vierter stock projektraum berlin
Location: Berlin
Year founded: 2006
Address:
Schererstraße 10 EG, D-13347 Berlin
Contact details:
Creixell Espilla-Gilart / Dirk A. Meixner
Tel: +49.179.38.66.720
Email: contact@vierterstock-berlin.com
Website: vierterstock-berlin.com
Social Media:
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Indicative opening times:
Thu-Fri 4 – 8 p.m.; Sat 2 – 6 p.m.
Current staff:
Creixell Espilla-Gilart (Director)
Dirk A. Meixner (Director)
vierter stock projektraum berlin (VS) is both a project and an exhibition space. The focus of work at VS is the artist-in-residence program. Artists live and work in vierter stock for a duration of one to three months. For this program, VS focuses on rising artists from the international scene. During their stay in Berlin, these artists are able to gather new impressions from which they can develop a new project or work series. Following the stay, VS presents these works in an exhibition. Over the last four years, artists from China, Germany, England, Finland, France, Israel, Spain, Ukraine and the USA have shown their work in VS. In addition to the artist-in-residence program, regular exhibitions are also held. Emerging as well as established artists, who present experimental works in VS, are invited to produce an exhibition. In this capacity, VS also serves as a laboratory for new and unknown work.
Hardly any other city currently offers as large a variety of art projects as Berlin. Ideas are given enough space here to grow and develop. VS was founded in 2006 and ever since then, has been part of this dynamic process. The vierter stock project began on the fourth floor of an unrenovated, turn-of-the-century building that is typical for Berlin. In May 2009, vierter stock projektraum berlin moved to a commercial space on the ground floor, and now offers artists and visitors more room in a new and more elegant environment.
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Showing at Trajector:
vierter stock berlin’s presentation at Trajector Art Fair will be focused on painting and works on paper. The figurative paintings on marble of Barbora Kysilkova (Prague, 1983) and the canvases by Edwin Walker (London, 1984) will be sharing space with the paper works of Ghost of a Dream (Adam Eckström & Lauren Was, New York, both 1976) and Michael Hernandez de Luna (Chicago, 1953).
The paintings of Barbora Kysilkova are a safe-keeper of the poetic moments in the artist’ life on a monumental material like marble. In some pictures the beholder may have the feeling of proximity, even of a too close intimacy. On the other hand, the paintings by Edwin Walker transmit another sense of proximity through the explicit violent content of the works, presented in very different ways: sometimes picturing it as a direct action, sometimes with a subtle iconographic reference.
The works on paper by Ghost of a Dream stand for a good contrast to the majestic paintings: different collages made with discarded lottery tickets and romance novel covers set our imagination free to recall our wishes and dreams of a more exciting life. Michael Hernandez de Luna’s self-made stamps, on the other hand, shout out loud a sarcastic critic of the actions taken to achieve the American Dream.
Artists: Barbora Kysilkova, Edwin Walker, Ghost of a Dream, Michael Hernandez de Luna.
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