Kunsthalle Projects

04/15/2015

THIS THURSDAY
111 Front St DUMBO!!!!!!!!
7-10:30pm

Bacchus’s Skeleton by DIRTY CHURCHES
Video installation and performance
Created by Jesse Gelaznik, Rachel Blackwell and Daniel Garcia
Music composed by Jesse Gelaznik

*******featuring cellos, violas, singers, and synthesizers*******

This installation is composed in three parts; a video projection, floor piece and live performance. The music tells the story of a creature named Bacchus’ Skeleton who stumbles across a beach at sunset and is magically drawn to the symbol of Atlantis buried somewhere in the sand. There are flash backs of Caravaggio paintings depicting Bacchus, which are revealed to him like fragments of a dream. The narrative of the installation was inspired loosely by Bacchus’s walk on the beach searching for a ship to take him home, as featured in Ovid’s Metamorphosis and also by the recent theory of Caravaggio’s death on the beach as featured in Andrew Graham Dixon’s A Life Sacred and Profane. The repeating symbol of the three concentric rings represents Atlantis. This symbol also
serves as the portal between the world of Bacchus and our world.

DIRTY CHURCHES are: Rachel Blackwell and Jesse Gelaznik are Dirty Churches. They combine experimental sound and music with sculptural installations and ritual-based performance in what they
describe as a manifestation of the collective subconscious. Jesse Gelaznik founded Dirty Churches with Joe Robinson, Alex Beard and John Delassi in Brooklyn in 2003. The group began as a noise collective that incorporated a range of musicians for large improv
concerts. It has since morphed into a two-headed video art monster that performs original chamber music inside installations with costumed performers.

04/03/2015

ALSO !!

Loyal Kunsthalle family:
If you could take the time to like and share this magazine feature of one of our artists on staff Annie Carroll and help her get on the magazine's front page that would be amazing!!

just click the link then click the red 'like' button. easy and a huge help!!!
http://www.arsenicmag.com/art/2015/4/3/i-want-what-we-had-i-just-want-it-with-someone-else

thank you thank you thank you

You're not the one

03/30/2015

For the whole month of April Kunsthalle Projects will be hosting shows, performances, and djs each week. Kicking off First Thursday's at 111 Front St is and with a reading and a found sound piece, and live music all night. Check it out at 630pm THIS Thursday!

11/15/2014

Two upcoming exhibitions from our friend Mira O'Brien in Berlin!
If you're lucky enough to be over there check em out! if not then like and share to show your support with us!

"Person Place or Thing"
Opening: Saturday November 15, 6-9pm
On view until January 10

68Projects
Fasananstr. 68
http://www.68projects.com

"Geteilte Stadt - Divided City"
Opening: Saturday November 22, 7-10pm
On view until December 20

POT72
Potsdamer Str. 72
www.pot72.com

Always check in to keep up dated on what all our favorite artists are up to!

11/14/2014

Erik Hougen - Kicking it out again!! So proud - check out this wonderfully written article.

("Bayonet Trials" by Erik Hougen) In reference to photography, Roland Barthes wrote that its unique position among art was that it referred directly to something “that has been.” Erik Hougen’s paintings hint at that premise; they offer places both familiar and alien, which forces the part of our bra…

11/08/2014

Something else to check out this month via our friends at This Red Door:

Dear friends of This Red Door,

Hope this autumn is treating you well, and bringing all sorts of wonderful things your way!

We just wanted to reach out and remind you that we're in the midst of our fall fundraising campaign, and that it's a great time to support This Red Door with a tax-deductible donation. Your contributions help us tremendously to bring our work to artists (of all disciplines) and interested folks around the country and around the world. We're gearing up for a fairly spectacular run next year, but we can't do it without a little help from the TRD family - that's you!

And, of course, if you donate 25.00 or more, you get the official This Red Door t-shirt, hand-printed (by us) in beautiful Greenpoint, Brooklyn. It's the fashion statement of the year! And it makes a great gift too - orders received by 11/25 will ship by 12/1, so if you're looking for a special something for that special someone, get your donation in soon.
Visit us at http://www.thisreddoor.com/?page_id=6183 to donate securely by credit card.

And thank you once again for your amazing support over the years and going forward. We're so honored to have you all with us, and can't wait to see you again soon at TRD.

Sincerely,

Chris, Jomar and Jared,
aka This Red Door



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Dear Friends, Fall 2014 marks three years of the experiment in art, arts education and community building that has become This Red Door. In that time, we have…

11/08/2014

THIS WEEKEND
Pratt Institute | Fine Arts

MFA Fine Arts Open Studios
Saturday, November 8, 2014 from 11am to 7pm

Pratt Institute, Main Brooklyn Campus, 200 Willoughby Avenue:
East Building . Jones Hall (ELJ) . Pratt Studios . Steuben Studios
And Flushing Studio at 248 Flushing Avenue, Brooklyn

MFA Performances
7:30PM at Flushing Studios, 248 Flushing Avenue, Brooklyn
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On Saturday, November 8 Pratt Institute Fine Arts will host MFA Open Studios and an MFA Performances. These events will showcase over 100 international artists who are currently enrolled in Pratt’s Fine Arts Masters program. Areas of concentration include: Painting and Drawing, Sculpture, Printmaking, Photography and New Forms. MFA Performances will take place that evening in Flushing Studios, 248 Flushing Avenue, and is a unique student-led event that provides an audience for students working in performance.

