AIR Berlin Alexanderplatz
Upcoming

AIR SALON

Tuesday, 20. July 2021, 4-5 pm

Broadcasted through Colaboradio via Freies Radio Berlin/Brandenburg (88,4 MHz in Berlin 90,7 MHz in Potsdam)

In this one hour radio piece, Marjolein vd Meer takes you on a journey through inspirations and explorations around her latest project ‘I am several’ which she is currently realizing at Fresh [removed] Berlin. This hour will include choir pieces, hiphop and some of her own musical and textual experiments. Stay tuned!

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Marjolein van der Meer (The Netherlands, 1986) is a spoken word artist, a singer and musician, performer and director of performance. Loosely combining music, image and text she creates multi-layered songs, concepts and performances, soundscapes and audio pieces that reveal her way of looking at the world. Her work is playful and combines the abstract with daily life, trying to reach beyond the surface through building structures of language and music, using the subconscious, poetry and movement. Together with musician Raymond Deirkauf, Marjolein has an electronic music duo called “I, poor romantic”. The duo released their first single “Cool, oh no Cool” in 2017 and an EP based on Grimm fairy tales in 2019. Grimm toured extensively through theaters in The Netherlands and Belgium. Marjolein van der Meer previously created performances for Frascati and de Brakke Grond in Amsterdam, NL. Her audio documentaries were broadcast on the Dutch national radio (Hollanddoc) and online through national newspaper NRC.
I AM SEVERAL is an electronic music piece leading up to a performance, using a polyphony of voices, from the inside and out, to address diversity. It is about the different people we can be, pluriformity versus surrender, the individual versus the group. The piece uses everyday situations, sounds and movement to create a certain unity, a choir of people in which each individual’s autonomy can be reflected. This project is about finding ones voice, about being autonomous and the loneliness this can bring forth, but also about ways in which we are so elementary alike. Made in collaboration with choreographer Merel Franx.

WELCOME TO BERLIN! NEW ABA-RESIDENTS ARRIVED

Valentina Kiselyova, (director, curator) and Anna Chistoserdova (art director) from “Ў” Gallery, Minsk, Belarus, will stay with ABA from July to September 2021. ([removed]/)

“Ў” Gallery is a space of the creative and intellectual Belarus, a free platform for local and international cultural dialogue, which contributes to the current understanding of the prominent role of culture and art in modern society.
The exhibition space of the “Ў” Gallery is a place for experimentation, freedom of creative expression, communication between the artist and the viewer. The Gallery is carefully watching the best art projects in Eastern and Western Europe to promote the involvement of contemporary Belarusian art to the world. We do our best to ensure that contemporary Belarusian art, projects and personalities of the art community in Belarus are not only ever present in the Belarusian public, but become more visible in the European artistic context.
“Ў” Gallery supports interdisciplinary research projects in collaboration with the professional expert community of Belarus in such scientific fields as visual culture and critical urban studies, philosophy, sociology, gender, contemporary history and the society.
The organization of educational programs, round tables, discussions, workshops, lectures, seminars, meetings with outstanding contemporary art critics is a priority for the Gallery. All of this helps to create an active communication platform designed for the interaction of viewers, artists, curators, art managers, critics and researchers. We are sure that it makes a great contribution to the development of the Belarusian art criticism, the tradition of analytical artistic work, the establishment of the cultural policy of Belarus.
“Ў” Gallery is a space of mediation between representatives of the independent art, business, NGO sector and the civil society. Gallery’s team pays special attention to work and mediation programs for visitors with disabilities because the “Ў” Gallery of Contemporary Art is a place for everybody — without exception!
We love art fully and unconditionally!

UPCOMING !

ABA Air Salon – August 2021 – “Sound of Breaking Windows II”
Hosted by ABA & Radio Kiosk at Haus der Statistik Berlin

A conversation with Lisette Smits (Curator, Researcher, Educator Migrating Voices), Rosanna Lovell (Musician, Educator, member of Colaboradio/ Freies Radio Berlin Brandenburg) and Jürg Andreas Meister (radio host, media composer, member of Radio Kiosk Haus der Statistik, Radio Ansage and Colaboradio/ Freies Radio Berlin Brandenburg)

During the two hour Air Salon we will focus on the practice of our guests, each working in in different ways as programmer/curator/artist collaborator educator with the agency of voice. Through conversation we will connect different positions, find similarities and differences and learn from each others experience. Our main topics will be: voice as an artistic medium, the practice of creating and giving a platform, the agency of speaking vs. listening as well as voicing de-centred narratives. Alternately we will listen to short audio-fragments connected to the practices of our guests.

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Current:
Feel free to join our ongoing online events here:
 Sounds of Braking Windows
a podcast on voice as an artistic means, with With Wendelien van Oldenborgh, Nickel van Duijvenboden, Magali Dougoud, Julia Herfurth, Beatrijs Dikker

FUNKENZUFLAMMEN: With an exhibition at Haus der Statistik on Berlin Alexanderplatz around ABAs archival material, a publication and 10 years of research based artistic practice in and around Berlin.

ABAs AIR SALON
with Andrés Villa Torres, Rhona Mühlebach & Alexei Kuzmich

ABA at VORSPIEL
ABAs participation in this years edition of VORSPIEL of Transmediale and CTM festival. .

Currently at Residency Air Berlin Alexanderplatz :
Vanessà Heer (CH) 1st of March 2021 – 31st of August 2021
CMMC / June – September 2021
Valentina Kiselyova( BLR)   and Anna Chistoserdova (BLR) from “Ў” Gallery, Minsk, Belarus,  July – September 2021

ABA (Air Berlin Alexanderplatz) [removed] / Schöneberger Str. 13 / DE-10963 Berlin / [removed]