Ali Mongo – Et in Arcadia ego

Exhibition opening on Fri. 4 June at 8 p.m.
Sat. 31. 7. 2010 San Francisco Night/ Finissage at 8 p.m.
Performances by Laura Bean and Justin F. Kennedy

Crystal Ball Gallery presents the works of Mongolian-born artist Ali Mongo (º1938) who lives at the moment in San Francisco. The title of the exhibition “Et in Arcadia ego” (Even in Arcadia I exist) refers to the ironic combination of a quotidian conviviality with the shadow of death in Ali Mongo’s work. The artist’s imagery fuses inspiration drawn from his Mongolian roots with creative impulses from his travels as a seaman around the globe. In his colourful paintings the artist creates a garden populated by animals, creatures and humans, connected through his impressions and thoughts. A special iconography of abstract forms mixed with figurative gestures is constructed through pushed pointillism and waves of the paint brush. Ali Mongo, whose name always changes on the go, is influenced by modern art as well as by the daily human interrelationships that catch his eye in North Beach, a neighbourhood in which the Beat-spirit somehow never really died. In North Beach Ali Mongo is a well-known character. Photographed by many, he has also had poetry dedicated to him, such as Dave Steel’s Cognac Apprenticeship with Sammy Ali Baba. Outside Ali Mongo’s window, where Grant corners onto Fresno Alley, the blues pulsate out of the Saloon and provide him with the necessary musical vibe. Around the corner is Café Trieste where Ali Mongo paints every day. In the 1950s and 1960s Café Trieste was a legendary meeting place for Beat movement writers, sex-related performers and activists. Nowadays it still continues to attract artists and writers. His nights Ali Mongo spends in the sailors bar Specs at the other side of City Lights bookstore. The small size of his paintings is not only the result of living permanently in cramped hotel rooms. In contrast to the present-day art scene the humility of his work has an inimitable magnitude about it. Mongo will be present during the exhibition by way of a video message.

Curated by Manfred Kirschner and An Paenhuysen.

Andreas Kotulla – Weihnachten in Tirol mit der Feichter-Familie und weiteren Veranstaltungen

Opening on Fri. 26th. March at 8 p.m.
27.03. until 23.04.2010 with Finissage at 8 p.m.

Christmas in Tyrol with the Feichter family, Andreas Kotula

Andreas Kotulla works in the areas of painting and drawing that are approximate to each other. He uses color more as an object-like means. Their pasty, gestural and often reduced drawing mission also always implies the constitution and visual blurring on the image to be reproduced. The artist very often uses prints reproductions of photographs, which he translates constructively into his medium.

His artistic gesture is adapted to the view and makes the imagery appear in a way of vision. Kotulla’s works are often uncommentless, unpretentious and humorous, in a subjective selection that removes the individual motif as fragmentary from the world.

For the window pane and the space of the gallery, Andreas Kotulla will bring together a series of black-and-white drawings of group photos and “events” in an installation that shows us subjective, humorous and mysterious assumptions of the artist. In Kotulla’s translation, the processes and results of human society seem irritating, downright exemplary and full of blank spaces. The egocentric, physical separation of the individuals appears inbridgeable, even in the embrace, in the picture.

In A Shadow Box (projected drawings)

Opening on Friday 12. February 2010 at 8 pm
February 12 – 20. March 2010

In his 1899 text “Screen Memory,” Sigmund Freud considers how memories are permeable and can be recalled in an altered state. The screen memory refers to the temporal separation between the consciousness and the object of memory. In 1925, Freud revisits this concept in “A Note on the ‘Mystic Writing Pad,’” in which he suggests a common children’s toy might be a metaphor for the way that memories accumulate in the mind. With the lifting of the transparent top page, figures are erased, and new drawings can be made; however, the pressure of the writer’s hand leaves behind traces, recorded on a medium just beneath this diaphanous surface. With reference to these ideas, the exhibition “In a Shadow Box” will transform the gallery space into a dark room for exploring the ontology of drawing. Like a shifting archive of images, unique drawings will appear and dematerialize into shadow and light through the media of transparency and glass. The viewer is invited to take part in an associative thinking process about the latent strategies of remembrance. Images will fluctuate upon the wall as if those imaginings of the mind, which Schopenhauer once described as a kind of cognitive projection, can be rendered ever more fleeting and ephemeral.

