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Geist
Korpys/Löffler/Schmal
publisher / Korpys/Löffler/Schmal and Künstlerhaus Bremen, Fanny Gonella and Nadja Quante
conception / Korpys/Löffler/Schmal, Fanny Gonella, Kornelia Hoffmann
text / Fanny Gonella, Cecilia Novero, Timotheus Vermeulen
design / Kornelia Hoffmann, kohodesign
print / Druckerei Kettler, Bönen/Westfalen
17,0 x 24,0 cm, 136 pages, 100 images
cloth-bound book,
hardcover, high-quality paper,
Swiss brochure binding,
digital printing
German/English
edition / 200 copies
ISBN 978-3-948628-03-1
nomen nominandum buch, Bremen
35,00 EUR [DE] / 36,00 EUR (AT)
plus shipping costs
For the first time, the artist's book Geist provides an overview of the entire project of the same name by Korpys/Löffler/Schmal. Based on essays by Fanny Gonella (Director FRAC Lorraine, former Artistic Director Künstlerhaus Bremen), by Cecilia Novero (Associate Professor, Languages and Cultures, University of Otago, New Zealand) and by Timotheus Vermeulen (Professor, Media, Culture and Society, University of Oslo, Norway) the project Geist is presented and examined in depth.
In their artistic practice, Korpys/Löffler deal with visible and invisible forms of appearance and expression of state power. In their collaboration with the artist Dieter Schmal, which has been taking place since 2002 in the context of their project Geist, they also devote themselves to (in)visible "ghosts". Milestones of art history become essences for alcoholic distillates. Did they create a new "spirit" with the distillation of the catalog "When Attitudes Become Form" of Harald Szeemann's legendary exhibition of the same name? Or was an old one awakened? With the "spirit" of Joseph Beuys' "Fettecke" they caused a scandal. But the artists also "processed" regional essences from Bremen, such as coffee or herring, up to components of the exhibition architecture.
Bremen-born artists Andree Korpys (*1966) and Markus Löffler (*1963) have been working on joint projects for about 25 years. Their works have been included in group exhibitions at the Berlin Biennale (2016), ZKM Karlsruhe (2015), Kunst-Werke - KW Institute for Contemporary Art Berlin (2015), Kunstverein Karlsruhe (2015), Museum Kunstpalast Düsseldorf (2014), Marta Herford (2013), among others. In 2007, the Vienna Secession dedicated a large-scale solo exhibition to her work. After a guest professorship at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Hamburg (2007-2009), Korpys/Löffler have been professors at the Hochschule für Künste, Bremen since 2009, focusing on "Artistic Space and Body Concepts".