Crystal Ball Berlin – Page 8 – Gegenwartskunst und Performance

Anna Müllers Faden

Installation and performance, curated by Monika Müller Kroll & Manfred Kirschner
Opening with performance on Fr. 19 September at 7 p.m.
until 11.10.2014 Finissage with performance at at 7 p.m.

The exhibition is dedicated to the work and the craft of Anna Müller. Long before terms like “up-cycling” came into use, Anna Müller was working with discarded “superfluous” thread material from a textile factory, weaving it together to crochet various mysterious objects. Monika Müller Kroll, the granddaughter of Anna Müller, wants to present and preserve the wealth of her work. Work, which also shows a fundamental post-war attitude, in which the appreciation, use, and recycling of materials is very evident. This consistency of thought puts into perspective the claims and attitudes of today’s eco-trends. The exhibition, presented in the form of an audio-visual installation, focuses on pieces created between 1980 and 2000. Anna Müller was born in 1910 in rural Franconia, where she lived all her life, near the Lucas-Cranach-Stadt, Kronach. She died in 2006. Her legacy, hundreds of crochet rugs and blankets, stored away for many years compelled Monika Müller-Kroll to pick up Anna Müller’s thread, creating several exemplary new pieces from the work she has left behind. And while Anna Müller might be surprised what her granddaughter has done with her craft, she would be happy to know that her work is appreciated, seen and used.

Anna Müllers Faden Galerie Crystal Ball Berlin — Anna Müllers Faden

Barbara Wagner – Weiß Ich

Painting/ Installation
Opening on Fr. 1 August, 7 – 11 p.m. until Fr. 29 August 2014

Weiß Ich Barbara Wagner Galerie Crystal Ball Berlin — Weiß Ich, Barbara Wagner

Barbara Wagners exhibition concept combines a series of paintings and collages effectively incorporating the complete gallery space. The different meanings of the title “weiß ich” points out the relation between the subject, the ego to the colouring of the object world. Therefore the artist will neutralize the colours of the room and work with the white of the walls, the ceiling and the floor wich she will cover. The space itself will be a medium for sensitive put gestures, materials and coloureffects of her paintings, as to support a calm perception of the viewers. So the two main sides of the oeuvre, conceptual and intuitive strategies of Barbara Wagners peculiar work are present in her installation.

Ausstellungsansicht/Detail, Barbara Wagner, Ausstellungseröffnung

Pataphysisches Institut Basel – UMO

Pataphysical Studies of 15 July 2014
Umossage on Fr. 25 July at 7 p.m.

Pataphysisches Institut Basel Galerie Crystal Ball — UMO Grußkarte, Pataphysisches Institut Basel

In the middle of Juli the 2013 founded Pataphysic Institute Basel is visiting Berlin and stops by at Crystal Ball gallery. For the tour via Schweden the institute uses its Ubomobile, short UMO, a mobile antiinstitutional social labratory base and vehikel. Pataphysic includes absurd settings, solutions for imaginary problems and actions that can´t be described or foreseen. Vistors of Umo and the Patphysic Institue are invited and very welcome to take part in the process. The Institute will open the doors from the 15th of Juli and show its results of the UMO Tour Stop Berlin on friday the 25th of Juli. For making contact please use the following UMO phone number: +49 152 3852 7186

UMO in Berlin Galerie Crystal Ball Berlin — UMO on Tour

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Ersatzcafé Unst – Unst Künstlergruppe

Ersatzcafé Unst – We are the decoration for your life !
Opening on Sat. 1. June 2014 at 3 p.m.

At the same time as three new cafés open in Schönleinstraße, we are opening another café. The 51st in the Gräfekiez. Yeah!

Under the motto: “Whatever you want”, the replacement café Unst offers delicious freeze-dried coffee and wonderful confectionary simplicity and is clearly avant-garde because art will get the boot!

While the global power consumption is increasing gigantically (55 million new individualistic photos every day at instagram! ) and huge storage cities are being created for this, we are only running one kettle. Photography and phone calls are prohibited! Not on facebook, twitter, instagram & Co!tagram & Co!

Many artists from the neighborhood are working on it: It is the decoration of your life! Come in and get out!

Kathi Kaeppel/ Jim Avignon – binary hulahoop

Opening of the exhibition on Wednesday, 30. April, 12 noon – 24 o’clock
Open: 1.5. – 4.5.2014, 12 – 20 o’clock; Pictoplasma and from 5.5. – 16.5.2014, Tue., Thu., Fri.: 2 – 7 p.m.
The presentation takes part in the Festival Pictoplasma

Berlin-based artists team up to show their very different work in kinetic installations. Kathi Kaeppel combines graphical forms familiar to the eye in a rhythmic counterpart to Jim Avignon’s more painterly works. In Kathi Kaeppels work grafical basic forms conclude in innumerous combinations and harmonic colours. Every image is the result of a joyful play. The way to let the works move seems very logic. Jim Avignons Oeuvre abound with productivity and a specific mutinous charm. The characters and sujets have an unadapted inspirational style, that is also independantly found in the performance works and projects of Jim Avignon.
The outcome, binary hula hoop, invites you on a lucid and lively journey through a world filled with colour and creatures en miniature. The Exhibition takes part in the yearly Festival Pictoplasma.

