Der Magen der Hexe

Performance
2018

The “Magen der Hexe” (“The witch’s stomach”) is a resting place in between the worlds. There, all kinds of creatures find comfort and safety on their journey between our ‘reality’ and the world behind it. By practising different rituals I keep the door to the other world open.

 

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Botse

Video Performance
2018

The melon and orange seeds are used by controvercial communities around the globe to threaten their enemies. I bring these symbols of death far away from the mainland to the island of Helgoland and bury them alive. Before I leave they get nurtured with my own tears.
Botse is the Tsonga word for “good”.

 

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Cassiopeia

 Live Performance
2018

The performance Cassiopeia is completely dictated by two tortoise, Schildi and Knorpl. By walking in specific patterns, they told the artist which objects to use and which gestures to act out. If the wisest creature on earth doesn’t know, who does?
The audience followed the performance through a windows in the top part of the laboratory.

 

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Säk Ho

Video Performance
2018

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Pestpuppe

 Video Performance
2017

Pestpuppe (plague doll) is the second part of my research on forgotten rituals. This time I hyperbolize the rituals. I adapt them in my own way. The girl’s tears that are needed to fight goat are forced out by lemon juice; the fish is sewn together again and tucked to the ceiling…

 

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2393

Performance
2017

 

The performance 2393 plays in the year 2393 when human kind faces extinction due to environmental change. Fear has taken over the rest of people that survived and hid in uninteresting places like libraries. The performance refers to the essay “The Collapse of Western Civilization. A View from the Future” by  Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway and is performanced together with the actress Julia Windischbauer.
Photo credits Mara Pollak.

 

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Verdunkelung

Sound Installation
2017

Verdunkelung shows a child’s room in a war zone. Found everywhere in the world and dedicated to the artist’s father who left his room behind after fleeing from Soviet grounds in 1945.
5. July until 10. September 2017 at Kunstarkaden Munich.
(Summerbreak 13-28 August)

Fotos: Tom Garrecht.

 

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Bread and Nuts

Video Installation
2017

Bread and Nuts is based on the Nick Bostrom’s theory that the world, we live in, is an ancestor simulation. If we are all part of a simulation, what does time, life and death mean to us?
I installed a living room in the exhibition space at Kunstarkaden Munich and used it as a film set. The finished film was then shown on the living room TV at the exhibition. Visitors could watch the actors go through time and space, fall out of it and play with natural forces. The film lets you wonder about so called “reality”. It ends with a live broadcast of the visitors sitting on the couch.

 

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Fischseele (fish soul)

Performance
2016

In Fischseele (fish soul) I experiment with old traditions and rituals from the Alps region. Throwing a fish on the ceiling to see if it sticks, letting a candle run down the river, saying a prayer before going to bed nackedly, baking so called “key bread” to secure enough food supply the whole year. Everything has a meaning. The experiments move between superstition and religion, nowadays believe and entertainment.
The rituals were filmed during an super+ ArtResidency at a cabin owned by Gut Oberkammerloh in Bavaria.
Watch also the interview made for the programme “Volle Kanne” at ZDF.
Second prize in the category Media Art at Fünf-Seen-Filmfestival 2017.

 

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Leid hören & Zugewandt

Audio-Installation & Rauminstallation
2016

Voices wisper from the underworld of the Ludwigs church in Munich. They are quietly describing different war photographies such as pictures from Abu Graib, the spanish civil war or the Vietnam war. As soon as the visitor walks over the grid that covers the subterranean heating system, he hears the whispers and is forced to get closer to understand. The church is covered with human bodies lying on the floor. The work is dedicated to Susan Sontag and her reflection on displaying human misery in photography.
Photo Credits: Mara Pollak

In “Zugewandt” two benches in the church face the opposite direction as they are supposed to face. The space invites people to communicate with other humans instead of God.
Photo Credits: Mara Pollak

 

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The Nest

Installation
2016

This room belongs to Mrs. Jäger, an imaginary character who combines various human characteristics. The need of nest-building, the need of safety and the inability of letting go.
Mrs. Jäger is an obsessive hoarder. She is part of a group of people that see more then just an object in the things that surround them. Mrs. Jäger has a relationship with each and every object she owns.

