2023 | bankleer

works / 2023

Film + work in progress

Following their shutdown, the Isar I and II nuclear power plants are important landmarks and architectural witnesses to a belief in progress whose initial euphoria has come to an end. Along this architectural legacy of the nuclear age, we question the looming future. more

works / 2023

tfnukuZ_nuklearer Sonderzug

Following their shutdown, the Isar I and II nuclear power plants are important landmarks and architectural witnesses to a belief in progress whose initial euphoria has come to an end. Along this architectural legacy of the nuclear age, we question the approaching future. more

lectures / 2023

NeinSein – aesthetic speculations on the idea of an ecological class

An ideological and aesthetic expansion of our perception is urgently needed to overcome our paralysis in the face of the overlapping and condensing moments of crisis. In their memorandum Zur Entstehung einer ökologischen Klasse (Suhrkamp 2022), Bruno Latour and Nikolaj Schultz describe a kind of geosocial collective that forms a new antagonism in a variety of places in a multi-layered and networked way.

Out of the dense fog that surrounds us, we want to use aesthetic speculation to hint at and highlight their idea of an ecological class. more

lectures / 2023

Workshop on Activism & Artistic

for MAPS (MasterPhotographyandSociety) at KABK (Hogeschool der Kunsten Den Haag) in May 2023

A workshop with the artist collective bankleer at the MAPS studio, to gain insight into the world of activist art. In this workshop you will learn different techniques of how to engage with a specific audience with a focus on public spaces. bankleer is renowned artist collective known for their innovative and impactful activist art interventions in public spaces and will share their tools and techniques by explaining different projects. Examples will include long term projects as well as small projects. Students are asked to bring their own ideas or concepts of how you want to engage with your project to an audience to the table and share with the group. If possible, please come prepared with photos or sketches of your project ideas.