MINA MANIA – HVW8 Berlin

MINA MANIA
TWISTS AND TURNS

Opening on March 8, International Women’s Day.

HVW8 Berlin is pleased to announce TWISTS AND TURNS an exhibition by German artist MINA MANIA.

Just like a dance, life consists of twists and turns.
Constantly in the move, changing, transforming.

HVW8 Berlin and MINA MANIA invite you to dance with Nana and explore the power of this iconic female figure.

For more information please contact
manuel@hvw8.com

HVW8 Gallery Berlin

HVW8 Gallery Berlin is thrilled to announce the upcoming group exhibition HVW8 SELECTION featuring the works of Erin Garcia, Monja Gentshow, Julia Gröning, 44 Flavours, Eike König, & Marok and Isaac Zavale.

Exhibition soft opens Sept 13, 2–7 pm
Opening: Saturday, Sept 16, 4–8 pm

The opening of HVW8 SELECTION coincides with Berlin Art week and marks the beginning of the autumn season of programming at the gallery.

The exhibition features artists who have previously collaborated with HVW8 as well as introduces newer artists to showcase the importance of the community that carries our cultural heritage into the future. As HVW8 begins to celebrate nearly 25 years of art programming between Los Angeles and Berlin and beyond, the emphasis on reflection grows and the excitement of what the next years will look like increases with each new collaboration.

For further information please contact: manuel@hvw8.com

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#ErinGarcia #MonjaGentschow #JuliaGröning #44Flavours #EikeKönig #Marok #IsaacZavale

THE NEW YESTERDAY – HVW8 Berlin

THE NEW YESTERDAY
HVW8 Berlin, Linienstr. 161, 10115 Berlin
Opening: February 10th, 6-9 pm
Exhibition: February 11th – April 15th
Opening hours: Tue-Sat, 2-7 pm

HVW8 Gallery Berlin is pleased to present THE NEW YESTERDAY, a group exhibition featuring artists:
44 Flavours, Sebastian Haslauer, Daniel M Thurau, Sascha Missfeldt, Stefan Rinck, Jaybo Monk and SuperBlast.

“… for each beginning bears a special magic that nurtures living and bestows protection.” Hermann Hesse

With the group exhibition THE NEW YESTERDAY, HVW8 Gallery Berlin celebrates new beginnings in challenging times.
The ever changing landscapes, physical and psychological, shifting to new manifestations. Resting for a singular moment, to transform into another the next. How does it feel to make this first step into thein that lies ahead and how do we reaco it, in a leap of faith. The artist is by nature repeating this process, with every new work. It becomes a part of the process.

Selected works from the artists’ most recent series are shown together for the first time. And we´re off to new beginnings.

#HVW8berlin @hvw8gallery

Monja Gentschow – Kurzurlaub, Opens Nov. 17th, 6 – 9pm, Berlin


the highlights of my childhood days were
the family’s all-inclusive tours
my sister and i would browse through catalogues
and select the hotel (according to the pool)
endless seas of parasols, a poolside,
colorful drinks from the hotel bar,
turquoise water and 90ies chairs became
the symbols of my longings
head vacation?
ignoring the news because too sensitive
nowadays, if we need a short break
we escape into the vacations of others on instagram
italy, dolce vita – LA, palms and pools –
mykonos, parasols and cliffs
a time of relaxation for me and
the audience
the beautiful, carefree and simple
inspired by your holiday picture

Monja Gentschow is an artist and illustrator, born and raised in Berlin. She studied at Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee and Universität der Künste. She crafts all artworks for the music label Keinemusik, illustrated a column for the newspaper Zeit and designed her own set of playing cards amongst many other projects.

ANGELUS NOVUS – GROUP EXHIBIT

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ANGELUS NOVUS – GROUP EXHIBIT

OPENING
September 14, 2022, 6 – 9 pm

Exhibition Runs until October 29th.

HVW8 Gallery Berlin is pleased to present Angelus Novus, a group exhibition featuring the works of Amalia Vekri, Aristeidis Lappas, Elias Kafouros, Gregory Shimada, Jessica Williams, Joram Schön, Marley Van Peebles and Negashi Armada, with an opening reception on Wednesday September 14th.

In this exhibition we examine the work of a group of artists who are based in Athens, Berlin and Los Angeles, and who work primarily in figurative drawing and painting styles that explore cultural and personal spaces of imagination and reflection. The geographic specificity of the selection of artists in this exhibition serves as a means to represent the passing of time through the geographic space of the West.

