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2020/01/21

Francesca Thyssen-Bornemisza hosts this conversation that departs from her and José Luis de Vicente’s report on their participation on the official working sessions at COP25. This conversation addresses how art is an active tool for fighting climate change.

Participants: Francesca Thyssen-Bornemisza, Founder and Chairwoman TBA21; José Luis de Vicente, curator and researcher; Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg, artist; and John Gerrard, artist.

2020/01/21

During the weather conference COP25 Alice @alice.audouin invited Michael Pinsky @michael_pinsky , John Gerrard @johngerrard.inst , Fernando García Dory @fer_dory, Cédric Carles and other friends all aware that in a finite world we cannot grow indefinitely

2019/11/29

On the occasion of the Climate Change Conference @cop25_madrid from December 2 to 13, 2019, artists explore the impact of climate change. Ten years ago, in 2009, Darya von Berner created in Madrid “Universal Cloud Flag” a white flag of minute water drops, like the clouds that nourish and sustain life. Shortly after she carried out this idea that she patented, manufactured, and installed it in front of The Peace Palace in The Hague in 2012. The cloud flag was emitted from the top of a steel mast, using fog pressure to spray water in suspension into the atmosphere.

2019/11/27

Unique Multiples @unique.multiples is pleased to present The Last Illusion, a new sculptural edition made from one kilo of pure gold by Madrid-based conceptual artist Darya von Berner. This holographic, mixed media work features a cast sculpture of golden shit displayed within a custom holographic vitrine, which through its own visual alchemy renders the precious heavy metal into a hovering, ghostly apparition.

Following in the tradition of ‘épater le bourgeois,’ or abject works of art such as Maurizio Cattelan’s America (2016), an 18-karat gold toilet, and Piero Manzoni’s seminal work Artist’s Shit (1961), The Last Illusion continues this line of inquiry, questioning how the value of art is derived, and juxtaposing the symbolic with the tangible, the abstract with the real.

2019/06/15

Lupus Viator, 1994 – Madrid, Spain⠀
Darya von Berner⠀

Museo de Arte Contemporáneo⠀

Wall painting⠀
Foto: Joaquín Cortes⠀

In the context of the group show “Confrontaciones (los entornos de la imagen)”, the ephemeral painting Lupus Viator, acquired monumental proprtions and covered the entirety of a wall at the museum of Anthropology in Madrid.⠀

Curators: Martín Bartolomé and Félix Guisasola⠀
Sponsor: Ministerio de Asuntos Sociales⠀
In collaboration with Ministerio de Cultura⠀

The project Lupus Viator (latin: wolf walking) began as a series of monumental painted installations of an ephemeral nature and realised in situ. Later the project continued to evolve over a period of 7 years. It travelled to 7 different countries worldwide. ⠀
Taking into consideration its extensive duration, as well as its territorial movements, from country to country, Lupus Viator can be understood almost like a mythical pilgrimage, which covers the trails and places, where wolves have formerly roamed in abundance, before the species has widely become extinct.

2019/06/06

Marchas de Elefantes, 1998 – Madrid⠀⁣
Video, Darya von Berner⠀⁣
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Mercado de Fuencarral⠀⁣
Madrid, 1998⠀⁣
Duration: 0:44, loop⠀⁣
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At the Mercado de Fuencarral (Madrid), Marcha de Elefantes was shown in the format of a multi-media installation. On several monitors, in and outside of the market, the video of an elegant couple walking in front of a homeless, was shown on a loop. Again, the work emphasized the notion of habitat loss and its problematic in the context of a city.⠀⁣
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Curated by: Eugenio Ampudia⠀⁣
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Production: Laagencia (Vicente Matallana)⠀⁣
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The project Marcha de Elefantes, is a metaphor of walking: the walk of all the wild animals and people which have lost their habitat and homes, uprooted and forced to leave their place of origin.⠀⁣
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The work began as a series of large-scale murals, but later the wall-based work was complemented by sculptures, videos and also performances.⠀⁣

@elephantlisteningproject⁣

2019/05/16

In Love with Unreality, 2009⁣
Madrid, Galería Moriarty⁣


An art installation at the Moriarty gallery in Madrid with the collaboration of the poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti known for his poems inspired by the New York subway, and the underground company of Metro de Madrid, that installed generously an access control turnstile at the entrance of the gallery.⁣

Whilst physically passing the barrier with a Metro ticket with a line of the poem In Love With Unreality by Ferlinghetti, he recited it (https://vimeo.com/38096965)⁣

