Exhibition from 15.11.2020 to 30.01.2021

On the way by bus in Berlin and Bangkok.
Moods and stories, captured in a mixed media installation by the artist couple Christine Falk & Alfred Banze, with paintings, films, drawings, sounds and texts.

The installation on the ground floor of Schloss Biesdorf consists of a Bangkok room and a Berlin room, in which Christine Falk's architecture-related paintings and Alfred Banze's informal drawings and videos are shown alternately. In the Bangkok film, the acoustic cacophony of the big city is replaced by music. It is inspired by Thai pop music of the 1960s, with gongs and xylophones, plucked instruments, monks' songs and street noise. The Berlin film is accompanied by original sounds and texts by Christine Falk.

Public buses are a very flexible means of transport. Buses go to places that are not in the public eye, but tell a lot about the respective city. They enable mobility for the urban periphery. In the visual arts, public space has long been recognised as a commercially threatened social cultural asset and has since been considered a broad field of experimentation.

The prelude to the exhibition was shown at the Goethe-Institut Bangkok in autumn 2019. In Berlin the exhibition was planned for March 2020, but could not be realised at that time due to corona. Much has changed in the meantime and thus realities are shown that do not exist in either city at the moment. From today's perspective, the scenes of the videos, which were recently still everyday, describe scenarios of longing.

The idea for the exhibition project was born in Bangkok during a ride in an old open collecting bus. In Berlin the artist couple uses public transport and the bicycle, the car has long been abolished.

Christine Falk and Alfred Banze met 15 years ago at the Goethe-Institut in Bangkok. Since then they have realised numerous joint projects on exoticism, globalisation and intercultural dialogue, time and again in Bangkok.

Further details: www.bangkokbybusberlin.de

An event of the Department of Culture Marzahn-Hellersdorf.
More information on culture in Marzahn-Hellersdorf can be found on the Internet at www.kultur-marzahn-hellersdorf.de.

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