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June 14, 2013
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SPLITTER: An Exhibition by Clemens Behr

Date: June 13, 2013 – August 4, 2013
Location: Gestalten Space

SPLITTER opened on Thursday, June 13 at Gestalten Space. A big thanks to all joining us at this beautiful summer night. We hope you enjoyed it! Clemens Behr’s site specific installations and latest selection of studio works can be visited until August 4.

The exhibition title SPLITTER is a double entendre that refers to the artist’s approach as well as to the visual impression his installations convey. By playing with both destruction and construction, Clemens Behr raises questions about ephemerality and permanency. In the same way, his work facilitates a dialog between our perceptions in the second and third dimensions.

Alongside his temporary site-specific interventions, SPLITTER also presents a number of durable objects. With his recent change to more stable materials such as wood and tiles, Clemens Behr has abandoned his use of cardboard boxes, which had become a trademark of his abstract spatial installations. It is especially revealing to experience Behr’s work at the time of this significant artistic shift since it gives an outlook on what is still to come.

More information on the event.

 

View the complete gallery of opening photos on Facebook.


Photo Credits:
Matthias Steffen http://www.matthiassteffen.com

Video
June 11, 2013
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Blank Slate –
A Comprehensive Library of Photographic Templates

A well-designed pitch presentation can set your work apart. Our new book Blank Slate provides you with essential tools for preparing a captivating presentation that shows clients the full potential of your work as well as how your design looks in the real world. Browse and buy the book here.

Blank Slate offers:
- More than 1,000 product dummies in the book to inspire you
- A DVD with all of these dummies as mock-up templates to help you in your work
- Images with both black & white backgrounds for design flexibility.

Gestalten.tv demonstrates the book’s advantages hands-on!
Watch the video now.

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Video
June 10, 2013
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Gestalten.tv Meets Dan Witz

Light Star Express

Influenced by a mixture of punk rebellion, culture jamming, and the scary urban blight of New York City in the early eighties, Dan Witz has built up an expansive CV as an artist and street art legend. Gestalten.tv sits down with the multi-talented artist to talk about his provocative approach to street art, which he describes as “the more provocative, the more effective.” Also shedding a light on his current show Bar Shrines, Lamps and Other Paintings of Light, Witz reveals why his gallery paintings and street interventions are not to be seen as two opposing areas of work, but instead as a synergistic effect of each other.

Dan Witz’s also featured in Gestalten’s books:
Beyond the Street
Urban Interventions
Wall & Frames

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Photo
June 03, 2013
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—- NEW EXHIBITION AT GESTALTEN SPACE —- Vernissage: June 13, 2013, 18:00–21:00Clemens Behr will be attending. We are very pleased to present a solo exhibition by young Berlin-based artist Clemens Behr. In SPLITTER, new installations conceived especially for our exhibition space and a selection of Behr’s latest artworks converge to offer a compelling snapshot of his emerging artistic career.  The exhibition title SPLITTER is a double entendre that refers to the artist’s approach as well as to the visual impression his installations convey. By playing with both destruction and construction, Clemens Behr raises questions about ephemerality and permanency. In the same way, his work facilitates a dialog between our perceptions in the second and third dimensions.   Alongside his temporary site-specific interventions, SPLITTER also presents a number of durable objects. With his recent change to more stable materials such as wood and tiles, Clemens Behr isincreasingly abandoning his use of cardboard boxes, which had become a trademark of his abstract spatial installations. It is especially revealing to experience Behr’s work at the time of this significant artistic shift since it gives an outlook on what is still to come.   RSVP on Facebook Check out what’s going on at Gestalten Space

—- NEW EXHIBITION AT GESTALTEN SPACE —-

Vernissage: June 13, 2013, 18:00–21:00
Clemens Behr will be attending.

We are very pleased to present a solo exhibition by young Berlin-based artist Clemens Behr. In SPLITTER, new installations conceived especially for our exhibition space and a selection of Behr’s latest artworks converge to offer a compelling snapshot of his emerging artistic career. 

The exhibition title SPLITTER is a double entendre that refers to the artist’s approach as well as to the visual impression his installations convey. By playing with both destruction and construction, Clemens Behr raises questions about ephemerality and permanency. In the same way, his work facilitates a dialog between our perceptions in the second and third dimensions.
 

