Alpha nova & gallery futura

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Alpha nova & galerie futura, room in the art factory on Flutgraben since 2012

Alpha nova & galerie futura has been an exhibition and event location in Berlin that has existed since 1986 , which uses a feminist , anti-racist approach to combine culture-producing and culture-mediating practices. Thematic exhibitions with visual arts take place, which are accompanied by events such as performances, lectures, readings, film presentations, discussions, music and workshops. The focus is on promoting women artists and increasing their visibility.

Since 1987 alpha nova & galerie futura has received institutional funding from the Berlin Senate Administration . Katharina Koch and Dorothea Nold are currently the artistic directors of the exhibition and event location, which has been based in the art factory at Flutgraben in Alt-Treptow on the grounds of the Arena Berlin since 2012 .

The exhibition and event location is part of the network of free Berlin project spaces and initiatives.

history

1986 to 2001

The FUTURA project was founded in 1986 during a political upheaval as an experimental location for social counter-drafts. Uta Koch-Götze is one of the founders of the project and was artistic director from 1986 to the end of 2011. The founders were predominantly of the 68 generation. They were representatives of the second women's movement and the international women's peace movement. The dragon Futura was chosen to name the project and the gallery. As a symbol for the resistance of the women of Berlin after the events in Chernobyl , it had been presented as an art object in many demonstrations. As part of the FUTURA project, the futura gallery was an art space designed by women for women. It offered space to deal with the prevailing mechanisms of the art world and developed structures and presentation options especially for women artists. Cooperations were established with the Haus am Waldsee and the Women's Museum (Bonn) . The project rooms were located in Zehlendorf from 1986 to 2001 .

2002 to 2011

From 2001 to the end of 2011 the gallery rooms were located in an Art Nouveau building in Friedenau . The house offered good conditions for representative exhibitions, but also for supporting programs with high public appeal such as readings, book and concert premieres, round table discussions, the German-Jewish dialogue or the long-standing working group of women from different cultural contexts, from which two publications were published by Geest-Verlag published. All offers had a workshop character and were grouped under the name alpha nova-kulturwerkstatt . This included the werkstattTHEATER alpha nova , which has since become independent, and the collaboration with Aviva Verlag , Edition Ebersbach and Aphaia Verlag. The gallery and cultural workshop are part of the Südwestpassage Kultur network in Friedenau.

Since 2012

The cultural and gender scientist and curator Katharina Koch and the music and gender scientist Marie-Anne Kohl took over the artistic management of the exhibition and event location at the beginning of 2012. The move not only went hand in hand with the move of the project to the art factory at Flutgraben in Alt-Treptow on the grounds of the Arena Berlin , but also with a realignment of the concept. As a place from artists for artists, the spectrum expanded to include cultural workers with queer-feminist approaches. With a feminist and anti-racist approach, the alpha nova & galerie futura project aims to create publics for gender and identity issues as well as post-colonial perspectives and to create a context in which discursive formats are intertwined with artistic and activist ones. In addition to exhibitions, this includes above all performative, collaborative, process and conversation-based offers as well as round table discussions and workshops for the professional exchange of cultural producers, advice and support for women in artistic fields. In October 2015 the artist Dorothea Nold took over the artistic direction together with Katharina Koch.

anniversary

In August 2016 alpha nova & galerie futura celebrated with the group exhibition “Welcome to Futuristan. 30 years of galerie futura ”in the project space in the Kreuzberg / Bethanien art space celebrates its 30th anniversary. Barbara Straka was the patron of the exhibition . The exhibition and the extensive supporting program were funded by the Berlin Senate Administration / Equal Opportunities Office , the Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg Cultural Office and the Gerda-Weiler Foundation. There was a media partnership with AVIVA-Berlin , the online magazine for women.

Exhibitions and events (selection)

  • 1999 "Fahnenprojekt Futura", art in public space in cooperation with the Women's Museum (Bonn)
  • 2005 "INNENSICHTEN - AUSSENSICHTEN", exhibition, Latin American artists in Berlin
  • 2005 “In one day - between dream and reality. Artists of the Artists' Association in Germany - Realism of the Present ”, exhibition
  • 2008 "RUHE.STÖRUNG", exhibition in cooperation with GEDOK Berlin
  • 2010 "beRuf Künstlerin - a paradigm shift", exhibition in cooperation with the Women's Museum (Bonn)
  • 2013 “beRuf Künstlerin - a paradigm shift”, exhibition in the Kunsthalle Brennabor , Brandenburg an der Havel
  • 2013 "fashion x - gender-critical perspectives on clothing and fashion", exhibition and series of events, funded by the Human Dignity & Working World Foundation and in cooperation with the Berlin Educational Center of the Heinrich Böll Foundation ,
  • 2014 "crisusRus NETWORK | RE: WORK “, workshop and performance, initiated by LaptopsRus in cooperation with reboot.fm
  • 2015 “material matters: moving and unruly bodies”, exhibition of queer feminist painting by Deborah Schmidt
  • 2015 “Precarious Art: Protest and Resistance”, exhibition and series of events, sponsored by the Stiftung Deutsche Klassenlotterie Berlin , in cooperation with the Bildungswerk Berlin of the Heinrich Böll Foundation
  • 2016 “Welcome to Futuristan. 30 years of galerie futura ”, exhibition and panel discussion in the Kreuzberg / Bethanien art space , as well as a comprehensive supporting program in the exhibition and event location in the art factory at Flutgraben such as B. “Künstlerinnen International”, curated by Felicita Reuschling , video installation and conversation with the artist Michaela Melián

Artists (selection)

Artists, authors, scientists and activists with whom alpha nova & galerie futura has worked: Annemirl Bauer , Christa Biederbick , Gisela Breitling , Sigrun Casper , Sarah Diehl , Corinna Rosteck , Sharon Dodua Otoo , Annette Hollywood , Dorothea Nold, Marianne Pitzen , Erika Tappe , Biliana Voutchkova , Louise Wagner , Gisela Weimann .

