The interdisciplinary studio program
offers individual work spaces to artists, architects, designers, and theoreticians for a period of up to three years. Applications for studios are reviewed annually by a committee comprised of the Board and Advisory Board. Studio grant recipients are assigned their own work space, with access to a shared kitchen and a large communal meeting room on the third floor, while they also have free access to the various workshops and administrative offices at the Künstlerhaus Stuttgart. The individual studio spaces are approximately 25 sq meters.
Studio Holders
I explore the relationship between text and image and how words and images circulate between the discursive and pictorial realms, investigating the objecthood of language and the grammar of images. My practice is often generated through writing and unfolds as installations gather print and sculptural elements while writing functions as a fulcrum. My inspiration comes from philosophy, literature, culinary arts, and an edge of an apple. Within and around my work, I’m interested in perforating the tightly knit textures of art history, the entirety texture of the self, and the fetish of authenticity and originality. This attitude allows me to think without establishing a new center, an origin, or a truth. I don’t care about the purpose of a medium; instead, I use what’s there (it could be originally not meant for) to get a particular job done. I don’t worry about the coherence of my words or ideas. I act like a bricoleur in that sense. My written material connotes how the “I” as a portrait of an artist is diagnosed and what the symptoms might be for mild, moderate, or severe. Therefore, writing is a way to celebrate my symptoms as an artist! I split myself into multiples and became a spectator of one another. The difficulty of recognizing art-making as labor and the economic realities of life as an artist are both addressed in my written work.
Irem Gunaydin (born in 1989, Istanbul/Turkey) holds a Foundation diploma from Chelsea College of Art and Design (2011) and her BA in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins, London (2014). She lives and works in Istanbul.
Marcela Majchrzak (*1993) is an artist, art mediator and mother. In her projects, she is interested in the (dis)functionality of structures and their justification mechanisms around the themes of identity, work and culture. Her work often has an exploratory, performative character and likes to realise itself in different formats of coming together. She is currently researching a monument in the place where she spent parts of her childhood, revealing its social and national entanglements, but also her own personal ones. As a founding member of the Matriarchale Volksküche, which is an artists’ collective, she realises various kitchen, dinner and discourse events, repeatedly asking herself how an artistic/activist group structure can be open and sustainable. Together with interdisciplinary actors, she thinks about new perspectives on the future of art education.
She studied philosophy and fine arts in Stuttgart and Warsaw and graduated in the class of Heba Y. Amin and Ülkü Süngün.
Mona Zeiler’s works trace the levels of meaning of things and establish links between the materials and forms used in terms of their content and aesthetic attributions. Metal constructions, glass and wooden elements meet ceramic objects, moulds made of plaster or elements made of stone.
By working with different materials, it is also a question of letting something emerge that is negotiated through the material experience in the space on and with things and brings forth a knowledge that language cannot formulate. Within these arrangements, the human being appears merely as an ordering (invisible) point of reference.
The studio in the Künstlerhaus is a place for developing further tools and methods – a spatial container, so to speak, for the artistic process, for adding and taking away, in that points of reference within this system are constantly dissolving and forming anew.
The work “rue de figuier / extérieur” (2021/22), the first parts of which were created during her scholarship residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris 2021, uses moulded pieces of tree bark to look at interfaces between inside and outside, as separating or connecting elements and moments of transition, and explores concepts such as permeability, envelope, protection and demarcation.
The forms developed for “landscape of support, four fragments” (2022), emerge from objects intended to provide support for parts of the body. Ergonomic wrist rests, for example, briefly become a kind of support when used, a ‘supporting structure’ for a particular position. Detached from their original context, the objects become fragmentary connecting links that suggest different postures and, like artefacts, still hint at their function.
Theo Ferreira Gomes (b. 1993, Niterói/Brazil) is a post-disciplinary curator, designer and DJ. He follows an interest in informal social economies and how different currencies have the ability to produce or mediate (im)personal relations.
Since June 2022, he is curatorial fellow at ORNAMENTA, a reactivated cultural program exploring updated regionalism in the Northern Black Forest region. ORNAMENTA will take place for the second time from July to October 2024 since its first edition in 1989. In a series of site-specific exhibitions and event formats, the thematic neighbourhoods Bad Databrunn, Zum Eros, Schmutzige Ecke, Inhalatorium, and Solartal will be prototyped and presented to the public, in collaboration with societal, artistic, and entrepreneurial perspectives.
From April 2022 – May 2023 he was a coordination fellow for art, science & business at Akademie Schloss Solitude. He was involved in coordinating the Field Trip Residency, an ongoing collaboration between the Department for Ecology of Animal Societies at the Max Planck Institute for Animal Behavior in Konstanz and the art, science & business program at Akademie Schloss Solitude. He furthermore was involved in the Namibia exchange program and the Under Utopia fellowship.
From November 2019 – February 2023 he was board member at Leerstand als Freiraum e.V. (LAF), a collectively run, independent art space in Pforzheim. LAF e.V. stands up for cultural spaces in Pforzheim and initiates projects situated within the fields of art, urbanism and society.
2018, he completed a BA in fashion design at University Pforzheim. During his studies he received a project stipend from AsaPreneurs. Goal of the project was to co-develop design methods in collaboration with workers at a factory in Tirrupur (South India) which use and reduce textile waste.
Lena Meinhardt and Eva Dörr have been working together as an artist duo since 2019. Their works meet in the field of sound installation.
In Lena Meinhardt’s compositions, recordings of places, objects or texts take on a life of their own through dense syntheses of sound. Together with Eva Dörr, whose focus is on installation and new media, interdisciplinary and context-related works are created.
“Good morning midnight – ” is a 4-channel composition for electronics, percussion and bass-baritone.
It was premiered in 2022 with Pascal Zurek (vocals) at the exhibition opening of “Nachtstücke – unterwegs in der Dunkelheit”. The composition interlocks patterns of machine recordings, a machine percussion and polyphonic and discordant overlapping vocal loops.
“Ralentir” is a video-sound work that was created during the scholarship at the Künstlerhaus. It consists of image and sound material that the duo recorded in the Paris metro. The camera was held up to the window of the metro. City views, tunnels, platforms and waiting passengers pass by. Image and sound material were strongly assembled.
Through the transformation of the sound material and extreme montage in the image, these levels and the temporal structures within them become intertwined.
Lambert Mousseka, (born in Katanga, Democratic Republic of Congo) has been questioning the origin, spirit and state of matter since his youth. These questions led to various studies and researches and still influence his artistic work today.
In the same rhythm as matter, Lambert Mousseka tries to oscillate, not only to find a form, but also to bring forth an expression, a language, thus creating a dialogue between the creator, the audience and the work of art.
After studying art, he set himself the goal of experimenting with different materials and their application in artistic practice. Material here means a global vision. The said and unsaid thoughts, the text and the spirit are the link to the vision. Thus, it cannot be decided whether the material precedes the concept or vice versa.
To be able to enter into a dialogue with the artworks, openness and humour help.
anima ona is a multidisciplinary studio consisting of Freia Achenbach and June Fàbregas. The duo studied at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart. Following a transdisciplinary and collaborative approach, they have been developing self-initiated projects and realising commissioned works since 2018, straddling the line between design, research and art. Their diverse body of work is united by a search for previously untapped resources and ways to reuse material, which they pursue through experimental approaches and an exploration of the cultural significance of objects.
Exhibitions/Presentations/Awards
2023 Solid Transitions, group exhibition, Rohbauhallen Stuttgart 21, Stuttgart
2022 Expert discussion “sustainable and innovative building materials”, parliamentary group Die Grünen, Haus der Abgeordneten, Stuttgart
2022 Archaeology of a city mine, solo exhibition, project space Kunst()Klima, Stuttgart
2022 Zum Abgang eines Sonderlings, group exhibition, Akku Stuttgart
2022 Escapism, exhibition, Collectible Fair, Brussels
2022 In Fülle…Transformation to Geopolymere, Hospitalhof Stuttgart
2021 Outer Space, group exhibition, Kernweine Gallery, Stuttgart
2021 Atelier Ecru x Objects with Narratives, group exhibition, Aterlie Ecru, Ghent
2021 brahha, with Ann-Kathrin Müller + Julia Schäfer, Weissenhofmuseum Stuttgart / Current Festival Stuttgart
2021 The Makers Show, Salone del Mobile, Milan
2020-2021 Places to be, exhibition with anima ona, Fondation d ́entreprise Martell, Cognac
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, where I am active and present as an artist with photography, sculpture, text, text images, with sung and spoken quotes that I encounter in the course of the research, performative elements, readings and lectures.
One of the most important questions of this research is how close I can get to the tree using found material.
For indeed, thanks to the many possibilities of Internet research, I can investigate something that I have never seen in reality. But what does the virtual experience of the liverwurst tree do to me?
Lena Meinhardt and Eva Dörr have been working together as an artist duo since 2019. Their works meet in the field of sound installation.
In Lena Meinhardt’s compositions, recordings of places, objects or texts take on a life of their own through powerful syntheses of sound. Together with Eva Dörr, they create interdisciplinary and context-related works. Eva Dörr’s artistic focus is on (sound) installation and video. She focuses on the acoustic perception of mostly marginal spaces and places.
Both met at the Stuttgart University of Music and Performing Arts. There, Lena Meinhardt was a contact student in computer music with Prof. Piet Johan Meyer, while Eva Dörr was a guest student in the electronic music studio after completing her teaching degree in art and mathematics.
Ralentir is a video and sound work created during the fellowship at the Künstlerhaus. It consists of video and sound footage recorded by the duo in the Paris Metro. The camera was held up to the window of the metro. City views, tunnels, platforms and waiting passengers pass by. Visual and sound material were heavily montaged.
Through the transformation of the sound material and extreme montage in the image, these layers and the temporal structures within them become intertwined.
The work ABELKA is part of the self-organized exhibition project “Kehrmaschine”. Synchronized with other works in the exhibition, the 8-channel sound installation mixes the hall’s ventilation system with a 60-minute composition that takes spatial memory as its theme, filling the hall with sounds and their reflections.
Similarly, image and sound evolve in a loop that intertwines exterior and interior views of the city. As the different levels rush past and into each other, the patterns of time and sense of time continuously dissolve.
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.
On his process he writes:
My work takes place in physical space.
I act and react.
I do not know what I want.
I act.
Material guides me.
I try not to think.
Does not work.
Tidying up, making order, discovering connections.
Satisfied with the stupid simplicity of the process.
Going for a walk.
Finding things.
Dragging to the studio.
Cluttering up.
Letting go.
Piss.
Janis Eckhardt’s (*1994) working method combines personal fascinations with contemporary social circumstances through the lens of constellations and objects. His works are mostly the result of a casual momentum that emerges from these accumulated materials. Performative aspects as well as the reutilization of his own and other material—plus its history, distribution and recontextualization—are the mechanisms running through his work. He is consequently always in search of a form of reproduction and representation that is not merely symbolic but rather an intervention that produces and perpetuates ambiguity.
In Mona Zeiler’s works we encounter common materials and forms that refer to the familiar. They are part of our environment, but rarely the focus of our perception. Combining analog and digital working techniques, Zeiler develops sculptural installations that engage with the three-dimensional components of our living environment.
In her collage-like carefully arranged constellations, Zeiler combines artificial materials with natural materials and those that imitate natural properties.
She detaches structures and objects from their original context, brings them onto a plane, and relates them anew to further processed surfaces and materials. Metal constructions, glass and wood elements, digitally processed image material, printed plastic tarpaulins meet ceramic objects, molds made of plaster or elements made of stone. The boundaries between the industrially produced and the manually processed merge and blur.
Her works trace the levels of meaning of things and establish links between the materials and forms used and concepts such as inside and outside, support, protection, permeability and demarcation. Within these arrangements, the human being appears merely as an order-giving (invisible) point of reference.
With these juxtapositions, Mona Zeiler examines the relationship between the forms and their textures for their aesthetic and content-related attributions and challenges the viewer to new associations and contextualizations.
Mona Zeiler (*1989 in Ellwangen) studied Fine Arts in the Department of Sculpture as well as Intermedial Design at the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart, where she graduated in 2017. In 2019, Zeiler received the Peter Hans Hofschneider Prize of the Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg and in 2021 the residency scholarship at the Cité internationale des arts in Paris of the Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts, Baden-Württemberg. She has exhibited at Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Kunstraum Riehen, and Kunstverein Freiburg, among others.
Lambert Mousseka betrachtet sein Leben als eine Reise. Als Künstler begann er als Schauspieler, dann Figurenspieler. 2001 studierte er Marketing an der Wirtschaft Hochschule (Institut Supérieur de Commerce Kinshasa). 2013 schloss er sein Kunststudium an der Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart ab.
Seitdem arbeitet er im Bereich Malerei und Keramik und gibt Workshops im Bereich Figurentheater und Keramik in Deutschland und im Kongo. Seine Arbeit basiert auf Malerei und Keramik.
In den vergangenen Jahren nahm er u.a. an folgenden Gruppenausstellungen teil: Gemeinschaft Jetzt (Stadtkirche Schorndorf), Disturbance Wich (Zitadelle Spandau Berlin), Es dauert, es ist Zerbrechlich, es bleibt womöglich für immer (Bahnhof Museum Rolands Eck), Prêt-à-Partager (Ifa, Stuttgart), Couture Commune (Künstlerhaus Stuttgart) und Kinoserie – Briller et s’envoler (Institut Français Kinshasa).
