upcoming September 16 – December 18, 2011
BLINGCRETE IS PART OF DMY ASIA EXHIBITION TOUR 2011
Kicking off in September, the 4th DMY Asia Exhibition tour will present innovative design objects and products at six different fairs and festivals in Asia. At invitation of Business of Design Week, we will showcase in Hongkong for the first time this year as well as celebrate the premiere of our exhibition in Beijing. We are especially looking forward to showcase at the Designtide Tokyo this year, to support our longterm partners and celebrate the anniversary year marking 150 years of friendship between Japan and Germany.
The stations of the tour include:
Taiwan Designers’ Week (Taipei/Taiwan), September 16 – 25, 2011
Beijing Design Week (Beijing/China), September 28 – October 3, 2011
Taipei World Design Expo, Taiwan, October 22 – 30, 2011
Designtide Tokyo (Tokyo/Japan), October 29 – November 3, 2011
Detour 2011 (Hong Kong/China), November 25 – December 11, 2011
UNESCO Creative Cities (Seoul/Korea), November 16 – December 09, 2011
Seoul Design Festival (Seoul/Korea), December 14 – 18, 2011
upcoming September 22 – 23, 2011
THINK:MATERIAL FEATURES BLINGCRETE AT IIDEX 2011
BlingCrete™ will be on display in the THINK:Material feature exhibit at IIDEX/NeoCon Toronto, Canada on September 22 and 23, 2011.
THINK:Material is an interactive exhibit curated by International Materials Consultant Jim Salazar, that showcases innovative materials from across the globe.
www.thinkmaterial.ca www.iidexneocon.com
May 20 – August 21, 2011
CONTROL – EXHIBITION AT BREGENZER KUNSTVEREIN
Exhibition design by Carsten Fock in cooperation with Task. Intervention into the exhibition space of Magazin 4 Bregenzer Kunstverein.
May 24 – 26, 2011
BLINGCRETE AT MATERIAL VISION
Material Vision – the trade fair revolving around the subject of materials for product development, design and architecture – is a platform for the professional dialogue between the materials industry and the creative sector.
"With a special joint stand, the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology (Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Technologie – BMWi) is promoting the participation of young, innovative companies in Material Vision. The focus of this initiative is on small to medium-sized companies distinguished by new developments or significant improvements to products, processes and services, as well as their market launch. An interesting product to be presented at the joint stand is a new building material called Bling Crete. This ‘reflex concrete’ combines the positive qualities of concrete, such as fire resistance and strength, with retro-reflection. Bling Crete is made by mixing light-reflecting micro-glass balls into a special concrete and can be used for buildings, road construction and even in interiors."
(Press release, Messe Frankfurt, February 3, 2011)
Material Vision will be held in Hall 4.1 of Frankfurt Fair and Exhibition Centre from 24 to 26 May. Further information about Material Vision and the complementary programme can be found on the internet at: www.material-vision.com.
Please also have a look at Membranes Surfaces Boundaries and blingcrete.com
March 17 – July 10, 2011
FAÇADE : THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY
Exhibition with works by Thorsten Klooster and Heike Klussmann at the National Glass Centre NGC, Sunderland. Opening on Thursday, March 17, 2011,
"In architecture the façade of a building has always been a key design feature - defining the identity, or face, of a building. This exhibition will explore through artists’ and architects’ work, how facades can be used to both reveal and conceal – and often what, upon closer scrutiny, lies beneath the surface: the tension between appearance and reality.
One of the most striking architectural developments over the last 50 years has been the increasing presence of glass façades, which have become all but ubiquitous, at least in larger towns and cities, affecting both our environment and people’s lives. Firstly shops, then offices and more recently apartment blocks have been clad increasingly in ever greater expanses of glazing.
This exhibition explores some of the origins of this in the radical writings and architecture of the 1910s onwards, the subsequent development of glass technologies, and the range of its manifestations and effects since.
It also throws this seeming ‘triumph of transparency’ into relief, by contrasting it with its inverse: the blank, dark or broken/blind façade in architecture.
And reflecting contemporary developments, it will look at how new glazed-façade technology seems to metamorphose between the transparent and the opaque, hinting at a more ambiguous play between material surface and its depth - what lies beneath."
