Chris Regn

Chris Regn floating heavyweights with Muda Mathis and Sus Zwick during the performance

Chris Regn (born October 4, 1964 in Nuremberg ) is a concept artist and activist based in Switzerland and Germany .

Life

Chris Regn lives in Basel and Hamburg as an artist, curator, archivist and teacher. As an artist she works collectively and process-oriented with the media of drawing , video , action , song , performance and interviews . Chris Regn completed her master's degree at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts in 2005 with the masterpiece project .

She understands her work against the background of the video archives and collections of Bildwechsel , the umbrella organization for women / media / culture in Hamburg, which she supports. As a conceptual artist , she refers to the potential of representations and artist images with research, actions, presentations and videos.

In 1978, a collective group structure formed the basis for becoming politically active and artistically productive in joint actions in the Nuremberg Women's Center . The aim was to bring about political changes and to redesign living conditions. The examination of the artistic processes of other artists played an important role. In 1981, for example, the Nuremberg Artists Archive was founded. With its large number of books, interviews and video documents, it became a knowledge base for further artistic work. Under the pseudonym Helga Broll, she ran a virtual gallery that was founded as an artistic project during Art Basel in 2000. Since 2008 she has been coordinating the program in the Kaskadenkondensator Basel , project space for current art and performance.

Chris Regn and Dorothea Schürch on the show "Let's sing worker *"

She works with various performance and artist groups such as Evi, Nic and C , Les Reines Prochaines or table talks and in 2015, after researching a performance project with Andrea Saemann and after long discussions with actors from all over Switzerland, she founded PANCH, the Swiss Performance Network. In collaboration with Andrea Saemann such as Performance Saga, interviews with pioneers of performance art , Einfach Sagen a theater production on traditional cultures between the German dictionary of the Brothers Grimm and the performative salons of Marie-Jeanne L'Héritier and the council interested in the situation of the Swiss performance scene they care about the organization and contexts of memory and the re-actualization of events.

Together with Lena Eriksson and Nicole Boillat, she publishes the copy font KAP on an irregular basis .

Performances, presentations and exhibitions (selection)

• 2006–2007 The vegan opera with Evi, Nic & C , in Hamburg, Berlin, Stuttgart. Basel, Zurich and Bern
• 2012 Einfach Sagen , performance project by Andrea Saemann with Chris Regn and Martina Gmür, Kaserne Basel
• 2013 report from the council , performance with Andrea Saemann , ACT anniversary, Kaserne Basel
• 2013 Saint Christine and other women who threw themselves away , solo exhibition in 14 collaborations, Kaskadenkondensator Basel
• 2014 Are they actually a couple , video with Iris Ganz , exhibition La Giornata, Elisabethenkirche Basel
• 2014 Hecht an der Grenz & Die Gottlieber Revue and Video with Evi, Nic & C, Muda Mathis and Sus Zwick , Gottlieben
• 2015 la Vie en Rosa Lu, performance with Chris Regn, Strasbourg, Aubette
• 2015 The vegan opera with Evi, Nic & C , Kunstmuseum Luzern
• 2016 Hot Pots, situation-specific long-term performance in the Tskaltubo Sanatorium, Georgia, April and May 2016
• 2016 Dragking / Trekking Show , VIA Studio, Kaskadenkondensator Basel, Lido Berlin
• 2017 Performance, Interakcje Performance Festival, Piotrków Trybunalski , Poland
• 2017 about curating - a seasonal art song, Chris Regn curates Andrea Saemann , PPP Progr , Bern
• 2018 Start of the Chronicle on Feminism in Basel with Lena Rérat, Ruth Marx, Sus Zwick and Muda Mathis and all invited feminists
• 2018 Doce en Diciembre , contribution to the performance event, PROA 21, Buenos Aires , Argentina
• 2019 Let's Sing Worker * - a discursive review with Les Reines Prochaines & Freundinnen * for the 30th anniversary, Basel, Zurich, Bern, Berlin
• 2019 Swiss Performance Art Medley , with Andrea Saemann, Sokolowsko , Poland
• 2019 Perf en Bref - Interview project and performance , Far Festival, Nyon
• 2019 shift the manifesto, with Manifesto Reflex Collective,  Performance Prize Switzerland, Aarau
• 2020 vacuum cleaner hula , with Fränzi Madörin, Must or Not - Kaskadenkondensator Basel

Boards of trustees

• 1978–1992 female artist archive , Nuremberg
• Since 1992 conception and archive management at Bildwechsel , the umbrella organization for women / media / culture, Hamburg together with Birgit Durbahn, Christina Schäfer, Viktoryia Levenko and others
• Since 2000 Galerie Helga Broll , works as an organizer and curator
• 2008 Kunstraum Lodypop , Basel, At home: a guest with Lena Eriksson
• Since 2008 program manager for the Kaskadenkondensator Basel
• 2015 co-founder of PANCH - Performance Art Network Switzerland
• Since 2016 Who writes his tory? Wikipedia editing group with Nicole Boillat, Daniela Brugger, Lysann König and others
• 2017 Board of Trustees Performance Art Festival Giswil with Andrea Saemann, Muda Mathis and Chris Hunter
• Since 2017, bildwechsel Basel and the manifesto for the responsible publication of collections die digital See with Muda Mathis and Andrea Saemann
• In 2019 she and Ana Vujic and Lysann König organize the 5th festival of self-organized art spaces in Basel Sum

Video interviews (selection)

