Office Party at Kinderhook & Caracas Berlin

Kinderhook & Caracas presents:

OFFICE PARTY: Multidimensional Spectrum of Voices
a project by Lorenzo Sandoval with writing by John Holten, María Ptqk, Eirik Sørdal, and Anna-Sophie Springer. 

Opening April 24, 2013 6-10pm

OFFICE PARTY is a narrative experiment that unfolds in the form of multiple objects, texts and activities. The project stems from a series of images found in an unmarked Ilford Photograph box. The box contains a group of black and white photographs taken at a party in an office in West Berlin in the late sixties. Or maybe the early seventies. The images were taken by the same person, surely the official photographer of the celebration. There are multiple prints of certain photographs, which were likely made to be sold or given to the employees of the office as a reminder of the event.

Four writers were selected to interpret the photographs narratively, and to install their texts within an architectural device that provides a discursive space to host them along with the original photos. The exhibition is developed in conjunction with a series of collective writing workshops and performances taking place at Gallery Rosa Santos in Valencia and Kinderhook & Caracas in Berlin. A resulting publication will be compiled and released by Broken Dimanche Press.

Exhibition runs from April 24 - May 24

Workshop on collective narration: April 25, 26, 27.
Please contact us to take part or for more information. Space is limited.


KINDERHOOK & CARACAS
Kreuzbergstraße 42e
10965 Berlin

Open Fr & Sa 2-6pm
and by appointment.

The Kakofonie 007 Otto Zoo Milano

The Kakofonie 007 Otto Zoo Milano

Residency for Oslo, Norway on Costa Blanca, Spain

Workshop in Galeria rosa.santos with artists Rafa Tormao and Lorenzo Sandoval

Wednesday 16 is the first day of the workshop which is part of the exhibition "Office Party: Multidimensional Spectrum of Voices", with Lorenzo Sandoval, John Holten and Rafael Tormo. On collective writing and narrative strategies, it is totally free and will be held in the sala 1 Gallery. More information at:http://rosasantos.net/pages/expo_actual.htm

The Congo with Richard Mosse

 In October and November I went to the Congo with Richard Mosse, to help in the making of The Enclave, "an immersive multimedia installation specially produced for Ireland’s national pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale" and accompanying book.

All Photographs Copyright Richard Mosse 

The LGB Group in Milan at Otto ZOO gallery for Milano START

Sunday newspaper on Irish Berliners

Joana Bértholo - Havia

"The Readymades / Holten Art / Dragicevic Bluff"

Matias Faldbakken, SEARCH in The Book of Books, Documenta calalog 1, Hatje Cantz Verlag, Cologne, 2012. Page 259 

The LGB Group discussed by Aengus Woods at David Zwirner, New York

1. 'The Appearance of a Conversation about the LGB Group in the David Zwirner Gallery Inventory'
   Aengus Woods with John Holten
   Video, 36:34, 2012
   

   
   

   
   

   PEOPLE WHO WORK HERE

   Curated by Rawson Projects

   David Zwirner 525 West 19th Street New York, NY  10011

   July 11 – August 10, 2012

   Opening reception: Wednesday, July 11, 6 – 8 PM

   Cy Amundson, Justin Davis Anderson, Ben Berlow, Josh Brown, Aidan Sofia Earle, Joel Fennell, Brent Harada, Sam Martineau, Chris Medina, Dave Miko, Clive Murphy, Liz Nielsen, David Ording, Justin Phillipson, Ramon Silva, and Aengus Woods with John Holten.

   
   |Press release|

   
   

Coming soon

Lives and Works in Berlin | John Holten Broken Dimanche Press The Readymades

Lives and Works in Berlin | John Holten Broken Dimanche Press The Readymades
Review by Ali Fitzgerald in Art21.
Extract:

I could write multiple portraits of John Holten, Berlin-based _________.  One as the publisher ofBroken Dimanche Press, a three year-old project committed to publishing the adventurous works of various authors, artists, and designers.  Another could be: John Holten, ambitious novelist, who, with The Readymades, forged into being an entire Serbian art collective.  About this, Holten says, ”The LGB Group is a group of artists I assisted in bringing back into the public realm and helped re-align within the history of art. The Readymades goes a way to telling how this process started, and indeed contains the definitive account of the group.”

John Holten could also be the charismatic Irish gallerist managing the burgeoning careers of his Eastern-Bloc progeny through his own Galerie Gojkovic, working alongside Serbian filmmaker Darko Dragicević on the realisation and exhibition display of the LGB group’s body of work.

Holten could also be an archivist, culling information from Balkan war crime tribunals as well as the work of pioneering collectives like the Neue Slowenische Kunst (New Slovenian Art) in order to construct and contextualize his artists’ careers.

Finally, John Holten could be John Holten, the main character of The Readymades who both taps into and shares our artforum-diary obsession with cultural backstory, engineered persona and group sex.  This John is slated to make an appearance at David Zwirner’s gallery forPeople Who Work Here, in a video discussing the aims of the LGB group with Aengus Woods...
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Review in Art in America of The Readymades / The LGB Group