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take care,

What does it mean to care for something, someone, or ourselves? Caring can be a form of affection, a survival strategy, a political tool, a mode of labor, and a means of sustenance. It can be driven by moral imperative or necessity. Whether an accumulation of small gestures, a singular bold act, or even strategic… Read more »

Surviving

An exhibition of our partner university in Bangkok and I participate with a new series of silk screen prints “Isolation Times”. 15 September – 12 October 2020 International Art Exhibition by Invited International Artists and Instructors of Faculty of Painting Sculpture and Graphic Arts, Silpakorn University PSG ART GALLERY Silpakorn University, Wang Tha-Phra, Bangkok, Thailand… Read more »

Popular sculpture

Finally, my new publication arrived! With a literary text by Angelika Reitzer and wonderful design by #HOMI.  More information here and at Verlag für moderne Kunst. A book release is planned for Städtische Galerie Bremen, but has to wait until re-opening after the lock-down.

Workshop at Silpakorn University, Bangkok

For the International Art Experience of our partner university in Thailand, I will give a workshop on forms and strategies of Public Art. Workshop from Tuesday, March 10 until Sunday, March 15, 2020 Faculty of Arts, Silpakorn University, Sanam Chandra Palace Campus 6, Rajamankha Nai Rd., Amphoe Muang, Nakhon Pathom 73000 Canceled due to Covid-19 epidemic.

Making of Horizontalturm on YouTube

My colleague Magdalena Frey just released a wonderful short video about the making of the Horizontalturm on YouTube. Horizontalturm Lanzendorf, 2017 Regie, Kamera, Schnitt und Produktion: Magdalena Frey Assistenz: Heinz Cibulka Musikstücke: Norbert Math/ alienproductions

Article in Heritage Fashion magazine

Art historian Vu Huy Thong wrote about “immer ärger mit den großeltern” in the Vietnamese Heritage Fashion magazine. Taking into account the lack of regular art magazines, it is great to see this rather complex work discussed in a fashion magazine.

Presentations in Bergen

My colleague Sofia Sundberg and I will present the long-term park project Loggbok as an artistic document of Kiruna’s city transformation. Lecture on Wednesday, November 21, 2019 at 19:00 at Hordaland Kunstsenter, Klosteret 17, Bergen, Norway Lunch lecture on Thursday, November 22 at 12:00 at Bergen Arkitekthøgskole, Sandviksboder 59-61a, Bergen, Norway

Lecture and workshop at Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts

Prof. Fan Lin invited me to give a public lecture followed by a workshop with the students at Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts in China. I will talk about durational approaches and present some public art projects, I was involved in. Lecture on Wednesday, October 09, 2019 at 19:30 and the workshop on Thursday, October 10,… Read more »

Beyond Repair

Under the title Beyond Repair, we are organizing a Summer School as part of the framework program of the German Pavillon at the Venice Biennale. Between June 12 and 28, 2019 students from the University of the Arts Bremen are coming together with students from Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design, Academy of Fine Arts… Read more »

New publication

The compilation of papers from the 2016 conference TransCultural Exchange at Boston University got finally published. My contribution “Transform/Translate: A Report on Asian Production Sites Used to Manufacture International Art” got peer-reviewed and appears now in proper English. International Opportunities in the Arts, edited by Mary Sherman, published at Vernon Press 2019