... and THANX to wolfgang malik & of-nordend boxing club for lending the gloves. good luck for the upcoming championship fights, boys![more]

since long, sarah baumann of t-raum theatre dreamt of an art project on the declaration of  human rights. for sunday afternoon she invited 30 collaborators from theatre, music and art to play scenes and create interventions on one of the 30 articles. if you want to do a sparring on art. 3 (the right to security of person): come to my boxing club in buesing park, offenbach (next to a tree in the park's center, 16.15 h and 17.15 h, 30 min each). guitarist talib richard vogl accompanies the sparring on his gitalele. complete guided tours start 15h and 16.30h from klingspor museum. in case of rain, the whole project takes place in the museum. details on: www.of-t-raum.de .... (it was raining. so all took place in the spaces and arcades of klingspor museum. 380 (!) visitors within 3 hours. a very, very cool project. thanx, sarah, for taking up the topic and putting it (& us all) together.)[more]

it is the 'world day of the book': from 11 - 18h offenbach citizens read grimm's fairy tales in the shop windows of the city's main shopping street. if you want to hear 'six get around the world': come to hear me in the window of kaufhaus schneider, ca. 12h[more]

starting 19.45h:  finissage of 'in tenebris': dress up in white. bring a camera. and everything white you can think of (skates? icebears? coco macaroons?) ......[more]

19.45h as a guest in the cocoon 'in tenebris': tom schüler plays a concerto with his trumpet and the accoustics of the church tower. space sounds, loops and layers on layers.  the duet of a musician and a tower (with dry acoustics). [more]

19.45h in the cocoon 'in tenebris': performance artist roza rueb wears a dress covered with the words of a sentence. visitors are invited cut out a word and type a sentence with this word on a typewriter. what grows is a new text composed of fragments. [more]

19.45h as guest in the cocoon 'in tenebris': landscape architect sascha döll, eisenach, talks about people's nostalgia as a reaction to technical progress. in 18 th and 19th century it was fashionable to built fake greek and roman  ruins in castle gardens.  currently, another part of the destroyed historic city center of frankfurt gets reconstructed. hightech with an ancient face. [more]

19.45 h as guests in the cocoon 'in tenebris': plastic surgeon prof. marianne schrader, lübeck, who did a lot of reconstruction surgery for burn and accident victims meets tattoo artist  björn of skin art tattoo, of-bieber. their topic: what can happen to a human's skin? [more]

at 20h opening of my new cocoon 'in tenebris'. built into the tower of 'alte schlosskirche' offenbach. here's an early shot of fotographer katja lenz. come if you can and try out how light and darkness feel. [more]

for luminale biannual 2012, i'll create a new cocoon: in tenebris (in the darkness). this is a cooperation with Ev. Dekanat Offenbach and architect/lighting designer jens müller. the remains of a baroque churchtower become a space for encounter and rest. transformation - fragment - vulnerability. all these can easily be traced within the space. guest artists will take up more of it in nightly events. luminale comes with 'light & sound', the worlds biggest fair on lighting design in frankfurt. ++++ where: tower of Alte Schlosskirche (luminale-stop no. 25), kirchgasse 27 (the tiny street next to the castle) ++++ when: sun, april 15 - fri, april 20, 18-23 h ++++ vernissage: sun, april 15, 20h ++++ guests (at 19.45h) : plastic surgeon prof. marianne schrader and tattoo artist björn (mon), landscape archichtect sascha döll (tue), performance artist roza rueb (wed), tom schüler and his trumpet (thur) ++++ finissage: fri, april 20, 19.45 h[more]

a heavy drinker from wales who makes us drunk with his words: dylan thomas. 12 people meet at gabriele und olaf nippel's home in bad homburg to read thomas' play for voices 'under milkwood'. a day's life in a city in wales. participants are welcome. the parts are short - reading without rehearsing possible. [more]

last chance to see vogelfrei biannual in castle kranichstein. many artists will be present. at 14 h we can meet at my installation 'Tischgesellschaft' and enter the historic dining room. a great chance to take a seat on the table - under huge chandeliers and among the baroque portraits of celebrated stags as well as their antler trophies. www.vogelfrei.info [more]

for the 'jour fixe' of frankfurt-based writer pete smith, i put together some ideas on art in public space, the background of my 'flaneurs' and - for sure - walter benjamin's thoughts on a modern metropolis. an invitation for this evening is possible on demand.[more]

about 50 architects, artists and other creative workers (including me) participate in this two day-happening. we draw fast little sketches of buildings and structures. The project is curated by architect sepp held. the outcome can be seen during the opening of an a exhibition in offenbach's town hall (sept., 25, 2011, 13.   [more]

make your bid tonight for one of 30 artworks! starting 19h, there'll be a fundraising auction for offenbach's refuge for battered women including one of my first serigrafies. (opening bid: 150 euro; adress: bettinastr. 71 hh; more on: www.frauenhaus-offenbach.de)[more]

during summer academy at homburg castle (near wurzburg), I'll teach a 2 day-workshop on how to access and how to picture places of interest in an unknown setting. an encounter with the lovely vine growing village, its surroundings and its people. open to beginners as well as advanced participants.[more]

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as a part of architectural summer rhein-main 2011 the 7 flaneurs stand on offenbach's town hall and 4 adjacent roofs. the flaneur's positions range from 2nd to 15th floor. they thus open the city space up to the sky. on invitation of the department of city planning's 'temporary gardens' programme.[more]

artist exhibit and donate pieces in order to support offenbach's refuge for battered women. The pieces can be chosen and bought in an auction, aug. 26, 2011, 19h. Auctioneer is Olaf Meister, art lover and lawyer.  atelierhaus b71, bettinastr. 71 (hh), offenbach. [more]

site specific works of 20 artists from 6 countries  for the park and the interior of kranichstein hunting castle (near darmstadt). my space installation 'tischgesellschaft' (table party) unites acrylic plates with silhouettes of archaic hunters and gatherers, the interior of the 19th century dining room and today's visitors. www.vogelfrei.info[more]

artist talk about my projects in public spaces. discussion with claus kriegs of internationals garden show 2012 igs.kultwerk west, kleine freiheit 42, hamburg-altona, www.kultwerkwest.de[more]

two days with 100 open artist's studios in offenbach. come to participate in my 'BildWechsel' project: you bring an artifact  from your life - i'll draw it within 60 sec. a growing exhibition with both artifacts and drawings - and in the end you get the drawing as a gift![more]