"The Mass" best of...the last show curated by Konstantin Bayer

The Mass - is going to end - 08/09.02.2009

7 artists on 16 square meter. Installation, painting, photography, sculpture, sound and video; artworks from China, Germany and America will be shown for the last days. That is the official ending of the art director period of Konstantin Bayer. The gallery realized 6 exhibitions during the last half a year and was part of the student's one year exchange program. Here you can see a various reflection of these shows. Something good!!! Following Alejandra Pinggera will continue the artistically direction of these well located small art venue, Island 6 Shack. To celebrate both we would like to welcome you on the 08^th and 9^th of February at Moganshan Rd 116, Shanghai between 4 - 10pm. performing artists of this day are Caucasso Lee Jun, A.Pinggera, K.Bayer...so don´t miss to come around...

"The Mass" is the temporarily last exhibition curated by Konstantin Bayer at Island 6 Shack Shanghai. Therefore he wants to reflect all exhibitions he created as well as his own artistic work. He shows artists like Daniel Caleb Thompson, Enrico Freitag, Caucasso Lee Jun, Tillmann Porschütz, Julia Scorna, Lars Wild and himself with old and new works again.

Since more then half a year he presented straight and unconventional exhibitions with international and chinese artists, but of course every experience has an end and new duties are waiting, for example at the "Galerie Eigenheim" in Weimar, his good old hometown gallery. Here is the chance for you to come around at Island 6 Shack for the following days to adept "The Mass", a kind of order in disorder or arborescent relive of a small art venue in Shanghai.

The opening ceremony will be at the 23rd of January, 2009 around 6pm till late with wine and music by Thomas Arthur Bligh Pryle.

- YELLOW - by Julia Scorna, 11.01. - 19.01.2009

Island 6 Shack presents: YELLOW

We would like to invite you to the current exhibition – a light-sound installation of Julia Scorna. You will enter a light-forest, what is the main part of the artwork, having the possibiltity to extend or to change your impressions of space and culture-related associations. Inspired by living in Shanghai for the last five month this installation represents her workprocess with light according to an architecture situation and a personal feeling of a deep-minded sensitivity for the societal reality. The artificial landscape is an open statement and want you to find yours' on your own.

The artist will be present and would be glad to welcome you on sunday the 11th of january 2009, Island 6 Shack will show YELLOW till January 19th.

"Real Image Kitchen" - photography in progress- last weekend

after 6 weeks of working in the darkroom it seems to be finished. Now the exhibition "real image kitchen" -photography in progress - obtain the highlight, the room is filled with silverpaper and film material and achieved a cultural exchange experience and individual artistic perspective. At the end it is more equal to a room filling installation, but at least every part is acquirable especially at the last two days. We, Caucasso Lee Jun, Julia Scorna, Gao Chang and Konstantin Bayer want to celebrate these last two days of mutual darkroom experience. So please feel warmly welcome to our power picture weekend on the 3rd and 4th of January between 2pm and 11pm. For these days we also provide some extra artistic services for our visitors...but please be surprised...

an empty gallery, a dark room, 4 photographers and a creative living atmosphere – that's the island6 shack´s "real image kitchen". Julia Scorna, Gao Chang, Caucasso Lee Jun and Konstantin Bayer will develop film material and silver paper live and day by day to fulfill the gallery in a generating process. Different sizes, different styles, unique techniques and individual views, you can be sure there will be something to see. Hundred´s of photographies, it´s a kind of roominstallation as well, you can buy every of the exhibited pictures, prices are between 50 and 3000 rmb, so it is perfect for some christmas gifts. The athmophere is really calm, so come around day by day. there are special services you would never find in other galleries. You can wait a hour and we will develope the Picture you want, live and immediatly, for and with you. We started to work at the 16^th of November, 2008 and the exhibition at all will be hold till 4^th of january 2009.

