Mario Asef

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Toter Polizist und Loch / Sleeping Policeman and Hole

[ object ] Sleeping Policeman and Hole

US-military base, Heidelberg-Pfaffengrund / Materials: aprx. 0,98 m3 earth /02. 06.2000 / 1:56 pm

[ comment ]

Much has been written on the history of metaphors. Little is known about their materialization. There are objects in this world, for which one prefers to use metaphors, since their true meaning extends beyond the functions or physical outline that they describe.

[ events ]

a+b) I dug a hole on the property of the U.S. military airport in Heidelberg (Germany). The earth was placed on a bike path on German territory and served as a hill that helped reduce bicycle speed.

Europe Towers

[ object ] Europe Towers

Stock of Bausch & Lomb, Walldorf / Materials: 6 palLets with 91 boxes each; Lot N* 800523/547 / 08 - 09.08.1999

[ events ]

a) Over the course of two workdays I restacked 546 boxes with optical medicine products from DIN pallets onto Euro pallets. The boxes were stacked according to a system similar to the construction of a brick wall, which allowed the same quantity of boxes to be stacked on the smaller Euro pallets, while at the same time making them more stable.

b) Two days later the Europe Towers were dispatched to Holland together with the rest of the stock.

X

[ object ] X

Ferry Bus Station, Hong Kong / Materials: 25 m thread or 1 ball of thread, 9 cm O / 01. 06. 2000 / 8:58 pm

[ comment ]

If the X ́-axis opposite to the X-axis is rotated around zero-point 0, all points of the X ́-axis disappear (except 0') out of the experiential space of the observer in S into the fourth dimension. This seems to totally contradict experience. In the image only a few X ́-axes are represented. One must imagine, however, that one X' -axis passes through each point of the X-axis. This means: We have to imagine a plane in the Minkowski space, which is densely filled with X' -axes. Each of them comes from another time and is simultaneously present—even when an observer in S discerns just one point of each axis, namely the one point located on his own X-axis.

Neolithic

16 - 03 - 2002
13:15 Uhr
Hagar Qim Tempel (ca. 3200 v. Chr.), Malta
Materials: 3 m rope + 2 stands

Fuchspelz / Fox Fur

[ object ] Fox fur / donation /

Museum of Natur, Berlin / Materials: 1 Fox fur / 07.01.2001 / 3:15 - 4:20 pm

[ events ]

a) On March 11, 2000 I bought a fox fur.

b) On July 1, 2001 I donated the fur to the Museum of Natural History, Berlin.
The museum administration was not interested in keeping the specimen.

Mudança

[ object ] Mudança*

Eixo Monumental Via N1 Oeste, Brasilia, Brazil / Materials: 48 m rope + 1 sign /04. 24.2003 / 1:24 pm

[ comment ]

* 1 move; 2 changes
(Luis Inacio ‘Lula’ da Silva in his first official speech on 01.01.2003 as president of Brazil.)

Farmers belonging to the Movimento sem Terra (Movement of Landless People) of Brazil took over state land on April 22 in the satellite city of Saô Sebastiaô, near the capital city of Brasilia. When I arrived, people were making out the property lines and clearing the land.

Jobcenter

[ object ] Jobcenter

Arbeitsamt Südwest, Berlin / Materials: one piece of furniture / 05.07.2002 / 11:00 am

[ events ]

a) In a job center in Berlin a temporary ramp had been installed between the first floor and the basement to transport files.

b) While waiting for a work permit I moved part of the ramp to a corridor in the basement.

Raumprothesen /
Berlin 2009

dam boards / dimensions variable

Bremen Brennen Rennen /
Bremen 2010

1 video and 1 object
video still - Mario Asef © 2010

Bremen Brennen Rennen /
Bremen 2010

Motiv auf Latex an Fensterwischer montiert - Mario Asef © 2010
1 video and 1 object

Bremen Brennen Rennen /
Bremen 2010

1 video and 1 object
video still - Mario Asef © 2010

Golden Nose /
Frankfurt Main 2009

video still - Mario Asef © 2010

Golden Nose /
Frankfurt Main 2009

eingerahmte Fotoabzüge - 69 x 56 cm - Mario Asef © 2010

Golden Nose /
Frankfurt Main 2009

12 x Nasenabdrucke aus Alufolie - 69 x 56 cm - Mario Asef © 2010

Frankfurter Mücken / Flies for Opel

1 video and 5 drawings
video still - Mario Asef © 2010

Frankfurter Mücken / Flies for Opel

1 video and 5 drawings
Bleistift und Muecken auf Papier - je 58,5 x 42 cm - Mario Asef © 2010

Ariadnefaden / Ariadne's thread

1 drawing, 1 video and 1 photography

On Production

36 drawings, 210 x 148 mm, Bauchnabel-Fusseln und Bleistift auf Papier - Mario Asef © 2010

Mario Asef

1971 born in Cordoba, Argentina

Lives in Berlin, Germany

Education

1990-95 University for Architecture and Urban Development in Córdoba, Argentina. 1998-2000 Academy of Visual Art, Karlsruhe, Germany. 2003 Chelsea College of Art and Design, London. 2000-2004 University of Art Berlin, Master of Art.

