Zuschnitt: KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, 2023. Foto: Frank Sperling
KW, a hike Tour through the streets into the past of KW
In the early 1990s, KW Institute for Contemporary Art was founded in a former margarine factory. Their history is inseparably linked to that of their neighborhood, the surrounding streets and its buildings. To understand KW’s historical entanglements, we embark on a walking tour of boarded-up buildings, underground garages, distant domes over burial chambers, communist clubhouses, and the courtyard of a collector who lives in a former nationalized factory. A view of a distant skyscraper overshadowing Soviet-era relics on Alexanderplatz marks the end of our tour of KW’s neighboring streets.
Guided Tour for groups in English & German 90 min, 95 € no entry to the exhibitions
Guided Tour for school groups in English & German 90 Min, 85 € no entry to the exhibitions
Public Tour in Englisch Sunday 11.06. & 13.08 11am in German Sunday 16.07. & 10.09. 11am 90 min, free Online-Booking required in advance > here
Coco Fusco. Your Eyes Will Be an Empty Word, 2021. Video-Still. Courtesy die Künstlerin.
Coco Fusco – Tomorrow, I Will Become an Island 14.09.23–07.01.24
Coco Fusco »Tomorrow, I Will Become an Island« is the first major retrospective of Cuban-American artist Coco Fusco (b. 1960, US) in Germany. For more than three decades, she has been a key voice in discourses on racial representation, feminism, postcolonial theory, and institutional critique. The exhibition seeks to trace the profound influence that Fusco’s work has had on the contemporary art discourse in Germany and the world by featuring a broad selection of the artist’s videos, photography, texts, and performances from the 1990s to the present day. To unfold Fusco’s multidisciplinary practice further, KW Institute for Contemporary Art and ICI Berlin collaborate on a series of talks. In addition, KW has commissioned Fusco to create a new multimedia-performance, which will be staged in collaboration with Sophiensaele early December 2023.
Guided Tour in English and German 60 min, 70 € plus admission
Guided Tour for school groups in English and German 60 min, 55 € plus admission, free up to 18 years of age
Public Guided Tour in German Sunday 15.10., 12.11., 23.07., 03.12. & 30.12. 4pm 60 min, free
Public Guided Tour in English Saturday 16.09., 23.09., 14.10., 11.11., 02.12., 23.12. & 07.01. 4pm 60 min, free
Zuschnitt: Kameelah Janan Rasheed, Untitled, 2023, digitaler Scan der Rückseite einer Fotografie, 12.7 x 12.7 cm, Courtesy Kameelah Janan Rasheeds künstlerischem Bildarchiv historischer Aufnahmen von Black Americans
Kameelah Janan Rasheed – in the coherence, we weep 14.09.23–07.01.24
Kameelah Janan Rasheed (b. 1985, US) is the 2022 recipient of the Schering Stiftung Award for Artistic Research. In their work, Rasheed focuses on the materiality and legibility of text, writing, and language as well as the potential of intermedial translation. They search for methods that allow us to grasp meanings anew and explore the question of how we read and how we ourselves want to be read and understood. The presentation of Rasheed’s artistic work at KW Institute for Contemporary Art is their first major institutional solo exhibition in Berlin. Both the exhibition and its accompanying publication interlace with Rasheed’s methodology, which explores indexical space, revision through annotation, as well as its blurring and layering of knowledge and learning. The 2022 edition of the Award for Artistic Research, which is awarded biannually to international artists by the Schering Stiftung und Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Community, is the seventh time that Schering Stiftung has collaborated with KW.
Guided Tour in English and German 60 min, 70 € plus admission
Guided Tour for school groups in English and German 60 min, 55 € plus admission, free up to 18 years of age
Public Guided Tour in German Sunday 17.09., 24.09., 08.10., 29.10., 19.11. & 10.12 4pm 60 min, free
Public Guided Tour in English Saturday 07.10., 28.10., 18.11. & 09.12. 16:00. 4pm 60 min, free
Zuschnitt: Otobong Nkanga, Footpitch, 1999. Photography, 90 x 120 cm. Courtesy die Künstlerin.
SKIN IN THE GAME 14.09.23–07.01.24
SKIN IN THE GAME presents seminal prototypes from the personal archives of internationally acclaimed artists, dating back to the 1980s and crossing over into the present. Exhibits include experiments never previously shown, from paintings to sculptures, to banners, video performances, photographs, collages, drawings, books, and concept notes. The works focus on that moment of professional and existential emancipation when these artists threw their skin in the game, and gave their all to art. Complimenting early prototypes are new productions for the exhibition by Collier Schorr, Ruth Buchanan, Otobong Nkanga and Joëlle Tuerlinckx. The exhibition choreography is devised in collaboration with Joëlle Tuerlinckx. SKIN IN THE GAME implements the exercises and methods of the Metabolic Museum–University (MM–U), which have been developed by Clémentine Deliss at different locations since 2015.
Guided Tour in English and German 60 min, 70 € plus admission
Guided Tour for school groups in English and German 60 min, 55 € plus admission, free up to 18 years of age
