Images from Hands Off!

Here's documentation from the show which has now closed. List of works below.

Harry Burden

Body Part Search Result, 2015

Boxes and Objects bought from internet

Approx. 170 x 150cm

Aleksandra Domanović

Shanghai prototype, 2014

Laser sintered PA plastic, polyurethane, Soft-Touch & brass & flocked finish

Courtesy the artist and Tanya Leighton Gallery, Berlin

Benedict Drew

No Body, 2014

C-Type print on Kodak Metallic paper mounted on 2mm aluminium paper with battens

Edition of 50 (plus 5 artist's proofs)

240mm x 184mm

Courtesy of Matt’s Gallery, London

Nina Beier and Simon Dybbroe Møller

The Industrial Revolution, 2013
Replicas of the Rodin sculptures, The Hand of God, The Secret, Two Hands, Hand of Pianist, The Cathedral Bronze, plaster, resin, acrylic paint
Dimensions variable

Courtesy Laura Bartlett Gallery, London

Anonymous

Untitled

Reproduction painting on vintage found manuscript paper

22cm x 17cm

Celia Hempton

Caspar, 2014

Risograph

Edition of 80 + 20 AP

297 x 420 mm

Courtesy Studio Voltaire and Lorcan O'Neill Gallery.

Harry Burden

The Relatives, 2015

Digital print on 300gsm archival paper in artists frame 

297 x 420mm 

Ed. 5 (with 30 free prints on lower paper stock)

Neil Rumming
Pink Nose, 2013
Acrylic, silkscren, relief ink on canvas
50 x 40cm

Anthony Antonellis

dollhead.gif, 2012

Bhakti Baxter

HEADS (Planck)
2012
Ink on vinyl, light bulb, fan
3 x 4 x 5ft

courtesy of Gallery Diet and the artist

Finissage of Hands Off! this Easter Sunday in Berlin

HANDS OFF!, Finissage Sunday 05.04, 15h-19h, ROOM OF REQUIREMENT BERLIN @ HORSEANDPONY Fine Arts from Hannes Ribarits on Vimeo.

Hands Off! A group show opening March 12

Hands Off!

A group show curated by Francesca Gavin

Aleksandra Domanović 

Anthony Anthonellis 

Benedict Drew
Bhakti Baxter
Celia Hempton
Harry Burden
Neil Rumming
Nina Beier and Simon Dybbroe Møller

ROOM OF REQUIREMENT @ HORSEANDPONY Fine Arts Altenbrakerstrasse 18
12053 Berlin

Opening: Thursday, March 12th at 7pm Duration: 13.03. – 05.04.2015

On view by appointment: info@horseandponyfinearts.com

This is a show about fragmentation. In a post-digital world we are becoming increasingly detached from our physical selves. Literally cut off from our bodies. The work in this exhibition highlights how this disembodiment creates an image of a prescient computer or digital avatar in search of a body. The results can be uncanny, disturbing, or amusing. These almost-human pieces are unreal or impossible. These body parts feel removed, detached, robotic, sometimes lacking in emotion or presenting a performance of the emotional. Here hands, heads, teeth, cocks and legs appear to exist in a different realm. Hovering outside of the human. Stuck in some digital limbo. Half us, half tech. Together they emphasise the failure of technology to replicate and the failure of art to represent.

Aleksandra Domanović is based in Berlin and represented by Tanya Leighton. She has exhibited at the Gallery of Modern Art in Glasgow, New Museum and the Kunsthalle Basel. Her work is included in the current New Museum Triennial in New York. Her upcoming solo show is at museum Boijmans Rotterdam in June. aleksandradomanovic.com

Anthony Antonellis is an artist based on the internet in New York. His work has been exhibited at venues such as the Photographers' Gallery, London, Darbast Platform, Tehran, and Transfer Gallery, Brooklyn. He is the creator of online-gallery directory netartnet.net. anthonyantonellis.com

Benedict Drew graduated from Slade School of Fine Art and was a LUX Associate Artist. He is represented by Matts Gallery, London. Recent solo exhibitions include Heads May Roll, Matt’s Gallery, London, Now Thing, Whitstable Biennale and Gliss at Cell Project Space. benedictdrew.com

