Gestaltung und Kunst

Save the date: Oana-Maria Bogdan in conversation with Tirdad Zolghadr, 9 August, 5 p.m. at the Affspace (Münstergasse 4) in Bern! *** We are glad to announce our second Speaker 2019: Oana-Maria Bogdan is an architect and urban planner, co-founder of the international practice BOGDAN & VAN BROECK and former Secretary of State for cultural heritage in Romania. She is currently using this valuable experience in advocacy work in Europe and in active political construction in Romania. Her involvement in societal affairs, as well as in political debates, contributes to the raising of cultural awareness in the domain of architecture. __ #sommerakademiepaulklee #residents19_20 #statecraft #speaker2019 #oanamariabogdan #bogdanvanbroeck #architecture #affspace #tirdadzolghadr #switzerland #bern

Save the date: Public lecture by Suhail Malik on 6 August, 4 p.m. at the @progr_bern (room 369) in Bern! *** The Sommerakademie Paul Klee is less than three weeks away! We are glad to announce our first Speaker 2019: Suhail Malik is Co-Director of the MFA Fine Art at Goldsmiths College in London, where he holds a Readership in Critical Studies. He also was 2012-15 Visiting Faculty at CCS Bard in New York. Recent and forthcoming publications include, as author, "ContraContemporary: Modernity's Unknown Future" (2020) and, as co-editor, "The Flood of Rights" (2017). He was also a Sommerakademie Speaker 2017. __ #sommerakademiepaulklee #speaker2019 #statecraft #suhailmalik #tirdadzolghadr #progr #switzerland #bern

During the last two months, we have introduced the eight new Residents 2019/20 of the Sommerakademie Paul Klee. It's with great pleasure that we announce the participation of Aarti Sunder as our Curatorial Resident 2019/20! Aarti Sunder is interested in ideas that create the subject: technology, economy, and experience; how we relate to and how these ideas make us. She recently shared her ideas around artist congregation and need for renewed solidarities at the Bangkok Biennale this year and at Tate's Imagined Biennales conference. She was a fellow at Ashkal Alwan's Home Workspace Program in 2016/17 and at Art Dubai in 2017/18. She is the recipient of several fellowships including SARAI City as Studio fellowship for Contemporary Art, Inlaks Shivdasani Foundation-ISCP Residency Scholarship and the Dutch ArtEZ two-year education scholarship. She will be a resident artist at Alserkal in 2019 and will also be studying the technology-human interface at MIT over the coming years. . Follow her on Instagram: @aartisunder . Image Credit: Aarti Sunder, photograph from within the tent of Vettaikkorumakan’s yearly salutation at an Iyyappa Temple in Baroda, against the techno-epidermal skyline. __ #sommerakademiepaulklee #residents19_20 #curatorialresident #aartisunder #statecraft #tirdadzolghadr #hochschulederkünstebern #switzerland #bern

Meet the new residents: Fadwa Naamna is a curator and researcher based in Amsterdam. She was a Curatorial Research Fellow at De Appel (2017–2018), her research focusing on the 'give and take' economy of the contemporary art system, the influence of funding modalities and the policies on designing cultural and artistic production. Previously, she was an assistant curator at Beit Hagefen Arab Jewish Cultural Center in Haifa (2014–2016). Fadwa graduated within the Art and Geography departments at the University of Haifa. . Follow her on Instagram: @fadwa_naamna . Image Credit: Fadwa Naamna, "Ruba Salameh", 2017, from „Ghost Dance“ Exhibition, Beit Hagefen, Haifa. __ #sommerakademiepaulklee #residents19_20 #statecraft #tirdadzolghadr #fadwanaamna #hochschulederkünstebern #switzerland #bern

Meet the new residents: Dorothee Kreutzfeldt lives and works in Johannesburg. Her artistic practice and research have been pre-occupied with spatial realities and imaginations, particularly in the post-Apartheid context of South Africa. She completed her MA FA with distinction (2004), which involved collaborations with sign-writers on a series of paintings for ‘mothballed’ buildings in Johannesburg. In many of her projects and initiatives, Dorothee Kreutzfeldt returns to the details, re-inventions and stresses of spaces, to questions of who built them, how they are adapted and become unreadable structures or fictional memory. Dorothee Kreutzfeldt lectures in the Fine Arts Department at the WITS University (since 2011). . Photo by Thandile Zwelibanzi Painting by Dorothee Kreutzfeldt, "Border (offerings)", 2018, acrylic and mixed media on canvas, 170 x 140 cm __ #sommerakademiepaulklee #residents19_20 #statecraft #dorotheekreutzfeldt #tirdadzolghadr #hochschulederkünstebern #switzerland #bern

