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KW Institute for Contemporary Art is regularly listed among Germany's foremost modern art institutions and attracts international media coverage. KW has no collection of its own but instead views itself as a laboratory for communicating and advancing contemporary cultural developments in Germany and abroad by means of exhibitions, workshops and resident artists' studios, as well as by collaborating with artists or other institutions and by commissioning works.
Founded in the early 1990s by Klaus Biesenbach and a group of young art enthusiasts, the institution is located on the site of a abandoned margarine factory in Berlin's Mitte district. It symbolizes, perhaps more than any other institution, the city's development into a center of contemporary art in the decade after the fall of the Wall. The listed front building dating from the second half of the 18th century and the late-19th-century factory to its rear were extensively restored with assistance from the urban heritage preservation office Städtebaulicher Denkmalschutz and the foundations Deutsche Klassenlotterie Berlin and Stiftung Denkmalschutz, during the course of the 1990's. Two new buildings were also added to the complex: the Café Bravo pavilion designed by the American artist Dan Graham and architecturally realized in collaboration with Hanne Nalbach, and a classical white cube exhibition hall from the Berlin architect Hans Düttmann. The refurbished KW was inaugurated in fall 1999 and possesses some 2,000 square meters of exhibition space extending over five floors, six artists' studios in the front side wings, and one of the most striking courtyards in central Berlin.
This unique site in combination with an ambitious artistic program rapidly established KW's name as a center of visual art. As well as presenting the first solo shows or major new projects of outstanding international artists such as Doug Aitken, Dinos & Jake Chapman, Paul Pfeiffer, Santiago Sierra and Jane & Louise Wilson, KW also introduced emerging new artists from Berlin and elsewhere in Germany to a wider public. The standing of KW was further enhanced by thematic shows such as "Territories," "Stand der Dinge," or "Regarding Terror: The RAF Exhibition," by its partnerships with a number of international institutions - with particularly close links being maintained with P.S.1/MoMA in New York - and by external projects carried out in collaboration with the Venice Biennale and the documenta X.
In 1997 KW launched the berlin biennale, which in 2004 successfully took place for the third time. In 2003 the event was designated a "cultural beacon" by the German Federal Cultural Foundation, a distinction guaranteeing funding over a five-year period to projects considered to be exemplary representatives of the spectrum of contemporary art. In view of the more secure financial basis for the fourth and fifth biennials in 2006 and 2008, the organization of the berlin biennale has been restructured. In future KW Institute for Contemporary Art will be the main organizer of the event, and not just a venue and partner. |
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MOMMARTZFILM DREHARBEIT
Dates January 27 – March 9, 2008
Sigalit Landau The Dining Hall
Dates Novemer 18, 2007 – January 13, 2008
Joe Coleman - Internal Digging
Dates: May 27 – August 12, 2007
Fassbinder: Berlin Alexanderplatz – An Exhibition
Dates: March 18 – May 13, 2007
Jen DeNike
03.09.2006 - 12.11. 2006
Mika Rottenberg
03.09.2006 - 12.11. 2006
Aaron Young
03.09.2006 - 12.11. 2006
Michaela Melián: Föhrenwald
08.10.2006 - 12.11. 2006
Keren Cytter:
I was the good and he was the bad and the ugly
25.06.2006 - 20.08.2006
Forum expanded: Berlinale und KW Institute for Contemporary Art präsentieren Videokunst und Installationen
09.02.2006 – 26.02.2006
TG @ KW
"Industrial Annual Report”
31.12.2005 - 29.01.2006
Katharina Sieverding: Close up
02.10.2005 – 27.11.2005
on air - temporary entrance 05 by INSTANT
5.06.2005 - 13.07. 2005
Andy Warhol: Motion Pictures
09.05.04 - 08.08.04
