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Gregor Kasper (* 1986) wurde in der DDR geboren und wuchs während der post-sozialistischen Transformationsprozesse in Ostdeutschland auf. Sich unterschiedlicher Medien wie Film/Video, Sound und Installation bedienend, oft in kollaborativen und partizipativen Konstellationen, beschäftigt er sich in seiner künstlerischen Praxis vorrangig mit Erinnerungspraktiken und Geschichtsaufarbeitungen, gesellschaftlichen Gegenwartsanalysen im Kontext des globalen Kapitalismus sowie emanzipatorischen Zukünften. Dabei geht er den Wechselverhältnissen zwischen persönlichen Zugängen und gesellschaftlichen gegen/hegemonialen Narrativen und Machtverhältnissen nach. Seine Arbeiten werden national und international auf Ausstellungen, Screenings und Filmfestivals präsentiert, etwa: Berlinale - Internationales Filmfestival – Forum Expanded; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Locarno Filmfestival; RAVY Biennal, Yaoundé; SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin; Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden; Times Art Center, Berlin; Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei; Ostrale Biennale, Dresden; Image Forum Festival, Tokyo. Er lebt und arbeitet in Dresden und Berlin.
Gregor Kasper (b. 1986) was born in East Germany and grew up there within the post-communist transformation processes after the Cold War. Using a variety of media such as film / video, sound and installation, often in collaborative and participatory constellations, his artistic practice focuses on the construction and mediation of history and remembrance, social contemporary analyses in the context of global capitalism, and emancipatory futures, pursuing the interrelations between personal approaches and social counter/hegemonic narratives and power relations. His works are presented internationally in exhibitions, screenings and film festivals, such as Berlinale - International Film Festival – Forum Expanded; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Locarno Film Festival; RAVY Biennal, Yaoundé; SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin; State Art Collection, Dresden; Times Art Center, Berlin; Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei; Ostrale Biennale, Dresden; Image Forum Festival, Tokyo. He is now living and working in Dresden and Berlin, Germany.
Ausbildung Education
| 2014 - 2018 | Kunst im Kontext (Master), Universität der Künste, Berlin Art in Context (MFA), University of the Arts, Berlin, Germany |
| 2009 - 2014 | Malerei (Diplom), weißensee kunsthochschule, Berlin Painting (diploma), weißensee academy of art, Berlin, Germany |
Stipendien, Preise Scholarships, Awards
| 2023 | Reisestipendium, Berliner Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Europa
Travel stipend, Berlin’s Senate Department for Culture and Europe |
| 2022 | NEUSTART KULTUR Stipendium für bildende Künstler*innen, Stiftung Kunstfonds
RE-START CULTURE Stipend for artists, Stiftung Kunstfonds |
| 2020 | NEUSTART KULTUR Stipendium für bildende Künstler*innen mit Kindern unter 7 Jahren, Stiftung Kunstfonds
RE-START CULTURE Stipend for artists with children under 7 years, Stiftung Kunstfonds |
| 2019 | Arbeitsstipendium, Riesa Efau / Motorenhalle, Dresden Project Stipend, Riesa Efau / Motorenhalle, Dresden |
| Recherchestipendium Bildende Kunst, Berliner Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Europa Research Stipend in Fine Art, Berlin’s Senate Department for Culture and Europe | |
| 2018 | Auszeichnung: Besondere Erwähnung - 3. Spain Moving Images Festival, Madrid Award: Honorable Mention - 3rd Spain Moving Images Festival, Madrid |
| 2014 | Mart Stam Preis Mart Stam Prize |
Projektförderungen Project Grants
| 2023 | Präsentationen zeitgenössischer Bildender Kunst, Berliner Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Europa Presentations of contemporary visual art, Berlin’s Senate Department for Culture and Europe |
| Ausstellungsförderung, ifa (Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen) Exhibition Funding, ifa (Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen) | |
