Christoph Schäfer (artist)

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Christoph Schäfer (* 1964 in Essen ) is a Hamburg based draftsman , concept and installation artist .

life and work

Christoph Schäfer studied from 1985 to 1992 at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts, first with Bernd Koberling and later with Dan Graham . Based on a conceptual background, Schäfer develops texts, drawings, videos, room installations, diagrams, wall drawings, films, art in public space , production requests, urban planning processes, books and lecture performances. From 1989 onwards, works were created that deal with everyday urban life and reflect and change concrete urban situations. These works move on the edge of the artistic field and are often created in cooperation with others, artists, planners and architects. The autonomous concept of the work is expanded to include an artistic practice that functions as a platform for exchange and production with others. The best known is the Park Fiction project , which organizes a public planning process from below in the Hamburg district of St. Pauli. Embedded in a political neighborhood initiative, Park Fiction is developing a planning process as a game , a collective production of wishes and planning tools such as the Action Kit , which are intended to make urban planning accessible to laypeople as well.

“I'm interested in leverage - how a tension can be created between the imaginary and the status quo. (...) “Park Fiction” was conceived directly as a platform for the production of wishes and the exchange with others. However, artistically and politically, I refuse to become the administrator of the wishes or ideas of others - I find it important to develop a practice out of everyday life, subjectively and with your own attitude. "

- Christoph Schäfer : music magazine skug

Schäfer's writings contribute to the formation of theories in this expanded artistic field and make fruitful of the concept of the wish machine developed by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari or the production of space for artistic practice and emancipatory movements brought into play by Henri Lefebvre . His texts critically deal with neoliberal urban development and the role that art is assigned in these processes.

Schäfer gives workshops and lectures in locations as diverse as Hamburg's occupied Gängeviertel , the University of Ulyanovsk , the Goethe-Institut Dakar or the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . In 2010 Schäfer teaches drawing at the International Summer Academy for Fine Arts in Salzburg and architecture at the Kunsthøjskole Holbæk in Denmark. In 2012, Schäfer worked with Margit Czenki on the artistic concept of the ContainerUni, a complete, temporary campus that was being developed in collaboration with quartiervier architects for the Zeppelin University in the Friedrichshafen district of Fallenbrunnen .

reception

“Schäfer tries not only to read the city (...) as a hieroglyphic system of symbols of spatial practice and social power , but also to shift it at the same time . The city is covered with a tactical dictionary of new meanings and its walls become the canvas of a production of wishes that is increasingly being displaced from urban space. "

- Tobias Nagl on Revolution Non Stop

Projects

  • 1989 Promised Land - The City's Promise, (with Cathy Skene) Disco UNIT, St. Pauli
  • 1994 Park Fiction, art in public space , Hamburg - St. Pauli
  • 2000 Revolution Non Stop, film installation, field service, Hamburg
  • 2003 Unlikely Encounters in Urban Space, conference and exhibition (curator, with Margit Czenki), Hamburg - St. Pauli
  • 2010 Red, anti-monument for the Red Ruhr Army, B1 | A40, RUHR.2010 - European Capital of Culture
  • 2012 Topography of vulgarity, raumsichten kunstwegen
  • 2012 ContainerUni, artistic planning of a temporary university campus for the Zeppelin University (with Margit Czenki)
  • 2014 Co- founding of PlanBude Hamburg
  • 2017 FABRIC conception - planning as a platform , Lörrach

Exhibitions

  • 1994 Objective Desires of the Era - Suggestions for dealing with architecture (with Cathy Skene), Kunstverein in Hamburg
  • 1995 No Hesitation No Repetition No Deviation, (with Cathy Skene) Kunstverein Munich
  • 2002 Documenta11 , with Park Fiction , Kassel
  • 2002 Productions 1, Revolution Non Stop, Kunst-Werke Berlin
  • 2005 World Information City 2006, Goethe-Institut Max Mueller Bhawan, Bangalore
  • 2013 13th Istanbul Biennale , Anne, ben barbar mıyım ?, Istanbul
  • 2017 Christoph Schäfer - Bostanorama, Kunstraum Lakeside, Klagenfurt

Publications

  • The City is Our Factory . 304 pages, 150 drawings, German / English, Spector Books, Leipzig 2010, ISBN 978-3-940064-95-0 .
  • Boston panorama . 32 pages, 45 drawings, German / English / Turkish, Spector Books, Leipzig 2016, ISBN 978-3-95905-011-1 .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christoph Schäfer, Johannes Springer: The return of the betrayed promises . In: skug . tape 86 , no. 4-6 , 2011, pp. 36 .
  2. ^ Jens Martin Gurr: Self-Reflexivity in Urban Activism and Cultural Production. (PDF) In: Resistance. Martin Butler, Paul Mecheril, Lea Brenningmeyer, 2017, accessed on January 28, 2020 .
  3. ↑ International Summer Academy Salzburg: Drawing as a dream machine
  4. ↑ ContainerUni project website
  5. ↑ Tobias Nagl: Revolution Non Stop and the Politics of the Urban . In: Anselm Franke (Ed.): KW Magazines . Positions, no. 1 . KW Berlin, Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin 2002, p. 12 .
  6. ↑ http://park-fiction.net/park-fiction-unlikely-encounters-in-urban-space/
  7. ↑ http://fabric.place/
  8. ↑ https://www.lakeside-kunstraum.at/christoph-schaefer-bostanorama/
personal data
SURNAME Schäfer, Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German draftsman, concept and installation artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH eat