Romantic nature research based on unromantic realities

7-day long-term performance by the artist duo JA ! Julia Neuenhausen & Astrid Menze,

Temporary Art Projects Marzahner Promenade, Berlin*

Supported by DEGEWO and Senate Berlin

31.8.-6.9.2017
opposite the GALERIE M
Marzahner Promenade 46′
12679 Berlin

Romantic nature research based on unromantic realities

Dear friends of performed research,

come to the cress conference on underground networking, taste our Marzahn herbal promenade mix, sing and whistle in our large bird song choir, say goodnight together with fox and hare and much more.

We look forward to welcoming you to our research station every day from 31 August to 6 September 2017 and letting you take part in our activities and discoveries.

As part of the ‘Temporary Art Projects Marzahner Promenade 2017’ programme, we are investigating local natural phenomena and the communication of all living creatures in the green space of the promenade. We will work on site day and night for a week on a transdisciplinary long-term performance that involves local residents and visitors.
Our experiments are continuously placed around our station throughout the week, where we can be found working.

In the mornings from 11-13h and in the afternoons from 17-19h we invite artists, residents, visitors, researchers and performative surprises, where experiences, expertise and suggestions are exchanged, which may lead to new plans. There will be separate invitations to individual events, which will be announced on FB, by email or on a notice board on site.

Gallery Alte Schule Adlershof
8 May until 27 June 2015
Dörpfeldstraße 54, 12489 Berlin

Arno Bojak , Reinhard Bojak / Marc Gröszer, Clemens Gröszer / Matthias Heidenreich Herta Heidenreich / Julia Neuenhausen, Siegfried Neuenhausen / Holger John, Joachim John / Lea Asja Pagenkemper, Katja Ka, Otto Herbert Hajek / Georg Polke, Sigmar Polke / Moritz Schleime, Cornelia Schleime / Kata Unger, Heinrich Bethke

With the kind support of the Senate Chancellery for Cultural Affairs – Exhibition Fund for Municipal Galleries Berlin

The exhibition Internal Phenomena is dedicated to the artistic work of two generations of artists with a family background. Nine constellations are selected from the immediate environment and their respective positions are presented. The perspective encompasses the simultaneously present representatives of the generations of a now historical period of art. The predecessors of the artist friends and colleagues present here are now among the fixed points of the art coordinate system, radiant like 1P/Halley and deeply dormant like serpentine.

It is well known that there are idealistic family connections between artists through the ages. We then speak of spiritual or elective affinity. Familial concepts are an integral part of the history of art.

The question is whether there is a connection of an internal artistic nature beyond the artists’ workshops of past times, apart from the almost outdated master principle and the imprints of school master apprenticeships.

… Could it be that artists who grow up away from art as children need at least a talent or an initial spark to enter the painting stream of ‘art’, while the children of artists already have the foundation and only need to continue it to break through into a new or unique format?

In neighbouring sciences, building on what has gone before is part of the substance of what exists today. In art, however, there seem to be occasional interruptions of entire developments and their protagonists, which can later be rediscovered and called upon as key witnesses.the light conditions of the perception of simultaneous phenomena of art of one or two periods always encompass the entire spectrum and signify the division into visible and invisible.internal phenomena directs the view to the connecting factors of close and distant relatives.

Curated by Kata Unger + Frank Diersch / German Tatami Projekte

all over the house

01.06.-30.06.2013
Judith Ganz, Cologne | Julia Neuenhausen, Berlin | 01.06.-30.06.2013 | www.kunstimtauthaus.de

Vernissage: on Friday 31 May 2013 from 4 pm
6 pm Introduction Claudia Funke, art historian, gallery owner
7 pm Music by Stefan Rocke

Finissage: 30 June 2013, 4 – 8 pm

KUNST IM TAUTHAUS | Parchimer Allee 85 B | Hufeisensiedlung, U-Bahn U7 | 12359 Berlin

Opening 26.09. 2012, 19 h
The following will speak:

Michael Felix Langer
Julia Neuenhausen
Lorcan O’Byrne

Manuela Damianakis
Head of Corporate Communications Deutsche Wohnen AG Helen Adkins, art historian

27.09 – 20.11. 2012, Mon – Fri 9-19h
Deutsche Wohnen AG – GEHAG-Forum,
Mecklenburgischestr. 57
14197 Berlin
www.deutsche-wohnen.com

We invite you to the finissage and look forward to seeing you!

Schnitzel from Today (Everyday Remains Deluxe)
Finissage + artist talk with
Astrid Menze + Julia Neuenhausen
Friday 28 September 2012, 18

Exhibition duration 3-28 September 2012
Thu-Sun 15-19h
Neighbourhood gallery of the KungerKiezInitiative e.V.
Karl-Kunger-Straße 15
12435 Berlin
Tel. 030 – 70 121 007
http://www.kungerkiez.de

Colleagues and studio neighbours Astrid Menze and Julia Neuenhausen recently discovered
In the gallery space, which appears to be both a laboratory and an archive, an exhibition is being organised that will
will provide an insight into the spontaneous work of the two artists. In a flood of found objects,
and self-generating works from these materials, visitors to the ‘Schnitzel’ exhibition can find themselves
the exhibition ‘Schnitzel vom Heute’, visitors will be able to navigate through the Berlin artists’ way of working and thinking.
artists*.

Julia Neuenhausen studied film and painting at the Braunschweig Art Academy and has lived and worked as a freelance artist since 1992.
She has lived and worked as a freelance artist in Berlin since 1992.
www.julia-neuenhausen.de

Astrid Menze studied Audiovisual Media at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam and at the
Transart Institute, Krems.
www.astridmenze.de

An exhibition for Hannah Höch

27.04–26.05. 2012
Galerie auf Zeit, Braunschweig

www.galerie-auf-zeit-bs.de

30.03.–29.04.2012
Kunstraum t27
Kunstverein Neukölln e.V.
Thomasstr. 27, Berlin
www.kunstraumt27.de

The inside of the object box shows an image, a situation that suggests a landscape in action from three added levels. Food, life, transformation, food, life, transformation, etc., a continuous fermentation carried out by millions of bacteria.

The sequence of these events could also be applied to other phenomena based on the kombucha fungus. Perhaps even immanent to the world and everything that exists in it. The object ‘primeval soup’ takes up the most diverse aspects of a complex process. Separate and yet closely connected, the different levels react in an alchemical way. Julia Neuenhausen ‘metabolises’ diverse forms and materials into the primeval soup. An inner process, a laboratory space in which complex building blocks of organic and inorganic material face each other and keep themselves alive.

It is a poetic approach to the chemical/physical process of existence that once caused the primordial soup to ferment and bubble.