Exhibitions




Lancio Meta Meteo (Cosar Fluac)
15.02.2014- 29.03.2014
Francesco Cavaliere 

 

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The GRIMMUSEUM presents the first solo exhibition with Italian artist and musician Francesco Cavaliere titled Lancio Meta Meteo (Cosar Fluac) ('Launching Meta Weather (Corsar Fluac)'), and premieres a new sound piece of the same title. The exhibition is conceived as an environment predicting certain "meta weather conditions", intertwining exotic and mysterious blocks of sound with a self-made glass-instrument, sculptura attesa ("Waiting Sculpture"), crystals of salt and earthy sand sculptures. In connection with the exhibition there will be a spectacular sound event at the Zeiß Großplanatarium, Prenzlauerberg 6.3.2014, where amongst others an audio piece of Cavaliere can be experienced.
In the main work of the exhibition, the new sound piece "Lancio Meta Meteo (Cosar Fluac)" voices drops from the ceiling. Voices of truth-speakers, gamblers, idolaters or of mere suspicion (speak: Nadine Kreitmeyr, Leila Hassan & Giorgio Mega). In between the dialogues there are lumps of silence, non-sounds. The story is set in the past and is an abstract interaction between two women who are investigating a history of gambling and trading of certain stones. The stones are used for a Draughts-like board game called "cosar fluac". As the stones at some point got confused a new game with endless combinations was created. The protagonists of the story are playing this game, they tend to escape reality and open their minds to communication with oracles. Cavaliere's sound piece aims at affecting our inner state and suggest imaginative journey through the ephemeral presence of chunks of tunes generated from glass, stones, coins, harp, piano, and voices. "I want to trick a memory, an atmosphere that the body recalls and guide the listener to extraterrestrial places only touching reality now and then", the artist explains. 
The new instrument that Cavaliere has created for the exhibition, "sculptura attesa", is made of glass in the shape of a horn. Exposed here in the GRIMMUSEUM, it is foremost a glass sculpture waiting for responses, "a mute instrument, both fragile and untouchable, and yet it has an intrinsic sonic power; a potentially warm and clear sound inspired by the sounds of a finger on a glass or a glass harmonica", the inventor says. Cavaliere also plans to play concerts with the instrument. 
Francesco Cavaliere who both performs, works as an artist and instructs music pieces and audiobooks, draws his inspiration from experimental music. A composer such as the american Harry Partch (1901-1974) who build his own instruments for operas starting from sculptures is essential to his oeuvre. Also the Italian composer Walter Marchetti (1931-) who adopted John Cage's dadaist aesthetic and pioneered interactive and concrete music is also an important inspiration for Cavaliere as of creating a unique encompassing sonic universe for the listener.
 
Special event: Audio pieces of 4 different sound artists/groups are presented at Zeis Großplanatarium, Prenzlauerberg on the 6.3.2014, at 20-24 pm, 7 Euros: Including The multi channel audio piece Gancio Cielo ("Sky Hook") combined with parts of Lancio Meta Meteo  ('Launching Meta Weather) by Cavaliere. The piece of Fantastic literature  is combined with exotic electronic music and based on a recently recorded audiobook by Cavaliere. This work is a linguistic and sonic adventure of dialects, invented languages, and broken idioms, where five characters are exploring non-places, yet sometimes touching base with reality (25 min. Italian/English). 
The following artists have been invited by Cavaliere to present audio pieces this evening:

Lieven Martens Moana
"The Elastic Kana"
 
Through the use of sound and composition Lieven Martens Moana (also working under the alias of Dolphins into the future) re-creates sceneries, based on natural and ethnological observations. Often accompanied by photography and text. His soundwork comprehends a mix of analog sources, digital equipment, historical both modern day recording and compositional techniques. He is going to present The Elastic Kana,  the tale of Kana and his fantastic journey through sea- and landscapes underneath the noctile, starlit sky to deliberate his mother Hina captured by Molokais King Kamanai.
 
 
 
Lorenzo Senni & Alessandro Panzavolta (orthographe)
 
"Paradoxes"
 
Since 2011, Lorenzo Senni & Alessandro Panzavolta curate a series of concerts and events inside the Planetarium of Ravenna. Under the titel Paradoxes, they invite international artist to deal sonically with this incredible scenario. Now invited in return to Berlin they will present a common performance  paradoxes  - new hubble´s sequences, cosmic matter- antimatter annihilations & post copernican sound explorations at ravenna planetarium approaching the universe through a union of sonic and visual intervention.
 

 


Floris Vanhoof 
 
"Music for Moving Lamps"
 
An extension of our nervous system by electronic circuits and projected lights, is presented by Floris Vanhoof. Making use of the planetariums optical device, he combines sounds, light and biofeedback, including brainwaves synthesis as a part of his modular music instrument for Music For Moving Lamps. Linked to his brainwave activity the artist indirectly influences the sonic and visual setting and brings together the borders of reality and dream, of poetry and science.
 
