Christoph Schäfer projects and collaborations:
Die Stadt ist unsere Fabrik - The City is Our Factory, Christoph Schäfer 2010, published by Spector Books, Leipzig booklaunch is March 19, 2010, ISBN: 978-3-940064-95-0
Christoph Schäfer's talk at MIT is now available on video: The City is our factory
Videotaxi Ganz wie zu Hause, mit Margit Czenki, September 2007
Aquarium Urban, The Institute for Independent Urbanism, coming soon
Saloon La Realidad, since 2006
Hoang's Bistro, 2005
Melrose Place_d in Bangalore, 2005 / 2006
Palomino Park, unrealized Park Design for Munich, (with architect Günther Greis) 2002
Revolution Non Stop Nonstop-Filminstallation at Metropolis-Cinema
Park Fiction, artistic coordination, since 1995
Tele 5, videobar, (with Hans-Christian Dany and Christian Senkel) April 21, 1997 - December 30, 1999
Promised Land - Das Versprechen der Stadt, (with Cathy Skene), Disco UNIT, St. Pauli
Stuff I organized, co- or sub-curated:
Park Fiction presents: Umsonst & Draussen, on Art in Public Space, with Anne Querrien, Grant Kester, Nina Möntmann, Christiane Mennicke and Wanda Wieczorek, VJs Monika Wucher and Christoph Rauch, DJs Nikola Duric and Ted Gaier, subcurated by Margit Czenki and Christoph Schäfer
Park Fiction presents: Unlikely Encounters in Urban Space, International Congress and Exhibition on the Reeperbahn, with Ala Plastica (La Plata), OUT - Cantieri Isola (Milano), Stephan Dillemuth (Munich), expertbase (B, HH, M), Galerie für Landschaftskunst (HH), Ligna (HH), Maclovio Rojas (Tijuana), Jelka Plate (B), Sarai Media Lab (Delhi), Schwabinggrad Ballett (HH)
Some talks and screenings I liked:
2009 Lecture at MIT, Cambridge, USA (Video)
2007 Talk at the AA Architecture Association, London
2006 Filmscreening and Talk at the Urbani Fesival, Zagreb
2006 Seminars at the ZU - Zeppelin University, Friedrichshafen
2005 Talk at Groundworks, Miller Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh
2005 Talk at AAA Atelier d'Architecture Autogeree, Ecobox, Paris
2005 Filmscreening and Talk , at Goethe Institute Max Mueller Bhawan, Bangalore
2004 Filmscreening and Talk, at SARAI, New Delhi
Selected shows
2009 We do it. Die Isola Nachbarschaft in zwei unzulänglichen Beschreibungssystemen kunstraum lakeside, Klagenfurt
2009 Pudel Art Basel Hamburg
2009 Public Garden - Public Generation Neuer Aachener Kunstverein
2009 Public Turbulence / Disordine in pubblico Art ISOLA ART CENTER, Mailand
2008 Neue Künstlergeneration ›im Tal‹ Kunstverein Hasselbach
2008 parcours interdit 2008 Künstlerverein Malkasten, Düsseldorf
2008 Participation Galerie Martin Janda, Wien
2008 Karussel der Katastrophen, (Disaster Carrousel), with Margit Czenki, NGBK, Berlin
2007 Ganz wie zu Hause, (with Margit Czenki) Wilhelmsburger Freitag, Public Space, Hamburg
2007 Shrinking Cities, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit
2006 Impossible India, Frankfurter Kunstverein
2006 City of Glass, Christoph Schäfer, Ashok Sukuman, COLAB Gallery, Bangalore
2005 Groundworks, (with Park Fiction) Miller Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh
2005 World Information City, Bangalore
2005 Migrations, Kölner Kunstverein
2005 Shrinking Cities 2 , GFZK, Leipzig
2004 Ambulantes. Cultura Portátil, Centro Andaluz del Arte Contemporaneo, Sevilla
2004 Shrinking Cities 1, KW, Berlin, and (looking much better) Halle (2005) and New York (2006)
2002 Site-seeing, Group-Exhibition on the Disneyfication of Cities, Kunsthaus Vienna
2002 Info-Offspring-Boogie-Woogie, Groupproject in Public Space, Dresden
2002 Documenta11 with Park Fiction, Kassel Summer 2002
2002 Revolution Non Stop, Kunstwerke Berlin in the series "Positionen 1 - 4"
2002 Big Social Game - Biennale Torino 2002
2002 Ökonomien der Zeit, group show, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Migros Museum, Zürich
2002 Gewalt ist der Rand aller Dinge, group show, Generali Foundation, Vienna
2002 Der 3. Sektor, group show, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig
2001 Televisions, Tele 5 – the true story, (with H.C. Dany), Kunsthalle, Vienna
2001 Der 3. Sektor, group show, Kunstverein Wolfsburg
2001 Arte al Centro, Cittadellarte – Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella, Italia
2001 Le Republiche dell' Arte: Germania - la costruzione di un immagine
group show at Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena / Italia
2000 Cowdemonstration, Werkleitzbiennale
2000 Revolution Non Stop
Nonstop-Filminstallation at Metropolis-Cinema, as part of Aussendienst exhibition of art-in-public-space in Hamburg
2000 Hey International Competition Style, groupshow, T.E.N.T., Rotterdam, NL
2000 Park Fiction –
die Wünsche werden die Wohnung verlassen und auf die Strasse gehen
Margit Czenki's Film and exhibition, Parkhaus, Berlin
1999 Park Fiction –
die Wünsche werden die Wohnung verlassen und auf die Strasse gehen
Film (Margit Czenki) and exhibition at wienerkunstverein, Vienna
1997 Park Fiction, art-in-public-space project officially supported by Kulturbehörde Hamburg in the frame of weitergehen
1996 Park Fiction 4 – organisation of park-related exhibition in the community, shops, flats, around the not-yet existing park
1995 No Hesitation No Repetition No Deviation, (with Cathy Skene) Kunstverein München
1994 Objektive Begierden der Epoche - Vorschläge zum Umgang mit Architekturen
(with Cathy Skene), Kunstverein in Hamburg,
1993 Begierdengeneralisierungsgeräte, 0-100%, Gerlingisierung, Mediapark, Die Privatisierung des Elends
(with Cathy Skene) in Stephan Dillemuth’s, Joseph Strau's and Kiron Khosla‘s “Friesenwall 120” Köln
1993 Oppositionen & Schwesterfelder, group show, Wiener Secession, Vienna, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel
1990 Diorama, with Cathy Skene, Münzstrasse 10, Hamburg
1989 Promised Land - Das Versprechen der Stadt, with Cathy Skene, Disco UNIT, St. Pauli
Lectures, talks and presentations in Milano, Firenze, London, Liverpool, Vienna, Hamburg, Berlin, Dresden, Munich, Stuttgart, Mexico City, Copenhagen