Neue Blicke auf die älteste Reformsiedlung Deutschlands, bankleer, Dietrich Heißenbüttel and re:form.e.V. jovis Verlag, Berlin, 2019

The Berlin founders of the Eden cooperative housing estate reacted to the ecological and social challenges of industrialization with a counter model: living close to nature near the city, enabled through cooperative land ownership. The housing estate became a role model for the German garden city movement and a paradigm for an early alternative culture, until National Socialism, the GDR and the trust-led post-reunification period increasingly restricted its freedom. more

Lecture and workshop in context of Positionen & Diskurse: Ver/ öffentlich/ en: Publizieren und Öffentlichwerden als ästhetisch-politische Praxis organized by Sønke Gau and Basil Rogger, Züricher Hoschschule der Künste 2019

The event series «Positionen und Diskurse in Kultur und Gesellschaft» would like to publicize and reflect on the act of making public with guests from theory and practice. more

publication, 302 p, Maxim Gorki Theater, 2018

Documentation of the Herbstsalons organized by the Maxim Gorki Theater thathave taken place in 2013-2015 and 2017, at changing locations in the historically charged urban area around the Gorki Theater. more

Catalog presentation, Kunstraum Munich, April 24, 2017, 7 p.m.

The Berlin artist group bankleer presents its current catalog, a documentation about their project Die Irrenden. Europäische Defigurationen, that took place at Max-Joseph-Platz last summer in Munich. With sounds (Patrik Catani) and recitations of Die Irrenden. Europäische Defigurationen as well as inserts of Bachtin, Rabelais and the political artist as Pantagruel (with a performance by Olaf Becker and an introduction by Daniela Stöppel). more

Since the fall of the Wall, Berlin has become a mecca for exceptional artists who have innovative approaches. Today, both up-and-coming and established artists have made Berlin their place of residence. 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

where work ends and mission begins, german/english, book,
ISBN 3-937158-01-4

The publication shows artistic experiments bankleer has initiated since 2001 in Berlin, Stuttgart, Istanbul and Bombay to encourage the expansion and reevaluation of the concept of work. more