netzwork AG
About us
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Netzwork is a collective of artists that operates
simultaneously on a local and international scale. It aims
to open local opportunities for artists to a broader network
in order to share existing and develop new audiences. It
seeks an alternative way to collaborate and in the process
maximize exhibition opportunities for its members and
affiliates.
Netzwork focuses primarily on the Visual Arts but its appeal
resides in its openness to collaborate. There is no
prevailing sense of ideology (Konzeptuel) and if one can
speak of a manifesto it would be one of transparency and
communication. With this approach we have over the last few
years managed and organized a steady flow of exhibitions and
performances.
Netzwork by definition needs to be seen as an expanded field
of experimentation and communication reconfiguring itself in
unusual ways according to each individual situation.
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StatementsFor me, Netzwork is the opportunity to establish strong and loose, but always interesting contacts to artists of all genres - in the immediate area as well as abroad - in order to plan with them and realize unusual projects. Netzwork means to me also a kind of freedom from market and politics, close to the idea how art actually works. Esther Glück
Think locally, act globally.
Joachim Froese
My sense of community is on an
expansive scale mainly due to my transient life within my
formative years. My father worked for the airlines and we were
forever migrating from one country to another, from one school
to another.
It is evident then, why I
create work that alludes to worlds caught within a 'twilight
zone' acting at times as potential portals from one place and
time to another. 'Netzwork' for me is similar to this in that it
creates a global network from artists to artists, cultures to
cultures, creating a window from one end of the world to the
other, so they can occasionally join and bring their creations
together.
The internet acts as a sort of
portal device, but it is the physicality that becomes lost and
this is where the potential lies in the Netzwork community. It
provides a 'spider-web' of portals that inform, celebrate, and
come together at points in time – I exist on one of these
threads.
großfamilie statt kleinfamilie Peter Hoffmann/Powerschranke
Die Netzwork-AG ist in meinen Augen eine
offene Plattform in dem Bereich der Bildenden Kunst. Ein
Treffpunkt von Bildenden Künstlern, Kuratoren und
Kunstinterssierten mit der Idee gemeinsam Projekte
(Ausstellungen, Events etc.) im In- und Ausland zu
verwirklichen. Die angesprochenen Projekte können sowohl
themenabhängig als auch frei sein.
Netzwerke beeinflussen und sind beeinflussbar. Auf diesem Hintergrund muss die Netzwork AG eine eigene Philosophie und Praxis entwickeln. Johannes Veit In einer der ersten gemeinsamen
Netzwerk-Ausstellungen erzählte mir ein beteiligter Kollege
(Lars Köppsel), dass er vor ungefähr zwei Jahren in
Australien ausgestellt hat und er erinnerte sich, dass ihn
ein australischer Fotograf
(Joachim Froese) während der Ausstellung gefragt hat,
ob er denn einen Ralf Hanrieder kenne! Der letzte Kontakt
zwischen Joachim und mir ist ungefähr 20 Jahre her, ich habe
dann im Internet nachgeforscht und so kam es, dass Joachim
ein Netzworker wurde. Was ich damit sagen will, Netzwork ist für mich der "Raum", in dem solche Kontakte und Aktivitäten entstehen und wachsen können. Ralf Hanrieder Netzwork is a transboundery grouping of free artists, which is not organized and seems to work nevertheless. As long as this freedom of movement exists, it means exchange, enhancement and affiliation - to art and artists - to my "global village", which grows, when my own permissibilities and artistic criteria are constantly transcended.
I like teamwork and the idea to realize group-projects
together.
Networking...dialogue..travelling...experiment...communication
to people with all cultural backdrops. Thomas Gottschalk |
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