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Series of talks and exhibitions 2024/2025

Peter Zorn, Caspar Stracke and Eike Berg

In the framework of the project From Halle to Hungary and back in 40 years

18 October 2024, Friday 7 pm
Peter Zorn in conversation with Caspar Stracke and Eike Berg
in German language - participation after prior registration

19-20 October 2024, Sat-Sun 1 - 6 pm
Exhibition with art works by Caspar Stracke and Eike Berg
Visit by appointment

Caspar Stracke and Eike Berg met before studying art in Braunschweig in the mid-1980s. With friends, they founded the FISCH art centre (now Allgemeiner Konsumverein) in Braunschweig, and also collaborated as artists. During Stracke's many years in New York and Berg's many years in Budapest, they maintained a live-ly exchange and organised joint exhibitions, among other things.

Peter Zorn studied film at the HBK Braunschweig, and founded the Werkleitz Gesellschaft in 1993. He developed the European Media Artists in Residence Exchange Programme (EMARE) in 1995 and has been manager of the EU-funded European Media Art Platform, which he initiated in 2017. Zorn has kept contact with Stracke and Berg over the years, and collaborated internationally with various partner organisations.

 

Peter Zorn

born 1967 in Traunstein, lives and works as an independent cultural producer and curator in Werkleitz and Halle (Saale)
www.werkleitz.de/en/personen/peter-zorn

From 1990 to 1995 studied fine art in the film class of the Braunschweig University of Art with Prof Birgit Hein. Co-founder and chairman of the board of the Werkleitz Gesellschaft, serves on the board of the Werkleitz Biennale / Werkleitz Festival. He developed the European Media Artists in Residence Exchange Programme (EMARE) in 1995 and has been the manager of the EU-funded European Media Art Platform, which he initiated, since 2017. Since 2011, head of the Werkleitz Professional Media Master Class.
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Caspar Stracke

born 1967 in Darmstadt, lives and works as an interdisciplinary artist and moving image curator in Berlin and Mexico City.
www.casparstracke.net

His films and installations are rooted in sociology and the politics of housing, architecture and urbanism. Furthermore, his works address media technology and its archaeology as well as the societal impact of moving image cultures.

From 2005 to 2013 he was the co-director of video_dumbo in New York City. From 2012 to 2017 he was professor of Contemporary Art and Moving Image at the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts (Kuvataideakatemia) in Helsinki. He is co-editor of THE CURRENT THING, an artist journal established jointly with Keith Sanborn during the first months of the pandemic in New York.
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Eike Berg

born 1966 in Halle/Saale, lives in Freising near Munich
eike.qxd8.com

At the core of Eike Berg’s works is the question of the organization and nature of human knowledge and perception. His works navigate around these semantic centers with varying conceptual approaches and different genres, including video, installation, photography, computer art, and light art. His works share a focus on the element of change, usually examining on notions of the borderline or transgressions of borders: space and time, reality and abstraction.
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Many thanks for the kind support

Collegium Hungaricum Berlin | culture.hu/de/berlin
Werkleitz | werkleitz.de
Art of Care Brussels | Facebook: artofcarebrussels





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