Spot on bangaloREsidents 2018

11 artists… 9 host organisations… unlimited creativity! 

​The bangaloREsidency 2018 begins with 11 artists from Germany who will live and work in collaboration with 9 of our 28 bangaloREsidency hosts for 1 to 2 months and as always we look forward to exciting results. Each one is involved in a different area of the arts – visual arts, photo, theatre, radio, dance, digital and multimedia -and will leave a creative mark on the cultural canvas of the City during their stay.

Besides introducing us to their artistic oeuvre and realising their own projects, one of the most enduring aspects of the bangaloREsidency is the intimate interaction and exchange with Bangaloreans.

As a kick-off, we present all 11 artists in our flagship pecha kucha-style, rapid fire, multimedia presentation: Spot on bangaloREsidents.

© Benjamin Brix

Benjamin Brix
bangaloREsident@Sandbox Collective
Nowadays, shaky videos recorded with a phone camera are more authentic then reasonably recorded ones. They appear like accidently recorded ones. In times of fake news, more and more people use this fact to produce credible videos. Benjamin Brix wants to mix up those documentary shots with actors from Bangalore and people that are recorded accidently.

© MVT photography

Laura Fiorio
bangaloREsident@MOD Institute
Photographer Laura Fiorio will work around local strategies of living and conceiving the urban, and common space in a postcolonial city which is expanding and developing fast, researching and collecting images from private archives and working with locals and passers-by to create a common archive of everyday life in a specific neighbourhood.

© Annika Hippler

Ingo Gerken
bangaloREsident@1 Shanthi Road
Getting in touch with Bangalore by doing interventions and temporary sculptures in public space. By placing, switching, rearranging, changing and connecting everyday objects and their contexts, Ingo Gerken wants to generate open dialogues between the excessive materiality of urban life and his conceptual art practice.

© Martina Thalhofer

Lina Gómez
bangaloREsident@Attakkalari
Lina wants to establish a common ground where all the singularities, different artistic approaches and diverse backgrounds of the participants could get into dialogue and give life to a collective and specific way of work.

© Florian Glaubitz

Marius Land
bangaloREsident@Daily Dump
Marius Land wants to challenge the borders of the term function by researching the temporal everyday conversion of things, as in the Indian idea of “jugaad“. This Hindi term means a smart workaround or quick fix, deriving from the lack of proper resources

© matthaei&pfeifer

Lukas Matthaei & Judith Nika Pfeifer
matthaei & konsorten
bangaloREsidents@Srishti
During the bangaloREsidency, Lukas Matthaei & Nika Pfeifer will research and create a series of site-related interventions that channel urban magical practices and voice an individual and collective perspective on the wondrous performances of the urban every day.

© Jean-Marc Turmes

Verena Regensburger
bangaloREsident@Abhinaya Taranga
We all have one common language: our body - gestures and facial expression! During her residency Verena Regensburger wants to apply her self-created concept on a foreign language: How can we express ourselves through our language, even if the person we are talking to can’t understand a word?

© Athina Pontikou

Carlos Andrés Rico
bangaloREsident@Maraa
During the bangaloREsidency Carlos Andrés Rico plans to invite local artists to participate in a series of radio works about culture and public space in order to develop an intervention for the streets of Bangalore collectively.

© Walter Solon

Walter Solon
bangaloREsident@Jaaga
There is a second, fictional Walter who will travel to Bangalore to establish contacts between local IT startups and his own company, the Israeli-based MAGEN DIGITALI (Digital Shield). The trip will be documented by the fake German TV production company SpottBillig Film.

© Oliver Walker

Oliver Walker
bangaloREsident@1 Shanthi Road
In Bangalore, he intends to start a plastic bag collection, much in the way a museum would collect art or other objects. He sees plastic bags as ubiquitous tiny details of our capitalist, industrial world.

The bangaloREsidency was conceived as a long-term collaboration between the Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Bangalore and various innovative and discerning contemporary art/cultural spaces and partners, with a view to offering German aspirants a space conducive to creative output and the opportunity to interact with Indian artists/experts, in the challenging context of Asia's fastest-growing metropolis.

The bangaloREsidency is thus a progressive platform for productive, sustained exchange between artists from Germany and India. The Institute works with 28 partner organisations, who have, over the past several years, played host to close to more than one hundred artists from Germany.

In a recently-launched reciprocal initiative, the bangaloREsidency Expanded seeks to facilitate artist-in-residence programmes for Indian artists with select cultural partners in Germany. The horizons are unlimited!