Image Worlds / Collective Memory
Maschinerie für Reuleaux
University of Applied Sciences Cologne / Campus Gummersbach, 2007

Permanent kinetic slide projection installed in the entrance of the new building of the Capus. (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.
Art and architecture project of the federal state NRW, North Rhine-Westphalia, (Kunst + Bau Projekt des Landes NRW).

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Freiheit ist die Optimale Verteilung von Abhängigkeit, 2005 - 2010
Planned realisation in context of the Ruhr 2010, European Culture Capital.
Conception / modell 2005.

A VALUES ON DEMAND-Project for the exhibition Folkwang Artoll ­ Kunst und Energie.

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Freiheit ist die...
...neither body, nor soul..., 2006
DKV Deutsche Krankenversicherung AG, Cologne, 2005 / 06

Permanent kinetic projection in the entrance hall of the new building of the DKV. (Architect: Jan Störmer, Hamburg). The images are moving through the hall, following a choreography, which is aligned to the sourrounding architecture. The graphical material of this digitally controlled slide installation stems from the book "De Humanii Corpore Fabrica", of which the first volume was published by the anatomist Andreas Vesalius in 1543.

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neither body, nor soul
Stuffed Silence, 2005 / 2008
This work is aVALUES ON DEMAND-Project, conceived by Andreas M. Kaufmann, dedicated to the Nigerian inventor of Afro Beat Fela Anikulapo Kuti and realized in cooperation with the electronic musician Gabriel Ananda.

The choreographic conception of the video animation is made for a nonstandard extended surface: Four single projections should be bonded to one single screen. This screen should always be related to the architectonical site.

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stuffed silence
no agreement today, no agreement tomorrow
Bergkamen 2004 - 2028

Site-specific architectural media sculpture at the Town Hall Gate roundabout. One slide is changed every year, thus the site specific sculpture contains a ritual and a process.

Technical data: 4 revolving projectors loaded in total with 24 slide

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 no agreement today, ...
Last Supper Series, 2003
Concept and prototype for a series of soup plates:The well of the plate is always showing the photograph of a killed mafia boss; on the cavetto one can read the name of the guy and what has been his last meal.
Last Supper Series
Machina Technologica
Robert Bosch GmbH, Berlin 2003

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Machina Technologica
The Book Project, 2002 - 2005
Andreas Kaufmann asked over 100 pretty different people worldwide for a reaction towards a selection of public accessible images, all collected by him. Before being published, the resulting book has manifested itself in public two times: in the exhibition curated by Maria Anna Potocka "100%" at Bunkier Sztuki Krakow (2002) and in the exhibition: "Claude Leveque, Andreas M. Kaufmann, Dan Graham: Palais des arts - Present Distance" (Curator: Lydia Hempel / Site: "Palais im großen Garten", Dresden (2005).

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The Book Project
The Archive of Gestures, 2002
First presentation at Galerie Gabriele Rivet, Cologne 2002

The open photographic project begun in 2002. Using the huge collection of publicly accessible images, which he has collected during the last 20 years, Kaufmann opend this image archive. All photos shown during exhibition are blurred so that the depicted person is nearly reduced to it's gesture.

Technical data: b/w photo prints.

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archive of gestures
Ortlos II
VI. Architecture Biennale Venice, German Pavilion 1996
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This anamorphotic projection has been produced for the exhibition "Change without Growth" in the German Pavilion in Venice. The imagery has based on the same research as for my outdoor work "Ortlos" at the "Gasometer Oberhausen".

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Ortlos II
Ortlos
Gasometer Oberhausen, 1996

For the exhibition ICH PHOENIX - eine Kunstereignis, I re-worked drawings and photographs from various archives into pictogram-like signs until they were ultimately projectable slides.

Technical data: Rotating table, stage projector with circular cartridge and controls, 15 slides

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Gasometer Oberhausen, 1996
Umschau
Galerie G. Rivet, Cologne 1996

More than any other medium, film has on the one one hand reflected, and on the other influenced the reality of life in our century. It has created images that have, in one way or another, permanently changed the behavior of human beings towards each other. These reflections are the background to the work.

Technical data: Three two-level rotating mechanisms, six carousel projectors, six carousels with 2 x 40 slides each (freeze frames from 61 films), shelving, 20 glass panes of varying sizes

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Umschau. Turn Around
Flashback II
Gallery G. Rivet, Cologne 1996

Kinetic projection of filmstills which is employing reflection.

Technical data: Ca. 12 panes of glass of different shapes and sizes, projector, timer, 80 slides

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Flashback II
Machina Encyclopaedica
Wewerka Pavillon Münster, 1995

(...) the Pavillion is transformed into a dynamic and ever-changing public media sculpture space. Not only is the space public, but also the 1620 projected images, taken from the Brockhaus Encyclopedia are, like images on the internet, accessible to anyone who would like to see them.

