KVOST STIPENDIUM & CLAUS MICHALETZ PREIS 2024

The Kunstverein Ost is announcing this year’s KVOST Stipendium, which has been awarded in combination with the Claus Michaletz Preis since 2022. The 10,000 Euros prize is established in memory of the publisher and founder of the Secco Pontanova Foundation, Claus Michaletz. The full amount of the prize money goes to the scholarship holders. Together with the KVOST scholarship, which includes an artist in residency in Berlin with a subsequent solo exhibition at KVOST, the awarding of the Claus Michaletz Preis enables further, sustainable support for the artists.

The scholarship is aimed at artists whose biographical roots lie in Central and Eastern Europe / the former Eastern Bloc.

With the grant, KVOST invites artists to trace the complex network of meanings of Leipziger Strasse / Dönhoffplatz and its surroundings or delve into other geographical and biographical aspects of the East. The works created in this process will be presented in a solo exhibition starting with Berlin Art Week in September 2024.

The application documents are now available: KVOST Stipendium
Application deadline is April 3rd, 2024.
KVOST STIPENDIUM & CLAUS MICHALETZ PREIS 2024

NEW PUBLICATION

„CLARA MOSCH und frühe Kunstaktionen in der DDR“

With thanks to the Berlin Commissioner for the Reappraisal of the SED Dictatorship for the funding. With kind support of Lindenau-Museum Altenburg.

ISBN 978-3-96912-178-8

www.dcv-books.com
NEW PUBLICATION

Upcoming . Nona Inescu . KVOST SchauFenster . Opening 13.12.2023 . 7 pm

For the KVOST SchauFenster, Nona Inescu will present a new body of work entitled Offerings.
The works revolve around Tamata votive images – metal depictions of people and objects related to human life. In Modern Greek, the word “”tama” refers to an offering usually presented to a specific deity as gratitude for granted assistance. It is a kind of pledge fulfilled when a person or their relatives are in danger or unwell. The life-sized votive offerings in the window display prompt reflection and reassessment of the significance of ritual gestures in a constantly evolving world.

Nona Inescu (*1991) lives and works between Berlin and Bucharest.
Upcoming . Nona Inescu . KVOST SchauFenster . Opening 13.12.2023 . 7 pm

Save the date  +++  Upcoming Opening +++ 13.12.2023 : 7-9pm +++ KVOST SchauFenster : NONA INESCU

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„Der Ukraine-Krieg verändert alles“

An exhibition at the Berlin art association KVOST brings together artists from Georgia, Ukraine and Belarus. A conversation with the curator Marija Petrovic.

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Finissage Larisa Sitar . 18.11.2023 . 7-10 pm

Performance by Finja Sander &
Music by Matti Gajek

To conclude the exhibition of Larisa Sitar, KVOST invites you to a performance and music.

Finja Sander chooses the medium of performance as a recurring constant in her works. She looks for breaks and ambivalences in the everyday, for disregarded automatisms that she picks out, isolates and brings into new contexts within multi-part processes.
Sander completed her studies at the UdK Berlin in 2022, as a master student of Valérie Favre. She is recipient of the UdK Berlin Art Award 2023.

Matti Gajek produces and performs electronic music under the pseudonym Gajek. From an East German perspective, Gajek inscribes himself into the progressive mythos of “Krautrock” and Western modernity. He shifts the focus onto a side of German (musical) history marked by the material traces of the Cold War.
His music has been played in the Trauma Bar, Berghain, and Printworks London, among others.
Finissage Larisa Sitar . 18.11.2023 . 7-10 pm

Introducing NEWEAST at BAW Garten

17.09.2023 . 1pm
BAW Garten at the Neuen Nationalgalerie

Presentation of the Neweast Network for Central and Eastern European Art and the digital platform

www.neweast.art

www.berlinartweek.de

On its digital platform NEWEAST features exhibition houses, project spaces and cultural institutions and mainly focuses on two aspects. On the one hand, the digital platform contains an interactive map of cultural locations that is linked to a newsfeed in which the members of the network can independently advertise events and grants. On the other hand, there is a blog in which Neweast continuously publishes interviews with artists and cultural actors around the topic of Eastern Europe.
Introducing NEWEAST at BAW Garten