Yana Milev

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Yana Milev (actually Jana Elisabeth Milev ; * 1964 in Leipzig ) is a German-Swiss sociologist , ethnographer and curator . Since 2014 she has been a private lecturer in cultural sociology at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences (SHSS) at the University of St. Gallen (HSG).

Life

Yana Milev was born in Leipzig as the first child of the Bulgarian doctor and anthropologist Gancho Milev and the German language mediator Karin Fahr-Mileva. After graduating from high school, Yana Milev was forced to study education at the PH Erfurt, from which she was de-registered after one semester. She worked at the Leipzig theaters between 1983 and 1986 and at the same time studied painting and graphics in evening classes at the HGB Leipzig . 1986 to 1992 Yana Milev studied stage and costume design at the HfBK Dresden . It was there that she was a master class student with Günter Hornig between 1992 and 1995 following her diploma . Yana Milev came to Japan in 1997 with a DAAD scholarship. During her two-year stay in Kyoto , she studied the philosophy and practice of traditional Japanese path and martial arts ( Geidō , Budō ), as well as the philosophy of the Kyoto School. Following her stay in Japan, Yana Milev completed a doctorate in philosophy at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and at the HfG Karlsruhe , completed her doctorate in 2008 and qualified as a professor at the University of St. Gallen in 2014 . In 1989 Yana Milev met the musician and photographer Philipp Beckert, who is still a partner in joint projects to this day. Between 1998 and 2015, Yana Milev lived alternately in Kyoto, Vienna , Zurich , Karlsruhe , St. Gallen and Berlin .

Artistic career

In the 1980s, Yana Milev staged performances and produced narrow films , visual works, installations and urban interventions . In multi-media productions such as “Horror Vacui” and “In Aspik”, Yana Milev acted with musicians Bo Kondren (Ornament & Verbrechen), Paul Landers , Christian Lorenz (both Feeling B ), André Greiner-Pol ( Freygang ), Taymur Streng (9 days old), as well as with the poet Johannes Jansen , and the performer Matthias Baader Holst in operatic jam sassions. Films like "raster + psyche" or "irreversible" were also played with live sounds and took place as concert performances at various events, including at the HfBK Dresden , the exhibition center Fučíkplatz , the HdJT Berlin and the Lindenpark in Potsdam.

From 1992 to 2003 her artistic work was represented by the gallery EIGEN + ART Leipzig / Berlin by the gallery owner Gerd Harry Lybke . In 1997 she was invited by Catherine David to Documenta X (dX) and presented an interactive room installation in the Ottoneum entitled “Projection Forum III” . She also exhibited at La Grande Halle de la Villette Paris (1990), the Museum of Installations London (1994), the Venice Biennale (1995), the Goethe-Institut Osaka (1997), and the Fons Welters gallery in Amsterdam (1997 ), in the PS1 Museum of Contemporary Art New York (1999), the SCA Gallery Sydney (1999), the Haus der Kunst Munich (1998), the Von der Heydt Museum Wuppertal (1998), the Fridericianum Kassel (1999), the Folkwang Museum Essen (2000), the Kunst Museum Bonn (2000), the Akademie der Künste Berlin (2002), the Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin (2003), the Museum der Bildenden Künste in Leipzig (2006), the Kunsthalle Mannheim (2011) and on other podiums.

With Yana Milev, the first female position from the former Eastern Bloc countries was presented at a documenta . She is also the first recipient of the Max Pechstein Prize (1995), as well as the first recipient of a graduate grant from the State of Saxony (1992–1995). Milev works with action, concept and media art , experimental film , photography , spatial installation and scenography .

Scientific career

From 2003 to 2008 she completed a doctorate in philosophy at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and at the State University of Design in Karlsruhe in the subjects of cultural philosophy and anthropology of art. She did her PhD in Dr. phil. with Peter Sloterdijk and Elisabeth von Samsonow (second report) with summa cum laude . Her dissertation in political philosophy on the topic of the state of emergency and sovereignty and was published as her first scientific monograph by the Springer Vienna New York publishing house under the title "Emergency Empire - Transformation of the State of Emergency (Part 1: Sovereignty", 2009).

From 2004 Milev expanded her field of research to include design research. At the Zurich University of the Arts , she founded “Emergency Design” in 2005, a research device that addresses the political, sociological, spatial and aesthetic dimensions of survival. With the anthology "Design Anthropology", published in 2013 by the international science publisher Peter Lang, Milev formulates a research basis for sociological and socio-ethnographic design research.

