EXHIBITIONS AND PROJECTS BY ANDREAS TEMPLIN

'An Exchange with Sol LeWitt', Cabinet Magazine & MASS MoCA

2011-01-16T09:20:00.000-08:00

'Andreas Templin sings Sol LeWitt', 2010, recognition of a karaoke-performance of Sol LeWitt's 'Sentences on Conceptual Art'

A two-part exhibition in collaboration with MASS MoCA, Curated by Regine Basha

Cabinet: January 21, 2011 – March 5, 2011

Opening reception: Thursday, January 20, 7–9 pm

300 Nevins Street, Brooklyn (directions here); Tuesday to Saturday , 12–6 pm

MASS MoCA: January 23, 2011 – March 31, 2011

Opening reception: Saturday, January 22, 7–9 pm

1040 MASS MoCA Way, North Adams, MA (directions here); 11 am–5 pm every day except Tuesday

As contribution to this exhibition Andreas Templin developed a karaoke-version of performing

Sol LeWitt's 'sentences on conceptual art' (1969) paying tribute to this grandmaster of conceptual art while citing John Baldessari's legendary videowork 'Baldessari sings LeWitt'.

Made possible with the kind support of DISPLAY-MEDIA FILM- AND POSTPRODUCTION.

WPA Experimental Media Series 2011

2011-01-05T06:53:00.000-08:00

Washington Project for the Arts Experimental Media Series 2011

compiled by Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky

participating artists:

Cedric Baker (Dale City, VA), Leslie Berns (University Park, MD), Lisa K. Blatt (San Francisco, CA), Virginia Colwell (Columbus, OH), Kathyrn Cornelius (Washington, DC), Jym Davis (Waleska, GA), Werther Germondari (Rimini, Italy), Dee Hood (Ruskin, FL), Toby Kaufman-Buhler (Madison, WI), Hannah Naomi Kim (Washington, DC), Adam Krell,Rayya Newman, Ian Fay, Dawne Langford (Washington, DC), Peter Lee (Oakton, VA), Lemeh42 (Monterado, IT), Madame X (Los Angeles, CA), Kathryn Mockler, David Poolman (Toronto, ON, Canada), H. Paul Moon (Arlington, VA), Ranu Mukherjee (San Francisco, CA), Ocusonic aka Paul O Donoghue (Dublin, IE), Josh Ostraff (Minneapolis, MN), Jino Park , Cally Iden (Seoul, South Korea)(Philadelphia, PA), (Ottsville, PA), Kathyrn Ramey (Roslindale, MA), Stephen Riebel (Leipzig, DE), Jenny Schmid , Ali Momeni (Minneapolis, MN), Christian Straub, Leyla Rodriguez (Hamburg, DE), Collin Sundt (New York, NY), Andreas Templin (Berlin, DE), Elizabeth Tolson (Fairfax, VA), Mathieu Tremblay (Montreal, QC, Canada), Paul Turano (Roslindale, MA), Ultramax (State College, PA), Tina Willgren (Stockholm, SE), Kaiqin Zhang (Philadelphia, PA)

Venues and Dates:
Thursday, January 13 and 20*, 2011
6:30 - 8:30pm
The Phillips Collection
1600 21st Street NW, Washington, DC 20009
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
7:30 - 9:00pm
Maryland Institute College of Art, Falvey Hall
1300 Mount Royal Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21217
Thursday, February 10, 2011
7:00 - 8:30pm
St. Elizabeth's Hospital Auditorium
1100 Alabama Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20032
For additional information, please contact Maureen Jais-Mick at 202-299-5220
Thursday, February 17, 2011
7:00 - 8:30pm
The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation Arts Center, Montgomery College
930 King Street, Silver Spring, MD 20910
Thursday, February 24, 2011
7:00 – 9:00pm
Harris Hall Auditorium, Virginia Commonwealth University
1015 Floyd Ave., Richmond, VA 23284
Thursday, March 31, 2011*
8:00 – 9:30pm
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution
Independence Avenue and Seventh Street SW, Washington, DC 20560
Thursday, April 7, 2011
7:00 - 8:30pm
The Ibrahim Theater@ International House Philadelphia
3701 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104
* selection for this venue is still in progress and might differ from the other screenings

Barcelona Art Contemporary Festival

2010-11-07T12:06:00.001-08:00

'TIME FOR A CHANGE' curated by Macu Morán (Director of VideoArtWorld)

Barcelona Art Contemporary Festival.

Centre d’Art Santa Mónica, Barcelona, 10.11.2010, 5.30pm

in progress: the Hoorn constellations

2010-10-21T04:17:00.000-07:00

Andreas Templin and Andreas L. Hofbauer currently conduct a research-project at HMK Hoorn.

'Systemic constellation' or simple 'constellation' labels a process related tool, which is used both in a therapeutic field and as a decision model for several areas of application such as script writing or management agendas. Noninvolved proxies or agents re-enact in a special environment (unconscious and unknown) relations of influence, power, dependency, domination and so on in certain time and space frames.

„The Hoorn constellations“ pays no interest on such benchmarks, ideological or therapeutic, to optimize whatsoever. In fact it is an operational system. Communications as operations generate social systems. Elements (institutions, complex positions like „artist“, „museum“, „artwork“ etc.) communicate here and generate / mirror in doing so the homeostasis of the artworld which transforms itself in a sort of homeodynamics of the conditions of production, representation and economics of art (the state of contemporary art).

In a neutral space (white cube) a kind of dance is staged. The choreography follows the dynamic questionnaire of the public enquirers, who ask their questions in advance. The questions shall be a public reflection on the production, representation and economy conditions of art in all areas. From the fabrication of an art piece, its public representation to its marketing and branding at present and in the future. Variable arrangements of systemic constellation and interaction are staged as a field of vision, which become a contemporary critical tool of understanding.

The constellations of these questions have been filmed with two hd-cameras, which will develop (with interviews of the agents) to single-channel videoworks.

Andreas Templin at Vimeo Festival

2010-10-11T02:52:00.000-07:00

Vimeo Festival & Awards invited a recognition of a video-installation by Andreas Templin as part of this year's screenings held October 8th & 9th at selected locations in NYC.

TRANSZENDENZ INC. , Autocenter Berlin, 17.07.- 31.07.2010

2010-07-12T07:56:00.000-07:00

with: Kathryn Andrews, Liu Anping, Robin Archer (House of Harlot), Bara,

Quirin Bäumler, Tjorg Douglas Beer, Olivia Berckemeyer, Hanna Mari Blencke,

Mike Bouchet, Pontus Carle, CCE (Cultural Capital Exchange: Sarah Sparkes, Andrew Cooper,

Dean Kenning), Ben Cotrell, Robert Crotla, Matthias Dornfeld, Anna Fasshauer,

Kerstin von Gabain, Gabo, Andrew Gilbert, Mariola Groener, Axel Heil, Thilo Heinzmann,

Andreas Hofer, Valeria Heisenberg, Uwe Henneken, Christian Hoischen, Phillipa Horan,

Axel Huber, Marc Hulson, Marcel Hüppauff, Franziska Hufnagel, John Isaacs,

Heike Kelter, Dean Kenning, Martin Kippenberger, Erwin Kneihsl, Gabriel Kondratiuk,

Rodney LaTourelle, Joep van Liefland, Chris Lipomi, Gavin Lockheart, René Luckhardt,

Roman März, Bernhard Martin, Hans-Jörg Mayer, Joe Neave, Aribert von Ostrowski,

Francis Picabia, Esther Planas, Katrin Plavcak, Janne Raisanen, Robert Rauschenberg,

Berthold Reiß, Anselm Reyle, Stefan Rink, Anne Roessner, Hank Schmidt in der Beek,

Markus Selg, Astrid Sourkova, Friedrich Schröder-Sonnenstern,Thomas Schroeren,

Andreas Templin, Katrin Thomas, Henry Vincent, Milena Vrtalova, Felix Weber,

Dominic Wood, Ulrich Wulff, Iskender Yediler, Philipp Zaiser, Joanna Zawodzinska, Thomas Zipp,

curated by Heike Kelter and René Luckhardt.

