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Ceramixed Plates at Art Amsterdam Fair

From May 7 - 12, a spectacular selection of our Ceramixed Plates will be on view at the at Brutto Gusto gallery, during the Art Amsterdam art fair (previously known as KunstRAI).

Presenting the over painted erotic plates alongside great art by the likes of Teuny Tukker, Brutto Gusto develops their concept of subversive Folk-art.

Check them out at booth #3.

Diary: Preview Berlin - Emerging Art Fair

Latest diary piece: Impressions from the Preview Art Fair, Berlin.

U.K. artist Matthew Houlding at Büro für Kunst (Dresden) had his usual captivating architectural extravaganzas on display.

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Ceramixed Plates Available at the New Museum Store Pop-up Shops in Bloomingdale's

Berlin/NY: Hans Booy & Paulus Fugers' "Ceramixed Plates" at the New Museum Store, New York.

On December 1, 2007, the new building for the New Museum of Contemporary Art opened in Downtown New York, coinciding with its 30th anniversary. The daring and highly recognizable structure, designed by Japanese architects Sejima & Nishizawa (SANAA), symbolizes and reaffirms the leading role the New Museum plays in its field.

The New Museum Store offers fine gifts, editions and books. 90% of the proceeds will go directly to furthering the New Museum's artistic and educational programs, which will be greatly enlarged in its new building.

Apart from presenting books and some very special editions by noted artists like Mike Kelley, Jack Pierson and Kiki Smith, the New Museum Store stays true to the museum's credo of presenting the under-represented: in its range of "artist-made products" it treads where few museum shops dare to tread, directly supporting emerging artists. Two of those, Dutch artists in Berlin, Hans Booy & Paulus Fugers are proud that two of their "Ceramixed Plates" are part of this offering. Their faux Delfts Blau porcelain plates, hand-painted and inscribed with "Include Me Out", thematize social (self) exclusion, sexuality and multiculturalism.

The New Museum was founded in 1977 by curator Marcia Tucker. Today it is the most important museum for contemporary art in New York, with an excellent world-wide reputation for curatorial daring and progressiveness. It stresses and exemplifies the internationality of art, and focusses on emerging artists and under-represented themes, media and developments.

Contact the New Museum Store for inquiries.

Check out the ever growing list of rave reviews:

Art & Sex & Music: a very interesting art editions blog

DrawFellas: male erotic drawing hub

Book: Mein Schwules Auge

We're part of a new art book:

The new anthology on Queer-art by Berlin artist/curator Rinaldo Hopf, called Mein Schwules Auge 4, will be released by Konkursbuch Verlag around August 25.

It will feature a few of our Ceramixed Plates, together with provocative, thoughtful or sexy work by artists like Jn. Ulrick Désert, René Schmalschlaeger, Slava Mogutin, Bas Meerman, Muskboy and many others.

As much devoted to visual art as to literature, the book will also feature stories, poetry and essays.

Expect artistic statements, either professional or almost embarrassingly private, on the topic of male relationships and body worship. The works critically explore how our image of the ideal is fabricated, and the diversity and conflicts of male relationships.

Nicely priced at 19,97 USD it can already be ordered.

Disco Sucks Again Art Show at Kloetze und Schinken Gallery Berlin

Berlin-based Gallery "Kloetze und Schinken" are attracting attention with an exhibition that celebrates the male as sex object: it presents vintage decorated porcelain plates from the past seven decades, over painted by two Dutch artists in a mood of subversive wit. Artist duo Tulip Enterprises' wild mash-up of kitsch ornaments and erotic male imagery is highly obscene, terribly witty and acutely political, often at the same time.

After successful presentations at several European galleries, and at the "Cologne Fine Art" fair, the "Ceramixed Plates" are now on view for the first time in a Berlin gallery. They are displayed solo, as part of elaborate relief murals, and inside small wall objects.

The exhibition's title "Disco Sucks Again" is present on many of the plates. It is an adaption of the old 80's slogan "Disco Sucks", used at that time - by those excluded - to criticize the disco era's decadence and permissiveness. Today, after the hedonism of the nineties, and with the rise of religious intolerance, it seems that "Disco Sucks Again" for modern Europeans.

