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| About Art Laboratory Berlin  |
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The multiple award winning art and research platform Art Laboratory Berlin (ALB) presents interdisciplinary art projects in an international context. It was founded in 2006 by an international team of art historians and artists - including Regine Rapp & Christian de Lutz. Our main goal is the presentation and mediation of contemporary art at the interface of art, science and technology. In recent years, ALB has focused on the field of art, biology and artistic research. |
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EXHIBIT | Sustainable curatorial practice
It is an important aim of ALB, in the form of a close, long-term collaboration
with artists, to follow the creative processes and make this visible in
the exhibitions. Instead of subordinating the works on exhibition to theory,
we are interested in an inductive approach - that rather places the individual
artistic work at the centre of inquiry.
RESEARCH
| Artistic Research & Artist-in-Residence
At all our international conferences, we have successfully brought artists
and researchers from the humanities and natural sciences together in an
active and sustainable dialogue. In recent years we have been successful
in realising research projects between artists and universities and in
developing artist-in-residence programs.
PUBLISH
| Scientific publications & artist books
We have published numerous texts and books, also scientific academic contributions
(conference papers and articles); exhibition catalogues and artist books.
- [macro]biologies & [micro]biologies. Art and the Biological Sublime
in the 21st Century. Ed. By Regine Rapp & Christian de Lutz, Berlin
2015:http://www.blurb.com/b/6244394-macro-biologies-micro-biologies-art-and-the-biolog
- Internationale Conference Nonhuman Agents in Art, Culture and Theory
(24.-26.11.2017), conceived and realized by Regine Rap & Christian
de Lutz, Online-publication: https://artlaboratory-berlin.org/html/eng-event-40.htm
EDUCATE
| Individual art education
A model character takes the form of art mediation, which reaches a broad
international audience of different ages through different mediation formats.
Highly praised in the press are not only our conferences, exhibition talks
and our Reading-Lounge, but also children's workshops and student talks.
MAIN TOPICS| Exhibition and event series
- Art & Science (2008 - present)
- Time and Technology | Exhibitions & Conference (2011-12)
- Synesthesia. A Multisensory Phenomenon | Exhibitions | Exhibitions (2012-13)
- International Synesthesia Conference (July 2013)
- [macro]biologies & [micro]biologies. Biosphere, Organism, Bacteria, Molecules | Exhibitions & Publications (2013-15)
- Nonhuman Subjectivities | Exhibitions (2016/17)
- Nonhuman Agents | Exhibition, Workshops, International Conference (2017/18)
- Mind the
Fungi | Interdisciplinary Research project with the Institute of Biotechnology
of TU Berlin (2018-20)
- DIY Hack the Panke | Interdisciplinary Research project (2018-20)
Art Laboratory Berlin is run by Christian de Lutz and Regine Rapp.
The current team of Art Laboratory Berlin includes:
Christian
de Lutz is a curator and visual artist, originally from New York.
As co-founder and co-director of Art Laboratory Berlin he has curated
over 40 exhibitions, including the series Time and Technology,
Synaesthesia, [macro]biologies & [micro]biologies, and
Nonhuman Subjectivities. His curatorial work focuses on the interface
of art, science and technology in the 21st century, with special attention
given to BioArt, DIY Science initiatives and facilitating collaborations
between artists and scientists.
He has published numerous articles in journals and books, including [macro]biologies
& [micro]biologies. Art and the Biological Sublime in the 21st Century,
which reflects theoretically on Art Laboratory Berlin's 2013-15 program,
and an introductory essay in Half Life. Machines/ Organisms, Artistic
Positions in the context of Climate Change and Extinction (2018).
He is currently a researcher affiliated with the Institute for Biotechnology,
TU Berlin in context of the interdisciplinary Art & Science Project
"Mind the Fungi".
He is also active in a number of collaborative organisations including
transmediale/ re-Source, Synapse (Haus der Kulturen der
Welt), The Berlin Network of Free Project Spaces and Initiatives,
and 21cc. Network for hybrid and digital practices.
cdelutz(at)artlaboratory-berlin.org
Co-director and curator, Art Laboratory Berlin
Regine
Rapp is an art historian, curator and co-director of Art Laboratory
Berlin. Her research focuses on art in the 20th and 21st century: Installation
Art, Text and Image Theory, the Artist Book, and Art & Science Collaborations.