2019/05/10

¿Qué significa orientarse en el pensamiento?, 2010⁣
GALERÍA MORIARTY, Madrid⁣

Sight-specific installation at the Gallery Moriarty. For this installation, the basic architectural structure of the exhibition space, was redrawn with the help of a new lighting technology (Light Tape). The title of the exhibition was inspired by the work of Immanuel Kant (1786) ‘What does it mean to orient oneself in thinking?’⁣

2019/04/23

Este jueves día 25 de abril, en el ámbito del programa cultural “En torno al 8M y la marea feminista”, tendrá lugar a las 18.30h en la Sala de Protocolo del @museoreinasofia, la séptima edición de VOCES SITUADAS, donde hablaremos de maternidad y cuerpo – maternidad y trabajo – maternidad y psique.⁣

Cuando en el 2014 comencé mi proyecto “Maternidad Politica” no me imaginaba todo lo que aprendería en estos cinco años.⁣

2019/03/23

Madrid, 2007⁣
Technique: water and air⁣

La nube de la Puerta Alcalá, was a temporary site–specific intervention in a public space of Madrid. It was created for the Noche en Blanco´07 (Madrid) and consisted of a real cloud, which was installed in front of the historic monument ‘Puerta de Alcalá’. The cloud was created with the help of a new nebulisation technology and consisted of nothing else but pulverised water particles suspended in mid-air. The installation offered almost a million visitors the possibility, to experience a natural phenomenon in the heart of the city.⁣

Curated by: Pablo Berástegui⁣

Sponsored by: Noche en Blanco’07⁣

Technical realization: Reyes Abades⁣

#madrid #art #contemporaryart #daryavonberner #culture #artist #daryavonberner #atmospheres #madridart

2019/03/22

Ceci n’est pas un nuage, Brussels, 2009⁣
Technique: water and air⁣

Ceci n’est pas un nuage, was created for the Nuit Blanche Brussels ’09. It consisted of the temporary installation of a ‘real’ cloud at the Place Royale in Brussels (next to the Musée Magritte). The cloud was created with the help of a new nebulisation technology and consisted of nothing else but pulverised water particles suspended in mid-air.⁣

Homage to: Jan van Helmont, René Magritte y Marcel Broodthaers⁣

Curated by Sabine Cornu⁣

Sponsored by: Nuit Blanche, European year of creativity and innovation 2009 (European Comission)⁣

Technical realization: Fog Systems⁣

#madrid #art #contemporaryart #daryavonberner #culture #artist #daryavonberner #brussels #madridart #nuage #atmospheres

2019/03/20

Cordova mosque, Cordova, Spain, 2009⁣
Technique: water and air⁣

For the occasion of ‘Cordoba, European Cultural Capital 2016’, four different artists were invited to create a public intervention each. Every artist represented a different element: air (Darya von Berner), fire (José María Soler), water (Jeppe Hein) and earth (Miquel Barceló and the dancer Josef Nadj).⁣

Von Berners La nube de Córdoba, was a temporary installation of a cloud in front of the UNESCO World Heritage Site ‘Mezquita-Catedral de Córdoba’. The cloud was created with the help of a new nebulisation technology and consisted of nothing else but pulverised water particles suspended in mid-air.⁣

Curated by Carlota Álvarez Basso⁣

Technical realization: Fog Systems⁣

#madrid #art #contemporaryart #daryavonberner #culture #artist #daryavonberner #cordoba #madridart #nube #atmospheres

2019/03/14

Fuera de lugar, 2009 – Sculpture – Darya von Berner⁣

⁣Carole Pateman definition of ‘prostitution’ as an institution that involves the exchange of money for sexual services (property in the person) and, as an institution, has nothing to do with women’s desire, but has a lot to do with women’s survival – and the very large profits of those who control the global sex industry.⁣
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#feminist #feminism #8M #madrid #art #painting #contemporaryart #daryavonberner #culture #artist #daryavonberner #madridart #criticalart #money

2019/03/13


Deviation on the basis of the standard, 1997 – Painting, Darya von Berner ⁣

Paul Klee’s drawings about the “abnormal movements within the normal internal construction” are useful also to open the configurative possibilities of “abnormal” or “irregular” on some social norms.⁣

#madrid #art #contemporaryart #daryavonberner #culture #artist #daryavonberner #arco19 #madridart #arcomadrid