• 2002–2008 Generation Gap , interviews with Annie Sprinkle and Elizabeth Stephens , Laurie Anderson , Valie Export , Marina Abramovic , Esther Ferrer , Monika Günther , Joan Jonas , Alison Knowles , Ulrike Rosenbach , Martha Rosler , Carolee Schneemann , interview project with Andrea Saemann, edited by Andrea Saemann and Katrin Grögel at edition fink, Zurich 2008, ISBN 978-3-03746-120-4
• 2008 Video for a guest with René Pulfer , project portrait format with Anita Hugi and Nicole Boillat , Basel

Groups of women artists (selection)

• Evi, Nic & C , performance group in Berlin, Hamburg, Basel
• Table discussions , Basel

Honor, scholarships, prizes (selection)

• 1999–2003 scholarship from the Heinrich Böll Foundation, Berlin
• 2000 Prize of the first manifesto of great and respected women artists , Basel
• 2003 Scholarship from the Heinrich Böll Foundation , Berlin
• 2005 non-material scholarship and invitation to the deconstruction and design college : Gender , Hamburg
• 2008 Kunstkredit Basel-Stadt, for free art project upright format with Nicole Boillat and Anita Hugi
• 2019 Performance Prize Switzerland, Audience Prize as a collective with Monika Dillier , Iris Ganz, Sibylle Hauert, Lysann König, Fränzi Madörin , Muda Mathis , Dorothea Mildenberger, Sarah Elena Müller, Barbara Naegelin , Andrea Saemann , Dorothea Schürch , Sus Zwick

Media coverage

• Françoise Theis: Chris Regn: The maker . In: day week. January 10, 2015
• Michael Sutter: Morta (della) versus Veggie or: I didn't understand so much about your life . In 041 . October 23, 2015
• to the Interactive performance festival
• to Lets sing worker

Web links

• www.galerie-broll.com
• www.bildwechsel.org
• www.kasko.ch
• www.panch.li

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Chris Regn: Saint Christine and other women who threw themselves away. (No longer available online.) In: Kaskadenkondensator. Cascade capacitor, October 4, 2013, archived from the original on March 30, 2018 ; accessed on March 30, 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.  
2. ↑ Review - DOCK. Retrieved November 5, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Ulrike Bergemann: Chris Regn - masterpieces. HfbK Hamburg, July 7, 2005, accessed on March 11, 2017 . 
4. ↑ Change of picture. Retrieved March 11, 2017 . 
5. ^ Doro Wiese: Living with seismographic disturbances . In: The daily newspaper: taz . August 9, 2004, ISSN  0931-9085 , p. 23 ( taz.de [accessed on November 5, 2019]).
6. ↑ Andrea Saemann in conversation with Chris Regn: bildwechsel / Künstlerinnenarchiv und generation gap. (No longer available online.) Performance Chronik Basel, archived from the original on March 6, 2016 ; accessed on March 11, 2017 . 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.  
7. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from September 11, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) 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. 
8. ↑ Anita Hugi: Neuland Magazin No. 22. Corinne Buchser, Bianca Dugaro, Lena Eriksson, Anita Hugi, Judith Stofer, accessed on March 11, 2017 . 
9. ↑ PANCH
10. ↑ Verena Kuni: A saga from the real present . In: Schweizer Kunstverein (Ed.): Art Bulletin . 11,000 copies. tape 11 2007 . Zurich.
11. ↑ Culture tour. February 17, 2012, accessed November 5, 2019 . 
12. ↑ 6–8 September 2013 • Council: Cascade capacitor. Retrieved November 5, 2019 . 
13. ↑ Sarina Scheidegger: Report from the Council.m4v. February 24, 2014, accessed February 4, 2018 . 
14. ↑ 4-20.10.13 • Chris Regn: Cascade capacitor. Retrieved November 5, 2019 . 
15. ↑ Kristin Schmidt, Kristin Schmidt: Gottlieben becomes Czech. Retrieved March 3, 2019 . 
16. ↑ The Gottlieber Revue. Accessed February 4, 2018 . 
17. ↑ PPP Progr Performance Platform: 'about curating - a seasonal art song' Chris Regn curates Andrea Saemann. September 27, 2017, accessed February 4, 2018 . 
18. ↑ Proa 21, Avenida Pedro de Mendoza 2001, Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina Buenos Aires, ver Mapa: Performance final de doce en diciembre en PROA 21, Arte el Domingo 30 de Noviembre de -2 17.00. December 13, 2018, accessed February 9, 2020 (Spanish). 
19. ^ Badische Zeitung: On the rise for 30 years - Theater - Badische Zeitung. Retrieved March 3, 2019 . 
20. ↑ Dominique Spirgi: captivating audience with the indestructible queens. In: Stadtschreiber. January 24, 2019, accessed on March 3, 2019 (German). 
21. ↑ ^{a b} Les Reines Prochaines at the height of their art. Retrieved on March 3, 2019 (Swiss Standard German). 
22. ^ Sus Zwick: Let's Sing Worker *. February 2, 2019, accessed March 3, 2019 . 
23. ↑ far ° festival des arts vivants Nyon - artists' collective - Perf en bref The interviews. Retrieved February 9, 2020 . 
24. ↑ Performance Prize Switzerland. Retrieved September 28, 2019 (German). 
25. ↑ Ephemeral, but lively and current. Retrieved on November 5, 2019 (Swiss Standard German). 
26. ↑ Thirty years of Les Reines Prochaines: It's always better together. February 6, 2019, accessed February 9, 2020 .