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Stih & Schnock	Displaced - Living On
	Berlin Messages
	The Art of Collecting - Flick in Berlin
	Zeige Deine Sammlung / Show Your Collection

Berlin, Germany

Renata Stih
Prof. Renata Stih artist (Prof. University of Applied Sciences / Beuth Hochschule, Berlin)

Frieder Schnock
Dr. Frieder Schnock artist, art historian (Ph.D.), curator, critic, art consultant

Stih & Schnock taught as visiting faculty at MICA
(Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore/MD) in Spring 2009

Rockefeller Fellows, The Rockefeller Foundation,
Bellagio Study and Conference Center 2000

Statement:
Our art is principally devoted to the ways in which the introduction of new media
have brought about new modes of seeing and experiencing one's surroundings and
to the possibilities of exerting psychological influence through the intrusion
of art into the sphere of everyday life. The work has been shaped by
studies about how memory functions in the social sphere and how it is
reflected symbolically in the space of the city.

projects in public space (selection)

1992-93
Places of Remembrance
Memorial in the Bavarian Quarter, Berlin-Schöneberg

1994-95
Bus Stop
Project for a Holocaust Memorial in Berlin

1995-97
Image Spheres
24 hour program for a campus, University of Applied Sciences Esslingen
eyes in between

1996-97
Neues Deutschland Bild
Collection Museum Haus der Geschichte, Bonn/Leipzig

1998
Invitation
Advertising self help groups, Berlin-Alexanderplatz

1998
Was brauchen wir Kunst, wir brauchen Kartoffeln
Who Needs Art, We Need Potatoes
Environment (1998-2008), Staatsgalerie Stuttgart

1999
Hänsel and Gretel at the Reichsbank
Proposal for the former Reichsbank, now the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Berlin

2000
Canalettoweg
Memorial project for Euthanasia Victims in Pirna-Sonnenstein, Germany
Sonnenstein, depicted by Canaletto (detail)

2001-02
mind maps / hand, heart and mouth
Landmarks in München-Riem

2002
Headlines
"View on Germany", National Press Office at Bahnhof Friedrichstrasse (not realized)
Germany's tax system is better than what? / Reichstag hosts art controvery by the shovelful

2002
berlinc.de
Berlin website
das (c) der (Haupt)stadt

2003
You know, this isn't bad advice
Hitler Exiles in America, Washington University, St. Louis

2003
Flying Column
Project, Stuttgart Opera

2003-4
Signs from Berlin
The Jewish Museum New York

2004
Greetings from Walter Benjamin
Haus am Waldsee, Berlin

2004
The Art of Collecting - Flick in Berlin
Billboards - Publication - Panel discussion (in cooperation with NGBK/Akademie der Kuenste, Berlin)

2005
Rosa I, Rosa II, Rosa III
Rosa Luxemburg Memorial Project, Berlin-Mitte

2005
Berlin Messages
Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida

2005
displaced
Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, relations, taz

2006-2007
Die Stadt als Text - Das Jüdische München
The City as Text - Jewish Munich
gefördert durch die Kulturstiftung des Bundes / funded by the German Federal Cultural Foundation
in cooperation with the Jewish Museum Munich

2007-2008
Zeige Deine Sammlung - Jüdische Spuren in Münchner Museen
Show Your Collection - Jewish Traces in Munich Museums
Commissioned by: Kulturreferat der Landeshauptstadt München
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2009
LIFE~BOAT
Artists as Curators
see pdf-link (400 KB)

2009
Baustelle Berlin
Mode in der Bauakademie

2009
Wettbewerbsentwurf Einheits- und Freiheitsdenkmal, Berlin
Klangräume der deutschen Geschichte
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lectures / talks (selection)

2010

MAE workshop "Remembrance and Public Space - Case Studies & Transformations",
Zürcher Hochschule der Künste (ZHdK), Zürich/Switzerland.

