Living together, producing together, learning from each other – these are not only the cornerstones of the Künstlerhaus, they also form the core of the idea of OPEN SCHOOL Cannstatt.
We have invited the artists Valentin Hennig, Yara Richter, Lilith Becker & Liv Rahel Schwenk to work together in tandem with Bad Cannstatt’s tradespeople, associations, craftspeople, institutions or citizens and to develop a public offer.
This free offer ranges from performative walks to film art workshops. The aim is to enter into an exchange, build relationships, work together and learn from each other.

Künstlerhaus Stuttgart presents OPEN SCHOOL Cannstatt, which takes place as part of the festival CURRENT – KUNST UND URBANER RAUM.

The “classroom”, where information about the programme will be provided for the duration of OPEN SCHOOL Cannstatt, is located in the former Schwabenbräu-Passage in Bad Cannstatt.

Programme

Liv Rahel Schwenk and Lilith Becker “Wassergosch – Performing the Fountains”

19 September 2023, 10 am to 2:30 pm -Workshop
20 September 2023, 10 am to 2:30 pm – Workshop
Participants: max. 10 persons
Please register at info@kuenstlerhaus.de by 18.09.2023.
Meeting place: Kellerbrunnen, Brunnenstr. 19, 70372 Stuttgart, Germany

The workshop “Wassergosch – Performing the Fountains” will lead us along Bad Cannstatt’s drinking fountains which carry water from the area’s mineral springs. We will approach these fountains, their properties, and histories with a performance mindset. This means that over the course of the two days, we will experiment with strategies of “input” and “output”.

Collecting impressions and material in the form of audio recordings, water samples, drawings, words, sounds, and movement will expand our understanding of the fountains. The process of collecting will be complemented by encounters with people who live or work in Bad Cannstatt and share their knowledge with us. A native Bad Cannstatt tour guide will tell us about a myth surrounding one of the old town’s fountains, we will learn about the chemical composition of the water and the maintenance of the fountains, and if we’re lucky, a local Yoga teacher will guide us through a water meditation.
In a second step, we will transform the collected material and impressions into micro-performances which we will perform for each other. The participants will be led in simple structured prompts which will help organize the material and encourage experimentation.

The workshop is a space to safely explore performance whether it’s part of your practice or you’re completely new to it. Everyone is welcome.

Bring pen and paper and any other note taking device you like using, comfortable clothes, a water bottle, and anything else you’d like to bring.

Yara Richter „black noise x Bad Cannstatt – Community Walk für Schwarze Menschen“

Wednesday, 20 September 2023, 5 p.m. – Safer Space, office of the Black Community Foundation in the former Schwabenbräu-Passage, Bad Cannstatt.
Participants: max. 12 persons, prerequisite: Black/African German identity.
Please register at info@kuenstlerhaus.de
Thursday, 21 September 2023, during the day – open editing in the sound studio, Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, public, open to all
Thursday, 21 September 2023, 7:30 p.m. – audio screening followed by a discussion, Schwabenbräu-Passage Bad Cannstatt, public, open to all

This Safer Space event is aimed at Black and Afro-German people.
Together with the participants, Yara Richter will discuss and explore with creative methods what being Black in public space has to do with noise and silence. They will first meet in a closed room where the artist Yara Richter will give an interactive input on creative writing and working with sound. Afterwards, the group will walk through Bad Cannstatt together and make a sound recording in the meantime. In conversation, they want to learn from each other how to appropriate public spaces. They ask themselves questions like: How do you find a sense of security in public spaces? Which public spaces do people seek out/avoid and why? How does being black in public space influence the way you do self and community care? The participants themselves decide which texts, sounds, words and moments of noise or silence they want to include in the recording. The sound recording will be available to all participants for further use after the event.

The following day, Yara Richter will edit the recording into a podcast, and participants are welcome to join. In the evening, there will be a screening of the podcast with an open discussion, to which the public and all participants are welcome.
(Awareness persons will be present).

Valentin Hennig „business as usual”

Friday, 22 September 2023, 7 p.m. – Screening, former Schwabenbräu Passage, Bad Cannstatt

In his OPEN SCHOOL “business as ususal”, Valentin Hennig will work together with the millinery store H + M Schmid-Rupp, the Asian snack bar Chan’s Kitchen and the Greek hairdressing salon-café Haarstudio Exis, which as meeting points and hubs reflect the social life and cultural diversity of Bad Cannstatt. The aim is to develop and realise a joint film that aims at a different communication than that of goods or services: It is about the location’s own history, social and cultural significance and enabling the clientele of this place to live their own identity publicly.

In the process, Valentin Hennig will learn what it means to run a “business”, to produce and distribute goods and to build a strong bond with the customer. In return, the filmmaker will impart his practical knowledge to his partners to learn about all areas of visual and especially cinematic design and to independently create images and moving pictures.

Afterwards, they will invite all partners to a public screening so that a cross-cultural dialogue between the partners can take place in Bad-Cannstatt. The resulting works will also be presented at the respective places of origin.

About the artists

Lilith Becker makes sculpture, installation, video and performance art. As a musician, she plays solo as well as in various band and theatre projects. After graduating from the Berufskolleg für Design Schmuck und Gerät, Pforzheim in 2009, she studied fine arts at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Stuttgart. In 2018, she was awarded the master student title of the Weißenhof Programme. Her manual on spontaneous self-ignition is published by Verlag für Handbücher in 2019. The music video “Oh Ewigkeit” (directed by Martina Wegener) with music by Nero Feuerherdt aka Lilith Becker was awarded the Buggles Award in 2023.

Valentin Hennig is a visual artist and filmmaker. In addition to his freelance artistic work, he leads workshops at the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, the Künstlerhaus Stuttgart and for the LKJ Baden-Württemberg.
Since the winter semester of 2022, he has been a lecturer for video art and experimental film at the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart, where he studied art education with Prof.in Silvia Bächli and Prof.in Corinne Wasmuth from 2007 to 2013. In 2010, he spent a semester as a guest student at the HfbK Dresden with Prof. Hans-Peter Adamski. He then completed the postgraduate course “Intermedial Design” with Prof. Wolfgang Mayer and Prof. Christina Gomez-Barrio (Discoteca Flaming Star) at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart in 2014. In 2016, he was awarded the title of master student of the Weißenhof Programme at the ABK Stuttgart. He lives and works in Stuttgart.

Yara Richter moves between art, activism, art education and motherhood. From an Afro-German, intersectional ecofeminist perspective, she is currently exploring black noise as a framework to imagine and create decolonised art and cultural practices. In 2023, Yara Richter completed her Master’s degree in “Body, Theory and Poetics of the Performative” at the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart with “black noise”. In the years before, she showed, among others, the collaborative durational performance “seep” (2022 with Toni Böckle, part of the group exhibition Conditions of a Necessity at the Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden) and “MFA (Master of Filthy Arts)” (2021, part of the TURN AROUND Rundgang group exhibition at the Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart). She lives and works in Stuttgart.

Liv Rahel Schwenk is a German-American artist working with performance, video, drawing and choreographic methods. She studied at Bard College Berlin and at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, where she graduated with a Meisterschüler-Brief in 2012. In 2014, she went to New York on a DAAD scholarship to deepen her interest in dance and choreography in conjunction with her algorithmic drawings. Most recently she has shown projects at Simultanhalle in Cologne and mhProject and Putty’s Coronation in New York. This year she is working with the collective “Unpleasant Affairs” on a performance as part of the Spielart Festival in Munich. She lives and works in Stuttgart and NYC.

Locations:
Former Schwabenbräu-Passage, Bahnhofstraße 14-18, 70372 Stuttgart
Kellerbrunnen, Brunnenstraße 19, 70372 Stuttgart
Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, Reuchlinstraße 4b, 70178 Stuttgart

At the 26th Tuesday Workshop, Julia Wirsching presents her new film “Es gibt noch einiges zu tun” at the Künstlerhaus Stuttgart.

For over two years, Julia Wirsching accompanied her uncle’s men’s circle in their discussions on the subject of “being a man”. How did they become men? What does it mean to be a man today? What gives them orientation? Some of them critically examined faith and its institutions in their role-finding process. Topics such as just parenthood, the search for the father or turning away from old role patterns towards more self-determination occupy the men between the ages of 40 and 75 in the most diverse ways.
The video captures these processes of reflection as well as the men’s beard care rituals. The seven men provide insights into a sensual examination of their own bodies and tell their personal stories of being a man.

Following the screening, we invite you to a conversation with the artist.

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Tuesday Workshop

The Künstlerhaus invites an artist or a collective—meaning any artists or cultural workers from any field or discipline—to talk about their working methods as well as their backgrounds and approaches. We want to establish a platform for a more in-depth interaction with regard to artistic practice, and in doing so to create a network, show solidarity, and mutually strengthen one other.

The series is aimed at all members of Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, artists either living in Stuttgart and the surrounding area or just traveling through, all cultural workers, art mediators, curators, etc., and is open to everyone!

Produced in the context of Niloufar Emamifar’s exhibition Ex gratia at the Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, the lawyers, Nora Ebeling and Viktor Riad, have drafted a guidelines document to aid artists and art institutions in navigating the complexities of migration law in Germany.

When artists facing barriers to cross-border migration are contracted by art institutions it is too often done on an individuated case-by-case basis without providing the artist transparent guidelines, shared policies, or protective standards. This newly released guidelines document aims to be a practicable resource which responds to this pervasive problem field where legal-economic resources are inadequate and inaccessible for visa-applicant, migrant, displaced, asylum-seeking, and refugee-status artists.

This bilingual document entitled, Guidelines on migration law for cooperation between artists and art associations in Germany, is now available here as a free and openly distributable PDF.

