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torstrasse 68
10119 Berlin
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systM is a bar AND systM is a gallery for design disciplines. The spectrum reaches urban art, graphic, interior and product design, fashion and far beyond that every disciplines defining spaces.
systM is a D-Mo project
Christmas pops-UP!
19.11.2010 - 18.12.2010
saturdays with special hot wine punch & cake!
Opening: Thursday 18.11.2010 / 7-10 PM
systM new setting for Christmas time, come find your family gifts with us!
new bar design from STIKS (Joachim Frost & Manuel Schubbe)
Books from Die Gestalten Verlag
Sreen printings,
Drawings, limited editions, T-Shirts and plush
many others goodies!
be aware...
Y & P
Tina Blausalzen
Helene Hurt
Tiziana Jill Beck
ABSTURZ IM syst(e)M
30.10.2010 - 13.11.2010
Vernissage: Friday 29.10.2010 / 7 PM
„Till now it ran completely well. Till now it ran completely well.Till now it ran completely well. Not the fall, but the landing is important! “(La Haine)
Under this slogan six artists of the Quality Lovers collective present their exhibition " Absturz" in syst(e)M.
QL [ku: l] stands for analog digitalism, Graphicti, curb elegance, Pornographic art, 8-bit photo realism and the love for urban raw culture, high, degenerate art, proletarian holidays mode, road aesthetics, habitat organization, Ghettofont and love for quality.
QL a.k.a. quality Lovers combines 12 visions of post office-urban ideas, like day and night, with only that one goal, which connects them- to ensure that LOVE is again largely written.
" It' s showtime motherfuckers, GET your popcorn! "
THE GREAT ADVENTURE OF WH-T-V-R
02.10.2010 - 09.10.2010
Vernissage: Friday 01.10.2010 / 7 PM
With Audio Visual Performances by Aude Francois and joshua thurston-milgrom, Pixelnoizz
Step into the shoes of Wh-t-v-r! and play around into the great realm of "work is never over".
Experience an unique gameplay and find the disks and feed the dogs! Play through no levels until you reached no goals and get defeated by the great monster of "W-RKC-MPL-T-" and save no princes. The great adventure of Wh-t-v-r! is a experimental game around the person Wh-t-v-r! and explores the possibilities of alternative gameplay where no usual goals as level up, collect coins, battle enemies are met.
Created when the Video artist Raquel Meyers and digital creative Bram van der Poel met and mashed their skills, and start working together.
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About the artists:
Raquel Meyers (Cartagena, 1977) is a Spanish video artist, often using low-res graphics to create surreal imagery and eerie atmospheres. She has made video clips and VJ sets for many of the more prominent 8-bit musicians (Glomag, Bubblyfish, Goto80) and also worked with electro and noise acts such as Rubeck and Tubular Balls. Meyers was formerly part of Entter (2000-2007), and has worked with print design, installations, and websites. She is perhaps one of the more consistent pixel artists, although she is currently exploring other expressions to create confusion and delight.
Bram van der Poel dreamed as a kid to become a super-ninja-killer-assassin with special x-ray powers but instead he became a multimedia developer and designer. Fascinated by everything which has knobs on it he embraced the possibilities of digital art as soon he got his hands on an atari. Robots will invade your brain!
Aude François aka Auderoseselavy is a versatile and creative artist, who explores video, performance installation and drawing. Now working between Berlin and Paris, she studied Fine Art in Bologna (Italy) before moving to Paris to study new media. In collaboration with various musicians working on electronic, experimental and acoustic music, Aude is currently working on several video projects exploring the connections between video, music and performance. She regularly presents her work on occasion of international festivals around live video and performance.
Joshua Thurston-Milgrom has been in Berlin two years, working as a freelance jazz bassist and writer in order to support his own independent and collaborative artistic endeavors. Before that, he lived for twelve years in Chicago doing the same.
Pixelnoizz will be remixing existing animations from a hungarian fine artists with glitches, errors and datamosh. A/V performance 40 minutes.
ONWARDS & SIDEWAYS - Tom Mason
24.09.2010 - 29.09.2010
Vernissage: Thursday 23.09.2010 / 7 PM
TOP OLD HAT
IT’S THE NEW THINGS
BRAVE NEW WORK?
ONWARDS & SIDEWAYS!
Tom Mason is an English artist, writer and occasional musician, and has exhibited in London, Amsterdam, Paris and Berlin.
His work combines drawing, collage and painting. Coming on like pictorial mixtape or feedback choir. Throwing in charicature, found material, visual skit, absurdist fancy, swoop of mood and thrust of whim.
