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Stéphane Bauer |
| Zorka Lednarova | |
| Caroline Lund | |
| Doreen Mende | |
| Shaheen Merali | |
| Christoph Tannert |
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| Stéphane Bauer |
In 2002, Stéphane Bauer became head of the artspace Kreuzberg/Bethanien. He is responsible for programme and organization. After studying sociology, he worked with the Federal Association for Students´ Cultural Work (Bundesverbandes Studentischer Kulturarbeit) at Bonn, he worked as a freelancer for the Berlin University of Arts and from July 1990 as a manager for the Cutlural Office (Kulturamt) Kreuzberg. Since 1994 he has been curating shows at Kunstamt Kreuzberg as well as at the New Association for Fine Arts (Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst e.V.) at Berlin.
| 1 | Selda Asal | Restoring Hope: Competing with Genies | Video 11:05 |
| 2 | Selda Asal | Restoring Hope: Drawings (series I) | 25x35 cm each |
| 3 | Selda Asal | Restoring Hope: Drawings (series II) | 25x35 cm each |
| 4 | Selda Asal | Restoring Hope: explanations | |
| 5 | Selda Asal | Restoring Hope: Love is Fake | Video 11:55 |
artists:
Selda Asal„Restore
Hope - Compiting with Genies“, DVD 11’55, 2005
Video back projection onto the window of the gallery Art Transponder with
sound inside and outside
Drawings and explanations for project layed out in gallery
Selda Asal„Restore
Hope - Love is Fake“, 11’03, 2005
Video on monitor with head phones
Drawings and explanations for project layed out in gallery
Stéphane Bauer, Kunstraum Kreuzberg / Bethanien, is presenting
Selda Asals’ video work Restore Hope in the Outliners exhibition.
The Istanbul artist is showing an update of the ongoing project based
on and around her interviews explorations from within the psychiatric
ward in the hospital Bakirkoy in Istanbul.
Selda Esal has been following the stories of street kids with drug abuse
and their therapeutic outcomes as well as young female suicide survivors.
Through interviews and drawings, a form of art therapy, she created a
way of communication towards the young people as well as an outled for
themselves. The outcome build the base for her video works Competing with
Genies and Love is Fake. Life on the street, fear, hope and escapism are
the main themes reflected in her conversations with the young people and
build the core of her work.
The back projection on the gallery window tries to overcome the split
or cut between outside and inside, the gallery. The gallery is geographical
situated at the busy Brunnenstraße and close to the Tube station
Bernauerstraße which represents the borderline between hip creative
crowd and fringes of poverty. Just a few stops towards Alexanderplatz
the punks are claiming their spot in Berlin.
The video installation merges seemingly impossible spaces like Berlin
and Istanbul, security and the fall, trust and fear, hope and the feeling
of no way out. It is creating conceptually and within the gallery bridges
between psychological and physical landscapes.
