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Mathilde ter Heijne announced as jury member for Berlin Art Week 2014 (September 17–21, 2014)

Once again this year, Berlin Art Week will be complementing the programme of the main partners – the fair formats and major art institutions – with a select group of initiatives chosen by a jury. Among numerous project spaces and alternative initiatives that operate independently of the larger institutions, nine were chosen that offer a widely varying artistic spectrum both in terms of their content and geographical location, showing the diversity of the Berlin art world. The jury members for the third Berlin Art Week are the artist Mathilde ter Heijne, the art critic Kolja Reichert, and Anna-Catharina Gebbers, a curator and lecturer.
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Die Ästhetik des Widerstands

Ausstellung und Veranstaltungsprogramm zu dem gleichnamigen Roman von Peter Weiss, initiiert von Julia Lazarus und Moira Zoitl in Kooperation mit Naomi Hennig.
Eröffnung: Donnerstag, 12. Juni 2014, 19 Uhr
Begrüßung durch Bezirksstadträtin Jana Borkamp
Galerie im Turm, Frankfurter Tor 1, 10243 Berlin
Laufzeit: 13.06. – 23.07.2013
„Die Ästhetik des Widerstands“, 1975, 1978 und 1981 in drei Bänden veröffentlicht, gilt als das schriftstellerische Hauptwerk von Peter Weiss. Der Roman entwickelte sich in den 80er Jahren zum Kristallisationspunkt politisch-ästhetischer Diskussionsveranstaltungen und wurde angesichts seiner außergewöhnlich breiten Rezeption auch als „letzter gemeinsamen Nenner“ der Linken bezeichnet. Eine der zentralen Thesen des Romans von Peter Weiss ist, dass sich durch die Auseinandersetzung mit Werken der bildenden Kunst und der Literatur neue Modelle für die politische Aktion und für ein Verständnis des Sozialen entwickeln lassen. Mit der Ausstellung und dem begleitenden Programm zur „Ästhetik des Widerstands“ in der Galerie im Turm wollen wir die dem Roman zugrunde liegenden Themen in der Gegenwart neu verorten und der Frage nachgehen, inwieweit die in Peter Weiss‘ Roman aufgestellten Thesen für das künstlerische und das politische Feld auch heute noch Gültigkeit haben.
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The One Minutes on Tour in Shanghai

Opening: Wednesday, June 11, 2014, 15h
Exhibition: June 11–July 13, 2014
5th Floor, Power Station of Art
200 Huayuangang Road, Shanghai, China
The One Minutes is pleased to announce its new series for 2014 which includes “They have come to escort me on the dangerous pathway of the intermediate state” by J&K, a contemporary artist duo, based in Berlin and Copenhagen. J&K’s new series is on view in Shanghai at the Power Station of Art.
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Mathilde ter Heijne on „Fitness for Artists TV“

Artist, stuntwoman and fitness enthusiast Helga Wretman visits artists in their studios and exhibitions and does a personal training session – a customized fitness program, tailored to the artistic work of each person. It’s about bringing the mind and the body neatly into shape. And during the workout, under the influence of endorphin jolts, the artist is interviewed. In this episode Helga visits Mathilde ter Heijne in her Berlin studio.
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The One Minutes: „They have come to escort me on the dangerous pathway of the intermediate state“ by J&K

The One Minutes is pleased to announce its new series for 2014 which includes „They have come to escort me on the dangerous pathway of the intermediate state“ by J&K, a contemporary artist duo, based in Berlin and Copenhagen. The One Minutes is a global platform for moving images. Since 1999, The One Minutes has produced and distributed over 10.000 video works from makers of 120 different nationalities. This unique network has largely been built by former students of the Sandberg Instituut. The One Minutes has its base in the institute and is involved in most of the video projects. They offer a platform for international exposure via screenings and exhibitions.
In „They have come to escort me on the dangerous pathway of the intermediate state“, J&K are exploring the theme of death and rebirth in connection to the collapse of a system and the aftermath of revolution. Specifically, J&K would like to pose the question of how death or destruction of prevailing structures can be regarded as a state of potentiality that may lead to new creation. For this series J&K have invited artists and, in collaboration with The One Minutes, they have set out an open call to invite artists to respond to the project.
Participating artists: Amado Alfadni, Erika Arzt & Juan Linares, Arnar Asgeirsson, Candice Breitz, Nicholas Brooks, Lizza May David, Sophie Dupont, Søren Thilo Funder & Tina Helen, Cecilie Gravesen, Mathilde ter Heijne, Malak Helmy, Sophie Hjerl, Hassan J&K, Khan, Huda Lutfi, Pernille With Madsen, Mikkel Niemann, Nissa Nishikawa, Cullinan Richards, Trine Mee Sook, SSMIDD, Josefine Struckmann, Miquel Clara Vasconcelos, Allard Zoetman.
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ATOPIA, MIGRATION, HERITAGE AND PLACELESSNESS

