2015

In seiner zweiten Einzelausstellung bei Krobath Berlin präsentiert Otto Zitko neue großformatige Arbeiten, schwarze und silberfarbene Linien mit Ölstift und Lack auf Wabenkartons aufgetragen. „Sie stellen nicht die Installation an sich dar“, schrieb die Kunsthistorikerin Jan Avgikos über Zitkos Bilder, „sondern filtern die polarisierten Erfahrungen heraus, die für Zitkos Installationen wichtig sind.“ Sozusagen eine Konzentration. Vom Raum auf die Fläche.

The architects von Gerkan, Marg and Partners (gmp) are known worldwide for their large-scale projects such as airports, sport venues, train stations, and cultural buildings. Their work with historical buildings is less known. This exhibition, which was first curated for the 14th Venice Architecture Biennale, presents 32 projects, explaining the different possible approaches to this problem. This creates a multi-faceted kaleidoscope of the many architectural options available. What is also evident is that engagement with the history of a place is a necessary part of responsible building development.


JOVIS launched a new publication series with gmp: gmp FOCUS. The series documents an exemplary selection of gmp buildings, by means of detailed texts and photo galleries by renowned culture journalists, architecture critics, and photographers.

Balagan is the title of Norbert Bisky’s exhibit of new works, showing at the Atelierhaus from March 27 until August 30. In winter 2014/2015, Bisky swapped ateliers with Israeli painter Erez Israeli, based in Tel Aviv. The artworks created during this time are devoted to urbanity, feelings of impenetrability regarding our real and virtual living environments. The compositions were painted especially for the Atelierhaus on Bötzow. The exhibit, with large-format, intensely colored works as well as a series of small-format works of oil on paper that are being show for the first time in Germany and three pieces from the Sammlung HGN show both sides of this coin—angst and joie de vivre. The exhibit title says it all—Balagan—which can mean confusion and chaos as well as partying and exuberance.

The Alfred Herrhausen Society and JOVIS Publishers invite to an evening with the architect and planner Jan Gehl on occasion of the first German edition of Cities for People.

For more than 40 years, the architect and city planner Jan Gehl has been involved in redesigning or creating new designs for squares, streets, even entire city districts, for the benefit of the residents. By observing megacities in detail himself, Gehl develops methods and strategies for bringing significant positive change to dysfunctional and inhospitable urban landscapes. The most important principle behind Jan Gehl’s urban planning on a human scale is that the urban space has to be experienced at the speed of a pedestrian, instead of from a vehicle. This is the only way to succeed in making both traditional metropolises and rapidly growing cities in developing and emerging countries into “cities for people”.

The book presentation will take place in English.