The guidelines document is co-authored by Nora Ebeling and Viktor Riad, with input from Niloufar Emamifar. The document was translated by Kathleen Parker, and designed by Studio Terhedebrügge.

Nora Ebeling works a freelance lawyer with a focus on migration law at the House of Democracy and Human Rights in Berlin. She represents not only internationally active artists but also all other people who need support in their residence matters or in the asylum process.

Viktor Riad, is a lawyer based in Berlin who founded a law firm which emphasizes migration law, asserting rights for refugees, and residence law proceedings for internationally active artists.

On January 1, 2024, a turnover of Artistic Directors is due. In a three-stage process, a search committee consisting of the Board of Directors, the Advisory Board, and representatives of the Cultural Office and the City of Stuttgart’s Municipal Council out of 57 submissions, decided on the application of Tamarind Rossetti & Stephen Wright, who have presented themselves as a team to lead the exhibition program until the end of 2026.

With its decision, the commission acknowledged that Rossetti & Wright have presented a concept that is not based on a conventional curatorial model, but rather develops an experimental, ‘eco-systemic’ form of curating. With their self-understanding as “usership coordinators,” Rossetti & Wright make it clear that their work focuses on the usership of the Künstlerhaus and that they regard workshops and studios as the Künstlerhaus’s key organs.

Künstlerhaus Stuttgart Reuchlinstraße e. V. was founded in 1978 by artists for artists. It houses seven studios, which are given to artists of all disciplines for a limited period of time, and ten workshops, which can be used by all members and guest artists.

A special characteristic of the Künstlerhaus is the model of the artistic director, who is engaged for three to four years and conveys the latest practices and discourses with experimental approaches to the exhibition, distribution and perception of art at Künstlerhaus. The clear time constraint promotes the diversity of artistic positions and allows each tenure to be approached as a multi-year project. The institution’s evolving history is marked by the critical, interrelational, and infrastructural transformations that each Artistic Direction brings.

Tamarind Rossetti, born 1976 in Ojai (California, USA), is a trained artist and teaches at the École supérieure d’art et de design TALM-Angers.
Stephen Wright was born in Vancouver (British Columbia, Canada) in 1963 and has been a permanent resident of France for nearly 30 years, teaching theory and practice at the European School of Visual Arts in France. From 2017 to 2021, he was also co-director of the postgraduate program in artistic research called Document & Contemporary Art.

In 2018, Rossetti and Wright founded a 1:1 scale agroecological test site called Ferme au Sauvage for growing organic fruits and vegetables, where they offered farm-to-table meals and farm-to-panel workshops (called “ideaseeding”), ran a farm store in the studio, and documented the project through art. Currently they are operating a permaculture farm and research project in Corrèze, France.

The new Artistic Directors see their role as “an opportunity to implement ideas gleaned over the years from usology and permaculture, from art education, publishing and exhibition making, in an ‘extradisciplinary’ environment.”

We look forward to welcoming Tamarind and Stephen in the coming year and to viewing the Künstlerhaus with them through the prism of permaculture, making it a fruitful artistic living space.

On 23 July 2023, the first alumni meeting of all former and current studio holders of the last 25 years took place at Künstlerhaus Stuttgart.

A meeting and reunion, accompanied by artistic contributions and good conversations.

Many thanks to all scholarship holders for the wonderful day.

Photos: Jochen Detscher

At the 25th Tuesday Workshop, Peter Hauer presents his new publication “Mannerism” at Künstlerhaus Stuttgart. The publication deals with human movement as a medium and what is expressed with it, which Hauer subsequently treats as a cultural product. Freely following the motto “every human being is an artist”, art criticism is practised on unusual examples, and in return it is shown what influence art has on one’s own body.

The presentation will be moderated by Florian Model, who, together with Peter Hauer, will give a short introduction to the topic and open a discussion.

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Tuesday Workshop

The Künstlerhaus invites an artist or a collective—meaning any artists or cultural workers from any field or discipline—to talk about their working methods as well as their backgrounds and approaches. We want to establish a platform for a more in-depth interaction with regard to artistic practice, and in doing so to create a network, show solidarity, and mutually strengthen one other.

The series is aimed at all members of Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, artists either living in Stuttgart and the surrounding area or just traveling through, all cultural workers, art mediators, curators, etc., and is open to everyone!

Opening: Saturday, July 8, 2023, 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, July 9, 2023, 2 – 7:00 pm.

In this exhibition, Kateryna Surhutanova will present a series of works that engage with space, exploring the following questions:
Is there a difference between forced and planned emigration? What do the circumstances mean?
Why do people get involved? At what point does one become a transmigrant? What thought
would help, at the height of suffering, to remain grateful? What would it mean to not hurt yourself or those around you?
Immigrants would agree that one must live one’s entire life with a sense of ethnographic loneliness, regardless of age or reason for immigrating. What happens when you don’t belong there, but you don’t belong here either?
But the biggest psychological pressure is that you never really belong.
You’re constantly somewhere in the middle. Will the moment come when you become free of the fear of losing something and the realization sets in that everything you have stays with you no matter where you are?
You no longer “belong” anywhere. You belong everywhere. You are not afraid to be a stranger.

Kateryna Surhutanova is a Ukrainian artist who fled the war in her country and whose work critically explores social and cultural issues through the lens of psychology, which she positions by visualizing events on canvas or wall, completely transforming the space.

Surhutanova was a fellow at Künstlerhaus Stuttgart from May 2022 to June 2023.

At the annual general meeting in spring 2022, a motion from the membership was approved to launch a publication of Künstlerhaus Stuttgart that would present the Künstlerhaus in all its facets. An editorial team, consisting of the honorary members Alba Frenzel, Jochen Detscher and Ania Corcilius as well as the staff members Leonie Klöpfer and Romy Range, was then formed to meet the members’ request. The graphic concept and layout were the responsibility of matter of, who had already designed the Künstlerhaus website.

4B – the title of the publication, based on the address of the Künstlerhaus at Reuchlinstrasse 4b – is primarily concerned with artistic formats outside the curated exhibition program, since the latter already has a publication series of its own.

This issue of 4B Magazine features various activities of the studio fellows*, workshops, and member-initiated events in and beyond the Künstlerhaus. We report on the Tuesday workshops last year, there are interviews with the workshop leader of the audio workshop Niklas Menschik, and with the two Ukrainian fellows Kateryna Surhutanova and Elena Trutieva. In addition, we report on a series of exhibitions initiated by the studio fellows. Fernando Munizaga and Matias Bocchio report on their workshop fellowship, and users of the lithography workshop say a very personal farewell to Michael Wackwitz, who was head of the lithography workshop for many years and is now returning to his native Dresden.

In addition, the topic of mediation is becoming increasingly important at the Künstlerhaus, as it is in this publication. This time we provide an insight into the cooperation with the Hölderlin-Gymnasium. In addition, two of our mediators – Thora Gerstner and Lejla Dendic – introduce themselves.
Finally, we leave the Künstlerhaus once again and show projects by the artists and Künstlerhaus members Helen Weber in the House of the Catholic Church and Michelin Kober in the Ostfildern Municipal Gallery, and we introduce the project spaces of our members Thora Gerstner and Jan Nicola Angermann.

The artistic supplement in this issue was designed by graphic designer and artist Florentine Bofinger, whose design was selected by the editorial team from a large number of submissions following an open call in the membership.

We would like to express our sincere thanks to all contributing authors, and photographers, to the fantastic graphic designer from matter of for the great collaboration, to Florentine Bofinger for the design of the inlay (a little highlight) and of course to the editorial team, who showed a lot of commitment and even more work to make this issue possible.

It is a joint project for the Künstlerhaus community.

Now available for pick-up at Künstlerhaus Stuttgart – members: 3 € / non-members: 8 €.

After the kick-off of the discussion series “Kunstverein(e) der Zukunft” at the Künstlerhaus and visits to the Böblinger Kunstverein and Kunstraum34 in Stuttgart, we will be guests at Oberwelt e.V. in Stuttgart on July 4. As on previous occasions, we will again discuss with numerous guests and representatives of various art associations about problems and challenges that some established art associations face. Structures, processes, ideas and themes, which have often developed over years and decades, must be questioned, further developed and possibly reinvented in order to be able to continue to successfully carry out artistically committed association work in the future. The representatives of the various art associations will report on their own concrete experiences, problems and approaches to solutions. On the basis of the different perspectives and contexts, an open, multifaceted and fruitful discussion will take place for all participants.
Also invited to the meeting are Kunstverein Neuhausen, Kunstverein Böblingen, Kunstraum34, Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, anorak and Kunstverein Nürtingen.

Oberwelt e.V.
Reinsburgstr. 93, 70197 Stuttgart, Germany

www.oberwelt.de

On July 3, Künstlerhaus Stuttgart and the restaurant “Im Künstlerhaus” invite you to a joint evening.

With the event series “Playing with Food” we dare an experiment. On three evenings this year we will build a bridge between cuisine and art and talk from the first idea to the presentation on the plate. Together with an artist or a collective, we will consider how this process can be translated artistically. How can flavors, aesthetics, color and taste be combined in a culinary and artistic way?

In the first part, artist Lennart Cleemann was our guest. For the second part of the series on the theme of “Exploring Material” we invite the multidisciplinary studio anima ona, consisting of Freia Achenbach and June Fàbregas, who have been fellows of the Künstlerhaus since May 2023.

Behind a finished product there is often a long process of experimentation with different materials and tools. Experiments with the material in terms of their malleability, their use and the way they are made and processed take place both in the kitchen of the restaurant ‘Im Künstlerhaus” and in the work of anima ona. The duo’s practice straddles the line between design, research and art, and explores possibilities for reusing material, which they pursue through experimental approaches and an examination of the cultural significance of objects. How they make this practice visible and tangible on this evening remains to be seen.

