A solo show by Anselm Skogstad
NYC Subway 2005 to 2008
(Curated by Jennifer Gassman& Alice Gittermann)

November 26th 2009
6 pm to 11 pm

One night exhibition at KIM
Brunnenstrasse 10, 10119 Berlin
www.jennifergassmann.com

Host: MODART
Start Time: Saturday, November 7, 2009 at 7:00pm
Location: Senatsreservespeicher Artitude e.V. at Cuvrystreet 3-4 Berlin
http://www.artwallbreakers.com/

The Street-Art-Exhibition-series ends with a big get-together

2009 marks the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. A historical moment in German history, as well as for the cultural scene of the Street Art movement. On one hand, the Berlin Wall represents a salient symbol of the Cold War and the separation of Germany. On the other hand, it represents a creative areal of a peacefull revolution and the biggest open-air galery in the world The illustrator, musician and artist will only stay a couple of hours in his former home town Berlin on November 7th.

The Munich native has been living in New York since 2006. Jim Avignon is well known for his speed, while painting a lot of pictures and selling these cheap or even giving them away for free. Designing Swatch watches, airplanes or cars comes as natural to him as giving prison doors a new look.

The latter he’ll be undertaking live on November 7th in Kreuzberg. Three doors of a DDR prison in Saxonia are provided in it’s natural grey for Jim to design them. Moreover, the multi-talented Jim will also be presenting his latest album for the first time during a musical performance on the final evening of the Art WallBreakers Festival. Under the name NEOANGIN, the musician Avignon has already released 9 CDs with electronic music since 1997. Last but no least, works from his private collection which aren’t for sale will also be exhibited.

Everybody, eager to enjoy a “pure” Jim Avignon event is cordially invited. The doors of the Senatsreservespeicher – Artitude e.V. at Cuvrystreet 3-4, will open for the Art WallBreakers finale at 7 pm on November 7th.

That sounds as interesting as freaky –

“Checkpoint Dreamyourtopia is a border control checkpoint to enter your own dreams. It’s operated by the Department of Dreamland Security, who are here to protect and serve your Dreams. They will ensure a safe and smooth passage into your own Dreamworld and make sure you Dream the right Dream, most suitable for you and your needs. At the same time preventing the wrong people from entering your Dreams and turning your Dreams into nightmares.”

The Checkpoint will be operational during extended dream business hours on the 7th and 8th of November 2009 at the Stattbad Wedding, Gerichtstr 65, 13347 Berlin, Germany dreamyourtopia.com

http://www.artwallbreakers.com/shows/dreamyourtopia_show

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Magistrates – An International Group Show featuring over 20 Artists. Also featuring the Mark Ryden Poster Show & Book Release Party and an Installation by Christian Rothenhagen in The Vault.

Strychnin Gallery
Boxhagener Str. 36 / Berlin Friedrichshain
Opens Nov. 13th at 7 p.m. – runs until Dec. 6th.
Opening hours: Thu – Sun from 12 noon – 6 p.m.

http://www.strychnin.com/

!!! AND: !!!

We would like to announce to you a very special MARK RYDEN poster show that will accompany the book release of his 3rd edition of Fushigi Circus, opening November 13th at 7 pm at Strychnin Gallery Berlin. The book release will be in the Vault and to make this very special, Mark will have 6 soldout/unavailable posters for sale!!!!

All of these posters are from past exhibitions and have never been shown together – that is, until now!

They’ve just returned from STROKE.01, the Urban Art Fair in Munich, but the intoxicated demons need no rest: the next exhibition already starts this week.

STEPHEN TOMPKINS – FRISCHFLEISCH @ INTOXICATED DEMONS GALLERY
http://www.intoxicated-demons.com/

>>Vernissage

On friday, november 6th we would like to welcome you to the opening reception of “Frischfleisch” at our new showroom (Schliemannstrasse 12 / am Helmholtzplatz).

For your comfort we will serve “Frischfleisch”.

>>Animation tour through Berlin

On thursday, november 5th Stephen and the gallery staff will do a guerilla tour through Berlin. With our portable projector we will display his new animated short directly on the “architectural incarnations of greed”.

Who has the power in the state? Politics or the economy? Who dictates tendencies in the market and the developments of our life? It is ‘we’! But this ‘we’ is neither a representative cross section of democratic currents nor is it the union of reason-oriented opinion doers.
‘We’ that is the mass, the raw mass and the social mobilization. The uncontrollable and insatiable ones which are driven without consideration for status, education, origin or religion by a only one large impulse: greed! It is greed for power, for consumption, greed for knowledge, for acknowledgment, sex, beauty and force. We want constantly new, we want ever more of it and we it above all fast: We need “fresh meat”. FRISCHFLEISCH!

As Brad Martin of Juxtapoz wrote about Stephen Tompkins’ work: “What would happen if you took classic 1920′s cartoons and Ren and Stimpy episodes, chewed them up with shades of primary colors, and then horcked the whole thing onto a canvas? Nothing as good as Stephen Tompkins’ work, for sure, though that’s exactly what his pieces remind me of. It’s like an abstract celebration of cartoon body parts in a roiling pop orgy.”

Stephen Tompkins has been exhibiting in the US and Europe since the late 1990′s with his complex deconstructions of his own iconography and invented comic (and somewhat mad) forms. His explosive work and style has been shown in innumerable exhibitions in the USA and Europe and his work has recently garnered the attention of some museum curators with exhibition of work seemingly around the corner. Apart from Tompkins’ prolific and diverse range of mediums (from painting, drawing, animation, sculpture) Tompkins has leaped headlong into his other interest, film. He recently had an unusual opportunity to portray an EMT extra role in Werner Herzog’s and David Lynch’s collaborative new film “My Son, My Son – What Have Ye Done?” plucked for the small role directly by Herzog himself. This year he released 13 music videos and an album entitled “Daniel Johnston at Home LIVE” (available on iTunes) from footage he shot in Waller Texas while living in Austin in 1999, of the legendary indie/artist musician and his friend Daniel Johnston.