• Sarah Straßmann – Opposite

    Sarah Straßmann – Opposite

      Artist’s Presentation   The human feeling of not beeing located anywhere as well as the experience of the deterritorialization of the world are topics that have been discussed in the past for…

  • Bjørn Erik Haugen – What Does It Matter How Many Lovers You Have If None of Them Gives You the Universe

    Bjørn Erik Haugen – What Does It Matter How Many Lovers You Have If None of Them Gives You the Universe

      Artist’s Presentation   This work received a «Honorary Mention» at Prix Ars Electronica 2012 in the section Digital Musics & Sound Art. You can check the list here.     Project description…

  • Frode Bolhuis – Roaming the Unknown

    Frode Bolhuis – Roaming the Unknown

      Artist’s Presentation   There is a certain intangibility when one ventures into the unknown, a weightlessness that keeps things in a transient order. With every step taken towards an unknown destination, things…

  • Unexpected Occurences. A Conversation with Peter Root

    Unexpected Occurences. A Conversation with Peter Root

      Sabin Borș: One of the most interesting aspects of your work is that you always involve very meticulous constructions, regardless of the medium of expression – 60 kilograms of potatoes in Plot,…

  • Payam Mofidi – Dead Objects

    Payam Mofidi – Dead Objects

        Artist’s Presentation   In his work Payam Mofidi documents memories, illusions, desires and fears he harbors inside. As he mentions himself, he seems calm and content but very volatile inside; he…

  • Javier Barrios – Pink is the New Space

    Javier Barrios – Pink is the New Space

        Artist’s Presentation   My artistic project moves in a landscape between utopia and facts, with inspirations drawn from science fiction, visions of the future, technology, architecture, science and space exploration, to…

  • Peter Root – Plot

    Peter Root – Plot

        Artist’s Presentation   There is a lot you can do with one knife and a bicycle repair kit when you are artist Peter Root. Plot is a clear example of the…

  • Carolina Trigo – Crimson

    Carolina Trigo – Crimson

        Artist’s Presentation   Crimson is made with sweet potatoes, a material particular to indigenous cultures and very basic to life. It is high in energy and capable of growth in restrained…

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Bjørn Erik Haugen – What Does It Matter How Many Lovers You Have If None of Them Gives You the Universe

Bjørn Erik Haugen – What Does It Matter How Many Lovers You Have If None of Them Gives You the Universe

  Artist’s Presentation   This work received a «Honorary Mention» at Prix Ars Electronica 2012 in the section Digital Musics & Sound Art. You can check the list here.     Project description…

José Salinas talks about Topological Body. My Others and My Selves

José Salinas talks about Topological Body. My Others and My Selves

    The solo exhibition Topological Body. My Others and My Selves, presents a selection of artworks between 2005-2010 during which José Salinas was living in New York. The exhibited artworks depict the…

Gerry Judah – Paintings

Gerry Judah – Paintings

    Artist’s Presentation   The role for contemporary artists is to react and reflect upon life and the world around us. They may choose to celebrate form and beauty in figuration or…

Kurt Hentschläger – Cluster

Kurt Hentschläger – Cluster

    Artist’s Presentation   CLUSTER, the next generation of Kurt Hentschlägerʼs generative 3D and audio work, is moving the focus onto group behavior and -interaction, particularly looking at swarm phenomena. A simple…

Anna Sokolova – Corridor

Anna Sokolova – Corridor

    Artist’s Presentation   Corridor is a fragment of an endless structure. Overhanging above the canal, it’s not a bridge, but rather a fragment of boundary between architecture and nature. The urban…

Bjørn Erik Haugen – Interface

Bjørn Erik Haugen – Interface

  Artist’s Presentation   Is a research in how interface is used in military warfare and is guiding our actions and our perception of situations. The video is made of recordings of military…

ACT Lighting Design & Odeaubois – OVO. Light Installation

ACT Lighting Design & Odeaubois – OVO. Light Installation

  Artists’ Presentation   On first sight you see the shape of an egg, the two gateways inviting you to enter.   Symbolic associations spring to the visitor’s mind, suggesting richness and universality,…

Christoph Draeger and Heidrun Holzfeind – Tsunami Architecture

Christoph Draeger and Heidrun Holzfeind – Tsunami Architecture

  Artist’s Presentation   The exhibition TSUNAMI ARCHITECTURE will look at the way communities and their architecture were rebuilt in the aftermath of the Tsunami in Southeast Asia. We were interested in how…

Anna Sokolova – Karaoke

Anna Sokolova – Karaoke

  Artist’s Presentation   Ad Reinhardt’s text 39 Planks was divided on parts as lyrics for karaoke. The sound of reading aloud of 39 Planks was transformed into notes and played as music…

Claudia Hart – Empire

Claudia Hart – Empire

    Artists’ Presentation   Empire features a four-screen continuous surround animation of a virtual monument running the “course of empire.” It is inspired by the 1836 paintings of Hudson River School artist…