March 15 – March 28, 2011
TEFAF 2011 | LOUNGE FOR THE MAASTRICHT ART AND ANTIQUES FAIR
Lounge at Tefaf 2011, designed by Task, presenting works of Sigmar Polke from the Deutsche Bank Collection.
"Deutsche Bank is once again present at TEFAF in 2011 ... As it has been the case every year since 2005, Deutsche Bank´s VIP Lounge is dedicated to an artistic theme. 2011 stands under the sign of one of the most important protagonists of contemporary art: the `great alchimist`Sigmar Polke. As an homage to the artist, who died in the summer 2010, a selection of works from the bank collection is presented under the title Raster (Grid)."
(DB Art News 2011, Focus)
Team: Thorsten Klooster, Luzia Rux, Maria Morais.
Collaborators: Regarding Arts.
January 19, 2011
NANOTECHNOLOGY AND BIONICS | HIGH-TECH FOR THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY
Location: BAU 2011 / ICM Munich Forum / Room 2
Dates: January 18 – 19, 2011, Lecture on January, 19, 3.30 pm
Thorsten Klooster and Heike Klussmann will give a lecture about their research work at the Nanotechnik und Bionik – HighTech in der Bauwirtschaft. This congress presented by the German Federal Ministery of Economics and Technology BMWi at the BAU 2011 in Munich examines strategies in high-tech for the construction industry. The event takes place on January 18 and 19, 2011 at the ICM Munich Forum. Thorsten Klooster and Heike Klussmann will speak about "Bau Kunst Erfinden" on Wednesday, January 19, 3.30 pm.
"Innovative technologies such as nanotechnology and Bionics provide success promising approaches for developing high-tech innovations for the construction industry. The Federal Ministry of Economics and technology presents very interesting and successful examples from research and practice and the construction industry as high-tech branch." (BMWi press release)
For further information please also look at the RKW project website (German language) on Nanotechnology and Bionics.
December 15, 2010
BLINGCRETE IS PART OF MATERIAL REVOLUTION
In his new book Material Revolution – Sustainable Multi-Purpose Materials for Design, Sascha Peters is presenting new environmentally compatible materials and production methods, including Heike Klussmann´s and Thorsten Klooster´s BlingCrete – Light reflecting concrete as an example. Dr. Sascha Peters is a material consultant and chief executive officer of the firm haute innovation.
December 13, 2010
SMART SURFACES AT TU MÜNCHEN
By invitation of Prof. Dietrich Fink, Thorsten Klooster gives a lecture on smart surfaces at the Technische Universität München TUM. The lecture is part of this fall´s lecture course on Integrated Construction Design at the TUM Institute for Architectural Design and Building Technology.
December 11, 2010 – February 13, 2011
NEW FRANKFURT INTERNATIONALS: STORIES AND STAGES | CARSTEN FOCK AT MMK FRANKFURT
Opening on Friday, December 11, 2010, at MMK Zollamt, Frankfurt am Main.
Carsten Fock is presenting "Kosmos der Angst" within the group show "New Frankfurt Internationals". The exhibition is a cooperation between the Frankfurter Kunstverein, the MMK Museum for Modern Art Frankfurt am Main and State Academy of Fine Arts Staedelschule. It runs until February 13, 2011. Exhibition Design of "Kosmos der Angst" by Task in collaboration with the artist.
November 19, 2010
LAGO DIALOGHI | TALK ON SURFACE DESIGN
Thorsten Klooster and Heike Klussmann give an interview on surface design at the new Lago Store in Vicenza. The presentation is part of Lago´s Design Conversations and is the second in the course of three events on contemporary perspectives in design, architecture and urban development during November. Further events are with Bernardo Secchi and Raul Pantaleo (Tam Associati).
November 11, 2010
SMARTSURFACES.NET – A MULTIDISCIPLINARY HANDS-ON THINK-TANK
Thorsten Klooster is a guest critic and gives a lecture to a course on Smart Surfaces at the University of Michigan´s Design Lab 1. DL1 is a gathering place, where the colleges of Engineering, Art & Design, Architecture and Urban Planning, Information, and Music all converge. SmartSurfaces.Net offers a collaborative, project-based learning experience in which artists, designers, architects and engineers come together to build physical systems and structural surfaces that have the capability to adapt to information and environmental conditions. The course will operate as a multidisciplinary, hands-on think-tank where participants will pool their knowledge and skills to work together to produce environmentally sound and socially responsible projects. The course is a collaborative endeavor led by the three professors Karl Daubmann, John Marshall and Max Shtein who will advise and contribute to all team projects.
