July 25th 2022

JILL SILVERMAN VAN COENEGRACHTS, FOUNDER JSVCprojects
May 30th 2022

UNAPOLOGETIC CONTENT.
May 23rd 2022

BEHIND THE SCENES:
ESTHER SHALEV-GERZ,
KING & KING
A new sculpture
Installed in the United States
May 16th 2022

BEHIND THE SCENES:
SAVE THE DATE
BAD+
July 6-10 2022
HANGAR 14
May 9th 2022

BEHIND THE SCENES:
LINDA KARSHAN
Backstage filming ‘Two Feet Walking’
By Ishmael Annobil, Filmmaker
In response to the architecture of Murray Edwards College
Cambridge University
8th April 2022
May 2nd 2022

A WALK IN MY LIBRARY:
HELMUT FEDERLE
April 25th 2022

BEHIND THE SCENES:
BENEDICTE DELAY WITH JASON BUTLER
‘ONE ON ONE’
Exhibition at ArtHouse Jersey
14 April – 2 May 2022
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April 11th 2022

NATURE NOTES:
HELLO TO SPRING, PARIS
April 4th 2022

BEHIND THE SCENES:
A WALKED DRAWING, ‘TWO FEET WALKING’,
By Linda Karshan
In collaboration with Filmmaker, Ishmael Annobil
In response to the architecture of Murray Edwards College,
University of Cambridge
March 28th 2022

BEHIND THE SCENES:
ISHMAEL ANNOBIL, 'INSOMNIA'
Coming soon at L'Interstice, Arles
Opening on April 15, 2022
March 21st 2022

BEHIND THE SCENES:
JASON BUTLER, ‘ONE ON ONE’
Launch new ArtHouse exhibition space
Jersey, England
March 14th 2022

BEHIND THE SCENES:
ART & LANGUAGE, "THESE SCENES", 2016
Acquired by Centre Pompidou
March 7th 2022

BEHIND THE SCENES:
ESTHER SHALEV-GERZ
Bauhaus-Museum,
Weimar, Germany
February 21st 2022

BEHIND THE SCENES:
LOSING DAN GRAHAM
1942-2022
February 14th 2022

BEHIND THE SCENES:
THE DEVELOPMENT OF BAD+
BORDEAUX + ART + DESIGN
New dates: July 6-10 2022, at HANGAR 14
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February 7th 2022

BEHIND THE SCENES:
2000 THANK YOU NOTES
7 February 2022
January 31st 2022

BEHIND THE SCENES:
NEW SPACE FOR JSVCPROJECTS
January 24th 2022

BEHIND THE SCENES:
ROBERT STONE
Debut with Haines Gallery at FOG Design + Art 2022
San Francisco, CA
January 17th 2022

BEHIND THE SCENES:
MISCHA KUBALL
nolde / kritik / documenta
A project by documenta archiv, Draiflessen Collection and Mischa Kuball
NEW DATE: FALL 2022
January 10th 2022

UNAPOLOGETIC CONTENT.
January 3rd 2022

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2022!
WARM WISHES AND NEW ADVENTURES
December 13th 2021

BEHIND THE SCENES:
MINYADES
An exhibition of paintings by Richard Höglund
The Bonnier Gallery, Miami
December 2021
A Catalogue Essay
December 6th 2021

BEHIND THE SCENES:
MISCHA KUBALL
ReferenzRäume
Museum Morsbroich
5 December – 24 April 2022
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November 29th 2021

BEHIND THE SCENES:
ABOUT THE TREES
Thanksgiving 2021
November 25th 2021

UNAPOLOGETIC CONTENT.
November 15th 2021

BEHIND THE SCENES:
THE WORLD MAP
Thanks to Mr Hide
November 8th 2021

BEHIND THE SCENES:
KOEN VANMECHELEN LABIOMISTA, GENK (BELGIUM)
The book launch and debate
“NOT TO BE MISTAKEN”, November, 4th
October 25th 2021

BEHIND THE SCENES:
OCTOBER 2021
"Linda Karshan: The Covid-19 Conversation"
Still in the limelight
October 18th 2021

BEHIND THE SCENES:
IDE TO POLAND
POSTSCRIPT PARIS
October 11th 2021

BEHIND THE SCENES:
IDE TO POLAND III
Out of the oven
Warsaw Sept 28-Oct 3
October 5th 2021

BEHIND THE SCENES:
HELMUT FEDERLE
NOVARTIS Campus – Forum 3, Basel
DIENER & DIENER - WIEDERIN
2005
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October 2nd 2021

