Internship as an artist assistant

Studio Apelbaum (and Analogdream e.V.) based in Berlin Mitte, led by Jonathan Apelbaum, explores gender, sexuality, and intimacy through oil paintings that merge traditional art forms with interactive technologies.

Based in Berlin, the studio's approach intertwines oil paintings, interactive installations, performances, sound, and design.

Their 'cognitive' paintings, developed over six years, dynamically respond to the environment using programmable LED panels, integrating thousands of addressable RGB warm white LEDs.

Collaborating with performers and dancers, they infuse A.I. and machine learning for movement tracking and sound recognition, creating a multi-sensory dimension.

Studio Apelbaum's vision transcends analog-digital and traditional-new divides, celebrating collaboration among engineers, painters, coders, and performers.

Functioning as a creative home, the studio fosters discussions, exhibitions, and performances. Collaborations with diverse cultural spaces and events, including Lunchbox Candy, IKSK, Anomalie Art Club, ARTCO, Samuelis Baumgarte Galerie, and Aeden club in Berlin, underscore their commitment to inclusivity and engaging a broader spectrum of society.

Tasks

• Building the cognitive paintings and LED panels ( woodwork, metalwork, and electrical tasks)
• Assist in delivering contemporary exhibitions and commissions, from the research and development phase to installation and realization.
• Manage multiple projects simultaneously for executing contemporary exhibitions, private gallery commissions, and public space displays.
• Contribute to creating and producing exhibition and commercial catalogues.
• Organize exhibition-related transport, including coordination of packaging, transport, insurance, and registrar duties.
• Update shipping lists, obtain cost estimates, and monitor customs documentation; liaise with shippers, exhibition curators, receiving and host galleries, and art institutions.
• Act as a courier for touring exhibitions when required.

Requirements

You need to know how to use your hands and your brain and think on your own, to propose new ideas and concepts.

You will have a lot of freedom to develop yourself and your skills.

Benefits

You will learn how to work with metal, wood, canvas, and electronics. How to organize big art exhibitions at the borders of performance, visual art and rave.

You will be part of a family with amazing food and connections with the most interesting queer artists and creatives of Berlin from the Berghain DJs to the people that started the act-up movement in Germany.

This is not a paid internship but you will learn a lot working with our production, communication, choreographer, sound designer, ....

We want to remind you that it’s a part-time 6 months unpaid internship so that you have time to work on the side but also because we are giving you responsibility and an interesting projects.

We are also looking for long term partners, to continue to work together later.

We strive to respond to every application, but please understand that due to the high volume, it may take time.

AnalogDream is a queer artist studio that emerged nearly two decades into the 21st century out of the increasingly technological and less and less fixed, binary world that we as a society are constantly creating for ourselves.

We work at the intersection of contemporary art, performing art, music and rave, focusing our diverse skills and knowledge on exploring how each can amplify the capabilities of the other.

AnalogDream brings together painters, programmers, dancers, engineers, audio artists and filmmakers to ask a myriad of urgent questions : how do we connect with each other and break gender and social boders, how do we create safe and intimate space for queer and non queer people form old and young - both through the artworks we produce and the means by which we produce them.

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