Lecture Performance at „In-Lab: FGFG A Kitchen Debate“, Jan van Eyck academie, Maastricht (NL): Nowadays, modern farmers are considered „Agro managers“. As an alternative to cultivating big fields with monocultures, big inflatable sculptures of corn, flowers and vegetables were presented to the audience, that had to help with the harvest …
„Jungle Camp“ is a sculptural media landscape of textiles and synthetics hosted in a building from the former textile industry.
This „instant-jungle” evolves and devolves as a technical biotope, performing the reappropriation of an industrial space by nature. The artificial landscape changes by changing light settings and the movements of inflatables. Sounds of growing, vivid flora and fauna create a polyphonic soundscape.
site-specific installation at the LWL-industrial museum Spinnerei / TextilWerk Bocholt, 2012
12 tents, 12 lamps, 12-channel-audio, lightcontrolers, 1 computer, custom software, dimensions variable, at least 500 x 600 x 100 cm, 2009
Camping Ensemble is a sculptural light- and soundinstallation that turns moving images like films into a generative composition. A movie is downscaled to 12 pixels on a computer. Twelve tents contain each a lamp that represents the changing lightness of each part of the movie. Parallel to the light, a sine tone in every tent is played in changing intensities. As the sine tones are in a row of connected frequencies, a (more or less) harmonic, polyphonic composition evolves and the installation becomes a kind of an abstract organ.
next / ongoing:
„UpCycleTheStreet!“ – inflatable flowers will blossom at Kulturpicknick at Zeche Consol (GE) on 7 and at Bobiennale from 19 to 22nd of june.
GeOrgel ’s theme in 2025 is „EinLaden“ (= a shop & invite!) with a focus on sustainable formats of a post-growth-economy as well as a series of urban interventions …
A „tulip“ (inflatable sculpture) is shown in the groupshow at Voilà Volière in Wattenscheid on march 29th.
Pig Brother (shortfilm in cooperation with Harko Wubs, 2022) will be presented by videoart_club / „Nasenrücken“ / video art screening
08.11.24 at Neuland_projektraum, Bochum, Germany
*the project DEKOLONIALWARENLADEN has been shown at the FLURSTÜCKE festival 2024 in Münster (Stadthausgalerie) and parts of the interviews are available online now here.
Pig Brother (shortfilm in cooperation with Harko Wubs, 2022) was presented at Ecozine Filmfestival in Saragossa, Spain: we went there and were happy to also present and discuss it with students.
IN ARCHIVE EINTAUCHEN (Westfalen): a videoconcert at Cinema Münster/neben*an on dec 15th 2023 at 6:30 pm & 8 pm.
IN ARCHIVE EINTAUCHEN (Westfalen) – eine Zeitreisenveranstaltung kept us busy this year: together with my colleague Michael Rieken we traveled into the archives of …
The sound- and light installation CAMPING ENSEMBLE will be presented on november 5th at the festival ANDERS! at the Wasserschloss Raesfeld; a regional film is chosen to direct 12 enlighted tents and different sine tones …
KHW&AkA – Landkultur anders is the title of our new catalogue that documents 5 years of art & music with more than 50 artists at various locations in the countryside! 176 pages, texts by Agnes Sawer, Britta Kusch-Arnhold, Stefan Demming, Graw Böckler. Book presentation jan 19th in Berlin, Kindl/Café Babette; More information (german)
the AkA – studio for cultural affairs: adventures in contemporary art and music in public space and in a former village bakery – will continue through 2023
may 21st 2022: A selection of „updated landscapes“ – works on industrial agriculture as well as Germany’s first inflatable biogas plant is presented at the Mühlenhof in Münster. There will also be available an edition of the new poster for the project „Pig Brother“ (in collaboration with Harko Wubs, 2022)!
jan 13th – feb 10th 2022: The exhibition „Olymp-Reisen“ (@ FARB, Borken) gave an overview on the project HTR – home travel remember, rethinking travelling and ended with a videoconcert
jan 22nd 2022: „MEXTENSIONS„: 15 artists were invited to join a chain-video-project, premiere @ Künstlerhaus Dortmund
Gesammeltes III: Chipstüten (17.11. – 1.12.2019)
october through december 2019:
„GESAMMELTES # 1-3“ („Collected #1-3“) In collaboration with my artistic partner of Kunsthalle Weseke (KHW), Michael Rieken, we are using the private collection of things of chosen people to make a spatial light and sound installation at KHW
ONGOING (until 2020):
„Saligia–PRIDE“ – Kloster Bentlage, Rheine
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PAST:
„regi-O-pera“, a dutch-german cross-border collaboration, has been shown in KHW and at LWL-Industriemuseum TextilWerk, Bocholt in late march 2019.
