guerillaclassics presents
in collaboration with MUSEUM RIETBERG
28. June 2023
– 2. July 2023
Wednesday:
Thursday:
Friday:
Saturday:
Sunday:
10:00 – 12:00, 13:00 – 20:00h
10:00 – 12:00, 13:00 – 17:00h
10:00 – 12:00, 13:00 – 17:00h
10:00 – 12:00, 13:00 – 17:00h
10:00 – 12:00, 13:00 – 16:00h
28. June 2023
19:00 – 20:00
Eden Sekulović is a London-born cellist of Montenegrin and Ethiopian heritage whose artistic journey began at the age of six at the “Andre Navarra” music school in Podgorica. A Master’s graduate from the Zurich University of the Arts, Eden has cultivated her craft under the mentorship of esteemed cellists like Troels Svane and Bernard Haitink. A seasoned performer, she has illuminated stages at numerous international festivals and competitions, delivering captivating solo and chamber music performances.
29. June 2023
16:00 – 17:00
Lynhan Balatbat-Helbock is co-executive managing director at S A V V Y Contemporary Berlin and is part of the participatory archive project Colonial Neighbours. She received her MA in Postcolonial Cultures and Global Policy at Goldsmiths University of London and moved to Berlin in 2013. In her work within the permanent collection of SAVVY Contemporary she looks for colonial traces that are manifested in our present.
30. June 2023
16:00 – 17:00
Vincent Glanzmann, born in 1983 in Tokyo, anchored in Zürich, Switzerland, is a creative force in the international music scene. As a drummer and sound artist, Glanzmann is known for his inventive approaches, melding unique preparations with alternative techniques, and his innate ability to communicate through his music. His work is characterized by a playful curiosity and a rich palette of collaborations, reaching across disciplines such as contemporary music, visual arts, and dance.
1. July 2023
16:00 – 17:00
Brussels-based Rokia Bamba realized only belatedly that she wasn’t only a good radio DJ – she has been since the age of twelve, for Radio Campus among others – but that she could also make people dance. She particularly likes to mix at socially engaged parties. Expect groovy hip-hop, African rhythms, house and techno.
Her sound exploration has also deepened through art and theater. She draws her inspiration from sound archives and immerses visitors / spectators in an unexpected sensory experience.
1. July 2023
22:00 – 02:00
Rokia Bamba (DJ), Huguette Tolinga (Percussion), Lynhan Balatbat-Helbock (DJ), Jere Ikongio (DJ), Eden Sekulović (Cello), Vincent Glanzmann (Drums)
2. July 2023
15:00 – 16:00
Valentine Michaud is a saxophonist of extraordinary depth and versatility, with a technique that perfectly blends musical finesse and compelling artistry. A recipient of numerous awards, including the Credit Suisse Jeunes Solistes (2017), and Jurjans Andrejs VI Woodwind International Competition, in 2020 Valentine was the first wind player to be awarded the prestigious Credit Suisse Young Artist Award.
author: Lynhan Balatbat-Helbock is co-executive managing director at S A V V Y Contemporary Berlin and is part of the participatory archive project Colonial Neighbours. She received her MA in Postcolonial Cultures and Global Policy at Goldsmiths University of London and moved to Berlin in 2013. In her work within the permanent collection of SAVVY Contemporary she looks for colonial traces that are manifested in our present.
author: Samuel baah kortey was born in Ghana and lives between Kumasi and Frankfurt. He is currently pursuing his MFA at the Department of Painting and Sculpture KNUST (Kumasi, Ghana) and is an exchange student in Städelschule, Frankfurt. The artist is a member of three collectives, blaxTARLINES, Commune6x3, and a co-founder of the Asafo Black Collective. He works with postcolonial histories and religious iconographies, and experiments with organic materials
author: Atiyyah Khan is an arts journalist, archivist, record collector and events curator from Johannesburg and based in Cape Town.
Since 2007, she has documented arts and culture and has been published in newspapers across South Africa. She was the 2010 Pulitzer Fellowship recipient for her masters studies at the University of Southern California.
author: Billy Fowo (1996, Cameroon) is a curator and writer based in Berlin.
Very much grounded in the idea of the Laboratory, for Billy, rethinking and stretching the idea of the exhibition as a format, forms an essential part of his research and curatorial approach. With points of interest in various fields and disciplines such as the sonic, linguistics and literature, Billy questions through his practice what is considered knowledge and the spaces in which we find knowledge. He is currently a curatorial candidate at the prestigious DeAppel program in Amsterdam.
author: Lynhan Balatbat-Helbock is co-executive managing director at S A V V Y Contemporary Berlin and is part of the participatory archive project Colonial Neighbours. She received her MA in Postcolonial Cultures and Global Policy at Goldsmiths University of London and moved to Berlin in 2013. In her work within the permanent collection of SAVVY Contemporary she looks for colonial traces that are manifested in our present. The collaborative archive dedicates itself to discussing silenced histories and to the decanonization of the Western gaze through objects and the stories behind them. In close collaboration with artists, initiatives and activists, the archive is activated through hybrid forms of practice. She assisted the management for the documenta14 radio program – Every Time a Ear di Soun, SAVVY Funk in Berlin (June – July 2017) and supported the artist Bouchra Khalili with several projects and exhibitions (May 2015 – May 2016 / June 2021 -May 2022). She worked on a yearlong research project on Julius Eastman in a collaboration between SAVVY Contemporary and the Maerzmusik festival (Berliner Festspiele, March) and co-curated the exhibition program HERE HISTORY BEGAN. TRACING THE RE/VERBERATIONS OF HALIM EL-DABH (2017–2018/2020-2021). In 2018 she produced Agnieszka Polska ś commission for the Germany’s National Gallery Prize show in the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin (September 2018-March 2019). Lately she curated the yearlong project Monumental Shadows – Rethinking Heritage, a participatory project in public space knocking colonial figures off their pedestal and shifting the shadows of past and present. This year she is curating Wer Wir Sind in the Bundeskunsthalle in Bonn as well as this years´edition of the Lantz´sche Skulpturenpark in Düsseldorf.
