Retrospect

Berlin, 07.01.2013 | In the natural sciences, especially in the field of biology, there are signs of a displacement from theory-based towards data-based research. What effects will it have on research operations if the generation, selection, evaluation and processing of data is automated more and more? What new insights will be made possible through the quantification of experimental systems? Which data standards will be developed and how will they influence the daily research practice? Is the image as the main knowledge creator in the natural sciences being replaced? And what effects would such a loss of importance have for scientific fields like media- and visual-sciences or for art history and the arts?

Opening: January 24, 2013, at 7 p.m.
Exhibition Dates: January 25 until March 23, 2013
Monday through Saturday: 11 a.m. – 6 p.m. | Free admission.

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

On January 24 at 7 pm the new exhibition Fischen lauschen. Beginning of Data Transmission from the Arctic Sea (Listening to Fishes) by Hannes Rickli will open at the project space of the Ernst Schering Foundation. The Zürich-based Swiss artist presents an experimental installation and a pilot project in the field of artistic research on the development of aesthetic strategies in scientific practice. The audiovisual installation is based on audified data of computer processes and live transmitted as well as archived video images of a behavioral biology research station on Spitzbergen.

26.10.2012, Berlin | On November 2 from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m., the symposium Fluid Cosmologies I will be hosted at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. On the occasion of the exhibition CARVED AIR by Yunchul Kim, experts from different scientific disciplines will reflect on the central aspects of the exhibition: dark matter simulations, experiments on fluid instabilities and interdisciplinary approaches at the interface of science, media and art. This joint reflection from sciences and humanities examines the significance and potential of the concept of the “fluid skies” in contemporary cosmology, astrophysics and media theory.

26.10.2012, Berlin | As part of the symposium Fluid Cosmologies I at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities on November 2 at 6 p.m., the Ernst Schering Foundation will present the publication "Yunchul Kim: Carved Air". The book with contributions by Yunchul Kim, art historian Lucía Ayala and astrophysicist Jaime E. Forero-Romero is published on the occasion of the exhibition CARVED AIR by Yunchul Kim, which is on display at the Ernst Schering Foundation's project space until December 1, 2012.

Opening: Thursday, September 6, 2012, at 7 p.m.
Exhibition Dates: September 7 to December 1, 2012
Monday through Saturday: 11 a.m. – 6 p.m. | Free admission.

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

In his exhibition CARVED AIR, the Berlin-based Korean artist Yunchul Kim presents a series of electrochemical drawings as well as his latest fluid-kinetic sculptures, coupled to a cosmic ray detector. Conceived specifically for the Project Space of the Ernst Schering Foundation, the works were created in cooperation with “Fluid Skies,” a working group consisting of Kim, the art historian Lucía Ayala and the astrophysicist Jaime Forero (www.fluid-skies.net). Curated by Lucía Ayala, the exhibition is the first outcome of this collaboration.

Opening: Thursday, May 24, 2012, at 7 p.m.
Exhibition Dates: 25.05. – 21.07.2012
Monday through Saturday: 11 a.m. – 6 p.m. | Free admission.
Ernst Schering Foundation | Unter den Linden 32-34 | 10117 Berlin

The first solo exhibition in Germany by the British artist Haroon Mirza, which opens at Schering Stiftung on May 24, has a strikingly cryptic title: --{}{}{} {}--{}{}{}{}--{}. As the typographical equivalent of a wave form, it is the translation of sound and light into a sign-like representation. It is also a reference to Acid Reign, a new work created by Mirza especially for the project space of the Ernst Schering Foundation, in which he explores this site on several levels.

The publication “Ilana Halperin. New Landmass, Neue Landmasse” which accompanies the exhibitions Hand Held Lava and Steine (Stones) was presented at the Lecture Hall Ruin of the Berlin Museum of Medical History at the Charité on Monday, April 23, 2012, at 7 p.m. Following an introduction by Prof. Dr. Thomas Schnalke, director of the Museum of Medical History, curator Andrew Patrizio talked with artist Ilana Halperin about the exhibition concept as well as their catalogue contributions. Prof. Dr. Horst Bredekamp, professor of art history at Berlin’s Humboldt University, and Dame Gillian Beer, professor of English Literature at the University of Cambridge, read from their essays.

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.