hobbypopMUSEUM

2010 Year in Review: May

Alex Jones — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 12:27:45 +0000

The CiB Shop wound up after three hectic months, with Pete announcing the impending announcing the impending closure. Before that, INKwell popped into the shop for some screen printing, the City of Culture bid got it’s send-off and The Story Exchange popped in.

The Created in Birmingham closed its shutters for the last time at the end of the month. Someone kissed the feedback book:

International Dance Festival Birmingham came to an end too, while Ian looked forward to what was in store at the 2010 BASS Festival and I had a peek at the Lichfield Festival’s line-up.

RoguePlay left the Custard Factory, I noticed Writing West Midlands for the first time, Ikon announced their series of ‘Favourite Things’ talks, the Daze-Ray exhibition occupied a corner of the Jewellery Quarter and IPEX took over the NEC.

hobbypopMUSEUM spent some time at Eastside Projects, the annual Cure Leukemia Art Auction took place, Ben Javens made a tea towel, end-of-year-show season started up and there was a photography exhibition at the Custard Factory.

I went to visit the flashy gizmos at University of Birmingham’s Heritage and Culture Learning Hub too.

Links for 13 May 2010

Chris Unitt — Thu, 13 May 2010 14:41:32 +0000

Moving on Up – The Future of Film in the West Midlands
“This event is a must for anyone who wants to find out about the strategy of the forum or who wants to feedback on ScreenWMs role within the future of film” With Natasha Carlish (Producers’ Forum) and Suzie Norton (Screen WM)
Just Film for a Fairer World
Monthly film night at the Midlands Co-operative Member Relations Centre at the Birmingham & Midland Institute organised by the Birmingham Co-operative Film Society. Next film is tonight, no info on the programme after that but keep an eye out for more
Scene Not Heard Birmingham – The Saturday Matinées – CANCELLATION, 15 MAY
Tomorrow afternoon’s gig has been cancelled due to noise restrictions that have apparently been placed on Island Bar
Digbeth is Good » A Friday evening full of art
Nicky went to hobbypopMUSEUM at Eastside Projects and then on to The Bordesley Centre of Contemporary Art

hobbypopMUSEUM at Eastside Projects

Ian Ravenscroft — Wed, 05 May 2010 13:39:29 +0000

I’m not usually one to pander to titles with an obscure mix of upper- and lower-case letters in them, but for this I’ll make an exception.

hobbypopMUSEUM is a new solo exhibition at Eastside Projects by the Düsseldorf- and London-based artist group of the same name formed by Sophie von Hellermann, Christian Jendreiko, Matthias Lahme, Dietmar Lutz, André Niebur and Marie-Céline Schäfer in 1998.

As a group they have created potent site-specific installations, fusing painting with sound, performance and film. Here’s some more on them:

hobbypopMUSEUM installations can be seen as textures woven out of figures linked together by iconographic and formal criteria. Their arsenal of figures spans histories of painting, drawing, photo, film and sound to words, performance, sculpture and architecture. Which form the figures take, depends on a basic confrontation with the conditions of site and chemistry of the group.

Eschewing the socio-political agenda typically associated with collective artmaking hobbypopMUSEUM stake their identity on the theatrics of fantasised scenarios and the strong narrative trail or journey through their exhibitions and happenings as a long-term ‘fight for ideas’.

The exhibition opens at Eastside Projects on 7 May at 6pm and will run from 8 May to 12 June 2010.