We are very happy to inform you about our upcoming presentations at the Art 41 Basel.

We are happy to introduce this year the works of new artists of the gallery: Kirsi Mikkola and Jessica Rankin. We are also very pleased to be showing after a long interlude new works of Jean-Luc Moulène. We will further put focus on works of a selection of gallery artists including Rosa Barba, Michel François, Paul Graham, Paul Pfeiffer, Erik Schmidt and Kailiang Yang.
At Art Unlimited the gallery will also be presenting a new film by Rosa Barba.


ART 41 BASEL
carlier | gebauer
Booth H3 | Hall 2.1
t +49 160 909 856 89

Jean-Luc Moulène’s sculptures confront its viewer with delicate and yet irritating, precise and yet materially coarse beauty. Constructed in aesthetic confrontations of organic identities and abstract forms, Moulène seems to mime the forms he approximates until he gets close enough to counteract them.
In his work “Esprit d’escalier” an aesthetic aspect of the materiality is sought, which exceeds the industrial wood it sculptures in detailing its functional form excessively, rendering it disfunctional and almost in an organic twist.
“Pierre percée” stages organically formed stone, typical of France’s south-west and pierces it with clean cut holes, cuttings which make it aesthetically perceivable as a build form. Its formal strength lies in the immanent differentiation it offers to its perceiver, who, wandering around it, is met by a range of perspectives in which the cuttings and their raw material complicate one another.

Kirsi Mikkola, a Finish born artist now resident in Berlin has been internationally renown for her sculptural practices since the early 1990s. This year, we are very happy to present a new direction in her work, a fundamental reinvention of her work through the classical modernist medium of collage. Her large scale scapes of painted paper, which assemble myriads of filigree coils and beams into abstract and yet concrete surfaces seem to envision untaught spectacles, constructed by color itself.

Rosa Barba, who is represented as a filmer at the Art Unlimited, will be represented at our booth with a sculptural text work. In her large scale felt pieces, the words of the text, running over the whole fabric, are stamped out, so that the lines of meaning become decipherable on the wall behind it. Separated from its material carrier its personal, subjective and irritating qualities are distinguished. Speaking in an unassignable personality of experiences of hallucinations, the text hauls its perceiver to identify with it. Yet it fictitious character, its body of light establishes its solitaire character.

Michel Francois’ sculptural practices are internationally renowned for their poetic reapproaching of forms. At our booth he will show new “Enroulement”s.

Paul Pfeiffer and Paul Graham, two of the gallery’s internationally established US-based artists are both represented on this year’s booth with central works of their oeuvre. Pfeiffer’s “Goethe’s Message to the New Negroes” (2002) and the work complex of 2004 from Graham’s series “a shimmer of possibility“ have both been included in major museum exhibitions in the last years.

Erik Schmidt’s and Kailiang Yang’s approaches to painting differ largely in their use of color as of space. This year, we decided to represent both in their conception of landscape. Schmidt’s thick and sensuous surfaces of punctuated color, constructed as it seems from the soils and grains of their subject seem complement Yang’s seemingly opaque and agravically textured layers, which seem to enter the landscapes from the air surrounding it.


ART UNLIMITED | Rosa Barba
Booth U26 / Hall 1.0
The Long Road, 2010

The long Road was filmed in Utah and pursues Rosa Barba`s previous investigations in the undercurrents of textual and visual narrations in relation to deserted areas of the North American countryside, its wastelands of civilization. In it, historical traces of the recent past, markers of actions past open up the discordances of the naturalized environments.
The long Road delineates its hidden tracks in the constant ambiguities of the landscape's functional and aesthetic perceptions, in constructing a narration of discordance in which involuntarily fragments of late modern art histories are coming to the fore, not appearing as monumental sites of former art past but as revenants of an ever present and engaging past. The long Road scrutinized a huge provisional race-track, which existed only for a few weeks before it was deserted forever. The film is shot on 35mm from an aerial view. The camera slowly circles the race-track, which within the movement of the guided gaze are turning into monumental earthworks. The rupture between past and future is accompanied by a two-folded soundtrack, music by Jan St. Werner and a spoken text by Robert Creeley.

Rosa Barba was born in 1972 in Agrigento, Sicily. She studied at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne and the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam. In 2010 her solo shows include TATE Modern, London, Centre International D'Art et du Paysage de l'ile de Vassiviere, France and the Center of Contemporary Arts, Tel Aviv, Israel. Her work has been featured a.o. in exhibitions at Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid; Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Guarene; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Kunsthalle, Basel; Palazzo Grassi, Venice and will be part of the Liverpool Biennale 2010.

The Long Road at Art Unlimited is a joined project by carlier | gebauer, Berlin and Gió Marconi, Milan.

For further information you can reach us at the fair in Basel at +49 160 909 856 89. Also the gallery Berlin is glad to handle your requests at mail@carliergebauer.com or at +49 30 2400 863 0.

Opening: 15.01.2010, 5-9 pm

At the start of this year we will be taking part in Paris-Berlin, the second Franco-German gallery exchange. From 15th January 2010 Galerie Michel Rein and Galerie Natalie Seroussi will be showing works by Jordi Colomer, Maja Bajevic, Mark Raidpere, Raphaël Zarka, Allan Sekula and Mathieu Briand in our exhibition space.
 
Complementing this, carlier | gebauer will be showing works by Aernout Mik, Jean-Luc Moulène and Paul Graham. All three exhibitions will run until 6th March at Markgrafenstr. 67.
As part of the Berlin-Paris exchange, carlier | gebauer will be displaying video works, photographs and sculptures, linked by the common thread of a focus on the spheres of social function into which art extends; as a constantly renewed reconstruction of reality, which calls this reality into question and modifies it.

Raphaël Zarka’s sculptures, for example, are akin to architecture hollowed-out from within. They draw close to the realm of the architectonic and open up new possibilities that contrast with architecture’s functional role by transposing it into an autonomous spatial form.

Architecture bridges the gap between artistic and functional design in Jordi Colomer’s oeuvre too. "No Future", one of his photographic works, takes the dissociation of architecture as a springboard to a new mode of perception.
Photography is also the central medium for Allan Sekula. His group of works "Prayer for the American (1)", contrasts photographs portraying the 'other' side of America, complete with its metropolises and ghettos, with shots depicting America’s fantastic, bucolic landscapes. The photographs become more than purely documentation, with their reflections assuming a narrative, almost filmic twist.

Parallel to this, we are showing an excerpt from another ambitiously sweeping portrait of the USA in the 21st century, namely a series of photographs from Paul Graham’s cycle "a shimmer of possibility". The title cites Russian writer Anton Chekhov, whose sparse linguistic style Paul Graham echoes in his photography. In all but a few works, Graham homes in on a moment, and, rather than depicting it as rounded-off and concluded, taps into its meaning as part of a continuum in the real everyday lives of ordinary people. 

The group of works "IO" by Mark Raidpere uses self-analysis as a means to address the individual’s vulnerability in society. The self-portraits portray the artist naked in poses which reveal traces of his auto-aggressive actions. These pieces bear witness to his quest for identity in Estonian society. By exhibiting his nudity, the artist tragi-comically protects his own difference and exclusion from the "official" public sphere.

In Maja Bajevic’s video "How do you want to be governed?", the artist subjects herself to blows in the face from a man, his back turned to the viewer, who intones the sentence that forms the title of the piece. She thereby creates a space that triggers associations between domestic violence and politics, a space that appears uninhabitable and in that very characteristic seems radically real.

