Claude Eigan. Alpina Huus x Motto
17 August, 6-10pm
In collaboration with Alizee Lenox and Jake Kent
A special cocktail will be served

 
Claude Eigan (b. 1983, France) uses sculpture as a primary medium, often extending to installation, sound and print. Recent exhibitions include: Haptic House (Horse & Pony Fine Arts, Berlin, 2018),Everytime you switch me off, I die. A little. (gallery Foothold, Polignano a Mare, 2018), Sun Sipping Some Syrup (gallery Frontviews, Berlin, 2018), Times New Romantic (M.I/mi1glissé, Berlin, 2017), State of the art (gallery Lily Robert, Paris, 2017), Meatspace (The impossible project, Berlin, 2016), Comfort Zone (Kunstfabrik HB55, Berlin, 2016).

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Alpina Huus x Motto
10 August—7 September 2018

Adam Fearon, 10 August, 6-10pm
Claude Eigan, 17 August, 6-10pm
Tarik Hayward, 24 August, 6-10pm
Nastasia Meyrat, 31 August, 6-10pm

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This project is curated by Elise Lammer and kindly supported by Pro Helvetia the Swiss Arts Council, Motto and Domus Alpina

Discwoman merchandise pop-up @ Motto Berlin

15th of August 2018 from 2pm to 8pm

Founded by Frankie Decaiza Hutchinson, Emma Burgess-Olson and Christine McCharen-Tran, Discwoman is a New York-based platform, collective, and booking agency—that showcases and represents cis women, trans women, and genderqueer artists in electronic music. Started as a two-day festival in September 2014 at Bossa Nova Civic Club, Discwoman has since produced and curated events in 15+ cities—working with over 250 DJs and producers to-date.

Adam Fearon. Alpina Huus x Motto

10 August, 6-10pm
8pm sharp: Performance by Jessica Gadani

In August 2018, four artists are challenged to think the outdoor exhibition space and the historical window displays located in the courtyard of a bookstore in Berlin. Over the course of a project exploring the performative potential of their visual and sculptural practices, you are invited to a weekly gathering, during which one of the artists will unveil their contribution. Each new project will be visible throughout the week following the opening.

Adam Fearon was born in Dublin where he studied Fine Art at National College of Art and Design before going on to study at Frankfurt’s Städelschule. He has exhibited widely, including recently at Harbinger, Reykjavik; Frankfurter Kunstverein; Kunsthal ved Siden Af, Svendborg; BQ, Berlin; Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin and the Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt. In 2019 he will have a solo exhibition at the Butler Gallery, Kilkenny. He lives and works in Berlin.
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Alpina Huus x Motto
10 August—7 September 2018

Adam Fearon, 10 August, 6-10pm
Claude Eigan, 17 August, 6-10pm
Tarik Hayward, 24 August, 6-10pm
Nastasia Meyrat, 31 August, 6-10pm

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Cheng Xinyi / BHKM @ Motto Berlin. 03.08.2018

(talk 8pm sharp)

Blink at the silky space

Read within another time

On the occasion of the launch of The Blower (BHKM, 2018), artist Cheng Xinyi talks with publisher BHKM about the relationship between Cheng’s photography practice from 2012 to 2018 and her paintings.

The Blower is the second publication by BHKM.

BHKM is a conceptual publishing house founded by Ho King Man.

Cheng Xinyi (b. 1989, Wuhan, China) lives and works between Shanghai and Paris. She studied painting at Maryland Institute College of Art (USA) and attended Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten (NL). Her solo exhibitions include: Harnessing the power of wind, Antenna Space, Shanghai, 2018; Hands of a barber, they give in, Galerie Balice Hertling, Paris, 2017, Swimming Hole, Practice, New York, 2015. Recent group exhibitions include: Painting Now and Forever, Part III, Greene Naftali Gallery, Mathew Marks Gallery, New York, 2018; Scraggly Beard Grandpa, Capsule, Shanghai, 2017; Economy Plus, Galerie Balice Hertling, Paris, 2017.

