BA Fine Arts faculty member Marc Bauer (*1975 in Geneva, Switzerland) receives the GASAG Art Prize 2020, which will be awarded for the sixth time next year in cooperation with the Berlinische Galerie. Every two years an outstanding artistic position at the interface of art, science and technology is honored with this prize. Previous winners were: Susanne Kriemann (2010), Tue Greenfort (2012), Nik Nowak (2014), Andreas Greiner (2016) and Julian Charrière (2018).
The GASAG Art Prize includes an exhibition and a publication in the Berlinische Galerie. With his exhibition, Marc Bauer wants to examine the history of the Internet and its effects on society and the individual.
"On the basis of intensive research, Marc Bauer develops expansive, complex installations based on the medium of drawing. Using pencil and eraser, the artist works on themes such as migration, identity and gender, criticism of new media, and the connection between religion and violence. Erasing images and incorporating traces of erasure are part of the drawing process. In his installations, the artist expands works on paper with large drawn murals, animated drawings and films. The result is a suggestive dramaturgy of historical events and stories, facts and fictions, pictorial and word elements, linked to an expanded understanding of science, which remains open to various interpretations.“ (press release)
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