Crystal Ball Berlin – Page 6 – Gegenwartskunst und Performance

Django Knoth – No Mercy Portraits

Portrait Salon: with opening on 17. February at 7 p.m. – until 26 February. daily 2 – 7 p.m. Exhibition opening on Sun. 4. March at 7 p.m. to Sun. 2. April

No Mercy Portrait # 102 Oli Knoth – Galerie Crystal Ball Berlin

In February Django Knoth will be guest at Crystal Ball with his unique portrait photographs. He will transform the space into a Photo Portrait Studio where every visitor is able to get his/her personal “No Mercy” image. After a week of working out, the Pictures will be exhibited in an upcoming show. Through his special technique of using a paper negative and a long exposure time, vivid tableaus emerge, from which we seem to look from a long gone time. Scattering the smallest movements of the still portrayed faces produces their liveliness, while the red pigmentation leads to a darker reproduction of the face according to Django; the so-called “coal mine look”. These pitiless circumstances of the artist’s process, which throw us into the tableaux like a time journey without mercy, are inspiring and in this form also unique in photography. Don´t miss it!

Roland Eckelt – Best in Show

Vernissage with film installation on 27. January 2017 at 7 p.m.
to 10. February 2017, projection daily 7 p.m. – 11 p.m.

With Best in Show, Roland Eckelt presents his same titled video installation in the shop window of the gallery. The film shows in a playful and subtle way dictatorial, human domination over animals – here exemplarily in the absurd procedure of the competition for the best of its breed, the so-called Best in Show. Sculptural and aesthetic artistic strategies such as color and form theory are mirrored by the artist in the video work in the breed- or paddle-breeding and unmask it in a subtle visual way .

Introspective # 1

Opening on the Sat. 3. December 2016 at 7 p.m.

Rügen, mon Amour! Manfred Kirschner, 45 x 75 cm, paper on canvas, 15 parts, 2016

With works by Ioana Alexe, Ueli Beetschen, Lena Braun, Francoise Cactus, Gabi Garland, Brezel Göring, Roland Eckelt, Elke Graalfs, Marikke Heinz-Hoek, Gabriele Regiert, Manfred Kirschner, Oli Knoth, Gabriele Konsor, Patricia Lippert, Veronika Schumacher, Caren Sielaff, Berit Schneider, Juwelia St.

At the end of the year and the beginning of the new year Crystal Ball is presenting her first Introspective . Introspective # 1 shows a selection of artistic works whose expression and aesthetic form, clearly point to an inner show or even internal mental as well as emotional processes. The exhibition is intended to examine the aspect of a hidden hint in the structure of the work of art that shifts the interpretation perspective in the form of a transmitter into the imaginable and with this also into one’s own inner perspective.

Gabriele Regiert – Großer Vorhang für kleine Bilder

Vernissage at Fr. 15th. July 2016 at 8 p.m.
to 26. August 2016, 8 p.m.: Finissage with performances by Lydia Karstadt, Rias in the evening, Oliver Voigt and a DJ set by Erochica Bambou

Late Curtain Box Gabriele Rules Gallery Crystal Ball Berlin — Late Curtain Box, Gabriele Regiert 2016

Gabriele Regierts Art shows a special presence, which is created by a virtuoso language of her objects. The artist’s installations, superstructures and objects create a free effect that also moves outside the classical art context. One could claim that they operate contrary to conventional conventions of attention and awareness or set counterpoints through their phenomenology. Their reading and reception is rather performative, because one seems to create a way of seeing the objects and in the installations. Some works sometimes seem unfinished or even accidental, and certain interventions allow us as viewers to wander into hypothetical assumptions. Has the built-in hardboard in the object been designed by the artist or has it been painted by a child before? Is it created or staged? The equality of materials as affect supports a special presence in limbo. It is the presence of the lapidary and the trivial, the forgotten, placed on the road, of the retired thing, which conquers its new meaning. This is precisely the creation, the talent of the artist governed to create a meaningful openness in a long-lasting work process. Contrary to the unambiguousness of an artist’s design, or even a stricter, market-oriented concept, it increases the freedom of works of art in an immanent manner and makes them disappear for us, partly materially. They show a lost functionality, a more reminiscent form, better establish an association, to something intangible, which nevertheless appears and appears. Things themselves are fleeting and unstable, almost spiritualized in their intermediate world. It is also unclear where the work ends or begins. Where is it unique? Where is it equivalent or belongs to something? Irretrievable original becomes material. Own and foreign painting is torn into stripes and weaved into new surfaces or pulled over wooden bodies and enters the room. Own and found. The collected, the left, the processed parts, the tracks and workpieces communicate. The old with the new. The secret and the obvious. The relationships, the connections of things. The archive says: “A big curtain for small pictures”. Gabriele Regiert is a responsible collector and archivist, a precise and unimpressed artist. Your things get to their ideal place at the right time. In the context of material, they occupy a place in this world that suits them and also explains it intuitively. Especially amusing and downright ingenious when a new series of works for the exhibition in Crystal Ball again play “works of art”. Some wooden parts, screwed together, screwed and sawn in, form a wooden body and reach into the room sculpturally. They are true performers. They are not only bodies, but they also embody.

Gabriele Regiert – Remise en Ordre, Installation

REALITY

Vernissage at Fr. 10. June at 8 p.m.

With works by Conni Brinzinger, Elke Graalfs, Manfred Kirschner and Frank Schoppmeier.

