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CATALYST is a project focussing on art in context and art at the interfaces to science, theory and other diciplines.
CATALYST creates an open space for artists and people interested in art to meet, communicate, inform, share knowledge and enable networking possibilities. We organize and develop exhibitions, art projects, workshops, seminars and work groups.

CATALYST activities took place in it’s project room Berlin, Prenzlauer Berg, Schliemannstrasse 34 between 2005 and 2010.
CATALYST now works without a space on mobile projects in different locations.

CATALYST exhibitions and other documentarys can be viewed on this website

Exhibitions

NATALIS

Anna Broermann – photography

Vernissage: August 16, 2011 7pm

Exhibition: August 17 to October 01, 2011
Finissage: October 01, 7pm
Open: Thursday 12-17 h / Fri+Sat 15-19 h
>>>>>>>>> and by appointment

Location: CATALYST mobile // Gethsemanestr. 4, Berlin/Prenzlauerberg

www.anna-broermann.de

Emerge ? To be born ? Origin.
What happens to women who give birth to new life?

I am fascinated by the process. What strength do they muster when they give birth to a child?

What suffering, what pain, what struggle are they going through?
I was allowed to accompany mothers photographically during this process, which is like a strong swell.
Hope, pain, amazement, despair, waiting, rebellion, fear, exhaustion, resistance, devotion, overcoming and again and again: an incredible feat of strength.

Every woman finds her own rhythm by breathing in and out. She enters a trance-like state, listens to her body and has to concentrate and summon up strength. Waiting, hoping, fighting, there is no choice, no turning back, there is only one way, they have to go through it.

Projections + Desire

Juan Manuel Magán – photography

Vernissage: February 16 7 pm

Exhibition: February 18 to March 05, 2010
Finissage: March 05 7 pm
Open: Thu 12am-5pm / Fri+Sat 3pm-7pm
>>>>>>>>> and by appointment
(Contact 0162-7241931_ juanmanuel.magan@gmail.com)

 

In his artistic work, Juan Manuel Magán explores transformation processes that are analyzed by means of photography and projection and thus open up unusual perspectives. How we read, comprehend and judge encounters with our counterparts is often predetermined by our own projection onto them, but also by oscillating impressions that individuals construct by slipping into different roles.

The exhibition shows two different approaches to this theme.
PROJECTIONS examines the way in which the image of a naked body is transformed, how it is manipulated and exposed when exposed to a superimposed projection and thus opens up ways of reading that differ from the usual traditional view.
For Juan Manuel Magán, the DESIRE photo series is a key to exploring the connections between sexual and other human desires that are rooted in our basic needs.

Juan Manuel Magán, born in Toledo, Spain, completed his Bachelor of Arts at the Escuela de Artes de Toledo, in Toledo, in 2004 and graduated in Fine Arts at the UCLM, Cuenca, Spain, in 2009. He lives and works in Berlin and Spain.

Exquist Underway Underway

Mariana Morais – installation – painting – drawing

Vernissage: January 23, 7 pm

Exhibition: January 24 to February 11
Open: Thu 12-15 h / Fri+Sat 16-19 h
>>>>>>>>> and by appointment
(Contact: 0152- 23905120)

 

“You go to school, go back home, travel, improvise. Sooner or later you go to the doctor. You praise or condemn the world or aspects of it and have an intimate view of life. All of this is quite all right. Hierarchies are temporary and different and – in the end – things tend to blend together. In my drawings I combine a composition that does not lose its individual characteristics. I take portraits without specific themes and produce them without meaning. And then I simply enjoy the gymnastics of deconstructivist reading. That’s how I found my work, on the way to mixing.”
Mariana Morais

Mariana Morais, born in Portugal in 1980, studied painting in Porto and lives and works in Berlin. Her works consist of a wide variety of surfaces, cardboard or canvas. Characters and words are brought together like color and form to create universes that defy logic.
This exhibition shows paintings and drawings created during her residency at culturia Berlin.

http://marianatmorais.blogspot.com/

Small Stages

michael zeeh – photography

Vernissage: November 26 | 7pm | live music by The Dolphins

Exhibition: Thu 12am-5pm / Fri+Sat 3pm-7pm
>>>>>>>>> and by appointment
contact: info@m-zeeh.de

 

Often musicians and audience of “Small Stages” do know each other within their usual role in everyday life. During a single evening one side of this role reveals and steps out. For a short time all attention centers around an increased intensity – intensity of feelings, of gestures, of attention and the intensity of immersing into the music. Within these exeptional circumstances Michael Zeeh accompanies his friends and aquaintances via his photography.