In 2014, Yana Milev completed her habilitation at the Department of Sociology (SfS) at the University of St. Gallen on the subject: "Sociology of design: the expanded concept of design in the field of political theory and sociology" and received the venia legendi for cultural sociology . The habilitation takes place under the mentorship of Franz Schultheis , as well as under the reviewer of Oliver Marchart , Ulf Wuggenig and Sigrid Schade .

Since 2000, Yana Milev has been working as a university lecturer and researcher with teaching assignments in Berlin ( Art Academy Berlin-Weißensee , University of the Arts Berlin ), Salzburg ( University of Salzburg , FH Salzburg ), Karlsruhe (HfG) , Zurich (ZHdK) and at the University of St. Gallen . Between 2009 and 2012 she was a fellow at the Research College of the HfG Karlsruhe, since 2009 she has been a researcher and project leader at the Seminar for Sociology (SfS) at the University of St. Gallen and since 2013 at the Institute of Cultural Studies in Thr Arts (ICS) at the ZHdK Zurich . At the SfS she deepens the research clusters led by Franz Schultheis on Pierre Bourdieu's socio-ethnographic methods and theories. Yana Milev's academic positions range from critical theory , cultural sociology, visual sociology, as well as political philosophy and sociology. Since 2017, Milev's research focus has been on the issues of unequal treatment of East Germans after unification in 1990, which she describes as a "takeover", the East-West conflict in German society, and normative populism.

In doing so, she decidedly distanced herself from the prevailing point of view by speaking of an "expropriation contract" and describing the People's Chamber's decision to join as an "enabling law".

Curatorial career

Yana Milev realized her first context-oriented project management between 1988 and 1991 at the HfBK Dresden . Other curatorial projects followed in Leonhardi-Museum Dresden , 1995, the Goethe-Institut Osaka , 1997 and in the gallery Eigen + Art Leipzig , 2001. As part of its exhibitions she staged with the audience and guests workshops with interdisciplinary character, the "so-called AOBBME Ambulances ". With the international symposium "Emergency Design", which took place as a festival and conference at the ZHdK in Zurich in 2006 , Yana Milev established her specific profile as a cultural entrepreneur and curator . With interdisciplinary conference panels, a film program, indoor and outdoor scenarios, event zones on the entire ZHdK site, as well as more than 60 participants of international rank, Yana Milev and her team organized a three-day cultural staging. Curatorial programs and platforms such as “talk (ing) space”, 2006 and “Guerilla Transit”, 2007 were created at the HfG Karlsruhe . The panel series “talks in-between emergencies”, conceived in 2008, took place in 2009 in cooperation with the ZKM Karlsruhe . In 2011 Milev founded the label NUXN, a platform for photography and visual sociology, together with the musician and photographer Philipp Beckert. Between 2009 and 2013, Yana Milev designed the work "DA - A Transdisciplinary Handbook of Design Anthropology", which was published as a basic work on the trend science of design anthropology and at the same time presents a basic work on extended design curation. This work was realized in 2016 in the architecture and design institute "Bureau Europa", Maastricht, as an exhibition under the title "The Next Big Thing is Not a Thing". Milev developed the exhibition concept for this project and acted as co-curator.

For Milev, curation is primarily a strategy for conveying complex, time-related topics. She combines science curation, field research and presentation to create multiple environments. For example, the work on "Design Anthropology" is both a scientific project, but at the same time a cursory project which, with its implementation in Bureau Europa Maastricht, was staged on a communication level.

