Marius Förster first studied Visual Communication at the Berlin University of the Arts and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He began his Master’s studies at the Zurich University of the Arts in Transdisciplinarity and then continued at the Braunschweig University of Fine Arts in Transformation Design. He is involved in 3000 Peaks, a collaborative project speculating about the climate catastrophe in Switzerland and RIBL (Research Institute of Botanical Linguistics). In this context he co-organizes workshops, e.g. at the design conference ATTENDING [TO] FUTURES, which took place at the Cologne International School of Design in 2021. He is co-editor of “Un/Certain Futures – Rollen des Designs in gesellschaftlichen Transformationsprozessen”, published by transcript.
Robert Preusse studied Visual Communication at the Berlin University of the Arts with a scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation, in the classes “New Media” and “Visual Systems”. After being involved with the self-organized workshop format “Parallel School”, he studied at the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths, University of London. He has been designing in activist contexts, for example for Investigative Commons on the terrorist attacks in Hanau or Forensic Oceanography on the deadly border regime in the Mediterranean Sea. His graphic timelines for Forensic Architecture have been shown in exhibitions around the world.
Stefanie Rau studied Visual Communication at the Berlin University of the Arts. With a scholarship by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) she completed her Master’s degree at the Critical Studies Department of the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam. There she developed a text-based artistic practice alongside her design work, which she presented in various international contexts such as exhibitions and conferences. Between 2013 and 2021 she worked as part of the graphic design team of the queer-feminist Missy Magazine. Since 2019 she is a lecturer at the weißensee school of art and design in Berlin and has been invited for workshops at the Burg Giebichenstein University of Art Halle and FHNW University of Art and Design Basel.
TEAM
We are working together with ongoing and project-based collaborators:
Toni Brell
Rahel Brochhagen
Marina Cardoso
Eva Dumoulin
Katherina Gorodynska
Laurine Haller (Internship 2021/22)
Meike Hardt
Jacqueline Hen
Miriam Humm
Andrea Karch
Nicolas Kort
Hannah Loibl
Laura Martinez
Lisa Pommerenke
Carmen Lucía Rivadeneira
Martin Wecke
Peter Wendebourg
Lena Wessel
CLIENTS / PROJECT PARTNERS
alpha nova & galerie futura, Berlin
ArtLab, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
Athena Verlag, Oberhausen
Centre de Design de l’UQAM, Montreal
Centre for Research Architecture, Goldsmiths London
DAAD – German Academic Exchange Service, Bonn/Berlin
District Kunst- und Kulturförderung, Berlin
Forensic Architecture, London
FORENSIS, Berlin
Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main
Freethought Collective x Bergen Assembly
Galerie im Saalbau, Berlin
GLASMOOG Raum für Kunst & Diskurs, Köln
Goethe Institut, Mumbai
grund_schule der künste, Berlin
Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), Berlin
Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Braunschweig
Hugo Simon Stiftung, Seelow
IKOB Museum for Contemporary Art, Leupen
Initiative 19. Februar Hanau
Institute for Contemporary Art (ICA), London
Investigative Commons, Berlin
Jürgen Ponto-Stiftung, Frankfurt am Main
KADMOS Kulturverlag, Berlin
KGParl, Berlin
Koordinierungsstelle Chancengleichheit Sachsen, Leipzig
KontextSchule, Institut für Kunst im Kontext, Berlin
kulturbande, Zürich
Kunstbrücke am Wildenbruch, Berlin
Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln
Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin
Kunst braucht Kohle, Zürich
Leuphana Universität Lüneburg
McGill University, Montreal
Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen
NS Dokumentationszentrum München
Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum – Kulturen der Welt, Köln
Technische Universität, Dresden
transcript Verlag, Bielefeld
transmediale festival for digital cultures, Berlin
Universität der Künste Berlin (UdK)
Universität Stuttgart
University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis
Zeppelin Museum, Friedrichshafen
ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe
Zürcher Hochschule für Künste (ZHdK)
Zone Expérimentale, Basel
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