IT’S THE END OF THE WORLD (FOR REAL)
Kino Moviemento, Berlin
Video Art Screening, Tuesday July 2, 7 pm
Are we creating our own hell on this planet? Have we lost touch with our traditions? Are we creating depressed robots? Are all creatures equally lonely? Are we turning all of nature into products? Should we merge our consciousness with technology? Do we have too many images of the planet to still see it? Should we mine ourselves more effectively for data to succeed?
With works by Neozoon, Alisi Telengut, Elisa Jule Braun, Ilyn Wong, Sebastian Acker, Dagmar Schürrer, Nicolás Rupcich, Ale Bachlechner. Selected by Clemens Wilhelm.
AUCTION
Bidding will take place online from April 24, 18:00 CEST to May 5, 23:59 CEST, or in person via QR codes in the gallery.
Click the image to place your bid.
Sebastian Acker
All You Can’t See While Staring at Me (No. 1)
7 x 5 x 15 cm
Solid copper
Up for auction is the first work in an ongoing series of objects crafted from the raw materials used in the batteries, electronics, and screens of our smartphones. Engaging in a chemical reaction with the polished copper surface, the artist’s fingerprints are permanently imprinted, thus turning the work into a unique record of the hand movements which he performed for the video accompanying the object.
YARDT SALE VOL. 1
SAP Space, Berlin
24.04.- 01.05.2024
Yardt Sale Vol. 1 is SAP Sace’s first annual fundraiser exhibition, featuring works by 23 Berlin-based artists.
The Exhibition is part of Sellerie Weekend, Berlin’s Program for Project Spaces during Gallery Weekend
PANEL DISCUSSION
Galerie Schloss Biesdorf, Berlin
06.10.2023, 4pm
Please join us for a panel discussion marking the end of Residenzpflicht, an artist residency which took place across ten Berlin refugee shelters. With Sebastian Acker, Mehran Behrouzfaghani, Kati Gausmann, Benno Hinkes, Ricarda Mieth and Britta Schubert, hosted by Stefka Ammon.
LONG NIGHT OF MUSEUMS
Berlin
26.08.2023, 7pm–12am
Galerie Schloss Biesdorf invites you to join a guided tour through Residenzpflicht I-X as part of the Long Night of Museums Berlin.
RESIDENZPFLICHT I-X
Galerie Schloss Biesdorf, Berlin
Group exhibition, 25.06.- 06.10.2023
The exhibition RESIDENZPFLICHT I-X brings together works of the artists-in-residence who lived and worked in 10 newly built modular refugee accommodations in Berlin in 2019 and 2022.
SELLERIE WEEKEND
Berlin
28.04.- 30.04.2023
As part of Berlin’s Program for Project Spaces during Gallery Weekend, SAP Space will be open on Saturday and Sunday from 2 - 8pm.
BEFORE, DURING, AFTER
SAP Space, Berlin
2-Person exhibition, 26.04.- 14.05.2023
Before, During, After is a contemplation on time, nature, and rhythms. It brings together two Berlin-based artists — Sebastian Acker and Nina Maria Küchler, whose works are, in their own ways, documentations of timekeeping — revealing moments in which nature oscillates between foreground and background, past and future.
SEBASTIAN ACKER: PLEASE KEEP THE DOOR CLOSED
Kunstverein Dresden, Germany
Solo exhibition, 09.11.2022 - 31.01.2023
For the first solo exhibition in his former hometown, the artist transforms Kunstverein Dresden with a site-specific installation featuring Can’t See the Wood for the Trees, a video he has recorded on the Trans-Siberian Railway in Russia. The invisible goods and raw materials hurtling past in his video meet the materials of the empty exhibition space, which have their own unknown origin.
20 SECONDS FOR ART AWARD
Vienna Viennale, Austria
03.011.2022
Sebastian Acker has received the 20 Seconds for Art Award at Vienna Viennale. According to the jury, his video Trans “manages to pose numerous questions about consumption, transport logistics and globalisation through minimalist formal language.” The video award is an initiative by Infoscreen and KÖR - Kunst im Öffentlichen Raum Wien.
