DIRECTORS LOUNGE DRIVES C.A.R.

Directors Lounge is, as most by now know, a motor that is always running, transporting off-centre art of various descriptions to various destinations. Continuing this aesthetic assault, DL is revving up to leave its parking space in Berlin this week to head out to the megalopolis Rhine-Ruhr. At C.A.R. (otherwise known as “contemporary art ruhr”), DL will be presenting a cache of buffed efforts, arresting works fuelled with visual and aural alchemy, some of which will be in the form of fitting film excursions highlighting the artistic process, taken from the 9th Berlin International Directors Lounge earlier this year. The brakes are off, and there is no rear-view mirror.

All of this will unfold on the 1st floor (above ground floor), stand A12, next to both Kroatien Kreativ, which already unleashed some of its light-and-sound wizardry at DL9 in February, and partner Medienwerkstatt Berlin, another luminary force at the same event, our annual core occurence. There will be much to steer the senses. Even if you aren’t one of the 11 million+ living in the area, it is, after all, maybe nothing more than a highway away. And the Autobahn has no speed limit.

See you at C.A.R.!

With films by (selection):

Nadav Assor Coms Device (Esotropia Conversations I), Cade Bursell Salt Lines, Wuttin Chansataboot Visual Element, James Cho Bubble,
Nuno Escudeiro A Dance Dictionary, Ian Haig Skin Freak, Nam Le Untitled (Rope) and Untitled (White Man & Paper) , Céline Masson “Que Je Sois Médusée”, Jeremy Moss The Sight, Monika Rechsteiner Hikikomori, Sylvia Schwenk A Shared Space, Karl F. Stewart K20, Yuichi Suita How Beautiful Japanese Morning Is, Takahiro Suzuki Horizon

Artists (selection):

Julia Murakami, Joachim Seinfeld, Alan Smithee, André Werner

Directors Lounge at the contemporary art ruhr (C.A.R.) – the innovative art fair, November 1- 3, 2013
Zollverein World Heritage Site
Gelsenkirchener Strasse 181
45309 Essen

Official Opening:
Friday, November 1, 2013, 8 pm, V.I.P.-Preview: 6 pm

Public Fair Days
Saturday, Nov. 2, 12 am – 8 pm
Sunday, Nov. 3, 11 am – 7 pm

Map Zollverein:
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How to get there:
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More:
www.contemporaryartruhr.de

pictured: “Helga and Hildegard”, 2013 by Julia Murakami

“Basquiat”, 1980 by Robert Carrithers

Here are some impressions from the Contemporary Art Ruhr, May 31 – June 2, 2013 in the Sanaa building at Zeche Zollverein. Besides being at the C.A.R. video lounge, we were present at our booth directly at the entrance. Thanks to Silvia Sonnenschmidt and Thomas Volkmann, the organisers of the C.A.R. and all visitors and friends for making it a  great time!

Read  more and view the complete photo album

31. May – 2. June at the Zollverein world heritage site

It is a fine tradition that we present the C.A.R. Video-Lounge together with the C.A.R. media art fair. Next to works from participating galleries, our friends of Kroatien Kreativ and invited artists we will screen selected works from The 9th Berlin International Directors Lounge.

contemporary art ruhr (C.A.R.) is an innovative and dynamic fair format. Since 2006 C.A.R. comes two times a year, as a media art fair in summer, emphasizing video and media art, installations, performances, environmental sculptures, multimedia projects and contemporary photograpy. In autumn with a more classical art fair for contemporary art – C.A.R. . covers the entire spectrum of fine arts and their most important current influences.

