"Hello 3", Berlin, 15-30 May 2012

[Seriy]

May 15 at the Russian House of Science and Culture in Berlin, an exhibition of three artists - Naletova Olga, and Olga Iksigona Kontaryova titled "Three Greetings and all the different" - is a free translation from German.
 Prior to the inauguration of the exhibition there is still time and while the overall picture, and street views.
A. Huge 6-foot banner advertising our exhibitions over the entrance to the Russian House. Banner printed in Moscow and flown to Berlin.
In German.
Two. Passers-by stop and carefully read the banner. This is a happy-so we are not in vain tried to create advertising that just makes the stop and read it.
Three. Poster advertising a different version of our show on the street.
4. In addition to general advertising of the exhibition, each artist himself created a poster of his minivystavki as a project, and the rooms have their individual artists. Showcase with three posters of each artist.
Five. A few words about the Russian House is just a Cyclopean building in the heart of Berlin, a few steps from the Unter den Linden and the historic area gendarme Markt. It occupies an entire block of Fridrihshrasse and on side streets, so that inside the two hotels have different addresses. Huge rooms, well-lit, all services are working fine. This is a general view from the Friedrichstrasse, at the rDNA.
6. General view of the hall rDNA.

We invite all who are near, our exhibit hall 5.
Thank you so much press secretary Irina Petrova and rDNA site admin Alexander Martel, because they did photo editor and print me this message from their computer.
There will be more pictures and messages.
Greetings from Berlin!

[Seriy]

Yesterday, the grand opening of the exhibition. I must say, it was great and surpassed all our expectations. The audience was a lot of the audience was interested and qualified. Why do people come to us, I certainly can not say exactly, but one of the reasons why Russian-house job, we sent our flyers in Berlin beforehand, so flyers were, posters were hung before the exhibition was a plus mailing, a banner over the entrance, too attracted attention.
  
  The exhibition was opened by Head of rDNA for Science and Culture, Professor, PhD Olga Zyablova. She briefly spoke about the artists, said she particularly liked the painting Iksigona talented and exhibition is open. Then he made a brief artist Iksigon. I said that the idea of ​​the exhibition we visited in January, when we all held their solo exhibitions at the Central House of Artists in Moscow. Four months of daily work teams in two countries and dreams come true, we are in mid-May for the first time to exhibit their work in Berlin and say "Hi!" Berlin public.
In Berlin, we were in a magnificent center of culture - Russian House, with huge bright showrooms in the heart of the German capital. In the Russian House, we met a team of professionals, coordinated by management, supervisors, to engineering services and freight forwarders who have all worked, so the exhibition was a success. And, most importantly, we found an amazing Berlin audience, attentive, friendly and responsive. Thank you all very much! (Applause)
Then, briefly made Olga and Olga Naletova Kontaryova, which the audience greeted with applause, too.
 It was a nice buffet with unlimited supplies of drinks, white tablecloths and sparkling glass.
It was a lot of talk, people come and go new, tied contacts, changed addresses. The house is all empty, and we have been in the halls of the people. Protection nobody asked for release-room, as you say, so much to stay.
Photos from the opening (it so happened that when I was shooting, so much left-over, was busy talking):
 A. Hall in front of a huge room, there were microphones, spotlights shining on both sides, it reminds me of the opera "Khovanshchina" at the stage of the Kremlin Palace of congresses.
Two. O.A.Zyablova said G.Krishok translates into German, the artists stand beside him.
Three. Iksigon said it.
4. Olga Kontaryova acts.
Five. The audience listens.
6. Cocktail has begun.
7-10. The audience is going to the vernissage.

[Konstantin]

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Most importantly, we found an amazing crowd in Berlin

This is very interesting, especially since already can compare with ours.

[Seriy]

Konstantin, yes, I can. First, refute the claim that the Russian House no one goes , the more the German public. There are everything. Of course, most , immigrants from Russia , but many Germans , as the Russia-related business, family ties , and related only to sympathy , and never in Russia is not the former .
 Catalogs are buying , the prices of paintings are asked (although we did at the exhibition of the paintings do not sell a non-profit art exhibition ). That the Germans were once offered me to sell my self-portrait with a hat that is not for sale .
 The most important difference , if CHA had a lot of people I knew one way or another , there is 100%of the primary contacts. From my work like that in Moscow , still lifes and portraits , though I have brought many new abstractions.
(PS Is it possible to move the topic in the photo reports from the show ?)

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More pictures from the Vernissage:

[Seriy]

More photos from the Opening:

3.
O.A.Zyablova

4.
The yellow vest-filmmaker Leonia Vus.

6.
The hall Iksigona crowded.

7.
Our Berlin curator Ms. Gudrun Krishak

9.
O.Kontareva with spectator

10.
Stand-up for the empty table lights Night Lights Berlin (in the room picture window)

[Seriy]

Konstantin, a couple of details about the audience, a German, not knowing anything about us, brought all the flowers - once you greetings from us, then we have to you with the Berlin roses!
There was a domestic problem that I could not decide from Moscow, the site decided in 10 minutes, too, just with people that we see for the first time.

[Konstantin]

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just with people that we see for the first time

there is time for the German galleries like?
How do they do the situation, the prices, the crisis is not a crisis.

[NATA NOVA]

Seriy, Cerdechno congratulations!

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And thank you for the interesting (as always) a report!

[K-Maler]

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is the time for the German galleries like? How do they do the situation , the prices , the crisis is not a crisis .

My friends were recently in Berlin. Prices are low , buy low. See look , and there is a desire to buy something , but the crisis affected ... I forwarded the pictures of several prestigious galleries, lay out a little later .

[Seriy]

NATA NOVA, thanks! More photos from the exhibition will present works by artists more.
 After the cold and wind in Berlin was hot sunny weather, a good walk around the city.


Konstantin, the time to walk through the galleries, and there we go, but to shoot and make reports of forces there, the more the computer from which I write, the service.
Life gallery in Berlin at a glance from the side, arranged in the following way-there are a couple of streets-Aug-Strasse, Tor Strasse and close, which is located a few dozen art galleries, the area known, is filled with tourists and the public, rent a room there is a very hard, all of the gallery very small, 20-40 square meters, even with big names. A very considerable part of the Iranians busy executives and artists. As they say, the Iranians are actively engaged in increasing market share sovriska. There is a gallery-driven artists.
In addition to this district, there are a few districts of which are grouped gallery. Usually the owner of the building, malopodhodyaschego for housing, redesigned it for the gallery, so there are clusters of galleries.
 Such clusters in the district of Friedrichstrasse and the south on Saturday, I walked around, starting with the Russian gallery of Marina Zandman, now representing the work of Natalia Turova.
  To understand how to survive the gallery, you must know the tax authorities and cultural policies, which I, for one, do not know. She came to us a charming girl, working in a non-profit gallery also looking for grants, find - make a show, then sad for the next grant. They say that the state pays artists to rent studio with the condition of the artist-member of the Union, holds regular exhibitions open to the public. So there are shops, galleries, housing an artist in one person. But all this is said.
We talked with several russ-artists living in Berlin, but the contact is not much happened, they all wanted to tell you how smart they are, successful and busy, but if you call at 11 am, they resent the type we are asleep, you finally can human so early!?
In the market of Russian artists are not represented at all in any way, the only big name photographer Boris Mikhailov. Among the hundreds of names of artists in galleries, I met a single Slavic name, and then - a Pole. Many artists in the galleries of the United States. This is, in general, it is strange, because in Russian, and a lot of attitude to the Russian normal.
Painting in the traditional understanding in the galleries a bit less than 50%, a lot of video, and fashion-on film.