Ngorongoro

Berlin gallery weekend offers a unforgettable experience to visit he 5000 square meter studio spaces of Lehderstrasse 34, which are serving as exhibiton space. The area hosts  an astonishingly diverse collection of paintings, sculpture, multi media, installation, film and photography, in which artists invite other artists to exhibit in the context of this studio environment.

The exhibition was based in the former factory, which had been adapted to the needs of artistic studios. The capacious  studio complex of Lehder Strasse 34, in Berlin-Weissensee consists of  several buildings having its origin in different stages of GDR history. Among them we can find the former power plant and the manufacturing halls from the 70’s. Today, it is a dynamic studio development, accomodated over the past five years by a group of Berlin-based artists.

For the time of Berlin Art Weekend, this capacious  studio complex of Lehder Strasse 34, in Berlin-Weissensee is designated to be an extensive group exhibition featuring 100 Berlin based and international artists.

The area of the exhibition has applied the concept of adaptive reuse, which gives a new purpose to old industrial buildings that don´t fulfill their intended function. The excellent example of it is the constructing of Tate Modern at Bankside Power Station.

The buildings have been reinvented without being completely refurbished so that they had preserved their gritty character. Actually, one of the walls is still missing. Thew wired fence seperating the building appears to be encaging the silhouettes of visitors in the dark. The concrete floors and walls play very well with the innovative character of the exhibiton. The raw and unfinished space make the visitors to feel its artistic and working environment and accentuate grungy and underground feeling.

Ngorongoro is a collapsed volcanic crater in Tanzania, on the border of the Serengeti. Almost undisturbed by human influence, it boasts a biosphere of unique diversity with Africa’s highest density of mammal predators and is listed as a natural and cultural World Heritage Site.
Echoing this primordial ecosystem, the exhibition sees a kaleidoscopic survey of artistic practise coming together in one event, staged within the creative crucible of art’s origins – the studio

Address:
Lehderstraße 34,
13086 Berlin

 

 

 

 

 

 

Christian Achenbach    Eman Ali    Maxime Ballesteros    Tjorg Douglas Beer    Benjamin Bergmann    Andreas Blank    John Bock    Michael Borremans    Clara Brörmann    Berlinde de Bruyckere    Jonas Burgert    Robert Capa    Mat Collishaw    Michael Conrads    Thierry de Cordier    Sophie Dejode & Bertrand Lacombe    Birgit Dieker    Rolf Gunter Dienst    Uros Djurovic    Zhivago Duncan    Martin Eder    Ethnologica Africa    Damien Flood    Heiner Franzen    Max Frisinger    Andreas Golder    Douglas Gordon    Maike Gräf    Gregory Green    Marc Gröszer    Asta Gröting    Amélie Grözinger    Philip Grözinger    Sabine Gross    Emma Grün    Chris Hammerlein

Axel Heil    Uwe Henneken    Anton Henning    Gregor Hildebrandt    Stefanie Hillich    Julius Hofmann    Christian Hoischen    Martin Honert    Norman Hyams    John Isaacs    Dionisis Kavallieratos    Ingolf Keiner    Henning Kles    Julia Krewani    Caroline Kryzecki    Michael Kunze    Robert Lakomczyk    Pe Lang    James Lavelle    Jeewi Lee    Ana Lessing Menjibar    Werner Liebmann    Adrian Lohmüller    Marcin Maciejowski    Christian Megert    Dirk Meinzer    Björn Melhus    Polly Morgan    Ryan Mosley    Andreas Mühe    Ron Muek    Bruce Nauman

 

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