Tag: HVW8 Berlin

INTANGIBILITY

Launching on Friday 1st November, @laidbug_tyo have curated a group exhibition titled “INTANGIBILITY” at the @hvw8gallery Gallery in Berlin. This exhibition is the result of a five-year-long friendship between LAID BUG, a gallery and creative studio based in Tokyo, and EDWIN.⁠
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The lineup includes BIEN, Nico Ito, Yushi Arimura, and Yusuke Isao, alongside Toshifumi Kiuchi, director of LAID BUG, who has long created graphics for our collection. Completing the lineup, Hikaru Takata and Yutaro Ishikawa, both of whom have exhibited extensively at LAID BUG, bringing the total to seven distinctive artists.⁠
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To celebrate the occasion, the launch party will take place from 6 pm-9 pm featuring an exclusive zine marking LAID BUG’s 6th anniversary and will be released alongside a selection of limited edition apparel featuring artworks from the participating artists. Follow the link in the bio for more info.

Opening Nov. 1st, 18h-22h

HVW8 Gallery Berlin
Linienstraße 161, 10115 Berlin, Germany

DEAR BERLIN

DEAR BERLIN – CELEBRATE WITH CIVILIST AND POLAROID

Make sure to come by at HVW8 Gallery Berlin on Thursday, October 24th – 6pm to 10pm.

‘Together with the crew we wrote a love letter to our beloved hometown all captured on @polaroid , showcasing Berlin’s distinct energy, emphasizing its history, diversity, and creative edge.’ – @civilistberlin

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@steffen.grap @Lyondumbshit
@timrosenbaum1 @llleennnniiii @julia_groening @pollyrroche @maxim_rosenbauer

HVW8 Gallery | Linienstraße 161, 10115 Berlin
Date: 24.10.2024 – 27.10.2024

10 Years Of HVW8 Berlin

 

Join us as we celebrate ‘10 Years of HVW8 Berlin’ during Art Week!

Opening this Wednesday, September 11th at 6 PM, the gallery will be open daily from 1-7 PM, showcasing artwork from the past decade. There will be a ‘Gallery Hang Out’ with the Einhundert crew on Saturday, September 14th from 4-9 PM.

Timepiece, Crosstown Traffic – Berlin

Opening June 8th, 6 – 10pm
at HVW8 Berlin. 161 LinienStr

Southern California has been the backdrop for stories captured on film and television. The myth created around it has been sold as street lined palm trees and blue skies. For many native Angelenos they see this as a single thread to a larger picture. From the sunny shores of Malibu to the mountains of Mammoth the identity of SoCal is heavily intertwined with the years of wear and tear, reinvention, and intervention this land wears proudly.

Fading neon lights, murals boasting achievements and heroes, and buildings from different eras of the region hold their weight in the visual tapestry. Artists Paul Flores and Henry Fey are great admirers of their home, often working as visual anthropologists to document/source material that captures time and location. For this exhibition at HVW8 Berlin the two artists invite viewers to experience the famed land through the eyes of natives. An opportunity to see the colors and compositions funneled through intimate artistic practices. Vignettes of Los Angeles and the towns that lie past its city limits are on display throughout the space, each allowing the viewer a chance to get transported 5,784 miles back to their place of origin. Just like the landscape they inhabit, pieces in the show often bare many layers, both literally and metaphorically. The two artists are interested in capturing time, feelings, and narratives that accumulate on top of one another just like how it happens so naturally in this region. At the heart of Flores and Fey’s artistry lies a deep appreciation for the graphic aesthetics that define Southern California. They contextualize it into a visual poem, one in which they’ve generously invited you to read.

More information here

City of Quartz 2 – Berlin Gallery Weekend

 

City of Quartz 2

At HVW8 Berlin
Linienstraße 161
10115
April 27 – May 26, 2024
On the occasion of Berlin Gallery Weekend

Featuring:

Alfonso Gonzalez Jr
Eddie Salinas
Emmanuel Louisnord Desir
Fulton Leroy Washington
Rikkí Wright
Willbert Olivar & Lalo Avila

City of Quartz 2 is a follow up to the eponymously eponymous exhibition from March of 2020, which opened just days before the world would close down…
Ironically the initial exhibition lifted its name from the 1990 book by author Mike Davis, which examines how contemporary Los Angeles had been shaped by different powerful forces in history much like the Covid 19 pandemic would come to shape and effect the entire world.. As the dust continues to settle in a post pandemic paradigm, we once again assemble a group of seven Los Angeles based artists at an attempt to understand where we might by be headed in the City of Quartz.

Los Angeles, regarded as the media capital, has long been responsible for authoring and disseminating trends in culture that reverberate the world over. Perched on the edge of the western world, we begin at the end and work our way toward the future, literally, in time and place our findings from the once sleepy desert village onto the European stage (the beginning of the western world) and examine them in a way one could only do in a city like Berlin Germany.

The two HVW8 galleries bookend the entirety of The West, with a bunch of stuff happening in between, City of Quartz 2 is an attempt to understand what the heck is going on in a world which feels to be spiraling at an ever accelerated pace.

