Lisa Bergmann
Curation and art mediation
Art and art-making are subject to a communicative process. Art creates affects and offers a field of tension in which the viewers find aesthetic and content-related attitudes. This is the basis of its social significance. Since artists develop their work in a communal context, it is natural and not too much for art to deal with aesthetic questions as well as political issues.
In order for art to become accessible and achievable for all, it is necessary to move away from the traditional establishment of elitist spheres of very limited representation towards opening up, appreciating and mapping our society in its entirety.
In addition to a discursive focus on the possibilities of social paradigm shifts, Lisa Bergmann places great emphasis on the inherent weight of the material and the urgency of the aesthetic statement. She promotes a way of working that sees text, sound, colour, space and performance as equal means.
A slight geographical focus is on artists from Romania and Poland. In terms of cultural policy, she is active in the Bündnis für gerechte Kunst- und Kulturarbeit Baden-Württemberg (Alliance for Fair Art and Cultural Work in Baden-Württemberg). She campaigns for an appropriate appreciation of the importance of culture, the independent scene, and above all for the introduction of exhibition remuneration and gender-equitable representation.
Can be requested for
Curation, texts, fundraising / acquisition
Moderation of talks and interviews
Cultural policy workshops, e.g. on the topic of exhibition remuneration
Vita
Teacher for Applied Technology | Carl-Hofer-Schule | Karlsruhe
Spokesperson AG Gerechte Bezahlung | Bündnis für gerechte Kunst- und Kulturarbeit Baden-Württemberg (Alliance for Fair Arts and Cultural Work Baden-Württemberg)
Chairperson Künstlerhaus Karlsruhe
Freelance artist and curator
Education
Diploma from the Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe | Media Art and Exhibition Design
Diploma of the Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg | Sculpture
Accademia di belle arti di Palermo | Painting and Photography
Publications (selection)
Structural change urgently desired. In: Magazin Kultur Management Network Nr. 164, Jan/Feb 2022
Guideline Exhibition Remuneration 2021, Bundesverband Bildender Künstlerinnen und Künstler, Berlin. 2021
Open Borders, Edition Lattner, Heilbronn. 2018
Lampedusa: Pictorial Stories from the Edge of Europe, Spector Books, Leipzig. 2017
Logografowie. Landszaft, Galeria Sztuki Wspólczesnej, Opole (PL). 2016
f/stop Festival für Fotografie Leipzig, Spector Books, Leipzig. 2016
Reset Modernity, The MIT Press, Cambridge. 2016
Body of Work, FeministWorkCollective (ed.), Karlsruhe/Berlin. 2015
Radar Play. In: report, Miho Kasama (ed.), Nuremberg. 2015
Cross Over. Photography of Science + Science of Photography, Spector Books, Leipzig. 2013
Maschinensehen, Reader/Catalogue for the exhibition at ZKM, Spector Books, Leipzig. 2013
Exhibitions (selection)
Nix wie raus! Fahrrad – Kunst – Sommer | Künstlerhaus Karlsruhe
Liebe und Zuneigung. Künstlerhaus & Orgelfabrik Karlsruhe | jubez Galerie (exhibition and festival)
Online/Offline. Material Links in the Post-Digital Age | Künstlerhaus Karlsruhe
Seduction in Blue, White and Pink | Kulturzentrum Tempel | Karlsruhe
Der gefaltete Raum | St. Franziskus Dammerstock | Karlsruhe
Heaven of the Female Rap Fanbase | Edel Extra | Nuremberg
49° - Cultural Production in Karlsruhe | Badischer Kunstverein
Open Borders | Orgelfabrik Karlsruhe
Stockholm Syndrome | KVHBF Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof
Open Codes | ZKM Centre for Art and Media Karlsruhe
Beweis und Zeugenschaft | Biennale for Contemporary Photography | Mannheim
32nd DOK.fest Munich
zusammen auseinandersetzen (FAK) | LOTTE | Stuttgart
Vernacular Opacity – no place like home | LaF | Pforzheim
Logografowie. Landszaft | Galeria Sztuki Wspólczesnej | Opole
f/stop Plattform | Festival for Photography Leipzig
Wir Flüchtlinge – Von dem Recht, Rechte zu haben | Badischer Kunstverein | Karlsruhe
Reset Modernity! | ZKM Centre for Art and Media Karlsruhe
Klangkollektiv Alter Fritz and Friends | Goethe Institute | Hanoi (VN)