Marc Kokopeli

Marc Kokopeli (b. 1987) lives and works in New York. His work is overly concerned with how identity is formed during childhood. This could range from the infantilization of the subject, to how artistic discourse can be framed by educational curriculum. Recent work includes the making of Pampertaarten: a materials driven approach to the representation of the unborn child.

Recent solo exhibitions include Die Pampertaarten, Reena Spaulings, New York (2022); Elly 2003-2018, The Wig, Berlin (2021); How to Start a High-School Underground (with Adam Martin), Etablissement D’En Face, Brussels (2019); 90% Years Later, Lomex, New York (2018); Tales of the Veil, Edouard Montassut, Paris (2017); Songs of Hammy’s, Lomex, New York (2016). Recent group exhibitions include La réforme de Pooky, Kunsthalle Friart, Fribourg (2022); The Holding Environment - Parts I & II, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn (2021).

From July to September 2022, Marc Kokopeli is artist resident in the program Zu Gast bei Urbane Künste Ruhr in Essen.

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.