October – November 2010
MEMBRANES SURFACES BOUNDARIES – CREATING INTERSTICES
Location: Aedes Pfefferberg, Christinenstr. 18-19, 10119 Berlin
Exhibition dates: October 8 – November 11, 2010
Opening: Friday, October 8, 2010, 6:30 pm
Opening hours: Tue-Fri 11 am to 6:30 pm, Sat/Sun 1pm - 5 pm
This exhibition presents works by artist Heike Klussmann, architect Thorsten Klooster, designer and artist Susanna Hertrich, and designer Clemens Winkler. In projects and experiments, they demonstrate the reciprocal action between the theoretical and material manifestations of membranes, surfaces, and boundaries, and their transitional stages between everyday objects, technology and aesthetic production.
"...a small but very exciting group show being held in Berlin's Aedes gallery."
(Mathias Remmele, Added value surfaces, www.stylepark.com, October 24, 2010).
The contributions for the exhibition correspond with the scientific positions of a workshop under the same title held by the Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Science from October 7-9, 2010, in Berlin-Dahlem. The workshop was organized by Mathias Grote, Laura Otis and Max Stadler. For more information please also look at the Aedes website and the online exhibition.
October 4, 2010
VIVERE IL DESIGN A PADOVA | CREATIVE WORKSHOP
Thorsten Klooster is invited as a visiting critic to the SID Creative Workshop "Prodotto per la casa e la città" by Scuola Italiana Design. The workshop is part of this years Design Week in the city of Padua, lasting from October 2 - 10.
Location: Padiglione 8, Fiera di Padova.
September 24 - 25, 2010
ARTISTIC RESEARCH AS AESTHETIC SCIENCE? | PROJECT PRESENTATION OF "BLINGCRETE"
On the occasion of the workshop "Artistic Research as Aesthetic Science?" Heike Klussmann and Thorsten Klooster will present their interdisciplinary project BlingCrete at the Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart.
The workshop is situated in the context of the art, science & business program of the academie and in cooperation with the Zeppelin University, Friedrichshafen.
Art research as »aesthetic science« is conceived as a process that utilizes artists’ specific knowledge, working methods, and competence and applies them to other contexts outside of the art system. It is neither research about art that then lies in the field of science of art, nor is it research with art that genuinely characterizes artistic production. Central to the discussion are forms of sensual insight that are combined with scientific practices to generate new knowledge.
September 16, 2010
MULTIFUNKTIONSBAUSTOFFE FÜR DESIGNER UND ARCHITEKTEN
On the occasion of Hessen Nanotech´s first symposium on new materials following the opening conference in June, Heike Klussmann and Thorsten Klooster report at Atelier K10, University of Kassel, about their teamwork on BlingCrete. The symposium places emphasis on smart heavy building materials. It will start at 17:30.
June 24, 2010
SMARTE MATERIALENTWICKLUNG DURCH ARCHITEKTEN
Thorsten Klooster will give a lecture at Hessen Nanotech´s Opening Conference on new materials, "Vom Material zum marktfähigen Produkt" at the HfG Offenbach. The conference starts at 9:30. It will be followed by five further symposiums in the course of the next months, with next year´s Material Vision as the final event.
June 16, 2010
GOD MADE THE BULK, BUT...
By invitation of Prof. Frank Petzold, Thorsten Klooster gives a lecture at Technische Universität München TUM. The lecture is part of this summer´s lecture course on Computational Design at the TUM department. "God made the bulk, the devil invented the surface" qoutes Austrian physician Wolfgang Pauli, who is considered to be a pioneer of modern nanotechnologies.
March – May 2010
DIE WELT DARF SCHÖNER WERDEN | CARSTEN FOCK AT STEINLE CONTEMPORARY
Opening on Thursday, March 25, 2010, at Steinle Contemporary, Munich. The exhibition runs until May 12, 2010.
