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Farewell to the Random Sentences…

1. November 2012 in Temporäre Kunstbox by Paul

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Anyone who has been to the Circus Hostel during the past three months or so will have seen the work of Sophia Halamoda in our lovely little Kunstbox. Sophia spent her time with us collecting new “Random Sentences

from Random People” and creating the illustrations to go with the words. In the gallery below you can see some of the people and their sentences, but we would just like to take the opportunity to say thank you to Sophia for basing her project with us for this time, and we hope that she enjoyed being at the Circus as much as we enjoyed having here.

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Random Sentences… by Sophia Halamoda

17. Juli 2012 in Art, Cafe Exhibitions, Circus Hostel, Temporäre Kunstbox by Paul

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As you probably saw on the blog last week, we are extremely pleased to be hosting Sophia Halamoda, whose exhibition “Random Sentences by Random People” is currently occupying the Kunstbox and the Café at the Circus Hostel. Sophia will be with us all summer, working in the Kunstbox three times a week and collecting more random sentences to help further the project. Some come by and donate your thoughts, and you could find them immortalized for all time in illustration.

Here are some more pictures:

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Random sentences in the Kunstbox and café

9. Juli 2012 in Art, Circus Hostel, Circus News, Temporäre Kunstbox by Paul

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We are pleased to welcome a new artist to the Circus Hostel with a project that we call all join in with. Sophia Halamoda has taken over the Kunstbox at the hostel, as well as the lightboxes of the café for the next couple of months as part of her project “random sentences by random people”. What Sophia has been doing is collecting such “random sentences” from people both at home and during her travels. She then takes those words and creates illustrations around them to create what she calls a collection of “illustrated sentences, silly quotes, and accidental words of wisdom.”

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Not only is Sophia exhibiting some of the work she has already done at the Circus, but she will be setting up donation boxes in the hostel to collect new accidental words of wisdom to illustrate, and she will be working in the Kunstbox each weekend until the 7th September so you can drop by and get a closer look at her work in person.

You can see some more examples of her work here, and we will be bringing her project at the Circus onto the blog over the next couple of weeks.

That’s a lot of Hoff…

28. Juni 2012 in Circus Hostel, Circus News, Temporäre Kunstbox by Paul

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Buoyed by the news that the Hoff is supporting the German team tonight, the Sheriff of Poppingham has returned to create his own artistic tribute to the Circus Hostel’s “favourite” celebrity. The installation, which is located in the Kunstbox of the hostel, will only be in place as a lucky charm for the football team, and so there will only be a short period in which you can check it out…

Rumours of the following are yet to be confirmed:

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Introducing MOAIS… behind curtains of stone a secret city arises

14. Mai 2012 in Art, Circus Hostel, Temporäre Kunstbox by Paul

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MOAIS is a city inhabited by small white mechanical creatures who spend their time, when not working, in dream casinos. Their lives are controlled by The Council, a self-elected government, who control the so-called Great Machines that are linked to the deep, dark secret of the city. For beneath the streets is a human, lying in a coma-like state and controlled by The Council, whose energy powers the city and whose emotions are felt and processed by the city’s inhabitants.

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Pictoplasma in Berlin… and at The Circus

5. April 2012 in Art, Circus Hostel, Circus News, Events, Temporäre Kunstbox by Paul

Gemma_ThreePICTOPLASMA, the world’s leading and largest Festival of contemporary character culture returns to Berlin, with a dense, one-week program of inspiring artist presentations, conference lectures, animation festival, workshops, installations, numerous character walk exhibitions, performances, VJ battles and of course, loads of character! The unique mix of screenings, personal artist presentations, numerous exhibitions delivers tons of inspiring input, while the lively exchange between the various disciplines highlightes the importance of contemporary characters in today’s global visual understanding.

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Pictoplasma is held at the Babylon, .HBC and 20 galleries and spaces around Berlin, and one of which is the Kunstbox at The Circus Hotel. From Wednesday 11th April until Sunday 15th April we are extremely pleased to welcome Gemma Correll, a freelance cartoonist and illustrator whose work is narrative-based and with a strong emphasis on wordplay, humour, observational journalism and cats. She will be exhibiting a lifesize sculpture of a porcelain dog, along with a mural and some prints/original illustrations. We are extremely happy not only to be hosting Pictoplasma for the second year in a row, but also to welcome Gemma to the Circus.