Catalogue Release

Approach a piece of your present limit and try to pass it

Articles by: Veit Loers, Prof. Dr. Horst Luckhardt, Helmut A. Müller,

Berthold Reiß und Dr. A. C. Uhl

opening: 16.07.2010, 8:00 pm

Autocenter, Eldenaer Strasse 34 a 10247 Berlin

entry via James-Hobrecht-Str. above the supermarket

Thu-Sat 4 - 6 pm

'Consume', Exit Art NY, June 18 - August 28, 2010

2010-06-08T06:26:00.000-07:00

With fuel prices fluctuating and climate change causing monumental shifts in weather patterns, we have been forced to rethink our methods of food production and distribution. Natural disasters have wiped out entire crop cycles (the rice supply in Burma and the wheat harvest in Australia) and experts are saying that a global food shortage is imminent. The prices for wheat, corn, rice and other grains have steadily increased since 2005, causing food riots and hoarding from Morocco to Yemen to Hong Kong. The New York Times recently reported an estimate that Americans waste 27% of the food available for consumption. What are some possible solutions to these mammoth problems?

As more people change their habits, and as the government ratifies new regulations, we can make significant progress in the fight for food. The American public has shown awareness that the industrial-food system is deeply flawed. Expanded recycling and composting programs – as well as the growing local, organic and free-range movements – are indicative of a profound shift in the way we think about food. Consume will also include a series of public talks, screenings and workshops that confront and take up diverse food-related issues.

SEA conceived by Papo Colo.
Consume curated by Jeanette Ingberman and Papo Colo with Herb Tam and Lauren Rosati.

FEATURING PROJECTS BY:

Prayas Abhinav (India); Elizabeth Demaray (USA); Jon Feinstein (USA); Jordan Geiger / Ga-Ga and Virginia San Fratello / Rael-San Fratello Architects (USA); Sara Heitlinger and Franc Purg (UK/Slovenia); Manny Howard (USA); Miwa Koizumi (USA); Tamara Kostianovsky (USA); Robin Lasser (USA); Lenore Malen (USA); Mark Lawrence Stafford (USA); Laurie Sumiye (USA); Andreas Templin (Germany); and Uli Westphal (Germany)

Exit Art

475 Tenth Ave

New York, NY 10018

virtual publication 'HELL IS COMING / WORLD ENDS TODAY'

2010-05-04T08:40:00.001-07:00

Open publication - Free publishing - More virilio

online-catalogue for the solo-exhibition "as if to nothing, Charles Darwin and other works", Tokyo

2010-01-24T01:37:00.000-08:00

Please find below the online-catalogue for Andreas Templin's recent solo-exhibition.

Andreas Templin: "as if to nothing, Charles Darwin crying and other works", solo-exhibition, Tokyo

2010-01-06T13:11:00.000-08:00

Andreas Templin's first solo-exhibition in Tokyo is presented by Fukase Memorial Visual Art Preservation Plan. The exhibition was curated by Masu Hiroshi Masuyama.

opening: 16.01.2010, 19.00- 21.00, Artspace COEXIST, 1-23-12 Taito-ku. Tokyo, JAPAN.

The exhibition will be on view 16.01.2010 till 31.01.2010.

Visions in New York City → Miami Beach

2009-12-04T06:22:00.000-08:00

Visions in New York City

Short Films and Videos

Curated by Maurizio Pellegrin and Heather Van Uxem

Presented at The Verge Art Fair by Gitana Rosa Gallery and Fedele Spadafora

Along with Co-curator and Artist Heather Van Uxem

Special screening Saturday, December 5, from 6 to 9pm.

The Catalina, 1732 Collins Ave, Miami Beach

Visions in New York City

2009-11-01T10:00:00.000-08:00

Visions in New York City, curated by Maurizio Pellegrin, 02.11.- 13.11.2009 at Macy Art Gallery, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York City.

video_dumbo, NYC 25.09- 27.09.2009

2009-10-05T09:41:00.000-07:00

video_dumbo 2009, curated by Caspar Stracke and Gabriela Monroy

The festival is part of the the annual Art Under The Bridge-festival in Brooklyn's D.U.M.B.O-area.

On view was a selection of video-installations accompanied by screenings and a DVD-release.

TRANSZENDENZ INC UNLIMITED at Forgotten Bar Berlin

2009-09-29T09:55:00.000-07:00

presented by Heike Kelter and René Luckhardt

Liu Anping, Quirin Bäumler, Dominik Bednarek, Olivia Berckemeyer, Hannah Mari Blencke, Tjorg Douglas Beer, Pontus Carle, CCE Cultural Capital Exchange, Andrew Cooper, Ben Cotrell, Matthias Dornfeld, Andrew Gilbert, Mariola Groener, Axel Heil, House of Harlot, Andreas Hofer, Christian Hoischen, Phillipa Horan, Axel Huber, Marc Hulson, John Isaacs, Heike Kelter, Dean Kenning, Gabriel Kondratiuk, Gavin Lockheart, Catherine Lorent, René Luckhardt, Katrin Plavcak, Berthold Reiß, Stefan Rink, Anne Roessner, Hank Schmidt in der Beek, Friedrich Schröder Sonnenstern, Sarah Sparkes, Andreas Templin, Rodney La Tourelle, Dominik Wood, Ulli Wulff, Phillip Zaiser, Joanna Zawodzinska

Opening.: Tuesday, 29. September 2009, 6pm to 10pm

THE FORGOTTEN BAR /

GALERIE IM REGIERUNGSVIERTEL

BOPPSTRASSE 5

10967 BERLIN

CASZUIDAS URBAN SCREEN FESTIVAL AWARD

2009-09-08T09:30:00.000-07:00

The 1st CASZUIDAS Urban Screen Festival Award of Virtueel Museum Zuidas has been granted to the German artist Andreas Templin for "as if to nothing" and to the British artist duo John Wood & Paul Harrison for "Shelf". The jury, headed up by SKOR director Fulya Erdemci, intentionally named not one, but two artworks as winners in order to emphasize the scope and possibilities for presenting artworks on an urban screen.

Themroc at Venice Biennale

2009-06-15T09:47:00.000-07:00

The collaborative work on the movie "Themroc" by Andreas Templin and Ingken Wagner is currently exhibited at the Venice Biennale. It features the 1973 movie by Claude Faraldo and is on view till 19.07.2009 at Arsenale Novissimo in collaboration with the oneminutes-foundation.

Themroc at Art Amsterdam

2009-05-14T01:56:00.000-07:00

The collaborative project "Themroc" by Andreas Templin and Ingken Wagner is currently on view at Art Amsterdam. It features the 1973 movie by Claude Faraldo and is on view at the booth of the oneminutes-foundation 13th till 17th of May as a part of Tijdelijk Museum Amsterdam.

International Media Art Biennale WRO 09

2009-05-04T11:55:00.000-07:00

Andreas Templin is participating with his work 'as if to nothing' in the International Media Art Biennale WRO. The work is exhibited as an installation. The Biennale opens on 4th of May and is on view till 10.05.

