Past Events
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A
World Without a Wall
address: Check Point Charlie Museum,
Friedrichstr. 43-45,
Berlin
daily between 9am and 10pm,
Black, white, yellow, red and brown united: That's how the result of a German
nationwide students' painting competition "A world without Wall" looks
like. Because the students thought in their presentation not only about
the German Unification. they also created a picturesque vision of a worldwide new togetherness.
The paintings can be seen at the Museum Haus at Check Point Charlie now
until 15th February, 2000 daily between 9am and 10pm, Friedrichstr. 43-45,
Berlin
East Side paintings now in
Roquetes
Inauguration of an East Side Gallery monument with the painting of Ignasi
Blanch
After the canvas paintings of the East Side Gallery that started at the 9th
of November 1999 with an exhibition in Berlin, and after
having been exposed during the last two months in Tarragona, Spain, they now move on to another city in
the province of Tarragona. The village is called Roquetes and is not only
the next place of remembering the East Side Gallery, but also the place
of birth of the East Side painter Ignasi Blanch. Thanks to his work and
dedication 10 of the canvas paintings of the East Side Gallery are going to
be exposed in the Sala "La Poma" from the 26th of February till the 12th of
March. Besides the paintings there will be unedited
photographs of the Berlin wall and the East Side Gallery, taken also by Ignasi
Blanch and Angel Burgas. In relation to the exposition and the fact that Ignasi Blanch was
born in Roquetes there will be a monument inaugurated the same 26th of
February, which is an exact copy of the piece of the Berlin wall that
Ignasi Blanch painted in 1989 /90. The copy is placed in the old center of
Roquetes and Blanch has repainted his original painting on it. The monument
will stay after the exposition will have moved on in March.
The exposition can be seen at the Sala "La Poma", Avenida Ports de Caro 11,
Roquetes (Tarragona, Spain) and is organized together with the city hall of
Roquetes.
26th of February till the 12th of March, 2000
Opening times are: Monday - Friday: 7 pm - 9 pm and Sundays 11
am - 2 pm and 7pm - 9 pm. More information is available under the
telephone number: (0034) 977 501511 |
October the third 1999
an exposition about the ESG with the title "East
Side Gallery - Wallart between vision and destruction" was opened by the
Bezirksamt Friedrichshain. The exposition is documenting the actual
situation of the ESG and criticizes the treatment of our own history that
is shown by the desolate state of the ESG and speaks for a necessary
restoration of the ESG. The exposition will be on up to March 2000.
Address: Kulturhaus Alte Feuerwache, Marchlechwskistr. 6, 10243 Berlin
U-Bahn U5, Bus 147 & 340, Weberwiese
tel.(030) 293479411, fax. (030) 293479431
Opening: 3 October 1999 - 4 March 2000
Tuesday & Thursday 11.00 - 18.00, Saturday 13.00 - 18.00 |
East
Side Gallery Paintings Exposed in Spain
After the inauguration
of the exposition "10 years of the wall come down - 10 years of the East Side Gallery"
on the historical 9th of November last year 1999 in Berlin at the "Galerie am Potsdamer Platz", some of the
paintings now move on to Spain. 10 of the paintings that
the artists originally painted on the Wall in 1989-1990
have been copied onto canvas and have been chosen for an exposition about the history of the fall of
the Wall. The exposition is organized by the Diputación de Tarragona, a city
in Katalonia / Spain and opens the 13th of January 2000. The 10 paintings
are representing the East Side Gallery and as part of the exposition the
East Side painter Ignasi Blanch, who was born in the province of
Tarragona. Ignasi will give several lectures to the public, explaining the story of the East
Side Gallery, his own painting and connection to the East
Side Gallery and the actual problems to save the gallery.