The use of males as sex object in media, pornography and prostitution is viewed by some as a sign of emancipation, while others see it as an attack on male honor. The exhibition fluctuates between both points of view. It seems to ask: How much more hedonism and libertinism can Europe's atheist society take?

Gallery Kloetze und Schinken is situated in Berlin Neukoelln, on the ground floor of one of several famous residences by architect Bruno Taut, near Kottbusser Damm. The unusually high ceilings of the exhibition space are still graced with his original playful stucco.

Galllery Kloetze und Schinken
Buerknerstr.12
12047 Berlin
Phone:030-26323349
Opening hours: Tu - Fr 12 - 19 hours, Sa 14 - 19 hours.

Exhibition runtime: March 27 - April 25

More info:

Read the press release.

Read the report on the Club Art Diary.

Read the report on the first station of this art show last summer in Amsterdam.

Larger and more versions of the images at Flickr.

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Anonyme Zeichner V Exhibition at Bluetenweiss Project Space, Berlin

Defaced book pages from a facsimile edition of "Tulip Portraits", watercolors by Nicolas Robert, flower painter at the court of Louis XIV.

They're variations of the "Ceramixed Plates", in which we re-paint flowery decorated plates.

From the "Anonyme Zeichner V" group show at Bluetenweiss project space, Berlin, March 18 & 19. Presenting all 250 drawings without any information, the show let the viewer decide what's art and what's not.

The open concept made it the most blogged art show in town, all generic little narcissistic entries like this one.

Photos from the opening night are available at Flickr.

Electronic City Silkscreen

Silkscreen made at the Berlin Kuenstlerhaus Bethanien's print atelier at the occasion of a Club-art presentation in Dresden.

Note the exquisite use of color, and try to spot the real objects the print was based on: Lo-Fi Audio devices and classic Apple Macs from the maker's atelier, like the Apple Mac PPC 9600 and 7500.

Projections by Tulip Enterprises at Coop Himmelb(l)au's "Kristallpalast" [Flickr]

Tulip Art Projects posted a photo:

Projections by Berlin Club-art duo Tulip Enterprises, Dresden, December 2005.

Dresden's city center boasts a wild example of retro-constructivist architecture, built by acclaimed Viennese architecture firm Coop Himmelblau at a spot in the Dresden City where many building styles clash very nicely.

It is named "Kristallpalast", meaning Crystal Palace, a title that is given new subversive meaning by a string of house & techno parties that are being organized there. At one of those, December 2005, we presented a projection installation.

As much a sculpture as a building, it is extravagantly crooked, seeming to glide away sideways, inside it is like a set out of Dr Calligari. It fits perfectly in the Eastgerman tradition of imaginative concrete buildings.

The slides were designed to make the famous cinema building even more disorienting.

Hundesalon Art Show

A dog-themed art show called "Hundesalon" taking place in a dog lovers' part of Berlin: Neukoelln.

Gallery "Kloetze und Schinken" might have alluded to their proletarian surroundings with this show, the district's only claim to fame is the David Bowie song by the same name, but then, that song came from his most depressed album..

Apart from two Neo-Geo pastiche paintings ("Hundestatistik"), we contributed a Brancusi-inspired "Endless Doggie Collumn" light object, re-animating our recycling light objects series from a while ago..

"Hundesalon"

Photography, Paintings, Objects by Ari Versluis/Ellie Uyttenbroek, Barbara Quandt,Tulip Enterprises, Marian Kolenda, Rosa Futuro, Inhalt und Sinn, Istprodukt, Karin Christiansen, Jenny Löbert, and many more.

Klötze und Schinken
Bürknerstr. 12
12047 berlin-neukölln
U8-schönleinstr.
030/26323349

Open: di - fr: 12 - 19 uhr sa: 14 - 19 U.
From: 17.02. - 02.03.2006

Stilschau Installation View: Animated Slide- & VJ Projections [Flickr]

Tulip Art Projects posted a photo:

Video projection by vj team Pixel Royal (bottom) and animated slide projections by Tulip Enterprises (top) at the electro-wavy Stilschau event, PHB Club Berlin, October 8th 2006

© Booy/Fugers Tulip Art Projects 2006, All rights reserved

Former PHB Brewery, Berlin Friedrichshain [Flickr]

Tulip Art Projects posted a photo:

The Berlin PHB Club in the Friedrichshain neighborhood is situated in a historic brewery.

