Please join us at Motto bookstore for a Poetry Reading and presentation of collaborative work between Robert Fitterman and Natalie Czech, followed by a conversation with Natalie Czech and an audience Q and A.

Performance 7pm sharp
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Robert Fitterman is the author of 14 books of poetry including Rob’s Word Shop (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2019), Dave (Counterpath, forthcoming Fall 2019), This Window Makes Me Feel (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2018), Nevermind (Wonder Books, 2016), No Wait, Yep. Definitely Still Hate Myself (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2014), now we are friends (Truck Books, 2010), Rob the Plagiarist (Roof Books, 2009), and Metropolis—a long poem in four separate volumes. He has collaborated with several visual artists, including: Theodore Darst, Serkan Ozkaya, Nayland Blake, Natalie Czech, Tim Davis and Klaus Killisch. He is the founding member of the artists and writers collective, Collective Task. He teaches writing and poetry at New York University and at the Bard College, Milton Avery School of Graduate Studies.

Natalie Czech’s work makes links between photography, text, and systems of signification. She has presented solo exhibits at Centre d’Art Contemporain Crac Alsace, Palais de Tokyo, Kunstverein Hamburg, Kunstverein Braunschweig among others. Her works are included in museum collections such as those of the Pinakothek der Moderne Munich, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Museum of Modern Art New York or MAMCO Geneva.

Michael Schmid in conversation with Yuki Higashino 7:30pm, March 13th @ Motto Berlin

With its two titles the publication Quotation Marks or „ ” appears as both a catalogue and an artist’s book and accompanies Michael Schmid’s work via photography and pictorial representation into physical space and then back into the form of a book. The architecture of a book and the exhibition space are reflected in the structural elements of the photographic medium.

https://vfmk.org/shop/michael-schmid
www.schmidmichael.com
https://www.yukihigashino.com/

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Michael Schmid
Born in Langenau, Germany, 1981, lives and works in Berlin.
Education: University of the Arts Bremen, Fine Arts, Master Student Degree, 2014 with Korpys/Löffler, University of the Arts Bremen, Fine Arts, Diploma Examination Degree, 2013 with Korpys/Löffler, Franka Hörnschemeyer, Academy of Visual Arts, Leipzig, Photography Class with Beate Gütschow, 2010.
Publications: „Quotation Marks”, Verlag für Moderne Kunst, Vienna, AT, 2018 „SHOW“, 2015, Barbara Oberem Gallery, Bremen „Kunst und Küche”, Kunstmuseum Villa Zanders, Bergisch Gladbach, 2014 „Of The Universe”, Weserburg, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Bremen.
Curatorial projects: FORM, FAQ, Bremen
Texts: „Still Images”, Yuki Higashino, Vienna, AT, 2017
„How to show”, Yvonne Bialek, Berlin, 2015
„Text”, Jens-Peter Koerver, Cologne, 2014

Yuki Higashino
Born in Shizuoka, Japan, 1984, lives and works in Vienna.
Education 2005 – 2010 HfBK Städelschule, Simon Starling Class, Frankfurt am Main, 2009 – 2010 Royal Danish Academy of Fine Art (as an exchange student), Copenhagen.

Curatorial projects (selection): 2017 “Avi Beracha: Pottery”, Florian Pumhösl Studio, Vienna 2016-2017 “Stranded at Schwimmen-zwei-Vögel”, Cinema program, Mumok Kino, Vienna, 2014 “F. Hodler”, Two-person show by Willem Oorebeek and Robin Vanbesien pinacoteca, Vienna “To take a landscape from”, Neue Galerie, Innsbruck (with Elisabeth Kihlström) 2013 “Curated by Ilse Lafer”, Post Chimney (with Elisabeth Kihlström) “Luster”, solo show by Amy Croft, Schneiderei, Vienna “Composition as Explanation”, solo show by Constanze Schweiger, Schneiderei, Vienna “eins zwei drei vier” , Video works by Stefan Lux, Schneiderei, Vienna “duchampeinereretrospektivevonfranzpart”, solo show by Franz Part, Schneiderei, Vienna “Screening by Constanze Ruhm”, Schneiderei, Vienna “Constanze Schweiger/Robert Rauschenberg”, Schneiderei, Vienna “Hannes Böck/Anna Hofbauer”, Schneiderei, Vienna, 2009 “Cecelia Condit: Works 1983 – 2008”, Platform Sarai, Frankfurt.