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1990: "L'autre Allemagne hors les murs". La grande halle de la Villette, Paris , F.
  • 1990: AVE Media Festival, Arnhem , NL
  • 1992: “4 aspects of exodus”. EIGEN + ART gallery, Leipzig
  • 1993: "exodus = asylum + analysis". EIGEN + ART gallery, Berlin
  • 1994: EIGEN + ART gallery in London , Independent Art Space, Museum of Installations, London, UK
  • 1995: "Club Berlin". curated by Klaus Biesenbach, Biennale , Venice , I
  • 1996: "exercitium 1.01.-Schweigen im Riesen". Room installation Leonhardi Museum, Dresden
  • 1997: documenta X , Ottoneum , Kassel , curated by Catherine David (first participant from the former Eastern Bloc countries)
  • 1997: "AOBBME - de-urban ambulance". Goethe-Institut Osaka , JP
  • 1997: "URBAN LIVING". Gallery “Fons Welters”, Amsterdam , NL
  • 1999: "Go East". SCA Gallery, Sydney , AUS
  • 1999: “Talk. Show". From the Heydt Museum Wuppertal , curated by SM-Büsser and B. Schwenk
  • 1999: "Children of Berlin". P, p. 1 MoMA PS1 , curated by Klaus Biesenbach , New York , USA
  • 2000: "Floating Cities". curated by Nina Muecke and Angelika Sommer, House of World Cultures , Berlin
  • 2001: "doublewatch". EIGEN + ART gallery, Leipzig
  • 2003: “Rituals”. curated by N. Muecke and A. Sommer, Akademie der Künste , Berlin
  • 2005: "the storytellers return: romantica und cella". curated by Volkmar Billig, Altzella Monastery , Nossen
  • 2006: "Kultur-Invest-Dresden". The Dresdner Bank in the octagon, curated by Susanne Greinke, Academy of Fine Arts in Dresden
  • 2006: "revision gdr / 40 years videokunst.de". curated by Dieter Daniels and Jeannette Stoschek, Museum der Bildenden Künste Leipzig
  • 2007: Transmediale , Academy of the Arts, Berlin
  • 2009: “Without us! Art and alternative culture in Dresden before and after '89 “ , curated by Frank Eckart, Paul Kaiser and Susanne Altmann, Dresden
  • 2010: “Puzzle” , curated by Julia Schäfer and Angelika Richter, Gallery for Contemporary Art Leipzig
  • 2011: “Didn't I amuse you brilliantly? Female subversions in the late GDR ” , curated by Susanne Altmann, Kunsthalle Mannheim
  • 2014: “We'll be 100” , on the occasion of the opening of the Max Pechstein Museum, Art Collection Zwickau, Max Pechstein Museum Zwickau
  • 2016: "Gegenstimmen", curated by Christoph Tannert and Eugen Blume, Martin Gropius Bau Berlin

Curations (selection)

  • 1994: AOBBME (Association Of Black Box Multiple Environments), since 1994 "Institute for Applied Spatial Research and Microtopic Cultural Production" based in Berlin ( http://www.aobbme.com/ )
  • 1995: “How can nothing be experienced?” Curatorial program over 40 days as part of the exhibition “Silence in the Reigen”, Leonhardi Museum Dresden
  • 2005: TALK IN (G) SPACE: Interviews with teachers and students at the Karlsruhe University of Design on issues of relational space, in cooperation with Mischa Kuball, Andrei Ujica, Kathrin Wildner, Marc Teuscher, Jesus Muñoz, Max Mayer, Oliver Karl Boeg u . a.
  • 2006: "Emergency Design", festival and conference at the ZHdK in Zurich ( http://emergencydesign.zhdk.ch/ )
  • 2007: "Guerilla Transit", activist platform with students from the HfG Karlsruhe ( http://www.guerilla-transit.de/ )
  • 2009: "talks in-between emergencies" ( http://on1.zkm.de/zkm/stories/storyReader$6478 )
  • 2010: ON RAGE, curatorial advice for Cordula Hamschmidt as part of the “On Rage” project, House of World Cultures, Berlin
  • 2011: NUXN, platform for photography and visual anthropology ( http://www.nuxn.de/ )
  • 2013: DESIGN ANTHROPOLOGY, The Theoretical And Curatorial Foundation For An Extended Concept Of Design ( http://design-anthropology.eu/ )
  • 2016: The Next Big Thing is Not a Thing, exhibition concept based on the book "DA - A Transdisciplinary Handbook of Design Anthropology" and co-curation, Bureau Europa, Maastricht ( https://www.bureau-europa.nl/en/manifestations / the_next_big_thing_is_not_a_thing / )
  • 2016: Next Society - Facing Gaia. Epilog GLOBALE, ZKM ( http://zkm.de/media/video/next-society-facing-gaia-yana-milev )

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

  • From Exodus to Exercitium. Lively archeology and theoretical design as methods of artistic research. Edition EIGEN + ART, Leipzig / Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-929294-15-X
  • Emergency Empire - Part 1: Sovereignty. Transformation of the state of emergency. Springer, Vienna / New York 2009, ISBN 978-3-211-79811-9
  • Emergency Design - Anthropotechnics of Survival / Life, A Cultural Anthropological Perspective. Merve Verlag, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-88396-300-6
  • Sociology of design. The expanded concept of design in the design field of political theory and sociology. Peter Lang Academic Publishers, Bern / Brussels / Berlin / Vienna / Oxford / New York 2014, ISBN 978-3-631-65670-9
  • Decoupled society - East Germany since 1989/90. Connection. Peter Lang, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-631-77155-6
  • Democratic defects. An essay on normative populism , Agenda Verlag, Münster 2019, ISBN 978-3-89688-624-8 .
  • The trust trauma: the long-term consequences of the takeover , Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2020, ISBN 978-3-360-01359-0