Built by architect Arthur Rohmer, also designer of part of the Berlin Kulturbrauerei and Königstadt factories, it is a industrial classicist workers' palace. These are the ruins of the baroque main hall, once the largest brewery in Europe.

The Club-art Diary has more info on the club and building.

Stilschau Installation View: Kinetic Painting & Projections - PHB Club, October 8th [Flickr]

Tulip Art Projects posted a photo:

Installation art by Tulip Art Projects at the romantically crumbling PHB Club in the former PHB brewery, an industrial architectural milestone built by Arthur Rohmer, Berlin Friedrichshain, October 8th, 2006. Occasion: the Stilschau event, combining electronic music with vj- and installation art.

The painting, taken from the artist's extensive collection of large club paintings, is highly kinetic, (from the Greek (kinesis): motion). It changes its appearance constantly by way of special pigments and light choreography involving light-modulators and colored light, it even glows in the dark kitchily. Day glo hippie art meets "Pattern & Decoration" and 1930's optimistic industrialism with just a hint of dancing on the volcano.

Exhibition: Disco Sucks Again at Gays&Gadgets Gallery Amsterdam

Organized and curated by the late Dutch artist and gay activist Thomas Saeckl, the exhibition at Gays & Gadgets featured conceptual series of ceramixed plates; vintage porcelain pieces overpainted to create juxtapositions ranging from humorous to chilling. They touch upon male objectification, different concepts of male honor, and, fitting for the Netherlands, the conflict between dutch libertinism and multicultural religious intolerance. Selected paintings on a similar theme were also on view. Individual wallpaper publishers Berlin Tapete supplied spectacular obscene wallpaper for the show that can still be ordered through their web site.

Read/download/print the elegant pdf catalogue!

Gays & Gadgets
Nieuwezijds Voorburgswal 110
1012 SH Amsterdam
Mo-Sa: 11-20 Uhr, So: 12-20 Uhr.

Ceramixed Plates Collection Update

From the Ceramixed PDF Catalogue:

Dubbed "Ceramixed" they consist of vintage plates that have been over-painted to create collage art objects.

Originally conceived as part of installations for art spaces, including inscribed cupboards and murals, they now are made available to mulltiple-galleries and art shops as one-offs or small sets in optional hand made gift boxes. Each painted plate is unique.

One-off artifacts, hand-painted with state of the art non-lead pigments and re-burned at 800°C, they use design's accessibility while at the same time betraying a true artist's disdain for it.

Their makers, Berlin artists Hans Booy and Paulus Fugers are known for their prolific collaborative work for Tulip Art Projects, in which they aim for greater understanding of art among young persons through public, street and club art presentations.

The artists recycle G.D.R. porcelain plates in another attempt at broadening their audience, not by an enthusiastic allegiance to club culture this time, but by an ironic use of the current design fetishism. After all: while nobody dares or knows how to judge art anymore, except by price, everybody collects or allows themselves an opinion about design, much in the natural way many people collected and cared about art about a hundred years ago, casually grabbing an etching or two on the way home from work.

Artist’s plates are vulnerable yet - because of their collectability - quite durable artifacts at the same time. Popular painting themes used to be rehashed on plates and made affordable for a larger audience. Once the stuff of aristocracy, over the years the technique degenerated into a decidedly proletarian folk art form. Since the 1970’s however, classic German porcelain manufacturers like Villeroy & Boch have re-introduced artist’s plates as expensive collector’s items, mainly dealing in reproductions however. Non-derivative handpainted works on porcelain as in this case, where the painter’s canvas is replaced by the plate to create original pieces, are rarer, and, from a collector's point of view, more valuable.

The erotic imagery on the plates might at first be interpreted as being unusual in pottery. Historic pottery however offers many surprisingly "hardcore" images, as in pre-Columbian pottery and painted on classic Greek vases and Chinese plates for instance. The 2003 book and exhibition "Sex Pots" by Paul Mathieu recently gave a surprising overview of pottery using sexual themes.

As conceptual art objects, pottery and design aren't the only traditions being used here. Clash-of-style American 80's painting is another influence. It is said that inventions and new ideas in art slowly find their way into mainstream culture, so maybe in these particular plates post-modernism has finally reached folk art.

The plate's imagery is spiked with divers allusions, ranging from philosophy to prostitution, addiction and religious intolerance. They touch upon the objectification of males in media but also in warfare psychology (Abu Graib), and the clash between multicultural versus modern concepts of manhood.

The folk tradition of incorporating moralistic or inspirational texts on plates is taken up, using learned texts by Voltaire, Kant, but also No-Future mottos, and phrases from popular songs by the likes of Marc Almond, Robbie Williams and the Young Marble Giants.

Read the full text online in the Ceramixed PDF Catalogue

After a successful debut at the "FineArtCologne" art fair, the ceramixed plates are now available at the following glamorous int. galleries and shops:
New Museum Store
The museum store in the glamorous new New Museum building still stocks a few of our Ceramixed Plates.
235 Bowery (between Prince and Spring Sts)
Lower East Side
New York
Phone: 212-219-1222
We/Sa/Su: 12-18 hours; Tu/Fri: 12-22 hours
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Antebellum Gallery, Hollywood
Famed photographer/filmmaker Rick Castro's hub for fetish and Latino art.
1643 N Las Palmas Ave,
Hollywood, CA
Phone: 323-856-0667‎
We-Sa: 13-19 hours
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Artbox Frankfurt Gallery
Multiple art by noted German and international artists.
Braubachstrasse 37
60311 Frankfurt am Main, City Frankfurt.
Phone: +49 (0)700 - 5 2000 005
Mo-Fr: 11-18 hours, Sa: 11-14 hours
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Flyer Soziotope: Subcultures Behind Flyer

Review of the exhaustive new Berlin Flyer Soziotope book.

A giant coffee table work on the subcultures behind flyer. Features a transcript of a long talk between Club-artists Tulip Enterprises and Betty Stuermer, about the Berlin post-Wall arty-party scenes...

Although heavily illustrated, it is not just another coffee table book on modern club culture graphics.

While offering a fine and less commercial collection than most other such books, its difference lies not so much in displaying the various styles in flyer design, but in the exploration of the ethics, folklore and general use of them, in short: their sociology…

It describes the use of flyers by different, subcultural scenes: The varying graphic and language codes (and clichés!) of the flyers made by the club scene, underground artists, political activists or radio amateurs are entertainingly compared in essays by knowledgeable scientists and journalists, often members of one of those scenes themselves. Additionally, twenty authors, designers, collectors, organizers and musicians have been interviewed for the book, the whole spanning such themes as the history of the leaflet, leftism and sexism on flyer, or “flyer for art”, as one chapter is called.

Made by “borderground” authority Mike Riemel, a well known Berlin curator, organizer and art activist, it is based on 15 years of flyer collecting that culminated in the world’s largest collections of electronica, subculture, and underground-art flyers. It consists of around 100.000 flyer from twenty countries. Many exhibitions have been staged with the collection since 1997, and now much of it is starting to be published (and collected) online as well at Flyer Soziotope Online Archives.

Check out more about Flyer Soziotope at Amazon.
(Verlag der Jugendkulturen, Berlin 2005, English/German)

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Tulip Art In RiffRAG Magazine, NYC

Check out Hans' art pages in the new "RiffRAG" art magazine from New York.

A self-proclaimed "queer feminist mag dedicated to fighting white supremacy" (and a host of other things), it seemed a good place to introduce Hans' ideologically pornographic "History Book" to North-America...

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The Nepal NGO Blue Diamond Society (BDS) Kathmandu was founded in 2001 in an effort to address the needs of sexual minorities.

B.D.S. is a community based sexual health, HIV/AIDS, advocacy services for local networks of transgender and bi, gay & lesbian people in Nepal. It provides a drop-in centre, outreach work and clinical services to many.

B.D.S. has just begun its campaign for a library and welcomes the donation of queer-oriented books and videos. Books and videos exploring sexualities, genders, and transgressive lifestyles are impossible to obtain in Nepal, due to the fact that issues surrounding sex are not discussed.

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