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Aram Bartholl

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He puts socially relevant topics such as surveillance, data security and technology dependency up for discussion by translating the gaps, contradictions and absurdities of our everyday digital lives into spatial settings. On the one hand, this results in sometimes grotesque confrontations with his own ignorance of a globally active platform capitalism; on the other, he also uses the potential of public space to renegotiate network activities as political forms of participation on an analog level. In this way, Aram Bartholl's works initiate a performative process that enables individual action to be understood again within a collective and self-determined network discourse. Formally and conceptually, he draws on the aesthetics, codes and communication patterns used by users on YouTube, Instagram or in video games in his artistic works. The targeted contextualization visualizes the logics of the Internet and at the same time subverts them on the basis of their own exploitation strategies.

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Begleitet wird die Grand Snail Tour von Künstler*innen aus dem Bereich Literatur, Fotografie und Zeichnung, die zeitgleich zum Aufenthalt des Tourmobils, Eindrücke und Reflexionen aus jeweils derselben Stadt sammeln und diese sie visuell oder literarisch ins Bild setzen. So entsteht ein Paratext zur 3-jährigen Tour, der in Form einer Reisechronik, ein Kaleidoskop an Geschichten, Verbindungen, Momentaufnahmen in den 53 Städten der Region als Gleichzeitigkeiten und Ungleichzeitigkeiten zur Grand Snail Tour sichtbar werden lässt.

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© Heinrich Holtgreve

© Heinrich Holtgreve

© Heinrich Holtgreve

© Heinrich Holtgreve

© Heinrich Holtgreve

© Heinrich Holtgreve

© Heinrich Holtgreve

© Heinrich Holtgreve

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View into the trailer featuring Paul Spengemann’s “spin jump crawl climb dream bite hunt”; a lit claw machine stands to the right. Elements from Cem A.’s “floor pieces and stanchions” are visible.

© Daniel Sadrowski

31.10.25, 14–22 h

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Heinrich Holtgreve

Born in Bochum in 1987, he lives between Hamburg and Berlin. In 2013, Heinrich Holtgreve completed his studies in photography at Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences. He has been a member of the Ostkreuz agency since 2016. 

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