Exhibition Design by Task in collaboration with the artist.
February 03, 2010, 18:30
FESTLEGEN DES NULLELEMENTS
Heike Klussmann and Thorsten Klooster give a report on their joint working on BlingCrete as part of this winter´s DerDieDas lecture course at BTU Cottbus, where they had been teaching as assistant professors.
December 15, 2009, 13:00
SMART SURFACES
By invitation of InfAr, Thorsten Klooster gives an Open Lecture at Blauer Pool, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, on his new book.
December 2009 – February 2010
BACKPACK | CARSTEN FOCK AT MAGAZIN4 BREGENZER KUNSTVEREIN
Opening on Friday, December 4, 2009. The exhibition runs until February 21, 2010.
Exhibition Design by Task in collaboration with the artist.
December 2009 – February 2010
ART FORUM BERLIN 2009 | SEPTEMBER GALLERY
Stand designed by Artist Sandra Meisel, with Task as consulting architects.
Preview on September 23, 2009. The AFB will be opened until Sunday, September 27, 2010.
Awarded as best single stand of the art fair.
July 2, 2009
SMART SURFACES AND THEIR APPLICATION IN ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN
Vernissage and panel discussion on the occasion of the publication of "Smart Surfaces", a Birkhäuser Basel book.
Panel discussion with Thorsten Klooster, Task Architekten, Berlin, Editor/ author of "Smart Surfaces"
Nicolas Bourquin, onlab, Berlin
Sebastian Finckh, J. Mayer H. Architekten, Berlin
Moderator:
Dr. Sascha Peters. at Modulor Haus in Berlin, Prinzenstraße 85, July 2, 2009, 18.30 Uhr.
Subsequently, Aperó and Lounge.
The event is supported by the Swiss Embassy in Germany.
Book sale by Buchhandlung Walther König, coordinated by Birkhäuser Basel.
October 2008
ART FORUM BERLIN 2008 | STAND FOR SEPTEMBER GALLERY
Stand designed by Task in collaboration with artist Ursula Döbereiner.
Preview on October 30, 2008. The AFB will be opened until Sunday, November 3, 2008.
Awarded as best single stand of the art fair.
BLINGCRETE IS PART OF DMY ASIA EXHIBITION TOUR 2011
Kicking off in September, the 4th DMY Asia Exhibition tour will present innovative design objects and products at six different fairs and festivals in Asia. At invitation of Business of Design Week, we will showcase in Hongkong for the first time this year as well as celebrate the premiere of our exhibition in Beijing. We are especially looking forward to showcase at the Designtide Tokyo this year, to support our longterm partners and celebrate the anniversary year marking 150 years of friendship between Japan and Germany.
The stations of the tour include:
Taiwan Designers’ Week (Taipei/Taiwan), September 16 – 25, 2011
Beijing Design Week (Beijing/China), September 28 – October 3, 2011
Taipei World Design Expo, Taiwan, October 22 – 30, 2011
Designtide Tokyo (Tokyo/Japan), October 29 – November 3, 2011
Detour 2011 (Hong Kong/China), November 25 – December 11, 2011
UNESCO Creative Cities (Seoul/Korea), November 16 – December 09, 2011
Seoul Design Festival (Seoul/Korea), December 14 – 18, 2011
upcoming September 22 – 23, 2011
THINK:MATERIAL FEATURES BLINGCRETE AT IIDEX 2011
BlingCrete™ will be on display in the THINK:Material feature exhibit at IIDEX/NeoCon Toronto, Canada on September 22 and 23, 2011.
THINK:Material is an interactive exhibit curated by International Materials Consultant Jim Salazar, that showcases innovative materials from across the globe.
www.thinkmaterial.ca www.iidexneocon.com
May 20 – August 21, 2011
CONTROL – EXHIBITION AT BREGENZER KUNSTVEREIN
Exhibition design by Carsten Fock in cooperation with Task. Intervention into the exhibition space of Magazin 4 Bregenzer Kunstverein.
May 24 – 26, 2011
BLINGCRETE AT MATERIAL VISION
Material Vision – the trade fair revolving around the subject of materials for product development, design and architecture – is a platform for the professional dialogue between the materials industry and the creative sector.