European Media Art Festival 2009

2009-04-21T06:10:00.000-07:00

Andreas Templin's "as if to nothing" was exhibited at this year´s edition of the European Media Art Festival Osnabrueck/Germany. The festival was on view 22nd till 26th of April 2009.

700IS Reindeerland, Iceland

2009-03-25T05:19:00.000-07:00

Andreas Templin's momentarily touring video-installation "as if to nothing" is on view 21st till 28th of March in the exhibition 700 IS Reindeerland. The exhibition is located in Egilstadir's Cultural Center.

opening January 22nd: "Portfolio", Egbert Baqué Contemporary Art, organized by Andreas van Dühren

2009-01-13T06:53:00.000-08:00

"as if to nothing", Zendai-Museum of Modern Art Shanghai "Intrude: Art & Life 366"

2008-12-26T03:12:00.000-08:00

Andreas Templin's videoartwork "as if to nothing" was exhibited in Shanghai's Zendai-MoMA's serie "Intrude: Art& Life 366". Next to a public screening in the inner-city of Shanghai on December 16th (pictures to follow) the artwork will also be own view at different screens in public space of Shanghai till the end of the year.

Videomedeja 2008

2008-12-26T03:08:00.000-08:00

Andreas Templin's artwork "as if to nothing" was selected for this year's edition of the Novi-Sad based festival Videomedeja.

It was on view as a large-scale installation at Studio M, Novi-Sad/Serbia, 12.12.- 14.12.2008.

eco-japan-cup 2008

2008-12-26T02:45:00.000-08:00

Andreas Templin's new videoartwork "as if to nothing" is one of the recipients of this year's eco-japan-cup. The computer-based artwork received one of the runners-up-prizes in the art-category. The prize-ceremony was held in Tokyo on December 12th.

"as if to nothing", 2008, computer-based single-channel videowork with sound

The videowork „as if to nothing“ comprises of a selection of statistical data of the earth and its population. This data, gathered from various governmental sources, displayed in a very specific and subjective interdependency, is combined with the highly dramatic second move of Bruckner‘s 7th symphony which is looped for the screening. This music-piece, a tour-de-force through the human emotions, is used to underline the weight of the subject-matter of this artwork.

"as if to nothing" at International Forum Art Tech Media Cordoba 0.8

2008-12-20T00:40:00.000-08:00

Andreas Templin's artwork "as if to nothing" was exhibited at this year's international forum Art Tech Media in Cordoba/Spain.
Next to the annual international conference, a wide array of media- and new-media artworks were shown across four locations in the inner city of Cordoba.

UNICEF-workshop held in Ashgabat/Turkmenistan

2008-10-06T06:15:00.000-07:00

End October Andreas Templin held a film-workshop for UNICEF in Ashgabat/Turkmenistan together with videoartist Kristina Kersa and UNICEF's Chris Schuepp in the framework of the theoneminutes-foundation.
An article on his impressions combined with a video has just been published with 3c° World magazine

Turkmenistan through the eyes of a Berlin artist

November 3, 2008 Editor: Asia No Comments

A few years ago the Amsterdam-based oneminutes-foundation, which promotes video works of exactly one minute in length, asked me if I would take part in a new cooperative venture, oneminutesjr, they had started with UNICEF. The idea was to create a pool of video artists from different countries who would be willing to conduct workshops with kids and facilitate the making of one-minute videos.

The project was a big success. So too was the oneminutes-concept that started it all, which quickly grew and now showcases and exhibits worldwide. I gladly accepted this invitation and work for them whenever time is available. I like the experience of working with kids, fostering their creative skills (which I think is the essence of the project), and leaving them with a little toolbox for producing media-content by themselves. The job is very different from what you usually do as a visual artist. Usually I split my time between meetings, planning, correspondence, travelling, producing, and exhibiting- in a sort of simulacrum, embedded in a closed society that sees itself as its main point of reference. I imagine other visual artists have such experiences. So the workshops also help me to touch down in the real world, which I find very healthy.

The concept of the workshops
The workshops usually last five days. Two facilitators, plus one person from UNICEF, and often someone from the local UNICEF office who helps in planning, translating, and finding props or locations conduct them. As equipment, we bring five mini-DV cameras, tripods, and MacBook Pros with all the common video editing software. On day one, the kids learn something about the basics of telling a story and filming. We show example movies, develop, and discuss the first proposals. On the second day, we finalize most of the proposals in individual talks and some scenes are shot. Shooting schedules fill the next two days, followed by editing individual videos with each participant, which usually takes up the 36 hours to their presentation on the fifth day. UNICEF is good at organizing screening-events and also helps placing the videos in contexts like local TV and film-festivals. This is very important because it shows that the videos are not produced just for their own sake Many receive prizes and always high acclaim at their first audience presentations. This success testifies to the value of the projects.

Turkmenistan
Upon arriving in Turkmenistan and entering the capital city of Ashgabat by car, we drove along an 8-lane parade street with 8 to 10-floor apartment buildings, all looking quiet new. My Estonian colleague pointed out that all the houses were symbolically assigned to different professions like mineworkers, doctors and so on. The whole inner city was completely new, monumental, and based on urban planning concepts that can only be described as cryptic. Vast spaces between the apartment blocks only added to their monumental character. Driving further to the centre, we encountered the golden statues. Everywhere there are golden statues of Saparmyrat Ataýewiç Nyýazow, known as Turkmenbashi, the “father of all Turkmens,” till his death in 2006 the lord-president of Turkmenistan. With the massive amounts earned from the country’s natural gas riches, and with the independence that came from the dissolution of the USSR, Turkmenbashi gave orders for a complete and monumental makeover of Ashgabat. There are huge green parks and fountains in a region with massive water problems. Police officers stand 24/7 at nearly every street corner. And, of course the golden statues. The new leader, President Gurbanguly Mälikgulyýewiç Berdimuhammedow, is now using all the buildings that do not have a statue of his predecessor in front to feature his huge portrait photographs. However, all these are eclipsed by a 50-meter tower with a golden statute of Turkmenbashi atop, rotating always to face the sun, and illuminated at night. Also remarkable and a clear indication of who had the final say in all things is the 8-lane highway which simply ends at a military-guarded gate to the president’s mansion. Nearby, is the 6 km long “Walk of Health” that Turkmenbashi built for the country’s parliamentarians to walk once a year (there is also a 30km extension to the mountains, for the healthier members of parliament to walk). All is floodlit, 24/7, as is almost every building in town. You can get an impression of the city here.
Ashgabat has everything a city should have: An opera house, a philharmonic building, a theatre. Although most of them hold ensembles, they are not allowed to play and perform very often. Other boulevards are plastered with universities. You might imagine this would provide everyone with a chance for a decent education. Not really, the prestigious universities ask up to US$100,000 for admission. Education seems to be very basic in the country, although probably all Turkmens read the book Ruchnama, a spiritual guidance book by Turkmenbashi. You can read a really interesting insight into life and how to make money in Ashgabat in an article by UNICEF‘s Chris Schuepp, which you can find here.

The workshop
Although UNICEF asked their local office to look for kids to participate in the workshop, we were presented with 23 film and TV students, accompanied by two teachers, quiet moderate older men. So instead of kids, with whom UNICEF usually works with, it seemed the authorities “assigned” film-students to attend the workshop. The workshop-theme was to create movies on HIV/AIDS. In the beginning, a presentation was held by an expert from the local UNICEF-office. As HIV is officially nonexistent in Turkmenistan (unofficial numbers suggest about 200 cases in Ashgabat), questions about what the students would know returned answers like: “not properly washed vegetables“ or even “inadequate speech“, which made that introduction more than necessary. The next difficulty was to develop ideas which would comply with the strict censorship-rules, something which is rather difficult due to the ailment‘s nature and to break open the slightly hermetic film-schooled concepts of the participants. We were excluded from most of the filming. Most of the film-students saw the workshop more as a competition to show off their skills. However, they were quite receptive to our preparatory suggestions and a couple of really nice movies were created which you can find here.

