EXHIBITION/ Form Follows Empathy Silent Green – Wedding Krematorium, Berlin In 2015, the main Festival exhibition awaited visitors in an unexpected location: the characters took over Silent Green, a new cultural centre in the upcoming Wedding district, located on the recently re-discovered premises of a dormant crematory! 18 international artists presented new original work – sculptures, […]
EXHIBITION/ CHARACTER PORTRAITS MARCO – Museo de Arte Contemporano Monterrey, Mexico In 2014 the Museum for Contemporary Art in Monterrey, MARCO, opened its gates to stage “Pictoplasma’s Mexican premiere: The Character Portraits exhibition took over more than 1000m2 to examine the genealogical dimensions of figurative aesthetics in the postdigital age. As part of Pictoplasma’s ongoing […]
EXHIBITION/ THE PICTOPLASMA PORTRAIT GALLERY Kaufhaus Jandorf – Berlin, Germany On the occasion of Pictoplasma’s 10th anniversary, a vast group exhibition in an abandoned ware-house in the center of Berlin staged new work by the numerous artists who, over the years, have shaped the festival most distinctively. Presenting paintings, busts, sculptures and animated video […]
EXHIBITION/ PICTOPLASMA ACADEMY ALL-STARS Urban Spree The annual Academy All-Star exhibition at Urban Spree presents the raw talent of the international alumni of its newly established annual master class, bringing the experience, knowledge and expertise of the Pictoplasma conferences and festivals to a new level of inspiration and intensity. The yearly Pictoplasma Academy allows a […]
EXHIBITION/ ¡WHITE NOISE! La Casa Encendida – Madrid, Spain In 2013 Pictoplasma curated the group-show “White Noise” at La Casa Encendida, Madrid, examining artistic strategies of hijacking, re-designing and imagining mascots, while they increasingly free themselves from the contexts they used to stand for. The featured art played with mechanisms similar to those of […]
EXHIBITION/ ANIMAL WATCHING Bold Room – Berlin (GER) German/Spanish artist Max Gärtner, the explorer among illustrators, continues his investigation of wildlife fauna in highly elaborate, graphical abstract animal drawings. In his exhibition “Animal Watching” he not only investigated the relationship between humans and animals, but also between different animal species. Max Gärtner positioned hunting and prey animals […]
EXHIBITION/ PICTOPLASMA SHOWROOM Pictoplasma’s Kitchen WHAT’S COOKING IN PICTOPLASMA’S KITCHEN? In October 2012 Pictoplasma opened up its Berlin offices to serve as a new showroom for outstanding contemporary character design and art and provide a platform for visual artists to exhibit outside the annual Festival rhythm. Artists exhibited included: Low Bros, Akinori Oishi, Amandine Urruty, […]
EXHIBITION/ Post Digital Monsters, Paris La Gaite Lyrique – Paris, France In 2011 Pictoplasma was invited by prestigious La Gaîté Lyrique in Paris to curate a vast exhibition on the topic of contemporary character culture. “Post Digital Monster” presented a focussed selection of international artists who succesfully transformed their characters from digital to analogue, re-discovering […]
EXHIBITION/ PEN TO PAPER CAPC musée d’art contemporain de BordeauxConcrete Hermit, LondonartSPACE, BerlinGalerie LJ, Paris In 2010 Pictoplasma presented a series of exhibitions in Germany, France and the UK, featuring original work by the key players of what was labelled “DIY art” “fractured figuration” or “new psychedelic folk”. The revival of analogue skills injected […]
EXHIBITION/ PICTOPLASMA RESIDENCY Open to the most daring, stylistically sure-footed character exhibition proposals, the Pictoplasma Residency in cooperation with DISK/CTM offered young and upcoming artists the opportunity to refine their concept and present their character driven work to a wide, international and interested audience. The awarded artists received free accommodation, a financial grant to help […]
EXHIBITION/ PREPARE FOR PICTOPIA, BERLIN HKW – Haus der Kulturen der Welt – Berlin, Germany In 2009 the iconic HKW Haus der Kulturen der Welt invited Pictoplasma to curate the world’s first large-scale exhibition on contemporary character design and art. “Prepare for Pictopia” playfully explored the phenomenon and offered new and surprising insight into […]
EXHIBITION/ CHARACTER WALK Numerous Galleries, Project Spaces and Art VenuesBerlin, Paris, NYC, … Similar to an urban treasure-hunt, the Character Walk is an adventurous tour through numerous galleries, project spaces and partnering locations made temporarily available to host exhibitions, installations and performances of outstanding international character art. The unique format has meanwhile spread from Berlin […]
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