Born, 1966. Lives and works in Berlin. An artist working
with photography, combining different mediums to
blur the border between fiction and reality. Working on
an ongoing archive on human activity and the most
varied natural and man-made landscapes, Linke′s
multimedia installation on the contemporary alpine
landscape was awarded at the 9th Architecture Venice Biennale and at the Graz
Architecture Film Festival.
Guest professor at the HfG Karlsruhe, IUAV Arts and
Design University, Venice and Research Affiliate at MIT
Visual Arts Program Cambridge.
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Armin Linke: Green Line - UN-Porträts
22. Januar bis 10. April 2010, Innsbruck
Für seine Arbeit über die Green Line auf Zypern greift Linke auf die umfangreiche Sammlung
fotografischer Dokumente des UN-Archivs zurück. Anstatt selbst unter schwierigsten Bedingungen weitere Bilder
zu produzieren - das Fotografieren der Zone entlang der Green Line ist strengstens verboten - bedient er sich des,
zum Großteil von Soldaten der Stabstelle für Kommunikation aufgenommenen Materials aus dem "Inneren des Systems".
Das Verschwimmen der Grenze zwischen Fiktion und Realität, das Linke in seinen eigenen Arbeiten immer wieder aufzeigt,
stellte er auch bei der Sichtung dieses Materials fest, wo oft unklar ist, ob die Bilder "reale" Situationen abbilden
oder Übungen von Ernstfällen, ob sie extra für das Foto arrangiert wurden oder zu reinen Dokumentationszwecken aufgenommen wurden.
Der Idee des Archivs als konzeptionellem Rahmen folgend selektiert und kategorisiert er diese
Aufnahmen nach typologischen und dramaturgischen Kriterien und lenkt so den Blick des Betrachters auf Analogien und
Details der Landschaft wie auch auf die Art und Intention der Aufnahmen selbst. In sechs, für die Ausstellung im aut
zusammengestellten Fotobüchern zeigt er etwa eine endlose Serie von weiß gestrichenen UN-Beobachtungstürmen oder
Luftaufnahmen von Kontrollposten, die willkürlich die Landschaft zerschneiden. Durch die Sortierung und Zusammenstellung
wandelt sich das ursprünglich rein dokumentarische Archiv in ein schonungsloses Dokument, das ein gleichzeitig poetisches
wie verstörendes Bild dieser letzten Mauer Europas entstehen lässt.
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Extra City___Kunsthal Antwerpen
On films by Danièle Huillet & Jean-Marie Straub
Exhibition and Ciné-Club
13 November - 20 December 2009
Opening Thursday 12 November at 19:00
Tulpstraat 79, BE-2060 Antwerp
The ‘Straubs’, as Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub are often called, are among the most outstanding,
and yet widely unknown contemporary filmmakers in the history of cinema. Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet worked together
for over 40 years until Danièle Huillet′s death in October 2006. Since the early 1960s their radical approach towards
filmmaking allowed them to create almost 30 very diverse films; they treated and transformed literature by Kafka, Pavese and Hölderlin,
as well as the paintings of Cézanne, cantatas by Bach and operas by Schönberg.
Contributors: Chantal Akerman, Pietro Bianchi, Manon de Boer, Robert Bramkamp, Vanessa Brito, Giulio Bursi,
Rinaldo Censi, Merel Cladder, Anna Fiacciarini, Jack Henrie Fisher, Peter Friedl, Kim de Groot, Romano Guelfi, Tim Liebe, Armin Linke,
Laura Malacart, Sally Shafto, Ines Schaber, Eyal Sivan, Benoît Turquety, Barbara Ulrich, Klaus Volkmer, Susanne Weiric
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curated by: Annett Busch, Florian Schneider
Flocking
Performance at Romaeuropa Festival 2009
24 november 2009 h20.30
Goethe Institute Rome
via Savoia 15, tel 06 8440051
an interdisciplinary collaboration between HfG Karlsruhe University
of Arts and Design and Starflag project, Center for Statistical
Mechanics and Complexity (SMC) of CNR-INFM Rome
by
Ulrike Barwanietz, Maša Bušic, Irene Giardina, Herwig Hoffmann, Johanna Hoth, Giuseppe Ielasi, Samuel Korn, Armin Linke, Renato Rinaldi, Marc Teuscher
Phenotypes / Limited Forms
concrete & samples
28 May—20 September, 2009
Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen
Installation View, YOU_ser 2.0, ZKM Karlsruhe, 2008
28 Bienal de São Paulo, 2008
(in collaboration with Peter Hanappe)
How can curatorial selection processes be presented as
part of an artistic work in museum contexts? How can
interactive internet applications be transferred to
physical space? Where does it lead when authorship is
extended to the visitor? The installation Phenotypes /
Limited Forms, was presented from October, 2007 –
January, 2009, in the exhibition "YOU_ser: The Century
of the Consumer" at the Zentrum für Kunst und
Medientechnolgie (ZKM) Karlsruhe.
