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Dates / News


07th March -
27th April 2008

ZEIGEN.
Eine Audiotour von Karin Sander durch den Kunstverein Arnsberg 1988-2008

With contributions by: Maria Thereza Alves, Florian Bach, Guillaume Bijl, Nine Budde, Martin Dammann, Jimmie Durham, Ulrich Erben, Ayse Erkmen, Anna Fasshauer, Heribert Friedl, Diango Hernandez, Myriam Holme, Eckhard Karnauke, Andreas M. Kaufmann, Marco Lulic, Ulrich Meister, Isa Melsheimer, Jürgen Meyer, Matt Mullican, Frances Scholz, Andreas Karl Schulze, Misha Stroj, Nassan Tur, Günter Umberg, Erwin Wurm, Ekrem Yalcindag und Christof Zwiener.




14th March 2008
at 10:00 am

Update of the project: no agreement today, no greement tomorrow
Execution of the annual ritual (22 years left): Change of one slide each year and discussion with the citizens of the City of Bergkamen / Germany. This year the Städtische Gymnasium Bergkamen will host the ritual, which is open to the public without restrictions.





17th May –
8th June 2008

Paradoxes of the Public - Art in Public Spaces
Akzente-Plattform related to the European cultural capital „Ruhr.2010“. Opening and awards show will happen on the 17th of May 2008 at the “Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum Duisburg”. A speech will be given by Roger M. Buergel (documenta XII). Curator: Dr. Söke Dinkla.





25th – 29th June, 2008

Crosstalk Video Art Festival ………… . Gödör Park at Erszébet square / Budapest (Hungary). The different sections of the festival are being curated by several individuals

more information:
www.crosstalk.hu8


1st July -
30th December 2008

Lieux de belligérance 3

The third edition of “Lieux de belligérance” at the fortress in Salses will show Interventions in situ by Alain Josseau and Andreas M. Kaufmann. Curator: Jean Michel Pheline.




27th August – 28th September 2008

transfotografia – international festival of fotografie………… .

Curated by: Malgosia Zwolicka in Gdansk -Sopot - Gdynia (Poland).

more information:
www.transfotografia.com


Autum 2008

Maschinerie für Reuleaux

The opening of the permanent installation “Maschinerie für Reuleaux” at the new build Campus in Gummersbach of the University for Applied Science Cologne (North Rhine-Westphalia/ Germany) is postponed to the 1st Quarter in 2008.We will keep you updated on this site.





Spring 2009

Solo exhibition of Andreas M. Kaufmann

at „La maison des arts Georges Pompidou - Centre d'art contemporain“. Route de Gréalou, 46160 Cajarc Midi-Pyrénées /France. We will keep you updated here.


All dates are subject to change without notice.

Current Projects and Publications
LICHT SICHT - 1. Projektions-Biennale Bad Rothenfelde
(LIGHT SIGHT ­ 1st. projection biennale Bad Rothenfelde )
This new biennale is dedicated to artists whose work has a focus in slide- or video- projections. The impressive projection surfaces are two huge salines in the center of the city (approx. 120 m and 420 meter long), which have been built due to the fact that Bad Rothenfelde is a Spa.



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Maschinerie für Reuleaux
Permanent kinetic slide projection installed in the entrance of the new building of the University of Applied Sciences Cologne / Campus Gummersbach. (Architect: Prof. Gerber, Dortmund). Andreas M. Kaufmann’ s concept for a permanent artistic intervention has been awarded with the 1st prize in an international competition. The realized installation will be officially inaugurated in 2008. Details will be announced.
Art and architecture project of the federal state NRW, North Rhine-Westphalia, (Kunst + Bau Projekt des Landes NRW).