It's everything and nothing.
A take on things. Takes on The Thing.
Visual home cooking going up in the goods lift to pop out for banquet type maxi-feast scenario.
Eat hearty, via eye n' eye.
AMOS - Showtime
10.09.2010 - 25.09.2010
Vernissage: Thursday 09.09.2010 / 7 PM
"Showtime" is the new Rock-Album by the german-iranian musician and entertainer AMOS.
"Showtime" is also an international art-event.
The record will be released on 26 August 2010 on Sounds of Subterrania in Hamburg.
On vinyl with a blank white cover. More than 450 visual artists from all over the world and across all genres are creating individual artworks. They live in Munich, Berlin, Paris, London, New York, Los Angeles, on the Phillipines, in Budapest, Rome or Barcelona.
HAYWAIN Recordings Release Party & Exhibition
04.09.2010 & 07.09.2010
Release Party: Friday 03.09.2010 / 6 PM
jeanie bueller/ château laut (split 12")
johnny3000 (CD)
citybirches photography works 2006- 2010 (photography)
citystreet hihat #01 w/ tiny vipers (virtual 7")
Pre-screening 'Damo Suzuki's Network mit Château Laut' (concert movie)
ERFAHRRAUM - Gian Spina
21.08.2010 - 02.09.2010
Vernissage: Friday 20.08.2010 / 7 PM
An experiment of moving images throughout the space.
The two installations use an ordinary room as a support for an architecture-narration and try to redefine the space.
Erfahrraum 1
Erfahrraum 2
SOMMERLAND - Group Show
24.07.2010 - 14.08.2010
Vernissage: Friday 23.07.2010 / 7 PM
The exhibition shows eight artists, whose illustrations already found a broad echo in the public. In Sommerland their various influences will be confronted to each other. The spectrum reaches pencil drawing, Comic and advertising illustration. Despite of their differences a dialog will be open with a central theme: a summer whisper.
With Romy Blümel, Maki Shimizu, Silke Werzinger, Nastja Holtfreter, Sandra Ehlen, Ana Albero, Danae Diaz and Sophia Martineck
FAMILY AND FRIENDS - A temporary gallery space by Onitsuka Tiger and Asics
08.07.2010 - 10.07.2010
Vernissage: Wednesday 07.07.2010 / 8-10 PM
systM welcomes a temporary gallery space by Onitsuka Tiger and Asics.
The Family and Friends gallery shows inspiring collaborations with Tillman Lauterbach, 24 Kilates, Koi Klub, Reality Studio,Mita Sneakers, Seventyfive, Surface to Air, Sneaker Freaker and Slam Jam.
Video Report
Teaser 1
Teaser 2
LE CONFIDENT / LA CAUSEUSE - Mirko Mielke
9.06.2010 - 02.07.2010
Vernissage: Tuesday 08.06.2010 / 6-10 PM
Theme night: Thursday 10.06.2010 / 7-11 PM
Communication disco: Saturday 12.06.2010 starts at 8 PM
In cooperation with the DMY extended festival presents Mirko Mielke a design-thesis in the framework of dialogical communication. His collection is the correspondant furniture for the luxury of a intimate interchange of ideas. The reduced double-seater are a functional derivation of human encounter. On each piece of furniture two people will take a seat in descreet distance to bridge the gap in natural posture. This furniture signals attitude not comfort. This is the truest sense of the word. Luxury.
The exhibition runs till the 2nd of July with a special prograM to football Worldcup 2010.
RETURN/FILL-IN - Paola Bagna, Robert Gorny and Matthias Acksel
29.05.2010 - 05.06.2010
Vernissage: Friday 28.05.2010 / 7-10 PM
Letters, offers, improbability, relations, secrets, mistakes, waste: Return/Fill-in is a temporary possible world made up of bits of all of these; what happens when thousands of letters are returned to sender and create a space of their own. Return/Fill-in is a non-human representation of human relations whose connection will never be clear.
CONSTRUCTED STYLES - LEGO BRICKS MEET URBAN ART
01.05.2010 - 22.05.2010
Vernissage: friday 30.04.2010 / 7 PM
Book release and party: saturday 1.05.2010 / 8 PM
A completely new interpretation of urban art will be on display throughout May in systM. The Constructed Styles exhibition presents the combination of LEGO models tagged with works from some of Berlin’s best known graffiti artists.
