My latest film IDLE will be part of the Visions 2020 video showcase at The Nunnery in London.
Visions is Bow Arts’ renowned biennial exhibition of moving image, digital and performance art, and this year presents work from 15 countries selected from a worldwide open call. Lead artistsHetain Patel, Nye Thompson and Benedict Drew will all show new films, the themes of which guide the curation of the show’s three programmes.
Visions in the Nunnery 2020 Nye Thompson’s Programme 2: 20 Oct – 15 Nov (launch evening of 22 Oct) Nunnery Gallery 181 Bow Road, London E3 2SJ
Stefan Hurtig: Ava, Tom & Serena, Installation, 2019
Die vom Industriekultur Leipzig e.V. initiierte Ausstellung ist ein lokalspezifischer Beitrag zum »Sächsischen Jahr zur Industriekultur« 2020. Die Ausstellung konzentriert sich auf die zentrale Frage nach den Auswirkungen technischen Fortschritts auf den Menschen seit Beginn der industriellen Revolution.
Anhand von rund 50 ausgewählten Kunstwerken aus dem Bestand des MdbK sowie Leihgaben zeitgenössischer Künstlerinnen und Künstler, vorzugsweise der Region Sachsen, soll die Aufmerksamkeit auf das jeweilige Verhältnis des Menschen zur Technik sowie zu sich selbst, innerhalb dieser industriell geprägten Umwälzungen, gelenkt werden. Die Idee ist es der Bildenden Kunst eine Katalysatorfunktion zuzusprechen, indem sie mehrere Fassetten der industriellen Revolutionen offenbart. Dabei changieren die Werke von heroischen Darstellungen bis hin zur komplexen Kapitalismuskritik.
Künstler*innen: Ines Bruhn, Christiane Budig, Wolfram Ebersbach, Günter Firit, Philipp Fritsche, Claudia Hauptmann, Hubert von Herkomer, Günter Horlbeck, Stefan Hurtig, Rainer Jacob, Joachim Jansong, Jannine Koch, Martin Kretschmar, Rudolf Küchler, Adolf Lehnert, Marie-Eve Levasseur, Helmuth Macke, Olaf Martens, Ismael Mengs, Adolf von Menzel, Jana Mertens, Constantin Meunier, Gerhard Kurt Müller, Fritz Nolde, Ulf Puder, Valeria Schneider, Frank Schult, Max Schwimmer, Willi Sitte, Günter Thiele, Alexander Voigt, Elisabeth Voigt, Jana Voigtmann, Hannes Waldschütz, Norbert Wagenbrett Kuratiert von Barbara Röhner
Stefan Hurtig: #1 (You can make money without doing evil), installation, 2017
Two works – the video HYPER and the installation #1, #2, #3 – will be presented in the exhibition V für Verantwortung (V for Responsibility) at Kunstverein Wolfsburg.
Exhibiting artists: Banz & Bowinkel, Katrin Hornek, Stefan Hurtig, Pinar Yoldas
V für Verantwortung 22 Nov, 2019 – 2 Feb, 2020 Opening: Thursday, 21 Nov, 2019 Kunstverein Wolfsburg
The video installation AE/MAETH is part of the AI. More than Human exhibition, which was produced by the Barbican Centre London (16 May – 26 Aug 2019). The show is soon touring to: – Groninger Forum, Groningen, Netherlands, 6 Dec 2019 – 6 May 2020 – World Museum Liverpool, July – Oct 2020 – The OCT Art & Design Gallery, Shenzhen, China, Dec – May 2021
Im Rahmen der diesjährigen Müther-Woche findet ein Screening des Kurzfilms IDLE mit anschließendem Künstlergespräch am Drehort – der ehemaligen Strandwache von Ulrich Müther – in Binz statt.
Im Video IDLE entwickelt Stefan Hurtig eine alternative Vision der menschlichen Zukunft: In einer postapokalyptischen Landschaft gibt sich ein humanoides Wesen tänzerisch komplett der Muße hin, während die Haushaltsroboter ihrer Arbeit nachgehen und aus ihrer unermüdlichen Bewegung heraus, unintendiert, künstlerisch anmutende Ergebnisse hervorbringen. Der gesprochene Text basiert auf dem Aufsatz Die Faulheit als tatsächliche Wahrheit der Menschheit (1921) von Kasimir Malewitsch. (Jennifer Bork)
LIA Award Exhibition / Solo Show 26 July–27 October 2019 Opening: Thursday, 25 July, 6 pm Speakers: Jennifer Bork (Curator, Hannover), Rainer Schade (Leipziger Jahresausstellung e.V.)
The video artist Stefan Hurtig (* 1981), who lives in Leipzig and Berlin, is the 20th prize winner of the Leipziger Jahresausstellung e. V. In Note to Self, Hurtig presents an intricate spatial assemblage that addresses the conflicts experienced by individuals when exposed to the pressure to self-optimise as entrepreneurial entities. In his piece, Hurtig uses the forms and vocabulary of a neoliberal structure. The solo show is like a walk-in Instagram hashtag where motivationals, commercials and self-promotion mingle. The exhibition gathers photo and video works from the last four years including a new utopian film on the topic of idleness.
