SCOTTY
Here and Now
July 9th-July 24th, 2022
Opening Reception: Saturday, July 9th, 7-10pm
The current exhibition at Monte Vista Projects provides an insight into a multitude of artistic practices which members from the non-profit exhibition space SCOTTY in Berlin display through collage, painting, text, photography, video, audio and installation. The exhibition is based on the idea to introduce SCOTTY as a group of individual artists, and by doing so, showing what keeps each of them busy on a daily basis, whether that is in their respective studios, or on research trips or in the editing room.
Charlotte Bastian concerns herself with the impact humans have on our planet. She exhibits dystopian landscapes which are contrasted by Simone Häckel´s animated video scenes of animals and plants.
Bettina Weiß, Kiki Gebauer and Karen Linnenkohl have a focus on geometrical abstraction. While Bettina Weiß paintings depict nature through abstract, geometric forms as they occur in micro and macrocosms, Kiki Gebauer´s monochrome wooden objects from the Polygonal series seem to float freely in front of the wall, emitting an orange glow. Karen Linnenkohl creates visually impossible spaces through a multi-part photo collage of a staircase.
Julia Krewani explores objects she finds in her everyday surroundings through drawing and their possibilities to move or to be moved while Christine Niehoff's work operates in the gray area between fact and fiction, exploring the position of the individual in relation to grand collective narrative patterns such as myths, ideologies and popular culture. Juliane Zelwies is interested in the psychology of social interaction, both between humans and animals. For the current exhibition, she looks into specific phenomena of birdlife.
Block 57 is a living archive initiated and developed by Sigrun Drapatz. Block 57 explores the local history and geography of the residential block SCOTTY is part of with a focus on historical upheavals and their impact on society in German history from the mid 19th century to the present day.
B-LA CONNECT is an initiative to promote the cooperation and interlinking between the two sister cities’ creative communities.
In June 2019, twenty art spaces from Los Angeles exhibited in 22 art spaces from Berlin. The interdisciplinary program included art exhibitions, film screenings, performances, talks, and more. This July, 2022, the Berlin art spaces travel to LA for a return visit with staggered openings throughout the city in 22 different art spaces, a film night at the Goethe-Institut LA, and a performance evening on the rooftop of The Bendix Building.
Please visit b-la-connect.org for full programming.
Concept, Direction, Coordination Berlin: Daniel Wiesenfeld (HilbertRaum)
Co-Direction, Coordination LA: Carl Baratta (Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Gallery ALSO)
Co-Direction, Coordination LA: Max Presneill (Durden and Ray, Torrance Art Museum)
B-LA Connect Team LA: Diego Juarez, Lizzie Moo, Sean Noyce, Clover Nusz, Shima Tajbakhsh, Katya Usvitsky, Judy Zhu