2009

UWO, London/ON
Dartmouth College, Hanover/NH
George Washington University, Washington DC
George Mason University, Fairfax/VA
Kunsthochschule Kassel
MICA, Baltimore/MD
Brown University, Providence/RI
UB Department of Architecture, Buffalo/NY
UW-Madison + UW-Milwaukee

2008

Center for German Studies – Lecture/Seminar/Workshop
        Hebrew University, Jerusalem.
The Art of Collecting / Show Your Collection
        Mishkenot Sha'ananim, Jerusalem.
Artists at Work – The New Berlin
        Oberlin College/USA.
Art and Remembrance – Connecting the Past and the Present
        Vanderbilt University, Nashville/USA.
ILA-Colloquium + Lecture
        Emory University, Atlanta/USA.
Princeton Art Museum / German Department
        Princeton University/USA.
Keynote speech at the "GerMania" conference
        Bezalel Academy for Art and Design, Jerusalem/Israel.

2007

Art and the City
        Humanities Institute Seminar, Harvard University, Cambridge/USA.
Show/Tell 03
        Goethe Institut, New York/USA.
Memory, Art and Social Sculpture
        Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore/USA.
University Seminar on Cultural Memory, the Institute of Research on Women and Gender, Deutsches Haus,
ICLS, the Departments of Art History (Barnard and Columbia), English and Comparative Literature and Architecture.
        Columbia University, New York/USA.

2005

Places of Remembrance
Colorado College, Colorado Springs/USA.
Die Kunst des Sammelns - Flick in Berlin
Schule für Kunst und Mediendesign, Zurich/CH.

2004

Like James Bond - Art with an Assignment
        School of the Art Institute, Chicago/USA.
Public Art and Social Sculpture
        Washington University, St. Louis/USA.
        University of Massachusetts, Amherst/USA.
Public Space and Memory
        Princeton University, Princeton/USA.
Kunst für alle Fälle
        Schule für Kunst und Mediendesign, Zurich/CH.
The Unmastered Past in Contemporary Art
        Symposium Bauhaus-University, Weimar.

2003

Signs From Berlin
        Goethe Institut, New York/USA.
Kunst und Architektur
        Institut für Städtebau und Landschaftsplanung, TU Braunschweig.
Kunst im öffentlichen Raum
        Symposium der Obersten Baubehörde Bayerns, Bamberg.

2002

Kunst für alle Fälle - Art For All Purposes
Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, München.

2001

Public Art and Social Sculpture
        University of Chicago/USA.
Dark Sides of Berlin
        Visiting Artists, School of the Art Institute, Chicago/USA.
Art & Architecture – Monuments & Propaganda
        Stockholm, Schweden.
Art and Politics
        Bard College, NY/USA.

2000

Social Sculpture
GSD, Rouse Visiting Artist Program, Harvard University, Cambridge/USA.

1999

Reflections on Art, Space and Commemoration
        Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis/USA.
Interventions - On Public Art
        University of Minnesota, Minneapolis/USA (College of Liberal Arts, Humanities Institute,
        Center for German and European Studies, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies,
        College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture).
Who Needs Art, We Need Potatoes
        Art Department, Boise State University, Idaho and the Manitoba Museum of Finds Arts.
Bus Stop und Bayerisches Viertel
        Depot im Museumsquartier, Wien/A.

1998

Kunst im sozialen Kontext
Basistage, Salzburg.
Kunst im Alltag
Graduiertenkolleg an der Gesamthochschule Siegen.

1997

Why Do We Need Memorials Today?
        Graduate Program in the History of Art, Williams College, Williamstown/USA.
Überlegungen zu Kunst im öffentlichen Raum
        Symposium an der Staatlichen Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Nürnberg.
Two Holocaust Memorials for Berlin
        University of California, Santa Barbara/USA.

1995

Vergangenheitsbewältigung und Denkmalskultur in Deutschland heute
        Goethe Institut, Boston/USA.
The Bavarian Quarter in Berlin
        University of Washington State, Seattle/USA.
Sprache und Holocaust
        Literarisches Colloquium, Berlin und Sender Freies Berlin.

