After ten regular issues and the Anniversary Issue (2022), THE OPÉRA Magazine for Classic & Contemporary Nude Photography reemerges – like a phoenix from the ashes – in a new layout and with a contemporary design concept, once again partnering with the renowned design agency Studio Tillack Knöll. 

Showcasing exceptional works by artists such as Malerie Marder, Barbara Probst, Rob Woodcox, Iness Rychlik, and Prue Stent & Honey Long, THE OPÉRA once again presents the forefront of international artistic nude photography. The emphasis remains on a predominantly feminine perspective of the human body, vividly and authentically illustrated in The Phoenix Issue through the works and artist statements of numerous female photographic artists.

VERNISSAGE DECEMBER 02, 8.00 PM

PERFORMANCE with Friedemann Vogel choreographed by Thomas Lempertz and Friedemann Vogel (1st soloist of the Stuttgart Ballet)

Thomas Lempertz's artistic practice has its origins in dance. The works in the exhibition Fluid Gravity, which can be seen at Galerie Kernweine from 03.12.23 to 04.02.24, clearly show the involvement of the body - they often give the impression of being in motion themselves. A performance choreographed by Thomas Lempertz together with Friedemann Vogel will take place at the opening on December 2 at 8 p.m., performed personally by Vogel - solo dancer of the Stuttgart Ballet. 

The works presented in the exhibition Fluid Gravity are a further development of the work series Liquid Skin, in which Thomas Lempertz deals with human skin as a symbolic surface. As an individual characteristic, skin not only surrounds every single person, but every person is universally defined by their body, which is inseparably connected to their own skin.

In this sense, skin is also always an identifying attribute that is often tied to clichéd role models through assumptions, which Lempertz aims to break down. The works in light shades of pink are complemented by works in which the shiny, deep black color predominates and only in individual places does the pink flash through the dark, oily surfaces.

Lempertz's works are characterized by the combination of contrasting positions. His sculptural works seem to be less static in their form, but rather in motion. For the former ballet dancer, his own body and its movement are always the starting point for his works. The flowing forms of the solidified silicone can therefore be understood as a translation of movement in dance into the medium of sculpture. 

Silicone is often used to create exact casts and serial copies. Lempertz, on the other hand, reverses this processing of the material, which is aiming for absolute perfection, in his works. He makes use of the ability of silicone to remain in a form very quickly. Through the sometimes expressive use of the material, he incorporates chance into the creative process and creates individual unique pieces. The resulting works contrast the increasingly widespread social obsession with self-optimization by not subjecting them to any subsequent processing and thus negating the desire for flawlessness.

Thomas Lempertz and Friedemann Vogel in Galerie Kernweine

Thomas Lempertz studied dance at the John Cranko School and was later part of the Stuttgart Ballet company, including as a soloist under Reid Anderson. After ending his career as a dancer in 2003, he dedicated himself to the field of costume design and studied "Intermedia Arts" at the Stuttgart Academy of Fine Arts. His work is characterized by the combination of the disciplines of performance, dance, photography and object art.

Galerie Kernweine Foto und Raum is a place for contemporary photography, visual media and discourse. We collaborate with artists to develop and curate exhibition projects that challenge classical approaches and expand established formats. Workshops and event formats on the topics of photography and visual media take place on an alternating basis.

VERNISSAGE 16th SEPTEMBER, 16h

In his series »Leaving One for Another«, photographer Olgaç Bozalp draws a collective history of migration, which is composed of individual experiences of single people. The photo project thereby stages objects that were left behind in search of a better life and narrate a past one. The works will be on display at Galerie Kernweine from 17th September to 26th November.

Packing a bag for an upcoming trip can have its quirks, when you have to gather the most necessary things just before time runs out, or despite numerous packing lists, you can't help thinking that you might have forgotten something. But what if you don't know how long the trip will last, whether it will ever have a (happy) end? What do you take with you when you leave your home country in search of something new? What do you leave behind, anticipating that you might not be able to return for it?

In his series »Leaving One for Another«, Olgaç Bozalp stages precisely these objects that were left behind on the journey to an uncertain future. Without their former owners, the objects still seem to refer to them - like a monument from a bygone era, they remind us of a life that was abandoned in search of another. Bozalp mixes documentary elements with deliberate staging when he stacks left-behind screens on top of each other that no longer transmit any content apart from the white noise - their recipients are long gone anyway.  

The photo project »Leaving One for Another« illustrates individual experiences of migration and equally examines the various reasons that can be responsible for it: forced resettlement through gentrification, flight from conflict zones, or the search for new economic or personal opportunities. Again and again, the various means of transportation are made the subject of the images, which are meant to bring people from one place to another. Fully loaded, they show how people try to take their lives, their memories, their family with them on the journey. 

Olgaç Bozalp is an interdisciplinary artist from Turkey who combines photography, with film and installation in his work. He is currently based in London, where he also works as an art director. A recurring element in his works is the examination and exploration of cultural identity.  The photographic projects created on various journeys through Asia, the Middle East and parts of Africa primarily question Western-influenced ideas and, through the partially staged and documentary approaches, reveal Bozalp's training in theater.

The vernissage of the exhibition will happen in Galerie Kernweine on the 16th September 2023, 16h.

SUMMER IS COMING TO AN END... NOT THIS TIME. NOT WITH US: SUMMER EXTENDED AT GK!

This year we are not only celebrating the extension of the summer but also the extension of g —— k and we ask the question : “What would g —— k look like if it extended?

But remember it’s not just about a space getting bigger; it’s about creating space for ideas to expand. Within this space, we’re not introducing more desks and chairs; we’re fostering an environment that thrives on collaboration. A space which we see as a community space for people of all backgrounds.

IT'S AN OPEN INVITATION TO EMBRACE LOVE, FRIENDSHIP, SMILES, LIFE, ADVENTURES... A SUMMER EXTENDED!

So come by and let's extend the summer a bit longer together. Soak up the sun one more time with food, music, art & drinks at Galerie Kernweine. On September 16, we open the doors wide for you to keep the winter blues away for as long as possible and to celebrate the summer once again. Culinary delicacies, live music and a new exhibition await you from 16h on.

WHAT TO EXPECT :

The vernissage of a new exhibition : “Leaving one for another” by the FOAM TALENT award recipient Olgaç Bozalp, a warm up DJ set by Vincenzo, a spellbinding concert by Gaisma, and tasty crêpes by Aziz!

LOOKING FORWARD TO SEE YOU ALL ON THE 16TH OF SEPTEMBER!

The Galerie Kernweine Team.

VERNISSAGE by Olgaç Bozalp - Leaving One for Another

Discover the work of Olgaç Bozalp on the 16th of September!

Olgaç Bozalp is an interdisciplinary artist from Turkey who combines photography, with film and installation in his work. He is currently based in London, where he also works as an art director. A recurring element in his works is the examination and exploration of cultural identity.  The photographic projects created on various journeys through Asia, the Middle East and parts of Africa primarily question Western-influenced ideas and, through the partially staged and documentary approaches, reveal Bozalp's training in theater.

LIVE MUSIC by Gaisma 

Gaisma will be playing!

Latvian musician Gaisma aka Tumsi's music is not easily categorized. She likes to perform with analog devices and experiment with different genres. A musical performance full of flow and soulfulness awaits you.

COME BY AND STAY LATE!

On May 04, the fifth issue of frame[less], the digital magazine for art in theory and practice on the topic of icons, will be published. The individual positions of the contributors will be presented starting at 8 pm at Galerie Kernweine. On display will be contributions by Milena Bühring & Klara Kirsch, Matthias Conrady, Anna Davino, Josefine Heiduck, Moritz Konrad, Sara Mayora, Hanna Musev, Annika Lisa Richter, Nari Samiri and Alice Jing Zhang.

The biannual online magazine frame[less] takes an interdisciplinary view on art. It publishes both scientific contributions and artistic formats in order to facilitate an exchange between the individual disciplines.

frame[less] offers a platform to break through entrenched concepts and fixed frameworks, as well as to open up new perspectives. In the digital space, different perspectives meet and show connections and interrelationships. The magazine sees itself as part of the academic discourse and reflection of the art debate in the German-speaking world.

The current issue is dedicated to the topic of icons and gathers different explorations of the multi-layered meaning of the term in order to open a space for testing the potentials of icons. The issue's contributions provide a wide range of perspectives that approach the topic scientifically, artistically, exploratively, and hypothetically. Critical questions are posed, narratives traced, deconstructed, and contradictions revealed. Afterwards, songs by iconic pop legends invite the audience to end the evening together.

ALEXANDER STEHLE AND FRANK WILDERMUTH - /PROMPT/LOS.

// Booktalk - Magazine Release on April 6, 8:00 p.m.

Alexander Stehle and Frank Wildermuth will present their Magazine /PROMPT/LOS and give an insight into the making of it. 

"A DAY IN THE PAST

It was so simple.
Before it seemed so abstract and unreal.But once
pandora‘s box is open, it stays open.
You put your finger on the keyboard and realize
that you haven‘t even thought about what you‘re
creating. You have not yet understood that it could
be anything. But what is everything?
We also did this magazine because it didn‘t use up
air miles, didn‘t require casting, didn‘t need a set
designer or photographers, and didn‘t pay for catering.
It didn‘t even require meetings. That‘s what
we call sustainable.
AND FINALLY WE LOVED THESE MOMENTS
OF INTIMACY, WHEN MACHINE AND MAN
BECAME VERY CLOSE."

"Text-to-image" AI means that you can generate images from texts, which never existed before.

Can you make a magazine out of it, for example, completely out of AI-generated images? Without any models, location, photographers, air miles, annoying customers and mediocre catering? The answer is: 

You can. 

If you understand the AI and include its "bugs" in the overall concept, then something really new, sometimes irritating, downright funny emerges, quite fresh. A rabbit hole opens up, into which one can plop down with pleasure like Alice. 
That's exactly what Alexander Stehle and Frank Wildermuth have done.

Galerie Kernweine invites you to see the results of this adventure by attending the /PROMPT/LOS Magazine release on the 6th of April 2023, 8:00 p.m. 

VERNISSAGE 25th MARCH, 20h

The Los Angeles-based artist Thalía Gochez portrays people from her neighborhood, expressing a sensibility based on a collective understanding of origin and community. Her works become a space of representation in which her models have moments of self-empowerment. From 26.03 to 28.07, Galerie Kernweine exhibits current works of the photographer under the title « ¿De dónde eres? »

Posing in self-confident postures, Thalía Gochez’s imagery demands you to look directly at the subject. The poses of mostly women models reveal the call for visibility that they seem to manifest physically. They leave no doubt that they are entitled to the place they occupy. The artist, of Mexican and Salvadoran origin, thus reacts to the exclusionary beauty standards of the mass media, which are still largely oriented towards white ideals. 

With her works, Gochez creates a space for representation. In doing so, she not only presents diversity within a white dominant society, but also opens up moments of belonging and identification. The title of the exhibition ¿De dónde eres? refers to the question frequently asked among migrants, "Where are you from?", which acts as a link between the different communities that share similar experiences. 

Her models are people from her personal environment who inspire her and whom she encounters in her everyday life. Her own story is always a part of her work. She recognises herself in her models and photographs them from her personal perspective. Her work is based on a shared understanding of origin and community. Often her projects reveal a collective experience that she shares with her community and whose story she seeks to tell in her images.

This is the case with the project Hermanas de Sangre(Blood Sisters in english). The photo series was taken in a neighbourhood in San Francisco that is inhabited primarily by Latin American migrants, who are, however, being increasingly displaced by the gentrification that has been taking place in recent years. Thalía Gochez shows young women who grew up in the neighbourhood and who associate similar memories from their childhood with the neighbourhood stores. She creates a kind of cultural archive of the places that might disappear. In the process, she empowers women to reclaim their neighbourhood, where so much has changed so drastically.

The vernissage of the exhibition will happen in Galerie Kernweine on the 25th March 2023, 20h.

Photo Courtesy of Thalía Gochez.

ALBA FRENZEL - KREATUR O.T.

// Booktalk on February 28, 8:00 p.m.

Artist Alba Frenzel will present her book Kreatur O.T. in conversation and give an insight into the making of it. 

