Posts By: Ingo Vetter

Speculations about sculptures and trees

A solo exhibition at Kunstverein Springhornhof How is public space constituted and what means can be used to act here? In the exhibition, Ingo Vetter shows two groups of works that approach this question with very different methods. The exhibition is accompanied by posters designed by Tania Prill and a publication with a conversation between… Read more »

Fountains Failures Futures: The afterlives of public art

A public conference by HDK-Valand Academy of Art and Design at University of Gothenburg on September 28–29, 2023 Research and discussion about public art frequently focuses on conditions of emergence and production for public works. This symposium starts at the other end—thinking about the afterlives of public art with respect to processes of decline, decay,… Read more »

Public Workshop in Düsseldorf

Welcome to a public workshop about forward-looking solutions for the integration of noise protection at the new RRX high speed train corridor through Düsseldorf. The three winning concepts will be presented by Ursula Damm, Ute Reeh and Ingo Vetter. In an open meeting, ideas, wishes, suggestions and cooperations will be discussed. Plattform Wiesencafé is laboratory… Read more »

Confronting the rural area

Thomas Kaestle, cultural scientist and project manager of the Jesteburger Bürger*innen-Akademie für Kunst in öffentlichen Räumen produced an online-excursion to Kunstverein Springhornhof and interviewed director Bettina von Dziembowski and me. A talk about public art and landscape art in particular, duration and the challenges of rural areas. Online at the homepage of Jesteburger Bürger*innen-Akademie für Kunst… Read more »

À TABLE at Schloss Agathenburg

As a small intervention, some of my ceramics from the series “Neue Form” will be part of this exhibition at Schloss Agathenburg with artists Nir N. Alon, Anna Bart, Frenzy Höhne, Anneke Kleimann and more interventions by Birte Bosse and Francisco Valença Vaz. Opening on Saturday, April 22, 2023 at 6pm Exhibition April 23 until… Read more »

Award ceremony in Düsseldorf

Together with my team of Karen Eisenloffel, Michelle Howard, Marcel Troeger and Anna Lundqvist, we won the international and interdisciplinary design competition to obtain forward-looking solutions for the integration of noise protection at the new RRX high speed train corridor through Düsseldorf. On Friday, March 31, 2023 at 2pm the award ceremony will take place at… Read more »

Sharing Ecologies

Photo credit: Lukas Klose, HfK Bremen Kick-off meeting for BreGoS (Bremen Goes Sustainable) at Haus der Wissenschaften Bremen. A BMBF/DLR-funded joint research project of the Bremen universities for the coming three years. I will coordinate the activities for the Hochschule für Künste Bremen and realize one subproject on artistic perspectives on mobility in cooperation with… Read more »

Conference: Nancy Holt / Inside Outside

Open lectures exploring the work of Nancy Holt, her artistic legacy, and relevance today. Meet Milou Allerholm, writer and art historian, Stockholm; Karen Di Franco, curator and writer, London; Teresa Grandas, curator at MACBA, Barcelona; Ingo Vetter, artist and professor, University of the Arts Bremen; Bridget Crone, senior lecturer at the Department of Visual Cultures,… Read more »

Tụ hội <> Meetings

I spent my guestlectureship at Vietnam University of Fine Arts in Hanoi with lectures and hands-on excersizes about public art and taught together with my colleagues from the sculpture department. After six weeks the students present their proposals for new public art at Hoan Kiem district. Opening on Wednesday, 21 September 2022 at 5 pm Exhibition…