2025. fishing in murky waters (tide). Flensburg
November 20-23, 2025, Flensburg, Around the harbor and quayside, location of the mobile studio: Fishing Club/Canal Shed
I've been invited to Flensburg for a few days and am looking forward to works and conversations there along the water edge.
Artist in Nature - Residency 4 // Artist in Nature is a residency program for site-specific, creative work by Bunnies Ranch e.V. Guest artists spend a few days in the mobile studio in one of Flensburg's districts, drawing inspiration from the location and then presenting their findings. // Guest of the fourth residency: Frauke Materlik. The artist, gardener, landscape architect, and founder of Kunstverein Lunden in Dithmarschen connects landscapes, people, and cultures of different coastal regions through her work with water.
Programme
Friday, November 21, 2025 / 6:00 – 8:00 pm Coastal Dialogues: Conversation with the artist about water, art, and landscape Location: dwell - Angelburger Str. 17, Flensburg (Entrance to the left of the easy-Apotheke pharmacy, 1st floor)
Saturday / November 22nd, 2025 / 5:00 pm Open meeting and exchange with locals and artists Location: KRAN, Am Nordertor 2, Flensburg
Sunday / November 23rd, 2025 / 2:00 pm “fishing in murky waters (tide)” Hike in the harbor area and visit to the performance installation created at KRAN Location: Start at the mobile studio trailer at the fishing club/canal shed
2025. Nature – Multidisciplinary Dialogues Between Research and Art. Seminar. Copenhagen
How do we understand nature? How do we approach it? How do we write about it, what do we write about it, or how do we express it? How do we relate to nature and how is it present in our work as researchers and artists?
This seminar brings together scholars from across academic disciplines and artists from visual arts, literature, and related fields to explore nature as a shared site of inquiry and habitation. The aim is to foster dialogue across disciplinary and aesthetic boundaries, and to investigate how nature is conceptualized, engaged with, and represented in diverse practices.
The goal is to generate transformative insights that can advance both research and cultural production – toward more inclusive, dynamic, and sustainable futures.
The seminar will facilitate various forms of conversation, including papers, roundtables, artistic performances and shared experiences.
The event is free and open for all.
Time: 13 Nov. 2025, 10:00-17:00
Place: Læderstræde 20, 1st floor
My contribution is a performance essay: tide (the delicate balance of circumstances)
Bergen International Performance Festival BIPF 2026
On behalf of PAB Performance Art Bergen, we - Marit Tunestveit Dyre, Kyuja Bae, and I - invite you to apply for the Bergen 2026 International Performance Festival "amongst others, nature." The festival will take place from June 1 to 7 in Bergen and Vestland, Norway.
We look forward to hearing from you! More information here: PAB
2025. 'kohl' Performances and Workshop, Dithmarschen, Germany
The artists Susanne Irene Fjørtoft (Norway), Marit Tunestveit Dyre (Norway), Kyuja Bae (South Korea/Norway), and Frauke Materlik will be working together in Dithmarschen in October. They will explore the themes of landscape, agriculture, and nutrition in a variety of ways:
The project consists of performances, a workshop, and an exchange on culinary culture from Dithmarschen, Norway, and Korea, combined with a communal meal. We will be at the farmers‘ market in Heide on October 11th, and in Lunden on October 12th. Welcome!
2025. B-Open: 21.9.2025, 13:00
A listening, analog walk in the neighbourhood as part of B Open, Bergen, Sunday 21.9. at 13:00 - 14:30, we meet at the main entrance of Sletten center
2025. Performance at Galleri Kronborg and Kunsthall 3,14
'Poetic Silence' is a project initiated by Performance Art Bergen member Kyuja Bae in 2024 with the intent to initiate artistic exchange, dialogue and collaboration between performance artists from Norway and South Korea. 'Poetic Silence' is a collaboration between PAB and Korean Performance Artists Association.
Five artists will take part in this edition of the project, with two public events:
On the 12th of September, in relation to the culture night in Bergen, the artist will perform at Kunsthall 3,14 from 19.30.
The second event will take place at Galleri Kronborg, a gallery located on mount Rundemannen on the 14th of September. Meet at the top of Fløibanen at 12.45 to start the hike together to Kronborg at 13.00.
By moving between the urban and the natural, the project seeks to open spaces for presence, listening, and sensing, both with the surroundings and with one another.