| 2022 | Künstlerprojekt-Zuschuss, Stiftung Kunstfonds Artist Project Grant, Stiftung Kunstfonds |
| 2021 | ADAM 2021: Rehearsing (for) the Future, Taipei Performing Arts Center |
| Modul C: Innovative Kunstprojekte (NEUSTART KULTUR), BBK Module C: Innovative Art Projects (RE-START CULTURE), BBK | |
| 2020 | Künstlerkontakte, ifa (Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen) Artists‘ Contacts, ifa (Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen) |
Ausstellungsbeteiligungen (Auswahl) Group Exhibitions (Selection)
| 2023 | "The Oceans and the Interpreters", CCA + Yaba Art Museum / MAD House, Lagos, Nigeria |
| "Structural Stowaway", Basis, Frankfurt/Main, Germany | |
| "Wantalon - Schatten", Kunst Fest Zeitz, Zeitz, Germany | |
| "Kontrapunkte: Focus China", ON SCREEN / voices - Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Dresden, Germany | |
| "8th RAVY Biennale", Yaoundé, Cameroon | |
| 2022 | "The Oceans and the Interpreters", Hong-Gah Museum, Taipei, Taiwan |
| "JUBILEE X", HAUNT, Berlin, Germany | |
| "The Intimate Revolt", Goethe-Institut, Beijing, China | |
| "Messages", Projektraum Galerie M, Berlin, Germany | |
| 2021 | "The Currency Lab", WoeLabs (Prime), Lomé, Togo |
| 2020 | "PostColonialPostFreakPostCardShow", Deutsches Eck, Koblenz & Maschsee, Hannover, Germany |
| "Readings From Below", Times Art Center, Berlin, Germany | |
| "Chine Afrique", Centre Pompidou, Paris, France | |
| 2019 | "Utopien - Besetzung, Belegung, Bespielung", Motorenhalle, Dresden, Germany |
| "Wirklichkeit !", Psychosoziale Initiative Moabit e.V. @ "Ortstermin 19 - Fata Morgana", Berlin, Germany | |
| "Art for humanism", Lipsiusbau, Dresden, Germany | |
| "ismus - 12. Ostrale Biennale O'19", Dresden, Germany | |
| “Kunstraum Berlin“, Residenz Deutsche Botschaft, Beijing, China | |
| "#WOD", #WOD-Bus on Tour, Dresden, Germany | |
| 2018 | "Trans-Justice: Para-Colonial@Technology", Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, Taiwan |
| "New Directions - Musquiqui Chihying: I'll Be Back", Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA), Beijing, China | |
| "A Mechanism Capable of Changing Itself", 68. Berlinale, 13. Forum Expanded, Akademie der Künste (Academy of Arts), Berlin, Germany | |
| 2017 | "Datscha Radio 17: Plots and Prophecies - Parzellenprognosen", Berlin, Germany |
| 2016 | "On Timing and Duration", Universität der Künste (University of the Arts), Berlin, Germany |
| 2015 | "State of Mind", Projektraum im Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin, Germany |
| "KONTEXT LABOR BERNAU", Heeresbekleidungsamt, Bernau bei Berlin, Germany | |
| "Sinnlichkeit", ehemalige Justizvollzugsanstalt, Magdeburg, Germany | |
| "Seeing As Hearing", Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler – Marstall, Berlin, Germany | |
| 2014 | "Unerhörte Räume", Kunsthalle am Hamburger Platz, Berlin, Germany |
| "REIF", Kühlhaus, Berlin, Germany | |
| "I < 3 Kunst", Kunsthalle am Hamburger Platz, Berlin, Germany | |
| "Anonyme Zeichner. Based In Berlin", Pavillon Am Milchhof, Berlin, Germany | |
| "Kopier mir die Sonne", Akademisches Kunstmuseum, Bonn, Germany | |
| 2013 | "Aufzeichnungen", Kulturfabrik, Hoyerswerda, Berlin, Germany |
| "Anonyme Zeichner", Kunstverein Tiergarten – Galerie Nord, Berlin, Germany / Galerie Delikatessenhaus, Leipzig, Germany / Temporary Art Centre, Eindhoven, Netherlands |
Filmfestivals & Institutionelle Filmvorführungen (Auswahl) Film Festivals & Institutional Screenings (Selection)
| 2024 | "4th CineFest - Festival de Cinema ao Ar Livre em Viana", Luanda, Angola |
| "8th Festival International du Film du Togo", Lomé, Togo | |
| "30th Film Festival della Lessinia", Bosco Chiesanuova, Italy | |
| "16th Psarokokalo International Short Film Festival", Psarokokalo, Greece | |
| "Gbegbetopia", Archive Books, SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin, Germany | |
| "21st Vienna Shorts", Vienna, Austria | |
| "11th Riga Pasaules Film Festival", Riga, Latvia | |
| "36th Filmfest Dresden", Dresden, Germany | |
| 2023 | "40th Kassel Dokfest", Kassel, Germany |
| "65th ZINEBI - International Festival of Documentary and Short Film", Bilbao, Spain | |
