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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.

AI: More than Human
16 May–26 Aug 2019

The Curve, Barbican Centre
London, UK

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 (†)

25. Leipziger Jahresausstellung: SILBER
August 17–September 2, 2018
Opening Reception: August 16, 8 pm

Spinnerei Leipzig
Werkschauhalle / Halle 12
Spinnereistraße 7 | 04179 Leipzig
open: Tue–Fr 1–6 pm, Sat 11 am–4 pm, Sun 2–6 pm

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

Curated by maeshelle west-davies

Fr, 9 March, 2018
8–11 pm
Helmut
Kohlgartenstraße 51, 04315 Leipzig
https://www.facebook.com/events/2082251172012071/

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

Talk with curator Susanne Weiß and artist Stefan Hurtig

Jour Fixe: Stefan Hurtig, Susanne Weiß – HELLO BURG
Tuesday, November 28, 2017
6 pm, room 103/104

BURG Giebichenstein
University of Art and Design
Villa, Design Campus
Neuwerk 7
06003 Halle (Saale)

Exhibition & auction featuring works by

Pomona Zipser, Francis Zeischegg, Simone Zaugg, beate maria wörz, Renate Wolff, Veronika Witte, Christopher Winter, Barbara Wille, Frauke Wilken, Norbert Wiesneth, Anna Werkmeister, Albert Weis, Christian Weidner, Dietrich Walther, Matthäus Thoma, Kai Teichert, Caro Suerkemper, Walter Stöhrer, Susanne Specht, Heidi Sill, Michaela Schweiger, Laurie Schwartz, Nadja Schöllhammer, Andreas Schmid, Verena Schirz-Jahn, Karen Scheper, Salah Saouli, Silke Riechert, Veronika Radulovic, Katharina Poos, Martin Pfahler, Fernando Niño-Sanchez, Nanne Meyer, Reiner Maria Matysik, Inge Mahn, Juliane Laitzsch, Eike Laeuen, Stephan Kurr, Betina Kuntzsch, Pauline Kraneis, Ellen Kobe, Sharon Kivland, Franz Jyrch, Bettina Hutschek, Stefan Hurtig, Frenzy Höhne, Doris Hinzen-Röhrig, Barbara Hindahl, Sylvia Henrich, Vanessa Henn, Christian Hasucha, Jörg Hasheider, Oliver Hartung, Grit Hachmeister, Harriet Groß, Erik Göngrich, Monika Goetz, Jörn Gerstenberg, Kiki Gebauer, Kati Gausmann, Tom Früchtl, Adib Fricke, Peter Freitag, Christine Falk, Barbara Duisberg, Max Diel, Gregor Cürten, Daniela Comani, Albert Coers, Claudia Busching, Pedro Boese, Antonia Bisig, Ina Bierstedt, Matthias Beckmann, Alfred Banze, Monika Anselment and Anonymen Zeichnern

Curated by Veronika Witte and Claudia Beelitz
Exhibit Design by Pfelder and Karen Scheper

Yours faithfully
Achtzig für einen
September 28 – October 22, 2017
Opening reception: 27 Sept, 2017, 7 pm
Auction: 22 Oct, 2017, 1 pm

Galerie Nord / Kunstverein Tiergarten
Turmstr. 75
10551 Berlin

The exhibition The Next Conversation shows international artists who investigate the complexity of our mediatized present with humor and irony. It shows an area of tension between the current glorified and/or dystopian scenarios of a technologized future. The Next Conversation searches for poetic means to talk about the present and its possible growth.

The Gallery ABTART in Stuttgart has invited БüKü – Bureau for Cultural Translations Leipzig as a cooperative partner. The focus of the curators Kristina Semenova and Olga Vostretsova was set on artists from the cities of Moscow and Leipzig.

Artists: Rania Akl, Suzana Brborović, Jaeyong Choi, Lorenza Diaz, Renan Ran Harari, Timo Hinze, Stefan Hurtig, Kristina Jurotschkin, Taisia Korotkova, Cal Lane, Marie-Eve Levasseur, Via Lewandowsky, Alexander Povzner, Norbert Reissig, Christian Schellenberger, Hayahisa Tomiyasu, Hannes Waldschütz, Susan Winter, Anna Zholud

The Next Conversation
Fragments of a Fluid Present
January 14 – March 17, 2017
Opening reception: Friday, January 13, 2017, 7:30 pm

Galerie ABTART
Rembrandtstr. 18
70567 Stuttgart

4hKUNST presents an evening with video and performance works by Georg Lisek and Stefan Hurtig. Lecture Performance by Georg Lisek at 8:30 pm.

DOUBLE MAKE-UP
Stefan Hurtig ✕ Georg Lisek
December 10, 2016
8 pm–midnight

A Series of International Video Performances on the Theme «Future/Tomorrow»

Caroline Blais (Canada), James Duesing (USA), Roberto Fassone (Italy), Rick Fisher & Don Rice (Canada), Andrew de Freitas (New Zealand/Canada/Brazil), Stefan Hurtig (Germany), Henri Hütt (Estonia), Linda Lenssen (The Netherlands), Michael Mallis (USA), Roberta Orlando (Italy), Johanna Reich (Germany), Pia Sirén (Finland), Niko Skorpio (Finland), Willem Wilhelmus (The Netherlands/Finland) & Tomasz Szrama (Poland/Finland)

Performance Voyage 6 is a series of international video performances produced by Artists’ Association MUU. Performance Voyage 6 premiered at the Finnish Institute in Stockholm, Sweden in March 2016. From there the collection has toured in both domestic and foreign locations, including Athens, Berlin, Cologne, Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic), Wrocław, Pori, Oulu and Turku.

Performance Voyage 6 Screening
December 8, 2016, 6 pm

SINNE
Iso Roobertinkatu 16
Helsinki