About
Pavillon 27 – Prof. Michael Stevenson is a practical art course at the Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg with an emphasis on making and understanding objects and our relations with them. The class foregrounds a research based and materially dedicated approach to the practice of art across a broad range of sculptural mediums; wood, metal, plastic, ceramic, fabric, film, performance etc.
Material and process are the basis of artistic production; when they come together in ways that are fresh and strange in an artwork something intrinsically new is produced, and this in turn creates space for new comment and understanding.
The class also functions as a think tank, we most recently have concentrated our discussions and activities on automation, human-machine communication and learning in practice.
Our program of guest artists, curators etc. to date includes; Sofia Hultén, Anthea Hamilton, Simon Starling, Tacita Dean, Annika Eriksson, Gabriel Kuri, Morgan Fisher, Simon Denny, Chris Evans, Sam Durant, Will Holder, Michael Taussig, Raimundas Malašauskas, Maria José De Abreu, Rhea Dall, Joel Mu, Kris Dittel, Maria Loboda. Some of the activities we have done together include, exhibition making, workshops, film screenings, performance along with individual and group discussion of student work.
The class also travels to exhibitions as well as sites of industry and technological process and production. Regular exhibitions are made by the class at the Akademie Galerie and artworks in both their finished and progressing states are discussed in the pavillon each week.
If you’re interested in our activities or have questions regarding the program, please contact:
stevenson@adbk-nuernberg.de (Michael Stevenson, Professor)
baumgaertner@adbk-nuernberg.de (Joannie Baumgärtner, Tutor/ Artistic Assistant)
Information on the application process and formal education structure can be found here.
How to find us on Campus at Bingstraße 60, 90480 Nürnberg
About
Pavillon 27 – Prof. Michael Stevenson is a practical art course at the Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg with an emphasis on making and understanding objects and our relations with them. The class foregrounds a research based and materially dedicated approach to the practice of art across a broad range of sculptural mediums; wood, metal, plastic, ceramic, fabric, film, performance etc.
Material and process are the basis of artistic production; when they come together in ways that are fresh and strange in an artwork something intrinsically new is produced, and this in turn creates space for new comment and understanding.
The class also functions as a think tank, we most recently have concentrated our discussions and activities on automation, human-machine communication and learning in practice.
Our program of guest artists, curators etc. to date includes; Sofia Hultén, Anthea Hamilton, Simon Starling, Tacita Dean, Annika Eriksson, Gabriel Kuri, Morgan Fisher, Simon Denny, Chris Evans, Sam Durant, Will Holder, Michael Taussig, Raimundas Malašauskas, Maria José De Abreu, Rhea Dall, Joel Mu, Kris Dittel, Maria Loboda. Some of the activities we have done together include, exhibition making, workshops, film screenings, performance along with individual and group discussion of student work.
The class also travels to exhibitions as well as sites of industry and technological process and production. Regular exhibitions are made by the class at the Akademie Galerie and artworks in both their finished and progressing states are discussed in the pavillon each week.
If you’re interested in our activities or have questions regarding the program, please contact:
stevenson@adbk-nuernberg.de (Michael Stevenson, Professor)
baumgaertner@adbk-nuernberg.de (Joannie Baumgärtner, Tutor/ Artistic Assistant)
Information on the application process and formal education structure can be found here.
We lift something - an object, a memory, ourselves.
We feel the weight, feel what it does to us, feel our movements change under its influence.
Weight is a force: right now, there is a force between us and you.
Forces always act reciprocally. An even lift.
The interplay of observing and being a body in gravitational terms is the heavy burden we need get off our chests. On different orbits of contemplation, viewers will be asked to ponder the heavy weight of history, the aching light-heartedness of a contemporary mediascape, the impact of quantum physics on quintessential physiology.
Under the impact of the Omicron-Variant and in accordance with the efforts in social choreography to fight the pandemic, what was to premiere as a live performance is transformed into a video work over the runtime of the exhibition. Itself an essential part of the exhibition, the constant change of set-up will be reflected by the accumulation of raw footage that is put on display. The Akademie Galerie turns into a gravitational center, the nexus of a galaxy, an amassment of matter, that gathers, what belongs or wants to be together.
What is weight, if not attraction in the first place?
Pavilion 27 invites to a sneak preview with a live set on our opening day, to look behind the curtains during the runtime and finally to the initial screening of „Even Lift“.
The Gallery is accessible under 2G+ rules only.
Opening: Wed 19.01., 7-9 pm
Runtime: 20.01.-05.02. , Wed-Sun, 2-7 pm
Finissage : cancelled due to CoVid-restrictions, find our gestures from Sun, 06.02., 6pm under https://www.instagram.com/pavillon27/
We lift something - an object, a memory, ourselves.
We feel the weight, feel what it does to us, feel our movements change under its influence.
Weight is a force: right now, there is a force between us and you.
Forces always act reciprocally. An even lift.
The interplay of observing and being a body in gravitational terms is the heavy burden we need get off our chests. On different orbits of contemplation, viewers will be asked to ponder the heavy weight of history, the aching light-heartedness of a contemporary mediascape, the impact of quantum physics on quintessential physiology.
Under the impact of the Omicron-Variant and in accordance with the efforts in social choreography to fight the pandemic, what was to premiere as a live performance is transformed into a video work over the runtime of the exhibition. Itself an essential part of the exhibition, the constant change of set-up will be reflected by the accumulation of raw footage that is put on display. The Akademie Galerie turns into a gravitational center, the nexus of a galaxy, an amassment of matter, that gathers, what belongs or wants to be together.
What is weight, if not attraction in the first place?
Pavilion 27 invites to a sneak preview with a live set on our opening day, to look behind the curtains during the runtime and finally to the initial screening of „Even Lift“.
The Gallery is accessible under 2G+ rules only.
Opening: Wed 19.01., 7-9 pm
Runtime: 20.01.-05.02. , Wed-Sun, 2-7 pm
Finissage : cancelled due to CoVid-restrictions, find our gestures from Sun, 06.02., 6pm under https://www.instagram.com/pavillon27/