| "15th DMZ Docs - International Documentary Film Festival", Goyang City / Paju City, South Korea | |
| "76 Locarno Film Festival", Pardi di domani: Concorso internazionale, Locarno, Suisse | |
| 2022 | "Black, A Film Festival", C-LAB - Taiwan Sound Lab, Taipei, Taiwan |
| 2021 | "Equi-vocal", AFSAR (Asian Feminist Studio for Art and Research), Berlin, Germany |
| "Citizens in the Shade, Aliens in the Sun: Trade",Vernàcular Institute, Mexico City, Mexico | |
| "Topia Festival", Frontviews, Berlin, Germany | |
| "Territories under my skin", Changing Room, Berlin, Germany & Goethe-Institut, Windhoek, Namibia | |
| 2020 | "17th Kurzsuechtig Short Film Festival", Leipzig, Germany |
| "Black Light", Arsenal - Institut für Film und Videokunst, Berlin, Germany | |
| Asia Art Center, Shanghai, China | |
| 2019 | "Burden of Memory: Considering German Colonial History in Africa", Goethe-Institut / Sita Bella, Yaoundé, Cameroon |
| UNSW Art & Design (University of New South Wales), Sydney, Australia | |
| "33rd Image Forum Festival", Tokyo, Japan | |
| "Spinning Triangles: Ignition of School of Design", SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin, Germany | |
| "3rd International Safe Community Short Film Festival", Mashhad, Iran | |
| "7th BioBio Cine", Concepción, Chile | |
| "6th CineKasimanwa: The Western Visayas Film Festival", Iloilo City, Philippines | |
| "1st Diorama International Film Festival", New Dehli, India | |
| 2018 | "3rd Busan Art Film Festival", Busan, South Korea |
| "33rd Entrevues Belfort International Film Festival", Belfort, France | |
| "18th Short Film Days Flensburg", Flensburg, Germany | |
| "3rd Salto Independent Film Festival", Salto, Uruguay | |
| "3rd Spain Moving Images Festival", Madrid, Spain (Award: Honorable Mention) | "8th iRep Filmfestival", Lagos, Nigeria |
| "68th Berlinale", 13th Forum Expanded, Berlin, Germany |
Präsentationen, Gespräche, Workshops, Performances Presentations, Conversations, Workshops, Performances
| 2024 | "Gbegbetopia", Archive Books, SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin, Germany | "Something Better Change: Film & Activism", Talking Shorts @ 21st Vienna Shorts, Vienna, Austria >> |
| 2023 | "What About Skin Tones? Opening the Black Box of Lighting", Interfilm Festival, Berlin, Germany >> |
| "openART", DA Kunsthaus Kloster Gravenhorst, Hörstel, Germany | |
| "Exit Happyland", Filmfest Dresden / Hole of Fame, Dresden, Germany >> | |
| 2022 | "Activités de pré-configuration de la Maison Gbégbé", Maison Gbégbé, Agouegan, Togo >> |
| 2021 | "ADAM 2021 Rehearsing (for) the Future", Taipei Performing Arts Center, Taipei, Taiwan >> | "THEY:LIVE", Universität der Künste - Institut für Kunst im Kontext (University of the Arts - Institute for Art in Context), Berlin, Germany >> | "AFSAR (Asian Feminist Studio for Art and Research) - Archiving Talk", Brücke Museum, Berlin, Germany >> |
| UCL, University of London, London, UK | |
| 2020 | "The Currency - LP Launch Event", Times Art Center, Berlin, Germany >> |
| 2019 | UCL, University of London - IAS Forum, London, UK |
| Universität der Künste - Medienhaus (University of the Arts - media house), Berlin, Germany | |
| École des Beaux-arts (School of Fine Arts), Paris, France | |
| 2018 | Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität (University of Münster), Münster, Germany |
| 2017 | Iwalewahaus, Universität (University of Bayreuth), Bayreuth, Germany |
Kuration Curatorial
| 2021 | The Currency Lab, WoeLabs (Prime), Lomé, Togo >> |
Veröffentlichungen - monographisch Publications - monographic
| The Currency – EP (with Elom 20ce & Musquiqui Chihying) (Berlin, Sternberg Press, 2020) >> |
| scrapped, left behind, underway, completed works 2010 -2015 // verworfene, liegengebliebene, im Werden befindliche, fertiggestellte Arbeiten 2010 - 2015 (Berlin, 2015) |
| Wozu noch Kunst? (Hoyerswerda, 2014) |
Veröffentlichungen - Beiträge Publications - Contributions
| "Painting Maison Gbegbe" (with Musquiqui Chihying) In: GBEGBETOPIA — MAISON GBEGBE: An Art-Based Community And Spiritual Center, Archive Books, Berlin, 2024 >> |