As a research associate at Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule Halle she
taught art history.
As co-founder of Art Laboratory Berlin (2006), she has curated and researched
on more than 40 exhibition projects (Time and Technology, Synaesthesia,
[macro]biologies & [micro]biologies). In 2011 parallel to the
exhibition Sol LeWitt. Artist's Books, she conceived the international
Sol LeWitt Symposium at Art Laboratory Berlin. Along with Christian
de Lutz she developed the international conference Synaesthesia Discussing
a Phenomenon in the Arts, Humanities and (Neuro) Science (2013). The
Nonhuman Subjectivities (2016/17) and Nonhuman Agents (2017/18)
series of exhibitions, performances, workshops, and an international conference
reflected on Art and Science in the post-anthropocentric era. As a research
associate at the Institute of Biotechnology of the TU Berlin, she is currently
connecting Art & Science research in the project Mind the Fungi.
Publications (selection): [macro] biologies & [micro] biologies.
Art and the Biological Sublime in the 21st Century (ALB, Berlin 2015);
Trans, Post and Beyond. Some Reflections on Machines and the Biological
(Fabrico Publishers, 2018); The concept �Nonhuman Subjectivities�.
Current Artistic Practices in Posthumanism (Reimer Publishers, 2019).
rapp(at)artlaboratory-berlin.org
Co-director
and curator, Art Laboratory Berlin
Tu�e Erel
is a Berlin-based curator and art writer. She studied Sociology at METU
(2005, Ankara), received her MA from Anatolian University in 2009, and
her second MA in Arts Policy and Management (with curating pathway) from
Birkbeck College, UK, in 2015. From 2011 to 2013 Erel worked in Istanbul
for an art magazine as content editor, and as archivist and gallery assistant.
Since September 2013, she has been contributing to art magazines in Turkey.
Since 2015 she has been curating and organizing exhibitions and events
internationally. In 2017 February she co-curated "Now You are Here" with
Seval Sener at Arte Sanat (Ankara) and curated "Fabric/ate" at Schneidertempel
(Istanbul). She facilitated artists' talks, short-term/pop-up exhibitions
at >top Transdisciplinary Project Space (Berlin) throughout 2018. In
2019, she co-curated "Roots and Growth: Traditional and Contemporary Art
from Turkey" with Sharon Laor-Sirak at Museum of Islamic Art and Near
Eastern Cultures in Be'er Sheva (Israel) and curated "Hactivate Yourself"
in 1as Space in Hong Kong. Since January 2017, she is a member of >top
Transdisciplinary Project Space, where she hosts Posthumanism reading
group. She is the arts editor of upcoming Journal Ecocene. Her curatorial
interests are archiving practices, posthumanism, anthropocene, ecocriticism,
and post-digital theories.
erel(at)artlaboratory-berlin.org
Karolina
Zyniewicz is an artist (2009 graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts
in Lódz, Department of Visual Arts) and researcher, PhD student
(Nature-Culture Transdisciplinary PhD Program at Artes Liberales Faculty,
University of Warsaw). Working in a laboratory (mostly at the Institute
of Genetics and Biotechnology, Faculty of Biology, University of Warsaw)
locates her works in the field of bio art, although she tries to avoid
using this term. She sees her liminal activity as situated knowledge production.
She is mostly focused on life in its broad understanding (its biological
and cultural meaning). Her projects have mostly conceptual, critical character.
The main point of her PhD research interest are multilevel relations emerging
during realization of liminal projects. She tries to put her observations,
as an artist/researcher (liminal being), in the context of Science and
Technology Studies (STS) Actor-Network Theory by Bruno Latour and feminist
humanities. At Art Laboratory Berlin she is currently assisting on upcoming
projects and exhibitions.
zyniewicz(at)artlaboratory-berlin.org
Olga Shmakova studied Art History at the Russian State University for the Humanities (RGGU) in Moscow, with a research focus on modern and contemporary art (visual arts, installation art, art in context). In 2008/2009 she researched at the Humboldt University, Berlin on her project "The Search for an Ideal Artistic Language in the Multimedia Projects of the Russian Avant-garde and the German Bauhaus." She has recently completed her Masters in Art History and Image Science with an outstanding master's thesis on Synesthesia in art of the 20th century.
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