Upcoming: 18-20 October 2024
Caspar Stracke and Peter Zorn
Series of talks and exhibitions 2024/2025
A project by artist and curator Eike Berg. Once a month, he invites an artist with whom he has worked or exhibited in the past 40 years to exhibit together now for a weekend. The guests presents a selection of current and earlier works, while Berg shows a work from the period of their first encounter.
The presentation will open with a three-way art talk where the artists will be joined by an expert from the art world. The exchange of ideas will take place in an informal atmosphere with guests invited, and will be documented online in a video stream. The discussions address artistic positions and shared experiences.
The memories of 40 years open a rich panorama of the Central European art scene across several countries in the decades before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall and around the turn of the millennium.
Eike Berg was born in Halle/Saale in 1966 and spent his youth there. Since 1984, he has spent successive stages of his life in Braunschweig, Budapest and Freising near Munich. After 40 years, he returned to Halle (Saale) with his artistic work.
Collegium Hungaricum Berlin | culture.hu/de/berlin
Werkleitz | werkleitz.de
Art of Care Brussels | Facebook: artofcarebrussels
One art talk and pop-up exhibition are planned every month. The current programme will be continously announced on this website. I will also be happy to inform you about the current programme via newsletter, please send a short message to the e-mail address: malh(at)qxd8.com.
Guests from Hungary, Germany and other countries will be invited throughout the year. The dialogue will be held in German, English or Hungarian, depending on the participants, and will be translated into German on site and into the other two languages in the video stream.
18 October 2024, Friday 7 pm
Peter Zorn in conversation with Caspar Stracke and Eike Berg
in German language - participation after prior registration
19-20 October 2024, Sat-Sun 1 - 6 pm
Exhibition with art works by Caspar Stracke and Eike Berg
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Caspar Stracke and Eike Berg met before studying art in Braunschweig in the mid-1980s. With friends, they founded the FISCH art centre (now Allgemeiner Konsumverein) in Braunschweig, and also collaborated as artists. During Stracke's many years in New York and Berg's many years in Budapest, they maintained a live-ly exchange and organised joint exhibitions, among other things.
Peter Zorn studied film at the HBK Braunschweig, and founded the Werkleitz Gesellschaft in 1993. He developed the European Media Artists in Residence Exchange Programme (EMARE) in 1995 and has been manager of the EU-funded European Media Art Platform, which he initiated in 2017. Zorn has kept contact with Stracke and Berg over the years, and collaborated internationally with various partner organisations.
26 July 2024, Friday 7 pm
László Százados in conversation with Gyula Várnai and Eike Berg
27-28 July 2024, Sat-Sun 11 am - 6 pm
Exhibition with art works by Gyula Várnai and Eike Berg
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14 June 2024, Friday, 7 pm
Zsolt Kozma in conversation with Alexandra Dementieva and Eike Berg
15 - 16 June 2014, Saturday-Sunday 11 am - 7 pm
Exhibition with art works by Alexandra Dementieva and Eike Berg
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12 April 2024, Friday, 7 pm
Andreas Kühne in conversation with Peter Pohl and Eike Berg
13 - 14 April 2014, Saturday-Sunday 11 am - 7 pm
Exhibition with art works by Peter Pohl and Eike Berg
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Earlier talks with Eike Berg:
with Balázs Kulcsár (Part 1 above in English: I spent my most important 20 years in Budapest, 30'15" / Part 2 below in Hungarian: I like bringing people together, 28'15") in Paris-Budapest-Metro on the occasion of the exhibition Dark Side of Utopia together with Alexandra Dementieva in the art space Streetview Anderlecht in Brussels in 2023
with the art historian Michael Stoeber (in German, 57'58") in the Künstlerhaus Göttingen on the occasion of the exhibition SHIFT | Fear and Curiosity in 2022; with many thanks to Peter Bothe for camera and editing
Media Art Loft Halle (MALH) is a space for contemporary art with a focus on media art and discourse. A pop-up gallery and art salon, it was launched by Eike Berg at the end of 2023. The "From Halle to Hungary and back in 40 years" project is being organised in collaboration with the curator Zsolt Kozma.
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Visit by appointment:
Große Ulrichstraße 48
06108 Halle (Saale), Germany
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Programme | 18-20 October 2024
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