Christoph Schäfer
Christoph Schäfer lives in Hamburg and works on urbanism, gardens,
themeparks, fashion and every day life, in art spaces and in collective
and individual interventionist projects. His filminstallation
"Revolution Non Stop - a game with the remnants of overproduction in the
future ruins of fordism" was realised through the Hamburg "Aussendienst"
project, and shown for 3 months in the cinema Metropolis in Hamburg's
city center, and later in Siena, Torino, Berlin, Vienna, Madrid, Delhi
and Mexico City. As a member of the Park Fiction group, he was part of
Documenta11. At the moment he is working to establish the "Park Fiction
Archive for independent experimental Urbanism", and subcurated a global
exchange between local knowledges of groups from Delhi, Milan, La Plata,
Tijuana and Hamburg with the congress and exhibition "Unlikely
Encounters in Urban Space", in summer 2003. He works on independent
projects and collaborations in Delhi and Liverpool, Dresden, Leipzig and
Bangalore. He is a member of the Buttclub and the Schwabinggrad Ballett
and administrates the flickr groups "Places That Want To Be Other
Places" and "Pictures found on stolen SD cards" and shares a studio
space in the Breite. Lectures, talks and presentations in Milano,
Firenze, London, Liverpool, Vienna, Hamburg, Berlin, Dresden, Munich,
Stuttgart, Mexico City, Copenhagen, Bangalore, Zagreb.
http://www.saloon-la-realidad.com/
selected exhibitions and group projects since 1989
2006 Saloon La Realidad, as part of: Wild Capital, Group Show, Kunsthaus
Dresden
2006 City of Glass, Christoph Schäfer, Ashok Sukuman, COLAB Gallery,
Bangalore
2005 Groundworks, Miller Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh
2005 Melrose Place_d in Bangalore, for: World Information City 2006, mit
dem Goethe Institut Max Mueller Bhawan, Bangalore
2005 Migrations, Kölner Kunstverein
2005 Shrinking Cities, GFZK, Leipzig
2004 Ambulantes. Cultura Portátil, Centro Andaluz del Arte
Contemporaneo, Sevilla
2004 Consum, Zeppelin University mit Kunstverein Friedrichshafen
2004 Shrinking Cities, KW, Berlin
2004 Revolution Non Stop, SARAI, New Delhi
2003 Park Fiction presents: Unlikely Encounters in Urban Space,
International Congress and Exhibition, Hamburg,
subcurated by Margit Czenki, Christiane Mennicke and Christoph Schäfer
2003 Liquidacion Total, Installation of Revolution Non Stop, Madrid
2002 Site-seeing, Group-Exhibition on the Disneyfication of Cities,
Kunsthaus Vienna
2002 Info-Offspring-Boogie-Woogie, Groupproject in Public Space, Dresden
2002 Documenta11 with Park Fiction, Kassel Summer 2002
2002 Revolution Non Stop, Kunstwerke Berlin
2002 Big Social Game - Biennale Torino 2002
2002 Ökonomien der Zeit, group show, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Akademie
der Künste, Berlin, Migros Museum, Zürich
2002 Palomino Park, invited landscape design contest for artists,
Munich, Bahndeckel (with Günther Greis / arbos landscape architects)
2002 Gewalt ist der Rand aller Dinge, group show, Generali Foundation,
Vienna
2002 Der 3. Sektor, group show, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig
2001 Televisions, Tele 5 – the true story, (with H.C. Dany), Kunsthalle,
Vienna
2001 Der 3. Sektor, group show, Kunstverein Wolfsburg
2001 Arte al Centro, Cittadellarte – Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella, Italia
2001 Le Republiche dell' Arte: Germania - la costruzione di un immagine
group show at Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena / Italia
2000 Cowdemonstration, Werkleitzbiennale
2000 Revolution Non Stop
Nonstop-Filminstallation at Metropolis-Cinema, as part of Aussendienst
exhibition of art-in-public-space in Hamburg
2000 Hey International Competition Style, groupshow, T.E.N.T., Rotterdam, NL
2000 Park Fiction –
die Wünsche werden die Wohnung verlassen und auf die Strasse gehen
Margit Czenki's Film and exhibition, Parkhaus, Berlin
1999 Park Fiction –
die Wünsche werden die Wohnung verlassen und auf die Strasse gehen
Film (Margit Czenki) and exhibition at wienerkunstverein, Vienna
1997 Park Fiction, art-in-public-space project officially supported by
Kulturbehörde Hamburg in the frame of weitergehen
1996 Park Fiction 4 – organisation of park-related exhibition in the
community, shops, flats, around the not-yet existing park
1995 Parks & Politics – lecture on parks and their ideological
backgrounds, with C. Skene, T. Ortmann, A. Corcilius, S. Stövesand, A.
Siekmann
1995 No Hesitation No Repetition No Deviation, (with Cathy Skene)
Kunstverein München
1994 Objektive Begierden der Epoche - Vorschläge zum Umgang mit
Architekturen
(with Cathy Skene), Kunstverein in Hamburg,
1993 Begierdengeneralisierungsgeräte, 0-100%, Gerlingisierung, Mediapark...
(with Cathy Skene) in Stephan Dillemuth’s, Joseph Strau and Kiron
Khosla‘s “Friesenwall 120” Köln
1993 Oppositionen & Schwesterfelder, group show, Wiener Secession, Vienna
Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, 1994
1990 Diorama, with Cathy Skene, Münzstrasse 10, Hamburg
1989 Promised Land - Das Versprechen der Stadt, with C. Skene Disco
UNIT, St. Pauli