Thorsten Fleisch – Wound Footage

Thorsten Fleisch – Wound Footage

  Artist’s Presentation   The source material is a found footage super 8 film. The visual carrier was attacked in a multitude of ways. It was scratched, cut open and violated. I captured…

Erwin Redl – Crystal Matrix

Erwin Redl – Crystal Matrix

  Artist’s Presentation   CRYSTAL MATRIX presents a selection of 15 crystals with light and sound. The 15 modules are arranged in a 5 by 3 grid in the center of the Wunderkammer…

Kjell Bjørgeengen – Grasp

Kjell Bjørgeengen – Grasp

  Artist’s Presentation   Kjell Bjørgeengen’s art practice is an investigation of reality.   Recently Kjell has put an emphasis on working live with a wide range of musicians. The live works feature…

Judit Hettema – Barrack

Judit Hettema – Barrack

  Artist’s Presentation   Looking at the world around me I am focused on the perception of spaces.   I use different media such as photography and video to explore a space with…

Peter Root – Digital Detritus Dover

Peter Root – Digital Detritus Dover

  Artist’s Presentation   Digital Detritus Dover is part of an on-going series of digital installations situated in Google Earth. DDD was created by building 3d digital models and locating and animating them…

Roman Kirschner – Maelström

Roman Kirschner – Maelström

    Artist’s Presentation   Maelström is a dynamic object. It shows a drawing process in a liquid medium. On closer inspection it is a sculptural process using tiny particles of a granular…

Benten Clay – Signal Crayfish

Benten Clay – Signal Crayfish

  Artists’ Presentation   One effect of the waste heat conducted from the Olkiluoto nuclear power plant into the sea is the farming of signal crayfish, the most economically relevant crayfish specie in…

Thorsten Fleisch – Dromosphäre / Dromosphere

Thorsten Fleisch – Dromosphäre / Dromosphere

  Artist’s Presentation   A meditation on speed. The ephemeral phenomenon becomes palpable as a speed sculpture begins a relativity drive along space-time avenues.   Awards: Best Videoart at Visions from the Future…

Aernoudt Jacobs – Phantom Melodies

Aernoudt Jacobs – Phantom Melodies

  Artist’s Presentation   Phantom Melodies focuses on a central problem in my work, namely how can the complexity, the richness, the stratification of our sonic environment (ie. sonic world) be used/presented/translated to…

Anna Sokolova – Understand / Feel

Anna Sokolova – Understand / Feel

  Artist’s Presentation   A stream of text is projected on the layer of water. The size of letters and the speed of its scrolling do not allow the spectator to perceive the…

Christoph Draeger – Schizo (Redux)

Christoph Draeger – Schizo (Redux)

    Artist’s Presentation   In this film Draeger layers Gus Van Sant’s “Psycho” remake and Alfred Hitchcock’s original version completely over one another.   Draeger about this work: The film superimposes one…

Yemenwed – Bedroom w TV and Woman Lays w Aide

Yemenwed – Bedroom w TV and Woman Lays w Aide

  Artists’ Presentation   Bedroom w TV and Woman Lays w Aide examines portraits of several characters within an abstract domestic interior based on a bedroom within the Laguardia Houses, a public housing…

Yemenwed – Episode 3

Yemenwed – Episode 3

  Artists’ Presentation   The video Episode 3 is a surreal Sci-Fi journey; part animation, part live action, part painting, part video game. The piece begins with Sigrid, the female protagonist, outfitted in…

Matthias Wermke & Mischa Leinkauf – Zwischenzeit (In Between)

Matthias Wermke & Mischa Leinkauf – Zwischenzeit (In Between)

    Artists’ Presentation   When a thought turns into reality, when conceived images start to exist, this is when fiction becomes reality. A handcar on the tracks of the metropolis. Infinite, without…

Matthias Wermke & Mischa Leinkauf – Entscheidungen (Decisions)

Matthias Wermke & Mischa Leinkauf – Entscheidungen (Decisions)

  Artists’ Presentation   Entscheidungen investigates the moment of the decision. 10 monitors hang in the room or stand in the exhibition space, different fragments of architecture in public space are displayed. A…

Anna Sokolova – One Shape, One Square, One Execution, One Transcendence

Anna Sokolova – One Shape, One Square, One Execution, One Transcendence

    Artist’s Presentation   One Shape, One Square, One Execution, One Transcendence is an interference of three quotations from writings of minimalist artist and philosopher Ad Reinhardt (1913-1967): “Abstract Painting, Sixty by…

Noa Gur – Rich Dad, Poor Dad (working title)

Noa Gur – Rich Dad, Poor Dad (working title)

  Artist’s Presentation   A Factory for frames in the West of Germany. Every week day from seven until four o´clock in the afternoon, I will cut Aluminum sticks and attach them together,…

  • Bjørn Erik Haugen – What Does It Matter How Many Lovers You Have If None of Them Gives You the Universe
  • José Salinas talks about Topological Body. My Others and My Selves
  • Gerry Judah – Paintings
  • Kurt Hentschläger – Cluster

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