1994

Places of Remembrance
        Rockefeller College, Princeton University/USA.
The Holocaust in the Arts Today
        Panel discussion, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington D.C./ USA.
Die Politik des Gedenkens und die tagtägliche Konfrontation
        Symposium "Kultur der Evidenz", Einstein Forum, Potsdam.

bibliography (selection)

http://www.zkm.de
http://www.gsd.harvard.edu

Atkinson, Rick. "Art of Darkness: Berlin's Holocaust Reminder", Washington Post, April 15, 1994.
Cabañas, Kaira. "Immaterial Metaphors and Berlin's Denkmalkultur", Atlantica no.26, Summer 2000.
Clark, James. "Memory", Metropolis, 3/1997.
Dromi, Uri. "Signs of Bitter Times", Ha'aretz, Nov. 11, 2001.
Freudenheim, Tom. "Monument to Ambiguity", Wall Street Journal, June 15, 2005.
Fricke, Harald. "Ein Objekt, nichts weiter", taz, March 28, 1996.
Greenblatt, Steven. "Ghosts of Berlin". New York Times, April 28, 1999.
Heinrich, Christoph. "Denkmal als Soziale Plastik"
in: Hemken, Kai-Uwe (ed.). "Gedächtnisbilder", Leipzig 1996.
see updated English version in: Renata Stih & Frieder Schnock. "Berlin Messages", (Ed.) Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale 2005 ( ISBN 0-9678056-0-0 ).
Kinzer, Stephen. "Berlin Given Unusual Idea", New York Times, Jan. 28, 1996.
Kirsch, Jan-Holger. "Trauer und historische Erinnerung in der Berliner Republik",
in: Rüsen, Jörn (ed.), "Trauer und Geschichte", Köln 2001.
Kirsch, Jan-Holger. "Nationaler Mythos oder historische Trauer? -
Der Streit um ein zentrales 'Holocaust-Mahnmal' für die Berliner Republik", Köln 2003.
Knight, Christopher. "Concrete, yet not". L.A. Times, June 25, 2005.
Kramer, Jane. "Victim Germany". The New Yorker, Aug. 14, 1995.
Kramer, Jane. "Living with Berlin". The New Yorker, July 7, 1999.
Kramer, Jane. "Two from Berlin". The New Yorker, Oct 27, 2003.
Kudielka, Robert. "Skulptur im öffentlichen Raum - Plädoyer für eine Ungereimtheit",
kunststadt stadtkunst 51, berlin 2004.
Lackmann, Thomas. "Einmal Auschwitz - und zurück", Tagesspiegel, Feb. 7, 1996.
Lewis, Anthony. "City of Ghosts", New York Times, Nov. 19, 1999.
Parada, Esther. "Homeland Bavaria: For Whom?", The German Quarterly 73.2 (Spring 2000).
Pietrzok, Marion. "Nach Fahrplan", Neues Deutschland, Feb. 2, 1996.
Preuss, Sebastian. "Planmacher - Rückkehr der jüdischen Stadt", Berliner Zeitung, June 19, 2007.
Reichel, Peter. "Nationale Pietät - ein deutsches Politikum", Universitas 51, Stuttgart 1996.
Riedle, Gabriele. "Ein deutsches Dilemma", Die Woche, July 14, 1995.
Schreiber, Susanne. "Darüber spricht man sonst nicht", Handelsblatt, Sept. 18/19, 1998.
Slick, Kevin. "Places of Remembrance: Reenactment and Collective Memory in Schöneberg",
SUNY Binghampton/USA, 1996.
Sommer, Richard. "Time Incorporated", Harvard Design Magazine, Fall 1999.
Straka, Barbara. "Normalität des Schreckens"
in: Stih & Schnock (ed.). "Orte des Erinnerns/Places of Remembrance", Berlin 1993/2002.
Straka, Barbara. "Hand, Herz, Mund / Hand, Heart, Mouth"
in: Büttner, Claudia (ed.). "kunstprojekte_riem / Public Art for a Munich District", Wien/NY 2002.
Till, Karen E. "The New Berlin - Memory, Politics, Place", Minneapolis 2005.
Turner, Elisa. "Signs of the Times", The Miami Herald, April 17, 2005.
Wiedmer, Caroline. " Fascism and its Ghosts. Designing Memories, Remembrance in Schöneberg",
Alphabet City, Toronto, June 14, 1996.
Wiedmer, Caroline. "The Claims of Memory", Ithaca/NY 1999.
Young, James. "Germany's Memorial Question: Memory, Counter-Memory ...",
German Dis/Continuities. Durham N.C. 1997.
Young, James. "At Memory's Edge", New Haven 2000.

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