Tjorg Douglas Beer | HEROES / KORYPHÄEN / SYNAPSES / … | Haus am Lützowplatz (Studiogalerie) | 22.09.-04.11.2018

During the exhibition, one day in the second half of October in a tent designed by Tjorg Douglas Beer in the courtyard of Haus am Lützowplatz, an ephemeral dinner will be arranged by Yulia Belousova. The tent also shows works by the young Greek artist Valinia Svoronou.

TJORG DOUGLAS BEER The Third Eye of George Harrison`s Brother 
/ El tercer ojo del hermano de George Harrison, 2016, 
Akrylfarbe, Ölfarbe, Wedding, Lack, Tinte auf Leinwand, 
50 cm x 40 cm, Courtesy Produzentengalerie Hamburg, © VG Bildkunst

Tjorg Douglas Beer was born in Lübeck in 1973 and grew up in Hamburg. There he studied at the College of Fine Arts. Since then his work has been shown in some of the most important national and international museums and galleries, eg. Tate Modern, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Kunstverein Hamburg, Weserburg, Museum of Modern Art Bremen, Project Space Kunsthalle Wien, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, X-Initiative, New York, Remap3 + 4 Athens, basedinberlin, Neue Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, 21er Haus – Museum for Contemporary Art Vienna, Konsthall Varberg, Arizona State University Art Museum. Beer had solo exhibitions, etc. at Kunsthaus Hamburg, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Stadsgalerij Heerlen, Institute for Modern Art Nuremberg, Contemporary Art Institute Sapporo, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York.

Beer has participated in the biennials Artgenda 2002 in Hamburg, Manifesta11 – European Biennial for Contemporary Art 2016 in Zurich, the Socle du Monde Biennial 2017 in Herning and the Berlin Kreuzberg Biennale 2012.

In addition to his artistic work, Beer, as the initiator of projects such as Galerie im Regierungsviertel Berlin, the Berlin Kreuzberg Biennale or Galerie Utopia, dedicated himself to the creation of situations that make existential concerns an exhibition context.

Yulia Belousova is a Moscow-born, Berlin-based art historian. In 2012, she founded the non-profit exhibition series Ephemeral Dinner and the Art Residence Ephemeral Residency in southern France. Belousova develops forms of presentation that make the exhibition visitor an active participant in the action.

She creates situations in which invited artists create a space with their works, during which during the Ephemeral Dinner the depicted art, the artists, the social event and the viewers together become the subject of the event / work. Belousova’s curatorial work focuses on the ethics of social engagement. The origin of the concept is rooted in the formats already present in art history: from French salons to the Eat Art movement from Spoerri to Relational Aestetics. Ephemeral Dinner puts the idea of ​​mentoring between the artists and their mutual support and collaboration in the foreground.