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UNDABDIEPOST2002
UNDABDIEPOST2002- -Fifth
Fünftes
Festival
Festival
of Contemporary
der neuen Kunst
Art
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09.15.- -20.10.2002
10.20.2002
15.09.
Bunkeraninder
theReinhardtstraße
Reinhardtstraße
Bunker
Berlin-Mitte
Berlin-Mitte
The Bunker
Reinhardtstraße, corner of Albrechtstraße
built 1942
Contents
Press Announcement
List of Artists and Curators
Location
Organiser
Partners
Artists
Curators
Imprint
Press Announcement
Art and locality - symbiosis or confrontation? The festival
confronts dynamism and stability at a historic location, the aboveground bunker in the Reinhardtstraße, Berlin-Mitte. Originally
constructed as a reaction to military helplessness, the bunker
today signifies for us nothing beyond its own dominant presence,
the hulking, weighty nature of the building challenging the artists
to invest its innards with a softening vitality.
INSIDEOUT is conceived with the intention of bringing Berlin art
face to face with artistic positions of other cities; the festival
draws exemplary impulses from the important centres Prague,
Berlin and New York.
INSIDEOUT is the first step towards transformation of the
bunker into an exhibition space for new art in an international
context. Our goal is to recuperate these unusual rooms for a
continual programme of activities.
Owners of the building Nippon Development Corporation will
after closure of the exhibition begin a complete restoration and
conversion of the building.
More detailed information can be found appended to this press
release.
INSIDEOUT
Opening
Duration
Opening Times
Admission
Location
Curators
Organiser
Honorary Chairman
Press Agent
09.14.2002
09.15.2002 – 10.20.2002
Sunday - Thursday, 11:00 am – 9:00 pm
Friday - Saturday, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
4, - EUR, on mondays 2, - EUR
The bunker in the Reinhardtstraße,
Berlin-Mitte
Johann Nowak (Berlin), Simona Mehnert
(Prague), Eva Scharrer (New York)
aktions galerie e. V., Auguststraße 21,
10117 Berlin
Dr. Boris Lazar,
Ambassador of the Czech Republic
Joachim Zeller,
Mayor of the District of Berlin-Mitte
Thomas Roth,
chairman of the "ARD-Hauptstadtstudio"
Sylke Bluhm
Tel.
+49-30-24 08 47 88
Mobile
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In co-operation with the Embassy of the United States of America
and the Embassy of the Czech Republik.
Artists and Curators
Berlin
John, Franz ( Germany )
video installation
Orimoto,Tatsumi ( Japan)
photography
Schieferstein, Iris ( Germany )
flesh sculptures
Shahroudi, Farkhondeh ( Iran )
installation
Shibata, Jun ( Japan )
installation
Vassileva, Mariana ( Bulgaria )
outdoor installation
New York
Anastas, Ayreen ( Palestine )
video installation
Fast, Omer ( Israel )
video installation
Gabri, Rene ( Iran )
interactive sound installation
Menick, John ( USA )
video installation
Rakowitz, Michael ( USA )
interactive installation
Robinson, Nadine ( UK )
paintings, sound
Prague
Bornová, Erika ( Czech Republic )
styrofoam sculptures
Bromová,Veronika ( Czech Republic )
video installation
Kintera, Krištof ( Czech Republic )
photography
Preslová, Míla ( Czech Republic )
photography
Silver ( Czech Republic )
video installation
Šimlová, Štepánka ( Czech Republic )
photography
Curators
Mehnert, Simona ( Prague )
Nowak, Johann ( Berlin )
Scharrer, Eva ( NewYork )
The Location
INSIDEOUT opens up a bunker
as a centre for contemporary art.
The building which will host the festival, the above-ground bunker
in the Reinhardtstraße, has survived to the present day wholly
intact.
Constructed as part of the "Führer's special programme" under
the direction of Albert Speer at the beginning of the 1940's, the
structure served during the Second World War as protection
against air raids. The legendary Berlin techno club "Bunker"
occupied the building between 1990 and 1995. Closed by the
authorities in December 1995, it will now once again be open to
the public as an exhibtion space for contemporary art.
