April 17, 2013

URBANFUSE - Berlin Residency Exhibition

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)