Press

“The fact that Futura still exists is also due to its unusual founding history and the idea that emerged from it: to offer women from art and culture a place where they can come together to network and to discuss their positions - regardless whether they are already established or still unknown - to present. Futura is a field of experimentation and a place to exchange experiences for artists of different generations. Back then, in the mid-1980s, it was a novelty, it is still something special today. "

- taz.die daily newspaper

Publications

  • 2015: Precarious Art: Protest & Resistance . Published by alpha nova & galerie futura, Stacie CC Graham, Katharina Koch and Marie-Anne Kohl, Berlin, ISBN 978-3-00-051512-5 .
  • 2010: beRUF artist / a paradigm shift . Published by alpha nova & galerie futura and Uta Koch-Götze, Berlin, ISBN 978-3-00-031741-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ Zoe Sona: Nobody leaves the screen . In: taz - the daily newspaper . taz, the daily newspaper Verlagsgenossenschaft eG., Berlin 9 July 2015.
  3. ↑ Social-cultural project offers for women in Berlin. Retrieved July 9, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Marina Gärtner (Ed.): SPACES - Free art spaces in Germany . Deutscher Kunstverlag GmbH, Berlin Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-422-07347-0 , p. 21 .
  5. ↑ Project management alpha nova & galerie futura. Retrieved July 9, 2016 .
  6. ↑ Project rooms Berlin. Retrieved January 6, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Beate Scheder: In the sign of the dragon . In: taz.die daily newspaper . taz, the daily newspaper Verlagsgenossenschaft eG., Berlin August 4, 2016, p. 26 .
  8. ↑ Sharon Adler: Interview with the curators Katharina Koch and Dorothea Nold from August 18, 2016 on AVIVA-Berlin.de, accessed on May 1, 2020.
  9. ↑ CONTINUITIES & BROKEN: Interview with alpha nova & galerie futura. In: www.projectspacefestival-berlin.com. Project Space Festival, August 17, 2016, accessed August 20, 2016 .
  10. ^ Art gallery for gender criticism in Berlin. Missy Magazine, September 27, 2012, accessed November 4, 2016 .
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  12. ↑ Beate Scheder: In the sign of the dragon . In: taz.die daily newspaper . taz, the daily newspaper Verlagsgenossenschaft eG., Berlin August 4, 2016, p. 26 .
  13. ^ Kulturamt Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg: Funded Projects 2016 - District Culture Fund. Retrieved November 4, 2016 .
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  15. ↑ Christina zu Mecklenburg: Soft dripping noises when shopping . Ed .: General-Anzeiger. Bonn June 1999.
  16. ^ Doris Kollmann: Perspectiva Interior - Perspectiva Exterior. Inside views - outside views . In: The Schöneberg district newspaper . No. 25 . Berlin 2005, p. 3 .
  17. ↑ Christiane Krämer: Exhibitions on rest. Disruption of GEDOK Berlin. August 10, 2008, accessed November 4, 2016 .
  18. ↑ Christina zu Mecklenburg: Women's Museum reflects in an exhibition on "breadless art". October 30, 2010, accessed November 4, 2016 .
  19. ↑ Odin Tietsche: The often disregarded and underestimated art . In: Märkische Allgemeine Zeitung . Märkischen Verlags- und Druck-Gesellschaft mbH (MVD), Potsdam February 2013.
  20. ↑ ML: The interface between gender and fashion . In: TAZ, taz.plan . TAZ Verlags- und Vertriebs GmbH, Berlin July 2013, p. 3 .
  21. ↑ Project Space Festival: CONTINUITIES & BROKEN: Interview with alpha nova and galerie futura. August 17, 2016. Retrieved November 4, 2016 .
  22. ↑ Zoe Sona: Nobody leaves the screen. In: taz - the daily newspaper. taz, the daily newspaper Verlagsgenossenschaft eG., July 9, 2015, accessed on August 20, 2016 .
  23. ^ Foundation German Class Lottery Berlin. June 5, 2015, accessed November 4, 2016 .
  24. ^ Heinrich Boell Foundation. Retrieved November 4, 2016 .
  25. ↑ AVIVA editorial team: Welcome to Futuristan. 30 years of galerie futura. In: AVIVA-Berlin , April 24, 2016. Retrieved May 1, 2020 .
  26. ↑ Beate Scheder: In the sign of the dragon . In: TAZ. The daily newspaper, taz.plan . TAZ Verlags- und Vertriebs GmbH, Berlin August 2016.
  27. ↑ Beate Scheder: In the sign of the dragon . In: taz.die daily newspaper . taz, the daily newspaper Verlagsgenossenschaft eG., Berlin August 4, 2016, p. 26 .

Coordinates: 52 ° 29 '50.1 "  N , 13 ° 27' 6.1"  E