Meet the new residents: Tracy Jeanne Rosenthal writes essays about art, satire about Los Angeles, and opinions about housing justice, which you can find in Art in America, FENCE, and the L.A. Times. She is the editor of Art Los Angeles, a biannual newsprint publication on the words in its title. She co-founded the L.A. Tenants Union and authors the widely-shared "Two-Evils Voting Guides" for local and national elections. She's currently working on a novella about a mall you can live in, and a book of essays called "Little World Machine". . Follow her on Instagram: @Two_Evils . Image Credit: Tracy Jeanne Rosenthal, Two-Evils Cheat Sheet, 2018 __ #sommerakademiepaulklee #residents19_20 #statecraft #tirdadzolghadr #tracyjeannerosenthal #latenantsunion #artlosangeles #losangeles #hochschulederkünstebern #switzerland #bern

Meet the new residents: Felipe Castelblanco is a multidisciplinary Colombian/American artist working at the intersection of socially engaged and Media art. His work explores participation, institutional forms and new frontiers of public space, enabling coexistent encounters between unlikely audiences. He holds an MFA from Carnegie Mellon University (USA) and is currently a PhD Candidate at the ECAM Graduate School at the HGK in Basel and the University of the Arts Linz. . Follow him on Instagram: @felipecastel . 📷 by Felipe Castelblanco, Series Norte Es Sur (2010 - 2014) __ #sommerakademiepaulklee #residents19_20 #felipecastelblanco #statecraft #tirdadzolghadr #hochschulederkünstebern #switzerland #bern

Meet the new residents: With Olivia Abächerli we have a local artist among our Residents 2019/20. She is researching the political potential of “intimate fiction”, practicing proto-archaeological fieldwork, and examining where the utopic tilts into the dystopic, or the other way around. Proceeding from drawing as a tool of invention, projects develop into more complex narratives, a practice of layering film and animation, abstract organisational forms or support structures. Used media are often simultaneously analog and digital, e.g. coding, metal, plasticine, internet radio, wood and plants. . Follow her on Instagram: @oliviaabaecherli . 📷 by Olivia Abächerli __ #sommerakademiepaulklee #residents19_20 #oliviaabächerli #statecraft #tirdadzolghadr #hochschulederkünstebern #switzerland #bern @oliviaabaecherli

Meet the new residents: Airi Triisberg is an independent curator, writer and educator based in Tallinn. She is interested in the overlapping fields between political activism and contemporary art practices, issues related to gender and sexualities, illness/health and dis/abilities, self-organisation and collective care practices, struggles against precarious working conditions in the art field and beyond. Her practice as a politicised art worker is often located at the intersection of political education, self-organisation and knowledge production. . This is the cover of the book "Art Workers - Material Conditions and Labour Struggles in Contemporary Art Practice" (2015) which she co-published with Minna Henriksson & Erik Krikortz. The book can be downloaded here: http://www.art-workers.org/ __ #sommerakademiepaulklee #residents19_20 #airitriisberg #tallinn #artworkers #statecraft #tirdadzolghadr #hochschulederkünstebern #switzerland #bern

We’re excited to introduce to you the new residents of the Sommerakademie Paul Klee 2019/20 over the next two months! . Meet the first two residents: João Enxuto and Erica Love collaborate on projects about the role new technologies play in reshaping work, institutions, and economies connected to Contemporary Art. Enxuto received an MFA in Photography from RISD and Love holds BAs from Brown University in Economics and Visual Arts and an MFA from UCLA. . Follow them on Instagram: @Contemporary.Institute . Caption for their work: ‚The Mining Museum (Miami)‘, 2018, steel plate and mesh, wood, computer server rack, Ethereum mining rig (motherboard, three graphics processing units (GPUs), battery, hard drive, Windows OS), smart contract, 152 cm x 69 x 43 cm __ #sommerakademiepaulklee #residents19_20 #statecraft #tirdadzolghadr #hochschulederkünstebern #switzerland #bern @hkb_bfh @contemporary.institute

Sad to see our fellows 2017-19 leave Bern... safe travels Alexandros, @baharnoorizadeh @evoluiza @jonathankazuhisa @heathermobrien_ @crystalzcampbell @jo_ann_bruc @intentional_foul . #Repost @heathermobrien_ with @get_repost ・・・ leaving swiss bittersweet. __ #sommerakademiepaulklee #fellows2017_19 #blocc #lacleman #bern #switzerland