Michael Kurzwelly

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Michael Kurzwelly (born April 27, 1963 in Darmstadt ) is a German action artist .

Life

Kurzwelly grew up in Bonn , studied painting at the Alanus University in Alfter and in 1990 went to Poznań in Poland, where he founded the International Art Center (Międzynarodowe Centrum Sztuki). He has lived in Frankfurt (Oder) since 1998 , where he a. a. from 2004 to 2018 was a lecturer at the European University Viadrina .

He received international attention with the Słubfurt project , which since 1999 has not only merged the cities of Frankfurt (Oder) and Słubice , located on the German-Polish border, into a common city ("on the border of two countries that do not exist"), but lives as an ongoing experiment. He calls the strategy he developed of reinterpreting spaces and intervening in them, constructions of reality. He regards this art form as an extended type of applied art , which for him includes both social sculpture and other forms of creative participation by residents in social processes. In 2010 Słubfurt was declared the capital of Nowa America , a reinterpretation of the entire German-Polish border region into a common area that needs to be developed. This is also a civic network that Kurzwelly co-founded.

Another example of his constructions of reality is the white zone project . Kurzwelly produced an actually usable hiking guide around the white zone, an area of ​​145 km² north of Berlin, which he removed from the map. In 2006, in the nearby village of Zempow, he founded UmLand e. V. the institute for white zone research (iwf) . Since 2008 the hiking trail Blooming Landscapes? about the village of Zempow and the artist published another hiking guide.

In 2010 he realized the hole network project for the Neue Gesellschaft Bildende Kunst (NGBK) , another construction of reality.

Kurzwelly has been a member of the International Artists' Committee (IKG) since December 2012 .

Prizes and awards

  • In 2009 Kurzwelly received a working grant from the Kunstfonds Bonn Foundation .
  • In 2011, his association Słubfurt received the Political Education Award from the Federal Committee for Political Education (bap) for the local elections project in Słubfurt .
  • In 2013, the Nowa America network received the European University Viadrina award for the Nowa America project .
  • In 2018 Michael Kurzwelly received the Art Prize of the City of Bautzen.
  • In 2019 he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon by the Federal President for his commitment to a living constitution .

documentary

  • In 2016, the 60-minute documentary Nowa Amerika about Słubfurt and Nowa Amerika by director Kristof Kannegießer was released on SWR .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 2011 winner of the Political Education Prize of the Federal Committee for Political Education
  2. ↑ Christina Behrendt: Viadrina Prize Winners • European University Viadrina / EUV. Retrieved April 4, 2019 .
  3. ↑ The prize goes to Słubfurt. Retrieved April 4, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Culture news: Cross of merit for action artist Kurzwelly . Deutschlandfunk Kultur , May 22, 2019, accessed on May 29, 2019 .
  5. ↑ program ARD de-ARD Play-Out-Center Potsdam, Potsdam Germany: Nowa America. Retrieved April 4, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Kurzwelly, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German action artist
DATE OF BIRTH April 27, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Darmstadt