House Show

TACA

Carrer Sant Feliu 17

Palma de Mallorca, Spain

solo exhibition by Annelies Kamen

Preview: Friday, September 20th, 2024 8pm with a reading by the artist

Opening: Saturday, September 21st, 2024 7pm as part of the Nit de l’Art Palma

generously supported by Culture Moves Europe

Absolutely Never Sitting Duck

Gallery van Fanny Freytag

Solo exhibition by Annelies Kamen

We happily announce the upcoming solo exhibition by artist Annelies Kamen, opening on Thursday May 30th in honor of Amsterdam Art Week. The exhibition is curated by Jelmer Wijnstroom.

On Saturday June 1st we will host an artist talk with Annelies Kamen and Jelmer Wijnstroom. The gallery is part of the Saturday Noord Night Programme organised by Amsterdam Art, drinks will be served during the talk. Annelies and Jelmer will delve into the content of the showcased creations and the emergence of the exhibition.

Opening details:

Date: Thursday May 30th

Time: 17:00 - 20:00

Location: Schaafstraat 10 - 1021 KE Amsterdam, NL

Artist talk with drinks, details:

Date: Saturday June 1st

Time: 19:00 - 20:00

Location: Schaafstraat 10 - 1021 KE Amsterdam, NL

A(u)CTION FOR PALESTINE

On Wednesday 13 December 2023 at 19:00, residents from the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, in collaboration with Framer Framed, will host a live auction event at Framer Framed to raise funds to support Eltiqa, a collective of artists in Gaza, and ELSC, an independent organisation defending and empowering the Palestine solidarity movement in Europe through legal means.

You are welcome to join us for a full programme that includes the presentation of artworks on sale, bidding, live performances, and drinks. Rijksakademie residents and alumni have contributed artworks that range from editioned or unique works, prototypes and sketches, sculptural objects, vouchers for live works, and more. The works will be on display at Framer Framed and offered for sale during the main event of the evening. Buyers will be able to pay with cash or card.

Eltiqa group is a collective of artists in Gaza that has been working on the ground for more than 20 years, of which most of the members have been displaced since October. ELSC (European Legal Support Center) is an independent organization defending and empowering the Palestine solidarity movement in Europe through legal means.

Programme

18:00-19:00
Welcome & Drinks
19:00-21:00
Presentation of artworks and bidding
Live performance intermezzo.
Rijksakademie resident artists Natalia Papaeva and Daniel Vorthuys will perform as auctioneers
21:00-22:00
Drinks

Please join us for an evening in solidarity with Palestine.

a piece of mine will be available in the upcoming auction at Weserhalle, curated by Georg Haberler and Kirsten Eggers. Come by the opening or closing events and/or make a bid online:

Auction

Weserhalle - Weserstraße 46 + 56, Berlin 12045

Opening Reception: November 19th 14:00-18:00

Closing Reception: November 26th 14:00-20:00

sign up here to be notified of the start of bidding

Oude Kerk Amsterdam

The second circle gathering brought together by visual artist and trained architect Ola Hassanain 'Promissory Notes', explores the perspectives of 20 creative practitioners and educators from the Netherlands, delving into philosophical, practical, and speculative viewpoints. Its aim is to question the inherited notions of value in our global material condition.

The term 'Promissory Notes' symbolizes the underlying coercion in lending our time, labor, and values to jobs and ideologies that will never repay us. Within the church's architecture, 20 artists will explore moments of unfulfilled promises, disappointments, analysis, discussions, and emotional climaxes.

Ola Hassanain invites guests Annette Krauss, Jota Mombaça, and Clare Butcher with eva susova, Arnisa Zeqo, Annelies Kamen, Daniel Aguilar Ruvalcaba, Rajyashri Goody, Simnikiwe Buhlungu, Winnie Herbstein, Polina Medvedeva, Tessa Mars, Yun Choi, Arnisa Zeqo and Lisette de Greeuw, who will construct a topography that encapsulates the profound nature of these unmet promises and the experience of inhabiting a state of disappointment.

Through candid conversations, they examine how their practices unintentionally perpetuate social structures they critique, grappling with the burden of promissory notes' debt. Amidst these contradictory strains, we contemplate how individuals reflect on and survive their practice, as well as what it means to inhabit roles, spaces, ethics, and ideas.

About It's OK... commoning uncertainties
This circle is part of the multi-year collective art project It's OK... commoning uncertainties and narrating different realities. From May 26 to September 24 in the Oude Kerk, for more information about It's OK... look here.

Rijksakademie Open Studios

During Open Studios up to 50 artists in residence will share their artistic practice and present what has emerged from a period of experimenting, researching and producing new work. For a fortnight, all corridors and spaces in the building will be buzzing with creativity, with in addition to the multi-faceted studio presentations, an extensive programme of performances, films and talks. Visitors will have the chance to engage with the different practices and ideas the artists have developed that push boundaries of what contemporary art can be and do.

Residents 2022/2023
Noor Abed, Tewa Barnosa, Cihad Caner, Yun Choi, Jacky Connolly, Timo Demollin, Vince Donders, Ali Eslami, Mandy Franca, Juan Arturo García, Rajyashri Goody, Lisette de Greeuw, Ola Hassanain, Winnie Herbstein, Abul Hisham, Hsu Che-Yu, Katarina Jazbec, Kahee Jeong, Annelies Kamen, Ayşen Kaptanoğlu, Zeynep Kayan, Tom K Kemp, Susanne Khalil Yusef, Karel van Laere, Reyhan Lál, Benjamin Li, Fiona Lutjenhuis, Vibeke Mascini, Zauri Matikashvili, Jota Mombaça, Shaun Motsi, Rossella Nisio, Ai Ozaki, Natalia Papaeva, Amol K Patil, Peng Zuqiang, Moe Satt, Selma Selman, Mikołaj Sobczak, eva susova, Danae Tapia, Fransix Tenda Lomba, Martin Toloku, Miloš Trakilović, Daniel Vorthuys, Agnes Waruguru, Peng Zhang, and guest resident Vita Buivid. Other recent guest residents, Julia Janssen, Aram Lee, Woong Yong Kim and Taiki Sakpisit, will contribute to the performance, film and talks programme.

