Artists Current: Douglas Gordon in Berlin

Douglas Gordon is one of the most famous artists that the current world has to offer. "Douglas Gordon and the cinema as art" gives you an impression of which art he has to offer , here only a sentence on why the presentations presented shortly below are quite attractive for every art -interested Berliner:

Since the mid -1980s, Douglas Gordon's art has been seen in well over 100 individual exhibitions, as well as over 500 group exhibitions and many screenings and performances in all important art centers in the world.

The most prominent public collections of the world's art metropolises naturally have to show a work of art by Douglas Gordon, not only Berlin (after all, one of the artist's adopted home), they have no money for art, they have an international large airport.

However, since Douglas Gordon a residence in Berlin since 2008 , the Berliners can often see something from him, often even free:

Douglas Gordon has just participated in the Happening of the Viennese artist group Gelatin in the Berlin Schinkel Pavilion: The four gelatin artists Wolfgang Gantner, Ali Janka, Florian Reither and Tobias Urban had asked for a happening name "Gelatin in Discursive Construction versus Communicative Deconstruction with ..." at the end of September 2013.

Here they made from balloons and prepared starting material (a stool with a stuffed sack on the seat, a table with a booming luggage radio, models of cardboard houses, a stuffed eagle owl) using many pipsters cloths, colorful paper and torn ties art, possible and impossible sculptures , and the audience was in the middle of the middle of the middle.

Gelatin had also invited artist colleagues to the Schinkel Pavillon to create the sculptures together, on the first day of the event, Martin Ebner, Kris Lemsalu and Thomas Zipp actively worked, on the following days there were Gerwald Rockschaub, Karl Holmqvist and also Douglas Gordon, who installed a fog machine, which from then made not predictable intervals disappear into dense swaths.

The event was only short, the exhibition afterwards (September 25th to October 11th, 2013), but there are four videos on YouTube where you can follow the creation of the sculptures live:

group exhibition “Bald Eagle” until November 16, 2013 , which deals with the unpleasant sweeping sides of American culture and technology, against the background of the surveillance machinery that is just discovered, an exhibition that is hardly more current.

The title of the exhibition refers to the work “soon Eagle” (Weißkopfseadler), an inconspicuous little painting by Rodney McMilllian, whose portrait of a dead canary does not require a lot of comments ...

18 very different works are shown here, from the following 18 artists: Edgar Arceneaux, Mike Bouchet, Christoph Büchel, Jason Dougge, Douglas Gordon, Jens Haaning, Emily Jacir, Sejla Kamerić, Rodney McMillian, Gianni Motti, Cady Noland, Martha Rosler, Santiago Sierra and Heimo Zoberig.

Douglas Gordon also contributes a really peaceful work of art at first glance: an innocent white coffee service on a closed piano, with an apparently frequently used samovar next to it. Traut's home, sheer cosiness-if not in the middle of this arrangement there was an apparently ready gun, a Russian assault rifle (Douglas Gordon, "Sketch for Ak-47 Samovar", 2012).

"Soon Eagle", "Haubrok Collection" in the "Fahrage", Herzbergstr. 40-43, 10365 Berlin, information on the works of art, opening times etc. at www.haubrok.org/projects/bald_eagle.