The evening will begin with a 3-course meal (vegan), including all drinks. Afterwards there will be a discussion between Sebastian Werning, Konstantin Kuld and anima ona, before the evening ends in casual conversation with all guests.

Food and drinks will be provided by the restaurant at cost price. The participation costs amount to
49,00 EUR for members and
69,00 EUR for non-members.

In order to be able to make further planning, a binding registration is necessary until June 30, 2023 at rr@kuenstlerhaus.de.

The third part of this series will deal with presentation in October. You will receive more detailed information on this in September 2023.

Das erste Kapitel einer Ausstellungsreihe des Atelierstipendiaten Lambert Mousseka

Eröffnung: Freitag, 30. Juni 2023, 19 Uhr

auf der Atelieretage (3. OG) des Künstlerhaus Stuttgart

Lambert Mousseka wird auf der Atelieretage des Künstlerhauses eine Reihe Masken und Formen aus Keramik und Malereien präsentieren. Diese verweisen auf die Haltung und das Befreiungsgefühl der Kunst als einen Raum für Freiheit.
Dabei spielt das Datum der Eröffnung eine symbolische Rolle. Denn am 30. Juni 1960 wurde Lumumbas Unabhängigkeitserklärung für die Demokratische Republik Kongo beschlossen und damit das Ende der Diktatur eingeleitet.
Der Titel der Ausstellung spielt auf die Telefonvorwahl der D. R. Kongos an.

Die Ausstellungsreihe Kinoisserie, Briller et s’Envoler / Leuchten und Abheben fokussiert sich auf den Anfang der Sapologie.
Sapologie ist die Philosophie der SAPE, einer Société des Artistes et de personnes Elégantes (Gesellschaft für Künstler*innen und eleganter Personen).

Please join us for two-days of public programming in conjunction with Niloufar Emamifar’s exhibition Ex gratia.

When artists facing barriers to cross-border migration are contracted by art institutions it is too often done on an individuated case-by-case basis without providing the artist transparent guidelines, shared policies, or protective standards. These public programs at the Künstlerhaus Stuttgart respond to this pervasive problem field where legal-economic resources are inadequate and inaccessible for visa-applicant, migrant, displaced, asylum-seeking, and refugee-status artists.

All programs take place on the fourth floor of the Künstlerhaus Stuttgart.

Saturday, June 24, 2023 (3 – 5pm)

Immigration lawyers, Nora Ebeling and Viktor Riad, have drafted a set of practicable guidances for the Künstlerhaus Stuttgart to contract visa-applicant, migrant, displaced, asylum-seeking, and refugee-status artists for project work. Legal counsel will present these specific practicable guidances followed by open discussion. Please note that presentation of the guidances will be conducted in German language while open discussion will be in both German and English.

Nora Ebeling is a lawyer with a focus on migration law at the House of Democracy and Human Rights in Berlin.

Viktor Riad, is a lawyer based in Berlin who founded a law firm which emphasizes migration law, asserting rights for refugees, and residence law proceedings for internationally active artists.

Sunday, June 25, 2023 (1 – 3pm)

Information session and workshop with representatives from Legal Café.

Legal Café Stuttgart is a self-organized project that regularly provides a space where people can drink coffee or chai and at the same time offers free counseling to individuals and groups seeking advice in face of racial profiling, asylum procedures, and/or discrimination broadly. The majority of counselors at Legal Café are from communities with a history of flight and migration. Emphasis is placed on empowering and the power sharing of communities. With different groups/persons involved in the organization who bring distinct perspectives, consultants at Legal Café are trained through workshops/seminars by legal and psychological professionals and experts from the fields of social work and discrimination-critical work.

Sunday, June 25, 2023 (3 – 4pm)

Eric Golo Stone, artistic director, and Juliane Gebhardt, curatorial assistant, provide a public tour in both English and German language of the exhibition Niloufar Emamifar: Ex gratia.

Saturday, June 24, 2023 (3 – 5pm) and Sunday, June 25, 2023 (1 – 4pm)

Künstlerhaus Stuttgart Educators, Thora Gerstner and Ludgi Porto, engage with contributors and audiences in the context of these public programs.

Further information may be found in the pamphlet.

At the 24th Tuesday Workshop, the project space kunst [ ] klima will introduce itself on behalf of Barbara Karsch-Chaïeb and Caro Krebietke.

The project space was founded in 2021 by Barbara Karsch-Chaïeb and Caro Krebietke has been involved since March 2023.

The project space kunst [ ] klima is the first art space in Stuttgart to exclusively show exhibitions on the topic of climate change and sustainability.
The bracket between the terms art and climate is provided with a blank space that opens up a possible space for communication and creates a connection. The blank space preserves openness and flexibility.
Solo exhibitions are shown with works by artists from different fields. The focus is on predominantly scientific themes such as climate, weather, climate change, energy transition, plants, water, earth, earth history, biology, biochemistry, chemistry, artificial intelligence.
The focus of an exhibition is largely on the content level of a work on display and its mediation.
In addition, lecturers are invited to complement the exhibited topics.

At the Tuesday workshop, Barbara Karsch-Chaïeb will report on the development and exhibition projects of kunst [ ] klima since its founding in 2021. She will also give an outlook on future plans and ideas for sustainability and networking with other Stuttgart cultural institutions.

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Tuesday Workshop

The Künstlerhaus invites an artist or a collective—meaning any artists or cultural workers from any field or discipline—to talk about their working methods as well as their backgrounds and approaches. We want to establish a platform for a more in-depth interaction with regard to artistic practice, and in doing so to create a network, show solidarity, and mutually strengthen one other.

The series is aimed at all members of Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, artists either living in Stuttgart and the surrounding area or just traveling through, all cultural workers, art mediators, curators, etc., and is open to everyone!

Anna Gohmert is interested in finding a formal language for intimacy without theorising the personal and losing the tenderness or rawness of the private.
Her work is about social justice, challenges of a health nature, generational conflicts and dealing with self-efficacy and powerlessness.
She assigns her artistic practice to the genre of autofiction and engages in personal conversations to delve deeper into the subject matter. She brings together these different aspects, by which she means individual spaces of experience as well as scientific findings, with heterogeneous media as a spatial installation.
Despite the various sources, materials and people, the work is held together by an invisible text that she has penned.
Anna Gohmert will present the current works, which were created in the context of the exhibition Gescheite(rte) Familienplanung, as well as give an insight into the upcoming exhibition Das ist (ja) voll mein Ding.
Participation and accessibility play a role in both groups of works.
The focus of this evening will be on accessibility of art and culture. Gohmert will share her experiences of how costly but also rewarding it is to ask one’s own artwork whether it is accessible in a barrier-free way and how it can be translated into a barrier-free format.

More informations:

annagohmert.de

IG: @annagohmert

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Tuesday Workshop

The Künstlerhaus invites an artist or a collective—meaning any artists or cultural workers from any field or discipline—to talk about their working methods as well as their backgrounds and approaches. We want to establish a platform for a more in-depth interaction with regard to artistic practice, and in doing so to create a network, show solidarity, and mutually strengthen one other.

The series is aimed at all members of Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, artists either living in Stuttgart and the surrounding area or just traveling through, all cultural workers, art mediators, curators, etc., and is open to everyone!

The next meeting of the Fourth Organ will take place on 4 May.

At this meeting there will be no dedicated topic focus, but we will get together for a casual exchange over a few drinks.
The meeting point is in the Künstlerhaus on the 2nd floor at 7 pm.

33 Träume (Dreams)

Book presentation and talk with Chris Mennel

In the Tuesday workshop, Chris Mennel talks about events that have taken place around his book “33 Träume” – the project idea, the affection for his own homepage, the remoteness of Instagram and Facebook, the book trade, marketing goals and wilful naivety in book sales.

“33 Träume” is an art book that includes texts and poems by the artist as well as photo paintings he has created, and is now cause to go on a promotional tour, because the books cannot be ordered on Amazon, but only from the artist himself.

At the beginning of 2022, Chris Mennel discovered a box of darkroom pictures from the last 20 years and presented them on camera. These images can also be found in the book, together with an imaginary 33rd, a black image and texts that were created to accompany the images.
On the one hand, the small print run of the book combines the joy of having an art book printed in a small edition at a fair price; on the other hand, it also goes hand in hand with a distance to museum shops and bookstore chains and thus less attention from the press.

To get around this, social networks are served by Mennel through a chatbot and populated with content and the artist’s name. The chatbot draws on seasonally appropriate photos from recent years and thus repositions what was already posted years ago.
The art book is accompanied by the domain 33träume.de.

The Tuesday workshop is moderated by Florian Model, artist, member of the advisory board and head of the video workshop.

The topic for the next meeting of the Fourth Organ is the Guideline for Dealing with Discrimination, Harassment and Violence, which a working group consisting of parts of the Board, Advisory Board and staff of the Künstlerhaus have developed over the last two years.

On Tuesday, April 04, 2023 at 7 p.m., the Advisory Board will present the guideline to members on the 2nd floor.

Organized by the Center for Native Arts and Cultures in collaboration with the Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, this project convenes a two-day open working group to reflect on a process of land reclamation that led to the creation of the Center for Native Arts and Cultures. These in-person group discussions are supported by an accompanying reader, a video work entitled Never Settle: The Program by New Red Order, live performance works by Tiokasin Ghosthorse and Allison Akootchook Warden, a document collection and archive presentation, as well as supplemental programs organized by Künstlerhaus Stuttgart Educators.

The program will be held in English. If needed, Juliane Gebhardt, curatorial assistant at Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, will translate into German.

All events take place on the second floor of Künstlerhaus Stuttgart.