Grants

2009 Frankfurter Kunstverein, Deutsche Börse Residency Program, Frankfurt, Germany
2009 Raum Prothesen, project funding Arttransponder, Berlin, Germany
2007 Stiftung-Künstlerdorf, artist in residence program, Schöppingen, Germany
2007 Signal Wave, project funding Senatsverwaltung für Wissenschaft,
Forschung und Kultur, Berlin
2006 Schinckel Progressive - SSamzie Space, artist in residence program Seoul
2006 EMPIRIEN, catalogue funding Senatsverwaltung für Wissenschaft,
Forschung und Kultur, Berlin
2006 EMPIRIEN, project funding Kulturamt Pankow, Berlin
2006 Award of the Architektur und Film Festival - Out of Disaster-, Berlin
2004 Scholarship of the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, Berlin

Group Exhibitions

2010 Man Son 1969, Villa Merkel, curators: Andreas Baur, Frank Barth,
Dirck Möllmann, Esslingen, Germany (cat.)
10 Years at Kasa, Kasa Gallery, curators: Selim Birsel, Aslı Çetinkaya, Erdağ Aksel, Istanbul (cat.)
Klondike River, Treasure Land, curator: Horst Griese, Achim Bitter, André Korpys and Markus Löffler, Bremen, Germany
Weil’ auf mir, du dunkles Auge, bauer&ewald, with Jeremiah Day, Klara Hobza, Daniel Seiple, and Erik Smith
2009 Man Son 1969, Hamburger Kunsthalle, curators: Frank Barth,
Dirck Möllmann, Hamburg (cat.)
2008 Architektur, Künstlerhaus Bregenz, Austria (cat.)
2007 Capital 2014, curator: Caroline Lund, Lund, Sweden (cat.)
Legal Tender, KASA Gallery, Istanbul
Science Fiction, Galerie Metro, Berlin
have to leave my STUDIO, SSamzie Space,
curator: Hyunjin Shin, Seoul, South Korea (cat.)
PREVIEW 07- The Emerging Art Fair, Video lounge curated by Sabine Schuetze, Berlin
2006 Urbane Legend, SSamzie Space, curator: Soohyun Park
Seoul, South Korea (cat.)

Projects

2010 Port2010 / Soundgate, museum of modern art Kunsten, Aalborg, Denmark
SoundLAB VII , cologne global heritage of digital culture, Cologne, Germany
The Other and The Self, video stream, Voges Gallery, curated by Saul Judd, Frankfurt on the Main
2009 Transmediale 09, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
Arte, Salud y Sociedad, Proyecto Circo, curator: Ada Azor
La Havana, Cuba
Bordet, Abandoned Gallery, curator: Anna Norberg, Malmö, Sweden
The Other and The Self, video stream, Voges Gallery, Frankfurt on the Main
Zeppelin 2009 – Sonidos del Poder – Centro de Cultura Contemporania
de Barcelona (CCCB), Barcelona, Spain

2008 Zeppelin 2008 - Sorderas – Centro de Cultura Contemporania
de Barcelona (CCCB), Barcelona, Spain
Les Rencontres Internationales, Madrid, Berlin, Paris
2007 Transmediale 07, Akademie der Künste, Berlin
2006 Architektur und Film Festival - Out of Disaster - Brotfabrik, Berlin
2005 Art in the Age of New Technologies, Armenian Centre of
Contemporary Experimental Art, Armenia (cat.)

Bibliography

10 Years at Kasa, exhibition catalogue, Istanbul – 2010 /
Raumprothesen, catalogue, Berlin – 2009 /
Man Son 1969, exhibition catalogue, Hamburger Kunsthalle – 2009 /
Architektur, exhibition catalogue, Bregenz, Austria - 2008 /
Capital 2014, exhibition catalogue, Lund, Sweden – 2007 /
have to lave my STUDIO, studio program catalogue, Seoul, South Korea – 2007 /
EMPIRIEN, catalogue, Berlin – 2006 /
Urbane Legend, exhibition catalogue, Seoul – Berlin – 2006 /
II. European Month of Photography, Berlin – 2006 /
Art in the Age of New Technologies, exhibition catalogue, Armenia – 2005 /
Wo liegt Berlin? exhibition catalogue, Berlin – 2004 /
Guestroom, contemporary art magazine, London – Munich – 2004 /
Der Film entsteht vor Ort, Labor-Sonor-audio-CD, Charhizma Berlin – 2003 /
Zwischen Tür und Engel, exhibition catalogue Zionskirche, Berlin – 2002 /

Links

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Contact

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