Thanks for your message. I am sailing in the Baltic on the good ship Lovis from the evening of August 28th to September 6th where there are more seagulls than telephone towers.
I might be in port for some grog and lemons, and might be able to get back to you before the 7th. But the call of the sirens might be so strong that your message will go unanswered until I return. On Aug 29, 2025, at 12:31 PM, Timo Kahlen via SPECTRE <[email protected]> wrote: > By the way, > if you’re in Berlin … > > This Sunday, August 31 from 15:00 to 18:00 is your last chance to see the > extraordinary exhibition „ZeitSkulptur. 40 Jahre Ruine der Künste Berlin > 1985-2025“ (TimeSculpture. 40 Years Ruin of the Arts Berlin 1985-2025) > > at the Ruine der Künste Berlin > Hittorfstr. 5, 14195 Berlin > (U3 Freie Universität / Thielplatz). > > Wolf Kahlen and Timo Kahlen will be present. > > > As featured in TIP Berlin, von hundert magazine etc., > > > The Ruine der Künste Berlin celebrates its 40th anniversary. In the > retrospective exhibition, the avant-garde institution exhibits its > spectacular architecture as well as traces of hundreds of its artists' > activities over the four decades. Curator Timo Kahlen and founder Wolf Kahlen > bring the art stories to life in conversation with visitors. > > The Ruine der Künste Berlin is a private space for material and immaterial > arts. It’s 'recycled‘, sculptural architectural volume manifests an > extraordinary architectural approach (with international acclaim since its > opening in 1985), as the building is characterized by the careful handling > and the simultaneity of found substance, traces of history (the ruinous > architectural skeleton, the bombarded outer skin) and the avant-garde 'open' > interior space 'floating' in the ephemeral shell. > > The Ruine der Künste Berlin has made intermedia art history since 1985. > Presenting site-specific, in situ and intermedia, time-based works, in more > than 130 individual and 20 themed exhibitions (*) from 1985 to the present > day. Encompassing the scope of all media: photography, video, film, printed > media, the internet, telephone, language, drawing, radio, architecture, > sculpture, sound, Artificial Intelligence, etc. Providing for installations, > performances, concerts and lectures. Surprising with lawnmower drawings, the > Ruin’s own radio station, the Sender Ruine der Künste Berlin, with 365 works > of art via telephone, with interactive works of net art, with thought > photography and with ceramic ash glazes extracted from the debris and ashes > of the ruined building itself. Installing themed exhibitions on ‚intermedia‘ > in the arts: e.g. in ‚Die Ruine möbliert', 'handschreiben', 'Multiples', 'Out > of Context', 'Gute Worte', 'Sehen und Gesehen Werden', '200 Mal Neuauflegen' > and 'DreamHouse Ruine'. Appearing off-site and abroad at: 'Die Ruine der > Künste Berlin am Bauhaus Dessau', 'Die Ruine der Künste Berlin in der > Kunsthalle Palazzo Basel', 'Die Ruine der Künste Berlin an der Kunstakademie > in Peking'. Archiving the photo and video documents of all activities, video > portraits of the artists, an oral history collection as well as numerous > catalogs and books published by the in-house Edition Ruine der Künste Berlin. > Providing traces of its activities to renowned archives: Archiv der > Avantgarden ADA, Dresden, Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau, Akademie der Künste > Berlin, Institut für moderne Kunst Nürnberg and others. > > In the current retrospective exhibition, we (that is: Timo Kahlen and Wolf > Kahlen) can only show traces of our activities here. Ask us, we will tell you > the art stories. > > > (*) Presenting innovative experiments with sound art (La Monte Young, Julius, > Bernhard Leitner, Timo Kahlen), ruin pollen (Wolfgang Laib), AI-generated > image sequences; conceptual works such as Fluxus installations (Robert > Filliou, Margaret Raspé), chance-controlled radio art (Wojciech Bruszewski) > and film art (Michael Snow, Roland Steckel), art via telephone (365 > Zeit-An-Sagen), video sculptures (Song Dong, Wolf Kahlen), thematic > exhibitions on art of books and of handwriting (85 artists), lawnmower > drawings (Yuan Shun), Tibet research (Eva Siao, Wolf Kahlen, Josef Vanis, > Vladimír Sís), poetry and literature (Gerhard Rühm, Walter Aue), photography > (Dieter Appelt, Evgen Bavcar, Gedankenphotographien, Phosphor-Photographien), > ash-glaze ceramics (Barbara Kahlen), typography and editions (Gerd > Fleischmann), philosophy (Wilhelm Gauger, Akong Rinpoche), experimental music > and concerts (Erik Satie, Shakuhachi, Oberton), multiples (S.M.S. 1968) and > interactive net art (Ian Andrews, Timo Kahlen, Wolf Kahlen), Chinese > contemporary arts (as early as 1991: Yin Yufen, Zhu Jinshi, Yang Lian, Xin > Yuzhen, Bei Dao), links between art and science (John Latham, Burkhard Heim), > etc. etc. > > Free admission > > > ______________________________________________ > SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe > Info, archive and help: > http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
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