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Topsy Freerider – Le Trans Tier Salon

Debut/Opening on Fri. 8. January 2010 at 8 pm

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Debut/Opening on Fri. 8. January 2010 at 8 pm

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An exhibition engraved by Frank Schoppmeier and Manfred Kirschner with:

plus de plus, animal performance, by Elke Graalfs in order to M.K.
Topsy Freerider: 8.1. – 5.2.2010
Monofragil with DJ Catastrophe : Fr. 15./ 22./ 29. January from 8 p.m.
Fin/Christel Beuys Ball: Fr. 5 Feb. at 8 p.m.
Dj Olga N., Bruno & Gustaf, Seek Zag Lazer (Tyskerhar)
Astrid Küver with Laurie D.!
Lydia Karstadt creaturing Fritzie

Production: Frank Schoppmeier & Artists of the Galleries: Trans Tier Salon, open: Friday and Sunday from 3 p.m.

Topsy Freerider will transform Crystal Ball from Friday. 8. He was taken to an open salon on 1 January 2010. The poodle never stops! An illuminated winter dream in the art living room of the Crystal Bar with creature performances, hot soup and sewing machine decoration. Schellack sounds by DJ Catastrophe and DJane Olga N. from the suitcase plate player (Monofragil) change with Trans-Disko-Express. Lydia Karstadt, the new star in the club sky (sic!), with her insolvent show “Creaturing Fritzie” debuts in the Separee of creatures.

To the Christel-Beuys-Ball on 5. On February 1, Seek Zag Lazer (Tyskerhar), live electro. During the salon, various artists show Berlin galleries their works.

Concept/Selection: Only who we met by chance or someone who appeared in the preparation phase is in the salon ,,,….—–,,.. –..,

Love is; to think outside of what is

Me and F. and O. after the Pet Shop Boys concert, Before

Topsy Freerider – Galerie Crystal Ball Berlin

Stefan Demming: Bobs Dog

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An exhibition engraved by Frank Schoppmeier and Manfred Kirschner with:

plus de plus, animal performance, by Elke Graalfs in order to M.K.
Topsy Freerider: 8.1. – 5.2.2010
Monofragil with DJ Catastrophe : Fr. 15./ 22./ 29. January from 8 p.m.
Fin/Christel Beuys Ball: Fr. 5 Feb. at 8 p.m.
Dj Olga N., Bruno & Gustaf, Seek Zag Lazer (Tyskerhar)
Astrid Küver with Laurie D.!
Lydia Karstadt creaturing Fritzie

Production: Frank Schoppmeier & Artists of the Galleries: Trans Tier Salon, open: Friday and Sunday from 3 p.m.

To the Christel-Beuys-Ball on 5. On February 1, Seek Zag Lazer (Tyskerhar), live electro. During the salon, various artists show Berlin galleries their works.

Concept/Selection: Only who we met by chance or someone who appeared in the preparation phase is in the salon ,,,….—–,,.. –..,

Love is; to think outside of what is

Me and F. and O. after the Pet Shop Boys concert, Before

Fort – Horror Vacui

Exhibition opening on Fri. 13. November at 8 p.m.
13.11. – 29.12.2009
Finissage am Die. 29. December at 8 p.m.

The artist collective Fort (Anna Jandt, Jenny Kropp und Alberta Niemann) work through a system of references using documentary, objects, stories and their interrelations. In their installations and engineered spaces, Fort construct precise interiors with conscious references made through the choice and placement of objects. They create poetic, surreal spaces and performances. Thing, action and derivation, as well as their historical and scientific evaluation collide with a dream like logic- through the revelation of complex unconscious structures and enigmatic backgrounds.

The stories of the entities, excerpts and apportions become parts of a mystic documentation. Things are copied, multiplied and reflected. They become signs, representative information of a world remembered, transforming into catalysts of cognitive processes of a cruel, poetic reality.

At this mysterious point of human perception; the twins, the forgotten, the unclear identity, Fort begin – with their belief in the impossible and the legendary in this world, to work for a change.

One-Cubic-Decimeter-To-Boil-The-Ocean, Fort

Horror Vacui, Fort

past presentations

POINT GRAY, Installation, Action, Show
Sequences Real Time Art Festival Reykjavik, Island &Bremer Kunst Satellit/ Museum Weserburg Bremen 2008
HOTEL MARIENBAD, Installation (in collaboration with Claudia Heidorn and Anneli Käsmayr – dp) KW Institute For Contemporary Art Berlin 2008

