An Artist Talks with Dr Motte/ Ellen Dosh, Dr Motte Booking, 15.07.2011, Kunsthaus Tacheles, Berlin.

The talk was a special event for the anniversary of the one year of An Artist Talks. The feeling was great, and we had special performances from Lady Gaby   (Roumania/Australia) and sound by Alain Ledezma (Mexico).

Guests were interviewed and asked to shared their experience and knowledge about DR Motte and the Love Parade. It was really very exciting...

Ellen explained how she met Dr Motte, who is today her partner. They have just founded the Electro Cult e.v. and are very active in the techno scene. They have been bot very active, also in  "We Support Tacheles" events, that Ellen and Dr Motte organize. These parties help to gain funding for the Stiftung Tacheles, and all the Electro Cult team participated the last demonstration very passionately. 

Dr Motte has been very present in The Tacheles since the beggining of the Art House, explains Linda Cerna, the Public Relations of the Art House, who kindly was present to testify and share her knowledge of the past history of the Tacheles with Dr Motte.

Last but not least, I, the interviewer, ended up answering Linda Cerna's questions about my own talk. I had pleasure telling my experience since I have been developing this project for the Kunsthaus Tacheles and artists here. And I also had a good time sharing these unique moments, and will go further next year with more guests... And hope to have soon... to view all the talks from one year... in a loop...Patience please, it is coming .-)

Dr Motte will personnally answer questions next week, so more infos to come...

Please check : 

www.drmotte.de/

An Artist Talks with Johnny Amore, 07.07.2011, Kunsthaus Tacheles, Berlin.

Johnny Amore is a German artist living and working in Berlin. He is a photographer and a performance artist.  The performances  began with readings of original poems he wrote and shared in public spaces, dressed in a white suit with a white hat. He does not call himself a performer though. He remains aware of his artist status. Is he an artist? What is an artist? He has, in any case, a tremendous talent for talking, and has certainly the rare performing qualities of the stage performer: the presence, the voice and the gesture. In many ways, you can easily mistake him for a famous actor... Could be one of his next performances?

Johnny Amore at An Artist Talks part one

He has a great presence and sens of humor. He describes simply the way he develops his ideas and process of working. The photography began with a series of self portraits, and today he is preparing portraits of performance artists. He knows many, and naturally, has opportunities to take pictures, after or before their performances.

Johnny Amore at An Artist Talks part two

 

He has been working since his Super Heroe theme with Finnland, a country where he feels comfortable and fits well. He confides, that he has a special relationship to Finnland, since his childhood. He went on holidays with his parents to visits friends. Later he discovered there, a great performance scene, and today still, he works with Finnish artists.

The performance "7 for the price of 1" was a series of 7 performances, done travelling from Germany to Holland, with a crew of artists, the performers were from Finnland. He tries to explored the concept of creating value, and investigates the perception of value of performative art, and how to create value within the performance...

He seems always very joyful, although the themes he choses are very serious. He is now on his way to North Hampton, England, for an exhibiton, he is taking part in.

Check out :

www.the-superhero.blogspot.com

www.johnnyamore.de/ -

An Artist Talks with Bruno di Martino, 30.06.2011, Kunsthaus Tacheles, Berlin

Bruno di Martino is a French artist living and working in Berlin. He worked as a dancer and actor in the Opera de Paris in his early years, and then found himself creating paintings. Little by little, this became his main media, although he does today many bas-reliefs and sculptures. He works have been shown in the Grand-Palais de Paris and he was awarded a prize from the Comitee of the Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2006 for one of his sculptures. This sculpture is visible soon in his studio in Berlin in the Tacheles.


He likes to take the viewer into his fantasy stories and tries to recreate feelings and transmit energy of life through the ornements. He is often seen as a Barocco artist, but has many influences coming from antique Rome to futuristic Mangas.


Most of his sculptures follow the same path and with three dimension take you into theatrical scenes of life and tales of the future. He is preparing an exhibition and is working in his studio.

He has created 6 Buddy bears, one for Unesco and another for the city of Berlin, one of them is still visible today on the Kudamm, in Berlin.


Also Bruno is always very  friendly and easy to talk with, so if you go by the Kunsthaus Tacheles this summer, do no hesitate to drop by.

An artist Talks With Irene Pascual, 16.06.2011, Kunsthaus Tacheles, Berlin.

Irene Pascual is a painter, a performance artist and a curator from spain. She lives in Berlin since 2004. Her studies are :

2004-2006     Stage Design studies in Universität der Künste (Berlin)

1999-2004     Graduate in Stage Design in Institut del Teatre (Barcelona)

1994-98        Graduate in Art History from the University of Girona (Girona)

                     Fine Arts studies in Escola Massana (Barcelona) and E.M.A.  School of Arts (Girona)

Irene Pascual Performance

Today she divides her times into different artistic activities, such as painting, performance and curatorial work with the Glogauair residency program. She has organized last year a performance festival in Berlin named "Home Sweet Home ", where she gather international artists to show their works within the Werstatt der Kulturen in Neukoeln.

She says organizing takes alot of time, of course, and time spent painting, is reduced. But never the less, the challenging experience of reading, selecting and chosing artists and art works, has improved her vision of art, and her own personal artistic direction . Often working for or with others brings her to reflect upon her creative process and she discovers more about herself.

Irene Pascual painting

She says, she is more involved in performance art at the moment, but she still continues to paint with great talent and has shown her work around Europe. In the present time, she likes to use different medium, to give better impact and visual effect to the works. Whether it is performative or formal painting art,  she likes to share her experience. 

Please check her web page and discover more about her work.

www.irenepascual.com
www.glogauair.com