End October Andreas Templin held a film-workshop for UNICEF in Ashgabat/Turkmenistan together with videoartist Kristina Kersa and UNICEF's Chris Schuepp in the framework of the theoneminutes-foundation.
An article on his impressions combined with a video has just been published with 3c° World-magazine.

The online publication for the project "HELL IS COMING / WORLD ENDS TODAY" hit the 10 000-visitors-mark in the last week. By today the publication saw 10 172 visitors. This is being celebrated with a slideshow comprised of photos by Andreas Templin, Douglas Voisin and participants. I would like to thank all the visitors and the many people involved in this project.

A new interview with Andreas Templin has just been published in momentemagazine. You can find it here.

Andreas Templin's videowork "the 20th Century on visit in the 21st" is part of the World One Minutes-exhibition at Beijing's TodayArt Museum. The exhibition opens June 07th and will be on view till June 28th. The work will be on view in the EXTRA-section located in the main hall of the museum.
The World One Minutes exhibition in Beijing is the first of a series that will continue in Zagreb, Istanbul, Lisbon and São Paulo. The exhibition is included in the City of Beijing’s cultural programme connected with the Olympic Games.
A book called World One Minutes in video and literature has just been published especially for the exhibition with contributions by Arnon Grunberg and Cees Nooteboom from the Netherlands, the Australian Eliot Perlman, Danish poet Helle Helle and East European writers such as Igor Štiks and Vladimir Arsenijevic Read more about the book here.

Dutch art-critic Alex de Vries recently wrote this text on Andreas Templin's work-practice:

"Should you describe Andreas Templin's work in art-historical terms, you would have to call him a neo-situationist, but it is doubtful whether he would like this classification. In any case, he is an artist who, in a practical sense, endows his work with a content that is hardly tangible, but eminently suitable to being experienced. He is the producer of experiences and sensations which he prepares and facilitates with great care. He creates the conditions in which the things he has in mind can best come about. He selects the location, arranges the extras - hundreds, if necessary - takes care of the props, acquires the rights, organizes the distribution, the promotion, the PR and the post-production.

In fact, Andreas Templin is the artist par excellence. He keeps control of everything. Yet his one and only focus is the idea and the concept underlying massive interventions in public space. Often, these are immaterial in character, nor do they boast any real visual documentation. He acts on an international scale, working together with all kinds of people inside and outside the artistic world, gives lectures, organizes discussions, sets up exhibitions, takes up a political stance, offers opposition against the laws of the art market and yet tries to function in the world of art. In Madrid he asked 150 people to wear a T-shirt featuring the names of Paul Virilio, Giorgio Agamben and Michel Foucault, as fashionable logos of the philosophical collapse of this day and age. He placed an actor across from them, carrying two placards, reading: Hell is Coming, World Ends Today. The perspective of religion in a nutshell.

From an early age, Andreas Templin has also engaged in music making, playing the piano especially. He likes to whistle some tune or other, and recorded a Bach composition in which he casually whistled the music, in accordance with John Cage's adagium that music is best ingested inadvertently when, walking down the street, you hear a melody coming from a house. Andreas Templin's view is that every decision he makes as an artist, is hand-made: “You cannot renounce your signature.” ⓒAlex de Vries

After being successfully presented at the OBA library Amsterdam and KunstVlaai artfair, the oneminute book reviews will be broadcasted on Salto TV Netherlands. Please see the broadcast-schedule below.

29-05-2008
05-06-2008
19-06-2008
from 23:00 - 24:00 hrs

Due to many requests you have now the opportunity to listen to selected tracks of Andreas Templin's new artwork on myspace music. The link is here

On this year's Art Athina Curators without Borders founder Sarah Belden curates a groupshow around the idea of the multiple. The exhibition is called "MULTIPLICITY" and features works by ARTISTS ANONYMOUS / LUIS BERRIOS-NEGRON / MICHEL DE BROIN / CHRISTINA DIMITRIADIS / BJORN KOWALSKI HANSEN / MARIA LIANOU / VIA LEWANDOWSKY / NICKY NODJOUMI / ANDREAS TEMPLIN / JACK WARREN.

Also on view are upcoming galleries from New York City and Berlin invited by Sarah Belden. The fair opens with a professional preview on 22nd of May and is open to the public 23rd-25th of May.

Selected by Serge Onnen. Curated by Maarten Hepp, Yannick Bouillis & Serge Onnen.
On view are cover-artworks by Karel Appel, Robert Longo, Andy Warhol, Lawrence Weiner, Yves Klein, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, Jiri Georg Dokoupil, George Condo, Serge Onnen, Jonas Ohlson, Raymond Pettibon, Art& Language, Gerhard Richter, Cindy Sherman, Albert Oehlen, Karl Lagerfeld, Wolfgang Tillmans and many more. The exhibition is on view 17.05.- 15.06.2008 and will then travel.

An online-documentation of the selected records/covers in the exhibition can be found on the website recordsbyvisualartists.