Er hat verschiedene Kunststipendien und Residenzen für Keramik und Recherche erhalten, unter anderen Schloss Balmoral, EKWC – Sunday Morning, und Institut Français Kinshasa.
Lambert Mousseka versucht eine Zusammensetzung von Konzepten, Texten und Formen, Mode, Politik und Religion, Ökonomie und Ritualen, Philosophie und Design etc. herzustellen.
Lena Meinhardt and Eva Dörr have been working together as an artist duo since 2019. Their works meet in the field of sound installation.
Lena Meinhardt was a contact student in computer music at the Stuttgart University of Music and Performing Arts. In her compositions, recordings of places, objects or texts take on a life of their own through powerful syntheses of sound. Together with Eva Dörr, who studied fine arts and mathematics at KIT Karlsruhe and the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart, among others, she creates location- or context-related works. Eva Dörr’s artistic focus is on (sound) installation and video. She focuses on the acoustic perception of mostly marginal spaces and places.
The work ABELKA is part of the self-organized exhibition project “Kehrmaschine”. Synchronized with other works in the exhibition, the 8-channel sound installation mixes the hall’s ventilation system with a 60-minute composition that takes spatial memory as its theme, filling the hall with sounds and their reflections.
Lennart Cleemann (*1990) has a background in architecture. He studied in Hanover, Aarhus and Stuttgart. Before joining the Kunsthochschule in Stuttgart, he did an internship at Buchner Bründler Architekten in Basel (Switzerland). This time shaped his way of thinking and working attitude regarding what he calls “poetic pragmatism”. It was in Reto Boller’s art class that he discovered his affinity for direct contact with material and its emotional potency.
His work deals primarily with themes of oneness and togetherness, as well as themes of sexual desire and consumption. Liberation from a felt helplessness in the face of socially and intellectually entrenched structures is a goal of his work. He has an affinity for raw, untreated materials, which are often the starting point of his work. These are often combined with found objects from the street and construction sites and put into context with each other.
He applied to Künstlerhaus Stuttgart with the intention of using the studio provided as a test space for installations, in the sense of a dystopian apartment. The idea stems primarily from his exploration of the motif of the bed as a place of retreat, lethargy, but also intimacy and joy.
He explores emotional and relational contexts that occupy him in his everyday life. The test room can also be seen as a kind of construction site that is in constant flux. Life and death, beauty, destruction and decay have an equal right to exist here.
Janis Eckhardt’s (*1994) working method combines personal fascinations with contemporary social circumstances through the lens of constellations and objects. His works are mostly the result of a casual momentum that emerges from these accumulated materials. Performative aspects as well as the reutilization of his own and other material—plus its history, distribution and recontextualization—are the mechanisms running through his work. He is consequently always in search of a form of reproduction and representation that is not merely symbolic but rather an intervention that produces and perpetuates ambiguity.
Alba Frenzel studied at the Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig. During her studies, she focused on photography in the field of contemporary art. After receiving her diploma in the summer of 2017, she exhibited her work Fotopapier, Licht, Ei together with other prize winners as part of the photography competition gute aussichten – junge deutsche fotografie at the Deichtorhallen Hamburg. In spring 2021 her first publication Kreatur o.T. will be published by Vexer Verlag.
In her artistic-research work, she is interested in how “living art” is created. In her current research, she came across “liverwurst tree” by chance, which is on the same page as “life” in the Duden dictionary. “My work is large-scale research, dealing with the liverwurst tree as if it were art, or with art as if it were a liverwurst tree. The qualities that can be rethought to the properties of art are selected in the process.
The heterogeneous material I have collected on the tree, originally native to West Africa, comes from a variety of found sources: Images, catalog texts, videos, professional essays, and internet search results.”
As the artist group MAVA, Marlon Lanziner and Valentino Berndt have been working on the sculptural elaboration of environmental phenomenasince 2014. In their project the rain brings the color, they demonstrate how copper’s weathering processes create streaks of color on a white marble staircase as it reacts with rainwater and how this transforms the staircase’s appearance.
Marlon Lanziner (born 1989) and Valentino Berndt (born 1988) studied fine arts at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart from 2010 to 2018.
In 2019 Marlon Lanziner designed the first edition of miniature Vadonna sculptures with Eva-Marie Holzner. The unique, individually colored bronze sculptures refer on the one hand to the classic representation of the Virgin Mary as the Madonna, and on the other to the female sex. The sculptures unite both of these aspects.
In 2020 Marlon Lanziner and Valentino Berndt published the MAVA art book The Speed of the Earth, which summarizes the artistic projects from 2014 – 2020. In the following year 2021 they plan to publish the book in the context of an exhibition.
n.n.n. collective was founded by Jasmin Schädler, Julia Schäfer, and Susanne Brendel in 2014. Schädler studied theater directing at the Akademie für Darstellende Kunst Baden-Württemberg (2016) and art praxis at the Dutch Art Institute (2019). Schäfer graduated with a degree in fine arts from the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart (2020) and Brendel studied stage and costume design and visual arts at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart (2021).
Together, they develop formats grounded in both the visual and performing arts. Their content engages with literary and theoretical texts in equal measure as well as their potential to activate scenic processes. Their works have been shown in venues including the project space at the Kunstverein Wagenhalle, the Schauspiel Stuttgart, and the Theater Rampe. With the aid of a publication grant from the Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts of Baden-Württemberg, their book vom Aufgang der Sonne (From the Rising of the Sun) will be released in 2021. It will present texts and artistic works within the context of a critical examination of Hegel’s lectures on the philosophy of world history.
Helen Weber (*1994) studied fine arts in Stuttgart and Istanbul. She works individually and collectively between interior and exterior space, and is part of the Schwäbischer Online-Albverein, kollektiv_mitteperformance, and ROSANNAWIDUKIND. Weber throws herself into different contexts with a field-research approach, resulting in actions, sculptures, texts, video installations and various forms of documentation. For some time now, she has been interested in the contradictions of the “German Forest,” an ideological playground between survival, woodland solitude*, folklore, protest, ticks, nature and climate protection.
*In July 2020, the “Black Forest Rambo” Y. Rausch disarmed four police officers during a call-out to his garden hut and subsequently found shelter from police helicopters in his native Black Forest during a six-day manhunt. In a video, a local resident describes the situation: “I was busy in the garden and on my way down I was looking along the street—because you just kind of glance around then for a moment—when I saw a young man in camouflage walking down the street with a long walking stick. He was walking like a hiker.”
Stadtlücken e.V. is a group of designers from various disciplines who seek to make us more aware of public space and the urban experience and to encourage a digital-analogue network for the collaborative development of a livable city. A livable city offers non-commercial public spaces in which different people can meet and help to shape urban structures. The urban space that is to be shaped here is not only to be understood in terms of urban planning; it encompasses legal and knowledge spaces, as well as buildings and infrastructure, which must be accessible to all.
Regular discussion events such as Einmal im Monat—Wem gehört die Stadt? (Once a month—To whom does the city belong?) promote interaction and offer initiatives and interested citizens the opportunity to network further. Together they discuss urban issues such as “What is participation?”, “Where do homeless people actually live?”, or “How does cooperation work?”. Through this network, the right to the city in Stuttgart is assessed, put to the test, developed further, and implemented as a basic principle.
Stadtlücken is also working on the development of a cooperative urban space at Österreichischer Platz and on a concept for an interface between politics, administration, and citizens in the form of the Office for Public Space, which will open at the Architekturgalerie am Weißenhof in summer 2020.
Ülkü Süngün studied sculpture at the State Academy of Fine Arts. Using various media such as photography, installation, sculpture, and lecture performances, she critically examines migration and identity (politics) and memory in her work, and also carries out artistic research with her process-oriented and collaborative approach. As a lecturer at the Merz Akademie and the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart, she also explores questions of emancipation in her teaching.
Her project Institut für Künstlerische Migrationsforschung (IKMF; Institute for Artistic Migration Research) is currently being realized at the Künstlerhaus. Founded in 2017, her association enables her to make her previous artistic and sociocritical practice structurally visible and also to use spaces nomadically. As part of this project, the event series ACTIVIST ACADEMY. VISUAL STRATEGIES I was held at the Künstlerhaus in the spring of 2019, along with with several open workshops. She also had a residency with IKMF at zeitraumexit in Mannheim in 2019: GEMEINGUT JUNGBUSCH. She investigated the functions of migration and cultural institutions in the context of gentrificationin the Jungbusch neighborhood. The short film series KANAKINO with Belit Sag and Cana Bilir-Meier was the main element of this residency.
Lennart Cleemann (born 1990) studied architecture at the University of Hanover, the Aarhus School of Architecture (Denmark), and the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart, graduating with bachelor’s and master’s degrees. Before coming to the art academy in Stuttgart, he completed an internship at Buchner Bründler Architects in Basel (Switzerland). This period shaped his way of thinking and his approach to work with regard to what he refers to as “poetic pragmatism.”
In his work, he mainly focuses on themes of loneliness and togetherness, as well as sexual desire and consumption. One of the aims of his work is also the liberation from perceived helplessness in the face of firmly entrenched social and conceptual structures. He applied to the Künstlerhaus Stuttgart with the desire to use the studio provided as a test space for installations—a kind of dystopian bedroom. This idea originates primarily from his interpretation of the bed as a place of retreat and lethargy, but also intimacy and joy.
Through these Betonbetten (Concrete Beds) he explores the emotional and relational connections that hold his attention in everyday life. The test space can also be viewed as a kind of construction site in a state of constant change. Death and life both find their raison d’être here.
Alba Frenzel (born 1984) has lived in Leipzig since studying at the Academy of Fine Arts. During her studies she focused on photography in the context of contemporary art. In summer 2017, after her degree, her work Fotopapier, Licht, Ei (Photo Paper, Light, Egg), was exhibited alongside other prizewinners as part of the photography competition gute aussichten—junge deutsche fotografie at the Deichtorhallen in Hamburg. The pictures we real l created in a darkroom solely by means of the interaction between photographic paper and light. She used hen’s eggs in various physical states to create her images, which resulted indifferent shapes of varying intensity. In 2019 she began a residency at the Künstlerhaus Salzwedel.
In her photographic work Aus erdgeschichtlicher Sicht (From a Geological Perspective), she photographed ice cream counters in ice cream parlors. Due to the angle and coloration of the shot, they took on the appearance of natural rock, lava, or mud formations.
Her current work explores the creation of a living art through the lens of the Leberwurstbaum.
Jasmin Schädler is a director and visual artist. After her bachelor’s degree in physics and cultural studies, she studied theatre direction under Christof Nel at the Academy of Performing Arts Baden-Württemberg and completed a master’s degree in art practice at the Dutch Art Institute. Her artistic focus lies in the dissection of contexts and etymologies; technology and perception are currently her central concerns. Her work on the interaction between humans and algorithms is a longer-term artistic research project. She recently gave a lecture performance on this topic at Silent Green (Berlin) in May 2019.
For the festival Die irritierte Stadt (The Confused City) in 2020, she is currently creating a work with Bongile Gorata Lecoge-Zulu that deals with the performative diversity of the perception of urban space. As part of the collective die apokalyptischen tänzer*innen (www.apocalyptic.dance) she develops performances in close cooperation with Theater Rampe and also as part of Freischwimmen, a platform for young talent.
As the artist group MAVA, Marlon Lanziner and Valentino Berndt have been working on the sculptural elaboration of environmental phenomenasince 2014. In their project the rain brings the color, they demonstrate how copper’s weathering processes create streaks of color on a white marble staircase as it reacts with rainwater and how this transforms the staircase’s appearance.
Marlon Lanziner (born 1989) and Valentino Berndt (born 1988) studied fine arts at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart from 2010 to 2018. In 2019 Marlon Lanziner designed the first edition of miniature Vadonna sculptures with Eva-Marie Holzner. The unique, individually colored bronze sculptures refer on the one hand to the classic representation of the Virgin Mary as the Madonna, and on the other to the female sex.The sculptures unite both of these aspects.
Amiko Li (born 1993) is a visual artist who works in the fields of photography, text, and video. His works investigate the paradox of intimacy and distance. Through strategies of reenactment, exchange, and mistranslation, his works explore an aleatory approach to nuances in the cultural and social system, as well as the ethics of language and representation. He is currently working on a text-based project that draws from sources such as acupuncture, palmistry, the induction of psychogenic diseases, tetrachromacyin birds, evolution, value systems, and bodily autonomy.
Due to the pandemic, Amiko Li is currently not able to enter Germany, so his scholarship will be postponed accordingly.
After studying design in Bolzano, Veronika Schneider (born 1991 in Berlin) moved to Stuttgart, where she has been studying art and art education at the State Academy of Fine Arts since 2016. She studied under Rainer Ganahl, discoteca flaming star, and is currently completing her bachelor’s degree under the supervision of Antonia Low. Through museum workshops and self-initiated art programs, she interrogates the moment in which art is created. Veronika Schneider is interested in the open state of unknowing. It is to do with the human body, which is influenced by architecture, art, or other forms of symbolic violence, and is in constant contact with cold and smooth surfaces. The contrast between hard facts and intuitive knowledge is also the focus of her sculptural exploration of glass as a material.
