ZILBERMAN Platform 82 | INSTANCES OF ERASURE - Video screening program
Goethestraße 82, 10623 Berlin
1 Sep – 31 Dec 2023
Info
Ausstellungsdauer: 19. Oktober 2023 bis 17. Februar 2024
Featuring Bani Abidi, Sena Başöz, Hera Büyüktaşcıyan, Guido Casaretto, Isaac Chong Wai, Itamar Gov, İz Öztat, Simon Wachsmuth
Program by: Nazlı Yayla & Marjolein van der Meer
9 November - 6 December
Screening: Itamar Gov & Bani Abidi
Conversations:
9 November: Itamar Gov and Zippora Elders
23 November: Bani Abidi, guest to be announced
Platform 82 powered by Zilberman is a new art space, a platform that aims to bring together artists, curators and institutions from different corners of the world, generating dialogue through conversations, presentations, publications, and exchange programs. From October 2023 onwards, we extend an invitation to institutions, curators, artists and all other contributors of the art scene for artistic exploration, discursive practices, and dialogue.
Instances of Erasure
Platform 82 will start its activities with a video screening program titled Instances of Erasure, bringing together 8 video works by 8 artists, accompanied by a series of conversations. Running from October 19th 2023 until February 17th 2024, we will screen two videos by two artists roughly every four weeks, with conversations between artists and guest speakers.
Instances of Erasure delves into the theme of erasure. Through their visual narratives, artists invite the viewer to contemplate the delicate threads that connect memory, history, and the shaping of identity. It encompasses urban structures, architectural fragments and unseen traces that enable one to re-read social and personal histories.
ITAMAR GOV
Letters to Shevik, 2021,
One channel video and sound installation, 15’
From 1987 until his death, Isaac Katz, the artist's great-grandfather, was writing letters to his deceased wife, Bat-Sheva (also known as Shevik), on a weekly basis. In these letters, 238 in all, he chronicled his everyday activities, reminisced old memories, and reflected on the nature of old age, solitude, and love. This video and sound installation takes an epistolary form and contemplates writing as an act of self-preservation and seeking solace as well as a ritual of intimate exchange.
BANI ABIDI
The Song, 2022
One channel video and sound installation, 22’
The Song draws on Bani Abidi’s interest in sound and migration, and on what it means to be acoustically displaced. An older man who is a recent arrival to Europe, confronts the silence of his allotted Neubau apartment, finding his own way to settle down. This film gently nudges up to realities of migration and homesickness and associated yearning, traumas and loss.
Guest speaker November 9th: Zippora Elders
Zippora Elders is a curator and writer working from Berlin and Amsterdam. Currently she is the Head of the Curatorial Department & Outreach of the Gropius Bau in Berlin. Previously she was director of Kunstfort bij Vijfhuizen in Amsterdam's vicinity, where she has since 2016 increased the visibility of this UNESCO heritage site as a thriving retreat for contemporary art and ecological exchange. In 2019 she also became co-curator of Sonsbeek 20-24: Force Times Distance - On Labour and its Sonic Ecologies. Formerly she was a.o. curator at Foam, museum for photography in Amsterdam and editor of Foam Magazine. She is active as an advisor, jury member and board member for art (educational) institutions as well as (crossover) organisations in art, heritage, contemporary music, nightculture and journalism.
9 November - 6 December
Screening: Itamar Gov & Bani Abidi
Conversations:
9 November: Itamar Gov and Zippora Elders
23 November: Bani Abidi, guest to be announced
Platform 82 powered by Zilberman is a new art space, a platform that aims to bring together artists, curators and institutions from different corners of the world, generating dialogue through conversations, presentations, publications, and exchange programs. From October 2023 onwards, we extend an invitation to institutions, curators, artists and all other contributors of the art scene for artistic exploration, discursive practices, and dialogue.
Instances of Erasure
Platform 82 will start its activities with a video screening program titled Instances of Erasure, bringing together 8 video works by 8 artists, accompanied by a series of conversations. Running from October 19th 2023 until February 17th 2024, we will screen two videos by two artists roughly every four weeks, with conversations between artists and guest speakers.
Instances of Erasure delves into the theme of erasure. Through their visual narratives, artists invite the viewer to contemplate the delicate threads that connect memory, history, and the shaping of identity. It encompasses urban structures, architectural fragments and unseen traces that enable one to re-read social and personal histories.
ITAMAR GOV
Letters to Shevik, 2021,
One channel video and sound installation, 15’
From 1987 until his death, Isaac Katz, the artist's great-grandfather, was writing letters to his deceased wife, Bat-Sheva (also known as Shevik), on a weekly basis. In these letters, 238 in all, he chronicled his everyday activities, reminisced old memories, and reflected on the nature of old age, solitude, and love. This video and sound installation takes an epistolary form and contemplates writing as an act of self-preservation and seeking solace as well as a ritual of intimate exchange.
BANI ABIDI
The Song, 2022
One channel video and sound installation, 22’
The Song draws on Bani Abidi’s interest in sound and migration, and on what it means to be acoustically displaced. An older man who is a recent arrival to Europe, confronts the silence of his allotted Neubau apartment, finding his own way to settle down. This film gently nudges up to realities of migration and homesickness and associated yearning, traumas and loss.
Guest speaker November 9th: Zippora Elders
Zippora Elders is a curator and writer working from Berlin and Amsterdam. Currently she is the Head of the Curatorial Department & Outreach of the Gropius Bau in Berlin. Previously she was director of Kunstfort bij Vijfhuizen in Amsterdam's vicinity, where she has since 2016 increased the visibility of this UNESCO heritage site as a thriving retreat for contemporary art and ecological exchange. In 2019 she also became co-curator of Sonsbeek 20-24: Force Times Distance - On Labour and its Sonic Ecologies. Formerly she was a.o. curator at Foam, museum for photography in Amsterdam and editor of Foam Magazine. She is active as an advisor, jury member and board member for art (educational) institutions as well as (crossover) organisations in art, heritage, contemporary music, nightculture and journalism.