RETHINKING BISMARCK - DECOLONIZING HAMBURG
Presentation of the submitted competition designs for the contextualisation of the Hamburg Bismarck Monument
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| The idea sketch was submitted for the open international ideas competition of the Hamburg Historical Museums Foundation "Rethinking Bismarck". At a height of 34 meters, a mirror is held up to the central figure of the Bismarck Monument as a sign visible from afar. The large mirror made of polished stainless steel is suspended from a building crane that has been structurally designed for this purpose. The distant gaze of the Bismarck statue is reflected back to the figure itself. |
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Reumanplatz, Vienna, Austria
A project of KÖR (Public Art Vienna) |
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The "Sleeping Horse" was developed within the framework of KÖR (Public Art Vienna) for Reumannplatz in Vienna-Favoriten.
In a photogrammetric 3-D process, the body shape of a sleeping Viennese horse lying on its side was taken. A life-size, detailed bronze cast of it was placed on a monumental pedestal in the urban space. |
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Idea sketch in the context of the art-in-building competition for the Federal Court of Justice in Karlsruhe
Competition entry, not realized |
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The grounds of the BGH (Federal Court of Justice) in Karlsruhe are being redesigned. In the process, it will be transformed into a tangible overall structure that will represent the rule of law, but also symbolically strengthen Karlsruhe in its identity as the "residence of the law".
As part of the art-in-building competition, we developed a concept for a participatory walk-in work. The scale in its original, simple construction will be disassembled and both halves will be placed spatially and separately from each other, so that the two halves are not visible at the same time. One element stands on the site, the other in front of the visitor entrance in the street space. Both are connected by a cable several hundred meters long, which runs visibly across the site and transfers power via pulleys from one walkable shell to the other walkable shell. |
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Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg
(Wolfsburg Art Museum)
Curated by: Andreas Beitin and Holger Broeker |
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| The exhibition Macht! Licht! (Power! Light!) shows 65 artistic positions that deal critically with the use of light in political, ecological or social issues. |
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As a contribution to the exhibition, two elements of the installation Fixateurs Externes are shown.
The pink light used in it comes from the field of product lighting and is used in supermarkets for the presentation of meat.
The work relates to the discussions in Great Britain to keep young poeple and their potentially anti-social behavior out of public spaces.
The pink lighting emphasizes red tones and therefore also makes skin imperfections visible. |
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A large-scale climbing sculpture for the Hwanho Park, Pohang, South Korea
Opening: 5 pm |
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| SpaceWalk was designed as a spectacular large-scale traversable sculpture for the hills of Hwanho Park in the South Korean coastal city of Pohang. This 333-metre-long, gleaming silver track looks like a rollercoaster when seen from a distance. Seen at closer quarters, it reveals itself to be a winding stair, curving through space in spectacular undulations. |
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Contribution to the bidding competition, announced by Grünberlin
Heike Mutter / Ulrich Genth together with Ifb-Engineers, Berlin and Sauerzapfe Architects, Berlin
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Together with architects and structural engineers, an overall concept was developed for the Ferris wheel and its surroundings at Spreepark, a disused amusement park in Berlin.
The artistic concept foresees to cover the big ferris wheel with a contrasting black and white drawing and to add some elements like interactively acting car headlights, a big swiveling fountain that allows to transform it into a bathing giant wheel and a spectacular temperature-dependent color change that gives it a diverse identity... |
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Design of a sculpture for the new building of the institute building of the Fraunhofer Institute for Energy Economics and Energy System Technology in Kassel
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| For the new building of the Fraunhofer Institute for Energy Economics and Energy System Technology, we created a sculpture that one can walk on and slide, whose form follows a well-known graphic from economics ... |
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The opening featured a performance in which a young woman moves through the Mies van der Rohe House, going from warm-up exercises to a pole dance routine.
The exhibition features a 360° video, showing the performer alone in the Mies van der Rohe House. A viewer wearing video glasses can turn 360° within the video.
