<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif;font-size:10pt"><div style="" class=""><span style="" class="">Art Laboratory Berlin Presents :</span></div><div style="" class=""><font style="" class="" color="#ff0000" size="4"><font style="" class="" size="3"><font style="" class="" size="2"><font style="" class="" size="3"><font style="" class="" color="#000000" face="Cambria"><span class="" style=""><font style="" class="" color="#800080" size="4"><br style="" class=""></font></span></font></font></font></font></font></div><div style="color: rgb(128, 0, 128); font-size: 18px; font-family: Cambria; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;" class=""><span class="" style="font-weight: normal;"><font style="" class="" color="#ff0000" size="4"><font style="" class="" size="3"><font style="" class="" size="2"><font style="" class=""
size="3"><font style="" class="" color="#000000" face="Cambria"><span class="" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="" style=""><font style="" class="" color="#800080" size="4">[macro]biologies II:
organisms</font></span></span><br style="" class=""> <br style="" class=""></font><font style="" class="" face="Cambria"><font style="" class="" color="#000000"><span class="" style=""><span class="" style="font-weight: bold;">Suzanne Anker<br style="" class="">Brandon
Ballengée<br style="" class="">Maja
Smrekar
</span><br style="" class=""><br style="" class=""></span></font></font> </font></font></font></font><font style="" class="" face="Cambria" size="3">Opening: 30 May, 8 PM<br style="" class="">Exhibition runs: 31 May – 20 July
2014<br style="" class="">Opening hours: Fr-Sun, 14-18h (and by
appointment)<br style="" class=""><span class="" style="">Artists and curators Talk (all artists are present): 1 June, 3
PM<br style="" class=""></span></font><font style="" class="" size="4"><font style="" class="" size="3"><font style="" class="" size="2"><font style="" class="" size="3"><font style="" class="" face="Cambria"><font style="" class="" size="4"><span class="" style=""><font style="" class="" size="3"></font> </span></font></font></font></font></font></font><font style="" class="" size="4"><font style="" class="" size="3"><font style="" class="" size="2"><font style="" class="" size="3"><font style="" class="" face="Cambria"><font style="" class="" size="2"><em style="" class=""><br style="" class="">
</em></font></font></font></font></font></font><font style="" class="" color="#ff0000"><font style="" class="" color="#000000"><font style="" class="" face="Cambria" size="3">The second exhibition of the series <em style="" class="">[macro]biologies
& [micro]biologies</em> <span class="" style=""><em style="" class="">[macro]biologies II:
organisms</em></span> will
highlight the works of artists dealing with multi-celled organisms. Noteworthy
is both the relationship of these organisms to us, as well as their roles as
independent actors. The exhibition focuses on the works of three remarkable,
internationally recognized artists whose work deals with multicellular
organisms: <span class="" style="font-weight: bold;">Suzanne Anker</span> (U.S.), <span class="" style="font-weight: bold;">Brandon Ballengée </span>(U.S.) and <span class="" style="font-weight: bold;">Maja Smrekar</span>
(SI).<br style="" class=""><br style="" class="">
</font></font></font><font style="" class="" color="#ff0000"><font style="" class="" color="#000000"><font style="" class="" size="3"><font style="" class="" face="Cambria"><span class="" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="" style="">Suzanne Anker</span> </span><br style="" class=""> </font></font></font></font><font style="" class="" color="#ff0000"><font style="" class="" color="#000000"><font style="" class="" face="Cambria" size="3">The American artist and theoretician Suzanne
Anker has been one of the key figures working at the border between art and
biology for several decades. Her work combines inquiry into science and the
newest technologies with a keen aesthetic sense.
