Kunstlauf

Director: Franz Wanner    → show biography   ← hide biography

Biography: Franz Wanner, born in 1975, finished his training as a photographer and filmmaker before studying fine arts and media theory at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste München (Academy of Fine Arts, Munich). Texts, photo series, films, and objects have been published under the pseudonym Franz Wanner since 1996. In his book The Presumption (2011) they appear as the plot of a nonlinear screenplay. In 2012 he received the City of Munich’s Scholarship for Fine Arts. Since then he has been working on the narrative cycle Toxin – Antitoxin. Clinical Pictures of a Town, which was shown for the first time in 2013 at the Museum für Photographie Braunschweig. Since 2009, Franz Wanner has lectured at several universities and teaching institutions in the fields of fine art and film.

Country: Germany

Year: 2007

Synopsis: In a performative act, Kunstlauf extends the Munich art museum Pinakothek der Moderne and declares the surrounding area to be an art space. In this way it becomes possible for the “art runner” to counteract the aura of the institution without being interned in its spatial exclusivity or failing to measure up and remaining excluded. The performance becomes independent and self-defined, both in its flaws and in the successful phases of the slapstick-like appropriation of the harsh field of art.

Language: without dialogue