I am working on a new interactive video installation: H-O-P-E for the exhibition UNITED NATIONS REVISITED, takes place in Berlin in spring 2013.

H-O-P-E is inspired by a mural painting inside the UN Security Council conference hall in New York, painted in 1950 by the Norwegian artist Per Krogh. H-O-P-E  is produced while workshops, collective sessions, and public presentations worldwide, by people from most different cultural backgrounds. The project main idea is to “remix” the painting in short video loops. On the project website you can see the first results of this ongoing project are presented. Short videoclips were produced by people from R.D. Congo, Thailand, Cambodia, Indonesia, Germany, France, USA, Tahiti and Australia. www.unitednationshope.de

LANDSCHAFT / 2D
Alfred BANZE, Charlotte BASTIAN, Christine FALK, Julia Anette FRISCHMANN, Kiki GEBAUER, Simone HÄCKEL, Katrin VON LEHMANN, Annegret und Tom LEATHER, Karen LINNENKOHL, Ulrike LUDWIG, Christine NIEHOFF, Isabel PAUER, Frederik POPPE, Birgit RAMSAUER, Romina SCHENONE, Claudia SCHOEMIG, Linda WEISS, Jürgen WEIß

Kunstverein Scotty Enterprises Berlin zu Gast in der Zentrifuge Nürnberg 04. 11. – 27. 11. 2011 Was ist Landschaft heute? In den aktuellen medialen Bildwelten ist sie mehr von Konventionen und -traditionen geprägt als von der direkten sinnlichen Wahrnehmung. Landschaft hat heute eine große intellektuelle Distanz zu überbrücken: zwischen der Moderne mit all ihren Entfremdungen, Bequemlichkeiten und Romantisierungen und dem, was Landschaft einmal war und immer noch ist: Lebens- und Bewegungsraum des Menschen. Die Ausstellung Landschaft / 2D bietet Raum zum Flanieren, für Blicke auf visualisierte Imaginationen und Wirklichkeitsausschnitte. Malereien, Objekte, Installationen, Fotos und Videos aus Berlin und Nürnberg treten in Dialog zueinander, bilden eine gemeinsame Ausstellungs-Landschaft.

Zentrifuge e.V., Halle 14 auf AEG, Muggenhofer Str 141, 90429 Nürnberg

Pattern & Signs – A language in between
Art from Thailand, India, China, Cameroon, Bulgaria, Romania, Germany
Exhibition, presentations, performances and workshops

Crossing the Line, Installation with drawings, music, texts, video, 2011

Kunstverein Tiergarten / Galerie Nord
Turmstraße 75 10551 Berlin
01 June – 09 July 2011

ALFRED BANZE, SURACHAI EKPHALAKORN, CHRISTINE FALK, DORIS HINZEN-RÖHRIG, PETRA JUNG, KATHARINA KOCH, UTE LEHNERT, LI LISHA, JEROME MING, VARSHA NAIR, JOANNE RICHARDSON

Pattern & Signs convey historical, cultural as well as social structures. To be aware of and reflect their correlation is a fundamental prerequisite for the liveliness and quality of human coexistence. The exhibition project “Pattern & Signs” deals with this task. It derives from a cross-generational network of artists coming from Thailand, China, India, Cameroon, Bulgaria, Romania and Germany. The artists live and work between the continents; they act “in transit”. In their works they question their state of being “in between” and reflect on an intercultural dialogue and its aesthetic means of expression against the background of their own cultural roots. After taken place at Jamuree Gallery Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok in January 2011, the project now is hosted by Kunstverein Tiergarten / Galerie Nord. In several workshops the artists work together with young people of Menzel Schule Moabit. The project is supported by Projektfonds Kulturelle Bildung Berlin. Project directors: Bärbel Kosanke-Teigler (Menzel-Oberschule), Dr. Claudia Beelitz (Kunstverein Tiergarten)

Special events:

Wednesday, 08 June, 6 pm
Workshop presentations by Li Lisa + C. Falk, D. Hinzen-Röhrig + P. Jung, A. Banze, and participants of Menzelschule
Performances by Varsha Nair + Jerome Ming

Thursday, 23 June, 6 pm
artists talks, workshop presentation by J. Richardson + K. Koch, and participants of Menzelschule
Performance by Alfred Banze + Matthias Schellenberger: Kopi Kaputa sings Crossing the Line