Bhakti Baxter shows with Federica Schiavo and Gallery Diet in Miami, where he is based. He has had solo exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art in North Miami and Emmanuel Perrotin in Paris. federicaschiavo.com

Celia Hempton exhibited at last year’s Gwangju Biennale, as well as at the Kunstverein Aachen, South London Gallery, and Studio Voltaire. She is represented by Southard Reid in London and Galleria Lorcan O’Neill in Rome. southardreid.com, lorcanoneill.com

Harry Burden is based in London, Burden was included in the New British Art show at MOCCA Toronto and has exhibited at Kunsthalle Exnergasse in Vienna, Palais de Tokyo and Forgotten Bar in Berlin. harryburden.co.uk

Neil Rumming is an artist based in London who studied at Kingston University. Recent exhibitions include solo shows at COLE, HD Projects in New York and inclusions in groups show at Studio Voltaire and Kinman. neilrumming.com

Nina Beier is a Danish artist represented by Metro Pictures in New York and Croy Nielsen in Berlin. She has had solo shows at the Nottingham Contemporary, Proyectos Monclova and soon at Kunstverein Hamburg. metropictures.com, croynielsen.de

Simon Dybbroe Møller is a Danish artist represented by Laura Bartlett Gallery in London and Andersens Contemporary in Copenhagen. He has had solo shows at Objectif Exhibitions, Lulu and upcoming a large commission for the Centre Pompidou. laurabartlettgallery.com, andersenscontemporary.dk

Francesca Gavin is a curator and writer based in London. She is the Visual Arts Editor of Dazed & Confused, Art Editor of Twin, a contributing editor at Sleek and AnOther and the curator of the Soho House Group. She has written five books including ‘The Book of Hearts’, ‘100 New Artists’ and ‘Hell Bound: New Gothic Art’, as well as curating exhibitions including E-Vapor-8 (Site Sheffield and 319 Scholes), The Dark Cube (Palais de Tokyo) and The New Psychedelia (MM).

ROOM OF REQUIREMENT is a series of exhibitions held in alternating spaces throughout Berlin. Different curators are invited to host limited numbers of rotating events until the space is finally returned to its original function. The room could disappear at any given moment yet also reappear at other times and locations in instances of requirement.

Formerly housed in a temporarily unused office building in Kreuzberg, 2015 Room of Requirement will be hosted by HORSEANDPONY Fine Arts.

www.roomofrequirementberlin.tumblr.com www.horseandponyfinearts.com

Room of Requirement Berlin is organised by Hannes Ribarits / funded by BKA Austria

Image 1: Anonymous, reproduction painting on found manuscript paper
Image 2: Neil Rumming, Pink Nose, 2013, Acrylic, silkscreen, relief ink on canvas (50cm x 40cm) 

Ten Art Editions to Buy Now

I've always been obsessed with looking at editions you can buy online and it amazes me how many are available and forgotten. These are ten that I'd buy before they go (and um maybe have bought for myself already). I recommend all these 10 pieces. 

Jonathan Meese £500

Benedict Drew £120

Raymond Pettibon $2500

Dawn Mellor £50

Isabelle Cornaro £500

Duncan Campbell $150

Dorothy Iannone $100

Christina Mackie £240

Ed Atkins £150

Paulina Olowska £120 (or a pair for £200)

Best in Show 2014

My annual round of up of the top ten shows of the year made it on to Dazed this year (with explanation) but here is the round up again in list form (with my own picture selection)

1 PIERRE HUYGHE AT HAUSER AND WIRTH, SAVILE ROW

2 KERRY JAMES MARSHALL AT MUHKA ANTWERP

3 KP BREHMER or YVONNE RAINER AT RAVEN ROW LONDON

4 CAMILLE HENROT AT CHISENHALE AND NEW MUSEUM

5  PAUL MCCARTHY AT MONNAIE DE PARIS

6 ISA GENZKEN AT MCA CHICAGO

7 ED ATKINS AT SERPENTINE GALLERY

8 MICHAEL SMITH AT TRAMWAY, GLASGOW

9 ART AND SOUND AT FONDAZIONE PRADA, VENICE

10 THE MOVING MUSEUM, ISTANBUL

And special mentions to Sigmar Polke at the Tate Modern and Iwona Blaswick's incredible show with NEON in Athens 'A Thousand Doors'.