The current owner Nippon Development Corporation is
determined in the longer term to convert the bunker into a venue
for culture.
The Organiser
The aktions galerie as a
forum for new art.
The aktions galerie was founded in 1994 to initiate and support
artistic and cultural work. Since then the gallery has been holding
exhibitions at monthly intervals; it has also presented a great
many performances, music, dance and film events.
In 1999 the amount of available exhibition space was increased
through the addition of two additional galleries focussing on
Asian and eastern European art. The aktions galerie has from its
inception provided a forum for young artists. In the context of its
many co-operative ventures with other organisations,
international projects have been a particular area of emphasis.
Since June of 2001 the organisation has been headquartered at
20/21 Auguststraße where it runs the Galerie DNA.
As a follow-up to a 1996 invitation of the Goethe Institute in
Luxemburg, the aktions galerie organised Berlin's first two-week
UNDABDIEPOST festival in February of 1997. This initial show
was able to attract more than 15,000 guests in 10 days.
Subsequent festivals reached international dimensions with a
steady rise to a level of more than 30,000 visitors. In November of
2000, the aktions galerie showed UNDABDIEPOST upon
invitation of the Goethe Institute at Hong Kong's Festival of
Visions.
Partners and Patrons
Partners of the aktions galerie for the INSIDEOUT festival are the
Embassy of the United States of America in Germany, the
Embassy of the Czech Republic in Germany, the Kulturamt Mitte
in Berlin and the Förderband e.V..
INSIDEOUT benefits from the assistance of the Amerikahaus in
Berlin, the Tschechische Zentrum in Berlin and the Förderband
e.V..
Franz John
video installation
Franz John was born in 1960 in Marktleugast, which is near
Bayreuth. He has been resident in Berlin since 1980.
From 1978 until 1980 he studied visual communication in
Würzburg. Since 1981 he has been working in camera-less
photography, and "new" and old media, at the interface between
human and mechanical perception.
He considers machines and their sensors to be part of an
evolutionary process that is extending perception, but which at
the same time is subject to quite human mistakes and failings.
Solo Exhibitions (selection)
2001
2000
1998
Art Studio, Kunstmuseum Skopje
Vous sortez du Secteur, Kunstverein Köln RE
Grenzpassagen, Kunstverein Frankfurt/O.
Schüppenhauer, Cologne
interzone, Kunstfabrik am Flutgraben, Berlin
Military Eyes, Goethe Institut,Warsaw
Transmediale, Podewil, Berlin
Military Eyes, GalerieWolf, Berlin
Group Exhibitions (selection)
2001
2000
1999
He considers machines and their
sensors to be part of an evolutionary
process that is extending
perception, but which at the same
time is subject to quite human
mistakes and failings.
Hopkins Hall Gallery, Columbus/Ohio
European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück
Art Santa Fe, Galerie Schüppenhauer, USA
Galeria Nova, Bucharest
Die Erde ist eine Scheibe, Galerie Schüppenhauer,
Cologne
Art Frankfurt, Galerie Schüppenhauer
Artline Borken, Europe Insight, internet project with
six European cities (concept)
Paintings Now, Galerie Schüppenhauer
Tatsumi Orimoto
photography
The artist Tatsumi Orimoto presents
us with unrestricted candour the
point of view of a man who is at once
a son and an artist.
Tatsumi Orimoto was born in Kawasaki City, 1946. He lives and
works in his hometown.
