BETWEEN
WORLDS
OLD WALLS – NEW ART
Special Exhibition
at asisi Panorama Berlin
1 – 14 October 2022
To mark the 10th anniversary of the asisi Panorama Berlin, Studio asisi and the NFT Club Berlin are presenting a special exhibition of digital works by well-known and up-and-coming international artists. From 1 to 14 October 2022,
13 artists will show their contributions on large-scale screens in the exhibition venue at Checkpoint Charlie under the motto “BETWEEN WORLDS: Old Walls – New Art”.
After an artist call lasting several weeks, the most relevant works were selected by a jury from Studio asisi and the NFT Club Berlin for presentation in the accompanying exhibition of the panorama DIE MAUER. The works were minted on the NFT marketplace formfunction.xyz and, as unique digital pieces, are intended to enrich the modern artistic examination of current conflicts, border- and refugee crises with a new variety of media formats.
By combining the panorama installation on the Berlin Wall by Yadegar Asisi with an exhibition of thematically related, digital works, BETWEEN WORLDS thus creates a place that foregrounds neither the digital nor the analogue, neither the past nor the contemporary, but combines both and brings people together in their enthusiasm for the diversity of art.
MEETUP &
EXHIBITION OPENING
30 September 2022
The hosts
Studio asisi
The Studio asisi realises the panoramas and exhibitions of the Berlin artist Yadegar Asisi that are known throughout Europe. With the help of his studio team of architects and digital artists for 3D and image processing. Asisi composes his panoramic works in years of detailed craftsmanship as high-resolution digital paintings, which are created from thousands and thousands of photographs, drawings, sketches and paintings.
NFT CLUB Berlin
The NFT Club Berlin is the largest WEB3 community in Germany and offers a unique platform for NFT enthusiasts. Regular events and exhibitions promote direct exchange between artists, brands, builders, collectors and NFT beginners. It is home to some of the best-known builders and thought leaders in the industry.
The location
asisi Panorama Berlin
In a specially constructed circular building in Berlin-Mitte, the asisi Panorama Berlin, located in the immediate vicinity of the former death strip and the Checkpoint Charlie border crossing, the monumental panorama DIE MAUER (the Berlin wall) shows on 900 square metres everyday life in the Kreuzberg district of West Berlin in the 1980s. From a four-metre-high visitor platform, visitors experience the perfect illusion of this period of Berlin‘s history, which is barely visible in the cityscape today. Since the exhibition venue opened in 2012, almost 1.4 million people have already seen the exhibition in 10 years, with its depiction of the fascinating vibrancy of the colourful neighbourhood population on the death strip made up of partying punks, students, amazed tourists and guest workers.
asisi Panorama Berlin, Friedrichstraße 205, 10117 Berlin
Artists
Out of 65 submissions during a call for artists that lasted several weeks, Studio asisi and the NFT Club Berlin selected 13 international artists who had both submitted works with similar themes and each found a unique formal language. The resulting diversity of works includes emotional portrait series as well as sculptural 3D works, abstract collages, generative art, but also reminiscences of classical iconography and much more.
Dona Asisi
The Madonna of selective empathy
Values, Identities and empathy form a triangle, racing through world history – greasing people’s mind and lilting the sound of human drama. A trinity that unites. A trinity that divides. Do you own your values? Ever squeezed a singular identity into a three-dimensional person? Where is “us”? Is your idea about the “other” special? Can empathy be selective? Is it all a ZERO-SUM GAME?
Sound by QUIDDAM
Josua Rappl
Arcology
‘Arcology’ describes a fusion of architecture with ecology, a comprehensive urban perspective. In nature organisms evolve, increase in complexity and become a more compact system. A city should similarly evolve, functioning as a living system. ‘Arcology’ can create space for multiple perspectives.
Justprostokir
Another World
While we watch the idiocy of the world, politicians creating new ‘walls’ and putting sticks in the wheels of progress, you can watch part of another world of chaos, where walls are conditional, where there is no beginning and no end. What was there before the beginning of life will be there after the end.
