[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=""]A Sculptural Situation at the Sovjet Memorial in Dresden /// eine Skulpturale Situation am Denkmal der Roten Armee in Dresden On 20 September 2025, one day before World Peace Day, I invited people to a sculptural situation at the Red Army Memorial on Olbrichtplatz in Dresden. After an introductory speech by Annekatrin Klepsch (Mayor for Culture,...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=""] SIEG liquide & Europas Hemd ep. 3 a ritual in the city center of Siegen On August 22, 2025, I performed the ritual “SIEG liquide & Europas Hemd” (SIEG liquide & Europe's Shirt) in downtown Siegen with French-Congolese performer Eric Androa Mindre Kolo. I declared the water of the Sieg River to be SIEG liquide. We...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=""] La Chemise de l‘Europe / Europas Hemd / Europe‘s shirt performative costume & photographed actions in Strasbourg Europe‘s shirt is a white unisex business shirt from which a large white flag emerges at the level of the heart. The connection point is sewn with red thread in an eye-catching and sturdy manner and refers to the...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1704982003769{margin-bottom: 50px !important;padding-bottom: 50px !important;}"]"Svea Duwe has marked the rooms of the gallery as a zone by sticking the word in different letter sizes on the shop windows of this exhibition and meeting place. Where Zone is displayed, does it also contain Zone? Or are we made aware of what is outside when we...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1711008371154{margin-bottom: 50px !important;padding-bottom: 50px !important;}"]Usually two, sometimes more stems of this dried bouquet are connected to each other by transparent PVC tubes. This creates a closed system on which the bouquet stands as if in a vase. The bouquet has been sprayed with Jil Sander SUN perfume and exudes a human, very feminine and...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] „Nur wer die Vergangenheit kennt, kann die Gegenwart verstehen und die Zukunft gestalten“. (August Bebel) Das Sowjetische Ehrenmal am Olbrichtplatz in Dresden ist zunehmend baufällig und muss in naher Zukunft restauriert werden. Die tatsächliche Baufälligkeit dieser Konstruktion verstehe ich zugleich als ein treffliches Sinnbild für seine inhaltliche Widersprüchlichkeit und geschichtliche Komplexität. Nicht nur die materielle Konstruktion...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] HOLDING LIFE Sculptural Movement with heartbeats on 8 May 2023 at the Soviet Memorial in Dresden 4 Performers enter the square as a group. They carry loudspeakers from which loud heartbeats sound. They place themselves on the four blocks of the podium at the base of the Soviet Memorial, which point in several directions. They stand still like...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Space concept on activism, art and science by Svea Duwe in cooperation with Nilsson Samuelsson. Since 2021, Nilsson Samuelsson has been arranging monumental 1.5° warning signs with 84 white shelves in the public space of Dresden in spring and autumn, as part of the Global Climate Strikes. This principle has additionally been borrowed by various climate...