"With a special joint stand, the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology (Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Technologie – BMWi) is promoting the participation of young, innovative companies in Material Vision. The focus of this initiative is on small to medium-sized companies distinguished by new developments or significant improvements to products, processes and services, as well as their market launch. An interesting product to be presented at the joint stand is a new building material called Bling Crete. This ‘reflex concrete’ combines the positive qualities of concrete, such as fire resistance and strength, with retro-reflection. Bling Crete is made by mixing light-reflecting micro-glass balls into a special concrete and can be used for buildings, road construction and even in interiors."
(Press release, Messe Frankfurt, February 3, 2011)
Material Vision will be held in Hall 4.1 of Frankfurt Fair and Exhibition Centre from 24 to 26 May. Further information about Material Vision and the complementary programme can be found on the internet at: www.material-vision.com.
Please also have a look at Membranes Surfaces Boundaries and blingcrete.com
March 17 – July 10, 2011
FAÇADE : THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY
Exhibition with works by Thorsten Klooster and Heike Klussmann at the National Glass Centre NGC, Sunderland. Opening on Thursday, March 17, 2011,
"In architecture the façade of a building has always been a key design feature - defining the identity, or face, of a building. This exhibition will explore through artists’ and architects’ work, how facades can be used to both reveal and conceal – and often what, upon closer scrutiny, lies beneath the surface: the tension between appearance and reality.
One of the most striking architectural developments over the last 50 years has been the increasing presence of glass façades, which have become all but ubiquitous, at least in larger towns and cities, affecting both our environment and people’s lives. Firstly shops, then offices and more recently apartment blocks have been clad increasingly in ever greater expanses of glazing.
This exhibition explores some of the origins of this in the radical writings and architecture of the 1910s onwards, the subsequent development of glass technologies, and the range of its manifestations and effects since.
It also throws this seeming ‘triumph of transparency’ into relief, by contrasting it with its inverse: the blank, dark or broken/blind façade in architecture.
And reflecting contemporary developments, it will look at how new glazed-façade technology seems to metamorphose between the transparent and the opaque, hinting at a more ambiguous play between material surface and its depth - what lies beneath."
March 15 – March 28, 2011
TEFAF 2011 | LOUNGE FOR THE MAASTRICHT ART AND ANTIQUES FAIR
Lounge at Tefaf 2011, designed by Task, presenting works of Sigmar Polke from the Deutsche Bank Collection.
"Deutsche Bank is once again present at TEFAF in 2011 ... As it has been the case every year since 2005, Deutsche Bank´s VIP Lounge is dedicated to an artistic theme. 2011 stands under the sign of one of the most important protagonists of contemporary art: the `great alchimist`Sigmar Polke. As an homage to the artist, who died in the summer 2010, a selection of works from the bank collection is presented under the title Raster (Grid)."
(DB Art News 2011, Focus)
Team: Thorsten Klooster, Luzia Rux, Maria Morais.
Collaborators: Regarding Arts.
January 19, 2011
NANOTECHNOLOGY AND BIONICS | HIGH-TECH FOR THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY
Location: BAU 2011 / ICM Munich Forum / Room 2
Dates: January 18 – 19, 2011, Lecture on January, 19, 3.30 pm
Thorsten Klooster and Heike Klussmann will give a lecture about their research work at the Nanotechnik und Bionik – HighTech in der Bauwirtschaft. This congress presented by the German Federal Ministery of Economics and Technology BMWi at the BAU 2011 in Munich examines strategies in high-tech for the construction industry. The event takes place on January 18 and 19, 2011 at the ICM Munich Forum. Thorsten Klooster and Heike Klussmann will speak about "Bau Kunst Erfinden" on Wednesday, January 19, 3.30 pm.
"Innovative technologies such as nanotechnology and Bionics provide success promising approaches for developing high-tech innovations for the construction industry. The Federal Ministry of Economics and technology presents very interesting and successful examples from research and practice and the construction industry as high-tech branch." (BMWi press release)
For further information please also look at the RKW project website (German language) on Nanotechnology and Bionics.