Mathieu Briand’s seven-part series of white, mechanically produced rods, supplemented by other semi-figurative elements, constructs a complex nexus of allusions and hints that share an iconography rooted in fairy tales and legends. 

Jean-Luc Moulène’s "Berlinbilder", photographs from post-1989  Berlin, portray views of squares, public transport, faces and urban still lives. The motifs, just like the city itself, are devoid of any system. They depict moments of its subjective reality, 'images from the interstices', chronicled in all their theatricality and quotidian banality.

Aernout Mik’s bizarre scenarios do not provide a clear narrative; instead order is replaced by chaos over and over again and power is replaced by a vacuum. The camera floats seemingly effortlessly through the absurdity of a disintegrating reality. In his work  "Scapegoats", groups of soldiers, prisoners and armed civilians, stage-managed by the artist, engage in a perpetual struggle for power, with the roles of oppressor and oppressed constantly switching back and forth.

Please contact the gallery for press photographs and further information.

We are very happy to inform you about the beginning of Paul Pfeiffer’s solo exhibition „The Saints“ on Saturday, 10th of October 2009 in the Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof Museum für Gegenwart - Berlin.

"The Saints" will be the first presentation of the homonymous work in Berlin, which was produced by Artangel (London) in 2007, and, with the support of the Outset Foundation (London), is now part of the collection of the Nationalgalerie. In relation to this seminal work, Paul Pfeiffer, curator Britta Schmitz and initiator Udo Kittelmann, will put two other works on view at Hamburger Bahnhof: the videowork „Empire“ (2004) and a new work, the sculpture „Vitruvian Figure“ (2009), which has been produced especially on the occasion of the exhibition in collaboration with the Sammlung Goetz, Munich.

The large-scale installation „The Saints“ is built from the memory of a now legendary moment of nationalised European mass culture as a space of sound and fragmented images. Its source is the FIFA endgame of 1966, in which England defeated the West German team 4:2.

The huge exhibition space into which the viewer enters when looking at “The Saints” (2007) is dominated by the sound, a mixture of the newly edited original recordings of the historic football chants, which carry in it an at first hardly identifiable irritation. Only a small LCD screen displays documentary recordings of the game in black and white, from which all but one player have been erased. Only Geoffrey Hurst, the goal scorer, is running unperturbed, hunting for an unseen aim.

The chanted hymns, which accompany the viewer throughout the whole room finally become embodies, when one enters a separate part of the room, in which two video projections are presented next to one other. The one on the left shows the documentary footage of a jubilating crowd of men from the Philippines, imitating the British soccer hymns, whilst the right projection is showing original historical black and white footage of visitors of the 1966 endgame. With their obvious accents and detachment from the historical events of 1966, the combined image evokes irritation. The frenetic chants of the now 40 years dated event, its excessive invocation of national collectivity seem misplaced and absurd, being confronted with their subaltern reflection.

The work "Empire" from 2004 continues the involuntary discomfort of "The Saints", which is achieved by the enforced identification of individual and collective identity and actions, on a very different level. Whereas "The Saints" deals with the spectacular, "Empire" focuses on the obsolescent, on appearances of a collectivisation in naturalised imagery. With the realtime duration of more than three months, the video "Empire" shows the construction of a wasp's nest by an unrecognisable number of individual insects. The long duration in which this collective work is exposed here, homogenises the individual acts involved to a point of incognizability, where normally those processes are represented in a mode of a time lapse.

Pfeiffers newest work "Vitruvian Figure" 2009 concentrates on a third aspect of the interaction of the mass and the individual: the space. Where the expanding installation of “The Saints” guides the viewers through the sound and the video projection “Empire” questions the possibility of experiencing duration, “Vitruvian Figure”, constructed from wood, glass and polished steel embodies the special aspects of mass socialisation. The wooden model of a quarter of today’s Wembley stadium is held by an angle of spyglass, so that the viewers gaze over the ranks of the stadium completes its symmetry into a panoptical oval. On its outside, this angle is fixated with polished steel beams, which even more enforce the panoptical and armoured impression of the sculpture.
 
In “The Saints” Paul Pfeiffer presents a far ranging artistic consideration with the political and aesthetic implications of mass cultural experiences, which, in between those three works systematically discuss the question of individual and social constructions of contemporary experience.

The gallery carlier | gebauer is very happy to present Pfeiffer's new work "Vitruvian Figure" (2009) in cooperation with the Sammlung Goetz, Munich and mixedmedia, Berlin. We are thanking Udo Kittelmann and the Hamburger Bahnhof for the concept of the exhibition. The exhibition is realised with the support of the Asian-Pacific-Weeks.

Duration: October 10, 2009 until March 28, 2010.

Wir freuen uns sehr, Sie über unsere kommende Präsentation auf dem art forum 2009 in Berlin informieren zu können. Auf unserem Stand legen wir Schwerpunkte auf Arbeiten von Paul Pfeiffer, Tomasz Kowalski, Rosa Barba und Amy Sillman.

art forum 2009
24.09. - 27.09.2009

carlier | gebauer
Halle 20 | Stand 143
t +49 171 468 30 77

Paul Pfeiffer ist mit zwei selten gezeigten Videoarbeiten auf unserem Stand vertreten. Die Arbeit "Live Evil (Copenhagen)" von 2002 zeigt den Auftritt von Michael Jackson auf einem Konzert in Copenhagen. Als Rorschachtest gefaltet tanzt die Figur von Jackson wie ein Insekt ihre berühmte Choreographie als ein kultisches Ritual.
Eine andere Videominiatur ist "Fragment of a Crucifiction" von 1999. Ein Basketballspieler im gleißenden Blitzlichtgewitter des Spielfelds schreit im Dauerloop in Anlehnung an die Figuren von Francis Bacon.
Die Einzelausstellung "The Saints" von Paul Pfeiffer wird ab dem 10. Oktober im Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin zu sehen sein.

Tomasz Kowalski ist mit Zeichnungen, einer großen Malerei und Skulpturen auf unserem Stand vertreten. Der polnische Künstler hat zeitgleich mit der Messe zwei weitere Ausstellungen in Berlin: die Ausstellung im Studio 3 des Künstlerhauses Bethanien zum Ende seines Stipendiums und seine erste große Einzelausstellung in den Räumen unserer Galerie.

Einem 16mm Film von Rosa Barba widmen wir das Zentrum unseres Standes. "Let me see it" aus diesem Jahr zeigt die Kamerafahrt auf einem Nachtflug über ein schwedisches Archipel. Unterlegt mit einem Dialog zwischen zwei Personen, einer Blinden und einer Sehenden, entspinnt sich eine Geschichte über die Suche nach einem Dodekaeder, einem hochsymbolischen geometrischen Körper mit zwölf Flächen.
Weiter zeigen wir Arbeiten von Robin Rhode, Paul Graham, Przemek Matecki, Erik Schmidt und Marcellvs L.

Für weitere Informationen können Sie uns auf der Messe telefonisch unter +49 171 468 30 77 erreichen. Gerne steht Ihnen die Galerie unter +49 30 2400 863 0 in Berlin oder unter mail@carliergebauer.com für Ihr Anliegen zur Verfügung. Die Galerie ist während der Messe durchgehend vom Dienstag, 22.09. bis Sonntag, 27.09. von 11-19 Uhr geöffnet. Am Freitag, den 25.09. haben wir zusammen mit Scheibler Mitte und Barbara Thumm bis 21 Uhr geöffnet.
Wir freuen uns auf Ihren Besuch!
Marie-Blanche Carlier | Ulrich Gebauer

we are pleased to invite you to our July's film programme 

FAIBLES - Films as material

Five of our gallery's artists will present each thursday evening films, short films or short cuts. The screening will be followed by an artist talk with an invited art critic or author to investigate the films impact on the arist's own production.
  
