For the Irish edition of our Kiezsalon, we invite you to move through the Musikbrauerei’s rarely accessible bunkers to encounter site-specific installations from artists Ireland 3000 and Helena Hamilton. These works will complement our music program in the halls above, featuring the Berlin premieres of Muireann Bradley, Henry Earnest and Conor.
Ireland 3000’s striking woodcut prints reflect and challenge the profound influence of Christianity on our society, how it has shaped our perceptions of morality and spirituality. By reinterpreting iconic Catholic imagery from artists like Caravaggio, Rubens, and Gentileschi, he confronts the stereotypes of originality while drawing parallels between religious devotion and the faith required in the creative process.
Belfast-based artist Helena Hamilton works both visually and sonically. She draws on aesthetics of simplicity – and this is expressed in minimalist forms in her work. Influenced by sonic compositional techniques such as phasing and repetition, Hamilton explores the visual through the sonic and vice versa.
We are always happy to be back at the 120-year-old building of the Musikbrauerei in Prenzlauer Berg. Tucked away between Greifswalder Straße and Volkspark Friedrichshain, the former Schneider brewery is a rare building in former East Berlin for having survived, unspoiled, the creeping tide of gentrification. The exhibition is free to enter and open to the public 19-22:00 CET.