Editions

  • with Gerhard Blechinger: Emergency Design. Design strategies in the field of crisis. Verlag Springer, Vienna / New York 2008, ISBN 978-3-211-48760-0
  • DA - A Transdisciplinary Handbook of Design Anthropology. Peter Lang Verlag, Bern / Brussels / Berlin / Vienna / Oxford / New York 2013, ISBN 978-3-631-61906-3
  • Design cultures. The extended concept of design in the design field of cultural studies. HFG Research, Fink, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-7705-5534-5 .
  • Europe in free fall. Orientation in a new cold war. Turia + Kant, Vienna / Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-85132-822-6 .
  • with Franz Schultheis: Decoupled Society - East Germany since 1989/90. Modification. Peter Lang, International Science Publishing House, Berlin 2019

Literature (selection)

  • Claus Löser: Gegenbilder - Cinematic Subversion in the GDR 1976–1989. Janus Press, 1996 1996, ISBN 3-928942-38-7 .
  • Johannes Kirschenmann: Constructions on the building site of the subject. Reflections on Yana Milev's documenta work. In: Bernhard Balkenhol, Heiner Georgsdorf (Ed.): X times documenta X. About contemporary art and artists. A book to read about the 10th documenta. University Press Kunsthochschule Universität Kassel, Kassel 1997, ISBN 3-88122-963-9 .
  • bohemian and dictatorship in the gdr. Catalog for the same exhibition in the Marstall, Berlin, Fannei & Walz-Verlag, Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-927574-39-2 .
  • Politics / Poetics. The book on documenta X , Werner Stehr, Johannes Kirschenmann (eds.), Hatje Cantz Verlag, 1997, ISBN 3-89322-909-4 .
  • "short guide" art guide documenta X, Cantz Verlag, 1997, ISBN 3-89322-938-8 .
  • Eckart Gillen (Ed.): Pictures of Germany. Art from a divided country. Catalog for the same exhibition Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin. DuMont Verlag, 1997, ISBN 3-7701-3869-4 .
  • Susanne Meyer-Büser: Yana Milev. Conceptual environment as a total work of art. In: Talk Show. The art of communication. Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 1999, ISBN 3-7913-2066-1 .
  • Cell 05: intersections. Exhibition catalog, Volkmar Billig (Ed.), Verlag & Druckerei Tierbs, Pirna 2005.
  • Susanne Greinke (Ed.): Kulturinvest Dresden. Verlag für Moderne Kunst Nürnberg, Dresden Cultural Foundation of the Dresdner Bank, 2006, ISBN 3-939738-03-4 .
  • Dieter Daniels, Jeannette Stoschek (Eds.): Gray zone 8mm. Materials on the autonomous artist film in the GDR, material volume for the exhibition 40 Jahrevideokunst.de:revision.ddr. Museum of Fine Arts Leipzig with DVD produced by the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute Media.Art.Research. Funded by the Federal Cultural Foundation . Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2007, ISBN 978-3-7757-1955-1 .
  • Christoph Tannert: Intermedia. Female side. In: Angelika Richter, Beatrice E. Stammer, Bettina Knaup (eds.): And now. Artists from the GDR. Verlag für Moderne Kunst Nürnberg, Nürnberg 2009, ISBN 978-3-941185-73-9 .
  • Susanne Altmann: Didn't I amuse you brilliantly? Female subversion in the late GDR. In: Project group WITHOUT US !, Without Us! Art and alternative culture in Dresden before and after '89. EFAU-Verlag, Dresden, 2010, ISBN 978-3-9807388-1-1 .
  • Claus Löser: Strategies of Refusal. Investigations into the political-aesthetic gesture of inappropriate cinematic articulation in the late phase of the GDR. DEFA Foundation, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-00-034845-7 .
  • Susanne Altmann, Ulrike Lorenz (Ed.): Discovered. Rebel artists in the GDR. Kunsthalle Mannheim, 2011, ISBN 978-3-89165-221-3 .
  • Angelika Richter, The Law of the Scene: Gender Criticism, Performance Art and Second Public Sphere in the Late GDR (Studies on Visual Culture), transcript Verlag, Bielefeld 2019, ISBN 978-3-8394-4572-3 .

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Design Anthropology
  2. ↑ Lecturer at the Karlsruhe University of Design
  3. ↑ Visiting Research Fellow at the Research Institute of the HfG Karlsruhe
  4. ^ Associated researcher at the Department of Sociology at the University of St. Gallen
  5. ↑ See review in: Junge Welt, March 16, 2020, p. 15.
  6. ↑ Guerrilla Transit
  7. ↑ NUXN
personal data
SURNAME Milev, Yana
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Milev, Jana Elisabeth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cultural philosopher, cultural sociologist and curator
DATE OF BIRTH 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig