On selected dates, experienced art educators invite various discussion partners to KW in order to deepen the content of the exhibitions together with the visitors. The exchange in dialogue and with the group creates multi-layered approaches and opens up new perspectives on the exhibitions for the visitors.

Venue: KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Meeting Point at the Counter 

Registration via mediation@kw-berlin.de

Participation included in the exhibition ticket. Limited capacity.

Hervé Guibert – This and More

Oliver Wellmann (he/him), Artist

21 June 23, 5 pm

In German
Venue: KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Meeting Point at the Counter 

Registration via mediation@kw-berlin.de

Participation included in the exhibition ticket. Limited capacity.

A spectral phenomenon, a term which might recall parapsychology or ghost hunting, designates all phenomena that reveal themselves to the eye through the refraction of light. At the threshold between visibility and personal mythology, the French writer Hervé Guibert stages his protagonists between absence and presence. Fleeting, intimate, uncanny. In a poetic way, Guibert has appropriated the motif of appearance, which in his photographic work gets constantly innovated and reinvented – even where his photographs show empty spaces and objects.

Emily Wardill – Identical

with Theseas Efstathopoulos

Reference, Reenactment and Repetition – a conversation with Cassiano Prado

27. 12 July 23, 5 pm

28. In English
    Venue: KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Meeting Point at the Counter 

    Registration via mediation@kw-berlin.de

    Participation included in the exhibition ticket. Limited capacity.

     

    Emily Wardill’s immersive moving image installation for this year’s KW Production Series is, amongst many things, a looping rollercoaster of cinematic, historical and sensual devices. Together with director, filmmaker and screenplay-writer Cassiano Prado, KW’s Art Mediator Thesea Efstathopoulos invites the audience to join a two-hour Focus Tour  to discuss Wardill’s references and the physical experience of the installation. English will be the primary language of conversation but reflections and questions in Portuguese and German will be cared for.

Enrico David – Destroyed Men Come and Go

Oliver Wellmann (he/him), Artist

27. 16 August 23, 5 pm

28. In German

    Venue: KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Meeting Point at the Counter 

    Registration via mediation@kw-berlin.de

    Participation included in the exhibition ticket. Limited capacity.

     

    Usually, model and exhibition stand in spatial juxtaposition. Preceding the final exhibition, design possibilities and curation can be simulated in the model, which can be built up and discarded again and again until the final decision. In addition to drawing, Enrico David uses such an architectural model (diorama) as the starting point for his artistic work. In the diorama, artistic works appear in miniature without acting as a placeholder or surrogate for the actual sculpture in real space. Rather, the model forms a reading of the exhibition that itself appears dioramic and begins to direct the viewer’s gaze to the relationship of space to the bodies within it. The placement of the sculptures, the play with emptiness and space, play an important role in this. The exhibition thus becomes itself a reflection on the cultural institution of the museum, reversing the placement of objects in the white cube into its interrogation.

    In the dialogue between the large objects and the large hall at KW, we will discuss Enrico David’s small-format dioramas, as well as aspects of simulation and their reaching out to broader questions of space.