The title of the exhibition, Angelus Novus is a reference to the mono print of the same name by Swiss / German artist Paul Klee. The artwork, which depicts an angel flying through space is often cited in the essays of German philosopher and art theorist Walter Benjamin and used as a metaphor to describe the passing of time.

“A Klee painting named Angelus Novus shows an angel looking as though he is about to move away from something he is fixedly contemplating. His eyes are staring, his mouth is open, his wings are spread. This is how one pictures the angel of history. His face is turned toward the past. “
-Walter Benjamin, Theses on the Philosophy of History

We find modern interpretations and ways to apply the metaphor of the Angelus Novus to our own respective place and time, as we follow the Angel of History through the present into the future.

Gallery & media contact:
info@hvw8.com
HVW8.com
IG: @hvw8gallery

HVW8 Berlin
Linienstraße 161, 10115
Berlin, Germany

Berlin Photo Week – DEAD END STREET

Dear friends from Berlin! Tomorrow we are going to open “Dead End Street” exhibition together with @manuelosterholt at the @hvw8gallery from 6pm, Linienstrasse 161

HVW8 Gallery Berlin and Berlin Photo Week are pleased to present DEAD END STREET, a double pop-up photography exhibition featuring Nikita Teryoshin and Manuel Osterholt.

With the work “I‘ve never been to Russia“, which began in 2019 and shows Russia going astray, Teryoshin deals with his homeland, which is gradually slipping into fascism. Whether religious parades or Victory Day in the pouring rain with slogans like “We could repeat it!“ on the red square, studios of propaganda tv shows or the notorious “Pavlov‘s dog“ under museum glass in St.Petersburg, which stands for classical conditioning, Teryoshin is always looking for suitable motifs that describe his feeling towards the zeitgeist. However, an always critical photo-documentary examination leads to a dead end on February 24th, 2022. Teryoshin posts a picture of a burning Russian passport under the caption “Not in my Name“ and decides not to return to his homeland for the time being in protest against the war.

LIVE from Berlin Saturday 19. 09

5th edition of our monthly broadcast with @hotelradioparis this Saturday. Live from the @hvw8gallery Berlin 📡📡📡

Featuring @dis_fig @raykandinski @maryisonacid @auco_co @peter_booran

@marlonbeatt @tstrickland716 @selecta_k7 @saucepapi.trunkz and

@nicoadomako B2B @kanucia

lock in via Hotelradioparis.com

Artwork by @flohettenbach

Listen to previous recordings here!

Hotel Einhundert at HVW8 Berlin

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We’re hosting @hotelradioparis for a day !
@100einhundert radio broadcast, live from our Berlin Gallery feat. @shes_drunk@tuananh__@moneyama@duals1m b2b @23v1n@run_p @selecta_k7@c_h_e_n_y_i_n_n and the Einhundert Soundsystem (@kanucia@low.vision and @nicoadomako)

Lock in via hotellradioParis.com (please note that the gallery won’t be open to the public) 📡
Artwork by @flohettenbach

Opening Friday Nov 1st – Manuel Osterholt (SUPERBLAST)

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Exhibition Opening
Friday, 1st of November 2019
6:00pm – 10:00pm
HVW8 Berlin – Linienstraße 161, 10115 Berlin

In bursts of neon paint, Osterholt configures symbolic odes to our human condition and mortality. Through his use of vivid and unnatural colors, elements of nature, the celestial and the otherworldly are transfigured into warning signs, as if illuminated by the prophetic glow from an explosion elsewhere. Like a heatwave in fall, the paintings whisper age-old fables in the flicker of pink-orange candle light: an ancient cycle of birth and destruction binds humanity and the natural world. Osterholt also presents a series of ceramic masks which reference both the traditions of ancient ceremony and ritual, and hiding in plain sight. These themes are unified in the glow of a lightbox installation, which features in the show as a symbolic gesture towards the tension between light and dark.

While these works possess Osterholt’s signature iconography, the artist embraces a looser mode of expression than his usually-refined graphic style. Painterly strokes and sketchiness signal a renewed urgency in his message, as well as a playfulness which refracts remembered summers of his youth among the olive trees in Greece. The lucid mythologies encoded in the works also instigate a dialogue with the viewer about sacred tales of morality. Framed by the title’s impossible endeavour of ‘measuring the sky’, Osterholt’s work brings into question the role of the ego in the imbalance between good and evil. Through the mirroring of forms such as raindrops and flames, a microcosm emerges for the stardust from which we came, and that to which we’ll return.

