Berghain Bouncer Sven Marquardt brings photo exhibit to NY Art Week

Berlin nightlife icon Sven Marquardt has introduced his DISTURBING BEAUTY New York Artwork Week picture exhibition at ArtsDistrict Brooklyn Might 18-21. In collaboration with New York nightlife impresarios Teksupport, DISTURBING BEAUTY will see the Berlin based mostly photographer exhibit a choice of his first picture works captured in Nineteen Eighties East Berlin, which will probably be introduced by Galerie Deschler. The opening occasion on Might 18 will see performances from a choice of noteworthy home and techno artists, together with Joris Voorn. In cooperation with visible artist Tavy Hornbrook, Marquardt exhibits on this particular night over 100 visuals as video artwork and creates a digital expertise by letting pictures and sound movement collectively.

In Sven’s personal phrases, “For greater than thirty years, membership tradition has decided each my life—as a curator of numerous nights—and, after all, my life as a photographer. In a metropolis in transition after the wild eighties and the autumn of the Berlin Wall, I had for the primary time put my digital camera apart. It was on the finish of the Nineties that my digital camera once more grew to become a stylistic gadget for expressing our perspective in the direction of life. Berlin has all the time been the setting in addition to the inspiration for my footage and initiatives.

“Since 2010, my exhibition initiatives have been touring, and so they have sometimes been created in collaboration with musicians. Beginning in 2018, residencies adopted in Belgrade, Sydney after which, in 2022, in New York Metropolis. For me, New York is tough and photogenic = ‘attractive’ 24/7. Membership tradition is all the time to some extent ‘RIOT,’ unadjusted and, above all, free.”

The DISTURBING BEAUTY exhibition will probably be on view from Might 18-21 on the Gallery at ArtsDistrict Brooklyn, with hours of 3pm-9pm. The opening occasion on Might 18th will run from 10pm-5am.