Opening

Friday, 3rd February, 6pm

With: John Armleder, Vittorio Brodmann, Valentin Carron, Stéphane Dafflon, René Daniëls, Philippe Decrauzat, Andreas Dobler, Jason Fox, Mathis Gasser, Vidya Gastaldon, Jack Goldstein, Wade Guyton, Daniel Hesidence, Mamie Holst, David Hominal, Karen Kilimnik, Jutta Koether, Lang/Baumann, Sherrie Levine, Luigi Lurati, Marlene McCarty, Stephen O'Malley, Steven Parrino, Mai-Thu Perret, Hans Schärer,  Kenny Scharf, Julian Schnabel, Michael Scott, Blair Thurman, John Tremblay, Meyer Vaisman, Julia Wachtel, Aldo Walker, Dan Walsh

Opening

Friday, 7 October 6 pm

Opening

Friday, 7 October 6 pm 

Born in Meiringen, Switzerland in 1970, Marianne Flotron currently lives and works in Amsterdam (Netherlands). After two years of studies in history in Zurich, she continued courses at the School of Fine Arts of Geneva (Switzerland), where she earned her degree in 2001. From 2007 till 2008 she was in residence at the Rijksakademie voor Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam. She won the Swiss Art Awards in 2003, 2007 and 2009. In 2008, she received the Aeschlimann Corti award from the canton of Berne.

The exhibition at Kunsthalle Bern obtained substantial support from the Mondriaan Foundation, Amsterdam and from Günther and Carola Ertle-Ketterer. The Kunsthalle wishes to thank Tweaklab Basel and the Rijksakademie Amsterdam for their additional support.

Moshekwa Langa’s art is amongst the most difficult to pigeonhole. “People can’t reconcile my idiosyncratic views with their own desire to classify me”, he says, but his work, meandering along contradictory trajectories, often tempts the viewer to arrive at false conclusions. In many ways, Langa’s work mirrors the artist’s life and his activities as they oscillate between Johannesburg and Europe, between nostalgia for his rural South African home and his life as an expatriate in Europe.

INVISIBLE BORDERS (Amaize Ojeikere, Ray Daniels Okeugo, Uche James-Iroha, Lucy Azubuike, Charles Okereke, Uche Okpa-Iroha, Chidinma Nnorom, Emeka Okereke, Adenike Ojeikere, Unoma Geise and Chriss Aghana Nwobu)

Real artists don't have teeth is a performance monologue which premiered March 2010 in Moderna Museet, as a part of García's exhibition at Index in Stockholm. It had a second incarnation at the Kunsthalle Bern for her solo show in August 2010. Tinted by the artist's characteristic dark humour, the performance work examines the complexity in issues related to censorship, audience-artist relationships, mainstream and marginality. The ironical moral of the story is that the real artist should always remain marginal to be safe from mainstream wolves. The contradictions of such a position point to the concept of counterculture, defined by Basaglia as “the culture of the deviant.” So what’s the contract between the normal and the deviant, and what are the political and cultural implications of this agreement? That’s the core of Real artist’s don’t have teeth.

Opening

Friday 23 July 6pm

Opening

Friday 14 May 6pm

With:

Agency, Art & Language, Adam Avikainen, Marcel Broodthaers, Walt Disney, Jimmie Durham, Armen Eloyan, Leon Ferrari, Simryn Gill, Walon Green, Lutz&Guggisberg, Brion Gysin, Luis Jacob, Ken Jacobs, Joachim Koester, Len Lye, Mark Manders, Santu Mofokeng, Melitopoulos/ Lazzarato, Otobong Nkanga, Reto Pulfer, Józef Robakowski/ Wiesław Michalak/ Paul Sharits, Jan Svankmajr, Yutaka Sone, Rosemarie Trockel, David Gheron Tretiakoff, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven

Opening

Friday 12 February 6pm

On Independence And The Ambivalence of Promise

8 Feb-6 March 2010. The Centre for Contemporary Art (CCA), Lagos launches the year-long programme On Independence and the Ambivalence of Promise marking the 50th anniversary of independence of Nigeria and 16 other African countries with a month-long international art photography residency programme featuring local and international artists, critics and curators. For more information contact Antawan Byrd, antawan@ccalagos.org, tel.
+234 702 836 7106.

Nigeria gained its independence from Britain on 1 October 1960. The CCA project intends to question the limits of postcolonial critical thinking and ideas as well as exploring the dreams, realities and possibilities for full independence that have engaged people and communities since the end of colonialism.

Opening

Saturday 12 September 6 pm

Opening

Friday, 31 July, 6 pm 

Opening

Friday 29 May, 6pm 

opening

friday 12.12.2008, 6pm 

13 September 2008, Kunsthalle Bern, 6 pm

Admission: 5 pm 

Baggage (1972 – 2007/08) A happening by Allan Kaprow re-invented by Otobong Nkanga

Monday, 11 August 2008, Kunsthalle Bern, 7 pm

Afterparty in collaboration with the Summer Academy Bern, Dampfzentrale Bern, 10 pm 

SWING

Opening Friday May 9th, 6 pm

BLACK BOX

Opening: 8th February, 6pm 

concert with Christian Marclay

20 years Foundation Kunsthalle Bern

Group exhibitions in the world of "hot lists" and the "supermarketing of the arts"

Anne-Mie van Kerckhoven – Europäisches Zentrum für Futuristische Kunst

Developing a complex multimedia work since the late 70s, Anne-Mie van Kerckhoven carries the spectator away in an abundance of images, words and alienating sound, connecting subject matters from the most different realms. Every exhibition functions as a ‘surviving mechanism’ introducing new works or recontextualizing older pieces. The logic is that of expansion rather than limitation. Hence ‘multiplicity’ is a quality; as a field of interpretations intended to compensate the entropic drift of meaning. The way Anne-Mie van Kerckhoven ‘installs’ some of her works in a flexible structure is an answer to her obsession for systems in which invisible forms of self-organisation are at work, such as the human brain, a computer virus, a living organism, an ant colony or an internet database.