 

Francesco Cavaliere (*1980 in Piombino, Italy) lives and works in Berlin. 
Exhibitions/Performances: Club transmediale, Berlin (2013); Art Bruxelles (2013);  Musica Galvanica/Museum of Contemporay Art, Warsaw (2013); Ram (Q.i Q.i) Les Oiseaux at Gaîté lyrique, Paris (2013); Kinderhook & Caracas, Berlin (2012); Guam! Alabaster Abacus, Museet for Samtidskunst, Roskilde (2012) .https://soundcloud.com/f-cavaliere
 
 
 
Lieven Martens Moana (* 1981 in Turnhout, Belgium) lives and works in Antwerp, Belgium.
Performances/Projects: El Nicho Aural, Mexico (2014); Factor 44, Antwerp (2014); Kunstencentrum België, Hasselt (2013); Transmediale, Berlin (2012); Flow Festival, Helsinki (2011); Galway Arts Center, Galway (2011); Grimmuseum, Berlin (2010); Wiels, Brussels (2010); Centre Pompidou, Paris (2010).
https://soundcloud.com/lieven-moana-nui/lieven-martens-moana-the-bells
 
 
Lorenzo Senni (*1983 in Milan, Italy) Lives and works in Milan.
Performances/Projects: SONAR 20, Barcelona (2013); CLUB TRANSMEDIALE, Berlin (2013); Donau Festivail 2013, Krems (2013); Club to Club, Istanbul w/Stargate (2013); Polymorphism – Berghain, Berlin (2013); S.M.A.K.,Ghent (2013); Gasconade, Milan(2012); Centre Pompidou, Paris(2010).  https://soundcloud.com/sennilorenzo
Alessandro Panzavolta (*1975 in Forlì, Italy) Founder of Orthographe together with Angela Longo.
Projects/Performances:Cobain Affaire sessions (2012-2014); Una Settimana di Bontà season 2 and 1  at Coda Teatri del Presente, Modena (2012) / VieFestival, Modena (2011); Raum, Bologna w/Lorenzo Senni (2011); 41th Santarcangelo theatre Festival (2011); Rotterdamse Schouwburg Festival (2009); Spielart festival, Munich (2007); 37th Theatre Venice Biennale (2005), http://www.orthographe.it

 


 

Floris Vanhoof (* 1982 in Belgium) lives and works in Gent.
Exhibitions/Projects: Hectoliter, Brussels (2013); Café OTO, London (2013); KMSKA, Antwerp (2013); CFMU Ontario, Canada (2013); Kunstencentrum België, Hasselt (2013); Witte de With, Rotterdam (2012); Issue Project Room, New York (2011). https://soundcloud.com/kraak_records/floris-vanhoof-cycles-of
 
Zeiss Großplanetarium
Prenzlauer Allee 80, 10405 Berlin

text: Solvej Helweg Ovesen






Artists

publications

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WE ARE NOT A MUSEUM

167 mm × 240 mm,
400 pages,
500 black and white illustrations,
texts in english
ISBN 978-3-943514-12-4

With the publication „We are not a museum“ we look back on two years of intensive and manifold production in the Grimmuseum. The catalogue contains a detailed, richly illustrated documentation of the numerous exhibitions, performances and sound installations in over 50 projects and over 400 artists.
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FEATHER THROAT

32 Page booklet,
released May 2011, Berlin.

Volume II. Featuring the work of 13 kindred spirits: Jan Anderzén, Francesco Cavaliere, Daniel Gustav Cramer & Haris Epaminonda (Infinite Library), Michele Di Menna, Invernomuto, Caitlin Mociun, Les Ramsay, Dan Rees, Marc Richter, Anneli Schütz & Dagmar Weiss, Nathalie Shepherd, Marcel Türkowsky, and Philip Wiegard.


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HENRY FLYNT 2011 CONCEPT ART 50 YEARS

By Henry Flynt and C.C Hennix
52 pages B/W A5

The Edition “Henry Flynt 2011 Concept Art 50 Years” published by GRIMMUSEUM
on the occasion of the exhibition “7 Homotopies (How One Becomes The Other)”
Curated by Francesco Cavaliere & Marcel Türkowsky


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I WALK IN THE FOREST AS IN A TEMPLE

by Elsa Salonen
48 pages (28 colors, 20 b/w), 21 x 21 cm
2012, English

This booklet documents two exhibitions and the related research from 
Finnish artist Elsa Salonen (www.elsasalonen.com). 
Finnish folk religion, spirituality, nature and cultural traditions are themes 
for Salonen's paintings, drawings and installations, all documented in the catalogue. 


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NEVER ODD OR EVEN

by Mariana Castillo Deball
Size varies, max. 170 × 240 mm 30 Covers, 24 b/w, 6 color English/Spanish/Portuguese/French ISBN 978-3-00-035970-5
Volume II is an anthology of 30 dust jackets of non-existing books.
Never odd or Even is a project by Mariana Castillo Deball with contributions by Mario Bellatin, Koen Brams, Abraham Cruzvillegas, Santiago da Silva, Tim Etchells, Carla Faesler, Dario Gamboni, Dora García, Moosje Goosen, Alejandro Jodorowsky and Pascale Montandon, Irene Kopelman, Adriana Lara, Pablo León de la Barra, Jesse Lerner, Juana Lomeli, Valeria Luiselli, Raimundas Malašauskas, Antoni Muntadas, Sophie Nys, Manuel Raeder, Eran Schaerf and Eva Meyer, Sergio Taborda and Heriberto Yépez. Published by BOM DIA BOA TARDE BOA NOITE on the occasion of the exhibition NEVER ODD OR EVEN at GRIMMUSEUM, Berlin and Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde. Curated by Solvej Helweg Ovesen and co-produced by GRIMMUSEUM, Berlin.


