Events/Openings

auto.diktat is a collective of self-taught multi-disciplinary artists who believe that 'Art cannot be taught!'
http://autodiktat.net/

The exhibition will present a selection of their video works using a multitude of formats and screens, challenging the viewer's perception of reality, non-reality and conceptualism, mildly touching themes of the social sphere.

West Germany is an underground art/music space, located in a Plattenbau overlooking Kottbusser Tor, to which one enters 'via a criminally well-concealed door' (Unlike.net)

KAMIKATSE (IR/AT)
is an Iranian/Austrian filmmaker, photographer and writer, living in Berlin and Teheran. As a pixelpower artist she indulges in socio-political topics. Her films have been screened in Cannes and dOCUMENTA(13). Together with Peter Baecker they created the satiric comedy format DIEHEILIGEN2 - a late-night talk show for the whole day, where the celebrities (among which Victoria Beckham, Vladimir Putin and Princess Diana), have to bring presents, but they are not allowed to speak, nor do they appear in front of the camera.
http://kamikat.se/
http://dieheiligen2.com/

Mary Ocher (RU/IL/DE)
is mostly known for her music - with cult following in several continents. She's performed at Steirischer Herbst and CTM, participated in several group exhibitions, the Oberhausen film festival, as well as a solo popup film exhibition at Berlin's Galerie Nord. She's been featured on ARTE and Kulturzeit, and in print in Die Zeit, Spex an many others. This will be a first concentrated larger scale presentation of Ocher's video works.
http://maryocher.com/

Peter Baecker (AT/DE/AU)
was born in Innsbruck, Austria, lives and works in Berlin and Sydney. Entertainer,
Performance Artist and DJ. Baecker curates events and performative happenings. He confronts the audience with outbursts of pop culture, filtered through a somewhat less conventional hi-energy personification. Highlights: Residency New York; documenta(13); Adelaide Fringe Festival. In winter 2014/15 he will show+perform „Peter Baecker Playground“, a site-specific, interactive Happening-Installation in Sydney, followed by a tour of Australia with new projects.
http://peterbaecker.com/
http://dieheiligen2.com/

Kris Kind (AT)
is an urban artist and the name is concept. His main topics are mobility and the breach with conventions. Kind, in his work, refers to the assumed collision of economy with the values of democracy, freedom, equality, justice and religious ideology. As a social critic, he uses the expression “feudalism 2.0” for an assumed democratic room dominated by economic growth and profit mentality. Kind is represented by Rudolf Budja Gallery. Among others, his work was featured at ART MIAMI, MOSCOW WORLD FINE ART FAIR and others. Kris Kind lives and works in Vienna.
http://kriskind.info/