The artistic coordination of this year's Open Studios is in the hands of Rijksakademie advisors Metahaven.

Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten

Sarphatistraat 470

1018GW Amsterdam

Opening Hours

Friday 2 – Sunday 4 June
12:00 - 19:00

Thursday 8 – Saturday 10 June
12:00 - 19:00

Sunday 11 June
12:00 - 17:00

Buy tickets here

11TH OF MAY 2023 KALF PRESENTS TO YOU THEIR NEXT EXHIBITION; SMOLL

THE LARGE KALF SPACE WILL BE INHABITED BY A COLLECTION OF TINY ARTWORKS BY VARIOUS ARTISTS. MAYBE THE PIECES ARE HARD TO FIND, MAYBE INCREDIBLY EASY. THAT'S YOUR JOB, NOT OURS. WE ONLY MAKE THE STUFF, YOU HAVE TO LOOK AT IT. HOW HARD CAN IT BE? ANYWAYS, ASK OUR HELPDESK TO FIND 'EM A BIT EASIER, AND IF YOU STILL DIDN'T FIND THEM, THEN BUY ONE OF OUR BOOKLET EDITIONS WITH A BONUS WORK INCLUDED! 😱😱😱😱😱😱😱

MAYBE THEN YOU CAN HAVE A NICE AND EASY TIME LOOKING AT ART.

OPENING 11.5 18:00

HAVENSTRAAT 15 HASSELT, BELGIUM

WITH WORKS OF
Annelies Kamen
Elias Ghekiere
Hilde Overbergh
Irina Colun
Alexandra Kahl
Jesse Magee
Lotte Vrancken
Kirsten Vanlangenaeker
Jannick Rabijns
Mike Feijen
Caro Jonckers
Daan Vandezande
Willem Boeckx
Josephine Kaiser
Lot Geukens
Indra Wouters
Lieve Kauwenberghs
Madeli Viljoen
Aline Verstraten
Matilde Solheid
Femke Nijs
Ragna Robijns
Ann De Nys
Yana Pellegrini

Invisible Until It’s Broken

group exhibition at Künstlerhaus Dortmund

4 February - 19 March 2023

Opening
Friday, 3 February, 7 pm

Do structural problems only become visible when those very structures start to crack? For whom are glass ceilings transparent? Who stares at concrete while looking up? Based on the controversial idea that infrastructures only become visible when they break, the group exhibition Invisible Until It's Broken brings together eight spatially expansive installations. With their poetic-political, sometimes playfully humorous perspectives, the artists put their fingers right in the wound. Cracks in social and material infrastructures become palpable.
In the works of these artists, the boundaries between private and political, between the individual and the collective, become blurred. They demand our involvement as viewers precisely because of their autobiographical references. Most of the works are shown for the first time in Germany as part of the exhibition Invisible Until It's Broken.

Curated by Silke Schönfeld

with:

Cana Bilir-Meier
Yun Choi
Rajyashri Goody
Veronika Hapchenko
Winnie Herbstein
Annelies Kamen
Pennie Key
Selma Selman

Never Let a Good Crisis Go to Waste

Group Exhibition @ Nieuw Dakota

Ms. van Riemsdijkweg 41b
1033RC Amsterdam

September 23 - December 18 2022

Opening Reception
Friday 23 September
20:00 - 23:00

Participating artists
Ehsan Ul Haq
Faysal Mroueh
Annelies Kamen
Paulien Oltheten
and also: Maartje Wortel

**CURB ALERT** for Cosmos Carl

a **CURB ALERT** posting on Boston Metro West Craigslist, informing you of an exhibition of artist-made lawn signs, one day only, in suburban Massachusetts. First come, first served, no calls please, in perfect condition, what you see is what you get, all parts included, it’s on the curb – just come and see it.

The link goes live on Cosmos Carl on Friday, September 2nd at 17:00 CET

with works by:

Alcide Breux

Andrew Holmquist

Anika Todd

Backyard Invasives Project (Dan & Annelies Kamen)

Elena Ailes

Erin Woodbrey

Jesse Malmed

Jessica Campbell

Kelly Lloyd

LTE (Kate Conlon & Boyang Hou)

María Luisa Sanin Pena

Soline Krug

Unyimeabasi Udoh 

hosted & posted by Annelies Kamen

i spy with my little eye
Ich sehe was, was Du nicht siehst...

You are entering a home, a space with very concrete and limited borders, but with the interaction with the artworks, you can escape from your daily routine and expand your experience.

In this group exhibition, we include artworks that have been realized during the pandemic as well as work that will be specially created for the exhibition.
These artworks constitute a collection on how different people are navigating through the extreme emotions and processes that the changing times puts us all through: the relocation of personal boundaries, the search for orientation, guidance, safe space
and intimacy; isolation, uncertainty, distant relationships, cravings, seasonal depressions, loss...

Curated by Naama Rahamim and Yi Ten Lai

at i_seeeeeeee Berlin, part of 48h Neukölln

June 24 - July 3, 2022

Gabrovo Biennial of Humor and Satire in Art

I’m excited to take part this year in the Gabrovo Biennial of Humor and Satire in Art in Gabrovo, Bulgaria. Information about the contemporary art selection of the biennial can be found here

If you’re in Bulgaria, please check out the exhibition - open from May 20th - September 30th 2022

Rijksakademie Open Studios

The Rijksakademie opens its doors again this spring for our annual Open Studios. This year the event will take place over two long weekends: from 12 to 15 May and from 19 to 22 May. Studios, project rooms, the garden, and all conceivable spaces in between, will be transformed into viewing and meeting places where 46 artists in residence will share their artistic practices and present what has emerged from a period of experimenting, researching and producing new work.