Schedule:

Friday March 31

7pm – 9pm

Working Group Reader Launch

Food and drink

“Never Settle: The Program” video work by New Red Order on view

Welcome remarks from Eric Golo Stone (Künstlerhaus Stuttgart), Lulani Arquette and Reuben Tomás Roqueñi (The Center for Native Arts and Cultures)

Spoken word performance by Allison Akootchook Warden

Saturday April 1

1pm – 2:30pm

Introductory remarks by Eric Golo Stone and Healoha Johnston, Director of Cultural Resources, and Curator for Hawaiʻi and Pacific Arts and Culture at the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum (Editor of Working Group Reader and Organizer of Working Group)

Working Group Session 1

2:30 – 2:45pm

Break

2:45 – 4pm

Working Group Session 2

Sunday April 2

Fourth Floor Gallery

12 – 12:45pm

Flint Jamison public tour of the artist’s exhibition, “Masterworks on Loan, 2020, 2022″

Second Floor Gallery

1 – 2:30pm

Working Group Session 3

2:30 – 2:45pm

Break

2:45 – 4pm

Working Group Session 4

5pm

Closing performance by Tiokasin Ghosthorse (musical piece and unlearning colonization work)

On Saturday 25 March 2023 from 6 pm – 1 am there will be the opportunity to take part in various events on the four floors of the Künstlerhaus:

1st floor and workshops on the ground floor:

6 pm – 1 am Hourly percussion performance by studio scholarship holder Eva Dörr in the sound studio.
6 pm – 1 am Open workshops (ceramics, screen printing, etching, lithography, relief printing)

2nd floor:

6 pm – 1 am Hourly video screening Never Settle: The Program by New Red Order in the exhibition Convenings on Land Reclamation by The Center of Native Arts and Cultures (Oregon, USA).

3rd floor:

6 pm – 1 am The studio holders Florian Glaubitz, Alba Frenzel, Lambert Mousseka, Mona Zeiler, Lennart Cleemann, Janis Eckhardt, Lena Meinhardt, Ekaterina Surgutanova and Elena Trutieva show artistic works and performances in the studios, the staircase and the common room of the studio floor.

4th floor:

8 pm and 10 pm Curatorial tours in German and English through the exhibition Masterworks on Loan, 2020, 2022 by Flint Jamison.

Algorithm-based camera surveillance

Film screening and talk
with Martin Mannweiler

Documenting a video surveillance project by the Mannheim police – a pilot project introduced in 2017 to monitor public spaces. The monitored areas of Mannheim are considered criminal hotspots. Cameras are intended to defuse the situation by ensuring rapid police intervention when criminal acts are observed. Work is currently underway to enable algorithms to recognize specific movement patterns and signal possible criminal acts.

In addition to the analytical presentation of the surveillance project in Mannheim, the following topics will be addressed on a general level: criminal hotspots and threat situations, panoptical surveillance, private generation and public provision of image data, security and fear, global crises and the associated need to control the local. Likewise, other cities that rely on camera surveillance projects are exemplified – including Stuttgart.

By looking at the initial stages of camera surveillance projects, can considerations be formulated that will prevent or curb rampant mass surveillance of public spaces in European metropolises such as London or Paris in the future?

Film: Martin Mannweiler
Graphics: Mark Julien Hahn / Stereo Typefaces
Music: Björn Castillano

Film and talk in German language

Saturday, March 4th 2023, 7pm
Kunstraum Atelierhaus Filderstraße 34 e.V., Filderstraße 34, 70180 Stuttgart

The second meeting on the topic “Kunstverein(e) der Zukunft” took place on December 4 at the Kunstverein Böblingen. With numerous guests and representatives of different Kunstvereine, we discussed problems and challenges that some established art associations are facing. Structures, processes, ideas and themes, which have often developed over years and decades, must be questioned, further developed and possibly reinvented in order to be able to continue to do successful artistically committed association work in the future. The representatives of the various Kunstvereine reported on their own concrete experiences, problems and approaches to solutions. Based on the different perspectives and contexts, an open, multifaceted and fruitful discussion resulted for all participants. It also became clear that this was not the end of the discussion and that we would like to use this impulse to promote further exchange and networking between the art associations.

In doing so, we would like to take the opportunity to visit the various Kunstvereine and get to know them better: the host of our next meeting on March 4 at 7 pm will therefore be Kunstraum34 in Stuttgart. Invited to the meeting are Kunstverein Neuhausen, Kunstverein Böblingen, Oberwelt, Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, anorak and Kunstverein Nürtingen.

The position of artistic director at Künstlerhaus Stuttgart is to be filled as of January 1st, 2024.

Künstlerhaus Stuttgart was founded in 1978 by artists to promote practical working conditions, theoretical engagement with art, and cross-disciplinary exchange among artists. By giving space to social and political demands while addressing the most current artistic practices and discourses, Künstlerhaus Stuttgart is today an institution of local and international significance.

Künstlerhaus Stuttgart houses exhibition spaces, workshops and seven artists’ studios with changing fellows. We are looking for a director who will build on this structure to develop an artistic program that brings local communities and international agents into exchange.
As a Verein, we have a strong interest in alternative models of presenting and communicating art, as well as experimental formats.

Within the structure of the Künstlerhaus, the artistic director is responsible for

– the independent development and implementation of an artistic program
– the logistical and budgetary preparation and realization of the developed program, as well as related events
– project financing and the associated acquisition of third-party funding
– the conception of the education program within the framework of the Artistic program for which the artistic director is responsible
– the documentation of the projects, as well as the conception and realization of publications, if applicable
– press and public relations work

What the position requires

– very good knowledge of contemporary cultural production
initiative and a high degree of personal responsibility in combination with a strong ability to work in a team
– strong communication and organizational skills
– full professional proficiency in German and/or English
– proven experience in project financing and cultivating third-party funding
– experience in public speaking and excellent verbal communication skills with members, visitors, colleagues, and staff as well as the press and politicians
– willingness to make Stuttgart your main place of residence for the duration of your tenure

At Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, the Artistic Director works closely with a dedicated team consisting of a full-time managing director, an accountant, a technical manager, and volunteer members on the board, advisory board, and workshops.
The appointment of the Artistic Director is for three years with the option of a one-year extension. The Artistic Director is offered an assistant to the extent of half a position.
If necessary, Künstlerhaus offers help in finding an accommodation and supports a German language course.

Please send us your application (cover letter, curriculum vitae without photo and an overview of your previous work qualifying you for the artistic direction) as well as a forward-looking concept for the artistic direction (max. 1 Din A4 page) as one PDF-file (max. 10 MB) only by Email no later than May 1, 2023 to:

Ania Corcilius, Chairwoman of the Board
Künstlerhaus Stuttgart e.V.
Reuchlinstraße 4b, 70178 Stuttgart
Email: bewerbung@kuenstlerhaus.de

Applications from teams or groups will also be accepted. All applications will be treated confidentially.

Together with Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, the Center for Native Arts and Cultures (Portland, USA) is organizing a two-day open working group to review the land reclamation process that led to its founding. These working groups will be accompanied by a reader, a new video work titled “Never Settle: The Program” by New Red Order, performances by Tiokasin Ghosthorse and Allison Akootchook Warden, a collection of documents, and by a program organized by educators from Künstlerhaus Stuttgart.

Detailed information about the project can be found here.

Please register for the educational program by sending an e-mail to education@kuenstlerhaus.de.

All workshops are free of charge.

Journal Workshop for Teenagers

with Thora Gerstner

February 26 (3-5 p.m.)

Where do we collect memories? In a bookbinding class, we will make our own sketchbooks, calendars, or blanks for journal entries, drawings, collages, or notes to create a gathering place for memories. Historical bookbinding techniques will form the basis for independent production. The cover can be designed with worn-out clothing brought along.

Jewelry Workshop for Children

with Thora Gerstner

March 2 (2-4 p.m.)

Jewelry can hold memories. We will combine found and brought materials and assemble them into a variety of unique jewelry pieces to find new and old, real or made-up memories in our jewelry.

BPoC Creative Empowerment Workshop

with Yara Richter

March 4 (3-6pm)

Developing and providing an ongoing space for the work of the BPoC community will be consistently pursued in this workshop. In the context of an educational, research, and discursive space focused on decolonial practices, cultivating and growing a BPoC community over time is really important and represents a specific approach to what a public education program can do.

Weaving with Paper: Rethinking History and Space

with Lejla Dendic

March 5 (3-4:30 p.m.)

In this workshop we will learn together how to weave with paper. We will gain a better understanding of this world and its interconnectedness with us humans through the physical process of weaving. Using Masao Adachi’s landscape theory fúkeiron, we will try to identify and analyze global and communal structures and spaces together and process them through weaving. Weaving serves to overcome the blockages of seemingly broken connections and to connect people and visions of a world that works for all.

Working with Clay: Rethinking the Collective Self

with Lejla Dendic

March 11 (2pm-3:30pm)

Together we creatively explore the possibilities and symbolism of clay. What does identity, culture and violence mean? Clay symbolically represents ideas of renewal, as it can be endlessly reshaped in its raw state by controlling moisture content. The material thus holds infinite possibilities and the ability to start over again and again. We focus on what it means to create and foster a shared understanding of our impact in this world and what could be.

Udu Making with Ceramics

with Ludgi Porto

March 17-19 (2pm-6pm each day)

As part of the workshop, participants* will be invited to make their own Udu. The Udu is a Nigerian ceramic drum that came to Brazil in the Afro-diaspora. In the Nigerian context, the ceramic drum is traditionally made and played by women, and the voice of the udu is considered the voice of the ancestors. In the Brazilian context, however, the instrument has detached itself from its spiritual origins and found its place in Brazilian popular music. Together we reflect on different questions: What does it mean to produce in the European context an instrument of Nigerian origin that was kidnapped to America in the course of colonization? What am I really doing when I make this instrument? Is this instrument a body? How do I relate to it? Where and how can this body exist? In the decolonial process, what would be the process of restitution? Does this restitution take place on the cultural level? To what extent is restitution possible?