"On analog footage I discovered an endangered species, I call it creature.  It is claimed to be nothing more than dust, scratches, stains. Flaws that destroy the pure image and therefore have always been retouched away. Since the revolution of digital photography, these phenomena are more endangered than ever. I argue that they are as valuable as any other component in a picture. 

In the catalog, the 276 preserved copies are arranged chronologically by their date of discovery. The 276 printed books each feature a different one of the discovered creatures on the front cover."

ANNIVERSARY OF THE OPÉRA

Anniversary Issue – Best of Classic & Contemporary Nude Photography

* 7 pm, Matthias Straub & Studio Tillack Knöll, Behind the Scenes

* 10 pm, Maschko Man & Studio Malo, Music & Dance

Since the founding of THE OPÉRA - Magazine for Classic & Contemporary Nude Photography in 2012, a new issue has been produced every year with works by more than thirty photographers per magazine under the creative direction of changing designers. Since its inception, Opéra Magazine has stood for a differentiated view of nudity. Perspectives and approaches have changed over the years, and the way we perceive the human body is subject to constant change. But one thing remains as an undeniable yet powerful statement: the beauty of life and the love for the people we share the world with. The most beautiful stretches from ten issues are now published for the first time and in a new layout with partly new motifs in a unique anthology. The commitment of each artist is honored in a personal text contribution.

WE ARE NOT CELEBRATING 5 YEARS OF GK BY PRESENTING  THIS IS NOT A FLAG 

26.NOVEMBER 2022, 21 UHR
MIT MUSIC VON SALAMICI
EINTRITT 5€

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WE DON’T NEED ANOTHER FLAG. WE DON’T NEED ANOTHER BORDER. WE DON’T NEED MORE SEPARATIONS.

WE ALL LIVE ON THAT ONE PLANET AND FROM A DISTANCE WE ARE ALL TOGETHER ONLY ONE TINY LITTLE BLUE DOT IN THE DEEP BLACK EXPANSES OF THE UNIVERSE.

Careful observers of the night sky often saw an unusual spectacle lately. Apart from the stars irregularly distributed over the firmament, one could perceive a chain of lights, as if strung on an invisible thread, constantly moving forward. A strange phenomenon that led to uncertainty among its observers and, as a result, to countless reports to the UFO reporting center. Less mysterious, but nevertheless alarming, are the true backgrounds of the appearance of the luminous objects. Responsible for this is tech billionaire Elon Musk, who has been launching thousands of satellites into Earth orbit through his space company SpaceX for some time. The communication satellites, which are distributed all over the world, are supposed to bring fast and inexpensive Internet to the most remote areas of the earth.  

But what are the consequences of an action on such a scale? Who is in control of the satellites and the space they occupy in space? And who actually owns space in the first place? 

Our planet is already covered  with conflicts over territory. It is true that until recently, from a Eurocentric point of view, one could have claimed that national borders had almost completely disappeared from our perception. A German passport document could be considered the key to the world. The expansion of mobility routes has made fast and uncomplicated travel possible. The world seems to have become smaller, the possibilities infinite. 

Currently, however, these seemingly transparent borders have once again become clearly visible. Great Britain decides to leave the European Union and does so, numerous regions in Europe are arming themselves militarily to prevent illegal border crossings, Russia is forcibly and belligerently annexing areas of Ukraine, and numerous disputes over border areas, some of which have been going on for decades, are intensifying. And slowly seeping into our consciousness is the fact that these territorial conflicts, not least through actions like those of Elon Musk, have now extended into space. We, who are already trying to divide up our planet, are creating more and more borders, even though we are nothing more than a small blue dot when viewed from a distance. 

In order to take this perspective, Galerie Kernweine, in cooperation with the artistcollective The Love Triangle and gkx mediaHOUSE, sends a flag 40,000 meters to earth by means of a stratospheric balloon, which does not want to be one. THIS IS NOT A FLAG takes up considerations of union and community but wants to evade an interpretation as a symbol of nation and patriotism and question mechanisms of physical, but also psychological demarcation. Thus, in an ironic way, it aims to refer to the contradictory nature of our world, in which only another symbol is needed to criticize the existence of another. In the hope that the design of new symbols will one day be unnecessary, even when viewed from close quarters. 

Attached to the stratospheric balloon is a camera, so that the arrival, its distance from the earth can be traced in retrospect. The balloon will take off on November 7th, marking the countdown to the 5th anniversary of Galerie Kernweine on November 26th. Afterwards, the cooperation project will be presented on site at Galerie Kernweine and digitally via the website thisisnotaflag.space. This change of perspective is intended to tear down the walls that exist in the mind.

The artists' collective The Love Triangle combines the locations of Milan, Stuttgart and Beirut. It works integratively with experiential visual tools to create expansive experiences that emotionally connect people to their surroundings, to each other, and to themselves. 

We look forward to celebrating 5 years of Galerie Kernweine on November 26, 2022 with all our friends!
COME BY AND BE A PART OF IT! ;)

We are again part of the bi-annual gallery tour Art Alarm in Stuttgart! On Saturday, September 24, from 11 a.m. - 8 p.m. and on Sunday, April 10, from 11 a.m. - 6 p.m. the doors of the 18 participating Stuttgart galleries will be open to you!

There will be a variety of different contemporary positions of international visual artists to discover. We are happy to be part of the Art Alarm again and to present our current cooperation exhibition WHO AM I? I AM.

The exhibition deals with a question that dynamically runs through our lives, but to which there is no constant answer: Under the title "WHO AM I? I AM." positions of four international photographers will be shown, who individually deal with the search for identity and give insights into diverse life models and social constructs.

Works by Carlota Guerrero (Spain), Lin Zhipeng (aka No.223) (China), Slava Mogutin (USA / Russia) and Thalía Gochez (Mexico / El Salvador) will be shown.

We are looking forward to all visitors who join us in our search for identity and invite you to finish the tour with a drink at our bar.

More information about the tour can be found here.

FEEL THE SUMMER VIBES WITH US 

& stop by at this year's SUMMERFEST on Saturday, July 16th at Galerie Kernweine! You are cordially invited to join us from 4 pm to turn the day into night and celebrate the summer with music, food and drinks. 

You can expect culinary as well as musical highlights: 

Alejandro Reyes will provide you with handmade tacos (also vegetarian) and our bar team will take care of the cool drinks with the support of Horse With No Name Whiskey.

In addition, POP BÜRO will provide us with relaxed tunes and live acts until late at night.  

We are looking forward to seeing you!

DETAILS 

Hard Facts:


Tacos, Drinks & Music 

16. JULI ab 16H till late 

@gk  

MUSIC BY POP BÜRO

ROSA LINA - Stuttgart, DE

Rosa Lina is known for her brilliant track selection between NDW, Synth Pop and experimental sound. She is also an active member of the Pforzheim-based project Leerstand als Freiraum (Empty Space as Free Space), which operates in the field of tension between art, architecture and society.

KiTZ - Stuttgart, DE

(ANNA ILENBERGER]

With KITZ, photographer Anna Illenberger has dared a remarkable musical reorientation and brought her own artist identity to life. She expands her musical spectrum with hand-processed photographs.

ZAMAL - Stuttgart, DE

As a permanent part of the Viennese label Freeride Millenium and regular DJ in Stuttgart, his sound plays out between groovy and soulful house numbers and techno, in which you can quickly lose yourself.

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TACOS BY NI MAIZ
Handmade tacos by Alejandro Reyes
(till sold out)

Already in the summer two years ago Alejandro prepared homemade, fresh tacos at his performance "Ni Maiz" in the courtyard of the Galerie Kernweine. At this year's summer festival, there will be another opportunity to try the deliciously filled dough patties formed from cornmeal. Whether you're in the mood for beef filling or the vegetarian version, it's worth coming early - tacos are only available while supplies last!

DRINKS BY HORSE WITH NO NAME
Cool drinks for hot summer nights 
(till sold out)

The Horses Spirit Company was founded in 2020 in the Black Forest. Their goal? To merge the centuries-old distilling expertise of their home region with the traditional production of American whiskey, bringing the best of both worlds together in a new way to the world of spirits. So saddle up and enjoy the prairie experience in the state!

From 15 July to 11 September 2022, we explore a question that dynamically runs through our lives, but to which there is no consistent answer: Under the title ‘WHO AM I?  I AM.’, positions of four international photographers are shown who individually deal with the search for identity and provide insights into different ways of life and social constructs. On display are works by Carlota Guerrero (ESP), Lin Zhipeng (aka No.223) (CHN), Slava Mogutin (USA / RUS) and Thalía Gochez (MEX / SLV).

Who am I? The question seems so simple. But the actual attempt to give a concrete answer reveals the complex question behind it. Would I be the same if I had grown up in a different place - with different people, in different circumstances? Don't the experiences we have in our lives make us what we are? Is there a 'me' outside of society? Am I still the same person I was 10 years ago? 

The exhibition "WHO AM I? I AM." does not presume to answer all these questions. Rather, the photographic exhibition attempts to show the diversity and changeability of identity and to place contemporary, international perspectives of photography in the context of diverse lifeworlds through relevant themes.   

We are looking forward to reflecting with the visitors on the question WHO AM I? and to searching for traces of our identity.

Vom 15.07 bis 11.09.2022 ist die Galerie Kernweine zu Gast in »The Gällery – Raum für Fotografie«. Wir gehen der Frage nach, die unser aller Leben durchzieht: Unter dem Titel »WHO AM I? I AM.« werden Positionen von vier internationalen Fotograf:innen gezeigt, die sich ganz individuell mit der Identitätssuche auseinandersetzen und Einblicke in diverse Lebensmodelle und gesellschaftliche Konstrukte geben. Gezeigt werden Arbeiten von Carlota Guerrero (Spanien), Lin Zhipeng (aka No.223) (China), Slava Mogutin (USA / Russland) und Thalía Gochez (Mexico / El Salvador).

Who am I? Wer bin ich? Die Frage scheint so simpel. Doch der tatsächliche Versuch, eine konkrete Antwort zu geben, enthüllt, welche komplexe Fragestellung sich dahinter verbirgt. Wäre ich der/die Gleiche, wenn ich an einem anderen Ort aufgewachsen wäre – mit anderen Bezugspersonen, in anderen Verhältnissen? Machen uns nicht erst die Erfahrungen, die wir in unserem Leben machen, zu dem, was wir sind? Gibt es ein ‚Ich‘ außerhalb von Gesellschaft? Bin ich immer noch der/die Gleiche von vor 10 Jahren?

Die Ausstellung »WHO AM I? I AM.« in den Räumlichkeiten der Staatsgalerie mutet sich nicht an all diese Fragen zu beantworten. Vielmehr versucht die fotografische Ausstellung die Diversität und Wandelbarkeit von Identität aufzuzeigen und zeitgenössische, internationale Perspektiven der Fotografie durch relevante Themen in den Kontext diverser Lebenswelten zusetzten.

Wir freuen uns als erster Gast mit den Besucherinnen und Besuchern über die Frage WER BIN ICH? nachzudenken und auf Spurensuche nach unserer Identität zu gehen.

Opening Party
»WHO AM I? I AM.«
Donnerstag, den 14.07.2022
18.00 – 23.00 Uhr
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart
Konrad-Adenauer-Str. 30 - 32
70173 Stuttgart
Freier Eintritt
Drinks by Horse With No Name Whiskey
Music hosted by Yanni Caloghiris (Electroménager)

18:00 – 20:30h
DJ SET
JACQUES TORRANCE - Paris, FR
@jacques.torrance

Jacques Torrance betreibt das multidisziplinäre Label Electroménager in Paris. Er hat bereits Showcases in Paris, Berlin und Stuttgart veranstaltet und Musik auf R.A.N.D Muzik oder Huntleys + Palmers veröffentlicht. Er wird den Abend eröffnen und seine Vorliebe für Ambient-Experimente und tiefe gebrochene Rhythmen vorstellen. 

20:30 – 21:30h
HYBRID SET
JONAS YAMER - Munich, DE
(MOLTEN MOODS / CARL GARI)
@jonasyamer @molten_moods

Jonas Yamer betreibt Molten Moods, ein Label, das von Telekom Electronic Beats als "eines der klügsten in Deutschland" bezeichnet wird und für das er Clubnächte im Blitz Music Club und der Roten Sonne in München oder im Drugstore Belgrad veranstaltet hat. Unter dem Namen seiner Band Carl Gari ist er für Veröffentlichungen auf AD93 (ehemals Whities), The Trilogy Tapes und Berlin Atonal Recordings verantwortlich. Seine Sets schöpfen ihre Energie aus schnellem, von Breaks geprägtem und bisweilen trancigem Techno, der je nach Location auch mal aus Ambient, Drone, House und IDM besteht. 