</font></font></font><font style="" class="" color="#ff0000"><font style="" class="" color="#000000"><font style="" class="" face="Cambria" size="3">At Art
Laboratory Berlin Anker will show several series of works: The installation
<span class="" style=""><em style="" class="">Astroculture (Shelf Life)</em></span> was first shown in 2009. It consists of three plant
chambers with installed LED panels. Surprisingly, although the grown plants
appeared to be fuschia-colored, they in fact were green. The work manifests the
possibility of growing herbs in any light deprived apartment.<span class="" style=""><em style="" class="">Remote Sensing</em></span> is a
series of work produced through rapid prototyping technology. The three
dimensional working software program converts the image into an object. The
resultant sculpture shares resonance with pictorial maps and landscapes employed
by remote sensing. In the series <em style="" class=""><span class="" style="">Vanitas
(in a Petri dish)</span></em> Suzanne Anker
reflects the concept of Vanitas by employing a Petri dish as the site of
laboratory life in which the Petrie dish changes from an object of science to an
object saturated as art. <br style="" class="">
</font></font></font><font style="" class="" color="#ff0000"><font style="" class="" color="#000000"><font style="" class="" face="Cambria" size="3"><em style="" class="">More information: </em>
</font> <a style="" class="" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.suzanneanker.com/"><font style="" class="" face="Cambria" size="3"><em style="" class="">http://www.suzanneanker.com/</em></font></a><br style="" class=""><br style="" class=""><span class="" style=""><font style="" class="" face="Cambria" size="3"><span class="" style="font-weight: bold;">Brandon
Ballengée</span><br style="" class="">
</font></span></font></font><font style="" class="" color="#ff0000"><font style="" class="" color="#000000"><font style="" class="" face="Cambria" size="3">The American artist Brandon Ballengée pursues
a sustainable form of artistic research in his metier as a visual artist in the
field of bioart and as a biologist in the field of herpetology.
</font></font></font><font style="" class="" color="#ff0000"><font style="" class="" color="#000000"><font style="" class="" face="Cambria" size="3">Art Laboratory
Berlin will show video documentation of his ongoing project <span class="" style=""><em style="" class="">Malamp
Reliquaries</em></span> , on which Ballengée has worked in various forms
since 2001. The project's aim is to investigate the potentially unnaturally high
occurrence of morphological deformities among wild amphibian populations.
</font></font></font><font style="" class="" color="#ff0000"><font style="" class="" color="#000000"><font style="" class="" face="Cambria" size="3">The exhibition also presents two other works of Ballengée
developed in the course of his artistic and scientific research: the video
projection <span class="" style=""><em style="" class="">Requiem pour Flocon de Neige Blesses (A Requiem for
Injured Snowflakes)</em></span> and the video installation <em style="" class=""><span class="" style="">The Cry
of Silent Forms</span></em> made up of eight monitors of different sizes arranged
horizontally on the floor.<br style="" class="">
</font></font></font><font style="" class="" color="#ff0000"><font style="" class="" color="#000000"><font style="" class="" face="Cambria" size="3"><em style="" class="">More information: </em>
</font> <a style="" class="" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://brandonballengee.com/"><font style="" class="" face="Cambria" size="3"><em style="" class="">http://brandonballengee.com</em></font></a><em style="" class=""> <br style="" class=""></em><br style="" class=""></font></font><font style="" class="" color="#ff0000"><font style="" class="" color="#000000"><span class="" style=""><font style="" class="" face="Cambria" size="3"><span class="" style="font-weight: bold;">Maja Smrekar</span><br style="" class="">
</font></span></font></font><font style="" class="" color="#ff0000"><font style="" class="" color="#000000" face="Cambria" size="3"> Maja Smrekar is an emerging young
artist from Ljubljana, Slovenia, connecting the intersections of humanities
and natural sciences with her main interest in the concept of life.
