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  • Monday
    Nov 02–Monday
    Nov 30, 2020

Why an archive?

  • Discourse

Film series to complement the exhibition Readings From Below, in collaboration with the Arsenal – Institute for Film and Video Art

  • Wednesday
    Sep 09, 2020
    12:00 pm–8:00 pm

Exhibition Opening: Readings From Below

  • Opening

Times Art Center Berlin is pleased to announce the upcoming group show Readings From Below. The exhibition explores how artists engage us in new readings of our complex present by making use of the virtual potentials of archives.

  • Wednesday
    Aug 19–Wednesday
    Aug 26, 2020

Conflictual Topography III

  • Screening

The Conflictual Topography public program, organized by Heidi Ballet, was planned to take place during the exhibition of iZhou Tao: Winter North Summer South but came to a halt due to the coronavirus crisis. In the revised program, the artists of the original program are revisited under the new challenging circumstances. For the third iteration, Daniela Ortiz’s film The Empire of Law will be screened online between August 19 and August 26.

Conflictual Topography II

  • Discourse

The series Conflictual Topography, organized by Heidi Ballet, was originally conceived as a public program during the exhibition of Zhou Tao and was later adapted to the exceptional months we are living through. Heidi Ballet talked with Xiang Zairong, a researcher, theorist, and sometimes curator, about Chinese farmer’s markets, the ongoing pandemic, food, and face masks in Europe and in China.

  • Monday
    May 25–Saturday
    May 30, 2020

Conflictual Topography I

  • Screening

Online Screening with Rosa Barba and Ben Rivers

The Conflictual Topography public program that was organized by Heidi Ballet and that was planned to take place during the exhibition of Zhou Tao came to a halt due to the coronavirus crisis. In a revised program, the artists of the original program will be revisited under new circumstances, to discuss how the world is being reshaped. In May, a screening of Urth (2016) by Ben Rivers and The Empirical Effect (2010) by Rosa Barba is programmed, accompanied by a conversation.

  • Friday
    Feb 14, 2020
    6:00 pm–9:00 pm

Zhou Tao: Winter North Summer South

  • Opening

Times Art Center Berlin is pleased to present Zhou Tao’s solo project developed from the commissioning of Guangdong Times Museum in 2019. Zhou Tao spent nearly two years in between the oasis and the Gobi village, capturing our modernist obsession and utopian desire to turn deserts into habitat. The result is a […]

  • 2019
      • Saturday
        Nov 30, 2019
        5:00 pm–8:00 pm

      1-Year Anniversary with Friends & Books

      • Discourse

      Times Art Center Berlin celebrates its first anniversary with friends and books. Exactly one year ago, we opened to the public with our inaugural exhibition The D-Tale: Video Art from the Pearl River Delta, curated by Hou Hanru and Xi Bei, at Potsdamer Strasse. This summer, we moved to our permanent location at Brunnenstrasse […]

      • Saturday
        Sep 28, 2019
        1:00 pm–5:00 pm

      Floating Constellation: Border-Crossing Exchanges Within and Beyond Asia

      • Discourse

      The 8th Para-curatorial Symposium
      Curated by Nikita Yingqian Cai and Mia Yu

      Contributing Speakers:
      Övül Ö. Durmuşoğlu, Yongwoo Lee, Pan Lu, Seng Yu Jin, Shen Xin, Ming Tiampo, Abhijan Toto, Chương-Đài Võ, Emily Wilcox, and Ling Zhang […]

      • Friday
        Sep 27, 2019
        6:00 pm–9:00 pm

      Neither Black / Red / Yellow Nor Woman

      • Opening

      Curated by Nikita Yingqian Cai and Xiaoyu Weng

      Participating Artists:
      Chang Wen-Hsuan, Dachal Choi, Chitra Ganesh, Jane Jin Kaisen, Iris Kensmil, Sylbee Kim, Mai Ling, Laura Huertas Millán, Sara Modiano, Mai-Thu Perret, Thao Nguyen Phan, Arin Rungjang, Shen Xin, Trinh T. Minh-ha, Evelyn Taocheng Wang, Wang Zhibo, Luka Yuanyuan Yang & Carlo Nasisse, Mia Yu […]
      