Thursday, July 9, 2009, 7 pm
ERIK SCHMIDT
Paris is burning - Jennie Livingston, 1990
Talk with April Elizabeth Lamm, art critic / writer , Berlin

Thursday, July 16, 2009, 7 pm
ROSA BARBA
Landscape Suicide - James Benning, 1986
Talk with Kerstin Stakemeier, writer / carlier | gebauer, Berlin

Thursday, July 23, 2009, 7 pm
AMY SILLMAN and SUSANNE M. WINTERLING
Leidy Churchman for Men Music- Simultaneously
Hussein Kamal - A chit chat on the Nile (excerpt)
George Kuchar - Hold me while I m naked
Sadie Benning - It wasn't love
Derek Jarman - Caravaggio (excerpt)
Nicolas Gessner - The little girl who lives down the lane (excerpt)
Inger Schwarz/Kerstin Schepperell, Kein Licht am Ende der Welt
Talk with Susanne M. Winterling, artist, Berlin

Thursday, July 30, 2009, 7 pm
PABLO PIJNAPPEL
La Jetée - Chris Marker, 1963
Talk with Marc Gloede, art critic / curator, Berlin

 (subject to alterations)

We are very happy to inform you about our upcoming presentations at the Art 40 Basel. This year we will again be present at the fair in two formats: at the Art Unlimited a new work by Aernout Mik will be on display, while our own booth will put a focus on the video- and photographic works of New York based artist Paul Pfeiffer.


Art Unlimited | Aernout Mik
Booth U 35
touch, rise and fall, 2008

Aernout Mik's video installation "touch, rise and fall" has been on view for the first time at Prospect 1, the New Orleans Biennial in 2008.

The double projection takes as its starting point the security checks at an airport. Shots of shopping in the transit area clash with footage of luggage, clothing and bags being searched with excessive care. Images of clusters of exhausted and irritated passengers at the security checkpoint alternate with scenes of bored security staff on a break. Hands reach out to grab products, carry transparent plastic bags and rummage through hand luggage. Products are packed up, others are torn apart, some fall to the floor, drop to bits, are examined and then put back together again. The scenes are set in a sphere tinged with loss, devastation and consumerism, moving between ignorance, care and obsessive control. This work depicts a commodity cycle through the prism of a borderland. In "touch, rise and fall" the goods  begin to impinge directly upon their owners. In the border zone objects and bodies succumb to the ongoing processes of the rise and fall in value of commodities during transit, and both equally become bodies in motion in these circumstances.
Aernout Mik was born in 1962 in Groningen in the Netherlands and now lives and works in Amsterdam. His film installations have been a regular feature in international solo and group exhibitions for over 15 years, and are also represented in numerous public collections. His key exhibitions over the last few years have included solo shows at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 2002, in the Ludwig Museum, Cologne, 2004, the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, 2005, Kunstverein Hannover, 2007 and Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin, 2007. In 2007 he also represented the Netherlands at the Biennial in Venice. The Museum of Modern Art in New York is currently showing an extensive solo show of his work until July 27, 2009.


ART 40 BASEL
carlier | gebauer
Booth A5 | Hall 2.1
t +49 171 468 30 77

This year's presentation at the Art Basel concentrates on major works of the gallery's  artists, laying a special focus on the work of Paul Pfeiffer.

Paul Pfeiffer's installation "24 Landscapes", 2000/2008 consists of a series of 24 photographs, which are hung in loose order on an approximate 14 meters of wall. Each of the images shows a different perspective of an unpopulated beach. The colours seems to have slightly faded and the emptiness of the images suggests the specific absence of a central figure in them. The missing figure is that of the tragically prominent figure of Marilyn Monroe, who, in the summer of 1962, was photographed on a Californian beach by George Barris.

Facing those photographs a chromed monitor is placed, showing a video loop in which, again, a person seems to be missing. The images of a wrestling fight are reedited, erasing one of the two fighters. What remains is the image of the battered looser, who seems to have been overwhelmed by an unseen force. In both cases, the opponent, the central object of interest, is erased. In Marilyn Monroe it is the figure herself which vanishes and in the case of the wrestling the external force of the opposing body. In October this year, Paul Pfeiffer will have a solo exhibition at the Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin.

A second focus of our presentation is devoted to a series of sculptural works. We will show a large scale installation made of metal and magnets by Michel François as well as a wall piece of the Belgian artist. In October this year a retrospective will be dedicated to the work of François at the SMAK in Gent, Belgium. With François we are also showing a new work of Italian artist Rosa Barba, a modified 16mm Projector pending on its own celluloid. Rosa Barba will be represented at this year's Venice Biennial in the exhibition "Making Worlds" curated by Daniel Birnbaum.

Further, we will be showing new paintings and drawings by Amy Sillman, a work relating to her current exhibition "zum Gegenstand" at our Berlin premises. Erik Schmidt and Tomasz Kowalski will all be present with recent works of 2009 and also a nine parted photographic work by Paul Graham will be on view.


ART FILM | Stadtkino Basel

Last but not least, we would like to recommend the presentation of two films of our artist at this year's ART FILM at the Stadtkino in Basel.

Rosa Barba | Outwardly from Earth's Center, 2007
June 9, 2009, 10 pm in the "New Landscapes" section

and

Erik Schmidt | Hunting Grounds, 2006
June 13, 2009, 10 pm in the "Storylines" section

For further information you can reach us at the fair in Basel at +49 171 468 30 77. Also the gallery Berlin is glad to handle your requests at mail@carliergebauer.com or at +49 30 2400 863 0.

We would like to inform you about our presentation at the upcoming  ARCO MADRID.

11.02. - 16.02.2009
ARCO MADRID 2009
11.02. | 12am - 9pm Professional Preview
12.02. | 12am - 9pm Professional Opening
13.02. - 15.02. | Open from 12am - 9pm
16.02. | Open from 12am - 6pm

carlier | gebauer
Hall 8 Booth C06
t +49 171 4683077

Our presentation at the upcoming ARCO MADRID will concentrate on following gallery’s artists.

ROSA BARBA
We are happy to present Rosa Barba's two works “Waiting Grounds” and "Western Round Table" at the ARCO 2009. Both films are part of a trilogy, which has been shown with its third part "They Shine" at the Kunsthalle Basel in 2008 . "They Shine" has also been on view at the Turino Triennale 2008.
"Waiting Grounds" is a 16mm film, which records the journey of a group of people through a series of abandoned places. Their dialogues and questions are dealing with the abandoned architecture, which in most cases hardly reveals its former function. Their speech is intersected with images of spaces which are never fully lid, never clear sighted but always alocated between a disgraced past and a possible future. The physical spaces filemd here are those of ex-military testing sites in the Mojave-desert in California. Like in many of Barba's works here too seemingly documentary inspired panoramas are bending over into fictional image worlds.
The second film installation "Western Round Table" is Barba's interpretation of a meeting of artists, architects and composers on the topic of modernist art, which was held in 1949 in the Mojave-desert. This encounter of the most prominent figures of modernity, amongst them Duchamp, Burke and Wright, which dealt with the possibilities of a modernist future, in Barba's work returns as a monument displaced in time and space.