Works from the Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Collection, Vienna
Museo de Arte de Zapopan
Andador 20 de Noviembre 166, Zapopan, Mexico
May 14 – October 5, 2014
This is the first exhibition of TBA21 in Latin America and it includes some of the most fascinating works in the collection. Allora & Calzadilla / Jonathas de Andrade / Taysur Batniji / John Bock / Monica Bonvicini / Abraham Cruzvillegas / Mario Farcia Torres / Carl Michael von Hausswolff and Thomas Nordanstad / Mathilde ter Heijne / Sanja Ivekovic / Brad Kahlhamer / Los Carpinteros / Paulo Nazareth / Rivane Neuenschwander / Walid Raad/The Atlas Group / Alex Rodriquez / Do Ho Suh
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Videoart at Midnight Edition at International Short Film Festival Oberhausen

Friday, May 2 – Monday, May 5, 2014
Each day at 19h; free entrance
*Mathilde ter Heijne’s video „Lament, Song for Transitions“ will be shown on Saturday, May 3, 2014
Lichtburg Filmpalast/Studio
Elsässer Straße 26
46045 Oberhausen Germany
In the course of more than five decades, the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen has become one of the world’s most respected film events – a place where filmmakers and artists ranging from Roman Polanski to Cate Shortland, from George Lucas to Pipilotti Rist have presented their first films. Oberhausen has managed to instigate various political and aesthetical developments, for instance through the Oberhausen Manifesto, perhaps the most important group document in the history of German film. Careful programming and a pioneering choice of subjects has helped the Festival to build up its exclusive position in an increasingly unpredictable market.
Olaf Stuber’s „Videoart at Midnight Edition“ will present N° 9: Ming Wong KONTAKTHOPE, 2010 (May 2); N° 13: Mathilde ter Heijne LAMENT, SONG FOR TRANSITIONS, 2014, (May 3); N° 12: Shingo Yoshida ERROR, 2013, (May 4); N° 11: Andy Graydon VOSTOK, FARETHEEWELL, 2011, (May 5). Each work will exclusively be installed for one night in the Studio Cinema of the Lichtburg Film Theatre.
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Doppelgänger Festival

Werkleitz Festival 2014
in Korrespondenz mit 60 Puppen Theater Jahren
25. April – 4. Mai, 2014
Film ist ein ideales Medium, um das Motiv des Doppelgängers zu visualisieren. Jede Figur, die sich im dunklen Kinoraum auf der Leinwand tummelt, wirkt so lebendig, als sei sie nicht Abbild, sondern leibhaftiger Wiedergänger des Originals. Schon früh entdeckten Filmemacher, dass man die täuschend echten Figuren mittels Doppelbelichtung duplizieren kann, so dass sich der filmische Raum bis in den letzten Winkel mit scheinbar identischen Gestalten füllen lässt.
In den mehr als 40 Filmen des Festivals begegnen den Zuschauern Doubles, Klone und Roboter, Spiegel-, Zerr- und Vexierbilder aller Art. Die Filme fragen nach dem Unterschied von Original und Kopie, verhandeln die politische Dimension derAustauschbarkeit beider und ergründen, wie Doppelgänger in einer Welt, in der Kopien allgegenwärtiger sind als Originale, zu Projektionsflächen und Orientierungspunkten werden.
Die acht Filmprogramme wurden von Marcel Schwierin (Berlin) und Luc-Carolin Ziemann (Leipzig) kuratiert.
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Affekte

Opening: Thursday, April 3rd, 2014
Exhibition: April 4th, 2014 – June 8th, 2014
Kunstpalais
Stadt Erlangen
Palais Stutterheim
Marktplatz 1
91054 Erlangen
Ten international artists critically approach the topic and confront the beholder with differing affects. Amongst others with: Halil Altindere (TR), Cyprien Gaillard (FR), Meiro Koizumi (JP), Aernout Mik (NL), Suzanne Opton (US), Santiago Sierra (ES), Mathilde ter Heijne (NL), Ryan Trecartin (US), Bill Viola (US)
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High Performance

