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<title class="">PRESSEMITTEILUNG RUINE DER KÜNSTE BERLIN 40 JAHRE</title>
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<br class=""></span></font><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font face="Verdana" style="font-size: 20px;" class=""><font color="#0433ff" class="">The Ruine der Künste Berlin celebrates its 40th anniversary.</font> In the retrospective exhibition, the avant-garde institution exhibits its spectacular architecture as well as traces of hundreds of its artists' activities over the four decades. Curator Timo Kahlen and founder Wolf Kahlen bring the art stories to life in conversation with visitors.</font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><font face="Verdana" style="font-size: 20px;" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font face="Verdana" style="font-size: 20px;" class=""><font color="#0433ff" class="">The Ruine der Künste Berlin is a private space for material and immaterial arts.</font> It’s 'recycled', sculptural architectural volume manifests an extraordinary architectural approach (with international acclaim since its opening in 1985), as the building is characterized by the careful handling and the simultaneity of found substance, traces of history (the ruinous architectural skeleton, the bombarded outer skin) and the avant-garde 'open' interior space 'floating' in the ephemeral shell.</font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><font face="Verdana" style="font-size: 20px;" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font face="Verdana" style="font-size: 20px;" class=""><font color="#0433ff" class="">The Ruine der Künste Berlin has made intermedia art history since 1985</font>. Presenting site-specific, in situ and intermedia, time-based works, in more than 130 individual and 20 themed exhibitions <font color="#0433ff" class="">(*)</font> from 1985 to the present day. Encompassing the scope of all media: photography, video, film, printed media, the internet, telephone, language, drawing, radio, architecture, sculpture, sound, Artificial Intelligence, etc. Providing for installations, performances, concerts and lectures. Surprising with lawnmower drawings, the Ruin’s own radio station, the <font color="#0433ff" class="">Sender Ruine der Künste Berlin</font>, with 365 works of <font color="#0433ff" class="">art via telephone</font>, with interactive works of <font color="#0433ff" class="">net art</font>, with thought photography and with ceramic ash glazes extracted from the debris and ashes of the ruined building itself. Installing themed exhibitions on ‚intermedia‘ in the arts: e.g. in 'Die Ruine möbliert', 'handschreiben', 'Multiples', 'Out of Context', 'Gute Worte', 'Sehen und Gesehen Werden', '200 Mal Neuauflegen' and '<font color="#0433ff" class="">DreamHouse Ruine</font>'. Appearing off-site and abroad at: 'Die Ruine der Künste Berlin am <font color="#0433ff" class="">Bauhaus Dessau</font>', 'Die Ruine der Künste Berlin in der Kunsthalle Palazzo Basel', 'Die Ruine der Künste Berlin an der Kunstakademie in Peking'. Archiving the photo and video documents of all activities, video portraits of the artists, an oral history collection as well as numerous catalogs and books published by the in-house Edition Ruine der Künste Berlin. Providing traces of its activities to renowned archives: Archiv der Avantgarden ADA, Dresden, Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau, Akademie der Künste Berlin, Institut für moderne Kunst Nürnberg and others. </font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><font face="Verdana" style="font-size: 20px;" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font face="Verdana" style="font-size: 20px;" class="">In the current retrospective exhibition, we (that is: Timo Kahlen and Wolf Kahlen) can only show<font color="#0433ff" class=""> traces</font> of our activities here. Ask us, we will tell you the art stories. </font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font face="Verdana" class=""><font color="#0433ff" class="">(*)</font> Presenting innovative experiments with sound art (La Monte Young, Julius, Bernhard Leitner, Timo Kahlen), ruin pollen (Wolfgang Laib), AI-generated image sequences; conceptual works such as Fluxus installations (Robert Filliou, Margaret Raspé), chance-controlled radio art (Wojciech Bruszewski) and film art (Michael Snow, Roland Steckel), art via telephone (365 Zeit-An-Sagen), video sculptures (Song Dong, Wolf Kahlen), thematic exhibitions on art of books and of handwriting (85 artists), lawnmower drawings (Yuan Shun), Tibet research (Eva Siao, Wolf Kahlen, Josef Vanis, Vladimír Sís), poetry and literature (Gerhard Rühm, Walter Aue), photography (Dieter Appelt, Evgen Bavcar, Gedankenphotographien, Phosphor-Photographien), ash-glaze ceramics (Barbara Kahlen), typography and editions (Gerd Fleischmann), philosophy (Wilhelm Gauger, Akong Rinpoche), experimental music and concerts (Erik Satie, Shakuhachi, Oberton), multiples (S.M.S. 1968) and interactive net art (Ian Andrews, Timo Kahlen, WolfKahlen), Chinese contemporary arts (as early as 1991: Yin Yufen, Zhu Jinshi, Yang Lian, Xin Yuzhen, Bei Dao), links between art and science (John Latham, Burkhard Heim), etc. etc.</font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><font face="Verdana" style="font-size: 20px;" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font color="#0433ff" face="Verdana" style="font-size: 20px;" class="">This is your </font><span style="font-size: 20px; color: rgb(4, 51, 255); font-family: Verdana;" class="">invitation to the</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font color="#0433ff" face="Verdana" style="font-size: 20px;" class="">exhibition opening on</font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font color="#0433ff" face="Verdana" style="font-size: 20px;" class="">Sunday, May 4, 2025 at 3 pm</font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><font color="#0433ff" face="Verdana" style="font-size: 20px;" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font color="#0433ff" face="Verdana" style="font-size: 20px;" class="">Duration of the exhibition</font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font color="#0433ff" face="Verdana" style="font-size: 20px;" class="">every Sunday until July 20, 2025 from 3 - 6 p.m.</font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font color="#0433ff" face="Verdana" style="font-size: 20px;" class="">and by appointment</font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><font color="#0433ff" face="Verdana" style="font-size: 20px;" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font color="#0433ff" face="Verdana" style="font-size: 20px;" class="">Free admission</font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><font face="Verdana" style="font-size: 20px;" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font color="#0433ff" face="Verdana" style="font-size: 20px;" class="">RUINE DER KÜNSTE BERLIN</font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font color="#0433ff" face="Verdana" style="font-size: 20px;" class="">Hittorfstr. 5</font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font color="#0433ff" face="Verdana" style="font-size: 20px;" class="">D 14195 Berlin-Dahlem</font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font color="#0433ff" face="Verdana" style="font-size: 20px;" class="">U 3 Free University</font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font color="#0433ff" face="Verdana" style="font-size: 20px;" class="">Bus M11 Hittorfstr.</font></div><font face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial" class="">
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Timo Kahlen <font color="#0000FE" class=""><a href="http://www.timo-kahlen.de/" class="">http://www.timo-kahlen.de</a><br class="">
</font>Wolf Kahlen <font color="#0000FE" class=""><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_Kahlen" class="">https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_Kahlen</a><br class="">
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