Kontainer Berlin. Einar Schleef. Zeichnungen

in collaboration with the Kunstmuseum der Stiftung Moritzburg des Landes Sachsen Anhalt, Halle and the Akademie der Künste, Berlin.

Opening on October 22, 2013, at 8 PM. Speakers at the opening include Kathleen Krenzlin, curator of the exhibition, Gabriele Gerecke, and a greeting from Michael Freitag, director of Kunstmuseum Moritzburg/Halle.

From 9 PM, the premiere of the 20-minute sound-text performance "was dich bedrängt, schreibe auf, leichter fühlst du dich, schweres zu ertragen" by Einar Schleef. Fragments from the diaries of the years 1964 to 1976.

Featuring improvisations by Willi Kellers (D) on drums and voice, Tom Arthurs (GB) on trumpet and voice, and Klaus Kürvers (D) on double bass and voice.

Einar Schleef (1944 - 2001) was a restless artist. He worked across nearly all artistic disciplines: in theater, as well as being a writer, filmmaker, photographer, and painter. The exhibition at Galerie Parterre focuses on his drawings, highlighting the artistic beginnings of this universal maverick. It brings together 150 drawings from the Einar Schleef estate at the Kunstmuseum der Stiftung Moritzburg Halle, created between the 1960s and 1980s. These works were made in Berlin or are themed around the city. With a few exceptions, they have not been published before. Berlin—initially East, later West—was one of the existential places in Schleef's life. Since his death in 2001, Schleef's visual artworks—aside from the exhibition of his photographs at the Akademie der Künste in 2006—will be on display in this city that held such significance for him for the first time.

Publications:
Working Notebook II | Kontainer Berlin. With the volume Kontainer Berlin, the Working Notebook II from Galerie Parterre is published by Theater der Zeit. It complements all previously available publications on Schleef's work. The written contributions by Kathleen Krenzlin, Sibylle Wirsing, Florian Havemann, Ricarda Bethke, Manfred Butzmann, including a conversation with Lothar Trolle, aim to capture the artist as well as the difficult person—sometimes in a very personal way. In the Berlin-set narrative "Unruhe," Schleef himself speaks.

Accompanying Program:
The exhibition is accompanied by an event program featuring Sophie Rois, Jutta Hoffmann, Jürgen Holtz, Annemone Haase, Friedrich Dieckmann, B. K. Tragelehn, among others. Throughout the exhibition, all films by Alexander Kluge featuring and about Einar Schleef will be continuously screened.

Image:
Envelope addressed by Einar Schleef, 21 x 30 cm. Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Einar-Schleef-Archiv_3054 ©VG Bildkunst, Bonn.