Jen Denike

Printed Matter is pleased to present two book launches and signings as part of The New York Art Book Fair. John Lurie's Learn to Draw will be launched on November 18, 2006 at 3:00 PM and Jen DeNike's Seven Suns will be launched on November 19, 2006 at 3:00 PM.



The New York Art Book Fair is located at 548 West 22nd Street, between 10th and 11th Avenue. Admission to the fair is free.



Seven Suns is an artists' book by Jen DeNike in collaboration with Peter Coffin, Adam Helms, Amy Smith Stewart, Justin Lowe, Anat Ebgi, Aaron Young, and Mika Rottenberg. Inspired by Ed Ruscha's Nine Swimming Pools and A Broken Glass, Seven Suns is a meditation on vernacular, nostalgia, repetition, vacancy, and mortality. True to Ruscha's publication, Seven Suns proposes a structural format of images and blank pages, mirroring the same number of blank pages to images, from front to back, and in reverse, prompting a formal compositional rhythm.



Jen DeNike is a video artist who lives and works in New York City. Her work has been shown internationally and she recently had her first European solo exhibition at KW Institute of Contemporary Art Berlin. Her work has also been shown at PS1 (Queens), Tensta Konsta (Stockholm), Oliver Kamm Gallery (New York), 404 Contemporari (Naples), and CAHM Houston.



Seven Suns by Jen DeNike is a soft cover, 84 page book with color, black & white images and text by the artists, in a numbered edition of 1000. Published by the NewCenter for Contemporary Art, Louisville, designed by Art Design Office Los Angeles, California. Seven Suns retails for $25



For more information on The NY Art Book Fair, please visit www.nyartbookfair.com.

New Exhibitions at KW Institute for Contemporary Art



Opening: Saturday, September 2, 2006, 5 - 9 pm



From September 3 to November 12, 2006, KW Institute for Contemporary Art presents the exhibition No Matter How Bright the Light, the Crossing Occurs at Night, an exhibtion in collaboration with the Berlin artists Natascha Sadr Haghighian, Judith Hopf/Deborah Schamoni, and Ines Schaber, curated by Anselm Franke. KW will also show photo and film works by the New York artists Jen DeNike, Mika Rottenberg and Aaron Young.

We would like to cordially invite you to the opening on Saturday, September 2, 2006, 5 - 9 pm.



JEN DENIKE

1st and 2nd floor



Photographic and video-based works by the young American artist Jen DeNike will be presented from September 3 to November 12, 2006 at KW Institute for Contemporary Art. Jen DeNike's photos and videos are both portraits and stereotypes, addressing essential themes like individual and society, role models and social control, cult and obsession as well as their physical, sexual, and sometimes also aggressive forms of expression. In her most recent work the artist looks at stereotyped behaviours among American adolescents - at the typical and familiar rituals and power play, at the elements of theatricality, rivalry and aggression implicit in them and also at what lies behind, namely, the aesthetics, eroticism and occasional ruthlessness and cruelty of adolescent fantasy worlds.



We would like to thank the Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf, for their generous support.



MIKA ROTTENBERG

3rd floor



Like Jen DeNike and Aaron Young, Mika Rottenberg belongs to a young and vibrant New York art scene that is gaining increasing international attention. Her video installations reflect and comment on global themes like cultural identity, economy and work in the postindustrial, globalized age, all in a curious and absurd manner. Her most recent work Dough (2005/06) departs from film in real space and depicts a perpetual dough-making machine operated by a female workforce in beige uniforms who, through various physical idiosyncrasies and the incorporation of diverse body functions, become a direct part of the grotesque circle of production. A claustrophobic situation is produced, which acts like the center of an uncanny but terribly familiar universe.



We would like to thank the Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf, for their generous support.



AARON YOUNG



From September 2 on, KW will present a site-specific project by the young American artist Aaron Young. In his performances, videos, and sculptures, Young replicates social situations in public space, whose outcomes he himself often cannot control. For Berlin, he will realize a work entitled "IPO" (25 offerings) (2006).



We would like to thank the Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf, for their generous support.





Opening: Saturday, September 2, 2006, 5 - 9 pm

Dates: September 3 - November 12, 2006

Opening Hours: Tue - Sun 12 - 7 pm, Thur 12 - 9 pm



KW Institute for Contemporary Art

Auguststrasse 69

10117 Berlin

http://www.kw-berlin.de



Further information:

Markus Müller l Maike Cruse

Phone 0049 [30] 2434 59 42

presse@kw-berlin.de