Der Dritte Ort (“The Third Place”): Memory, Democracy and FutureFür Deutschland? – For Germany?

Alicia Rieke is studying art education at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts and at the LMU. In her transmedia practice, she combines graphic art, photography, videography and objects. Her work explores remembrance culture and language as well as social and political issues, examining how stories, symbols and images shape our perception. She lives and works in Munich.

Anna Knöller studied scenography and media art at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design, and stage design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, graduating with a diploma in both subjects. In her artistic research, she explores performative structures within legal systems, as well as the staging of the administration of justice as a social and spatial practice. She lives and works in Munich. Her work has been exhibited in Berlin, Mannheim and Munich, amongst other places.

Gina-Marie Bross is a student at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts. Her interest lies with places, perspectives and routines that elude our immediate understanding, yet nevertheless shape our everyday lives. Lying at the intersection of research, documentation and imagination, her work reveals the spatial and social dynamics of power, violence and exclusion, and the longing for other places.

Jonas Lewek is a conceptual and media artist who studied under Eberhard Bosslet at the Dresden University of Fine Arts from 2007 to 2015. His work focuses on social issues, new technologies and the art world. His choice of medium results from whichever concept he is tackling. His works have been exhibited in Berlin, Hamburg, Dresden, Manchester, Porto and Yogyakarta. He lives and works in Munich.

Lena-K studied media art at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. She lives and works in Munich. Combining painting, sculpture, performance and video, she creates works exploring womanhood, anti-fascism, memory and social transformation. She curates exhibitions, founded the Lotse collective and has played a key role in the Für Deutschland? exhibition.

Natalia Schmidt lives and works in Munich, Berlin and Paris. She combines photography, film, sculpture, music, performance and long-term research into a process-oriented practice that re-examines the documentary and ethical value of images.

The Werk70 collective emerged from collaboration, artistic exchange and friendship. The three artists explore contemporary cultural and social issues through the traditional craft of woodcarving, as well as through animation, film and photography. The dialogue between them is a deliberate part of their shared artistic practice.