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Private view Saturday, August 6 2022, 5 pm

Otavio Schipper is currently on a one-month residency in Zurich by invitation of Kunsthalle Winterthur in the lead-up to his show Litany for Bubbles. The final exhibition comprises a four-channel video-installation and a four-channel sound installation composed from various telephone tones and automated recordings, in cooperation with the mathematician and pandeiro player Sergio Krakowski (b.1979, lives and works in Rio de Janeiro). A series of drawings has also been produced during the residency, 60 of which are published in the booklet The Hermetschloo Papers Vol. I.

Otavio Schipper has been selected as Guest Artist by the Arts at CERN program

Article by Stephen Berg published on ARTEFUSE website

Exhibition Golem curated by Lara Pan at Shin Gallery New York City

Article by Mark Bloch published on Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art

Exhibition Perspectives on Contemporary Brazilian Art presented during the Art Berlin - Fair for Modern and Contemporary Art. 27 – 30 September 2018

Agnes Meyer-Brandis (Germany) and the duo Otavio Schipper & Sergio Krakowski (Brazil) present their work at the Max Planck Campus (Potsdam-Golm Science Park).

Fascinated by the history of objects and memory as much as by the concepts of communication and coding, Otavio Schipper and Sergio Krakowski inquire into the origins of science, tradition, and imagination. For KLAS they will be presenting Golem, a video installation and a short story by Stephen Berg.

Article by Peter Hergersberg published on the Max-Planck-Journal, December 2017

Article by Mr. Rüdiger Braun about KLAS Art in Residence program 2017 winners published on MAZonline.

Otavio Schipper and Sergio Krakowski have been selected to participate in the artist-in-residence program KLAS.

Within KLAS – “Knowledge Link through Art and Science” – the Max Planck Institutes of Colloids and Interfaces and Molecular Plant Physiology invites for the first time contemporary artists to develop their own project at the Potsdam-Golm Science Park (Germany) and the University of Groningen (The Netherlands). In the course of this eight month pioneering project, artists will work side by side with researchers in order to develop a new artwork bridging contemporary art practices and scientific research.

In addition to awarding two Artist Residencies in 2017, KLAS will present a series of events and conversations around specific thematic topics. KLAS is funded by the Max Planck Society and the Schering Foundation and ideated and coordinated by Polyhedra.

Mirror Images
Reflections in Art and Medicine

The publication showcases artworks, scientific experiments and curiosities related to mirrors, reflecting surfaces, photography and moving images, by means of which artists and neuroscientists alike—each with the instruments of their own discipline— investigate and challenge our sense of location in space and the outer limits of our body.

Published by Verlag für moderne Kunst

https://vfmk.org/shop/mirror-images

Article published in the Berner Zeitung about the exhibition "Mirror Images", curated by Alessandra Pace, presented at the Kunstmuseum Thun:

http://www.bernerzeitung.ch/…/Spiegelbilder-…/story/16879300

Sound Installation "Smoking Mirror" presented at the Kunstmuseum Thun, as part of the exhibition "Mirror Images", curated by Alessandra Pace

http://www.kunstmuseumthun.ch/

11. February – 30. April 2017
Kunstmuseum Thun

Mirrors expand our sense of reality and allow us to observe our own bodies. While we can be seen by everyone directly, the only possible way of viewing ourselves is through mirrors, photographs, films or portraits. The exhibition combines artistic works with scientific experiments and objects that deal with the way we perceive our own bodies in space.

With works by, among others, Vito Acconci, William Anastasi, Christian Andersson, John Baldessari, Attila Csörgõ, Marta Dell’Angelo, Livia Di Giovanna, Annika Eriksson, Thomas Florschuetz, Adib Fricke, Hreinn Friðfinnsson, Dan Graham, Sabina Grasso,Carla Guagliardi, Paul Le Grand, Dalibor Martinis, Jorge Macchi, Bjørn Melhus, Richard Rigg, Otavio Schipper/Sergio Krakowski.

Article written by Nature’s senior European correspondent Alison Abbott about the exhibition "Mirror Images" published on Nature Magazine website:

http://blogs.nature.com/aviewfromthebridge/2015/11/24/on-reflection/

The catalogue for the exhibition includes essays by international experts and case studies from architecture, sociology, art and urbanism for the redefinition of public spaces, such as Tempelhofer Feld in Berlin, Trafalgar Square in London, Campo de Cebada in Madrid and Brooklyn Bridge Park in New York. Artistic interventions in public spaces will also be shown, as well as the findings of an international workshop and 3D tools for public participation.

DEMO:POLIS – The Right to Public Space

Barbara Hoidn (ed.)
Park Books, Zürich / The University of Texas at Austin, School of Architecture 2016
288 pages, 500 illustrations
ISBN 978-3-03860-005-3 (English edition)

JUNGE AKADEMIE: AGORA ARTES

In April and May, the JUNGE AKADEMIE brings together 25 international artists from all areas in a series of diverse dialogues. The Programme Night marks the start of AGORA ARTES, the presentation of works by last year’s Akademie Fellows

Developed for the Project Space of the Ernst Schering Foundation, the installation SMOKING MIRROR is the first German solo exhibition of the artist Otavio Schipper in cooperation with the composer Sergio Krakowski

The Rio based artist Otavio Schipper has developed a new work for die raum that responds to the claustrophobic dimensions of the exhibition space. In line with the surrealistic aesthetic of Schipper's oeuvre and his tendency toward the mechanical traces of early modernization, the installation references concepts of time and the subconscious.

Matéria de Elisa Maia sobre a instalação "Pequena Paisagem" criada para a Galeria Millan, em São Paulo, publicada na Revista Das Artes

The Wizard’s Chamber is an abstraction which finds an imaginary language between art and science. The exhibition refers to Dr Nikola Tesla’s essay 'The Problem of Increasing Human Energy: With Special Reference to the Harnessing of the Sun’s Energy'. Tesla was one of the greatest inventors in the history of electrical engineering, also known as The Wizard of the West.

With: Alessandro Brighetti, Wim Delvoye, Braco Dimitrijevic, Oswaldo Macia, Geo Homsy/ Chico MacMurtrie/ Bill Washabaugh, Arnaldo Morales, Trevor Paglen, Katie Paterson, Otavio Schipper, Samson Young.

MOT International Projects will present the first solo exhibition of Otavio Schipper, working in collaboration with musician Sergio Krakowski, in the UK. Schipper's installation 'Mechanical Unconscious' performs a dialogue between old-fashioned telegraph machines, synthetic voices and telephone sounds. Recorded with the assistance of software for the visually impaired, the voices read scientific articles, academic theses, and codes in abstract vocabularies to explore the limits of artificial communication.

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