect

Die Publikation zu den Ausstellungen Hand Held Lava und Steine „Ilana Halperin. New Landmass, Neue Landmasse“ wurde am Montag, 23. April 2012 um 19 Uhr in der Hörsaalruine des Berliner Medizinhistorischen Museums der Charité vorgestellt. Nach Einführung durch Prof. Dr. Thomas Schnalke, Direktor des Medizinhistorischen Museums, stellten Kurator Andrew Patrizio und Künstlerin Ilana Halperin im Gespräch Aspekte der Ausstellungskonzeption sowie ihrer Katalogbeiträge vor. Aus ihren Essays lasen Prof. Dr. Horst Bredekamp, Professor für Kunstgeschichte, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin und Dame Gillian Beer, Professorin für englische Literatur, University of Cambridge.

On March 12, 2012, at 7pm, a performance lecture will take place on the occasion of the exhibtion „Hand Held Lava“ at the Schering Stiftung’s project space. The performative evening will examine the intersection between volcanoes and contemporary culture, featuring Glasgow-based artist Ilana Halperin, anthropologist Karen Holmberg (New York), and art historian Andrew Patrizio (Edinburgh). The team present their 'field notes' from volcanic sites across the world, including Hawaii, Vesuvius, Mt. St. Helens, Iceland, and elsewhere.

Opening: Thursday, February 2, 2012, at 7 p.m.
Exhibition Dates: 03.02. – 05.05.2011
Monday through Saturday: 11 a.m. – 6 p.m. | Free admission.

Ernst Schering Foundation | Unter den Linden 32-34 | 10117 Berlin

Volcanic activity is never far from our minds or the world news. With her new solo exhibition Hand Held Lava at the Ernst Schering Foundation’s Project Space opening on 2nd February 2012, the Glasgow-based artist llana Halperin (b.1973, New York) looks deep into volcanic phenomena and the interplay of life cycles between humans and volcanoes.

Semiconductor Crystals – The Aesthetics of Digital Processes

Curator: Carsten Seiffarth (Berlin)

Opening: Thursday, October 27, 2011, at 7 p.m.
Exhibtion Dates: 
October 28, 2011, until December 17, 2011
Monday through Saturday: 11 a.m. until 6 p.m.
Admission is free.

Ernst Schering Foundation
Unter den Linden 32-34 | 10117 Berlin | Germany

On October 27, 2011, the exhibition “Irrational Computing” by artist Ralf Baecker will open at the Ernst Schering Foundation’s Project Space at Unter den Linden. In his current artistic research, the Berlin-based artist – known to a broader public for his “Calculating Space,” which was part of the “WorldKnowledge” exhibition – deals with the building components of our ubiquitous information technology. For “Irrational Computing,” he uses semiconductor crystals such as silicon, quartz or silicon carbide, which, thanks to today’s advanced microtechnology and extremely sophisticated procedures, are processed into transistors or integrated circuits (IC), with the materiality of modern microprocessors having long since ceased to be graspable. The extreme miniaturization and the black-box set-up elude visual interpretation. For his exhibition, Ralf Baecker will construct a circuit that runs counter to the developments in information technology, representing the system in a dimension that is enlarged many times over. The project thus corresponds to an extreme zooming-in on the smallest “physical” units of digital processes.

Opening: Thursday, June 23, 2011, at 6.30 p.m.
Exhibtion Dates:
June 24, 2011, until October 1, 2011
Monday through Saturday: 11 a.m. until 6 p.m.
Closed July 25 - August 14, 2011
Admission is free.

For the opening we kindly ask for registration under anmeldung(at)scheringstiftung.de.

Ernst Schering Foundation
Unter den Linden 32-34 | 10117 Berlin | Germany

On June 23, 2011, the exhibition “CAGE” by Chinese artist Li Hui will open at the Ernst Schering Foundation’s Project Space on Unter den Linden. In his works, Li Hui creates unreal situations that have a dreamlike quality. In the exhibition room, the visitor is temporarily and randomly surrounded by a cage made of laser beams. Hui uses the cage, which encloses but does not harm the visitor, to explore individual boundaries and demonstrate how people are influenced by purely optical – though physically irrelevant – barriers.

22.03.2011, Berlin | The exhibition Fingerprints… - the first monographic show of the performative installations and live laboratories by US-American biomedia artist Paul Vanouse in Germany - will be extended until April 16, 2011. Visitors can witness the concluding performances by Paul Vanouse and Kerry Sheehan on March 24, 25 and 26, 2011. The results of the performative installations and live laboratories will then be displayed until April 16, 2011.  

curated by Jens Hauser

Opening: Thursday, January 27, 2011, at 7 pm
Exhibtion Dates: January 28, 2010 until March 26, 2011
Monday through Saturday: 11 am until 6 pm
Additionally: Sunday, January 30, 11 am until 6 pm
Admission is free

Schering Stiftung
Unter den Linden 32-34
10117 Berlin
Germany

The exhibition Fingerprints… at the Ernst Schering Foundation’s project space will showcase the performative installations and live laboratories by US-American biomedia artist Paul Vanouse. Curated by Jens Hauser, the exhibition presents the world premiere of the Suspect Inversion Center, an operational laboratory in which Vanouse creates identical “genetic fingerprints” of criminals and celebrities from his own DNA. It also features new motifs of the Latent Figure Protocol, as well as the Relative Velocity Inscription Device – a cynical molecular race reflecting on biologically legitimized racism, in which bits of DNA, instead of bodies, compete by testing their “genetic fitness”. The exhibition marks a continuation of the Ernst Schering Foundation’s effort to promote the public discussion about the role of images in art and science.

