Participants of SYNAPSE – The International Curators’ Network at Haus der Kulturen der Welt in September 2011.

Haus der Kulturen der Welt has invited 13 up-and-coming curators and a curatorial collective of two to share SYNAPSE—The International Curators’ Network at Haus der Kulturen der Welt. The first network meeting will take place September 7 – 10, 2011 in the framework of the Asia-Pacific Weeks 2011. Moderated by international curators, scientists and other experts, the network meeting of SYNAPSE will focus on the interactions between science and art.

In interdisciplinary workshops, the SYNAPSE curators (selected by an international jury) together with the five winning curators of Meridian I Urban. Curatorial Projects on Health (September 7 – 17, 2011) will generate new project ideas. Among other questions, the workshop will address how scientific topics can be approached by curators.

Tue, September 6th, Opening

7:30p.m. Reception Meet and Greet at HKW

8:00 p.m. Talk between artist Ariel Guzik (Mexico City) and curator Osvaldo Sánchez (director, Museo de Arte Moderno/ Mexico City) El reencantamiento invisible /The unseen enchantment with discussion open to the public.

9:00 p.m. Welcome Dinner at Auster

 

Wed, September 7th, Art and Science in the Institutional Space

10:00 a.m. Lecture Mounting Vision in the Museum: A Historic Perspective by art historian Prof. Dr. Charlotte Klonk (History of Art Department/Humboldt Universität Berlin) and discussion  moderated by Dr. Kirsten Einfeldt (SYNAPSE/Haus der Kulturen der Welt).

12:00 m. Short presentations of each participating curator

7:00 p.m. Opening of the exhibition Floating Food by Ulrike Ottinger at HKW

8:00 p.m. Visit at the abc art fair opening.

 

Thu, September 8^th, Art and Science in Public Space

9:00 a.m. Presentation of the Ernst Schering Foundation by Heike Catherina Mertens (Director of Arts and Culture).

12:00 m. Lecture Æther- between Cosmology and Consciousness by artist Christoph Keller (Berlin); discussion moderated by Daniela Wolf (SYNAPSE/Haus der Kulturen der Welt)

Listen to the lecture by Christoph Keller

2:30 p.m. Floating Food guided tour with curator Valerie Smith (Head of Visual Arts Department, Haus der Kulturen der Welt)

3:30 p.m. Short presentations by Gabriel Menotti, Trine Friis Sørensen, Alvis Choi, Steven Matijcio

6:00 p.m. Studio visit at Künstlerhaus Bethanien guided by director Christoph Tannert

Introduction of artists in residency: Jessica Buhlmann, Franziska Goes, Matthias Baader Holst, Daniel Palacios, Isabel Simoes, Mark Soo

http://www.bethanien.de/kb/index/trans/en

Kottbusser Str. 10, 10999 Berlin / U-Bahn Station U8/U1 Kottbusser Tor

8pm Preis der Nationalgalerie für junge Kunst Opening at Hamburger Bahnhof

http://www.preis2011.de/index.php?id=466&L=1

Invalidenstraße 50-51, 10557 Berlin/ S-Bahn Station Hauptbahnhof

 

Fri, September 9^th, A Retrospective: Art and Science

10:00 a.m. Lecture smArtScience: Bidirectional Challenges and Creativity from the Viewpoint of a Brain Scientist by neuroscientist Prof. Dr. Ernst Pöppel (Institute of Medical Psychology/ Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich); discussion moderated by Stefanie Firyn (Natural History Museum Berlin/Collection Department, History of Science).

Listen to the lecture by Prof. Dr. Ernst Pöppel

12:00 m. Guided Tour through Pia Lindman’s exhibition Poison and Play by Valerie Smith (Head of Visual Arts Department, HKW) followed by talk with the artist.

1:00 p.m. Lunch at Auster

2:30 p.m. Guided tour at Boros Collection, permanent collection

http://www.sammlung-boros.de/index.php?id=2711&L=1&id=1

Reinhardtstrasse 20, 10117 Berlin / U-Bahn Station U6 Oranienburger Tor

4:30 p.m. Guided tour at Preview Art Fair

http://www.previewberlin.com/Sites/homee.html

Columbia Damm 10, 12101 Berlin / Flughafen Tempelhof, Hangar 2

U-Bahn Station U6 Platz der Luftbrücke

7:00 p.m. Reception at Kunstraum Kreuzberg-Bethanien at the opening of the retrospective of Chicks on Speed: Cultural Workship now! by director Stéphane Bauer

http://www.kunstraumkreuzberg.de/english.html

Mariannenplatz 2, 10997 Berlin / U-Bahn Station U8/U1 Kottbusser Tor

 

Sat, September the 10^th , Artistic Research

10:00 a.m. Lecture Cultural Work by artist and writer Brandon LaBelle (Department of Fine Art/ Bergen National Academy of the Arts/ Norway) followed by a discussion with jury member Dr. Adele Tan (art historian and critic, Singapore), followed by a shooting of a group picture.