      • Friday
        Sep 20, 2019
        6:00 pm–8:00 pm

      Friends with Books: Art Book Fair Berlin

      • Discourse

      The D-Tale: Video Art from the Pearl River Delta
      Edited by Hou Hanru & Xi Bei

      We are pleased to present our first exhibition catalogue published by Sternberg Press at Friends with books: Art Book Fair Berlin at Hamburger Bahnhof. The D-Tale: Video Art from the Pearl River Delta is the catalogue of the namesake inaugural exhibition of Times Art […]

      • Thursday
        Apr 25, 2019
        6:00 pm–9:00 pm

      Kan Xuan: Racing Gravels

      • Opening

      The exhibition Racing Gravels, curated by Tan Yue, assembles a series of new works by video artist Kan Xuan, informed by her parallel career as a commercial video director. Naturally, such continual exposure to brands and technologies has imbued her with related interests, urging her to explore the rites of commerce, technological ethic, and […]

      • Saturday
        Apr 13, 2019
        8:00 pm–9:00 pm

      Performance by Isaac Chong Wai

      • Performance

      Rehearsal of the Futures: Police Training Exercises
      (Part 2)

      In this performance, Isaac Chong Wai will take the history of protests – through its repetitive expressions and actions – as the point of departure. Rehearsal of the Futures: Police Training Exercises is a continuation of Chong’s investigation into imagined futures and how, through […]

      • Saturday
        Apr 13, 2019
        6:00 pm–9:00 pm

      The D-Tale: Video Art from the Pearl River Delta

      • Finnisage

      Nikita Yingqian Cai (Chief Curator at the Guangdong Times Museum) and Melanie Roumiguière (Head of Visual Arts at DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program) will situate their practices by connecting the curatorial frameworks of their institutions with artistic practices supported, mediated and consolidated within and beyond their regional contexts. They will discuss storytelling and active withdrawal as an artistic strategy […]

      • Thursday
        Feb 28, 2019
        6:00 pm–9:00 pm

      The D-Tale | Episode III: The Politics of the Self

      • Opening

      Times Art Center Berlin is pleased to announce the opening of Episode III: The Politics of the Self of the inaugural three-part exhibition The D-Tale: Video Art from the Pearl River Delta co-curated by Hou Hanru
      and Xi Bei.

      Participating Artists:ALLORA & CALZADILLA, CAO Fei, CHEN Shaoxiong, CHOI Sai-Ho, FANG Lu, May FUNG, HO Sin Tung, KWAN Sheung-Chi, LI Xiaofei, […]

      • Saturday
        Feb 23, 2019
        6:00 pm–7:30 pm

      The D-Tale | Episode II: Towards Autonomy

      • Discourse

      As a closing event of Episode II: Towards Autonomy of the inaugural three-part exhibition The D-Tale: Video Art from the Pearl River Delta, Times Art Center Berlin hosts a panel discussion between Li Zhenhua and Olaf Stüber, moderated by Marie-France Rafael. Throughout the discussion, the panelists will give an insight into their curatorial approaches and further investigate […]

      • Thursday
        Jan 17, 2019
        6:00 pm–9:00 pm

      The D-Tale | Episode II: Towards Autonomy

      • Opening

      Curated by HOU Hanru, co-curated by XI Bei

      Participating artists:
      CHEN Shaoxiong, CHEN Tong, CHENG Chi Lai Howard, Isaac CHONG Wai, Simon DENNY, HUANG Xiaopeng, KWAN Sheung-Chi, Linda LAI, Warren LEUNG Chi-Wo, LI Liao, LIN Yilin, LIU Chuang, Phoebe Ching Ying MAN, […]

  • 2018
      • Friday
        Nov 30, 2018
        6:00 pm–9:00 pm

      The D-Tale: Video Art from the Pearl River Delta | Episode I

      • Opening

      Times Art Center Berlin (TACB), a new experimental space for contemporary art from China in Berlin, will open to the public on 30 November 2018.

      Panel Discussion: Video in the Pearl River Delta: An Eye Opener with HOU Hanru, David ELLIOTT, and Anselm FRANKE […]