August 28th – September 26th.
Dada Post, Nordbahnstraße 10, 13409 Berlin, Germany
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The colonization of Berlin by a steady influx of artists from all over the world has resulted in a consequence where Berlin has become a new global center for contemporary art. Hinterland is a collaborative project consisting of one Berlin Based artist, and two artists living and working in Italy, one of which is from the United States. The latest result of their endeavors is “Hinterland”, a collaborative project that considers the previous history of (Kunstraum) Dada Post as a site of globalization, which was the more than 100 years old König Smoked Fish Factory.

The current Berlin art scene is intensely focused on the present, but it is not historically amnesiac. Hinterland is a site specific-complex of works that reflects upon local production in relation to the forms of globalization imagined by past generations. The former König Smoked Fish Factory, is represented by a recreation of Mr. Erich König’s upstairs conference room, which is relocated to a factory area downstairs that have been recreated as an art gallery. “Hinterland” can be both the silence behind the front and an economic base for warfare (originally it is a military term). Presently, our location in the Berlin-Reinickendorf district is mistaken for a variant of the silence in a hinterland, much like the former socialist version of Brandenburg. In the artificial economies of the Cold War, the East Berlin factories represented economical hinterlands, by creating a socialist version of an egalitarian utopia. While in West Berlin, the economy was propped-up by West-German government, and the West in general. Within a special kind of West Berlin melancholy, fish smoking was a strong local tradition – of bourgeois utopia.
Howard McCalebb

The Artists:
Valentina Curandi and Nathaniel Katz
Curandi and Katz are interdisciplinary artists, their practice is

realized in performance, video, and collaborative events.

http://nkatz.org

Sibylle Hofter
Sibylle Hofter is a Berlin based visual artist exploring film, text, site-specific sculpture, installation in public space, and photography. She is also a Curator of various projects, and co-founder of Büro Schwimmer, and initiator of Schwimmer Image Agency. Her working process usually includes extensive research on extra-cultural fields.
www.hofter.de www.buero-schwimmer.de

DIRECTIONS By S-Bahn:
S-1 (Direction Oranienburg) and S-25 (Direction Hennigsdorf), to the Schönholz station,
If you take the S-Bahn be sure to exit at the Schönholz station –
not the Wollankstrasse station.

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