Michael Zeeh studied architecture at the University of Kassel. He works in Berlin with a focus on museum planning and design. The exhibition “Small Stages” is his debut as a photographer.

Did you kiss the dead body

Rajkamal Kahlon – video-installation-sound-performance

Vernissage: june 4th | 7 pm

Exhibition: june 5th – june 27th

 

Did You Kiss the Dead Body? is an experimental solo exhibition featuring nightly storefront projections and audio recordings of U.S. Military Autopsy Reports from Iraq and Afghanistan. Did You Kiss the Dead Body? is a reference to the last line of Harold Pinter’s Poem “Death” and is the title of a new project by Rajkamal Kahlon which is comprised of ink anatomical drawings, sculpture, sound and video.

Kahlon interrogates the ideological positions of representation as they are linked to forms of racial and colonial authority. In a dialectical engagement with historical texts she critiques the will to “make” humans implicit in the visual practices backed by repressive regimes of power in part through the use of violent imagery framed by psychedelia and the human body turned
grotesque through its traumatic encounters with colonialism, military rule and torture.

Bishnupriya Ghosh
Kahlon received her MFA in Painting and Drawing from the California College of the Arts and her B.A. from the University of California, Davis. She is a past participant of the Whitney Independent Study Program, and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Kahlon was a 2006 recipient of the Joan Mitchell Painting and Sculpture Award and a 2007 Lambent Fellowship in the Arts. Her work has been exhibited at museums and galleries internationally and reviewed in the New Yorker, The New York Times and Art Asia Pacific.
For more information please contact Rajkamalkahlon@gmail.com

Memory Networks

viviana alcalde – video installation

Vernissage: 7th may | 7 pm

Exhibition: 7th may – 28th may

 

memory is a function of the brain which is constantly flowing, organic and doesn′t behave like a machine. our memory can be affected in many ways, which can make us forget, can change memories around or may even invent completely new ones. sometimes we remember someone else′s memories – things that we dreamed or things we just made up.

memory networks is a project related to memory building. the structure of the sound installation matches the structure of the brain representing all the neurons capable of connecting and transmitting information.

this project questions the flatness of the photography image and its two-dimensional nature. by fragmenting and condensing the images in one single space, the artist, viviana alcade, mean to show the content represented on a flat picture in a three-dimensional space. this allows us to look at it from every perspective so the elements are perceived in an interactive way just as our brain would.

Lost Conditions

MAREN MAIWALD photography-video-installation

Vernissage: january 23rd – 7pm

Exhibition: january 24th – febuary 14th

GABRIELE KÜNNE – installation-paintings

Vernissage: febuary 21st – 7pm

Exhibition:febuary 22th – march 14th

 

LOST CONDITIONS describes situations that follow the loss, collapse or consciously induced deconstruction of existing order formations.
Common patterns of representation and reception of socially standardized facts surrounding us are questioned, with the intention of using the process of transformation itself as creative potential for reinterpretations and (re)formations and thereby influencing the conditions for the emergence of evaluation systems.

Based on personal, intimate experiences, Maren Maiwald’s works show subject-oriented processes of the split between self-perception and the perception of others.
A moment of aggression is a prerequisite for the creation of multi-layered, relational perspectives.

Taking an analytical and conceptual approach, Gabriele Künne uses her spatial installation to examine the coding and ciphering processes to which nature and man are subjected within a technologized society and transforms them into a symbolic level that questions the mechanisms of reduction and classification.

Maren Maiwald Objects and photography
www.marenmaiwald.de
Gabriele Künne Installation
www.gabrielekuenne.de
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