Stipendium Wohnung Felix Rehfeld

June 26, 2017, 10:27 am

6-week long intervention, artist publication, 2008

As the initiator and director of an Artist-in-Residence program, I interrogate this format of artistic production. In gatherings, events, spatial interventions, by using questionnaires, etc., invited artists investigate with me the residence as a framework while we adopt our roles within it.

The project was realised in collaboration with Jette Hye Jin Mortensen (Dk),
Matt Golden (GB), Darragh O‘Callaghan (Ire) and Instant Coffee (Can)
+ other local artists / helpers / friends.... !

Kontakt #1, Jette Hye Jin Mortensen

Show #2, Matt Golden (with Natsue Ikeda)

Videostill, Darragh O'Callaghan

Instant Coffee

invited artists
Jette Hye Jin Mortensen (Denmark)
Matt Golden (UK)
Darragh O'Callaghan (UK)

special guests:
Instant Coffee (Canada)

The resutling Artist Publication is deriven directly from the project's structure: every event is captured in one booklet plus one booklet to introduce the project as a whole. Corresponding with the character of the whole project the publication demands ones initiative and is designed as an open structure. All colour imprints are included in a small pocket in the back of each booklet. Each booklet contains the text and empty pages to be filled by the beholder.

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Vogelmann

June 26, 2017, 10:27 am

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2008
Series of 89 postcards, white stickers

A found postcard shows a person and 89 pigeons on a place covered in snow. On 89 postcards I cover 88 pigeons with a white sticker each. Eventually each postcard shows the person and a different bird.

no. 26, detail (scan)

no. 71 (scan)

all postcards (scan)

This work is based on a postcard by Mehmet Unal, Frankfurt 1985,
published by Inkognito Berlin

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Aktivitätszonen

October 9, 2017, 11:30 pm

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(in German only)
Einzelausstellung, Kunsthalle Bremerhaven, 2017
Bodenmarkierung, Faltplan, Diaserie, Doppelprojektion, Rekonstruierte Modelle, Wandzeichnung, Zeichnungen, Vitrinen mit Material aus dem Stadtarchiv Bremerhaven

Mit der Ausstellung AKTIVITÄTSZONEN rücke ich das Columbus-Center in den Fokus und untersuche das Bauwerk als Träger von Visionen einer Neuausrichtung der Stadtplanung in Bremerhaven um 1970 und als genutztes, funktionales Gebäude im Jahre 2017. Dazu trage ich Material aus der Entstehungszeit des Gebäudes und der Gegenwart zusammen.

HALLE

Ausstellungsansicht vor Eröffnung, Bodenmarkierung (Kreide)

Ausstellungsansicht vor Eröffnung, Bodenmarkierung (Kreide), Wandhalterung mit Faltplänen, auf Empore: Diaserie "Ausblick Columbus-Center"

Die Markierung auf dem Boden trägt sich durch die Ausstellungsbesucher*innen ab, wird verteilt und akkumuliert neue Informationen.

Ausstellungsansicht mit Besucher*innen

Die Bodenmarkierung in der Halle geht zurück auf einen nie realisierten Beitrag des „Ideenwettbewerbs“ von 1971 für das Gelände zwischen Columbus-Center und Weser. Mittels eines Faltplans wird die Wettbewerbsidee (als Markierung) mit dem Gelände in seiner heute existierenden Form (in Form von Beobachtungen von Personen) überlagert.

Ursprung der Bodenmarkierung (Ausschnitt)

Faltplan, Seite 2

Faltplan, Seite 1

Empore

Im Vorfeld wurden alle Anwohner*innen der Wohntürme des Columbus-Centers aufgefordert, Fotos ihrer Ausblicke für die Ausstellung zur Verfügung zu stellen. Ausgangspunkt dafür war ein Wunsch nach Korrektur der eigenen Wahrnehmung: Den als Verbindung zum Wasser geplanten Gebäudekomplex empfand ich bei jedem Besuch der Stadt als Trennlinie. Die angestrebte Verbindung bleibt aus meiner Sicht den Anwohner*innen der Türme durch deren Ausblick vorbehalten.

Installationsansicht Dia-Projektion "Ausblick Columbus-Center", 80 Dias als Loop

Dia Beispiel mit Signatur

KABINETT

v.l. Zeichnungen, Tusche auf Transparentpapier, 45x43 cm,
Wandzeichnung,"zufälliger Grundriß", ca. 300x400 cm,
rekonstruierte Modelle, Archivdruck auf Papier, Plexiglas, Maße variabel, ca. 40x70x8 cm

Besucher*in während der Eröffnung

rekonstruiertes Modell (Detail)

Eine von zwei Vitrinen, Draufsicht

FLUR

gegenüberliegende Doppelprojektion "Flüchtiges Lineament (Lauftext, Columbus-Center)", 2017

Mit dieser Ausstellung bearbeite ich eine Grundfrage meiner künstlerischen Arbeit, nach Dramaturgie von Architektur: Wenn eine gestaltete Umgebung die darin stattfindende Handlung bereits vorausdenkt, agieren Nutzer*innen dieser Umgebung dann wie Komparsen in einer präzise erdachten Kulisse? Und: Wessen Ideen führen sie aus?

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Flüchtiges Lineament (Plakat, Bucharest))

October 27, 2017, 11:32 pm

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In my series “Flüchtiges Lineament”, I explore the ambivalences that are provoked when viewing construction sites: the fascination of temporary architecture, the anticipation of habitat improvement through progress and the fear of negative changes in economic and living conditions. On the shopwindow of the gallery I install a large wallwork showing a Bauschutzplane on scaffolding.

Poster, approx. 400 x 300 cm, Installation view, 2017, H'Art Appendix, Bucharest

Installation view

Examples of scaffolding from Bucharest.

