ROOM IN ROOM
initiated and curated by Susanne Schuricht (artist) and Karsten Schubert (architect)
in cooperation with Grüntuch Ernst Architects and frontviews temporary
www.roominroom.org
The exhibition series »Room In Room« at the Grüntuch Ernst Lab (Grüntuch Ernst Architects) in the former Jewish Girls’ School, initiated by Susanne Schuricht and Karsten Schubert, spans a conceptual bridge from architecture to architecture-related art. It brings together positions from photography, architecture and installation in a negotiation of the view into, onto and through space.
Ever since the rekindling of the spatial discourse in the 1990s, the issue of how space is experienced within medial productions has been one of the most fascinating questions of contemporary art. How does the perception of space change within the context of artistic presentation? Can space as an abstraction even be represented? Or does the representation show instead that space is always culturally and socially constructed?
The exhibition "ROOM IN ROOM" brings together positions from photography, architecture and installation in a negotiation of the view into, onto and through space. Here, space is explored as a variable perceptual factor, as an architectural marker, as a bodily experience, in all of its geometric flexibility. The viewer’s uncertainty as to where the space of the artwork ends and where the exhibition space begins makes his/her own positioning an irritating and reflexively confusing undertaking. The localization of the subject becomes a key moment of the spatial experience.
The first part of the exhibition shows photographs by Jan Bitter, an artistic documentation of the project “German School in Madrid” by Grüntuch Ernst Architects, who also carried out the conversion of the former Jewish Girls’ School, in which the exhibition room in room takes place.
The second part of the exhibition, Insight and Outlook – Moments of artistic appropriation of architecture, shows works by Nina Fischer & Maroan el Sani, Axel Hütte, Veronika Kellndorfer, Carsten Krohn, Kirstin Rogge, Philipp Schaerer, Susanne Schuricht, Hiroshi Sugimoto and Sinta Werner.
In order to discuss the subject of the exhibition, there also will be theoretical talks and panels with Karsten Schubert (architect and author) and Stephan Günzel (cultural sceintist), Marc Glöde (art historian, author and curator) and Ludwig Seyfarth (art historian author and curator) among others from September 1st to September 20th.
SUPPORTING PROGRAM FOR THE ROOM IN ROOM EXHIBITION:
Thursday, 3 September
Room and Scene
Film screening Peter Welz: Casa Malaparte
Discussion with Peter Welz and Marc Glöde
Tuesday, 8 September
Room and Form
Karsten Schubert: Spatial impressions and expression forms.
Modeling of space through architectural form
Discussion with Jasper Cepl, Hans Kollhoff, Uwe Schröder
Thursday, 10 September
Room and Image
Cora Waschke: Perspective as a view.
On the relationship between architecture and photography in modernity
Discussion with Bernd Bess, Armand Grüntuch, Ulrich Müller
Tuesday, 15 September
Room and Reality
Stephan Günzel: The reality of space
Discussion with Jörg H. Gleiter and Ludwig Seyfarth
Thursday, 17 September
Room and Meaning
Poetic moments in architecture
Lecture, dialogue and discussion Albert Kirchengast and Jörn Köppler
Tuesday, 8 December
artist talk
»Room In Room«
with the participating artists Veronika Kellndorfer, Kirstin Rogge, Susanne Schuricht and Nina Fischer
presented by Svenja von Reichenbach (Director Deutsche Bank Kunsthalle) and Arthur de Ganay (Photography collection Arthur de Ganay)
All events begin at 7 pm and will be held in German!
Initiated by Susanne Schuricht and Karsten Schubert (architect)
Editorial and text: Charlotte Silbermann
In cooperation with Grüntuch Ernst Architects and frontviews
www.room-in-room.tumblr.com
Talks and discussions will take place with renowned personalities from the fields of architecture and art, including
Bernd Bess (architect), Prof. Dr. Jasper Cepl (architecture theorist), Prof. Dr. Jörg H. Gleiter (architecture theorist), Dr. Marc Glöde (film theorist), Armand Grüntuch (architect), Prof. Dr. Stephan Günzel (cultural scientist), Albert Kirchengast (architecture theorist), Dr. Jörn Köppler (architect), Prof. Hans Kollhoff (architect), Ulrich Müller (Architektur Galerie Berlin), Prof. Uwe Schröder (architect), Dr. Karsten Schubert (architect), Ludwig Seyfarth (curator, art critic) Cora Waschke (art historian ), Peter Welz (video artist), Svenja von Reichenbach (Director Deutsche Bank Kunsthalle) and Arthur de Ganay (Photography collection Arthur de Ganay)
related links:
www.roominroom.org
Veronika Kellndorfer
Carsten Krohn
Nina Fischer & Maroan el Sani
Philipp Schaerer
Susanne Schuricht
Hiroshi Sugimoto
Sinta Werner
Axel Hütte
ROOM IN ROOM
initiated by Susanne Schuricht (artist) and Karsten Schubert (architect)
in cooperation with Grüntuch Ernst Architects and frontviews temporary
Opening Fri 17 July 6.30 pm
17 Jul – 12 Dec 2015
Thu – Sat 12 am – 6 pm
(Ehemalige Jüdische Mäddchenschule)
Auguststraße 11 - 13 / 3.OG
10117 Berlin