EDITIONS NO. II
Uta Stabler, Dresden, Germany
Group exhibition, 15.11.2022
Curated by Stefan Krauth, Editions No. II brings together German artists working with editions and series: Sebastian Acker, Lisa Maria Baier, Elise Beutner, Jan Brokof, Tony Franz, Sara Hoppe, Johanna Rüggen.
Please join us for the opening on November 15.
SCREENINGS ON PUBLIC TRANSPORT, AUSTRIA
KÖR - Kunst im Öffentlichen Raum Wien
Daily on public transport, June - August 2022
Sebastian Acker’s video Trans will be shown on more than 3400 screens this summer. Recorded on the Trans-Siberian Railway in Russia, the video brings the unseen supply chains of raw materials and goods to the screens of Austrian buses, trams and underground stations. The screening is part of a public art project by Infoscreen and KÖR - Kunst im Öffentlichen Raum Wien.
DAHAI.ART: SEBASTIAN ACKER
Interview
» Sebastian Acker's Extraction series takes Satellite imagery – usually used by mining corporations to detect resources – to mimic, lament and reorder the way we view the natural environment. We talk to him about his latest project and the necessity for contemporary artist's to be more aware of materials and where they come from. «
EXTRACTION SERIES
Dahai.Art
The artist’s latest series Extraction (Atacama Desert), in which he converted digital satellite data into physical works by manually applying minerals onto copper plates, has found its way back into the digital space. On Dahai.art, it can now be viewed and collected both in physical and digital form.
BOOK SIGNING SESSION
Paris Photo, Grand Palais Ephémère
11.11.2021, 2pm
Sebastian Acker’s first artist’s book, Traces of Other Places, will be presented at Paris Photo this year. Please join us for a signature session with the artist at Kerber Berlin, Booth SE25.
BOOK REVIEW
Süddeutsche Zeitung
16.09.2021
» When the news spread that a copy of the picturesque market town of Hallstatt was to be built in the Chinese province of Guangdong, it triggered two types of reactions in German-speaking countries: offended aggression and disbelieving ridicule. Sebastian Ackers book Traces of Other Places collapses both thought constructs swiftly and decisively. «
Stefan Fischer
Süddeutsche Zeitung
SEBASTIAN ACKER IN CONVERSATION WITH DUNCAN BALLANTYNE-WAY
Black Flamingo, Berlin
26.06.2021, 3pm
Please join us for a conversation with Sebastian Acker and art editor Duncan Ballantyne-Way to mark the launch of the artist’s first book, Traces of Other Places.
SEBASTIAN ACKER: TRACES OF OTHER PLACES
Artist’s book
Kerber Berlin, 2021
Traces of Other Places unites photos, film stills, and travel notes from an often surreal-looking journey through China’s copy-laden landscape, where not only have they erected sections of European cities, but also built a replica of an entire Austrian village.
The book was supported by Stiftung Kunstfonds and includes texts by art historian Annette Tietenberg and architecture writer Sylvia Chan.
RESIDENZPFLICHT
Haus der Statistik, Berlin
Group exhibition, 19.09.2020
The artist group msk7 presents works which have been realised during the first instalment of Residenzpflicht, a scholarship program in which artists live and work with the residents of a Modular Accommodation for Refugees (MUF) in Berlin.
TRANSPRESENCE
Studio 4413, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Exhibition, screenings and talks, 09.12.2019, 7:30 - 11 pm
Transpresence brings artists from the Kontext Residency program, which took place in Siberia earlier this year, to Studio 4413 in Saint Petersburg. The event is curated by Mariya Dimitrieva and generously supported by Dekabristen e.V. Berlin.
ARTIST TALK
Modular Accommodation for Refugees, Berlin, Germany
Wartenberger Straße 120, 11.10.2019, 5pm
You are cordially invited to join us for an artist talk with Sebastian Acker, marking the end of his Residenzpflicht residency. The artist is interested in the refugee shelter as a transitional place, a temporary home. The green screen he set up on the courtyard enabled photo and video works in which the background can be digitally removed and substituted by other places.
