He Told Me to Remain Silent
(Duo-Exhibiton)




Opening: Thu 09.07.2020 | 4:00-7:00 PM
Exhibition: 10 – 30.07.2020 | Tue - Sat 12:00 - 06:00 PM


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In our last exhibition before the summer break we show art works by Dave Ball and Jörg Piringer. Both artists deal with the visualization of language. Jörg Piringer calls himself a "digital poet". He programs his computer to generate sound poems, to write independently and creatively. We have had him in our program since he won the ZKM App Art Award 2012. His exploration of language and poetry has now led him to be nominated for this year's Ingeborg Bachmann Prize.

Dave Ball, shortlisted for the Berlin Art Prize in 2016, has taken on an unimaginable performance project: he visualizes a myriad of words of the Concise English Oxford Dictionary according to rules he has established. We followed his path since he first joined the art residency program at Art Claims Impulse in 2008. In this exhibition, we show individual sequences of A, B, C and D.

Our curation shows two different positions (Jörg Piriniger: digital works, Dave Ball: drawings, illustrations and photos), thus creating a dialogue on the subject of language visualisation.

"He Told Me to Remain Silent" is our response to Wittgenstein's last sentence in his treaty "Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent", which we question with the artworks by Dave Ball and Jörg Piringer, who both offer an open and individual interpretation of language.

partikel, by Jörg Piringer

partikel - an interactive immersive text-sound installation

partikel is a reflection on the attempts to establish pervasive voice control for devices and means of transport on a large scale. In contrast to so-called personal assistants such as Alexa or Siri, however, partikel is not concerned with subordinating one's own speech to the utilitarian computer system and its exploitation models and at the same time adapting one's own language to the machine, but rather with expanding the sound and speech possibilities of the voice and exploring new forms of expression. It is an interactive dynamic text-sound installation in which the audience control the visual and acoustic events through their voices. Everything reacts to each other: the sound influences the image and the image the sound. The audience can control the complex behaviour of the sounding letters with pitch, sound quality and volume of their voice and experiment with them with relish.

Short Bio


Dave Ball

A to Z

A to Z is an umbrella work comprising a series of successive semi-independent projects defined by a particular letter of the alphabet; each introduces some new conceptual parameter or media restriction, whilst adhering to the basic parameters of the overall work. The work originally developed out of an interest in utilising randomness as a generative tool, inspired in part by a well-known technique for encouraging lateral thinking, which is to pick a word at random in the dictionary and apply that to whatever subject-matter is being investigated – thus breaking out of the constraints of conventionally linear, logical thought. A to Z deliberately pushes the rationale behind this technique to an absurd level, where there is nothing left except the non-linear thought; divorced of any context, the efficacy of the operation is called into question. What remains is a farcically large collection of sequential images, whose meaningfulness is undermined by the excessive faith in semiotic cogency that drives the project’s relentless marrying of words and images.

A to Z Letter C, by Dave Ball

Short Bio

Exhibition: 10 - 30.07.2020

"Welt, gute Nacht" (World, good night.)
(Duo-Exhibition)

05.12.2020 - 19.12.2020 (*Originally until 21.12.2020. Closes earlier due to new Corona lockdown, unfortunately)

Opening 4pm - 7pm
Opening times during exhibition 3pm-7pm (Screening of the artwork)

Due to Corona regulations we will screen the video art work on the large windows.
Drawings and fine art prints will be visible from outside.

Appointments can be made.

Exhibition location:
feldfünf, Fromet-und-Moses-Mendelssohn-Platz 7-8, 10969 Berlin


Shir Handelsman, (Tel Aviv)

Marc Aschenbrenner, (Berlin)

"Recitative", by Shir Handelsman, Video Art. Courtesy of the Artist.

In our last exhibition in 2020, the year which is extremely influenced by Corona, we are showing the exhibition "World, Good Night" with works of the artists Shir Handelsman (Israel) and Marc Aschenbrenner (Austria). Although not all of the works were created during this period, they still well embody some facets of the spirit of the times of this period, which represents a caesura that has lost its lightness. The works embody on the one hand the gravitas of this situation and on the other hand the absurd, the eccentric that more or less shapes all our lives. They are both consolation and warning. What remains is the hope that after the night a bright day will dawn and the nightmares will have vanished.

"Healing" , by Marc Aschenbrenner, video still from the performance in Hau 2 Berlin.

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Outside view, at night. 

 Verhalten Sie sich leise, leise, leise.
(Live Talk)

Live on Art Claims Impulse, 27.03.2021 8pm (CET)

*Use headphones to watch the trailer.

Video of the exhibition

With Verhalten Sie sich leise, leise, leise, ART CLAIMS IMPULSE focuses on online live streaming exhibitions. Individual artworks by Marc Aschenbrenner, Jörg Piringer and Wolfgang Spahn will be shown. The artists will be present to introduce their latest artworks. The livestream will be streamed on our Facebook and Instagram page at the same time. You will have the opportunity to ask questions and comments during the performance to us, or to the Kulturforum of the Austrian Embassy.

*The event will be held in German.

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The Kulturforum Berlin is the cultural institute of the Republic of Austria in Germany. It supports Austrian cultural workers with the aim of promoting the dialogue between Austria and Germany in the fields of culture and science and is also available as a service point for establishing contacts and networks in Germany. For example, it offers artists, cultural workers and scientists living in Germany the opportunity to introduce themselves and exchange ideas with each other via the NETWORK AUSTRIA on the website of the Cultural Forum. More information about financial support and the NETWORK AUSTRIA can be found here: www.kulturforumberlin.at

The Age of the Digital Aura?
(Live Talk)