Artist & Science Expedition: Arctic Circle, Oct. 2024, Spitsbergen, Svalbard, Longyearbyan

The Arctic Circle expeditionary residency program invites international artists, scientists and innovators to live and work on-board an Arctic-class Tall Ship while sailing the waters of the international territory of Svalbard, an Arctic archipelago just 10 degrees latitude from the North Pole.

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Selected for the Artist Residency SPACE A in Katmandu - Nov. 2025

Always try to preserve a little piece of (dark) sky above your life (Proust)

It was hard to climb up the hill there (Kalkkögel, 1977 m) with equipment and stuff - but it was rewarded with an incredible experience … no clouds and absolut free sight on stary dark sky)

Milky way with layers of colour cushion mist

How radically different would we be if we looked to the night sky and saw … nothing (Roberto Trotta: Starborn)

Artist Talk & Meeting with Andrew Eaton-Lewis, "Dark Skies Festival", AN LANNTAIR,

Stornoway Isle of Lewis

Selected for the Biennale LARNACA (Cyprus),

11 Oct. - 24 Nov. 2023 - my work is shown in the Pieridis Museum, Larnaca

exciting concept - contemporary art in an archaeological museum ...

"...there are potholes in the skies...

seven sunsets for a single evening and the uninterrupted moon..."

... we are the introverts of the Space Age ... scratching at clouds with closed fists ...

Etel Adnan: We became cosmic

Great experience to take part at the Fabricademy Bootcamp in Armenia with an international group of Designers, Artists and Scientists. Hard schedule with a minimum of eight hours workshops per day but also great opportunities to learn about traditional an futuristic techniques in the field of costume & textile design as well as new aproaches in fiber art with new technologies and materials.

Galerie Palais Walderdorff - Trier

"hiStoryScapes"     13.10.-11.11.2023

Mit Klick auf das Bild kommt man zur VR-Darstelllung der Galerie -> auf Vollbild-Modus klicken, dann kann man sich durch die 360° Aufnahmen der Galerie-Räume klicken.

Clicking on the image takes you to the VR representation of the gallery -> click on full screen mode, then you can click through the 360° images of the gallery rooms.

Art weeks for climate and environment, participation

28.04.– 21.05.2023 - GEDOK–Forum Karlsruhe

Short listed for the C.A.R., PHOTO/ MEDIA ART TALENTS, Zeche Zollverein, Essen 2023

Residency, Mark Rothko ART Center, Latvia, August 2023

30.10.-4.12.22  GeorgScholzHaus/Kunstforum Waldkirch

In the works "Battle Erasement" one can watch step by step two naval battles based on historical paintings as they disappear. First the martial motif becomes ghostly transparent, as incorporeal as a memory. Then it's gone and what's left is... well what? A landscape, yes, but not a landscape painting in the true sense. Rather, the void suddenly raises questions about the world and truth and memory and perhaps also why wars are actually the narrative pillars of our human history.

(Text by Vivien Sigmund, Gedok Stuttgart)

Title: Battle Erasement - F*u Warship
Foto object: 40x40x120 cm, plexiglass, 4 image slices transparent printed

Transparent Print (detail see above), Plexi objects (see below)

Art in Public Space-Project - Akademie X - Karima Klasen - supported by the City of Stuttgart

24.6.-9.7.2022

Foto-Credit: Johannes Rave, Akademie X