Text by Brit Seaton

The Good, the Purple and the Weird, a group exhibition Berlin

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Exhibition Opening
Wednesday, 11 September 2019
6:00pm – 10:00pm
HVW8 Berlin – Linienstraße 161, 10115 Berlin

HVW8 Gallery Berlin is pleased to present The Good, the Purple and the Weird, a group exhibition exploring care, spirituality and experimentation in contemporary creation. The show finds connections between ideas in paint, drawings and ceramics, bringing together recent works by seven artists from Berlin and Brussels: Sascha Brylla, Paul Ferens, Maxime Fragnon, Annabell Häfner, Viktoria Maliar, Jacopo Pagin and François Patoue. Embracing their diverse aesthetics and methods of production, the exhibition reveals small truths about common references for describing memories, atmospheres and intimacies.

The Good, the Purple and the Weird is an offering of dreamlike visions, exhibiting a new visual language of signs and symbols. Among the selected works, Jacopo Pagin’s drawings are embedded with mythological references to vitality, and explore patterns in colour pastel which recall the textures and anatomy of trees. Earthly motifs also surface in the work of Maxime Fragnon, the naturalist of the ensemble, whose mixed media ceramics are infused with found elements of flowers and pebbles. In the scratched tempera painting by Sascha Brylla, created with the sgraffito technique as part of his Hunting Scene series, wild animal subjects are both revealed and disguised in their environment. Such relics of remembered and imagined scenery are also present in Annabell Häfner’s hazy hotel interiors, which meditate on the ambience and melancholia of impersonal space. The abstract landscapes of Paul Ferens nestle between real and impossible environments, and Victoria Maliar’s silhouettes emerge like spirits in a midnight jungle, with both artists summoning the psychology of dreams and possible realms of the subconscious. François Patoue’s oil paintings are studies of deep, passionate colour, created with chemical reactions that guide his media to transform and reveal itself on the canvas.

The Good, the Purple and the Weird is curated by Agathe André de Tremontels.

Text by Brit Seaton

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‘Beirut Youth’ Exhibition at HVW8 Berlin

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HVW8 Gallery and adidas Originals present:

BEIRUT YOUTH –
GOGY ESPARZA & JEY PERIE

Opening: Friday, July 5, 6-10 pm
Show: July 6 – August 3, 2019

HVW8 Gallery Berlin presents Beirut Youth – an immersive, multimedia installation of Jey Perie and Gogy Esparza’s experiences while in Beirut, Lebanon.

The duo arrived in August 2016, with little more than a tentative plan to recount the lives of the city’s youth, from the affluent to the disenfranchised. Honest, raw, sensitive; the exhibition crystallizes the emotion they felt there, and in its people. The beauty and blood of its pulse, the pain and fruits of its history. Though war-torn and fractured, the juxtaposition of such diversity in cultures, religions and opinions breed its chaos, seductively, beautifully, the way only a Beruti enchantress could.

Esparza photographed these images exclusively on 35mm film in August 2016, and on a second trip in March 2017 (over a total of 20 days). He also shot digital video, and constructed four short films on he and Perie’s experiences.

Beirut Youth has created physical extensions of the project via its photography book including all exhibition images, and a tee shirt commemorating the history and culture of the City. 50% of proceeds from these sales will be donated directly to Shatila Refugee Camp’s CYC Youth Center in Southern Beirut. Initially set-up in 1949 for displaced Palestinians, the camp is also home for over 6,000 Syrian Refugees since the start of the 2011 Syrian Civil War. Donations will go towards providing CYC’s children with educational materials, stationary, uniforms and sneakers for the center’s youth football program. You can also donate directly through the GoFundMe link found on the site: www.beirutyouth.com

After premiering the exhibition in New York City on June 2017, Beirut Youth has also exhibited in Dubai, Tokyo and Los Angeles. The duo hand delivered donations to CYC in Shatila summer 2018, and closed out with the homecoming installation in Beirut.

GOGY ESPARZA

(b. 1987) is a New York City-based artist who concentrates in fine art, photography, and video.His project, El Vacîo (2012-13) featured a photography book published by Dashwood Books, and accompanying exhibitions with Comme Des Garçons in Berlin and the Wayward Gallery in London. Esparza has also exhibited at Test Gallery (Copenhagen), SO Gallery (Tokyo), NO ROMANCE Gallery (NYC), Know-Wave Gallery (NYC), AUTO BODY (NYC/MIAMI). Esparza has collaborated with brands such as Supreme, and his work has been featured in publications such as ARTFORUM, Purple Diary, Interview, Richardson Magazine, VICE Creators Project, i-D, Dazed, Ollie, and Hypebeast.

