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works / 2024

Stauung im Steinbruch, within the framework of Mitkunstzentrale, Enthüllt/Zitadelle Spandau

For the work Stauung im Steinbruch, we enter into the midst of the problematic group of figures from German history who now, in their second life, collectively inhabit the provisions magazine of the citadel. Despite their missing noses, severed heads and lost limbs, their problematic and sometimes threatening memories make them energetic mediators and persistent transmitters of memories, forgotten history and time gaps. Removing them from the urban heritage and placing them under museum observation is an understandable precautionary measure. Observed objects simply behave better.  more

works / 2022

Eppur si muove – and yet it moves! Japanischer Palais/Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden

The 2020/21 and 2021/22 Villa Massimo Rome Prize winners will be showing the works they created in Rome at the Japanisches Palais. International artists from the fields of visual arts, architecture, literature and music will transform the Japanisches Palais into a place to reflect on our own time and the question of how the world will change.

The title picks up on the comment of the physicist Galileo Galilei, who had to renounce his discovery before the Pope in Rome that we as earthlings are not the center of the universe. In addition to paintings, drawings, photos, videos and installations in the exhibition tour, concerts, artistic performances and readings will contribute to the program. more

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works / 2020

Aufgescheuchte Gegenwart, performance and work in progress, Villa Massimo, Rome

Bankleer add a human prosthesis to the actually empty core of a thing, which splits the thing through its human energy and can no longer be brought into harmony with itself. The thing becomes an ecstatic object that cannot return to the calm of the material world, but stands out from it as something alien and incomprehensible.

In the coming months, they will engage with Rome and its massive historical deposits in the form of architecture, sculptures and public spaces in order to bring them into dialog with the present through ‘new reflections’ of past spaces.

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works / 2020

hoch und tief, grad und schief

Competition, Ministry for Family Affairs, Mauerstr.27, Berlin

“… weil die Menschen von Natur her nicht gleich sind und daher einer von Menschen errichteten Einrichtung bedürfen, der Polis um Kraft des Gesetzes einander ebenbürtig zu werden. Gleichheit existierte nur in diesem spezifisch politischen Bereich wo die Einwohner der Polis als Bürger und nicht als Privatpersonen zusammenkamen.“ (Hannah Arendt, About Revolution, Munich, Piper 1974 p. 36) more

performances / works / 2019

umwölkte utopie II

Installation as part of ALPHABET DES ANARCHISTISCHES AMATEURS, Steirischer Herbst, <rotor>, Graz, 2019

M for people: “Future inmates of coffins who can walk around for a while and do all sorts of jokes.” That is one of hundreds of definitions from the alphabet of the anarchist amateurs. Published in 2007 by the Grazian Germanist Beatrix Müller-Kampel, the volume collects “Aphorisms, Sentences and Reflections” from Herbert Müller-Guttenbrunn. From 1923 to 1929 he lived in Thoneben in the municipality of Semriach, north of Graz. His periodical publication Das Nebelhorn was published for the first time in these years. The exhibition connects his writings with the works of contemporary artists. It provides impulses for dealing with anarchism, which “wants to create a suitable social framework for the greatest possible individual freedom on the basis of radical democratic principles”, while at the same time “achieving the greatest possible equality and justice”, as can be read from the writer Ilija Trojanow.

At a time when nationalist narrowing and totalitarian tendencies are on the move again, this is more topical than ever.

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works / 2007

holy damn it!, 2007

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

works / 2007

lenas gespenster, part I, 2007

Installation, Performance “Was tun?”, Video (35 min), Moskau / Samara, 2007
Lenas ghosts is an evaluation of the post-communist condition. This project questions the aftermath of that political and cultural vision. The Soviet Unions founding father, deceased 80 years ago, conjures a time of turmoil, revolt, and the Red Terror. Lenin’s ghost haunts not only the museum which bears his name in Volgograd, but also our consciousness. Today what is left of the social utopia where community spirit and the integrity of individuals supposedly reigned? What of the critique of capitalism? Does anyone still believe in Heaven on Earth? more

performances / works / 2002

fit for flexploitation

fit for flexploitation, performative installation and video (19 min.), Aktionsgalerie Lothringer 13, Munich 2002

fit for flexploitation addresses the alliance between business and fitness. Darwinist values, forms of training, terrorizing business lingo, and sports are linked up with a trainingcamp on the edge of an anti-globalisation summit. bankleer condenses and gives new meaning to fitness programs used by super-managers for career optimization purposes. more