21:30 – 23:00h
DJ SET
E VULX - Stuttgart, DE
@vital.izer

Die in Tallinn (Estland) geborene DJane E Vulx ist Co-Moderatorin der monatlichen Radioshow PeachFM auf Freies Radio für Stuttgart. Als Teil der kürzlich gegründeten Vitalizer-Crew organisiert sie neben ihrer DJ-Tätigkeit auch Partys und musikbezogene Veranstaltungen in Stuttgart. Mit ihren starken Einflüssen aus Breakbeat, Rave und dekonstruierter Clubmusik wird sie die Opening Party abschließen.

In Kooperation mit

For the vernissage on July 9th, Galerie Kernweine will be presenting Europe's first blockchain poster project in cooperation with Metapaper and HdMStuttgart. Subsequently, it will be shown on September 1st and 2nd at beyond tellerrand in Berlin.

THE BLOCKCHAIN project pursues the goal of presenting abstract topics such as blockchain, NFT and Crypto in a tangible way where it can be owned as haptic posters. 

A variety of partners were involved in the implementation of this complex project: Anastasiia Potapova and Alexander Klarmann, both students at the Hochschule der Medien in Stuttgart, initiated the project and were responsible for the technological realisation while g-kx mediaHOUSE was responsible for the design of both the 100 THE BLOCKCHAIN posters, as well as the corresponding NFTs. The printing company Heenemann, situated in Berlin, was then entrusted with the printing of the 100 unique posters, each with an individual NFC chip from the NFC specialist, bizy cards.

The design of the posters follow a narrative logic, in which the motifs of the individual image always takes its cue from the previous poster. The poster series consists of 100 successive images in a bitmap grid and playfully develops the history of the origins of blockchain mechanics. In addition, each of the indigo digital prints are on Metapaper-EXTRAROUGH White 175 g/m2 and equipped with an individual NFC chip. When purchasing a poster, the buyer(s) receive an individual key, which after scanning the NFC chip, leads to the linked NFT which is sent to the specified wallet. The digital purchase process takes place in reverse. Here, the NFT is sent first and then the physical poster is sent by post.

According to blockchain logic, the value of the posters increases as they become scarcer. The first poster is sold at 25€ and the last one at 500€. In other words, the fewer posters there are available, the higher the increase in value of the following ones.

The opening of the exhibition, of 25 selected posters with subsequent sale, will take place on Saturday the 9th of July from 8 p.m. at Galerie Kernweine in Stuttgart. All further posters of THE BLOCKCHAIN project will be presented at the conference on September 1st and 2nd at beyond tellerrandin Berlin, but can also be purchased via OpenSea.io. All proceeds of the project will go to the charity partners of beyond tellerrand.

To counteract the cultural stagnation in the Lockdown, the ITO Raum Stuttgart organised a 40-day artist residency and exhibition for 6 Stuttgart artists at the Langenbachhof near Schonach in the Black Forest in February, June and August 2021.  Shirley Cho, Peter Granser, Florina Leinß, Shinroku Shimokawa, Patrick Suhm and Hannah Zenger have been invited. The Galerie Kernweine will show the results of the cooperation between 07 May and 01 July 2022.  

The exhibition "40 Tage" brings together a variety of works: 
Stuttgart's earth fillings; a sonorous voice at age mean minus; peripatetic nature studies; a chromatography; the visualisation of imperfections; the essence of the ashes of 1,600 kg of firewood; an interpretation of Roland Barthes' theory of the neutral; the Japanese nodate as social sculpture; silver leaf interventions; a contemplation of stones in the interior; the sanctuary of the solo camper; the greyness of winter and the colours of summer.

Australian-Korean artist Shirley Cho, who has lived in Stuttgart since 2015, processes her family history in her work, which was shaped by her family's emigration to South America and Australia. She questions childhood memories, explores questions of identity and homeland and addresses the relationships between objects. Cho works with a wide variety of materials such as clay, paper, fabric, silver and gold leaf, moss, wood and bronze.

Peter Granser's photographic and videographic works revolve around themes such as time, emptiness, nature and consciousness. They always begin with long walks to explore a new area. The sensual potential of walking, the exploration of space and the experience of atmospheric presence is formative for his way of working. Inspired by stays in China and Japan, Peter Granser founded ITO Raum (Japanese for thread) together with his wife Beatrice Theil in 2015. There, they combine contemporary art with high-quality tea and ceramics and enable concentration on the moment, while at the same time leaving room for communication.

For Florina Leinß, a fleeting impression of a colour or form of the surroundings, buildings or human interventions in nature can find its echo in the painting, whereby independent, non-objective images emerge through the translation into materials such as graphite powder, emulsion paint and acrylic paint. In the process of painting, processes of overlaying, balancing, concealing, removing and sinking into the surface play a decisive role. In the search for nuances of the neutral, as well as for functional colours, paintings are created that reflect a resonance between inner sensation and outer appearance.

Shinroku Shimokawa is a sculptor who works with stone, wood, wind or light. He is interested in the production process and the properties of material, mass, space and time. The results of his work lie between classical stone sculpture, performative investigation and video sequences. Shimokawa is also passionate about cooking. In the Black Forest, he has created, among other things, the mobile sculpture "Nogake", which can be used as a kitchen and is equipped with a snow/rainwater filter system.

Patrick Suhm works with his voice. He approaches things by putting their names in his mouth. Between silence and linguistic utterance, he searches for the true expression and creates (sound) spaces with poetic sensitivity that open the view to the essential.

The Stuttgart sculptor Hannah Zenger works at the interface between visual art and scientific research. Collected earth, rock and plant samples are the source material of the sculptural works, spatial installations and conceptual confrontations that speculatively and exploratively illuminate our environment from different perspectives. Through various transformation processes, works are created that examine the diversity of the reality that surrounds us. Hannah Zenger's scientific-poetic exploration of the elemental nature expands the social debate on environmental protection and nature conservation.

Kerstin Göhlich and Lutz Näfelt have graphically and intellectually accompanied and helped shape the project Vierzig Tage and designed the artist's book that will be published in June by their newly founded Stuttgart publishing house Pnin Books. 

„40 Tage“ was funded by Stiftung Kunstfonds "Neustart Kultur", langenbachhof 1813 und Stipendien des Ministeriums für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kunst Baden-Württemberg. The exhibition was supported by Prolab Stuttgart.

The vernissage of the exhibition will take place on 07 May at 20.00 at Galerie Kernweine.

*EVENT CALENDAR*

COOKING COURSE WITH SHINROKU SHIMOKAWA @Wagenhallen
29 May 2022, 12.00h

For Shinroku Shimokawa, sculpture and cooking are closely linked. The kitchen is workshop and nature inspiration and pantry. Together, edible plants are collected and prepared into udon and tempura in Shinroku's mobile kitchen.

Cost: 50€ per person, will be donated to aid organisations in Ukraine. Payment cash on site Registration at: shinrokushimokawa@gmail.co

TEA SESSIONS WITH PETER GRANSER @ITO
03 June 2022, 14.00 & 16.30 h

During a tea ceremony for a maximum of 3 people each, Peter Granser prepares high-quality Japanese or Taiwanese tea. ITO offers time and tranquillity, enables concentration on the moment and yet leaves room for communication.

ITO Raum (https://ito-raum.de/): König-Karl-Strasse 27a, 70372 Stuttgart Cost: 30€ per person, 20€ will be donated to aid organisations in Ukraine. Payment via PayPal to info@granser.de at least 5 days before the event. Registration at: pg@ito-raum.de

BOOKTALK WITH PETER GRANSER, JONAS BEUCHERT & SHINROKU SHIMOKAWA
30 June 2022, 20 h

88 STONES
In 2013, Peter Granser spent a month in the small town of Kamiyama (God Mountain) on the island of Shikoku. Shikoku is known for the O-Henro (遍路 ), a pilgrimage path that leads pilgrims to 88 temples. It became a pilgrimage path in miniature on which they collected 88 stones.

MAN KANN KEINE STEINE ESSEN. KOCHBUCH EINES JAPANISCHEN BILDHAUERS
Shinroku is both a sculptor and a chef. He finds parallels between the supposedly completely different disciplines and links Japanese dishes with regional products. "You can't eat stones" gives a personal insight into Japanese culture, sculpting and cooking. Recipes for all seasons encourage you to get out and cook.

Free Poster is a non-profit collaborative project by the Stuttgart-based design studio Matter Of that connects artistic productions in public and private spaces through analogue media.Together with an ongoing number of artists, Matter Of publishes double-sided posters.  

Matter of & Galerie Kernweine will donate the proceeds of this exhibition to a project by ARTHELPS that supports Ukrainians.
More infos @ www.arthelps.de
Free Poster is for free :). One poster per person.
Feel free to support!

The poster itself is a mobile medium that has no fixed home but is intended to find one through its scattered presentation. Free Posters are platforms for the exchange of current themes and debates for international contemporary artists. They show photographs, artworks, illustrations, text or installations. The project began with the pandemic when museums and galleries had to close and followed the intention of bringing art into people's homes. The poster, which is otherwise more likely to be located on advertising pillars or in young people's rooms, takes on new significance within the exhibition concept.

Furthermore, the Free Posters are a cooperative network between paper manufacturers, printers, graphic designers and sponsors. Contrary to the total renunciation of printed products in climatic crises, their mission of sustainability is to create a new sensibility that can give weight again to haptic experiences and the craft handling of materiality. This is intended to oppose mass production via online printing houses, which shower us with ever-same papers and formats. Nevertheless, they are not merely a eulogy to the analogue, which condemns the digital, they themselves were created constitutively through digital exchange.
 

Matter Of is focused on transborder visual practices. They work on the practical design as well as the conceptual consultancy for institutions and projects. Besides commissioned work they initiate own projects and are always interested in collaborations. They give lectures and hold workshops at art & design academies and other institutions. Matter Of was founded by graphic designers Adrian Riemann, Fabian Schewe, Marcel Mendler and Marian Rupp. They also run the label FUN TIME.

Free Poster is published by Matter Of and supported by Ritter Sport, Fedrigoni Fine Papers and VD Vereinte Druckwerke.

The vernissage of the exhibition will take place on 02 April at 20.00 in the Kernweine Gallery.

For 10 years now, editor Matthias Straub has published a new issue of THE OPÉRA - Magazine for Classic & Contemporary Nude Photography every year. During this time, numerous photographs, unusual perspectives on the human body and anecdotes about the magazine's production have come to light.

The anniversary issue of The Opéra shows new touches yet remains true to its content. For the first time, the cover features a male model. Defying current gender clichés, the issue focuses on questioning existing definitions of masculinity and femininity. It is also the first issue to feature a female designer - Christina Rollny has given Volume X an experimental and refreshing new look.

Some of these images, stories and the current issue Volume X will be presented at the Galerie Kernweine on 25 March. We are also looking for a musical answer to the question: "What does THE OPÉRA actually sound like?". From 8 pm, editor Matthias Straub will present the current issue, after which you can dance to music by Studio Malo.

The tenth issue is again published by Kerber Verlag Bielefeld / Berlin. Artists include: Evelyn Bencicova (Slovakia), Jay Davies (Australia), Samantha Evans (Germany), Kenny Lemes (Cuba), Mariam Medvedeva (Russia), Gordon Spooner (Great Britain) & Louise Rocard (France), Maxim Vakhovskiy (USA), Lina Zangers (Germany) and many more.

"Outer Space" links the real space of Galerie Kernweine with imaginatively emerging fictional spaces, which are developed in different ways by the participating artists. Visually interacting with each other, the photographic works are not only formally related to each other, but also in terms of content through their narrative structures. In this way, apparently ambivalent components are brought together, so that the real and the photographic space merge.

Fabrizio Albertini takes us on a symbolic journey through his memories of home, evoking different feelings and emotions by combining different genres and techniques. In doing so, his work is both a visual exploration of the past and an intimate insight into emotions and history. Universal traces and pathways emerge from misty memories, complemented with a personal component through Albertini's photographic visuality.