The exhibition Reality presents a selection of different works with reproductive techniques, which, through their materiality, examine the relationship to their original virtual image.

Reality Galerie Crystal Ball Berlin Elke Graalfs Manfred Kirschner Frank Schoppmeier Conni Brinzinger — Reality Gallery Crystal Ball Berlin

Fuck Your Selfie! # 2 – Portraitsalon

7. May 2016 – 2-7 p.m., opening on May 2, 2016. May at 2 p.m.
curated by Lydia Karstadt and Julia Psilitelis

Lydia Karstadt, It’s All Me- Car Portrait, Paper on Canvas, 2016

Again, the Original! because of the amazing success In May we paint your dadaistic, expessionictic, surrealistic portrait! Fuck Your Selfie, Volume 2. is an open communicative studio project. Artists, visitors and spectators get together in an interactive process at the in- and outdoor space c/o Crystal Ball. You can join the project or/and you are able to get a personal artistic portrait in your beloved style of one of the particpating artists. FYS #2 gives origin alternatives against maniac selfreflection and egomanic tendencies in social life.

With: Ioana Alexe, Jim Avignon, Francoise Cactus, Elke Graalfs, Maike Hartwig, Mareike Hube, Lydia Karstadt, Jenny Löbert, Rudi Paris, Gabriele Regiert, Gabriele Regiert, Inhalt & Sinn, Veronika Schumacher, Berit Schneider, Annette Stemmann, Heike Walter, Gisela Wrede and many more artists

Fuck your Selfie - 2 Gallery Crystal Ball — Fuck your Selfie , Portrait Service, Crystal Ball, (Portrait/Ioana Alexe)

ALG # 1 – Agency of Lonely Gloves

Vernissage at Fr. 12. February 2016 at 7 p.m.
with a performance by Lydia Karstadt

Agency of Lonely Gloves, Crystal Ball Gallery — Blue Glove, Berlin 2015

The agency of lonely gloves is a pataphsical project of Crystal Ball gallery for the Winter season 2015/16. If you happen to loose, or have already lost a glove please look through the ALG # 1. You may find the missing half of your separated pair. The agency already has a growing photographic archive of mittens and gloves in the urban settings where they were found. The archive grows bigger every year. The space will be used for performance events and understands itself as a communicative loboratory which focus on the loss and found in our lives. We will inform you about our research and activity. The installation will be opened with a singing performance of artist Lydia Karstadt. The exhibition is curated by Manfred Kirschner. With Chrizzi Heinen, Ulrike Wilkens, Lydia Karstadt, Caroline Keel, Manfred Kirschner, Bettina Lerche, Thilo Staudt and more artists. Please be aware of alternative opening hours during ALG # 1. Do & Fr: 14-19 Uhr and also by appointment.

ALG 1 - Agency of Lonely Gloves- Crystal Ball Berlin — left: ALG 1 – Agency of Lonely Gloves
right: Elke Graalfs in the Agency for Lonely Gloves, 2016
below: Ulrike Wilkens, Purple-Rosa-Red, Achim

left: ALG 1 – Agency of Lonely Gloves
right: Elke Graalfs in the Agency for Lonely Gloves, 2016
below: Ulrike Wilkens, Purple-Rosa-Red, Achim

Manfred Kirschner/ Lothar Lambert – l'art et c(h)ampagne

Vernissage on Sat. 19. December at 2 – 10 p.m. to 10.01.2016

After a successful year 2015 we have two exhibitions as an encore.Crystal Ball shows with l’art et c(h)ampagne: painting by Lothar Lambert, the lost island of West Berlin, as well as the new collages by Manfred Kirschner, both together as a Christmas special. We look forward to your visit! Vernissage with performance, music and cake on Saturday the 19th December from 2 p.m. to 10 p.m., until 10. January 2016.

Lothar Lambert – Lolas Pinsel Strich

1.11. – 29.11.2015
Exhibition opening on Sun. 1. November at 4 p.m.

Lothar Lambert Gallery Crystal Ball Berlin — *No.1100, *Lothar Lambert,* 1996*

Lothar Lambert will be a guest at Galerie Crystal Ball and Pension Berlin in November. We are very much looking forward to it! Lothar Lambert’s painterly work is as extensive as his cinematic work. The artist’s particular interest here is also given to portraits and images of people, which he produces in a fast-paced, intensive way of working in close succession. A sensitively responsive gesture, the artist creates an intutive and expressive painting with a spontaneous stroke. From a wealthy collection, we exclusively show a selection of paper works and paintings on canvas in the gallery, as well as four films by the artist in the Pension Berlin, with which we work together for this presentation. On Thursdays, the films are shown in the program of the Pension Berlin, which is a few meters from the exhibition space, in the presence of the director.

“King of the Berlin Underground”, “Warhol von der Spree”, “poor man’s Fassbinder”, the labels are just as numerous as his films at the Berlinale, seventeen from a total of almost forty films so far. And he still films them, the hardships, especially the sexual ones, and the small stories of life on the fringes of society, the others, the transvestites, the migrants, the prostitutes, the madmen in the West Berlin biotope.

Lothar Lambert’s films are trash culture, but they also show us the great stories of love, life, freedom that grows in secret – naked and blunt. In the Salon-Kino, on Thursdays at 7 p.m. in the Pension Berlin at Schönleinstraße 33, Kreuzberg:

Manfred Kirschner – Buy Art Die Young

Dystopian collages by Manfred Kirschner 16. until 25. October 2015