2025. 'future memories (rot & røtter)' at Kodes Kunstsatellitt at Sletten
In September, I'll be at 'Kunstsatellitten', Kodes new space at Sletten, Bergen. I'll host walks, workshops and work on a growing installation - everything as analogue as possibly can. In spring, I've had the great pleasure to look through the archives at Sletten senter, searching for images from the beginnings of the neighbourhood development, and I've been able to find some intriguing images that are a starting point for conversations and observations.
2025. b*stard art book fair
Participating at b*stard in Lillehammer together with my dear old friend Ida-Sofie Stryken. We've produced two artist books (with an edition of 10 each), based on the subject matter of landscapes and friendships, combining archival images, poetry, case documents, handwriting and soil pigments.
2025. Preparing for workshop and performance presentation at 'im Tal' as part of DFG-Centre for Advanced Studies Imaginaria of Force
Invited to share thoughts and reflections during the 'Energy transition' convention from 8th-10th of May, organized by DFG Imaginaries of Force (Universität Hamburg), hosted by 'im Tal'. Working title of my contribution: 'I am landscape', a performance lecture with plant material, notes from my diaries, mud and fibre glass.
2025. Landscape Dialogues
Hosting and participating at 'Landscape Dialogues' in Lunden, a project originally conceived by Sibylle Omlin within the exhibition 'Embodied Landscape' at Villa Renata (CH) in 2023. Looking forward to continue our conversations with Marianne Engel, Christiane Fleissner, Elke Mark, Andrea Wolfensberger, Marc Zeier, and Sibylle Omlin. (The image dates back to 2021 when it was impossible to meet in person, I placed chairs on the mudflats at low tide, waiting for restrictions to end.)
November 2024. Art Festival in South Korea
Looking forward to participate together with my dear colleagues from PAB: Susanne Irene Fjørtoft, Marit Tunestveit Dyre and Kyuja Bae.
October 2024. 'energy landscapes', Hamburg
In October, I'll share a lecture-performance at The Warburg International Seminar / Aby-Warburg-Stiftung und DFG-Kollegforschungsgruppe »Imaginarien der Kraft«, University of Hamburg, on 'energy landscapes'.
Organized by
Franca Buss, Frank Fehrenbach, Laura Isengard, Mia Hallmanns, Cornelia Zumbusch.
September 2024, Flensburg
The second chapter of bühne takes place, this time in Flensburg, again conceived and hosted together with Elke Mark. WELCOME!
September 2024. B-Open. Bergen
Thank you for inviting me to share my work at Bergen Ateliergruppe during B-Open. Looking forward to our conversations about nutrition, shipping, recipes, art and cake at 'Havnelageret' in the middle of the containerport.
2024. Arche Warder - How do we treat each other?
Returning to Arche Warder for a series of workshops with children on the topic of encounters: How do we treat each other? - with fellow humans, with four-legged creatures, and the wider world. We watch, talk, think, listen, draw, run, eat and feed.
bühne. may 2024
2024. Oak Spring Garden Foundation
Landscapes and gardens, books about landscapes and gardens, together with people who are interested in landscapes and gardens: I'm invited to Oak Spring Garden Foundation, Upperville, Virginia, U.S.
2024. group show
Taking 'seeweb 1,2,3,4' to Eckernförde where they will be part of a group show of the cultural mediators of Schleswig-Holstein. Curious to see them in a 'white' exhibition context. 'Das sind wir', organized by Klaus Müller and Anke Sommer: Artists from all genres have used their artistic expertise to initiate and carry out outstanding school educational projects over the years. This exhibition is our thanks for that. Here they present themselves in their very own artistic positions and provide an insight into the diversity of professional artistic creation in Schleswig-Holstein.
07.01. - 28.02.2024, CarlsArt 78, Carlshöhe
2023. fließend (flowing)
Winter 2023. A project for children in Glücksburg - they decided to call it 'The DD Club' - and on their wishlist is to focus on the subject matter of water. Thus, I develop the concept for them and we go for a hike in and around the town and take water samples, we dye water and snow, make sound recordings above and below the water surface, assemble underwater-creatures - all in some kind of flux. The results are presented as 'Water Library' at the public library of Glücksburg. Together with Ann Carolin Renninger, Matze Runge and Antje Smorra. Photo: Tilman Köneke
performance: 'erde'
Being absorbed in the subject matter of grain, and the topic just keeps growing, it is all so very much entangled: the shapes of the land, wheat corridors, stock market prices, weather reports, crop failure and harvest successes, baking recipes, the history of agriculture....and my findings come together in a new performance which I'll show as part of 'Embodied Landscape' in Switzerland. The work is called 'erde', a fascinating term in German because of it's several, related meanings: earth, soil, land, ground and world.
