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Benjamin Zuber | selected artworks
exhibition view
Contemporary Daily2013, Performance and Installationletters cut out of paper, water, ceiling brush
United2013, ongoing project Towels from artist friends
Towels from artist friends are eyed and bound to an oversized banner – to-gether with one of my own towels.I removed a stripe of each towel and used it, to knot a friendship bracelet for the particular artist.Afterwards I stuffed the missing spots with pieces of my own towels.
exhibition view
All Gold Everything2013, Objekt and Sound golden tea-cart, hanging files, refusals, wheels, earphones, exhibition wall, mp3 player, refusals
A golden tea-cart was redesigned to work as a hanging folder storage. Some of the hanging files include refusals to several competitions and stipends I ap-plied within the last few months.Nearby a mp3 player, which is moun-ted into a lightly angled exhibition wall, plays continuously the track „All Gold Everything“ by Trinidad James over some earphones.One can now bounce to the music while flip through the refusals.
The Hedge is a symbol for the little guy‘s border.It‘s made of shelf-supporting crosses which come with a regular billy shelf – and therefore they can be found as basic furniture at nearly everyone’s place. The single crosses are connected
by zip ties, sparsely attached artificial leaves refer to its cousinship with the classical garden hedge. The Hedge is as easy to transport as it is to expand. It matches two basic needs of a contemporary home border: Mobility and flexibility. Additionally, the guideline of the enhanced under-standing of post modern privacy is totally supported: See and be seen.
Hedge2011, installation | IKEA shelf-support-crosses „Observatör“, zip tie, artificial leaves
Backside Event2013, Installation and Photography (with Daniel Kiss) The backside of the exhibition display, constructed for a weird event during a job.
Two bad jokes balancing on each other 2012, object | transparent hose, wire, tubeclips, cable
2012, installation view, various objekts
Käpt‘n Blaubär or: an old europallet is drea-ming overseas. 2012, object | used europallet, rebuild to a rocking chair
Daumenkino (flip-book)2012, Object acetone prints on wood
Räuberknoten 2012, installation (failed) | drywall, cw studs, wood, rope
Räuberknoten above: shoot of the fall after releasing the knotbelow: before the fall(Photo: Michael Munding)right side: model
250g | 2011, installation | wooden frame, clothesline, hand made paper
250gdetails
Accurecy is in the eye of the beholder2012, exhibition view (with Daniel Kiss)
row of holes (drillbattle)2012, Installation (with Daniel Kiss)wood, MP3 player, sound of the drillbattle, ceiling of the gallery with acoustic boards
straightened2012, object | stick, hot glue
smart answers to stupid questions2012, exhibition viewBlackbox Gallery Copenhagen
Quartet2012, wooden Object and Film
A film shows four strange guys perfor-ming as a string quartet – while they actually just cut the wooden pieces for the screen the film is projected on.
Race | 2011, Objekt and Filmchipboard with cuts and line (picture on the left), film with jigsaw-race (filmstill below)
A single chipboard is leaning on the wall. Because of three vertical cuts from different lenght and a horizontal black line the board resembles an abstract dra-wing. A film projection close to the chip-board exposes its real origin: A kind of a race between three jigsaws has taken place on the board. Tilting of the chip-board allowed the jigsaws to run through the wood, just driven by gravity and their engine power.
no title (plaster) 2012, plaster object and projection
The projection shows a bag of plaster ly-ing on a sheet of ice in the sea.Every time the waves are flushing the bag it becomes heavier – until the floe breaks and the bag sinks.After the recording the bag was reco-vered, dried and unpacked and is now used as projection screen for the docu-mentation of the process of its formation.
Roh (raw)2007, installation55kg of raw yeast dough, autopsy table, dissecting room
55 kg of raw yeast dough were lying on an autopsy table in the dissecting room. During the five days of the exhibition the dough changed its consistency and sha-pe. The room was filled with the strong smell of yeast.