Veronika Schneider is currently using Amiko Li’s studio, but she is not a Künstlerhaus Stuttgart scholarship holder.
June 2019 until August 2019
anorak is a curatorial trio consisting of Lukas Ludwig, Johanna Markert, and Florian Model. Their work focuses on the collaborative process and the conviction that a collaborative working method opens up possibilities that go far beyond their individual approaches. The starting point for anorak’s projects is their interest in other artistic positions, and the projects are created in close collaboration with young local and international artists and cultural workers. For anorak, creating exhibitions means developing venues for serious mutual exchange and a dialogue between young artists.
Since 2016 the trio has been running the non-profit art association Anorak e.V. with the aim of creating an institutional infrastructure that enables young artists and cultural workers to realize their works and create a discussion around them. In the first year of their studio scholarship anorak realized the exhibition project Gemini (2018/19) in cooperation with Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, Akademie Schloss Solitude, and the Delphi Cinema. Starting from the figure of the double as an other in itself, Gemini posed the question as to what extent forms of preconceived narratives—myths, fate, and history—trigger identification processes and form contemporary subjectivities within them.
The multi-part project, which began in autumn with the film premiere of A GRIN WITHOUT A CAT—THE VERY TALE by Katharina Jabs, involved an online and print magazine, an events program, and two exhibition chapters.
anorak’s studio at Künstlerhaus Stuttgart is a workspace, the headquarters of their association, a meeting place, and a starting point for new projects all at once. anorak is currently working on freelance curatorial projects, including an exhibition at Villa Merkel that will be realized in 2020 as part of the Bahnwärter scholarship.
More information can be found here: anorakanorak.com
Lowland provides a space for exchanging ideas about different artistic positions and realities. It combines a magazine with a changing interdisciplinary group of artists. During each cycle of exchange, the participating artists are given the opportunity to open up their artistic positions to each other. The founders are Anne Pflug, Christiana Teufel, and Damaris Wurster.
March 2019 until May 2019
Website: https://sophieinnmann.com
Current exhibition “Wände | Walls” at Kunstmuseum Stuttgart
September 2018 until February 2019
Sören Hiob studied at the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart with Christian Jankowski and Mike Bouchet. He works across boundaries in several fields of contemporary artistic production: from painting, sculpting and installation to his main focus on performance and video. As far as content is concerned, he increasingly tries to develop perspectives that are independent and institutionally unaffiliated. With his works Hiob has been part of numerous group exhibitions – at several places in Stuttgart, of course, but also across Europe in Wrocław, Warsaw, Vaduz, London, Edinburgh, Basel, or Rome.
Anna Romanenko (born in Moscow in 1983) initially studied theatre directing at the Theaterakademie Hamburg followed by architecture, New Media and Sculpting at the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart. She “designs objects with operative capacities as well as processes, which occur by means of objects.” Together with Björn Kühn she co-founded the performance collective Punch and Jude and the Verlag für Handbücher.
Björn Kühn (born in 1987) studied Fine Arts at the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart as well as at Goldsmiths, University of London. In addition to diverse exhibition, performance and lecture activities and well as the collaborations with Anna Romanenko mentioned above, Kühn also co-founded the magazine Copter. In their artistic practice, Romanenko and Kühn deal with “inventing new mechanisms between humans, objects and their surroundings, describing them and designing tools for those mechanisms.”
Katharina Jabs, born 1986 in Kazakhstan, is an artist and filmmaker. She studied fine art at the Staatlichen Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart, documentary film at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg, and new media at the Kyushu Sangyo University in Japan on an exchange program.
From 2016 to 2017, she was the recipient of a state postgraduate scholarship for the artistic-scientific research project Ein Grinsen ohne Katze, which drew on the methods of the Japanese documentary film avant-garde in the sixties as well contemporary film-aesthetic theories on the topic “OFF.” The shooting of her current film, Ein Grinsen ohne Katze – THE VERY TALE, has been funded by the DAAD in Japan.
In her films, Katharina Jabs works with various states of absence. An essential criterium for her filmic practice is an engagement with the materials of the “OFF” (hors-champ, off-screen space), film’s imagina-ry space that exists/insists beyond the image frame that is staged and conceived through the camera and mise en scène.
In 2017 her film TERRY JO WANTED received the “Link 2 Future” prize of Zürich’s psychoanalytic society.
anorak is a trio made up of Lukas Ludwig, Johanna Markert, and Florian Model. The collaborative process lies at the heart of their work, along with the conviction that communal working methods open up possibilities far exceeding those enabled by an individual approach. Anorak’s projects start with an interest in other artistic positions and develop in close collaboration with young local and international artists and cultural producers. In their experiments with formats like exhibitions, dinners, conversations, and film screenings, anorak tries to develop spaces for earnest, reciprocal exchange and dialogue between young artists. Since 2016 the trio has run the non-profit Kunstverein Anorak e.V. Their recent exhibition and event projects include Mixed Feelings (2016), in collaboration with the Künstlerhaus Stuttgart and Palermo Galerie, as well as In a Room (2017) at Leopoldstr. 2 in Karlsruhe.
The anorak studio at Künstlerhaus Stuttgart is simultaneously a work space, meeting place, and starting point for new projects. Anorak is currently working on a multi-part exhibition and event project titled Gemini, which will open early in the summer of 2018. Gemini will be realized in cooperation with the Akademie Schloss Solitude, among others.
January 2018 until April 2018
August 2017 until October 2017
February 2017 until April 2017
South Korean artist Minyoung Paik, born in 1983, studied textile design at Konkuk University, Seoul, South Korea, graduating in 2008. Subsequently, she studied sculpting at the State Academy of Fine Arts Munich under Magdalena Jetelová. In 2015 she became Meisterschülerin with Gregor Schneider and gained a diploma, for which she was awarded the DAAD prize. The artist has lived and worked in Munich since 2008. Her installations, objects and photographs are concerned with the cultural and political structures in her home country and the mechanisms of contemporary art.
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:
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!
For the artist’s debut exhibition in Germany, Niloufar Emamifar presents a newly produced body of work across both main gallery floors of the Künstlerhaus Stuttgart. Drawing from her study of architecture and consistent attention to the psychosocial dynamics of built space, Emamifar’s exhibition, EX GRATIA, emphasizes site-specific demands on structural capacity in responding to the needs of lived relations. This emphasis on material conditions—the insistence on operative structures—when considering interpersonal experience is a crucial aspect of Emamifar’s ongoing approach to exhibition-making. Her work carefully examines the causative relationships between site, situation, and subjectivity. For Emamifar, while living beings are not determined, they are extremely porous, thereby susceptible to the constructed systems they presently occupy and embody. The artist’s exhibition at the Künstlerhaus Stuttgart is attuned to this vulnerability—the artist leans into the work of exposure within surrounding circumstances, while also recognizing how individuated experience is not ultimately separate from the oppressive structural realities shouldered by many. The conditions encountered by Emamifar in producing EX GRATIA necessitated efforts by the artist to develop lasting structures that could be applicable for future artists working at the Künstlerhaus Stuttgart and at other art sector institutions in the German context.
In contracting Emamifar to produce an exhibition at the Künstlerhaus Stuttgart (KHS), it became apparent that the KHS does not have legal-economic infrastructure in place to be accessible to visa-applicant, migrant, displaced, and refugee status artists/workers. Provisions such as legal counsel support, annual earmarked funds, or staff training devoted to the needs of such contracted workers have not been established at this forty-five-year-old institution. Like many art institutions in the German context and beyond, artists facing barriers to cross-border migration are contracted on a case-by-case basis at the KHS, with no institutional guidelines, protocols, or procedures established in coordination with state laws. In responding to the systemic inadequacies and under-resourced infrastructure at the KHS, Emamifar allocated a portion of her exhibition budget to hiring legal counsel to produce a legal feasibility assessment and draft a set of practicable guidances for the KHS to be capable of working with visa-applicant, migrant, displaced, and refugee status artists.
Rather than solely drawing up an individual work contract, Emamifar tasked legal counsel with producing a shared policy document that could be implemented institution-wide for all future instances when the KHS contracts an artist to come work in Stuttgart, Germany on an exhibition, program, or other limited-term work. Legal counsel organized this proposed framework as a set of modules to anticipate distinct cases where artists are contracted by the KHS, with the emphasis on project-based work rather than full-time employment. While recognizing that jurisdictionally-specific law must account for situational-specificities in different cases, advocates for legal rights also recognize the need for standards of regulation and protection. It is well known how certain doctrines often codify, legitimize, and enforce individual rights at the expense of collective struggles to achieve systemic change. Equitable hiring practices increasingly call for transparent standards, rather than approaching a worker’s contract on an individualized case-by-case basis which often reduces efforts against structural oppression to isolated individual grievances and remediations. In working with potential governance arrangements and legal aid infrastructure, Emamifar’s exhibition grapples with the law as a largely inaccessible system, which has also been shaped by ongoing histories of immigration law, poverty law, labor law and other advocates for greater accessibility and the asserting of rights within a legal order that too often merely codifies what dominant economic authority has qualified as justice. And of course, the law is not a neutral framework of conduct. It is defined.
While committed to effectively redefining foundational and underlying structures, Emamifar is ambivalent about the role of artists as short-term workers who engage in capacity-building for the long-term prospect of an art institution. There is real danger for artists as project-based laborers when they intervene in governance structures of hosting institutions. Artists are left economically destitute, foreclosed upon, or discarded, when they operate beyond their expected role by attempting to intervene in institutional administration. This danger is precisely why Emamifar has brought in key collaborators—legal counsel—to take on a substantial behind-the-scenes and public-facing role in engaging with the structural conditions of the institution. Emamifar’s exhibition includes a built stage where representative legal counsel, Nora Ebeling, will give a public presentation on the practicable legal-economic guidances for the KHS to utilize when contracting visa-applicant, migrant, displaced, and refugee status artists. Emamifar’s decision to construct a platform for Ebeling’s public presentation of this proposed legal-economic infrastructure underscores vital interrelated questions for the artist: What are the risks of visibility and platforming—of representation— when seeking to actualize lived political realities? What does it mean for Emamifar to assign Ebeling with the public-facing work of exposure and education in confronting audiences with the structural imperatives for visa-applicant, migrant, displaced, and refugee status workers? To what extent will this legal-economic framework serve as both an internal and outward facing policy, offering everyday considerations that are specific to the KHS, as well as reproducible models of institutional conduct that challenge the inequitable, exclusionary, and discriminatory hiring practices so prevalent in the art sector at large?
The title of Emamifar’s exhibition, Ex gratia, refers to the term as used in a legal context for a payment that is made not out of legal obligation but because the circumstances justify it. It is a kind of standard practice recognized by the law that is irregular, a legally recognized consideration that is extra-legal. Ex gratia payments are morally justified but legally unsanctioned—that is, they are a means of recourse potentially more exacting than those mandated by law. Emamifar’s exhibition includes a fully executed agreement between the artist and KHS that governs the storage of materials owned by the artist within a safe deposit box located on the fourth floor of the KHS for as long as KHS rents the building at its current location. A key provision of this agreement is that Emamifar may grant an assignee access to any of the many safe deposit boxes the artist has made available. In the event that the artist grants an assignee access to a safe deposit box, all terms and conditions of the agreement apply to the assignee just as they do to the artist. This signed agreement is included in the exhibition pamphlet.
Program
05/06/2023 (7pm)
Opening reception
06/24/2023 (3-5pm)
Nora Ebeling, legal counsel, public presentation and workshop at the Künstlerhaus Stuttgart
06/25/2023 (3-4pm)
Eric Golo Stone, artistic director of the Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, gives a tour of the exhibition open to the public
Realized with the generous support of Stiftung Kunstfonds NEUSTART KULTUR and the Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen. In addition, this project was supported in the form of a production residency by Callie’s, Berlin.
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)
This project is supported by an Innovationsfond grant from the culture ministry of the regional government of Baden-Württemberg.
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.
Tickets cost 22 €, concessions (trainees, students, pupils) 16 €, children up to 6 years have free admission.
Advance ticket sales for the Long Night of the Museums will take place from 24 February at
www.lange-nacht.de, under the ticket hotline 0711/601717 30 and at all advance booking offices in Stuttgart and the region.
Box office tickets are available at all participating houses. Pre-sale tickets will be converted into a ticket band at the box office the first time you visit a house.
The Long Night Ticket entitles you to free use of all trams, S-Bahns and buses in the VVS network from 12 noon.
More information at www.lange-nacht.de, the information and ticket hotline 0711/601717 30 and at the information stand on Schlossplatz between Landesmuseum/Altes Schloss and Alter Kanzlei (from 25.03., 3 pm).
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
Gefördert von
Stadtlücken, Stuttgart
Mofa – Mannheim´s Ort für Architektur
Kulturamt, Stadt Stuttgart
Ministerium für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kunst Baden Württemberg
Danke für die Freundliche Unterstützung
ato.vision, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Stadtzimmer der Kunsthalle Mannheim, Rimini Protokoll, Künstlerhaus Stuttgart
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.
This project is supported by an Innovationsfond grant from the culture ministry of the regional government of Baden-Württemberg
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.
