Säulen Archive

Franz Ackermann

*1963 in Neumarkt Sankt-Veit, Germanylives in Karlsruhe and Berlin Franz Ackermann studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich and at the Academy of Fine Arts Hamburg. In 1991 he received a DAAD scholarship for a residency in Hong Kong. Since then Ackermann has been creating socalled “Mental Maps”, sketches of immediate experiences and city maps, while travelling and

Georges Adéagbo

* 1942 in Cotonou, Benin lives in Cotonou and Hamburg, Germany Georges Adéagbo describes himself as an African ethnologist, collector and tracker. His assemblages correspond to a non-hierarchical arrangement of things in the juxtaposition of high and low, African and Western culture, kitsch and philosophy. In the juxtaposition of different objects, he refers to the

Academy of Fine Arts Munich

Klasse Rosenkranz Jakob Gilg, Aki Kiefer, Mira Mazumdar, Karolin Nirschl, Paula Pongratz, Moritz Steffel, Milena Wojhan The class of Prof. Pamela Rosenkranz of the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich is a conglomerate of students from different artistic orientations and professional backgrounds. Painting and graphics, performative art, music, photography, design, sculpture and woodwork, political work,

Kwame Akoto-Bamfo

* 1983 in Accra, Ghanalives in Nuhhalenya, Ada, Ghana Kwame Akoto-Bamfo is a Ghanaian multidisciplinary artist and cultural activist who’s work is usually dedicated to promoting and preserving African heritage. Kwame is also known for his work “Nkyinkyiminstalation” which has a section dedicated to the memory of the victims of Transatlantic slave trade on display

Joseph Gallus Rittenberg

* 1948 in Linz an der Donau, Austria lives in Munich, Germany “early passion for churches, nylons, burials, cinema and obscure buildings on water and in the air (babylonian), performances of micro-dramas and plays of doom on swamp, trench and stall stages. compulsory years of varnishing apprenticeship to exorcise the spinous circumstance, studies in salzburg,

Makoto Azuma & Roland Hagenberg

* 1976 in the Fukuoka prefecture, Japan, lives in Tokyo, Japan / * 1955 in Radkersburg,, Austria; lives in Tokyo and Kyoto, Japan Makoto Azuma, born 1976 grew up in Japan. In 2002, he opened his first haute-couture floral shop “Jardins des Fleurs” in Tokyo’s Ginza district together with Shunsuke Shiinoki. Three years later he started

Johann Glas / Matthias Glas

* 1950 in Polling, Germany / * 1986 in Weilheim in OB, Germany; live in Polling Johann Glas was born in Polling in 1950. With the transition of the family business to heating and sanitation in 1977, he broke with nine generations of blacksmith tradition. The preservation of the material from the Polling smithy for

Markus Oehlen

* 1956 in Krefeld, Germany lives in Munich Markus Oehlen studied under Professor Alfonso Hüppi at the Düsseldorf Academy from 1976 to 1983. From 1976 to 1979 he was a DJ in Düsseldorf’s Ratinger Hof, and he played drums for the band Mittagspause, which he also cofounded. He has lectured as a professor at the

Monica Bonvicini

* 1965 in Venice, Italy; lives in Berlin Monica Bonvicini studied at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Berlin and the California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA. In 2003, she assumed the professorship of Performative Arts and Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, before she was appointed Professor of Sculpture at the Universität

Nathan Randall Green

* 1980 in Houston, Texas, USA; lives in New York Nathan Randall Green’s colorful paintings and murals often explore scientific and cosmological ideas while examining the formal and structural qualities of abstract painting within its rich history. Utilizing line, form, color and texture, Nathan creates deep, painterly landscapes of graphic information that speak to the way

Ma Qiusha

* 1982 in Beijing, China; lives in Beijing Ma Qiusha received her BA in Digital Media Art from China Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2005 and MFA in Electronic Integrated Arts from Alfred University, New York in 2008. She currently lives and works in Beijing. Her solo exhibitions were held at Middlesbrough Institute of

Mary Evans

* 1963 in Lagos, Nigeria; lebt in London, UK Mary Evans studied at Goldsmiths College, London, and the Rijksakademie, Amsterdam. Evans has taken part in several exhibitions in the UK and Internationally including selected solo and group exhibitions: 5 Continents and 1 City, Museum of Mexico City, Mexico City, Mexico, 2000; A Fiction of Authenticity: Contemporary