10 years ago, the Kunstverein Neuhausen took over the former Jesuit Chapel on the outskirts of Neuhausen as a project and exhibition venue. In the meantime, new buildings have been built around the former chapel and new settlement projects have been started. This has not only changed the peripheral location of the project space, which has moved more to the centre, but also the land prices. The Kunstverein with its surroundings is thus becoming a valued real estate object. FAMED has invited an energeticist and a healer into the rooms of the Kunstverein in order to analyse them energetically, to free them from negative energies if necessary and to adjust them anew. This act of cleansing establishes a connection to the former spiritual use of the chapel and, with the construction of an energetic protection wall, at the same time points the way to a future and alternative use that could exist independently of economic cycles of utilisation. Susanne Jakob

Photo: Videostill

The video installation gives an overview of the iconic Villa Tugendhat by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in Brno (Czech Republic) from the perspective of the daily work of cleaning and maintenance. The double projection depicts always one room while being cleaned and on the other side a room left after the cleaning. The entropic nature of the building – it‘s abandonment – gives an idea of the historic dimension of the house and the individual tragedy of the former residents.

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Photo: Videostill

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Photo: Ludger Paffrath

Photos: FAMED (production still), Uwe Walter (installation view)

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Photos: Nadim Vardag, FAMED

Photos: FAMED

[Famed] II offered buyers the chance to become an integral part of a work by FAMED. The purchase of the work was synonymous with a tattoo of the group’s logo onto the buyer’s skin. This performative fusion of collector and work was then documented in photographs.

Photos: FAMED

[Your Name] is the provisional title of a work that can only be completed at the moment of purchase. The work consists of a script, a performance, and a documentation of the performance. The buyer first receives the script, which functions as a guarantee of the performance’s later realization but which can also be sold, loaned or exhibited. The script describes the performance; the buyer decides when it will be executed. During the performance, the name of the buyer is tattooed on each of the three FAMED artists, thus bringing the work to an end. To conclude, the name of the buyer becomes the name of the work, thereby creating a further inscription.

Photo: Maik Schuck

Photos: FAMED

Making An Artist (Rien ne va plus) examined forms of non-material and material recognition. In this work, FAMED offered to take over the administration of the jury prize of the Academy of Fine Arts in Leipzig, which is awarded annually within the framework of the open house period. The prize money is meant to be used to develop a marketing strategy for the award-winning work not created by FAMED. The prize money was to be used solely for the nominated work, with the goal of increasing, within a year, the material as well as the symbolic value of both the winning artist and the artists’ group FAMED. FAMED agreed to contribute its own labour and exhibition rooms to the cause and to contribute articles to relevant catalogues and make its own social network available.

Photo: Anna KO

Photos: Maik Schuck (installation view), FAMED (production still)