„Heimatrauschen, eine regi-O-pera“
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Gruppenbild – 25 Jahre Klasse Guiton, Kulturkirche St. Stephani in Bremen
– 13.01.2019
„Woman on the floor“ (2018) -> original version (in public space)
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nov 10, 2018: POP-UP-PLANTS (WT, performance), within a kitchen debate with/by KVM, Frac Grand Large, Dunkerque (F)
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„Ich-Orgel„, a reactive-generative light- and soundorgan (installation) in collaboration with Michael Rieken will be shown for the first time at the exhibition „Zeig Dich“, DEKT Berlin, Zwingli-Kirche, may 25-27th 2017)
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A Workshop on spactial practises at the Trondheim Academy of Fine Art on invitation of the 2017 graduating MFA class (april 20/21st 2017)
POP-UP-CORN, an Installative performance at „In-Lab: FGFG A Kitchen Debate“, Jan van Eyck Academy, Maastricht (NL) on invitation by Jessica Segall (march 16th, 2017)
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The „Marzahn Opera“ will be open from sept 11th until october 28th at Galerie M in the very center of Berlin-Marzahn at the eastern edge of Berlin…
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„Ein wilder Apfelbaum will ich werden“ – „I want to become a wild apple tree“, is the titel of a cooperation exhibit with Daniela Schlüter at the Rijksmuseum Twente in Enschede in the framework of Printlab SNAP3.
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LUURN BI DE BUERN a project by Daniela Schlüter and Stefan Demming on ‚contemporary agriculture‘ is presented at Kloster Bentlage from march 15 th to april 26th. Participating artists are: Matt Arrigo, Rudi Bastiaans, Willem Boom, Marion Bouwhuis, Josh Chircop, Stefan Demming, Wapke Feenstra, Hörner/Antlfinger, Erik Kok, Petra Spielhagen, Gintare Skroblyte, Daniela Schlüter, Marc Westermann, Anna Zibler
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The HOST, a performance by Andros Zins-Browne with an inflatable set design by Stefan Demming will be presented in HAU, Berlin on april 25th and 26th 2015.
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a residence in Judenburg, Austria, to prepare the first LIVE-SHOW with residents of the town in the framework of THE SMALLEST SHOW ON EARTH 2 will be presented from may 16th – 25th 2014
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PLANTAGE – PLANTATION – a series of inflatable sculptures in public space was chosen for the residency KunstKommunikation at DA Kunsthaus Kloster Gravenhorst (realized in 2013; VIDEOS: Plantation#3, Plantation#2 as an installation & performance: ,1 / 2 / 3 )
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ELÉG is presented at dc3 art projects (Edmonton, Canada)
Selcted Stills of ELÉG build the base for an edition of prints called FRAGMENTS OF A HUNGARIAN RHAPSODY
ELÉG – a hungarian rhapsody
HD VIDEO transfered to Blu-ray, 8’17“, colour, stereo, 2012
language: hungarian with german / english subtitles …. more …
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SPACESPACE: VIDEO documentation now online!
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Donkey, cat, dog and cockerel are the 4 audiovisual tracks of a composition that’s generated in realtime. Due to an occasional change of the speed of each player’s performance, sound and velocity of the players are constantly changing. According to the fairy tale of the Bremen town musicians, the animals occupied the house of bandits who couldn’t bear the cacophony of the musician’s first performance.
In an urban public space a passer-by is confronted with a video sculpture that looks like a woman creeping into a paper box. She reemerges, her body covered in brown fur while her face appears in a hole in the front of the box. Behind the screen she is looking peacefully into her inner self, singing and humming an old lovesong in Low-German.
(Won the OLB-media-award on the EMAF-festival 2002)
Nightmares
Miss Marple cannot sleep –her alarm is torturing her. At first, she doesn’t even hear it. Later, every time she gets up to look at it, it stops. Then when she lays down, it starts again. She gets more and more hysterical and eventually, mechanical.
(Won the german installation award in Marl 2000)
In Horsedog a white horse appears above a white dog as if standing on top of it . Sometimes the dog is on the lookout – but nothing happens. After a minute a black horse appears behind the white horse – and and dissapears before reaching the borders of the image. The dog doesn‘t notice it. In front of the projection from time to time a plastic bag is driven by air to fly while it‘s illuminated by a spotlight.
The city‘s edge at night: in the background the lights of the city, in the foreground a hut as a carcass. It seems to be inhabited: inside, a light is turned on and off sometimes. But also a window with the singing silhouette of a person behind it, is projected onto it. Behind the hut a man appears and disappears. On the other side of the construction site scenery, once in a while a dog is barking and illuminated according to the volume of his singing.
Endless lights
3 two-way-mirrors, 600 lights,
200 x 180 x 205 cm, 2007
Endless Lights is a model for the nocturnal sea of lights of a megalopolis.In a triangle of two-way mirrors, spectators can look through the mirrors inside of the sculpture from where the gaze cannot escape to the dark outside.
Endless lights II
3 two-way-mirrors, 300 lights,
195 x 128 x 110cm, 2009
Endless Lights is a model for the nocturnal sea of lights of a megalopolis. In a triangle of two-way mirrors, spectators can look through the mirrors inside of the sculpture from where the gaze cannot escape to the dark outside.