Opening night: Saturday, March 15, 2014, 6 pm
Duration: March 16 – June 22, 2014
JULIA STOSCHEK COLLECTION
at the ZKM | Karlsruhe
Lorenzstraße 19, 76135 Karlsruhe, Germany
Düsseldorf-based JULIA STOSCHEK COLLECTION is presenting key works from its collection of time-based media art at the ZKM | Karlsruhe in the exhibition High Performance. Time-Based Media Art since 1996 – it runs from March 16 through June 22, 2014. With large-format video works and films as well as multi-channel installations, the exhibition demonstrates conclusively how video art as an artistic medium has lost none of its power in the 50 years of its existence.
The exhibition is curated by Bernhard Serexhe and Julia Stoschek and features works by Doug Aitken, Francis Alÿs, Ed Atkins, Allora & Calzadilla, Trisha Baga, John Bock, Monika Bonvicini, Robert Boyd, Matthew Buckingham, Paul Chan, Keren Cytter, Simon Denny, Cyprien Gaillard, Christian Jankowski, Jesper Just, Mike Kelley, Klara Liden, Helen Marten, Tony Oursler, Mika Rottenberg, Mathilde ter Heijne, Ryan Trecartin, Clemens von Wedemeyer, Andro Wekua, Aaron Young and Tobias Zielony.
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„Read your call“

Opening reception: Saturday, March 8, 2014, 7 – 10 pm
March 11 – 29, 2014
Organised by CALL
Diane Kruse Galerie
Admiralitätstraße 71
20459 Hamburg
Germany
Ragna Bley, Mary Beth Edelson, Max Frisinger, Mathilde ter Heijne, Verena Issel, Gitte Jabs, Ida Lennartsson, Stefan Marx, Monika Michalko, Julia Alida Müschen, Julia Phillips, Gunter Reski, Daniel Richter, Pia Stadtbäumer, Anna Steinert, Annika Ström, Anne Cathrin Ulikowski, Claudia Zweifel
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Frauentag

Saturday, March 8, 2014, 20h
Kreuzberg Pavillon
Gartenstudio, Naunynstrasse 53
10999 Berlin
Subway U1 – Kottbusser Tor / Bus M29 Oranienplatz
Regina José Galindo, Mathilde ter Heijne, Renata Kaminska
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I Can’t Control Myself

Opening: Thursday, March 6th, 2014
Exhibition: March 7th – May 4th, 2014
Kunstverein Wolfsburg e.V.
Schloss Wolfsburg
Schlossstraße 8
D-38448 Wolfsburg
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Double Feature: Mathilde ter Heijne

Wednesday, February 26th, 2014, 19.30, free entrance
Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt
Römerberg
60311 Frankfurt
Since 2012, within the framework of its “Double Feature” series, the SCHIRN has devoted itself to the use of the film medium in current art production. A small movie theater with an integrated bar was designed by the artist Michael Riedel especially for this purpose. Artists from Germany and abroad are invited to screen a selection of works from their own oeuvres and also present a personal film favorite. In subsequent discussions with the series’ curators, they provide insights into their creative thought processes and reflect on how their favorite movie has influenced their artistic work. As a result of its digitalization and technical simplification, the film medium has become a key element of contemporary art – whether as an independent means of expression or as a component of multi-media installations. Rather than presenting the works as objects in an exhibition room, “Double Feature” creates a cinema-like viewing situation that focuses solely on the screen. In 2014, contributions by Keren Cytter, Mathilde ter Heijne, Neil Beloufa, James Richards, Ed Atkins, Bertille Bak, Eija-Liisa Athila, Nathalie Djurberg and Hans Berg, Ulla von Brandenburg, Mohamed Bourouissa, Bjørn Melhus, and Luke Fowler await the visitor. The program takes place regularly on every last Wednesday of the month starting at 7.30 PM. Admission is free of charge. Curators: Katharina Dohm, Matthias Ulrich, Carolin Köchling
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ONE NIGHT STAND #1: NOTE ON „CRAMPOGRAPHIES“

