Date: 28th November 2020
Time (IST): 1600 - 1800
Time (CET): 1130 - 1330
Johannes Hedinger (CH)
www.johanneshedinger.com
www.artsafiental.ch
www.alpsartacademy.com
www.bloch.art
Johannes M. Hedinger is the director of the Institute for Land and Environmental Art and the international summer school Alps Art Academy, artistic director of the Art Safiental Biennale for Land and Environmental Art (all in Grisons Switzerland), co-founder of the artist collective Com&Com and creator of Bloch, Mocmoc and NEXPLORER.
Hedinger studied fine arts at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) as well as the University of California Los Angeles, UCLA, obtained second degrees in Art history, Cultural studies, Film studies and German studies at the University of Zurich and at the Humboldt University of Berlin, as well as a postgraduate degree in Strategic marketing at the Berlin University of the Arts, and Art history at the University of Lausanne.
Johannes Hedinger is lecturer and researcher at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) (since 2006) and teaches at the Institut für Kunst und Kunsttheorie at the University of Cologne (since 2010), where he was a substitute professor for intermedia in 2013/14.
His focus and research topics include: Land and Environmental Art, Art in Public Sphere, Urban Art, Transdisciplinarity, Intermedia, Participatory Art, Socially Engaged Art, Cultural Hacking, Sociology of Art and Artistic Research.
Curatorial works include the Biennale Art Safiental (2020, 2018, 2016), ILEA Institute for Land and Environmental Art (since 2020), TEKTONIK (2018), Methods of Art (Ural Biennale 2015, Connecting Space Hong Kong 2015), Point de Suisse (Museum of History Basel 2015), Kunstsalon (Bard Hall New York 2014), La réalité dépasse la fiction (CentrePasquArt Biel 2009/10) and Beauty is the new punk (White Square Gallery Las Vegas 2009).
Research and mediation works include initiatives such as the Institute for Land and Environmental Art (since 2019), The New Artist (since 2016), Methods of Art (since 2014), What’s next? (since 2013), Urban Interventions (since 2012) and Cultural Hacking (since 2009). Hedinger is the editor and co-author of many books on contemporary art, such as LANDSCAPE #1 (2020), Point de Suisse (2015), What’s Next? Kunst nach der Krise (2013), Lexikon zur zeitgenössischen Kunst (2010), Kunst, öffentlicher Raum, Identität (2004).
Hedinger’s artistic production is mostly known as a part of the Swiss artist duo Com&Com (with Marcus Gossolt, since 1997). His latest projects include Bloch (since 2011), NEXPLORER (since 2019), Point de Suisse (2014-15) and Mocmoc (2003-08). Together they participated in nine Biennales (Venice, Shanghai, Singapore, Sharjah and Moscow amongst others), solo exhibitions at the Kunsthaus Zürich, Kunstwerke Berlin and Knockdown Center New York amongst others; group exhibitions at Centre Pompidou Metz, ZKM Karlsruhe, Kunstmuseum Bern, Migros Museum Zürich, Pratt Manhattan Gallery and Shanghai Minsheng Museum amongst others. Overall, he has participated in more than 150 exhibitions and 25 short films.