For CAAs friends and supporters  Berlin-based artist Cornelia Renz will contribute the sound of her live and work and become the DJ in the relaxed atmosphere of a club. The talk with the artist will be moderated by Dr. Alexandra von Stosch.

The Berlin-based video and film artist, Julian Rosefeldt (1965), who has now established an international reputation, has won the ‘Vattenfall Contemporary 2010’ award. The artist impressed the jury with his lavishly produced film installations, in which he portrays paradoxand irrational aspects of everyday life with opulent imagery.
Julian Rosefeldt’s film installations present the paradoxical and irrational aspects of modern life and work using subtle comedy and irony. His film work “The Shift” (2008) is documented via a great number of images as well as being re-combined with his works from the 1990s. These earlier works delineate the point of departure of the artist’s interest in forgotten and hidden places. In “The Shift” these mutate into the claustrophobic inner life of a technoid, deserted future world.

In the third year of its cooperation with Deutsche Guggenheim CAA its pleased to invite its friends and supporters to the third annual party together with the members of Guggenheim Club. On the occasion of this event, an auction will take place. The benefit is designated to enable young Berlin-based artists from all cultural fields to follow their ambitions and to professionalize their work after finishing their studies through six-month scholarships. The auction will be followed by the party.

This year, PREVIEW Berlin invites CAA to take a look behind the scenes of the 6th PREVIEW Berlin in hangar 2 of the former airport Berlin Tempelhof. On the opening day, we will experience the build-up of the fair together with its exhibitors and organizers. With bread & wine we will subsequently have the chance to talk with international gallerist from Riflemaker (London), Kishon Gallery (Tel Aviv), Art Nueve (Murcia), Pilar Serra-Estiarte Gallery (Madrid), Rosa Santos (Valencia), Jarmuschek + Partner (Berlin), Nusser&Baumgart (Munich), Galerija Marisall (Zagreb), Maksla XO (Riga), heliumcowboy artspace (Hamburg).

One day, one of these teachers and saviours of the nation gets a unique opportunity to take a stance: while trying to introduce Friedrich Schiller and his idealistic visions of classic German theatre to a bunch of rowdy youths from a migrant background a fight erupts and a gun ends up in the teacher’s hands. A real gun. After a brief moment of hesitation, she takes her students hostage and forces them up onto the school stage to act out the play at gunpoint. For theatre, she reasons, is the only cure for the ills of this world. This hostage-taking drama liberally swerves between the genres of thriller, comedy and melodrama, and sets about deconstructing seemingly clear-cut identities with a vicious energy and humour. Verrücktes Blut is a co-production with Ruhr Triennial Arts Festival.

Folk songs. In 1964 this was nothing an avant-gardist would mingle with. Even the name suggested a mixture of Hippie movement, leftwing freedom songs and Biedermeier suspicion. Luciano Berio knew this, but held a secret: A composer who just went through a renaissance – Gustav Mahler. How many folk songs were integrated in his music? Not only fragments of The Youth’s Magic Horn were transplanted into symphonies – with or without lyrics. But also traditional folk music can be found in his musical work. This is theme is, what Berio is devising with absorbing folk music from all over the world, from Armenia to Aserbaidschan, from Italy and France to North America into his music. He is organizing foreign closeness – like Mahler.

The guestbook of this years MusikFest Berlin contains 37 soloists, 27 choirs, ensembles and orchestras of international standing – alongside with the orchestral flagships of Berlin. The program focuses on the musical Œuvre of Pierre Boulez, the great French composer and conductor, who’s 85th birthday is celebrated this year throughout the world of music, and his Italian colleague Luciano Berio.