Vincent Grunwald at ART DEMO DAY

Cologne

Vincent Grunwald questions our everyday space by performing its physicality and imaginary. A writer and an artist he interrogates art through both forms.

Vincent Grunwald lives and works in Berlin, Germany. He graduated from the University der Kunste in Berlin and from the Universidad Nacional de las Artes in Buenos Aires, Argentina. His works reflect his love for travel. Germany, Serbia, Russia, Argentina, Greece, he exhibited around the world while publishing about ten books along with the AKV Berlin edition house.

From November 21 on, his works will be on display in the group exhibition ART DEMO DAY. Florian Waldvogel, the curator of the show, sat down with Vincent Grunwald to talk art and politics.

Florian Waldvogel: What have you found to be influential during the Art studies?
Vincent Grunwald: To cooperate with institutionalized knowledge and methods available and at the same time to scrutinize and develop distribution and forms of work that operate confidently with the knowledge of the functions and processes in institutionalized spaces and in their inherent reproductive cycles.

FW: To what extent are social references important for your work?
VG: The artistic practice offers the possibility to across disciplines and to experiment with social issues. Art can thus be seen as a social areas; laboratory. Both the setting in which art is produced and the artistic work itself can serve as a model to deliberately show social manipulation.

FW: What is an exhibition?
VG: Three key points constitute for me the term exhibition: the point in which the artistic production is publicly visible, the spatial configuration of people, architecture, and artistic works, and the social event which works beyond art as a networking platform.

ART DEMO DAY

Read the interview in German / Zum Interview auf Deutsch