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Klara Hobza Prequel
06.09. - 05.11.2011


For her current exhibition, Prequel Klara Hobza has developed a signalling device and a simple doorbell installation as part of a nocturnal campaign that uses Morse code to get in touch with the citizens of Berlin.

Prequel is an amalgamation of performance, historical material, and site-specificity, in which Hobza again takes up a project she started in New York in 2004: Morse Code Communication. She contrasts this outmoded method of telecommunication with the pace of everyday life in the twenty-first century: our smartphones, e-mails, and social networking sites. Besides occupying public space immaterially, she also provides an impressive demonstration of one private individual’s attempt to communicate with the public using manageable means that nevertheless have their own heroic connotations.

Hobza’s artistic practice combines sculpture, video, photography, drawing, and conceptual approaches, as well as performance and narrative content. Her intentions are more than merely absurd and obsessive -- they also strive for precision. Their themes deal with central questions about proximity and alienation, about our dreams and our failures. With an almost casual ease, her simple, unpretentious work engenders a confrontation with issues of communication, cultural criticism, and self-awareness.

You can find more information on her projects at www.klarahobza.com

In ihrer neuesten Ausstellung Prequel hat Klara Hobza eine Signalvorrichtung und eine einfache Türklingelinstallation entwickelt, um in nächtlichen Aktionen mit Hilfe des Morsecodes mit den Bürgern Berlins in Kontakt zu treten.

Prequel ist ein Zusammenspiel aus Performance, historischem Material und Ortsspezifität, Hobza schließt damit an ihr 2004 in New York begonnenes Projekt Morse Code Communication an. Kontrastierend stellt sie diese Methode der veralteten Fernkommunikation unserem durch Smartphones, Emailing und Social Networking  geprägten Alltag des schnelllebigen 21. Jahrhunderts gegenüber.  Sie besetzt dadurch nicht nur immateriell den öffentlichen Raum, sondern demonstriert auch eindrucksvoll den Versuch mit beherrschbaren, aber heroisch angelegten Mitteln als Privatperson mit der Öffentlichkeit zu kommunizieren.

Hobza's künstlerische Praxis fasst Skulptur, Video, Fotografie, Zeichnung, konzeptuelle Ansätze, sowie Performance und narrative Inhalte zusammen. Ihre Vorhaben sind nicht nur absurd und obsessiv, sondern auch nach Präzision strebend, ihre Themen behandeln zentrale Fragen, die sich mit Nähe und Entfremdung, als auch unseren Träumen und unserem Scheitern beschäftigen. Sie erzeugt mit ihren einfachen und unprätentiösen Werken mit fast beiläufiger Leichtigkeit eine Auseinandersetzung mit Kommunikation, Kulturkritik und Selbsterfahrung.

Mehr Informationen zu ihren Projekten können Sie ihrer Webseite www.klarahobza.com entnehmen.


Klara Hobza Born 1975 in Pilsen (CZ)
2003 Munich Academy of Fine Arts, Diploma, Meisterschueler with Olaf Metzel, Munich
2005 Columbia University, Master of Fine Arts (MFA), New York
Currently lives and works in Berlin

Grants and Awards

2012 Stifung Kunstfonds, work fellowship 2012, Germany
Stiftung Kunstfonds, solo exhibition fellowship at Kuenstlerhaus Bremen, Germany
Alfred Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach-Stiftung, grant "catalogue for young artists", Germany
2010 ars viva – art grant, Kulturkreis der Deutschen Wirtschaft (BDI), Berlin (cat.)
Fleetinsel Residency Stipend, City of Hamburg, Hamburg
2009 DIVA/Danish Arts Council, artist in residence, Copenhagen
2007 New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA), Fellow in Cross-Disciplinary/Performative Work, New York
Seven Below Arts Initiative and Burlington City Arts, Artist in Residence, Burlington
2006 Finalist, Rolex Mentor and Protégé Program, New York
2005 SculptureCenter Prize, New York
Elaine and Werner Dannheisser Emerging Artist Fellowship, New York
2003 Dean's Scholarship, Columbia University, New York
German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Scholarship, New York
2002 Meisterschüler, Prof. Olaf Metzel, Akademie der Bildenden Kuenste, Munich
2000 Leonhard und Ida Wolf Gedaechtnispreis, Munich