Visit her at the Notel Prinzregent, in room 104
Ismaninger Str. 42-44,
81675 Munich

from the 2nd – 19th of June

 

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Snow white

performance
2016

The glass coffin allows the artist a look into the sky. Seeing the snow slowly and gently burying her.

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The Pilgrimage to Cape Town

sculptural installation
2015

I erased the streets off the maps, I left the important things. I marked holes
and obstacles in the streets, zebra crossings and their number of stripes,
ash trays, rubbish bins, benches, traffic lights and the timings of their red
light periods, beautiful trees, security men, bus stations with and without
roof (important for rainy days), dead trees and many more.
I casted lead sculptures of corners of the city. A screw, the edge of a
pavement, a thingy on a post and many more. They are important to me
and probably completely irrelevant to everybody else.

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The Portal

performative video installation
2015

The Portal brings openess into a closed space. It combines agoraphobia with
claustrophobia. It is a live and interactive art piece.
Connecting the outside world of a desert with the inside world of a tunnel in the exhibition space by using a live video conference.
The first active live video conference between desert and tunnel took place on the 5th of June 2015. The tunnel was located at the Michaelis Galleries in Cape Town, South Africa. The outside station was located in the Karoo desert at position 32°19’31.8″S 19°44’38.9″E. The visitor could watch the desert live in the tunnel and the desert could watch the inside of the tunnel live on a tube tv.

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Meister und Werke

happening
2014

What is art? Who decides over the art market and the horrendous prices?
Why can’t you order art like you order a chair or a kitchen desk?
Don’t we need affordable art for everybody?
Our group, consisting of nine art students from different art fields like sculpture, media art, drawing or painting, founded an Art Production Company called “Meister und Werke” to find out about nowadays meaning of “art”.
For four weeks we opened our “Flagship Store” in the well known Kunstpavillon in the heart of Munich. We opened a website, arranged our office and presentation room, learned about financing and law and finally opened up our store. On the 6th of November 2014 the big performance started.
With the help of one of Germany’s biggest newspaper, the “Süddeutsche Zeitung” and some good advertisement, costumers literally overran us. Weeks of producing “art” and receiving more art orders followed. On the 29th of November we finished our performance with a great finissage show, the exhibition and handover of all orders. We left lots of happy and a few dissatisfied art costumers who were all part of our performance. We brought the concept of art orders of previous decades to the present society  – Did it work? Or did it fail? Every performer found his own answer.

 

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No Path Yet

Video
2014

We are practising New Nature Art. Nothing esoteric. Nothing religious. Pure nature. Pure joy. Pure living.
Two people found a secure land where there are no paths yet.

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One Day

Video
2014

A life in complete isolation. A life in the wilderness. A dream and a nightmare. Being with yourself and the voices in your head. When days pass slowly and the most exciting thing is the newspaper. Your only window into the outside world. The video was filmed in the lonely areas of northern India, close to the border of Pakistan. Where the cold creeps through your socks and touches your heart.

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Do Not Disturb

Live Endurance Performance
2014

 

A bed in a big wall of beds. My private space. My hideout. A basic human need: Sleep. How does it affect my body and mind when I sleep in public. When I change my sleeping rhythm days before so I can sleep during day and be wide awake during the night. Equiped with ear plugs, sleeping pills and sleeping mask I started this ten day experiment.

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Surveillance

Live Endurance Performance
2013

Which space is private, which is public? What happens when private space gets public? When there is no more chance to hide? When the Internet – our spy-glass to the world –
becomes the spy-glass to our inner self? What happens when the observer becomes the observed?
In my selfmade Panopticon 2.0 you can watch me, observe me. It’s a box with four cameras inside, which screen the inside of the box on the outside monitors. I am inside. For hours. The box is my selfmade home. Because it doesn’t matter anymore, if I stay in a surveillance box like this or if I am outside in the world. Everybody can watch me at every time. Thank the Internet, thank NSA.

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Vietnam and Germany

Video
2013

Kimanh, a vietnamese girl, and me travelled together through Vietnam and Germany. We experienced the differences. We compared. We learned.

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Friends Orchestra

Visually supported Audio work
2012

All friends I’ve had from birth till now are each represented by an instrument and its sound. I can now listen to my life. Some friends are louder, some more quiet, some just stayed for a while and others for a life-time. The graphic supports the sound.