Performer: Miglena Lafchieva
Exhibition with:
Ilya und Emilia Kabakov, Heike Mutter/Ulrich Genth, Sergei Tchoban
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Museum Marta Herford
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Proposals for the Lichtparcours 2020
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Facelift
The project proposal envisages installing five pairs of contemporary car headlights on the parklands close to the civic theatre. The pairs of headlights follow visitors as they move, like the eyes of reptiles.
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KV Kunstverein-Leipzig (Leipzig Art Association)
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The exhibition displays objects from the Trusted Surfaces ensemble, technologically-manufactured surfaces and system components (building façades, car headlights, kitchen surfaces) and investigates how our perception of them is anchored in culture and psychology.
curated by Kilian Schellbach
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A lecture on the project in: Marta Herford.
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Competition entry for a traffic roundabout in Monheim am Rhein.
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For this roundabout in the city of Monheim, prominently located immediately on the bank of the Rhine, we designed a bronze figure, a hybrid of goose and lion. It references key myths and legends of the town, which dominate the city’s marketing strategy. Text on the four sides of the pedestal describes the four kinds of capital in Pierre Bourdieu’s theory of capital.
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Galerie Taubert Contemporary, Berlin
Opening 6:00 p. m.
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This installation is dedicated to the investigation of technologically-manufactured surfaces and system components (building façades, car headlights, kitchen surfaces) and how our perception of them is culturally and psychologically anchored. In a laboratory-type configuration, a variety of sculptural objects are assembled together that reference processes, technologies, and forms derived from design and architecture. In an open weave of meaning, their connotations are explored: safety, representation, power and status.
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The winning design for the Grünband München Freiham (Green Belt Munich Freiham) competition, implemented by summer 2018.
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For the Freiham park complex, a tower was designed that resembles a minaret in its delicacy. However, if the eye travels up the shaft of the tower, it culminates in a tower top whose swelling vaulted balcony with an onion dome roof appears Bavarian.
Its size is calculated to allow people to see it as a landmark, but at the same time its status is unclear, being somewhere between useable architecture and a model or decorative building. The shaft of the tower is embedded in a spherical form made from greenish concrete that optically destabilises this tall structure. The tower appears to be balanced on the sphere.
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The artwork was installed in the foyer of the Klinikum Wahrendorff clinic in Sehnde, where it is on display as a permanent installation.
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The foyer is traversed by a brightly shining helix of approx. 120 fluorescent lights of different lengths. The lights are arranged around an axis, winding upward in a spiral. Seven lights of different colours immerse the building’s various different height levels in spheres of light that cannot be clearly separated from one another.
All of the lights used for this installation were from product presentation; the kind of lights that serves to heighten “product eroticism”. In supermarkets, these light sources are deployed in a concealed way, and are not consciously seen as coloured lights. In this installation, on the other hand, combining the individual colours of the various lights makes them perceptible. |
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A table talk initiated and moderated by Mutter/Genth with Prof. Dr. Joan Bleicher, Institute for Communication and Media of the University of Hamburg, Dr. Phil. Enrico Hochmuth (Comparative Cultural and Social History) and the members of AG Postkolonial Leipzig, Diana Ayeh (MA Political Sciences / African Studies) and Manu Washaus (artist).
In the context of the exhibition:
PERFORMING RELATIONSHIPS
8:00 p. m., KV Leipzig, Kolonnadenstraße 6,
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Which forms are best suited for making us conscious of and making us recognise history, and which events survive in our memory, while others are forgotten? Mutter/Genth take the history of the Clara Zetkin Park as a starting point for a discussion about collective memory and about the exhibiting of the exotic, both past and present.