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, and to envision how from this process the Center will advance a commitment to mobilizing networks of Indigenous artists, culture bearers, and Native-led arts organizations. 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 Center for Native Arts and Cultures was founded in 2021 as the headquarters of the non-profit Native Arts and Cultures Foundation after taking up the transfer of ownership of the historically registered Yale Union Laundry Building, a two-story commercial structure and surrounding land parcel, in the city of Portland, Oregon, which was previously owned by an artist-run space called Yale Union. This working group serves as a contribution to a larger series of internal focus groups currently being convened by the Center for Native Arts and Cultures to gather input on its organizational capacity and structural conditions as it situates operations, exhibitions, and educational programs in the newly acquired building. While acknowledging the land that this particular building sits on, working responsibly in various local level contexts to reflect the history of previous Native tribes and peoples who inhabited the land for the purposes of use rather than ownership has always been crucial to the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation. Additionally, efforts around the transfer of Yale Union to the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation reflect a broader movement to address ongoing historical inequities stemming from land ownership and property in the US and beyond.
This inter-institutional collaborative project is consistent with the ethos of the Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, which was founded by artists in 1978 as a place where producers from around the world convene to discuss their conditions of artistic production. Its foundational structure situates artistic interests and institutional capacity as closely interrelated. The Künstlerhaus Stuttgart seeks to engage in knowledge sharing with respect to the Center for Native Arts and Cultures’ specific interests in Indigenous approaches to artistic production, organizational capacity, and governance arrangements, as well as decolonial education that includes learning in water rights, reparations, and land use justice. Germany is yet another site from which these discussions must necessarily take place. There is little question that current German land law has been shaped through German colonial empire and its patrician city-state colonial encounters in the global context. Germany has a long complex history of implementing laws to seize property and assert land ownership. This confiscatory history of legal-economic structures ratified by Germany and the broader European colonial venture has fundamentally altered the management of land and related resources globally. And it must be recognized how these fundamental changes extend to the lived social relations, economic conditions, and cultural practices imbricated with Indigenous and existing forms of land use. This project focuses on a specific set of lived questions and material challenges that the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation and its Center for Native Arts and Cultures is confronting, but which are also part of the research, education, and outreach efforts today that emphasize rebuilding, restitution, and reparations efforts of Indigenous peoples worldwide as they seek to strengthen internal governance capacities and realize political, economic, and community development objectives.
Contributors include: Maile Andrade, Natalie Diaz, Healoha Johnston, Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Joy Harjo, Flint Jamison, Brandy Nālani McDougall, New Red Order, and Allison Akootchook Warden. With representatives from the Center for Native Arts and Cultures: Lulani Arquette, Reuben Tomás Roqueñi, and Gabriella Tagliacozzo.
The working group and accompanying reader are organized and edited by Healoha Johnston, Director of Cultural Resources, and Curator for Hawaiʻi and Pacific Arts and Culture at the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, with Eric Golo Stone, Artistic Director of the Künstlerhaus Stuttgart.
Never Settle: The Program by New Red Order, on view:
February 17 – April 2, 2023
Document collection on view:
February 17 – April 2, 2023
KHS Educators programs:
Thora Gerstner: February 26 (3pm – 5pm) and March 2 (2pm –4pm)
Yara Richter: March 4 (3pm – 6pm)
Lejla Dendic: March 5 (3 – 4:30pm) and March 11 (2pm – 3:30pm)
Ludgi Porto: March 17, 18, and 19 (2pm – 6pm)
Detailed information about each of the programs by the Educators may be found on the Künstlerhaus Stuttgart website.
Working Group Reader Launch and Performance by Tiokasin Ghosthorse: March 31, 7pm
Working Group Session 1: April 1, 1pm – 4pm
Working Group Session 2: April 2, 1pm – 4pm
Performance by Allison Akootchook Warden: April 2, 5pm
This project is supported by an Innovationsfond grant from the culture ministry of the regional government of Baden-Württemberg
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:
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CV
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documentation of your artistic work, such as portfolio, catalogues (max. 2 books), images etc.
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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.
Flint Jamison’s exhibition at the Künstlerhaus Stuttgart investigates a tax-incentivized art loan program called “Masterworks on Loan,” which was established in 2015 at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA), a collecting museum on the campus of the public state University of Oregon, in Eugene, USA. Jamison’s exhibition of newly commissioned work presents a damaging account of this museum loan program during the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Ultimately, Jamison reconsiders to what extent the JSMA settles the terms that define the museum’s obligation to serve a public who supports the institution through tax deductions, and for whose benefit it exists as a charitable organization. This reconsideration extends from the seemingly small and localized case of the JSMA, to the broader role art sector institutions have in conceptualizing, legitimizing, and implementing tax laws that facilitate divestment of public interests through extraction and exploitation.
Jamison’s exhibition at the Künstlerhaus Stuttgart builds on his previous work exposing the lived politics of tax law, and it draws from a broad spectrum of literature relied upon by journalists investigating tax law and by critical tax theorists. Critical tax theory is a field of groundbreaking legal scholarship that examines the political and discriminatory aspects of tax law. It is an intellectual discipline that seeks to recognize how deeply consequential tax law is in managing property ownership, vast income inequalities, disproportionate exemptions, inherited advantages, disincentives, and indebtedness. Challenging historical claims that tax law is neutral or unbiased, critical tax theory intersects with other fields studying the ongoing impact of tax laws that have been ratified in the service of colonialism, class oppression, and racial-economic subordination. Significantly, critical tax theory has also long insisted that a complete study of the political dynamics of tax law would require an understanding of specific cultural contexts in which the tax laws operate.
Tax laws increasingly determine the operative structure of art institutions. The expansion of arts patronage globally is inextricably bound to the preferential tax laws that wealthy individuals, foundations, and corporations aggressively lobby for at the city, regional, and federal level. Consequently, the art sector has become dedicated to inventing and upholding legal-economic structures that reduce tax liability for high-net-worth individuals. This legal-economic bias mobilized through art is evidenced today by artworks as tax-exempt assets, art philanthropy as system of tax avoidance, and art workers as a freelance labor force that shifts the tax burden away from employers and onto the worker. Of course, it must be recognized that tax-avoidance laws are not solely distant legal permissions advocated for by the wealthy—these are laws that the broader art field routinely promotes as beneficial to artists, art institutions, art audiences, and the public at large.
Künstlerhaus educators engage visitors in conversation about the exhibition: Wed–Sun 12–6pm
Eric Golo Stone, artistic director of the Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, gives a tour of the exhibition (in English): November 20, 2022 (3pm)
Juliane Gebhardt, assistant curator of the Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, gives a tour of the exhibition (in German): December 11, 2022 (3pm)
This exhibition has been realized with public funding from the city of Stuttgart and was also supported with a donation by Galerie Max Mayer.
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.
The monthly financial support is possible thanks to the generosity of private donors.
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
After two years of forced break due to corona, an exhibition will take place again this year in Stuttgart’s city hall. For this, the Künstlerhaus invited its artist members via Open Call to participate and submit works on this year’s theme of the exhibition “Island”.
21 artists have been selected and will again provide an insight into their current work in the 6th edition of the city hall exhibition. The artists not only draw on different media, but also approach the theme of the exhibition in different ways in terms of content and concept.
The cross-generational group exhibition once again impressively demonstrates the role of Künstlerhaus Stuttgart as a place of exchange as well as artistic production, and it also represents the cross-section of Stuttgart’s artistic diversity.
Mit freundlicher Unterstützung der Landeshauptstadt Stuttgart
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.
The work of Anike Joyce Sadiq consistently reconsiders the extent to which social dynamics, intersectionality, and perspectives of difference are negotiated within institutional structures. Sadiq’s exhibition projects often produce scenographic spaces with installation works that activate a social-situational awareness of the immediate institutional context. The artist creates mechanisms and platforms for attentiveness to one’s social surroundings, including the people, their interactions, and their behaviors. Sadiq is interested in how interactive, divergent, and converging lived relations specifically play out within sites of artistic production and reception. The scenographic spaces that Sadiq produces contend with fundamental challenges to social connectivity, recognizing for instance that disclosure and exchange are pursued within art institutional structures that too frequently undermine these pursuits. Informing the planning, construction, and use of these spaces Sadiq creates within institutions, the artist at times takes an active mediating role in communications with representatives of the hosting institution and invited collaborators. Sadiq works as an interlocutor, seeking out other interlocutors and inviting in allies, in order to examine dependencies, reciprocities, differences, and hierarchies within the institutions where the artist works. Taking on this high-risk role of internal mediation in producing her exhibition projects, Sadiq employs a position of critical ambivalence that recognizes how institutions intended to be places of public-facing accessibility and facilitation almost always operate internally by deferral and obstruction.
Anike Joyce Sadiq’s first major monographic exhibition in Stuttgart, Mit Glück hat es nichts zu tun, presents newly produced work that carries forward the artist’s investigations into complex social dynamics through mediated spaces that center perceptions of difference. Sadiq’s exhibition at the Künstlerhaus Stuttgart comprises multiple interrelated pieces situated within a large-scale installation. Sadiq wrote a questionnaire addressed to all association members of the Künstlerhaus Stuttgart.[1] The questionnaire itself and the responses to this multiple-choice survey are presented in the exhibition gallery. Additionally, beyond the artist’s exhibition in Stuttgart, the survey and database of survey results will be maintained indefinitely as an openly accessible online platform, with Sadiq distributing the survey to art institutions globally while updating language and other accessibility features to the website as the platform is more widely distributed. While the survey reflects on the status quo and demographics—the racially- specific, gender-specific, class-specific relations—that currently constitute the Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, Sadiq has created a large-scale installation in the gallery that is devoted to generating critically reflexive discussions about the future potential of the institution. Built from a repurposed scaffolding system, Sadiq’s installation emphasizes contingent relations and conditional infrastructure. Focusing on this critical horizon, Sadiq invited a semi-autonomous organization associated with the Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, named the Fourth Organ, to hold their monthly meetings within the large installation. Sadiq has been actively engaged in the Fourth Organ meetings since the organization’s founding in 2020, at the outset of the pandemic and most recent social justice uprising. The Fourth Organ is intended to offer an open, inclusive, interstitial space within the Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, where individuals and groups can voice their interests for the institution. But the Fourth Organ is not solely a space for voicing open proposals or the politics of protest, the monthly meetings are intended to serve a very specific purpose of developing formal motions to be voted on at the annual membership meeting. For Sadiq, the porousness of the Fourth Organ is consistent with her artistic interests in holding space for contentious social dynamics and dissenting positions within art institutions. Because the Fourth Organ meetings are open to board members, staff members, association members, and non-members alike, safety and discretion are challenged by the authority dynamics present in these gatherings. The final work in Sadiq’s exhibition is an interview text the artist conducted with the writer Andrea Scrima that reflects on their experiences working in art institutions, with specific case-study attention given to recent experiences working within the Villa Romana, a German art institution which oversees a residency program in Florence Italy, and which offers related exhibitions and programming. Sadiq’s and Scrima’s incredibly candid first-person account evidences their experiential research into institutional conduct broadly, while also focusing in on the particularly fraught socio-economic conditions of the Villa Romana.[2]
Schedule of Programs:
21/05/2022 (8pm)
Judith Hamann performs a site-specific sound work within the exhibition installation
10/06/2022 (6.30pm)
Discussion with Anike Joyce Sadiq, Simone Frangi, Justin Randolph Thompson, Lucrezia Cipitelli, Alessandra Ferrini, and Andrea Scrima at the Villa Romana, in Florence, Italy
04/06/22 & 04/07/22 & 04/07/22 (7pm) & 04/09/22 (2-6pm)
Fourth Organ Meetings: Open to all members and anyone who may be considering membership. A space for initiatives, criticisms, and perspectives, while supporting discussions that consider relations between artistic and institutional practices
19/06/2022 (3pm)
Eric Golo Stone, Artistic Director of the Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, gives a tour of the exhibition open to the public at the Künstlerhaus Stuttgart
Wed/Thu/Fri/Sat/Sun (12—6pm)
Künstlerhaus educators lead public discussions of the exhibition
[1] Consistent with the kunstverein structure, the Künstlerhaus Stuttgart is constituted by the legal-economic structures of association law in Germany. The Künstlerhaus Stuttgart currently has over 500 members.
[2] For each work within the exhibition, Sadiq engages in the complex messy work of analyzing, embodying, and enacting institutional structures. The work of institutional analysis and critique is frequently dismissed as being easily adopted and neutralized by the institution in question, but this dismissive characterization of institutional work does not account for the hard fought behind-the-scenes efforts by artists and their collaborators. It must not be forgotten that there are real limitations to confronting institutional structures through artistic positions, with artists’ projects being canceled and collaborating institutional representa- tives having their jobs terminated.
Mit Glück hat es nichts zu tun at the Künstlerhaus Stuttgart has been organized in cooperation with Anike Joyce Sadiq’s concurrent presentation of her works “You never Look at Me from the Place from which I See You” (2015), “Papierstück” (2014) and “Berührung” (2008) at the permanent collection of the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart.