Men in Blue (ghostbusters) | 2009, collection of photographiesspirit de-possession performance at Gunther von Hagens bodyworldswith: Julian Baumann, Nina Malotta, Thomas Rustemeyer, Philipp Scholz
no title | 2012, objectstyrofoam, trash bag, water
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Fett (fat)2010, objekt various boards, butter, portable floodlight, chain
no title (Schwerebeschleunigung/ apparent gravity) 2011, installationchipboard, model grass, dimmer, cable, plugs, bulbs, hot glue
no title (Schwerebeschleunigung/ apparent gravity) | details
Assembling2012, performance with bulb and hot glue (duration: ca. 5 minutes)
Dosenöffner (Can-Opener)2011, objekt chipboard, stovepipe, chain, can of beer
Physik 1 | 2010, digital printing on vat paper, each 70x50 cm | scanned from an physics-schoolbook and scaled up
leveled | 2011, installation | Three Frank-furt shovels, three water-filled buckets, a two meter level, three photographies
rainbow | 2012, installation cleaning sponges, used drinking glasses, glass panel
selfbraking laths | 2012, object laths, wedge (cut of exactly the same laths), rolls, rallyestripes made of tape
most commonly used | 2012, installation | tie knots made of perforated tape, ribbon, laths
most commonly useddetail: the four-in-hand-knot
The titel of that work comes from a map I found online. It shows the way to a small company in Rostock, Germany, which is located in a little dead-end street, boastfully named „Charles-Darwin-Ring“.As a non-ring ring can be interpreted as kind of a phallus symbol, I added
another find from the internet: Every empty page of a completely digitalized (german) version of Charles Darwin‘s „The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex“. On each empty page a little ruler can be found. Another Phallus-Symbol with the proud length of 16 centimeters. They are presented in a chipboard showcase, face to face with another ruler on a pedestal which pretends to be 20 centimeters while its real length also counts just 16.
Charles-Darwin-Ring2012, installation | various objects
A third from the internet is the top-100-list of the biggest carps ever captured, which is several metres long if you print it.Finally the last piece of the installati-on comes from fish back to the ring: Six oversized maki-sushis, made of toilet paper, gaffer tape and cleaning sponges.
Photo: Hannes Woidich
Ein Brief (a letter)2011, installation (mit Daniel Kiss) various objects
Ein Brief (a letter)Detail: „Three bucks“, vat paper, hand-made from three US-dollar bills.
ten bucks | 2012, object | vat paper, hand made from ten dollar bills, showcase (chipboard, drywall, glass)
no title (Su-Shi) | 2011, installation | toilett-paper, paper napkins, gaffertape, cleaning sponges, bamboo, corrugated board, black mdf, black foil, photography
Foto: Marianne Vordermayr
Wesseltoasts | 2008, eatable sculptureToast, various spreads
The Wesseltoasts are little eatable ob-jects, based on a painting by Tom Wes-selmann. Unlike the original, the picture is not made of oil on canvas, but of con-ventional spread (like sausages, ham, cheese etc.) on toast.The usage of a custom-built cutter enables mass production of Wes-seltoasts.
Tarnzelt | 2008, installation stretchers, painted canvas, telescope
The conception for Tarnzelt comes from the idea of transferring the operating mode of a regular camouflage tent (used for the ob-servation of animals) to an artspace.The triangular tent is built up from three strechters. A canvas is stretched over them – painted with painting-camouflage. The tent is lightweight and easy to transport and mount.Inside the tent there is a telescope for obser-ving other artworks.
Hochsitz zur Beobachtung des jungen Wildes | 2008, installation professor‘s studio, course tables, tension belts, Petersburg Hanging with collec-ted paintings of students
The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living 2008, multiple (edition of 20) | Lego bricks, woodruff jelly
Flugmaschine (flying machine) | 2010, Photography C-Print/Aludibond/Acrylglass, 50 x 75 cm
Hollywood (made in china) | 2010, three part installationinstruction manual, chinese calligra-phy, parts of a canopy swing (so called „hollywood“-swing in Germany)
Player | 2011, objectDVD-player, metall rack, DVD with freeze frame
white cube inside-out (closed) | 2011, installation
White cube is a hanging White Cube made of white stretch film, containing a square of stretched matte black foil. The room is lit with fluorescent tubes.The cube is constructed of two identical horizontal pieces, which define the form and the size of the cube. The walls do not need any support – the lower piece sim-ply hangs within the film and stretches it with its weight. Viewed from the inside, the stretch film appears to be glossy and opaque white. But, from the outside the material is translucent and reminiscent of parch-ment, transforming the outer facade into a kind of a painting. Finally the whole installation works as an inside-out White Cube and illuminates the surrounding exhibition space.
