Cartel Urbano 17/oct/2018  Causas

En la última edición del festival de cine comunitario y alternativo Ojo al Sancocho, un taller de arte se centró en problemáticas que afectan a esta localidad, como lo es el de las fronteras invisibles.  A través del performance, la videoinstalación, la actuación y la escultura, la intención fue sembrar una semilla crítica en los participantes.

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parade, workshops, performances, salons, installations, architecture, cooking and exhibtion – initiated by re:form e.v. and bankleer, 27. may – 23 sept. 2018, Eden, Oranienburg

125 years ago, 18 vegetarians in Oranienburg founded the oldest still existing settlement of the life reform movement. They called her Eden: like the Garden of Paradise. more

sculptural performance, Kronprinzenpalais, 3. Herbstsalon of the Maxim Gorki Theater, Berlin, 11 – 26 November 2017

The characters WIR Europa, klein a, double ding and Rosa Luxemburg are talking to themselves, talking to each other or interacting directly with the visitors. They are stammering, shouting, carrying, chanting and chattering more

sculptural performance, karachi biennale 2017, NJV school building, pakistan, 10.22. – 11.05.17 in collaboration with patric catani

From the growl of the Milky Way a meteorite falls on the ground. A fragment from an unknown space in which we are clueless poking – crashes into the urban space of Karachi. more

23. bis 29. MaiCitizen Art Days 2016, in the former Stasi-Zentrale (stasi museum and NUK Ruschestr. 103-104) in Berlin-Lichtenberg

In cooperation with the musician and composer Paul Wolff and residents of the emergency shelter for refugees in the Ruschestraße 103/104, bankleers worked out the songs for the Tohubassbuuh. more

Performance by bankleer. With Mehmet Ateşçi and Mareike Beykirch. Herbstsalon, Maxim Gorki Theater, Berlin, 2015

In the exhibition and during a performative walking tour of the city with their Tohubassbuuh, an oversized mobile megaphone, bankleer bring sounds and texts about fleeing and its reasons to collide with the present. more

performance, workshop and exhibition, rotor, Offener Betrieb, Steirischer Herbst, Graz, 2015

Events come thick and fast. Our physical limits are overcome by the unbridled dynamics of the global market, we can´t even reflect ourselves in relation to the boundless economic growth. Objects and humans leave their familiar places and are put on the move – and today again, thousands of refugees have arrived in Europe. more

meltdown, Performance, bankleer featuring Oshin Sarisa and Friends, Doi Saket Stadium, Thailand, 22. March, 2015

A variety of crises keeps us in suspense: financial crisis, wars, global warming and diseases put us in a diffuse nervous condition with no orientation. Media flood our perceptions with complex, rapidly changing information, which we can not bring into relation with ourselves. A sense of state of emergency is spreading in our present. more

Performance/Installation, 45 min, Spreetreppen am Reichstagsufer, im Rahmen der Ausstellung im Rahmen der Ausstellung The Pioneers Movement, District, Berlin, 2014

The piece Sleepy hollows (2013) locates the body at the center of the problem of understanding the destructive force of financial markets today. more

Performance, Videoletter, nGbK, Berlin 2014

The nGbK has organized an exhibition / event weekend as an appreciation of Allan Sekula´s lifework, with an overview of his films, talks about his works and artistic references.

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Performance and Installation, Herbstsalon, Maxim Gorki Theater, Palais am Festungsgraben, Berlin, 2013

Relating to the past function of the exhibition space as the former residence of the Prussian ministry of finance, the artist duo bankleer questions the role of contemporary financial systems in shaping our lives. more

Edited by bankleer, Karin Kasböck & Christoph Maria Leitner, Texts by Nataša Ilic (WHW), Daniela Stöppel, Diedrich Diederichsen, Stefan Kaegi (Rimini Protokoll), Dietrich Heißenbüttel

bankleer´s works and projects are distinguished by the use of an exceptionally wide range of media and formats and the employment of different formal languages. more

Installation, Video (6.40 min), Pariser Platz, Berlin, 2011

Background of this work is the development of Western democracies toward a consensus policy of the center, with no real confrontation. We share the opinion of Simon Critchley, that anger and outrage offer basically  the chance to open up the space for something new and get exposed to fight for a political majority. more

Installation, Video (14.00 min), Berlin, 2012

Falling stock prices, bank failures and the threat of a recession scenario induce states and governments worldwide to hurry and tie up emergency plans to restore the confidence of the market participants. more

Installation, Performance, Video (6.30 min), Dresden, 2011

The work relates to the paradox of an “upcoming” future that can not be represented in the present, and yet must take place in the here and now. Activist practices are extremely important in this context, to reflect the antagonism and the demand for a radical democracy. more

installation, video, Frankfurter Kunstverein, 2011

The installation headfonds deals with the events in the center of the monetary economic growth – the banking and finance system. The setting is the workplace of a financial trader who participates as a key figure in the mandatory creation of money. more

Video, Outdoor Kino, Usti nad Labem/Aussig, 2011

Twilight Cinema Předlice is a temporary outdoor cinema in Předlice. The neighborhood called Předlice is situated on the outskirts of Ústí nad Labem and almost inhabited by Romas. For the exhibition “The Art of Urban Intervention” two musicvideo clips were originated incollaboration with the community of Předlice.

