Berlin’s art scene will be extended by a new private exhibition space this fall – in an old brewery.KINDL – Centre for Contemporary Art has announced the opening of its former brewery Power House. It will have more than 1,200 square meters of space, across three floors, for monographic and thematic exhibitions featuring international contemporary art.Two inaugural exhibitions are scheduled to open on October 22. First, there is a group show titled “How Long Is Now.” This will have works by Philip Akkerman, Anetta Mona Chisa & Lucia Tkacova, Ceal Floyer, Andrea Geyer, Jeppe Hein, Uriel Orlow, Manfred Pernice, and Michael Rakowitz. In addition, there will be a solo show with works by German painter Eberhard Havekost titled “Inhalt” (“Content”).Located in the former Kindl brewery in Berlin’s Neukölln district, the building complex will also host ample space for other cultural events, including the former Brew House with six giant copper vats, a café, and beer garden. In the Boiler House a site-specific work by David Claerbout will be titled “Olympia (The Real-Time Disintegration into Ruins of the Berlin Olympic Stadium over the Course of a Thousand Years).” The latter is scheduled to open on September 11. The Boiler House was already inaugurated in 2014. Claerbout is the second artist to have been invited to participate in the site-specific exhibition program, following Roman Signer’s show “Kitfox Experimental.”The former brewery, a listed Berlin red-brick edifice built between 1926 and 1930, belongs to German-Swiss couple Burkhard Varnholt and Salome Grisard, who bought the premises in 2011 and began refurbishing them for the purpose of creating a new space for contemporary-cultural production in 2012. Swiss curator and art critic Andreas Fiedler currently serves as the Artistic Director of the KINDL – Centre for Contemporary Art.David Claerbout, “Olympia (The Real-Time Disintegration Into Ruins of the Berlin Olympic Stadium Over the Course of a Thousand Years)” will be on view from September 11, 2016 through May 28, 2017 at the Boiler House. The group show “How Long Is Now?” & “Eberhard Havekost. Inhalt” will run from October 22, 2016 through February 19, 2017 at Power House, M1 and M2, KINDL – Centre for Contemporary Art Berlin, Germany. Click here for more information.
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