In 1897, Leipzig played host to the Sächsisch Thüringische Industrie und Gewerbe Ausstellung (the Saxon Thuringia Industry and Trade Exhibition), which was held on the site of today’s park, then only recently opened. A colonial park with a display of peoples was considered a special attraction. The Deutsch-Ostafrikanische Ausstellung (German East African Exhibition) was intended, above all, to propagandise for German colonial policy and to promote investment by private businesses in the colonies. The displaying of human beings acquired in the colonies, on the other hand, was above all calculated to satisfy sensation-seekers, at the same time constructing a contrast between the achievements of the industrial age and the “archaic foreign”. |
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“The Internal Logic of History“ relates directly to the locality of Neuenkirchen and its mythical origins. Most of the time, this artwork is almost entirely concealed in the outer façade of the exhibition room. Only a weather station on the roof and the fine lines of a window aperture in the façade are permanently visible. From time to time, two shutters open in the gable, quite unannounced, and swivel slowly outwards. By means of a concealed mechanism, the two halves of a metal horse head come together in the middle to form a single figure. Heard for some distance all around, it proclaims the legend of how the town of Neuenkirchen came to be; but always in a different version. Each of the various versions concentrates on a different aspect of the mythos. Once the recitation is complete, the shutters close again. |
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PERFORMING RELATIONSHIPS /
POLITIK DER FREUNDSCHAFT (POLITICS OF FRIENDSHIP)
An exhibition in the KV Leipzig featuring Johannes Bendzulla, Jennifer Bennett, Miklos Erhard, Adelta Husni-Bey, Mutter/Genth, Alexander Rischer, titre provisoire, Anna Lena von Helldorff, YES! Association/Föreningen JA!, Heimo Zobernig.
Curated by Kriszitina Hunya, Daniel Niggemann
Opening: 7:00 p. m.
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An installation at the Neumarkt Dresden
Opening 4:00 p. m. |
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| The installation "A Memorial for the Permanent New Beginning" consists of a scissor lift painted in a flesh-coloured tone. On its platform, partial casts of various Dresden monuments are brought together to form a three-dimensional collage … |
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Exhibition at the Museum DKM Duisburg
Opening 7:00 p. m.
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For the “Reimport” project, a research trip was undertaken to Cotonou in Benin to capture photographic and filmic impressions of the used car trade between Europe and West Africa in collaboration with local partners and to investigate the different repair practices and trading systems. The focus was on the acquisition and re-importation of a German-made vehicle that had been moved from Germany to Benin many years ago, had been in use there for many years and was exhibited as an artifact in Germany. |
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Exhibition in the Weltkunstzimmer (World Art Room), Düsseldorf,
curated by Dr. Sabine Maria Schmidt
Opening 7:00 p. m.
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On display: the video artwork Creating Value, based on an advertising video for the Finnish insurance firm Mandatum Life. The original video, produced on Tiger & Turtle - Magic Mountain, is shown as a loop, ten times in succession. The sequences are subtitled with various different texts, which put it in a number of different contexts and readings in terms of the appropriation of the artwork and its function in the public space. |
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Competition for art for the new building in the school complex "Pfingstweid" in Zürich-West.
(2nd place, not implemented)
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| The proposal consisted of installing a large LED screen similar to a classical advertising screen measuring 600 x 400 cm (width x height) on the roof of the "Pfingstweid" school building – so that it could be seen far and wide all around. Instead of the strictly regulated image succession of an advert, slow images appear here, which show arrangements by children coming into being. They are broadcast from the interior of the school, where a special studio box with a small stage is installed for the arrangement of images and objects. The pupils can use this screen to generate live broadcasts and experimental messages for the public space. |
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The new publication brings together 17 selected projects and essays by Karen van den Berg, Ben Kaufmann, Ann Kristin Kreisel, Baptist Ohrtmann and Wolfgang Ullrich. |
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Kunst Meran, Meran, Italy
Opening: 23 April 2015, 6:30 pm |
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Simultanhalle e.V. - Raum für zeitgenössische Kunst, Volkhovener Weg 209-211, 50765 Cologne. 6pm |
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Art Cologne,
booth of the Neuer Aachener Kunstverein
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21 February – 31 March 2015
Marta Herford, opening of the exhibition UNMÖGLICH – artists as architects: 7:30pm |
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A delicate and freely combinable structure of highly polished stainless steel rods and connectors serves as carrier for commercially available kitchen cabinets, arranged floating in space, similar to a Constructivist painting.
The stainless-steel rods and the kitchen fronts form a display-like structure that offer an arrangement of various objects...
