Artist talk

Finissage of the exhibition "Gravity's Tune" in the exhibition room of the Schering Stiftung, Unter den Linden 32-34, Berlin. The artist Annika Kahrs in conversation with Christina Landbrecht (curator of the exhibition) and Katerina Gregos (director of the National Museum of Contemporary Art Αthens (EMST)
Photo: Ink Agob

Finissage of the exhibition "Gravity's Tune" by Annika Kahrs

Annika Kahrs in conversation with

Finissage of the exhibition "Gravity's Tune" by Annika Kahrs

Annika Kahrs in conversation with

Date:

November 24, 2023, 6–8 p.m.

Venue:

Exhibtion room of the Schering Stiftung
Unter den Linden 32-34
10117 Berlin

The panel discussion will be in English.

With Annika Kahrs, Dr. Christina Landbrecht, and Katerina Gregos (Artistic director, EMST – National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens)

Starting from Annika Kahrs’s most recent video work, Christina Landbrecht and Katerina Gregos will engage the artist in a discussion of her work to date. They will address, among other issues, Kahrs’s interest in astrophysical questions, her preoccupation with the possibilities and limitations of the audible, and her efforts to grasp the intangible through art.

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Opening of the exhibition Gravity's Tune at the Schering Stiftung, September 13, 2023

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Annika Kahrs: Gravity's Tune

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Katerina Gregos

Artistic director, EMST – National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens

Katerina Gregos is an art historian, curator and educator. Since 2021 she is the artistic director of the National Museum of Contemporary Art (EMΣT), Athens. Her curatorial practice has consistently explored the relationship between art, society and politics with a particular view on questions of democracy, human rights, economy, ecology, crisis and changing global production circuits. She has has curated numerous large-scale international exhibitions and biennials including, among others, the 1^st Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art (LV, 2018); the 5th Thessaloniki Biennial (GR, 2015); the Göteborg International Biennial (SE, 2013), Manifesta 9 (BE, 2012), the 4. Fotofestival Manheim Ludwigshafen Heidelberg (DE, 2011). She has also curated three critically acclaimed national pavilions at the Venice Biennale: Croatia (2019), Belgium (2015) and Denmark (2011). In addition, she has curated exhibitions for several institutions including, among many others, the Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid; Akademie der Kunst, Berlin; BOZAR, Brussels; the Central Museum, Utrecht; Museum für Neue Kunst, Freiburg; the Kunsthalle Tallinn and La Kunsthalle Mulhouse. She regularly contributes texts to books, exhibition catalogues, periodicals and artist’s monographs and her work has been published by several major publishers including Yale University Press, Duke University Press, Hatje Cantz, J R Ringier, Phaidon, Mousse and Distanz, among others, and has participated in numerous international symposia in addition to lecturing on art in universities and art schools.

Annika Kahrs

Artist

Annika Kahrs lives and works in Hamburg and Berlin. She has been awarded a number of prizes and scholarships including Villa Aurora, L.A., USA; VILA SUL, Brazil; Max-Pechstein-Förderpreis; Stiftung Kunstfonds; and the George-Maciunas-Förderpreis donated by René Block. Kahrs has exhibited both nationally and internationally, including at the 16^th Lyon Biennale, at Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, Berlin; 5th Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art; Kunsthalle Bremerhaven; Savvy Contemporary, Berlin; On the Road exhibition project in Santiago de Compostela; the Bienal Internacional de Curitiba, Brazil; Hamburger Kunsthalle; Hybrid Art Festival in Moscow; KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin; Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn; Gropius Bau, Berlin; Goldsmiths University of London; Flat Time House, London, and the Velada de Santa Lucia festival in Maracaibo, Venezuela.

Dr. Christina Landbrecht

Program Director, Art

Phone: +49.30.20 62 29 63
landbrecht@scheringstiftung.de

Christina Landbrecht is the director of the art program at the Schering Stiftung. Born in Munich, she moved to Berlin to study art history and business administration at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. She subsequently worked as curatorial assistant at the Berlinische Galerie – Museum of Modern Art, where she later took the position of assistant to the director, Dr. Thomas Köhler. When the excellence cluster “Bild Wissen Gestaltung” (Image Knowledge Gestaltung) was established at Humboldt-Universität, she returned there as a research associate and to write her dissertation. Entitled “The Problem and Potential of Artistic Research,” the PhD-thesis deals with the relationship between the natural sciences and the visual arts since the 1990s. She puts this knowledge to good use for the Foundation, bringing together the expertise of both artists and scientists in productive ways and inspiring interdisciplinary dialogues and projects.

Artist talk

Finissage of the exhibition "Gravity's Tune" by Annika Kahrs

Annika Kahrs in conversation with

Finissage of the exhibition "Gravity's Tune" by Annika Kahrs