An Artist Talks with Jose Maggallanes, 07.04.2011, Tacheles, Berlin

Jose Maggallanes is a Trash artist. He has been working with metal and plastic recently, and constructs sculptures and also collage paintings.

He comes from Mexico and his Grand father taught him the basics in building. He is mostly experimenting new directions, since he has come to the Kunsthaus Tacheles. He searches to express the beauty of the waste and finds it rewarding to use this type of materials, easily found here in Berlin.


He survives with the sales of his scuplture and continues to produce new works. He will try to prepare an exhibition, as soon as he has enough works and feels ready.


His work is influenced also, by a long stay in the U.S.A, were he worked as a graphic designer. So he does not think his sculptures are so close to the Mexican art, but closer to the consummer society problematic, he experienced there.
His problematics and process are more occidental in a way, he says, when explaining about the sculptures.


You see some of his works here just stop by the Kunsthaus and take a look.

An Artist Talks with Matthew Weiss, 14.04.2011, Tacheles, Berlin

Matthew Weiss is a wonderful violin player. He learnt to play as a child and his father played as well. He used to listen to him play folk and developed at taste for this type of music and combines them with  a classical repertoire in his own compositions.

He loves to improvise and follows the energy of other artists  and the spaces he performs in, to generate new sounds and melodies.

He has left the music school, he was working in for 10 years. 

Now he spends most of his time improsiving his own musical projects and will take part in a theater play this summer in Hamburg. He is most of the time still in Berlin and has composed for the dancer Jadi Carboni artist from the Neukoelimports. He played a part recently in the Musical "House of Dreams" a production from the Kunsthaus Tacheles.

He records also for groups and you can hear his violin on many tracks from the group Egypt77, for example on the soundcloud. He follows his inspiration and has changed the way he thinks music and his role as a musician. He does not like the term of artist and likes to be just someone and connect with his environment.

He has become more mystical in the way he makes his choices and frees himself from any stategy of success or social recognition. He does not play for these reasons, he likes to share moments and live new experiences with people.

An Artist talks Forum Artist Platforms/Networking?

Atelierhof-Kreuzberg exhibition space

Andreas Helfer artist and director of the "Atelierhof-Kreuzberg", is very active and present in events. He built the project himself after finding this empty factory space. And with determination and the help of the city, he managed to fund the transition into studios spaces and exhibition space.

The exhibitions are very well curated and showing international artist and events. Please check regularly events and program.

www.atelierhof-kreuzberg.de/

Fick Dein Projekt is  a new artist platform, for the moment, mostly dealing with musicians. The platform is networking through Europe and this first event curated by Marcel Martin, is with many groups from Italy and performance artists living in Berlin. 

www.fick-dein-projekt.de

www.kulone.com/.../2010508-FICK-DEIN-PROJEKT-Volume-1 - Deutschland

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Linda Cerna

Linda Cerna is the Public Relations from the Tacheles Kunsthaus.

She explains how the organization collaborates with Goethe institut and other institutions, to enhance cultural exchange and events.

The Tacheles has an international reputation. Journalists and artists and visitors from all over the world come to see the space. Linda's work is to help develop projects from organizations, that use the exhibition spaces or the theater, and improve communication of the activities of the Kunsthaus Tacheles.

She is sometimes invited to Russia to talk about the space and sometimes does workshops as well, but mostly here in Berlin to coordinate and promote the running projects.

www.tacheles.de
to reach her for projects office@tacheles.de

An Artist Talks with Peepool,24.03.2011, Kunsthaus Tacheles, Berlin.

It was difficult for these new coming Italians to find the Kunsthaus and my studio. But finally, when we met, in presence of Herman, who kindly did the translating, we had a good time.

This Italian experimental avand-garde group, is a duet one drummer and one bass player, who sometimes vocalises. They admitted that at first they were 8 in the group , and little by little the group became smaller. I had the great pleasure to hear them play later on saturday night in the "Fick Dein Projekt" event. Caterina the bass explained, that she builds a frame, the grid, and the drums evolve and develop around and accross the themes. The mix is very sharp and explosive, you can hear their sound ont the my space.

Their goals are to bring their music to travel and discover new cultures and grow, they have being playing in Italy mainly and it was their first time to play abroad.

Check out for there next events on www.myspace.com/peepool