"The View" was realised as part of the Marta Price of the Wemhöner Stiftung for the collectcion of the Marta Herford. |
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26 January 2015 8pm Museum Marta Herford, Goebenstrasse 2, Herford |
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17 January 2015 The exhibition presented the new editions for the Neuer Aachener Kunstverein. |
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History Pop
The series contains colour photographs of selected European memorials, that have been raised within the last five years. The photographs are mounted on paper and combined with text assemblies from media coverage and historical research. The series is continually expanding.
The first three motifs are exclusively for the NAK.
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Gallery Taubert Contemporary
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Project proposal for the Europaplatz in Recklinghausen as part of the Sparda-Art-Price 2014
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The proposal for the Europaplatz in Recklinghausen drafts an approx. 10 metre (33 ft) long model ship inaccessibly residing in the midst of a water expanse. The model is a remake of the Europa which was built in the 20s just before the National Socialists’ seizure of Germany. The high-speed ocean liner was converted for military purposes during World War II, after the war she was initially used as USS Europa by the States, then as Liberté by the French. All the historic states and usages are simultaneously present in the model, showing one side of the hull in the fragmenting razzle-dazzle war camouflage, the other in the French coat Liberté, the way she looked before she was scrapped in the 60s. |
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Competition entry for the outdoor area in the Periviertel district, Rostock (not implemented)
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| The proposed installation would have been an arrangement of various contemporary LED and xenon car headlights in a park, dominated by trees and bushes, in the newly constructed Petriviertel district. These pairs of headlights are installed in fragmentary castings of car frontages, covered in a black-green patina ... |
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Simultanhalle - Raum für zeitgenössische Kunst
Volkhovener Weg 209-211, 50765 Cologne
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The object consists of several shielding fabrics against electromagnetic waves which are supported by a structure out of CFRP-poles (carbon-fiber-reinforced polymer)... |
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Inauguration of the project as a memorial in Eschborn.
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The "Marta Prize of the Wemhöner Stiftung" is endowed with 25.000 Euro. Every two years, an artist is selected to create a new, meaningful artwork for the collection of the Marta. |
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Project: Gartenbühnen - Bühnengärten,
(Garden Stages – Stage Gardens)
Castle parc Wendlinghausen
Preview: 2 October 2013, 6pm |
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The sculpture marks the beginning of the exhibition series Gartenbühne - Bühnengärten (Garden Stages – Stage Gardens) in East Westphalia Lippe. Over the coming years several artists will create a pavillion for a certain castle garden in the region as part of the exhibition series curated by Roland Nachtigäller.
Our project constists of slim white metall bars that define an empty building structure like a drawing in space. The shape derives from a large cosmetics sales booth in a Hamburg department store. Suggestive of an architecture the pavillion raises issue about function and representation.
A circle of pink-violet neon lights is attached around the roof’s lip. They appear as a casual detail during daytime. At night though, they bathe the pavillion in intensive pink light reminiscent of a pop scenery, but at the same time, they highlight skin blemishes like spots. |
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Project: Stufen zur Kunst,
Kunstverein Hannover
Preview: 15 August 2013 |
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Through the stair well of the Künstlerhaus Hannover a bright helix out of 160 neon lights of various sizes twists sky-wards in oppsite direction of the stair’s rotation. The lights are hold by a central axis.
All lights used in the installation stem from product enhancement or visual merchandising and usually serve the heightening of the “goods‘ erotic”. In supermakets you won’t usually notice the light being coloured. It is sort of applied “under-cover”. If the lights are turned off they appear equally white.
The work is installed for the duration of one year. |
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Solo exhibition at gallery Taubert Contemporary, Berlin
Preview: 06.06.2013 |
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The ouside of the two frame contructions is equipped with a grid of neon lights creating a pink light. It enhances the visibility of skin blemishes and is applied as riot-gear in public space; against anti-social-behavior of juveniles. |
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Competition of the City of Recklinghausen for a design of the "Kunstmeile Recklinghausen". |
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In the course of 2012, the City of Recklinghausen set a competition with the objective to determine an art work for the disused coal-mine’s railway track. The 1,6 km (approx 1 mile) long route is now used as a bike path which the city titled "Kunstmeile Recklinghausen".