Author: Andreas Templin

online-publication hits 10 000-visitors-mark

2008-09-17T11:07:00.000-07:00

The online publication for the project "HELL IS COMING / WORLD ENDS TODAY" hit the 10 000-visitors-mark in the last week. By today the publication saw 10 172 visitors. This is being celebrated with a slideshow comprised of photos by Andreas Templin, Douglas Voisin and participants. I would like to thank all the visitors and the many people involved in this project.

new interview at momentemagazine

2008-07-21T09:02:00.000-07:00

A new interview with Andreas Templin has just been published in momentemagazine. You can find it here.

Andreas Templin at Today Art Museum Beijing

2008-06-07T04:54:00.000-07:00

Andreas Templin's videowork "the 20th Century on visit in the 21st" is part of the World One Minutes-exhibition at Beijing's TodayArt Museum. The exhibition opens June 07th and will be on view till June 28th. The work will be on view in the EXTRA-section located in the main hall of the museum.
The World One Minutes exhibition in Beijing is the first of a series that will continue in Zagreb, Istanbul, Lisbon and São Paulo. The exhibition is included in the City of Beijing’s cultural programme connected with the Olympic Games.
A book called World One Minutes in video and literature has just been published especially for the exhibition with contributions by Arnon Grunberg and Cees Nooteboom from the Netherlands, the Australian Eliot Perlman, Danish poet Helle Helle and East European writers such as Igor Štiks and Vladimir Arsenijevic Read more about the book here.

recent text by Alex de Vries

2008-05-30T06:41:00.001-07:00

Dutch art-critic Alex de Vries recently wrote this text on Andreas Templin's work-practice:

"Should you describe Andreas Templin's work in art-historical terms, you would have to call him a neo-situationist, but it is doubtful whether he would like this classification. In any case, he is an artist who, in a practical sense, endows his work with a content that is hardly tangible, but eminently suitable to being experienced. He is the producer of experiences and sensations which he prepares and facilitates with great care. He creates the conditions in which the things he has in mind can best come about. He selects the location, arranges the extras - hundreds, if necessary - takes care of the props, acquires the rights, organizes the distribution, the promotion, the PR and the post-production.

In fact, Andreas Templin is the artist par excellence. He keeps control of everything. Yet his one and only focus is the idea and the concept underlying massive interventions in public space. Often, these are immaterial in character, nor do they boast any real visual documentation. He acts on an international scale, working together with all kinds of people inside and outside the artistic world, gives lectures, organizes discussions, sets up exhibitions, takes up a political stance, offers opposition against the laws of the art market and yet tries to function in the world of art. In Madrid he asked 150 people to wear a T-shirt featuring the names of Paul Virilio, Giorgio Agamben and Michel Foucault, as fashionable logos of the philosophical collapse of this day and age. He placed an actor across from them, carrying two placards, reading: Hell is Coming, World Ends Today. The perspective of religion in a nutshell.

From an early age, Andreas Templin has also engaged in music making, playing the piano especially. He likes to whistle some tune or other, and recorded a Bach composition in which he casually whistled the music, in accordance with John Cage's adagium that music is best ingested inadvertently when, walking down the street, you hear a melody coming from a house. Andreas Templin's view is that every decision he makes as an artist, is hand-made: “You cannot renounce your signature.” ⓒAlex de Vries

oneminute book reviews at Salto TV Netherlands

2008-05-30T05:48:00.000-07:00

After being successfully presented at the OBA library Amsterdam and KunstVlaai artfair, the oneminute book reviews will be broadcasted on Salto TV Netherlands. Please see the broadcast-schedule below.

29-05-2008
05-06-2008
19-06-2008
from 23:00 - 24:00 hrs

"Andreas Templin plays Bach" on myspace music

2008-05-27T06:43:00.000-07:00

Due to many requests you have now the opportunity to listen to selected tracks of Andreas Templin's new artwork on myspace music. The link is here

Andreas Templin at Art Athina, represented by Curators without Borders

2008-05-20T07:26:00.000-07:00

On this year's Art Athina Curators without Borders founder Sarah Belden curates a groupshow around the idea of the multiple. The exhibition is called "MULTIPLICITY" and features works by ARTISTS ANONYMOUS / LUIS BERRIOS-NEGRON / MICHEL DE BROIN / CHRISTINA DIMITRIADIS / BJORN KOWALSKI HANSEN / MARIA LIANOU / VIA LEWANDOWSKY / NICKY NODJOUMI / ANDREAS TEMPLIN / JACK WARREN.

Also on view are upcoming galleries from New York City and Berlin invited by Sarah Belden. The fair opens with a professional preview on 22nd of May and is open to the public 23rd-25th of May.

"Andreas Templin plays Bach": 33t & 45t by artists at SHASHIN Amsterdam

2008-05-15T07:42:00.000-07:00

Selected by Serge Onnen. Curated by Maarten Hepp, Yannick Bouillis & Serge Onnen.
On view are cover-artworks by Karel Appel, Robert Longo, Andy Warhol, Lawrence Weiner, Yves Klein, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, Jiri Georg Dokoupil, George Condo, Serge Onnen, Jonas Ohlson, Raymond Pettibon, Art& Language, Gerhard Richter, Cindy Sherman, Albert Oehlen, Karl Lagerfeld, Wolfgang Tillmans and many more. The exhibition is on view 17.05.- 15.06.2008 and will then travel.

An online-documentation of the selected records/covers in the exhibition can be found on the website recordsbyvisualartists.

"Andreas Templin plays Bach" at KunstVlaai A.P.I. Amsterdam

2008-05-07T07:42:00.000-07:00

Andreas Templin's new work "Andreas Templin plays Bach" will premiere May 10th at this year's KunstVlaai A.P.I. Amsterdam. The artwork is a vinyl-record with music of Johann Sebastian Bach and is entirely whisteled by Andreas Templin.
At KunstVlaai a selection of tracks will be available to hear, the cover will be introduced in form of a display and pre-orders for the album will be taken from now on.
The album will be available in an edition of ten plus the album together with display in an edition of five.

The record-cover was photographed by Felix Broede. The album was recorded at the studio of Eric von Robertson in Amsterdam. It is produced with the kind support of Ingken Wagner. The mixing and pre-mastering will be conducted at the studio of Zoy Winterstein. The vinyl-record will be available from beginning June, a record-release party is being planned in Berlin. I would like to thank especially all of the above mentioned persons for their kind support.

Also on view at KunstVlaai are oneminute book reviews by Andreas Templin, which have recently been successfully presented at Amsterdam's OBA-library (please see infos here below).

oneminute book reviews at Amsterdam World Book Capital

2008-04-24T08:11:00.000-07:00

Being asked by the oneminutes-foundation Amsterdam to review a few books within one minute, Templin decided to review Giorgio Agamben's "Homo Sacer" in a huge Chicago parking-garage and "Derek Jarman's garden" in the Millennium Park Chicago.
These recensions are being exhibited 24th till 27th of April in Amsterdam's prestigious OBA-library in the framework of Amsterdam World Book Capital and the international literature festival.
Many thanks to Doug vanderHoof who made these videos possible.

interview "In Madrid"-magazine

2008-04-08T09:17:00.000-07:00

"In Madrid"-magazine published in its April edition an interview with Andreas Templin.