Participating artists: Julian Abraham ‘Togar’, Daniel Aguilar Ruvalcaba, Tewa Barnosa, Razia Barsatie, Verena Blok, Simnikiwe Buhlungu, Cihad Caner, Yun Choi, Jacky Connolly, Ali Eslami, Juan Arturo García, Robert Glas, Rajyashri Goody, Lisette de Greeuw, Ola Hassanain, Saemundur Thor Helgason, Hannah Dawn Henderson, Winnie Herbstein, Abul Hisham, Annelies Kamen, Tom K Kemp, Yazan Khalili, Pennie Key, Wouter van der Laan, Sungeun Lee, Tessa Mars, Vibeke Mascini, Polina Medvedeva, Jota Mombaça, Rossella Nisio, Hend Samir, Ratu R. Saraswati, Silke Schönfeld, Selma Selman, Tomasz Skibicki, Mikołaj Sobczak, eva susova, Takanori Suzuki, Fransix Tenda Lomba, Anh Trần, Agnes Waruguru, Werker, Peng Zhang and guest residents Antonio Jose Guzman, Yazan Khalili and Mamali Shafahi.

Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten

Sarphatistraat 470

1018GW Amsterdam

Opening Hours

Friday 13 – Sunday 15 May
12:00-19:00

Thursday 19 – Saturday 21 May
12:00 -19:00

Sunday 22 May
12:00-17:00

Buy tickets here

A Cunning Array of Stunts

Annelies Kamen, a solo exhibition curated by Stephanie Koch

December 3 - January 2, 2021

Opening Reception: December 3, 2021 5-8 PM

ACRE Projects @ Drama Club

2439 S Oakley Avenue

Chicago, IL 60608

Viewings by appointment, email info@acreresidency or stephanie@stephaniekoch.com

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A Cunning Array of Stunts is a two-channel video installation resulting from a performance collaboration with my mother and incorporating found footage from a 1970s television interview with my great-aunt, Midge Kovacs. 

The work begins with a story about training to fall down and expands upon this theme of contradictory physical performances: athletic skill and the inutile slapstick body. Slapstick performance splits the performers imperfectly in two — a sentient entity driving the thingified object of their body — and, as opposed to sport, often “driver” and “thing” refuse to resolve seamlessly into one another. Through the capacity of slapstick to blur the body boundaries between individuals, the female protagonists, mother, daughter, aunt, rollick in their communal body, stunt double one another, and at the same time struggle to remain discrete.

A Concrete Cloud

Nightingale Movie Night at Hyde Park Art Center

The Nightingale Cinema at Hyde Park Art Center

August 19, 2021 / 8 pm / Free

Films and videos by Stephanie Barber, Mike Stoltz and Alee Peoples, Jose Luis Benavides, Sky Hopinka, Annelies Kamen, Heehyun Choi, Keaton Fox, Breanne Trammell and Henry Hills. Programmed by Jesse Malmed.

A thousand words about the ineffable written on a balloon demarcating air that’s in and out stuck in a tree that the wrong dog wasn’t barking at but rather identifying dendrology as dermatology. Slapstick poetry like how the light let through the cucoloris occludes clouds, paints pictures on the wall. All the poets want to be singers, drummers shooting guards, web designers gardeners, spiders who knows. Splitting rhythms and patterns while we name birds by their calls, flowers by their followers. Somewhere I had noted that real fake grass is fake real grass and real real grass is fake fake grass. The teacher says there’s no such thing as a double positive and the back of the room offers: yeah right. Sometimes language is a syntactic math puzzle doubling and undoing and sometimes it is a series of intensifiers building as the sentence does. We head this way and that, sometimes making structure by looking back. myth hymns / thy / myrrh / my rhythms.

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Stephanie Barber - 3 Peonies, 2017, 3:13, 16mm to HD

Mike Stoltz and Alee Peoples - Spotlight on a Brick Wall, 2016, 8:00, 16mm to HD

Annelies Kamen - Greatest Hits, 2018, 7:00, HD

Henry Hills - SSS, 1988, 5:20, 16mm to HD

Breanne Trammell - Kind of Bluets: 33 Great Moments in Color (Aid) Commentary, 2021, 9:30, HD

Jose Luis Benavides - Lulu’s Journal, 2017, 4:32, DV

Sky Hopinka - Lore, 2019, 10:16, 16mm to HD

Heehyun Choi - Birdsaver Report Volume 1, 2020, 7:40, 16mm to HD

Keaton Fox - The Artificial Grass Needs Cleaning Again, 2020, 2:11, HD

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Cover image: still from Mike Stoltz and Alee Peoples' Spotlight on a Brick Wall

Book Launch & Exhibition - Nothing’s Gonna Change My World?

13 August - 5 September 2021

gr_und, Seestr. 49, Berlin

Daniel Hahn and Johannes Mundinger, from Raum www, have asked 230 artists four questions each, to create a picture of how visual artists have come through the pandemic – so far – and what their predictions are for the future, in relation to art.

The answers form the interactive exhibition, opening on 13 August 2021 at gr_und, Seestr. 49, Berlin. 

Accompanying the exhibition is a catalogue depicting all the answers, with a foreword by Laura Helena Wurth and a greeting by Berlin's Senator for Culture Klaus Lederer.

270 pages, with cardboard cover, printed by Druckhaus Sportflieger in Berlin.

Supported by Neustart Kultur, the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, BBK Bundesverband.

About two thirds of the artists interviewed live in Berlin. About 130 are female*, about 100 male*. The answers are German or English, depending on the artist.

All artists can be found at www.raumwww.de, a playful online archive that has been collecting exhibitions and cultural projects that had to be cancelled, postponed or closed due to the pandemic since the beginning of the first lockdown in 2020.

Rijksakademie Residency - Fellowship 2021-2022

I am incredibly excited to share that I've been selected, among 22 other artists, to be a resident at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten in Amsterdam for the coming two years. I'll be relocating to Amsterdam beginning in September 2021 and starting research for a new body of work talking about slapstick, power, practice, physical effects, and pratfalls.

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New residents: Rijksakademie selection 2021 – 2022

We are happy to announce the 23 artists who will be in residence from September onwards:

Tewa Barnosa
Cihad Caner
Yun Choi
Jacky Connolly
Ali Eslami
Juan Arturo García
Rajyashri Goody
Lisette de Greeuw
Ola Hassanain
Winnie Herbstein
Abul Hisham
Annelies Kamen
Tom K Kemp
Kanel Khiev
Vibeke Mascini
Jota Mombaça
Rossella Nisio
Selma Selman
Mikołaj Sobczak
Eva Susova
Kengné Téguia
Fransix Tenda Lomba
Peng Zhang

Together with the current first year residents, they form an international, multi-disciplinary, experimental and critically engaged artist community.