JEY PERIE

Born in the south of France in 1984, Jey has lived in Barcelona, Hong Kong and Tokyo for extended periods and now resides in New York. His network of friends and partners sprawl far and wide, with roots in all corners of culture.

Perie ́s passion for travel and the exchange of cultures is what drives his curiosity. As the Creative Director of Kinfolk, he uses his travel to influence and guide his work. He also consults for several Japanese labels including Bedwin & The Heartbreakers, and has helped expand the brand’s presence outside of Japan with global collaborations such as Converse, adidas originals and Stussy.

Perie currently directs The Kinfolk Store and their in-house label. Over the last decade Jey Perie has been credited for introducing several cult Japanese labels to the US market and also for his work around soccer and the sport’s relationship with Fashion. To that regard, he is currently working alongside soccer institution FC Barcelona, Nike, Adidas and Stone Island to promote soccer culture in the US.

 

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HVW8 at Berlin Gallery Weekend 2019

HVW8 Gallery and adidas Originals present:

SELECTIONS

MARK GONZALES (FOWER PLOWER)
& ERIN D. GARCIA (GRAND PRIX)

Berlin Gallery Weekend 2019
Opening: Friday, April 26, 6-10 pm
Saturday and Sunday, April 27 and 28, 12 pm – 8 pm
Exhibition: April 27th – June 15th

For Gallery Weekend 2019, HVW8 Gallery Berlin presents a special exhibition of veteran artists Mark Gonzales and Erin D. Garcia. Selected works from the artists’ most recent series, namely Gonzales’s Fower Plower and Garcia’s Grand Prix, are shown for the first time together in Berlin. HVW8 Gallery also welcomes visitors to a salon-style retrospective of the HVW8 collection, including works by Jerry Hsu, Lisa Leone and Josep Maynou & Friends.

MARK GONZALES – Based in New York, skateboarder and artist Mark Gonzales first exhibited with HVW8 in 2013. In summer 2017, Gonzales debuted his first solo show Fower Plower at HVW8 Los Angeles, comprising a selection of paintings that investigate ideas of color theory, the humor and geometry of Paul Klee, the graphic/ non-graphic qualities of Donald Baechler, semiotics, theology—and, of course, classic floral themes.

The paintings are luminous and alive and crackle with movement—fittingly Gonzales is a dancer, in the tradition of Merce Cunningham or Trisha Brown, but on wheels. His teenage years in 1980s Los Angeles were spent traversing the streets which by proxy became his moving canvas. He earned a reputation as a pioneer of modern skateboarding—a master, albeit one not bound by flawlessness or precision, but the anarchy afforded only after achieving true mastery. It was as if he haphazardly broke the laws of nature, causing time and space to bend to him and leaving behind him a wake of influential agitation.

His art, like his poetry, is not separate from his skating. Gonzales’s canvases are filled with painterly technique honed over years of drawing and painting, but they also exhibit a shambolic quality; the works are equal parts precise and imprecise. This particular body is inspired by the disappointment he felt when his business partner “sold out” in the early 1990s, the faces are bursting with bitterness. They are painted-on fake smiles, cheerful in the face of misery and embarrassment. Years later, however, the harsh cynicism has soft- ened, and the power of the smiles seems to have cracked the regret. Indeed, Gonzales seems to be saying, flowers, grown in even the harshest of conditions, can have an immutable healing power.

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Acrylic on Canvas
16h x 12w in
40.64h x 30.48w cm

ERIN D. Top Recommended Australian Online Casinos – i-casinos.net. GARCIA – In 2013, Los Angeles based artist Erin D. Garcia showed his first of four exhibitions at HVW8 Los Angeles. This selection of paintings are from his most recent body of work Grand Prix which debuted at HVW8 Los Angeles Winter of 2018. This is the inaugural exhibition of Garcia’s work at HVW8 Berlin and the first time his paintings have been shown in Germany.

Upon first glance, Grand Prix tempts one to see it as a radical departure from Garcia’s previous works. The artist has thus far engaged in an exploration of deeply primary elements—the repetition and arrangement of shapes and colors —resisting any representational imagery. To date, Garcia’s work has been a joyful exercise in the most ethereal yet immediate aspects of human cognition. In Grand Prix we are confronted with some images that shock the imagination, and possibly give occasion to rescale our understanding of the artist’s earlier output.