Realized with public funding from the city of Stuttgart
With the generous support of the Stiftung Kunstfonds
In collaboration with the Akademie Schloss Solitude
Over the past decade, Bea Schlingelhoff has become increasingly known for producing site-responsive and situationally-specific exhibition projects that test institutional capacity for exposure work. Schlingelhoff’s exhibitions often initiate or accelerate an internal reflexive process of uncovering, divulging, and repairing historical trauma present within the immediate context of exhibiting institutions that hire the artist. For Schlingelhoff, tasking institutional representatives with this behind-the- scenes work of confrontational exposure and reparative justice is an artistic position-taking—a means by which the artist as a short-term contracted worker attempts to maintain safe distance from the deeply unsafe social conditions inherent to all institutions, and particularly with respect to transitional institutions claiming to be committed to structural change. Anticipating real danger when the freighted memory, identity, and legacy of an institution is unsettled, Schlingelhoff calls on institutional representatives to respond to this induced stress test. In doing so, the artist’s exhibitions consistently gauge institutional responsibility by asking: what capacity to respond do representatives have on behalf of their unsettling institutions?
Bea Schlingelhoff’s exhibition, Declined Declinations, proposes a legal institutional name change of the Künstlerhaus Stuttgart. Over the course of a multi-month process that began with an initial site visit in July of 2020, the artist prepared and submitted formal motions to change the gendered institutional name “Künstlerhaus” (“the male artists’ house”), and to change language in the institutional bylaws that reflects this gender-specific bias. The Künstlerhaus Stuttgart was founded by artists in 1978 as a space for artists to produce onsite while also discussing and redefining the onsite production conditions. It is an institutional context that is structurally equipped for reconsiderations of governance and policy-making from the perspective of art producers. This emphasis on the laboring artist who is not external to the art institution is embodied in the name of the “artist’s house,” a widely replicated categorical name of an art institution in the German-speaking context that offers onsite production and residency facilities for artists (i.e., the Künstlerhaus Bremen, the Künstlerhaus Dortmund, the Künstlerhaus Bethanien, etc). Consistent with the kunstverein structure, the Künstlerhaus Stuttgart is constituted by the legal-economic structures of association law in Germany, with bylaws that stipulate association members’ voting rights in governing the institution. The vast majority of members at the Künstlerhaus Stuttgart are artists who pay the requisite annual membership fee of twenty-five euros. Other than this annual membership fee, there are no sanctioned conditions for becoming a member. Immediately upon gaining membership, any new member may submit motions to be voted on by the membership. Members of the Künstlerhaus Stuttgart vote at the general assembly. The general assembly is a legally required body. Every association must hold a general or annual general assembly meeting at the intervals specified in the association’s articles of association. Members at the general assembly may elect members of the board, vote on various resolutions, and vote to change the statutes. Consequently, artists occupy a position that closely interrelates institutional governance arrangements and the immediate conditions of artistic production at the Künstlerhaus Stuttgart. Artistic positions and artistic criteria—rather than purely bureaucratic positions or technocratic criteria—are central to the administrative work of structural governance. And by emphasizing artists as primary contributors to governing decisions, the Künstlerhaus Stuttgart potentially challenges the settled expectation that artists’ work should amount to purely content-related outcomes.
In 2021, Schlingelhoff became a member of the Künstlerhaus Stuttgart and submitted two formal motions that were voted on at the annual general assembly in November of that year. The first motion stipulated a change of name from Künstlerhaus Stuttgart to Künstlerinnenhaus Stuttgart (“the women artists’ house,” or “the female-identifying artists’ house”). This motion was defeated with 10 yes votes, 15 no votes, and 8 abstentions. The second motion stipulated that any language in the bylaws where the generic masculine is used would be changed to the generic feminine. This second motion was defeated with 7 yes votes, 19 no votes, and 4 abstentions. There were three widely expressed reasons for the down votes, which were communicated to Schlingelhoff by fellow members and institutional representatives. Firstly, the membership and institutional administration at large needed more time to become familiarized, informed, and educated on the political imperatives at stake as well as the practical implications of renaming the institution. Secondly, it was expressed that Schlingelhoff’s motion to change the name of the institution was reductive in that it offered only one single name change option selected by one member artist (this point was sometimes taken further to argue against an artist joining the membership to immediately propose structural changes to the institution, while also then presenting these proposed structural changes as material within an exhibition of their work). Lastly, it was expressed that within the context of gender-politics and broader political realities, changing an institutional name and corresponding language of the bylaws is a relatively trivial matter.
To this last point on the relative triviality of language, Schlingelhoff felt the response was obvious. There is of course a necessary correlation between the structures of society and those of language. The biases and exclusions of language are imprinted and internalized every day from a very young age consistently through life. The uncovering of the gendered and racialized nature of many linguistic rules and the unsettling of norms in how the use of language can be analyzed from a feminist viewpoint has proven to be of critical importance. And at this point, the various arguments that have been presented for retaining masculine/generic usage have been thoroughly documented, illustrated, and analyzed. There is a strange contradiction when one so adamantly refutes what one believes to be so trivial.[1] In response to the other expressed points, Schlingelhoff prepared and submitted a new set of motions to be voted on at the annual general assembly in March of 2022. Schlingelhoff submitted nine motions, each offering a different institutional name option. These nine name options were taken directly from widely accessible German language publishing style guidelines on the gender formulation of the phrase “artists’ house.” Schlingelhoff wanted to make sure the maximum number of variations on the gender formulation were represented, while keeping close to the most widely used gender neutral language guidelines and gender diversity teaching manuals (there are no established gender-neutral standard publishing guidelines as of yet in Germany). The only condition Schlingelhoff applied was that a name option could not entirely avoid confronting the gender politics (for instance, with the “Kunsthaus” Stuttgart, “the art house” Stuttgart). The nine name options proposed were as follows: 1.) Künstlerinnenhaus (generic feminine); 2.) Künstler/-innenhaus (forward slash with supplementary dash); 3.) KünstlerInnenhaus (internal capitalized letter “I”); 4.) Künstler:innenhaus (colon); 5.) Künstler*innenhaus (asterisk); 6.) Künstler_innenhaus (underscore); 7.) Künstler•innenhaus (bullet point); 8.) KünstlXhaus (X ending); 9.) Künstlerinnen- und Künstlerhaus (double naming).[2] While there is no conclusively fixed or settled agreement, each of the different typographic conventions used in these name options is recognized within the German publishing context as intended to disrupt the grammatical gender binary that is inherent in the German language.[3]
On March 17th of this year, 2022, the nine motions, and corresponding motions to change the language of the bylaws to mirror each of the nine motions, were up for a vote at the general assembly. These motions had been submitted weeks prior to the assembly so that they could be distributed to the entire membership two weeks in advance of the general assembly. There were meetings leading up to the assembly to provide opportunities for members to discuss the institutional renaming and change to the bylaws, and Schlingelhoff held an information session for the membership a day prior to the assembly. On the day of the general assembly, just before the nine name change motions were to be voted on, a member invoked their right to raise a motion without prior notification—a point of order that did not need to be submitted weeks in advance through the procedure to have a motion entered into the general assembly meeting agenda. This member raised the following point of order for a vote: “Shall the motions to amend the bylaws to change the name of the Künstlerhaus Stuttgart be voted on today?” The resulting vote tally on this member’s point of order was 15 yes votes, 26 no votes, and 5 abstentions.[4] As a result of this sudden foreclosure of the vote on the nine motions to change the name of the institution, Schlingelhoff withdrew the corresponding motions to change the language of the bylaws. It should be mentioned that invoking one’s individual right in order to foreclose a planned vote from even taking place is a longstanding tradition within the history of oppression.
Schedule of Programs:
19/06/2022 (3pm)
Eric Golo Stone, Artistic Director of the Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, gives a tour of the exhibition open to the public at the Künstlerhaus Stuttgart
Wed/Thu/Fri/Sat/Sun (12—6pm)
Künstlerhaus educators lead public discussions of the exhibition
[1] There have been centuries of misogyny consciously and unconsciously attacking and mocking against language movements. They have been well covered, as follows: “(1) the ‘cross- cultural’ arguments; (2) the ‘language is a trivial concern’ arguments; (3) the ‘freedom of speech,/ unjustified coercion’ arguments; (4) the ‘sexist language is not sexist’ arguments; (5) the ‘word- etymology’ arguments; (6) the ‘appeal to authority’ arguments; (7) the `change is too difficult, inconvenient, impractical or whatever’ arguments; and (8) the ‘it would destroy historical authenticity and literary works’ arguments.” For being such ‘a trivial concern’ efforts against language bias have received an inexplicable amount of attention in both academia and the media, and an inordinate degree of resistance to change. Maija S. Blaubergs, “An analysis of classic arguments against changing sexist language,” Women’s Studies International Quarterly, Volume 3, Issues 2–3, 1980, Pages 135–147.
[2] Schlingelhoff’s exhibition project engages with longstanding and ongoing discussions about how unsettled the German language is with respect to gender politics and identity formation. Identity formations and the language for fully recognizing these identity formations is a critical horizon, a process that is unfixed and developing. With respect to this horizon and transformation, it is important to mention that Schlingelhoff is strongly opposed to any project where female identifying individuals and groups are pitted against gender variant or gender non-conforming individuals and groups. To pit these experiences against each other is to neutralize the politics of difference and ultimately adhere to the patriarchal status quo.
[3] There are many available resources for referencing these typographic conventions, gender- neutral language publishing guidelines, and gender diversity teaching manuals in the German context. Please see: Steinhauer, Anja and Diewald, Gabriele, “Richtig gendern: Wie Sie an- gemessen und verständlich schreiben” Berlin: Bibliographisches Institut Duden, (2017). See also: Abbt, Christine und Kammasch, Tim, “Punkt, Punkt, Komma, Strich?: Geste, Gestalt und Bedeutung philosophischer Zeichensetzung,” Edition Moderne Postmoderne, Bielefeld, (2009). For english language readers, please see: Leue, Elisabeth (2000). “Gender and Language In Germany.” Debatte: Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe. Routledge. 8(2): 163–176. There is also of course comparative research to look at in other language and publishing contexts. For instance, the term “Latinx” has been widely used to disrupt the grammatical gender binary that is inherent in the Spanish language (the gender-neutral 〈-x〉 suffix replaces the 〈-o/-a〉 ending of Latino and Latina that are typical of grammatical gender in Spanish).
[4] This point of order and the vote tally (as with all the numerical outcomes of the general assemblies referred to in this text) are taken directly from the official meeting minutes. The reported meeting minutes of any registered kunstverein in Germany must by law be publicly accessible information.
Realized with public funding from the city of Stuttgart
With the generous support of the Stiftung Kunstfonds NEUSTART KULTUR
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!
Choose cake display position based on the sun. You wouldn’t want to put your cake table on the sunny side of your tent.
Choose a lighter colour for your cake.
Use a glass cover if your cake is able to fit inside one.
Indoors, the venue should definitely have ample air conditioning.
Consider asking your cake designer about inserting some faux tiers.
Talk to your cake designer and/or wedding planner.
The three-day exhibition “How to protect your wedding cake” by Lennart Cleemann, Lena Meinhardt, Sophia Sadzakov and Eva Dörr is an invitation to stroll – to haptic, audio-visual dreaming. To detach oneself from the ground, via the wind, the rocking, the lullaby, via utopia to the supposedly light emptiness.
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.
Andrea Fraser’s new work This meeting is being recorded (2021) is coproduced by the Hammer Museum and Künstlerhaus Stuttgart. Production was supported by a grant from the Mike Kelley Foundation, which also supported Hammer Projects: Andrea Fraser, a 2019 exhibition at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, which included a presentation of Men on the Line and an associated publication, Andrea Fraser: Collected Interviews, 1990–2018, edited by Andrea Fraser, Rhea Anastas, and Alejandro Cesarco (New York and London: A.R.T. Press and Koenig Books, 2019).
This workshop—co-organized by Rhea Anastas, Andrea Fraser, and Eric Golo Stone—was made possible through the generous support of the Stiftung Kunstfonds in the form of a 2021 NEUSTART KULTUR Grant.
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.
Andrea Fraser’s new work This meeting is being recorded (2021) is coproduced by the Hammer Museum and Künstlerhaus Stuttgart. Production was supported by a grant from the Mike Kelley Foundation, which also supported Hammer Projects: Andrea Fraser, a 2019 exhibition at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, which included a presentation of Men on the Line and an associated publication, Andrea Fraser: Collected Interviews, 1990–2018, edited by Andrea Fraser, Rhea Anastas, and Alejandro Cesarco (New York and London: A.R.T. Press and Koenig Books, 2019).
This workshop—co-organized by Rhea Anastas, Andrea Fraser, and Eric Golo Stone—was made possible through the generous support of the Stiftung Kunstfonds in the form of a 2021 NEUSTART KULTUR Grant.
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
Opening hours exhibition
The exhibition will be closed from 22 December to 06 January. On 07 January 2022 the exhibition will be open again at the regular times for visitors.
Wed – Sun 12 to 6pm
Free entrance
Opening hours office
From 20 December 2021 to 10 January 2022 the office is closed.
Mon closed
Tue – Fri 12 to 5pm
2G+ rule
For the visit of our exhibitions and events the 2G+ rule is valid. This means that only vaccinated and recovered persons with an additional negative rapid test are admitted. Exceptions: Those who have been boostered or whose full immunization / recovery was not longer than three months ago are exempt from testing at 2G+. It is also mandatory to wear an FFP2 mask. A simple medical mask is no longer sufficient.