December 15, 2010
BLINGCRETE IS PART OF MATERIAL REVOLUTION
In his new book Material Revolution – Sustainable Multi-Purpose Materials for Design, Sascha Peters is presenting new environmentally compatible materials and production methods, including Heike Klussmann´s and Thorsten Klooster´s BlingCrete – Light reflecting concrete as an example. Dr. Sascha Peters is a material consultant and chief executive officer of the firm haute innovation.
December 13, 2010
SMART SURFACES AT TU MÜNCHEN
By invitation of Prof. Dietrich Fink, Thorsten Klooster gives a lecture on smart surfaces at the Technische Universität München TUM. The lecture is part of this fall´s lecture course on Integrated Construction Design at the TUM Institute for Architectural Design and Building Technology.
December 11, 2010 – February 13, 2011
NEW FRANKFURT INTERNATIONALS: STORIES AND STAGES | CARSTEN FOCK AT MMK FRANKFURT
Opening on Friday, December 11, 2010, at MMK Zollamt, Frankfurt am Main.
Carsten Fock is presenting "Kosmos der Angst" within the group show "New Frankfurt Internationals". The exhibition is a cooperation between the Frankfurter Kunstverein, the MMK Museum for Modern Art Frankfurt am Main and State Academy of Fine Arts Staedelschule. It runs until February 13, 2011. Exhibition Design of "Kosmos der Angst" by Task in collaboration with the artist.
November 19, 2010
LAGO DIALOGHI | TALK ON SURFACE DESIGN
Thorsten Klooster and Heike Klussmann give an interview on surface design at the new Lago Store in Vicenza. The presentation is part of Lago´s Design Conversations and is the second in the course of three events on contemporary perspectives in design, architecture and urban development during November. Further events are with Bernardo Secchi and Raul Pantaleo (Tam Associati).
November 11, 2010
SMARTSURFACES.NET – A MULTIDISCIPLINARY HANDS-ON THINK-TANK
Thorsten Klooster is a guest critic and gives a lecture to a course on Smart Surfaces at the University of Michigan´s Design Lab 1. DL1 is a gathering place, where the colleges of Engineering, Art & Design, Architecture and Urban Planning, Information, and Music all converge. SmartSurfaces.Net offers a collaborative, project-based learning experience in which artists, designers, architects and engineers come together to build physical systems and structural surfaces that have the capability to adapt to information and environmental conditions. The course will operate as a multidisciplinary, hands-on think-tank where participants will pool their knowledge and skills to work together to produce environmentally sound and socially responsible projects. The course is a collaborative endeavor led by the three professors Karl Daubmann, John Marshall and Max Shtein who will advise and contribute to all team projects.
October – November 2010
MEMBRANES SURFACES BOUNDARIES – CREATING INTERSTICES
Location: Aedes Pfefferberg, Christinenstr. 18-19, 10119 Berlin
Exhibition dates: October 8 – November 11, 2010
Opening: Friday, October 8, 2010, 6:30 pm
Opening hours: Tue-Fri 11 am to 6:30 pm, Sat/Sun 1pm - 5 pm
This exhibition presents works by artist Heike Klussmann, architect Thorsten Klooster, designer and artist Susanna Hertrich, and designer Clemens Winkler. In projects and experiments, they demonstrate the reciprocal action between the theoretical and material manifestations of membranes, surfaces, and boundaries, and their transitional stages between everyday objects, technology and aesthetic production.
"...a small but very exciting group show being held in Berlin's Aedes gallery."
(Mathias Remmele, Added value surfaces, www.stylepark.com, October 24, 2010).
The contributions for the exhibition correspond with the scientific positions of a workshop under the same title held by the Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Science from October 7-9, 2010, in Berlin-Dahlem. The workshop was organized by Mathias Grote, Laura Otis and Max Stadler. For more information please also look at the Aedes website and the online exhibition.
October 4, 2010
VIVERE IL DESIGN A PADOVA | CREATIVE WORKSHOP
Thorsten Klooster is invited as a visiting critic to the SID Creative Workshop "Prodotto per la casa e la città" by Scuola Italiana Design. The workshop is part of this years Design Week in the city of Padua, lasting from October 2 - 10.
Location: Padiglione 8, Fiera di Padova.
September 24 - 25, 2010
ARTISTIC RESEARCH AS AESTHETIC SCIENCE? | PROJECT PRESENTATION OF "BLINGCRETE"
On the occasion of the workshop "Artistic Research as Aesthetic Science?" Heike Klussmann and Thorsten Klooster will present their interdisciplinary project BlingCrete at the Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart.