"God Forgive Us"

It is sometimes difficult to figure out how cultures are different from each other, even though it often seems so clear-cut. Tangible factors that make a culture into a culture are comparable: history, religion, landscape. The basic component is and remains the person; cause and effect.

In the exhibition "God Forgive Us", three German artists reflect on their relationship to culture and person. One would like to categorize their works according to contents reflecting emotional, social and historical aspects; however, it is the taboo and the darker side of humanity that comes to bear in paintings from Lars Wild, concrete-sculptures from Konstantin Bayer and photographs from Tilman Porschütz, who will individually be described in further detail. Together, however, their art works deliberate. The color gray dominates the works of the Bauhaus students from Weimar and reflects German identity, even when they try to understand it in their own ways. In this sense, the name of the exhibition "God Forgive Us" can be understood in a broader context. Pardon always takes place on a reflective level - religiously as with worldly. We expect people to pardon themselves, we expect it also from history, nature, generations... God works here on the level of "pardon" on an imaginary level. At this point the exhibition moves to human traits, which can be sought and found independent of cultures. Social pressure, historical blindness, emotional insecurity...
Catalog available on request.

Painting by Lars Wild

Painting by Lars Wild

Sculpture "Set in Congrete" by Konstantin Bayer

Photography by Tillmann Porschütz

Sculpture "The Door out of Moganshan Rd. No.1" by Konstantin Bayer

20日9月 - 25日9月2008年 binaural studies artist in residency

During the first exhibition "Overseas" there will be the first "artist in residence program" at Island6 Shack Moganshan Rd. 116, Shanghai.
The program will be organized by a musician and will be presented between 20th till the 25th of september. Christoph Hoefferl aka "Nosral Flow" aka "Bogdan" will make some live electronic ambient music every afternoon 4pm, inspired of shanghais soundscape. He is a very active musician with several projects and interests. He played at special events like the Headphone Festival (Hungary / 2008), Electric Garden (Leipzig / Germany / 2008), Glashaus (Berlin / Germany / 2008). He is also a member of the band "The Zonnhaiders' Club" from Germany (Fusion Festival / Germany / 2008). He studies fine art at the Bauhaus University Weimar.
So please come around and enjoy the athmosphere. There will be some liverecordings for sale but you can prepare yourself while listening to his musik at: www.nosralflow.com. He also invited some guestmusicians for example "hanahanako" ( 花はな子 ) from Korea.
Liverecordings of these sessions download here: http://soundcloud.com/nosralflow/nosral-flow-live-in-shanghai

Christoph Hoefferl

Tillman Porschütz aka Hanahanako

Island 6 Shack - Shanghai

View on the Exhibition "Overseas"

New exhibition creators in town (shanghai). the team around Konstantin Bayer will create exhibitions in a short periode of time. unconventional, independent and mixed. Out of different cultural backgrounds they will organize different kinds of exhibitions, presentations, group exhibitions, performances and workshops. here at Moganshan Rd. 116 at Island 6 Shack is a place to find art that is not only for making profit, here is a place to discuss and feel art while drinking tea or coffee in the afternoon...

Art Director: Konstantin Bayer

English: 13918294297
中文： 13681615216
island6shack@gmail.com

Moganshan Rd. 116
200060 Shanghai
上海莫干山路116
邮编 200060

7日9月 - 23日9月2008年 OVERSEAS

First exhibition is called "Overseas" and presents three different artists of three different cultural backgrounds: photografic works of Lee Jun from China, paintings by Enrico Freitag from Germany and installations made by the american artist Daniel Caleb Thomson. The opening is on september 7th at 4pm with tea and coffee and after 7pm with drinks and music by Nosral Flow (elctronica/germany). The duration of the exhibition will be till september 23rd. Catalog available on request.

Paintings by Enrico Freitag

Low Tech Installation "Narzisse" by Daniel Caleb Thompson

Low Tech Installation "Elektrobeten" by Daniel Caleb Thompson

Photographie Works by Caucasso Lee Jun