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Guy Königstein

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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.

Wesel

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.

Wesel von Amina Falah

A slender tree in the forest, with a white ribbon tied around its trunk. Sunlight filters through the leaves.

© Amina Falah

A large cylindrical industrial tank behind a chain-link fence. A red container stands in the foreground.

© Amina Falah

A turquoise telescope labeled "Galaxy" on a bridge in Wesel, overlooking the Rhine, surrounded by love locks.

© Amina Falah

An indoor courtyard with a koi pond, overshadowed by a large green plant. The water reflects the building's glass ceiling.

© Amina Falah

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©Amina Falah

Amina Falah

Amina Falah is a designer and photographer. Her work sheds light on everyday life and the stories of the people around her, with a focus on social issues.

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