Never Shown on Purpose – Curator’s Tour (5.1) and Finissage (14.1)

Never Shown on Purpose – until 14 Jan. 2017

Thursday, January 5, 2017, 6:30 pm – 
Curator’s Tour with Hannah Beck-Mannagetta and Ulrich Vogl as well as individual artists of the exhibition:

During the guided tour individual works will be explained in more detail, but above all the curators and artists will tell about the unfamiliar challenges and the risk with which they have been confronted by the exhibition concept.


chryssa-lying-01Saturday, January 14, 2017, 6:30 pm –
Finissage with performance by Chryssa Tsampazi with Clara and Luise Andrees:

In her performance, “I Have Never Been This Honest”, Chryssa Tsampazi will place herself in the position of each individual artist, as well as the viewer’s point of view on the exhibition.

In doing so, she will also refer to the titles of the individual works. The titles do have a special significance within the exhibition, since they have not only made the artists face the challenge of finding a title for an art work that is not yet meant to be one, but also to find a title that refers to the story behind the object and the reason why the work has never been shown.

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Exhibition View: Never Shown on Purpose | 4.11.16 – 14.1.17

Some images of our current exhibition Never Shown on Purpose.

Artists: Lizza May DavidSophia DomagalaJanine EggertSophie ErlundFrederik FoertStella GeppertIngo GerkenBenjamin GreberStephen KentIngo MittelstaedtTimo NasseriAgnieszka SzostekConstantinos TaliotisBenedikt Terwiel

Curated by Hannah Beck-Mannagetta & Ulrich Vogl

Photos by Eric Tschernow

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Never Shown on Purpose | 4.11.16 – 14.1.17

Within the artistic process works emerge that seem not to fit into the cosmos of an artist‘s practice. In the eyes of the maker, they have not yet been defined as an art work, or were determined as a study. In order to take a view behind the curtain, artists have been invited to propose a work they have never shown before for various reasons. Some of the works were never accepted as finished because they failed, looked overdrawn or simply appeared not good enough. Others, however, seemed too personal or intimate to show. What do unaccomplished and withheld works tell about the personality of the artist, the mechanisms of self versus external judgements, and the definition of artworks in general?

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Exhibition View: Mother, I have reached the land of my dreams

IDFSome images from our exhibition Mother, I have reached the land of my dreams as part of the ID Festival 2016.

Photos by Ruthe Zuntz

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Mother, I have reached the land of my dreams – CIRCLE1’s Exhibition at the ID Festival Berlin | 21-23.10.16

sandclock-foto-maya-elran3Going back centuries and millennia, the travel routes of migrants tell the story of a humanity ravaged by wars, famine, prosecution and crises. Traversing lands, seas and continents, the pairs of eyes that witnessed and the legs that treaded the land – of those persistent in their search for a better future, if not sheer survival – are the bearers of life experiences that remain largely untold and forgotten, even if the collective fates of migrant populations had merged into the great currents of history, shaping cultures, civilizations, peoples and ethnicities everywhere.

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Exhibition View: Noga Shtainer and Anastasia Khoroshilova | Advised by Jürgen Harten | 9.9.16 – 29.10.16

imgp1783Some images of our current exhibition of Noga Shtainer and Anastasia Khoroshilova, advised by Jürgen Harten

Photos by Anastasia Khoroshilova 

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Noga Shtainer and Anastasia Khoroshilova | Advised by Jürgen Harten | 9.9.16 – 29.10.16

AlinaCIRCLE1 has invited two very different Berlin based artists – Anastasia Khoroshilova and Noga Shtainer, to exhibit their recent photographic works. The two artists first met during the preparation of the exhibition. Although they differ in their personal motivation, their camera technology and the staging of their pictures, they find a lot if common ground in terms of subject matter.

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Aline Alagem – Director’s Cut | 1.7.16 – 30.7.16

Aline AlagemUntitled #6, untitled #7 2013’s works displayed in the exhibition Director’s cut continue her main preoccupation in recent years with the body, gender, eroticism, and with the gaze that constitutes them in the current age of a mad torrent of processed images. Alagem paints hyperrealistic paintings with a disrupted or fragmented narrative, on large scale canvases that exceed the boundaries of the painting as a window, blending beyond recognition the traditional narrative of oil painting on canvas as a coherent opening to the representation of reality. The viewer’s gaze lingers on the quality of the painting, surprised by the unconventional fusion of plasticity and refinement and the brute force with which the painting manifests itself.

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Dana Yoeli – Fichte / Ashuchit | 1.7.16 – 30.7.16

47ac3daa-e0e6-4f2e-9929-6a8d6df903f1The subject of memory stands at the heart of Dana Yoeli‘s profoundly personal yet universal work. Memory, by nature, is illusory and intangible. Nevertheless, Yoeli chooses it as her subject and transforms it into substance, into physical matter.  She fluctuates between nature and artifice, documentation and fabrication, life and taxidermy.

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