1969
1971
1972
1977
Study at the Institute of Art, California
Move to Soho/ NewYork
Assistant of Nam Jun Paik, in connection with
the Fluxus movement
Return to Japan
Solo Exhibitions (selection)
2001
2000
1999
DNA Galerie, Berlin
Hara Museum,Tokyo
FotogalerieVienna
Kunstihoone Gallerii,Tallinn
Museum für Photographie, Braunschweig
aktions galerie, Berlin
Art Space Niji, Kyoto
Group Exhibitions (selection)
2002
2001
1994
1992
1991
1989
1988
Biennale, Sao Paulo
Triennale,Yokohama
Biennale,Venice
Performance Festival, S.F. Georghe
Museum CityTenjin, Fukuoka
Biennale, Sao Paulo
P.S.I. Museum, NewYork
Biennale, Sydney
Iris Schieferstein
flesh sculptures
Iris Schieferstein was born in 1966 in Lich. She studied sculpture
at the Kunsthochschule Kassel and the Kunsthochschule Berlin
Weißensee.
Exhibitions (selection)
Since the beginning of the 1990’s,
I r i s S ch i e fe r s t e i n h a s b e e n
constructing organic sculptures
from the bodies of dead animals,
sewing them into new shapes
which are then suspended in
formaldehyde. The work elicits a
charged reflection upon the nature
of the relationship between Man
and Animal.
2002
life can be so nice, DNA Galerie, Berlin
2000
1999
Davon geht die Welt nicht unter, Kunstfestival
...UNDABDIEPOST!, Berlin
Der Schwund, Galerie M.A.M.Ü., Budapest
1997
ModernerWolpertinger, Galerie Sinomat, Berlin
1996
Galerie Atelier 27, Vienna
1995
aktions galerie, Berlin
BerlinerVerlag
Farkhondeh Shahroudi
installation
Farkhondeh Shahroudi was born in 1962 in Teheran. From 1985
until 1990 she studied painting at the University of the Arts in
Teheran. Following immigration to Germany in 1990 she studied
at the Dortmund Schule für Kunst und Design in 1993.
Solo Exhibitions (selection)
1999
Atelier Rolf Glasmeier, Gelsenkirchen
1998
Museum am Ostwall, Studio, Dortmund
Galerie TZR, Bochum
Group Exhibitions (selection)
2001
Große Kunstausstellung, Düsseldorf
2000
Continental shift, Stadts Galerie Heerlen,
Niederlande
Große Kunstausstellung, Düsseldorf
1999
Große Kunstausstellung, Düsseldorf
Jun Shibata
installation
Jun Shibata was born in Japan in 1973. He completed his studies
at the Nihon Uni College of Art in 1997 and the Hochschule der
Künste (Berlin) in 2002. He has been living and working in Berlin
since 1998.
Exhibitions (selection)
2002
Fighting-Alone(FlyFight!) Performance in der
HdK, Berlin
2001
Dogmen-Laboratory, Installation, Show Art Gallery,
Tokyo
Dogmen-Laborarory-Campaigne , Performance,
Yokohama
Fighting-Alone, Performance und Installation,
Tür und Engel in der Zionskirche, Berlin
Fighting-Alone , Performance, Pussy Galore,
Berlin
2000
I Rape Me vol. 2, Installation, Galerie NAKT, Berlin
I`m your son, Installation, ...UNDABDIEPOST!,
Berlin
1999
I Rape Me (Flattern), Galerie Mori Ogai, Berlin
1997
Color White , Installation, Nerima Municipal
Museum, Kumin Gallery,Tokyo
Mariana Vassileva
installation
Mariana Vassileva was born in 1964 in Bulgaria. She studied
psychology and teaching in Sofia from 1985 until 1991. Vassileva
has been living in Berlin since 1994 and studies at the UdK.
In the enforced immobility of
waiting for the bus or some other
means of transit we find ourselves
looking for at least some kind of an
ersatz form of security.
Solo Exhibitions (selection)
2000
Rasender Stillstand, Galerie „Weißer
Elefant“, Berlin
1999
Verein zur Förderung junger Künstler, Berlin
Solo Exhibitions (selection)
2002
Fluchtwege, Galerie Weißer Elefant, Berlin
2001
Kunstbunker Nürnberg
1999
...UNDABDIEPOST!, Festival junger experimenteller
Kunst im Postfuhramt, Berlin
Awards
1999
Scholarship of the Federal State of Brandenburg
Ayreen Anastas
video installation
Ayreen Anastas was born in Bethlehem, Palestine. She has a
diploma/MA in architecture from the Technische Universität
Berlin. From 1989 until 1996 she was a DAAD fellow. Ayreen
Anastas lives in NewYork.