„ABOUT:BLANK“
30 min, Documentary HD, German with English subtitles
By Julian Bogenfeld
The movie “About:Blank” shows insights of an art happening that took place in the premises of the LAF (Leerstand als Freiraum e.V.) Pforzheim in May 2018: A group of artists lives and works for 3 days in an empty commercial space, an old shop with large windows, opposite the city’s town hall. The luggage is limited to one piece per person, for the artistic work on site. The tight time frame and the clear definition of the place are meant to stimulate artistic exchange. The interdisciplinarity and openness of the format promises unexpected results. The film shows images from a time before Corona and recalls freedoms of art that were not given in the past months.
Direction and production: Julian Bogenfeld
Duration 30 min, German with English subtitles
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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!
Next Tuesday Workshop Dec 14th 2021 with Alba Frenzel
For our tenth Tuesday workshop we invite Dirk Reimes.
12.10.2021, 7 pm
The event will take place in presence at the Künstlerhaus.
Dirk Reimes
is a visual artist living and working between Brussels and Stuttgart. His practice feeds from a continuous field research on the everyday and the ordinary. The methods and tools of this research, as well as the forms and formats of the results, are wide-ranging and include images, objects, and texts. In the Tuesday workshop, he will present his current book “sous un ciel partagé entre nuages et éclaircies,” which is based on a year of research in Brussels and combines autobiography with fiction, everyday experiences with found contemporary testimonies.
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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!
Since the 1980s, Andrea Fraser has achieved renown for work that interrogates social and psychological structures with incisive analysis, humor, and pathos. While Fraser’s work often is associated with critical investigations of art institutions, her performances since the mid-2000s have turned toward examining the intersections between sociopolitical and psychological structures as these produce and reproduce individual and group identity as well as social systems. Fraser’s solo exhibition at Künstlerhaus Stuttgart brings this examination into focus with three performance-based video installations: Projection (2008), Men on the Line: Men Committed to Feminism, KPFK, 1972 (2012/2014), and her major new work, This meeting is being recorded (2021), a ninety-eight-minute video exploring the processes and formation of race, gender, and age within an intergenerational group of seven self-identified white women.
While they do not comprise a formal trilogy, Projection, Men on the Line, and This meeting is being recorded are clearly linked by process, method, and formal strategy. All three works build on the multivoice performance practice Fraser has developed since the early 1990s. All three are shot against black backdrops and projected life-size to affect the experience of being in the same room as the performer. All three are performed directly to the camera to include the viewer in the dialogue. All three are based on recordings of forms of dialogue with high emotional stakes that are usually very private but which Fraser brings into the public realm. And all three are informed by Fraser’s understanding of performance as a practice of capturing and framing the processes of internalization and projection, incorporation and enactment through which the social and the psychological intersect in the production and reproduction of social identity, groups, and institutions. Combining rigorous investigation and intimate self-exposure, Fraser explores how artistic, intellectual, and political positions are driven by emotional needs and how psychological forces both shape and are shaped by social and political structures.
This meeting is being recorded: Andrea Fraser is organized by curator Rhea Anastas and Eric Golo Stone, artistic director of the Künstlerhaus Stuttgart.
Full exhibition text may be read in the pamphlet above.
The video works in the exhibition will be shown in English only. However, the performance scripts of Projection and Men on the Line can be viewed in English and German on request in the galleries.
Please note that proof of recovery, negative testing or full vaccination is required to visit the exhibition and all related events. We look forward to your visit!
Schedule of Programs:
09/28/2021 (7 pm):
Andrea Fraser gives a public lecture at ABK-Stuttgart, followed by a discussion with curator Rhea Anastas
(registration by e-mail to veranstaltungen(at)abk-stuttgart.de is necessary due to limited capacities)
10/01/2021 (open to students only):
Andrea Fraser conducts a workshop with students from the Body, Theory, and Poetics of the Performative program in the Department of Art at the ABK-Stuttgart Heusteigtheater
10/16/2021 (3pm):
Eric Golo Stone, artistic director of the Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, gives a tour of the exhibition open to the public at the Künstlerhaus Stuttgart
02/12/2022 (3pm):
Curator and psychotherapist Jamie Stevens conducts a workshop with Alex Davidson open to the public at the Künstlerhaus Stuttgart
03/19/2022 (3pm):
Nikita Gale conducts a workshop open to the public at the Künstlerhaus Stuttgart
Fri, Sat, Sun 12–6pm:
Künstlerhaus educators lead public discussions of the exhibition
Fraser’s new work This meeting is being recorded (2021) is coproduced by the Hammer Museum and Künstlerhaus Stuttgart. Production was supported by a grant from the Mike Kelley Foundation, which also supported Hammer Projects: Andrea Fraser, a 2019 exhibition at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, which included a presentation of Men on the Line and an associated publication, Andrea Fraser: Collected Interviews, 1990–2018, edited by Andrea Fraser, Rhea Anastas, and Alejandro Cesarco (New York and London: A.R.T. Press and Koenig Books, 2019).
In collaboration with the Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design and with the generous support of:
collectively uncurated
with
Beria Altinoluk, Joannie Baumgärtner, Begleitbüro SOUP, Ulrich Bernhardt, Bureau Baubotanik, Lennart Cleemann, Ania Corcilius, Theo Dietz, Eva Dörr, Janis Eckhardt, Alba Frenzel, Peter Hauer, Herbordt/Mohren, Yvette Hoffmann, Hannelore Kober, Justyna Koeke, Paul Kramer, Otto Kränzler, Caro Krebietke, Björn Kühn, Marlon Lanziner & Valentino Berndt, Matteo Locci, Matthias Megyeri, Lena Meinhardt, Elmar Mellert, Boris Nieslony, n.n.n. collective, Romy Range, Yara Richter, Jasmin Schädler, Ursula Scherrer, Anna Schiefer, Fender Schrade, Mira Simon, Michael Stockhausen, Başak Tuna, Helen Weber, Heidemarie von Wedel,Olav Westphalen, Georg Winter et al
Daily: round table from 6 pm at the Künstlerhaus – performances in the urban space – exhibition
Exactly 40 years ago, from September 01 to 30, 1981, the Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, under the direction of Ulrich Bernhardt, invited 57 local and 19 international artists to the artistic group project KONZIL. Every evening, questions about cooperation, artistic exchange, content-related, political, formal and social aspects of ephemeral and performance art were discussed at a 40-square-meter table. The project was complemented by actions and events in the urban space. Out of the KONZIL, the artist Boris Nieslony developed the world’s first performance art archive in 1981, “Die Schwarze Lade” (Black Kit).
40 years later, Künstlerhaus Stuttgart brings KONZIL back to Stuttgart and builds a bridge to current topics, debates and discourses. In the course of a two-week event, the historical KONZIL will be linked in the form of an archival exhibition with a performance program and daily discussion rounds.
Nine artists were selected through an open call to present performances in Stuttgart’s urban space. Joannie Baumgärtner, Theo Dietz, Justyna Koeke, Paul Kramer, Caro Krebietke, Matthias Megyeri, Ursula Scherrer and Başak Tuna & Matteo Locci will perform at different locations in Stuttgart such as the observatory, the Rosensteingarten or at the Neckar river. Following the performances, we invite every evening from 6 pm to a discussion with changing guests and a joint meal at the Künstlerhaus.
All evening events will take place on the 4th floor of the Künstlerhaus, where the exhibition with historical material from the Black Kit archive of Boris Nieslony can also be seen. Documents, photographs, posters, and video footage, including those of artists who were active at the Künstlerhaus and in Stuttgart in 1981, provide insight into the significance of the archive and place the current performances in a historical context.
The exhibition Permanente Performance – 40 Jahre Konzil is open from Aug 31 to Sept 12, 2021, Tuesday through Sunday from 2 to 6 pm.
Program
Monday, August 30, 2021, 6 pm
Opening
Greeting: Ania Corcilius, 1st Chairwoman, Künstlerhaus Stuttgart
Greeting: Dr. Fabian Mayer, First Mayor, Department of General Administration, Culture and Law
Introduction: Ulrich Bernhardt (Co-Founder and 1st Artistic Director, Künstlerhaus Stuttgart / Organizer Konzil, 1981); Boris Nieslony (Founder Performance Art Archive “Die Schwarze Lade” / Organizer Konzil, 1981)
Introduction: Anna Schiefer, 2nd chairperson, Künstlerhaus Stuttgart
Tuesday, August 31, 2021
Theo Dietz
How to build fishing rods
Place: Künstlerhaus courtyard
Time: 4 pm
A lecture about so called miscast hooks, which can be handy for fishing in garbage containers, and how to build them. Waste separation becomes an artistic action and attitude.
In his cross-media projects Theo Dietz deals with places in their social, material and political dimensions and opposes them with his own post-ironic utopian spaces. He has been involved with performances at the 15th Istanbul Biennial and
Manifesta11, among others. In addition to his artistic activities, Dietz works as a garbage collector.
Table talk from 6 pm in the Künstlerhaus
Guest: Armin Chodzinski
Armin Chodzinski negotiates the network of relationships between art and business in performances, lectures and exhibitions. His practice moves between mediation, self-experimentation and research, which he develops further in theaters and exhibition spaces as well as on radio and television.
Wednesday, September 1, 2021
Caro Krebietke
MISSING!
Location: Main entrance Rosenstein Castle, Stuttgart Museum of Natural History, Rosenstein 1, 70191 Stuttgart, Germany.
Time: 3 to 5 pm
The dramatic decline of insect diversity in southern Germany is the theme of the performance MISSING! Animals that have accompanied us through many centuries are disappearing almost unnoticed, in recent years at an alarming rate.
MISSING! is a cooperation with the Natural History Museum Stuttgart.
Caro Krebietke finds the themes of her projects in dialogue with the environment. Traces, stories and connections are the starting points of her performative interventions. Everyday places are thus transformed into scenes of special events. There is almost always a reference to historical or current political facts.
www.carokrebietke.com
Table talk from 6 pm in the Künstlerhaus
Guests: Bureau Baubotanik
Bureau Baubotanik stands for the integration of the life processes of our plant environment into architecture. In 2017, the Bureau took over the artistic direction of the “Theatre of the Long Now,” which promises to put on a natural theater performance lasting at least 100 years on a brownfield site in Stuttgart.
http://www.bureau-baubotanik.de
Thursday, September 2, 2021
Paul Kramer
Song Cycle 150
Live Studio Recording Box Recording
Location: Audiowerkstatt, Künstlerhaus Stuttgart
Time: 3 to 6 pm
Paul Kramer follows up with a live recording of Song Cycle No. 150, his archive of self-performed musical fragments recorded in one sitting – without notes, without lyrics. A work on the personal and collective earworms, besides performing all kinds of music and non-music (ringtones, animal sounds, machine sounds), means researching titles and its failure in the form of the “mystery tracks”. In addition to the live recording in the Künstlerhaus studio recording box, the audience will be given the opportunity to listen to the “Mystery Tracks” (i.e., the ones Paul Kramer doesn’t know), and to identify them, both via listening stations and online via Sound Cloud. (https://soundcloud.com/paul-kramer-10)
www.kramerpaul.wordpress.com/
Table talk from 6 pm at the Künstlerhaus
Guests: Otto Kränzler, Eva Dörr & Lena Meinhardt
Eva Dörr and Lena Meinhardt are currently studio fellows at Künstlerhaus Stuttgart and have been working together as an artist duo since 2019. Their works meet in the field of sound installation.
Otto Kränzler, musician and sound engineer, studied at the University and Academy of Music in Stuttgart and worked as a freelancer in the Studio for Electronic Music at WDR Cologne under Karlheinz Stockhausen and Mauricio Kagel. He is co-founder of the Audio-Werkstatt at the Künstlerhaus Stuttgart.
Friday, September 3, 2021
Joannie Baumgärtner
Bat Shit Crazy
Meeting point: Entrance Leuze, Am Leuzebad 2a, 70190 Stuttgart
Time: 3 pm
Bat Shit Crazy is dedicated to a central raw material of early globalization: guano, which was valued as fertilizer by industrialized nations and mined all over the world. The performance combines archival material, diary entries and poems with field recordings and electronic music.
Joannie Baumgärtner has been working between visual art, writing and philosophy since 2010. Joannie identifies as non-binary and uses she/her as a pronoun. Her performances interrelate sound art, spoken word, critical theory, and cultural history.
www.jbaumgaertner.com
Table Talk starting at 6 p.m. at the Künstlerhaus
Guest: Fender Schrade
Fender Schrade engages musically, performatively, in installations, technical inventions, and live sound engineering with transgender identities and embodiments in the context of larger narratives of cultural history. With the artist collective NAF he* performs on theater stages as well as in public space.
Saturday, September 4, 2021
Peter Hauer
The chair without qualities
Performance Workshop
Location: Künstlerhaus Stuttgart and in the urban space
Time: 16:30
No special previous knowledge or skills are necessary. Registration by e-mail at info@kuenstlerhaus.de
The workshop is about the problem of domain dependency in relation to the body, movement and environment. The problem of domain dependence describes the phenomenon that we perceive things exclusively based on certain assumptions about their properties or contexts, and thus become blind to a variety of other possibilities. These things can be objects, place or time, but also actions themselves, or a social context. We will look at how one can embody different strategies to deal with this problem.
