Group Global 3000

Wash my fur, but don’t make me wet

22nd March 2024Newsart and environment, Group Global 3000, sustainability

Group Global 3000 invites to the exhibition Wash my fur, but don’t make me wet

Exhibition with program May 3 – June 14, 2024, Tue. and Fri. 17-20 h
Group Global 3000, Leuschnerdamm 19, 10999 Berlin Kreuzberg

The majority of society wants climate protection, but does not want to change. It becomes nervous, susceptible to fossil lobby campaigns, superstitions and right-wing influences.
People are in favor of doing something about man-made global warming, but they still want to fly on vacation. You deny your own fossil addiction. The other countries, the politicians, should take action against the climate crisis. People do not want to see their own responsibility, as voters of political parties and polluters of CO₂ emissions as consumers of flights, cars and goods. Of course, something should change, just not in your own life. Science calls this behavior cognitive dissonance.

Participating artists: Tom Albrecht, Thomas Behling, Anna Orlikowska, Benna Gaean Maris, Susanna Giese, Stephan Gross, Danny Hermann, Ines Hock, Tobias Bilgeri & Jens Isensee, Maria Korporal, Joana Lucas, John Maibohm, Annegret Müller, Froso Papadimitriou, Lita Poliakova, Susa Ramsthaler, Alexander Rommel (aerroscape), Rosa Schmidt, Daniel Theiler, Anja Witt, Alla Zhyvotova

In this exhibition Maria Korporal shows her new ultrashort video I only drink organic fresh pasture milk

Programme:

Opening Fri., 3.5.2024
Park at the Engelbecken by the Waldemar Bridge 3 p.m.
Welcome by Tom Albrecht and introduction to the works exhibited there
Installations LAGE EGAL by Stephan Groß and Be(e) here by ines hock
Vernissage 7 pm in the gallery
Welcome: Tom Albrecht, Introduction to the exhibition: Katja Hock, Performance prima klima Susa Ramsthaler

Artist:Interior talk with performance Fri., 24.5., 7 pm
Artists of the exhibition talk with guests about their works.
Performance WRINGEN/FUR Rosa Schmidt

Lecture with discussion 31.5., 7 pm
“Acting for the climate. Why humans are not doing enough to combat the climate crisis despite knowing better. How do we get moving?” Katharina Simons, Psychologists for Future, Berlin

Finissage Fri, 6/14, 7 pm
Performance: Tom Albrecht sings Verdrängung, guitar Philip Müller-Hohenstein

• Opening hours: The exhibition is open on Fridays and Tuesdays 17-20 h and by appointment.
• Group Global 3000, Leuschnerdamm 19, 10999 Berlin Kreuzberg

Further information on the website of GG3: https://gg3.eu/en/wash-my-fur-but-dont-make-me-wet/

The Good Life

28th April 2023Newsart and environment, Group Global 3000, sustainability

Group Global 3000 invites to the exhibition The Good Life, Utopias for Eye, Ear, Nose, Mind.
• 5.5.-16.6.2023, Leuschnerdamm 19, 10999 Berlin Kreuzberg
• Participating artists: Tom Albrecht, Thomas Behling, Lioba von den Driesch, Mariel Gottwick, Stephan Gross, Maria Korporal.
• Introduction: Şehnaz Layıkel Prange.

Programme:
• Vernissage: 05.05.2023 Friday / 19.00: Introduction to the exhibition and artistic positions by Şehnaz Layıkel Prange.
• Artist talk: 12.05.2023 Friday / 7.00 p.m.: The artists talk about their works with guests. Moderation: Şehnaz Layıkel Prange
• Workshop: 23.05.2023 Tuesday / 7.00 p.m. for artists and exhibition makers: “Sustainability as a theme for works and exhibitions”, moderated by: Tom Albrecht
• Reading with discussion: 26.05.2023 Friday / 19.00: “Climate futures 2050” with Robin Bergauf and Burkhard Wetekam. The authors question the utopian aspects of climate futures. Moderation: Klaus Farin and Stephan Groß
• Lecture with discussion: 02.06.2023 Friday / 19.00: Scientists for Future, Prof. Dr. med. Dr. phil. Michael Rapp, University of Potsdam: “The good life for you and the planet”.
• Finissage: 16.06.2023 Friday / 19.00 hrs with music performance by Kopi Kaputa: “Last but not least”.
• Opening hours: Tuesdays and Fridays 5 to 8 p.m. and by appointment
• GG3, Leuschnerdamm 19, 10999 Berlin Kreuzberg

• Download invitation flyer in PDF

In this exhibition Maria Korporal shows her new video The Wishing Table.

