Joseph Beuys

UPDATE 2022

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Group exhibition in Galerie Verein Berliner Künstler
30.04. – 22.05. 2022
Opening: Friday, 29.04. 2022, 7 p.m.

Without a specific theme, UPDATE is a group exhibition in which the artists of the VBK each year express their individual engagement with the actual situation. This year’s edition brings together the current 79 perspectives of artists, simultaneously presenting the versatility of art concepts and the diverse positions of the members of the VBK.

Michael Augustinski • Jutta Barth • Monika Bartsch • Sandra Becker • Frauke Beeck • Viola Bendzko • Gerda Berger • Catherine Bourdon • Birgit Borggrebe • Conrad Brockstedt • Judith Brunner • Andrea Cataudella • Barbara Czarnojahn • Christoph Damm • Norma Drimmer • Christian Ebel • Burghild Eichheim • Jeanne Fredac • Monika Funke Stern • Marianne Gielen • Marilyn Green • Claudia Hartwig • Michael M. Heyers • Margret Holz • Yukihiro Ikutani • Andrea Imwiehe • Kama Jackowska • Rosika Jankó-Glage • Regine Jankowski • JOAX • Karsten Kelsch • Hyeja Kim • Michael Koch • Karoline Koeppel • Matthias Koeppel • Simone Kornfeld • Maria Korporal • Sebastian Kusenberg • Joan Lazeanu • Birgit Maaß • Siegrid Müller-Holtz • Uschi Niehaus • Volker Nikel • Larissa Nod • Stephanie Nückel • Fumiari Ogawa • Michael Otto • Renate Pfrommer • Kirstin Rabe • Frank Rödel • Astrid Roeken • Regina Roskoden • Corinna Rosteck • Michaela Rothe • Katrin Salentin • Peter Schlangenbader • Sandra Schmidt • Robert Schmidt-Matt • Sabine Schneider • Sylvia Seelmann • Richard Stimmel • Evelyn Sommerhoff • SOOKI • Ruźa Spak • Anita Staud • Marianne Stoll • Andrea Streit • Tina Tahir • Anna von Bassen • Burchard Vossmann • Helga Wagner • Gerard Waskievitz • Catrin Wechler • Martin Wellmer • Ila Wingen • Karla Woisnitza (INGARTAN) • Ulrike Martha Zimmermann • Barbara Zirpins • Ayca Nina Zuch

Exhibition duration: 30.04. – 22.05. 2022
Opening: Friday, 29.04. 2022

Gallery opening hours: Tue – Fri 15 – 19 h, Sat – Sun 14 – 18 h
Gallery Weekend: 29 April – 1 May 2022
Special opening hours: Fri 3 – 9 p.m., Sat – Sun 11 a.m. – 7 p.m.

Maria Korporal participates with her video and drawing Thinking with my Knee (Homage to Joseph Beuys).

Beuys for Future on radioeins

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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.

Thinking with my Knee

Thinking with my Knee

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Homage to Joseph Beuys.
During a walk in the streets of Beuys’ city Düsseldorf, I photographed a piece of rubbish sitting on the asphalt. Later I anthropomorphised and animated it, using charcoal drawing. It changed into a spontaneously created microcosm.
Transforming the waste by using associative drawing, I want to make it clear that humanity is destroying its environment. It possesses, however, also a strong creative power, which it can use to improve the world and shape the future. To quote Joseph Beuys: “The only revolutionary force is the force of human creativity.”
The title of my video refers to Beuys‘ famous saying: “I think with my knee anyway.” He meant that rational thinking is unable to meet up with the complexity of artistic thought. That’s why good artists use to think crosswise and around corners. In other words with the knee.

title: Thinking with my Knee
technique: Digital and analogue animation with photo and charcoal drawing
length: 1’43”
year: 2021
© Maria Korporal 2021

Stills from the video:

 

Screenings and presentations:
• November 15, 2024 – January 12, 2025: Lines Fiction 2024, Kunstraum Kreuzberg – Bethanien, Berlin.
• October 26, 2023: Pinus Sessions, São Paulo, Brazil.
• May 4-10, 2023: ANIMATIBA – Curitiba International Animation Festival, Curitiba, Brasil.
• January 13 – February 11, 2023: No Future on Mondays, SCOTTY, Berlin.
• November 23-27, 2022: Anilogue International Animation Festival, Budapest, Hungary.
• October 14, 2022 – January 16, 2023: Onda Mediale 2022, Art Web Gallery.
• June 18 – August 24, 2022: Lines Fiction, Galerie im Körnerpark, Berlin.
• April 29 – May 22, 2022: UPDATE 22, Galerie VBK Berlin. Video and drawing.
• April 28-29, 2022: Screening Official Selection Videograma, Teatro del Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín, Colombia.
• April 23, 2022: Presentation of the book Paisajes artificiales, Galería Santa Fe, Bogotá, Colombia.
• February 2022: The video is now part of the video art collection of the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Bogotá.
• February 17 – April 30, 2022: SOMOS+, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Bogotá, Colombia. Presentation of new works in the museum’s collection, including “Thinking with my Knee”.
• 2022: The Climate Change Memorial, curated by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne, online and several physical venues.
• October 29, 2021: Videograma, Festival Internacional de Videoarte, Bogotà, Colombia.
• July 1-4, 2021: Fest Anča International Animation Festival 2021, Official Selection, Nová synagóga Žilina, Slovakia.
• March 26 – June 4, 2021: Beuys for Future, GG3 / Group Global 3000, Berlin. Read the Press release by Dr. Ralf Weiß.