Street artists such as Cole Blaq, Orion Pax, color paint, Acid79, Chill, Baks, Diablo, Pley, Riko and THESIGN are the ones who have been responsible for redecorating the synthetic, plasticy facades of the miniature models with more luminous colors and lettering.
POWER OF BOREDOM - Matthieu Bourel
10.04.2010 - 25.04.2010
In its first solo show Matthieu Bourel shows a selection of its Collagen art. Some so large that they cover whole walls, some small and filigran which appear like pieces of the large whole ones.
Matthieu Bourel is filmmaker, musician and artist. His approach remains for Bourel identically: “Playing with element, ton make it mine!”
Welcome in his multicolored picture world.
THE PATHETIC SYMPATHY SEEKERS in touch with reality
31.03.2010 - 07.04.2010
Vernissage: Wednesday 31.03.2010 / 8-10 PM
Performance at 9 PM
The Pathetic Sympathy Seekers present their new artist’s book, hoping to please and impress both fans of their own work and those who cherish reality. They will kick off the release party at 9 p.m. with a short lecture performance and in the course of the evening, screen their new film.
www.patheticsympathyseekers.com
CHAMBRE BLEUE / BLAUER RAUM
17.03.2010 - 27.03.2010
Mini studio mobil visit: Tuesday to Saturday / 14-20h
Shooting sessions: Tuesday to Friday / 17-20h
Saturday / 14-20h
(and on appointment)
"Chambre Bleue" is a participative/performative art project by Marie Petit.
"Chambre Bleue" tells, in 30 scenes, the story of a couple – X and Y – from the moment they first meet till they eventually break up.
The 30 scenes are first shot with professional actors, resulting in the master version of "Chambre Bleue" - the "Version 01".
The artist invites the audience to enhance this work, playing one (or more) of the 30 scenes in front of a video camera.
Shooting sessions with a live audience are scheduled and take place in a traveling recording studio (the Mini Studio Mobil).
The audience is informed of the different locations of the studio, as well as the shooting schedule.
The recorded scenes are then uploaded on-line on the website of the project and made available through an interactive video player. The new versions of the recorded scenes are added to the “ Version 01” daily.
The video interface on the website allows to combine, for any given scene, actors shot in different versions of the same scene, resulting in an infinite number of versions of the story, reflecting the ever-changing couple dynamics.
The project is currently developed in two languages – French and German – and can include audiences of different national or cultural backgrounds. Translation of the script in additional languages is planned but not yet in the works.
FADING TO WHITE - Thomas Olivier Myers
12.02.2010 - 13.03.2010
His art photo work stems from the wish to show the passage of time by movement and overlapping images rather than by freezing a moment in a single frame.
Influenced by the works of photographers such as Bernd and Hilla Becher, Andreas Gursky, Thomas Struth, or Massimo Vitali, this interest in the passage of time as shown in photography has rapidly become the leitmotif of his art practice. Unlike Eadweard J. Muybridge who decomposes time and movement into several photos, he combines them into a single image composed of many superimposed pictures. Whatever one is looking at, it takes time to appreciate the full complexity of what is before us. Any land or cityscape, even devoid of life, keeps changing as the hours pass by. Nothing is static. Light keeps changing and modifying the view offered to us. This is why a single photo after a while seemed insufficient in rendering this idea. His artistic concept has thus evolved around a few simple experimental considerations.
HIDDEN STRUCTURES, EXPERIMENT 1
30.01.2010 - 6.02.2010
Bram van der Poel dreamed as a kid to become a super-ninja-killer-assassin with special x-ray powers but instead he became a multimedia developer and designer. Fascinated by everything which has knobs on it he embraced the possibilities of digital art as soon he got his hands on an atari.
www.nanoloops.com
Loki English is a designer who hates design, with a passion for art and a hatred for artists. Moving between interaction, motion and illustration his work aims to be playful and participative, bringing ideas of collaboration and creativity off the screen and into the physical world.
www.lokido.com
FRAMESHIFT - Robert Schwartz
21.11.2009 - 16.01.2010
Robert Schwartz of the design collective ViaGrafik is showing a series of new sculptures and installation works as well as a collection of photographs.
In his work for systM he transformed plain frames and shapes into 3-dimensional objects that are interfering with wall and space.
“I love the excitement of deconstructivism and the process of puzzling. My intension is to turn industrial plastic, a flat and amorphous material, into three dimensional reliefs. All objects consist of many parts that are interwoven with each other. The graphical elements correspond to their surroundings but at the same time disturb the linear conditons of any room.”
(In: Hidden Track, Die Gestalten Verlag 2005)