BOJAN SARCEVIC
After Bojan Sarcevic’s solo exhibition at the Hamburger Kunstverein, which publicly presented all 5 film-installations of the work „Only after Dark“ for the first time, we will now show sculptural excerpts of this work in Madrid. A display case containing elements of the film’s settings: objects made of different material, density and geometry are put in an abstract and yet poetic context. Objects made of brass, of inlay, of stone, of paper and of meat are joined to bring into being a self-enclosed microcosm, which hints to the poetic possibilities of the material. In March this year Bojan Sarcevic will present three new film installations in a solo exhibition at carlier | gebauer. Currently, his works are on display at the Kunsthall Bergen (Norway) and in this summer, a selection of works will be brought together in Tate St Ives (UK).

MARCELLVS L.
At our ARCO booth the young, Brazilian artist Marcellvs L. will be represented with the most recent outcomes of his ongoing series "VideoRhizome". This work continues an examination of the visual as well as structural possibilities of video as an artistic media, that Marcellvs L. started in 2002 and which resulted until now in 27 works in total. All "VideoRhizome" works oscillate between abstraction and figuration, between the looming into and out of a narrowly focused landscape scene. Their concentrated focus leads to an extreme personal understanding of geographical sites, which is dominating most of Marcellvs' works, and which is producing an overtly significant impression of Brazil, the artist's home-country, without invoking any exotic romanticism in its viewers. Currently, his work is on view at the Paris gallery Natalie Seroussi as part of the Berlin-Paris gallery exchange.

AMY SILLMAN
The New York based painter Amy Sillman is producing highly defined paintings, which are merging extreme concentrated approaches on different and yet interwoven trajectories: in the use of colour, the insertion of drawing as a painterly means and the following up of formal and yet painterly questions. None of these artistic discourses is dominating Sillman's canvas in total, rather their opposing characters are used to painterly develop psychological questions from a caricaturistic scheme. Sillman's art combines those intense painterly concentrations with her unique positioning as a female artist in a field which has always been largely dominated by male artists. In May this year, carlier | gebauer is happy to present her second solo exhibition at the gallery.

TOMASZ KOWALSKI
For this year's ARCO, | gebauer will present a group of paintings by the young Polish artist Tomasz Kowalski. Kowalski constructs surreal worlds, whose allusions to art historical iconography and their combination with fairy-tale like self-sustained miniature societies create irritating narratives, which guide its spectators into a seemingly self-sufficient world of queer and yet convincing logic. His technical references, naive art as well as Dutch trompe-l’œils of the 17th century, are defining the spaces his characters inhabit. In this, these historical quotes function as the entrance into the landscapes and interiors of Kowalski’s paintings and drawings.

MICHEL FRANÇOIS
We will also show some selected sculptures from Michel François’ most recent production. François’ works at present are also on display in a group show at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Lausanne, Switzerland. Also this year, the SMAK in Gent, Belgium, will conceive a comprehensive retrospective of the Belgian artist.

KAILIANG YANG
A selection of recent works by the Chinese-German painter Kailiang Yang is on display at our booth at ARCO. Currently, Yang is staying in China, where he is working on a new body of work. Where his earlier works were much concerned with the cityscapes of Hamburg, we are much looking forward to look at his new painterly discussions of newly situated scenes, which will be on view in his solo exhibition at carlier | gebauer this coming summer. Yang's inimitable painterly style combines sources of traditional Chinese landscape painting with the recognisable influence and discussion of being a Meisterschueler of Norbert Schwontowski at the Hamburg School of Visual Arts.

ERIK SCHMIDT
Part of our booth is dedicated to the paintings of Erik Schmidt. Landscape paintings, which are concerned with Israel’s country side and others devoted to hunting scenes construct the thematic tension, which characterises Schmidt's conceptual approach to the medium. Mostly, his paintings follow social questions, be it wineries, which exists in the countryside between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem or the gaze into a socially hermetic hunting and nobility-society in Western Germany. Schmidt’s paintings depict the artist’s own acts of appropriation, and turn the archaic characteristics of his themes into a contemporary imagery.

For any further questions, please contact the gallery.

We are pleased to provide you with some introductory information concerning the programme of our gallery for January 2009. Soon more detailed text and image materials will be available. For further information please contact the gallery.

10.01. - 21.02.2009
Aernout Mik
Opening: 09.01.2009, 5-9 p.m.

carlier | gebauer are happy to present two works of the Dutch artist Aernout Mik in Berlin for the first time. The work Osmosis and Excess, 2005, was produced in the border region between San Diego, California and Tijuana, Mexico. In it, two contrasting sequences are displayed alongside each other: Recordings, showing the hills outside Tijuana, littered with endless amounts of car wrecks, and video images of a pharmacy at the town's center, completely flooded by mud. Osmosis and Excess depicts this border region as a cosmos of entropic commodity culture in an extremely panoramic format.
touch, rise and fall, 2008, is Aernout Mik’s latest work. The double projection starts from the security check at an airport. Images of shopping in the transit zone collide with those of the excessive searching of briefcases, clothes and plastic bags. Where in Osmosis and Excess the commodities turn into being the central ornament of the landscape, those commodities in touch, rise and fall reach back, influencing the status of their proprietors. In those border areas everything shifts into a constant process of rising and falling in value, everything is in transit, be it bodies or things. Frequently, Mik’s video installations resemble test runs, which reconstruct events at the fringes of our social reality. Mik restages scenes of hierarchy, in which the gestures of power remain identifiable but their subjects here dropped out of their roles.
Aernout Mik (*1962, Groningen, NL) lives and works in Amsterdam. Major exhibitions of the last years include a.o. Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 2002, Museum Ludwig, Köln, 2004, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, 2005, and Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, 2007. He represented the Netherlands at the 52th Biennial in Venice. In 2009 the Museum of Modern Art in New York will honour him with an extensive solo exhibition.

10.01.2009, 2-4 p.m.
Reality and Documentation
An artist talk between Rosa Barba, Aernout Mik and Hito Steyerl

Throughout the last years the role of documentarisms in contemporary art was frequently and widely discussed. At its centre, there was always the question of the capacities of documentarisms to represent reality, the question in how far those documentarisms necessarily deviate from reality. In an artist talk between Rosa Barba, Aernout Mik and Hito Steyerl those documentarisms will be discussed as a means of artistic praxis. All three artists base their work on documentary forms and researches but at the same time their ways of dealing with those means differ largely.
The talk is set up on the occasion of the opening of Aernout Mik’s solo exhibition at carlier | gebauer. Until the 20th of December Rosa Barba’s (*1972, Sicily, IT) film „Outwardly from Earth Center“ will be on view at carlier | gebauer. Works of Hito Steyerl (*1966, Munich) will be displayed from the beginning of December in the exhibition „Dispersion“ at the ICA London. Sternberg Press just published „The Green Room – Reconsidering the Documentary and Contemporary Art“, which Steyerl edited with Maria Lind.
The talk will take place in the gallery, Markgrafenstr. 67, Berlin.

10.01. - 21.02.2009
Paris - Berlin: Galerie Natalie Seroussi | Pierre Klossowski
Opening: 09.01.2009,  5-9 p.m.

As part of the gallery exchange between Paris and Berlin, organised by the French Embassy, carlier | gebauer shows a series of drawings by Pierre Klossowksi (1905–2001, Paris) in cooperation with the gallery Natalie Seroussi.
Complementing Aernout Mik’s video installations in the main space, we present as a historical position Pierre Klossowski, the French writer, translator and artist in the project space.

