Kathe Wenzel
Käthe Katrin Wenzel (born November 1, 1972 in Aachen ) is a visual artist . She deals with utopia , the future and alternative world designs. To do this, it infiltrates urban systems and services.
Life
She studied in Marburg, Florence and Berlin. In 2003 she completed her doctorate with a thesis on “Meat as a material. Art at the Interface of Art and Medicine ”and alternative artistic structures in the GDR at the Humboldt University in Berlin. Her artistic work has been exhibited internationally.
She was a Fulbright Exchange Scholar at the School of Visual Arts in New York, USA until 2010. There, as a direct reaction to the city, she developed the Cartoonorama project , which combines drawing, interview and cartography.
Wenzel has been Professor of Aesthetic Practice in its contexts at the European University of Flensburg since 2016 .
Artistic creation
Her works function as dystopian and utopian footnotes to world events. They aim at participation, communication and the infiltration of the hegemonic culture - from the street to the internet. To do this, she uses drawings, interviews, the internet, mechanics / electronics and street art . It uses existing urban systems such as signage, advertising space, public screens. The central instrument is the conversation with interview partners and the common "gradual creation of ideas while drawing".
Wenzel is of the opinion that new ways of seeing, which have developed under the influence of the Internet and through changed perceptions of urban space, are particularly suitable for infiltrating the deep structures of everyday life and using them artistically.
Her works are in the possession of the German Museum of Technology in Berlin ; in the Szént István Kerály Muzeum, Székesfehérvár, Hungary, in the Oldenburg City Museum, in the Roman Pelizäus Museum and in the Middle Rhine Museum in Koblenz.
Works
- 2016- Future M (Internet and outdoor space, loading street), ongoing global project with interview-based animations on urban cultures / migration / electoral identities. Interview, drawing, animation, internet, signs,
- Pictures of Tomorrow (Deutsches Technikmuseum Berlin, outdoor space, loading street), 2011, series of 19 panels, each 190 × 115 cm, drawing, printing, signs
- Parallel society Utopia (collection of the city of Viersen and Kunstverein Gütersloh, street signs in the urban space), 2015, 60 panels each 15 × 40 cm
- 2016 Future M - interview-based animation, internet and street installation; Alma on Dobbin, New York, USA, subway television "Berliner Fenster", Berlin
- 2015 Love + Loss, LENTOS Kunstmuseum Linz, Austria (catalog); City occupation of Urban Art NRW with street sign installations in Viersen, Gütersloh, Schmallenberg, Lemgo, Schöppingen (catalog)
- 2014 The future of the past - Oldenburg City Museum, 8 meter wide drawing based on interviews with Oldenburg residents and their ideas for a museum of the future. For the 100th birthday of the Oldenburg City Museum (catalog)
- 2013 Pictures of Tomorrow - Berlin Museum of Technology
- 2012 WasserKarte - cycle path and interview-based drawings on the waterways in the region, DA Kunsthaus Kloster Gravenhorst
- 2011 Cliché Verre in the Digital Age - Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, USA; GrensMap cartoon mapping along the German-Dutch border (catalog)
- 2010 Campus Tour 2010 Uni Flensburg - Interactive Cartoon Mapping; fluxfactory science fair - Fluxfactory, New York, USA
- 2009 Robo-Improvisation Arena - audience-controlled painting robots, Alma on Dobbin, New York and Gallery F., Nashville, USA
- 2008 Off the Wall, with Levi Okunov - Jewish Museum New York, USA; Way to Identity. New Page. - Art Center Kulanshi, Astana, Kazakhstan; New Art in the New Chambers - New Chambers Park Sanssouci
- 2007 Look into the Body - State Museum Koblenz; Jellibelly belly brush service, with Lisa Glauer - belly brush machine and service to increase self-esteem on the contemporary job market, OFFOFF, Bern, Switzerland and Galerie Nord / Kunstverein Tiergarten, Berlin
- 2006 Missing Link: Art meets Biomedicine - Berlin Medical History Museum and Schafler Gallery, New York, USA (catalog); Tracery and junction, cord installation in the cast collection of antique plastic, Berlin; Blossom harvest - solo exhibition at the Botanical Museum, Berlin; forma corporis - Museum Waidhofen, Waidhofen / Ybbs, Austria
Publications
- Parallel society Utopia - Last Exit Utopia. Catalog. Schöppingen, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-00-050545-4 .
- with Lisa Glauer: belly brush machine service. Service project catalog. ArtTransponder, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-86664-512-5 .
- with Wolfgang Knapp, Cornelius Frömmel and Thomas Schnalke (eds.): missing link - art meets biomedicine. Public understanding of art and sciences - art meets biomedicine. Catalog for the exhibition in the Medical History Museum of the Charité, Berlin. University of the Arts, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-89462-133-9 .
- Apocrypha. Catalog with contributions by Steffen Siegel, Heike Fuhlbrügge and Nina Samuel. kurt im hirsch, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-00-012146-3 .
- with Lisa Glauer and Tatjana Fell: A piece is missing. Walking a tightrope between art and (natural) sciences. / A decisive part is missing. Negotiations between art and sciences. Mensch & Buch, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-86664-358-1 .
- Meat as a material. Objects at the intersection of art and medicine. Dissertation. Weissensee, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-89998-056-5 .
- with Marc-Thorsten Hütt: Chaotic Pattern Machine. In: Art and Energy. Transfer, contributions to art education no. 9. Individual contributions to the NRW model project KWW grants. Schöppinger Forum of Art Education, Schöppingen 2011, ISBN 978-3-937828-24-4 .
literature
- Sabine Seymour: Functional Aesthetics. Visions in Fashionable Technology. Springer, Vienna, New York 2010, ISBN 978-3-7091-0311-1 .
- Ellen Kobe Marvin Altner: New Art in the New Chambers. Catalog for the exhibition of the same name in the New Chambers. Jovis, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-86859-030-2 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ University of Flensburg. ( Memento of the original from November 27, 2016 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. Retrieved November 28, 2016.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wenzel, Kathe |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wenzel, Käthe Katrin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 1, 1972 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Aachen |