“Hypnotist”, 2020, © Andrew Wagner
Zuzanna Bartoszek, portrait: Max D’Orsogna, © the artists
Nelson Beer, © the artist
Flock IV: Special Schloss Salon Edition
Zuzanna Bartoszek, Nelson Beer and Andrew Wagner
02/06/2025, 7 pm, Foyer Kunstverein Nürnberg
03/06/2025, Academy of Fine Arts Nürnberg
As part of a cooperation between the Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg and the Kunstverein Nürnberg—Albrecht Dürer Gesellschaft, artists, thinkers, and curators are invited to present their work at both institutions over two days. At Kunstverein the invitees introduce into their work in the form of a reading, a screening, a performance, a jam session, or similar, and a following conversation. The next day, academy students have the opportunity to exchange about their work with the guests in studio visits at the academy. The “Flock” format is centered around forms of collaboration and artistic self-organization.
This edition, featuring Zuzanna Bartoszek, Nelson Beer and Andrew Wagner, is a special version. Sofia Defino Leiby, the current recipient of the Marianne-Defet-Malerei-Stipendium, invited three guests. It is inspired by her reading series, “Schloss Salon”, which she organised in Berlin-Charlottenburg. At Kunstverein Nürnberg – Albrecht Dürer Gesellschaft, the invited guests will present readings and a sound performance.
Zuzanna Bartoszek (b. Poznań, PL) is an artist and poet. Her practice includes painting, gouaches, poetry and prose poetry. Her works have been shown, among others, at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Gaylord Apartments in Los Angeles, Kunsthalle in Zurich, Cabin Gallery in New York. In 2016 Disastra Publishing published her debut poetry collection, “Niebieski Dwór”. Her second book of poems “Klucz wisi na Słońcu” was released in 2021 by WBPiCAK Publishing House and nominated for Wisława Szymborska Award in 2022.
Andrew Wagner (b. New Jersey, USA) is a writer, filmmaker, artist, and amateur translator. His practice revolves around the creation of fictions that conflate the mystical with the political, the individual with the social—and always with a healthy dose of humor. His works and texts have been presented at Grotto, Berlin; Medium P, Berlin; Portikus, Frankfurt am Main; FUTURA Center for Contemporary Art, Prague; Cripta 747, Turin; and Yeah Maybe, Minneapolis.
Nelson Beer (b. Geneva, CH) is an artist and exhibitions organiser based in Berlin. His experience in the fields of music composition and performance inform his curatorial practices by bringing the improvisational into collaboration. He currently runs programmes as part of the curatorial duo Anne, as well as for the independent space Brasseries Atlas in Brussels.
