From 12 to 15 September 2024, the 11th edition of the POSITIONS Berlin Art Fair will take place in Hangars 6 and 7 at Tempelhof Airport.
Image above: POSITIONS Berlin Art Fair, 2023, photo Clara Wenzel-Theiler.
Artistic positions from 111 galleries from 24 countries will move into Hangars 6-7 at Tempelhof Airport this year, including six galleries from South Korea, which together with the special stand and culinary highlights will set this year’s country focus.
To mark this year’s country focus, the curated special exhibition ‘Spotlight on South Korea’ presents four young female artists from South Korea who studied in Germany and have lived and worked here ever since. The four positions, Jaeyun Moon, Jeiryung Lee, Sol Namgung and Suah Im, form an artistic bridge between the locations with their works. The nose, for example, as the sensory organ that is probably most closely linked to memories, is a recurring motif in Suah Im’s works. The artist incorporates the smell of garlic into her performances, creating an olfactory link to Korean cuisine. But her South Korean homeland does not always play a role in her artistic practice, does it? Can art be created completely independently of geographical influences and origins? Whether and to what extent do the two worlds flow into the works of the four artists? This is what we need to find out.
Participating galleries
(AV17) GALLERY
a|e Galerie
Galerie Judith Andreae
AOA;87
Aria Gallery
Artmida
Art Mûr
artnow Gallery
Art & Tonic
augsburg contemporary
Galerie Benden & Ackermann
Galerie Biesenbach
GALERIE ANDREAS BINDER
BRENNECKE FINE ART
Galerie Brockstedt
CHOI&CHOI Gallery
Galerie Commeter
DavisKlemmGallery
Galerie Horst Dietrich
Kunsthandel Draheim
DSC Gallery
EIGENHEIM
Emde Gallery
Galerie ERD
FeldbuschWiesnerRudolph
Galerie FILSER & GRÄF
Galerie Ricarda Fox
Galerie Friedmann-Hahn
FRSTV ART GROUP
G-ALLERY
GDM Contemporary
Geschwisterraum
GOLESTANI
Galerie Greulich
Gallery Gudmundsdottir
Galerie Mathias Güntner
Galerie Carolyn Heinz
Yvonne Hohner Contemporary
Galerie Holthoff
HOTO Galerie
Galerie Hübner & Hübner
IDOLON GALLERY
Galleria Immaginaria
galerie intershop
Galerie Michael Janssen
Jarmuschek + Partner
Jörg Jung / sgr a
Kang Contemporary
Bernhard Knaus Fine Art
KodlContemporary
GALLERY KOGURE
Galerie Inga Kondeyne
Galerie Kornfeld
galerie ulf larsson
Anna Laudel
galerie lauffer
LE GALLERY
Galerie Leuenroth
Jörg Maaß Kunsthandel
Māksla XO
Gallery Meno Niša
Hilgemann.Art
Galerie Martin Mertens
Galerie Met
mianki.Gallery
Micheko Galerie
Migrant Bird Space
MOB-ART studio
MOLSKI gallery
Moving Gallery
N Gallery
O ART PROJECT
ODP Galerie
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Kunsthandlung Osper
Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain
Overhead Gallery
PLATO Gallery
Post Modern Collection
Rasche Ripken
Reuter Bausch Art Gallery
Thole Rotermund Kunsthandel
Mikiko Sato Gallery
Galerie Schindler
SCHMALFUSS BERLIN
Von Schulthess Collection & Residency
SEOJUNG ART
Shukado+Scena
Galerie Sievi
SMUDAJESCHECK Galerie
Sotto 63
Station of Art
Galerie Barbara von Stechow
GALERIE TAMMEN
The Artists Gallery
ThisWeekendRoom
TSEKH
Malte Uekermann Kunsthandel
Galerie Tassilo Usner
Galerie Imke Valentien
Kate Vass Galerie
Vijion Art Gallery
GALERIE VON&VON
Galerie Watson
Galerie Fenna Wehlau
Galleri Weinberger Schandorff
Weserhalle
Wichtendahl Galerie
Yafteh Art Gallery
YUKI-SIS
Zaka Art
First impression: Tropical! The cacti, big cats, langurs, snakes and pelicans gather in tropical surroundings. Pink and blue shimmer in the twilight on the nearby water. There are ferns, palm trees, aloe vera and cacti. It sounds artificial, but it is. Jina Park paints a scene that is too perfect to be true. Sharp-edged, almost as if collaged, the animals sit in the over-stylised, tempera-painted nature. In the background, the colours flow into each other as softly and sweetly as candy floss. The artist stages her figures and objects as if on a stage. Again and again, sculptures reminiscent of ancient models take centre stage, sometimes headless, sometimes in contrapposto, sometimes dramatically bent backwards, their tight calves stretched out. Human figures are excluded. With her works, Jina Park creates a visual and technical field of tension between classical icon painting and a present that is plagued by exaggeration and threatens to suppress everything human and natural. On display at the stand of ThisWeekendRoom from Seoul.
