December 14 – 15, 2022, 10 am – 12:30 pm
Many thanks to the critic, artist and teacher Andreas Schlaegel for his workshop introducing our participants to Creative Strategies – Starting from scratch: ideas during the basic course within the Studio Program at BAI | Berlin Artist Residency, Art School, Arts Incubator, and Live Online Courses & Classes.
“In this course we’ll look at the very most basic aspect of art production: the concept of invention. We will look at the path from having an idea to sharing it and at developing an idea into an artwork.
In particular we will be looking at individual experiences in dealing with ideas. We will explore exercises from current concepts in creativity research and in psychology, we will test if and what systems and structures applied in the creative industries could work in an artist’s studio. One goal is to expand our capabilities of dealing with among others, basic instincts, trust and/or distrust in gut feelings, inventions, and to explore techniques, play and free association. It’s about reducing the fear of failure and to invite chance and play and fun to the artist’s studio.
Over the two days of the course, in a series of exercises we will aspire to finding the peace of mind to allow for inspiration, and where we find it. And we will exercise the ways we share ideas, try doodles and sketches, putting them into words and talking about them. The second goal is to keep the ball in the air, by finding the language that comes with the idea, it enables us to explore but also to share the concepts of what can become a new piece of work.” (Text by courtesy of Andreas Schlaegel)
Andreas Schlaegel (*1966 in Kinshasa, DRC) lives in Berlin and is active as a critic, artist and teacher. He is currently a member of the curatorial team of the 8th Triennial of Photography in Hamburg, which will open in May 2022.
His essays, portraits, and reviews have appeared since the late 1990s in international art journals such as Flash Art International (Milan), Frieze (Berlin/London), Billedkunst (Oslo), /100 (Berlin), Kunstkritikk (Copenhagen), and others, as well as in publications of the UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; MUSAC, Leon; Aspen Museum, Colorado; Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt/Main; Thyssen Bornemisza Contemporary, Vienna; Kunsthalle Düsseldorf; Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf and Berlin, and many others. His artistic interests target the tension between individual artistic positions and collaborative and discursive formats. This practice also includes cross-genre music projects, such as ACO (Art Critics Orchestra, with Raimar Stange u. Micz Flor,), the duo Die!Landschaft with Manfred Peckl, as well as other collaborations, such as “Come early, avoid disappointment” with the group Gelitin at TBA21 in Vienna and the Venice Biennale, 2011, or “The Art of Conversation” with Paolo Chiasera and Matthew Antezzo, PSM Galerie, Berlin, 2013, or “t=600” with Nine Budde, Bretz/Holliger and Melou Vanggaard at Standortfriedhof Berlin (2019).
Since 2014 he teaches theory and history of photography at Hfg Offenbach.