Binary Hulahoop, Jim Avignon, Galerie Crystal Ball Berlin2014 — Binary Hulahoop, Jim Avignon, 2014

Kathi Kaeppel Biddy with Bowler, Galerie Crystal Ball Berlin — Binary Hulahoop, Jim Avignon, 2014

Heavy Rotation, Volume 1

Opening on Sun. 16. March from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m. in the reception of Pension Berlin and Galerie Crystal Ball

The End Part One Sabine Wewer Manfred Kirschner — The End Part One – Sabine Wewer in The End #1, Baden 2014

With Heavy Rotation, Volume 1, Galerie Crystal Ball and Pension Berlin in Schönleinstraße are showing an installation video exhibition together. The format projects films and video works that have been shown either new, non-present, or rarely. In the first issue we show works by:

with: Sarah Björnsdéttir – Bonne Maman – Jesse Dell – Marco Goldenstein – Ronald Gonko – Elke Graalfs – Marcus Gryscok and Dirk Markham – Content & Sinn – Boris Jöns and Thorsten Schwarz – Manfred Kirschner – Kirsty Kross – Frank Schoppmeier – Juwelia St. St. – Sabine Wewer

Farewell to yesterday, Frank Schoppmeier, photo

Die Sammlung

Vernissage with performance on Fri. 3. January 2013 at 8 p.m.

The Collection, Galerie Crystal Ball Berlin

From 3rd of january until 14th of march we present our collection. This includes diverse works of videos, prints, multiples and paintings from artists like Ioana Alexe, Jim Avignon, Francoise Cactus, Henrik Jacob, Juwelia St. St., Kirsty Kross, Stu Mead, Verena Müller, Veronika Schumacher and more. You get entrance by a direct apply at our door. Please note our contact details for it.

We look forward to your visit !

T.I.C. / Tourist Information Center

Opening with T.I.C. – Performance on Friday the 15th November at 8 p.m. to 8 p.m. December 2013

Attention- Leave West Berlin now, Jesusboutique,

with: Jim Avignon, Stefan Demming, Mel Garland & Luc Berger, Marco Goldenstein, Elke Graalfs, Maike Hartwig, Henrik Jacob, Jesusboutique, Juwelia, Manfred Kirschner, Kirsty Kross, Mandie Minx, Frank Schoppmeier, Annette Stemmann, Silke Thoss, Zoe Thorne and others.

Crystal Ball Gallery is transforming into a sociocritical tourist information and offers from ironical to political correct Berlin-Souvenirs of international artists in an all over installation.

Original fragment Berlin Wall Gallery crystal Ball Berlin

Manfred Kirschner – Plastik Revue

Plastic Revue, opening on Sun. 26th. January at 6 p.m.
Galerie M, Marzahner Promenade 46, 12679 Berlin

Plastic Revue Manfred Kirschner — Plastik Revue, Manfred Kirschner, Installation

The work of Manfred Kirschner is characterized by its conscious diversity. Often the expectations and the relationship of the artist to the audience, the subject of the works in the fields of drawing, video, painting and performance. Since 2009, M.K. a new emphasis on painting, in which, in addition to colours and glitter, collage, quotations and language are used laconically and arrogantly. Many of the paintings have painted eyes and their titles are looking for the “conversation”. It is always about the anerite and the moment of the viewer’s reception. In the presentation for Gallery M, Kirschner refers to the local shopping center “Eastgate”. In a world increasingly full of plastic, his installation humorously asks about our needs, our future lives, and puts painting and video in context with a spatial installation of various plastic bags from around the world that cover the gallery’s walls like a color-intensive collage. At the opening, Kirschner will also present a performance on the topic of shopping: The Miracle Of Shopping. At the finissage at the end of March, the title-giving “Plastik Revue” will start, with performances and musical performances by fellow artists by Manfred Kirschner.

Monstergirl kidnapped!

26.10.2013

MONSTERGIRL KIDNAPPED!
Francoise’s Monstergirl has been stolen by an unkown person at the closing party of Françoise Cactus’, Jule K.’s, Stu Mead’s and Veronika Schumacher’s group art show at Gallery Crystal Ball. Who has seen her since then? Please contact us here on facebook: https://de-de.facebook.com/StereoTotal or at the gallery: Schönleinstrasse 7, 10967 Berlin. Telefon: 030 60052828