These new iterations of objective drawings and text are alongside pieces that clearly continue the exploration of shape, color, and process that identifies Garcia’s work. In addition, assemblies of drawings structured together push all these ideas further. Contextually the new pieces read as an extension of previous studies—newly representational, yes—but in the unmistakable idiom developed by the artist over the past handful of years.

Garcia has moved past ‘process + limitation’ into full-blown methodology, a subtle but distinct operation that is a delight to witness. His stated aim of “creating compelling compositions using simple techniques and forms” has developed into an eye with which nearly anything can be seen.

The title of the collection itself, Grand Prix, plays on curious associations and arrives at a beautiful paradox. Intially conjuring motor sports racing — the apex of aggressive competition, opulence, and the guzzling of fossil fuels— the collection is actually populated with plants and flowers, rhythmic shapes, and colorful gradations. Grand Prix is certainly a meditation on the ‘grand prize’, but its images and ideas of victory are decidedly non-zero sum. The escape provided by these rose repetitions, geometric insinuations, and the freedom found in Garcia’s methodology all seem to suggest that a world is possible in which we all win.

Text by Jimmy Jolliff

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Erin Garcia Still Life #1 c, 2018 Acrylic on canvas 48h x 36w in 121.92h x 91.44w cm

Gallery & media contact HVW8 Gallery Berlin, Linienstraße 161, 10115 Berlin
Jenny Ames
+49 (0)177–14 28 588 jenny@hvw8.com
Manuel Osterholt
+49 (0)172–76 72 718 manuel@hvw8.com

Supported by adidas Originals – Refreshments by Warsteiner

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HVW8 BERLIN | JOSEP MAYNOU ‘LE LUCKY’

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HVW8 BERLIN | JOSEP MAYNOU ‘LE LUCKY’

Opening: Saturday, February 16 7:00-10:00pm
Special Programming: February 17, 18, 22, 23

Exhibition Hours: February 20–March 30, 2019, Wednesday to Friday 2-7pm, Saturday 12-6pm
Free Admission

HVW8 Gallery Berlin is pleased to present LE LUCKY, a fictional and functioning bar created by Josep Maynou, opening Saturday, February 16th. As a celebration of love, friendship and the avant-garde, LE LUCKY is the Catalonian artist’s tribute to his thirteen years in Berlin, as well as a bittersweet goodbye to the city. The exhibition signifies a full circle for Maynou, who during his first year in Berlin worked as a bartender in Berlin’s Mitte neighborhood, nearby to HVW8 Berlin. Through the element of collaboration, the artist establishes the gallery as a site of fortuitous social interaction: he has invited fifty of his creative friends to contribute to the installation with performances, artwork and music, programmed throughout the show’s one-month duration. As captured by its title, the exhibition is symbolic of good fortune in social and occupational relations, initiating a chance for new beginnings and exchanges.

LE LUCKY
Bernhard Rappold
Ana Alenso
Pere Llobera
Elise Lammer
La Folie 8
Felipe Talo
Felix Leon Westner
Cécile di Giovanni
Victor Jaenada
Bernat Daviu
Isa Toledo
Caique Tizzi
Stephen Kent
Sol Calero
Dafna Maimon
Lorenzo Sandoval
Leah Dixon
Charles Benjamin
John Holten (BDP)
Eli Cortiñas
Cibelle Cavalli Bastos
Natália de Assis
Niels Trannois
Jakup Ferri
Ethan Hayes-Chute
Christopher Kline
Sophie Erlund
Kelly Tissot
Charles Benjamin
Ricardo Trigo
Hanne Lippard
Maximilian Kirmse
Nina Kurtela
Alejandro Lorente
Isabel Lewis
Joel Munné
Andrew Birk
Juan-Miguel Pozo
Coco Magnusson
Adriano Costa
Natasja Loutchko CAVE3000
Joan Saló
Blanca Miró Skoudy
Oliver Roura
Oozing Gloop
Aurora Sander
Jessica Lauren Elizabeth Taylor
Jenny Ames
Mika Manke
Josep Maynou

Happy New Year from HVW8 – 2018 Year in Review

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Happy New Year from HVW8!

As we head into an amazing line up for 2019, we look back at all the incredible exhibits, installations and performances from HVW8 Los Angeles, Berlin and beyond this past year.

We were lucky to have a number of exhibits from an international group of artists such as Gogy Esparza, Inès Longevial, Atiba Jefferson, Olimpia Zagnoli, Chi Modu, Steven Traylor, and Erin D. Garcia to name a few. We continued with our Creative Class Series for intimate interactions with our gallery artists on their creative process and started an Emerging Artist Program to give a platform for up and coming artists.

We continued with our diversity in programing with a variety of installations, performances, radio broadcasts and artist talks with the likes of Kali Uchis, Snoop Dogg, Standing on the Corner, RZA and Einhundert.

Look for an amazing line up for 2019!

Below are a few links from some highlights of 2018.

2018 Year In Review

Exhibits

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Beirut Youth  Gogy Esparza, Jey Perie
February 22 – March 18th

Four Conversations  Inès Longevial44 Flavours, Huskmitnavn, Julian Smith
April 28th – June 16th

Heart-Shaped Box  Atiba Jefferson
May 19th – July 15th

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Cuore Di Panna  Olimpia Zagnoli
May 25th – July 15th

UncategorizedBerlin and Los Angeles Chi Modu
July 5th – August 4th, 2018
August 26th– September 23rd

Wild At Hand – A Group Show of Contemporary Drawing
September 14th– October 13th

10 Toes With His Chest Caved In  Steven Traylor
Sept. 22nd – October 7th

Not To Lose My Head Jay ‘One’ Ramier
October 25th – November 24th

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Grand Prix Erin D Garcia
Nov. 16 – Dec. 23rd

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2018 HVW8 Highlights – Installations, Artist Talks and Performances :

Sarah Bahbah Installation at HVW8 Los Angeles

Andrew Westerman at HVW8 Berlin

Kali Uchis  at HVW8 Los Angeles

Artist Dinners  Berlin / Los Angeles 

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Creative Classes – Atiba Jefferson and Chi Modu

Snoop Dogg Live Talk and DJ Set from HVW8 Plana

Wu Tang x Off Safety featuring Eddie Otchre and Paul Chan, live performance by RZA

Standing on the Corner Live Performance and Film Screening  

Einhundert ‘Heavyweight Sounds’ Live broadcast from HVW8 Berlin 

 

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Select Press –

Inès Longevail on Cover of Juxtapoz

Tyler Gibney Interview in Amadeus

Kilo Kish in Cal Sunday

Olimpia Zagnoli ‘Cuore Di Panna’ lecture for Nicer Tuesdays

Chi Modu at HVW8 in Paper Magazine

 

Wishing you and your family the best from HVW8 Galleries Los Angeles and Berlin, and looking forward to an exciting and prodigious 2019.

Also Special Thanks to our HVW8 Family, if not for you this would not be possible.

Los Angeles –
Addison Liu, John Wheeler, Gabriel Ortiz, Max Junk, Jake Venden Berge, Henry Anguiano, Nicole Kunz, Kelly Merlo, Yvonne Otchwemah, Julio Martinez, Pierre Briet, Mo Hill, Richie Dandan, Josh Chandler
Berlin –
Jenny Ames, Manuel Osterholt, Mika Manke, Lili Somogyi

Cheers to 2019!

Einhundert / Hotel Radio Paris / Heavyweight Sound

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The Einhundert family and Hotel Radio Paris have teamed up again for their second Berlin Radio Hang Out live from HVW8 Berlin.

Join us for A live intimate broadcast and drinks with music from the Einhundert Soundsystem, J.Cloud, Lolsnake (Weeeirdos), Ausschuss (Hauter Records), Golden Medusa (Leisure System), CKtrl (NTS / LDN), Native Teenage, Cld.Bld and many more.

Tune into Radio Talk hosted by Claire Mouchemore (Writer & Editor, BORSHCH Magazine, Electronic Beats etc.) plus very special guests from Berlin’s music scene.

In addition we will exhibit selected artworks by friends from across the globe including

Antoni Adomako
Felix VSOP Taube
Flo Hettenbach
Jessica Ta
Johannes Böttge
Nico Adomako
Nikki Powell
Megu Nakano

HEAVYWEIGHT SOUND – BROADCASTING SCHEDULE:

DAY 1 / 12.12.2018

12:00 – 12:45 CLDBLD 
12:45 – 13:30 NATIVE TEENAGE
13:30 – 14:15 LOW.VISION (EINHUNDERT SOUNDSYSTEM)
14:15 – 15:00 J.Cloud (Soulkissesarts)
15:00 – 15:45 MALA JUNTA (Hyperaktivist B2B DJ TOOL)
15:45 – 16:30 MELIS
16:30 – 17:15 SHAUNYB666
17:15 – 18:00 happy new tears
18:00 – 18:45 Qumasiquamé (THROUGH MY SPEAKERS)
18:45 – 19:30 kanalak (PALMOIL / FRANKFURT)
19:30 – 20:30 TALK HOSTED BY CLAIRE MOUCHEMORE (BORSHCH) – GUESTS TBA.
20:30 – 21:00 Marshall Vincent LIVE

