Private Viewing
New Works from Christian de Lutz

15-17 May, 2009

at Prinzenallee 34,
13359 Berlin-Wedding


untitled (sarajevo/love virus#2), 1996/2008, archival inkjet print on canvas, 100 x 150 cm


untitled (dobrinja), 1996/2009, archival inkjet print on canvas, 95 x 100cm

You are cordially invited to a private viewing of new works
by Christian de Lutz

Friday 15 May 6-9PM
Saturday and Sunday 16-17 May 2 - 6PM

Art Laboratory Berlin
Prinzenallee 34,
13359 Berlin
U bahn Pankstrasse (U8), Osloerstrasse (U8,U9)
S bahn Bornhomerstrasse

Photos from the opening of Culture of Torture Torture in Culture
at Artneuland, Berlin, 26 March 2009

Christian De Lutz presents written evidence and accounts of people who have been present in the so-called “black sites”. This is a military and journalistic term for the extra-judiciary interrogation centers, used by the U.S. military and the CIA. The most famous, or rather infamous, of these sites are probably camps Delta, Iguana and X-Ray at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba, Abu Ghraib in Iraq, and Bagram in Afghanistan. However, a number of other such places have existed, and probably still exist throughout the world.

The first series of prints are facsimiles of CIA documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act. The documents were requested with keywords which are shown, but almost all the rest information was blacked out by CIA censors. The second series of prints are meta-geographies which show views of alleged black sites, such as Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean and the Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan via Google Earth and NASA Worldwind. Included are mash-ups by Google Earth users and abstract lines showing the paths of the satellites which took the photos. “Black Sites” reflects upon the distribution of knowledge and the effect it has on our empathy.

from the exhibition text

“Culture of Torture, Torture in Culture“
at Artneuland









View of the audiovisual installation Black Sites by Christian de Lutz 2009


Installation view of Black Site-Diego GarciaChristian de Lutz 2008

Installation view of Black Site/FOIA Christian de Lutz 2009

Artneuland is a home for Trialogues of image, word, and people, an artistic platform for the three monotheistic cultures. In the frame of our cultural, social, and political engagement Artneuland has invited the following artists Hannan Abu Hussein, Raida Adon, Christian de Lutz, Tim Deussen, Dotan & Perry, Al Fadhil, Babak Golkar and Raha Rastifard from different cultures and of different origins to contribute to the topic of torture — with the use of installation, video, audio and photography. This is an invitation to be confronted with the questions of what between visual representations and the narratives of human suffering.

Opening 26 March 2009 from 7pm
Exhibition runs 27 March - 23 April
Artneuland e.V. | Schumannstrasse 18 | 10117 Berlin | Germany
Tel: +49 (0)30 28046650, 28047013 | Fax: +49 (0)30 28092950
berlingallery@artneuland.com | berlinprojects@artneuland.com

Opening of the exhibition
“Culture of Torture, Torture in Culture“
at Artneuland on March 26th 2009 at 7pm




Artneuland is a home for Trialogues of image, word, and people, an artistic platform for the three monotheistic cultures. In the frame of our cultural, social, and political engagement Artneuland has invited the following artists Hannan Abu Hussein, Raida Adon, Christian de Lutz, Tim Deussen, Dotan & Perry, Al Fadhil, Babak Golkar and Raha Rastifard from different cultures and of different origins to contribute to the topic of torture — with the use of installation, video, audio and photography. This is an invitation to be confronted with the questions of what between visual representations and the narratives of human suffering.

With an opening lecture by Bazen Brock
Opening 26 March 2009 from 7Pm
Exhibition runs 27 March - 23 april

Artneuland e.V. | Schumannstrasse 18 | 10117 Berlin | Germany

Tel: +49 (0)30 28046650, 28047013 | Fax: +49 (0)30 28092950

berlingallery@artneuland.com | berlinprojects@artneuland.com


Opening hours:
Tuesday - Friday: 11:00 - 19:00.
Saturday: 11:00 - 18:00, and by appointment.