C.A.R. Videolounge 2013

Katharina Merten DE Speaking In Tongues 2:34 2012

Beata Obst DE Stroboskop B 2:48

Wei-Ming Ho TW Self-Destruction For Eternity 6:26 2011

Cornelia Eichhorn FR Ved´Ma 14:00 2012

Julia Charlotte Richter DE You Hear Something 7:47 2011

Lucie Mercadal DE Hafenpfütze 4:21 2012

Kroatien Kreativ 2013 curated by Ingeborg Fülepp

Nadija Mustapic  HR An Afternoon Without Gravity 14:41

Marijan Crtalic HR

Directors Lounge Selection

Irina Birger NL Irina Birger Thinks Drawing Is Important 15:13 2010

Stefan Larsson JP  9 states of ambivalence 01:30 2012

Andre Chi Sing Yuen DE Sword-Sharpness of Expression 02:26 2012

Alessandro Amaducci  IT Black Data 04:05 2012

Michael Higgins IE The Poorhouse Revisited 15:00 2011

Valentina Besegher Scotti IT Try Hard Johnny! 04:11 2007

Roger Deutsch US Prelude 07:15 2011

Eleonora Manca IT I Sing the Body Electric Borderskin 03:49 2012

Fabio Scacchioli and Vincenzo Core IT Spectrography of a battle 03:42 2012

Stephen Dirkes US The Offering 05:23 2012

Shaun Roberts US Dear Texas Highways 11:13 2009

Bernd Luetzeler DE The Voice of God 09:35 2011

Ana Rodríguez León ES Memorais 07:00 2012

Reed O’Beirne US Last of Our Kind 13:19 2012

Alessio Rutigliano IT Six triptychs 06:55 2012

Maximilian Schmoetzer and Fabian Heitzhausen DE The Conversation 03:24 2012

Artists presented at the DL Booth

Videos

Mihai Grecu and Thibault Gleize RO Glucose 07:18 2012
Takahiro Suzuki US Horizon 06:38 2012
Keren Zaltz IL Cradle 01:49 2011
Céline Trouillet FR SONG N°15/20  05:21/4:12 2012
Alan Smithee Are You Afraid 2012 loop
Pedro Ferreira PT Dance Dance Fire Dance 06:00 2012

Photography/Painting

Robert Carrithers US
Marijan Crtalic HR
Carola Goellner DE
Julia Murakami DE/JP
André Werner DE

Impressions from the C.A.R.

pictured: ““I can’t go back to yesterday because I was a different person then” by Julia Murakami, 2013 from the series “Once Upon A Time”, C-Print, Edition of 10, 6.7 x 9.6 inch (print) | 11.8 x 15.8 inch (framed), signed and dated on the front
© Julia Murakami

• Directors Lounge at the C.A.R. contemporary art Ruhr fair

Once again we are at the Zollverein World Heritage Site, November 2-4, 2012
You´ll find us in the center of the amazing Sanaa building.

On Saturday, 3 November, we participate in a charity auction, including works donated by Julia Murakami, and Joachim Seinfeld, to support the eco-programs of the United Nations. The auctioneer will be Til Macke, grandson of August Macke.

• artists (selection)

Julia Murakami, Joachim Seinfeld, Alan Smithee, André Werner

• with films by (selection)

Stefan Adamski RE:, Allan Brown Square Dance Hypnotist, Kote Camacho La Gran Carrera, Kim Collmer Head Room, Ron Diorio American Arabesque, Simon Ellis Telling Lies / What About The Bodies / Where Is My Mind, EZO Sinecdoquanon, Charles Fairbanks IRMA, Firas Khnaisser Night and Day, Neil Needleman Meeskeit, Roberto Santaguida Haikus for Karaoke / Miraslava, Fabio Scacchioli and Vincenzo Core Miss Candace Hilligoss’ Flickering Halo, Fritz Stolberg Of This, Men Shall Know Nothing!, Maurizio v. Trapp Matador

 November 2-4, 2012

Zollverein World Heritage Site
Gelsenkirchener Strasse
45129 Essen, Germany

Official Opening:
Friday, November 2, 2012, 8 pm, V.I.P.-Preview: 6 pm

Public Fair Days:
Saturday, November 3, 2012, noon – 8 pm
Sunday, November, 4, 2012, 11 am – 7 pm

day ticket: 12,- € / 10,-€

pictured above: Joachim Seinfeld, Berlin 1962, construction of the wall, 2009 from the series Wenn Deutsche lustig sind – docufiction (photo performance)

Directors Lounge @ Network – C.A.R., Zaha, Seoul

We will participate at the “Network – C.A.R. exhibition” at the Zaha Museum, Seoul.