Klossowski played a major role in the historical shift from French modernism to the rise of structuralism and poststructuralism. Alongside numerous publications and translations of Nietzsche, Hölderlin and also Walter Benjamin, Klossowski played an active role in the circle around George Bataille. Like the latter, Klossowski as well concentrated his works on the reinitiation of the bodies and their sexual senses in the age of industrialism.
Klossowski himself spoke of his drawings as „grandes machines“. His figures remind of renaissance figures, and yet in Klossowski’s works the bodies’ parts seem to have been dissected to be reassembled. In his drawings, sexualised violence, which has always been present in the history of painting, becomes explicit and in that is positioned at the centre of our everyday reality. Klossowski follows up the subconscious as an active strand of human action. It is a strange coincidence in Mik’s and Klossowski’s works, that they converge in making visible structural violence, hierarchy and the abysses of the human comedy.

For further information, please contact the gallery.

We would like to inform you about our presentation at the upcoming ART BASEL MIAMI BEACH.

04.12. - 07.12.2008
ART BASEL MIAMI BEACH
03.12. | 12–2 pm first choice (by invitation only)
03.12. | 2-5 pm preview (by invitation only)
03.12. | 5-8 pm opening (by invitation only)
03.12. | 6-10 pm opening art positions
04.12. | 11-12 am private view (by invitation only)
04.12. - 06.12. | open from 12–8 pm
07.12. | open from 12-6 pm

carlier | gebauer
Booth C4
Our presentation at the upcoming ART BASEL MIAMI BEACH will concentrate on the gallery’s younger artists.

Tomasz Kowalski | Art Kabinett
For this year’s Art Kabinett, carlier | gebauer is pleased to present a project by young Polish artist Tomasz Kowalski. Kowalski will present an installative series of new works. He constructs surreal worlds, whose allusions to art historical iconography and their combination with fairy-tale like self-sustained miniature societies create irritating narratives, which guide its spectators into a seemingly self-sufficient world of queer and yet convincing logic. His technical references, naive art as well as Dutch trompe-l’œils of the 17th century, are defining the spaces his characters inhabit. In this, these historical quotes function as the entrance into the landscapes and interiors of Kowalski’s paintings and drawings. They introduce their own dimension of time, a temporality made of incessant circular loops of life and death, a permanent rising and elapsing of icons and images. Kowalski’s works seem being fed from their own sources, frequently, image-in-image-doublings appear, the self-references and recurring motives, which compress and constantly reinitiate Kowalski’s sampled iconography. In some of his paintings and drawings bizarre machines construct canvases and ladders, which mutate, shifting towards spider webs, images mounted on straps, which suddenly turn into stages. Those machines, created in Kowalski’s two-dimensional media, exist also as real cast sculptures, as odd conjunctions of a set of different functions made of rollers, ropes, winches and gears. With this leap into the third dimension, Kowalski shifts the surreality of his own, constructed world of queer iconography into our everyday and opens up the experience of a private cosmos of fantastic and narrative atmosphere. 

Erik Schmidt
Part of our booth is dedicated to the paintings of Erik Schmidt. Landscape paintings, which depict the Israel’s country side and others devoted to hunting scenes construct the thematic tension, which characterises Schmidt's conceptual approach to the medium. Mostly, his paintings follow social questions, be it wineries, which exist in the countryside between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem or the gaze into a socially hermetic hunting and nobility-society in Western Germany. Schmidt’s paintings depict the artist’s own acts of appropriation, and turn the archaic characteristics of his themes into a contemporary imagery.

Bojan Sarcevic
After Bojan Sarcevic’s solo exhibition at the Hamburger Kunstverein, which publicly presented all 5 film-installations of the work „Only after Dark“ for the first time, we will show sculptural excerpts of this work in Miami. A display case containing elements of the film’s settings: objects made of different material, density and geometry are put in an abstract and yet poetic context. Objects made of brass, of inlay, of stone, of paper and of meat are joined to bring into being a self-enclosed microcosm, which hints to the poetic possibilities of the material. In March 2009 Bojan Sarcevic will present new film installations in a solo exhibition at carlier | gebauer. From January 2009 on, his works will be on display at the Kunsthall Bergen (Norway) and in the summer of the same year a selection of works will be brought together in Tate St. Ives (UK).

David Maljkovic
In Miami we will show a group of works from the multi parted work "Lost Review", which before was on display at Le Plateau in Paris. Maljkovic, who was born in Croatia in 1973, is concerned with the historical modernity of socialist Yugoslavia and its afterlife in the present in his films and installations. The collages show present day images of the modernist Zagreb fairground and contrast them with contemporary architectural critiques.

Sebastian Diaz Morales
Sebastian Diaz Morales’ video objects, taken from the series "The Way between two points", 2008 take into consideration the experience of the written word as a cultural technique. The handmade display settings only at a second glance indicate their technological potential, which is indicated in the continuous movement of a writing hand or the real time following up of the drawing of a joining line between to points. The content of Diaz Morales’ works is unveiled as it is being placed within the real time experience of the viewer, who - just like in the medium of music - is exposed to the work’s own temporality.

Paul Graham
With works of our younger artists, we also exhibit some selected examples of the more established positions represented by the gallery. You will see a 7-part work of Paul Graham, whose productions were presented more broadly in June 2008 at our Berlin premises. Graham’s photographic work developed since the beginning of the 1980s from the tradition of classical British documentary photography and has had major impact on reformulating and expanding the image politics of the British ‚Social Critique’. In 2009 Graham’ work will be tributed in an extensive solo exhibition at the Folkwang Museum in Essen, the Fotomuseum Winterthur in Switzerland and the MoMA in New York.

Michel François
We will also show some selected sculptures from Michel François’ most recent production. François’ works at present are also on display in a group show in the Gulbenkian Museum in Lisbon. In 2009 the SMAK in Gent, Belgium will conceive a comprehensive retrospective of the Belgian artist’s work.

In addition, we will show works by
Rosa Barba
Przemyslaw Matecki
Kailiang Yang

For any further questions, please contact the gallery.

We would like to inform you about our upcoming exhibition at the ARTISSIMA in Turino.

07.11. - 09.11.2008
ARTISSIMA 15, TURIN

05.11. | Opening Torino Triennale
06.11. | 12 pm  preview and press conference
06.11. | 6  pm  opening
07.11. | 9  pm  gala dinner
07.-09.11. | Open from 11am to 8pm

carlier | gebauer
Hall 3 | Lime Green Hall, Booth 7

This year, our presentation at ARTISSIMA will concentrate on the gallery's younger artists.

SEBASTIAN DIAZ MORALES
ORACLE, 2007 | Present Future Section
In the Section Present Future Sebastian Diaz Morales will be showing his video installation "Oracle" (2007). This double projection is staged on two screens which are positioned in a wide angle and refers to J.G. Ballards thesis on the future as being but a continuation of the present. In giving up the mental progression of time, Diaz Morales puts together images which allude, as ambivalent signs, the present as well as the future. These images are constantly interwoven and thus seem to transport their viewer into the future at present.
Besides this video installation we will also show several video works from Diaz Morales series "The Way between two points" (2008) at our booth, which reflects texts from books as well as magainzes as the starting points of a creative process.