"HELL IS COMING/ WORLD ENDS TODAY" a situationist play with 151 participants in the inner city of Madrid, Madrid Abierto 2008.

"the 20th Century on visit in the 21st" at TodayArt Museum Beijing

2008-04-07T05:01:00.000-07:00

videostill "the 20th Century on visit in the 21st"

Andreas Templin's videowork "the 20th Century on visit in the 21st" got selected for the World One Minutes-exhibition at Beijing's TodayArt Museum. The work will be on view in the EXTRA-section located in the main hall of the museum. This is the second time this artwork is being exhibited in China. The exhibition will be on view June 06th till 28th and then travel to art spaces all over the world.

"HELL IS COMING / WORLD ENDS TODAY" webstore online

2008-03-20T17:20:00.000-07:00

Due to many requests the clothes used in the project "HELL IS COMING / WORLD ENDS TODAY" can now be purchased as an editioned artwork. Please have a look at the online-catalogue.

lecture at Facultad de Bellas Artes De Madrid

2008-02-14T17:27:00.000-08:00

Andreas Templin held an extensive lecture about is work "HELL IS COMING / WORLD ENDS TODAY" and other works at the Facultad de Bellas Artes De Madrid. The lecture was organized and translated by Laura López Paniagua.

"HELL IS COMING / WORLD ENDS TODAY", 7th-14th of February, Madrid Abierto

2008-01-07T05:21:00.000-08:00

photo: Douglas Voisin.

"Hell is Coming/World Ends Today", a situationist play for the inner city of Madrid, which was selected for Madrid Abierto 2008, launched February 7th.

A live-publication with texts by Andreas L. Hofbauer, photos of and from the participants and a videochannel launched beginning February and will still develop till end of February.

I would like to thank here especially for the huge success of the project: Laura López Paniagua, Paco Nogales, Andreas L. Hofbauer, the curator- and production-team of Madrid Abierto, Douglas Voisin, Antonio Lopez and, last but not least, all the participants in the project.

Evolution de l'Art- work by Andreas Templin available

2007-12-09T04:37:00.000-08:00

opening 09.12. Evolution de l'Art (EdlA). New branch at Het Blauwe Huis [The Blue House] Amsterdam. Work available by Andreas Templin.

The gallery Evolution de l'Art (EdlA) arises from a collaboration
between SPACE projects/residency lab/store, Bratislava, and Cesare
Pietroiusti. Evolution de l'Art is a commercial gallery for
contemporary art which only sells artworks that are immaterial, with
no physical residue, and it does not release certificates of
authenticity, nor statements or receipts. EdlA will represent, on a
non-exclusive basis, artists whose artwork is, at least in the case of
some specific projects, alien from any physical-material component.
Beyond this condition, there will not be any other limitation or
requisite for represented artists in terms of medium or technique.
The curator of this exhibition is Yasser Ballemans. Details on the exhibition, the opening and the offered artwork can be found at evolutiondelart.org

W139 Amsterdam: C.A.R.L. Center for the Advancement of Recreation and Leisure

2007-11-03T13:41:00.000-07:00

Eric von Robertson's solo-exhibition with colllaborative- and guestworks by Andreas Templin.
W139, Amsterdam/The Netherlands

installation of "huge green cat", wallpaper-work by Andreas Templin in a magic mushroom-environment by Eric von Robertson.

This work of Eric von Robertson is wearing a sweater designed by him for a public space work developed in Tiblisi, where a few of these specially designed sweaters, assigned with certain meanings and functionalities, have been worn by stray dogs.
It is carrying a MP3-player featuring an Amsterdam-street-version of "Andreas Templin plays Bach", which will be launched as a vinyl-record-edition with spatial display in 2008.

UNICEF-workshop held in Mumbai/India

2007-11-01T13:10:00.000-07:00

End October Andreas Templin held a film-workshop for UNICEF in Mumbai/India together with Aukje Dekker in the framework of the theoneminutes-foundation. The nineteen films made with kids from different social backgrounds will be on display at Dubai International Film Festival 2007.

lecture at Post St. Joost, s'Hertogensbosch/NL

2007-10-02T02:59:00.000-07:00

On Friday October 5th Andreas Templin held an extensive lecture on his works for the public space as a guest-docent at Post St.Joost Academy in s'Hertogensbosch.

Preview Berlin

2007-09-28T03:33:00.000-07:00

28.09. - 01.10. Preview Berlin, represented by curators without borders
.

"Embedded Art" now published

2007-09-24T03:50:00.000-07:00

A new text by Andreas Templin on the nature of an "Embedded Art" is now published in German with TEXT-REVUE.

"Here/There", Chinese-European Art Center Xiamen/China

2007-09-22T03:40:00.000-07:00

Groupshow at Chinese-European Art Center Xiamen. Exhibition on view from 21.09.- 14.10.2007.

exhibition views of a selection from Andreas Templin's "top ten"

Participating artists: Kristina Kersa, Andreas Templin, Rogier Roeters, Mees de Jong, Arik Visser, Min Lan, Liu Fang, Chen Wei, Lu Da Wei and Xue Zhen Hui.
Lecture by Andreas Templin held at the Art College of the University of Xiamen MA multimedia postgrad department.

Dertien Hectare Weiland, Heeswijk/NL

2007-09-03T03:37:00.000-07:00

opening 08.09. „Dertien Hectare Weiland“, Heeswijk/The Netherlands, curated by Matthijs Bosman in collaboration with Bart Rutten (Stedelijk Museum 's-Hertogenbosch)

participating artists:

Maze de Boer - Jeroen Doorenweerd - Marjolijn Dijkman - Harmen de Hoop - Jeroen Jongeleen - Sjaak Langenberg - Hester Oerlemans - Martin Riebeek & Inge van 't Klooster - Martijn Rooker - Andreas Templin

check: www.dertienhectare.nl for details.
The exhibition is on view till 30.09. A catalogue is now available.

Mobile Institute Brussels

2007-08-26T09:03:00.000-07:00

Mobile Institute launched its activities during August in Brussels resulting in a wide scope of presentations, concerts, screenings, an artist-in-residence project. The events culminate in an exhibition opening 31.08. combined with a catalogue.

Madrid Abierto 2008 competition

2007-08-22T08:20:00.000-07:00

Andreas Templin's "Hell is Coming/World Ends Today", a large scale intervention for the public space of Madrid, has been selected for Madrid Abierto 2008. The project will be curated by the art-collective Democracia. From the 567 projects that entered competition the announced participants are: Hostia Fine Arts, Michael Lin/Alicia Framis, Anno Dijkstra, Guillaume Segur and Diego Peris.
www.madridabierto.com

synch-festival Athens shows "top ten"

2007-07-24T07:23:00.000-07:00

Next to the work "sympathy for the devil", which was shown as a videoinstallation, a new work of Andreas Templin for the public space was produced with the synch-festival named "top ten". The work consists of ten flags featuring the names of the top-earners of 2006. One of the flags is now part of the collection of the Athens Festival.
The exhibition was curated by Alexandra Landré and Antonis Pittas.
The programme of the festival can be found at www.synch.gr

press release:
The realm of schizoidity, doubleness and irrationality, is what Templin tries to grasp in his work, taking into consideration the possible interplays of these domain.
With his project “Top Ten”, Templin designed an intervention based on the names of the top-earners of 2006. The people leading this list made up to $ 1.5 - 2 billions as an income in 2006 (by being the director of various hedge funds). These flags and displays, visually orientated on Pop-Art, Art & Language and visuals of pop-cultural movements, will be installed at the venue surrounding the exhibition space and be part of the exhibition.