12 Art Books to buy for Christmas

1 Bailey's East End (Steidl)

Bloody hell this three volume book of photos is incredible. These city shots paint an entirely different image of Bailey. For anyone interested in cities, the documentation of gentrification, London in any way and the photographic medium at all - buy this book.

2 Mike Nelson: An INVOCATION (Focal Point)

Five Hundred and Thirty Books from Southend Central Library

There are only 1000 copies of this artwork cum book and my god its good. Hundreds of juxtaposed images from book sleeves, back covers, title pages, inserts. Its an approach Nelson has done before in print form but never to this level. Long live the library.

3 Constructing Worlds by Alona Pardo and Elias Redstone (Prestel) 

Constructing Worlds at the Barbican is an incredible show and Prestel's catalogue captures these images of the changing photographic approach to architecture perfectly - but as a companion it would be silly not to get co-curator Elias Redstone's Phaidon tome Shooting Space. Why choose? Get both.

4 Branding Terror (Merrell)

This is obviously a deeply disturbing book and its fascinating. The kind of book that you know will become a huge collectors item. A serious and thorough examination of the meaning, design and iconography of terrorist group's logos. Each are reproduced and dissected in depth. 

5 Cee Cee Berlin (Distanz Verlag)

This brilliant hard back guidebook to places in the city is based on a great city based newsletter. (Autocenter gets a namecheck). It gives me faith that my second favourite city still has some kind of creative innovation and desirable spots that havent been ruined by the onslaught of start up dicks.

6 Shit and Die

My love for the tumblr of this show in Turin never ceases and the show itself in Turin which launched to coincide with Artissima (and runs until January) was very well done with work  Sarah Lucas  and Carol Rama. The catalogue with its repro Olivetti ad cover should start popping up at an art book shop near you. Buy it.

7 'Jim's Terrible City: JG Ballard and Shanghai' by James H Bollen

The best independent photo book to pop up on my shelf from this photographer who followed Ballard's footsteps in Shanghai. The images are really a brilliant ode to the changing face of the city, the absence of history and Ballard's own lingering ghost.

8 The Hidden World by Jim Shaw (Walter Konig)

Jim Shaw collects the weirdest crap and it is utterly fascinating. Aside from providing a brilliant insight into his own work, his collections of Alien obsessive memorabilia, weird Christian crap and general odd kitsch freakdown is brilliant. It is printed to resemble a small very warped bible.

9 Art and Politics Now by Anthony Downey (Thames & Hudson)

Ah Christmas. The time of pure consumption. If you want to give a gift if protest and dissent this seems like a good place to start - a visual book focusing on current manifestations of the political in art (often in public space).

10 Shinro Ohtake by Ziba Ardalan (Parasol Unit) 

This Japanese genius artist has recently had his first big show in London EVER - which is insane considering the amazing projects he has shown at Documenta and the Venice Biennale in the past few years. This book is a great introduction to his collage approach to sketchbooks, sculpture and everything else.

11 The Folly Acres Cook Book by Sue Webster (Other Criteria)

If you know someone that likes art and food Webster (without Noble) has put together this diary like punk scrawled cookbook interspersed with drawings that is rather brilliant. Road kill roast is not the norm. Generally the food if quite good for vegetarians.

12 The Book of Hearts by Francesca Gavin (Laurence King)
Because its a lovely little gift obviously, there are hundreds of hearts in it and its a way of giving emotion without words. And you get to read a little texts about Emblemata books, weird cults and the history of Mexican visual culture.

Bookish Londoners should also head to the seedy side streets of soho for the pop up Antenna Books, 8 Walkers Court, Soho W1 and if you buy one new magazine this year it should be SPACE.