Visiting Artists and Curators 2007

Deutschbauer/Spring: Julius Deutschbauer, founder and head librarian of the "Library of Unread Books", and Gerhard Spring both live and work as artists in Vienna. Their most recent exhibition and event projects include "Entsetzliche Malerei" ("Dreadful Paintings") at the Galerie Steinek, Vienna, "Urlaubs- und Abenteuerreisen von Linz bis Liverpool" ("Vacation and Adventure Trips from Linz to Liverpool") at the Galerie Halle, Linz, and "Die zwei Räuber" ("The Two Robbers"), Schillertage 2003, Mannheim, Germany. Their subversively humorous work has taken place inside and outside the established venues, e.g. at Kunsthalle Vienna, Sigmund Freud Museum Vienna, Shedhalle Zürich, but they also gave numerous fictitious openings of real world events, e.g. the Venice Biennale and the Salzburg Summer Music Festival. Julius' most recent book publication is: "Political for Artists. A Study Course on How To Become a Successful Political Artist." (Triton, 2003).

Stefan Keller was born in Bern in 1971 and is based in Zurich. He was artist-in-residence at PS1 New York. He participated in exhibits at the Palais des Beaux-Arts Brussels, Kunsthalle Zürich, Ludwig Museum - Museum of Contemporary Art - Budapest, amongst many others. Sylvia Rüttimann from Kunsthaus Uri: "San Keller makes contact with his surroundings; in doing so, he takes account of the finely woven contextual waves that we normally take for granted. (...)Surrender, with a certain active approach and inquisitive observation, to San Keller's experiments – as he does himself, in a way that is at once active and passive (when, for example, he talks to motorbike riders and allows himself to be carried away). (...) By questioning the unwritten laws and power relationships, not just between individuals but also between institutions; and, last but not least, by thinking about San Keller himself and about how he deals with us as an artist. Or how we deal with him."

Natalie Bewernitz and Marek Goldowski are New Media artists, based in Cologne, Germany. They are working with sound and video as installation and performance. Their special interests are working on interdisciplinary projects with focus on multichannel sound and video, as well as in basic high quality production techniques as base material.>>website.