Alexis Dworsky

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Fitting , a performance with the urban architecture
Braille Graffiti : Intervention series in the public open space
Travel around the world with Google Street View : Dworsky transforms the adventures of his virtual journeys into lectures and slide shows

Alexis Dworsky (born May 14, 1976 in Freising ) is a German conceptual artist and cultural scientist. He conducts artistic research and combines practical with theoretical approaches:

“He (re) constructed a dinosaur from a roast hare and wrote a doctoral thesis on it; in Google Street View he drives around the world and gives travel lectures about it. Dworsky translates graffiti for the blind and builds a fitness trail in the middle of the city. "

biography

Dworsky first studied landscape architecture at the Technical University of Munich, then studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich . Dworsky received his doctorate in 2011 from Bazon Brock in Aesthetics at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal on the cultural history of the dinosaur . From 2001 to 2007 Dworsky was curator at Lothringer13 / laden . From 2012 to 2018 he was an artistic assistant in the Res Ingold class at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich.

Dworsky works as a freelance artist , cultural scientist and curator .

Public space and new media

In particular, Dworsky works in and about public space . He understands this both as a field of experimentation and communication platform, as well as the subject matter of his investigations. A special feature of his approach is to see the digital media space as a public free space: "The virtual world is becoming more and more intertwined with the physical one, and in it it is important to intervene artistically and to question it through contemporary art," says Dworsky.

Curation and research

The boundary between art, research and curation is becoming increasingly blurred in Dworsky's work, for example because he also shows works by other artists at exhibitions or invites them to actions and lectures, researches the background, writes scientific texts about them and publishes them.

Exhibitions, interventions and performances (selection)

  • October 20, 2001 Lecture performance as part of the exhibition More than miles in the Zeppelin Museum Friedrichshafen
  • 2002 PROGRAM ANGELS gen PRATER, Action Forum Praterinsel
  • May 10, 2003 Night owls , performance at the Schauspiel Frankfurt
  • 2004 conspiracy - nothing is what it seems !!! , Exhibition project on conspiracy theories with the sociologist Anne Hacket in Lothringer13 / laden
  • 2005 Insalata Mista , installation and actions at BUGA 05
  • 2006 4D picnic (+) , exhibition in the Stuttgart art space Oberwelt e. V.
  • 2007 DINOMANIA , exhibition in Lothringer13 / shop
  • February 16, 2008 Lecture performance as part of the gala 50 years of ingold airlines in the art and exhibition hall of the Federal Republic of Germany
  • 2010 transfer: spanien I , exhibition on the European Art Scholarship Upper Bavaria, Schafhof - European Artist House Upper Bavaria
  • 2011 Hartu eta Eman. Discursos y Recursos , exhibition in the Sala América, Vitoria-Gasteiz
  • 2012 Travel around the world with Google Street View , performance in Gasteig , Munich
  • 2012 Science meets Dharma . Symposium with Tibetan monks, western natural scientists ... and the artist Alexis Dworsky, Dalai Lama Institute of Higher Education, Bangalore, India
  • July 2017 Urban Trimm Dich !, installation of a temporary fitness trail with a program at Candidplatz , Munich
  • Graffiti for the blind since 2014 , series of interventions in public open spaces
  • 2017 Braille Style , installations in the public open space, exhibition in the Panteón cultural center, lecture and workshop, at the invitation of the Goethe-Institut Mexico, Mexico City
  • 2018 Urban Playground , discursive exhibition in the Maximiliansforum , Munich
  • 2018 Word. Exhibition and workshop in the kult gallery, Singapore ; made possible by the Goethe-Institut Singapore

Prizes and awards

  • 2002 Tassilo Culture Prize of the Süddeutsche Zeitung with the association Initiative Jugendkultur
  • 2010 European Art Scholarship Upper Bavaria , Artist-in-Residence in the Basque Country
  • 2011 Project grant for young art / new media from the City of Munich
  • 2013 FreiFarben scholarship , Schafhof - European Artist House Upper Bavaria
  • 2016 interdisciplinary art award two: one
  • 2017 Art in public space competition of the state capital Munich

Publications

  • Dinosaur! The cultural history . Wilhelm Fink Verlag, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-7705-5222-1 .
  • White rabbits, red pills . Kerber Verlag, Bielefeld 2015, ISBN 978-3-7356-0088-2 .
  • (Post) Urban capers . Munich 2018 ISBN 978-3-00-059367-3 . ( PDF )
  • as well as numerous international essays and articles, such as In Between Dinosaurs in the Interdisciplinary Science Reviews

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alexis Dworsky: (Post) Urban Capers . 2018, ISBN 978-3-00-059367-3 , pp. 3 ( alexisdworsky.de [PDF]).
  2. ↑ Alexis Dworsky. Retrieved on August 13, 2018 (German, English).
  3. ↑ EVELYN RUNGE: The process of doubt . In: sueddeutsche.de . 2010, ISSN  0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed on July 9, 2019]).
  4. ↑ compartearte: 'Hartu eta Eman. Discursos y Recursos' en la Sala Amárica, de Vitoria-Gasteiz. February 10, 2011, accessed August 13, 2018 (Spanish).
  5. ↑ Alexis Dworsky: Firing neurons and bursting bubbles. In: Andrea von Braun Foundation. February 21, 2012, accessed August 13, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Michael Halser: (H) traffic light men. In: BILD. July 9, 2017, accessed August 13, 2018 .
  7. ↑ arte: Street Atelier: Blind Style. Retrieved August 13, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Laura Dahmer: Graffiti for the blind. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. October 27, 2017, accessed August 13, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Alexis Dworsky: Braille Style. In: project blog. Retrieved on August 13, 2018 (German, English).
  10. ^ Goethe-Institut Mexico: Braille Style. Retrieved August 11, 2018 (German, English).
  11. ↑ MaximiliansForum - Passage for Art and Design: Alexis Dworsky - Urban Playground. Retrieved August 11, 2018 .
  12. ↑ cult gallery: Word. Accessed August 13, 2018 .
  13. ↑ Birgit Goormann-Prugger: New project by concept artist Dworsky. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. Retrieved August 13, 2018 .
  14. ↑ Instituto Cervantes: transfer: spanien I. September 19, 2010, accessed on August 13, 2018 (German, Spanish).
  15. ↑ State capital Munich: Young art / new media project grants in the field of visual arts 2011. In: muenchen.de, the official city portal. Retrieved August 13, 2018 .
  16. ↑ Merkur.de: Color in everyday life, felt on the body. In: Merkur.de. July 17, 2013, accessed August 13, 2018 .
  17. ↑ two: one: two: one, The Munich Prize for Art. Retrieved August 13, 2018 .
  18. ^ Jürgen Moises: Urban gymnastics. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. November 15, 2016, accessed August 13, 2018 .
  19. ↑ State capital Munich: Urban trim yourself! In: muenchen.de, the official city portal. Retrieved August 13, 2018 .
  20. ↑ In the dinosaur we see our reflection in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung of August 14, 2011, page 9
  21. ↑ Alexis Dworsky: In between Dinosaurs . In: Andrea von Braun Foundation (Ed.): Interdisciplinary Science Reviews . tape 41 , no. 1 . Taylor & Francis, Oxford June 29, 2016, pp. 37-42 , doi : 10.1080 / 03080188.2016.1171581 ( tandfonline.com ).
personal data
SURNAME Dworsky, Alexis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist, researcher and curator
DATE OF BIRTH May 14, 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Freising , Germany