Image by Hannah Murtgatroyd

So the Sun is finally shining and those lucky enough to be here finally get the chance to experience this wonderful city at its best. Opening tonight at a venue that one should experience as a cutting edge (forgive me for using that phrase) operation for both international and local artists, is MMX. MMX was started by four friends: Berlin based photographer JonathanGröger, artist Rebecca Loyche from New York, artist Daniel Wilson from Canada, Philip Eggersglüß makes up the team. MMX occupies the ground floor and surrounding garden area of one of the last untouched, unrenovated buildings left on Linienstraße.

Tonight sees the opening of a group show, which looks very promising. I’m actually chained to my desk at the moment writing an essay, but this has prompted me to take a break and grasp the opportunity for a late evening summer opening of favorable contemporary art in a unique Berlin Setting. Here’s the info that made persuaded me of this; Show IV opens on June 4, 2010 with a musical performance by the Canadian duo Trike. Tobias Sternberg continues his interactive piece Schadensorge in the garden, if you missed the life-sized mammoth in the tree then be prepared for more creatures. Elke Graalfs unleashes her palette to transform the entire entrance room. Paintings from Hannah Murgatroyd and Nicole Lebarge, a video installation by Irishman Maurice Doherty, performances by Berlin based Madeline Stillwell and a 2.5 meter bubble making machine entitled Cycle by Ben Sloat. Michael Ebert’s Stiller remains in the Hinterhof and Screening Program IV is curated by the MMX staff and includes works by Jesper Just, Annette Otto, Nicolas Provost and Eric Fleischauer. Last summer the Venice Biennial premiered the work of Uruguayan artist Pablo Uribe and this summer MMX brings Atardecer to Germany.

Date: Friday, 04 June 2010 Time: 18:00 - 23:00 Location: Linienstr 142/143