ROSA BARBA
Waiting Grounds, 2007
We are happy to present Rosa Barba's work "Waiting Grounds" for the first time at an art fair. The film is one part of a trilogy, the other parts of which "They Shine" and "Western Round Table" are currently on display at the Turino Triennale and at the Kunsthalle Basel. "Waiting Grounds" is a 16mm film installation, which documents the voyage of a group of people to a series of abandoned places. Their dialogues, their questions concerning the hardly recorgnizable function of those architectural remains, are alternating with images of the locations, which are never in full light, never clearly visible, but always seem to be placed in a space situated between past and possible future. Those places are former military test sites in the mojave-desert in california. Like in many of Barba's works the initially documentary starting points are shifting over into a more and more fictional imagery. During the ARTISSIMA we will also show Barba's film "Outwardly from Earth's Center" at our Berlin project space (29.10 - 20.12.).

DAVID MALJKOVIC
Together with the works of Rosa Barba we also show works by David Maljkovic, with whom she cooperated on the film "Handed Over" this year. In Turin we will show a series of collages from  the multipart work “Lost Review”, which has before shown at Le Plateau in Paris. Maljkovic, who was born in Croatia in 1973, in his filmic and installative work deals with the modernist remnants of socialist Yugoslavia and their echoes in the present. The collages show contemporary photographic records of Zagreb’s modernist fairground and contrasts it with historical architectural criticism.

BOJAN SARCEVIC
After Bojan Sarcevic’s Solo Exhibition at the Kunstverein in Hamburg, in which the 5 film installations of “Only after Dark” where on display for the first time, a sculptural excerpt of this work will be staged at out booth in Turin. A showcase, containing the film’s setting, objects of various material and geometric forms will be set up in relation to their abstract and poetic affinities. In Spring 2009 Bojan Sarcevic will show new film-installations in a solo show at carlier | gebauer.

PABLO PIJNAPPEL
At our booth in Turin we will show a photography by Pablo Pijnappel, which he produced as a small edition in continuation of his recent slide-installation “Homer”. In addition to that, "A Dog in the Park” will be on display, an 81-part slide-installation which presents a series of drawings executed by Pijnappel’s father and combines them with a text authored by Pablo Pijnappel. Those texts construct a wide-ranging narration, which, as is typical for Pijnappels work, rise from a personal tale, from his family. At the moment, works of Pijnappel are shown at the Kunstverein in Stuttgart (until 9.11.) and in Los Angeles at the Pitzer Art Galleries and at LACE (until 01.02.2009).

We will also show works by
Ernesto Caivano
Michel Francois
Paul Graham
Amy Sillman

If you should have any further questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.

We would like to inform you about our presentation at the upcoming FIAC in Paris.

October 23-26, 2008
FIAC PARIS

21st | 4 pm Preview Cour Carré
22nd |11 am Preview Grand Palais
22nd | 3 pm Professional Afternoon
22nd | 5 pm Opening
October 23-26| Open from noon to 8 pm.

carlier | gebauer
Grand Palais | Booth D 24
t +49 171 46 830 77

This year's presentation is primarily devoted to the gallery's young artists.

David Maljkovic
The central axis of our booth is filled with an installation by David Maljkovic. On a movable wall, a series of 14 collages from the multipart work “Lost Review” is displayed. This work has recently been shown at Le Plateau in Paris. Maljkovic, who was born in Croatia in 1973, in his filmic and installative work deals with the modernist remnants of socialist Yugoslavia and their echoes in the present. The collages show contemporary photographic records of Zagreb’s modernist fairground and contrasts it with historical architectural criticism.

Bojan Sarcevic
After Bojan Sarcevic’s Solo Exhibition at the Kunstverein in Hamburg, in which the 5 film installations of “Only after Dark” where on display for the first time, a sculptural excerpt of this work will be staged at out booth. A showcase, containing the film’s setting, objects of various material and geometric forms will be set up in relation to their abstract and poetic affinities. As in the case of Maljkovic’s works, Sarcevic also uses visual references to Modernism in order to evoke the impression that one is gazing at the remnants of a past time. In Spring 2009 Bojan Sarcevic will show new film-installations in a solo show at carlier | gebauer.

Paul Pfeiffer
"Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse" is Pfeiffer’s now famous photographic series, which he produced in reference to Albrecht Dürer´s woodcut of the same name. The works show individual basketball players on the court in triumphant poses, stripped of all identificatory features. The big format photographs decode the sports arenas as places of almost religious adoration, their protagonists as saints. At the FIAC art fair we will show four works from this series. Until the 18th of October Pfeiffer’s third solo exhibition will be on display in our Berlin premises. Also, a comprehensive retrospective of his works has just opened at the MUSAC, Léon, Spain (until the 11.01.2009).

Przemyslaw Matecki
Young Warsaw-based Przemyslaw Matecki constructs his works around photographic templates. In his small-scale reworkings of glossy magazine pages, he paints on their surfaces, layering massive, non-figurative piles of colour, between which he opens up new gazes onto icons of popular culture. In contrast to this, his canvases reverse this relation. He sticks found photographs of unknown people onto them and begins to condense his painting more and more around them, until painting and photography have found an aligned direction and the colours complement the photographs within a new interrelation. On the 28th of October carlier | gebauer will open the first solo show of this artist within Germany (until 20.12.).

Tomasz Kowalski
Part of our focus on the gallery’s young artists are new works by Polish artist Tomasz Kowalski. He constructs surreal worlds, whose allusions to art historical iconographies and their combination with fairy-tale like self-sustained miniature societies create irritating narratives. Kowalski guides his spectators into a seemingly self-sufficient world of queer and yet convincing logic. His references, naive art as well as Dutch trompe-l'œils of the 17th century, function as the entrance into the landscapes and interiors of Kowalski's paintings and drawings. They introduce their own temporalities, a permanent looping, in which image-in-image-doublings, self-references and recurring motives compress and constantly reinitiate Kowalski's sampled iconography.
Tomasz Kowalski will also be present with a site-specific installation at this year’s Art Kabinett in Miami Beach in December.

Pablo Pijnappel
At our booth we will show a photography by Pablo Pijnappel, which he produced as a small edition in continuation of his recent slide-installation “Homer”. In addition to that, "A Dog in the Park” will be on display, an 81-part slide-installation which presents a series of drawings executed by Pijnappel’s father and combines them with a text authored by Pablo Pijnappel. Those texts construct a wide-ranging narration, which, as is typical for Pijnappels work, rise from a personal tale, from his family. At the moment, works of Pijnappel are shown at the Kunstverein in Stuttgart (until 9.11.) and in Los Angeles at the Pitzer Art Galleries and at LACE (until 01.02.2009).

Furthermore we are presenting works by

Amy Sillman
Ernesto Caivano
Michel Francois
Marcellvs L.
Kailiang Yang

Please feel free to contact the gallery for any further questions.

On the event of the abc - art berlin contemporary we are delighted to announce the presentation of two video installations by Aernout Mik and Marcellvs L.

abc - art berlin contemporary
AERNOUT MIK | Raw Footage
MARCELLVS L. | untitle:rope
Opening, September 4, 6-10 pm
Postbahnhof am Gleisdreieck
Luckenwalderstr. 4-6, 10963 Berlin

Aernout Mik
Raw Footage, 2006
2-screen video and sound installation
digital video on DVD, loop

Aernout Mik worked with “found” video material for the first time for Raw Footage, 2006. Intensive research in the archives of large television stations allowed him to filter out scenes that had not been broadcast from the wars in Yugoslavia. It is precisely these recordings not registered by the public gaze that show the brutal absurdity of the theatres of war, with the constant switching from aggression to banality unsettling the viewer. Dead goats, soldiers eating, children with wooden weapons, mass assemblies, civilians running. Aernout Mik dissects all these images, recombines them and organises them as a montage, which is screened in a double projection. In this work Mik shows us with particular intensity the functioning and the perceptual consequences of ordering structures, the multitude of layers of the power relations expressed in them and their inversion: the world falling to pieces in an absurd, brutal and apparently insensate whirl. Mik’s strange scenarios do not provide a clear narration. Instead, in these scenes order is repeatedly replaced by digression, power by a vacuum. The seemingly disembodied camera floats through the absurdity of the crumbling realities recorded by Mik. He reports like an ethnographer from the bizarre outposts of our violently politicised world. Dutch artist Aernout Mik was born in 1962 in Groningen. His work has been displayed inter alia at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 2002, the Ludwig Museum, 2004, Cologne, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, 2005, Kunstverein Hannover, 2007 and Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin. In 2007 he represented the Netherlands at the Biennale in Venice. In 2009 a comprehensive retrospective of his work will be shown at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Marcellvs L.
untitle:rope, 2006
MiniDV transferred to DVD, synchronised 2-channel projection
77 min (loop)
ed. 3 + 2 a.p.