And what a wonderful surprise: This project is supported by The Ministry of General and Vocational Education,
Science, Research and Culture
of the state of Schleswig-Holstein. Thank you!
2023. performance art archive
Visiting Boris Nieslony's International Peformance Art Archive in Cologne. Generously, he answers my many questions, patiently guiding me through the maze of boxes and folders. What a fantastic place - digital archives cannot live up to physical materials.
2023. Embodied Landscape
The exhibition 'Embodied Landscape' will take place in the Villa Renata in Basel from October 28 to December 18, 2023, in which the seven artists Maëlle Cornut, Marianne Engel, Christiane Fleissner, Frauke Materlik, Ulrike Mohr, Andrea Wolfensberger and Marc Zeier are present with their works in the context of forest, meadows and mountains. Throughout the villa and in the garden, the works will be installed using materials such as beeswax, charcoal, rhubarb, glass, water and plankton. The artists come from different generations, which enriches the dialogue about landscape, nature and climate. The mediation of the ecological-artistic context is the focus of the exhibition 'Embodied Lanscape', which is curated by Sibylle Omlin. The young Basel artist Vital Z'Brun is exhibiting in the garage. ///
Photo: Maëlle Cornut, Air Water Voices, Video still, 2022/23
Leben hinterm Deich (Life behind the Dike)
With the 2nd and 4th grades of the primary school in Hennstedt we are examining our immediate surroundings. The project consists of four chapters: Every season there is a hike followed by an artistic work phase focusing on the subject matter of landscape with the river Eider and the village. We make sound generators, practice listening, create paper, build models and produce a stop-motion film. It's fun and a school day goes by incredibly quickly.
ort.land
Now there is a website in the making, sharing projects taking place on the West Coast: http://ort.land/
2023. muster(n). showcase residency
Looking forward to a research period with Elke Mark in February. 'Muster(n)' has two connotations in German, it means pattern, and it also describes the activity of close examination. During our project 'muster(n)', we navigate between those two situations: We explore natural orders and artificial systematizations. We work indoors and outdoors, using organic materials (sand, stone, earth, etc.), drawing, and found objects. In cyclical phases we try out experimental practices of arranging, observing, disarranging, creating and disrupting.
Supported by Bureau Ritter/TANZPAKT RECONNECT, funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media as part of the NEUSTART KULTUR initiative.
2023. Garden of Delight. Gothenburg
Sunday 22nd January 2023 11:00 to 13:00, I'll show a new performance at The Botanical Garden, Gothenburg.
Curated by Pavana Reid and Denis Romanovski, organized by Konstepidemin in collaboration with Gothenburg Botanic Garden and Performance
Art Bergen.
2023. Einfach machen. (miteinander reden)
Happy and excited that our project 'Einfach machen (Just do it)' receives funding. For sometime now, I have initiated and organized projects in the village of Lunden in Northern Germany, bringing together practitioners from the arts and the locals. Now we can host several events over the next two years!
'Einfach machen.' (meaning: 'Just do it' as well as 'Keep it simple') combines conversations with artistic methods. The 'Pesel' dining room in the former boarding school in Lunden serves as a place for dialogue, encounters and self-empowerment.
Every "we" causes a "you" because the world is made up of differences that need to be accommodated on the countryside as well. More than half of the population is female, yet women still have little public voice. Every fourth man in Germany has an anti-feminist world view (Authoritarianism Study 2020, University of Leipzig).
We operate with an expanded concept of art and use artistic means to enable encounters, arouse curiosity about other perspectives and question deadlocked positions.
In 2023, a variety of interactive projects (long table, performance, workshop) will take place in the former boarding school and in public space. It's about self-empowerment, which opens up a desire for participatory processes and thus promotes social participation.
As part of miteinander reden.
2022. Research grant
Currently focusing on the development of concepts regarding 'performance and landscape', pushing my work further --- great to have the time and support.
Supported by Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media within the program NEUSTART KULTUR.