Basic knowledge of ceramics is desirable. The workshop will be held in English language.

Artist Talk
with Ludgi Porto

March 18 (3:30pm)

As part of the workshop program Ludgi Porto will hold an artist talk about her research with the Udu drums. She will briefly talk about the origins of the instrument, including its kidnapping and the kidnapping of its peoples; describe the complex social and racial context involved in her relation with the Udus, while sharing her own discovery as a person of color beyond the South American limits. Along with these topics she will present texts’ excerpts, drawings, paintings and documentations of the developed work throughout the research.

The artist talk will be held in English language.

We invite you to an evening with wax, candles and light
Shallow flames and the thermals of architecture
Fine movements
Flickering
Hissing
Steam and smoke
Soot
Tea
Soup, warm
Wax wanders
Performative objects

The event starts at 6 p.m.
on the studio floor (3rd floor) of the Künstlerhaus Stuttgart

About the project series Sleep over

In the ongoing project series Sleep over, Lennart Cleemann invites artists*, designers* and architects to explore settling in, playing, exhibiting and sleeping together. Every three months a pop-up event takes place. New ideas and works emerge from the coming together of different artistic positions. What are we interested in? What do we want to explore together? There is no set goal or theme, but the search for an open, fluid process in togetherness is the focus. The studio floor of the Künstlerhaus Stuttgart serves as the location for this. There you will find Cleemann’s studio and a 150 sqm large common room, which will be shared by the fellows.

At the 20th Tuesday Workshop, ak interspace will present the booklet series “Hefte zur Haltung” in the form of a lecture performance.

The booklet series deals with a critical practice of artistic-social making and asks for an attitude between doing and not doing, between theory and practice, between us and me.
The booklets bundle memes, texts, questions, tasks, images and quotes. Playfully and fragmentarily – without providing answers – they give impulses for working on one’s own conditions, which are often challenging in the context of mediation and beyond. The booklets are not intended to be a best practice example of mediation, instruction or a collection of methods, but rather to facilitate a little playful searching.

Afterwards, there will be room for discussion with the visitors about the form and content of the booklets. The booklets will be for sale for a donation.

As ak interspace, Miriam Trostorf, Christian Limber and Lara Dade are part of the rampe:aktion group.
The group works together on a mediation practice that transcends disciplines and is located at the intersections of visual art, social work, film, art education, activism and curating.
As part of the one-year Fellowship for Art Mediation 2021/22 of the Städtische Galerie Wolfsburg, the booklet series “Hefte zur Haltung” was created.

Website: https://rampecollective.org/
Instagram: rampe_aktion
Contact: mail@rampecollective.org

Midissage Sunday, 05 February 4 pm
in the Restaurant Im Künstlerhaus

In the Restaurant Im Künstlerhaus we show works by seven artists who dedicate themselves to the medium of photography, some of which were created in the darkroom of the Künstlerhaus.

The artists present a wide variety of photographic techniques such as cyanotype, digital prints or black and white hand prints, thus demonstrating not only the diversity of photography but also the diversity of artistic positions.

For the exhibitions in the restaurant, the workshop directors of the ten Künstlerhaus workshops invite members to present their work together in a group exhibition. In 2022, this series started with an exhibition of the screen printing workshop with workshop director Jochen Detscher.

We invite you to sparkling wine and coffee & cake. The artists will be present.

In the first Fourth Organ of 2023, we will dedicate ourselves to the call for proposals for the next Artistic Director and its selection process. All members are invited to discuss this on Saturday, February 04, 2023 7pm.

Tuesday Workshop XIX presents: Andrés Baron
December 13 2022, 7pm

Two persons watching a sunset, a woman sleeping at night, the ending of a song: Andrés Baron dislocates and transfers actions in short 5 to 10-minute films. Then, he frees the moving images from the duty to narrate and make sense: attending to the tactility of the image, the plays of perception, and the evocative force of sound. Along the way, the viewers are transported into mistaking the object for its representation, or stillness for movement. (Jade Barget)

Andrés Baron is born in Bogotá, Colombia and lives and works in Paris. Graduated from l’École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, his work has been presented in various places and exhibitions, including the International Film Festival Rotterdam (NL), la Fondation d’enterprise Hermès (FR) the Edinburgh International Film Festival Edinburgh (UK), Anthology Films Archives, New York (USA), LA Film Forum, Los Angeles (USA), Images Festival, Toronto (CA), EMAF, Osnabrück (DE), Le Bal, Paris (FR), La Cité des Arts in Paris (FR), the FRAC Franche-Comté (FR), among others.

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Tuesday Workshop

The Künstlerhaus invites an artist or a collective—meaning any artists or cultural workers from any field or discipline—to talk about their working methods as well as their backgrounds and approaches. We want to establish a platform for a more in-depth interaction with regard to artistic practice, and in doing so to create a network, show solidarity, and mutually strengthen one other.

The series is aimed at all members of Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, artists either living in Stuttgart and the surrounding area or just traveling through, all cultural workers, art mediators, curators, etc., and is open to everyone!

Künstlerhaus Stuttgart is offering 7 studio residencies for a period of 12 months, starting May 1st 2023. Each individual studio is approx. 25 sqm. A large recreation room is accessible for all recipients. Additionally, stipendiaries have free access to all technical facilities of Künstlerhaus Stuttgart. The studios are free of rent, but a membership at Künstlerhaus Stuttgart will be necessary.

It is possible to extend the studio grant through applying for another year. This option can be used not more than twice, so a maximum period of three years is possible.

Künstlerhaus Stuttgart was founded in 1978 as an initiative of local artists. Since then it has developed into one of the most distinguished institutions for contemporary art nationally and internationally. In addition to the exhibition program and complementary series of lectures, screenings and discussions, Künstlerhaus Stuttgart hosts production workshops including audio-visual media, various printing techniques, ceramics, and a separate workshop for children.

Künstlerhaus invites applications from the fields of art, architecture, theory and design, that involve ideas and projects to which the specific infrastructure of Künstlerhaus Stuttgart can serve as a helpful context. Applications of groups and single applications are both welcome.

Application
Please include with your application the following documents:

• CV

• documentation of your artistic work, such as portfolio, catalogues (max. 2 books), images etc.

• a written description how you want to use your studio at Künstlerhaus Stuttgart (max. 2 pages)

   

Please send us your application via email, please send pdf files only, latest by January 31st 2023:

Contact Person: Romy Range
Email: bewerbung@kuenstlerhaus.de
Subject line: Studio application

The jury, which consists of members of the artistic board, will meet in February and all applicants will be informed about the decisions as soon as possible.

Please note that the studio program does not include accommodation or any kind of financial aid. International applications are welcome provided that applicants see to their accommodation and visa themselves. The residency has to be in Stuttgart within the year.

Künstlerhaus Stuttgart congratulates Bernhard Herbordt and Melanie Mohren on being awarded the theatre prize DER FAUST in the category Genrespringer.

The jury explained their selection: “With their ‘Schaudepot’, Herbordt/Mohren have created a place that points beyond itself and has an impact. On the one hand, it is a small shop with open doors on the outskirts of Stuttgart; lovingly and very elaborately thought out down to the last detail. But above all, it is also a construction kit, a principle, an invitation, a thought that is taken out to the villages and the World Wide Web, that can be applied and, as if in passing, raises the question of the social significance of theatre. It is a very serious – with emphasis and great consistency – research. On-going and in the very best sense: transdisciplinary!”

Bernhard Herbordt and Melanie Mohren were studio fellows at Künstlerhaus Stuttgart in 2012. Schaudepot can be found online at https://www.das-schaudepot.org/ and is located at Altenbergstraße 10 in Stuttgart-Süd.

DER FAUST has been awarded as a national theatre prize since 2006 and is sponsored by Deutscher Bühnenverein, Kulturstiftung der Länder, Deutsche Akademie der Darstellenden Künste and this year the state of North Rhine-Westphalia (source: Wikipedia).

The event will take place at Kunstverein Böblingen, Schloßberg 11, 71032 Böblingen.

Our first meeting on the topic of “Art Association(s) of the Future” took place on 4 October at the Künstlerhaus Stuttgart. With numerous guests and representatives of various art associations, we discussed problems and challenges that some established art associations are facing. Structures, processes, ideas and themes that have often developed over years and decades need to be questioned, further developed and possibly reinvented in order to be able to continue to do successful, artistically committed association work in the future. The representatives of the various art associations reported on their own concrete experiences, problems and approaches to solutions. The different perspectives and contexts resulted in an open, diverse and fruitful discussion for all participants. It also became clear that this was not the end of the story and that we would like to use this initial impulse to promote further exchange and networking between the art associations.
In doing so, we would like to take the opportunity to visit the various art associations and get to know them better: the host of our next meeting on 4 December at 7 pm will therefore be Kunstverein Böblingen. Invited to the meeting are Kunstverein Neuhausen, Kunstraum34, Oberwelt, Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, anorak and Kunstverein Nürtingen.

On Friday 25 and Saturday 26 November, das Bündnis invites you to a two-day event with workshops at Künstlerhaus Stuttgart. After months of online meetings, it is time to meet, encounter and, above all, exchange analogue and in presence.
The two days are meant to be used for a reunion with long-time members as well as for getting to know new members.

