The group show Thunder in Your Throat opens on the ground floor of the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein. It is one of three new exhibitions that the Kunstverein is opening on 4 March. On display are the latest works by eleven artists who received the Visual Arts Work Grant from the Berlin Senate last year. The works discuss economic inequalities, social grievances, historical crimes and their impact on the present as well as emancipatory countermovements. The artists use different media: they work in painting, sculpture, installation, performance or digitally in the form of sound and video works. The exhibition runs until 1 May and is accompanied by a lecture and a performance.
The showroom of the Kunstverein is dedicated to the Serbian artist Irena Haiduk. The basis of the exhibition is the Frauenbank, founded in Berlin in 1910 as the first credit institution run exclusively by and for women. The artist highlights the relevance of economic infrastructures, such as financial independence, for the emancipation of socially inferior groups. In addition to women, this also concerns people of colour and persons of the LGBTQIA+ community, according to Haiduk, who will also give an artist talk and a performance. The exhibition is also supported in terms of content by the podcast Das Epos der Berliner Frauenbank by political scientist Gilla Dölle. Irena Haiduk. Frauenbank Berlin is also on view until 1 May.
Lastly, the work on the billboard of the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, the new wall space inaugurated last September by Rosemarie Trockel, is changing. Now, until 28 August, The Crowd, Paternò by Nan Goldin, which originated in 2004, can be seen there. For the presentation on the Billboard, the artist adapted the work and supplemented it with a sound piece that she produced with the Soundwalk Collective. Nan Goldin is known for her photographs that explore gender identity, drug addiction and romantic relationships, among other topics. Her slideshow Memory Lost will also be on view at the Kunstverein this summer.