Our proposal suggests to undo an older, policy-induced art work and recreate a new assembly out of its components...
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The project proposal wins the contest of the City of Eschborn for the design of an art work on the former “Streitplacken”.
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About 30 trees are planted at a maximum tilt angle around a central open area of the field parcel. The trees are tilted outwards and single stilts keep them in their position. Over the years the trees will react to their forced situation and sprout upwards towards the light. They will take on similarly mysterious and strange shapes as the trees you can find along former trenches where the trees’ scarring and crooked growth bear witness to the events. |
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On 18 September at 23.10 pm the WDR television shows a documentary about "Tiger & Turtle - Magic Mountain" by Heike Mutter and Ulrich Genth in the series "west.art masterpieces". Repeatedly broadcast on 23 September at 12.30 pm. |
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24 August. - 2 August 2012
Es gibt keine Spielplätze
(There Are no Playgrounds) |
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| On the 1st of September 2012, a contribution of Heike Mutter and Ulrich Genth appears in the Danish newspaper "POLITIKEN" under the heading "KRONIKEN". The text was written by Hans-Joachim Lenger. It refers to a proposal for the Copenhagen Art Festival. |
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3 July 2012
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19 June 2012
Artist talk |
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Heike Mutter and Ulrich Genth are talking with Roland Nachtigäller about the spatial orchestration of OWL Gartenbühnen – Bühnengärten (garden stages – stage gardens), Host: Joachim and Elisabeth von Reden, 6pm, Schloss Wendlinghausen, Dörentrup. |
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In the beginning of 2012 we were commissioned by Francesco Bonami to develop an art work for the public space in Rome.
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Our proposal drafted a reconstruction of the stage scaffolding from Fellini’s 8-1/2 as a permanently walkable sculpture. |
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The second proposal is based on the idea to specifically scrap and reassemble a discarded container vessel. The bridges and stairs inside remain. The ship, now trimmed to its skeleton, is located on a hill and permanently accessible as walk-through sculpture. |
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Proposal Sparda-Art-Award NRW
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The arc-shaped sculpture stands detached in space. The stiffness is created through the tension in the supporting steel pipe similar to a stretched spring...
Competition proposal for the train station forecourt Paderborn (2nd place, not realised) |
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28 January 2012
-two current projects of the New Patrons Programme. |
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Artists and patrons are presented within an exhibition at ACC-Galerie Weimar.
Heike Mutter and Ulrich Genth | 4pi Systeme – society for astronomy and information technology mbH Sonneberg
Henrik Schrat | Naumburger Bürgerverein e.V..
New Patrons Thuringia and Saxony-Anhalt are part of the network New Patrons e.V. Germany and are supported by the Fondation de France. In 2010 New-Patrons-projects have been promoted within a pilot phase in cooperation with the Federal Agency of Civic Education to introduce and establish the programme in Germany.
Curator: Frank Motz |
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20 January 2012
w jamois art space Paris |
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| Curators: Jeanne Susplugas and Alain Declercq |
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8 January 2012
Proposals for the exhibition project at the Belgian Coast. |
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Our favoured proposal: The central monument of the count Paul de Smet de Naeyer is buried under a hill of sand up to the hight of the figure. The proposal deals with the mysterious rotation of the figure some years ago...
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At very short notice, we have been invited for the fourth season of the Beaufort-project, which has opened this spring, to develop a site specific work in De Haan - Wenduine. Despite the enormous endeavours of the curators to convince the local authorities, the local boards refused four proposals in a row for various, mostly political reasons. Afterwards one filled the vacant spot - to the satisfaction of the township - with an already finished work by Bernar Venet. |
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13 November 2011
Heinrich Hildebrand Höhe Duisburg |
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30 October 2011- 5 February 2012
Kunsthaus Dresden.
