Kükelhahn
Mentee: Havîn Al-Sîndy
Kükelhahn (G. Kühnhardt Alvares, *1987) lives and works in Frankfurt am Main, Stuttgart and throughout Germany. Kükelhahn studied German and Japanese Studies at the University of Trier, photography at the Seian University of Art and Design in Ōtsu, Japan, Communication Design (BA) at Hochschule Mannheim as well as Exhibition Design (MA) at Hochschule Düsseldorf.
The question — the interview — is the sculptural material with which Kükelhahn creates and examines the environment for a critique of representation, for transcultural grey areas and a collective transfer of knowledge. On this basis, they work with intimacy, empathy and ‘cuteness’. Proceedings that are experienced together take place and form subversive sculptures of participation — counterbalancing discriminatory social reproductions of the present. Technically speaking, Kükelhahn has so far developed site-specific, spatial encounters such as quiet rooms, podcasts, photo books, bakeries and picnics.
Since 2020, their field of research has focussed on the context of art itself. Kükelhahn is interested in the various stages and intersections of artists, their lives and their work. Kükelhahn explores the concept of dreaming in order to speculate on other conditions for collaborations and then realise them in the future.
Kükelhahn has collectively and individually received the Solitude Fellowship from the Akademie Schloss Solitude (2023/24), the Mannheimer Demokratiepreis (2022), recognition from aed Neuland (2021) and the Baden-Württemberg Scholarship (2015), among others.
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