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Tomás Saraceno: Cloud Cities at Hamburger Bahnhof Berlin / Opening

Cloud Cities at Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart in Berlin is Tomás Saraceno’s largest solo presentation to date. It features approximately 20 of his balloon models in various sizes. During the setting up of the exhibition, VernissageTV had the chance to document the installation of the works and speak with the artist. In this video we attend the opening of the show and watch the visitors interacting with the works.

Dornbracht Installation Projects: Tomás Saraceno: Cloud Cities at Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin. Opening reception, September 14, 2011. Video by Astrid Gleichmann.

See also: Interviews with Tomás Saraceno and curator Udo Kittelmann and installation shots of the exhibition on the occasion of Tomás Saraceno’s solo show at Hamburger Bahnhof. Click here!

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Tomás Saraceno: Cloud Cities at Hamburger Bahnhof Berlin / Interview with Tomás Saraceno

Tomás Saraceno’s work received broader attention in 2009 when he filled the main hall of the Padiglione Centrale in the Giardini at the 53rd Venice Art Biennial. His spider web-like installation created an immersive experience that was fascinating the visitors. With his solo exhibition at the Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin’s museum for contemporary art, he takes this experience a step further. Cloud Cities is Tomás Saraceno’s largest solo presentation to date. It features approximately 20 of his balloon models in various sizes. But instead of being able only to look at the installation, visitors can actually enter the two largest bubbles, that sit and float like soap bubbles in the former railway hall of the museum. Via ladders they can access the transparent balloons halfway of the structure and then walk or just lie on a flexible, transparent floor. From underneath it looks like they are walking on air.

VernissageTV had the chance to document the installation of the works and speak with the artist. In this video we follow Tómas Saraceno in one of the big balloons where he talks about the exhibition and his work. The exhibition opens September 14, 2011 and runs until January 15, 2012. For impressions of the opening, click here!

Tomás Saraceno was born in 1973 in Tucuman / Argentina. He lives and works in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Saraceno studied architecture but makes no difference between art, architecture, design, and life. He works in different media and is interested in our present and future living environment. He draws inspiration from soap bubbles, dust particles that float in the air, spider webs, and visionary figures such as Buckminster Fuller.

Cloud Cities, presented by the National Museums in Berlin, has been made possible by the Verein der Freunde der Nationalgalerie and sponsored by Dornbracht Installation Projects.

Dornbracht Installation Projects: Tomás Saraceno: Cloud Cities at Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin. Interview with Tomás Saraceno, September 9, 2011.

Update: Photo set and introduction by Udo Kittelmann (Director, Nationalgalerie) available after the jump. Click here!

Update: More info and photos at Designboom.

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La Biennale di Venezia 2009 / Fare Mondi (Making Worlds) – Palazzo delle Esposizioni in the Giardini

On Sunday, June 7, 2009, the 53rd International Art Exhibition Venice Biennale 2009 officially opened its doors. The show is curated by Daniel Birnbaum and is titled Fare Mondi, Making Worlds. VernissageTV starts its coverage with the Palazzo delle Esposizioni (or Biennale Pavilion) in the Giardini. There, visitors find a huge spiderweb-like work by Tomas Saraceno, an installation by Swedish artist Nathalie Djurberg (who won the Silver Lion for a Promising Young Artist in the Fare Mondi / Making Worlds exhibition) and the Café designed by Tobias Rehberger, who won the Golden Lion for the Best Artist of the exhibition Fare Mondi / Making Worlds (with the work “Was du liebst, bringt dich auch zum Weinen).

The Golden Lion for best National Participation was awarded to the United States of America (Pavilion in the Giardini) with the presentation of Bruce Nauman: Topological Gardens. More episodes on the Venice Biennale are coming soon.

La Biennale di Venezia 2009: Fare Mondi (Making Worlds). Professional Preview, June 4, 2009.

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