Hedi Slimane: Berlin
13.09.03 - 23.09.03
Ana Mendieta
20.07.02 - 06.10.02
Michael Snow
29.6.02 - 20.09.2002
Francis Alys
30.05.02 - 14.09.02
Pierre Bourdieu- La Sociologie
est un Sport de Combat
Jane und Louise Wilson
03.02.2002- 18.05.2002
Henry Darger
29.09-18.05.2002
Anri Sala
28. 11.- 13.01.2002
Heike Baranowsky
29.09-18.11.2001
Christoph Keller
07.07-04.10.2001
Heike Aumüller
07.07-04.10.2001
Doug Aitken
18.02.-08.04.2001
Ulrike Ottinger
11.02.-08.04.2001
Abbas Kiarostami
11.02.-01.04.2001
Haluk Akakce
11.02.-08.04.2001
Ghada Amer
30.09 -28.11.2000
Jonathan Meese
30.09 -28.11.2000
Susan Philipsz
30.09 -28.11.2000
Santiago Sierra
30.09 -28.11.2000
Francisco de Goya
16.07 -12.11.2000
Erik Steinbrecher
09.07 -12.11.2000
John Isaacs
16.07 -12.11.2000
Thierry Fontaine
16.07 -12.11.2000
Mick O`Shea
01.05. -02.07.2000
Lara Schnitger
01.05. -02.07.2000
Paul Pfeiffer
01.05. -02.07.2000 |
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5th berlin biennial for contemporary art
April 5 - June 15, 2008
... 5 minutes later
Dates January 27 – March 9, 2008
History will repeat itself
Dates November 18, 2007 – January 13, 2008
INTO ME / OUT OF ME
26.11.2006 - 4.03.2007
No Matter How Bright the Light, the Crossing Occurs at Night
03.09.2006 - 12.11. 2006
Highlights from the KunstFilmBiennale Köln in Berlin
24.09.2006 – 04.10.2006
ars viva 05/06 – Identität
25.06.2006 - 20.08.2006
4th berlin biennial for contemporary art
"Of Mice and Men"
2503.2006 - 05.062006
Contemporary Arab Representations. The Iraqi Equation
17.12.2005 – 26.02.2006
B-ZONE
Becoming Europe and Beyond
17.12.2005 – 26.02.2006
The Imaginary Number
05.06.2005 - 11.09.2005
Enthusiasm.
05.06.2005 - 11.09.2005
Regarding Terror: The RAF-Exhibition
30.01.05 - 16.05.05
spaces of conflict
28.11.2004 - 9. 01.2005
Now and Ten Years Ago
28.11. 2004 - 9.01.2005
Shrinking Cities
05.09.2004 - 7.11.2004
Julian Rosefeldt, Marine Hugonnier, Sebastián Díaz Morales
7. Juli 2004 – 8. August 2004
Privatisierungen.
Zeitgenössische Kunst aus Osteuropa.
16.5.2004 - 26.06.04
3. berlin biennale
14.02.04 - 18.04.04
Sue de Beer: Hans und Grete
Terry Richardson: Too much
Taryn Simon: The Innocents
27.09.03 - 04.01.04
Territories
02.06 - 07.09.03
Productions 7
Suddenly Inclusive
we love you
12.04. - 18.05.03
Animations
09.02. - 11.05.03
Mexiko City
22.09.02 - 19.01.03
Productions 6
21.07.02 - 15.09.02
Production 4
bed of film - No.VI
13.7.02 - 28.8.02
bed of film - No.V
29.05.2002 - 12.07.2002
Produktionen 1 - 3
04.05.2002 - 14.07.2002
Kunstpreis der deutschen Volksbanken
und Raiffeisenbanken 2001/2002
22.02 - 8.03.2002
Verbrechen der Wehrmacht. Dimensionen
des Vernichtungskrieges 1941-1944
28. 11 2001 - 13. 01.2002
Arret sur image -
contemporary Art from France
29.09-18.11.2001
Peter Fischli & David Weiss
07.07-04.10.2001
Alexa Kreissl & Daniel Kerber
07.07-04.10.2001
A Little Bit of History Repeated
16.11-18.11.2001
Berlin Biennale
20.04.-20.06.2001
Dinos & Jake Chapman
16.07 -12.11.2000 |
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Studio Program
Beginning in 1998, KUNST-WERKE BERLIN, through its National and International Studio Program, has awarded studio work-space to approximately 4 artists per year working in a variety of media.The artist-in-residence-program, which is at invitation only, aims at offering international artists an opportunity to realize complex projects in Berlin and to participate in the exhibition and broader cultural program of KW.
Present artists at the KW are Atelier LeBalto, John Miller, Aura Rosenberg und David Maljkovic.
Following artists have been taking part in the studio-program
since 1998:
Heike Baranowsky, George Bures Miller, Janet Cardiff, Bernadette Corporation, José Davila, Jens Haaning, Daniel Haaksman, Swetlana Heger, Honey Suckle Company, Yang Jiechang, Marc Lester Yu, Jonathan Meese, Michelle Nicole, Susan Philipsz und Eoghan Mc Tigue, Tobias Rehberger, Christoph Schlingensief, Bruno Serralongue, Hedi Slimane, Erik Steinbrecher, Taryn Simon, Moritz von Uslar. |
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