2019/03/12


Deviation on the basis of the standard, 1997 – Painting, Darya von Berner ⁣

Paul Klee’s drawings about the “abnormal movements within the normal internal construction” are useful also to open the configurative possibilities of “abnormal” or “irregular” on some social norms.⁣

#madrid #art #contemporaryart #daryavonberner #culture #artist #daryavonberner #arco19 #madridart #arcomadrid

2019/03/11


Deviation on the basis of the standard, 1997 – Painting, Darya von Berner ⁣

Paul Klee’s drawings about the “abnormal movements within the normal internal construction” are useful also to open the configurative possibilities of “abnormal” or “irregular” on some social norms.⁣

#madrid #art #contemporaryart #daryavonberner #culture #artist #daryavonberner #arco19 #madridart #arcomadrid

2019/03/09

Deviation on the basis of the standard, 1997 – Painting, Darya von Berner ⁣

Paul Klee’s drawings about the “abnormal movements within the normal internal construction” are useful also to open the configurative possibilities of “abnormal” or “irregular” on some social norms.⁣

#madrid #art #contemporaryart #daryavonberner #culture #artist #daryavonberner #arco19 #madridart #arcomadrid

2019/03/05

Ganz Licht und frei in der Frankfurter Küche, 2012 – Ernst-May-Haus & Museum – Light Atmosphere – Darya von Berner⁣⠀
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The installation ‘Ganz Licht und frei in der Frankfurter Küche’, by Darya von Berner is a tribute to Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky´s, an architect that escape her chains.⁣⠀
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#frankfurt #FrankfurtKüche #madrid #art #MargareteSchütte-Lihotzky #Ernst-May-Haus #contemporaryart #daryavonberner #culture #artist #daryavonberner #feminism #feminist #8M

2019/03/04

The history of the Motherhood, 1999 – Painting: Acrylic on velvet and fluorescent light – Darya von Berner. ⁣

Rosa Luxemburg: “Those who do not move, do not notice their chains”⁣
Silvia Federici: “In only three centuries women have suffered episodes as bloody as the witch hunt.”⁣


#motherhood #feminist #feminism #8M #madrid #art #painting #contemporaryart #daryavonberner #culture #artist #daryavonberner #madridart #rosaluxemburg

2019/02/24

Ceci n’est pas un nuage – Brussels, 2009⁣
Darya von Berner⁣

Ceci n’est pas un nuage, was created for the Nuit Blanche Brussels ’09. It consisted of the temporary installation of a ‘real’ cloud at the Place Royale in Brussels (next to the Musée Magritte). The cloud was created with the help of a new nebulisation technology and consisted of nothing else but pulverised water particles suspended in mid-air.⁣

Homage to: Jan van Helmont, René Magritte y Marcel Broodthaers⁣

Curated by Sabine Cornu⁣

#madrid #art #contemporaryart #daryavonberner #culture #artist #daryavonberner #arco19 #madridart #arcomadrid #brussels #installation #cloud #cloudinstallation #performance #museemagritte

2019/02/23

Series November Boughs , Photography ⁣⁣
NB2 03º 40´w, 40º07´ , Darya von Berner⁣⁣
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The photographic series November Boughs, comments on the controversial urbanization project in Seseña. 2006 is the year in which the European parliament requests to reconsider the volatility of the housing market, and the effect it has on business cycles, creating potential systemic risks.⁣⁣
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#artistbook #madrid #art #contemporaryart #daryavonberner #culture #artist #daryavonberner #arco19 #madridart #arcomadrid #photography #photos #seseña #spain #critica #artecritica #system #systemrisks

2019/02/06

In Love With Unreality, 2009 by Darya von Berner
6,5 x 3 x 0,4 cm
12 Metro tickets
Edition 195

In Love With Unreality, is a mini artist’s book in the format of the old Madrid Metro ticket that takes its title from a phrase in the poem Coney Island of Mind by Ferlinghetti.
The twelve sentences of which it is composed, can be read when shuffling the twelve tickets.
By means of the printing of the poems on the tickets, a metaphor of the trip and the literature was established.
The magnetic strip of those notes meant at the time a revolutionary technological change in Metro de Madrid introducing the digital era. #artistbook #metrodemadrid #centenariometro #metro #madrid #art #contemporaryart #ferlinghetti #daryavonberner

2019/02/04

In Love With Unreality, 2009 by Darya von Berner
6,5 x 3 x 0,4 cm
12 Metro tickets
Edition 195