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NUDISM
A5 36 pages colour indigo print HP7500
This pubblication was made in occasion of Whistle, Minotaur! 09 "Nudism, A Furious Undressing", an exhibition curated by Francesco Cavaliere and Marcel Turkowsky at GRIMMUSEUM, Berlin. It contains works by Benjamin Altermatt, Massimiliano Bomba and Xavier Garcia Bardon. "Nudism, often referring to an alternative to "Naturism", the free speech movement of the body becomes a starting point for a series of upcoming episodes. This viewing assumes to move a sense closer to a free and furious experience in a multi dimensional space. A polyphonic story told becomes more of a panoramic view than an attempt to reach a heterogeneous form."


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RADIO NUDISM

(cassette) – a collection of priceless documents collected from the sound archives of a Danish nudist radio station from 1993/94. This 45 min mixtape / compilation / radio narrative stands as an audio companion to the exhibition of Massimiliano Bomba, Benjamin Altermatt and Xavier García Bardón curated by Francesco Cavaliere and Marcel Türkowksy at GRIMMUSEUM, Berlin, in September 2011. Featuring tracks by the aforementioned nudists and more, it has been assembled and spiced by DJ Bongo Man. Coreleased by GRIMMUSEUM, Caleuche_Video, Rawraw and Music City. 120 copies.



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ONE OF OURS

Edition of 100
3 panel fold out serigraph cover (Exterior metallic silver / Interior Blue),
deckled edge,
20 Colour pp. 28 x 23 cm

‘One of Ours’ published on the occasion of the Javier Perés Solo Exhibition ‘One of Ours’ at GRIMMUSEUM.•
Published 2012 by anteism





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For a unique taste of Berlin’s true eclectic heart, the Grimmuseum is essential. Completely not-for-profit and run by the artists themselves, this is Berlin’s most open exhibition space, incorporating artist residencies, touring exhibitions, and interdisciplinary performances from Berlin’s most offbeat and exciting young artists.
Though only opened in 2009, in the few years since, the Grimmuseum has quickly become the shining star or Berlin’s underground art scene.

EyeContact
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By Luke Munn
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16 May 2013
APACHE.BE
Berlijn: arm aber sexy?
By Marlou de Bont
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11 May 2013
Premiumeurope
Berlin´s best galleries of contemporary art
By Patrick Errington
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22 April 3013
Berlin Art Parasites
Berlin Booths: Blowing Up Brussels
By Jared Shephard
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19 April 2013
Trendbeheer.com
Art Brussels 2013
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18 April 2013
Kunstbeeld. Nl
Art Brussels: de meest koppige kunstbeurs?
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18 April 2013
The Irish Times
Irish art on Berlin´s blank canvas
By Derek Scally
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13 April 2013
Der Tagesspiegel
Straßenhändel
By Christiane Meixner
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14 February 2013
Kunstkritikk
Kan jeg byde på en Fanta?
By Jacob Lillemose
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6 February 2013
The Prague Post
Czech artist's 10-year-old son curates his first exhibition
By Kasia Pilat
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5 February 2013
Mit Vergnuegen
ARTVERGNÜGEN #29 featuring Julia Benz, One Fine Day und Cato J.Dibelius
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2 February 2013
Berliner Morgenpost
"Kunstwerke, die sich bewegen, find ich gut"
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26 January 2013
Der Tagesspiegel
Kleiner König Cato
By Cara Wuchold
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24 January 2013
Westfälischen Nachrichten
Kakao und Popcorn: Cato zeigt duftende Kunst
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23 Januar 2013
Blouin Artinfo
Ist der neunjährige Cato J. Diblius der jüngste Kurator aller Zeiten?
By Alexander Forbes
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18 Januar 2013
Deutschlandfunk
Kurator in Kinderschuen
By Marietta Schwarz
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16 Januar 2013
Kunst Magazin
Kunst durch Kinderaugen
By Julia Schmitz
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14 Dezember 2013
Berlin in Art
Interview with Andrés Galeano at Grimmuseum
By Fridey Mickel
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29 November 2013
Owl Performance Art
,,… an art that resists its context?…"
By Johannes Lothar Schröder
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2 July 2013
ARTFETCH
5 Berlin Galleries
By Suvi Lehtinen
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1 Juni 2013
DAMn magazine
Virtually in Your Face
By Edo Dijksterhuis
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11 Juni 2013
Galley Talk
Der wöchentliche Gallerytalk-Kunstgriff
By Katrin Seemann
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20 May 2013
Eye Contact
Relational & Technical Interposition
By Luke Munn
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