Andreas Templin's new work "Andreas Templin plays Bach" will premiere May 10th at this year's KunstVlaai A.P.I. Amsterdam. The artwork is a vinyl-record with music of Johann Sebastian Bach and is entirely whisteled by Andreas Templin.
At KunstVlaai a selection of tracks will be available to hear, the cover will be introduced in form of a display and pre-orders for the album will be taken from now on.
The album will be available in an edition of ten plus the album together with display in an edition of five.

The record-cover was photographed by Felix Broede. The album was recorded at the studio of Eric von Robertson in Amsterdam. It is produced with the kind support of Ingken Wagner. The mixing and pre-mastering will be conducted at the studio of Zoy Winterstein. The vinyl-record will be available from beginning June, a record-release party is being planned in Berlin. I would like to thank especially all of the above mentioned persons for their kind support.

Also on view at KunstVlaai are oneminute book reviews by Andreas Templin, which have recently been successfully presented at Amsterdam's OBA-library (please see infos here below).

Being asked by the oneminutes-foundation Amsterdam to review a few books within one minute, Templin decided to review Giorgio Agamben's "Homo Sacer" in a huge Chicago parking-garage and "Derek Jarman's garden" in the Millennium Park Chicago.
These recensions are being exhibited 24th till 27th of April in Amsterdam's prestigious OBA-library in the framework of Amsterdam World Book Capital and the international literature festival.
Many thanks to Doug vanderHoof who made these videos possible.

"In Madrid"-magazine published in its April edition an interview with Andreas Templin.
This interview continues the high media-interest in Andreas Templin's project "HELL IS COMING/ WORLD ENDS TODAY" at Madrid Abierto 2008, which was already featured in El Mundo, PÚBLICO, ADN and many others.

videostill "the 20th Century on visit in the 21st"





Andreas Templin's videowork "the 20th Century on visit in the 21st" got selected for the World One Minutes-exhibition at Beijing's TodayArt Museum. The work will be on view in the EXTRA-section located in the main hall of the museum. This is the second time this artwork is being exhibited in China. The exhibition will be on view June 06th till 28th and then travel to art spaces all over the world.

Due to many requests the clothes used in the project "HELL IS COMING / WORLD ENDS TODAY" can now be purchased as an editioned artwork. Please have a look at the online-catalogue.

Andreas Templin held an extensive lecture about is work "HELL IS COMING / WORLD ENDS TODAY" and other works at the Facultad de Bellas Artes De Madrid. The lecture was organized and translated by Laura López Paniagua.

photo: Douglas Voisin.

"Hell is Coming/World Ends Today", a situationist play for the inner city of Madrid, which was selected for Madrid Abierto 2008, launched February 7th.

A live-publication with texts by Andreas L. Hofbauer, photos of and from the participants and a videochannel launched beginning February and will still develop till end of February.

I would like to thank here especially for the huge success of the project: Laura López Paniagua, Paco Nogales, Andreas L. Hofbauer, the curator- and production-team of Madrid Abierto, Douglas Voisin, Antonio Lopez and, last but not least, all the participants in the project.

opening 09.12. Evolution de l'Art (EdlA). New branch at Het Blauwe Huis [The Blue House] Amsterdam. Work available by Andreas Templin.



The gallery Evolution de l'Art (EdlA) arises from a collaboration
between SPACE projects/residency lab/store, Bratislava, and Cesare
Pietroiusti. Evolution de l'Art is a commercial gallery for
contemporary art which only sells artworks that are immaterial, with
no physical residue, and it does not release certificates of
authenticity, nor statements or receipts. EdlA will represent, on a
non-exclusive basis, artists whose artwork is, at least in the case of
some specific projects, alien from any physical-material component.
Beyond this condition, there will not be any other limitation or
requisite for represented artists in terms of medium or technique.
The curator of this exhibition is Yasser Ballemans. Details on the exhibition, the opening and the offered artwork can be found at evolutiondelart.org

Eric von Robertson's solo-exhibition with colllaborative- and guestworks by Andreas Templin.
W139, Amsterdam/The Netherlands


installation of "huge green cat", wallpaper-work by Andreas Templin in a magic mushroom-environment by Eric von Robertson.


This work of Eric von Robertson is wearing a sweater designed by him for a public space work developed in Tiblisi, where a few of these specially designed sweaters, assigned with certain meanings and functionalities, have been worn by stray dogs.
It is carrying a MP3-player featuring an Amsterdam-street-version of "Andreas Templin plays Bach", which will be launched as a vinyl-record-edition with spatial display in 2008.

End October Andreas Templin held a film-workshop for UNICEF in Mumbai/India together with Aukje Dekker in the framework of the theoneminutes-foundation. The nineteen films made with kids from different social backgrounds will be on display at Dubai International Film Festival 2007.

On Friday October 5th Andreas Templin held an extensive lecture on his works for the public space as a guest-docent at Post St.Joost Academy in s'Hertogensbosch.