Happy New Year! (And what happened last year)
Dear all,
we hope all of you had lovely holidays with family and friends and an equally lovely New Year’s Eve.
Our past year was filled with excitement, new friendships, exhibitions ending and new ones opening, lots of work but also lots of fun and we hope it was the same for you.
What all happened?
‘Verführung Freiheit’ had its ‘Grand Finale’ at the German Historical Museum in Berlin in February and got ready to go to Milan. Our Berlin Project Team did have the blues for a little while and was happy to see the exhibition reopen at the Palazzo Reale in Milan in March.
After Milan, it was Tallinn’s turn hosting the show. There, at the KUMU Kunstimuuseum, the exhibition opened on June 28 right after Midsummer Night which meant that it was bright almost all day and night long. Following our tradition of introducing staff members working with the exhibition, we met Terje the architect, Hilkka the chief conservator and Jane the museum educator.
Just before the exhibition closed we travelled to Tallinn once more for our international symposium ‘Sound and Public Space’. Journalists, artists, innovation designers and sound architects from Latvia, the U.S., Sweden, Norway and Estonia talked about their projects and introduced us to the different aspects of sound as found and planted in public space. It was so interesting that we had to divide what all happened into Part I, Part II and Part III on the blog. (Be sure to turn up the volume!)
After Tallinn our art works which had been travelling all over Europe for over a year were returned to their lenders and we celebrated the Krakow opening at MOCAK. At MOCAK the show is a bit different: All the big format video works which could not be shown at the other venues for reasons of space are shown here. If you happen to visit Krakow before January 26, make sure you pay a visit!
Another trip of ours was to Thessaloniki to the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art. They are showing a satellite exhibition of ‘The Desire for Freedom. Art in Europe since 1945’ starting in February and will focus on ‘Europe 1945 – 2000: Encounters between shifting boundaries’. Another trip was to Sarajevo because also there a satellite exhibition will be shown this year with an accompanying workshop. If you have never been there, now could or would be the time!
It’s not over yet in Berlin
Our neighbor, the Collegium Hungaricum Berlin (short CHB), is showing their second exhibition connected to the 30th Council of Europe Art Exhibition until January 19! We already paid a visit and this is what you will find: ‘Spectres of the Future’.
And even though our exhibition closed in February, we have not been idle: we translated our blog so that all articles can now be read in German as well as in English and we produced an exhibition app! Be sure to check it out. It is for free, has lots of info about artists and works, many images and audio tracks and can be downloaded for iPhone as well as Android!
We will see you hopefully also this year in Thessaloniki, Sarajevo, Berlin or wherever you and we travel!
All the best from Berlin,
your Desire for Freedom Project Team
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