| "Soundcheck" (with Rosanna Lovell) In: Gefährdete Demokratie?! Drei künstlerische Ausrufezeichen, Bettina-von-Arnim Schule Berlin & Kulturagenten für kreative Schulen Berlin, 2021 >> PDF |
| "Decolonial Love" (with Abdel Amine Mohammed & Musquiqui Chihying) In: Decapitated Economies (intercalations 5), K. Verlag & HKW, Berlin, 2021 >> K. Verlag >> HKW (PDF) |
| "Café Togo. Wenn aktivistische und künstlerische Praxis sich im Film begegnen" (with Musquiqui Chihying) In: IZ3W - °376, 2020 >> PDF |
| "Die Menschen machen den Sound. Vom Zuhören und Hörbarmachen von Grenzen" (with Rosanna Lovell) In: What Does It Take To Cross A Border? Education Lab, ifa-Galerie, Berlin, 2019 |
Veröffentlichungen - Kataloge (Auswahl) Publications - Catalogues (Selection)
| 40th Kassel Dokfest (Kassel, 2023) |
| Structural Stowaway (Frankfurt/Main, 2023) |
| 76 Locarno Film Festival (Locarno, 2023) |
| The Currency Lab (woelabs, Lomé, 2021) |
| PostColonialPostFreakPostCardShow (Hannover, 2020) >> |
| Readings From Below (Times Art Center, Berlin, 2020) >> |
| Utopien - Besetzung, Belegung, Bespielung (riesa efau / Motorenhalle, Dresden, 2019) |
| The Burden of Memory – Considering German Colonial History in Africa (Goethe Institut, Yaounde, 2019) |
| Image Forum (Tokio, 2019) |
| ismus – 12. Ostrale Biennale (Dresden, 2019) |
| What Does It Take To Cross A Border? Education Lab (ifa Gallery, Berlin, 2019) |
| German Colonial Heritage in Africa - Artistic and Cultural Perspectives (Goethe Institut, Yaounde, 2019) >> |
| 33rd Entrevues Belfort International Film Festival (Belfort, 2018) |
| Masterarbeiten im postgradualen Studiengang „Art in Context“ 2017/2018 (UdK Berlin, 2018) |
| 8th iRep Film Festival (Lagos, 2018) |
| 68th Berlinale, 13th Forum Expanded, (Berlin, 2018) |
| Datscha Radio 17: Plots and Prophecies - Parzellenprognosen (Berlin, 2017) >> |
| State of Mind (weißensee kunsthochschule, Berlin, 2015) |
| I < 3 Kunst & 7 auf einen Streich (Kunsthalle am Hamburger Platz, Berlin, 2014) |
| Displace. A Migrating Art Academies Compendium of Ideas (Academy of Arts, Vilnius, 2014) |
| Kopier mir die Sonne (Akademisches Kunstmuseum, Bonn, 2014) |
Besprechungen & Interviews Reviews & Interviews
| "Art Express - The Ocean And The Interpreters" (TVC Lagos, 11/2023) >> |
| "ZINEBI65 - Gregor Kasper. The Currency – Sensing 1 Agbogbloshie" (ZINEBI, 11/2023) >> |
| "Alternative Histories and Translocal Echoes" (voices - Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, 10/2023) >> EN >> DE |
| "Locarno review: The Currency – Sensing #1 Agbogbloshie" (ubiquarian, 08/2023) >> |
| "Recognizing the Roots: Notes on Cameroon’s 2023 RAVY Visual Art Festival" (Artouch, 07/2023) >> |
| "Das ist unsere Geschichte - Neue Stimmen zum Reiterdenkmal des »Großen Kurfürsten«" (Sans, Souci., 01/2023) >> |
| "Journal" (TVT - TV Togolaise, 05/2021) >> |
| "L'Bala" (TVT - TV Togolaise, 05/2021) >> |
| "Was will uns diese Chipstüte sagen?" (Tagesspiegel, 09/2020) >> |
| "The Currency" (CoLaboRadio, 09/2020) >> |
| "The unmastered past" (Violence Elsewhere, 11/2019) >> |
| "Café Togo" (Le Blog Entrevues, 11/2018) >> |
| "Archiving Africa's Teutonic Remnants" (The iRep Report, 03/2018) |
| "Reviewing Berlinale" (BBC - Africa, 02/2018) |
| "Auf den Spuren des Kolonialismus" (Deutschlandfunk Kultur, 02/2018) >> |
| "Forum-culture Missahoe" (TV7 - Togo, 12/2016) |
| "Steine mit Geschichte" (MOZ, 07/2015) >> |
| "Kunst einmal anders wahrnehmen" (LR, 07/2014) >> |
| "Ein Abend der Hoffnung auf mehr" (LR, 09/2013) >> |
Lehrerfahrung Teaching Experience
| 2022 | Workshop @ Fachbereich Germanistik der Fakultät für Geisteswissenschaften Sprachen und Künste, Universität von Lomé, Lomé, Togo
Workshop @ German Department of the Faculty of Arts and Languages, University of Lomé, Lomé, Togo |
| 2021 - 2022 | Lehrauftrag @ Fachklasse Zeitbezogene Medien und Performance von Prof. Mathilde ter Heijne, Universität der Künste, Berlin
Lectureship @ Performance & Time Based Media Class of Prof. Mathilde ter Heijne, University of the Arts, Berlin, Germany |
| 2013 - 2014 | Lehrauftrag @ Künstlerische Grundlagen, weißensee kunsthochschule, Berlin Lectureship @ Art + Design Foundation, weißensee academy of art, Berlin, Germany |