UNICEF-workshop held in Mumbai/India

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

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

28.09. - 01.10. Preview Berlin, represented by curators without borders
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"Embedded Art" now published

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

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

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

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

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"

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

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

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