Berlin nightlife icon Sven Marquardt has introduced his DISTURBING BEAUTY New York Art Week photograph exhibition at ArtsDistrict Brooklyn May 18-21. In collaboration with New York nightlife impresarios Teksupport, DISTURBING BEAUTY will see the Berlin based mostly photographer exhibit a number of his first photograph works captured in Nineteen Eighties East Berlin, which will likely be offered by Galerie Deschler. The opening occasion on May 18 will see performances from a number of noteworthy home and techno artists, together with Joris Voorn. In cooperation with visible artist Tavy Hornbrook, Marquardt exhibits on this particular night over 100 visuals as video artwork and creates a digital expertise by letting photographs and sound stream collectively.
In Sven’s personal phrases, “For greater than thirty years, membership tradition has decided each my life—as a curator of numerous nights—and, in fact, my life as a photographer. In a metropolis in transition after the wild eighties and the autumn of the Berlin Wall, I had for the primary time put my digital camera apart. It was on the finish of the Nineteen Nineties that my digital camera once more turned a stylistic machine for expressing our angle in the direction of life. Berlin has at all times been the setting in addition to the inspiration for my footage and tasks.
“Since 2010, my exhibition projects have been traveling, and they have occasionally been created in collaboration with musicians. Starting in 2018, residencies followed in Belgrade, Sydney and then, in 2022, in New York City. For me, New York is rough and photogenic = ‘sexy’ 24/7. Club culture is always to some extent ‘RIOT,’ unadjusted and, above all, free.”
The DISTURBING BEAUTY exhibition will likely be on view from May 18-21 on the Gallery at ArtsDistrict Brooklyn, with hours of 3pm-9pm. The opening occasion on May 18th will run from 10pm-5am.