BEHIND THE SCENES:
BETWEEN LISTENING AND TELLING
Esther Shalev Gerz
Nuit Blanche Paris,
Tonight
September 27th 2021

UNAPOLOGETIC CONTENT.
September 20th 2021

BEHIND THE SCENES:
ART BASEL HALL 2.0C1
René Schmitt and ART & LANGUAGE
THESE SCENES, 2016
September 6th 2021

BEHIND THE SCENES:
MISCHA KUBALL
Wolfsburg and Utopias
September 2nd 2021

BEHIND THE SCENES:
IDE TO POLAND
A new expedition on the CERAMIC & FOOD ROUTE
August 30th 2021

BEHIND THE SCENES:
IDE TO POLAND
A new expedition on the CERAMIC & FOOD ROUTE
Bright blue and white ceramics fill the dining room with warmth and visual appeal
August 23rd 2021

BEHIND THE SCENES:
IDE TO POLAND
A new expedition on the CERAMIC & FOOD ROUTE
Starts today in Warsaw through 3 October
August 2nd 2021

BEHIND THE SCENES:
ESTHER SHALEV-GERZ
SUMMER IN PARIS
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July 30th 2021

UNAPOLOGETIC CONTENT.
July 26th 2021

BEHIND THE SCENES:
ON THE ROAD AGAIN
ARCO MADRID,
1st Art Fair in 2 years
July 23rd 2021

UNAPOLOGETIC CONTENT.
July 19th 2021

UNAPOLOGETIC CONTENT.
July 16th 2021

UNAPOLOGETIC CONTENT.
July 12th 2021

BEHIND THE SCENES:
IN THE ARTIST'S STUDIO
JASON BUTLER "THE COLLAGES"
Pop-Up Exhibition, Jersey
July 5th 2021

STILL BEHIND THE SCENES:
NINA NOWAK'S EXHIBITION
Galleri Susanne Ottesen, Copenhagen
June 28th 2021

BEHIND THE SCENES:
PER KIRKEBY UNREALISED BRICK PROJECTS
Galleri Susanne Ottesen, Copenhagen
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June 21st 2021

NEW ARRIVALS:
MISCHA KUBALL
June 18th 2021

A WALK IN MY LIBRARY:
HELMUT FEDERLE NIETZSCHE-HAUS SILS-MARIA
Schwabe AG Basel, 2004 Peter André Bloch & Jan Thorn-Prikker
on the occasion of Helmut Federle's "Edelweiss im Nietzsche-Haus, Sils-Maria" exhibition in Nietzsche's Haus, Sept 2004 to July 2005
June 14th 2021

BEHIND THE SCENES:
L'INTERSTICE ARLES OPENING
JOSETTE SAYERS AND GUILLAUME ZUILI'S PHOTOGRAPHS
Brave and fearless
June 11th 2021

BEHIND THE SCENES:
CONGRATULATIONS ISHMAEL ANNOBIL
DIRECTOR for "LINDA KARSHAN: COVID-19 CONVERSATION"​
WINNER BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY AT MYKONOS INTL FILM FES
June 4th 2021

BEHIND THE SCENES:
THE LAUNCH OF REAL TIME AND THE 3BS
May 31st 2021

BEHIND THE SCENES:
FLOWERS OF PERHAPS
LIOR GAL
ENGELS PLEIN, LEUVEN BELGIUM
May 24th 2021

BEHIND THE SCENES:
MATHILDE BRETILLOT DESIGNS NEW MUSEUM FOR LA MANUFACTURE DE GIEN
May 17th 2021

THIS TIME TWO YEARS AGO:
DRAW ART FAIR, LONDON, 2019, DESIGNER MATHILDE BRETILLOT AND ARCHITECT MISKA MILLER-LOVEGROVE
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May 10th 2021

NEW ARRIVALS:
WETTERLING, STOCKHOLM
April 25th 2021

A WALK IN MY LIBRARY:
HELMUT FEDERLE
ABSTRACT PAINTING OF AMERICA AND EUROPE
Ritter Verlag, Galerie nächst St. Stephan, Vienna Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, 1988
April 11th 2021

BEHIND THE SCENES:
LUKAS HOFFMANN, CNAP ACQUISITION AND TWO EXHIBITIONS
April 9th 2021

BEHIND THE SCENES:
ESTHER SHALEV-GERZ, WEFRAC 2021
April 2nd 2021

BEHIND THE SCENES:
"LINDA KARSHAN: COVID-19 CONVERSATION"
selected by Nawada and Hollywood Boulevard Festivals
March 29th 2021

BEHIND THE SCENES:
ESTHER SHALEV-GERZ
CNAP ACQUISITION,
"Describing Labor", 2012
March 26th 2021

