PECHA KUCHA ART NIGHTS
by peer to space and Performing Encounters
Since 2015, Tina Sauerlaender (peer to space) and Yvonne Zindel (Performing Encounters) present, organize and moderate the PECHA KUCHA ART NIGHTS event series in Berlin. For each event they invite 10-12 speakers representing different fields and networks of Berlin’s art scene to introduce their work in Pecha Kucha talks in German or English. The events highlight the diversity and relevance of the Berlin art scenes.
Each Pecha Kucha speech lasts 6 minutes and 40 seconds. Each speaker shows exactly 20 pictures, which change automatically every 20 seconds. The speakers have to focus on the shown slide in their speech. The lecture technique Pecha Kucha was used for the first time in 2003 in Tokyo by 2 architects as part of a design event. In the meantime, it has found its way into advertising, business and universities. Official Pecha Kucha Nights are held in about 1000 cities worldwide. In one evening many different topics will be dealt with there, in our case tonight it is only about art. Short and entertaining lectures are the result, which present informative contents without excesses, anecdotal and not too serious.
Interview with Yvonne Reiners and Tina Sauerlaender on Artfridge.de
Previous Pecha Kucha Art Nights: "What's hot?!" (2015), "Art, Anyone?!" (2016) and "Networks" (2018) in the house on Lützowplatz, as well as "Art in the Age of Earthquakes?!" (2016) in the Martin-Gropius-Bau as part of the exhibition "+ultra. gestaltung schafft wissen" of the Cluster of Excellence "Bild Wissen Gestaltung", interdisciplinary laboratory of the Humboldt-University Berlin.
For the video documentations please inquire the speakers or contact peer to space.
Pecha Kucha Art Night 1: What's hot?!
October 15, 2015 at 7:30 pm at Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin
The lectures of the first Pecha Kucha Art Night organized by peer to space Performing Encounters deal with the topic "What's hot?! - A kind of inventory is needed: What's going on right now? What is important in art? What is the state of the art? What is MIR important in art? What should we talk about? An optimistic evening on the current status quo in art!
List of speakers (in order of appearance):
Annika von Taube, Art Historian and Freelance Consultant Digital Media
Uta Grosenick, Publisher, DISTANZ
Gudrun Wurlitzer, Architect, Collector and Founder of artitious
Marcus Johst, Founder of Artparasites.com
Angela Lammert, Private Lecturer, Academy of the Arts, Berlin
Volker Diehl, Gallery Owner, DIEHL and Diehl Cube
Nina Haab, Artist, Fellow of the Residency ABA AiR Berlin
Kirstin zu Hohenlohe, SOS Edition, SOS Kinderdorf
Stephan Köhler, Curator and Artist, Frontviews
Jan Kage, RadioArty, SCHAU Fenster
Thea Dymke, Marketing & Communication, BVDG - Federal Association of German Galleries
Photo documentation of the 1st PECHA KUCHA ART NIGHT
Pecha Kucha Art Night 2: Art, Anyone?!
12 July 12, 2016 at 7:30 pm at Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin
With "Art, Anyone?" we didn't give the speakers a theme, but a thought stimulation, because there is so much art, but why is art important for our society? And where does it assume social responsibility? What are sustainable values in art that should help shape the future?
List of speakers (in order of appearance):
Ece Pazarbaşı, Curator and Doctor of the Berlin Art Grant Clinic
Anna Bromley, Artist and Curator
Dr. Laura Hirvi, Director of Finland Institute
Lisa Glauer, Artist and Curator
Melina Volkmann, Co-Founder www.stusu.com
Anne Schwanz, Director, Eigen and Art Lab
Dr. Eva Meyer-Hermann, Freelance Exhibition Organizer, cakesmeyer
Ornella Fieres, Artist
Johann König, Gallery owner, König Gallery
Lena Winter, Auction House Villa Grisebach
Dr. An Paenhuysen, Blogger, Art Critic and Curator
Kristian Jarmuschek, Gallery Jarmuschek & Partner, Founder POSITIONS BERLIN
Photo documentation of the 2nd PECHA KUCHA ART NIGHT
Pecha Kucha Art Night 3: Art in the Age of Earthquakes?!
November 6, 2016 at 4 pm at Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin
The euphoria about the possibilities of the Internet and the Share Economy is turning into a general skepticism. Have shocks like Edward Snowden's revelations also added to the spirit of optimism in the art world? Or have their protagonists not yet recognized the potential of the Internet? How do they deal with analog-digital hybridity? How do they create and communicate art in the virtual age? What are opportunities and risks for artists, gallery owners or museums? Which images are important today and how do they function? What does digital change mean for art - and especially for the image?