Terremoto 12

Independencias
Independences

Dorothée Dupuis (Ed.)
Terremoto, Motto Books

PER/TRANS Performing the Cube, Transforming the Cube Works by Sandra Peters. 1998–2017

Artist talk & Book launch

The book will be presented on Friday 27.07.2018, with a talk at 8PM:

Sandra Peters in conversation with Fiona McGovern and Eva Meyer-Hermann (In English)

Alpina Huus x Motto

10 August—7 September 2018

Adam Fearon, 10 August
Claude Eigan, 17 August
Tarik Hayward, 24 August
Nastasia Meyrat, 31 August

Exploring performance and domestic space
In August 2018, four artists are challenged to think the
outdoor exhibition space and the historical window
displays located in the courtyard of a bookstore in Berlin.
Over the course of a project exploring the performative
potential of their visual and sculptural practices, you are
invited to a weekly gathering, during which one of the
artists will unveil their contribution.

Motto
Skalitzer Str. 68
10997 Berlin

This project is curated by Elise Lammer and kindly supported by Pro
Helvetia the Swiss Arts Council, Motto and Domus Alpina.

In the 17th issue of zweikommasieben something that has been apparent from the beginning of the magazine—whose credo is to study the present—only seems increasingly true: in the supposed present, temporalities overlap and intersect. They burst out, reaching at once backwards and forwards.

The magazine features interviews with John Maus about the six years between the release of his last two albums, with Anna Sagström and Daniel Iinatti of Country Music discussing accelerationist force of globalization or with Alessandro Cortini on the private retrospective of 1970s Italy in Avanti. In those conversations the nature of time shows itself as enigmatic, fragmented and displaced.

On top, this issue features interviews with Anna Homler, Errorsmith, Further Reductions, Gabber Eleganza, Jasss, Ossia, Peter Rehberg and Renick Bell; conversations with Russell Haswell and between Christoph Fringeli, Simon Crab and Nigel Ayers; a portrait on Mmodemm; an essay by DeForrest Brown Jr.; columns on gender in dancehall (“Basslines”), authenticity of field recordings (“Track Down Fiction”), pictures from Georg Gatsas (“We Are Time”) as well as poetry with “Sound Texts”; and contributions by Angoisse, Ipek Gorung & Ceramic TL and Jay Glass Dubs.

In zweikommasieben #17, the nature of time also shows itself in the design—a design initially looking for an aesthetic of speed but ultimately as much a reflection of pausing as of deceleration and acceleration. And in this attempt to give form to time, there’s also the primordial-musical moment.
Buy it

HOW DO WE MAKE A WE
BOOK LAUNCH AND A PERFORMANCE BY KARL HOLMQVIST
09.06.2018

Please join us on Saturday June 9th from 7 till 9 PM at Motto Berlin for the book launch of How do We make a We, a publication that grew out of the Ratti Foundation’s XXIII CSAV artists’ research laboratory  Language and Sound as Sculpture held in Como, Italy, in the summer of 2017.

Designed by Claudia de la Torre and Gregorio Magnani in collaboration with the participants , the publication reflects on the experiences shared at the laboratory and on its overall theme. Through individual and collaborative contributions it investigates how sound, performance and language may become tools in the creation  of a ‘we’ that is both capable of agency and in a continuous process of dismantling itself and of an ‘I’ that is always at war with itself.

The XXIII CSAV was : Lorenzo Benedetti, Hannah Black, Isaac Contreras, Michael Dean, Claudia de la Torre, Kiah Endelman Music, Hugo Esquinca, Romain Grateau, Russel Haswell, Karl Holmqvist, Doris Hardeman, Marine Julie’, Annett Kottek, Youngjae Lih, Gregorio Magnani, Jan Moszumanski Kotwica, Annie Ratti, Natalia Rebelo, Sara Rodrigues, Alex Turgeon,Titus Wonsey and Giulia Zabarella

Performance by Karl Holmqvist 8 PM sharp.

Snacks and drinks .

How do We make a We is published by Compagnia with the kind support of Fondazione Antonio Ratti

Motto Skalitzer Str. 68, im Hinterhof
10997 Berlin
U1 Schlesisches Tor

Edition of 125
numbered

What did the generation that came of age during the sixties do for an encore? Many of the answers seemed to have slipped below the media’s plumb line. A Letter to My Father and My Unborn Son, a journal by Aram Saroyan with art by Gailyn Saroyan, takes us to the American bicentennial year, 1976, as the young poet and artist await the arrival of their third child in Bolinas, a small coastal village in rural Northern California. Here is the day-to-day journey of a young family–at once intimate, surprising, and funny.

Printed in Los Angeles, California
2018