Exploring the meaning of the individual image within a
picture archive, illustrating the conditions of its
production and use. Relocating Armin Linke′s photo
archive into the museum space, the installation takes
the artist′s studio situation and proposes a serviceable
experimental arrangement: the visitor can view a
thousand images, select works, group them, present a selection on the wall, print their selection as a unique
edition, the title assigned is then projected in the
exhibition space.
These actions of individuals become
the basis from which later visitors are received. The
installation builds on the concept of a virtual book on
demand accessible through arminlinke.com. The
project is the formed through the cooperation between
Armin Linke, Peter Hanappe (Sony Computer Science
Laboratory, Paris), Alex Rich (London), Peter Weibel
(ZKM), and the programme in exhibition design and
curatorial practice at the Hochschule für Gestaltung.
The resulting collective process of selection from
Linke′s photo archive confirms that Phenotypes /
Limited Forms is not a finished object for presentation
but rather a space for production.
Doreen Mende, Karlsruhe, 2009
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Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen
SCREENING IN GENERAL #01 TO #1X
#08 Mapping the imaginary
August 05, 2009 / 9PM
Cairo, 2006, C-Print, 150 x 200 cm
Issue #08 of SCREENING IN GENERAL shows a montage of photographic sequences
and film extracts by the Berlin based Italian artist Armin Linke.
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Desert Islands
20.05. — 19.06.2009
Villa Romana, Florenz
Deserted Islands of the Mediterranean
A Project by Amedeo Martegani,
Armin Linke, Giovanna Silva,
Giuseppe Ielasi, Renato Rinaldi,
Giulia Di Lenarda
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A research which tells about spaces, sounds and reasons of the deserted islands of the Mediterranean, using photography, drawings, digital audio and video.More than 200 deserted islands have been counted.
At Villa Romana, for the first time, there will be presented the materials, which have been collected during the first two travels to the Dodecanese and to the Ionian Sea.
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The History of Now
Kurt W Forster on Armin Linke in TATE ETC.
Armin Linke
Three Gorges Dam, Yichang (Hupeh) China 1998
Ghazi Barotha hydroelectric scheme, workers
praying Hattian, Pakistan 1999
Star City ZPK, Moscow, Russia 1998
Polar Cap, Artic North Pole 2001
C–type print 150 x 200 cm
Giovanni Segantini
Death (from the Alpen Triptych 1898 – 1899)
Courtesy Segantini Musem, St Moritz
Oil on canvas 190 x 322 cm
Film stills from Armin Linke's
video installation "Alpi Film Project" (2008)
Courtesy the artist © Armin Linke,
Renato Rinaldi, Piero Zanini
Armin Linke has a studio in a humdrum part of Milan, but if one wishes to do more than catch a glimpse of this peripatetic photographer, one needs to travel with him. He packs his bags whenever something grabs his attention. At first this has nothing to do with the camera, but everything to do with his eye and a disarming intelligence. Linke quietly scrutinises his chosen location,
selecting a view that is of a scope and depth to warrant taking a picture. One day in Iraq, before the last war, he did just that, some distance from one of Saddam Hussein′s palaces on a slope of asphalt and sand. While he set up his camera, a group of men uniformly dressed in black walked into his view.
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