Alongside his temporary site-specific interventions, SPLITTER also presents a number of durable objects. With his recent change to more stable materials such as wood and tiles, Clemens Behr isincreasingly abandoning his use of cardboard boxes, which had become a trademark of his abstract spatial installations. It is especially revealing to experience Behr’s work at the time of this significant artistic shift since it gives an outlook on what is still to come.
 

(Source: clemensbehr)

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June 03, 2013
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ridingonhandlebars: VELO 2nd Gear, a beautiful book celebrating international bike culture and style, published by Gestalten.  From the publishers website: Choosing to ride a particular bike conveys an attitude and a way of life. Velo—2nd Gear illuminates and celebrates contemporary bicycle culture’s diverse scenes. From classic racing bikes to high-tech speed machines, from rough fixies to fashionable city cruisers and hardworking cargo bikes, this book showcases today’s most outstanding and unusual bicycles and their riders.Velo—2nd Gear not only introduces coveted manufacturers, specialized boutiques, and historical tours. It also explains how each bike-related scene cultivates its own distinct codes through the choice of certain frames, jerseys, caps, or bags or by visiting specific events or key establishments. In doing so, the book shows why, for more and more people, bicycles have now replaced cars as the vehicles that best express their identity.

ridingonhandlebars:

VELO 2nd Gear, a beautiful book celebrating international bike culture and style, published by Gestalten. 

From the publishers website:

Choosing to ride a particular bike conveys an attitude and a way of life. Velo—2nd Gear illuminates and celebrates contemporary bicycle culture’s diverse scenes. From classic racing bikes to high-tech speed machines, from rough fixies to fashionable city cruisers and hardworking cargo bikes, this book showcases today’s most outstanding and unusual bicycles and their riders.

Velo—2nd Gear not only introduces coveted manufacturers, specialized boutiques, and historical tours. It also explains how each bike-related scene cultivates its own distinct codes through the choice of certain frames, jerseys, caps, or bags or by visiting specific events or key establishments. In doing so, the book shows why, for more and more people, bicycles have now replaced cars as the vehicles that best express their identity.

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Photoset
May 30, 2013
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Gestalten Workshop with Nicolas Felton
 
Thank you so much to everyone who attended our two-day workshop with Nicolas Felton! We hope you had an incredibly inspiring experience.

A leader in the field of information visualization and personal data tracking, Nicolas Felton is famous for his Personal Annual Reports, which charted his personal life in detail into beautifully minimal infographics compiled into annual-report format.

This intensive two-day workshop, Felton addressed fundamental topics: how to search for stories and isolate a question, data gathering tools and methodologies, improving connections and the relevance of data, and the relevance of data and the value of data-based visual narratives.

If you are interested in any other upcoming workshops, please drop us a line with your contact details at workshops@gestalten.com.
 
See what’s happening at Gestalten Space here
 
View full gallery of workshop photos on Facebook here

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May 28, 2013
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Sneak Peek! Nicolas Felton at Gestalten Space

Nicolas Felton is hosting a 2-day infographics workshop at Gestalten Space right now!

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Info about the workshop here.

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Photoset
May 24, 2013
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designfunction:

A recent purchase, a lovely cartography book ‘A Map of the World; The World According to Illustrators and Storytellers’, showing a multitude of different map styles.

(via meetyourm)

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Video
May 24, 2013

Gestalten.tv
Dan Witz - Light Start Express

The masterful paintings of American artist Dan Witz transform everyday subjects into intimate hyper-realistic depictions of the banalities of life, allowing us to suspend our disbelief long enough to enter the fascinating world of art. Rooted in New York’s punk rebellion, culture jamming, and the scary urban blight since the early eighties, this Brooklynite is not only a painter and street artist, but also a musician in the 1980s. His works have been exhibited in galleries throughout Europe and the US. In Gestalten.tv’s latest feature, Witz sheds a light on Bar Shrines, Lamps and Other Paintings of Light, his first solo exhibition at Gestalten Space in Berlin, and why he rather likes his spectacular street art to serve a conscious purpose than to merely brand an ego.

Related Books:
Beyond the Street
Urban Interventions
Wall & Frames

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May 17, 2013

Sarah Illenberger’s First Exhibition in Japan!

Reality & Fantasy Exhibition
by Sarah Illenberger x Miho Kinomura

This is the very first time Sarah Illenberger exhibits in Japan. The show just opened at Diesel Art Gallery, check out the show if you’re in Tokyo!

Also check out Sarah Illenberger’s first monograph by Gestalten: http://shop.gestalten.com/sarah-illenberger.html

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