Barbara Caveng

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Barbara Caveng (* 27. September 1963 in Zurich ) is a Swiss former actress in Saarbrücken and since 1991 in Berlin -looking visual artist .

Life

Barbara Caveng studied acting at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz from 1982 to 1986 and then took on an engagement at the children's and youth theater "Überzwerg" of the Saarland State Theater in Saarbrücken. In 1987/1988 she played a supporting role in two Saarbrücken Tatort episodes. In Saarland she married the jazz musician Christoph Mudrich , from whom she has been divorced since 1992. As early as 1989 she moved backstage and turned to costume and stage design . A little later she also realized her own artistic ideas outside of the theater. In 1996 Barbara Caveng left Saarbrücken and moved to Berlin.

Since 1991 she has been working as a freelance visual artist with a focus on installation , sculpture / object and participatory projects with asylum seekers or groups affected by poverty.

One of her early projects, which she called … waltigt… wald , dealt with the issue of children as victims ( child abuse ) and perpetrators ( rampage ) in 1999/2000 . American perpetrator biographies inspired Caveng a little later for her installation finalmeals , which visualized hangman's meal wishes of condemned death row inmates and was first exhibited in 2000 at the Postfuhramt Berlin-Mitte . She does not understand the “silent requiem” she staged “as a political statement against the death penalty ”.

Working grants and projects have taken her to Moscow , Lampedusa , Norway , South Korea and Syria in recent years . In 2011, in the Syrian capital Damascus , which was ravaged by civil war , she collected a total of 250 kilos of dust from various locations on a long day's march. Due to the political situation, these were scattered in the exhibition space of the Syrian initiative All Art Now. From the larger swept-up fragments, she put the words "Djannat al-Ard" (Eng . "Paradise on Earth"). Under the impression of her Syrian experiences, the artist created a replica of a Kalashnikov from human bones in 2012/2013 .

Caveng successfully applied in a competition for the residency grant Kunst fürs Dorf - Dörfer für Kunst and moved in 2013 - as the advertisement required, without a pre-defined concept - to the village of Blankensee-Pampow on the German-Polish border for six months . A project was set up on site together with the villagers, which was described as Mi kricht here keener no more and was accompanied by the TV station Arte . As part of the project, a meeting point, the “Kunstgemeinde Pampsee”, was created in the geographical center of the three kilometers apart, even nine years after the merger, still “alienating” parts of the community.

In 2015 she founded the “Art Asylum” initiative, in which artists, creative people and asylum seekers work together. She and her team moved the center of their lives to a Berlin shared accommodation for asylum seekers for a year. For Caveng, the focus was on the question of how residents and newcomers can form a society together. The collective in the Spandauer Heim, consisting of people from 17 nations, developed an exhibition on 600 square meters in the Museum of European Cultures in Berlin over four months . “Parts of discarded bed frames from emergency and communal shelters became construction elements for installations, the horrors of war and flight were inscribed on the museum walls with red chalk and graphite ”, she explained in an interview with the Saarbrücker Zeitung , “a walk-in landscape emerged as an expression of contemporary Memories". The presentation entitled daHEIM: Insights into Fleeting Life , which opened on March 4, 2016 , with the main theme “The Wave”, was not an exhibition in the conventional sense, because it also reflected the complex migration debate in a critical way . It was on view until July 2017 and was a great success with international resonance.

In her Berlin residential district of Neukölln , Caveng established a collection point for old fabrics in the Heimisch exhibition as a reminiscence of the Pampsee art community, where invitations to sew "Neukölln parasols" were held every Wednesday during the exhibition. Her social parquet in Neukölln , created in 2010, attracted particular attention , with which she concluded her trilogy of social floor coverings at Gutshof Britz . The walk-in floor installation, described by Michaela Nolte as the “Symphony of Woods”, has been in the collection of the Berlinische Galerie since 2012 . Not least because of this work, in January 2018 she was one of the narrower circle of candidates for the Neukölln Art Prize formed by a jury. All nominees exhibited in the gallery in the hall for two months . In the early 2000s she had received several art prizes, which were followed by various grants, including the renowned work grant from the Art Fund Foundation .

Exhibitions (selection)

Solo exhibitions

  • 1998: Not a beautiful country , Ministry of Economics and Finance, Saarbrücken; Foundry - language area and gallery / Edition Lutz Fiebig , Berlin
  • 1999: 2000 - 2 , Saarländisches Künstlerhaus , Saarbrücken; Gallery Prima Kunst , Kiel
  • 2000: ... waltigt ... wald , Art Floor Dock 4, Kassel
  • 2002: U Menja est Metscha - I have a dream , art collections of the city of Limburg and DNA Gallery - the new action gallery, Berlin
  • 2004: Ready Now , DNA - The New Action Gallery, Berlin; Sørlandets Art Museum , Kristiansand; Telemarksgalleriet, Notodden and Kunsthalle, Bergen
  • 2005: ARM - all recycled material. Phase I , ARM model apartment, Angermünder Strasse, Berlin
  • 2006: ARM - all recycled material. Phase III - Everything in the Bucket , Blickensdorf Gallery, Berlin
  • 2009: Volksparkett , St. Marien , Bad Belzig
  • 2010: Neukölln social parquet , Museum Neukölln in Gutshof Britz, Berlin
  • 2011: Paradise on Earth , AllArtNow Institute, Damascus
  • 2013: Reaktorherz (as part of the critical mass project series ), Church of St. Mariä Himmelfahrt , Ahaus
  • 2014: Heimisch , Galerie im Saalbau Neukölln , Berlin
  • 2016: daHEIM: Insights into fleeting life , Museum of European Cultures, Berlin