Exhibitions (selection)
2001
SUBMERGE, Kunstbunker, Nuremberg
Artistalk, Video performance project in collaboration
with Rene Gabri. At sixteenbeaver in New York, at
Nomads and Residents in Rotterdam and at Oreste
Residency in the South of Italy.
2000
UPR Utopian Public Radio, Rampe 003, Berlin
(a solo exhibition in collaboration with John Menick)
1997
Airport Tegel for Example, Architecture Prize
Exhibition,Technical University Berlin
Awards (selection)
1997
The current practice of Ayreen
Anastas concerns itself with
architectonic space, language and
the conditions prevailing in
Palestine.
Architecture Prize,Technical University Berlin
Omer Fast
video installation
Omer Fast was born in Jerusalem in 1972. He obtained in 1995 a
Bachelor of Arts from Tufts University and a Bachelor of Fine Arts
from the Museum School of Fine Arts in Boston. In 2000 there
followed a Master of Fine Arts from the Hunter College of the City
University of NewYork.
Exhibitions (selection)
2002
2001
In Omer Fast's work, video and
television serve as both content and
medium. Through subtle, but
precice manipulations, he questions
the language of these media. He
develops video installations for
gallery exhibition, but also works on
projects that range from the
museum to other public spaces and
on into the private lives of
individuals.
2000
Solo Show, Gb Agency, Paris
MONITOR, Gagosian Gallery, NewYork
Here and Now, Büro Friedrich, Berlin
Gb Agency, Paris (Solo exhibition)
SUBMERGE, Kunstbunker, Nürnberg
Biennial 2002, Whitney Museum of American Art,
NewYork
Video Jam, Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary
Art, Florida
Affinités Narratives, Gb Agency, Paris
Travelling Scholars, Boston Museum of Fine Arts
Hors-Jeu, Gb Agency, Paris
Salad Days, Bill Maynes Gallery, NewYork
Some New Minds, PS1 Contemporary Art Center,
NewYork
Death Race 2000,,ThreadWaxing Space, NewYork
Two-person show (with Akiko Ichikawa), Momenta Art
Gallery, NewYork
Awards
2000
1999
1995
1995
Boston Museum of Fine Arts, School of Fine Arts
AlumniTravel Grant
GraffTravel Scholarship, Hunter College
Boit Award, Boston Museum School of Fine Arts
Peter J.Wade Award for StudioWork,Tufts University
E-Xplo
(Rene Gabri, Heimo Lattner, Erin McGonigle)
interactive sound installation
E-Xplo takes on the part of a
topographical agent by developing
projects which engage a space and
the people who inhabit it.
Selected projects and presentations
2002
rISO AROMA, Open Channel, BIGTorino,Turin, Italy
Picnolepsy, NewYork
Nomads and Resdents, Las Palmas, Rotterdam,
Netherlands
Floaterby, Art in General, NewYork
2001
65 MPH, Southfirst Art, Brooklyn, NY
2000
Dencity, Parker's Box, Brooklyn, NY
John Menick
video installation
John Menick was born in 1976 in White Plains, New York. He
obtained a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Cooper Union for the
Advancement of Science and Art. He lives and works in Brooklyn,
NewYork.
Exhibitions (selection)
John Menick is an artist and writer
whose work investigates a diverse
range of subjects including
standardized time and the scientific
management of labor.
His most recent work is an audiovisual essay examining the ways in
which cinema transforms the urban
condition.
2002
SUBMERGE, Kunstbunker Nürnberg
2001
AccessZone 0.2, Bronx Museum of the Arts, NewYork
GroundZero:01, 129 Lafayette Street, NewYork
Work, SUNY Albany Museum, Albany, NewYork
2000
Utopian Public Radio, Rampe 003, Berlin
Greater New York, The P.S.1 Center for Contemporary
Art, NewYork
Swiss Institute, NewYork
1999
The John Menick Foundation: Two Restorations, The
P.S.1 Center for Contemporary Art, NewYork
Michael Jonathan Rakowitz
interactive installation
Michael Jonathan Rakowitz was born in 1973 in New York. He
received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Purchase College at SUNY in
1995 and a Master of Science inVisual Studies from MIT in 1998.
