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red by berlinbookclub is a noncommercial exhibition room in Berlin-Mitte dedicated to exhibiting documentary positions in the current contemporary art discourse.


berlinbookclub (bbc) is a Berlin-based collective examining the documentary character of art across all mediums. Artworks contain a fragment of the reality that conditioned their existence and are keys to understanding the world. We deconstruct and contextualize their indexicality to contribute to integrative social discourse.


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JAN SOLDAT
TERRY ZWIGOFF
GERD KROSKE
GIANNI SIRCH

OUTSIDERS

04.07 — 02.08.25

HARUN FAROCKI
VIOLETTA OLIINYK
JOHANNA MARIA FRITZ

THERE MUST BE A CONNECTION BETWEEN PRODUCTION AND WAR

04.04 — 30.06.25

SATOSHI FUJIWARA

BLEACHED

29.11.24 — 31.01.25

JAN SOLDAT
TERRY ZWIGOFF
GERD KROSKE
GIANNI SIRCH

OUTSIDERS
04.07 — 02.08.25

berlinbookclub would like to invite you to the upcoming exhibition and screening month “OUTSIDERS”. Starting on July 4th at 7:00pm, every Friday one filmmaker is invited to present their film and discuss with the audience.

While in the art context, the term outsider is primarily used to label untrained art brut or “naive” artists, we want to focus on the many other aspects of outsiderism that are deeply ingrained in our visual culture instead. The films of Jan Soldat, Gerd Kroske, Gianni Sirch and Terry Zwigoff each document a different facet of outsiderism, which is often invisible in everyday life: the topics range from sexuality and fetishes in the US, Eastern Germany and Austria to the political dimensions of GDR subversive punk culture and race and segregation in post-apartheid South Africa.

The screenings will be accompanied by a film still exhibition as well as a reading corner with literature and materials about the films and filmmakers.

screening

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Gianni Sirch - Not Available

It's about Yann Keller

21.03.2025

06:30pm

This 36' minutes long documentary is about Yann Keller, Berlin based musician and multimedia artist. Radical by nature, Yann Keller is one of the last epigones of that Berlin scene once called 'underground' which nowadays appears to be sadly relegated as one of the late XX Century subcultural mythologies. "Not available" is Yann's most recurring reply, as a way to express his uncompromised attitude both in art and life. Refusing any label, he plays self-made instruments and sophisticated sonic machines made out of found objects and every possible material. He likes to consider himself a free jazz musician playing a no-genre, capturing obscure electro waves as signals coming from different planets.

The documentary has been awarded as 'Best Experimental Short Film' at: Stockholm Festival, Santa Monica Festival, Dubai Festival, Santa Barbara Festival.

Gianni Sirch is a contemporary art historian and filmmaker born in Udine, Italy, currently living in Berlin. In his work as a filmmaker art intertwines anthropology according to a documentary style in which narrative objectivity is often filtered by its formal transfiguration.

book launch
und Gespräch

In deutscher Sprache

Michael Diers - Auf offener Straße

Ein Beitrag zur aktuellen Kriegsfotografie

06.06.2025

07:00pm

Kurz nach Beginn des Überfalls auf die Ukraine 2022 sorgt eine Fotografie international für großes Aufsehen: Auf der Titelseite der New York Times sieht man die Aufnahme einer in Irpin bei Kiew durch eine Mörsergranate auf offener Straße zu Tode gekommenen Mutter und ihrer beiden Kinder sowie eines Freundes der Familie.

Das Bild zeigt nicht nur eindrücklich die Kriegsverbrechen der russischen Armee, sondern entfacht auch eine Diskussion darüber, wie man mit derartigen Bildern in der Öffentlichkeit umzugehen hat.

Michael Diers schildert nicht nur detailliert das historische Ereignis und die Umstände der Entstehung der Fotografie, sondern auch deren spezifische ästhetische Qualität und setzt sich mit der intensiven Rezeption und ethisch-moralischen Debatte rund um die Aufnahme auseinander.

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Opening hours: Fri – Sat, 12pm – 6pm
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