Several works including the copyright piece and caffebar Flash Art
will be shown as part of the exhibition


“On CDOs and Double Clubs”
Exhibition: 5 – 12 March 2009, 1-6 pm
Art Swap & Party: 10 March 2009, 6-9 pm

August Art
Wharf Studios, Baldwin Terrace
London, N1 7RU
+44 (0)20 7354 0677
info@augustart.co.uk
www.augustart.co.uk

as part of the East Festival in East London

ART OF EMERGENCY

a group exhibition opening on Thursday, 5th February 2009 at 7pm
in Artneuland,
Schumannstraße 18, 10117 Berlin

The exhibition will last from 5th February 2009 until 15th March 2009




exhibition photo copyright cdelutz.net



exhibition photo copyright cdelutz.net

Opening of the exhibition on 7 March
with my work untitled (sarajevo/love virus 1) 1996/2007

more information at http://artneuland.com/project.asp?pid=43&s=0

Evasion Machine /Apparat der Ausflucht
An Installation by Christian de Lutz

28 November-7 December, 2008





Projection and installation at space untitled.






Installation at Atelier Sambo-Richter.


Performance at Atelier Sambo-Richter, the artist with Kleopas Nghikefelwa, 30 November 2008.
All images copyright Christian de Lutz 2008.

more details at http://cdelutz.net/html/thumbnail%20pages/installation.htm

space untitled
Drontheimerstraße 3
13359 Berlin

Atelier Sambo-Richter
Koloniestr. 131
13359 Berlin

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Evasion Machine /Apparat der Ausflucht

An Installation by Christian de Lutz
Eine Installation von Christian de Lutz

28 November - 7 December 2008

An installation in two locations, the Evasion Machine combines video, digital print and found objects to create a space for a discussion on migration. The installation centres around two videos from the series El-Andalus Clips. Clip #3 is made of two components. The visual component was filmed on the southern Spanish coast. The sound component is made up of text fragments collected from internet blogs, written by migrants. The fragments are read by a non-native speaker, whose repeated attempts to read in a foreign language have influenced the visual editing of the piece. Clip#4, shown through a storefront window, resounds with utterance of a single Arabic phrase (Inshallah), which is elongated to seven times its original length – and accompanies the dawn.

Several digital prints provide a contrasting static component. The print petroleum lines is made up of satellite images of the Persian Gulf, Wolfsburg, Germany, Flint, Michigan and Toyota, Japan. It represents static records of moments and locations, stolen from their original purpose location, remade into a new visual system. Additionally the area(s) of the installation are covered with detritus, broken wood, wiring, building material – and also text: fragments of algorithms for calculating demographics, migration and population movement.

The Evasion Machine not only implies migrants evasion of central regulation and authority, but also points to the flourishing of cultural hybrids in exactly those regions which (for a while) provide haven for the wanderer. Yuri Lotman, while developing his system of linguistic environments (or semiospheres), divided them into centre and periphery. The centre (metalanguage) controls the environment, but is sterile, bereft of innovation. It is the periphery, ripe with multiple, outside influences, where creativity bears most fruit.

-Christian de Lutz

space untitled
Drontheimerstraße 3
13359 Berlin
Vernissage: 28.11.2008 ab 19h/ from 7PM
30.11.2008 - 7.12.2008, So 16-19h /4-7PM

Atelier Sambo-Richter
Koloniestr. 131
13359 Berlin
Vernissage: 28.11.2008 ab 20h /from8PM
30.11.2008, 14-19h /2 - 7 PM
Performance 30.11.2008, 18h30/ 6.30PM

Both exhibition spaces are located near Ubahn station Osloerstr. (U8,U9), approx 2 min. walk from each other and the station.
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New Works: Meta-Geographies



petroleum lines, 2008, archival inkjet print on paper, 110 x 200cm



petroleum lines, (detail) 2008, archival inkjet print on paper, 110 x 200cm


america is from mars and europe is from venus(2008) archival inkjet print on paper, each 170 x 110cm



america is from mars (detail), 2008, archival inkjet print on paper, 170 x 100 cm

Meta-Geographies, combines a variety of satellite images with text and other information taken from the Internet.

petroleum lines (2008) combines satellite imagery of the main Saudi Arabian oil terminal, Ras Tanura with images of Toyota, Japan; Wolfsburg, Germany; and Flint, Michigan (the headquarters of General Motors). The combined geographical image shows parts of the various motor cities partially submerged in the waters of the Persian gulf.

Source code, algorithms and charts overlay the whole picture and refer to scientific measurments of water temperature, ice melt and the effect of fire on climate change.

The series uses metaphor and metonymy to map the structures of geo-political relations and connections in the ever shrinking space of the globalized 21st Century.

