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Jan St. Werner

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Jan St. Werner is a Berlin-based artist, musician, and composer whose work explores the dialogue between sound, visual art, and architecture. His work has been presented at the Ural Biennial, documenta 14, Lenbachhaus Munich, the Barbican Centre London, DAAD Gallery Berlin, the Venice Biennale, the Museum of Contemporary Art (MSU) Zagreb, the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, the Chicago Symphony Center, and the Ruhrtriennale. In 2023, the Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden presented his first solo exhibition, Space Synthesis. In 2024, he was one of six artists representing Germany in the German Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale.
Werner has initiated collaborative projects such as the Transnational Sound Initiative and has curated exhibitions and festivals including The Sound of Distance at HKW Berlin and docu/fiction at Kunsthalle Düsseldorf. He is a member of the electronic music group Mouse on Mars and has collaborated with musicians including Stereolab, Mark E. Smith, Lee "Scratch" Perry, and Markus Popp (Oval) as the duo Microstoria. Since 2025, he has been Professor at the Folkwang University of the Arts.

Hamminkeln

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.

Hamminkeln by Erdem Teper

so müssen wohl die bäume über die menschen denken, 
der mensch ist ewig damit beschäftigt 
versteht, dass alles und jeder irgendwo
eins ist 
versteht, dass alles –  liebt und lacht und lebt in frieden existiert; stoa
versteht, dass es ist – ebenbild 
wenn mensch findet sich selbst 
vor uralten baumrinden 
ein wesen schaut das andere an, 
am ende haben beide einander
und somit sich selbst erkannt 
beide aus gerüst, beide aus haut 
nur dass der baum im wald sich zutraut
zurecht, dass er den menschen überlebt; 
während die zeit bereits 
das leichentuch des menschen webt 
und der baum schaut den menschen an, 
beide aus haut, rinde und knochen 
nur hat der neue mensch 
seine beziehung zur natur unterbrochen

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Erdem Teper

Erdem Teper writes about everything that makes Erdem feel. Themes in his poetry are often taken from philosophical and religious contexts.

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