Weserhalle Art Auction

I’ve got a new ceramic piece in this online art auction hosted by Weserhalle. Bidding goes live on December 8th and there’s lots of lovely stuff to bid on! Support local art spaces and artists!

Online Screening: 30 Jahre Goldrausch Künstlerinnenprojekt

Dec. 5 - 6, 4pm to Midnight

I’m happy to be included in this online screening of video works by alumnae of the Goldrausch Künstlerinnenprojekt, which this year is celebrating its 30-year jubilee.

Videos can be viewed here in four thematic blocks over two days. My work will be presented as part of Block III on Sunday, December 6th between 2-8pm along with:

Yvon Chabrowski, DYNAMICS, 2016, 21:28 Min.
Bettina Hoffmann, Displaced, 2020, 7:15 Min.
Susanne Huth, PARKOUR AUGUSTSTRASSE, 2009, 8:42 Min.
Annelies Kamen, Greatest Hits, 2018, 7:27 Min.
Gabriele Stellbaum, Close Huddle, 2017, 4:30 Min.
Ella Ziegler, FEIGNED UNCONSCIOUSNESS (SIMULIERTE OHNMACHT), 2018, 21:08 Min

Days - Premiere of the Pilot Episode at Fotogalleriet, Oslo

October 15th 2-8pm

Stiftelsen Fotogalleriet
Møllergata 34
N-0179 Oslo, Norway

Days is an experimental soap opera initiated by Ellinor Aurora Aasgaard and Zayne Armstrong, substituting the ‘anywhere, anytime’ world of the American soap series Days of Our Lives, with the reality of contemporary Berlin. Produced by and about the lifestyles of a growing class of precarious laborers, the show Days asks: what does the precariat think, feel and understand about the world around them, and how can we find resilience in this increasingly absurd reality?

The first episode of Days jumps into the lives of a group of the show’s characters and reveals a complex web of converging interests in a construction worker’s seemingly insignificant store front space. A Berlin newcomer has an existential crisis based on misplaced spiritual guidance, and tries to get a better ‘look’. Meanwhile a straight personal trainer tries to seduce a transitioning intellectual, but is it true love or do they both have ulterior motives?

Mind So Fast, Body So Slow

October 15th to November 8th, 2020

Opening: October 15th, 2020, 6:00-9:30 pm

Berlin Weekly

Linienstr. 160

10115 Berlin

Exhibition by Lukas Troberg with

Katarina Poliacikova, Hanakam&Schuller, Evelyn Loschy, Betti Scholz, Chiara Wettmann, Konstanze Habermann, Marie-France Goerens, Lacy Barry, Alona Rodeh, Annelies Kamen, Verena Issel, Caro Jost, Carolin Eidner, Andrea Ledlova, Rascal Operations, Daniel Correa Mejia, Ulrike Buhl, Wolfgang Ganter

Six Feet Apart - Vermont Studio Center Interview Series

Me and Daniel Zeese bleached our hair together/remotely and chatted about work, check it out:

Backstage - Hands on the Wall

June 25th to July 18th, 2020 - Thursday & Friday 4-8 pm, Saturday 10-14 am

Opening: June 25th, 2020, 6-9 pm

Kunstsaele

Bülowstr. 90

10785 Berlin

Since its founding in 2010, the rooms of Kunstsaele Berlin have changed various times. To present all kinds of paintings and installations, videos and performances, drawings, sculptures and interventions in the best way possible, the walls had been taken out and newly built, they were painted, sanded, drilled and nailed. The exhibition „Backstage – Hands on the wall“ is dedicated to the artists who had been working for the Kunstsaele in the background and are now invited to present their own artistic work to the public.

With:

Alexander Policek, Alexander Menegotto, Annelies Kamen, Birte Bosse, David Mildner, Dargelos Kersten, Jan Brockhaus, Johannes Jakobi, Mahdad Alizadeh, Marcel Tarelkin, Martin Bothe, Milad Nemati, Nikolaus Baumgarten, Paul Gallagher, Rita Guima, Sebastian Eggler, Sigrún Erna Sigurðardóttir, Yi Ten Lai, Yuni Kim

Please note, due to the current situation, access to the rooms is only possible in small groups and with a face mask. The opening on June 25th will take place in the rooms and in the courtyard of Bülowstrasse 90. We would like to ask you to leave your contact details on prearrange forms. We will keep these for four weeks.

Residency at GEDOK Schleswig-Holstein, Lübeck

For the months of May and June I’ll be an artist-in-residence at GEDOK Schleswig-Holstein in Lübeck, Germany - diagramming sentences and pricing Dunk Tank rentals in isolation.

Körper. Blicke. Macht. Eine Kulturgeschichte des Bades

Body. Gaze. Power. A Cultural History of the Bath

March 7 - June 21, 2020

Opening reception March 6th, 7pm

Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden
Lichtentaler Allee 8a
76530 Baden-Baden

The major special exhibition of the federal state of Baden-Württemberg Body. Gaze. Power. A Cultural History of the Bath, will focus on a global social practice as old as humanity itself. Although bathing has always been associated with rituals of cleanliness, links are revealed over the centuries that go far beyond issues of hygiene, health, or a sense of well-being. In fact, the bath as a location and the act of bathing were always ideologically, religiously, socially, and culturally charged, and still are today.

This show will present masterpieces of art from the past centuries and antiquity, including a version of the famous painting The Death of Marat from the studio of Jacques-Louis David, alongside current contemporary art from various geographic and cultural contexts, presenting them alongside a variety of historical exhibits and objects from everyday life. Bathing culture is thus revealed to be a reflection of the society in question, touching on issues such as the sacred and the profane, purity and uncleanliness, the beneficial and the harmful, public and private, nudity and clothing, the aristocratic and the plebeian, and power, class, and gender relations.

Body. Gaze. Power. A Cultural History of the Bath was developed in cooperation with Marseille’s Mucem and will be shown not only at Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, but at various locations in the spa town.

At Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden

The large-scale show presents not only objects from everyday life, like old shaving bowls, bath heaters, or hammam sandals, but also major artworks by artists such as Albrecht Dürer, David Hockney, Joseph Beuys, Nan Goldin, Paul Chan, Monira Al Qadiri, and Thomas Demand. Organized by theme and grouped spatially in separate sections, a wide-reaching web of relationships opens up. In so doing, political implications of the bath emerge, gender issues and visual relations, artistic rituals and variants of orientalism with its exoticizing notion of the foreign and the beautiful, usually in the form of the female nude body.

For example, paintings by Émile Bernard, Maurice Bouviolle or Jules Migonney will be presented against a wallpaper by Iranian artist Parastou Forouhar, on which countless eyes and veiled body outlines emerge from the curving calligraphic lines, thus revealing the supposedly exotic other.

Artists: Patrick Angus, Hans Sebald Beham, Bernadette Corporation, Émile Bernard, Joseph Beuys, Maurice Bouviolle, Louis Brion de la Tour, Giuseppe Cesari, Paul Chan, Jules Dalou, Atelier de Jacques-Louis David, Thomas Demand, Maurice Denis, Joseph-Eugène-Armand Duquesne, Abraham-Louis-Rodolphe Ducros, Albrecht Dürer, François Eisen, Martin Engelbrecht, Rainer Fetting, Ken Friedman, Parastou Forouhar, Friedrich Wilhelm Gmelin, Nan Goldin, Ion Grigorescu, Jean-Jacques Hauer, David Hockney, Charles François Hutin, Nicolas-René Jollain, Othman Khadraoui, Ute Klophaus, Katarzyna Kozyra, Nicolas II Larmessin, Charles-Alfred Leclerc, Leonard Koren, Suzanne Lacy, Zoe Leonard, Massias & Durin, Masamoto, Hieronimo Mercurali, Jules Migonney, Lee Miller & David E. Scherman, Onésimos, Yoko Ono, Benjamin Patterson, Edmond-Jean-Baptiste Paulin, Pablo Picasso, François II de Poilly, Monira Al Qadiri, Delphine Reist, Édouard Frédéric Richter, Amable Ravoisié, Mieko Shiomi, Chiharu Shiota, Tomotoshi, Gaston de La Touche, Ben Vautier, Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, Friedrich Weinbrenner, Yasumasa

At Stadtmuseum

The exhibition at Baden-Baden’s Stadtmuseum will spotlight an installation by Bianca Kennedy, presented in the light-filled museum annex with its high ceilings. It consists of a spatially expansive wooden construction housing a basin filled with transparent plastic balls. The visitors are invited to sit in the bath of balls and to immerse themselves in an interactive space using virtual-reality glasses. This is as humorous as it is unsettling, familiar as well as uncanny, and moves the subject of the exhibition to a dream-like digital intermediate world. In the museum’s upper floor, the exhibition subject of bathing is explored in light of a theme that is usually associated with the summer, sun, and luxury: the swimming pool.

Artists: Slim Aarons, Gigi Cifali, Noel Hazzard, Bianca Kennedy, Alexa Karolinski & Ingo Niermann, Michal Martychowiec, Robert Montgomery

In other locations across the city

Complementing the main exhibition in Staatlichen Kunsthalle and at Stadtmuseum, parts of the exhibition Body, Gaze, Power: A Cultural History of the Bath will be shown at the renowned Brenner Park Hotel and Spa and in the impressive park on Lichtentaler Allee.

In addition, the exhibition will also use the baths of the spa city as a venue: from Bertholdbad to Friedrichsbad to the Roman bath ruins. Here in particular, it becomes clear that the utilization of the hot springs during the Roman Empire can be understood as a social technology that is still used today.

In the spectacular and now disused spaces of the Kneipp bathhouse in Friedrichsbad, the visitors can view a group show with works by contemporary artists that illuminate various and unusual aspects of the cultural history of the bath in the present.

Artists: Olga Balema, Kira Bunse, Samantha Bohatsch, Martin Bothe, Daniel Dewar & Grégory Gicquel, Annelies Kamen, Bianca Kennedy, Inside Job (Ula Lucinska, Michał Knychaus), Annette Ruenzler, Mary-Audrey Ramirez

The exhibition is curated by Hendrik Bündge, Luisa Heese, Camille Faucourt and Florence Hudowicz, together with Carolin Potthast, Benedikt Seerieder and Lukas Töpfer.

A comprehensive catalogue will be published by Hatje Cantz to accompany the exhibition with numerous illustrations of the works exhibited.

VIDEOS ON LOOP

February 23 - April 22, 2020

opening on February 22, 2020 @ 8:00pm

Vermont Studio Center
Gallery II, Wolf Kahn Studio Building
80 Pearl Street, Johnson, VT 05656

This video show, Videos on Loop, is a group exhibition consisting of time-based work by recent residents of Vermont Studio Center. The work for the show was selected by guest curator Sandrine Schaefer, who is an artist, writer, and educator living and working in Massachusetts. Sandrine will also give a Gallery Talk on Saturday, February 22 at 8:00 PM.

with:

Alicia Link, Katie Hubbell, Kelly Clare, Mahsa Biglow, Nicole Gonzalez, Chaja Hertog and Nir Nadler, Rudolf Lingens, Katie Wood, Xiaoqing Zhu, Annelies Kamen, Miranda Bellamy & Amanda Fauteux, Joana Stillwell, Zhiwan Cheung, Alma Sinai, Cristiana de Marchi, Valery Estabrook and Katrina Bello.

Rabbit Season/Duck Season @ Western Pole

If you’re in Chicago go check out my piece at Western Pole - corner of Western Ave and Cermak Rd - while supplies last.

FROMO

November 24 - December 15, 2019

Opening reception: Sunday, November 24, 2-4 pm

Gallery hours by appointment    

Seattle Freezer

7924 16th Ave SW

Seattle, WA 98106

Seattle Freezer is pleased to present FROMO, a solo exhibition of new work by Berlin-based artist Annelies Kamen. 

We all know that comedy is tragedy plus timing, and FROMO capitalizes on being before and after the beat. Arriving just in time to be almost too late, Kamen doles out inside and outside jokes in the form of concrete comedy. Putting it all on ice to arrest the punchline, FROMO captures the importance of missing out and the fear of punctuality. Wait, is that right?

Trashxploitation Film Festival Showcase @ Akc MEDIKA, Zagreb

Trashxploitation Festival, invades the alternative cultural center Medika for 3-days showcase of short films and video.