2022. Between Sky and Sea
'Temporal Horizons'. It had to be postponed twice and now it will really really really happen! A performance festival and symposium, looking forward to august on the island Skuløy, Norway, together with colleagues and friends.
Longva AiR in collaboration with Performance Art Bergen hosted the 6th version of Between Sky & Sea, an international performance framework that is arranged every 3rd year on different Norwegian islands. Between Sky & Sea is a framework for artistic production, seminars, public events and publications. This edition, which was titled "Temporal Horizons", took place on Longva AiR and the Nordøyane Islands outside Ålesund 8th - 20th of August 2022. The title ‘Temporal Horizons’ wants to focus on the relation between time, landscape/geology, body and affect with Sunnmøre as a starting point, especially Nordøyane archipelago with its peculiar bedrock geology. The goal is to challenge our notions of time and the tension between the planet’s temporality (geological time) and a human temporality. The artists presented their projects on for the public Saturday 20th of August. ARTISTS:
Frauke Materlik
Sabine Popp
Tina Mariane Krogh Madsen
Gunnhildur Hauksdóttir
Chuyia Chia
Esa Kirkkopelto
Ine Harrang
Monroe Isenberg ORGANIZERS:
Harald Dyrkorn
Henrik Koppen
Terese Longva
Rita Marhaug Longva kunstnarresidens / Longva AiR
The event is supported by: Ålesund kommune, Møre og Romsdal fylkeskommune Kulturrådet Nordisk Kulturfond, Bek – Centre of Electronic Arts.
linie. at Studio: Ilka Theurich - Project Space. may 2022
Showing new works on May 14th at Ilka Theurich's, Faust, Hannover.
Combining video, photo, performance. Suddenly, it all comes together after these busy months. Supported by www.kulturstaatsministerin.de
2022. Cultural Mediation
Now I can call myself a 'certified cultural mediator'! Since last year, I've participated in a further education scheme by the Ministry of Culture in Schleswig-Holstein. In this context, I carry through art projects with children of various age groups, now also in Northern Germany. So far, I've met many great new colleagues and worked at inspiring places, such as next to the piglets at Arche Warder.
Catalogue and website
This spring, I focus on new works on the subject matter of performance and landscape, based at the German Westcoast. In this context, I'm currently busy putting together a new website
(with great support by Lars Schmidt) and a catalogue, assisted by Anja Leidel, supported by Neustart Kultur.
PAB Open 2022 Date: 1.4 -3.4 - 2022 Location: The historic Hotel Villa Terminus - Bergen - Norway
Finally, a 'real' performance festival again!!!
The festival PAB OPEN will take place in the historical building Villa Terminus in Bergen, Norway. 46 artists will interact with the unique site spanning through the main living rooms, kitchen, library, the garden "Plenen", Villa Terminus backyard and the 18 hotel rooms:
Jan-Egil Finne, Lizlot Frydenlund, Frauke Materlik, Kjartan Andersen, Rita Maria Farias Munoz, Nayara Leite, Sofie Hviid Vinther, Derek Sargent, Astrid Haugesen, Liv Reidun Brakstad, Franzisca Siegrist, Locus - Tanja Thorjussen & Thale Fastvold (duo) , Susanne Irene Fjørtoft, Lea Opheim Basch & Solveig Laland Mohn (duo), Kjersti Austdal, Johan Urban Bergquist, Gisle Nataas & Clare Marie Bailey (duo), Guro Berger & Marielle Kalldal (duo), Sophie Barth & Katarina Caspersen (duo), Anne-Marte Eidseth Rygh, Evamaria Schaller, Vincenzo Fiore Marrese, Tina Mariane Krogh Madsen, Alexandra Holownia, Paul Regan, Charlotta Grimfjord Cederblad, Jordina Ros & Pere Estadella (duo), Diane Dwyer, Katherine Leung, Tomofumi Yamasaki, Siavash Kheirkhah, Natural Plastic - Adrià Torres & Carmen Kleykens (duo), Lars Jonsson & Line Rolf (duo), Switch - Didde Borup Larsen & Frida Retz (duo), Marit Tunestveit Dyre, Carol Stampone, and Mia Maria Norum Robsahm.
22.2.22 together elsewhere
TOGETHER ELSEWHERE is a new monthly performance series organized by PAB - Performance Art Bergen and PANCH - Performance Art Network Switzerland for online live streaming by Mediathek of the Academy of Art and Design (FHNW), Basel.
