Throwback Thursday

Since our last project in Finland has now been completed, I will be sharing images from past events that took place as part of our project series PRESERVED at irregular intervals from now on.

Lämpöpaikka

We created this intervention in the frame of a residency grant at platform Vaasa in Finland in 2013 and presented it during a Performance Festival in Seinäjoki in public space. A small stove was connected to an electrical outlet that is normally used in winter to keep car engines warm (Lämpöpaikka/värmeplats) in order to cook jam. The berries used for preserving were provided to us by visitors to the event. During the whole stay in Vaasa we dealt with the berry culture in northern Europe.

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The old days IV

If I remember it right this intervention was one of the first Jan Philip Scheibe and I realized together. We had just started dating and spend a lot of time roaming the Teutoburg Forest and Egge Range. And just made art for the sake of art. We took different pieces of common IKEA furniture such as GORM (shelving unit for basement) back to the forest to be reintegrated into the natural circuit. The gradual deterioration was constantly documented.

[Scheibe & Güntzel, GORM - Das Waldregal, Series of installations/interventions, 2003-2008]

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Juan Casemiro, “minha vó nasceu um dia antes do são joão...”, 2024, smoked cigarettes by the artist's friends glued onto canvas, 12 × 9 cm ★ Brazil ★ https://www.contemporaryartlibrary.org/project/juan-casemiro-at-marli-matsumoto-arte-contemporanea-sao-paulo-43543 #JuanCasemiro #contemporarysculpture #assemblage #cigarettes #Camel #conceptualart #longtitles #recollections #grandmother #comparisons #SarahLucas #FGT #GonzálezTorres #queervibes #Brazilianartists

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#341: Life is a solo, or is it?

I always knew it would come to this by Christopher Chiappa, 2010 (conceptual art, photography)
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The old days III

Even though I am not rummaging through shoe boxes that have been sitting under the bed for years, but just digital photo folders, it does feel a bit nostalgic at times. Here’s another piece from the old days when I used to roam the woods with Jan Philip Scheibe just to make art. This work is part of a series where inflatable plastic objects representing nature were staged in the landscape. The series began in 2006 and marked the start of my artistic exploration of our relationship with plastic.


[Swaantje Güntzel, The age of plastic / fly agaric, 2009, Intervention]


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