Teaching Experience
2002 2000 -
Professor, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore
Visiting Assistant Professor of Sculpture, Pratt
Institute Brooklyn
Exhibitions and Projects (selection)
2002
2001
Michael Rakowitz is an artist who
works in the intersection of art,
design, architcture and actionism.
He is interested in environmental
issues and creates public
interventions in urban space which
identify and bridge small fissures in
larger networks of societal and
institutional lacks.
QUEENS INTERNATIONAL, Queens Museum of Art,
NewYork
SUBMERGE, Kunstbunker, Nürnberg
AIR, Dorsky Gallery, Long Island, NewYork
Architecture of Emergency, FRI-ART Fribourg,
Schweiz
Design 21, Felissimo Design House, New York
Utopia Now!, Sonoma Museum of Contemporary Art,
Sonoma, Kalifornien
Comfort Zone: Portable Living Spaces, The Fabric
Workshop Museum Philadelphia
Utopia Now!, CCACWattis Institute Oakland
Back and Forth, Commuter Companion,Vacancy
Gallery, NewYork
GZ:01, RISE, 129 Lafayette Street, NewYork
Building Codes, Storefront for Art and Architecture,
NewYork
Elsewhere, HEREart, NewYork
Minaret, Clocktower Gallery, NewYork
Climate Control, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long
Island City, NewYork
Awards
2001
2000
1997
1996
UNESCO Design Laureate, Grand Prix
NewYork City Department of Cultural Affairs
The Jerome Foundation Artist Grant
White Columns Artist Production Grant
MIT Council for the Arts Grant
MIT Department of Architecture Fellowship
Outstanding Achievement in Sculpture Award,
International Sculpture Center
Nadine Robinson
paintings, sound
Nadine Robinson, born in 1968 in London, grew up in Jamaica.
She received a Bachelor of Arts in 1995 from the State University
at Stony Brook, and a Master of Arts in 1997 from New York
University. She lives and works in the Bronx.
Exhibitions (selection)
Some of the themes that Nadine
Robinson examines in her (often
site-specific) sound installations are
race relations, street culture and the
urban working class.
2002
TEMPO, MoMA.QNS, NewYork
SUBMERGE, Kunstbunker, Nürnberg
2001
One Planet Under a Groove: Hip Hop and
Contemporary Art, The Bronx Museum of the Arts;
NewYork
For the Record, The Studio Museum in Harlem,
NewYork
Rappers Delight, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts,
San Francisco
Freestyle, The Studio Museum in Harlem, NewYork
2000
WorldTrade Center, NewYork
The Project, NewYork
Greater NewYork, P.S.1 , NewYork
Williams Benton Museum, Storrs, CT
1998
Bronx Museum of the Arts, NewYork
Erika Bornová
styrofoam sculptures
Erika Bornová was born in 1964 in Czechoslovakia. She studied
from 1983 until 1988 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague.
Solo Exhibitions (selection)
2000
Galerie MXM, Prague
1999
Spála Galerie, Prague
1995
Albin-Up-Gallery, Oslo
1993
Galerie MXM, Prague
1991
Galerie mladých, Prague
Group Exhibitions (selection)
Erika Bornova's monumental beings
constructed of styrofoam are meant
to serve as a reflection on ideals of
beauty. With a healthy dose of irony
she flirts with kitsch to create
figures of humans and animals
which become symbols of beauty
for our time.
2000
Melancholie, Mährische Galerie, Brno
2000
Kunst im Dialog, Tschechisches Zentrum, Berlin
1996
GalerieVelryba, Prague
1992
Kunst aus Mitteleuropa, Grado
1991
Ch.Weinemann Galerie, Paris
Veronika Bromová
video installation
Veronika Bromová was born in 1966 in Czechoslovakia. She
studied from 1987 until 1993 at Prague's College of Applied Arts.
