®artspace Hamburg
Heliumcowboy. Sternstrasse 4. 20357 Hamburg. Germany
talk: +49 40 484 088 60 online: www.heliumcowboy.com
Multifunctional creative artspace in Hamburg.
Opening hours: Wednesday to Friday, from 11.00h to 19.00h.
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12.07.2008 - 15.08.2008
After almost 50 exhibitions, the heliumcowboy artspace celebrates its 5th anniversary this summer. We want to commemorate this accordingly – with a huge group exhibition featuring almost 30 regional and international artists that we have worked with closely in the past, and who all belong to the heliumcowboy family. This anniversary exhibition gives us the opportunity to present the work of our artists and the gallery to a large audience. In order to achieve this, the location needs to be up to the task. Consequently, the temporary space we will move into for the duration of the show is as unconventional as our gallery: the former Broadway movie teatre, close to the central train station (Bieberhaus).
The 1.400 square meter large venue, by now stripped from all walls and in the state of a construction site, is directly situated in Hamburg’s City Centre, a mere stone throw away from the Art Museums and the Schauspielhaus (theatre). It will be a creative playground and open installation space for he participating artists. At the heliumcowboy artspace we prefer the breach with conventions and enable our artists to re-invent the concept of exhibiting. Over the past years we have proven to being able to create unique, usable and stable environments within our gallery rooms, at fairs/projects and beyond. Seizing the opportunity we provide them with, our gallery has been converted into diverse "habitats" many many times by different artists.
This freedom and the lust to experiment will be the guiding idea of the anniversary show. The aim is to create a common world that is mesmerizing, inventive and inspirational at the same time, and to enrich Hamburg’s exhibition-culture in order to offer something innovative to the art-enthused visitor. Not only requires this venture a large degree of visionary power, courage, passion and no fear of hard work, but also a great deal of megalomania. Here, at the Ranch of the heliumcowboy’s, we possess enough of all that.
Featuring: 56k, Akane Kimbara, Alex Diamond, Alexej Mirnij, Antonio Santin, Blami, Boris Hoppek, Casey McKee, Christophe Lambert, Jim Avignon, Jon Burgerman, Kingdrips, Karen Koltermann, Ki Yoon Ko, Lena Schmidt, Luiza Mogosanu, Lui Roq, Mike Swaney, moki, Stephen Smith/Neasden Control Centre, Nina Braun, Pandarosa, Patrick Farzar, Rinzen, Thomas Markus Schumann, Victor Castillo, Rai Escale, 4000.
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24.05.2008 - 04.07.2008
Nina is immersed in an analogue world, where the obsession with material and her devotion to each individual object emerges from her very personal imagery. Her approach to materials like wool and fabric are the base for her sometimes child-like and naive objects that result from an intensive working process. Considering that we are living in a digital era where economical aspects of the working process prevail and thoughts and images can be infinitely reproduced, Nina Braun’s approach to work is quite revolutionary.
®artspace Hamburg
Heliumcowboy. Sternstrasse 4. 20357 Hamburg. Germany
talk: +49 40 484 088 60 online: www.heliumcowboy.com
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18.04.2008 - 16.05.2008
Heliumcowboy artspace and Modart magazine present new work by Microbo, BO130, Morcky and TheBoghe. These artists belong to a generation of creative producers whose working area is quite hard to define. Their artistic background, the diversity of cultural influences working on them range from several disciplines, forms of expression and visual languages. If you try to retrace their aesthetic roots, you have to find the right track first. The influences and the visual places that serve as playground for these artists are extremly diverse, but they do have something in common: their passion for street painting and a wide exploration of media aesthetics that has led to a series of successful shows all around the globe.
Vernissage: Friday 18.04.2008 starting at 20.00h
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29.03.2008 - 11.04.2008
We've been planning this exhibition with the Australian duo since 2005 and they finally make it! The Pandas will show their Artworks in Hamburg for the first time. Ariel Aguilera & Andrea Benyi develope their very own perspectives of thinking, feeling and researching in their illustrations. They show the possibility of a tight coexistance between design and art.
Vernissage Saturday 29.03.2008 starting at 20.00h
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16.02.2008 - 14.03.2008
Christophe Lambert can´t only be seen as a traditional artist. He´s much more than that, and has not only roughed up the artscene: he has worked as an illustrator and comicdrawer for several english, spanish, french, italian, belgium and swiss magazines. His extense work even comprises film releases. Therefore, it´s almost impossible to ascribe a certain technique to his work, he employs and manipulates everything that seems appropiate for his work progress.
He´s a punk who doesn´t shrink away from anything, not even stuffed animals, and he builds altars that reveal and tematize the chaos our world has become. And he does this in a very rigorous and outspoken way.
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30.11.2007 - 18.01.2008
Alex Diamond exhibited twice in Heliumcowboy Gallery with large monothematic shows, in 2004 with Alex Diamond’s "Strange Sofa" and in 2005 with "Gold, Kinder!" His new large solo show, "Love me with a gun to my head" features installations, paintings, collages, drawings and performance. It's finissage opens the parnership for Heliumcowboy to become ROJO®artspace Hamburg.
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