Wearing a white robe and a red balaclava that completely covers her face, Carolina Bazo stands on a narrow strip of grass that separates the four lanes of a motorway. Whereby green strip is an exaggeration, there are only a few dry tufts growing at her feet. Cars and lorries whizz past to the left and right, the artist does not move actively, she only sways slightly from side to side from the pressure waves of the vehicles. Another scenario: Carolina Bazo stands in a mountainous, dry landscape. She is wearing a red jagged shape around her head, an imposing white hoop skirt and long red gloves. The deformed silhouette appears inorganic in the vast desert. Her red gloves clasp a tree, red liquid runs through a tube into her mouth. She spits. Bazo’s performances show how people harmonise with their surroundings and how they repel each other. As if the Triadic Ballet were being performed in the rainforest or the steppe. Man and nature? That doesn’t quite fit. A haunting work, performances like rituals. The performances can be seen on video and in photographs at O Art Project in Lima.
Pubic hair and shame share the word origin of shame and embarrassment. The feeling of shame towards the sexes has become established, but shame towards shame must go. This feminist message is demonstratively expressed in the works of Judith Miriam Escherlor. In delicate colours, vulvar and phallic shapes and hair from every part of the body, the artist’s installations and textile objects are motivated by a desire to challenge the prevailing taboo. Flowered knickers, vulval lips or phallic horseshoes – everything here is fine and silky. With Judith Miriam Escherlor’s works, visitors to the stand of the Intershop Gallery from Leipzig literally have the de-tabooing of the sexes before their eyes.
A digital tail whizzes past a group of ducks and geese, partially blurring their bodies. A bag of the Japanese corn snack Kyabetsu Tarō is pulled apart like an accordion. Yuka Numata’s images are disrupted, heavily pixelated and appear as if the screen has become stuck. They throw us back to the visual worlds of the 90s and 00s, back when we were still playing Sims 1, Pokémon, Snake and Super Mario. The only difference is that with Yuka Numata’s works we are not looking at a screen, but at an image that she has melted into a surface from countless plastic beads, so-called iron-on beads. Each bead is a pixel. The analogue literally merges with the digital. Numata’s themes are nature, affordability, capitalism, poverty, wealth, childhood, play, plastic and digitalisation – the fact that these aspects merge to create something beautiful only becomes credible with Yuka Numata’s works. They evoke a childlike joy, reminiscent of times before the consumer frenzy and the digital floods of everyday life. On show at Shukado+Scena from Tokyo.
WHEN?
Press Preview: Thursday, 12. September 2024
12-14 Uhr (with accreditation)
Professional Preview: Thursday, 12. September 2024
14-18 Uhr (only with VIP-Ticket)
Opening: Thursday, 12. September 2024
18-21 Uhr
Opening party: Thursday, 12. September 2024
21-23 Uhr
Opening hours:
Friday, 13. September 2024
12-14 Uhr VIP Hours
14-20 Uhr regular Opening hours
Saturday, 14. September 2024
11-19 Uhr regular opening hours
Sunday, 15. September 2024
11-18 Uhr regular opening hours
COSTS?
regular 20 EUR
reduced 10 EUR
Children and young people under the age of 18 have free admission
WHERE?
Flughafen Tempelhof
Hangar 6 – 7
Tempelhofer Damm 45
12101 Berlin