Group exhibitions

  • 2000: The 5th commandment. Stickperformance , Festival of Visions, Hong Kong
  • 2000: Vision 2000 , State Art Exhibition of the Saarland, Museum St. Ingbert
  • 2000: 4th Festival of Experimental Art , Berlin
  • 2001: Eating, Eating Culture, Art of Eating, Eating in Art , Heidelberger Kunstverein
  • 2001: Art against Torture and Execution , National Center of Contemporary Fine Art, Kaliningrad, Russia
  • 2003: 50 Days for Photography Geneva , DOT Gallery, Geneva
  • 2003: Artists see red , large art exhibition, Haus der Kunst , Munich
  • 2003: Aftökur & Útrymingar (Execution & Extermination) , Akureyri Art Museum , Iceland
  • 2003: finalmeals , Akureyri Art Museum, Iceland
  • 2004: DETOX - Crossover , SKMU Sørlandets Art Museum, Kristiansand
  • 2006: Death Penalty Show. Justice for All? Artists Reflect on the Death Penalty , Gallery Lombardi, Austin, Texas
  • 2008: Package for Kyrgyzstan. Utopia of space , Kyrgyz National Museum of Fine Arts, Bischek, Kyrgyzstan
  • 2009: The Meaning of Meal , Aram Art Gallery, Seoul
  • 2012: Media Scape - Tactical Topics, HDLU (House of Fine Arts), Mestrovic Pavillon, Croatian Association of Visual Artists, Zagreb
  • 2012: Public / Space / Art, Haus zum Schlossgarten , Forum Schlossplatz, Aarau
  • 2013: Avoid utopias , Werkleitz Jubilee Festival 2013, Halle (Saale)
  • 2014: Heritage 2: Collecting collections , Thun Art Museum
  • 2015: Do I Look like a Refugee , Corner College, Zurich
  • 2018: Neukölln Art Prize (exhibition of the nominees), Galerie im Saalbau, Berlin

Awards

  • 2001: Heidelberg Art Prize, 1st prize winner
  • 2001: Artist in Residence in Moscow
  • 2002: Artist in Residence, Bemis Foundation, Omaha, US
  • 2002: Art Prize of the City of Limburg, 1st prize winner
  • 2003: HW & J. Hector Art Prize of the Kunsthalle Mannheim , 2nd prize winner
  • 2014: Working grant Art Fund Foundation

Filmography

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Barbara Caveng. In: kunstgemeinde-pampsee.net. Barbara Caveng, accessed January 25, 2018 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g It is long beyond the Respecta. Barbara Caveng used to do some spectacular art projects in Saarbrücken. Today she lives in Berlin. We met her. In: saarbrücker-zeitung.de. August 16, 2017. Retrieved January 25, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Barbara Caveng at filmportal.de
  4. ↑ Parquet as a social art project. The person behind the project. In: parkett-direkt.net. August 27, 2015, accessed January 25, 2018 .
  5. ^ Till Rimmele: Asylum seekers in Berlin. The residents take part in the “Kunstasyl” . In: Der Tagesspiegel . July 23, 2015, Berlin ( tagesspiegel.de [accessed January 25, 2018]).
  6. ↑ Udo Badelt: You have to do everything yourself. Living in the trash: How the artist builds designer furniture from trash and counteracts neglect . In: Der Tagesspiegel . No. 18.814 , April 24, 2005, Berlin Kultur, p. 27 .
  7. ↑ Inge Herold: Barbara Caveng. Final meals . In: Rolf Lauter (Ed.): HW & J. Hector Art Prize of the Kunsthalle Mannheim 2003. Art Prize for three-dimensional designs. Martin Brüger, Barbara Caveng, Hee-Seon Kim, Thomas Lüer, Holger Mader, Alexander Stublić, Heike Wiermann, Anja Vormann, Gunnar Friel . HW & J. Hector Foundation, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim 2004, ISBN 3-89165-137-6 , p. 26-36 .
  8. ↑ Barbara Caveng: The Dust of Damascus. In: tagesspiegel.de. June 5, 2011, accessed January 25, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Heaven, Heaven, Heaven. In: caveng.net. Accessed on April 7, 2018 (see picture gallery).
  10. ↑ a b Beate Scheder: Art project in Blankensee. Who belongs to me And who to you? In: berliner-zeitung.de. February 13, 2014, accessed January 25, 2018 .
  11. ↑ Matthias Jügler: When the village is upside down. Participatory art. In: goethe.de. Goethe-Institut e. V., January 2014, accessed January 25, 2018 .
  12. ↑ Chapter 3. Founding of the Pampsee art community. In: kunstgemeinde-pampsee.net. Barbara Caveng, accessed April 8, 2018 .
  13. ↑ Chapter 5. Parasol Group. In: kunstgemeinde-pampsee.net. Barbara Caveng, accessed April 8, 2018 .
  14. ↑ Barbara Caveng, Elisabeth Tietmeyer: daHEIM: Insights into fleeting lives. European Cultures Museum . In: Museum journal . Reports from the museums, castles and collections in Berlin and Potsdam. Also Berlin museums, 6th episode . Issue 4/2016, October – December, October 2016, ISSN  0933-0593 , exhibitions, p. 70 f .
  15. ↑ Michaela Nolte: Barbara Caveng. Neukölln social parquet. Symphony of woods. (PDF; 43.7 KB) (No longer available online.) In: museum-neukölln.de. Archived from the original on April 9, 2018 ; accessed on April 7, 2018 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.museum-neukoelln.de
  16. ↑ Neuköllner Art Prize 2018. In: art-spaces-nk.de. Kulturnetzwerk Neukölln eV, accessed on January 25, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Caveng, Barbara
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss actress and visual artist
DATE OF BIRTH September 27, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich