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.
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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.
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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”.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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