“With this work I want to illustrate and to create dialogue. In my opinion the viewers should be able to evaluate by themselves and not be indulged to judge from a preoccupied position. The question of this work is: What is happening there within the concept of globalisation?”
– Andreas Templin –

In “Sympathy For The Devil”, Templin plays with the visual material he found online, of individuals to commemorate a personal historic moment. The circumstances of the snapshot can range from an innocent and playful group meeting to sheer violence. The arrangement made by Templin manipulates the original narrative of the source material and questions the fetishizing potential of human beings.

installation view "sympathy for the devil", 2006

Andreas Templin winner of EGOART-prize 2006

2007-07-02T10:04:00.000-07:00

The work nominated for the competition was "Monument for Donatella Versace", an installative mixed-media work with performative elements of the year 2005. The art-group "EGOART" hands out this prize. They state about it: "The prize is focused on contemporary art and also has the ambition to encourage projects with unconventional character even if those works would cross the frame of the established ethical, social or sociological rules."
exhibition on view at Bastart gallery, Bratislava/Slovakia. Please check www.egoart.sk for details

"Monument for Donatella Versace" in Berlin on the occasion of Artforum 2005, presented by Safia Dickersbach art management and pr, photography by Sven Meurer

On this occasion I would like to thank especially:
Version Festival Chicago, Doug vander Hoof, Safia Dickersbach, Sven Meurer, Christin Aileen Spiess and Magistrale Berlin

International Architecture Biennale Kunsthal Rotterdam

2007-05-24T07:19:00.000-07:00

I have a work on view at the Biennale designed as part of the Gesamtkunstwerk 'Destination AMS', assigned by the City of Amsterdam. The work is about the development of a specific area South of Amsterdam called "Nescioroute" and playfully jeopardizes concepts and fantasies of urban planning. The videowork applies a planning method developed for this occasion making use of a screen-recording tool, Google Earth and Photoshop.
The Biennale is on view 25.05.-02.09. at Kunsthal Rotterdam. www.iabr.nl

"the 20th Century on visit in the 21st" on show in 's-Hertogenbosch

2007-04-10T06:53:00.000-07:00

videostill of "the 20th Century on visit in the 21st"

"Monument for Donatella Versace" nominated for EGOART-prize 2006

2007-02-23T07:48:00.000-08:00

Andreas Templin has been announced as finalist for the EGOART-prize 2006. The work nominated for the competition is "Monument for Donatella Versace", an installative mixed-media work with performative elements of the year 2005. The art-group "EGOART" hands out this prize. They state about it: "The prize is focused on contemporary art and also has the ambition to encourage projects with unconventional character even if those works would cross the frame of the established ethical, social or sociological rules." Please check www.egoart.sk for details.

07.02 - 17.02. “Don't cry- Work!” curated by Padraic E. Moore, Dublin/Republic of Ireland

2007-02-02T07:08:00.000-08:00

This group-exhibition in the Back Loft Dublin featured the different artist's contributions with a color-scheme. A catalogue with an excellent essay by curator Padraic E. Moore is still available. Visit his site at www.padraicmoore.4t.com

UNICEF-workshop

2006-12-02T04:14:00.000-08:00

In early December I gave a video-workshop together with video-artist Jose Biscaya organized by the oneminutes foundation in conjunction with UNICEF.
It was held in Oer-Erkenschwick in Germany's Ruhr-area for the Ruhrwerkstatt Oberhausen
I would like to thank the team of Ruhrwerkstatt for the excellent and courageous production and teamwork. You are great!

10.12. benefit auction at Lempertz Berlin

2006-12-01T10:53:00.000-08:00

On the occasion of a benefit-auction for Ballhaus-Ost, Safia Dickersbach Art Management and Public Relations donated my work "Motor Hulk" of 2003. The work "Motor Hulk" was done when Schwarzenegger became governor of California and a remake of a "Hulk"-picture was released.
The auction's preview exhibition was held 2.12.-09.12. at Lempertz Berlin. www.ballhaus-ost.de, catalogue online at www.lempertz.com
Artists included: Jonathan Meese, John Bock, Kai Althoff, Martin Kippenberger and many others.

24.11.- 12.12. VIEWINGCLUB 9

2006-11-24T11:35:00.000-08:00

was held at Secession Wichtelgasse, Vienna/Austria. It featured two works Andreas Templin.

17.11.- 19.11. The OneMinutes-Festival

2006-11-17T11:43:00.000-08:00

was held at Ketelhuis Amsterdam/The Netherlands. The videowork "the 20th Century on visit in the 21st" was screened in the country-selection of Germany. details: www.theoneminutes.org

residency at Pilotprojekt Gropiusstadt Berlin

2006-11-06T11:51:00.000-08:00

pictures of the construction, views of a model, Walter Gropius

In mid November I was invited to a residency at Pilotprojekt Gropiusstadt, a trabant skyscraper-city designed by architect Walter Gropius located in the very Southeast of Berlin. The appartment featured an excellent library on Gropiusstadt so it was possible for the visiting artists to do research. Please see images attached. A yearbook with a text-contribution of mine is now available. www.pilotprojekt-gropiusstadt.de

artists Robert Cauble and Matthew Lochman from Chicago visiting.

28.10.- 12.11. Fringe Shanghai

2006-10-28T10:43:00.000-07:00

Fringe Shanghai selected "the 20th Century on visit in the 21st" for this year's edition. www.fringeshanghai.com

04.-21.10. “dogville”, curated by 00130 gallery

2006-10-04T12:29:00.000-07:00

Helsinki City Town Hall Gallery, Helsinki/Fi www.00130gallery.net

residency near Teheran/Iran

2006-10-01T12:58:00.000-07:00

Andreas Templin wins international competition for the realisation of a land-art piece combined with a residency at Paradise International Art Center Iran/ In cooperation with Museum of Contemporary Art Teheran. Actually there were different works porposed, but I find that landart-piece the most interesting.We are looking now for an opportunity to realise this residency. www.wwwebart.com/riverart/paradise.

'three exhibitions at the same time'

2006-09-27T13:28:00.000-07:00

28.09.- 12.10. solo-presentation on the occasion of Artforum, Berlin/Germany* www.victoriabar.de

This exhibition, on invitation of Kerstin Ehmer, derives its title from the fact, that it comprised works which have previously been shown in other contexts in buzy 2006, but never have been assembled together in a solo-exhibition. The works on show were: The "sex-hotline-serie" (produced for this exhibition), "sympathy for the devil", "the 20th Century on visit in the 21st" and the main-act "crashed satellite".
Many thanks to Robert Cauble, Klaus Haas, Meli Andres, Safia Dickersbach, Andreas Steffen of http://www.gebennehmen.de and the kind people of Victoriabar

15.09.-06.10. VIEWINGCLUB 8 in Bonn/Germany

2006-09-15T13:11:00.000-07:00

VC 8, in cooperation with Kunstverein Bonn, Germany, details www.bonner-kunstverein.de and viewingclub.org (please note: site no longer active)

Here is a text on Viewing Club I wrote

BERLIN
LONDON
HAMBURG
PARIS
LOS ANGELES
Chicago
Dublin
Vienna
Nottingham
Nice

viewingclub.org

Viewing Club is a nomadic artspace started 2005 in Berlin by artists Heike Kelter (D) and David Tidball (GB). Viewing Club is a non-profit project about artistic curatorial self-empowerment.