white cube inside-out (open) 2010, installation | White stretch film, pond liner, fluorescent tubes, laths, tension belts
Heimwerk 2011, installation | „Schiesser“ Undershirt, in-grain wallpaper (corrugated by wire), various painting accessory
Platzhirsch | 2011, installationused towels, fiber glass tent poles, curtain rod, tent strings
The Platzhirsch is a kind of a banner, made of camouflage-green used towels.The single towels are perforated with eye-lets, similar to those of a regular tarpaulin, which are knotted to each other with string. Although they were crafted and colored in a uniform way, they now differ due to their varying signs of usage.The flagpole is made of a bunched group of fiber glass tent poles which bends under the banner‘s weight. A curtain rod to which the towels are fixed is suspended from the top of the banner. The title of the work also refers to the wi-despread habit of claiming public space by reserving it with a towel.
Doppelknoten | 2012, installation view | various objects
Lightbox | 2011, objekt fluorescent tube, chipboards (sanded from its inside until it became translucent)
Lightbox | 2011, objekt fluorescent tubes, chipboards (sanded from its inside until it became translucent)
Steambox | 2010, objectchipboard-cube, glass bottle, water, im-mersion heater (35x25x25 cm)
The immersion heater boils the water. The steam causes the sides of the for-merly exact cube to bend until its miters seperate from each other.
Frame | 2011, object | digital frame, mirror tile, glass panel, table tripod
La Fontaine | 2010, installation at public space (with Thea Möller) fiberglass, silicone, pipes, rubber ropes, string, hopper
La Fontaine | Detail
La Fontaine is kind of a uncompleted fountain, which was temporarly installed during Nurembergs „blauer Nacht“ (pub-lic event, museum night). In a dark backy-ard which is even in regular nights often abused as alternative toilett.The installed hopper positively invited to that function. The pipes ensure at the same time a clean drain into the next gul-ly.As soon as a pedestrian uses the foun-tain as toilett, he instantly becomes the missing fountain and completes the ins-tallation.
Benjamin Zuber
+49 173 6594698
Lives and works currently in Munich.
Curriculum Vitae:
1982 born in Bamberg/Germany
2003 - 2004 media studies and art history, FAU Erlangen
2004 - 2011 Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg, „Meisterschüler“ at Professor Michael Munding
2008 - 2009 HFG Karlsruhe (stipend)
2008 - 2009 Guest student Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe
2010 - 2012 Academy of fine Arts Vienna
Grants and Stipends::
Stipend of Künstlerhaus Eckernförde (2012)
„Debütantenförderung“ (funding for graduates) of the Free State of Bavaria (2012)
Funding of „Erwin und Gisela von Steiner Stiftung“ Munich (for the exhibition „Platzhirsch“ at CirkulationsCentralen, Malmö/Schweden; 2011)
„Kulturförderpreis Bayern“ (E.ON AG and the Free State of Bavaria, 2011)
Artprize of the city of Lauf 2010
Free-Mover stipend of the DAAD (Vienna, 2009)
foreign exchange scholarship of the „Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes“ (Vienna, 2009)
Second prize of the artist‘s fair Karlsruhe 2009
Nominated for the Artprize of Bosch-Rexroth (2008)
Artprize Brandad Systems - second prize (2008)
Stipend of the „Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes „(2008)
Grand prize of the city of Lauf 2008
Stipend of the Free State of Bavaria for guest studys at the HFG Karlsruhe (2007)
„Materialpreis“ / annual show of the AdbK Nurenberg, 2007
Artprize Noris 2007
selected publications:
„re•turn / 350 Jahre AdbK Nürnberg“, Verlag für moderne Kunst, Nuremberg (catalog of the exhibition). (in preparation)
not yet titled, solo catalog of the bavarian funding for graduates, Munich/Nuremberg 2012. (in preparation)
Daniel Kiss and Benjamin Zuber: „Duelt“, brochure about our work at the exhibition „dual“ at Kunsthaus Essen and Künstlerhaus Dortmund, Munich/Nuremberg 2013. (in preparation)
Benjamin Zuber: „smart answers to stupid questions“, brochure about the solo exhibition at Blackbox Gallery Copenhagen, Munich/Copenha-gen 2013.
Benjamin Zuber: „Doppelknoten“, brochure about the solo exhibition at frappant e.V. Hamburg, München 2013.
„DUAL –Eine Doppelausstellung im Künstlerhaus Dortmund und im Kunsthaus Essen“, Künstlerhaus Dortmund/Kunsthaus Essen, Dortmund/Essen 2012.
„but this place in this way I have seen“, in: „Lotto Magazin und das Spiel ums Ganze“, Stuttgart 2012 (Interview with Melanie Biedermann).
„anders:wo / 2. Triennale Schweinfurt für zeitgenössische Kunst“, Schweinfurter Museumsschriften, Schweinfurt 2012 (catalog of the exhibiti-on).
„Und der Gewinner ist… – Nürnberger Teilnehmer am bundesweiten Wettbewerb von Studierenden der deutschen Kunsthochschulen von 1983 bis 2011“, Verlag für moderne Kunst, Nuremberg 2012 (catalog of the exhibition and essay).
Benjamin Zuber: „Platzhirsch“, brochure about the solo exhibition at CirKulationsCentralen Malmo, Munich/Malmo 2011.
Rothmüller, Barbara: „Chancen verteilen. Ansprüche und Praxis universitärer Zulassungsverfahren“, Arts & Culture & Education Band 6, hg. von Agnieszka Czejkowska, Wien 2011 (article).
„Kunststudentinnen und Kunststudenten stellen aus 2011“, Bonn 2011 (catalog of the exhibition).
„The Art of Drive & Control – Der Rexroth-Kunstwettbewerb 2008“, Würzburg 2008 (catalog of the exhibition).
2009 „Wesselbrot“, Berliner Kunstverein, Münster/Germany [SE]
„Schwarze Kunst“, Zeughaus, Schweinfurt/Germany [C]
„Kalrsruher Künstlermesse 2009“, Regierungspräsidium, Karlsruhe/Germany [C]
„Subversivmesse“, Hafenhalle09, Linz/Austria
2008 „The Art of Drive and Control“ (Ausstellung zum Kunstpreis Bosch-Rexroth), Industrie- und Handelskammer, Würzburg/Ger-many [C]
„Biennale di Sculture di Carrara“ (at „Lo Spazio e gli Altri“), Ex Caserma Dogali, Carrara/Italien[C]
„Stellen, Hängen, Legen?“, curated by Kathleen Rahn, Ausstellungshalle of the AdbK, Nuremberg/Germany
„Conflict Research Action Program“, Akademie Galerie Nuremberg and ZKM Karlsruhe/Germany
„Kunstmesse Nürnberg 08“ (exhibition), Akademie Galerie, Nuremberg/Germany
„Nebenstern“, curated by Bianca Häutle and Julia Leicht, former Casino, Nuremberg/Germany
2007 „Art at Work 2007“, Smurfit-Kappa factory, Nuremberg/Germany
„Blaue Nacht Nürnberg“, public space, Nuremberg/Germany
„Rencontres Internationales Paris, Berlin, Madrid“, Madrid/Spain
2006 „Rencontres Internationales Paris, Berlin, Madrid“, Paris/France
Imprint
Benjamin Zuberselected artworksJune 2013
images and texts: Benjamin Zuber(exceptions are marked)© 2013, Benjamin Zuber
selected exhibitions: [SE] = Solo exhibition, [C] = Catalog
2014 not yet titled, Kunstarkaden, Munich (in preparation)
not yet titled, Parkhaus, Düsseldorf/Germany (in preparation)
„Die ersten Jahre der Professionalität“, Galerie der Künstler, Munich/Germany (in preparation)
2013 not yet titled, das weisse Haus, Vienna/Austria (in preparation)
not yet titled, Black Box Gallery, Copenhagen/Denmark [SE] (in preparation)