Sunday November 10th, 7pm

@ Akc Medika

Pierottijeva 11

Zagreb, Croatia

Residency at Monson Arts

For the month of November I’ll be an artist in residence at Monson Arts in Monson, Maine - working on a Schrödinger’s Fridge and building a bench to warm.

Templates for Public Art Vol. 2

publication launch and pumpkin carving

Saturday October, 26

Free Range

3257 W Lawrence Ave, Chicago, IL 60625

6PM-9PM

Limited Time Engagement is pleased to announce the launch of Templates for Public Art Vol. 2

A book of jack-o-lantern templates by:

Iris Bernblum

Janine Biunno

Meghan Borah

Jessica Campbell

Jessica Caponigro

florencio

Susan Giles

Andrew Holmquist

Annelies Kamen

James Kao

Devin Mays

Jenn Smith

Isa Wang

Join us for a launch party and pumpkin carving.

Publication available here

**Volume 2 will be available until the last pumpkin rots.**

In between

screening at the Kunstverein Tiergarten - Galerie Nord

Turmstraße 75, 10551 Berlin

27.09.2019 - 30.09.2019 20:00 - 1:00

opening 27.09.2019 - 20:00

with

Anna Anders, Marta Djourina/Jane Garbert, Merit Fakler, Elfi E. Fröhlich, Justin Time, Annelies Kamen, Marte Kiessling, Silke Koch, Doris Schmid, Dirk G. Winkler

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Das im vergangenen Jahr erstmals erfolgreich in den Fenstern der Galerie Nord präsentierte Video-Screening In between wird während des Ortstermin 2019 eine Fortsetzung erfahren und lässt das filmische Schaffen von 10 ausgewählten Künstler*innen bis tief in die Nacht strahlen.

Die künstlerische Leitung der Galerie Nord und das Ortstermin-Team haben aus zahlreichen Bewerbungen ein facettenreiches Programm zum Thema „Fata Morgana – Täuschung oder Vision?“ ausgewählt. Ob per Handy oder mit High-End-Kamera aufgenommen, ob als Computeranimation entstanden oder mit klassischer Stop-Motion-Technik hergestellt; das Screening bietet verschiedenste filmische Sprachen und Arbeitsweisen.
Die ausgewählten Filme spielen mit dem Phänomen des Sehens und Wahrnehmens, der Spiegelung, der Bewegung, der Doppelung und dem optischen Flimmern in abstrakten Experimentalfilmen sowie mit dem Verhältnis von Sound und bewegtem Bild. Einige der Beiträge oszillieren in surrealen filmischen Collagen zwischen Kunst, Künstlichkeit und Natur. Historisches Stummfilmmaterial wird neu montiert, technisch manipuliert und in neue Sinnzusammenhänge übertragen. Darüber hinaus wird auch computergeneriertes Filmmaterial über ökologische Stromerzeugungsmaschinen und aktuelles Filmmaterial von Revolten, Straßenkämpfen in Verbindung mit Sprache, Sound und Musik zu apokalyptischen Visionen gesampelt.

Täuschend echt, vortäuschend, getrickst, manipuliert, visionär, grotesk, surreal narrativ, abstrakt oder metaphorisch können diese Kurzfilme berühren, aufwühlen, Visionen hervorbringen, die uns kein Trugbild vorgaukeln, sondern dys- oder utopisches Potential bergen oder uns in ihrer absurden Groteske mit einem befreienden Lachen erlösen.

mit

Anna Anders, Marta Djourina/Jane Garbert, Merit Fakler, Elfi E. Fröhlich, Justin Time, Annelies Kamen, Marte Kiessling, Silke Koch, Doris Schmid, Dirk G. Winkler

Screening at The Pink Flamingo Art House

‘Greatest Hits’ will be shown this weekend at a screening at the Pink Flamingo Art House, a feminist squat in the suburbs of Paris. The event is a collaboration with the Trashxploitation Film Festival and curated by Andreea Macea.

Trashxploitation Neuilly Pleasure Edition

Sunday, August 17th

3-8pm

The Pink Flamingo

48 avenue du Chalet

93360 Neuilly-Plaisance

rsvp here

Oli Watt & Brandstifter - "b.o.w.s. with frenz"
02. August – 22. September 2019
www.walpodenakademie.de

Weitere Öffnungszeiten: Montags 17-19 Uhr
21. + 22. September 14-19 Uhr sowie nach Vereinbarung mit brandstifter@kunstzwerg.net

Oli Watt ist derzeit Artist in Residence in Krems Niederösterreich, eine AIR Exchange Kooperation mit der School of the Art Institute of Chicago (S.A.I.C.) an der er Drucktechniken lehrt. 2019 hatte Oli Watt den Aktionskünstler Brandstifter nach Chicago eingeladen, wo dieser in Watts free range Gallery die Ausstellung Brandstifter Lost & Found in Chicago realisierte und beide ein gemeinsames Druckprojekt mit Fundstücken (CREATIVE CHILD GAMES) unter dem Namen B.O.W.S. starteten. In der Ausstellung in der Walpodenakademie zeigen beide aber nicht nur gemeinsame und eigene Arbeiten aus Chicago (Siebdruck, Holzschnitt, Video, Readymades) sondern haben auch illustre Freunde wie Karen Constance (Chocolate Monk, Brighton), GOTT30 (Gruppe Scheiße, Mainz) und Annelies Kamen (Crybaby, Berlin) eingeladen. Eine Ausstellung des Mainzer Kunstvereins Walpodenstraße 21 e.V.

Residency at ACRE (Artists’ Cooperative Residency & Exhibitions)

from July 1st - 14th 2019 I’ll be in Steuben, Wisconsin at the ACRE residency, working near and with some amazing artists and trying not to get lyme disease again.

HELP (Is anyone an artist?)

a new performance by Kelly Lloyd with Elizabeth Ravn and Annelie Andre

organized by Annelies Kamen for Crybaby
June 13th, 2019
6:00-6:30pm

beginning at:
Genthiner Str. 36
10785 Berlin

Crybaby is happy to present this performance as part of When The Hunger Starts - Project Space Festival Berlin 2019 kindly supported by the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe.

