Artists in Residence

1 July – 30 October 2022

Wehrmann not only touches on scientific research in his work, but tries to inform its questions through the means of art. He regards his art as research of a different kind. For where art and science meet, both sides can gain new insights and perspectives. The diversity of his artistic interests is also reflected in his works. Thematic foci are the questions of identity, mediality and the environment. During his time at ZiF, he will explore art and its ecological footprints, focusing on optical metaphors of understanding. An exhibition in 2023 will document the results of his time at ZiF and invite visitors to experience more of – and with – his work.

Exhibition: Latent Space Agency

Upcoming: 11 October – 22 December 2023

1 March – 31 May 2021

Friederike Feldmann approaches painting from a reflective outside perspective – always from new angles – and translates the results of her analytic gaze into an independent formal language. She focuses especially on the core aspects of painting such as gesture, texture and representation and authorship.

Schulz’ works were shown in key exhibitions such as Manifesta2 in Luxembourg, After the Wall at Moderna Museet in Stockholm, German Open at Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, deutschemalereizweitausenddrei at the Kunstverein Frankfurt, Repeat Performance at Artist Space in New York and 50 Jahre documenta (50 Years of documenta) at the Fridericianum in Kassel. In recent years Schulz was to be seen in comprehensive international solo exhibitions; amongst others at the Kassák Museum in Budapest, Haus der Kunst in München, Kunstverein Hannover, The Model in Sligo, Secession in Vienna, Museum of Contemporary Art Leipzig and the Magazin4 in Bregenz.

During the 56th Venice Biennale Schulz realized an extensive installation at the Espace Louis Vuitton Venezia with restored paintings by Francesco Hayez from the Palazzo Ducale.

Alongside his exhibition activity as an artist since 1996 Tilo Schulz has curated shows including six memos for the next … at the Magazin4 in Bregenz; The Second Gaze at the Städtische Galerie Nordhorn; squatting at the Temporäre Kunsthalle 2010 in Berlin; e.w.e. – exhibition without exhibition between 1997 and 2001.

Tilo Schulz is presented by Jochen Hempel Gallery (Leipzig) and acb Gallery (Budapest).

April – June 2017

The immediacy of drawing is the precondition for the simultaneous traversal and observation of the transitions between perception and thought. These transitions are what I'm after. I work with pictures as primary tools of recognition and knowledge. The aim thereby is not a static sense, but readiness for a twist in the sense. I seek alternatives to the static concept of sense and, in examining the boundaries of what can be examined, stand where the reduction of complexity inherent in every examination loses its footing in the current. Here I can watch the behavior of meaning in delicate and exposed zones. This is a draftsmanlike dealing with situations close beside the relaxing state of causality and the work with the constructing and decaying energies of meanings. I assume the affirmative quality that figurative pictures primarily radiate. And I seek neither functional condensations of information nor nonsense connections, but rather an urgent access to a question that, due to its consistence and size, cannot be directly and once and for all discovered; one can, however, probe its contours.

October 2015 – December 2015

Science and art are systems of knowledge about the essential properties, causal relationships and regularities of nature, society and thought, which are condensed into statements, theories and hypotheses, but demonstrated with different focus and form. Actually, both disciplines ask the same questions, they just have different perspectives. Both sides are curious and creative. From this point of view, I see artists as researchers and scientists as creative minds.

We are all trying to understand what is happening outside the black box of the body. Sometimes we set our gaze outward and position ourselves in relation to others. Other times we set our gaze inward and examine our perceptions and consciousness. Based on this, I make art to enter into a dialogue with others about it, where the flow of information happens not only in one direction (artist > work > viewer), but, thanks to the interactive nature of my works, influences each other (artist <> work <> viewer) and even allows something new to emerge from it. Therefore, my artworks are materialized stations / results of my thoughts and inventories of my interactions.

In July I already visited Dr. Eberhard Ortland from the research group "The Ethics of Copying" and Dr. Jonas Rees from the research group "Genetic and Social Causes of Life Chances" and I am really excited how unproblematic, exciting, informative our conversation went – I can't wait to finally get started!

May – July 2013

Nicole Schuck

In her works, focussing on the medium of drawings and on narrating performances, Nicole Schuck brings art and science, fiction and reality, documentation and narration in contact. She maps places, landscapes, countries – directly integrating the wild animals living there. She does fieldwork that is intended to be narrative, it is not to document or illustrate: she makes drawings, interviews local residents and cooperates with researchers. Fictional aspects are intertwined with actual experiences. Reality is reflected in a realistic reproduction of structures and anatomies: fiction is reflected in the choice of the fragment and the consolidation of animal and topographic elements. At the same time, questions regarding the conservation of nature, species and climate are considered when developing the relevant natural environments; her artistic work, however, is never moralizing. The cycles – graphically narrating – rather lead the observer to an individual organism of nature-, human- and animal worlds.

Beat Brogle

In Brogle's work he deals with morphological processes and associations at the edge of perception.The work is formulated through different media, such as drawings, spatial installation, film/video, interactive installations and web projects.

1 March – 21 May

Anna Konik (Berlin, Warsaw) is the first Artist in Residence at ZiF. In her work, Anna Konik combines documentary elements and performance, installation and sculptures. She is interested in people exposed to extreme situations. She developed a video installation dealing with alienation, hypersensitivity, loneliness and the feeling of being misunderstood.