Global Groove 2004, Nam June Paik’s celebration of our media artworld will transform the Deutsche Guggenheim galleries into a dynamic space of surfaces and screens filled with moving images. The work, Paik’s first major art installation since his laser projects created for his retrospective The Worlds of Nam June Paik at the Guggenheim Museum, celebrates his return to Berlin, the site of many of his triumphs as an artist. Specially created for the Deutsche Guggenheim Global Groove 2004 features a dramatic display of clusters of video projection cubes arrayed to evoke a poetic and powerful meditation on the media arts and our changing world of instant communication. A world that Nam June Paik helped shape as the “Father of video art”. The title, Global Groove 2004, takes its title from Paik’s legendary videotape Global Groove, 1973, which proclaimed the future of a global artist’s television.
The installation will feature a mix of newly restored video experiments form the 1960s together with his distinctive image processed global television projects from the 1970s-1990s celebrating his collaborations with Joseph Beuys, John Cage, Allen Ginsberg, Laurie Anderson, and Philip Glass. Global Groove 2004 will also feature new video imagery developed by the artist for this installation in his New York studio.


Curators

John G. Hanhardt/ Caitlin Jones,
Guggenheim Museum, NY

Location

Deutsche Guggenheim
Unter den Linden 13/15
10117 Berlin

Opening hours

Daily 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Thursdays to 10 p.m.
Including MuseumsShop and KAFFEEBANK

Catalogue and Edition

Accompanying the exhibition is a two-part catalogue with essays by the curators in German and English as well as with a reprint of the previously out-of-print publication Nam June Paik: Videa'n' Vidoelogy 1959-1973, at a price of € 26.

Admission

Adults		€ 3
Reduced Rate		€ 2
Children under 12		Admission free
School classes		Admission free
School classes with guided tours		€ 25
Groups up to 20		€ 25
Family Card		€ 8
Mondays		Admission free

Guided tours

Free Guided tours: Daily at 6 p.m.
Lunch Lectures: Wednesdays at 1 p.m. (Guided tours on selected themes followed by a small lunch)
Keynote Tours: Sundays at 11.30 a.m. (Guided tours on special themes followed by brunch)

Special guided tours, tours in foreign languages, and tours for schoolchildren are available. Please call (030) 20 20 93-14

Deutsche Guggenheim Club

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art shop

700 articles ranging from catalogues to toys and art books for children; innovative design from Berlin and articles from the Guggenheim Museum stores in Bilbao, New York and Venice.
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Café

KAFFEEBANK
Drinks, brunch/snacks: varying menu

Public transport to the exhibition

Subway Stadtmitte (U2) or Französische Straße (U6)
S-Bahn Unter den Linden (S1, S2) or Friedrichstraße (S3, S5, S7, S9, S75)
Bus No.100, 200, 348
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