Technical data: 10 two-level rotating mechanisms, 20 Kodak carousel projectors, 1620 slides, metal shelves

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Machina Encyclopaedica
Sturz
Amsterdam, 1994

During the art fair "Art Hotel" the slide projection at the Hilton Hotel showed an engraving by Hendrik Goltzius ("Phaeton", 1588).

Technical data: Large format slide projector, one slide

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Fall. Slide projection
Who Ya Hunchin, 1994
Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, 1995

Above a basin filled with water, the personification of the Buddhist world of Taizo-Kai is projected on a wall. Beneath the basin of water a loudspeaker is placed, from which the Ella Fitzergald song Who Ya Hunchin can be continuously heard. The sound waves generated by the loudspeaker give rise to vibrations on the surface of the water, which in turn serves as a distorting mirror for the projection.

Technical data: Projector, slide, basin filled with water with built-in loudspeaker, CD player, amplifier

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Who Ya Hunchin
Kiss
Studio, 1994

During James Stuart and Kim Novak's over one-minute long kiss in Alfred Hitchcock's film Vertigo the camera executes a 360% travelling shot around them. In this installation, the camera's circular movement is synchronised with the rotation of the video projectors.

Techical data: 1 video projector, 1 rotating mechanism

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Kiss
Zwang und Wiederholung, 1994
Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum Duisburg, 1995

This installation of light collages consists of 8 rotating slide projectors each of which contains 40 different newspaper photographs. The images are projected onto piles of old newspapers and the wall behind them. The projectors turn in a 360% arc.

Techical data: 8 Kodak carousel projectors, four rotating mechanisms, 8 carousels with 2 sets of 40 images each from newspapers from the past two years, old newspapers

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Zwang und Wiederholung
Die Erschaffung der Welt
Gyokozouin Tempel, Urawa (Japan), 1993

Onto the Buddhist temple Gyokozouin and the trees in a small park before it was projected a tracing of Michelangelo’s ceiling fresco The Creation of the Sun, Moon and the Plantets (also: The Creation of the World).

Technical data: Stage projector, slide

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The Creation of the World
Allein mit viel zu viel, 1993 / 1995
Willhelm Lehmbruck Museum, 1995

Each video projects the same sequence of images telling the same three stories, as seen from the perspective of the three protagonists in Kurosawa's film Rashomon. The three sequences would each be of different lengths if projected at normal speed, but here are projected at an extremely slow projection speed which is nonetheless synchronised in such a way that each sequence takes exactly the same amount of time.

Technical data: 3 videoprojectors, 3 video recorders, 3 video tapes

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Alone with too many
Große Kunstgeschichtsmaschinerie, 1992
Schloss Prestenek. Stein am Kocher, 1993

The work was shown during the exhibition project "Bright Light". The installation was comprising an infinite number of light collages derived from reproductions of 280 paintings: all greatest hits in the history of art. Each carousel contains two identical sets of 40 images.

Technical data: 7 rotating mechanisms, 7 Kodak carousel projectors, 560 slides

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Große Kunstgeschichtsmaschine
Geschichtsbilder
Kloster/ Schloß Corvey, Höxter, 1992

The anamorphotic projection was created for the exhibition project „In vier westfälischen Schlössern. Using illustrations of a manuscript of the epos "Dreizehn Linden", which was published in 1878, I created a pattern for two identical slides.

Technical data: Two stage projectors, two slides

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Geschichtsbilder.Schloß Corvey
Auftritt der verwunderten Schönheit
Schirn-Kunsthalle in Frankfurt / Main, 1992

Anamorphotic light installation in the entrance of the Shirn. As a master for the projection served an illustration of Bellezza, which was exerpted from Cesare Ripas Iconologica (published 1603 in Rome).

Techical data: Stage projector, slide

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Auftritt der verwunderten Schönheit
Kleine Kunstgeschichtsmaschine, 1991
Since 1991 this smoothly revolving slide-projection has flagged art institutions and other public spaces all over the world. Despite the constant speed of rotation, the viewer is enabled to experience the artwork in various ways, depending on his own position in the space.

Techical Data: Rotating mechanism, Stage projector, slide.

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Kleine Kunstgeschichtsmachine, Little Art History Machine, copyright Andreas M. Kaufmann
Trennung von Licht und Finsternis
Museum Bochum, 1991

This intervention is part of the workgroup called the "Michelangelo-Project". An outlined drawing, taken from Michelangelo's Sistine ceiling fresco called "The separation of Light and Darkness" has been projected onto a wall of the museum 24 hours a day. The wall slice, which served as projection screen, starts outside and continues inside of the building as part of an exhibition space.

Technical data: 1 slide-projector, one slide (blank and black)

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Trennung von Licht und Finsternis
Dies Academicus
Westfälische Wilhelms Universität, Münster, 1990.

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Dies Academicus
Der Mensch denkt in Bildern
Exhibition- and Performance-project at the Gallery Sonderegger, Fribourg, 1995

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Raster Images