Schumacher & Jonas
| Birgit Anna Schumacher was born in 1961 near Cologne. She studied ethnology and comparative linguistics in Bonn, Cologne and Berlin. She has worked in the fields of economy and urban research, employed by a business communications agency. In 1997 she received a degree in culture management. Uwe Jonas, born 1962 in Hamburg, studied political science in Braunschweig and Berlin. He was an assistant at the FU Berlin and the Humboldt-University Berlin until 1994, later teaching at the Design Akademie Berlin, as well as at the Fachhochschule für Rechtspflege und Verwaltung(Berlin). He has also been Project Consultant for a development company in Braunschweig. Uwe Jonas and Birgit Anna Schumacher have lived in Berlin since 1986, working as fine artists (focusing on media installation, performances in public spaces, and video) as well as being curators and organisers of various art projects since 1993. |
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| Exhibitions and Projects | ||
| 1993 | Kulturfabrik Lehrter Straße, Berlin | |
| 1994 | Foyer of the Humboldt Universität, Berlin Sonderart, Kunsthaus Rhenania, Köln |
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| 1995 | Department of Arts, Berlin Kato, Berlin Participation in the art competition Denkmal für die ermordeten Juden Europas (in collaboration with Uwe Hassel-Jahnkow, Olav Perleberg and Werner Scholz), 2nd round, Ehemaliges Staatsratsgebäude, Berlin |
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| 1996 | H.T.C, Berlin | |
| 1997 | Geisterstadt - Geistesstatt, Wünsdorf-Waldstadt Provinz 3 x 2, Walden Kunstausstellungen, Berlin |
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| 1998 | SPRING, Quartair, Den Haag Back-Ground, Biennale Dak`Art 98, Dakar Untersicht, galerie weisser elefant, Berlin |
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| 1999 | Stadt/Land, Wünsdorf-Waldstadt Glück & Casino, Pavillon Babett, Berlin Titanic, Galerie 68elf, Köln |
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| 2000 | Zugriffe, galerie weisser elefant, Berlin Performance Lab, Forum Box, Helsinki Alimentation d'art, programme environnemental Biennale Dak'Art,Dakar Neues Problem, Berlin |
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| 2001 | transmediale.01, Berlin EXIT, International Festival for Unusual Live Performances, Helsinki |
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| 2002 | Galerie Expo 3000 im Kunstamt Kreuzberg, Berlin Walden Kunstausstellungen, Berlin |
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| 2003 | Galerie Program Angels/Lothringer 13, Munich Graz Performances, Ultimate Akademie, Cologne |
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| 2004 | Xme (Brandenburgischer Kunstverein Potsdam)
profundal, das; Geologisch-Paläontologisches Museum Münster (Schumacher)
Mobile Museen, Potsdamer Platz, Berlin First View (in the context of Metropolenprojekts Buenos Aires - Berlin), Buenos Aires |
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| 2005 | Projektstipendium des Fördervereins Aktuelle Kunst Münster | |
| Curated Projects | ||
| 1995 | Foundation of the project group weisse umwelt. Performances and events in collaboration with Helle Koppetsch and Max Querfeld (until 2002). | |
| 1997/1998 | In Collaboration with Gallery SoToDo realisation of the first and second Berlin Congress for Performance and Visual Art | |
| 2000 | Jonas: In collaboration with Helle Koppetsch and Max Querfeldt foundation of Gallery Neues Problem (Berlin) Jonas: In collaboration with Bernd Fox and Tom Thiel concept and realisation of the internet project Gnomon for the Hongkong Berlin Festival of Vision (Haus der Kulturen der Welt) (http://www.hongkongberlin.net/artefacts/gnomon) Jonas: In collaboration with Manfred Sieloff and Marina Goiny concept and realisation of the first international Waldstadt symposium of Russian and German sculptors (Wünsdorf- Waldstadt) |
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| 2001 | X-Stern, sculpture symposium (in collaboration with Manfred Sieloff and Marina Goiny), St. Petersburg Areale Neukölln - 17 temporal art projects in the public space (http://www.areale-neukoelln.de), (concept, production) |
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| 2002 | Magistrale - temporal art projects along Berlin’s Karl-Marx-Straße, in the context of 48 hours Neukölln (Jonas), (concept, production) | |
| 2004 | First View - artist exchange project between Buenos Aires and Berlin, artistic interventions in the public spaces of both cities in the context of Metropolenprojekt Buenos Aires - Berlin 2004 (concept and production in Berlin) OKKUPATION - artist symposium on the situation of artistic intervention in the public space (concept, moderation) |
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| 2002 bis 2005 | Pilotprojekt Gropiusstadt - International art residency for the realisation of art in the public space of Berlin-Gropiusstadt, in cooperation with GEHAG GmbH (concept, consultancy, production) | |