There are four buildings that house the studios of Pratt MFA students. Three are located on Pratt’s Main Brooklyn campus, 200 Willoughby Avenue, and include: Pratt Studios in the basement of Steuben, Steuben Studios on the 3rd floor, East Building, and Jones Hall (ELJ). Flushing Studios, located at 248 Flushing Avenue, is walking-distance from campus. All buildings can be found on a campus map.

All events are free and open to the public. Visitors can stop by an information desk centrally located on campus. For more details, email [email protected].

10/29/2014

THIS SATURDAY

recover from halloween with an awesome new show at Kunsthalle Projects

(Un)Mediated

Curated by David Rios Ferreira and Christine Walia

Opening Reception: Saturday, November 1, 6-9pm
111 Front St, DUMBO Brooklyn

As children, our verbal and visual vocabulary develop through mediated and unmediated experiences with objects, images, media and the adults in our lives. As we begin to express thoughts and create images of our own, they begin with a reinterpretation of what we have absorbed. As if drawing on this early developmental practice the 10 artists featured in this exhibition pull from existing sources to produce new forms, new ideas, and tackle abstract and conceptual issues that move beyond their source materials.

This collection of artists pull from a multitude of sources—some from pop cultural icons, and mass produced images, others ritually comb through the detritus of our daily life. Each artist uniquely manipulates and reinterprets their own observations in an ongoing exploration of the self. Some artists explore the self through the lens of history, myth, landscape, and childlike references—others pose questions and new possibilities. What manifests are bold, complex works with embedded narratives. Overall, the works on view encourage the viewer to share a vision in which identity is a landscape where past, present, and future all reside.

Participating artists:
Felipe Baeza
Rina Banerjee
Mitsuko Brooks
Cecile Chong
Juan Hinojosa
Rachel Meuler
Lina Puerta
Nyugen Smith
Jennifer Williams
Saya Woolfalk

10/04/2014

This Red Door has an upcoming fundraising dive that you should totally check out:

This is straight from them,

Fall 2014 marks three years of the experiment in art, arts education and community building that has become This Red Door. In that time, we have established a network of artists, educators, and individuals from all walks of life who believe in the potential of creativity and discussion to encourage positive dialogue and friendly bonds between human beings. It has been a good time and a stellar learning experience for all involved.

Our goal remains to create open learning environments, and to promote the creation and maintenance of free spaces where people gather to exchange diverse and sometimes contrarian ideas, and above all listen to each other. This Red Door has taken many shapes, but collaboration has always been the mantra. Through a constant practice of cooperation, This Red Door has shared opportunities and resources with active participants and casual visitors alike. From the beginning at Painting Space 122 in Manhattan, to Berlin and back to Brooklyn, we (and you) have put together an amazing room full of books, art, food, drink, performances, events, and informal time to just be.

And now we're gearing up to continue our work in 2015. We are developing a number of exciting projects that we’ll announce as they take shape, but suffice it to say that we are planning to bring TRD to new places and new audiences around the country and the world.

In order to make that happen, we need to raise money. And so we are mounting our first fundraising campaign.

We would like to take this opportunity to ask if you’d consider making a tax-deductible financial contribution to This Red Door. This Red Door is a sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, a non-profit arts service organization. Contributions for the purposes of This Red Door must be made payable to Fractured Atlas and are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law. Your donations will help us tremendously to keep This Red Door open, and to open new doors around the world.

As an added incentive, we’re offering the brand new This Red Door t-shirt to everyone who chips in 25.00 or more. Hand printed by us on Alternative Apparel (the finest tee on the market, in Jared’s expert opinion), in ultra-soft discharge ink, it’s destined to be the first shirt you reach for in the pile of clean laundry for years to come. And it will help us raise awareness and money.

If you want to see everything we’ve been up to, visit us at www.thisreddoor.com.

And if you’d like to contribute, go to http://www.thisreddoor.com/?page_id=6183 – there you’ll also find instructions on how to claim your t-shirt, and also information for how to donate by check.

10/02/2014

Check out Alejandro Almanza Pereda this thursday! Support our talented community of artists!

This Thursday, Oct. 2nd at Noon, Alejandro Almanza Pereda will give an artist talk in the Rubin Center Auditorium. Alejandro is currently installing his show 'Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder' that will open on October 9th! To learn more about Alejandro: www.alejandroalmanzapereda.com