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Jan Berger

©Daniel Sadrowski

The artistic work of Jan Berger (*1993) deals with the ludic formation of cultural mythologies and the production of subjectivity in online spaces. He is the founder and attending curator of the Mythical Institution, a Minecraft project space and art school. As StJennifer, he produces music and streams live gameplay from video games.

Jan Berger received his Master of Fine Arts from Goldsmiths College in London and his Bachelor from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. Jan has shown work at 35C3 at the Exhibition Grounds in Leipzig, basis Frankfurt, Saatchi Gallery and he performed at the Museum of Modern Art (MMK2) and the Museum of Applied Art (MAK) in Frankfurt. He was commissioned to create a digital opening concept and Minecraft world for Simon Denny’s exhibition ‘Mine’ at K21, Düsseldorf.

From January to March 2022, Jan Berger is a resident artist in the programme Zu Gast bei Urbane Künste Ruhr in Dortmund.

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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©Andreas Schulze

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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