Lotte Meret Effinger

The nine nominees for the Berlin Art Prize have been announced as of October 23.

Selected from over 600 Berlin-based applicants through a multi-stage process, the following artists will take part in an exhibition covering sculpture, installation, photography, performance and conceptual art, opening November 11:

Lindsay Lawson, Martin John Callanan, Regina de Miguel, Stine Marie Jacobsen, Lotte Meret, Benedikt Partenheimer, Raul Walch, Lauryn Youden, Aurora Sander

Three of those mentioned will receive the independent award — which includes a trophy created for the occasion by Berlin-based artist Tomás Saraceno, prize money and a four-week residency in Georgia beginning March 2017 — to be announced at Kühlhaus Berlin on December 10.

The Jury includes curator and art critic Karen Archey, art critic Kito Nedo and artists Emeka Ogboh, Susanne M. Winterling and Ahmet Öğüt.

See the Berlin Art Prize website for details.**

Lindsay Lawson, ‘The Smiling Rock’ (currently in production) feature film., Ccourtesy the artist and Gillmeier Rech, Berlin. — Lindsay Lawson, ‘The Smiling Rock’ (currently in production) feature film. Courtesy the artist and Gillmeier Rech, Berlin.

Lotte Meret Effinger is screening ‘Supernature’ (2014), followed by a conversation with curator Cédric Fauq, at London’s Kunstraum London on July 8.

Meret Effinger’s practice engages with the western visual regime to disrupt its inner hierarchical and patriarchal order, using video, writing, performance, photography and graphic-design. The press release highlights the way her work consistently blurs the lines between two fronts: the mainstream and the subaltern, the desirable and the repulsive, the perceptible and the hidden.

The Berlin-based artist has recently shown work in a group show at Kunstehalle Basel called Guys, Here Comes the Master Plan, which was a response to the over-circulation of digital imagery within visual culture, and in 2013 made a ‘Manifesto Against Representation’, printed on various textiles and installed in space.

See the Kunstraum website for more details.**

“Is relaxation just the reproduction of labour power?” Simulations of happiness in RELAXATION ROOM at Kassel’s Stellwerk

Berlin Art Prize 2016, Nov 11 – Dec 10

Berlin Art Prize nominees announced

Lotte Meret Effinger @ Kunstraum, Jul 8