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CAMP BERLIN
Contemporary Art Migration Project

2 -10 Februar, 2008
Opening reception: 1 February, 2008, 17:00
Ausstellungsort: Halle der ehemaligen Zentralwerkstatt der BVG
Uferstrasse 8 – 11, 13357 Berlin Mitte / ehem. Wedding

The exhibition CAMP BERLIN is the first part of a cultural exchange project between Hiroshima City University (Faculty of Art) and the School of Art and Design Berlin-Weissensee (Department of Sculpture). The exhibition will feature works by about 30 artists who are studying at or graduated from these schools and live in Hiroshima or Berlin, as well as works by invited artists who live and work globally.

Both Hiroshima City University and the School of Art and Design Berlin-Weissensee are part of a worldwide net providing students with opportunities to live and study abroad through their international student exchange programs. The main theme of the project “migration” was constructed based on experiences that the participating artists from both schools have gained from studying and living in different cultures. At the same time, migration has been playing a major role in the formation of society in both Hiroshima and Berlin. Both cities have been “producing” and accepting large numbers of immigrants over different periods. While in the period before World War II, for example, emigrants left Hiroshima for South American countries and Hawaii, nowadays the city is a home to a large number of resident immigrants from Korea and Brazil. The exhibition seeks to reflect contemporary experiences of artists acting across national borders within these historical backgrounds.

The term “camp” might remind us nowadays of a joyful outdoor activity of camping as a temporary pause from daily routines. Contemporary art may have a similar power. But what if daily life is forced to be practiced in a camp?as in Hiroshima, where camps were set up as rescue stations, shelters for orphans or isolation wards after the city was destroyed by the atomic bomb; or as in Europe’s concentration camps; or as in settings worldwide, where immigrants spend sometimes years before being given permission to enter a country?can art limit itself to the function of a “pause from daily routines”?

Invited Artists: Thomas Adebahr, Andrea Zimmermann, Michihiro Shimabuku, Shiro Masuyama, Tatzu Oozu, Yoshiaki Kaihatsu

Artists:Carolin Wachter, Chinami Takahashi, David Polzin, Edin Bajric,Hirmi+Fujishiro Shige,Gillian Holt, Irene Paezug + Erik Alblas, Kanae Kimura,Marie-Luise Birkholz, Matthias Heinrich Wermke, Megumi Fukuda, Nicolas Grimmer, Nozomi Tomoeda, Ofri Lapid, Paulina Leon, Raul Walch, Saiko Ryusui, Saya Irie, SHIFUN SEISAKUSHO, Shiho Okinaka, Silvia Lorenz+Aleksandar Jestrovic or Jamesdin, Shira Wachsmann, Sophia Pompery, Taro Furukata,Yoshihiko Shikada

http://www.hiroshima-ap.jpn.org/campberlin/artists_e.html