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When talking about the relative importance or value of art, why is art set against the things we need to survive? Because you can't eat a painting, does that mean it’s a useless fetish object for the bourgeoisie? Artists are the first to admit that if there was a choice between funding a hospital or an art museum, we'd all choose the hospital... but... what if art could save lives? HELP (Is anyone an artist?) is a mobile performance which will explore what it looks like when art tries to save a life.

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The project space festival interviewed me on the topic of feminist projects spaces - click here to read it.

Residency at Vermont Studio Center

from March 31st - April 26th 2019 I’ll be an artist in residence at Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, VT - starting work on a new project about falling on my ass.

The Body is a Thing Among Things

visiting artist talk at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

March 27th, 2019 - 12:15

I’ll be chatting about my recent work, jokes and power, printmaking and punchlines.

Ain’t No Use

opening March 22nd, 6-10pm

and March 23rd by appointment

@ Crybaby

Genthiner Str. 36

10785 Berlin

crybabyberlin@gmail.com

“Rather like wishing to hammer a table together tidily, meticulously, with a craftsman's skill, and at the same time do nothing. But not so that they could say: 'Hammering is nothing to him,' but rather 'Hammering is real hammering to him, and at the same time it is nothing too,' which would of course make the hammering become even bolder, even more resolute, even more real, and, if you like, more crazy."

The exhibition ‚Ain’t No Use’ presents a collection of works that engage with the question of utility - inverting the attributes of functionality and through modification or commentary relating to their surrounding environment.

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»einen Tisch mit peinlich ordentlicher Handwerksmäßigkeit zusammenzuhämmern und dabei gleichzeitig nichts zu tun und zwar nicht so, daß man sagen könnte: >Ihm ist das Hämmern ein Nichts<, sondern >Ihm ist das Hämmern ein wirkliches Hämmern und gleichzeitig auch ein Nichts<, wodurch ja das Hämmern noch kühner, noch entschlossener, noch wirklicher und, wenn du willst, noch irrsinniger geworden wäre.«

Die Ausstellung „Ain’t No Use“ versammelt Arbeiten, die sich mit der Frage nach Nutzbarkeit auseinandersetzen, Funktionszuschreibungen umkehren und sich mal modifizierend, mal kommentierend auf den sie umgebenden Raum beziehen.

with

Lotta Bartoschewski

Olga Jakob

Dargelos Kersten

John Schulz

Erin Woodbrey

organized by Samantha Bohatsch & Annelies Kamen

SWITCH SHORT FILM FESTIVAL

at Roodkapje, Rotterdam

with

Marnix Sixma, Manouk Moreau, Kim Schonewille, Vince Talbot, Reynaert Vosveld, Elif Ozbay, Riane Pater, José Andrés Aguayo Herrera, Rossella Nisio, Valentina Shasivari, Carlijn Olde Beverborg, Willem de Haan, Nabeel Muhammad Khan, Lucy Cordes Engelman, Łukasz Horbów, Wednesday Kim, Jonathan Kelham, Bernardo Zanotta, Mrinalini Singha, Mischa Lind, Vera Mennens, Jack Thomosn, Annelies Kamen, Nikos Kostopoulos, Rebecca Slee & Yeltsiny Stroop, Philemon Mukarno, Kristyna Markovicova, Etto Bubu, Ciska Meister, Wynona Bakker, Rient van de Crommert, Thomas Galvan, Reinilde Jonkhout, Ryan Cherewaty, Myrte van der Molen, Malgorzata Kozlowska, Laura Elcere, Mar Sudac and YesPinkPink & Jutu

more information here

RSVP on facebook here

THE CENTER OF MINIMUM DISTANCE

Fri 21. December 2018, 8-11 pm / 20:00 - 23:00 Uhr
Kreuzberg Pavillon | Naunynstraße 53 | 10999 Berlin

Sonya Schönberger | Annelies Kamen & Almut Schwacke | Katrin Heydekamp | Alexander Norton | Dana Engfer | Alisa Berger

Where do our stories begin? How does it feel to live in an urban environment and not owning this very place anymore? Why has it become so important to travel and live in a hotel when you are broke? Are we ever going to explore the fluidity and uncertainty of our travels in sympathy of finding something that could be easily mistaken for nothing? Are we getting so easily attracted to a place where the meaning of our beliefs collapses? Can the viewer, embrace the absurd next to the void or does the set of our actions already lie outside the rules of the game?

On occasion of the last exhibition this year, Kreuzberg Pavillon shows a range of video works from its recent cooperation with FAQ, accompanied by a reading by Alexander Norton.

more information here

RSVP on facebook here

Meet Your Critics

at FAQ - Bremen

MEET YOUR CRITICS is a curatorial game for an indefinite Number of visitors to a group exhibition, whose critical vote is obtained until at the end of the evening only one of the works shown will be on view. The time interval in which all participants are questioned and thus new juries are constantly created is calculated from the total duration of the exhibition, which is divided by the number of participating artists.

MEET YOUR CRITICS has been tested since 2016 at Kreuzberg Pavillon as a curatorial game, in various variations, and further developed in collaboration with other project spaces, most recently this year, at the invitation of the Goethe Institute in Prague, at Berlinskej Model in collaboration with Viktor Czech. For the Bremer project space FAQ, MEET YOUR CRITICS has specially compiled a selection of video works.

Initiated by Lisa Schorm & Heiko Pfreundt / Kreuzberg Pavillon, Berlin in collaboration with FAQ.