The exposed paintings are from:
Kani Alavi - Kasra Alavi - Ignasi Blanch
- Gabriel Heimler - Margaret Hunter
Christine Kühn - Gerhard Lahr -
Thierry Noir - Cesar Olhagaray -
Andy Weiss
The exposition will take place at the following place and with the
following dates:
10 Anys Caiguda del Mur
Exposition Pati del Palau de la Diputación de Tarragona
Passeig de Sant Antoni, 100
43003 Tarragona, Spain
13th of January - 6th of February 2000
Monday - Friday : 9 am - 9pm
Saturday 9 am - 1 am & 5 pm - 9pm
Sunday 11 am - 2pm |
"10 years of the wall coming down - 10 years of East Side Gallery"
address: Galerie am Potsdamer Platz, Stresemannstr. 128, 10969 Berlin
tel. (030) 22620459
U-Bahn: U2 Potsdamer Platz, Bus 248 Potsdamer Platz
opening: Monday - Saturday 15.00 - 19.00
5th of November - 20th of November 1999
contact: Kani Alavi, Friedrichstr. 206, 10968 Berlin
tel. 0172 / 3918726
is the title of the exhibition that opened last Friday, the 5th of November 1999 at the "Galerie am Potsdamer Platz" (Stresemannstrasse 128, 10969 Berlin). Recording the 9th of November 1989 and the fall of the Berlin Wall, 28 of the former East Side painters are presenting their Wall painting of the East Side Gallery on 1,15m x 80 cm canvas. The exposition shows how the East Side Gallery had been 10 years ago and how it could be again if it finally was restored. The paintings are all for sale and part of the money goes to the "Künstlerinitiative East Side Gallery e.V." for the restoration of the Gallery. For one month these paintings are going to be seen at the "Galerie am Potsdamer Platz" and after that it is planned to show them in several other cities of Germany and maybe even of other countries. The organizers are in talks with France and Spain already.
The exposition has been initiated and organized by the galerist and artists Kani Alavi, who has also painted at the East Side Gallery and who is the president of the Künstlerinitiative East Side Gallery e.V. The exposition has been opened on Friday the 5th with a speech of the President of the Bundestag, Wolfgang Thierse. He said that from his point of view the East Side Gallery must be saved to remember the history of Berlin and Germany and especially to remember the time of changes when the wall came down and to not forget about the hopes that were born these days.
List of artists participating: |
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| Kani Alavi |
Thierry Noir |
Barbara Greul Aschanta |
| Kasra Alavi |
Rosemarie Schinzler |
Fulvio Pinna |
| Kamel Alavi |
Stephan Cacciatore |
Jeanett Kipka |
| Ignasi Blanch |
Youngran Kim-Hohlfeld |
Irina Dubrowskaja |
| Günther Schäfer |
Kiddy Citny |
Karin Porath |
| Andy Weiss |
Gerhard Lahr |
Yvonne Matzat |
| Carmen Leidner |
Margarte Hunter |
Sabine Kunz |
| Teresa Casanueva |
Christine Kühn |
Sandor Györffy |
| Gabriel Heimler |
Thomas Klingenstein |
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| Cesar Olhagaray |
Schamil Gimajew |
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Ignasi Blanch
is going to be interviewed about the project of the East Side Gallery and his participation in that tomorrow, the 9th of November by
"Cerdanolya-Radio" of Katalonia at 17.30. |
The 9th of November
is the opening of the exposition "November 89" by Kani Alavi at the art gallery of the Checkpoint Charlie Museum.
Recording the fall of the Berlin wall the 9th of November 1989 the artist
and East Side Gallery painter Kani Alavi is exposing his work under the
title and theme " November 89".
address: KunstRaumCC / Museum of Checkpoint Charlie
Friedrichstr. 44, 10969 Berlin, tel. (030) 25372520, fax (030) 26372526
Opening: 09.11 - 14.11.1999
Wednesday - Saturday 15.00 - 19.00
Vernissage: 09.11.1999, 19.00 - 23.00
Finissage: 14.11.1999, 17.00 - 19.00
Vernissage and Finissage live to be seen in Internet at:
http://www.eurocontact.com/webcam |
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