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Alfred Banze

Berlin, Germany

Drawing, Installation, Performance, Video • Born in Kirchbauna, Germany • Studied at Gh Kassel, KHM Köln, Camping Akademie Berlin

Published  05/09/2014   |   Updated  17/06/2022

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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 and became a member of...

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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 and became a member of Baan Noorg Collaborative Arts and Culture in 2018. In 2022 he takes part in documenta 15 with Baan Noorg and their project "Churning Milk: the Rituals of Things".

Alfred Banze
Mosquito Net Writings | Installation with 4 video monitors | exhibition: Exotika 2013 SAL Bangkok + Galerie M | Berlin 2013

Mosquito Net Writings | Installation with 4 video monitors | exhibition: Exotika 2013 SAL Bangkok + Galerie M | Berlin 2013

2 drawings, ink & water color on laminated paper, 100 x 150 cm, 2015. exhibition:

2 drawings, ink & water color on laminated paper, 100 x 150 cm, 2015. exhibition:

The Wall | installation with 2 holograms | exhibition:

The Wall | installation with 2 holograms | exhibition:

„View through an empty sea urchin at noon“ - tempera + ink on laminated paper, 160 x 100 cm, 2016

„View through an empty sea urchin at noon“ - tempera + ink on laminated paper, 160 x 100 cm, 2016

Installation with drawings | exhibition:

Installation with drawings | exhibition:

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


EXHIBITIONS

SOLO

2021

"Neue Malerei - Paul Alfred Gauguin" IO LUX Projectspace Berlin

2018

„Public Colors / Private Lines“ Gotisches Haus Berlin Spandau

2016

“2.5 Street”, Sammaki Artspace, Battambang + Metahouse, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

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GROUP

2018

„In the Neighbourhood“ Kunstpunkt Berlin

“Der Gesang verschwindender Arten“ Projektraum GG 3000 Berlin

2015

„United Nations Extended“, MQ 21 Museumsquartier, Wien, Austria.

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PUBLICATIONS

EDUCATION (detailed)

1987 Freie Kunst Studium, Gesamthochschule Kassel, Germany.

1995 Postgraduiertenstudium AV Medien Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln, Germany.

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