Text by Şehnaz Layıkel Prange on the exhibition:

What does “The Good Life” mean in our world today? The title itself already contains in itself that we are searching for something different. This is followed by the questions: Is “The Good Life” an imaginary utopia or is it a realistic possibility? Is the contemplation of this concept alone sufficient? How do the ideas of a “Good Life” relate to their attempts at implementation? Is “The Good Life” really a single “Good Life” or should we speak of a good life in the plural?

Perhaps these are the questions that resonate with our great need, in this time of turbulence and existential fears, on multiple levels.

“The Good Life”: Utopias for Eye, Ear, Nose, Mind is a group exhibition based on six artistic positions: Tom Albrecht, Thomas Behling, Lioba von den Driesch, Mariel Gottwick, Stephan Gross, Maria Korporal. In this exhibition, each artist interprets the concept of the “good life” from a different perspective.

Referring to different contents of a “Good Life”, ranging from feelings to ecology, the artists simultaneously propose and question individual and collective solutions. In other words, they question existing trends and existing methods of healing, while at the same time proposing new ways of perceiving and dealing with problems in today’s world.

Through its multimedia nature, the exhibition appeals to all the senses. One encounters playful interventions as well as solution-oriented proposals of the artists in different forms, such as object, image, audio, installation and video.

Group Global 3000 invites you to the exhibition “The Good Life”, utopias for eye, ear, nose and mind.

In the context of the exhibition, various events will take place in which experts and the artists will discuss the topic from different perspectives together with the guests.

(Şehnaz Layıkel Prange)

FIVE FOR 12

2nd October 2022Newsart and environment, Group Global 3000, sustainability

Exhibition in Galerie mp43 – projektraum für das periphere
Stollbergerstr. 73, 12627 Berlin

November 6-27, 2022

Opening: Sunday November 6, 2022, 15-18 h

Artist Talk: Thursday November 17, 16-17 h

Since 2013, the artist initiative Group Global 3000 has been showing exhibitions that deal with pressing issues of ecological sustainability. Under the title “5vor12” (5 for 12), the group is now a guest at the mp43 project space. Using various artistic media, it seeks an expression for the urgency of responding to the fundamental upheavals that have been noticeably damaging life on our planet for a long time, but soon threaten to escalate fully. Five positions reflect the trepidation, but also the opportunities of what feels like five minutes left to act.

In a survey, Tom Albrecht calls on the visitors to insert their behaviour in the face of the crisis into a scheme that is intended to model the desire and reality of action. To this end, the object “Transformation” draws attention to the necessity of the energy turnaround and at the same time serves as a homage to the technical inventiveness of mankind.

Mariel Gottwick’s installation “… and if they burn, I can’t help it.” shows insects in a light object and in photographs. In a juxtaposition of a distanced and a close-up perspective, our complex fellow creatures are rehabilitated from their status as vanishing points of displeasure projections. They deserve respect not only because they help save life on earth, but because they are a fascinating part of it.

The duty of care for all living things also preoccupies Stephan Groß. His experimental film “BIS NICHTS MEHR ÜBRIG IST” shows a systematic collapse in words and sounds until literally nothing is left. Five words and Five Sounds subjected to an alarming successive clear-cutting as a paraphrase of overexploitation, exploitation, extinction and disappearance.

The large-format work “The Full Catastrophe” by Alexa Helbig, executed in mixed media, shows an expressive abstract scene around a dead animal. The titular expression, originally a film quote, entered common parlance and today also serves as a vehicle for the idea of unsparing contemplation and acceptance of even the worst crises as a coping strategy.

Maria Korporal’s interactive, multimedia installation “Emergency Call Center”, which consists of several videos in different formats, deals with extreme climatological events. A central element of the work is a telephone that can be listened to and answered, prompting people to respond to the Earth’s emergency call.

What the works have in common is the question: Can it be that we can only win the race against time if we pause and give more space to reflection?

(Text by Stephan Groß)

• Download invitation flyer in PDF

Opening hours: each Tuesday, Thursday, Sunday 15-18 h
Artists’ Talk: November 17, 2022, 16-17 h.
Maria Korporal is present on November 6, 17, 20 and 27.

In this exhibition Maria Korporal shows her video Emergency Call and her interactive, multimedia installation Emergency Call Center.

: Emergency Call – video

Beuys for Future on radioeins

2nd May 2021Interviews & Publications, Newsart and environment, Beuys, climate crisis, Group Global 3000, Joseph Beuys, radioeins, sustainability

Interview (in German) with Maria Korporal and Petra Lehnardt-Olm, May 1, 2021 on radioeins, as part of the program “Fettecke – Der Radioday zu 100 Jahren Beuys”:
Link to the interview

The theme is the exhibition Beuys for Future in Group Global 3000 and their personal approach to Beuys.