The participatory narrative project "Gli Stati Della Anime" develops the story of the Italian region of Norcia, which is marked by the fateful changes of the region - an area that has suffered from deprivation, natural disasters as well as migration. Giovanni Emilio Galanello fictionalizes the real history of the region, expanding its impact.  

Similar to an alchemist, Constantin Schlachter allows unexplored new worlds to emerge through the composition of opposites. With the help of various media, cameras and microscopes, as well as analog and digital image processing, he creates landscapes that defy any realistic location. Detailed shots, extremely enlarged, seem to form infinite spaces in which the terms "micro-macro" and "organic-mineral" are interchangeable.

Robert Pufleb & Nadine Schlieper also work with the components of proximity and distance in their work series "Alternative Moons". It is only in connection with the mention of the title of the series of works that doubt seems to creep in about the authenticity of what is being shown. The enclosed statement then finally reveals what is really behind the realistic-looking craters.

The exhibition also features installations by the product design collective anima ona, they emphasize the connection between the photographs on display and the gallery space. anima ona is a Stuttgart-based design studio founded by Freia Achenbach, June Fàbregas and Carlo Kurth. Their projects combine product design, research and art while blurring and reinterpreting the boundaries that exist between each discipline.

The vernissage for the exhibition will take place on 6 November at 8.00 pm in the Kernweine Gallery. Based on the current Corona regulations, the 2G rule applies to the event.

The limited edition collectable “Hold On“ is the result of the collaboration between the Stuttgart based fashion brand Simone Wild and the art and design duo Haus Otto. The upholstered wall hook creates a reduced, horizontal storage platform and offers the possibility to attach objects to a wall using a quick, charming gesture. Starting point for the project is the idea of up-cycling and reusing materials in a cross-disciplinary manner. Geometric cut out shapes that arise in the production process and would usually not find valuable application in the industry are used as base to create the minimalist object. Haus Otto’s ready-made core form is combined with the strong colour palette and signature textiles by Simone Wild. Valuing sustainable and fair production methods, the velvet cover is manufactured in Germany by a social business, working with refugee women. The cooperation was further extended by including photographer David Spaeth. Together we created a series of conceptual images that artistically explore the relation between body and object, blurring the boundaries of functionality and art. The accompanying exhibition looks beyond the paradigm of product functionality and playfully questions the use of everyday objects and the way we engage with our physical environment, reinterpreting the meaning of products in a digitalised world. In a technologically advanced age where physical touch and interaction are being superseded by digitalisation and efficiency, the interdisciplinary collaboration aims to celebrate and nurture our basic human need for touch, playfulness, sensuality and genuine human interaction. A limited edition of 50 pieces in four different colours are available to pre-order on site, extending the concept beyond the gallery context into individual domestic environments.

Haus Otto is a design studio working in the field of object, space and product design. The duo's focus is on human sensibilities, reduced formal language, materiality and alternative modes of production.

Simone Wild founded her same-titled fashion label in 2017. What started with socks quickly became a range of accessories and body wear items with a focus on sustainability, color and texture - Made in Germany.
             
David Spaeth lives and works in Stuttgart. His photographic works expose deepest human instincts and at the same time follow the pursuit of beauty in the world.

SOMMERFEST 2021

Herzlich laden wir Euch zu unserem diesjährigen GK SOMMERFEST ein!

Am 21. August feiern wir den Tag und die Nacht mit viel Musik, dem gk SHIRT Launch und zwei besonderen kulinarischen Highlights: Daniel und Philipp von OFF GRID machen Euch mit ihrer selektierte Auswahl an Naturweinen bekannt und Küchenchef Jeffrey (STOKE) bereitet gegrillte Fusion-Spezialitäten  zu (auch vegetarisch). 

OFF GRID 

Selektierte Naturweine aus ganz Europa

Die Hauptmotivation von Daniel und Philipp ist es, die Geschmacksvielfalt natürlicher Weine zu erforschen und verschiedene Ansätze der Weinbereitung im Einklang mit der Natur zu verfolgen. Das Zentrum des Austausches mit interessierten Kunden ist nach wie vor das Ladengeschäft in Stuttgart (Liststraße 47). Gleichzeitig ist die Zusammenarbeit mit der Gastronomie in ganz Deutschland ein wichtiger Bestandteil der Geschäftstätigkeit geworden.

STOKE 

Feine 

Jeffrey Claudio ist ein Küchenchef, der sein Handwerk und seine Erfahrung in der ganzen Welt über die letzten 20 Jahre gesammelt hat. Er hat in einigen der angesehensten Küchen der Welt gearbeitet; in Städten wie Sydney AUS, NYC, Kopenhagen, Toronto, London und Hongkong. Er war Chefkoch des berühmten Holzfeuer-Restaurants Burnt Ends in Singapur, das sich auf vollständig über Holzglut gegrillte Speisen konzentriert sowie Küchenchef des beliebten Yardbird-Restaurants in Hongkong, das sich auf japanische, über Holzkohle gegrillte Hähnchen-Yakitori spezialisierte. 

Jeffs Restaurant befindet sich derzeit im Bau und soll Anfang 2022 in Berlin,  eröffnet werden.

Paintings League deals with the age old question how can you make art for people who usually don’t like art. It’s safe to say that there are more people enjoying watching football than there are looking at paintings. Here, Max Siedentopf tried to find a solution how you can merge the interests of both art lover and football fan, reaching completely new audiences for both. 

He finds the answer to this question in the humorous series "Paintings League". "Paintings League" is composed of different artistic methods - photography and painting - to illustrate the importance of a dialogue between the different disciplines and to show the range of approaches that exist to answer his "research question".  

The exhibition pays homage to some of the most iconic football teams shirts into acrylic on canvas paintings. Here art enthusiasts will appreciate the minimalist and abstract approach and brush strokes of the paintings while football fans can appreciate their favourite team. Just like in football, the paintings act like a league - each one representing a diverse group of people through their interests, cities and backgrounds. The series consist of a mix of both painting on canvas and portrait photography of football fans of different social backgrounds representing their football club and coincidentally matching with the paintings. 

Max Siedentopf (1991) is a London based multi-disciplinary conceptual artist working across video, photography, sculpture, creative direction and everything in-between and is the founder of the of the art publication ORDINARY. From 2013 - 2020 Max Siedentopf has been creative director of the 'legendary and unorthodox"  creative agency KesselsKramer, which was founded in 1996 by the dutch artist Erik Kessels, and is the only one that has worked at all three offices and becoming the youngest partner at age 25.

Max has been described by Vogue Italy as viral artist and his installation “Toto Forever” was included in artnet’s “10 Extraordinary Artworks You Need to Travel to the Edge of the World to See” next to Elmgreen & Dragset’s ‘Prada Marfa’, Yayoi Kusama’s ‘Yellow Pumpkin’ and Le Corbusier’s ‘Notre Dame du Haut’.

In June 2019, Siedentopf starred in the music video for “Mine Right Now”, a song by Norwegian singer Sigrid Max was supposed to direct. This was due to Sigrid’s flight being cancelled, the singer therefore being unable to appear in the video herself and Max ended up starring in instead. 

Next to this he is the founder of Ordinary Magazine which was nominated for Magazine Of The Year, Best Art Direction and Best use of Photography by the Stack Awards. Max generally refuses to enter awards, but he received “Most Bizarre Video” at the Berlin Music Video Awards for his Gommi “Psychosis” video. He was also nominated Best New Director at the UKMVAs.

In 2019 he was having his first solo exhibiton "Stock im Arsch" with us (see archive). 

FOTO-AUSSTELLUNG IM MUSEUMSGARTEN DES STADTPALAIS – MUSEUM FÜR STUTTGART, KURATIERT VON DER GALERIE KERNWEINE. 

Die Ausstellung „Physical Conversation“ zeigt ab 9. Mai einen visuellen Dialog zwischen Ballettstar Friedemann Vogel und Fotograf Oliver Kröning im Museumsgarten des StadtPalais – Museum für Stuttgart.

In Zusammenarbeit zwischen Ballettstar Friedemann Vogel, Fotograf Oliver Kröning und der Galerie Kernweine entstand im November 2020 die limitierte Art Edition Box „Physical Conversation“: Eine Kunst-Box mit 23 Impressionen von Friedemann Vogel, die an unerwarteten Schauplätzen von Oliver Kröning fotografisch eingefangen wurden. Die 300 limitierten Boxen waren nach wenigen Tagen vergriffen – der gesamte Gewinn des Verkaufs kam der Olgäle-Stiftung für das kranke Kind zu Gute.  

Ab 9. Mai sind die Fotos nun als Ausstellung, kuratiert von der Galerie Kernweine, im Museumsgarten des StadtPalais – Museum für Stuttgart zu sehen. Auch wesentliche Elemente aus der Welt des Balletts werden in den Garten des StadtPalais gebracht, um dort eine Bühne für alle Besucher*innen zu schaffen.  

Friedemann Vogel ist ein weltbekannter Ballettstar und 1. Solist im Stuttgarter Ballett. Zuletzt wurde er beim Deutschen Tanzpreis als „Outstanding Performer“ ausgezeichnet.

„Als Tänzer erzähle ich Geschichten mit meinen Bewegungen. Die Fotografien fangen die Emotionen der Bewegung aus einem anderen Blickwinkel ein, somit wird jedes Bild ein Fragment einer Geschichte, offen für Interpretationen.“   

Friedemann Vogel

Oliver Kröning, 1980 in Stuttgart geboren, arbeitet mit verschiedenen Medien im Bereich der Fotografie und Film. Er ist einer der Gründer und Leiter der Galerie Kernweine und dem g–kx mediaHOUSE. 

In her work, Zara Pfeifer focuses on living spaces and people whom she accompanies photographically over a long period of time: This is also the case in her current long-term project "Good Street!", in which she focuses on truck drivers from different countries on their long journeys through Europe. For the first time, the Galerie Kernweine Foto und Raum is providing an insight into the specific living and architectural worlds of the truckers through a photo exhibition and a documentary video work by the artist Pfeifer. 

Who are the people who drive these vehicles all over Europe to ensure a seamless supply of society? 

What distinguishes the architecture of the service stations, the motorways and the large-scale infrastructure facilities - such as transport ships for trucks? 

The amount of trucks that travel the roads of Europe every day blur from the outside into a large, uniform group of travellers. Yet the goods they transport in all weathers and situations are as diverse as the landscapes they traverse. Through her photographic observation and personal accompaniment of the drivers, Pfeifer uncovers personal worlds of life and work: the drivers' cabins, their everyday work and the community among the drivers form the subject of the series.  

Zara Pfeifer (1984, Cologne) studied architecture and photography; her works address spatial and social phenomena. In addition to photography, videos, drawings and lectures communicate her explorations. In order to capture experiences, she takes an active part in addition to an observing role: whether in the social life in Alt-Erlaa or as a lorry passenger on a route through Europe. Her series "Du, meine konkrete Utopie" (You, my concrete utopia) - which exhibits the modernist housing project Alt Erlaa - was published by Kerber Verlag in 2017, won an award and was exhibited in European countries as well as the USA. In addition, Pfeifer has held a lectureship at the Vienna University of Technology since 2019, where she teaches in the fields of architecture and photography. 

VISION OR ILLUSION?

Is there a true value of things? 
And is the digital value of a building the same as the physical one?

How the founders of Galerie Kernweine are trying to make the physical gallery their own by selling an NFT of their gallery.

A building in the south of Stuttgart, Germany is currently for sale. This building is also home to Galerie Kernweine Foto und Raum. Five million euros are being asked for it. 

Mick Orel and Oliver Kroening, who co-direct the gallery for contemporary photography (2017) and run g—kx mediaHOUSE (2021) together, are no strangers to the field of visual media. In collaboration with the digital artist Nasty Files (nastyfiles.club) they generated the piece „g — k House Flip“ (2021) which represents a digital metaphor of the gallery's physical building.

„g — k House Flip“ is currently for sale on the digital platform opensea.io - at the same price* for which the building is being traded on the Stuttgart real estate market. With the proceeds from the sale of the digital artwork, the founders could purchase the analogue building in Stuttgart - that's the idea.