In his work, Peter Hauer deals with movement in the broadest sense. From the body as a tool and workshop of perception, expression and function, to movement as a medium of culture and knowledge production. With his interdisciplinary approach he develops new perspectives and connects what supposedly does not fit together.
Table talk from 6 pm in the Künstlerhaus
Guest: Olav Westphalen
Olav Westphalen is a German-American artist in whose work the expressive forms of play, entertainment and cartoons play a central role. His activities aim to highlight cultural blind spots and hypocrisies in his immediate social and cultural environments.
Sonntag, 5. September 2021
Von und mit: Lennart Cleemann, Eva Dörr & Lena Meinhardt, Janis Eckhardt, Alba Frenzel, Marlon Lanziner & Valentino Berndt, n.n.n. collective (Susanne Brendel, Julia Schäfer & Jasmin Schädler), Helen Weber
CKonvention
Ort: Atelieretage, 3. Stock, Künstlerhaus Stuttgart
Zeit: Zwischen Kirche und Tatort
11:00 am Breakfast pint (n.n.n. collective)
12:00 pm Brunch (Eva Dörr & Lena Meinhardt)
2:00 pm Trip (Janis Eckhardt, Helen Weber)
3:30 pm coffee & cake (Lennart Cleemann)
5:00 pm Stadt, Land, Fluss (Alba Frenzel)
Wednesday, September 8, 2021
Justyna Koeke
City beautification measures
Meeting place: Schiffmann fountain drinking fountain, Badstraße 31D, 70372 Stuttgart, Germany
Time: 3:00 pm
Registration by e-mail at info@kuenstlerhaus.de
Justyna Koeke seeks out supposedly inhospitable places in Stuttgart, with found and collected plastic waste she builds vases with the participants and fills them with water and flowers from the surrounding area. This intervention of “sprucing up” is meant to remind us of the complexity of dealing with progress and the preservation of nature.
As an artist, Justyna Koeke seeks above all the contact between art and reality. For this reason, she often shifts her performative works to public spaces, but this also means leaving the comfort zone of the trained and tamed art audience to create immediate and intimate moments. Many of her self-initiated projects are at the interface with political activism – it is in this area in particular that art becomes approachable, and here the confrontation with various actors is essential.
In terms of content, her work deals with feminist and socio-political issues: women’s rights, citizen participation, sustainability, self-determination and urbanity play a crucial role in many of my works.
www.justynakoeke.com
Table talk from 6 pm at the Künstlerhaus
Guests: Beria Altinoluk, Elmar Mellert
Beria Altinoluk and Elmar Mellert turn Stuttgart bulky waste finds into spontaneous interventions in urban space.
Beria Altinoluk studied media philosophy and art science at the University of Design Karlsruhe. Elmar Mellert is a member of the electronic music group Rework in addition to his work as a DJ.
Thursday, September 9, 2021
Matthias Megyeri
Inner Peace, Blowball, 77/2021
Location: Königstraße 5 (height Marstallstr.), “Pusteblume-Brunnen” (B. Woodward, G. Behnisch, 1977), 70173 Stuttgart
Time: 2 to 5 pm (duration 180 minutes)
Six Security Service Members (SDM’s) hired by the artist will position themselves for 180 minutes, equidistant from each other, with their backs to the fountain. No more than 3 of the 6 SDM’s sit on the ring of shell limestone at any one time during the period.
Conceptual artist Matthias Megyeri’s practice explores the cultural, social and psychological aspects of the visual appearance of protection and safety. The works in his Sweet Dreams Security® series, for example, combine our need for security with our simultaneous desire for harmony and beauty. Thus, boundaries such as fences, metal grates, padlocks, barbed wire, and chains become endearing objects. Megyeri has been realizing site-specific art on buildings as well as in public spaces internationally for 20 years. His installations always relate to the site-specific context in which they operate.
www.matthiasmegyeri.net / Instagram: @matthiasmegyeri
Table talk from 6 pm at the Künstlerhaus
Guests: Begleitbüro SOUP
Harry Walter and Ulrich Bernhardt talk about the art project BRASILIEN and its participatory prehistory.
Begleitbüro SOUP is an artistic formation founded in 2009 by the artists Ulrich Bernhardt, Steffen Bremer, Michael Gompf, Kurt Grunow, Andreas Mayer-Brennenstuhl, Karin Rehm and Harry Walter, which subjects urban processes to long-term observation and makes them accessible to the public in the form of exhibitions, interventions, publications and performative walks.
www.begleitbuero.de
Friday, September 10, 2021
Ursula Scherrer
Can you see me
Meeting place: Schillerplatz, Am Fruchtkasten 3, 70173 Stuttgart, Germany
Time: 3 pm
Meeting point: Landtag, Konrad-Adenauer-Straße 3, 70173 Stuttgart
Time: 4:30 pm
We try to be seen by making ourselves heard.
We try to make ourselves heard by being seen.
What at first seems like a game becomes a desperate attempt to be heard, to be seen.
The poetic quality of Ursula Scherrer’s work draws the viewer into being and lets them sink into their own stories. Ursula Scherrer’s path began with dance and choreography and led on to photography, video, text, mixed media, performance art. She was born in Switzerland in 1966 and lived in New York from 1988 to 2019.
www.ursulascherrer.com
Table talk from 6 pm at the Künstlerhaus
Guests: Ulrich Bernhardt, Heidemarie von Wedel
Ulrich Bernhardt, artist and former director of Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, has been working with film and video, video and spatial installations, and space-time phenomena in photography since 1973. His works include panoramas, photo sequences and film friezes, light kinetic objects and sculptures.
Heidemarie von Wedel, artist and publisher, sneaks her photographs into everyday life. She produces a constantly growing archive of images whose goal is never the single image, the presence of an iconic panel, but rather an associative noise in the flow of individual moments of what is seen, experienced, hashed.
Heidemarie von Wedel and Ulrich Bernhardt talk about open work situations and collaborations.
Saturday, September 11, 2021
Başak Tuna & Matteo Locci & Maximilian Lehner
Downtown daydreaming-Upward public walk.
Meeting point: Ecke Marienstraße/Paulinenstraße, 70178 Stuttgart
Time: 4 pm (duration approx. 90 minutes)
Registration by e-mail at info@kuenstlerhaus.de
A walk through the city with your head in the clouds, equipped with 90-degree-angle mirror glasses. Cloud watching is not looking for symbols or spiritual divination. For now, we enjoy not making a decision, letting the clouds drift over our view like disillusioned aeromancers.
Tuna-Locci is an artist duo exploring the visible and invisible forms of relationship art. Başak Tuna is a critical spatial artist from Turkey whose work speculates on the ontology of networks and power relations.
Matteo Locci is a multimedia artist with an architectural background. He conducts most of his research with and thanks to the Roman interdisciplinary collective ATI suffix.
www.matteolocci.com, Instagram: @basak.tuna / @ma_l3h
Table talk from 6 pm at the Künstlerhaus
Guest: Georg Winter
Georg Winter lives in Saarbrücken, Stuttgart and Budapest. Characteristic of Georg Winter’s artistic practice are temporary laboratories, urban situations, self-organizing performances, research projects in an interdisciplinary field of work.
from 9 pm
musical evening with DJ
Sunday, September 12, 2021
Herbordt/Mohren
Place: Künstlerhaus Stuttgart
Time: from 12 pm
Melanie Mohren and Bernhard Herbordt (The Institution) are graduates of Applied Theater Studies in Giessen. Since 2000 they have been working on interdisciplinary projects in the border area of the performing arts. They work on an expanded concept of theater and since 2012 on institutions and their actualization in different formats and media.
In their work Herbordt / Mohren take up the idea of the performance archive. A collection of documents, and videos on recent performance history can be viewed at Schaudepot in Stuttgart.
www.die-institution.org
The jury that selected the nine artists was composed of: Ulrich Bernhardt (co-founder and first artistic director of Künstlerhaus Stuttgart/organizer of the 1981 Konzil); Ania Corcilius (board of directors), Yvette Hoffmann (advisory board), Björn Kühn (advisory board), Jasmin Schädler (advisory board), Anna Schiefer (board of directors).
With the kind support of
je ralentis ralentissais ralentirai –
Lena Meinhardt and Eva Dörr show current works in the studio floor of the Künstlerhaus Stuttgart. There will be different stands of work from the fields of sound and video, experimenting with patterns of time and the sense of time.
Opening hours
Fri. 30.07.21 18.00 – 21.00
Sat. 31.07.21 12.00 – 20.00
Sun 01.08.21 12.00 – 20.00
Reconsidering Institutional Conduct (Almost Everything Still Remains to be Done) is a two-day program at the Künstlerhaus Stuttgart that convenes a group of artists to conceptualize and draft provisions for a legally enforceable code of conduct. Drawing from different critical perspectives, this group will generate specific considerations and stipulations that will directly inform an internal process currently underway by the Künstlerhaus Stuttgart’s governing bodies to implement the institution’s first ever code of conduct.
This program examines how an art institution governs its own immediate social and workplace conditions, directly addressing the Künstlerhaus Stuttgart as a responsive institutional case study, while also supporting experiential research into shared policy and collaborative governance. Additionally, by emphasizing artists as primary contributors to institutional policy-making, this program challenges the settled expectation that artists’ work amounts to purely content-related outcomes. Indeed, this process of generating a code of conduct seeks to recognize the extent to which artists define the actual lived relations and working conditions that produce and distribute their art.
Once fully implemented, this code of conduct aims to be both an internal and outward facing policy—offering everyday considerations that are specific to the Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, as well as reproducible models of institutional conduct that challenge the exploitative, discriminatory, and dispossessive practices so prevalent in the art sector at large. It is well known that the Kunstverein system in Germany is particularly conducive to establishing legal structures that regulate artistic production, yet significant work remains to be done in terms of how these legal structures ensure a field of artistic production that is equitable, inclusive, and truly diverse. While referring to existing legal protections for workers and constituents, a code of conduct is intended to go much further, imposing requirements and providing means of recourse that are more exacting than those mandated by law. Collective reconsiderations of what constitutes these exacting principles and effects is precisely what this program offers space for.
Reconsidering Institutional Conduct (Almost Everything Still Remains to be Done) brings together an international group of distinct artists and cultural practitioners including Heba Y. Amin, Grayson Earle, Irena Haiduk, Clara Sukyoung Jo, Sandrine Micossé-Aikins, Anike Joyce Sadiq, Anna Schiefer, Bea Schlingelhoff, Ülkü Süngün, and Stefan Wäldele. In order for this group process to generate a practicable code of conduct, the invited practitioners will directly advise and work with representatives of the Künstlerhaus Stuttgart—the majority of whom are practicing artists—including individuals from the Board of Directors, Artist Advisory Council, and Membership Association. This two-day program of directed group work and discussion is open to the general public, offering a culture of transparency around behind-the-scenes work that is typically conducted in closed-door session. Please note however, that capacity will be regulated in keeping with COVID-19 public health requirements. The program will be conducted in English language, with German translation available on request.
Schedule:
*All session groups are comprised of the invited artists. Additional contributors are noted in each session description. The general public is invited to attend all sessions, but will be asked to contribute with questions and comments only in the sessions noted as “open discussion.”
Sunday July 25
3pm – 3:30pm
Intro Session
Presenting: Eric Golo Stone, Artistic Director Künstlerhaus Stuttgart
– Welcome, introductions, and program structure
3:30 – 5pm
Session 1
Presenting: Eric Golo Stone with Anna Schiefer, Artist, Scholar, and KHS Board Member (Open discussion)
– Purpose and objectives of CoC beyond applicable laws
– Recap common provisions found in an organizational CoC and specific provisions found in current draft of KHS CoC
5pm – 5:30pm
Break
5:30pm – 7pm
Session 2
Presenting: Sandrine Micossé-Aikins, Director, Diversity Arts Culture, Berlin
– Anti-Discrimination, anti-racism, equity, diversity and inclusivity provisions
7pm – 7:30pm
Break
7:30pm – 8:30pm
Session 2 Follow-up (Open discussion)
8:30pm –
Food and Drink
Monday July 26
10am – 11:30am
Session 3 (Open discussion)
Presenting: Grayson Earle, Founder of Artists for Workers, New York
Facilitating: Anna Schiefer
– Fair labor practices and worker rights
– Working conditions
11:30am – Noon
Break
Noon – 1pm
Session 4
– Compliance, consultation, ombuds program, and complaint procedure
– Legal/extra-legal enforceability
1pm – 2pm
Break for lunch
2pm – 3:30pm
Session 5 (Open discussion)
– Additional provisions
– Appendix and annexure
3:30pm Conclude program
This program was made possible through the generous support of the Stiftung Kunstfonds in the form of a 2021 NEUSTART Grant
Thank you: Ania Corcilius, Juliane Gebhardt, Yvette Hoffmann, Björn Kühn, Florian Model, Daniel Niccoli, Monika Nuber, Regine Pfisterer, Romy Range, Jasmin Schädler, Anna Schiefer, Damaris Wurster
German Translation of Program Text and Schedule: Johanna Schindler
After 3 eventful, dynamic months with exhibitions, interventions, presentations, collaborations and events, Season 1 of the temporary project “Satellit Stuttgart” in the city center comes to an end.