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Important Information:

Pictoplasma in the Kunstbox of the Circus Hostel, Weinbergsweg 1a, 10119 Berlin
U-Bahn Rosenthaler Platz
Wednesday 11th April – Sunday 15th April 2012
Open: 12 noon until 8pm as part of the PICTOPLASMA CHARACTER WALK, which is free and you can pick up maps for all the gallery spaces at our reception.
Reception: On Wednesday evening from 7pm Gemma will be with us at the Kunstbox for a small opening reception, so come by, take a look, and have a beer…

The Berg Gallery – Chapter 01 – Coming to The Circus on Easter Sunday

21. April 2011 in Art, Berlin, Circus Hostel, Circus News, Events, Temporäre Kunstbox, The Berg Gallery by Paul

This Sunday will witness the transformation of our Temporäre Kunstbox into The Berg Gallery, and The Circus and Mila would like to take the opportunity to invite you to the opening:

The Berg Opening

The Berg – is an imaginary place.

It’s absurd and purely exists through social reference. Hence, it creates ‘common sense’. The Berg combines a strong notion of individual freedom with a deep sense of complicity. This duality of ‘doing what you want‘ and ‘doing it together’ is emblematic of a contemporary Berlin lifestyle. The Berg is this existing city’s icon.

The Berg Gallery – is a real place.

It is dedicated to ideas that share the TheBerg’s spirit. It’s eight square metres are open to changing installations that recall the ironic blend of the original project. The Berg Gallery is curated by Mila and hosted by The Circus.

The Berg Gallery – Chapter 01  … denn Sie wissen nicht was Sie tun.

Witness a critical moment in the history of the city at the foot of The Berg.
Easter Sunday, 24.04.2011 at 15:00h
Weinbergsweg 1a, close to Rosenthaler Platz, Berlin-Mitte

The Berg on Facebook

trace and shadow II at the Temporäre Kunstbox

20. April 2011 in Art, Berlin, Circus Hostel, Circus News, Events, Film, Temporäre Kunstbox by Paul

For the next few days, until Saturday, we have another new artist occupying the Temporary Art Box at The Circus Hostel. Johannes Bock is a photographer, film and media artist from Berlin, and he is showing his short film “traces and shadow II”, which you can watch from the street or in the lobby of the hostel reception – or, if you are not here in Berlin with us, on the video embedded below. Here is the text that accompanies the exhibition:

trace and shadow, HD video, 2010, 2:58min

The term “Aura” was used by Walter Benjamin as a description of a phenomena, which is found in nature as well as in the history of art. In his essay “Artwork in the Age of  Technological Reproducibility” he describes it as “a one-time appearance from afar, regardless how near it may be..” and tries to defines it with aloofness, originality and uniqueness. In 1935 Benjamin declares an increase decline in the Aura of art, through the unrestrained reproducibility of artwork primarily to the growing tecnical development.

Not only Artwork has an aura, but also has every individual, which usually isn´t noticed. Aslike every human leaves a shadow, it also leaves a mark on his surroundings. We create an invisible space around us, volitional or entirely unconsciously. These may be overlapped by legacies or traces others, but never changed. Unconsciously we define the invisible shape the room shall have. But sooner or later the traces we leave behind will fade. Sometimes, as with many paintings ancient Masters of art, they arise after centuries, without remembering the name of the creator. In the course of this, the context can be changed. The “Aura” is invisible/unseen.

The Video Work “trace and shadow” is an attempt to reconstruct this Aura. Concentrated only on the paintings essential elements, you can get glimpse of it. Leaving out details and texture, aswell as the reduction to the chromaticity black, white and grey, it enables to construct some kind of Mood Board. The composition and simultaneously reduction of speed in certain components of the audiovisuelle fragment, function here as boosters and catalysts. What stays (at best) are the traces and shadows we leave behind.

You can see more of Johannes’s work on his website here.

The film:


trace and shadow II – fading von dok2007

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