SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29th 2022 – 6pm

Zurab Bero -BULLETS – 2022 / Image Credits: Zurab Bero

Artist Talk with ZURAB BERO (GE) and HALIM KARABIBENE (TN) in the Kantine of B.L.O. Ateliers – Free Entrance

Zurab Bero (Georgia)

Zurab Bero ist in Georgien geboren. Wohnt seit 2002 in Berlin. Er studierte an der Universität der Kunste Berlin. 2010 erhält der Künstler den Diffring Preis für Skulptur der Stiftung der Bildhauerin Jaqueline Diffring.

Zurab versteht sich als konzeptuell arbeitender Multimedia-Künstler. Er hat sich mit vielen unterschiedlichen Medien intensiv befasst. Neben Skulpturen setzt er häufig auch Video- und Audio-Installationen ein. Die Werke stehen als geschlossene Idee für sich oder sind Teil einer Serie, die ein breites angelegtes Konzept verfolgt.

2019-2021 war Zurab Gastprofessor an der School of Visual Art, Architecture and Design der Freien Universität Tiflis. 2021-2022 unterrichtete Zurab als Invited Artist an der Universität Tübingen. Zurzeit Zurab Bero wohnt und arbeitet in Berlin.

 

Halim Karabibene – SACRIFICE – Oil on Canvas, 120 x 120 cm – 2021 / Image credits: Halim Karabibene

Halim Karabibene (Tunisia)

The dreamlike and sarcastic paintings, masterfully executed by Karabibene, lead us into his hybrid universe and playfully “staged” in a dreamlike manner with a whole range of mythical characters. Before referring to Western art, Karabibene is mainly inspired by the local figurative tradition, which is found in the Roman mosaics of the Bardo museum, and popular painting under glass in Tunisia. His practice is not limited to painting. Engraving is one of his favorite practices as well as installation, performance or photography.

Since 2007, Halim Karabibene has been pursuing a multidisciplinary performance in which he has been encouraging public authorities to inaugurate Tunisia’s first National Museum of Modern and contemporary Art (MNAMC). With a pressure cooker as symbol and form of the future Museum, Karabibene uses social networks, events and exhibitions to effectively launch this pseudo fictional museum until it sees the light. After the Tunisian revolution in 2011 the pressure cooker became the symbol of a country at boiling point and the uniform a symbol of the Don Quixote-esque committee of struggle for the protection of achievements and revolutionary dreams.

Karabibene studied architecture and attended the National School of Fine Arts in Paris. From 2004 to 2007 he taught drawing, storyboarding and audiovisual project at the Higher Institute of Fine Arts in Nabeul as well as painting at the Rades Living Arts Center in Tunisia.

His work has been exhibited widely in private institutions and museums around the world, notably at the ifa gallery in Berlin and Stuttgart, Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris, Barjeel Foundation in Sharjah, Kamel Lazaar Foundation, Museo Vittoriano in Rome, the Algiers Museum of Modern Art, Zoom Art fair Miami USA, Museo Pontevedra Spain, Dakar Biennale etc.

Since 2015 Halim lives and works in Berlin.