Klemens Sitzmann
Landscapes of the Post-Human
‘Landscapes of the Post-Human’ renders in their abstraction a particular reading of urban landscapes. They aim to trigger in the spectator a vision based on memories with real landscapes, despite the alienating effects its unfamiliar, machinic geometry may cause.
Sound by Brando Calmonte
Konstantin Koval &
Andzej Gavriss
Uprooted
This work is the final part of a short film featuring 60+ Ukrainian refugees. It tells the story of post-traumatic stress disorder that people are suffering from. The film features real Ukrainian refugees reliving their own experiences from escaping the war to express support for all refugees worldwide.
Kunstromy
Extreme cases
The central role in Romy Campe’s work is played by the human being. The artist’s portraits reflect human characteristics – inner states, sensitivities and moods. It’s about showing the true self. Who are we? How do we see ourselves? Who do we want to be?
Makoto Inoue
Vanishing Point
This artwork is made by coding. ‘Vanishing Point’ is the ultimate border between worlds. ‘Vanishing Point’ is the point for crossing of parallels. Many parallels from our own thinking can be found all over the world: East and West, left and right, etc. This is ‘Vanishing Point’.
marubu
End Times
‘End Times’ is about expulsion and war, it’s nightmarish consequences and the deeply inhuman roots of it all, driven by hate and greed.
Meyso
Tu casa es mi casa
This artwork corresponds to Meyso’s perception of the city that he tries to bring to life, a machine that does not switch off, in perpetual movement and that does not stop growing and evolving. It reveals the secrets hidden between its walls and the sky.
Pietro Bolcato
Borders are only fear
‘Borders are only fear’ is a film entirely created by Artificial Intelligence, which uses real stories of people fleeing their countries due to war or other humanitarian disasters to create a film that visualizes the memories of displacement and suffering – highlighting the human costs of conflict.
Rebekka Revel
Ruins
‘Ruins’ is a remembrance of the countless anonymous casualties of political violence. Our bones connect each of us regardless of time, age and geographic location, signalling our common humanity and continued struggle for peace and connection.
Rodrigue Saad
Eternal
‘Eternal’ is a photography series that deals with the topic of shared identity within a war-torn environment. All photographs represent my friends at random moments of our daily lives in Beirut, Lebanon. In a place where the present is non-existent and the past is often ignored.
Sonia Gil
New Futures
‘New Futures’ are made up from cutting and pasting together different parts of the city of Berlin, by rotating, rescaling and readjusting, as a metaphor of dissolving the old borders to create new narratives. Between worlds is the old dissolving and the new trying to break through.
How to collect / purchase NFTs from the exhibition?
This collection was minted on the blockchain Solana and all works can be purchased on the Formfunction NFT marketplace.
Installing a wallet
In this case, a wallet is required for Solana, the blockchain on which the works from BETWEEN WORLDS were minted. If you are new to the world of NFTs, we recommend a phantom wallet as it is very user-friendly. But other wallets such as Solflare or GLOW are also suitable. Please note that biometric authentication is required at this step.
Purchase Credit
To acquire credits, Solana (SOL) must be purchased from a crypto exchange such as Coinbase or Binance and sent to the wallet. Please note that authentication is required to trade on a crypto exchange.
Login to Formfunction
Logging in to Formfunction is done directly with the wallet. Once logged in, you can access the BETWEEN WORLDS collection and place a bid to buy NFTs. formfunction.xyz
Why formfunction?
Formfunction was developed specifically for the Solana ecosystem. One transaction on Solana consumes less energy than two Google searches.
Glossary
Digital Art
In its broadest sense, “digital art” refers to art that is made or presented using digital technologies. This art relies to some degree on computational process and evolves in pace with technological developments. Although the earliest examples date back to the 1960s, digital graphics in particular have developed over the last decades at great speed and scale, moving from 2D to 3D to augmented and virtual reality in a context of ever-increasing interaction with the spectator. With the rise of the crypto-art movement, digital art has taken on a new artistic and market value in recent years.
