NYC - Cars into Bicycles: Workshop with Folke Köbberling (01.08.11)

Cars into Bicycles
Workshop with Folke Köbberling
January 8th, 4-6pm

Supported by the Berlin Senate Cultural Affairs Department

As part of the exhibition, Postautomobilzeitalter, Folke Köbberling will host a workshop today Saturday, January 8th from 4 to 6pm at the Jack Hanley Gallery to discuss a post car production future.

What alternatives do we have, could we imagine a continent without individual motorized transportation?

The artist will speak from her year long experience living with her family in Los Angeles without a car. Participants will be encouraged to join the discussion by drawing their ideas on the gallery walls. The result will be a collaborative work that proposes what a future without individual motorized transportation might look like and how it might affect our urban landscape.

Along with her partner Martin Kaltwasser, Folke Köbberling has lectured and hosted workshops internationally: the Metropolitan University in London, University of Arts, Berlin ( Architecture and Industrial Design Program) , the University of Kassel ( Fine Arts Program) ETH Zürich, Akademy of Fine Arts HFBK, Hamburg, University of Innsbruck, ( Urban Studies Program), and the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California.

Folke Köbberling and Martin Kaltwasser have been elaborating their idea of an artistic and architectural aesthetics of resistance since 1998.  In guerrilla architectural interventions, the artists make use of streets, squares, bridges, parks and interiors as operational spaces and always use unwanted urban resources as their material to do so. Folke Köbberling studied Fine Arts at Kunsthochschule Kassel/Germany and at the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in Vancouver and received her MA from the Academy of Fine Arts in Kassel/Germany. Martin Kaltwasser studied Fine Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg, Germany and at the Technical University Berlin, where he received his Diploma in Architecture. They have exhibited extensively in Germany and internationally and were most recently included in the 2009 Architecture Biennial in Sao Paulo and Martha Museum, Herford (Germany). Recent solo exhibitions include Power Plant, Marfa/USA (2010), Galerie Anselm Dreher, Berlin (2009), Ujadowski Castle CSW, Warsaw/PL (2009), Architekturgalerie am Weißenhof, Stuttgart (2009), Artforum Berlin (2007) Lothringer 13/Laden, Munich (2008), Simultanhalle, Cologne (2008), Shedhalle , Zurich (2007).

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