Exzentrische 80er

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6 pm: Curators’ tour

The curatorial team of “Eccentric 80s” offers a tour through their exhibition.

7 pm: Book presentation “Eccentric 80s” (b_books, 2022)
and reading with texts by Tabea Blumenschein, Hilka Nordhausen and Rabe perplexum

Berlin launch of the exhibition publication “Eccentric 80s” with the editors Burcu Dogramaci, Ergül Cengiz, Philipp Gufler, Mareike Schwarz and Angela Stiegler. The book contains extensive visual material and texts by the editors as well as Elfe Brandenburger, Sabeth Buchmann, Rachel Mader and Eva Meyer. It was designed by BüroBüro and published by b_books, who will be present at the book presentation with a book table. At the launch we will read texts about and by the 1980s artists Tabea Blumenschein, Hilka Nordhausen and Rabe perplexum.

Biographies:

Ergül Cengiz is a Munich-based visual artist. She studied from 1996 to 2004 at AdBK Munich and HfbK Hamburg. In 2004 she formed the artist group 3 Hamburger Frauen with Henrieke Ribbe and Kathrin Wolf, with whom she created numerous ephemeral wall works. In her own works, Cengiz deals with personal, political, social- and art historical themes, which she interweaves in various media and realises in spaces. Her exhibitions include “I’LL BE YOUR MIRROR” at the Pinakothek der Moderne Munich (2019/20); “OLD FASHIONED” at Kunstverein Hamburg (2017); “In A Gadda Da Vida” at Kasseler Kunstverein, Kassel (2009); and “MEMENTO” at ar/ge Art Gallery Museum Bolzano (2007).

Burcu Dogramaci is Professor for Art History at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich. Her research focuses on modern and contemporary global art and photography, exile and migration. She has been awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant for the project METROMOD (2017–2023), which focuses on exile metropolises for modern artists. She is co-director of the Käte Hamburger Kolleg global dis:connect. Selected publications include “Arrival Cities: Migrating Artists and New Metropolitan Topographies in the 20^th Century” (2020, co-ed.), “Textile Moderne / Textile Modernism” (2019, ed.), and “Fotografie der Performance: Live Art im Zeitalter ihrer Reproduzierbarkeit” (2018).

 Philipp Gufler is an artist based in Munich and Amsterdam. He spans various media in his practice, including silkscreen prints on fabric and mirrors, artist books, performances, and video installations. For the video installation “Projection on the Crisis” (2014), he began researching the self-organised archive Forum Queeres Archiv München, of which Gufler has since become an active member. Gufler studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and has participated in artist residencies at De Ateliers, Amsterdam; Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, Maine; and Delfina Foundation, London. Artist books include: “Projection on the Crisis” (2014 / 2021), “I Wanna Give You Devotion” (2017), “Indirect Contact” (2017), “Quilt #01–#30” (2020), and “Lana Kaiser” (2020).

Mareike Schwarz works at the intersection of public art and public interest with a focus on commons, memory culture and atmospheres in contemporary art. She studied economics, literature and art history in Berlin, Cambridge, Buenos Aires and Munich. Her master’s thesis on commoning atmospheres of art in public space was awarded the University Prize of the City of Munich. In 2020, she conducted an oral history project on curating at memorial sites at the Universidad de Buenos Aires. She is currently a PhD student with the METROMOD research group at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich. Recent publications include “Lebenssammelsurium: Über vielschichtige Begegnungen mit Kunst und Künstlerinnen” (Gedok 2021) and “Handlungspolitische Agency der Sinne” (in: Kalas Liebfried, Obscure Ambience, Edition Metzel 2021).

Angela Stiegler is a visual artist based in Berlin and Munich. In her work, she employs various media such as video and performance, working in collaborative contexts with shared authorship. A special focus lies in artistic research and the economy of friendship. She co-founded the self-organised initiative K in 2013. Since 2020, Stiegler is part of the opera collective DIVA. She has been teaching in Athens, Munich, and Nuremberg since 2015. Through filmmaking, she encountered Tabea Blumenschein in 2016 and remained in contact with her until her passing.

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