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PARCELLA - group exhibition
opening: 27th september 2007, 8 p.m.
27.09. - 10.18.2007.

PARCELLA was a series of exhibitions in Berlin Stadtmitte, on an enormous desolate plot of ground (a no-man’s-land bordered by the former Wall). The project was realised in the scope of a new initiative, the Sculpture Park Berlin_Centre (Skulpturenpark Berlin_Zentrum) public space art project, by a collaboration of Hungarian and German artists.

Skulpturenpark Berlin_Zentrum: www.skulpturenpark.org

The location has a fateful history. A forgotten no-man’s-land and militarized zone, for decades it divided West and East geographically and politically, as well as ideologically. Since the demolition of the wall, this area has been mostly out of use, reminding one of Europe’s dividedness, and now offering new interpretations. All the while, the place has given the impression of being an intact land, while its historical and current significance is reinterpreted by each artistic intervention.

The jury selected three Hungarian and three German artists and artist duos and a Palestinian/Iranian artist duo from among the invited applicants of the PARCEL project to create works specifically designed for the location during the summer of 2007, in the genres of installation, performance or intervention. The goal of the project was to extend the concept of sculpture to such strategies of interpreting space that would complement the existing historical and social layers with a new, artistic layer, without obscuring those.

The seven selected applications are as follows (original titles):

Daniel Knorr: 1 Year Warranty / 1 Jahr Garantie
Miklós Mécs : 43 proposals, 1 month residency
Hajnal Németh : Truck Facing Eastwards
Folke Köbberling & Martin Kaltwasser: Turn it one more time
Ayreen Anastas / Rene Gabri: We Draw Our Hope On Berlin
Wiebke Groesch / Frank Metzger: New Borders / Neue Grenze
Katarina Sevic: Social Motions

Further invited applicants are:

Diego Castro, István Csákány & Beatrix Szörényi, Anna Fabricius & Tibor Gyenis, András Huszár, Tamás Kaszás, Zsolt Keserue & Levente Polyák, Krisztián Kristóf, Ingeborg Lockemann, Maki Ueda, Kathrin Mayer, Nevin Aladag, Yeliz Palak, Márta Rácz, Anikó Szövényi, Michelle Teran, Edwin van der Heide, Csaba Vándor


The goal of this exhibition is to present the entire process of the PARCELLA - Sculpture Park Berlin_Centre (Skulpturenpark Berlin_Zentrum) project that was realised by the collaboration of KUNSTrePUBLIK e.V. and Lumen Photography Foundation. The exhibition focuses primarily on the seven realised public actions, while making available the detailed introduction of all applications submitted by the invited artists.

The artists were invited to apply and to realise their projects by four personalities from the German and four from the Hungarian art scene: Marius Babias (independent curator, Berlin), Balázs Beöthy (C3 - Center for Culture and Communication, Budapest), Miklós Erhardt (artist, Budapest), Stephen Kovats (V2_: Institute for Unstable Media, Rotterdam), Annette Maechtel (independent curator, Berlin), Edit Molnár (Kunsthalle, Budapest), Kati Simon (Kunsthalle, Budapest), Bettina Steinbruegge (Halle für Kunst, Lüneburg).

Project coordinators:
Matthias Einhoff, Philip Horst, Gergely László, Markus Lohmann, Harry Sachs, Daniel Seiple

Curators of the Budpest exhibition:
Gergely László & Kati Simon

This project was realised in the scope of the Bipolar German-Hungarian Cultural Projects - an initiative of the German Federal Cultural Foundation (Kulturstiftung des Bundes).

Many thanks to Videospace Budapest!