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Mats Staub (* 1972 in Muri bei Bern , Switzerland ) is a Swiss artist . He lives and works in Berlin and at the development sites of his long-term projects.

Life

Mats Staub studied theater studies , journalism and religious studies in Bern , Friborg and Berlin . He worked as a dramaturge at  Theater Neumarkt in Zurich (2002–2004) before starting in 2004 to develop his own art projects in the field of tension between theater and exhibition, science, journalism and literature.

Mats Staub's work deals with memory, life narration and biographically decisive experiences. They invite the participants from a certain point to reflect on their life or their past and share these reflections and memories - sometimes just with a number ( holidays ), sometimes in a conversation with Mats Staub ( Meine grandparents , 21 - memories of Growing up ), sometimes in dialogue with a counterpart ( Death and Birth In My Life ), or in writing ( Ten most important life events / Diez moments en mi vida ).

Mats Staub's work takes him all over the world for discussions and recordings. For his audio installation Meine Grandeltern (2008–2013) he talked to more than three hundred people in fourteen cities about what they know about their grandparents. In the video installation 21 - Recollections of Growing Up, he portrays people of different generations, how they visualize their experiences from the time when they were 21 years old. His online collection Ten Most Important Events of My Life , which he started in 2012, has been completed with around 3,000 events, also appeared in book form (Salis Verlag, 2014) and continued in Spanish-speaking countries as Diez moments en mi vida (2017-2019).

Staub is continuously expanding his long-term projects by collecting further lists, conversations or portraits at each location where a project is shown. Each project is therefore a growing archive of conversations and recordings from different countries, in different languages, often spanning several generations.

Staub works with different formats: in addition to the audio and video installations with online collections ( ten most important events of my life ), book form, site-specific audio walks ( Bundesplatz and Metzgergasse ) and exhibitions in public spaces ( Diez momentos en mi vida ).

His works include at Künstlerhaus Mousonturm Frankfurt, Kaserne Basel , Theaterhaus Gessnerallee Zurich, Museum für Kommunikation Bern , Theaterformen Festival in Hanover / Braunschweig , Wiener Festwochen (2006, 2009, 2015), Adelaide Festival (2018 ), the Bienal de Arte Mediales in Santiago de Chile , the South African International Documentary Festival Encounters in Cape Town and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe (2019).

Work

  • 5000 love letters , 2004-2006
  • My grandparents , 2008-2013
  • Holidays , 2010–2012
  • Metzgergasse , 2011–2013
  • Bundesplatz , 2012
  • The Names of Love , 2012
  • Ten most important events of my life , 2012–2015
  • Careers (Winterthur), 2013–2017
  • My other life , long-term project since 2015
  • When did you stop being a kid , 2016
  • Diez momentos en mi vida , 2017–2019
  • Artist (working title), 2018
  • 21 - Memories of Growing Up , long-term project since 2012
  • Death and Birth in My Life, long-term project since 2019

Publications

  • My grandparents. My Grandparents, Edition Patrick Frey, 2010. Hardcover, 192 pages, 115 b / w illustrations, 15.7 × 22 cm, ISBN 978-3-905509-94-6 .
  • Ten most important events of my life, Salis Verlag, 2014, paperback, 396 pages, 11.5 × 17 cm.
  • Live - tell - show. Thoughts on dealing with the biographical in Mats Staub's artistic work. In: Krankenhagen, S. & Vahrson, V. (ed.): “Curating history. Cultural and art-historical arrangements of the past ”. Böhlau Verlag, Cologne, Weimar, Vienna 2017.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stefan Krankenhagen, Viola Vahrson, Mats Staub a. a .: Curating history: cultural and art-scientific arrangements of the past . Ed .: Stefan Krankenhagen and Viola Vahrson. Böhlau Verlag, 2017, ISBN 978-3-412-50713-8 ( boehlau-verlag.com ).
  2. ↑ Why we remember when we forget. In: SFR.ch. January 26, 2014, accessed August 31, 2019 .
  3. ^ Claudius Grigat: The gallery of hearing people. In: www.publik-forum.de. May 31, 2013, accessed August 31, 2019 .
  4. ^ Steph Harmon: Talking heads: the Kosovo war, life in the Hitler youth and the trials of turning 21 . In: The Guardian . March 12, 2018, ISSN  0261-3077 ( theguardian.com [accessed August 31, 2019]).
  5. ↑ werner.rosenberger: Mats Staub: Tell about life and experience. Retrieved September 7, 2019 .
  6. ^ Adelaide Festival. Accessed September 7, 2019 .
  7. ↑ 21. Retrieved September 7, 2019 (British English).
personal data
SURNAME Dust, mats
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Muri near Bern , Switzerland