DAY 2 / 13.12.2018

12:00 – 12:45 MARLON BEATT
12:45 – 13:30 RIP Swirl (EINHUNDERT SOUNDSYSTEM)
13:30 – 14:15 Lolsnake (Weeeirdos)
14:15 – 15:00 DEADHYPE
15:00 – 15:45 JAXX
15:45 – 16:30 Bianca Oblivion (Club Aerobics – NTS Radio / L.A.)
16:30 – 17:15 CEEKAYIN2U (No Shade)
17:15 – 18:00 CKtrl (SONGS 4 GIRLS – NTS Radio / LONDON)
18:00 – 18:45 Ausschuss (Haunter Records)
18:45 – 19:30 Golden Medusa (Leisure System)
19:30 – 21:00 TBA

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After the party (and the exhibition) is the Afterparty…
Join Einhundert and Hotel Radio Paris for the official HEAVYWEIGHT SOUND Afterparty at 131 BAR. 
Limited Free Tickets available at HVW8 during the Einhundert x Hotel Radio Paris // Heavyweight Sound Pop Up Radio Station, first come first served. Come early!

LINE UP:
Bianca Oblivion (Club Aerobics – NTS Radio / Los Angeles)
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CKtrl (Songs 4 Girls – NTS Radio / London)
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Nico Adomako (Einhundert / Berlin)
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Kanucia (kanalak – PalmOil / Frankfurt)
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JJAQ (Einhundert – Radio 80000 / Rotterdam)
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Dj Hrp (Hotel Radio Paris / Paris)
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Chausseestraße 131A – Berlin Mitte
21:00 – Till Late
5€ at the Door

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DREEA x Souljoy x HVW8 Gallery present: MOUTHPIECE

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DREEA x Souljoy x HVW8 Gallery present:
MOUTHPIECE

Round 2 is on! Same motivation.. only this time we teamed up with the likeminded and good people of HVW8 Gallery Berlin – it is Gallery weekend and we will have installations by (TBA) in the front room.
Because we need a channel to express our love for our culture in a FUBU kind of manner, we bring to you a journey through the fridge (this, you will get when you get there) the ice cold touch of Hip Hop, Bass & Favela Funk with a drop of 90ies Rnb – so yeah, without the fragility of the male ego, we proudly present:

DJs:

Special Guest DJ (TBC)

Souljoy fka GOFI (Bass Gang) – https://goo.gl/6uJLS2

DREEA (Berlin) – https://goo.gl/HKfmQ1

Bafouboy (KKM) – https://goo.gl/fFsNBG

8€ contribution for the DJs but if you have more you’re so welcome to pay more.

FOUR CONVERSATIONS Berlin

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FOUR CONVERSATIONS
April 28th – June 16th, 2018

A Gallery Weekend group exhibition featuring four artists celebrating HVW8 Gallery’s fourth year in Berlin. Featuring Inès Longevial (Paris), Julian Smith (Mallorca), 44Flavours (Berlin) and HuskMitNavn (Copenhagen).

Opening: Friday, April 27, 6-10 pm

HVW8 Gallery’s mandate has always been to support and foster new and emerging artists as well as provide a platform for international artists. After expanding from Los Angeles to Berlin, HVW8 has continued to support local artists as well as provide an inclusive environment for dialogue and communication between artists from various cultures and mediums.

Over the past 4 years HVW8 Berlin has carried on this cultural exchange, from exhibitions about the early years of hip- hop in the Bronx (Lisa Leone – How You Like Me Now?) to Jamaican roots culture (Three the Hard Way featuring Wilfred Limonious and Maxine Walters) to clean California graphic design (Brian Roettinger – 8 Announcements) to showcasing Berlin based artists and collectives such as Haw-Lin Services, Sebastian Haslauer and Einhundert.

Four Conversations continues this ongoing dialogue with a diverse international group of emerging artists.

44FLAVOURS at HVW8 Berlin

HVW8 Gallery Berlin Presents :

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44FLAVOURS

Opening: April 7th, 2018
Exhibition: April 11th–April 21st, 2018

For over a decade, Julio Rölle and Sebastian Bagge have been working collaboratively at the intersection of art and design. Their practice is rooted in graffiti and graphic design, which continues to inform their style, technique and light- hearted approach to making. Rölle and Bagge have an unshakeable DIY-attitude: they celebrate the ability to improvise and transform any piece of paper, wood or fabric into a work of art. Their ethos is keeping it analogue.

