Curating & Organizing

CURATORIAL & ORGANIZATIONAL PROJECTS (SELECTION)

2015 - 2022

atelier:performance - international series for performance art and performative strategies Studio: Ilka Theurich - project space, Hannover GERMANY atelierperformance.blogspot.de

 

2022

heartsº - project commissioned by the city of Hanover, development of an intetrnational center for art and culture in cooperation with the former think tank The Beauty of Failure and the interest group Freie Kunst und Kultur Hannover e.V.

 

2021

Bye Bye Binary an exhibition about Gender in cooperation with kreHtiv Netzwerk Hannover. Participating artists crazinesT artisT, Anthony R. Green, Alex Heide, Anna Eisermann, Conrad Veit, Charlotte Maria Kätzl, Karu-Levin Grunwald-Delitz, Lexi Schnäbele, Sophia Lökenhoff, Sur* Limes. The exhibition took place in two different clubs - Weltspiele & Monkey's, Hannover GERMANY  

MYANMAR CALLING - performance art from Yangon (an urgent online exhibition), Studio: Ilka Theurich - YouTube Channel Studio: Ilka Theurich - YouTube Channel

 

2020

DIY - performance art for everyone at home 30 performance scores during the second lockdown, Studio: Ilka Theurich - Instagram Account Studio: Ilka Theurich - Instagram

 

2019 - 2021

Think Tank "THE BEAUTY OF FAILURE" (speaker and project manager)

Developement of one of the main projects for the first and second bit book of the application for the European Capital of Culture - Hannover 2025, placed inside the Ihme Center. It is probably the most controversial building in Hanover The brutalist building complex with the largest concrete foundation in Europe was designed as a city within the city in the 1970s and was then considered a model for the urban compression of life and work. Today the substructure is falling into disrepair, while over 2,400 people still live on the upper floors of the residential towers.

 

The think tank "Beauty of Failure" prepared also an impressive live performance during the digital city walk - together with residents, local institutions such as the Brutal Gallery, the Hanover State Opera... In "A Beating Heart for the Gray Giant", presenter Ninia LaGrande met artists, residents and activists. They spoke, were absent, made music, discussed, told stories, have sung, had a party,  demonstrated for a future: "No Future - No Art" and danced.

 

2019

20th OPEN International Performance Festival (anniversary edition in Germany & Switzerla0nd) After 19 years the OPEN Festival will be held for the first time outside of China. In cooperation with the founder Chen Jin (China), PAErsche (Cologne), Orbit 24 (Frankfurt am Main), kaskadenkondensator (Basel), Kunstpavillon (Burgbrohl), interval Performance Art Festival (Essen), Cultural Center Pavillon (Hannover), Turba Gallery (Hannover), City Gallery KUBUS (Hannover) and Studio: Ilka Theurich (Hannover) GERMANY

equinox to equinox - INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PUBLIC ACTION FOR FREEDOM & DEMOCRACY facilitated by Bbeyond - Belfast in conjunction with performance artists worldwide, in Hannover PAN Hildesheim & guests performed at Küchengarten, curated and organized by Studio: Ilka Theurich, Hannover GERMANY

2018
Art of Encountering °7 - Hannover artists from Thailand, Taiwan, Japan, Switzerland & Germany encounter each other with the aim to exchange their methods, models and artistic strategies in the field of performance art; a cooperation between PAErsche (Cologne) kaskadenkondensator (Basel), Performance Art Research - Helge Meyer (Hildesheim), Kunstpavillon (Burgbrohl), interval (Essen), ART IG (Hannover), GeotheExil (Hannover)  and Studio: Ilka Theurich (Hannover) GERMANY

Publication: Ed. PAErsche Aktionslabor: Kunst der Begegnung VII - Die anagrammatische Begegnung 2018 © copyright by the authors & PAErsche Aktionslabor, Cologne 2019

DIE FAUST PERFORMT a once-in-a-lifetime International Performance Art Festival with Jacqueline van de Geer (CAN), Michael Barrett (USA), Alperoa Alvaro Pereda Roa (CHL), Sebastián Burgos (CHL), Anette Friedrich Johannessen (NOR), Jan-Egil Finne (NOR), Boris Nieslony (DEU), Irmgard Himstedt (DEU), Thomas Reul (DEU), Evamaria Schaller (DEU), Johanna Johnen (DEU), Christiane Oppermann (DEU) and Carlotta Oppermann (DEU) Kulturzentrum Faust, Hannover GERMANY

 

2016

Juego de Muñecas curator and artist  within a horizontal curatorial collective for a group exhibition at Espacio de Arte Contemporáneo Montevideo URUGUAY 

2015

Eile, eile und doch verweile

artists from PAERsche visiting City Gallery KUBUS Hannover GERMANY

2014
Zwischen Himmel und Körper - weibliche Positionen in der Performancekunst

City Gallery KUBUS Hannover GERMANY

Puppenspiel curator and artist within a horizontal curatorial collective for a group exhibition at Galleria Lunar Hannover GERMANY 

2011

LAPSody - 3rd Intern. Conference & Festival for Live Art & Performance Studies TEAK, Helsinki FINLAND

2009

LaubenParcours project / group exhibition for the garden region Hannover 

at allotments of Lindener Berg, Hannover GERMANY

2008
Last Minute
Kunsthalle Faust, Hannover GERMANY

2007

Art of Encountering °2 - Hannover with Kaori HABA , Sakiko YAMAOKA, Yoshinori NIWA, Tomomi ADACHI, Shin-ichi ARAI, Hiromi SHIRAI, Machiko TAGAMI. Seven artists from JAPAN encounter seven artists from GERMANY in every participating city, with the aim to explore the public space. A cooperation between E.P.I. Zentrum (Cologne), Studio Art Hechima So On (Tokyo), Kunstamt & Kunstraum (Düsseldorf), Maschinenhaus (Essen),  IPAH (Hildesheim) & ART IG (Hannover) GERMANY