America is from mars and europe is from venus (both 2008), refer to an phrase coined by the American neo-conservative Robert Kagan after the 2004 Madrid bombings. The works not only literalise Kagan’s word, placing an aerial view of the Pentagon on NASA photos of the Martian surface, and views of the European Commission and European Parliament on Venus, but also add additional layers of information in the form of source code excerpts, as well as art historical and symbolic meaning.

El-Andalus clips (2008)
is made up of five short clips, each under two minutes. The clips exist as stand alone works, or together. Three (no. 1,3 and 5) include recitations of a text collage derived from internet blogs written by migrants from the Near East ,living in Europe or North America. The narrator, uneasy in her use of English stumbles across the text. Combinations of takes and breakdowns are used as an editing device for the visual images, collected excerpts of footage from southern Spain - the ruins of a Moorish fort, the view across the straits of Gibraltar, architectural details from Alhambra - which refer to Europe's old cultural connection to the Near East. Image and text, unrelated in origin, combine and influence each others form to elicit new meanings and relations.




The soundtrack of El Andalus clip #2 (breath) is made up of the narrator's breaths, gasps and laughs between words. It forms a first intermezzo, when viewed with the other four clips




El Andalus #4 (fate) was filmed on a hillside on the SE Spanish coast. The soundtrack is one word (Inshallah) stretched out over the duration of the clip, which forms the second intermezzo, when all five clips are viewed together.

Strictly Berlin
GdK
12.04.2008-3.05.2008
Vernissage: 11.04.2008 from 8 PM



excerpt from bulbul (2006) dv,4'47"

The video bulbul (2006) will appear in the group show
Strictly Berlin 2008 - Between Fact and Fiction - Media Art from Berlin,
curated by Ingeborg Fülepp and Heiko Daxl.

GdK
Galerie der Künste
Potsdamerstr. 98
D-10785 Berlin
+49 (0)30 53060948
www.gdk-berlin.de

12.04.2008-3.05.2008, Opening 11.04.2008, 8 PM
open Wed-Sat 16-20h

stills from El-Andalus clips, 2008, dv

Christian de Lutz

Open Studio

New works: digital prints and video

Saturday and Sunday
15th and 16th of March, 1 - 9 pm

Nostitzstr 12, VH 4.-5.OG
10961 Berlin-Kreuzberg

Art and Text: Christian de Lutz Ekphrasis at



29 September - 28 October 2007

The title of the exhibition, ekphrasis, means a verbal representation of visual representation; thus a double intermediation of the real, as a depiction of the depicted. It is in this very sense of ekphrasis that Christian de Lutz operates on the manifold character of references within his Source Code Images, which as a recent series are based on a digital collage of word and image...
-from a text by Regine Rapp.
(more under http://artlaboratory-berlin.org/html/eng-exh-archive.htm
and http://artlaboratory-berlin.org/html/eng-exh-5.htm)

From the vernissage on 28 September 2007:

















all photos above by Tim Deussen fotoscout.de copyright 2007



photo by Christian de Lutz copyright 2007


Projection at Koloniestr 131, Berlin/ Projectraum Sumphahn/Art Laboratory Berlin
photo by Christian de Lutz copyright 2007

Opening 22 August in Bern, Switzerland





the trail from srebrenica (background); sculpture (foreground) by Annika Unterburg



metacontent 1.0, 5.0, 6.0



untitled (riga2); caffebar flash art

Views of the Exhibition
Anatomie der Rastlosigkeit
Anatomy of Restlessness
Christian de Lutz
at fabrik.galerie/ Basisikulturfabrik
Neustrelitz, Germany
20 July 2007


untitled (kwyjibo) photo by Christian de Lutz copyright 2007


empire photo by Jo Rapp copyright 2007


women of roses, from the cuts series photo by Jo Rapp copyright 2007


on the road: keleti photo by Jo Rapp copyright 2007


from the empire series photo by Jo Rapp copyright 2007


installation views from europa (projection) photos by Jo Rapp copyright 2007


installation views from europa (projection) photo by Christian de Lutz copyright 2007

Exhibition runs 21 July - 2 September
daily from 5pm and by appointment

fabrik. galerie für gegenwartige kunst
Basiskulturfabrik - Sandberg3a - 17235 Neustrelitz
tel. 03981 20 31 45 www.basiskulturfabrik.de