Since 2005 Viewing Clubs were held in Berlin, Hamburg, Bonn, Vienna and London. In every city partnerships were formed with curators, artspaces and art-organisations to cooperate or host Viewing Club presentations.
Viewing club is an open format, whose strength is its permanent alteration of exhibition concepts (for instance shows in pubs and karaoke bars, sculpture shows in parks or as attachment to White Cube shows) and its integration in different cities and their art-scenes.
Viewing Club is independent from common formats of exhibiting and thereby can be staged and initiated everywhere.

Viewing Club shows emerging and established positions of contemporary art. Through changing international participants (by invite or recommendation) a di-vers and unique temporary groupshow develops with every Viewing Club.
Viewing Club is a platform for active cultural exchange, networking and a contribution to staging contemporary art on an international scale directly out of the artists’ studio.
Artists that have exhibited with Viewing Club include

Andreas Hofer
Theo Ligthart
Florian Kompatscher
Iskender Jediler
Ulli Wulff
Ralph Andersen
Robert Welch
Richard Tate
Martin Mcginn
Dexter Dalwood
David Tidball
Heike Silbernagel
Andre Butzer
Klaus Haas
Eric Robertson
Maja Körner
Tine Furler
Olivia Berkemeier
Bianca Schoenig
Lutz Braun
Thomas Zipp
Thomas Helbig
Ben Contrell
Mariola Groener
Astrid Sourkowa
Ulli Hakel
Jens Mentrup
Daniel Müller-Friedrich
Andreas Templin
Chris Krönke
Joep van Liefland
Tjorg Douglas Beer
Chris Pate
Markus Sendlinger
Thomas Schrören
Bettina Semmer
Peter Stauss

23.08.- 27.08. Impakt Festival Utrecht

2006-08-23T14:30:00.000-07:00

Impakt invited the videowork "sympathy for the devil", a music-videoclip based on the song of the Rolling Stones created in early 2006. www.impakt.nl, screened at Centraal Museum Utrecht/NL, programme "It's a small world".

Kunsthalle? Interazioni! Locarno/CH

2006-08-01T14:50:00.000-07:00

play gallery Berlin/Germany

2006-07-13T15:10:00.000-07:00

fair play video price

The jury members were: Nathalie Angles, Marc Glöde, Birgit Kohler,
Harm Lux, Ivica Pinjuh, Sven Wörner and Peter Zorn.

The exhibition was running 13.07.- 31.07. www.pushthebuttonplay.com.

European Biennale of Contemporary Art 01.07.- 15.07.

2006-07-01T15:22:00.000-07:00

On the occasion of the European Biennale of Contemporary Art in Nimes/France, a new videoinstallation, the work "this is your life". was shown for the first time.

installation view

description:
“this is your life”, 2005. videoinstallation for three screens and soundsystem, DVD, different versions, commissioned by European Biennale of Contemporary Art Nimes

In cooperation with animal-rights activists, who illegally shot the footage for this installation, Andreas Templin developed this video-installation as a reaction and comparison to Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo. The groundwork/ approach for this videowork can be seen in Giorgio Agamben´s book 'Homo sacer' (1998), which is a survey of the history of the Western democratic state comparing it to an enormous concentration camp in its essence. He sees the modern state as a totalitarian event in the efficient management of naked biological life because contemporary sovereignty is exercised through bio-politics – the control of naked life. According to Agamben, “the power of decree to which concentration camp prisoners are subjected has no legal limitations and constitutes the secret matrix of the modern ad-ministrative state.".

The three screens show three different edits: The left screen concentrates on individual pigs, the center screen focuses on footage shot inside of the stalls and the right screen shows the structure of the pig mast.
Next to the three screens, extremely loud Death Metal is used to underline and intensify the deathmatch-atmosphere of this artwork and the fundamental questions it is raising with the chosen title.

www.lemanif.org, catalogue still available

Machfeld Vienna

2006-07-01T14:36:00.000-07:00

01.07.
PARKGEWUSEL, Machfeld International Arts and Culture Society, Vienna/Austria.
A screening event in a park in Vienna comprised of an international selection of videoart including my 2006 piece "sympathy for the devil". www.machfeld.net/studio/parkgewusel

Festival Summertime, Lyon/France 30.06./01.07.

2006-06-30T15:43:00.000-07:00

Again a videowork of mine got selected for the Summertime-Festival in Lyon
Festival Summertime, Lyon/France www.asso-summertime.com

Viewing Club No.6 Lovelite, Berlin/Germany

2006-06-24T15:56:00.000-07:00

"crashed satellite", winner of Concours Belluard Bollwerk International

2006-06-19T16:00:00.000-07:00

shown 19.06. inner-city of Fribourg and 24.06. in the exhibition space of the Belluard Bollwerk.

with the kind support of the Fondation Nestlé pour l’Art and Canton Fribourg www.belluard.ch

opening of the festival with the directors Stéphane Noël and Gion Capeder

12th-15th of May PixelDance Festival Thessaloniki/Greece www.pixeldance.gr

2006-05-12T10:12:00.000-07:00

On show was "sympathy for the devil", music-videoclip of beginning 2006.

description:

“sympathy for the devil”, 2006. videoclip, DVD single channel, 6.22 mins

“Sympathy for the devil” is a videoclip for the song of the Rolling Stones reissuing the thematics raised by the song in the present.
All footage for this videowork is found and taken from the web.
The web takes the parallel function of a “Pandora´s box” and a “catalogue of human obsessions” for this videowork.
This term first issued by Duchamp, ment in a sense of “designing a catalogue, which could display and fulfill any kown human obsession”)
is the leitmotif for this videowork, which can both be shown in screenings or as single work (looped)
A work about human desire and the contemporary image semantics, an intentional story told with images
trying to grasp into the time “after the end of history” (Fukuyama)

Helsinki video library

2006-05-01T09:20:00.000-07:00

exhibition of videoworks, 00130gallery, Helsinki Video Library, Helsinki/Finland 00130gallery-video-art.blogs.fi

00130gallery took works of mine in their collection. The collection gets exhibited showing to artist's work in the exhibition space. My works were on view during May.

Luminale 06, Frankfurt/Main Germany

2006-04-22T09:24:00.000-07:00

In cooperation with LIC Hamburg and designer Heinrich Fiedeler Wiesbaden, 22. – 27.04. In this cooperation with Heinrich Fiedeler and LIC Hamburg I developed works for the light-boxes in the lobby of a fancy Frankfurt hotel. Here you can see two of them.

Andreas Templin plays Bach

2006-04-04T10:49:00.000-07:00

first pieces of "Andreas Templin plays Bach" presented by maksverlag/München, evenings held in Stuttgart (04.04.) and Tübingen (11.04.). www.maksverlag.de

description:

Treatment „Andreas Templin plays Bach”, 2006/07
installative soundwork, vinyl record and spatial display

What is it about?

Recording of new versions of piano piece by Johann Sebastian Bach.
The whole album will be entirely whistled by Andreas Templin.
The recording will be distributed as an edition of 10 on vinyl.
The photographed cover of the LP will be available as a spatial display in an edition of 5 pieces as well.

schedule

The project is being realized since October 2006. First recording sessions are already completed.
The presentation of the new recording is planned as an opening in the form of a record release party.

description

After being busy with playing piano for 15 years myself, and by that, being busy with the classical music literature most of that time either, I became aware, that I would start to interprete the music I was busy with on the piano by whistling it.
Since I stopped having fascination with the classical piano literature and its constant repetition on the piano a few years ago, the only thing that is left apart from listening to it are the whistled interpretations.
Due to the yearlong „practice“ of whistled interpretations a similar character developed than it is reached by a yearlong practice on another instrument.
Now I am ready to provide a substantially new and authentic interpretation of Bach by bringing his music from the concert hall to the street level.

