Sparwasser HQ

Offensive für zeitgenössische Kunst und Kommunikation
homepage : http://www.sparwasserhq.de/
e-mail : mail@sparwasserhq.de
address : Torstra 161 10115 Berlin Germany
Telefon +49 30 21803001 / 01796705859
Fax +49 30 44047981
Öffnungszeiten: Mi-Fr 16-19, Sa 14-18

lise nellemann
founder of and main responsible for sparwasser since summer 2000

exhibition project : Old habits Die Hard, 50 videos selected by 50 artist run spaces and collectives
www.oldhabitsdiehard.org

NEWSLETTER for Sparwasser HQ, Berlin:

"THE GIFT"
January 29. - March 5.
Marianne Heier, Jesper Alvaer, Arve Roed
curated by Ida Kierulf/ Helga-Marie Nordby
opening January 28. from 7pm to 11pm

March 5. at 8 pm
lecture-performance "Utama- Every Name in History is I"
by Ho Tzu Nyen (Singapore)

"Dying to make a living"
March 12. to April 9.
Paulette Philips, Wolf von Kries and others
Opening March 11. from 7pm to 11pm

"CitySellingCityTelling"
(Urban Art Stories)
April 17.- May 28.
Tadej Pogacar/ code:red, INS, Andreas Fogarasi and Kristina Ask
Opening April 16. from 7pm to 11pm

June
Residency

July
Residency with Instant Coffee (artist group,Toronto, http://www.instantcoffee.org)

August
Lars Bent Pedersen and students from Odense, Denmark

September
"Curating Degree Zero Archive"
An Archive, Touring exhibition and Web-resource about Critical Curatorial Practice.
Concept: Dorothee Richter und Barnaby Drabble http://www.curatingdegreezero.org
co-laboration Sparwasser HQ & Büro Friedrich
Strategy/navigation/display: Lise Nellemann


Sparwasser outside Head Quarters:

January 15. at 2 PM
Sparwasser HQ lecture/discussion at artist run space P10, Singapore

February 10.um 19 Uhr
Sparwasser HQ Vortrag/ discussion in Halle für Kunst Lüneburg
Lise Nellemann participates in Curating Degree Zero, opening February 11. in Halle für Kunst Lüneburg

February 5. - 26. 2005 Art in General, New York
February 23. - March 26. Goethe Institute, New York
"Old Habits Die Hard,50 videos selected by 50 artist run spaces and collectives"http://www.oldhabitsdiehard.org
(is not a Sparwasser exhibition, but organized by Heman Chong and Lise Nellemann, initialy for Sparwasser HQ)
February 5.: Public OHDH meeting with the organizers and the New York participants.

June 15. - August 21. 2005
Sparwasser HQ participates in the group exhibition "Situation : Collaborations, collectives and artist networks from Sydney, Singapore and Berlin" at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Sydney, Australia
http://www.mca.com.au/

FROM SITE

Sparwasser HQ is a non-commercial artist run space.
Sparwasser HQ's practice is characterized by an open, process-oriented participation from a large group of artists and theorists, influencing the program as well as the day to day running of the space. Theory and organization result from this artistic collaboration. New projects grow out of an intense exchange of ideas, leading to constant questioning and reformulating of Sparwasser's strategies.
A broader field of work, including monthly exhibitions combined with video screenings, artist talks and live performances, re-examines the context of contemporary art practice and expands our objectives. Since the beginning of the project in the summer of 2000 Sparwasser HQ showed 44 exhibitions, and with events artists talk and dialogs we have been able to build up and establish our position as a place of communication. Sparwasser HQ is linked to the Scandinavian art scene, while defining itself as part of a international, multilingual scene. Sparwasser HQ combines theory and practice, production and communication, politics and aesthetics.
With the aim of examining contemporary society and the conditions of artistic production by confronting various artistic and curatorial practices, we consider art an important form of alternative knowledge production.