Opening: 29.10.2011 |
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with Nairy Baghramian, Stefan Eichhorn, Friederike Feldmann, Niklas Goldbach, Lukas Hajek, Stef Heidhues, Dominik Lang, Olaf Lauströer, Jozef Legrand, Heike Mutter + Ulrich Genth, Kilian Rüthemann, Marten Schech, Felix Schramm
Curated by Petra Reichensperger
Assistance: Ulrike Jordan |
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24 August - 23 October 2011
Raum für Zweckfreiheit Berlin.
Opening: 23.09.2011, 7 pm |
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06 May 2011
Perspectives for Art in Public Space
Symposium in the control centre of the former heating and power station Mitte. |
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The art comission Dresden invited for the symposium three curators who set out with the public space of the city. On the basis of their research the curators comissioned one artist each to develop a project proposal.
Invited by Roland Nachtigäller we established two proposals:
Curators:
Anton Lederer
Dr. Petra Reichensperger
Roland Nachtigäller
Artists:
Esra Ersen
Marit Neeb
Heike Mutter / Ulrich Genth
Presentation of the talk:
Harald Kunde |
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15 April 2011
Talk in the Kunstverein Wolfenbüttel |
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6 April- 15 May 2011
Installation in the Kunstverein Wolfenbüttel.
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2 April 2011
Intervention in the town of Wolfenbüttel. |
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In the night 2nd to 3rd of April 2011 and without prior notice a second figure has been placed and firmly weld onto the central memorial in the market place in Wolfenbüttel.
The public is left in the dark about the authorship and origin of the figure. A few days later a riddle has been published in the Wolfenbüttel and Braunschweig newspapers. It also provided the information, that the Duke August-memorial will only return to ist original state if someone solves the riddle. |
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24 March 2011, 6pm, Royal Academy of Fine Arts Stockholm, Sweden |
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07 September 2010
Laying of the foundation stone and round of talks on Heinrich-Hildebrand-Höhe (D). |
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23 July 2010
The construction of the walkable outdoor sculpture on the Heinrich-Hildebrand-Höhe (D) starts in the beginning of August. |
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Landmarke Angerpark »Tiger & Turtle / Magic Mountain« / Project design: Heike Mutter & Ulrich Genth / Culture Capitol Office Duisburg 2010
Project partner: Stadt Duisburg, district government Münster, Ministry of the Environment NRW, bk2a architektur (Köln), designtoproduction (Stuttgart), ifb frohloff staffa kühl ecker (Berlin) |
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12 June 2010
The release of the exhibition piece in public space for the project »Residual« in Mexico-City.
Curators: Paulina Cornejo, Gonzalo Ortega, Sabine Maria Schmidt
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07 May 2010
(project of art in construction)
On 07.05.2010 the poster posting of the painting-details started in the inner City of Munich. For this occasion, a press event took place at10am in the visitors-entrance on Akademiestrasse.
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| The project »painting workshop for the underground« arose in a contest of art in construction given by the Munich municipal sewerage company. The central piece of the project is a monumental oil painting that is painted in the style of an allegorical, medieval painting. In many talks and over a period of several weeks, the motives have been worked out together with the canal workers and are based on real events. The canal workers chose their form of presentation themselves or they entered the painting in form of a narrated story. The finished painting, with the measures 364cm x 140cm | 143in x 55in, hangs, inaccessible for the public, in one of the sewerage depots. Five different excerpts printed and mounted on advertising boards are on view in the inner City of Munich during a period of two months. |
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1 May 2010
Fragments of the »Metareflektor – Luftoffensive« are presented in the exhibition "An das Gerät!", in HALLE 14 of the Baumwollspinnerei Leipzig(D). The exhibition focuses on equipment and tools used by artists.
Curator: Frank Motz
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31 March 2010
Blind Date
Installation for one evening in the Kunstverein Hannover (D) |
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| Three connected rooms of the Kunstverein Hannover are isolated for one evening called »Blind Date«. In the centre of the biggest room stands a 350cm (137,8in) high sculpture rotating without cease and, in this way, refuses closer details to the public. It only comes to a standstill if no one of the visitors moves in any of the three rooms of the Kunstverein. |
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19 - 21 March 2010
Exhibition in the urban fellowship-studio on Jungfernstieg.
