The Temporary Gallery is a project of Ein Quadratkilometer Bildung Berlin-Neukölln in cooperation with Campus Rütli – CR2. 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 a panorama of experimental stop-motion video works by the Berlin artist Nicolas Wiese under the title Taken from the Stage / Von der Bühne geholt.
All videos originate in collaborations with composers and/or chamber and music theatre ensembles for intermedia-musical live musical performances. In all works the approach has been to think music and image together from the very beginning on and to develop both in interrelation – thematically, formally and time-structurally. An approach which differs substantially from the principle of music video clips or VJing (music is subsequently illustrated), as well as from the principle of film music or live scoring. In total six video works are shown. The central piece – the video installation "Mill" (2011) – is presented for the first time in Berlin. The audio tracks of the other five works will be revised and partly recomposed for this exhibition.
Nicolas Wiese (born 1976 in Itzehoe) is an intermedia artist, graduate graphic designer, electronic musician and curator. He lives and works in Berlin-Neukölln. Wiese studied Philosophy and Sociology at the University of Hamburg, Illustration and Communication Design at the University of Applied Sciences in Hamburg (Diploma 2005) and Sound Studies at the Berlin University of the Arts. Since 2009, he runs the art space "Quiet Cue" in Berlin-Neukölln together with Michael Renkel, with an international program between media art, performance and experimental music. Since 2014, he holds artistic workshops in Berlin schools. Performances, exhibitions and screenings (selection): Annual Digital Art Exhibition Teheran (IR), Festival Sonikas Madrid (SP), De Witte Zaal Ghent (BE), Duotone Arts Festival Kelowna (CA), Neue Musik in St. Ruprecht / Velak-Gala Vienna (AT), British Film Institute London (GB), Altera! Festival Naples (IT), REM Museum Weserburg Bremen (DT).
Wiese develops works in various media and formats: installations and site-specific performances, electro-acoustic compositions, relational / improvised music, graphic art, radio plays and experimental film. His main interest lies in the deconstruction and reconstruction of found media footage. He repeatedly deals with the contradictory and suggestive communication content of media images as well as their distribution and perception. Language and text, architecture and spatial effect, everyday objects and broken nostalgia play central roles.
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In the frame of TRANSFORMATION V Nicolas Wiese and the Berlin based musician Heidrun Schramm lead the workshop "tagscape II" with children from the comprehensive school on Campus Rütli (grades 4-6). The workshops is accompanied by the art teacher Gertraud Mülder and the art educator Susanne Wendler. The resulting stop-motion-videos and drawings are shown in the shape of an exhibition in the exhibition from December 15 to 18, 2015 in the Temporary Gallery. Further, the project will be published on the Project Blog www.tagscape.blogspot.de.