Listen to the lecture by Brandon LaBelle

12:00 p.m. Final discussion between Charlotte Klonk, Osvaldo Sánchez, Ariel Guzik, Brandon LaBelle & Adele Tan moderated by Prof. Dr. Bernd M. Scherer (Artistic Director, HKW)

Listen to the final discussion

optional 12:00 p.m. Guided tour at Hoffmann collection by Erika Hoffmann

http://www.sammlung-hoffmann.de/index.php?/site/sammlung/en

Sophienstr. 21, Sophie-Gips-Höfe, Aufgang C, 10178 Berlin

S-Bahn Station Hackescher Markt

1:00 p.m. Lunch at Café Global

2:30 p.m. Visit of the Ethnological Museum, permanent exhibition of the South and South-Asia collection

http://www.smb.museum/smb/standorte/index.php?p=2&objID=6370&n=10

Lansstraße 8, 14195 Berlin / U-Bahn U3 Station Dahlem Dorf

4:30 p.m. Guided Tour at Haus am Waldsee at the exhibition William Engelen – Music Box with art historian and jury member Dr. Katja Blomberg (artistic director/ Haus am Waldsee/ Berlin)

Argentinische Allee 30, 14163 Berlin/ S-Bahn Station S1 Mexico Platz

7:00 p.m. Closing Dinner with home cooked meals and performance of Invisible Twinning by artist Gayle Chong Kwan at Kleingartenanlage Potsdamer Güterbahnhof (please RSVP)

U-Bahn Station U2 Bühlowstraße

9:00 p.m. Opening of the exhibition Seeing is Believing at Kunst-Werke Berlin

http://www.kw-berlin.de/

Auguststraße 69, 10117 Berlin / S-Bahn Station S1, S2 Oranienburger Straße

Participants:
Elena Agudio, *Italy, lives in Berlin, Germany
Art Laboratory Berlin: *Christian de Lutz, US, and Regine Rapp, *Germany, live in Berlin
Luis Berrios-Negron, *San Juan de Puerto Rico, lives in Berlin, Germany
Wang Chun-Chi, *Taiwan, lives in Paris, France / Berlin, Germany
Hoi Ying Alvis Choi, *Hong Kong, lives in Hong Kong
Steven Matijcio, *Toronto, Canada, lives in Winston-Salem, US
Gabriel Menotti Gonring, *Brazil, lives in London, United Kingdom
Flora Lysen, *The Netherlands, lives in Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, *Cameroon, lives in Berlin, Germany
Trine Friis Sorensen, *Denmark, lives in Copenhagen, Denmark
Richard Streitmatter-Tran, *Vietnam, lives in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Leon Tan, *Singapore, lives in Gothenburg, Sweden
Elena Yaichnikova, *Russia, lives in Moscow, Russia

Winners of the open call Meridian | Urban. Curatorial Projects on Health:

Orlando Britto-Jinorio, *Canary Islands, lives in Santander, Spain
Manuela Lietti, *Italy, lives in Beijing, China
Keumhwa Kim, *Korea, lives in Berlin, Germany
Deeksha Nath, *India, lives in Delhi, India
Francesca Mila Nemni, *Boston, US, lives in Milan, Italy

Members of the international jury

Dr. Katja Blomberg (director, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin)
Yu Yeon Kim (independent curator, NYC and Seoul)
Osvaldo Sánchez (curator/director, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City)
Dr. Adele Tan (art historian and critic, Singapore)

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A project in cooperation with the 4th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art 2011.

A project in cooperation with Ernst Schering Foundation

The Asia-Pacific-Weeks(APW), an initiative by the Mayor of Berlin, have been taking place every two years since 1997.

The Asia-Pacific Weeks are kindly supported by the Stiftung Deutsche Klassenlotterie Berlin.