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Flüchtiges Lineament (Lauftext)

April 25, 2019, 9:47 pm

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Fraud, Fake & Fame, 2016
St.Johannes-Evangelist, Berlin
Two video projections, loop, approx. 18 min,
each projected textframe approx. 80 x 160 cm

Installed in two identical, oppositing spaces. One projection shows text describing the built situation, the other one shows descriptions of people acting on site. Both texts are deriven from observations of the same site - the Hansaviertel in Berlin.
Each sentence is built up gradually: letter by letter emerges. The full sentence rests briefly and the next sentence is then built up gradually again.

installation view (box 1)

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It's all Yours. (2019)

July 24, 2019, 9:48 am

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Freigänger (group exhibition), 2019
Former women prison, Lichterfelde, Berlin
Cooperation with the Norwegian embassy Berlin
Curators: Crispin Gurholt, Helga-Marie Nordby

This work focusses on controversial issues of the current Berlin policies of urban planning. It explores the ambivalences that are provoked when viewing construction sites: the fascination of temporary architecture, the anticipation of habitat improvement through progress and the fear of negative changes in economic and living conditions.  Through a series of drawings and a large-scale wall work, I quote scaffoldings as an abstract structure. Scaffolding – a currently omnipresent phenomenon in Berlin – is certainly a major indication for gentrification, and is used by real estate companies as a psychological tool to discourage current tenants and to motivate them to move out. Meanwhile positive, high-quality situations and visions are staged on construction signs often affixed to the very same scaffoldings. I quote these promises and integrates them into the installation using a lightbox.

vinyls on Lightbox 80 x 80 cm

carbon print on paper, 52 x 42 cm each

wallwork, linen tape, approx. 250 x 500 cm

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Südtangente

September 5, 2019, 1:56 am

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Tracks in a Box
When artists make guided tours
CLB Pop Up at Aufbauhaus, Berlin 2019
Audiowork, speaker, approx. 45 Min, (geolocation based), 2019

Building mental and temporal bridges: this audio tour explores the development of social housing. It illuminates Berlin's social housing house building. It departs from the startings of social housing, through the visions of the 1980s, and continues onto a current project, an independent initiative of a building group and a building cooperative for mixed use. Using a geolocation app, you will be led by an abstract audio track to three locations. This track superimposes current on-site observations with consideration dating back to the time of the construction of the buildings. With Südtangente, look between the facades, walk around the buildings and take time to linger inside.

Further info:
Südtangente uses the mobile application "Echoes". Download the Echoes app and the tour onto your mobile phone in advance using this link

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30 questions

October 26, 2021, 1:26 am

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30 questions - addressing the white cube
Field Institute, Raketenstation / Insel Hombroich Foundation, 2014
site specific installation, 1,60m x 42m
series of 33 booklets (German, 13cm x 20cm, digital print, saddle stitched binding)

The exhibition space is built of four oversea containers that form a tunnel with a width of 2,50m and a total length of 48m.
Thirty-three copies of one book are mounted on a wall, displaying one opened page each and subsequently revealing all pages of the book. Each page shows one question addressing the white cube as the prototype of contemporary exhibition spaces.
The character of this space makes the frame of the work: visitors walking parallel and close to the two overstretched walls; the architecture is not allowing a distant view nor an overview; the scripted way for visitors is straight and foreseeable.

ground plan of the Foundation Insel Hombroich (Raketenstation)

installation view, cover

installation view, page no. 01 (bastard title)

installation view, page no. 20 "What are you hiding?"

question no. 5

question no. 9

question no. 15

installation view

installation view with visitors

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Any one place is always replete with new improvisations

March 22, 2022, 6:51 am

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2021
road marking in public space
approx. 35 × 25 m

The work focuses on all pedestrians in the form of markings on the floor. The markings extend over both areas designated to the competition and the space in between. 12 colored lines that reference street markings are proposed to be installed on the floor. The position and lengths of the markings are located based on the movements of passers-by on site.
The lines will be irritating and remind on crossing lines that have shifted in terms of color and space. The lines cross out (like crossing something out with a pen). They're stitching something together (like band-aids or sutures a wound). They mark and specify. [...] The visible marking serves as a suggestion for passers-by, as an interruption of their own well-trodden path and as a visual experience. It relates the self to the environment. Where am I walking? On, next to, across the line? Do I have to take this path? Could I walk differently, take my time? Make a different decision?” Part of the art budget is to be reserved for a "digital / performative addition to the spatially located artistic work", for which initial ideas have already been developed (including a series of artistic walks and impulse lectures in the form of walks with invited experts to continue the current discourse on urban space specifically in this area which is about to be developed as a flagship area for short-distance mobility).

Pedestrian crossing a street creating an imaginary line.

Birds view of the corner Ackerstraße / Invalidenstraße showing the planned intervention based on the movements of passers-by on site.

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Prolog für den Raum

October 18, 2022, 6:23 am

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Stadtgalerie Künstlerhaus Lauenburg and Künstlerhaus Lauenburg, 2022

On invitation of Marita Landgraf (Artistic Director of the Künstlerhaus Lauenburg), we, the artist collective mark, are realising an on-site project to talk about a specific space at the Künstlerhaus and let the space speak.
At first we develop over 250 questions addressing the space and the users (current and future) to approach the space ourselves.
How can you convert a historical room situated in the heart of the building into an actively used space and bring it into its best possible potential for the overall orientation of the house?
Our artistic intervention takes place in several consecutive steps:
1. temporary spatial intervention
2. interviews
3. Answering from the idea of being the space
4. 3-D vision of needs
5. 2-D vision of future atmosphere
6. Collective definition of used terms
7. Working with the systemic constellation of the room

Thanks to all participants!

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