Solo Exhibitions

2013 Der Totale Horror, Soy Capitán, Berlin
Salvaging Morse Code, curated by Georg Elben, Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten Marl
2012 Erste Anzeichen der Schwerelosigkeit, curated by Stefanie Boettcher, Kuenstlerhaus Bremen
Moving with Fervor into Moments of Levity, curated by Bettina v. Dziembowski, Kunstverein Springhornhof, Neuenkirchen
Biography, Raum 58, Munich
2011 Prequel, Soy Capitán, Berlin
Paper Airplanes, Kunstverein Ruhr, curated by Peter Friese, Essen
2009 Klara Hobza, Galerie Für Landschaftskunst, Hamburg
Nay, I'll Have A Starling, Koh-I-Noor, Copenhagen

Group Exhibitions (selected)

2013 WHO MAKES EUROPE, curated by Susanne Hinrichs, Matadero, Madrid
Die Irregulären, NGBK, Berlin
Through This to That, Present Co., New York
2012 Drifting Edges, curated by Stefanie Trojan and Notburga Karl, ATELIERFRANKFURT, Frankfurt
Versuchsanordnung Kunst, curated by Rike Zoebelein, Bayer Kulturhaus, Leverkusen
Expedition of Slowness, QUARTAIR Contemporary Art Initiatives, The Hague / NL
2011 Wandelhalle GFLK, curated by Till Krause, Bad Toelz
Drifting Edges curated by Notburga Karl, Kunst/Gewerbeverein Regensburg
Ars Viva. 10/11. Labor/Laboratory, curated by Daniel Spanke, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Stuttgart
Oceanomania: Souvenirs from a Mysterious Sea, curated by Mark Dion and Sarina Basta, Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, Monaco
Voyage on Uncanny Seas, curated by Mark Dion, Gallery Diet, Miami
Ars Viva 10/11. Labor/Laboratory, curated by November Paynter, SALT Beyoglu, , Istanbul
2010 Ars Viva. 10/11. Labor/Laboratory, Kunstsammlungen, Chemnitz
Weil auf mir, Du dunkles Auge, bauer&ewald, Berlin
Zur Nachahmung empfohlen, curated by Adrienne Göhler, Uferhallen, Berlin
fünfmaldrei, curated by Michael Voets, Kunstraum Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf
Serpula lacrymans, Galerie Fuer Landschaftskunst, Hamburg
Small Circles, curated by Annie Shaw, New York City
Ich Tier Du Mensch, curated by Isabel Reiss, Cathérine Hug, and Dimitrina Sevova, Dienstgebäude, Zurich
2009 The New Millennium Paper Airplane Book, Public Art Fund, New York
Tuesdays on the Terrace Dia at The Hispanic Society, curated by Andrea Grover, New York
Exhibition 211, Initiators: Bajo, Schillinger, Neidich, E./N. Anglès, New York
2008 In The Public Realm, Public Art Fund, New York
Subject Index, curated by Gabrielle Giattino, Museum for Fine Arts Malmoe, Malmoe (cat.)
Sound Design for Future Films, Museum Moderna Museet, Stockholm
2007 writing in light, Kunstlicht in de Kunst, Eindhoven
700 show, curated by Annie Shaw, LeRoy Neiman Gallery, New York City
2006 GLOW festival of light, Eindhoven
2005 Make It Now, curated by Anthony Hubermann, Sculpture Center, New York (cat.)
Emerging Artist Fellowship Exhibition, Socrates Sculpture Park, New York
German Romance, curated by Notburga Karl, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin
Linux Virgin, curated by Isabel Reiss, Galerie Roemerapotheke, Zurich
One Minute At Orchard, curated by Jason Simon, Orchard, New York
Travelling Tales, curated by C. Marambio, Masterton, A. Wairarapa Museum of Art and History, New Zealand
LOOP The Video Art Festival'05, Barcelona
2004 Delight, Elizabeth Art Foundation, New York
Space Camp, curated by Robert Barta, Prague
2002 Oltre il Giardini, curated by Florian Matzner, Rimini