In Marcellvs L.’s video untitle:rope, a rope repeatedly rises up a little from the swell of an ocean, sinking back down into the waters again shortly afterwards. It seems to be being pulled, but the focus selected for the camera frames the image so tightly that the viewer can see only this rising part of the rope. Mostly not even this is visible, but instead only the waters that it sinks down into. The cause of the movement cannot be identified clearly. If you move in closer to the projection, the second part is revealed, the continuation of the piece in its mirror image in the rear corner of the room. Projected onto existing architecture, conceived as a cross-fade for the outer corner of a room, untitle:rope fools the viewer and uses the architecture to underscore this mirroring effect. Thanks to the mirroring effect you have a sense that the rope, which, if you were viewing a single image, you might imagine extended for example between a boat and an anchor, is actually driven by some intrinsic force. It appears to bunch together in the corner of the room and seems to be pulled onward by that corner too. The sound track of the video underpins this confusion.  Recorded by Marcellvs at a point outside the viewer’s field of vision, under water, at the place where the rope is really anchored, the sound recording is also a mirror image. The frequencies are set in counterpoint to each other in the two projections. They do not unfurl in time with the movement of the rope but have been switched around.
Marcellvs L.’s video works bring together miniscule concentrations, in which the individual elements, estranged from their quotidian uses, seem to create their own time. An external function does not exist, but instead merely the context of object-related temporality conjured up by Marcellvs.

Marcellvs L. (*1980 in Belo Horizonte/Brazil, lives in Berlin) won the 2008 Ars Viva and GASAG award. An exhibition showcasing GASAG award-winners will be opened on 10th September in the Berlinische Galerie. This year his works are being shown at Art Unlimited in Basel, in the exhibition “Vertrautes Terrain – Aktuelle Kunst in/über Deutschland” at ZKM in Karlsruhe, at the 16th Biennale in Sydney, PhotoEspaña Madrid und in Montehermoso Cultural Center’s exhibition “Rendez-vous Nowhere”.

After the openings with Paul Graham and Pablo Pijnappel we would like to take the chance before the summer break to point out selected exhibitions of our artists and to wish you nice holidays.

Bojan Sarcevic will show his recent film installations "Only after Dark" assembled for the first time at the Kunstverein in Hamburg, Germany (July 4 - September 29, 2008).

The opening of Ernesto Caivanos "Echo Gambit" at White Cube in London will be held tonight (until August 30, 2008).

David Maljkovic will present an installation at Le Plateau in Paris this summer (July 18 - August 17, 2008).

Pablo Pijnappel will receive tonight the Dutch Charlotte Koehler Prize for 2008. Also, we are happy to announce, that Marcellvs L.'s work is honored with the GASAG Art Award 2008, including an exhibition at the Berlinische Galerie (September 10 - October 20, 2008).

From July 5th, Ryan Trecartin will be on view in the exhibition "Freeway Balconies", curated by Collier Schorr at the Deutsche Guggenheim in Berlin (until September 21, 2008). In October, we will present an installation of the young American artist in our gallery for the first time.

And lastly, Mark Wallinger's first solo exhibition after the Turner Prize will be held at the Aargauer Kunstverein in Switzerland (August 31 – November 16, 2008).

The gallery will be closed from August 4 - 17, 2008. After the summer break, we will open the new season on September 5th with Paul Pfeiffer. At the same time, we will be present at the premiere of "abc - Art Berlin Contemporary" with video installations by Aernout Mik and Marcellvs L. (September 4 - 7, 2008).

All further exhibitions of our artist are listed in the newsletter on our website at www.carliergebauer.com/en/newsletter.html.

Please feel free to contact the gallery at mail[at]carliergebauer.com for further questions.

02.06. | 1 p.m. - 7 p.m. Opening of Art Unlimited
03.06. | 5 p.m. - 7 p.m. Vernissage
06.06. | 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. Professional Day
04.06. - 08.06. | open from 11 a.m. – 7 p.m.

carlier | gebauer
BOOTH A5 Hall 2.1
t+49 170 183 9900

Aernout Mik
Thanks to a new projection technique, we can show the video installation "Scapegoats" by Aernout Mik on an art fair stand for the first time. The installation has been shown previously in the Dutch Pavilion at the 2007 Venice Biennale. As in all of Mik’s work, there is no sound or narration. "Scapegoats" shows a stadium full of people in shock or in a state of agitation due to some exceptional state of affairs, such as after a natural disaster like those we have seen in China or New Orleans. The scenario fluctuates between evacuation and detainment – in the course of the film, the victims are first guarded by soldiers as if they were prisoners, then the tables are turned.

Bojan Sarcevic
The new sculptures are directly related to the "Only After Dark" films, which were made last year. All five films will be screened together in July for the first time at the Kunstverein in Hamburg. The works displayed in Basel comprise objects arranged in settings as if on a stage, with slight variations in their materials and geometry, their simplicity allowing a multi-layered beauty to unfold. The fragile stages are akin to three-dimensional maps with objects of varying volumes, materials and surface textures positioned across them. Sarcevic’s grappling with modernity becomes apparent in these works too, adding a complex poetics to the formal qualities of these works.

Paul Graham
On Professional Day, half of our stand will be given over to a 15-part photographic work from Paul Graham’s most recent series, "A shimmer of possibility". Alongside this, we shall also be presenting the lavish special edition accompanying the piece, which was published last year by the Steidl-Verlag. This presentation is tied in to Paul Graham’s second solo exhibition in Berlin, which will be opening in our gallery on 13th June. Graham’s work oscillates between empathetic documentation and objective photography. "A shimmer of possibility" is a broad, sweeping portrait of the USA in the 21st century and, taking Anton Chekhov’s quotation as its lodestone, moves closer to the moment with an economy of formal means and with just a few photographs. Graham’s oeuvre is to be honoured in 2009 in the Kunstmuseum Folkwang, Essen and in 2010 in the Whitechapel Gallery, London with a comprehensive retrospective.

Erik Schmidt
Having opened our new gallery premises with Erik Schmidt’s exhibition, "Working the landscape", we shall be presenting one of his new works in Basel. The painting looks at the Holy Land, landscape and the yearning for a particular place. In Israel’s landscape or in the archaic farming practised in the olive groves, Schmidt finds codes for universal images, in an approach that echoes his previous images addressing hunting and the aesthetics of the highly particular social structures associated with it.