„Trajector Art Fair“ (with Black Box Gallery), Brussels/Belgium (in preparation)
„Tacker“, Galerie der Künstler, Munich/Germany
„Marcel Grosse & Benjamin Zuber“, exhibition of the bavarian funding for graduates, Ausstellungshalle of the academy of fine Arts, Nuremberg, Nuremberg/Germany [SE/C]
„In peculiar Galaxies“, Friday Exit,Vienna/Austria
2012 Jahresgaben 2012, Kunstraum München, Munich/Germany
„smart answers to stupid questions“, Black Box Gallery, Copenhagen/Denmark [SE/C]
„die Präzesion liegt im Auge des Betrachters“ (with Daniel Kiss), curated by Z.A.C.K., Kunstverein Würzburg/BBK Galery at Kulturspeicher Würzburg, Würzburg/Germany [SE]
„Neu Eröffnung“, Kulturschutzgebiet Dachauerstr./Schwere-Reiter-Str., Munich/Germany
„anders:wo / 2. triennial for contemporary fine Arts Schweinfurt“, curated by Hans-Peter Miksch, Kunsthalle Schweinfurt, Schweinfurt/Germany [C]
„springhouse“, curated by Sven Christian Schuch and Anna Bründl, Rugestr. 9, Dresden/Germany
„re•turn, 350 Jahre AdbK Nürnberg“, curated by Sebastian Hein, Andreas Oehlert and Ladislav Zajac, Halle 20 auf AEG, Nu-remberg/Germany [C]
„Und der Gewinner ist…“, curated by Andrea Dippel, Kunsthaus Nuremberg, Nuremberg/Germany [C]
„Crossbreeds 2012“, Palais Kabelwerk, Vienna/Austria
„Parallelaktion“, UniCredit Kunstraum, Munich/Germany
„Doppelknoten“, Frappant, Hamburg/Germany [SE/C]
2011 „Dual“ (with Daniel Kiss), curated by Uwe Schramm and Peter Schmieder, Kunsthaus Essen andKünstlerhaus Dortmund, Essen and Dortmund/Germany
„Schwerebeschleunigung“, Heyestr. 117, Düsseldorf/Germany
„Platzhirsch“, CirkulationsCentralen, Malmo/Sweden [SE, C]
„Aichacher Kunstpreis“, Kunstverein Aichach, Aichach/Germany
„Young at Art“, Gallery Art Seefeld, Zurich/Schweiz
„Display ´11“, curated by Cornelia Gockel and Peter Wendl, Gallery Steinle Contemporary, Munich/Germany
„Kunststudenten stellen aus“, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn/Germany [C]
„Saved by Entropie – Time wins again“, curated by Michael Franz and Nadim Vardag, Kunstbunker, Nuremberg/Germany
„Weiße Zelle“, Werkstatt Strunkgasse, Mainz/Germany [SE]
„Terminator 2“, LOVE_ Kunstverein, Vienna/Austria
2010 „Multiple Market“, Black Box Gallery, Copenhagen/Denmark
„Rohmaterial“, Raumstation L, Vienna/Austria [SE]
„Was zubert der Zimmermann“ (with Benjamin Zimmermann), curated by Z.A.C.K., Ausstellungshalle of the AdbK, Nurem-berg/Germany [SE]
„Ars Electronica“ (with Black Box Gallery), former tobacco factory, Linz/Austria
„Black&Brunn“, Gallery Brunnhofer, Linz/Austria
„Things you can walk into“ (Regionale 10 / Steiermark, with the class of Pawel Althamer), Schloss Trautenfels, Steiermark/Austria [C]
„la fontaine“ (with Thea Möller; at the „blauen Nacht / langen Nacht der Museen“), Akademie Galerie, Nuremberg/Germany [SE]
„Zeugzusammenhang“, curated by Z.A.C.K., Ausstellungshalle of the AdbK, Nuremberg/Germany
„Flugmaschine“, die Vitrine, Nuremberg/Germany [SE]