Detlef Weitz, Stefan Hurtig: AE/MAETH, 3-channel video installation, 8:45 min., 2016. Installation view at Jewish Museum Berlin, 2016. Photography: Stefan Hurtig
AE/MAETH, a 3-channel video installation in collaboration with Detlef Weitz, reveals the myth of artificial life in cinema history. The video collage is based on snippets from 60 movies that depict humunculi, cyborgs, robots, androids, replicants and of course: golems. The research-like artistic approach that led to the video work reveals recurring motifs in form and content of Sci-Fi movies that tell the story of various artifical lifeforms. The looped video shows three chapters: 1. the creation from dead matter, 2. the creature as companion and 3. the loss of control and destruction of the artifical being. The work’s title AE/MAETH (aemaeth=life, maeth=death) refers to the magic spell rabbi Loew chanted in order to bring the golem to life and again destoy it.
The video work was originally commissioned by the Jewish Museum Berlin for their Golem exhibition and is now on display at the Barbican Centre in London. The AI: More than Human exhibtion explores the general world of artificial intelligence.
Video still from Bloom! Your Self Beautifully Enriched by Stefan Hurtig, 2015–17
Yvon Chabrowski, Wilhelm Frederking, Stefan Hurtig, Liz Magic Laser, Georg Lisek, Guido Reddersen, Rona Stern, Daniel Theiler, Angelika Waniek, Guy Woueté
Identification means to define one’s position: to identify with media images, a certain culture, your profession, the past, a generation or a sex. The two Leipzig artists Angelika Waniek and Stefan Hurtig have invited eight guest artists asking for specific artworks in order to curate the group show. The pieces on display use various artistic media, each one reflecting another perspective on the process of psychological identification.
Two performative works were specifically developed with regard to the Sootbörn art space. Angelika Waniek will present her new performance with the title The story behind during opening reception. The piece is based on letters from young men liable to military service in former West Germany, in which they justify conscientious objection. Georg Lisek will present a new lecture performance with the title Blind me! during closing reception. The work approaches the extensive display of social status and power in online media.
IDENTIFICATION
November 24–December 9, 2018
Opening: Friday, Nov 23, 7 pm.: The story behind, Performance by Angelika Waniek
Finissage: Saturday, Dec 8, 6 pm.: Blind me!, Lecture Performance by Georg Lisek
The exhibit is open: Saturdays and Sundays, 3–6 pm.
Künstlerhaus Sootbörn
Sootbörn 22, 22453 Hamburg
Public transport: U2 Niendorf Markt or Metrobus 5, Vogt-Cordes-Damm
Kindly supported by Behörde für Kultur und Medien der Freien und Hansestadt Hamburg
Artists: Ellen Akimoto, ART N MORE (Paul Bowler & Georg Weißbach), David Borgmann, Georg Brückmann, Barbara Burck, Robert Deutsch, Jan Dörre, Isabelle Dutoit, Christine Ebersbach, Christoph Feist, Dietrich Gnüchtel, Sabine Graf, Sebastian Harbort, Claudia Hauptmann, Marlet Heckhoff, Madeleine Heublein, Sebastian Hosu, Stefan Hurtig, Tjark Ihmels, Jürgen Kellig, Irene Kiele, Martin Kreim, Agnes Lammert, Fabian Lehnert, Dana Lorenz, Dana Meyer, Anna Nero, Titus Schade, Konstanze Siegemund, Rosi Steinbach, Henry Stöcker, Ronny Szillo, Anke Theinert, Katrin Thiele, Marta Vezzoli, Hendrik Voerkel, Peter Walther, Susanne Werdin, Raik Zimmermann (†)
Absurdism arises out of the fundamental disharmony between the individual’s search for meaning and the meaninglessness of the universe. It’s nothing new for artists to poke fun at the world around them. What is modern, perhaps, is what is being made fun of. Artists challenge the corporate world, capitalism, body image, consumerism, chauvinism, and the digital world.
Videos by: jessica arseneau, benedikt braun, minhye chu, the destroyer, elizabeth gerdeman, michael hahn, stefan hurtig, nicolas manenti, maeshelle west-davies, tattoonowsky
Video screenings in three parts / video projekcije u tri dijela
With films by Paula Abalos, ART’N’MORE, Anna Baronowski, Charlotte Eifler, Stefan Hurtig, Marie-Eve Levasseur, Katharina Nesterowa, Jakub Šimčik, Robert Sieg, V.I.P.
Curator/kurator: Kristina Semenova
Is the urge to draft and invent ourselves pervasive? Is the pressure to extend the boundaries of all the physical, biological and psychological limits ubiquitous? Did the individual’s body internalize the digital force already? Is ‘homo technicus’ the final fiction, the hyper, the quantified self, optimized and controlled, alienated and hypnotized? Are humans already inhabited by machines and therefore cyborgs which were thought to inhabit only the distant future? In the polyphonic video story, ‘corpus collective’ explores the impacts of technology on the production of the contemporary subject, it’s desires, fears and longings in the techno-worlds.
As part of the project It could be a community. In cooperation with Бükü – bureau for cultural translations and KV-Leipzig. The project is a result of a three year exchange 2015 – 2017 framed by the project Intercity/Switchcity. Funded by Goethe Institute Zagreb, Ministry of Culture of Croatia, City of Zagreb.
15 December, 2017
8 pm
Mala dvorana Pogona Jedinstvo
Zagreb, Croatia www.pogonzagreb.hr
Installation of the exhibition »Wir bleiben bis 1000 Uhr« by Jan Bünnig, curated by Susanne Weiß, Heidelberger Kunstverein, 2013. Photography: Toni Montana
Talk with curator Susanne Weiß and artist Stefan Hurtig