Lectures

2012 Klara Hobza, Performing Politics/Institut fuer Raumexperimente, Berlin
Klara Hobza, Kunstverein Springhornhof, Neuenkirchen
2011 Klara Hobza, Kunstverein Ruhr, Essen
Klara Hobza, Soy Capitan, Berlin
2010 St. Pauli Kunstverein, Hamburg
The Cloud Maker, curated by Annie Shaw, Small Circles, Brooklyn
Nay, I'll Have A Starling, curated by F. Oloveira and M. Amado, Just Madrid Art Fair, Madrid
2009 The Cloud Maker, curated by James Walsh, Observatory, Brooklyn
Nay, I'll Have A Starling, curated by Gudrun Hasle, Gudrun's Salon, Copenhagen
2007 Nay, I'll Have A Starling, Fivemyles, Brooklyn
Nay, I'll Have A Starling, Firehouse Gallery, Burlington
2006 Morsen und Samuel Morse, curated by Christian Goegger, ZKMax, Munich
Morsen und Samuel Morse, Reception Trustees of the Sculpture Center, New York

Curatorial

2011 Tales of Lived Wonders, Den Frie Udstillingsbygning, Copenhagen (upcoming / August)
2007 – 2008 founder and co-author of Naked Attic, a performance art review platform, New York
2004 – 2005 MFA program – co-organiser of the Visiting Artist Lecture Series, Columbia University, New York
1999 – 2001 Co-founder and co-curator of Lothringer13/LADEN, Munich

Publications

2012 Klara Hobza: Early Endeavors, published by Kuenstlerhaus Bremen
2009 Klara Hobza - The New Millennium Paper Airplane Book, Public Art Fund, New York
The Brooklyn Review 26 - "Bird Traps", magazine intervention
2008 BOMB Magazine – "The Great Starling Hunt", magazine intervention
2006 World's Best New Art – The Unreal Project, co-edited by Hans-Ulrich Obrist,
Verlag für Moderne Kunst Nürnberg

Catalogs

  Ars Viva 10/11. Labor/Laboratory: Nina Canell, Klara Hobza, Markus Zimmermann und Andreas Zybach Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern, 2010
Subject Index, Museum for Fine Arts Malmoe, Malmoe 2008
Make It Now, New Sculpture In New York, SculptureCenter, New York 2005
Tunnelrecords, inSITEout I, Dr. Patricia Drueck and Dr. Christian Schoen (ed.), Revolver Verlag , Berlin 2001

Bibligraphy

Printed Press (selection) Catrin Lorch, Apfelbaum Junge Apfelbaum Mädchen, in: Sueddeutsche Zeitung, 04/2011
Karin Schulze, Rückflugticket für Stare, in: Szene Hamburg, 11/2009
Martin Espinoza, Flights of Fancy Delight, Even Those of Paper Wings, in: New York Times, 11/2008
Noel Kelly Was Du Brauchst, iN: CIRCA ,Winter/ 2005
Dominik Ammirati Make It Now, iN: ArtForum, 10/2005
Aidan Dunne On the wall and off the wall, in: The Irish Times, 08/2005
John S Doyle I thought it was my lucky night but I only got a 'shniff, in: Irish Independent, 08/2005
Roberta Smith The Many Shades of Now, Explored in 3 Dimensions, in: The New York Times, 05/2005
Marika Ley Inner space, Exploring site-specific ideas underground, in: The Prague Post, 04/2005
Online Press (selection) Approval Matrix, New York Magazine, 25.09.2009
Brian Fichtner The New Millennium Paper Airplane Book, Coolhunting, 03.09.2009
Meaghan Keane Falling with Style at the New Millennium Paper Plane Contest, wired.com, 03.11.2008
Scientific American online - Susannah F. Locke Flying on a Wing and ... Paper, Scientific American online, 31.10.2008
Harry Sawyers, 5 Great Paper Airplanes, Popular Mechanics online , 14.11.2008
William Pym, Babies On Board, Artforum online , 05/2005
Lauren Cornell, Geeky in pink, Rhizome Net Art News , 11/2005