Corona, climate chaos, war: The world is spinning with crises. Meanwhile, the ever-increasing concentration of property in the hands of a few is leading to extreme inequality and putting the future of social societies at risk worldwide.
How do we confront this global inequality and how does it manifest itself in societies, individual lives and different states? What novel ideas, indeed, what utopias do we need to grasp hold of today to guarantee the rights of generations tomorrow?
The exhibition “what we dream of – what we pay for” presents the views of eight artistic fellows regarding the global upheavals of collective and individual dreams for humane societies.
The artists’ narratives and perspectives, presented in photographs, video works, drawings and installations, use their personal life stories to flesh out the spectrum of current economic, social and political possibilities.
Welcome: Sabine Fandrych,
Secretary General of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung
Introduction: Beate Eckstein und Sarah Klaußner, Kuratorinnen
born 1999 in Kharkiv, Ukraine
FES scholarship holder since 2022
Studies / Training
Since 2023: Studies fine arts at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich (Flaka Haliti – substitute lecturer in the photography class).
2019–2022: Studied free art at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich (class of Prof. Dieter Rehm)
2017–2019: Studied painting (class of Prof. Dmitriy Efimenko), Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Fine Arts, Charkiw, Ukraine
Group exhibitions
2022: KARL & FABER Art Prize (KARL & FABER Kunstauktionen GmbH)
Rumours of capture, Jahresausstellung (NEU Workshop), Munich
Days on chairs, NODEPRESSIONROOM e.V., Munich
DRIFT - Sympoetic worldings, Kaulbachstr.1, Munich
GABI, open Studio, Waldfriedhofstr. 94, Munich
2021:To be an angular something as a round nothing, Kaulbachstr.1, Munich
2021: Between Representation and Abstraction, Kunstverein Kreis Soest
2021: Pandemic Edition, annual exhibition, Academy of Fine Arts Munich, Munich
2020/2021: Energy in the area of tension between benefit and damage, photo competition, K-Group, AkademieGalerie, Munich
2020: This is a Long Drive for Someone With Nothing to Think About, poster action in public space, Munich
born 1991 in Villavicencio, Colombia
FES scholarship holder since 2022
Studies / Training
Since 2020: Studies photography (Diploma) at the Academy of Visual Arts, Leipzig
2019: International Class for Photojournalism and Documentary Photography, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Hanover
2014–2017: Studied journalism (Master) at the Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia
2009–2013: Studied philosophy (Bachelor) at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia
Group exhibitions
2022: 293.94 km, FRISE Künstlerhaus Hamburg e.V.
2022: On past shapes and inner landscapes, HGB Leipzig
2021: Object, Atelier21, Leipzig
born 2000 in Karaj, Iran.
FES scholarship holder since 2022
Studies / Training
Since 2021: Studies media art at the Academy of Media Arts, Cologne
2020–2021: Studied photography and media art, HBK, Essen
2017–2018: Inverse School of Arts, Tehran, Iran
2015–2019: Graphic Design, Marefat Vocational School, Karaj, Iran
Group exhibitions
2022: Jin,Jiyan,Azadi an event dedicated to Feminist uprisings and Anti-Patriarchy disobedience , Manifesta 14, Pristina, Kosovo
To My Daughter Shokoufeh; stories from Dezful to Isfahan/ Four walls of my room, Acud
Macht Neu, Berlin
Integration/Short Magazine #5/College of Media Arts Cologne/Cologne
2021: If I give you my eyes, would you hear the sound of it? (video mixtape), Kotti-Shop, Berlin
In the search of Identity, F2 Foto Festival, Dortmund
Silent Mask, photo series, Mountain View Art Gallery, Cologne
2019: The Lies That Make Us Voiceless, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
born 1978 in Berlin
FES scholarship holder since 2019
Studies / Training
2002–2008: Studied at the Berlin University of the Arts (diploma and master’s degree in media art) and at the Willem de Kooning Academy / Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
Since 2018: Doctorate in Art and Design, Bauhaus University Weimar
2008: Master student (Prof. Maria Vedder), Berlin University of the Arts
2006: Diploma, Visual Communication, Berlin University of the Arts
1999-2001: Intermediate Diploma, Communication Design, University of Applied Sciences Würzburg
Solo exhibition
2022: Re-Assembling Motherhood(s) with MATERNAL FANTASIES, Onomatopee, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Group exhibitions
2023: Handling with Care with MATERNAL FANTASIES, Museum of Contemporary Art Ludwig, Budapest, Hungary (upcoming 2023)
I MADE YOU TO FIND ME, alpha nova galerie futura, Berlin (upcoming 2023)
Mother – A Search for Traces, Kulturkirche Bremerhaven
The Procreate Project Archive, Ovada Gallery, Oxford, UK
Care + Collaboration with MATERNAL FANTASIES, LHUCA Center for the Arts, Lubbock, Texas, USA
2022: Beyond Nuclear Family: Recipes for Happiness with MATERNAL FANTASIE, Gallery Display, Prague
MOTHER ARTIST, Haus des Wandels, Heinersdorf Brandenburg)
This is Essential Work, UWE Bristol, Open University, UK
Dear Mother with MATERNAL FANTASIES, LA artcore, Los Angeles, USA
RIZOMA, art association of the city of Glauchau: art gluchowe e.V.
