Exhibitions

LEAP is reopening with the group exhibition "Obsessive Sensing" on 4th April 2014

After three successful years at Alexanderplatz/Berlin Carré and nearly 70 exhibitions and performances with international artists, LEAP is reopening with the group exhibition "Obsessive Sensing" on 4th April 2014, from 7pm. The new rooms at Leipziger Straße 63 with now almost 500 square meters are located near to the Gendarmenmarkt.

LEAP stands for "Lab for Emerging Arts and Performance and is an interdisciplinary project for emerging, digital media arts and performance that aims to initiate the dialogue between art, science and technology. LEAP’s central concept is based on experimental research in digital technologies and media, which shape and change our present and future society and stimulate new discourses, discussions and questions.

LEAP was awarded in late 2013 by the Secretary of State for Cultural Affairs with the price for artistic project spaces and project initiatives of Fine Arts. LEAP recently co-curated and realized independently the main exhibition of transmediale festival 2014: "Art Hack Day Berlin - Afterglow" (29th January - 2nd February 2014).

LEAP is a project by Daniel Franke, Kai Kreuzmüller and John McKiernan.

"Obsessive Sensing"

Opening: 4th April 2014, from 7pm.
Exhibition: 5th - 26th April 2014, 12-6pm (Tuesday-Saturday), and by appointment.

Facebook Event: www.facebook.com/events/584962824926428

Participating artists:
Jamie Allen, James Auger und Jimmy Loizeau, Ralf Baecker, Rosemary Lee, Sascha Pohflepp und Chris Woebken, Addie Wagenknecht.

The group exhibition "Obsessive Sensing" features works which as their basis look at the programming of the world as an expression of artistic research. The participating artists aim to ‘’sense’’ with the help of complex systems and thus to reimagine how we perceive the world. How do we go about sensing that which we cannot perceive? This is reflected in the idea of technical images, as described by Vilém Flusser – the preparation of the information which we cannot perceive for our senses. ‘’This can be achieved neither with hands nor with eyes nor with fingers, for these elements are neither graspable, nor are they visible. For this reason, apparatuses must be developed that grasp the ungraspable, visualize the invisible, and conceptualize the inconceivable.’’ (Vilém Flusser, Into the Universe of Technical Images)

NEW ADRESS:

LEAP
Lab for Emerging Arts and Performance
Leipziger Str. 63
10117 Berlin

info@xLEAPx.org

Accessible via U2/U6 Stadtmitte (4 minutes walk).