This exhibition has been made possible with the support of Konzept Monitor and the Senator für Culture Bremen

Ana Baumgart & Ina Schoof
Alisa Berger
Mit Borras
Tsai I Chieh
Matthew Crookes
Dana Engfer
Kathrin Heydekamp
Annelies Kamen & Almut Schwacke
Carolin Klapp
Kristov Knörzel
Rebecca A. Layton
Rick Niebe
Laura Pientka
Sonya Schönberger
Puck Schot
Anna-Lena Völker x Ariane Litmeyer
Daniel von Bothmer
Carla Warneboldt

FAQ
TOR4, Am Güterbahnhof
28195 Bremen

Friday, November 30th 2018, 7 pm

19:00-20:00, Preview / No votes
20:00-00:00, Exhibition hours / votes tallied

more information here

RSVP on facebook here

Archipelago - Goldrausch 2018

September 23 - October 14, Thursdays-Sundays 14:00-19:00

In the exhibition Archipelago – Goldrausch 2018 the Goldrausch Künstlerinnenprojekt presents the work of this year’s fifteen project participants. The image of the archipelago refers to groups of islands that can be found around the world in all oceans and on all latitudes in various constellations.  It mirrors the diversity of the group and their practices. At the same time, the theme of the exhibition also points to the loose network structure of the overall project, which is constantly developing and which, in 2018, is taking place for the 28th time.  Since 1989 it has been supporting women artists by imparting career-relevant knowledge within the framework of a one-year continuing education programme. In addition to the creation of a website and a catalogue, the programme includes the organisation of an annual group exhibition, which this year brings together 15 exciting individual positions in the Reinbeckhallen.

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Opening: September 22nd, 6pm

Reinbeckhallen

Reinbeckstraße 17

12459 Berlin

On the evening of the opening there will be a shuttle bus running from Alexanderplatz, across from the Park Inn Hotel, at 17:15, 18:45 and 20:15 - returning from the Reinbeckhallen at 19:30 and 21:00. In the bus you can hear an audio piece created by Samantha Bohatsch, Soline Krug, Yeongbin Lee, Silke Schwarz and myself.

To reserve a place on the shuttle bus, send an email to office@goldrausch-kuenstlerinnen.de with your preferred departure time. 

RSVP on facebook here

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CURATOR TOUR as part of Berlin Art Week

on September 30th at 15:00 you can join a tour of the exhibition with curator Tomke Braun, artistic director of the Kunstverein Göttingen, on the topic 'THING - objects acting strange' where Alma Alloro, Gisele Gonon, Agne Juodvalkyte, Aneta Kajzer and I will be discussing our work. 

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installation views:

photos by Sebastian Eggler

Thanks, I'll Be Here All Week

part of Proud to present - at fffriedrich

Friends in Frankfurt - I'll be in town on Monday 16.7.2018 for the simultaneous opening and closing of my one-night-only show, Thanks, I'll Be Here All Week

It's part of a week long series of solo shows at fffriedrich. Come check me out on Monday night (and come back every night for a brand spanking new exhibition)

fffriedrich

Alte Mainzer Gasse 4-6
Frankfurt, Germany 60311

Monday, 16.7.2018 18:00-23:00

RSVP on facebook here

Exhibition text here, written by Klara Hülskamp

Installation views below ->

photos by Eike Walkenhorst

Instant Interior

as part of Ortstermin Moabit, 2018

I will have work in Instant Interior, an upcoming one day exhibition, along with my fellow Goldrausch Künstlerinnenprojekt artists, as part of the programming for the Ortstermin Moabit festival. Stop by our pavilion at Händelallee 1, 10557 Berlin on June 2nd between 15:00-20:00 to get the first glimpse of this year's Goldrausch group - plus also drinks, snacks and our sparkling company. 

more info on Ortstermin Moabit here

Participating artists:

Alma Alloro
Lotta Bartoschewski
Samantha Bohatsch
Lena Marie Emrich
Anna Fiegen
Francisca Gómez
Gisèle Gonon
Agnė Juodvalkytė
Aneta Kajzer
Annelies Kamen
Soline Krug
Yeongbin Lee
Tomoko Mori
Kate-Hers Rhee
Silke Schwarz

Goldrausch Künstlerinnenprojekt

I'm very excited to announce that I have been selected for this year's Goldrausch Künstlerinnenprojekt here in Berlin. It's an honor to be part of this network that includes some of my favorite working artists. I am looking forward to spending this year with the 14 other women-who-make-stuff  in my cohort, culminating in a group exhibition in September 2018. Of course, more information to follow -

in the meanwhile, check us out on the internet here, facebook here or on instagram @goldrausch_kuenstlerinnen

Printmaking Special Residency at Arquetopia, Puebla

For the next four weeks (Jan 23 - Feb 28, 2017) I'll be in Puebla, Mexico as an artist in residence - working on a project about women artists making jokes and how to make fun of stuff with an etching press. I'm joined here by three other artists:

Anika Todd, George Dimitrov and Amira Rahim

Soundtrack to the residency:

Artist Talk // 45 Minute One-Liner

As part of the programming for the next GlogauAIR Open Studios coming up this weekend, I'll be giving a talk about my work, about humor and about not knowing the names for things. 

Joining me in this topic will be the artist duo Sam Hatfield & Fiona Skelton. Please join us this Saturday, December 10th at 4:30pm at GlogauAIR, Glogauerstr. 16, 10999, Berlin.

more information here

RSVP on facebook here.

Open Studios in the Dessauerstr. 24

All are welcome to drop by Dessauerstr. 24, Berlin between 17:00-22:00 on Friday, November 4th to see some work and drink some drinks.

RSVP on facebook here

Housewarming

with Claire Arctander, Zak Arctander, Brandon Alvendia, Bill Bippes, Mark Booth, Julia Fish, Jesus Gonzalez Flores, Jill Frank, Judith Geichman, Karolina Gnatowski, Lee Godie, Michelle Grabner, Karl Haendel, Jessica Hyatt, Carol Jackson, Justin H. Jackson, Alejandro Jimenez, Xavier Jimenez, Alex Jovanovich, Annelies Kamen, Michael Milano, John Neff, Laura Hart Newlon, Nicole Perez, Nathan Andrew Thomas, Jack Walls, Unknown, and more.

Opening Reception

Friday, September 16th - 6-9pm

ADDS DONNA

3252 W. North Avenue, Chicago, IL

RSVP on facebook here

more information here

Opening Reception

Tuesday, Sept. 13th - 6-10pm

GlogauAIR - Glogauerstr. 16 10999 Berlin

The artists in The Greatest Nonsense present you with a group of works that tell some jokes; about art, about sex, about discovery, about condiments.

Chuckleheads Exhibiting:

Ka Hee Jeong, Annelies Kamen, Clemens Klinkert, Zazzaro Otto

The Greatest Nonsense

13th - 18th September, 2016 (Berlin Art Week)

GlogauAIR

Glogauerstr. 16, 10999 Berlin