Galerie Crystal Ball – Karneval der Galerien

Carnival of the Galleries, Berlin 11.11.2009

Gallery Crystal Ball at the Carnival of the Galleries, Berlin

The Crystal Ball Gallery is sending an embassy as an autonomous art block to the first Berlin carnival of the galleries. Hotzi, Motzi and Zoei made the demands “Silence money for artists!” and “Free beer for all”. Gentrification back and forth, artists should not continue to produce unpaid NO art. The widespread assumption that artists are forced to make art for obsessive, psychological or social reasons, is finally receiving a blessing. We do not want a Temporary Kunsthalle to plug the polithistorical Castle Square Hole, but the Temporary Artist’s Pension! money, for all artists who no longer comment on these and other social standards. With the basic supply of artist silence, the monetary inaction, the saliva licking of the gallery scene finally ends and the art market empties away weakened from its high-end staff, its germ-free gallery houses and art? Shares. Artists are rethinking your role! What else are you as simple art theory coasters! Get out of the self-crisis into consciousness! The crisis is over! Long live the crisis! On to the artist general strike! … Excerpt from the Büttenrede of Galerie Crystal Ball, Manfred Kirschner, Berlin

Gallery Crystal Ball: Zoei at the Carnival of the Galleries, Berlin 2009

Wolfgang Müller – Séance Vocibus Avium

Exhibition opening in the Crystal Ball Gallery and the Dörrie Priess Gallery on 25 September at 7 pm

26. 9. – 6. 11. 2009

Séance Vocibus Avium (I)

The only completely exterminated bird originally native to Europe is the North Atlantic giant auklet (Alca impennis). Its last occurrence is off the southern Icelandic coast on the rocky island of Eldey. On 3 June 1844, the last two birds, a breeding pair, were killed there by the fishermen Jón Brandsson, Sigurður Ísleifsson and Ketill Ketillson from Hafnir by turning their necks in order to sell their bellows and offal to a Danish bird collector. This silences the bird’s song forever.

After his first trip to Iceland in 1990, Wolfgang Müller formed a giant auk from modelling clay, fabric, paper, paint and chicken feathers. In 1994, on the occasion of the 160th anniversary of its extermination, he reconstructed the bird’s vocalizations in the radio play studio of the Icelandic radio station stöð 2, using the Icelandic actress Kristbjörg Kjeld as his medium. Using modern studio technology, the bird’s calls are reconstructed and thus made audible for the first time since its extinction in 1844. The reconstruction is based on historical scientific descriptions, such as those of Dr. Alfred Newton from Cambridge. In 1854 he asked the sailors from Hafnir about the last minutes in the life of the last giant eagles and published their detailed statements in 1858 in the ornithological journal “Ibis”.

Other bird species, mostly exterminated by direct or indirect human intervention, originate mainly from North and Central America, Madagascar, Australia, New Zealand and the islands of the Pacific Ocean. Since the 16th century, an estimated one hundred and fifty bird species have become extinct. Descriptions of the vocalizations of very few of these exist.

In addition to the giant eagle, ten other bird species are among them, whose calls can now be heard simultaneously in the Galerie Dörrie * Priess and the Galerie Crystal Ball. Wolfgang Müller gave ten well-known musicians scientific descriptions of a selected species and asked the respective participants to leave their bodies and slip into the bird body assigned to them. At the moment the bird becomes a bird, music and musicians disappear. The calls of long-silenced birds resound.

Séance Vocibus Avium

Coturnix Novae-Zelandiae, Neuseeländische Schwarzbrustwachtel, † 1875. (Namosh)
Hawaii-Krausschwanz, Moho Nobilis, † 1934. (Max Müller)
Assumption-Weißkehlralle, Dryolimnas Cuvieri Abbiotti, Unbekannt. (Frieder Butzmann)
Jamaika Teufelssturmvogel, Pterodroma Hasitata Caribbaea, Unbekannt. (Justus Köhnke)
Mauritiusfruchttaube, Alectroenas Nitidissima, † 1930. (Annette Humpe)
Präriehuhn, Tympanuchus Cupidio Cupido, † 1932. (Francoise Cactus/Brezel Göring)
Lachkauz, Sceloglaux Albifacies, † 1914. (Nicholas Bussmann)
Lord-Howe-Inselrasse des Norfolkstars, Aplonis Fuscus Hullianus, † 1923. (Hartmut Andryczuk)
Guadalupe-Caracara, Polyborus Lutosus, † 1900. (Khan)
Riesenalk, Alca impennis, † 1844. (Kristbjörg Kjeld/Wolfgang Müller)

Séance Vocibus Avium (II)

The corresponding radio play “Séance Vocibus Avium” of the artist just won the Karl-Szuka-Award 2009 – considered the most renowned award for audio art in Europe. In the exhibition Séance Vocibus Avium, taking place in two Berlin galleries – Crystal Ball and Dörrie Priess – Wolfgang Müller presents drawings and audio sounds he produced, based on historical and scientific descriptions of eleven extinct birds. The simultaneous presentation of Séance Vocibus Avium in the context of two different gallery spaces continues Wolfgang Müller’s concept: the synchronism of analogy and diversity. Wolfgang Müller enlisted the help of prominent musician friends: Namosh, Khan, Justus Köhncke, Nicholas Bussmann, Max Müller, Stereo Total, Frieder Butzmann and Annette Humpe- in the reconstruction of the bird sounds. With delicately rendered colour pencil drawings Müller approaches the shape of the lost birds.