With this initiative the Galerie Kernweine and artist Nasty Files would like to draw attention not only to the development of the real estate market and the preservation of a diverse cultural landscape, but also to the increasingly merging boundaries between the digital and analogue worlds. Since an NFT was bought for 69 million dollars at a Christie's auction in mid-March, the hype as well as the accompanying debate around digital art has been in full swing. Will this new digital market in which digital art is traded become established? Is it a mistake to continue to ignore the digital art that has long existed? Or is it all just a bad joke? 

The term "house flipping" is used by real estate investors to describe the process of buying and selling properties for profit. The artwork winks sarcastically at this activity, showing the "dark side" of “house flipping”. 

Nasty Files is a Milan based visual artist, his work explores, with irony, the relationship between humans and spaces, their mutual influence and the oddity of contemporary life in general. 

By way of explanation:

NFT is the abbreviation for Non-Fungible Tokens. NFTs are stored on the blockchain and are therefore authenticated, forgery-proof and unique. When you buy an NFT, you buy a digital object that is linked to a token. This object can, for example, be digital art, music or virtual land. In other words, NFTs are certificates of authenticity for any digital file.

"Galerie Kernweine Foto und Raum” (2017) is a place for contemporary photography, visual media and discourse. We collaborate with (inter-)national artists to develop and curate exhibition projects that challenge classical approaches and expand established formats. Workshops and event formats on the topics of photography and visual media take place on an alternating basis. 

In our g-k online shop we sell limited photo editions, books, magazines and selected products. The G-K café & bar is located in the gallery’s rear courtyard. 

Link to the digital artwork.

*since NFTs are traded with the cryptocurrency Ethereum, the price is based on the current rate.

"Polaroid Rage" shows a collection of Polaroids that tell stories of people through the prism of Mogutin's personal migration experience. Minorities, socially outcasts and outsiders, people on the margins of society, marginalized lives and souls who are not objectively represented in mainstream culture find their place in Mogutin's art and portrayal in the series. »Polaroid Rage« is a photo series consisting of individual polaroid photos, which tell the individual stories and fates of the portrayed people in narrative form and combination.

Born in Siberia, Slava Mogutin is a New York-based multimedia artist and author exiled from Russia for his outspoken queer writings and activism. A third-generation writer and self-taught journalist and photographer, he became the first Russian to be granted political asylum in the US on the grounds of homophobic persecution. Informed by his bicultural dissident and refugee experience, Mogutin’s work examines the notions of displacement and identity, pride and shame, devotion and disaffection, love and hate. 

Mogutin is the author of seven books of writings in Russian, as well as three monographs of photography, Lost Boys, NYC Go-Go, and Bros & Brosephines, and two illustrated collections of poetry, Food Chain and Pictures & Words. He's the winner of Andrei Bely Prize for poetry and the Tom of Finland Foundation Award for artistic achievement.

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SLAVA MOGUTIN'S  ARTIST STATEMENT

"My Existence = My Resistance 

For over two decades, I’ve been documenting youth cultures and queer lives in my native Russia and around the world. I tell real stories of real people through the prism of my immigrant experience. Minorities, social outcasts and outsiders, people on the fringes of society, marginalized lives and souls that don’t have objective representation in mainstream culture have found their place in my writings and art. 

Over the years, my creative practice has evolved beyond text, photography and performance to film and multimedia. Drawn on my dissident and refugee journey, my work has as much to do with a personal point of view as with social commentary and political activism. For me, the personal is political and the political is personal. 

At the time when our fundamental constitutional rights are under attack, I believe that my imagery can serve as an effective weapon against hypocrisy, bigotry, and censorship. I want to shine light on the darkest corners of human nature and sexuality as a way to understand and peacefully coexist with each other. Because being different is a blessing, not a curse." (MOGUTIN, 2020) 

A collaboration effort to share mycelium packaging CO2 negative emission between artists, scientists and sustainability activists by GK and ɅMEN.

OPENING SEP 5 2020, 8 PM

● main floor: mushroom installation & magic mushrooms by Ellen von Unwerth

● basement: psicodelia synthesis by Oskar Metsavaht

● mushroom conversations by Steve Rachmad

● IGTV LIVE daily 7pm to 7:20pm @amencandles

● Kombuchs in various flavors by perge

SHORT MOVIE

»BEFORE«

As a cinematographic response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Milan based independent studio 1001 created BEFORE, a short film about life under lockdown.  

BEFORE is a glimpse into the increasing paranoia of a young woman locked in her home during the COVID-19 emergency, a raw portrayal of the inner struggles we’ve all faced during the months of the lockdown.

The ensuing drama encapsulates both cabin fever and paranoia that can come from living in lockdown.

Taking the challenge of creating the movie without the usual collaboration of the director with all the other figures operating on the same set (DOPs, producers, boom operators), BEFORE has been entirely produced by a locked down crew. 

Gabriele Rossi directed everything from remote, by live streaming the camera feed through online platforms for communication, re-interpreting their use and creating a new idea of remote workflow, to overcome the difficulties in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The use of streaming, conferencing softwares, online communication platforms, remote controlling and human collaboration is what made BEFORE possible.

BEFORE is shown in the basement of Galerie Kernweine.

Director: Gabriele Rossi (@grlrss)

Story and Screenplay: Giorgio Viscardini (@smiur) and Gabriele Rossi (@grlrss)

DOP: Giovanni Emilio Galanello (@gegalanello)

Actress: Francesca Gotti (@frncscgtt)

Voices: Jacopo Abbate, Martina Mitrović and Simone Sala

Music and Sound Design: Alberto Ladduca (@thereduke)

Digital Imaging Technician: Federico Caputo (@johnmurd)

Editor: Gabriele Rossi (@grlrss)

Production: 1001 (@unozerozerouno)

End credit song "Atlantico" by Mille Punti (@mille_punti.it)

Music and lyrics: Edoardo Bassi

From the album "Retrofuturo"

©Vetro Dischi 2019 (all rights reserved) (@vetrodischi)

ALEXANDER BINDER
ENZYKLOPÄDIE

25th January - 5th April 2020

INVITATION TO THE OPENING ON JANURY 25TH, 8PM AT GALERIE KERNWEINE

Moving layers

Each person perceives the moment differently, remembers it differently and treats it differently. Photographer Alexander Binder's exhibition Enzyklopädie, which will be shown from January 26th until April 5th 2020 at Galerie Kernweine, questions the (everyday) reality we experience and dissolves the narrow frame of reference within our perception. The photographs appear obscure, blurred - it is a matter of our inner interpretation of what we have seen.

The works in the exhibition Enzyklopädie openly make use of the attitude and themes of symbolism of the late 19th century: nature, mysticism, and mythology form a mysterious cosmos that one must engage with emotionally rather than rationally "understand". On the contrary, the photographs seem like bursts of thought that only fill themselves with details within the viewer's imagination - in order to unfold their very own life.

In Binder's exhibition, the encyclopaedia is seen as a work of reference to his own memories: Flora and fauna are vaguely recognisable and appear partly in bright colours and partly in black and white. The pictures consciously escape our conceptual-structured thinking and our tendency to want to locate things spatially and temporally with exactitude. 

The photographs were taken in the Black Forest, Italy, England and India. However, the period in which the works were created remains undefined: Binder often only revisits photographs years later, in order to place them in a completely different frame of context. Spirituality and cult in their (sur-)real forms, form an overarching framework.  

Alexander Binder (*1976), born in Pforzheim, lives and works in Stuttgart. His work is characterised by the combination of digital and analog photography - Binder combines modern SLR cameras with old and homemade lenses. The resulting images are characterised by blurring, glare and impromptu reflections. In this way, the works escape the high-tech world of today's camera systems, that strives for perfection. In recent years he has published in numerous art, photography and lifestyle magazines, solo and group exhibitions (including in Warsaw and Montréal) as well as participated in festivals, such as "Voies Off" in Arles, which contribute to his artistic practice.

Vernissage: Am 9.November, 20.00 Uhr
Performance von Friedemann Vogel (Stuttgarter Ballett) und Les Six

Liquid Skin: Ausstellung von Thomas Lempertz vom 10.November 2019 bis 12.Januar 2020 in der Galerie Kernweine.

Künstler Thomas Lempertz fasst Raum über dreidimensionale Bewegungen in Objekte und untersucht in seiner Serie Liquid Skin, die vom 10. November 2019 bis zum 12. Januar 2020 gezeigt wird, menschliche Ausdrucksformen über das Organ der Haut. Haut, die den Körper als Form fasst, bekommt durch die Fähigkeit der Bewegung und der Impression eine Mittlerfunktion zwischen dem eigenen Selbst und der Außenwelt. Die Serie Liquid Skin beschäftigt sich mit dieser Zwischenebene und fragt: Wie fühlt man sich in seiner eigenen Haut? Was bedeutet Haut, wenn man sie als Oberfläche des menschlichen Körpers betrachtet? Wie werden Geschlechterrollen durch die Darstellung von Körpern geprägt? Und wie prägen gesellschaftliche Entwicklungen unseren Umgang mit dem eigenen Körper?  Zur Vernissage, am 9.Novemeber um 20.00Uhr, wird eine Performance mit Friedemann Vogel – Solotänzer des Stuttgarter Ballett – und dem musischen Kollektiv Les Six, stattfinden.

Der Ausgangspunkt der Serie Liquid Skin befindet sich im Körper, genauer gesagt, im Organ der menschlichen Haut. Als größtes verbindendes Element des Körpers dient Haut als Metapher für Fluidität sowiefür Einheit und Gleichheitdurch seine globale Analogie. Ohne Kleidung, die so oft Personen definiert, wird Haut zu einem verbindenden Faktor, der Menschen ohne Künstlichkeit enthüllt.So bildet Haut einerseits ein reines und klares Element,das für Echtheit steht und andererseits eine individuelle Form, die Raum für Interpretation lässt.

Liquid Skin zeigt eine Reihe von Hochglanzobjekten, die sich über ihre Beschaffenheit weitergehend mit einer Untersuchung der Oberflächlichkeit der Gesellschaft befassen. Sozialen Medien haben ein Streben nach hautnaher Perfektion angeregt, sorgfältig kuratierte Bilder des idealen Selbst und des idealen Lebens werden kontinuierlich präsentiert. Die Serie dient somit als Spiegelbild der Besessenheit von allem Glänzenden und als Kommentar zur künstlichen Manipulation der Gesellschaft, inder Hoffnung, dass Menschen unter der Oberfläche nach der Schönheit im Inneren suchen.

 Lempertz's Arbeiten sind gekennzeichnet durch ein experimentelles Arbeiten mit Raum. Dreidimensionale Bewegungen werden über diverse Materialitäten und Verfahren festgehalten und in Objekte übertragen. So dienen Fotografien oft als Basis für ein weiteres Abreiten mit Silikon – ein Material, welches durch seine Beschaffenheit die Fertigstellung eines Werks innerhalb einer bestimmten Zeit vorschreibt. Ohne die Möglichkeit zurOptimierung oder Vorbestimmung des Endprodukts setzt die Arbeit mit Silikon eine unvermeidliche Zufälligkeit voraus, die Akzeptanz erfordert und jede Infragestellung ablehnt. Die Arbeiten der Serie Liquid Skin zeichnen sich durch ihre individuelle Einzigartigkeit in einem festen Rahmen aus: Über aufeinandergesetzte Ebenen, Akzente durch Farbe, das Spiel zwischen abstrakten Formen und realistischen Abbildungen, sowie einem Kontrast zwischen der Flexibilität des Materials auf der einen Seite, und dessen langjährigen Beständigkeit, auf der anderen Seite. 

Thomas Lempertz, geboren in Pforzheim, studierte Tanz an der John CrankoSchule und war später Teil der Company des Stuttgarter Balletts, unter anderem als Solist unter Reid Anderson. Nachdem er seine Karriere als Tänzer 2003 beendete widmete er sich dem Bereich des Kostüms und studierte „Intermedia Arts“ an der Akademie der bildenden Künste Stuttgart. Sein Schaffen zeichnet sich durch die Verbindung der DisziplinenPerformance, Tanz, Fotografie und Objektkunst aus. 

EINLADUNG ZUR VERNISSAGE AM 11. OKTOBER UM 20.00 UHR IN DER GALERIE KERNWEINE

ERÖFFNUNG UND TALK MIT FOTOGRAFIN ZARA PFEIFER UND PHILIPP ZIEGLER (ZKM).

