Publication

Bärenzwinger Berlin | Traces – Architectures – Projections

Book Launch
03/22/2019, 7pm

Welcome
Dr. Ute Müller-Tischler
Head of Department Art and Culture

About the book
Evelyn Gregel, Julia Heunemann and Viktor Schmidt

Editor: Bezirksamt Mitte von Berlin, Department of Art and Culture, Dr. Ute Müller-Tischler

Design: Viktor Schmidt, Berlin

ISBN 978-3-7356-0563-4
17,00 x 24,00 cm, 152 Pages
49 colored and 7 b/w illustrations
Hardcover, bound
Languages: German, English
Publisher: Kerber Verlag
With kind support of the Senat Administration for Culture and Europe Berlin, Cross-disciplinary funding.

At the end of the exhibition programme “Traces – Architectures – Projections”, which took place from September 2017 to January 2019 at Berlin’s Bärenzwinger, the catalogue of the project will now be published with a comprehensive documentation of the exhibitions and events.

The former animal enclosure at Köllnischer Park housed several generations of brown bears for about eighty years and has been open since September 2017 as a space for site-specific art.

The publication “Bärenzwinger Berlin | Traces – Architectures – Projections” documents the sensitive transformation of the Bärenzwinger, whose contemporary exhibition programme examined the particular historical and architectural features of the location from an artistic perspective. The book also includes contributions from the symposium on the bear pit, which took place at Märkisches Museum in October 2018 and brought together artistic, scientific, and urban positions to discuss the past, present, and future use, function, and significance of the site.

Artists:
Katharina Bévand, Natalie Czech, Mariechen Danz, EASTER, Andreas Greiner, Kerstin Honeit, Miriam Jonas, KAYA, Anne-Sophie Kneer, Julia König, Alaa Abdullatif, Linda Kuhn, Alex Lebus, NEOZOON, Pätzug / Hertweck, Lawrence Power, Reto Pulfer, Johannes Paul Raether, Marten Schech, Sarah Ancelle Schönfeld, Mirjam Thomann, Alvaro Urbano

Text by:
Stefan Aue, Sandra Bartoli, Ellen Blumenstein, Claudia Bosse, Dr. Hanna Engelmeier, Evelyn Gregel, Dr. Nele Güntheroth, Sebastian Häger, Julia Heunemann, Anne Hölck, Dr. Sacha Kagan, Alexander Koch, Marie-Christin Lender, Dr. Constanze von Marlin, Dr. des. Christina Katharina May,  Prof. Dr. Natascha Meuser, Dr. Ute Müller-Tischler, Jessica Páez, Nadia Pilchowski, Dr. Christoph Rauhut, Sarah Sander, Nandita Vasanta, Christopher Weickenmeier, Hanns Lennart Wiesner, Sven Wirth, Dr. Imke Woelk

Editorial team:
Evelyn Gregel and Marie-Christin Lender