RESIDENZPFLICHT SCHOLARHIP
A project by msk7, awarded by the Berlin Senate
Modular Accommodations for Refugees, Berlin, Germany
Sebastian Acker is the 5th holder of the Residenzpflicht Scholarship. Initiated by the artist group msk7 and supported by the Berlin Senate, the aim of the project is to temporarily open the self-contained refugee shelters to approaches and developments in contemporary art. 10 Modular Accommodations for Refugees (MUF) in Berlin will be extended alternately and temporarily by an additional mobile module, in which 10 international grant-holders will live and work artistically for one month.
FUNERAL OF PRISTINE WILDERNESS
Bolshoe Goloustnoe, Siberia, Russia
Participatory event, 03.08.2019
Join us for a two-day festival with the artists who participated in the Kontext Residency program in Siberia’s Pribaikalsky National Park. On August 3, Sebastian Acker invites you to take part in Funeral of Pristine Wilderness, a ceremonial procession into the forest to commemorate the death of nature that is untouched by humans. Meeting: 3pm outside the church.
Kontext is curated by Mariya Dmitrieva and supported by Dekabristen e.V.
MAY THE BRIDGES I BURN LIGHT THE WAY AT MANIFESTA
Artviewer.org
Exhibition feature, 11.11.2018
» May the Bridges I Burn Light the Way evolves through conversations, screenings and performative interventions at Cre.Zi Plus, a daily changing group exhibition at Ballaró Market, and the distribution of the street newspaper Arts of the Working Class, a tool of integration between the citizens of Palermo and art professionals arriving to reflect on arts and society during the opening days of Manifesta 12. «
MANIFESTA 12: MAY THE BRIDGES I BURN LIGHT THE WAY
Manifesta 12, Palermo, Italy
Group exhibition, 13.06.2018
We are happy to invite you to Exile X Summer Camp: May the Bridges I Burn Light the Way. Curated by María Inés Plaza Lazo, in collaboration with Alina Kolar, Dalia Maini and Exile Gallery, the exhibition is part of the collateral program for Manifesta 12 in Palermo. Sebastian Acker’s installation Remotely Native can be discovered throughout the Cantieri Culturali della Zisa quarter.
SEBASTIAN ACKER: ENNIS HOUSE
Black Flamingo at Fahrbereitschaft, Berlin
Solo exhibition, opening 24.04.2018, 7 - 9pm
Please join us for the opening of Ennis House during Berlin Gallery Weekend on April 4, 7 - 9pm. Ennis House is a video by Sebastian Acker about digital representations of one of the most extensively used film locations in the world, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Ennis House in Los Angeles. The video creates a new narrative from found footage of over 20 movies, commercials, games and 3d renderings, which have represented the building or its interiors since the 1930’s.
THE STARTING POINT THAT WILL ALSO BE THE EXIT
The Souvenir Museum, Paris
Screening, 27.01.2018, 6pm
Please join us for a screening of Mountain Village, a surreal journey through copycat towns in China and their European originals. Blurring time and place, the video ultimately questions what is considered original and copy, authentic and fake.
DIVING INTO A TEACUP
Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
Screening, 17.01.2018, 6:30pm
Mountain Village by Sebastian Acker & Phil Thompson will be screened at Institute of Contemporary Arts London as part of London Short Film Festival.
» The surreal world of copycat towns in China, the hopes and fears revealed in a garden of memories, the tense last stages of a Balkans refugee route, and how a spatula lost in space could create a cascade of collisions for planet Earth. The microscopic lens reveals much about who we are in this diverse selection of new films. «
MOUNTAIN VILLAGE
Neuer Ravensburger Kunstverein, Germany
Solo exhibition, 24.11. - 10.12.2017
We are pleased to invite you to Mountain Village, an exhibition by Sebastian Acker and Phil Thompson. The artists show works from their often surreal-looking journey through China’s copy-laden landscape, where not only have they erected sections of European cities, but also built a replica of an entire Austrian village. By way of comparing and juxtaposing the Chinese copycat towns with their European originals, the artists are ultimately questioning the Western obsession with originality and authenticity.