Closing event: Saturday, 10.07.21 between 1-8pm at Königstraße 22.
There will be a limited edition of Satellit t-shirts (16€) and bags (4€) at cost price and chilled drinks. As always, it is possible to be indoors and outdoors.
We want to say a big thank you to everyone involved!
The epilogue with the SPACE HACKERS starts directly after the LINIENSCHAREN from Wednesday 07.07.21, so that satellite is played continuously and until the end of the project on Saturday 10.07.21, 8pm.
The SPACE HACKERS transfer the Satellit concept from virtual to real space.
The Künstlerhaus Stuttgart is looking for artistic positions in the field of performance art for the project “Permanente Performance – 40 Jahre Konzil”. Artists and artist collectives are invited to submit concepts for performances at locations they define themselves in Stuttgart’s urban space. The choice of locations is up to the artists. However, the Künstlerhaus offers support in finding a suitable location.
The selection of the participating artists for the period from August 30 to September 12 will be made by a jury consisting of members of the board and advisory board of the Künstlerhaus.
Project period: August 30 to September 12, 2021
Application deadline: July 18, 2021
Fee: 1.000 EUR
Possible transport, material and travel costs cannot be reimbursed.
Documents to be submitted: application form, project description (max. 2 pages), portfolio and CV.
Please send the application documents in one pdf (max. 10 MB) by e-mail to info@kuenstlerhaus.de. Applications not submitted by the deadline or applications with incomplete documents will unfortunately not be considered.
Background
Exactly 40 years ago, from September 01 to September 30 1981, the Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, under the direction of Ulrich Bernhardt, invited 57 local and 19 international artists to participate in the artistic group project KONZIL. In this project, questions about cooperation, artistic exchange and thematic aspects of ephemeral and performance art were discussed daily at 6 p.m. at a 40-square-meter table. The project was complemented by actions and events in the urban space. Out of the project, artist Boris Nieslony developed the Black Kit. The Black Kit archives the documentation of organizations, associations, artist-run spaces and some of the most important international projects in the field of performance since 1975. It refers to about 3800 artists, contains photographs, individual performance relics and records.
40 years later, Künstlerhaus Stuttgart will bring KONZIL back to Stuttgart and into the present, building bridges to current issues, debates and discourses. Over a two-week period, the historical council will be linked in the form of an archival exhibition with a performance program.
For the historical processing, Boris Nieslony’s Black Kit Archive will provide the Künstlerhaus with documents, photographs, posters and video material of artists who were active in the Künstlerhaus and in Stuttgart in 1981. In parallel, the Künstlerhaus invites artists and artists’ collectives to present performances in Stuttgart’s urban space – from Stuttgart West to Bad Cannstatt, from Zuffenhausen to Wangen – over a period of fourteen days.
Following these performances, several panels will be held at the Künstlerhaus, inviting participants to exchange ideas, engage in discourse, and work together.
For further information about the Open Call please click here
Funkenflug
ongoing work on the collective drawing
daily from 10-18 o’clock
Satellite Stuttgart, Königstraße 22, 70173 Stuttgart
In fall 2012 Linienscharen was founded, a platform for contemporary drawing in Stuttgart. Linienscharen aims to keep the discourse on drawing in Stuttgart alive and provide a framework for exchange, lectures and presentations on the subject. Linienscharen functions as an open forum for artists from Stuttgart and the region whose work deals with drawing or the theme of line in another medium.
The satellite project Funkenflug is designed as an open-ended process that uses the space in Königstraße as a place for concentrated drawing over a period of twelve days. 47 artists of the Linienscharen will be active in the project space in groups of two, one after the other, and will react to the spatial conditions of the space and the surrounding urban space with drawings throughout the duration of the project and continue a dialogue with the already existing artistic interventions.
June 25 – June 30, 2021
Julia Wenz-Delaminsky with Barbara Armbruster // AC Klarmann with Jürgen Klugmann // Elly Weiblen with Vasiliki Konstantinopoulou // Sabine Fessler with Alicia Hernandez Westpfahl // Matthias Kohlmann with Harald Kröner // Kanoko Hashimoto with Margarete Lindau // Michelin Kober with Stanislaus Müller-Härlin // Erwin Holl with Uwe Schäfer // Melanie Grocki with Stef Stagel // U!!i Berg with Alexandra Centmayer // Helga Schuhmacher with Karina Stein // Uta Krauss with Tobias Greiner
July 1 until July 6, 2021
Annie Krüger with Anja Klafki // Karl-Heinz Bogner with Josephine Bonnet // Sabina Aurich with Ute Fischer-Dieter // Christian Schiebe with Doris Erbacher // Nina J Bergold with Veronika Kergaßner // Monika Schaber with Rita Schaible- Saurer // Silke Schwab with Simone Eckert // Werner Degreif // Thora Gerstner with Heike Grüß // Frauke Schlitz with Beate Baumgärtner // Maria Grazia Sacchitelli with Barbara Karsch-Chaïeb // Conny Luley with Christiane Haag
For more information about Satellit Stuttgart:
Instagram: satellit_stuttgart
Season 1 – In Orbit
The following artists and collectives have been selected for the Satellit Space and Project Grants 2021 at Schlossplatz:
Episode I
Wed Apr 14th — Wed Apr 28th
Lowland
Episode II
Wed Apr 28th — Wed May 12th
Episode III
Wed May 12th — Wed May 26th
Episode IV
Wed May 26th — Wed Jun 9th
Episode V
Wed Jun 9th — Wed Jun 23rd
Fünfte Kraft: Min Bark, Mizi Lee, Johanna Mangold, Paula Pelz
Episode VI
Wed Jun 23rd — Wed Jul 7th
Linienscharen
SATELLIT STUTTGART is an association of artists in cooperation with the Künstlerhaus Stuttgart and supported by the Wüstenrot Foundation.
The current situation brings many challenges for solo independent artists, designers and cultural workers. Satellit Stuttgart is intended to be a platform through which independent projects now become visible. We want to strengthen our local network and generate far-reaching, interdisciplinary dialogues.
With Satellit Stuttgart we create a new format of a temporary, inner-city art space. We invite professional solo artists, designers and collectives from Stuttgart and the surrounding area.
For 3 months (April-July), a vacant store space in Stuttgart will become a temporary studio, exhibition and gallery space, an intervention and experimentation area for cultural workers from various disciplines.
The project grants will be awarded to one artist (or artist group/collective) for two weeks (14 days) at a time.
Project management: Karima Klasen, in cooperation with the Künstlerhaus Stuttgart.
Our studio fellow Lennart Cleemann shows his installation Schaukel mit Fischen for the first time in the project space Lagune.
Summer exhibition! Lennart Cleemann (*1990) shows in the Lagune for the first time his installation Schaukel mit Fischen, the attempt of an abstract reproduction of his studio atmosphere. Many objects occupy the space, overlapping spatially, visually and refusing their decoupled observation. An important theme of Cleemann’s work is the exploration of the idea of home. Space and object serve as sculptural communicators of interpersonal relationships.
Viewing by appointment:
Contact: lennart.cleemann@web.de
Home in an Eggshell
June 9 until June 23 2021
“Home” (eng.), in German: Zuhause, Heim, Heimat, Heimstätte.
In times of the Corona pandemic, the term “home” takes on a completely new and formative meaning worldwide. Due to isolation, all parts of society are thrown back on that personal place that functions as a “life-location” and is closely linked to the identity of the respective people.
But is it so simple to define “home” as protective, four walls, or is this concept and its associated meanings far more complex and spongy than can be broken down to a simple formula?
The debate around this term is also changing with people coming to Germany from other countries and living here. It is of central social importance to enter into a new dialogue at this point and to discuss and negotiate deadlocked and described concepts again.
Within the framework of art and culture, an impulse can be given for this. We have dedicated our work as a group of artists to this area, since this topic plays its own special role for all of us in the artistic or private sphere.
Dates:
Saturday, June 12 2021, 11am–7.30pm – Opening
All artists will be present.
Sunday, June 13 2021, 3.30pm–7.30pm
Johanna Mangold will be present.
Thursday, June 17 2021, 3.30pm–7.30pm
Paula Pelz will be present.
Friday, June 18 2021, 3.30pm–7.30pm
Min Bark will be present.
Saturday, June 19 2021, 3.30pm–7.30pm
Min Bark will be present.
Sunday, June 20 2021, 13.30pm–7.30pm
Mizi Lee will be present.
For more information about Satellit Stuttgart:
Instagram: satellit_stuttgart
Season 1 – In Orbit
The following artists and collectives have been selected for the Satellit Space and Project Grants 2021 at Schlossplatz:
Episode I
Wed Apr 14th — Wed Apr 28th
Lowland
Episode II
Wed Apr 28th — Wed May 12th
Episode III
Wed May 12th — Wed May 26th
Episode IV
Wed May 26th — Wed Jun 9th
Episode V
Wed Jun 9th — Wed Jun 23rd
Fünfte Kraft: Min Bark, Mizi Lee, Johanna Mangold, Paula Pelz
Episode VI
Wed Jun 23rd — Wed Jul 7th
Linienscharen
SATELLIT STUTTGART is an association of artists in cooperation with the Künstlerhaus Stuttgart and supported by the Wüstenrot Foundation.
The current situation brings many challenges for solo independent artists, designers and cultural workers. Satellit Stuttgart is intended to be a platform through which independent projects now become visible. We want to strengthen our local network and generate far-reaching, interdisciplinary dialogues.
With Satellit Stuttgart we create a new format of a temporary, inner-city art space. We invite professional solo artists, designers and collectives from Stuttgart and the surrounding area.
For 3 months (April-July), a vacant store space in Stuttgart will become a temporary studio, exhibition and gallery space, an intervention and experimentation area for cultural workers from various disciplines.
The project grants will be awarded to one artist (or artist group/collective) for two weeks (14 days) at a time.
Project management: Karima Klasen, in cooperation with the Künstlerhaus Stuttgart.
For our eighth Tuesday workshop, we are swapping roles:
Ronald Kolb will present the workshop, event and exhibition project “Small Projects for Coming Communities”, which took place in Stuttgart in 2018 and serves him as a sketch of an expanded concept of exhibition (“expanded exhibition”).
Tuesday, June 8 2021, 7pm
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87291399689?pwd=QkFoNXYzRUZGdlBnbUtXb3hBWjlJZz09
Meeting-ID: 872 9139 9689
Code: 498907
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Tuesday Workshop
From October 2020, artists and other cultural workers will meet every second Tuesday of the month at 7 pm at Künstlerhaus Stuttgart to present their artistic practice, exchange and discuss ideas, and get to know each other better.
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!
Friedrich Hensen: HUMAN CLOUD
The exhibition HUMAN CLOUD poetically explores the question of what it means to be human in the digital age in a spatial installation using sound, moving images, and words. To what extent are we cyborgs, or have we always been?
Dates
Thursday, 27/05 – ArtsUp-Stammtisch / livestream from Satellit
Please register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEufuivrTIsHtWvv402reJIcWBQZIaC3Knm
Saturday, 29/05 – Vernissage
Tuesday, 01/06 – Lecture Performance: humanCloud
Saturday, 05/06 – Concert with TwoPartout and livestream
Where?
Königstraße 22, 70173 Stuttgart
Friedrich Hensen is an artist, musician and poet from Stuttgart.
He studied at the ABK Stuttgart from 2012-2020 and participated in numerous events of the CAMPUS GEGENWART at the HMDK Stuttgart from 2017, which brought him into contact with New Music.
He describes the starting point of his work as “traversing spheres”.
With this interdisciplinary approach he works mostly multimedia and installative, in which he transforms and resamples different media in others.
For more information about Satellit Stuttgart:
Instagram: satellit_stuttgart
Season 1 – In Orbit
The following artists and collectives have been selected for the Satellit Space and Project Grants 2021 at Schlossplatz:
Episode I
Wed Apr 14th — Wed Apr 28th
Lowland
Episode II
Wed Apr 28th — Wed May 12th
Episode III
Wed May 12th — Wed May 26th
Episode IV
Wed May 26th — Wed Jun 9th
Friedrich Hensen
Episode V
Wed Jun 9th — Wed Jun 23rd
Fünfte Kraft: Min Bark, Mizi Lee, Johanna Mangold, Paula Pelz
Episode VI
Wed Jun 23rd — Wed Jul 7th
Linienscharen
SATELLIT STUTTGART is an association of artists in cooperation with the Künstlerhaus Stuttgart and supported by the Wüstenrot Foundation.
The current situation brings many challenges for solo independent artists, designers and cultural workers. Satellit Stuttgart is intended to be a platform through which independent projects now become visible. We want to strengthen our local network and generate far-reaching, interdisciplinary dialogues.
With Satellit Stuttgart we create a new format of a temporary, inner-city art space. We invite professional solo artists, designers and collectives from Stuttgart and the surrounding area.
For 3 months (April-July), a vacant store space in Stuttgart will become a temporary studio, exhibition and gallery space, an intervention and experimentation area for cultural workers from various disciplines.
The project grants will be awarded to one artist (or artist group/collective) for two weeks (14 days) at a time.
Project management: Karima Klasen, in cooperation with the Künstlerhaus Stuttgart.
