Brave Exhibitions is a cold/minimal/no(w)-wave muzak club renowned for the Avantegarde and the “unexpected”. Established in the notorious darker corners of Shoreditch (R.I.P.), London, and now oscillating in Berlin - Brave is a rookery for precocious bands, performance artists, and DJ’s that will compel and disturb you.
You will find yourself surrounded by re-incarnates of Klaus Nomi, screaming Israelis throwing dinner-plates, leather rent boys, and fevered arcane genre enthusiasts. We collaborate with other clubs and parties, such as Experimental Circle Club, Dice Club, Reeperbahn, and The Liberty Snake, bring in overseas bands, prepare episodes of our podcast (Exhibit A), and are working on compilations of the bands and artists who have disfigured our stages over the years. At Brave Exhibitions there is nothing you can’t achieve with a megaphone and a broom.

Live
Automelodi (Canada)
Led by vocalist and songwriter Xavier Paradis, the band was formed
in 2006 and is a welcome new addition to the international wing of the Wierd Recordscommunity in Brooklyn. Automelodi combines guitars with synthesizers and drummachines to create a truly idiosyncratic, cerebrally sophisticated, and elegantlycomposed album of modern minimal electronic music. Highly unique for a NorthAmerican band in 2010, Automelodi proudly embraces the infinitely rich ground of French pop musical influences - including the legendary chanteurs of the 60's and 70's, classic French Cold Wave, Minimal Synth and early UK New Wave.
http://automelodi.com/

Gertrud Stein (Geneva / London)
Recently relocated to London from Geneva, Gertrud Stein is a one woman minimal wave project known across Europe for her live performances with virtual backing dancers. She is equally as known for the trance-like “Tanze Samba Mit Mir” and the accompanying video clip of re-purposed ballroom dancing television footage prepared by Michael Giebl of Vienna’s Future Echo club. This will be Gertrud Stein's first performance in London.
www.myspace.com/gertrudstein

We (London)
We is a live performance by Pil and Galia Kollectiv, featuring the artists playing live music with Victor M. Jakeman and Ruth Angel Edwards. It was first presented as a live performance at Kunsthall Oslo in August 2010, and then at the Royal Standard Gallery, Liverpool and ICA London. The project investigates the latent politics of the love song and the construction of its liberal subject. Inspired by the dystopian fiction
of Yevgeny Zamyatin and the minimal synth covers of pop classics made by obscure DiY groups in the late 1970s and early 1980s, We follows in the footsteps of bands like The Better Beatles, who sought to improve on the canon of popular music by
stripping it bare, even.
www.kollectiv.co.uk/WE

Performance Art
"Albert: A Sketch for a Ballet" by Paul DC Kindersley
Performance art installation by Paul Kindersley, the man behind
the cult blog, Get The Albert Look. The piece, Albert; Sketch for a Ballet, combines projection with live group performance that further extends the artist’s online tribute to Albert, the Vice-Directress’ nephew in the Dario Argento masterpiece Suspiria. The work has previously been performed at the ICA and will be reinvented exclusively for Brave Exhibitions.

DJ Sets
Reeperbahn
(the iconic East London synth party),

You See Art, I See Clay
(the new enfant terrible on the block)

Passarella Death Squad
(London's top cult fashion designers known for haunting contemporary electronica).

Brave Exhibitions (London / Berlin)

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