Geteilter Raum: Eine fotografische Gegenüberstellung 

Was sind die Bedürfnisse von Menschen im Wohnraum? Wie können zukünftige Lebenskonzepte im Postfordismus aussehen? Wie können geteilte und mehrfachgenutzte Räume gestaltet werden? 

Das Stuttgarter Forschungsprojekt Reallabor Space Sharingbeschäftigt sich mit diesen Fragen – Fragen über Raumnutzungen, Nutzungsüberlagerungen und -intensivierung. In Kooperation mit Fotografin Zara Pfeifer, welche in ihrer Serie Du, meine konkrete Utopieden Wiener Wohnpark Alt-Erlaa untersucht – ein Referenzprojekt zum Thema „Geteilter Raum“ – wird vom 12.Oktober bis zum 2.November die Galerie Kernweine bespielt.

In der gemeinsamen Ausstellung Sharing Happinessstellt das Kollektiv die Stuttgarter Wohnanlage Asemwald, auch genannt Hannibal (Otto Jäger, Werner Müller: 1958-1972), der Wohnlandschaft Alt-Erlaa (Harry Glück: 1968 -1985),durch fotografische Arbeiten von Pfeifer visuell gegenüber. 

Darüber hinaus finden während der Ausstellungsdauer Veranstaltungen unterschiedlicher Formate, sowie eine Dokumentation der bisherigen Forschungsergebnisse statt: Welche Potentiale bieten die Möglichkeiten des „Space Sharings“? Welche Ähnlichkeiten, welche Unterschiede des gemeinsamen Lebens, des Wohnverhaltens lassen sich erkennen? Lassen sich Muster der Raumnutzung beobachten, die auf die breite Gesellschaft übertragbar sind? 

Der derzeitige Wohnraummangel ist eine der entscheidendsten sozialen Fragen unserer Zeit. Das Thema des „Space Sharing“ ist dabei von großer Bedeutung für die Reduzierung des weiterhin ansteigenden Raumbedarfs in Ballungsgebieten, bei gleichzeitig nachhaltiger Revitalisierung von Stadtgebieten, Quartieren und des öffentlichen Raums.

Der Wohnpark Alt-Erlaa in Wien, von Architekt Harry Glück in den Jahren 1968 bis 1985 erbaut, behandelt durch sein einzigartiges Konzept das Thema „Geteilter Raum“, wie nur wenige andere architektonische Konstrukte. Als Ausgangspunkt stellte sich Glück die Frage, wie die unmittelbaren menschlichen physiologischen Bedürfnisse in Räumen optimal befriedigt werden können – Nähe zum Wasser, zur Natur, gute Aussicht und gute soziale und technische Infrastruktur – und baute drei, jeweils 400 Meter lange Blöcke, bestehend aus 23 bis 27 Geschossen mit insgesamt mehr als 3000 Wohneinheiten. In diesen Wohnungen leben derzeit ungefähr 10.000 Menschen. Besonders sind neben den großzügigen infrastrukturellen Einrichtungen die sieben Schwimmbäder auf den Dächern der Hochhäuser sowie die Vielzahl an Gemeinschaftsräumen. 

Zara Pfeifers (1984, Köln) Serie Du, meine konkrete Utopie– welche das modernistische Wohnprojekt Alt-Erlaa darstellt – wurde 2017 im Kerber Verlag veröffentlicht, ausgezeichnet und in Europa und den USA ausgestellt. Um Erlebnisse zu fassen, nimmt sie neben einer beobachtenden Rolle einen aktiven Part ein: ob am Sozialleben in Alt-Erlaa oder als LKW-Beifahrerin auf einer Route durch Europa. Pfeifer studierte Architektur und Fotografie, in ihren Arbeiten werden räumliche und soziale Phänomene thematisiert. Neben der Fotografie kommunizieren Videos, Zeichnungen und Vorträge ihre Erkundungen.

Das Reallabor Space Sharing ist ein vom Ministerium für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kunst Baden-Württemberg gefördertes Projekt der Staatlichen Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart unter der Leitung der Fachgruppe Architektur. Fokus der Untersuchungen ist einerseits die Nutzungsintensivierung von Raum durch Mehrfachnutzung sowie die Entwicklung von neuen hybriden Gebäudetypologien. Andererseits, die Realisierung von temporären Arbeits- und Besprechungsräumen, genannt Space Sharing Pop Ups, in öffentlichen und privaten Räumen der Kunst. 

 Mit dem Space Sharing Pop Up zieht das Forschungsprojekt nun in die Räumlichkeiten der Galerie Kernweine ein und bespielt die zweistöckige Ausstellungsfläche der Galerie unter dem Titel Sharing Happiness.

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Deleted data: Could this be my pictures hanging here? 

Vernissage: August 10, 20H 

We’ve sold off our old smartphone, those confidential documents are gathering dust in the cloud somewhere, and we forgot the login info for that abandoned Facebook account a long time ago.

How much do we care about managing our digital footprint anymore? Are we still able to cover our tracks on the Internet, or will part of us live on forever on the servers in Silicon Valley?

We “save” digital information on a storage medium by stringing together a sequence of ones and zeroes combined in various ways. Removing information from a storage medium means completely overwriting these strings of digits with new combinations. But when we “delete” data, we’re simply removing that entry from the directory and freeing up that storage space to be used again. From then on, the information can no longer be accessed, but it still exists somewhere in the background.

The exhibition “Nothing’s Lost in Numbers” features pieces drawn from 31 used memory cards purchased on eBay from sellers all over the world. Felix Gärtner and Romano Dudaš used an ordinary data recovery program on these supposedly empty memory cards to restore the material now on display. These files offer a voyeuristic glimpse into the lives of others, revealing things that were not originally intended for the viewer’s eyes.

The combined effect of the various photographs, videos, and PDF documents – some of it mundane, some of it quite odd – opens up new contexts. The pieces on display show nothing more than the realities of other people’s lives, but they’re unlike anything that we’re used to seeing in this age of social media dominated by manipulated images.

While the provenance of the images on display may seem somewhat questionable, neither the purchase of used storage media (including laptops and smartphones) nor the use of freely available recovery software is illegal. It takes very little in terms of money or fancy technology for the average person to uncover even the most sensitive data. “Nothing’s Lost in Numbers” questions whether the act of deleting has any meaning in the digital realm, or if it’s even possible, challenging our awareness when it comes to our own data security.

FELIX GÄRTNER

Felix Gärtner (born 1990) is a photo artist from Stuttgart who lives and works in London. He studied photography at Dortmund University of Applied Sciences and Arts, graduating in 2015. Inspired by extended stays in Portugal, Indonesia, and Australia, his work has been focusing more and more on a standardized series of portraits taken of strangers. He also likes to work with “found footage” and to explore the moments between the shots in digital photography.

ROMANO DUDAŠ

Romano Dudaš (born 1991) grew up south of Stockholm and studied communication design. He lives and works in Berlin. Among other activities, he’s responsible for the curation for and design of The Opéra, an annual publication focused on nude photography (Kerber Verlag). Romano’s interests lie in questioning the things we’ve become accustomed to seeing, as well as the recontextualization of various forms of media. His favorite dessert is “Spaghettieis”.

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SOMMERFEST

20.JULI
ALL DAY & ALL NIGHT

Programm: 
// PRINT YOUR OWN SOLID @GK SHOP
// OUTDOOR POOL BY Detroit-Motors

// SOUND DAYTIME: Very Good Plus - VG+
// SOUND NIGHTTIME: Franz Scala

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ABK Stuttgart

Vernissage & Magazin Release
21.Juni, 20H 

Du öffnest die Augen und schaust in die grellgelbe Sonne. Sie blendet dich, Dröhnen ertönt. Du setzt die Sonnenbrille auf und erhebst dich. Eine staubbraune Fläche liegt vor dir, an ihrem Horizont azurblaues Wasser. Dein Kopf schmerzt, also drückst du eine Tablette aus der Verpackung.

Während deine Pupillen sich weiten, suchst du die Umgebung nach deinem Fahrrad ab.
Auf dem Weg zurück fährst du vorbei an Dünen und Bunkern.
Du drehst den Kopf und schaust auf das nächste Bild.

Studierende der Klasse Roggan zeigen neue Werke – Fotografie, Video, Installation.

Begleitend zur Ausstellung wird das Magazin ''In The Frame – Off'' zum gleichnamigen Projekt von Dezember 2018 veröffentlicht.

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EUROPE SPACE

POP-UP

@GK LADEN 

More information to be announced!

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ART FAIR PAPER POSITIONS BERLIN 

WE ARE IN BERLIN FROM APRIL 25-28, PRESENTING SLAVA MOGUTIN AND HIS SERIES "LOST BOYS".

COME BY AND VISIT US @position 49

location
deutsche telekom hauptstadtrepräsentanz
französische strasse 33 a-c
10117 berlin

"paper positions berlin wants this special genre to be focused on. The galleries and their artists are given a presentation opportunity, which is dedicated to the medium of paper with all its specific features, its fragility and its enormous versatility.

In the spirit of its fair concept, which refrains from classic booths and is completely tailor-made for the most sensitive exhibits, paper positions berlin deliberately focuses on a salon-like situation. The limited number of exhibitors also underlines the character of a large theme-based exhibition. The spatial design offers an open overview as well as the possibility to directly approach individual artistic works and to perceive them in a mutual dialogue." 

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EXHIBITION  "STOCK IM ARSCH"

VERNISSAGE MARCH 23, 8PM 

Max Siedentopf (*1991) is a multidisciplinary visual artist currently based in London, UK. Max grew up in Windhoek, Namibia and continued to live and work in Berlin, Los Angeles and Amsterdam. 

Max is a relentless producer of ideas which live across the disciplines of photography, film, image collections, design and sculpture. Apart from his autonomous work he is one of the main creatives at KesselsKramer and co-founder of Ordinary Magazine. 

“Stock im Arsch”

In a time where we are confronted with a rapidly growing amount of social, environmental and political issues, there is one thing that has no place in the world - humour. This is a time to be serious, to take a firm stand, we don’t have time for nonsense. Humour doesn’t lead to progress. “Stick up your butt” celebrates all the brave people that reject fun and laughter, that reject an easy life style and instead take up the burden of ruining the party for the greater good. There are more important things to worry about and this is not the time to fool around. This exhibition celebrates all the people that reject fun ideas, people that get easily offended and people that write long comments on social media. Times are serious, we need more people with a stick up their butt. 

“Stock im Arsch” is divided into two sections. On the ground floor visitors can learn all the ways how they can get their own stick up their butt and even purchase a special selection of curated sticks, in the basement, the butt of the exhibition, is a selection of Max Siedentopf’s work which is best avoided by people with sticks up their butt.

9.FEB 20H VERNISSAGE

10.FEB – 3.MRZ

AUSSTELLUNG

ALEXANDER STEHLE  & DAVID SPAETH

DIE FREIHEIT DES TUCHES AUF DEINER HAUT

ABOUT:

In unserer westlichen Kultur sind Geschlechterrollen bereits aufgeweicht.

Modisch kann ein Mann oder eine Frau fast zu allen Mitteln greifen.

Kleidung ist die individuelle Projektionsfläche dessen, was wir nach außen tragen wollen.

Der Stoff auf unserer Haut ist das textile Manifest unserer gewünschten Wirkung auf andere.

WAS PASSIERT, WENN MAN HIER DIE ROLLEN VERTAUSCHT?

Wir haben den kulturellen und muslimischen Hintergrund aus einem einfachen Grund gewählt:  weil er Teil unserer Kultur hier in Deutschland ist und weil wir sowohl in die eine, wie in die andere kulturelle Richtung Irritation und Selbstreflexion auslösen wollen. Über die eigene Toleranzgrenze. Was ist das bei mir? Wieso ist die da? Was macht die da?

Die Arbeiten von David Spaeth und Alexander Stehle spielen mit Stereotypen und Bildern in unseren

Köpfen. Sie fordern die betrachtende Person heraus, indem vorgefertigte Erwartungen auf den Kopf gestellt werden.

Die Freiheit des Tuches auf Deiner Haut.

Ein Apell zu mehr Toleranz und weniger Verbot.

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BOOKTALK

ROBERT PUFLEB "TRANSFORMER" & "ALTERNATIVE MOONS"

IN KOOPERATION MIT "METAPAPER"

Buchpräsentation: Über die Entstehungsgeschichte und den aufwändigen Druck des »TRANSFORMER« Buches werden Dirk Burger und FOTOKÜNSTLER Robert Pufleb in einem Booktalk berichten.

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TALK & EXHIBITION 

ISABELLE GRAEFF

"EXIT"

15.11.2018 // 20h 

"Bekannt wurde Isabelle Graeff (*1977 in Heidelberg) 2010 durch die Serie My Mother And I, bei der sie über mehrere Jahre ihre Mutter fotografisch begleitete, um ihre Mutter-Kind-Beziehung zu hinterfragen. Die Aufnahmen für ihr Fotoprojekt Exit dehnen die Identitätssuche nun auf ein ganzes Land aus. Mit einfühlsamem Blick spürte die in London ansässige Fotografin zwischen August 2015 und Juni 2016 der Krise eines Landes nach, dessen Bevölkerung spätestens seit der Brexit-Abstimmung schmerzhaft in der Mitte geteilt ist. Ein Land, das gespalten ist zwischen Menschen, deren Blick nach außen gerichtet ist und Menschen, die nach innen schauen. Ein Land, das sich auf erneute Identitätssuche begibt, derweil seine Natur unberührt von den gesellschaftlichen Entwicklungen in ihrer mystischen Schönheit existiert.
Graeff spürt diesen Umbrüchen, Veränderungen und Entwicklungen fotografisch nach. Der Feuilletonist Niklas Maak hat hierzu einen aufschlussreichen Essay geschrieben, der die Bilder auf verschiedenen Eben kontextualisiert." (Quelle: http://www.hatjecantz.de/isabe...) 

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THE OPÉRA VOL. VII

In einer Welt voller Wirrungen und Debatten um die menschliche Identität bleibt eine Wahrheit immer bestehen: Der Mensch ist an seinen Körper gebunden und nur sein Geist kann diese Grenzen überwinden. In diesem Sinne ist THE OPÉRA Volume VII wieder eine Suche nach den Beschränkungen der menschlichen Körperlichkeit und wie sie durch Fantasie und Wissen überwunden werden können. Der Vorstellungskraft des Betrachters sollen in zahlreichen Fotografien und Porträts inspirierende Impulse gegeben werden, in denen das Narrativ des Menschseins zu ungewöhnlichen Perspektiven verholfen wird. Denn im Grunde der Kunst behält auch diese Wahrheit ihre Gültigkeit: Menschen interessieren sich für Menschen.

Die siebte Ausgabe erscheint wieder im Kerber Verlag Bielefeld / Berlin. Künstler sind unter anderem: Agnès Lenglet (Frankreich), Anna Ritsch (Österreich), Luo Yang (China), Jana Pausenberger (Deutschland), Gonzalo Bénard (Portugal), Bill Durgin (USA), Pola Esther (Polen), Julia SH (Schweden), Thomas Sing (Deutschland), Mayumi Hosokura (Japan) und viele mehr.

Der Herausgeber Matthias Straub und Art Director Romano Dudas stellen ab 20:00 Uhr die aktuelle Ausgabe vor. Im Anschluss wird getanzt und gefeiert zu Musik von Studio Malo und Ringo Stelzl aka Prince Bahadu.

www.the-opera-magazine.com
https://www.kerberverlag.com/de/

https://soundcloud.com/studio_malo

https://www.mixcloud.com/ringostelzl/

FABRIZIO ALBERTINI, RADICI

13^TH October 2018 – 19^TH January 2019

INVITATION FOR THE VERNISSAGE AT OCTOBER 13TH, 8PM: ARTIST RECEPTION AND CONCERT

 (Stuttgart) Galerie Kernweine “Foto und Raum” shows the single exhibition “Radici” (2015- 2017) by Italian photographer and filmmaker Fabrizio Albertini. For the vernissage, Albertini and the makers of Galerie Kernweine are going to do a cooperation with Eda Dalboy and various musicians. You can expect a symbiosis of visual and auditory, musically based photo-art in the Galerie Kernweine.

 The series “Radici” is a journey from childhood to present, describing the path of a memory. Translated to “roots”, the project was created in Cannobina Valley, where Albertini grew up and spend most of his lifetime.  

Cannobina Valley is a wooded valley, nowadays the valley is an almost entirely abandoned territory close to the Lago Maggiore. The series work takes shape there, built from memories as an elaboration of buried traces and conflicts where success depends on the act of maintaining a form. Albertini’s pictures explore humans’ ancestral relation with nature, the surrounding environment, as well as the effect of memories. For Albertini, “Radici's” imaginary is not only the Cannobina image, but rather an interior and private image. He creates a dialogue between these two fields which mirror each other and become indistinguishable. Working with color and black and white, the series is united by a signature of vision: the images are blurry and defined, emphatic and surreal.

“Radici is a story about resilience, it is a novel of nature, form and memory. The wright of Radici began in the Cannobina Valley, it started with a landscape of misty memories and childhood images. It is the visual elaboration of a conflict in the present.” Fabrizio Albertini

By combining a variety of genres and techniques, Albertini evokes distinct feelings and emotions and turns his memories into a symbolic journey. His body of work is both a visual exploration of bygone times and an intimate insight into Albertini’s emotions and past.

Galerie Kernweine presents now the artist’s first solo exhibition, prior to this Albertini was part of group exhibitions e.g. in New York (Aperture Foundation), Athens (Athens Photo Festival) and Köln (SK Stiftung Kultur). The photo-series “Radici” is accompanied by a video installation in the galleries’ basement as well as by the same named book (“Radici”, Witty Kiwi Publishing, Sep 18).

 Musicians of the event:

• the Nuance Quartett of the Philharmoniker Stuttgart
• Davide Napolitano Gil (singer &songwriter)
• Timo Bakowies (singer &songwriter)
• Marvin Holley (guitar &composer)
• Eda Dalboy (singer)
• Toni Faris (piano)
• Brotherhood Daniele & Michele Ferrazzano (DJ’s)
• Rafed El Jundi (guitar &synthesizer)

Martin Grothmaak – Evertime 

(Stuttgart) As a premiere, Galerie Kernweine “Foto und Raum” will be showing the photographic work Stardust by Martin Grothmaak, in its EvertimeExhibition from 29^thSeptember until 10^thOctober.

In his large-format works, Martin Grothmaak addresses the unlimited immediacy of the present and its influences on time and space. Far beyond traditional standards and reference values Martin Grothmaak seeks his own form of interpretation and invites the viewers to let themselves participate in an interplay between their own desires and wishes and ultimately their essential soul. 

The audience finds itself caught between two extremes: emptiness, darkness and hidden anxieties on the one hand – and love, energy, intoxication, intensity and freedom on the other. It is a surreal story, which is revealed between the lines. A tale which tells of love, affection and an almost indescribable devotion. Of a deep humility when confronted with the core of our existence – encountering life and death and the mysterious eternity of our being. 

Martin Grothmaak is creative director, photographer and founder of the artistic and design publishing company United Landscapes and a partner of Projekttriangle, an interdisciplinary design studio. He works in free and applied projects for international institutions and brands at the conjunction of design, art, architecture and culture. Grothmaak has studied photography, film and visual design. He lives and works in Stuttgart. 

United Landscapes Publishers and Galleries is an independent art and design publishing venture, producing carefully edited and designed collector’s editions of books, prints, multiples and unique objects for a qualityconscious audience. With Evertime United Landscapes presents its first publication.

Galerie Kernweine and United Landscapes are showing the first exhibition of the project Evertime. The publication of the same name is also available from the gk shop. 

Die Galerie Kernweine, Foto und Raum, ist diesjährig zum ersten Mal Teil des Galerienrundgang

ART ALARM in STUTTGART. 

SA. 22.09 /11.00 – 21.00 Uhr 
SO. 23.09 /11.00 –18.00 Uhr

Performance & Happening 

in der g –– k zum finalen Wochenende der Ausstellung "Lost Boys" von Slava Mogutin:

22. September 20 Uhr

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WIR FEIERN UNSER SOMMERFEST

AM 18.AUGUST AB 12.00 UHR, DEN GANZEN TAG, DIE GANZE NACHT!

// BARBECUE & ICE-CREAM & BOWLE 

// WORKSHOPS UM DAS FOTO UND DIE GALERIE 

// LIVE MUSIK 

// WASSERSPAß

g—k • WOKASOMA ___ The Disposable Diary

Die Galerie Kernweine zeigt Auszüge der WOKASOMA-Edition "The Disposable 
Diary".

Eröffnung am Freitag, den 27. Juli 19.00 UHR 

KÜNSTLERGESPRÄCH und PERSÖNLICHE FÜHRUNG mit  Florian Schröder 

Sonst eher für stilistisch reduzierte Vektorgrafiken und Siebdrucke bekannt, zeigt Florian Schröder im Rahmen seines WOKASOMA-Pop-Art-Konzeptes dieses Mal ausschließlich Fotografien.

Alle Arbeiten des ursprünglich als "Disposable Diary" geplanten Projektes wurden mit einer handelsüblichen Einwegkamera aufgenommen.Somit reduziert sich das künstlerische Konzept auf ISO 400 Film, ein einfaches Plastikobjektiv und 27 Bilder pro Kamera.

Mit der Einwegkamera als ständigem Begleiter fotografiert Florian Schröder z.B. die südafrikanische Rap-Rave-Band Die Antwoord,Hip Hop-Legende KRS One oder das Berliner Gesamtkunstwerk Rummelsnuff.

Des Weiteren romantische Landschaften, rumänische Bettelbanden, Denkmäler, Nachtleben, Katzen, und Kunst-Installationen.Keines der Motive ist inszeniert, alle Bilder dokumentieren den Moment unverfälscht. Zufall und ästhetische Unvollkommenheit sind Teil deskünstlerischen Konzeptes, die technischen Einschränkungen arbeiten der Idee zu.

Für die ersten Besucher der Ausstellung (Beginn: 19 Uhr | Freitag, 27. Juli) liegen Ausstellungsplakate zur Mitnahme bereit. Auf Wunsch vor Ort vom Künstler signiert.

Das im Mai erschiene Hörbuch zum Roman "Sage mir deine Freunde" von Florian Schröder findet Ihr u.A. bei Audible (https://adbl.co/2InPgqd)
oder Spotify (https://spoti.fi/2IO9rRB).
Die Videos seiner Band "Opus Leopard" auf youtube (https://bit.ly/2MlJXsV).

Weitere Informationen über WOKASOMA hier -> www.wokasoma.com

ABOUT FLORIAN SCHRÖDER:

WOKASOMA is the fictional brand name of the German Pop Artist Florian Schröder (*1980).

Florian Schröder who has been working in the advertisement industry for many years, is well acquainted with the means of blurring the lines between art and commerce.

His artistic work depicts the practices and methods commonly used in the world of advertisement and consumption in various ways. The conceptual appearance as a brand, cooperate identity and franchise, 
is both progression of Pop Art Ideology and stylistic device. Mechanical reproduction and a bold visual language characterize WOKASOMA’s features of recognition.

Above all though, WOKASOMA is an ovation to our modern trivial culture. With WOKASOMA the artist can work on various projects, often simultaneously and at the same time. Every project can be understood as an autonomous self-contained edition. By now, his interdisciplinary oeuvre includes prints, photographs, music videos, party series, movies, clothes, toys and records.

Lately the artist has been focusing on his Synthie-Pop band OPUS LEOPARD.
Result of this project is the release of two albums, "Futter für die Götter" (2015) and "Kunst oder Katze" (2016). As a musician he has been performing in Paris, London, Berlin and Moscow.

Odiseo Vol.12 “Uniformity”

20.Juli 20 Uhr  

// Book Launch 

// Exhibition by Turkina Faso

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WM 2018 in der Galerie Kernweine 

14. Juni 17 H
Anpfiff

// Release gk WM-Kollekion im Laden 

// Public Viewing im Hinterhof

// WM Wettbüro im UG der Galerie 

// Space Food & Wodka in der Cafébar

// Ausstellung "lost boys" von Slava Mogutin in der Galerie

PUBLIC VIEWING an folgenden Terminen/Spielen 

14.6 17.00 Uhr AUFTAKTSPIEL

17.6 17.00 Uhr DEUTSCHLAND/MEXIKO

23.6  20.00 Uhr DEUTSCHLAND/ SCHWEDEN

27.6 16.00 UHR SÜDKOREA / DEUTSDCHLAND

&&&&& auf Zuruf! 

gk - KOLLEKTION

IM RAHMEN DER WM BRINGT DAS TEAM DER GALERIE KERNWEINE EINE EIGENE LIMITIERTE KOLLEKTION MIT T-SHIRTS & SCHALS HERAUS !

