December 21 – 23, 2021, 10 AM – 1 PM
Many thanks to the critic, artist and teacher Andreas Schlaegel for his seminar The Image-Currency & discussing the works of our participants within the Studio Program at BAI | Berlin Artist Residency, Art School, Arts Incubator, and Live Online Courses & Classes.
“Images make us laugh or cry, they „touch“ us, they „speak“ to us. If we consider the way we discuss images, it reminds us that images have never been only celebrations of beauty, but carry the power within themselves to move us. And this not only metaphorically. The earliest images we know clearly represent power, and the history of images, and of image-making, of education, of art history, can be regarded as a history of how images were produced primarily to gain and maintain power over territories, bodies, and minds of humans. But what has happened to the idea of the image and its democratization since the dawn of industrialization? What power still emanates from the individual image at all, especially in a time when it has never been easier or more effective to make and share an image? Do new images create new worlds or do they merely reproduce existing power structures?” (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.
