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After 8 years of trav­el­ling the exhi­bi­tion has come to an end, but the comiXconnection-net­work will con­tin­ue.

Saturday, 16 October 2021, 8pm
Comics Concert by and with Itay Dvori.

The com­ic con­cert, post­poned sev­er­al times, has final­ly tak­en place on the evening of 16 October in the Bibliothek am Luisenbad, Berlin. A whole two years after the announce­ment, every­one was very excit­ed about the con­cert with com­po­si­tions to comics from comiXcon­nec­tion. The long wait was real­ly worth it. In addi­tion to sound set­tings of Edmond Baudoin’s “Le Voyage,” Shaun Tan’s “The Arrival,” and oth­er pieces from his reper­toire Itay Dvori played his new com­po­si­tions to 6 sto­ries drawn by Slovenian, Croatian, Hungarian and Czech artists. One of the high­lights was the sto­ry It was writ­ten by David Krančan, whose pan­els are not arranged one after the oth­er like in a movie, but one big pic­ture con­tains already all sequences, which the view­er has to approach step by step.

And for the first time, Ileana Surducan’s ani­mat­ed com­ic Precious Present was on show, set to music by Itay Dvori. Fascinating how the music inten­si­fied the plot ten­sion and final­ly led to a — sur­pris­ing — end­ing after a dra­mat­ic course. The whole con­cert has been a fit­ting end to a long-run­ning project.

Location | Bibliothek am Luisenbad, Badstraße 39, 13357 Berlin

Saturday, 22 August 2020, 7pm
Hallertau – Seasonal Work in Times of Covid-19
Artist talk about mak­ing a com­ic diary
Lockdown in spring 2020: Every evening sci­ence jour­nal­ist Alexandra Hamann keeps diary about her sea­son­al work spon­ta­neous­ly start­ed on hop farms in Bavarian Hallertau. She sends texts and pho­tos to com­ic artist Julia Kluge, who trans­forms the episodes into colour­ful pan­els from a dis­tance (https://mintwissen.com/hopfen). The artist talk will give an insight into the mak­ing of and back­grounds of the com­ic diary and this par­tic­u­lar way of artis­tic coop­er­a­tion.
In good weath­er the artist talk will take place in the museum’s gar­den.
Admission from 6pm, the com­ic can be read in the exhi­bi­tion.
Please reg­is­ter at mek@smb.spk-berlin.de (lim­it­ed atten­dance)
Facebook Link: Hallertau – Seasonal Work in Times of Covid-19

Wednesday, 11 March 2020, 7pm
Kino Moviemento, Kottbusser Damm 22, 10967 Berlin
Film evening
The Final Adventure of Kaktus Kid, Serbia 2018, 62 min, D: Đorđe Marković.
Comic-artist Aleksandar Zograf inves­ti­gates the life of Veljko Kockar, a lit­tle known artist who cre­at­ed Kaktus Kid in Belgrade dur­ing WW II.
Screening and Q&A with Aleksandar Zograf and Ivan Petrović. Admission is free. In coop­er­a­tion with the German Comics Association. Please reg­is­ter at lilian.pithan[at]deutscher-comicverein.de

Saturday – Sunday, 8–9 February 2020, 11am – 6pm
Comics Journalism Workshop at the MEK
Journalists and com­ic artists come togeth­er to exam­ine throgh words and images how muse­ums across Europe reflect cur­rent cul­tur­al and social process­es of trans­for­ma­tion.
In coop­er­a­tion with the German Comics Association http://deutscher-comicverein.de/workshop-comicjournalismus-museum/

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Filmstills from the Comics Concert by and with Itay Dvori:

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Photos from the set­ting of the comiXcon­nec­tion exhi­bi­tion in Berlin:

Photos from the set­ting of the addi­tion­al exhi­bi­tion area of comiXcon­nec­tion in Berlin:

New addi­tion­al exhi­bi­tion about comics jour­nal­ism:

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New addi­tion­al exhi­bi­tion about Berlin

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The recent­ly pub­lished com­ic diary about sea­son­al work in Hallertau/Bavaria on dis­play in comiXcon­nec­tion. In the artist talk, mod­er­at­ed by Axel Halling, Alexandra Hamann and Julia Kluge explained the back­grounds and mak­ing of.

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The film The Final Adventure of Kaktus Kid had been screened on 11th March 2020.
On that occa­sion Aleksandar Zograf came to Berlin, where he vis­it­ed the Neues Museum,
just before it had to be closed because of coro­na pan­dem­ic on 14th March.

post­cards from berlin
Aleksandar Zograf 2020

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The con­cepts, scripts and first drafts for the fol­low­ing four comics have been cre­at­ed dur­ing the comics jour­nal­ism work­shop held on 8th and 9th February 2020 at the MEK.
Here are the final works:

Plastik Piece of Meat
Dan Allon (draw­ing) & Nathalie Frank (text)

Kitsch
Alex Bodea (draw­ing) & Inga Dreyer (text)

Bärmutter
Alexandra Rügler (draw­ing) & Jessika Knauer (text)

Super­star
Sebastian Strombach (draw­ing) & Jens Wiesner (text)

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Flyer includ­ing a pro­gramme overview, 2020:

 

Previous fly­er includ­ing a pro­gramme overview, 2019 — 2020: