Céline Condorelli makes exhibitions, installations, publications, sculptures and architectures; and is interested in combining a number of approaches from developing structures for ‘supporting’ (the work of others, forms of political imaginary, existing and fictional realities) to broader enquiries into forms of commonality. Recent exhibitions include Pentimenti (The Corrections), National Gallery, UK (2023), After Work, Talbot Rice Gallery, and South London Gallery, UK (2022), Our Silver City 2094, Nottingham Contemporary, UK, Work, work, work (work), Muzeum Sztuki, Poland, Two Years’ Vacation, TEA, Spain (2021) and FRAC Lorraine, France (2020). She was the 2023 National Gallery Artist in Residence and one of the founding directors of Eastside Projects, UK. Books include Two Years Vacation (Archive Books, 2024), Pentimenti, (National Gallery Press, 2023) After Work (Edinburgh University Press, 2022) and Support Structures (Sternberg Press 2009/2014).

ccondorelli@hfg-karlsruhe.de

Constanze Fischbeck has been Professor of Scenography at the HfG Karlsruhe since 2019. In addition to stage spaces and costumes, Constanze Fischbeck has developed a large number of video installations, experimental and documentary films, which have been created individually or in connection with performative works. Examples of this work include the film "Making of History" (2012), which was performed together with a scenic commentary by Hans-Werner Krösinger at the Maxim Gorki Theatre, and the performance "Technik des Glücks" (2018) at the Hebbeltheater Berlin, for which she developed the stage space and (together with Siska) projections shot in 16 mm. From 2009-2015, together with filmmaker Daniel Kötter, she developed the extensive research, film and art project state-theatre #1-6 in the cities of Lagos, Tehran, Berlin, Detroit, Beirut and Mönchengladbach, which represents a comprehensive examination of the conditions of the places of the performative. It has been shown at the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum Cologne, Akademie der Künste Berlin, Mousonturm Frankfurt, Venice Architecture Biennale, SALT Istanbul, Art Museum Nanjing, National Gallery Singapore, Segal Center Festival New York and won prizes at architecture and film festivals. Her film works are distributed by the Arsenal Institute for Film and Video Art.

The starting point of Fischbeck's artistic work is the space, the present and the social context of specific places. In her filmic works, she combines spatial analysis with staged discourse and performative as well as documentary elements. In her designs for the theatre, projections and moving images interact with transformative spatial structures. Constanze Fischbecks often works collaboratively and in dialogue with directors, choreographers, artists and scientists.

Her research areas are: hybrid performance spaces, spatial theory and the concept of landscape, border research, the determination of performative space by architecture, theories of memory and collective design processes.

www.constanzefischbeck.com
www.state-theatre.de
cfischbeck@hfg-karlsruhe.de

Florian Malzacher is a curator, writer, and dramaturg as well as the host of The Art of Assembly, a series of lectures and talks about the potential of gathering in art, activism, and politics (since 2021). He is co-editor of the series Postdramatic Theater in Portraits published by Alexander Verlag Berlin. 2013-17 he was Artistic Director of the Impulse Theater Festival (Düsseldorf, Cologne and Mülheim/Ruhr), 2006-12 co-programmer of the multidisciplinary festival steirischer herbst in Graz/Austria, and 2018-20 curatorial advisor of the Ruhrtriennale.
After completing his studies in Applied Theater Studies at the University of Giessen, he initially worked as a freelance theater critic and cultural journalist for large daily newspapers and national as well as international magazines. As a dramaturge he has worked at theatres and festivals such as Burgtheater Vienna, Gorki Theater Berlin, Mousonturm Frankfurt, Wiener Festwochen and Ruhrtriennale with artists like Rimini Protokoll, Lola Arias, Mariano Pensotti, Tania Bruguera or, regularly, the Nature Theater of Oklahoma. He was a founding member of the independent curatorial collective Unfriendly Takeover in Frankfurt (2001-08).
Next to festivals Florian Malzacher (co-)curated, among others, the International Summer Academy (Mousonturm Frankfurt, 2002 & 2004), Dictionary of War (2006/07), Performing Lectures (Frankfurt 2004-06), Truth is concrete (Graz, 2012), Appropriations (Ethnological Museum Berlin, 2015), Artist Organisations International (with Jonas Staal & Joanna Warsza, HAU Berlin, 2015), Sense of Possibility. On the Occasion of the 100th Anniversary of the Revolution (St. Petersburg, 2017), After Supervising the Machinery (Engelskirchen, 2020), Training for the Future (with Jonas Staal, since 2018), as well as various performative conferences.
Guest professorships, teaching assignments, and master classes have taken him to universities and art academies in Amsterdam, Berlin, Frankfurt, Giessen, Helsinki, Karlsruhe, Leipzig, Oslo, Stockholm, Taipei, Vienna, Zagreb and Zurich, among others.
Florian Malzacher is (co-)editor of monographs on artists such as Forced Entertainment (2004), Rimini Protokoll (2007), Nature Theater of Oklahoma (2019), andCompany&co. (2021), and Boris Nikitin (2022). His texts have been translated into more than 15 languages.

florianmalzacher.net
art-of-assembly.net
fmalzacher@hfg-karlsruhe.de

Vera Gärtner observes, questions and re-imagines her immediate environments with a current focus on patriarchal structures in urban space and commemorative culture. This context finds working manifestation in site-specific installations, critical mappings, spatial mixtapes, activist walks and anti-hierarchical conference architectures. During her studies of Exhibition Design, Scenography, Curatorial Studies and Media Art at the University of Arts and Design Karlsruhe (HfG), she was a scholarship holder of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes. In 2022/23, she received the Cultural Scholarship of the City of Karlsruhe and was involved in the exhibition "Protest/Architecture" at the German Architecture Museum (DAM). Her works have been presented at Museum für Neue Kunst Freiburg, Badischer Kunstverein Karlsruhe and at uqbar Berlin, among others.

vvgaertner@hfg-karlsruhe.de

Hanne König is an art historian and works in the curatorial field, on exhibitions, publications and as a researcher. She focuses on feminist issues in their social context and in change, especially in contexts of art and exhibitions, as well as their inherent collective, collaborative and/or transdisciplinary work processes. Since 2017 she has been an artistic assistant in the field of scenography and exhibition design at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design and since 2020 a fellow at the DFG Research Training Group 2477 Aesthetic Practice, where she is currently researching the relationships and interdependencies between curating and aesthetic practices such as literary writing, fiction, poetry, dance, choreography and performance.

hkoenig@hfg-karlsruhe.de

In his research questions of interest are the relationship between fictional and built environments and urban infrastructures as well as the role of suggestion, technology and authorship in design-processes. Philipp Schell studied Media Art at HfG Karlsruhe and Architecture at AbK Stuttgart with a Master’s degree. Works were presented at the Sinop Biennial 2019 and at WKV Stuttgart, among others. Between 2016 and 2021 he founded the studio triggerbangbang.com with a focus on the conception and development of spatial installations and customized applications for exhibitions, performances and companies, using various media and technologies.

pschell@hfg-karlsruhe.de