As John Cage, I find „a piece of Chopin sounding from a half-opened window mixed with street sounds“ far more interesting than its interpretation in a concert hall.
I like the idea of bringing such a complex piece of music to a sort of „street-level“ and to try to rejuvenate the interpretational concept of classical music within a work of contemporary art.
The cover and the displays will adopt the visual style of the CBS-Classical- covers of the 70ties-80ties. It will feature a portrait photograph of Andreas Templin done by an internationally well known photographer in this area.

Andreas Templin 2004/05

“Schwarzwaldinstitut”

2006-03-08T06:53:00.000-08:00

08.03.
“Schwarzwaldinstitut”, an interdisciplinary project night curated by
Martin G. Schmid, Ballhaus-Ost theatre, Berlin/Germany with
contributions of Andreas Templin
www.schwarzwaldinstitut.com

04.02- 04.03. Viewing Club London

2006-02-04T01:00:00.000-08:00

held at the Uxbridge Arms Pub

Andreas Templin, "Untitled (Heidegger)", 2003, c-print, different versions

"This was the second viewing club held in London, at The Uxbridge Arms, Elephant & Castle.
There were 150 artists contributing work. The D Band came from Berlin to play especially on the opening night.
Wheelie made a stop in London on their tour across Europe, which started in Berlin and finished in Glasgow. Work was exhibited inside Wheelie (photos here later). Again the event was well attended, a good time was had by all that could find it.
Critics and galleries were in attendance.The show ran for four weeks." Quoted from the no longer existing website viewingclub.org

2006-01-01T07:34:00.000-08:00

Kostenloser Suchmaschineneintrag

RE-ESCAPE, Hamburg/Germany

2005-11-11T03:56:00.000-08:00

11.11.- 27.11. re-escape.com

"In November 2005, there will be installations, sculptures, exhibitions and actions as well as films in different places of the city of Hamburg. The participants are young artists from Hamburg and internationally acknowledged artists.

Spaces which appear strange to the normal user of the city or which have withdrawn from his disposal, or where overfunctionalized regimentations of use imply latent manipulation, mesures and concepts put in concrete terms are practised for general re-vitalization and prevention of town planning faux-pas. Furthermore, different anti-regression mechanisms, exploit left-overs of quality of life, exit scenarios, utopian wrong tracks and inner migration schemes will lead to camp building in urban space."

Participating artists included: John Bock, Manfred Pernice, Luke Fowler and many others.
My work was part of the presentation of Viewing Club held in a bar at the Elbterrassen.

18.- 27.10. artists at Viewing Club London/GB

2005-10-18T04:04:00.000-07:00

groupshow comprised by Heike Kelter and David Tidball.
With a kind thank you to Ralph Anderson, best host known.

10.- 14.10. Field of Vision, Institute for New Media, Frankfurt/Main

2005-10-09T04:12:00.000-07:00

held by the art-collective Field of Vision, this group-exhibition entitled "Extremes" was held at the Institute for New Media Frankfurt/Main.
ORGANIZING ARTISTS:

Derek Ayres / USA

Paul Dacey / USA

Alison Dalwood / UK

Raúl Moarquech Ferrera-Balanquet / Cuba / USA / México

The Gao Brothers / China

Iratxe Hernández Simal / Spain

Jenny Kao-Yuan / Taiwan / USA

Günter Ku / Taiwan

Chapman Kuo / Taiwan

Gautam Narang / India / UK

Andrey Vrabchev / Bulgaria

Michael Wright / UK

CONCEPT:
Stephan Hausmeister / Germany / UK

Field of Vision is a series of events organized by
DIGITAL ART PROJECTS in collaboration with the
Institute for New Media, Frankfurt am Main / Germany
and support from:

• Amt für Wissentschaft und Kunst der Stadt Frankfurt am Main

• a-n The Artist Information Company / UK

• artistsprinting, London / UK

• EAST 05, Norwich School of Art and Design / UK

• Faculty of Art and Design, University of Hertfordshire / UK

• Greenwood Global Media Corp, New York / USA

• Kunstverein Grafschaft Bentheim, Neuenhaus / Germany

01.10. Safia Dickersbach presents "Monument for Donatella Versace"

2005-10-01T04:22:00.000-07:00

On the occasion of Artforum Berlin, Safia Dickersbach art management and pr presented "Monument for Donatella Versace", an installative mixed media work with performative elements near the legendary Paris bar in Berlin

03.09. MAGISTRALE KULTURNACHT Berlin

2005-09-03T08:00:00.000-07:00

On the occasion of MAGISTRALE Kulturnacht along Berlin's Potsdamer Strasse "Monument for Donatella Versace" was shown for the first time in Berlin. I would like to thank the many visitors and Thomas Hoepfner for support.

22.07.- 07.08. BAYENNALE, Bay Area/USA

2005-07-22T08:06:00.000-07:00

Bay Area International Arts Fest screened a few videoworks of mine in different programs. For details please check www.bayennale.com.

05.07- 18.09. Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie, Arles/France

2005-07-05T08:12:00.000-07:00

In the exhibition programme "Hypegallery" the photographical part of a two-parted work "Untitled (Beethoven)" was exhibited.

01.07.-03.07 ASSO-SUMMERTIME, Lyon/France

2005-07-01T08:20:00.000-07:00

The festival SUMMERTIME invited two of my videoworks, "the 20th Century on visit in the 21st" and "happy new everything" to Lyon.

24.05.- 01.05. Version >05 "Invincible Desire" Chicago/USA

2005-05-25T08:47:00.000-07:00

"Monument for Donatella Versace" and "the 20th Century on visit in the 21st" on show at
Version >05 "Invincible Desire" and in conjunction with "Art in the Park/ Art Chicago", Chicago, USA, versionfest.com

Many thanks here to Robert Cauble, Matthew Lochmann and Doug vanderHoof

07.05. "stormscene", Nuremberg/Germany

2005-05-07T08:29:00.000-07:00

an installative work for the public space comissioned by the City Council of Nuremberg, Germany.

The installation took place in a medieval pedestrain's tunnel leading to the historical center of Nuremberg. A strong wind-machine of Munich filmstudios was placed in the beginning of the tunnel. The light was changed and a big soundsystem installed. With David Canisius of Deutsches Kammerorchester/ Yellow Lounge a selection of highly dramatic classical music was edited for this evening and replayed constantly. The visitors could pass through the tunnel and found themselves in the middle of a filmset-like "stormscene". After passing through the tunnel they got handed a text written by Dr. Andreas L. Hofbauer, titled "second-hand experience".

06.05. Artists Television Access, San Fransisco/USA

2005-05-06T08:43:00.000-07:00

An evening of videoscreenings orgnaized by Michael Trigilio of NPR. Artists' Television Access San Fransisco/USA

21.03.- 27.03. Jianghu Mobile Video, Kumming/China

2005-03-21T08:59:00.000-08:00

curated by Jay Brown of Lijangstudio, this exhibition was a mobile videoscreening happening in the streets of Kumming. It was repeated in Amsterdam/The Netherlands in 2006.
"The event explores the circumstances in which we see moving pictures. The videos will be shown from a mobile projecting machine, which will travel through the city at certain times of the evening, attracting crowds and showing video for short times anywhere from a few seconds to 20 minutes.
This event is sattellite to a festival of documentary films from China (www.yunfest.org)."

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