Solo Exhibitions (selection)
2000
1999
1998
1997
Orte an der Erde, Spala-Galerie, Prague
ZEMZOO, Pavillon der Tschechischen Republik,
BiennaleVenice
ZEMZOO, Galerie Nova sin, Prague
An der Kante des Horizonts, Altstädter town hall,
gallery of the capital of Prague
Group Exhibitions (selection)
2000
1999
1998
Der anagrammatische Körper, ZKM, Karlsruhe
Artforum, Feichtner und Mizrahy Galerie, Berlin
Bohemian Birds, KunstHaus, Dresden
Dusk, Centre of Contemporary Art, Seattle
After theWall, Moderna Muset, Stockholm
Rondo, Ludwig-Museum, Budapest
Art of theWorld, Passage de Retz, Paris
Awards (selection)
1998
1997
1995
Waiting … emotions, between
anticipation, hope and fear …
endless time, time without end …
captured by Veronika Bromová at the
Prague airport.
scholarship, International Studio Program, NewYork
Jindrich-Chalupecky-Prize, Prager Burg
scholarship, Whitney Museum of American Art,
NewYork
Krištof Kintera
painting
Kristof Kintera was born in 1973 in Prague. From 1992 until 1999
he studied at Prague's Academy of Fine Arts.
Solo Exhibitions (selection)
2001
1999
1996
Are you alright?, La Chaufferie, Strasbourg
It won ‘t be better!, Skuc-Galerie, Ljubljana
Talkmen, Altstädter town hall, gallery of the capital of
Prague
Galerie Ruce, Prague
Group Exhibitions (selection)
2001
2000
1999
Über dem Menschen, Museum der bildenden
Künste, Prague
Nests of games, Rudolfinum, Prague
Worthless, Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana
ÜberlebensKunst, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein
All you can eat, Galerie für zeitgenössische
Kunst, Leipzig
Bohemian Birds, KunstHaus Dresden, Dresden
Plug in City, Salon 3, London
After theWall, Moderne Museet, Stockholm
Awards (selection)
2000
1997
1995
Kristof Kintera works in a variety of
media: video, spray paint,
installations, moving or speakin
objects, performances, pondering
the various levels of the reality which
surrounds us: advertising ,
consumerism, design, symbols of
communication.
scholarshipVillaWaldberta, Munich
scholarship Germinations, Birmingham
scholarship Ohio State University, Columbus
Míla Preslová
photography
Míla Preslová was born in 1966 in Pilsen. She studied painting
from 1989 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, receiving a
Magister Artium in 1996.
Solo Exhibitions (selection)
2002
1998
1997
Galerie MXM, Prague
Tutady, GalerieVe sklepe, Pilsen
Galerie MXM, Prague
Solo Exhibitions (selection)
2002
2000
1999
1998
Laboratrium der aktuellen Tendenzen, Messepalais,
Nationalgalerie, Prague
ÜberlebensKunst (young artist from Prague),
Neuer Berliner Kunstverein
Kunst im Krankenhaus, Galerie Václav Spála,
Prague
Nicht geplante Verbindung , Galerie 5020,
Salzburg
Czech Days, Bonn
Awards (selection)
2002
2000
1995
Woman and the question of identity
in contemporary society thematised
in large-format colour photographs.
Egon-Schiele-Centre, Ceský Krumlov
scholarship of the International Artists´ Domicile Villa
Concordia, Bamberg
exceptional price from the foundation for Life
Silver
video installation
(exists since 1994)
NAME
DATE OF BIRTH
NATIONALITY
SEX
CIVIL STATE
EDUCATION
OCCUPATION
Silver
unknown
none
none
single
none
artist
Exhibitions (selection)
2001
1999
1997
1995
1995
1995
1994
Czech Birds, KunstHaus Dresden, Dresden 2000
und Dresdner Bank, Frankfurt a.M.
