Information Lounges 2007

by Solmaz Shahbazi

Intrigued by the 1950^th architecture of the Palais am Funkturm Solmaz Shabazi researched the early use of the space as a stylish Bar connecting it to ‘history’ of public talks in particular their new media version the ‘talk show’. As a result the situation of the talks rather then it’s architectural setting will be adapted to something like a reconstructed past. The panel will be placed at the bar, the public will sit at cocktail tables. There will be a bar keeper ‘performing’ during the talks. The new space/situation will provide an insight as to how we filter images or formulate pre-conceptions.

Before Solmaz Shahbazi, German of Iranian decent, began to engage in film, she had mainly been working as an architect. Her work departs from the artist’s desire to anchor an aesthetic dialectic praxis in the social and political conditions of the present. Shahbazi uses the documentary format in both her videos and her photography as a tool to analyse different modes of imagery, expectations of the unknown and possible effects on perception.

Press Lounge and Library
by Øystein Aaasan

For the design of the passage between Press Lounge, the Library and the Freestyle-Hall 11.2, the Norwegian artist Øystein Aasan will take motifs recurring in his production and by means of abstraction, turning them into a sign system. Notions such as “Display Units”, “Grids”, “Spreads” and “Screens” will all be used, but on a level where their original content is left behind for a more efficient and ample system. And all based on the idea that one needs to bridge both a visual and a functional concept to invigorate the space in question. Practically this results in a light and clear guiding system from the main halls to hall 11.2. Located on the way are flat display units for the fair’s public library. Drawing from experience made by the wardens of the libraries Art Forum installed in past years part of the inherent visual information will only be rendered visible after the books are (permanently) removed by visitors of the fair.
From the start Oystein Aasan has been investigating  the convergence of text and image. This is conducted in several ways, resulting in fantastically exploding collages as well as minimalistic environments and sculptures.

Øystein Aaasan (*1971 in Kristiansand, Norwegen) www.oysteinaasan.com
www.lautom.no
www.galeriebittel.de
www.psm-gallery.com

Monopol Lounge
Welcome at Monopol Lounge!
Monopol-Magazine for Art and Living. The Lounge
The Monopol-Lounge at the ART FORUM BERLIN

The Monopol Lounge is like the magazine Monopol itself: in the thick of art events, and yet a site of relaxation.

The Monopol Lounge thereby presents itself in an unusual combination of design and pleasure. The Berlin designers from Coordination created it exclusively for the art fair and Monopol.

VIP-Lounge by Famed
Catering by Brandenburger Hof

Famed
Sebastian M. Kretschmar, Kilian Schellbach,  Jan Thomaneck

Although works by Famed are site specific, depending on interaction with the spectator, their completion does not require active audience participation. Famed critically reflect the relationship between aspects of performance and permanence inhabiting a work of art — be it via temporary installations or by means of fetish-like products. In their work, Famed disclose fame as an amalgam of different forces and value systems within the field of art, factors whose effects can hardly be predicted, let alone be calculated beforehand. The term "Famed" reflects fame as a prime aspiration and motivation driving the making of art whilst also functioning as the group’s logo and label.

Famed was founded in 2003.

BRANDENBURGER HOF Berlin
Eislebener Straße 14, Berlin-Charlottenburg
www.brandenburger-hof.com

In our VIP Lounge, the Brandenburger Hof, a synonym for the hotel business with style in Berlin, offers fine dining from its starred kitchen, the restaurant “Die Quadriga”.

Join us in indulging in a short break from the bustle of the art fair. There is no better place for deciding whether to really buy that special picture. Nowhere else can one hide so well from burdensome interlocutors. And nowhere else at this art fair can one have fifteen minutes with the pleasant feeling of being a few meters above everything – with a glass of champagne or a cup of cappuccino in one’s hand.

Architecture by Roger Bundschuh
Catering by Bagel Company Berlin
Interior by Sitting Bull / Flöttotto