44flavours is a living dialogue. Not just existing between the creative duo themselves, but connecting them with all forms of visual culture that surround and inspire them. This dynamic enables Rölle and Bagge to incorporate traditional points of reference with a playful touch, informed by current visual phenomena.

HVW8 Gallery Berlin was established in 2014 by HVW8 Gallery co-founders Tyler Gibney and Addison Liu. HVW8 Gallery was founded in 2006 in Los Angeles with a focus on supporting fine art and avant- garde graphic design. HVW8 fosters artistic visions at the intersection of art, music and design, and collaborates with an international community of artists. Emerging and established artists such as Brian Lotti, Jean Jullien, Cody Hudson, Jerry Hsu, Jean André, Atiba Jefferson, Brian Roettinger and Haw-lin Services have exhibited their works in Berlin at HVW8.

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In-Line, 2016, 100 x 200 cm

Gallery; media contact
HVW8 Gallery Berlin , Linienstraße 161, 10115 Berlin

Jenny Ames
+49 (0) 177 – 142 8588
jenny@hvw8.com

Manuel Osterhold
+49 (0) 172 – 767 2718 manuel@hvw8
Supported by adidas Originals, Warsteiner and Vitamin Well (DE)

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Three The Hard Way – Berlin

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BERLIN — HVW8 Gallery Berlin in collaboration with One Love Books presents

THREE THE HARD WAY

WILFRED LIMONIOUS: IN FINE STYLE
ALEX BARTSCH: COVERS
MAXINE WALTERS: SERIOUS THINGS A GO HAPPEN

September 8th – October 14th, 2017
Opening Reception September 8th 18:00 – 22:00

In Fine Style: The Dancehall Art of Wilfred Limonious, is the first solo exhibition of work by prolific Jamaican illustrator Wilfred Limonious (1949–99) in Germany, and includes reproductions of work from the early 1970s through the mid-1990s, spanning three key phases in his career: his comic strips for the Jamaican newspapers, his illustrations for the publications of JAMAL (the Jamaican Movement for the Advancement of Literacy), and his distinctive artwork for the burgeoning dancehall scene coming out of 1980s Jamaica. The exhibition is curated by Al “Fingers” Newman and Christopher Bateman and is produced by One Love Books with the support of the Limonious Estate, to accompany their book, In Fine Style: The Dancehall Art of Wilfred Limonious, the first study into the artist’s life and work.

London-based photographer Alex Bartsch makes his debut at HVW8 Gallery Berlin with photographs from his book, Covers: Retracing Reggae Record Sleeves in London, forthcoming on One Love Books. After researching various reggae LPs and twelve-inches from his record collection, Bartsch has re-photographed fifty sleeves in their original London locations, holding them up at arm’s-length so that they blend in with their surroundings, decades later. Presented in this way, the photographs document the transition of time, with the album cover serving as a window into the past, juxtaposed against today’s backdrop. From an ethnomusicological perspective the photographs also provide a fascinating insight into the history of reggae music in London, inviting the viewer to rethink the relationship between the city and its musical heritage. The exhibition includes ten select prints from the project, featuring records by artists such as John Holt, Carroll Thompson, Peter Tosh, Moodie, Jah Woosh, Pat Kelly and Smiley Culture.

Serious Things a Go Happen features various original signs and posters from the early 1980s through today, drawn from the collection of Jamaican film and television producer and director Maxine Walters. Jamaican dancehall emerged out of reggae in the late 1970s and brought with it a new visual style characterized by bright colors and bold, hand-drawn lettering. One-of-a-kind, hand-painted posters advertising local parties and concerts have become a ubiquitous part of Jamaica’s landscape, nailed to poles and trees across the island. The exhibition in conjunction with Walters’ book Serious Things A Go Happen: Three Decades of Jamaican Dancehall Signs (Hat & Beard Press) presents an unofficial history of Jamaican dancehall music told through its graphic design.

Gallery & media contact
HVW8 Gallery Berlin , Linienstraße 161, 10115 Berlin

Jenne Grabowski
+49(0)179 – 488 1004
jenne@hvw8.com

Jenny Ames
+49(0)177 – 142 8588
jenny@hvw8.com

Supported by adidas Originals and Denon DJ

Press Release :

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