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Alfred Banze
Berlin, Germany
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Berlin, Germany
Published 05/09/2014 | Updated 29/09/2025
Alfred Banze, born in 1958 in Kirchbauna, Germany, diploma in fine arts, University Kassel in 1987, postgraduate studies in media art at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne in 1995, lives and works in Berlin and on the road. He makes participatory projects, films, performances, installations and drawings. In 2009 he founded the performance group Kopi Kaputa. In 2010 he founded the Camping Academy e.V. with Christine Falk. Member of Baan Noorg...
Read moreAlfred Banze, born in 1958 in Kirchbauna, Germany, diploma in fine arts, University Kassel in 1987, postgraduate studies in media art at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne in 1995, lives and works in Berlin and on the road. He makes participatory projects, films, performances, installations and drawings. In 2009 he founded the performance group Kopi Kaputa. In 2010 he founded the Camping Academy e.V. with Christine Falk. Member of Baan Noorg Collaborative Arts and Culture in 2018 -22.
What is it about your studio space that inspires you?
The light and the silence
What sounds, scents and sights do you encounter while in your studio?
1972 music
What is your favourite material to work with? How has your use of it evolved throughout your practice?
Ink + watercolours
What themes do you pursue?
Aesthetics of colonialism, mythologies of everyday life
What advice has had the biggest impact on your career?
Enjoy to make art as you enjoy to look at art
If you could install your art absolutely anywhere, where would that be?
Palast der Republik Berlin
If you could only have one piece of art in your life, what would it be?
„Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?"Paul Gauguin
If you weren´t an artist, what would you be doing?
Musician
What are your favourite places besides your studio?
Leaving town by bike
2024
"Von Überall & Hier" Kommunale Galerie 100 Berlin
2023
"ATOMIC GAUGUIN" Songkhla Artspace, Thailand
2021
"Neue Malerei - Paul Alfred Gauguin" IO LUX Projectspace Berlin
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2022
Documenta fifteen (as member of Baan Noorg Collaborative Arts & Culture Thailand)
2018
„In the Neighbourhood“ Kunstpunkt Berlin
“Der Gesang verschwindender Arten“ Projektraum GG 3000 Berlin
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1987 Freie Kunst Studium, Gesamthochschule Kassel, Germany.
1995 Postgraduiertenstudium AV Medien Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln, Germany.