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Peace and Visibility in an Asymmetrical World, Project of the NGBK, Berlin 2010
Project Group Theater of Peace / curatorial Team: bankleer, Anke Hagemann, Dietrich Heißenbüttel, Gunda Isik

Every day, theaters of war around the world are at the center of media attention. Working for peace on the other hand is unspectacular, slow, and not very appealing. How can a place, an initiative, an artistic work become a theater of peace? more

Installation, Video (11.00 min),  Tiroler Kunstpavillon, Innsbruck

The project is based on the paradox of a future that can not be represented in the present. Especially it is about the unachievable goal of an ideal democracy. more

Videoinstallation, performance at Temporäre Kunsthalle, Deutsche Guggenheim, Contemporary Fine Arts, Hamburger Bahnhof,  nogallery Berlin

“Rabbits in capitalist modernity” refers to Joseph Beuys’ action of 1965 “how do you explain the pictures to a dead hare” (Schmela Gallery, Dusseldorf). more

soundinstallation, trans.ver 68, gallery at ver.di Bundesverwaltung, berlinin collaboration with  the musician Thomas Leboeg more

installation, Invalidenpark, Berlin 2008

Decreasing of unemployment is the result of a booming low wage sector with precarious employment, temporary work or flexible and bad payed employment. more

performance in collaboration with rum 46, aarhus 2008

Together with local activist groups and musicians we performed a BLACKBLOCK as a contribution for the 1. May –Processions in Aarhus. The march was open for everybody and we created an emancipated musical cacophony. more

poster-campaign, rotor, Graz, 2008

One integral part of the long-term project “Land of Human Rights” is a poster campaign. Starting in September 2007, a set of 4 posters will be printed every half a year. The front side of the posters will present works of artists on current human rights issues and on the back side there will be short texts of human rights activists, theorists or people affected by human rights. more

Videoinstallation, Moskau/Samara/Berlin/Dresden 2007

Lena’s ghost is a kind of comprehensive review on post-Communism. A project that questions the remnants of a political-cultural experiment. Lenin, dead for more than 80 years, has caused unrest, revolt and the Red Terror. more

Informations for the Resistance. For all, who cannot be there. For all, whom Mainstream Media doesn’t speak to anymore.G8-TV connects video activist groups and individuals to report on the G8-summit in Heiligendamm. AK Kraak, bankleer, Eisbär Kooperative, freundeskreis videoclips, image-shift, indyvideo Russia, kanalB – ersetzt herkömmliches fernsehen, KiK-Box – Projektgruppe der UdK Berlin, kinoki now!, trojan tv, ÜPD. more

Poster project to mobilize against the G-8 summit in Heiligendamm near Rostock, Germany, June 6-8, 2007
Artists:
Artist Without Walls (IL/Palestine), bankleer (D), open circle (IND), Mansour Ciss (SN), Markus Dorfmüller (D), Petra Gerschner (D), Marina Grzinic (Slo), Oliver Ressler (A), Walter Seidl (A) und Alan Sekula (USA)

The art project HOLY DAMN IT has to be seen as an artistic intervention in the process of a political debate about social alternatives in the international protest and resistance movements against the G-8 summit in Heiligendamm near Rostock in 2007. more

Performance / Aktion on the opening day of Steirischen Herbst, Graz 2006

On the opening day a funeral procession accompanied by a professional brass band is marching through the City of Graz. more

reale reste, videoinstallation, Forum Stadtpark, <rotor>, Steirischer Herbst, Graz 2006

The backdrop to this piece are the living dead, the so-called zombies: When the statistics have reached capacity, the excluded return. more

Aktuelle Kunst aus Europa, öffentlicher Raum Wien 2005/2006

Solidarity Declaration: It is not the task of art to please or to satisfy the interests of the politicians in power. The “rolling board” project brings 75 artists and artist groups from all over Europe to Austria – in order to present their reflections on reality in public space. more

where works ends and mission begins , with Heidi Mühlschlegel, video interviews and performance documentations in a counter-staging of the current illusion machine, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart 2005 + Plattform Berlin 2005 + Les Complices Zürich 2005 + ZKM Karlsruhe 2008

Video interviews and performance documentations in an installative counter design for the current illusion machine – more

video (9.30 min.) +installation, sound Goh Lee Kwang, Wilhelma Zoo, Stuttgart 2004 + oda projesi, Istanbul 2004 + Shedhalle, Zürich 2005 + Bethanien Berlin 2006 + ZKM, Karlsruhe 2008

The background of this piece are the constant calls for flexibilization and deregulation that are made in hopes of reviving the economy. more

The installation was a platform for daily actions during opening hours and shows the protest proliferating from the agency’s office more

rotate! work simulation, performative installation and video (8.10 min.), Kunstbank, Berlin 2003

Video installation with foam and dough sculptures that draws attention to the increasing all-round pressure on the unemployed to return from the margins of the economy into the midst of society, in order to take on jobs that don’t even exist.