Part of the exhibition "+ultra. gestaltung schafft wissen" of the Cluster of Excellence "Bild Wissen Gestaltung. An Interdisciplinary Laboratory" at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
List of speakers (in order of appearance):
Katharina Lee Chichester, Curatorial Assistant, +ultra. gestaltung schafft wissen
A.R. practice / Agnieszka Roguski and Ann Richter, Exhibition Collective
Michael Haas, Sonice Development
Thomas Heidtmann, Artist and Curator, Lacuna Lab
Paul Wiersbinski, Artist
Anja Henckel, Curator, Import Projects
Carina Lueschen, Artist
Ute Marxreiter, Research Assistant for Education and Mediation at the Ethnological Museum and Museum for Asian Art
Sophia Gräfe, Scholar, Media and Cultural Studies
Aram Bartholl, Artist
Oliver Zauzig, Coordination, Hermann von Helmholtz-Zentrum für Kulturtechnik, Office for University Collections in Germany
Philip Hausmeier, VR Artist
Sarah Hermanutz, Artist and Developer
Photo documentation of the 3rd PECHA KUCHA ART NIGHT
Pecha Kucha Art Night 4: Networks
January 31, 2018, 7:30 pm at Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin
Networks are omnipresent in the art world. They manifest themselves in the form of cooperations, associations, federations or interactive, participative social sculptures, salons and their equivalents in the virtual world. But what do networks actually mean for curators, artists, art historians and other actors in the art scene? In short lectures in Pecha Kucha format, the speakers from the (Berlin) art scene shed light on the significance of the network as a platform for exchange, mutual strengthening, and not least as a (productive) metaphor for human cooperation.
List of speakers (in order of appearance):
Sabeth Buchmann, Professor of Art History at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna
Anna-Lena Werner, Author, Artfridge
Hannah Kruse, Art Historian, Goldrausch artist project
Philip Horst, Director of the ZKU, Berlin
Cornelia Renz, Artist, Speaker of the bbk berlin
Chris Benedict and colleagues, Board Member, Netzwerk freier Berliner Projekträume und –initiativen e.V.
Teena Lange, Curator, Director of APAB e.V. - Association for Performance Art in Berlin
Annika von Taube, Media Strategist and Curator, NUN Die Kunst der Stunde et al.
Yulia Belousova, Curator, Ephemeral Dinner
Nora Al-Badri, Artist
Tina Sauerlaender, Curator, Founder SALOON
Photo documentation of the 4th PECHA KUCHA ART NIGHT
Technobodies: Pecha Kucha Art Night 5: Postdigital
May 23, 2019, 7:00 pm at Grüner Salon, Volksbühne
In the digital age, the digital is no longer simply digital. Digital aesthetics have long since extended into real space and new technologies such as virtual reality or augmented reality are producing new art and exhibition formats. Museums use digital tools for mediation. Art is exhibited and dealt on websites or on social media platforms such as Instagram. Art and life are increasingly intertwined beyond physical locations such as museums or white cubes. But does this also increase the visibility, accessibility, and democratization of artworks? The speakers report on exhibition and mediation formats, as well as the commercial potential in the post-digital age.
List of speakers (in order of appearance):
Daniel Neugebauer, Head of Communication and Education Department, HKW
Peggy Schoenegge, Board Member, medienkunstverein
Tilman Baumgärtel, Professor for Media Science at Hochschule Mainz, author, journalist
Antje Akkermann, Curator for Media, Ethnologisches Museum and Museum für Asiatische Kunst at the Humboldt Forum
Manuel Rossner, VR Artist and Founder of FLOAT Gallery
Philip Hausmeier, Co-founder of RadianceVR
Janne Nora Kummer, Director, performer and multimedia artist, virtuellestheater
Wolf Lieser, Gallerist, DAM
Sakrowski, Curator of Panke Gallery and Member of 21cc
Anika Meier, Art Historian, Curator, Journalist
Nina Roehrs, Gallerist, Roehrs & Boetsch, Zurich
Alma Alloro, Artist
The series Technobodies addresses scenarios for the exchange and genesis of ideas at the interface of art and science, in the intimate yet public setting of the Grüner Salon. As part of four consecutive formats—(dis)abled Politcs of Data; Pecha Kucha Night: Immaterial Art, Performersion, and Death by Game Play (Tod und Spiele)—the interplay between data and our bodies will be explored. In doing so, the imaginary contradiction between analog and digital is reflected upon critically, and the informal exchange from the digital hub will be brought back to the analog salon—and vice versa.
Funded by Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Europa
Photo documentation of the 5th PECHA KUCHA ART NIGHT
Introduction by Tina Sauerlaender and Yvonne Zindel (Video, German)