Rebeldes - Laboratorio Experimental de prácticas feministas with MATERNAL FANTASIES, The Museum of Memory and Human Rights, Santiago, Chile
10.03.1998 / Ciudad de Guatemala, Guatemala
FES scholarship holder since 2021
Studies / Training
Since 2017: Studies directing, University of Television Film and Television Munich
Filmography (selection)
2023: Apocalíptica (16 Min.)
2020: Curfew Calls – Ep. 14 “Star-Crossed” (8 min.)
2019: Prelude (18 Min.)
So far I have worked with narrative film formats, but I am beginning to explore other interdisciplinary ways of explaining politics and social processes to myself through different media.
born 1994 in São Paulo, Brazil
FES scholarship holder since 2020
Studies / Training
2014–2019: Studied philosophy and film studies (Bachelor), Free University, Berlin
Since 2019: Studies directing (Master) at the Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF, Potsdam
Filmography (selection)
2019: L'ultima spiaggia di Palermo (18 min.)
2020: Patriotas não morrem (9 Min.)
2022: Oh, how free is Panama? (16 min.)
2023: Ash Wednesday (30 min.)
Exhibition at Bethanien together with Jacky Lai
Jacky Lai
born 1996 in Oberhausen
Since 2019: Master studies in creative technologies, Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF, Potsdam
born 1988 in Tehran, Iran
2018–2023 Architecture studies at the University of the Arts, Berlin
Studies / Training
2018–2023: Consecutive Master of Arts Architecture at the Berlin University of the Arts
2014–2018: Bachelor of Science Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Stuttgart
2006–2009: Intermediate Diploma Architecture Technology University Tehran
Group exhibitions
2022: Tyranny of Intimacy, Fragments from now for an unfinished future, Kunsthaus Dresden/robotron-kantine
2020: Tyranny of Intimacy, Fragments from now for an unfinished future, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn
2019: Tyranny of Intimacy, Fragments from now for an unfinished future, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
2019: Palimpsest of cultures, University of the Arts, Berlin
2018: Stadt.Haus.Philosophie, Museum Hegel-Haus, Stuttgart
2017: Threshold, Dangerous Architecture, IGMA University of Stuttgart
Awards
2019: Special Award: Picture of the Year “Cities without Citizens”
2019: wa-award “Haus der Zukunft”
2018: Best Final Project Award University of Stuttgart “Tyranny of Intimacy”
born 1983 in Riga, Latvia
FES scholarship holder since 2019
Studies / Training
Since 2018: PhD in screenwriting/dramaturgy at the Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF, Potsdam
2006–2009: Tallinn University, Baltic Film and Media School Master of Arts (MA), International Film and Video Arts, Degree in Film Directing
Filmography and video projections
2024: Not My Film, documentary short film
2018: Forest plays in the city, video installation and interactive performance, Light Festival “Staro Rīga”, Latvia
2016: Blueberry Spirits, documentary short film
2014: All My Dead, short film
2013: Treasures of the Sea, documentary short film
2013: The Fool, video projection, Light Festival “Staro Rīga”, Latvia
2012: Mountain of Nuts, video projection, light festival “Staro Rīga”, Latvia
2009: The Fencer, short film
Kottbusser Straße 10, 10999 Berlin
Visitor information
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The exhibition takes place within the framework of the focus project "Who pays the bill? - For a just future!" in which the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung is developing visions for a future that gets paid for and realised in a socially just way. More information
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