The Network – C.A.R. exchange project was initiated by the art fair Contemporary Art Ruhr and takes place from September 14 till October 14, 2012, parallel to the Korean International Art Fair (KIAF).

participating artists: Andreas Mueller-Pohle, Julia Murakami, Susanna Schoenberg, Alan Smithee, Andre Werner

Network – C.A.R., the innovative art fair

Opening: September 14, 2012

Exhibition: September 14 – October 14, 2012,Tuesday till Sunday, 10 am – 6 pm

Location: Zaha Museum, 362-21 Buam-dong, Jongno-gu, Seoul, Southkorea

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Impressions from Directors Lounge @ Contemporary Art Ruhr (C.A.R.) – The Media Art Fair

Eberhard Kranemann performing with VJ Chuuu at the opening night

VJ Chuuu doing the turntable animation

Happy people: Carola Goellner and Eberhard Kranemann

new works by André Werner, the glasses are filled with honey

Julia Murakami, Allegory of Obliviousness, 2012, oil on canvas, 11.81 x 11.81 in

photo: Maurizio Mueller | Mau Fashion

Michael Caine, eight times, paintings by Carola Goellner

The artist in the age of digital reproduction: Kim Dotty Hachmann in front of herself

Dream Team: VJ Chuuu, Carola Goellner, André Werner, Julia Murakami, Eberhard Kranemann

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Directors Lounge @ Contemporary Art Ruhr (C.A.R.) – The Media Art Fair

Once again you will find us at the c.a.r., the contemporary art ruhr at the Zollverein World Cultural Heritage Site, formerly known as the “most beautiful coal mine in the world” – and now the best-known industrial monument and centre of the creative economy in the Ruhr Area.

Artists included: Carola Göllner, Rosetta Messori, Andreas Müller-Pohle, Julia Murakami, Kim Dotty Hachmann, Alan Smithee, Peter Snowdon, Kika Nicolela, Rachel Rosalen, André Werner and many others

Primordial Breath, the first video work by Italian Photographer Rosetta Messori, is a visual journey based on 18 photographs from her book  Visioni Mediterranee  (Skira 2010). In a continuous state of flux, Rosetta Messori captures the essence of a movement to tell an imaginary story. Primordial Breath was shown in world premiere during the 8th Berlin International Directors Lounge.

Araki at Work", shot in 1996 by Andreas Müller-Pohle in Japan, was first published in 2011. Nobuyoshi Araki, well-known as a provocative and commercial photographer, seems to surpass limits of privacy when working, especially seen from a European perspective. However, the film also reflects and produces the strange relations between “observer and observed”, the settings in which the photographer worked with a model. The viewer becomes the observer of the observer, maybe even reflecting back on his or her own position as spectator, or voyeur.¹

My Name Is Michael Caine, a series of paintings based on film stills, by Carola Göllner, presents the main actor in a playful game between ironic exaggeration and atmospheric nuances. He becomes a Comic hero in the Pop art realm of C.G.´s Iconography, as exuberant as the movies that served as a model.

For the Opening we will present a live performance by Eberhard Kranemann (Multimedia artist and former member of “Kraftwerk”) and VJ Chuuu, Japan (“Turntable Animation”)


contemporary art ruhr (C.A.R.) 2012
Media Art Fair, June 1-3, 2012
World Heritage Site Zollverein, Coking plant
Arendahls Wiese, 45141 Essen

Opening: Friday, June 1, 8 pm
Public fair hours: Saturday, June 2, 11 am – 7 pm
Sunday, June 3, 11 am – 7 pm

Entrance fee: 8,- € / 6,-€

pictured: Peter Snowdon, Belgium “Dieu est dans les racines” (God is in the roots), 2012

rooftop fun in Miami

Our long time friends and collaborators of the c.a.r. art fair are in town during the art Miami. They are setting up a  get-together for all art lovers on December 1st on a cozy rooftop in the Art Deco district.
If you are in Miami these days and like to discuss possible collaboration, point us to your work or just meet like-minded folks for an informal talk don´t hesitate to get in touch and we´ll send you an invitation.

Alan Smithee/Julia Murakami: twenty dots for Miami, 2010, edition of 20/2AP, ca. 0,7 x 0,7cm, read more about the dots at the artresort