Thursday, February 13, 2014, 19 h
KW Institute for Contemporary Art
Auguststraße 69
D-10117 Berlin
Performance / Chora
Fee: 3 €, in German and English
ONE NIGHT STAND is a series, which will present the practice of project spaces and initiatives in an institutional setting. The project space NOTE ON presents the program CRAMPOGRAPHIES at the KW Institute for Contemporary Art and the neighboring sports field in Auguststraße.
CRAMPOGRAPHIES is curated by Ulrike Gerhardt, Susanne Husse and Imke Kannegiesser
With Ulf Aminde und Sabine Reinfeld, Nine Budde and Natascha Rossi, Ella de Burca, Tove El, FORT, Alicia Frankovich, Andrea Fraser, Daiga Grantina, Faye Green, Nilbar Güreş, Mathilde ter Heijne, Stine Marie Jacobsen, Annika Kahrs, Dafna Maimon, Falke Pisano, Elodie Pong, Britta Thie, Michel Vvolta, and Helga Wretman
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Die Ästhetik des Widerstands

4. Februar 2014 bis 21. März 2014
Galerie IG BILDENDE KUNST
Gumpendorfer Straße 10-12
1060 Wien
Ausstellung und Veranstaltungsprogramm zum Roman „Die Ästhetik des Widerstands“ von Peter Weiss
initiiert von Julia Lazarus und Moira Zoitl
Projektbeteiligte: Aesthetic of Resistance Reading Group (London), Akademie einer anderen Stadt (Knobloch/Vorkoeper), Dorothee Albrecht, Iris Andraschek, bankleer, Daniela Brahm/Les Schliesser, Yvon Chabrowski, Fred Dewey, Heiner Franzen, Christine de la Garenne, Erik Göngrich, Mathilde ter Heijne, Naomi Hennig, Ralf Hoedt, annette hollywood, Halina Kliem, Ralo Mayer, Warren Neidich, Julia Lazarus, Hubert Lobnig, Lizza May David, Matthias Mayer, Manoa Free University, Jana Müller, Kirsten Palz, Andrea Pichl, Stefan Römer, Isa Rosenberger, David Rych, Judith Siegmund, Melissa Steckbauer, trafo.K, Jan Verwoert/Federica Bueti, Bettina Vismann, Simon Wachsmuth, Franziska Wildt, Sabine Winkler, Andreas Wutz, Moira Zoitl, u.a.
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Woman to Go at Jack Hanley Gallery

Mathilde ter Heijne: Woman to Go
on view January 15, 2014 – February 2, 2014
Jack Hanley Gallery
327 Broome Street
New York, NY 10002
+1-646-918-6824
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I am another world / Lecture: If it’s me, it’s not me.

Saturday, January 11, 2014, 16.00
Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, M13
Schillerplatz 3, 1010 Vienna
Symposium within the framework of the corresponding exhibition. Concept by Georgia Holz & Claudia Slanar. Participants: Carola Dertnig (artist, Vienna), Janez Janša, Janez Janša (artists, Ljubljana), Carrie Lambert-Beatty (art historian, Harvard University, Boston), Mathilde ter Heijne (artist, Berlin), Donelle Woolford (artist, New York).
Through her art works, art projects and collaborations Mathilde ter Heijne has been researching the production and construction of (gender) identity in different time periods and cultures. She frequently uses alter egos to research and represent structures and situations through which identities can be created or refused. Furthermore she also uses this technique to personally experience the researched phenomenon. So-called „universal human emotions“ like love, revenge, compassion and sacrifice can have a very different meaning to individuals. How do cultural, political and social constructions of identity influence the understanding of emotions?
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n.paradoxa International Feminist Art Journal

Mathilde ter Heijne is featured in the latest issue of n.paradoxa – Volume 33, January 2014 (Religion) – with the contribution „Artists Pages: ‚Experimental Archaeology: Goddess Worship'“ on pages 38 to 43.
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FEEL LIKE BEING OUTSIDE (a landscape with figures)

Wednesday, December 4, 2013, 20h
Free entrance
Doors open at 19h30
cinema-w-o-l-k-e # 11
Vaartstraat 45 rue du Canal
1000 Brussels
No entry after the start of the program:
–Yayoi Kusama’s Self Obliteration – Jud Yalkut, Yayoi Kusama, Joe Jones, Don Snyder. Improvised soundtrack: Citizens for Interplanetary Activity
–Encounter – Linda Persson
–Mathilde, Mathilde – Mathilde ter Heijne
–Picnic at Hanging Rock – Peter Weir
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