Friday, 25 November, 5 pm
“Diversity Development” with Markues Aviv from the BBK Berlin

On Friday 25.11.2022 at 5 pm Markues Aviv will report on the activities of the BBK Berlin in recent years. Markues Aviv is a board member of the professional association, which pursues the structural promotion of all visual artists. In addition, the BKK is active in cultural policy and advocates for open and permeable art businesses. It is precisely the diversity developments of organisations that Markues Aviv will focus on in his workshop: What are the basic figures and strategies for diversity development in cultural associations? And what transfer can the alliance draw from the experiences of the BKK for their future work? This is to be found out in a joint discussion.
Afterwards, the room will remain open for lingering. Drinks and small snacks invite us to enter into conversation and to continue networking.

Saturday, 26 November, 3 pm
“Abuse of power and the independent scene in Baden-Württemberg” with Paula Kohlmann and Frederik Zeugke.
Cooperation with FTTS, PZ and Theater Rampe

On Saturday 26.11.2022 at 3 pm we will deal with questions on how to deal with discrimination, assaults or abuse of power with Paula Kohlmann and Frederik Zeugke as a cooperation with FTTS, PZ and Theater Rampe. Even the art scene in Baden-Württemberg is not free of these issues. It is seldom spoken about, and consequences follow even more rarely. This should change! As artists and employees of institutions, we have recently been coming together to gather knowledge, to exchange ideas internally and to talk to the administration and politicians in order to develop strategies and measures. A change in thinking and acting is needed. On an individual, institutional and political level. Abuse of power is not an individual problem, but a structural one. In this workshop, we will gather different perspectives of those involved, discuss current priorities, focus on necessary goals, prepare very concrete next steps for action.
Doors open on Saturday at 2:30 pm, the workshop will start promptly at 3 pm.

For both workshops, please register by email to praesenz@dasbuendnis.net.

Bridge, football, fox, ping-pong table, handkerchief, numbers, pole, clock, butterfly, LOOK.
These are keywords from the series that have been created over the last 18 years. They are connected in the background one by one. But how and why?
In this event he will present how he developed his artistic approach in Chigasaki, Leipzig, Zurich, Rome, Tokyo and London in the period from 2004 to now.

Hayahisa Tomiyasu (1982, Kanagawa, Japan) studied photography at Tokyo Polytechnic University (BA) and at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst / Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig (Dipl. and MA). He taught at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) in the Department of Fine Arts in the Bachelor’s program. In 2018, he won the MACK First Book Award with his work TTP. This series is part of the Art Collection Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation.

Tuesday Workshop XVIII presents: Lis Klein

November 8th 2022, 7pm

The basis for her work is the preoccupation with found material, which either originates from already existing collections or for which her own archival structures and documentary means are developed. Starting from this, she integrates and transfers objects into her own expression to create works.
The current pivot of her work is her engagement with nature, primarily with the world of insects, plants and fungi. Lis Klein gives insights into her collections, working methods and shows works in different stages.
Lis Klein studied fine arts at the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart. She lives and works in Stuttgart.

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Tuesday Workshop

The Künstlerhaus invites an artist or a collective—meaning any artists or cultural workers from any field or discipline—to talk about their working methods as well as their backgrounds and approaches. We want to establish a platform for a more in-depth interaction with regard to artistic practice, and in doing so to create a network, show solidarity, and mutually strengthen one other.

The series is aimed at all members of Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, artists either living in Stuttgart and the surrounding area or just traveling through, all cultural workers, art mediators, curators, etc., and is open to everyone!

For the exhibition “The Hunt” Moritz Berg and Lennart Cleemann went stalking in the Kräherwald. An approach of two artists and their practice with nature. Close to earth, approaching the supposedly dead. From spring to autumn. The conduct becomes hunting, thoughtfully, outside the usual sense of time. The ritual constitutes the change. The trophy perpetuates decay and consolidates our time.

Tuesday Workshop XVII presents:

Judith Engel, Katharina Jabs and Ann-Kathrin Müller: The view has been hazy for days. 35‘ 14‘‘

The film circles around the scene of a seismological station and negotiates which traces and cracks can be found in our thinking along the history of earthquakes. Starting from the physical uncertainty principle, the film examines the obsession of sharply viewing the world without distortion, and how that relates to the history of science and culture. The filmic montage of analogue photographs and essayistic text fragments creates a never-ending reel of still images that transports the film along its narrative. In this way, an associative access to reality is formulated that cannot rely on a certain that-has-been but recognises uncertainty and blurriness itself as conditions of experience and thus questions a principle of photographic and cinematic evidence.

The film accompanies the book „Das Signal“, published by Edition Taube in 2022.

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Tuesday Workshop

The Künstlerhaus invites an artist or a collective—meaning any artists or cultural workers from any field or discipline—to talk about their working methods as well as their backgrounds and approaches. We want to establish a platform for a more in-depth interaction with regard to artistic practice, and in doing so to create a network, show solidarity, and mutually strengthen one other.

The series is aimed at all members of Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, artists either living in Stuttgart and the surrounding area or just traveling through, all cultural workers, art mediators, curators, etc., and is open to everyone!

This year, Künstlerhaus Stuttgart has awarded two working grants to Ukrainian artists who fled the war and are now based in Stuttgart and the surrounding area: Ekaterina Surgutanova and Elena Trutieva.
Both artists will be provided with a workspace on the studio floor until further notice. They also receive a monthly financial allowance to enable their artistic practice.

Ekaterina Surgutanova

Ekaterina Surgutanova was born in Ukraine in 1995 and lived in Slavutich, Kiev and Lviv. From 2010 to 2012 she studied at the School of Culture and Art in Slavutich at the Faculty of Fine Arts.
2012 to 2018 Surhutanova studied at the National University of Civil Engineering and Architecture in Kiev, specialising in urban planning and architecture and landscape architecture.
She worked as an architect. However, she started painting murals indoors and outdoors. The focus of her work is on detailing objects, emphasising shapes and playing with colours so that the painting becomes one with the environment it is in, using acrylic paint.
In her paintings she explores the transformation of authentic images through colour and varied composition, while retaining the graphic strokes of academic drawing.

In her latest series, the artist tries to capture the emotional context of a nation confronted with the problem of the expulsion of people from their country through the prism of their individual feelings and experiences. She uses the example of the Ukrainian nation to which she herself belongs. In doing so, she touches on themes such as self-identity in society, personal and collective memory, experience and reflection.
For her works, the artist uses photographs of real people or her memory of people she met on the street when she and her child had to seek safety.

Elena Trutieva

Elena Trutieva was born in Odessa, Ukraine in 1980.
From 1998 to 2002 she studied at the M. B. Grekov School of Art at the Ukrainian National Technical University in Odessa. She graduated with distinction.
From 2002 to 2008 she studied at the NAOMA National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture, specialising in graphic design. From 2007 to 2022 she worked as an interior designer, designing private and public interiors.
From 2015 to 2017 she worked in Kalamata, Greece, designing cafés, hotels and restaurants.
In the interiors she always tried to use painting, painting walls and ceilings and finding interesting artistic solutions.
When she moved to Greece in 2015, she started painting on sea stones, which has become a very important artistic work.
She is currently working on a series of works that deal with her memories of the war. She spent 15 days with her family in occupation by Russian troops near Gostomel. On social media, she detailed what they experienced during this time and shared her story with the world. This story quickly spread worldwide and is now on display at the Austrian Historical Museum in Vienna. She started with three paintings – a portrait of her mother, one of her friend and a self-portrait. She now wants to draw all the people who were with her these 15 days and who were involved in her rescue. For her, they are not simple portraits, but shots of events with emotions frozen in people’s faces. In these works, she wants to show what they have endured and survived, and the special role of each person in that terrible time.
Two finished portraits show the women who helped her in Germany when she had just arrived.

For our 16th Tuesday Workshop we invite Lennart Cleemann.

Tuesday, September 13, 2022, 7 p.m.

The event will take place on the third floor, in the studio of the artist.

“In einem Raum werde ich reden
mein Atelier
meine Arbeit
in Enge
umgeben von Charakteren
physisch manifestierte Momente
forcierte materielle Intimität
unausweichlicher Terror
existentielle reelle
subjektiv die Brust
ein bisschen Ruhe
ein bisschen Lust”

Lennart Cleemann (*1990) studied architecture (Hanover, Aarhus, Basel and Stuttgart). At the ABK Stuttgart he was part of Reto Boller’s art class and thus found his way into artistic practice.

At the Künstlerhaus he explores ideas and notions of “home”. He works with space and material. Through the construction and abstraction of rooms, furniture and playground equipment, he explores his environment and attempts to gain an understanding of its processes. In this process, the studio has become a place of necessity. It becomes a physical arena of the interior, absorbing whimsy, dust and sweat. The daily change of this intimate space and its observation serves the exploration of the self.

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Tuesday Workshop

The Künstlerhaus invites an artist or a collective—meaning any artists or cultural workers from any field or discipline—to talk about their working methods as well as their backgrounds and approaches. We want to establish a platform for a more in-depth interaction with regard to artistic practice, and in doing so to create a network, show solidarity, and mutually strengthen one other.

The series is aimed at all members of Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, artists either living in Stuttgart and the surrounding area or just traveling through, all cultural workers, art mediators, curators, etc., and is open to everyone!

Sonntag, 4. September 2022, 14 bis 18 Uhr
im Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, Reuchlinstraße 4b, 70178 Stuttgart, 4. Stock

Seit Jahren verliert die Berichterstattung über Kultur (Feuilleton), sowohl örtlich wie auch darüber hinaus gehend, merkbar an Bedeutung und Qualität in den Lokalblättern Stuttgarts – Stuttgarter Zeitung und Stuttgarter Nachrichten. Nicht zuletzt der massive Personalabbau in den Redaktionen beider Zeitungen hat dies bewirkt.