BEHIND THE SCENES:
A STUDIO VISIT WITH DEANNA PETHERBRIDGE
March 22nd 2021

BEHIND THE SCENES:
JSVCPROJECTS & INTERNATIONAL DESIGN EXPEDITIONS
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March 2nd 2021

BEHIND THE SCENES:
HELMUT FEDERLE IN NEW YORK
February 22nd 2021

BEHIND THE SCENES:
RICHARD MILAZZO OBSZINE #3
The Sadness of Bad Thinking
February 15th 2021

BEHIND THE SCENES:
RICHARD MILAZZO OBSZINE #3, ART, POETRY, AND THE PATHOS OF COMMUNICATION,
The Art of Impeachment
February 1st 2021

BEHIND THE SCENES:
WITH POET/CURATOR RICHARD MILAZZO
REVISITING OBSZINE #3
January 12th 2021

A WALK IN MY LIBRARY:
POETRY IN SEDITIOUS TIMES
January 5th 2021

HAPPY NEW YEAR AND SOUVENIRS FROM 2020!
December 31st 2020

A WALK IN MY LIBRARY:
DECEMBER 31, 2020
JASON BUTLER'S EXHIBITION
Meyer Schapiro, “Theory and Philosophy of Art: Style, Artist and Society
December 18th 2020

BEHIND THE SCENES:
LIOR GALL, BRUSSELS, 2020
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December 11th 2020

HIGHLIGHT:
LOVE LETTERS
A new participative project by artist Koen Vanmechelen
December 4th 2020

BEHIND THE SCENES:
LINDA KARSHAN AND THE BROOKLYN RAIL
November 27th 2020

BEHIND THE SCENES:
NOVEMBER 2020, LINDA KARSHAN
The Covid Conversation, A New Film
November 6th 2020

A WALK IN MY LIBRARY:
PARIS, NOV. 6, 2020
ABËTËI by Ishmael Fiifi Annobil
October 20th 2020

BEHIND THE SCENES:
MATHILDE BRETILLOT
Designs new offices for Parfums de Marly, Paris
October 12th 2020

BEHIND THE SCENES:
BERLIN STUDIO VISIT - LUKAS HOFFMANN
October 7th 2020

BEHIND THE SCENES:
BERLIN
September 24th 2020

BEHIND THE SCENES:
GALERIE NÄCHST ST. STEPHAN ROSEMARIE SCHWARZWÄLDER, VIENNA
Friederike Mayröcker, Curator Hans Ulrich Obrist - until 10 Oct
Schutzgeister/Guardian Spirits
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September 9th 2020

BEHIND THE SCENES:
JSVCPROJECTS AND KOEN VANMECHELEN
The Battery Channel Podcast
September 1st 2020

BEHIND THE SCENES:
ARTISTS IN THE STUDIO, JERSEY
August 25th 2020

BEHIND THE SCENES:
MANIFEST OF THE TRUE
August 18th 2020

A WALK IN MY LIBRARY:
3 LOVE POEMS IN THE SUMMER
August 11th 2020

BEHIND THE SCENES:
SUMMER NEWS
August 4th 2020

BEHIND THE SCENES:
ROD MENGHAM,
Awarded the Cholmondeley Award for Poets
July 28th 2020

BEHIND THE SCENES:
JILL SILVERMAN VAN COENEGRACHTS RECOMMENDS
July 21st 2020

BEHIND THE SCENES:
LINDA KARSHAN
Studio visit
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July 14th 2020

BEHIND THE SCENES:
STEFANO CIGADA,
"Frammenti" at the Museo di Roma in Trastevere
January 2nd 2020

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2020!
September 9th 2019

BEHIND THE SCENES:
PER KIRKEBY,
"Brick Sculptures"
September 2nd 2019

BEHIND THE SCENES:
IDE TO PUGLIA
"Ceramic & Food Route",
Recent Summer 2019 Highlights
August 26th 2019

JSVC HIGHLIGHTS:
ART & LANGUAGE, LONDON
June 17th 2019

BEHIND THE SCENES:
DRAW ART FAIR LONDON
April 22nd 2019

BEHIND THE SCENES:
ART & LANGUAGE, EXHIBITION AT GALERIE MICHAEL JANSSEN, Berlin
March 4th 2019

BEHIND THE SCENES:
DR. SUSANNE A. KUDIELKA,
Private art collecting is a passion
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July 25th 2018