Opening: Thursday, October 28, 2010, at 7 p.m.
Exhibtion Dates:
October 29, 2010, until January 8, 2011
Monday through Saturday: 11 a.m. until 6 p.m.
Closed Dec 24/25/31, 2010 and Jan 01, 2011
Admission is free.

Ernst Schering Foundation
Unter den Linden 32-34
10117 Berlin
Germany

Carsten Höller’s exhibition “Rentier im Zöllnerstreifenwald,” (Reindeer in a Forest of Zöllner Stripes) on display at the Project Space of the Ernst Schering Foundation, is a cooperation with the Berlin National Gallery. In the context of his extensive solo exhibition, SOMA, at the National Gallery’s Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum for Contemporary Art, Berlin, the artist developed his new work Rentier rot-grün (Reindeer red-green) for the Ernst Schering Foundation, continuing his artistic exploration of the phi-phenomenon, which he began in 2001.

Art///Fiorella Lavado
Science////Arthur I. Miller

Opening: September 9, 2010, 7.30 pm
Duration: September 10 – October 9, 2010
Monday through Saturday, 11 am until 6 pm
Admission is free

Ernst Schering Foundation
Unter den Linden 32-34 | 10117 Berlin

In cooperation with the British Council, the Schering Stiftung presents the exhibition project “Weaving the Universe: From Atoms to Stars” by Peruvian artist Fiorella Lavado and British physicist and historian of science Arthur I. Miller.

The artist will be showing her most recent works, which are made of stainless-steel wire, at the Project Space. The sculptures, created in discussion dialogue with Arthur I. Miller, provide the viewer with an idea of the phenomena of the universe which are basically invisible and difficult to grasp.

The exhibition will be launched on 9 September 2010 at 6pm with a lecture by Arthur I. Miller and Fiorella Lavado at the Robert-Koch-Forum of the Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin. With the title "A Journey Between Two Worlds" they will introduce the theme of the exhibition. The exhibition will officially open at the Ernst Schering Foundation at 7.30pm.

Fiorella Lavado & Arthur I. Miller about the exhibition:

“Weaving the Universe: From Atoms to Stars” originates from a unique collaboration between an artist and a scientist. This unusual approach requires that the artist strives to understand scientific concepts and the scientist is willing to examine nature from an artistic point of view. It seeks to evoke the ambiguity and beauty of the cosmos in the large – black holes and wormholes – and in the small – atoms, electrons and light quanta – while exploring the human mind, the means by which we imagine these strange worlds.”

A panel discussion with the title “Beyond Scientific Visualisation” will take place at the Schering Stiftung on 7 October 2010 at 7pm. The five panel members will approach the topic from a scientific or artistic background and will consider questions such as “Are collaborations between artists and scientists able to produce work capable of advancing scientific research?“, “Is art able to serve science without losing its artistic integrity?“ or “Are artistic concepts, like beauty, symmetry, and aesthetics, able to fertilize the increasingly complex and abstract visual language of science?“.
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Dates & Locations

September 9, 2010, 6 pm
Lecture “A Journey Between Two Worlds”
by Fiorella Lavado & Arthur I. Miller
Robert-Koch-Forum in der Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Robert-Koch-Saal
Dorotheenstr. 96 | 10117 Berlin
Registration not necessary

September 9, 2010, 7.30 pm
Exhibition Opening „Weaving the Universe: From Atoms to Stars“
Ernst Schering Foundation
Unter den Linden 32 - 34 | 10117 Berlin

October 7, 2010, 7 pm
Panel discussion: Beyond Scientific Visualisation. Are collaborations between artists and scientists able to produce work capable of advancing scientific research?
Ernst Schering Foundation
Unter den Linden 32 - 34 | 10117 Berlin
Registration via email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Further Information

www.fiorellalavado.com
www.arthurimiller.com
www.britishcouncil.de
www.scheringstiftung.de

The exhibition is a cooperative project of the Ernst Schering Foundation and the British Council.

Photos:
1: Jaws of Darkness | art by Fiorella Lavado | science by Arthur I. Miller | © Noel Mc Laughlin
2-3: © Fiorella Lavado

Opening: Wednesday, May 26, 2010, 7 p.m.
Duration: May 27 – August 28, 2010
Monday through Saturday, 11 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Free Admission

Ernst Schering Foundation
Unter den Linden 32-34
10117 Berlin

On May 26, 2010, the Ernst Schering Foundation, in cooperation with the Städel Museum, Frankfurt, opens the exhibition “a whiter shade of pale” by Düsseldorf-based artist Leni Hoffmann. Commissioned by the Ernst Schering Foundation, the wall work sid was developed specifically for the Foundation’s Project Space and will be donated to the Städel Museum, where it will be re-created. Curated by Dr. Martin Engler, head of the Städel’s post-1945 art collection, the exhibition also shows another work by Leni Hoffmann, ubik, which extends the exhibition space of the Ernst Schering Foundation towards the street.