Es zeigt sich, dass der Umfang des täglichen Feuilletons in der Regel zwei Seiten umfasst, deren Beiträge zum größten Teil Agenturmeldungen mit keinem örtlichen Bezug sind. Durch diese Einschränkungen erlangen besonders örtliche, durch Tagesaktualität bestimmte Anliegen in der täglichen Kultur-Berichterstattung in Stuttgart nachrangige bis minimale Bedeutung; dazu gehören Kritiken, Reportagen, Ankündigungen von Ereignissen, Personalien … Das monatlich erscheinende Buch „Kulturreport Stuttgart“ vermag das beschriebene Defizit nur begrenzt aufzufangen. So verbleibt den im Kulturbereich Tätigen keine redaktionell ernstzunehmende, mediale Plattform mehr.

Vor diesem Hintergrund lädt die Basisinitiative des Künstlerhauses, das „Vierte Organ“, zu einer öffentlichen Diskussionsveranstaltung ein. Wir fragen:
• Wie kann kritische Kulturberichterstattung im lokalen Kontext aussehen?
• Was sind aktuell die wichtigsten Themen in der lokalen Kunst und Kulturpolitik?
• Wie erreicht man diverse Öffentlichkeiten?
• Was erwarten Künstler*innen, Kritiker*innen, Kulturinstitutionen und -verwaltung von Kulturberichterstattung und -kritik?
• Welche Formate wünschen wir uns?
• Wie lässt sich unabhängige Kulturberichterstattung finanzieren?

Lokale Pressevertreter*innen, Kunstkritiker*innen, Künstler*innen und freie Journalist*innen werden ihre Perspektiven darstellen und in einer moderierten Diskussion mit den Besucher*innen des Symposions ins Gespräch kommen.

Referent*innen sind:
• Adrienne Braun, freie Journalistin und Autorin, u.a. Stuttgarter Zeitung, Stuttgarter Nachrichten, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Themenschwerpunkt Kunst und Theater;

• Dr. Dietrich Heißenbüttel, Kunsthistoriker, freier Journalist und Autor, Kontext Wochenzeitung, Themen: Kunst, Architektur und Stadtplanung;

• Alexa Dobelmann, Mitbegründerin von Frame[Less], digitales Magazin für Kunst in Theorie und Praxis;

• Judith Engel, freie Kulturjournalistin und Autorin, Dozentin für Kulturtheorie an der Merz-Akademie Hochschule für Gestaltung Kunst und Medien Stuttgart

Anschließend möchten wir in Workshops konkrete Maßnahmen erarbeiten, mit denen wir dem diagnostizierten Mangel begegnen können.

Das Ziel ist es, eine neue Plattform für Kritik & Kulturjournalismus zu schaffen, wofür wir Mitstreiter*innen und Unterstützer*innen suchen, die durch ihr Wissen und ihre Expertise bei diesem Projekt helfen können. Wir laden Sie deshalb auch ein, um gemeinsam über die Anforderungen und die daraus resultierende Struktur dieses neuen Formates nachzudenken.

Für die Teilnahme an dem Symposium bitten wir um Anmeldung unter info@kuenstlerhaus.de

Zu unserer 15. Dienstags-Werkstatt laden wir Christian Diaz Orejarena ein.

Dienstag, 14. Juni 2022, 19 Uhr

Die Veranstaltung wird im 3. Stock im Künstlerhaus stattfinden.

Ein Comic, der sich mit der deutschen Kolonialgeschichte in Kolumbien beschäftigt. Im Rahmen eines Stipendiums bewegt sich Christian Diaz Orejarena auf den sogenannten »Lengerke Wegen« im Nordosten Kolumbiens, die von einem deutschen Unternehmer im 19. Jahrhundert angelegt wurden. Dort stößt er auf Heldengeschichten über skrupellose Kaufleute, Mythen und Geschichten rund um Ausbeutung und Größenwahn und wirtschaftliche Mechanismen, die sich bis heute fortsetzen. Auf verschlungenen Pfaden, Wegen und Gedanken folgen wir der Familiengeschichte des Autors, treffen auf aufklärerische Karnevalsmasken, den zum Leben erwachten Walking Man aus München und indigene Widerständler:innen.

Experimentell, lustig und abgedreht nähert sich Christian Diaz Orejarena in Otras Rayas – Andere Linien einem Thema an, das im deutschsprachigen Raum noch nicht viel Beachtung erfahren hat und das, obwohl es sehr enge Verbindungen nicht nur zwischen Kolumbien und Kaufleuten aus den hiesigen Hansestädten gab.

Infos zum Buch OTRAS RAYAS – ANDERE LINIEN https://christiandiaz.net/otraraya/index.html

https://thegoldenpress.org/produkt/otras-rayas%E2%80%89-%E2%80%89andere-linien/

Teaser der Performance: https://vimeo.com/662773781?embedded=true&source=vimeo_logo&owner=497281

Christian Diaz Orejarena,

in München geboren und aufgewachsen, studierte in Berlin und Wien Konzept- und Medienkunst. Er arbeitet an recherchebasierten und interdisziplinären Projekten, die oft in kollektivem Zusammenhang entstehen. In seiner künstlerischen Arbeit erzählt er selbstironische und persönliche Geschichten über seine postmigrantische Biografie und konstruiert darüber einen dokufiktiven Blick auf sozio-politische, ökonomische und ästhetische Verbindungen zwischen Kolumbien und Deutschland. Den eigenen Wahnsinn vor Augen, hält er durch seine künstlerische Praxis der Gesellschaft den Spiegel vor die Nase und baut Zeichnungen, Videos und Aktionen ins Leben zurück, die von unangepassten Dingen, widerständigen Menschen und antikolonialen Traumwesen berichten. Seit er mit dem Kollektiv rampe:aktion zusammen arbeitet, motiviert er auch andere sich mittels Zeichnung, Film und Poesie eine undisziplinierte Welt zu erkämpfen.

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Dienstags-Werkstatt

Mit der Dienstags-Werkstatt lädt das Künstlerhaus Künstler:innen oder Kollektive ein, über ihre Arbeitsweisen, Hintergründe und Vorgehensweisen zu sprechen. Wir wollen eine Plattform etablieren, in der sich intensiver zur künstlerischen Praxis ausgetauscht wird und uns so vernetzen, solidarisieren und gegenseitig stärken.

Die Reihe richtet sich an alle Mitglieder des Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, an Künstler:innen aus Stuttgart und Umgebung, oder auf der Durchreise, an alle Kunstvermittler:innen, Kurator:innen, Kulturschaffende usw. und ist offen für alle!

On Saturday, June 4 at 7 p.m., the next session of the Fourth Organ will be held at the current exhibition “It has nothing to do with happiness” by Anike Joyce Sadiq.

It is also possible to participate via Zoom at the following link:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82690585857?pwd=MHJxUmo2UE5BcUNnYzFRL2VBSFdXZz09

Meeting ID: 826 9058 5857
ID code: 236881

We want to deal with two topics at this meeting:
– on the one hand with the survey from Anike Joyce Sadiq, which she sent out to all members at the end of last week
– secondly, we want to discuss possible formats & events that can take place during the exhibition

Die Stuttgarter Künstler:innen Kerstin Schaefer und Christa Munkert – die als FUKS Freie Unabhängige Künstlerinnen Stuttgart seit 2010 kollaborative und partzipative Installationen und Aktionen im öffentlichen Raum durchführen in unterschiedlichsten Konstellationen mit Künstlerkolleg:innen und Publikum – an Kunstorten oder in neuen, aufregenden Spaces…sind am Sonntag, dem 22. Mai 2022 von 11-16:00 Uhr im KÜNSTLERHAUS STUTTGART zu Gast.

Im Rahmen des inklusiven Kulturfestivals „FUNKELN inklusive“ realisieren Sie gemeinsam mit dem Stuttgarter Künstler Kurt Grunow und den Gästen Ihre Malerei-Lichtskulptur 1000 X LEUCHTEN/ TAUSENDSCHÖN. Dabei werden auf durchsichtigen Materialien Bilder gemalt, welche zu einer transluzenten Rauminstallation zusammengefügt werden.

Mehr Infos unter www.fuksweb.blogspot.com

Es entsteht ein kleiner Film ab 14 Uhr.

For our 14th Tuesday Workshop, we invite Linienscharen to attend.

Tuesday, May 10, 2022, 7 pm.

The event will take place on the 3rd floor.

Linienscharen

was founded in 2012 as a platform for contemporary drawing in Stuttgart and offers a framework for exchange, lectures and presentations. Linienscharen functions as an open forum for artists from Stuttgart and the region who deal with the theme of line in their work.

In the context of the Tuesday Workshop at the Künstlerhaus,  Linienscharen would like to look back on past projects and give those who are not yet familiar with Linienscharen an insight into the platform’s activities. On the other hand, Linienscharen will present their current project “How much can a pigeon carry?” as well as the Ukrainian artist Toma Safarova, who will participate in this planned exhibition series.

Afterwards, it would be nice to get into conversation with each other – about the artistic work, the current art production, the discoveries, recollections, new beginnings …
We ask all visitors to bring 1-2 original works to this evening, a drawing, a sketchbook or an expression in another medium, which deals with the theme of the line.

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Tuesday Workshop

With the Tuesday Workshop, the Künstlerhaus invites artists or collectives to talk about their working methods, backgrounds and approaches. We want to establish a platform for more intensive exchange on artistic practice and thus network, show solidarity and strengthen each other.
The series is aimed at all members of Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, artists from Stuttgart and the surrounding area, or those passing through, all art mediators, curators, cultural workers, etc. and is open to everyone!