Curated by Stefan Panhans |
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5 February 2010
Installation in the Gängeviertel Hamburg (D), exhibition project "DA HOOD" Vol.1. |
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| Light pink fluorescent tubes and a mirrored pedestal partly covered by a pile of straw are arranged in a room in one of the squats of the Gängeviertel in Hamburg (D). The utilized fluorescent tubes with the designation »candy pink« came into action in Great Britain since 2007 in order to fight anti-social-behaviour and drive away young people from public places. One noticed that the rosé lightening highlights any skin impurities and emphasizes any pimples or other signs of ugliness. |
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18 January 2010
These two objects are on view in the fellowship exhibition
of the freien und Hansestadt Hamburg in the Kunsthaus Hamburg (D). |
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| The sculptures consist of thin metal rods connected by joints that are only hold together by tightly spanned satin ribbons. If the ribbons are opened, the objects immediately expand and collapse. |
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9 July2009
Proposal for the mouth of the Braunebach in Kamen. |
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| Proposal for a drawbridge over the Braunebach near Kamen which opens in an asynchronous mode. |
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20 May 2009
Walkable outdoor sculpture for the Heinrich-Hildebrand-Höhe, Duisburg (D) |
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07 February- 15 March 2009
Installation at the Maschsee, Hannover, part of the exhibition "Neulicht am See". |
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The installation consists of a tower crane holding a large mirror that is directly placed in front of the torchbearer in about 21m (68 ft) above ground in order to reflect it. The figure of the torchbearer was set up in times of the National Socialism in honour of the workpeople who built the Maschsee within the programme of employment-creation measure. The arrangement also includes a sculpture by Alexander Calder; it was as well set up on the square nearby the torchbearer in the 70s. |
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9 December 2008 - 5 January 2009
Details of the installation "flying service" in the Kunsthaus Hamburg. |
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Contribution to the »Pie Bible«, a collection with contributions by artists, tips about everything to do with sex.
An artist project by M + M
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17 March - 1 June 2008
Installation / performative staging.
Forum Paradoxien des Öffentlichen
(Forum Paradoxes of the Public)
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The project was designed for the shopping mall of the "City-Palais Duisburg" and aims to be integrated and legitimized with its fun-fair character into the completely controlled and restrictively treated consumer space. It aims to open up a discussion with the public in this newly gained scope on-site.
The public is urged into actions of exchange; Goods or actions can be exchanged into an art object. The art objects are limited and not available on the art market.
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13 July 2007 - 2010
Project for public space in cooperation with the Fa Schmuck-Armaturen. Steinheim, project of the Bildhauersymposion Heidenheim Werk 07. |
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The project relates to the Bildhauersymposion Heidenheim. Artists are invited to create artworks for the public space. The artworks will then be realised by industrial partner companies.
In our special case, we were confronted with the proposal of the company to use 200 metres of orange plastic tube to create our artwork. We took up the structure and considered it as precedent. The tube became a sculpture that is permanently fixed on the loading area of a lorry.
The position of the lorry can be democratically chosen, discussed and continuously debated on a webpage. Every three weeks the sculpture is changing its location.
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31 May - 24 June 2007
Installation in the Bellvuesaal Wiesbaden, Verein zur Förderung künstlerischer Projekte mit gesellschaftlicher Relevanz
(Association for the promotion of art projects with social relevance).
