The Temporary Gallery is a project of Ein Quadratkilometer Bildung Berlin-Neukölln in cooperation with Campus Rütli – CR2. Exhibitions and programs are made possible by private donations. Responsible for the concept behind the Temporary Gallery are Ida Schildhauer and Silvia Ploner. Taking up the recent developments and changes in the Berlin "Reuterkiez" and on Campus Rütli, the first exhibition series of the gallery runs under the title of TRANSFORMATION. The series started off in the fall of 2013 and is now presenting the site specific work "verbindungen" (junctions) by the Berlin based artist Katja Pudor.
Katja Pudor (born 1965 in Berlin) lives and works in Berlin. She studied painting and fine arts at the Art Academy Berlin Weißensee with Katharina Grosse (master class) and Michael Bach. For her large-scale installations she departs from painting and drawing methods, being guided by her interest in movement. She works process based, usually site specific and in ever changing collectives. With her structures in space Pudor creates situations that favour the experiment, constant transformations and expansions.
For TRANSFORMATION IV Pudor produced the site-specific installation verbindungen, consisting of unframed canvases in different lengths and widths, suspended from a net of ropes which is stretched under the ceiling of the gallery. The multicoloured canvases of varying densities bear signs, that originate from a catalog that adolescents at the secondary level of the comprehensive school on Campus Rütli have developed in a previous workshop with the artist. Part of verbindungen is also a performance by the Berlin based dancer and choreographer Magda Korsinsky. Korsinsky has taken the signs developed by adolescents and transformed by Katja Pudor as the starting point for a collective and performative work, which will be presented on the opening night of the exhibition. Musically this performance will be accompanied by the Portuguese drummer Rui Faustino.
During TRANSFORMATION IV two multi-day artist workshops will take place with adolescents from the secondary level of the comprehensive school on Campus Rütli. The workshops are accompanied by the ethics and art teacher Christine Sader. In May 2015 a group of adolescents engaged in a first workshop with symbols and pictograms. Together with Katja Pudor they developed symbols which stand for simple actions. In a second step Pudor transformed those symbols and integrated them to her installation for TRANSFORMATION IV. The symbols produced in the first workshop are also the basis for the second workshop, which Pudor will lead together with the Berlin based choreographer Magda Korsinsky and the Portuguese musician Rui Faustino. Another group of adolescents will translate the symbols into a performance that will be presented at the gallery during the festival "48 Stunden Neukölln." Simultaneously a part of the group will experiment with Faustino and seeks rhythms for the performance.
Magda Korsinsky (born in 1981 in Prague, CZ) is a choreographer, artist and lecturer of Czech-Eritrean origin. She lives and works in Berlin. Korsinsky studied fine arts at the Berlin University of the Arts, at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris and at the Academy of Fine Arts Prague. In 2012, she graduated in choreography from the Inter-University Center for Dance, Berlin. Since 2013 Korsinsky leads sociocultural workshops. She has, amongst others, worked with the Kinder und Jugendkongress Heidelberg, the Academy of autodidacts at Ballhaus Naunynstraße Berlin, the Robert-Blum-School-Berlin, the Cultural Educational Service Stuttgart and Open Music Stuttgart.
Rui Faustino (born in 1975 in Algarve, Portugal) is a drummer. He lives between Berlin and Lisbon. Faustino studied classical percussion at the EPME Conservatory, and later jazz drums at the Jazz Institute Hot Club Portugal. He was a guest student at the Academy of Music Hans Eisler in Berlin and at the University of Arts Berlin. He plays in various jazz formations and has composed music for theatre, dance, circus and film. Among others, he has worked with João Paulo Esteves da Silva, Mário Franco, Paulo Curado, Rodrigo Amado, Carlos Bechegas, Artistas Unidos, John Randall Pelosi, Biliana Voutchkova, Jan Roder, Boris Hauf, Silke Eberhard, Tobias Delius and Heinz Ratz.
