This weekend, Vienna retail darlings WE BANDITS are hosting a fashion, art and music fest in their Brick 5 (Fünfhausgasse 5) venue. Young and upcoming fashion labels from around the globe will be showing off their designs for affordable prices. Elsewhere there’s an exhibition from the two photography artists: Klaus Pichler and Clemens Fantur. On June 23,  the band P R A Q ! will be performing live, while young designers of the Linz University of Art, in collaboration with Fashion School Hetzendorf, will showcase and sell their work. All these festivities make for hungry work, so make sure you chow down on the day long BRUNCH ‘N LUNCH, featuring some lethal cupcakes and cocktails in the sun on the 200m2 roof terrace. So there’s your Viennese weekend, viel spass! WE BANDITS Festival | June 21-24, Vienna
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This weekend, Vienna retail darlings WE BANDITS are hosting a fashion, art and music fest in their Brick 5 (Fünfhausgasse 5) venue. Young and upcoming fashion labels from around the globe will be showing off their designs for affordable prices. Elsewhere there’s an exhibition from the two photography artists: Klaus Pichler and Clemens Fantur.

On June 23,  the band P R A Q ! will be performing live, while young designers of the Linz University of Art, in collaboration with Fashion School Hetzendorf, will showcase and sell their work.

All these festivities make for hungry work, so make sure you chow down on the day long BRUNCH ‘N LUNCH, featuring some lethal cupcakes and cocktails in the sun on the 200m2 roof terrace.

So there’s your Viennese weekend, viel spass!

WE BANDITS Festival | June 21-24, Vienna

The “secret universe” series at Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin presents the work of American artist Morton Bartlett. Central works of his oeuvre are fifteen semi-life-sized dolls, twelve girls and three boys. It took him up to a year to create each of the figures, and he designed various costumes and wigs in order to stage the dolls in true-to-life situations. He inserted them into various real-life moments, and breathed life into his creations through skilled photography.

His work was created for private use and was never exhibited during his lifetime. The dolls, approximately 200 black-and-white photographs, drawings, color slides and costumes were first discovered in 1993. 

Morton Bartlett  | May 11 - September 23 at Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin

For his fourth solo exhibition at Paris’ art: concept, Lothar Hempel presents a spanking new series of paintings that mix oil-colour, crayon, collage, acrylic, print, stains, drips, scratches, sheddings, smears and splatters. These intriguing paintings are filled with unintentional signs that result from the multiplicity of the layers applied by the artist, who tells an unknown story: The Story of The Old New Girls… Vernissage: May 12, 18:00 | Exhibition: May 12 - June 23
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For his fourth solo exhibition at Paris’ art: concept, Lothar Hempel presents a spanking new series of paintings that mix oil-colour, crayon, collage, acrylic, print, stains, drips, scratches, sheddings, smears and splatters. These intriguing paintings are filled with unintentional signs that result from the multiplicity of the layers applied by the artist, who tells an unknown story: The Story of The Old New Girls…

Vernissage: May 12, 18:00 | Exhibition: May 12 - June 23

Not content with bending Berliners’ minds with his recent sound and light exhibition at the Hamburger Bahnhof, Ryoji Ikeda returns to the city in April with a new audiovisual installation as part of an unexpected collaboration. Working with  Mitsuru Kariya, the development leader ofthe new Honda Civic car, the three-screen video projection, entitled data.anatomy [civic], immerses viewers in an intricate yet vast audiovisual composition derived from the entire dataset of the car. True to form, Ikeda abstracts the complexity of the physical object into a captivating aesthetic experience. He explained: “As a Japanese artist I have great respect for Honda’s long tradition of excellence andinnovation in engineering. This installation will reveal the richness and beauty of theephemeral concepts that are embodied physically in the car itself.”  data.anatomy [civic] will be exhibited in the Turbine Hall at the iconic Kraftwerk Berlin (Köpenickerstraße 59-73) from the 19th April to 1st May 2012. Watch this space. 
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Not content with bending Berliners’ minds with his recent sound and light exhibition at the Hamburger Bahnhof, Ryoji Ikeda returns to the city in April with a new audiovisual installation as part of an unexpected collaboration. Working with  Mitsuru Kariya, the development leader ofthe new Honda Civic car, the three-screen video projection, entitled data.anatomy [civic], immerses viewers in an intricate yet vast audiovisual composition derived from the entire dataset of the car. 

True to form, Ikeda abstracts the complexity of the physical object into a captivating aesthetic experience. He explained: “As a Japanese artist I have great respect for Honda’s long tradition of excellence andinnovation in engineering. This installation will reveal the richness and beauty of theephemeral concepts that are embodied physically in the car itself.” 

data.anatomy [civic] will be exhibited in the Turbine Hall at the iconic Kraftwerk Berlin (Köpenickerstraße 59-73) from the 19th April to 1st May 2012. Watch this space. 

Currently on display in the Schering Stiftung in Berlin, HAND HELD LAVA is the exhibition of work by Scottish artist Ilana Halperin who examines our fascination with volcanoes and their intersection with daily life. Today, March 12th, the artist presents a “performance lecture” alongside an anthropologist and art historian, in order to fully explore the links between geology, archaeology and the visual arts. Utilizing news reports, tourist videos and their own field notes, they seek to delineate how volcanic eruptions constitute “scientifically, culturally and personally significant events.” Seriously, what could be more wicked than living, breathing mountains that perish in a fury of apocalyptic destruction?

Check out more information here about the lecture and exhibition.

Combining photographic illustration and avant-avant performance, Parisian artists Estelle Hanania and Christophe Brunnquell will be exhibiting their collaborative work, entitled Guerre de Feu (War of Fire), at the beginning of April in Paris’ 12Mail creative space. Fluctuating from ethno-folk influences to gothic iconography, their work consists of portraits of battered faces, primeval dressings and further presentations of the crude, clandestine world they inhabit.

Their exhibition opens on April 15 and is on display until June 1st. Find out more about the opening here, and check out the work of Estelle Hanania and Christophe Brunnquell.

In a new publication for Pogo Books titled ‘Someone Cuts My Hair While I Sleep’, Brooklyn-based photographer Todd Fisher draws inspiration from his immediate surroundings, capturing the mystical momentum rather than any narrative. The documentary character of the photos is undeniable, yet there is a clear distinction from photojournalism, because Fisher’s photographs incorporate artistic composition. Where the street has a clear narrative, his personal view is more abstract and even opaque at times. Context is deliberately absent or left vague, allowing the viewer to create their own reality.

Source: pogobooks.de

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