Research Catalog

Title

Where are we now / herausgegeben von Marius Babias und Silke Wittig.

Publication

• Köln : Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, [2016]
• ©2016

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Details

Additional Authors

• Babias, Marius.
• Wittig, Silke.
• Neuer Berliner Kunstverein.

Description

106 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 23 cm

Summary

With the exhibition "Where are we now", Neuer Berliner Kunstverein resumes the exhibition series with fellows of the Fine Arts Scholarship of the Berlin Senate in 2016. Fifteen emerging, international positions of the contemporary art scene in Berlin will be presented. Using various media and diverse forms of expression and approaches, the artists address current social issues. The exhibition encompasses a wide range of topics. With references to ethnology, natural science, philosophy, film and theater, influences of cultural identity, different concepts of reality and sociopolitical spaces of tension are scrutinized and dealt with in installations, videos, photographs, paintings, sculptures, sound installations and performances. The exhibition's title refers to David Bowie's song Where Are We Now?, in which Bowie retrospectively illuminates his time in West Berlin in the late 1970s as well as the social developments and changes since then. The artists represented in the exhibition almost all belong to the generation that was born in that period since the 1970s. In the exhibition they deal both with the conditions of their production sites as well as with the period of the 1980s and 1990s, which informed them during their adolescence. In times of rapid change, political and financial crises, insecurity, terror and social divisions, the title Where Are We Now stands for an inventory of the current situation and at the same time asks for taking up positions. Furthermore, the title pays tribute to the late David Bowie, in whose oeuvre Berlin played a central role. Thus, the exhibition Where Are We Now provides approaches of a critical understanding of present and past models of life as well as their heroes, ideals and utopias. Exhibition: n.b.k. Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Germany (5.3.-1.5.2016).

Series Statement

N.b.k. Berlin ; Band 8

Uniform Title

N.b.k. Berlin ; Bd. 8.

Subject

• Art > Germany > Berlin > Exhibitions
• Art, Modern > Exhibitions

Note

• On the occasion of an exhibition held at Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, March 5 - May 1, 2016.
• Catalog of an exhibition held at n.b.k. Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Germany, March 5-May 1, 2016.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Call Number

ReCAP 17-36636

ISBN

• 9783863359119
• 3863359119

LCCN

9783863359119

OCLC

978580611

Title

Where are we now / herausgegeben von Marius Babias und Silke Wittig.

Publisher

Köln : Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, [2016]

Copyright Date

©2016

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

N.b.k. Berlin ; Band 8

N.b.k. Berlin ; Bd. 8.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

Babias, Marius.

Wittig, Silke.

Neuer Berliner Kunstverein.

Other Standard Identifier

9783863359119

Research Call Number

ReCAP 17-36636