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Guy Königstein

©Daniel Sadrowski 

Guy Königstein is an artist of Israeli origin, living in the Netherlands since 2007, where he first studied at the Design Academy Eindhoven and later obtained his master degree from the Sandberg Institute Amsterdam. 
 

Excavating through time and space he uses text, moving-image, sculpture and spatial installations as means of unpacking entanglements, performing otherness and appreciating mixed feelings. 
 

In his recent projects Königstein researches the different ways we live the past in the present, for instance through practices of commemoration, archiving or archaeology. In this framework he collaborated with numerous international institutions such as the Musrara Collection of Oral-history in Jerusalem, the South-Africa House in Amsterdam, the private collection of British archaeologist Kathleen Kenyon at Baylor University in Texas, Izolyatsia Foundation in Kiev and the Dutch National Architecture Archive in Rotterdam.

From October to December 2021, Guy Königstein was a resident at the Haus der Geschichte des Ruhrgebiets in Bochum.

Schermbeck

The Grand Snail Tour will be accompanied by literary, photographic and illustrative artists, who will collect impressions and reflections from the same city at the same time as the Trailer is there and put them into visual or literary form. The result is a paratext on the three-year tour, a travel chronicle in the form of a kaleidoscope of stories, connections and snapshots in the 53 cities of the region, revealing the simultaneities and non-simultaneities of the Grand Snail Tour.

Schermbeck by Stephanie Kiwitt

Weekly market in Schermbeck with mobile stalls and customers. Two food trucks sell fresh baked goods and cheese

© Stephanie Kiwitt

Historic alley in Schermbeck with red brick walls, cobblestones, and half-timbered houses.

© Stephanie Kiwitt

Parking lot in Schermbeck with cars and old brick industrial buildings in the background.

© Stephanie Kiwitt

Whitewashed historic chapel in Schermbeck with red roof tiles and parked cars around.

© Stephanie Kiwitt

Residential buildings in Schermbeck featuring a mix of half-timbered, brick, and modern architecture.

© Stephanie Kiwitt

Old and modern buildings in Schermbeck with a church tower in the background, typical of the cityscape.

© Stephanie Kiwitt

Historic brick wall in Schermbeck with green vegetation and parked cars beside it.

© Stephanie Kiwitt

Backyard with old brick walls and modern residential buildings in Schermbeck. Contrast between old and new.

© Stephanie Kiwitt

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Stephanie Kiwitt

Stephanie Kiwitt captures the transformation of rural areas in her photographic work - most recently in Saxony-Anhalt with “Flächenland”.

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