7. Apotheose, 1 November 2019, Jan Hofer
Installation, talk and workshop with artist Jan Hofer at HuMBase, followed by a playlist at Korridor Bar (Stuttgart).
Jan Hofer’s body of work results from an interaction with circumstance. Choosing a reactionary approach rather than one based on initiating action, his work takes on multiple forms of artistic production. Through performances, interventions, installations and reconstructions, allowing for the examination of particular place or situation. In processes like these, he comments humorously and critically on what he encounters in everyday life.
For example, he carries bulky objects from a work integration workshop through the public space into his studio, giving them a short visibility (Gschwür Transport, 2016). Or he reacts to his studio stay in a London gated community with the video work Groundwork, a tutorial for all those who want to break in, break out, undermine things or connect people and places.
Jan Hofer, *1988 in Zurich, was a visiting student in 2015/16 in Christian Jankowski’s class at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart and graduated with Bachelor of Arts and Visual Communication in 2013 at the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste. He currently lives and works in Zurich.
Installation, talk and workshop with artist Jan Hofer at HuMBase, followed by a playlist at Korridor Bar (Stuttgart).
Jan Hofer’s body of work results from an interaction with circumstance. Choosing a reactionary approach rather than one based on initiating action, his work takes on multiple forms of artistic production. Through performances, interventions, installations and reconstructions, allowing for the examination of particular place or situation. In processes like these, he comments humorously and critically on what he encounters in everyday life.
For example, he carries bulky objects from a work integration workshop through the public space into his studio, giving them a short visibility (Gschwür Transport, 2016). Or he reacts to his studio stay in a London gated community with the video work Groundwork, a tutorial for all those who want to break in, break out, undermine things or connect people and places.
Jan Hofer, *1988 in Zurich, was a visiting student in 2015/16 in Christian Jankowski’s class at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart and graduated with Bachelor of Arts and Visual Communication in 2013 at the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste. He currently lives and works in Zurich.