The workshop is situated in the context of the art, science & business program of the academie and in cooperation with the Zeppelin University, Friedrichshafen.
Art research as »aesthetic science« is conceived as a process that utilizes artists’ specific knowledge, working methods, and competence and applies them to other contexts outside of the art system. It is neither research about art that then lies in the field of science of art, nor is it research with art that genuinely characterizes artistic production. Central to the discussion are forms of sensual insight that are combined with scientific practices to generate new knowledge.
September 16, 2010
MULTIFUNKTIONSBAUSTOFFE FÜR DESIGNER UND ARCHITEKTEN
On the occasion of Hessen Nanotech´s first symposium on new materials following the opening conference in June, Heike Klussmann and Thorsten Klooster report at Atelier K10, University of Kassel, about their teamwork on BlingCrete. The symposium places emphasis on smart heavy building materials. It will start at 17:30.
June 24, 2010
SMARTE MATERIALENTWICKLUNG DURCH ARCHITEKTEN
Thorsten Klooster will give a lecture at Hessen Nanotech´s Opening Conference on new materials, "Vom Material zum marktfähigen Produkt" at the HfG Offenbach. The conference starts at 9:30. It will be followed by five further symposiums in the course of the next months, with next year´s Material Vision as the final event.
June 16, 2010
GOD MADE THE BULK, BUT...
By invitation of Prof. Frank Petzold, Thorsten Klooster gives a lecture at Technische Universität München TUM. The lecture is part of this summer´s lecture course on Computational Design at the TUM department. "God made the bulk, the devil invented the surface" qoutes Austrian physician Wolfgang Pauli, who is considered to be a pioneer of modern nanotechnologies.
March – May 2010
DIE WELT DARF SCHÖNER WERDEN | CARSTEN FOCK AT STEINLE CONTEMPORARY
Opening on Thursday, March 25, 2010, at Steinle Contemporary, Munich. The exhibition runs until May 12, 2010.
Exhibition Design by Task in collaboration with the artist.
February 03, 2010, 18:30
FESTLEGEN DES NULLELEMENTS
Heike Klussmann and Thorsten Klooster give a report on their joint working on BlingCrete as part of this winter´s DerDieDas lecture course at BTU Cottbus, where they had been teaching as assistant professors.
December 15, 2009, 13:00
SMART SURFACES
By invitation of InfAr, Thorsten Klooster gives an Open Lecture at Blauer Pool, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, on his new book.
December 2009 – February 2010
BACKPACK | CARSTEN FOCK AT MAGAZIN4 BREGENZER KUNSTVEREIN
Opening on Friday, December 4, 2009. The exhibition runs until February 21, 2010.
Exhibition Design by Task in collaboration with the artist.
December 2009 – February 2010
ART FORUM BERLIN 2009 | SEPTEMBER GALLERY
Stand designed by Artist Sandra Meisel, with Task as consulting architects.
Preview on September 23, 2009. The AFB will be opened until Sunday, September 27, 2010.
Awarded as best single stand of the art fair.
July 2, 2009
SMART SURFACES AND THEIR APPLICATION IN ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN
Vernissage and panel discussion on the occasion of the publication of "Smart Surfaces", a Birkhäuser Basel book.
Panel discussion with Thorsten Klooster, Task Architekten, Berlin, Editor/ author of "Smart Surfaces"
Nicolas Bourquin, onlab, Berlin
Sebastian Finckh, J. Mayer H. Architekten, Berlin
Moderator:
Dr. Sascha Peters. at Modulor Haus in Berlin, Prinzenstraße 85, July 2, 2009, 18.30 Uhr.
Subsequently, Aperó and Lounge.
The event is supported by the Swiss Embassy in Germany.
Book sale by Buchhandlung Walther König, coordinated by Birkhäuser Basel.
October 2008
ART FORUM BERLIN 2008 | STAND FOR SEPTEMBER GALLERY
Stand designed by Task in collaboration with artist Ursula Döbereiner.
Preview on October 30, 2008. The AFB will be opened until Sunday, November 3, 2008.
Awarded as best single stand of the art fair.