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VALUES ON DEMAND - an ongoing project
The project Values on demand is based on an ongoing taking of an inventory inside Constitutions, Human Rights Declarations and other normative papers of agreement from all over our planet. The investigation has been focused so far on the presence of normative Values, which are supposed to function as mission statement for societies and their governments.
Considering the reality (or better the mediated reality) of course one may point at the gap between those claims and actualities (...). Thus it seems on the first glance obvious to query their effectiveness as a political and social tool. But are Norms tools? Or are they guidelines? Or are they rather of different nature, beyond short termed usability and other economic imperatives?



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STUFFED SILENCE - a VALUES ON DEMAND - project
The book in formal terms:
Editor: Valentín Roma and Andreas M. Kaufmann
Published by Espai ZERO1 OLOT (Girona)
ISBN 978-84-935281-2-6
Size & qualities: (width x height) = 15 x 21 cm / 222 pages, approx. 79 illustrations, multilingual, but all text are translated also into Catalan, Spanish & English.

The announced book accompanying the project „Stuffed Silence - a VALUES ON DEMAND project" is now available. It has been published by the contemporary art center in Olot (Girona/ Spain) „Espai ZERO1“.
The project book “Stuffed Silence" includes several contributions:
The specific installation “Stuffed Silence” has been analyzed and contextualized by the curator of the exhibition Valentín Roma. The art historian Marta Gili (Jeu de paume Paris) is writing about Andreas M. Kaufmann’s artistic practice in general. Andreas M. Kaufmann is talking with the musician Gabriel Ananda about his music, specifically in their common collaboration in this project. Eventually the Ethnologist Markus Coester is approaching the specific language in Fela Kuti’s Lyrics.
These contributions are intersected by four inserts, which contain information about the artistic conception, a photographical In-situ documentation of the intervention at Espai ZER01, still images of the whole animation, examples of Fela Kuti’s Lyrics and the values which are functioning as actors in this four-channel video installation.
The book has been rounded up with eight unanswered questions to Federal Judge Baltasar Garzón, related web-links, bibliographical references and translations of all texts English, Spanish and Catalan.

This book is going to have a double appearance and also a double distribution: It will be published traditionally printed as well as in the digital format of an e-book, downloadable free of charge. The printed version is at once available in any good bookstore or directly by contacting kaufand@yahoo.de or contact@andreas-kaufmann.com. The e-book will probably be released on the occasion of launching the webpage WWW.VALUESONDEMAND.NET



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Stuffed Silence
ON THE OCCASION OF AN EXHIBITION OF ANDREAS M. KAUFMANN AT BUNKIER SZTUKI KRAKOW 2002
The book in formal terms:
Editors: Maria Anna Potocka & Andreas M. Kaufmann
Publishers: Bunkier Sztuki Kraków and Revolver Archiv für aktuelle Kunst. Frankfurt/Main.
ISBN 3-937577-79-3.
Size and qualities: (width x height) = 17 cm x 24 cm, 468 pages, ca. 200 illustrations, multilingual, but all text are included also in Polish respectively English). Hardcover binding, surface protected with matt transparency self-adhesive foil.
Prize: Euro 25,00
Contact: www.revolver-books.de or Buchhandlung Walther König


It is a collaborative and nonprofit book project with 101 contributions most of them made exclusively for this publication, all by different authors, such as architects, designers, film makers, artists, critics and curators etc. from all over the world. The book opens up to the outside by referring and linking itself to other media. It follows issues that are situated in the complex field of the "local" and "global" and asks for the collective memory/memories questioning if there can be a copyright on them.
Being rather organized like a film-story-board, it subversively undermines what one would generally expect from a book: In the main part of the book all contributions are displayed in their original language in which they had been submitted; furthermore, as a rule, the names of the respective authors can only be found in the second part of this book called “references” unless the contributioo?n is a letter for which sender and receiver are constitutional. However, one may find most translations, names and biographies of the respective authors, additional information, etc. All texts have been translated into Polish and English. Last but not least the book has also to be understood as an object that wants to be used.


Editorial (.pdf)



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Kunststiftung NRW, GWK - Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Westfälischen Kulturarbeit e.V., Warsteiner Brauerei





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