Maria Potrc
Caracas: Growing Houses, 2012

Carl Andre
07515 Karlsplatz, 1992

Sol LeWitt
Modular Cube, 1970

Andrea Pichl
Doubleblind, 2011

Doubleblind

Manfred Pernice
Wall, Wohn-und Wachanlage, 1997-1998

Wall, Wohn-und Wachanlage, 1997-1998

Herman Pitz
Wedding Therese, 1984

Wedding Therese

Dieter Roth and Björn Roth
Gartenskulptur, 1968

Gartenskulptur

Gartenskulptur

Gartenskulptur

Gartenskulptur

Dan Graham
Childrens’ Pavilion (State 2)
(with Jeff Wall), 1991

Thomas Schütte
Architekturen, 1986

Absolon
Cellule No. 2, 1992

Bruce Nauman
Room with My Soul Left Out,
Room That Does Not Care, 1984

Room with My Soul Left Out,
Room That Does Not Care

Room with My Soul Left Out,
Room That Does Not Care

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Taken from the exhibition introduction:
‘Sculptural and photographic works, films and paintings illustrate how differently artists have approached the interface between art and architecture since the 1960s.’

Architektonika
Hamburger Bahnhof Museum, Berlin
until 13 January 2013

Henning Wagenbreth’s theatralisch-illustrativ-musikalische buch-premiere was in a tiny Prenzlauer Berg theatre that could only hold an audience of 50. Henning played mandolin and his partner, Sophia Martineck, played chord harp while 2 actors, Albrecht Hirche and Günther Lindner played the pirate and pharmacist in Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Pirate and the Apothecary: translated and illustrated by Henning. A nice way to launch a book — and a cute little bar downstairs of the same footprint size as the theatre. (My photography isn’t great because my point-and-click level of expertise doesn’t work for low lighting).

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Working on some 3D blocks for a show called Memory Palace at the V&A, London.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Der Pirat und der Apotheker
Illustrated and translated into German by Henning Wagenbreth
Published by Peter Hammer Verlag

I think there are a few people finding it tedious now: me telling them how much I enjoy Leipzig. You can stay in an arts precinct called Plagwitz and the 15 minute bike ride into Zentrum (the city centre) takes you past lakes, along canals and through dense woods — with a good coffee on the bridge at the halfway point.
Maybe the closest place Australia has to this is Adelaide.

Another reason for liking it is that it’s a centre for book design and printing — which is why I need to get back there. Thomas Siemon from Edition Carpe Plumbum with Jo Zarth, a graphic designer / photographer / chinoiserie enthusiast who lives in Leipzig.

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Test firing (hence some cracking) of one of a series of new objects for a table setting by Maria Volokhova.
An interview from last year.

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Another artwork by Robert Montgomery at a former public baths building in Wedding.
Robert Montgomery
Echoes of Voices in the High Towers
presented by Neue Berliner Räume

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The gallery (standard large white room with concrete floor) gradually fills with people. Many of them know each other (as at all openings). They chat and drink and smoke. There’s a bar and a DJ (it’s a party). A few hours of this. Then a single, sharp, clap-like sound: and some of the partygoers fall down and remain on the floor (frozen, as if sleeping or unconscious) for 10 to 15 minutes. I think it’s all being photographed (or filmed).

Ruhe
A performance by Anouk Kruithof
and location closing party by Autocenter, Berlin
29 September 2012

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