The Taswir Exhibition @ Martin Gropius Bau Berlin
4. November, 2009 – 18. January, 2010
Berlin
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Exhibirtion View Taswir 2009-2010 / Chant Avedissian und Taysir Batniji FACE AND EFFACED FACE II
Exhibition view, The Taswir Exhibition, Martin Gropius Bau Berlin, 2009-2010
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TAYSIR BATNIJI Performance IMPOSSIBLE JOURNEY
Exhibition view, The Taswir Exhibition, Martin Gropius Bau Berlin, 2009-2010
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Exhibition view, The Taswir Exhibition, Martin Gropius Bau Berlin, 2009-2010
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The Taswir Exhibition
Curated and Conceptualized by A.S. Bruckstein Çoruh with members of ha’atelier / organized by the Berliner Festspiele
TASWIR is the Arabic, Persian and Ottoman-Turkish term for visualizing, making images, photographing, and representation.
The TASWIR exhibition embodies the unfinished agenda of an associative epistemic process taking reference to forgotten, supressed, or withdrawn literary and artistic forms.
The exhibition is staged on 3200 qm of the Martin-Gropius-Bau’s ground level.
For the video clip “TASWIR – Opening” by Merit Fakler click here
The exhibition places classical objects that are usually labelled as ‘Islamic art’ in the context of contemporary artist positions (also but not particularly from the “Middle East”) in graphics, drawing and painting, photography, video and installation, following a narrative parcours which ha’atelier developed in conversation with its members from Ramallah, Cairo, Paris, New York, Berlin, Istanbul and other places.
More than fifty artists from more than 22 countries present their work in this exhibition along with selected objects and artefacts of Persian, Arabic and Ottoman provenance. In this way we create a poetic documentary in which classical traditions correspond with contemporary ones in a fractal, fragmentary and subjective manners.
The exhibition is organized thematically and laid out in eighteen different rooms.
The inner court of the exhibition functions as an exhibition space within the exhibition; artists interpret and critically comment the exhibition in conversation with curators, intellectuals, poets, composers and performance artists from international contexts.
The TASWIR exhibition is conceived of as an ongoing project to be continued by TASWIR projects, embodied in the TASWIR atlas, and institutionalized as the TASWIR institute, still forthcoming.
Thinker and artists
The eighteen rooms and the inner court of TASWIR were “signed” by citations of the following authors or texts:
Dieter Adelmann, Al-Ghazali, Roland Barthes, Italo Calvino, Mahmoud Darwish, Jacques Derrida, William Forsythe, Galileo Galilei, Johann Wolfgang v. Goethe, Hadith, Hafiz, Rebecca Horn, Rose Issa, Siegfried Kracauer, Rabih Mroué, Nizami, Orhan Pamuk, The Qur’an, Arnold Schönberg
Participating artists
Jumana Emil Abboud, Arwa Abouon, Etel Adnan, Maliheh Afnan, Buthayna Ali, Chant Avedissian, Samer Barkoui, Taysir Batniji, Joshua Borkovsky, Marcel Broodthaers, Carlfriedrich Claus, Sidney Corbett, Graham Day, Song Dong, Sherif El Azma, Shahram Entekhabi, Max Ernst, Pablo Picasso, Parastou Forouhar, William Forsythe, Ilse und Pierre Garnier, Abdulnasser Gharem, Sakir Gökcebag, Erik Göngrich, Brion Gyson, Mona Hatoum, Susan Hefuna, Dick Higgins, Rebecca Horn, Rami Abdul Jabbar, Ali Kaaf, Hayv Kahraman, Ik-Joong Kang, Hüseyin Karagöz, Idris Khan, Yayoi Kusama, Wolfgang Laib, Nja Mahdaoui, Nalini Malani, Yang Maoyuan, Marwan, Murat Morova, Moataz Nasr, Timo Nasseri, Shady El Noshokaty, Alexander Polzin, Walid Raad, Seifollah Samadian, Arnold Schönberg, Oliver Schneller, SEMA, Joseph Semah, Raqib Shaw, Shahzia Sikander, Walid Siti, Staatskapelle Berlin, Anneh Mohammed Tatari, Hale Tenger, Sadegh Tirafkan, Sençer Vardarman, Charles Hossein Zenderoudi, Sobhi al-Zobaidi
Publication
An exhibition catalogue, Taswir. Islamische Bildwelten und Moderne is published with the exhibition. Contributors include Oleg Grabar, Abdul-Rahim Al-Shaikh, Angelika Neuwirth, A.S. Bruckstein Çoruh, Stefan Weber, Gabriele Brandstetter, a.o.