Fassbinder: Berlin Alexanderplatz: An Exhibition
On the influence of Fassbinder on the contemporary art production
26 April 07
Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Hanna Schygulla during a rehearsal, Photo: Roger Fritz
26.04.2007, 7 pm
On the influence of Fassbinder on the contemporary art production
Marc Glöde in conversation with Hito Steyerl and Olaf Nicolai
In the context of the exhibition Fassbinder: Berlin Alexanderplatz: An Exhibition
Marc Glöde works in film studies and since 2002 has been a fellow in the interdisciplinary research project “Kulturen des Performativen” (Performative Cultures). He has managed film festivals centred on film and architecture in Berlin, Los Angeles, London, New York and elsewhere; within this context he published several studies in this field. His work as a curator is located at the interface of film and art. His most recent achievements in this area include exhibitions such as The Art of Projection (Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, 2006) and What a Great Space You Have… (Luxe Gallery, New York, 2006). He is curator for the Experimenta Film Festival to be held in India in 2007 (Bangalore, New Delhi, Mumbai). At present he is completing work on his doctoral thesis on spatial thinking in film (Farbige Räume: filmische Manifestationen einer Veränderung des Raumdenkens). His most recent work is Igor Mischiyev – Multi Story Car Park (2002).
Hito Steyerl, filmmaker and author, Berlin. PhD.
Recent exhibitions: 2nd Seville biennial; Periferic 07; manifesta 5, Cinema du reel, Paris etc.
Olaf Nicolai, born in 1962 in Halle/Saale. He wrote his PhD in 1992 after his German studies on Gesture between expression and calculus. On the poetics of the Vienna Group. His artistic
works have been shown since the beginning of the 1990s in numerous solo and group exhibitions, both nationally and internationally, exhibitions a.o.: Idylle, Phoenix Kulturstiftung/Sammlung Falckenberg (2007), galerie erna hécey, Brussels (2007), 51. Biennale di Venezia (2005), Printed Matter, New York (2005), 49. Biennale di Venezia (2001), Children of Berlin, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center New York (1999), 1st berlin biennial for contemporary art, Berlin (1998), documenta X, Kassel (1997). Olaf Nicolai lives and works in Berlin.