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The installation consists of a downscaled model of an in reality existing petrol station from the 60s. A bar has been fixed on its backside. While the roof of the original petrol station is steeply rising upwards, the model of the exhibition space is balanced on its leading edge in such a way that it is kept horizontally up in the air. The bar functions as the counterweight of the roof and it is fixed with an adjustable rail on the backside. Like this, it facilitates the sensitive balance. The visitor is free to make use of the bar, but he/she is then challenged to adjust the balance that has been changed by the unloading. |
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24 - 25 May 2007
About the self-organisation of public space
Akzente-Plattform, European Capitol of Culture Ruhr 2010, in Landschaftspark, Duisburg-Nord
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Artistic management Dr. Söke Dinkla
Werkstatt 2 (Workshop 2): Commercial premises, shopping malls and passages
Moderation: Frank Roost, with BBM, Heike Mutter and Ulrich Genth, Raumlabor Berlin |
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25 April - 14 June 2007
Kunststiftung (Artist Fund) Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart
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13 January - 10 February 2007
Gallery VOUS ETES ICI, Amsterdam |
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9 November 2006 - Juli 2007
Contribution for the realisation of the project
- Die demokratische Sozialisation des kreativen Lasters * (The democratic socialisation of the creative lorry) – within the frame of the Bildhauersyposion Heidenheim Werk 07 |
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| Exhibition of the drafts for the closed contest of a creative design for the new Bundesministerium für Gesundheit (Federal Ministry of Health in Bonn |
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26 October - 26 November 2006
Installation in the Wallraff-Richartz Museum Cologne. |
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The living- and exploratory-research station in the medieval saloon in the Wallraff-Richartz Museum.
Exhibition: "Echo" New Media / Old Masters, Spiridon Neven DuMont winner in the Wallraff-Richartz Museum.
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06 October - 26 November 2006
Installation in the Kunsthalle Recklinghausen. |
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| On the roof of the Kunsthalle Reckinghausen stands an inhabited research station that the public can see easily from the street.
Entering the museum in the ground floor, the visitors see at first a video showing the transport of the research station onto the roof. The helicopter with its strange freight is in the beginning only a point on the horizon then it slowly approaches the roof of the museum. As the visitors advance via the stairs in the building, they encounter a system of ropes and platforms which expands from top down and becomes more and more dense the further they get. This system provides a second level of motion; it enables to move without floor contact through the entire museum. Exhibits of the collection are also arranged in the museum. |
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09 July 2006
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Installation in the Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum Duisburg
Exhibition "End of Season" of the Lehmbruck-Fellowship Holders, 2004 – 2006
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The fragments of the installation "Zentrale zur Verwaltung manifester Äusserungsanliegen" (Headquarter for the administration of manifest commentarial concerns) are arranged on chassis (racks with wheels) and form a convoy through the museum. A camp is installed in the first unit; the camp is entirely equipped with private everyday objects.
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30 April 2006 - 25 June 2006
Project for the 29. Duisburger Akzente in cooperation with the exhibition "Designing Truth" in the Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg
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With the "Zentrale zur Verwaltung manifester Äusserungsanliegen" the user has the possibility to send out any statement lying at the heart or to record any other acoustic work and broadcast it. For this reason, a sound recording point has been allocated in the Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum.
Via the outdoor module, the statement is plainly audible in the public space at the crossing Düsseldorfer Straße / Friedrich Wilhelm Straße during a period of four days. There is no censorship.
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December 2 2005, Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach |
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Contribution for the exhibition project – Wir bei HKM – in den Hüttenwerken Krupp-Mannesmann |
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View of site; old carpenter's workshop at HKM
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"Wir bei HKM" takes place on November 19 and 20, 2005 in the old carpenter's workshop at the smelter Krupp-Mannesmann.
Participating artists: Yukako Ando, Martin Pfeiffle, Heike Mutter, Dr. Christina Griebel, Ohio, Jörg Paul Janka, Roland Schappert, Jörn Vanhöfen, Ulrich Genth
Curator: Sabine Maria Schmidt
Contractor: Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Hüttenwerk Krupp-Mannesmann
Programme: (Exhibition, performance, lecture, short sight-seeing tours to the smelter) Saturday 19.11., 12am-8pm, Sunday 20 November, 12am-6pm.
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Object/series of photographs shown at: Wir bei HKW (We at HKW) |
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| C-print on aluminium |
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| Young artists from Cologne under 35 years.
Opening 30.10.2005, 12am, Kölncarré |
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Our contribution for the group exhibition Transfer/Chilufim is four floodlight masts. We placed one mast in each corner of the estate of the Museum of Krefeld, Haus Esters. The floodlight exposes the entire building in bright light. |
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