City of Quartz 2 will open during Berlin Gallery Weekend with an opening reception on Friday April 27th and continue on view through the end of May.

Gallery Weekend marks the beginning of the spring and summer season in the region where the gallery will expect to receive hundreds of visitors over the course of the exhibition. City of Quartz 2 is the continuation of periodical surveys examining the shifting zeitgeist of Los Angeles through its most prominent artists of the moment. Within the exhibition several of the artists have been included in major museum exhibitions, and biennials such as Made in LA, and the Rubell Museum.

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

Makin Paper 5 – HVW8 Berlin

The saga continues… Makin’ Paper goes Round 5! After the successful zinefests of the last years, Lodown Magazine and HVW8 Berlin Gallery is organising the sixth edition of the Makin’Paper Fair in cooperation with the designteam of adidas sportswear and the gentle people of EDWIN Jeans. As in previous years, zine makers of all couleur will have the opportunity to present their work at the zine fair. In addition to local exhibitors, regional, national and international zine makers will offer their work for sale.

Makin’Paper presents zine culture in a holistic view. The spectrum ranges from arty fanzines to political zines to music fanzines. In addition Lodown Magazine will open its archive and will show zines from the past 3 decades and even going back further in time. The will also be various prints for sale.

On Friday we start with a soft opening from 2 PM and hopefully we’ll go late. 3.- 5.11. 2023

HVW8 Linienstrasse 161, 10115 Berlin

 

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

image: Marley Van Peebles –
Ghost, 2022
Acrylic and graphite on found cardboard.
9h x 15w in, 22.86h x 38.10w cm

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

Ukraine Support Sale – HVW8 Berlin

Tomorrow and Sunday in Berlin: Come by and shop to support the victims of this horrible war.
Organized by @thecharityclub & HVW8 Berlin

All proceeds will be donated to the @unicef @unicef_deutschland Ukraine emergency response.

Thank you supporting partners:

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Cross-Side Crystal Hybrid Orbital

HVW8 Gallery Berlin is pleased to present cross-side crystal; hybrid orbital, a group exhibition curated by Irene Carbonari exploring experimental forces around the idea of the ‘hybrid’. Bringing together the works of eleven contemporary artists from Germany, France, Ukraine, Bulgaria and Russia, the show evokes notions of merging the human, the machine, and the natural organism. The varied presence of hybrid forms in the works are embedded within the complexities and nuances of lived experiences, creating visual odes to the eternal mutability of expression.

In cross-side crystal; hybrid orbital, the works straddle multiple states or slip away from direct categorization, and are characterized by the merging of mediums, including digital, light and sculptural installations, paintings, ceramics, and augmented reality. The works reveal the destruction and reckoning to come from the rise and proliferation of networks and connections within our material world, and the human drive for production and so-called progress.

Text by Miriam Wierzchoslawka

PLEASE VISIT EXHIBITON PAGE FOR MORE INFORMATION

View full Exhibition on Artsy: https://www.artsy.net/show/hvw8-art-plus-design-gallery-cross-side-crystal-hybrid-orbital

Reserve online to visit the Exhibition in person: https://www.eventbrite.de/e/cross-side-crystal-hybrid-orbital-tickets-138480339423  (Max 2 persons per 30 minute time slot)

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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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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Mark Gonzales
nature busting thru the city side walks, 2017
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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‘Crew 2 Crew’ event at HVW8 Berlin

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A few photos from the NTS x adidas Originals Crew 2 Crew event at HVW8 Berlin, highlighting the Berlin Underground scene.

Featured music :

💢 deadHYPE radio ft Lady Chann, DJ JNS & YAW

💢 Einhundert Showcase (Nico Adomako, JJAQ, Low.Vision, Marlon Beatt)

💢 Hoemies

💢 Nico Adomako

💢 No Shade

💢 Room 4 Resistance feat. Bergsonist

💢 Shutdown feat. Crimen Passional, Goro, Merca Bae, Moesha 13

💢 TRADE feat. Brat Star & Juba

 

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 Longevial, 44 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

Uncategorized – Berlin 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!

HVW8 Gallery presents: Jaybo Monk ‘Apophenia’

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HVW8 Gallery Berlin presents
JAYBO MONK
‘APOPHENIA’
OPENING:  DECEMBER 15, 6 – 10 PM
DEC 15 – 22, 2018

Apophenia (/æpou´fi:niə/) is the tendency to mistakenly perceive connections and meaning between unrelated things. The term (German: Apophänie) was coined by psychiatrist Klaus Conrad in his 1958 publication on the beginning stages of schizophrenia. He defined it as “unmotivated seeing of connections  a specific feeling of abnormal meaningfulness”.

He described the early stages of delusional thought as self-referential, over-interpretations of actual sensory perceptions, as opposed to hallucinations.

Jaybo Monk reflects on the perception of random data in our virtual world and social media. The most common examples of Apophenia are people seeing faces in clouds or in the moon. If Apophenia is about drawing connections and conclusions from sources with no direct connection other than their indissoluble perceptual simultaneity, then maybe virtuality is our new reality. Weed seeds grow into plants that may be rich in THC and other cannabinoids. The idea of reality is more real than reality itself. Ideas are taken without being questioned and we are living in a world of binary choices only. We are dead in a dead time where not seeing anything intelligible is the new normal. We are damned to dream towards reality and not away from it.

The paintings and objects presented in Apophenia are constructed within the idea of time spent to keep everything in a present moment which is a moment of no reflexion in itself. Through layers in his paintings and associations in his objects and sculptures Jaybo Monk wants us to re-appreciate time where the past and the future are the foundations of reality  – and not the virtual present controlled by our smart phones and other illnesses.

Drinks by Warsteiner

HVW8 GALLERY BERLIN – LINIENSTR 161, 10115 BERLIN

OPENING HOURS: WED-FR 2-7 PM, SAT 12-6 PM

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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)
soundcloud.com/biancaoblivion
CKtrl (Songs 4 Girls – NTS Radio / London)
soundcloud.com/cktrl
Nico Adomako (Einhundert / Berlin)
soundcloud.com/nicoadomako
Kanucia (kanalak – PalmOil / Frankfurt)
https://soundcloud.com/kanucia
JJAQ (Einhundert – Radio 80000 / Rotterdam)
soundcloud.com/jjaqcf
Dj Hrp (Hotel Radio Paris / Paris)
+ Open USB B2B Till Infinity

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131 BAR
Chausseestraße 131A – Berlin Mitte
21:00 – Till Late
5€ at the Door

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Jay ‘One’ Ramier – Not To Lose My Head

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JAY “ONE” RAMIER – NOT TO LOSE MY HEAD
HVW8 BERLIN

25.10–24.11 2018

Exhibition Opening
Thursday, 25 October 2018
6:00pm – 10:00pm
HVW8 Berlin – Linienstraße 161, 10115 Berlin
Free admission – Warsteiner refreshments will be served

In this series of paintings and collages, Jay “One” Ramier retrieves and reinterprets the first hip hop song that was also a work of social criticism. “The Message” performed by Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five, feat. Belle Mel and Duke Bootee, describes social disarray, violence, decadence, alienation and self-harm. Released in 1982, it was widely recognized as one of the most iconic songs of late 20th century, and still speaks to the social reality of today.

In “The Message,” hip hop’s tone, formerly celebratory, becomes one of desperate urgency:

“Don’t push me ‘cause I’m close to the edge
I’m trying not to lose my head
It’s like a jungle sometimes
It makes me wonder how I keep from goin’ under”

By crystallizing elements of the song and its video into still images, Jay Ramier invites us to pause and consider in detail the harsh realities and evocative expressions of urban life. In this moment, hip hop’s mission changes. Jay Ramier has always stated his love for music, which he considers inspirational and the mightiest of all art forms: “I like the way music, like the holy spirit, can take possession of one’s soul, either by the power of the lyrics or the enchantment of hypnotic melodies or sounds.”

The video cuts between frenetic New York City streets, South Bronx residents strolling or playing, elderly people lying in the streets, and abandoned lots of rubble. The group raps on stoops and street corners, and the police make conspicuous appearances.
In translating imagery from the music video into the medium of static visual arts, NOT TO LOSE MY HEAD reveals the lives that Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five sought to bring attention to and their lasting impact on us in today’s world.

Almost 40 years later “The Message” still rings true, speaking to economic pressures and systemic racism that persist today. On the one hand, Jay Ramier´s focus on the song highlights the ongoing nature of social inequality, but on the other hand, he explores the roles of popular music and art for expressing and questioning social experience, highlighting the importance of struggle and resistance.

About Jay “One” Ramier

Jay Ramier is a multidisciplinary artist working in the media of painting, video, installation and music. His work is an ongoing investigation into his own Caribbean cultural roots and the representation of African diaspora people in cultural spaces.

The narrative he constructs extends into and draws from the plenum of Pan-African experience from West African coast to the Americas. His work fuses the iconography of struggle and resistance as well as popular culture with the styles of musical and linguistic expression of African descendant worldwide. The focus is on the establishment of a new global system of representation to undermine that of western mainstream hegemony.

Jay has been key actor in the building of the European Graffiti and “Urban-Art” scene, a cosmopolitan Afro-centric movement, for the better part of thirty years.

Jay Ramier is a co-creator and contributor to many local magazine projects such as Paris Zulu letters – Hip Hop´s first international Zine, Backjumps Berlin – Street-Art´s first magazine. Currently, Jay is the Artistic-Director of and regular contributor to Afrikadaa, a magazine and conceptual project created in 2010. He has also published the book MOUVEMENT. Du terrain vague au Dance-floor 1984—89, ed. Les mots et le reste 2017. His work has been featured in the 2015 Venice Biennale exhibit “BRIDGES OF GRAFFITI”.

His work is an ongoing fight for a better and more accurate representation of Minorities in cultural spaces (galleries, museums, institutions) and the recognition and importance of Africa’s influences on modern and contemporary culture.

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

Jenny Ames
+49 (0)177–14 28 588
jenny@hvw8.com

Manuel Osterholt
manuel@hvw8.com

About HVW8

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. More info at hvw8.com.

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