In Love With Unreality, is a mini artist’s book in the format of the old Madrid Metro ticket that takes its title from a phrase in the poem Coney Island of Mind by Ferlinghetti.
The twelve sentences of which it is composed, can be read when shuffling the twelve tickets.
By means of the printing of the poems on the tickets, a metaphor of the trip and the literature was established.
The magnetic strip of those notes meant at the time a revolutionary technological change in Metro de Madrid introducing the digital era. #artistbook #metrodemadrid #centenariometro #metro #madrid #art #contemporaryart #ferlinghetti #daryavonberner

2019/02/02

Mil y un viajes 2012-2019, by Darya von Berner
Dimensions: 290 x 131.5 cm., Double sided
Technique: machine-sewn metro tickets

To commemorate 100 years of Madrid Metro, the artist Darya von Berner proposes a work consisting of a single large ticket, like a large tapestry, as result of sewing a thousand and one tickets, some of the tickets with Ferlinghetti poem, comes from In Love With Unreality the artist’s book edition.

A thousand and one trips together on a single large ticket, visible on both sides, about spatial and emotional distances of all those who have traveled along its lines over the years.
This small pink ticket, now replaced by a digital transport card, has marked an era in the recent history of Madrid.
One thousand used Metro de Madrid tickets stitched together to make a single large ticket, visible on both sides.

Dimensions: 290 x 131.5 cm., Double sided
Technique: machine-sewn metro tickets

#artistbook #metrodemadrid #centenariometro #metro #madrid #art #contemporaryart #ferlinghetti #daryavonberner #billetedemetro

2019/02/01

Mil y un viajes 2012-2019, by Darya von Berner
Dimensions: 290 x 131.5 cm., Double sided
Technique: machine-sewn metro tickets

To commemorate 100 years of Madrid Metro, the artist Darya von Berner proposes a work consisting of a single large ticket, like a large tapestry, as result of sewing a thousand and one tickets, some of the tickets with Ferlinghetti poem, comes from In Love With Unreality the artist’s book edition.

A thousand and one trips together on a single large ticket, visible on both sides, about spatial and emotional distances of all those who have traveled along its lines over the years.
This small pink ticket, now replaced by a digital transport card, has marked an era in the recent history of Madrid.
One thousand used Metro de Madrid tickets stitched together to make a single large ticket, visible on both sides.

#artistbook #metrodemadrid #centenariometro #metro #madrid #art #contemporaryart #ferlinghetti #daryavonberner #billetedemetro

2019/01/17

The illumination of Manfred Voss (Guido Petzold) is a perfect one for this Wagnerian staging of an irreversible moral crisis. #teatroreal #madrid @joan_matabosch

2019/01/16

Eco Boulevard – Ecosistema Urbano 👏👏👏Belinda Tato, José Luis Vallejo, Diego García-Setién. @belindatato #architecture #madrid

2018/11/16

EL FENÓMENO es lo que sucede con toda su complejidad y nos permite saber algo con certeza.

LO VIRTUAL es lo que sucede de forma reducida y desprovisto de la mayoría de sus atributos, nos asombra, pero no nos da certeza.

ESTA PEQUEÑA NUBE es un fenómeno real en el Bar Cock de Madrid, está compuesta de gotas microscópicas suspendidas en la ATMÓSFERA.

Mi mano mueve el ABANICO con certeza.

EL SONIDO VIRTUAL DE LA LLUVIA en el interior del Bar Cock, procede de internet, no nos refresca.
Tampoco podemos en el Bar Cock caminar como caminó con certeza José Tono Martínez a lo largo de unos 135 km de costa a costa a lo largo del Camino de Adriano. #tonomartinez #elcaminodeadriano #barcock #madrid #art #artist #daryavonberner

2018/10/21

https://www.teatro-real.com/en/season-18-19/opera/only-the-sound-remains/ @petersellars #teatrorealmadrid #madrid

2018/10/20

Conocer o no las reglas del juego… (usar o no la primera persona) y desde qué espacio moral me cuentan la historia Juan José Millán, Gabriela Ybarra y Montserrat Domínguez @juanjosemillas #festivalñ #circulodebellasartesmadrid #madrid

2018/10/06

#campoabierto #campo #arte #naturaleza #madrid 🌾🌱 Centro de Acercamiento a lo Rural (CAR) http://www.comunidad.madrid/actividades/2018/apertura-centro-acercamiento-lo-rural

2018/10/03

Recognizing what we need to learn from Africa. @kerefrancis #icomadrid #madrid

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