Sebastian Diaz Morales
After the monumental presentation of Sebastian Diaz Morales at Art Unlimited 2007, this year we are displaying more intimate works by the Argentinian artist at our stand. Fragile video boxes show a hand in the process of writing a text and poetically address the perception of film and written language. Diaz Morales works can be seen this year at MUSAC, Leon, MUDAM in Luxembourg and in the Tate Modern, London as part of an exhibition tour with young video artists and the "H-Box" sponsored by Hermès.

Tomasz Kowalski
The first presentation of works by Polish artist Tomasz Kowalski in our gallery attracted a great deal of attention. Kowalski’s artistic oeuvre is coloured by a refreshing anti-modernism, which plays with a whole gamut of references from art history and avoids the discourse tradition of Western Europe. This young artist, who is still studying at the Academy of Arts in Cracow, focuses his gaze on the passing of time and the emergence and decline of a private iconography drawn from the very particular tradition of book illustration in Galicia and from the depths of history. In Basel we shall be showing two of his paintings along with some works on paper.

Kaliang Yang
The new paintings by Kailiang Yang continue the process he began with his precise and melancholy studies from Hamburg and Berlin. The curved lines of the Elbe Bridge, the lights of the transit motorway and summer rainfall are familiar motifs that Yang once again transposes into fascinating, conceptual paintings. Kailiang Yang’s oeuvre combines his own traditional background of Chinese landscape painting with the European tradition of abstraction. His painting evokes objects that have an eerie presence, even while he spirits those objects away into abstraction.

Amy Sillman
Following on from Sillman’s exhibition at the Hirschhorn Museum in February 2007, we are particularly pleased to have an opportunity to show a work in Basel by this artist from New York.

Pablo Pijnappel
We shall be showing the slide installation, "A Dog in the Park", at an art fair for the first time. Pijnappel combines 81 slides of drawings by his father with his own texts, which produce a very general narration, "A Dog in the Park", although at the same time, in a touch typical of Pijnappel’s work, the texts are also highly personal and rooted in his family history. Pijnappel recently showed work at the Kadist Art Foundation in Paris, and will present his new piece, "Homer", in our gallery’s project space in June.

Marcellvs L. | Art Unlimited | Booth C6
Marcellvs L.´s video installation at Art Unlimited simulates the idea and experience of gravitation. An image projected onto a flat surface floating horizontally just above the viewer’s head shows the view from the bottom of a swimming pool looking up to the surface of the water. Gradually people appear in the pool and float around in the water. As in his earlier works, sound also plays an important role here: deep bass frequencies convey an impression of being deep in the water, whilst also creating an atmosphere of weightlessness and claustrophobia. In addition to this video installation we shall also be showing a smaller video work by Marcellvs L. at the stand. This year Marcellvs L. has been awarded the Ars Viva Prize and the GASAG Art Prize.

Michel François | Art Unlimited | Booth H3
A gold-plated steel cage, festooned with garments, demarcates a space. The clothing, hanging on the bars like discarded skin, reminds us of the ambivalence of the cage, which may depict either the conclusion or the start of a bid for freedom. Picking up on this, we shall also be showing a sculpture by François on our stand. In 2009 a retrospective at SMAK in Ghent will pay tribute to the Belgian artist.

Please feel free to contact the gallery for further questions.

After the successful Gallery Weekend and the opening of our new premises with Erik Schmidt, Tomasz Kowalski and Marcellvs L. we would like to take the time before Art Basel, to give you a brief overview of the gallery's and artist's activities in the next months.

First, we are very pleased to announce our cooperation with David Maljkovic. David Maljkovic (*1973) had shows in 2007 at P.S.1 in New York and at the Kunstverein in Hamburg. Currently he is on view at the 5th Berlin Biennial, and will be at Le Plateau in Paris, at the Kunstverein in Nürnberg and at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.
Also, we are happy to announce, that Julie Mehretu has relocated her studio to Berlin for the next years.
Marcellvs L. has won the GASAG Art Award 2008. The award includes a catalogue and an exhibition at the Berlinische Galerie. The opening reception of the show will be held on August 21st.

At the upcoming Art 39 Basel we will focus our presentation on works by Paul Graham, Tomasz Kowalski, Aernout Mik, Paul Pfeiffer, Pablo Pijnappel, Bojan Sarcevic, Erik Schmidt, Amy Sillman and Kailiang Yang. At Art Unlimited Michel François and Marcellvs L. will present their recent works.
After Basel, we will open on June 13th with Paul Graham and Pablo Pijnappel. For the first time, Paul Graham will present photographs from his recent series "A shimmer of possibility". Pablo Pijnappel will present his new work "Homer" in the Project Space.

We would like to point out the following exhibitions of our artists during this summer:

Luc Tuymans will have the retrospective exhibition "Come and See" of works from the last 30 years, held at the Zacheta National Gallery of Art in Warsaw, Poland (May 30 - August 17, 2008).
Janaina Tschäpe presents a substantial solo exhibition at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin, Ireland (June 25 - September 28, 2008).
Bojan Sarcevic will show his recent film installations "Only after Dark" assembled for the first time at the Kunstverein in Hamburg, Germany (July 5 - September 29, 2008).
Mark Wallinger's first solo exhibition after the Turner Prize will be held at the Aargauer Kunstverein in Switzerland (August 31 – November 16, 2008).
Paul Pfeiffer will have a retrospective of his work in September at the MUSAC in Leon, Spain.
Marcellvs L. and Paul Pfeiffer will be represented at the Sydney Biennal in Australia (June 18 – September 09, 2008).
All further exhibitions of our artist are listed in the newsletter on our website at www.carliergebauer.com/en/newsletter.html.

After the summer break in August we will open on September 5th with Paul Pfeiffer. From September 4- 7, 2008 we will be present on the premiere of the new "abc - Art Berlin Contemporary".

Please feel free to contact the gallery for all further questions.

For immediate release

We are delighted to announce that we are moving to new premises. From May 2008 you will find the gallery at

Markgrafenstrassse 67
10969 Berlin
Germany

Set at the heart of Berlin's most important gallery district, the 800-m² gallery enjoys spacious dimensions akin to those of a Kunsthalle. The exhibition space comprises two top-lit rooms bathed in natural light where the main exhibitions will be shown, as well as a project space, a showroom plus a media room, which will be developed into a cinematheque. This will offer us scope to show works and documentation films by our video artists and to organise discussions with artists. The underlying ambition here is to develop an intensive communication programme with an emphasis on the gallery's focus on installation pieces working with video and film.

The gallery's new premises will be opened on 2nd May 2008 on the occasion of the Berlin Gallery Weekend. The main exhibition is devoted to Erik Schmidt, who will be presenting new works from the "Working the Landscape" cycle for the first time. A publication will be released in conjunction with the exhibition. The media room presents Marcellvs L.'s video installation "52°30'50.13" N 13°22'42.05" E". Tomasz Kowalski from Cracow will be exhibiting in our gallery for the first time, showing paintings and sculptures in the project space.

Exhibitions with Paul Graham, Janaina Tschäpe, Ryan Trecartin, Paul Pfeiffer and Bojan Sarcevic are in the pipeline for the next 12 months. Pablo Pijnappel, Whitney Bedford and Przemek Matecki are among the artists invited to exhibit in the project space.

The gallery office can be contacted until the end of April 2008 at the Holzmarktstrasse address:
Holzmarktstrasse 15-18, Bogen 49
10179 Berlin Germany

All e-mail addresses and telephone numbers will remain the same.
t +49 30 24 00 863 0
f +49 30 24 00 863 33
mail[at]carliergebauer.com

Should you have any further questions, please contact Philipp Selzer at
ps[at]carliergebauer.com.