Silver, Backspace, London
Kunst im öffentlichen Raum , MessepaIais,
Nationalgalerie, Prag
Orbis fictus, Nationalgalerie, Prague
Test Run, Manes, Prague
Kunst amWerk, Siemens, Amberg
Hermit 94-Transparent Messenger, Plasy
Silver is virtual, has a fictitious identity and works primarily in
interactive computer art, virtual reality, internet art and artificial
intelligence.
Štepánka Šimlová
photography
Štepánka Šimlová was born in 1966 in Czechoslovakia and studied
from 1989 until 1996 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague.
Solo Exhibitions (selection)
2001 Süße Träume, Allstädter town hall, gallery of the
capital of Prague
2001 Ort am Ende der Welt, Cité internationale des
Arts, Paris
1994 Licht,VVort,Welt, Stop-Galerie, Pilsen
1989 ZOO, Galerie Lehman, Dresden
Group Exhibitions (selection)
2001
2000
1999
1999
1998
Laboratory, Messepalais, Nationalgalerie, Prague
The End of theWorld, Kinský-Palais, Nationalgalerie,
Prague
Biennale of Young Artists, Haus zur Steinernen
Glocke, Prague
lllusionen und Träume, NoD Galerie, Prague
Körper als Beweis, Czech Centre, Berlin
Awards (selection)
1993
1992
Štepánka Šimlová uses the
computer to construct beautiful,
new and perfect worlds which
transcend anything a travel brochure
can offer us.
scholarship,Trent University, Nottingham
scholarship, Rijks Akademie Beldendeen Kunsten,
Amsterdam
Curators
Simona Mehnert ( Prague )
Simona Mehnert was born in Czechoslovakia. She studied art
history, with particular emphasis on contemporary eastern
European art.
Mehnert works as an art historian at the Tschechisches Zentrum
(Czech Centre) in Berlin, where she has been curating the
exhibitions over the past seven years.
Freelance curating activities have recently included the Petr
Kvicala exhibition at the Automobileforum Unter den Linden and a
show at the National Gallery in Prague.
Johann Nowak ( Berlin )
Johann Nowak was born in Munich in 1961. He studied there at
the Akademie der Künste in 1983 and 1984. During 1985 and 1986
he visited the Bel Arte academy for stage design in Florence. In
1994 he opened the aktions galerie and founded the non-profit
aktions galerie e.V.
In addition to numerous single and group shows, he curated from
1997 the annual UNDABDIEPOST festival for contemporary
experimental art, held in Berlin-Mitte's Postfuhramt building.
Eva Scharrer ( NewYork )
Eva Scharrer is an art historian and freelance curator from
Nuremberg.
Since 1999, she lives occasionally in NewYork, where she worked
at the Museum of Modern Art and P.S.1, and was curatorial
assistant to P.S.1 Senior Curator Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev.
The participation in various exhibitions, such as Greater New York
(2000) at P.S.1, has helped her to develop a thorough knowledge
of the New York contemporary scene. She recently curated the
exhibition "Submerge. New Art from New York" (April 2002) at
Kunstbunker. Forum für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Nuremberg.
Imprint
Organiser
aktions galerie e.V.
Festivalbüro
Auguststraße 21
10117 Berlin
www.insideout-berlin.de
Honorary Chairman
Dr. Boris Lazar, Ambassador of the Czech Republic
Joachim Zeller, Mayor of the District of Berlin-Mitte
Thomas Roth, chairman of the "ARD-Hauptstadtstudio"
Location
Bunker in the Reinhardtstraße, Berlin-Mitte
Press Agent
Sylke Bluhm
Tel.
+49-30-240 847 88
Mobil
+49-179-387 40 44
FAX
+49-30-240 847 89
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Production Manager
Elfi Müller
Regina Tetens
Artistic Director
Johann Nowak
Curators
Simona Mehnert, Johann Nowak, Eva Scharrer
Sponsoring
Katja Baima
Layout
Peter Scholz, Julia Weber