In 2012, working together with researchers from the Department for
Freshwater and Land Ecosystems at the National Institute of Biology in Ljubljana/Slovenia,
Smrekar built the installation <em style="" class="">Crustacea deleatur</em>
(an Aksioma Production). This project explores the problem of invasive
species, for instance the interaction of European (indigenous)
and non-European (tropical, invasive) crayfish.</font></font><font style="" class="" color="#ff0000"><font style="" class="" color="#000000" face="Cambria" size="3">For the exhibition at Art Laboratory Berlin
Smrekar has continued to develop this project and will present the installation
<em style="" class="">Crustacea deleatur</em> in a different form as <em style="" class=""><span class="" style="">BioBase:
risky ZOOgraphies</span></em> focussing on the marble crayfish
(<em style="" class="">Procambarus fallax forma virginalis</em> ), and its form of asexual
reproduction in which growth and development of embryos occur without
fertilization, called parthenongenesis. Since the spring of 2013, in this
context, there has been an intensive exchange between Smrekar and Prof. Dr.
Scholtz from the Institute of Biology (Humboldt University of Berlin), one of
the leading specialists in the marble crayfish
worldwide.<br style="" class=""></font></font></span><font style="" class="" color="#ff0000" size="4"><font style="" class="" size="3"><font style="" class="" face="Times New Roman"><font style="" class="" color="#000000" size="2"><span class="" style="font-weight: normal;"><font style="" class="" face="Cambria" size="3"><em style="" class="">More information:</em></font><a style="" class="" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://majasmrekar.org/crustacea-deleatur"><font style="" class="" face="Cambria" size="3"><em style="" class="">http://majasmrekar.org/crustacea-deleatur</em></font></a></span><font style="" class="" face="Cambria" size="3"><em style="" class=""> </em></font></font></font></font></font><span style="" class=""></span></div><div style="" class=""> </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: garamond,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;" class=""><span class=""
style="font-family:garamond, new york, times, serif;"></span><br style="" class=""><font style="" class="" face="Cambria" size="3"><strong style="" class=""><br style="" class=""></strong>
</font><font style="" class="" size="4"><font style="" class="" size="3"><font style="" class="" size="2"><font style="" class="" size="3"><font style="" class="" face="Cambria"><font style="" class="" size="4"><strong style="" class=""><font style="" class="" size="3">Curators: </font></strong><span class="" style=""><font style="" class="" size="3">Regine Rapp & Christian de Lutz</font></span></font></font></font></font></font></font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: Cambria; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;" class=""><font style="" class="" size="4"><font style="" class="" size="3"><font style="" class="" size="2"><font style="" class="" size="3"><font style="" class="" face="Cambria"><font style="" class="" size="4"><strong style="" class=""><font style="" class="" size="3">Press: </font></strong><span class="" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="" style=""><font
style="" class="" size="3">Olga Shmakova</font></span></span><strong style="" class=""><font style="" class="" size="3"><br style="" class=""></font></strong></font></font></font></font></font></font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: garamond,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;" class=""><span class="" style="font-family:garamond, new york, times, serif;"><br style="" class=""></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: garamond,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;" class=""><br class="" style="font-family:garamond, new york, times, serif;"><a class="" rel="nofollow" style="font-family:garamond, new york, times, serif;" target="_blank" href="http://www.cdelutz.net/"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font class="" style="font-family: courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif;" size="4">A</font><font style=""
class="" size="4"><span class="" style="font-family: courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif;"></span></font></span><font style="" class="" size="1"><span class="" style="font-family:courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="">RT</span></span><span class="" style="font-weight:bold;"><font class="" style="color:rgb(139, 139, 139);" size="4">L</font><span class="" style="color:rgb(139, 139, 139);">ABORATORY</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font style="" class="" size="4">B</font>ERLIN</span></span></span></font><br class="" style="font-family:garamond, new york, times, serif;color:rgb(0, 64, 127);font-weight:bold;"><span class="" style="font-family:garamond, new york, times, serif;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);">Prinzenallee 34</span><br class="" style="font-family:garamond, new york, times, serif;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="" style="font-family:garamond, new york, times, serif;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);">13359
Berlin</span><br style="" class=""></a></div></div></body></html>