BEHIND THE SCENES:
KOEN VANMECHELEN
“It’s About Time”
July 4th 2018

BEHIND THE SCENES:
DAYDREAMING WITH STANLEY KUBRICK,
Exhibition at Somerset House, London
2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018
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Esther Shalev-Gerz, Inseparable Angels: An Imaginary House for Walter Benjamin, 2000, Installation, Angel 10, Animated double-clock sculpture, Edition of 3, 300 x 180 x 35 cm, Permanent installation, Lissignol Street, Geneva, Switzerland, 2000-2016

BEHIND THE SCENES:
ESTHER SHALEV-GERZ
Bauhaus-Museum,
Weimar, Germany

March 7th 2022

Esther Shalev-Gerz, Inseparable Angels: An Imaginary House for Walter Benjamin, 2000, Installation
Angel 10, Animated double-faced double-sided clock 2000-2010, Edition of 3, 66 x 120 x 15 cm (realized by Jaeger-LeCoultre), Installation view, Jeu de Paume, Paris, France, 2010

After a fraught ten days watching the news of an invasion and war now in Ukraine, it feels uncanny that Esther Shalev-Gerz is on the way to Weimar where she will open an exhibition Friday, March 11, at the Bauhaus-Museum, entitled “Inseparable Angels: An Imaginary House for Walter Benjamin” until May 16.

Esther Shalev-Gerz, Inseparable Angels: An Imaginary House for Walter Benjamin, 2000
Installation, Angel 10, Animated double-faced double-sided clock 2000-2010, Edition of 3, 66 x 120 x 15 cm (realized by Jaeger-LeCoultre), Installation view, Cantonal Museum of Fine Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland, 2012

It is not the artist’s first engagement in this city; she has made works inspired by the writer’s sense of time pulling us in multiple directions simultaneously, something that provoked the now well-known, and well-exhibited work that you see here, ANGEL 10, Animated double-faced double-sided clock, 2000-2010.

Esther Shalev-Gerz, Inseparable Angels: An Imaginary House for Walter Benjamin, 2000, Installation,
Angels 1-6 and 13-15, Diasec-mounted colour digital photographs, 77 x 102 cm
Esther Shalev-Gerz, Inseparable Angels: An Imaginary House for Walter Benjamin, 2000, Installation,
Angels 1-6 and 13-15, Diasec-mounted colour digital photographs, 77 x 102 cm

In 1940 taking in the winds of the cataclysm of WWII, Walter Benjamin adopted an angel drawing by Paul Klee as his mascot. He wrote, 

“This Angelus Novus His eyes are staring, his mouth is open, his wings are spread. This is how one pictures the angel of history. His face is turned towards the past. Where we perceive a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage upon wreckage and hurls it in front of his feet.”

Walter Benjamin, Philosophy of History, 9th Theses, 1940.
Esther Shalev-Gerz, Inseparable Angels: An Imaginary House for Walter Benjamin, 2000, Installation,
Angels 1-6 and 13-15, Diasec-mounted colour digital photographs, 77 x 102 cm

Watching the horrors of the past week, I am reminded how writing and art have been impacted by unspeakable cruel acts of man. Never in my lifetime did I expect to see tanks moving into a sovereign European country, indiscriminate bombardments, war crimes against civilians but it is here for us all to see day after day now. Evil among us. Again. Ironically this sculpture of Shalev-Gerz of time going in two directions at once has always warned us, it is forward and backwards unable to get away from the other. I have seen it in the exhibitions here—See it in these exhibition views—, Lausanne, Jeu de Paume, on a rooftop in Geneva, on a barn in Sweden. Now again in Weimar which the Nazis loved so much that they decided to build a concentration camp down the road in the verdant forest.

Esther Shalev-Gerz, Inseparable Angels: An Imaginary House for Walter Benjamin, 2000, Installation
Angels 7-9, Black and white photographs, 70 x 90 cm
Esther Shalev-Gerz, Inseparable Angels: An Imaginary House for Walter Benjamin, 2000, Installation
Angels 7-9, Black and white photographs, 70 x 90 cm
Esther Shalev-Gerz, Inseparable Angels: An Imaginary House for Walter Benjamin, 2000, Installation
Angels 7-9, Black and white photographs, 70 x 90 cm

Anything I might say about this work, or the important photographs and video that accompany, you can see on her website. Ukraine has taken all the words out of my mouth. This is a terrible sensation. One that Walter Benjamin knew well.

Esther Shalev-Gerz, Inseparable Angels: An Imaginary House for Walter Benjamin, 2000, Installation
Angel 10, Animated double-faced double-sided clock 2000-2010, Edition of 3, 66 x 120 x 15 cm (realized by Jaeger-LeCoultre)

More info:

Esther Shalev-Gerz

Bauhaus-Museum, Weimar

Invitation to the exhibition