LAUNCH DIESER IST EBENFALLS AM 14.JUNI, IM LADEN DER GALERIE.

SLAVA MOGUTIN, LOST BOYS

09.06.2018 – 23.09.2018

Artist reception and opening: Saturday, 9 June, 8PM

Galerie Kernweine is proud to present Lost Boys, the first German solo presentation of photography and video by the New York-based Russian-American artist Slava Mogutin.

Born in the industrial city of Kemerovo in the heart of Siberia, Mogutin was exiled from Russia for his outspoken queer writings and activism. He became the first Russian to receive political asylum in the US on the grounds of homophobic persecution. Years after his exile, Mogutin was awarded the Andrei Bely Prize, one of the most prestigious literary awards in Russia. He traveled back to accept the prize and document Russia’s transformation in a series of portraits taken in Moscow, St. Petersburg, and Crimea before its annexation. 

In Lost Boys, Mogutin captured youth subcultures galvanized by the rapid economic and political change, young men from different walks of life—from soldiers and military cadets to punks, skinheads, ravers, homeless kids and street hustlers. He examines Russia’s post-Communist past and neo-Capitalist future without embellishing or posing any judgment. In the country where uniforms traditionally symbolize power, oppression and conformity, Mogutin celebrates diversity and nonconformism in hope for a better, more just and open society. 

“These photos are both personal time capsules and commentary on displacement and identity, attachment and disaffection, obsession with youth, and—perhaps most importantly—the ultimate quest for unequivocal love and universal acceptance, from the East to the West and back to the East again.”                                                                                                                         – Slava Mogutin

Lost Boys was originally presented in Mogutin’s first New York solo show and later became his first critically acclaimed artist monograph and traveling exhibition with multiple destinations in Krakow, Prague, Luxembourg, Madrid, Buenos Aires, Thessaloniki, and, most recently, Budapest—as part of Golden Boundaries: Youth Culture in Contemporary Photography at the Robert Capa Center. For the show in Galerie Kernweineshow, a special limited edition set of prints will be on display at thr gk-shop.

 Mogutin’s photography is accompanied by a video installation of short films created in collaboration with Brian Kenny, Gio Black Peter, Bruce LaBruce, Edmund White, François Sagat, and Susanne Oberbeck of No Bra, among others.

This show coincides with the FIFA World Cup hosted by Russia, and Galerie Kernweine aims to take a closer look at the contemporary Russian culture and politics through the program of events and discussions, with an artist talk by Slava Mogutin (TBA).

 Galerie Kernweine is a space for contemporary photography and multimedia. In cooperation with artists, we develop and curate exhibition projects that challenge classical approaches and expand established formats. Workshops and other events take place on an alternating basis. 

g—k • MACK BOOKS 

MACK BOOKS POP-UP & TALKS 
7. MAI –– 27-MAI 

about: 
MACK Pop-Up in the shop of Galerie Kernweine and presentations by First Book Award Artists:
- Both Kristina Jurotschkin and Hayahisa Tomiyasu were shortlisted for the MACK First Book Award in 2017 and 2018 respectively.
- g –– k Shop presents 16 selected MACK books for 3 weeks 

9.MAI 20 H: MACK BOOK TALK WITH KRISTINA JUROTSCHKIN  

24.MAI 20H: MACK BOOK TALK WITH HAYAHISA TOMIYSAU  

Der MACK First Book Award ist ein fotografischer Preis, der Künstler/innen verliehen wird, die zuvor noch keine Buchpublizierung hatten. Der Preis wurde 2012 in’s Leben gerufen um junge und aufstrebende Fotografen in ihrem Schaffen zu unterstützen. Der Aufruf zur Einreichung von Beiträgen betont eine Vorliebe für Projekte, die in Buchform konzipiert sind: Werke, die durch das Buch eine Stimme finden.

"PORSCHE DRIVER'S SELECTION"

GALERIE KERNWEINE EXHIBITION & INSTALLATION 

Fr 20.April 18.00 Uhr –– So 22. April 18.00 Uhr


ABOUT: 
Offizielle Produktpräsentation der Art Edition Le Mans Hattrick im Rahmen einer Ausstellung in der Galerie Kernweine.
Der Fokus liegt auf dem dreimaligen Le Mans Sieger 919 Hybrid. Dabei wird ein original Siegerfahrzeug ausgestellt und die Le Mans Hattrick 919 Hybrid Art Edition by Prosche Driver's Selection präsentiert.

g—k • HARTMANN BOOKS
IM GESPRÄCH ÜBER

DO 12. April — 20H

Booktalk mit Andreas Langen, Markus und Angelika Hartmann 

„Lasst uns preisen die großen und kleinen Bücher, die spannenden und langweiligen.“
Ein Abend über Fotobücher, das Büchermachen, -verkaufen, -konzipieren,
von Syrakus bis Stuttgart, von Bielefeld über Berlin nach Boston und Bangkok.“

ÜBER HARTMANN BOOKS:
Hartmann Projects fördert und vermittelt Künstler und ihre Arbeiten mit einem Schwerpunkt auf fotografischen Projekten.

Hartmann Books vertreten Künstler national und international und arbeiten mit Institutionen, Galerien, Sammlern, Verlagen und Medien zusammen. Hierfür konzipieren, kuratieren und vermitteln sie Ausstellungen und verlegen (wenn sinnvoll) Bücher und Künstlerbücher. Dahinter steckt die einfache Erkenntnis, dass alle Kunst Sichtbarkeit und Wahrnehmung braucht.

AGORA42 MAGAZIN RELEASE 

"ALLES IN ORDNUNG?"

// 28.MÄRZ 20H

TALK: 
agora42 und Rafael Capurro

ABOUT: 
Anlässlich der neuen Ausgabe der agora42 zum Thema ORDNUNG unterhält sich die agora42-Redaktion mit dem Informationsethiker und Philosophen Prof. Dr. Rafael Capurro über wirtschaftliche und staatliche Ordnung, über Sinnbildung und Sinnverlust, über Grenzen und über die digitale Zukunft.

PETER GRANSER –– 9 BÜCHER

// Booktalk am 22.März, 19:30 Uhr

ABOUT:

Peter Granser wird im Gespräch mit Tobias Wall in der Galerie Kernweine einen Einblick in seine fotografischen Werke, die damit verbundenen Wandlungen sowie die Entstehung seine Bücher geben.

Granser hat zwischen 2003-2018 neun Bücher veröffentlicht. Während in den früheren Projekten der Mensch in seinem jeweiligen Lebensumfeld im Mittelpunkt stand, sind seine gegenwärtigen Arbeiten eher abstrakt und konzeptionell. Ausschnitte und konzentrierte Details statt Narration – ein Mosaik im Grenzbereich zwischen dem Gewöhnlichen und Außergewöhnlichem, das jeder Betrachter selbst zusammensetzen muss. Peter Granser lebt in Stuttgart und führt mit Beatrice Theil seit 2015 den ITO -Projektraum (http://ito-raum.de).

In Kooperation mit der Galerie Kernweine werden zum Anlass der Veranstaltung neun limitierte, signierte Boxen „Neun aus Neun“ von Peter Granser mit neun Fine Art Prints produziert. Zusätzlich werde alle Bücher von Peter Granser im gk-Laden erhältlich sein.

In the group exhibition "Rebecca Storm & g – k Editions" the gallery Galerie Kernweine shows works out of their limited editions as well as a series of works from rebecca Storm (CAN). We oppose different young, contemporary   photography to show a wide range of visual and content.

We present the exhibition above the two levels of the gallery. On the first level we show the five artists Fabrizio Albertini (IT), Felix Gärtner (GB), Eddie O’Keefe (USA), Maya Rochat (CHE) und Aizawa Yoshikazu (JPN). Main topics are nature and the portrait.

In the basement of the gallery we focus on single works from Rebecca Storm.  
Rebecca Storm grew up in the Pacific Northwest and lives and works in Montreal as a writer, editor and photographer. Rececca Storm’s work is preoccupied with synaesthesia and largely explores still life through this preoccupation. She is interested in the tension that exists in the visceral juxtaposition of seemingly unpleasant textures and colours, implementing in her photos themes such as (un)femininity, disguise, aging, indulgence and ASMR.

„I am most deeply interested in sculpture and still life—implementing often inanimate subjects, which generally function as a more compelling narrative about the human psyche than a portrait might.“  (Rebecca Storm)

VERNISSAGE: 17TH OF MARCH 8PM    

SATURDAY, March 3rd

20H Talk with Hendrick Lakeberg

22:30H Sound by Fatäk (friendly 5€)

For the Finissage of the single exhibition we are going to have a talk between Hendrik Lakeberg, chief editor from “Numéro Berlin” and Constantin Schlachter. As a main topic we focus on the intersection of fashion and art. In addition, we are going to show a video collage of the cooperation between Numéro Berlin and Schlachter.

“La Trajectoire du Gyrovague” was exhibited for three months spread across both stories of the gallery which opened in November 2017. Paris sound artist FATÄK will accompany the Finissage with electronic music. The effect of the resulting synesthesia of image and sound is to emphasize Schlachter’s primary motifs of nature, the invisible, and matter. Constantin Schlachter was discovered by FOAM Talent in 2015 based on his intuitive way of taking pictures. Since then, his work has been exhibited across Europe and he was publishing his book “La Trajectoire du Gyrovague” on the occasion of his solo exhibition at the Kernweine Gallery.

By cooperating with Numéro Berlin for the Finissage, Schlachter’s text will be discussed once more substantially. 

Mikio Live Concert & Max Siedentopf Video Premiere

21H

ABOUT MAX SIEDENTOPF

Max Siedentopf is a multidisciplinary visual artist currently based in London, UK. Max grew up in Windhoek, Namibia and continued to live and work in Berlin, Los Angeles and Amsterdam. 

Max is a relentless producer of ideas which live across the disciplines of photography, film, image collections, design and sculpture. Apart from his autonomous work he is one of the main creatives at KesselsKramer and co-founder of Ordinary Magazine.

ABOUT MIKIO MUSIC

Markus Zink – drums
Fabian Meyer – piano
Jan Mikio Kappes – bass

Neben konzeptionellen und freien Ansätzen werden Elemente aus verschiedenster moderner Musik in den Kompositionen verwendet um einen fesselnden Sound zu kreieren.
“Stilistisch nicht anbiedernd, sondern experimentell klangforschend im besten kreativen Sinne.”
(Hans Kumpf/jazzpages.com)

THE OPÉRA  — MAGAZIN

Classic & Contemporary Nude Photography
Volume VI

7PM Vernissage  with a speech of the editor Matthias Straub.

Extra: sausages and mulled wine in the yard of the gallery.

10PM disco St. Malo & Ringo Stelzl aka Prince Bahadu iin the galleries' basement.

The Galerie Kernweine Photo and Space will open with a solo exhibition by French photographer Constantin Schlachter.

Constantin Schlachter (*1992) is an artist based in Paris who mainly works with photography. Nature, invisible and matter are dominant entities in Schlachter’s work. Using them, he creates sensorial fictions while examining reminiscence, mental ladscapes and a spiritual return to nature. Schlachter obtained a Photography Diploma at Gobelins, l'école de l'image in Paris in 2014.

In the exhibited workgroup La Trajectoire du Gyrovague Constantin Schlachter uses different media cameras and microscope and analogue and digital manipulations, to fix the emotion he experienced by means of the landscape and its details. Each medium and process corresponding to one specific state of mind. La Trajectoire du Gyrovague is an inner-quest in mental landscapes, where the notions of micro-macro, organic-mineral are confused, thus forming a loop where subjects are constantly reinvented and transformed. Like in an alchemic process, those treatments are in order to re-unify the opposites and permits to the viewer.

The works of La Trajectoire du Gyrovague will be exhibited for three months spread across both stories of the gallery. Besides Schlachter publishes his book La Trajectoire du Gyrovague in September 2017. Paris sound artist Fatäk will accompany the opening with electronic music.