Qompendium at Mudam

A presentation at the Mudam about deconstructing and decoding Qompendium and constructing it back into a time capsule of historical and contemporary content. A dialogue with all the attendants and the Design Friends.

March 26th 2010
6pm to 8pm

First retrospective of Roger Melis (1940-2009) work. So much simplicity, reality and proximity in these sensitives pictures. Roger Miles was more interested in showing real life, inexpected, banal situations, without any stars or glitter, just catching the daily life poetry. His work can also be considered as archives, a testimony of East german daily life. Really nice exhibition.

c/o Berlin
Oranienburger Straße 35/36

From the 2nd to the 17th of april, the french Galerie Anatome will present the winners of the Concours des plus beaux livres francais 2009 (Most beautiful french books contest). This contest wants to promote both manufacture quality, both graphic design quality.
Then, this exhibition will move over France and also abroad. Books will be presented to the Most beautiful international contest of Leipzig and to the Franckfort book fair.
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2.04.2010 bis 17.04.2010
Concours des plus beaux livres francais
Galerie Anatome, 38 rue Sedaine, Paris

Very nice temporary exhibition in the Berlin’Hamburger Bahnhof. "The Saints" is a sound, video and sculpture installation of the American artist Paul Pfeiffer. Sound immersion, power of image culture, popular culture... "The Saints" is a restaging of the 1966 World Cup final between West Germany and England in London's Wembley Stadium.
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10. Oktober 2009 – 2. May 2010
Hamburger Bahnhnof, Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin

Typo Passion — 15th International Design Conference           From 20 to 22 May 2010

In collaboration with the German Federal Cultural Foundation the Berlinale World Cinema Fund is marking its fifth birthday by showing what wonderful and unusual films have been made thanks to the support of the WCF. These films, which have been shown at international festivals and in cinemas in several countries, should now be screened for the Berlin public and cinema enthusiasts who are interested in very special films: strong, authentic stories from Latin America, Africa, the Near/Middle East and Central- and South East Asia as well as innovative visual ideas - artistically sophisticated and internationally successful at the same time.   The WCF has invited ten outstanding films to Berlin and is delighted to be showing them at the Hackesche Höfe from 4–7 November 2009, as part of the WCF Spotlight "Infectious Films."

Floating sculptures in bright colours are on display when IB Geertsen (1919 – 2009) shows his most beautiful mobiles in ARoS / Aarhus Kunstmuseum in Denmark.

June 4th – September 27th
ARoS / Aarhus Kunstmusem

The exhibition Sonic Youth etc.:  Sensational Fix focuses on the multidisciplinary activities of the groundbreaking experimental guitar band Sonic Youth since its formation in 1981. It features the band's collaborations with visual artists, filmmakers, designers and musicians, as well as a choice of other works selected by the band. Through the multidisciplinary output of Sonic Youth and related works by other artists in the exhibition, an alternative history of contemporary culture is being uncovered in which the division between 'high art' and 'low art' is being called into question, while issues are explored such as teenage rebellion, adolescent wanderlust, gender, fame, fashion, sexuality, and religion. In the exhibition, those different themes related to the band are presented in several chapters based on Sonic Youth song titles, which form satellites around a central space that focuses on Sonic Youth paraphernalia.

Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
31. Januar — 10. Mai 2009

Halle an der Saale ist das neue Cottbus – Schwefelgelb am 3. April 2009 im Objekt 5 und am 4. April 2009 im Bebel in Cottbus live vor Ort!

Characterscope Showdown Party

Gangpol & Mit, Pan/tone, Ben Butler & Mousepad, Deadbeat will be live at Tape Club Berlin. Video Installations by Motomichi Nakamura and W+K Tokyolab.

21 03 2009, 23 H

Die Ausstellung „Der Floh – ein kulturhistorisches Museum“ von Anne Kunz ist Teil der Gruppenausstellung
Museumsbauhütte. Zwölf künstlerische Museen und Museumsentwürfe im werkbundarchiv – museum der dinge, Berlin. Sie ist äusserst sehenswert und bis zum 23. März 2009 verlängert.

Wie hat es der Floh geschafft, von einem Quälgeist und Krankheits-überträger zu einer Attraktion im Zirkus und zu einer vielfältig genutzten sprachlichen Metapher zu werden? Zur Beantwortung dieser Fragen machte sich die Künstlerin Anne Kunz auf eine Forschungsreise in die Floh-Welt auf, die sie von der Hundesalonbesitzerin über den letzten Flohzirkus bis zum Entomologischen Institut in Müncheberg führte. Mit ihrem Flohmuseum erreicht sie nun, was den meisten Museen aufgrund ihrer Spezialisierung fehlt: eine kulturhistorische Reflexion des „Bildes“, das sie mit der Präsentation ihrer Sammlungen entwickeln.

The Qompendium Trivial project is a tribute to the individuals who write the headlines for a newspaper published in England called “Evening standard” more than three times each and every single day. This platform including the typeface named Trivial is created and designed to bring hand written and hand made calligraphy into an entire new context. In its core this is all about spreading the word and dedicating trivia.