On May 4, 2022 at 7pm we will meet for the next meeting of the Fourth Body. This time the meeting will be held at the upcoming exhibition of Anike Joyce Sadiq. It is also possible to attend via Zoom at the following link:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82633972299?pwd=QmczZnpPUEkyNVo3Z1ByQ2FXbTkwUT09

Meeting ID: 826 3397 2299
identification code: 757374

Anike Joyce Sadiq offers in her exhibition to the Fourth Organ a place of meeting and exchange. Therefore, at this meeting we would like to discuss with Anike what is possible and what we would like to work on beyond the regular Fourth Body meetings during the exhibition period.

For our 13th Tuesday Workshop we invite Matthias Megyeri.

Tuesday, April 26, 2022, 7 p.m.

The event will take place on the 4th floor in the Künstlerhaus.

Matthias Megyeri

was a studio fellow from 2010 to 2013 and a member of the advisory board at the Künstlerhaus for 10 years.
Matthias Megyeri is an artist and designer.

His work is based on a conceptual approach that aims to be understood as a contribution to the discussion of socially relevant issues – and to have an impact on them. Since 2003, he has been working continuously on an artistic research project on the subject of security in public spaces. More than 140,000 snapshots are now part of his “Living Archive,” which he uses to think visually on a project-by-project basis in his artistic practice. Using the psychological function of objects is one of the strategies with which he succeeds in placing his works in everyday life. In an art-in-architecture commission for the headquarters of a bank in Manhattan, for example, he was asked to design three hundred street bollards. For this, he used the functional aspect of the bollards to simultaneously refer to the question of the proportionality of security measures and their psychological effect.”

Matthias Megyeri has Hungarian roots and was born in Stuttgart in 1973. He has lived and worked mainly in Stuttgart since his fellowship at the Akademie Schloss Solitude in 2008/09.

www.matthiasmegyeri.net
Instagram: @matthiasmegyeri

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Tuesday Workshop

The Künstlerhaus invites an artist or a collective—meaning any artists or cultural workers from any field or discipline—to talk about their working methods as well as their backgrounds and approaches. We want to establish a platform for a more in-depth interaction with regard to artistic practice, and in doing so to create a network, show solidarity, and mutually strengthen one other.

The series is aimed at all members of Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, artists either living in Stuttgart and the surrounding area or just traveling through, all cultural workers, art mediators, curators, etc., and is open to everyone!

On April 4 at 7pm, the next meeting of the Fourth Organ will be held on the studio floor (3rd floor).

It is also possible to attend via Zoom at the following link:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82521529290?pwd=enl4SDFLMXRyWjkyK2ZLakE4enF4UT09

Meeting ID: 825 2152 9290
identification code: 606565

Hermann Pflüger will present his project LadeCA View. This is a tool under development to help with the reception and organization of image sets.
Furthermore there will be an exchange about the last general meeting. An essential point here is the name change and how it should be continued from the perspective of the Fourth Organ.
In addition, it is to be concretized what can happen in the context of Anike Joyce Sadiq’s exhibition, which will open in May – also beyond the monthly meetings.

About the Fourth Organ

At the general meeting on March 25, 2021, the members collectively voted to meet regularly as an association from now on.

These meetings are intended to establish a space for understanding between the membership and the  Board. A sounding board for initiatives, critiques, and visions, a space for discourse between artistic and institutional practice, and possibly a step towards making the oft-cited hive hum a few decibels louder.

These regular meetings are organized by the advisory board of the Künstlerhaus. Questions or suggestions are welcome to be sent in advance to the Advisory Board at beirat@kuenstlerhaus.de.

These meetings are open to all members and those who would like to become members.

Please note the change of dates for this workshop. The workshop will be held in-person on the fourth floor gallery at the Künstlerhaus Stuttgart and will be held in English. Please register by email here.

Artist Nikita Gale will explore themes of polyvocality, performance, recording, exhaustion, and duration in the context of Andrea Fraser’s This meeting is being recorded.

Nikita Gale’s work applies the lens of material culture to consider how authority and identity are negotiated within political, social, and economic systems. Currently living and working Los Angeles, USA, Gale holds a BA in Anthropology with an emphasis in Archaeological Studies from Yale University, and received an MFA in New Genres at the University of California Los Angeles.

Gale’s work has recently been exhibited at MoMA PS1 (New York); LACE (Los Angeles); Commonwealth and Council (Los Angeles); Matthew Marks Gallery (Los Angeles); The Studio Museum in Harlem (New York); Rodeo Gallery (London); and the Hammer Museum (Los Angeles). Gale will present a major new solo exhibition at Chisenhale Gallery, London in 2022.

Please note the change of dates for this workshop. The workshop will be held in-person on the fourth floor gallery at the Künstlerhaus Stuttgart and will be held in English. Please register by email here.

“To me it is more than ever clear that there is some quite surprising contradiction in the situation in which I find myself. I, too, have heard rumors about the value of my contributions to groups; I have done my best to find out just in what respects my contribution was so remarkable, but have failed to elicit any information. I can, therefore, easily sympathize with the group, who feel that they are entitled to expect something different to what, in fact, they are getting.”

— WR Bion, Experiences in Groups, 1948

A workshop in the form of a process group, in which members will, in various ways, have opportunities for “learning from experience”, as proposed by British psychoanalyst Wilfred Bion (1897-1979) whose writings on group phenomena and intra-group authority dynamics orient both Andrea Fraser’s new video work This meeting is being recorded and this event in Stuttgart. The workshop is co-directed by Alex Davidson and Jamie Stevens.

Alex Davidson works in the mental health charity sector in London, where part of her role is to facilitate reflective practice groups for mental health support workers. She has written about art for various publications internationally.

Jamie Stevens is an independent curator and writer based in London. He has worked in curatorial roles at Artists Space, New York; CCA Wattis Institute, San Francisco; Cubitt Gallery, London; and Chisenhale Gallery, London.

Davidson and Stevens are both psychotherapists-in-training at the Tavistock Clinic in London.

For our 12th Tuesday workshop we invite Alba Frenzel.

February 8th 2022, 7 pm

The event will take place in presence at the Künstlerhaus.

Alba Frenzel

has been a studio fellow at the Künstlerhaus since 2020.

She describes her artistic practice thus:
My project is a large-scale research in which the liverwurst tree is dealt with as if it were art, or with art as if it were a liverwurst tree. The qualities of the tree that can be rethought to the qualities of art are selected. In this way, art grounds itself and we get to know the liverwurst tree.”

“I am working on a format between studio and exhibition, in which I am active and present as an artist with photography, sculpture, text, text images, with sung and spoken quotations that I encounter in the course of the research, performative elements, readings and lectures.

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Tuesday Workshop

The Künstlerhaus invites an artist or a collective—meaning any artists or cultural workers from any field or discipline—to talk about their working methods as well as their backgrounds and approaches. We want to establish a platform for a more in-depth interaction with regard to artistic practice, and in doing so to create a network, show solidarity, and mutually strengthen one other.

The series is aimed at all members of Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, artists either living in Stuttgart and the surrounding area or just traveling through, all cultural workers, art mediators, curators, etc., and is open to everyone!

Studio grants 2022/2023

Künstlerhaus Stuttgart is offering six studio grants for a period of 12 months, starting 1st of May 2022. Each individual studio is approx. 25 sqm. A large recreation room is accessible for all recipients. Additionally, stipendiaries have free access to all technical facilities of Künstlerhaus Stuttgart. The studios are free of rent, but a membership at Künstlerhaus Stuttgart will be necessary.

It is possible to extend the studio grant through applying for another year. This option can be used not more than twice, so a maximum period of three years is possible.

Künstlerhaus Stuttgart was founded in 1978 as an initiative of local artists. Since then it has developed into one of the most distinguished institutions for contemporary art nationally and internationally. In addition to the exhibition program and complementary series of lectures, screenings and discussions, Künstlerhaus Stuttgart hosts production workshops including audio-visual media, various printing techniques, ceramics, and a separate workshop for children.

Künstlerhaus invites applications from the fields of art, architecture, theory and design, that involve ideas and projects to which the specific infrastructure of Künstlerhaus Stuttgart can serve as a helpful context. Applications of groups and single applications are both welcome. Students are unfortunately not eligible to apply.

Please include with your application the following documents:

– CV
– documentation of your artistic work, such as portfolio, catalogues (max. 2 books), images etc.
– a written description how you want to use your studio at Künstlerhaus Stuttgart (max. 2 pages)

Please send us your application via email, please send one pdf file only, latest by January 31th 2022:

Contact Person: Romy Range
Email: info@kuenstlerhaus.de
Subject line: Studio application

The jury, which consists of members of the artistic board, will meet in February and all applicants will be informed about the decisions as soon as possible.

Please note that the studio program does not include accommodation or any kind of financial aid. An introduction to all workshops is liable for costs. International applications are generally accepted, provided that the applicants make their own accommodation arrangements. The residency has to be in Stuttgart within the year.

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Workshop grant

Künstlerhaus Stuttgart is now awarding regular workshop grants for the following workshops: Audio, Ceramics, Media, Photography, Silkscreen, Etching, Lithography.

Artists and collectives can apply for a project for a specific duration. The occupancy of the workshop will be coordinated with the respective workshop manager.

The workshop grant includes:
– the use of the workshop free of charge (use in coordination with the workshop manager)
– an introductory technical course in the respective workshop
– Advice from the workshop manager (not complete project supervision)

The following information is required for the application:
– Project description incl. project duration
– CV
– exposé

An application for a workshop grant is possible all year round. The jury, consisting of the board of directors and the respective workshop manager, meets regularly to decide on the submitted projects. Applicants can contact the workshop manager before applying to clarify whether the project can be realized in the workshop. Unfortunately, any material costs cannot be covered.

Please submit the application documents only digitally as a pdf file by e-mail:

Contact: Romy Range
e-mail: info@kuenstlerhaus.de
Subject: Workshop grant