URBANFUSE -
Berlin meets New York
On view: April 26-May 18, 2013
Opening reception: April 26, 6-9pm
Preview before opening: April 26, 2-4 pm for press and VIP on the sun
terrace of the pavilion in the presence of the artists. RSVP by April
19 please.
The exhibition titled "URBANFUSE" will feature the artworks of ten
artists inside the exhibition pavilion in Gertrud-Kolmar-Str. 14 in
Berlin-Mitte (more than 300 sqm, towards the Brandenburger Gate and
the Tiergarten) from April 26 to May 18, thus
beginning together with the Berlin Gallery Weekend, .
The selected artists of the exhibition consist of five alumni of the New
York Academy of Art as well as three students of the Berlin
Weissensee School of Art and two alumni. Three of the alumni of the
NYAA will have the opportunity to create the artworks for the exhibition during
a three months stay in Berlin as artists in residence. The appartment and the
studios of the residing artists are also located in a central and thematically
important urban position, in Katzbachstrasse in Berlin-Kreuzberg.
The artworks of the exhibition develop in the thematic exchange of the students
and alumni of the two art academies, influences by New York City and Berlin
shall be displayed and joined – as an "urban fuse".
The participating students of Kunsthochschule Weissensee were selected with the
support of Prof. Werner Liebmann. The residents from New York were selected in
close cooperation with the New York Academy of Art, namely Peter Drake (Dean of
Academic Affairs), following an official submission there.
The exhibition as well as the residency are being organized by Matthias
Bergemann and Janine Biermann.
Participating artists: Anna Borowy, Nicolas Fontaine, Sarah Elise Hall (MFA 2009), Michael
Meadors (MFA 2010), Susi Mehl, Peter Simon Mühlhäußer (MFA 2009, Fellow 2010), Marco Reichert, Marcus Scheunemann,
Amber Sena (MFA 2009), Matthew Woodward (MFA 2007)