Cryptoart
Crypto-art is digital art linked to blockchain technology that allows a piece of art to be owned, transferred and sold in a secure and verifiable way. Blockchain systems became accessible in 2017 to a whole new generation of artists close to the tech world. The concept is based on the idea of digital scarcity, which allows digital goods to be bought, sold and exchanged as if they were physical goods. Just as an original painting signed by Picasso can have its authenticity and ownership authenticated, crypto-art can be verified using an NFT.
NFT
An NFT or a non-fungible token is a digital certificate that represents a unique ID linked to a physical or digital asset. This token testifies the characteristics, originality and single ownership of the asset and cannot be replicated, because it is registered in unalterable records based on blockchain technology. The ‘original’ file of an NFT is stored on the Blockchain, but whoever buys an NFT is not necessarily buying the copyright to the item but usually a certificate that verifies its ownership. This process renders a piece unique, traceable and exchangeable, while increasing the autonomy of artists.
Blockchain
The term blockchain refers to a decentralised global account book whose register unmistakably assigns the respective ownership. The term “chain” refers to the information / transactions which are added in chronological order. Each transaction made within the network is entered into the register, line by line. The data is then grouped into “blocks” and the record cannot be changed, only expanded with each transaction. This technology was first introduced in 2008 by an anonymous inventor (or group of inventors) under the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto as the concept for the cryptocurrency Bitcoin.
There has been fierce criticism of the high energy consumption of certain blockchains, but many sustainable blockchains have become widespread (Tezos, Solana, Polygon, etc.) and large blockchains such as Etherium are also following suit.
Cryptocurrency
Cryptocurrency is digital currency in which transactions are verified and records maintained by a decentralised system using cryptography, rather than by a centralized authority. Those transactions take place are written in an open-source software that can be publicly verified. Apart from the celebrated Bitcoin and Ethereum, there are currently over 10,000 active cryptocurrencies. Traditional currencies are usually referred to as Fiats.
Minting
“Minting” is the act of publishing an NFT certificate on a blockchain to make an asset purchasable. Once minted, a piece of digital art acquires the features of an NFT, by becoming unique, traceable and exchangeable. The publication and further transactions take place in an NFT marketplace such as Rarible, OpenSea, SuperRare or Formfunction.
Smart Contract
A smart contract is a self-executing contract or IT protocol with the terms of an agreement between buyer and seller being directly written into lines of code. Smart contracts facilitate, verify or ensure compliance with the execution of a contract. These usually contain contractual clauses that follow the “if / then” function: i.e. if a given condition predetermined by the parties to the contract occurs, then an agreed action will take place. To ensure that the contract is not altered, it is recorded on blockchain technology, thus guaranteeing its integrity and security.
Wallet
A wallet is an app that allows cryptocurrency users to store and retrieve their digital assets, including NFTs. This is an application that stores passwords linked to these assets. Each wallet must be compatible with the blockchain of the respective stored token. For instance, to access your crypto funds on Tezos and view collected Tezos NFTs, you must use a Tezos wallet.
WEB3
WEB3 is the name some technologists have given to the idea of a new kind of internet that is built using decentralised blockchains. The term has been around for years, but it has come into vogue recently. Proponents envision WEB3 taking many forms, including decentralised social networks, “play-to-earn” video games that reward players with crypto tokens, and NFT platforms that allow people to buy and sell fragments of digital culture. The more idealistic ones say that WEB3 will transform the internet as we know it, upending traditional gatekeepers and ushering in a new, decentralised digital economy.
POAP
POAP (pronounced poh-ap) is an acronym for Proof of Attendance Protocol. These NFT badges are given out to prove attendance of an event, whether it took place virtually or in the real world. Each badge is unique, meaning that the only way to get a certain POAP is to be at the event.
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