In the
10th Season of
bangaloREsidency,
11 artists from Germany will live and work in collaboration with 10 of our 31
bangaloREsidency hosts for 4 to 8 weeks. Join us on
Friday October 21, 2022 and meet our
bangaloREsidents 2022 in our flagship pecha kucha-style, rapid fire, multimedia presentation. Besides introducing us to their artistic oeuvre and realising their own projects, one of the most enduring aspects of the
bangaloREsidency has always been the intimate interaction and exchange with Bangaloreans.
© Björn Lengers
Björn Lengers - bangaloREsident@Natya & STEM
German theatre artist, programmer and digital artist Björn is part of the collective CyberRäuber, along with Marcel Karnapke. Their works combine digital media and performing arts, with virtual reality or so-called artificial intelligence. Björn will work with Natya & STEM Dance Kampni on the digital exploration and visualisation of traditional Indian dance formats.
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© Emil Kalus
Emil Kalus - bangaloREsident@Suchitra Cinema and Cultural Academy
A cinematorgrapher, Emil has explored topics like belonging,working class people and existence in several short films. His work speaks through honest and direct images, piercing through the heart of the spectator. During his residency Emil will work on short experimental film portraits of working class people in Bangalore.
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© Renato Cruz Santos
Julius Gabriel - bangaloREsident@Indian Music Experience Museum (IME)
Saxophonist and freelance musician, Julius focuses on the exploration of the saxophone. He uses extended playing techniques and investigates the multidimensional unfolding of the sound of his instruments through spatial and electroacoustics. At IME, he will reconstruct an antique diatonic sopranino saxophone along with a local instrument maker, play with local percussionists, make field/studio recordings, and take lessons in Carnatic saxophone.
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© Nastaran Majd
Kathrin Lambert - bangaloREsident@Indian Sonic Research Organisation (ISRO)
Artist, event and cultural manager and media designer, Kathrin’s most significant projects currently is the sound art festival EXPERIMANCE. Her focus on sound art deals with everyday objects and noises, and her installations ties in with architectural elements. At ISRO, she will engage with the unfamiliar soundscapes of a different cultural context and collect situations sonically to incorporate into her archive, process and perform.
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© Pearlie Frisch
Lena Heubusch - bangaloREsident@Walkin Studios
Lena investigates social environments through collaborative settings - online, offline and everywhere in between. Lena is fascinated by the rapidly growing tech hub Bangalore, especially in terms of the swift adaptation of new technologies and their impact on communities in urban spaces. During her residency Lena envisions co-reating a space for re-contextualision and expansion of practice beyond the European schools of thought.
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© Leo Ahlers
Leo Ahlers - bangaloREsident@Sandbox Collective
Leo is a multimedia Artist, working on affection between individual perception and collective construction. The hope in collective forms of expression to develop non-totalitarian ideas on living together provides the backdrop for Leo’s work. During their residency Leo will work with Sandbox Collective on the subject of gender within the broader question of how the world could be focusing on the queer community in Bangalore.
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© Sarah Hale
Line Krom - bangaloREsident@National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS)
Visual artist and cultural anthropologist based in Frankfurt/Main, Line explores the precarious working conditions in the art world. In Bangalore, she will explore the exclusion strategies governing the NCBS Archive, to reflect critically on the archive’s excessive materials and debris, for instance dust.
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© Lucie Freynhagen
Lucie Freynhagen - bangaloREsident@Walkin Studios
Lucie has been working as a curator and initiator of various art projects, and describes her work as “Conceptual Experiences.” Her artistic practice is interdisciplinary, dealing with video and sound works, installations, objects, painting, printing techniques and texts. During her residency, Lucie would like to realise various 3D animations together with video actors and video artists on site.
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Matthias Reichelt
Matthias Beckmann - bangaloREsident@1Shanthiroad
Draftsman Matthias draws on site without any photographic aids or preparatory sketches. He has worked on drawing sequences and graphic documentaries. During his residency, Matthias will explore Shanthinagar, examine modern Bangalore and reflect/update the colonial tradition of travel artists who documented the country, people, flora, fauna and culture as companions for explorers.
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© Michael Maurissens
Michael Maurissens - bangaloREsident@Attakkalari Centre for Movement Arts
Trained dancer and performer Michael, together with Douglas Bateman, founded the MichaelDouglas Kollektiv, to research on collaborative art production and the development of collective creation methods in the performance context. During his residency Michael will work with the Attakalari dancers on contemporary dance, performativity, and choreography composition.
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Sandra Havlicek
Sandra Havlicek - bangaloREsident@MOD
Sandra is a sculptor interested in the relationship between humans with their environment. Her sculptural works and installations develop from questions relating to architecture and everyday objects. Implementing flexibility, movement and transformation to static elements are central themes in her artistic practice. During her residency Sandra will explore the visual output of the various processes of urbanisation.
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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.
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