His reconstruction process begins with the available materials: taxidermy birds, historical images and scientific descriptions concerning the behavior of the species. The resulting drawings are different for each species, but unmistakably related. Wolfgang Müller opens up a novel space with his work. It stands in a touching alliance to the scientific efforts, to describe and comprehend these no longer existing animals. A new reality is created.

Bob Tooke – Don’t Give The Birds Money!

Exhibition opening on Fri. 17th. July, 8 p.m.
Exhibition duration: 18. 07. – 28. 08. 2009
Finissage on 28 May 2009 August at 8 p.m.

Please Don’t Give The Birds Money!, Bob Tooke

Bob Tookes´art work could be seen as a continuation and new developement of classic american folk art. After his art studies at Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and the completion of his “Master of Fine Arts” in 1991 he went to Hamburg. Besides his art work he has also worked as a musician. Over the years Bob Tooke joined in several group- and solo shows in Germany, Europe and the U.S.

Bob Tooke about Bob Tooke in the Crystal Ball Gallery

The unpretentious naïve style of his paintings is thematically connected to his music and his song lyrics. The works show a joyful but mysterious humour. For the paintings he uses leftover pieces of wood, wooden boxes and lost properties that come from commercial and urban contexts. Thereon the painted scenes are narrative and playful and in the same way enigmatic. The artists´ painting is laconic, transporting through his spontaneous gestures, collecting the fleeting impressions of moments. Subjects and text show in their direct confrontation disastrous realationships and stories. Portraits of the heros of Country and Blues standing opposite a series of burning tour busses and private cars, who represent the artists of mainstream, that should dare to verify itself. Beloved and unloved show up obsessively worked out in ironic series, existing equal to each other. This implies the conception and joy of transforming and expressing a culture that is critical of commercialism.

left: H. Grönemeyer, Bob Tooke
right: Modern Talking, Bob Tooke

Elke Graalfs – Kopfüber

Opening of the exhibition on Fri. 19. June at 8 p.m. 20.06. – 11.07.2009
Finissage, performance and big summer festival in the crystal ball: at the Sat. 11. July from 5 p.m.

Elke Graalfs shows an environmental room installation that is based on painting and adding the point of view of the angle as a method of medial effect. The artist combines in her works the picturesque and drawing gestures to build constitutional reality in relation to the time. Through the specific use of colour spaces, the construction and creation of textures, fabric and surface are revealed. In actual pictures they are stepping over the canvas, the pure picture itself and also work with the techniques of collage. The ground itself, the ripped paper conquers as a potential picture carrier the space. The works of Elke Graalfs examine functions of visual perception and show strongly the moment of recognition of an image and it’s personal construction.

At the Finissage, the Summer Party of the gallery the artist will show her performance “Schnee von Gestern”

Then Climb Into Bed And Turn To Dust, Elke Graalfs

Elke Graalf's Gallery Crystal Ball Berlin — Then Climb Into Bed And Turn To Dust, Elke Graalfs

Max Müller – An und für Sich Wertlos

Opening of the exhibition Fri. 17 April, 8 p.m.
Exhibition duration: 18. 04. -22. 05. 2009
Finissage: 22. 5a., 8 p.m.

Max Müller was born in 1963 in Wolfsburg, and is an author, musician and draughtsman. The subjects of his handmade drawings include portraits, popular and socially critically scenes; reproductions of magazines and newspapers. Compared to the sources of the images, Müllers works develop a difference through their proportional and structural deviation of his drawing gesture and the commentary titles. The colour- pencil and ball point pen worked sheets swing between the poles of describable reality and its relative aspect. Together the pictures and the text develop a relevant relationship. They work as a supporting polarized couple. Parts of the image are distorted, other parts are merely suggested. In this way the title commentary, omissions, and emphasis structure the reception of the picture. It creates an enigmatic trace of the conscious use of information. Max Müller is working in this slightly in between space, the discovered contradiction, an inexplicit covering which shows up gaps of interpretation, missing information or its overload, and their own apprehension that approaches the truth. Besides various band- and solo projects Max Müller has since 1986 been the songwriter and singer of the still active band “Mutter”. Actually he shows with his solo album: „Die Nostalgie ist auch nicht mehr das, was sie einmal war” brilliance in text and music.