TOGETHER ELSEWHERE is a performance art project where two artists, one from PAB and one from PANCH, perform at the same time with the same materials and the same type of space but in their different locations.
Daniel Häller and I will be there on 22.2.22 at 5pm:
heading west
winter 2021
Travelling these days feels like jumping through fiery hoops and attempting somersaults, no matter how amateurishly. In the end, it is all more than worth it. What a great pleasure to meet Rona Rangsch in Newfoundland, and to stay at Pouch Cove Foundation.
PARSE conference
17.-19.11.2021
Invited to contribute to the Fourth PARSE Research Conference: 'Violence / Environment' at The University of Gothenburg
& Platform for Artistic Research Sweden. http://parsejournal.com/
We talk about the concept behind 'Lacuna', and you can now (and until December 15th) watch our presentation on https://vimeo.com/648873450
coffee cakes and conversations
'Die Geheime dramaturgische Gesellschaft' and 'Mobiles Kulturamt' bring together cultural practitioners, administrators and politicians to figure out future aims and possibilities within art production in rural regions. Looking forward to continue these conversations!
nærhet på avstand. Hamar Performance Festival 2021
'Nærhet på avstand' - 'proximity at a distance' Hamar Performance Festival - invited to show 'made to measure' as a reflection on last year's effects.
performance walks. in the bog
Summer 2021. Finally, we can work together again. After a winter and spring with mainly digital meetings, this is a real treat. Performance walks with Elke Mark.
PAO publication
Performance Art Oslo has a new publication: PAO 7 Years, edited by Franzisca Siegrist & Tanja Thorjussen -- with new texts, documentations of their many events with more than 200 performance artists - and I'm also in it.
Lacuna
July 2021. Editing of 'Lacuna' is done, thanks to Jenna Collins. And great news: The video is included in 'After Progress' as part of the research project ’units of play - The promotion of exploratory forms of engagement’, Goldsmiths, University of London.
mountain stories
March 2021. Looking forward to this! - An artistic research project on infrastructures in Greenland, with Andrea Stokes, artist, sailor, associate professor in Fine Art, Ingibjørg Gisladottir, story-teller, Greenland tourist operator and air traffic controller, and Vera S.Jensen, administrator, artist and Upernavik resident, Greenland.
Funded by Nordisk Kulturfond - Globus Opstart.
newyearswoe
December - January 20-21. So I've been cut off. Brexit doesn't permit British citizens to host .eu domains anymore. Thus, my E mail and website were defunct until brilliant Mike Blackman found a solution. Meanwhile, I take a seat on the Wadden and beam my telepathic waves to friends across the seas. And I send new years wishes as analogue as can get: printed with potatoes, home-grown, for sure. Brexit my arse.
happy happy etc. 21
Happy 2021. With lots of music, dance, colour and chunky potatoes.
Tux
Zillertal, Austria.
Dezember 2019
It's happening. The 10th grade and I pose with our portable landscapes and our sponsor from the 'Sparkassenstiftung' for the photographer of the regional newspaper. And this at 9 o'clock in the morning on a grey and rainy December day!!
Then we finally hike along the fields.
Thank you to everyone involved: The 10th grade and their teacher Barbara Gramann, Künstlerdorf Schöppingen, and Sparkassenstiftung! And great to have Ayleen Behrens with us, she documents our walk.
Photo: Ayleen Behrens
Autumn 2019
Outside with the school class, strolling along the village edge. What do our surroundings look like? What is a detail? What do you appreciate, what should be changed?
Schöppingen
Working in Schöppingen again, amongst fields, slaughter houses and wind turbines.
autumn 2019. Ofoten.
Teaching model-making to 1.-4.th grade. Lots of different stories, objects, colours. And fun.
float. a telepathic residency with Andrea Stokes
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> Float is an imaginary space. It invites translation into something that moves between the physical and touchable to the unfixed and immaterial. It acts as a conduit. Float explores the notion of 'work space' as a space for invention and collective conversation. Float reverses the idea of an artist residency as being a space away from home. With float, we stay in our studios in Lunden and London, yet conduct telepathic meetings every day, working along similar schedules which involve sound recording, drawing, making, writing, and exchange the results at the end of each day. Thus, a new process is triggered the following day.