Das fliegende Künstlerzimmer

GOOD NEWS, 2020
Weary layout, variable size (for instance 50 cm & 18 cm)

I use paper not only as a picture medium but as a design tool as well. Therefore lines and cuts often determine my drawings. I draw by separating lines from the surface with the knife or freeing them. Traces of the emergence of a work are often left. The delicate paper sculptures make you think of architectural models. For me, the plastic design process is about fundamental aspects of sculpture such as stability, volumes, transparency and surface. The supposed statics of traditional sculpture are also explored.

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FROM PARIS TO ROLANDSECK – IT’S OK TO DADA
100 years of walking art, a project with Brigitte Kovacs

In their 1921 manifesto “Excursions & Visits”, Hans Arp, André Breton, Tristan Tzara and others called for a series of explorations of the urban space in ordinary places in Paris. Contrary to plans, only one excursion took place and this was through the gardens of the church of Saint Julien le Pauvre.

To mark the 100^th anniversary of the manifesto, Brigitte Kovacs and Fabian Knöbl decided to revive walking as an artistic practice. Against the backdrop of discussions today about worsening climate change, walking as a form of artistic expression appears more relevant and political than ever. This performance is also an attempt to reconcile art and life. Rambling is intended to establish new connections between spaces, people and different times. […] […]

Starting from the original historical location, Brigitte Kovacs and Fabian Knöbl invited people to walk through the gardens of Saint Julien le Pauvre before proceeding on their “art path” to Rolandseck. The distance travelled becomes a work of art in the process. […]

The route took the artists through Champagne, Lorraine and Luxemburg, across the Eifel all the way to the Rhenish Riviera. They placed milestones in the form of blue signs and stickers showing two arrows, each marked with a ‘DA’ and therefore both pointing the way and showing the artistic relationship with Dada. By positioning signposts and plaques, they measure the area they walk through and mark it with their own signage system: a mapping of walking as art.