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MAKE.A.MATCH

Editor: Katharina Schendl
Publisher: Revolver Publishing, Berlin
Content: 96 pages
ISBN: 978-3-95763-068-1
Year: 2014

MAKE.A.MATCH (initiated by Katharina Schendl) gave artists Carte Blance to develop a project, but with one restriction: they have to collaborate with another artist, a stranger chosen by the curator. What happens if this premise is put into action? What are the strategies the artists will use in these “arranged marriages”?

Ana Prvacki + Magda Tothova met in true blind-date spirit for coffee. Their coffee meeting was the focus of their common work. Reto Steiner + Martin Roth produced more along the lines of the surrealistic game “cadavre exquis” a spatial installation. Alona Rodeh + Florian Neufeldt acted on the forms of control in a gallery space, on how boundaries are created through surveillance, protection and artificial barriers, and presented their work more side-by-side, in dialog. Dren Maliqi + Paul Philipp Heinze & Matthias Krause documented the time they spent together. The overall effect was more that of a group show than of a work conceived and produced in common. Ingela Johansson + Hugo Canoilas, both “contemporary culture workers”, are interested to shift the borders of institutional determination to embrace an outside, to reintegrate art into our daily routine more significantly. They developed a Fanzine together. What is collaboration? Peter Ahorner + Karl Ferdinand Kratzl give an answer in dialog.

With contributions by Andrew Berardini, Heather Harmon, Hila Cohen-Schneiderman, Katharina Schendl, Kate Whitebread and Peter Ahorner + Karl Ferdinand Kratzl, Ingela Johansson + Hugo Canoilas.

This publication is available at ERSTE Foundation Library.

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Since 2023, Florian Bauer has been responsible for social finance, sustainability and social innovation at ERSTE Foundation. Prior to this role, Florian worked in the NGO & Social Entrepreneurship sector for more than 13 years. He led the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership (REEEP), an international multilateral NGO that works to accelerate market-based deployment of renewable energy and energy efficient systems in developing countries, and was Managing Director & COO of the Impact Hub Vienna. From 2020-2023, Florian established strategic alliances with key partners and helped to create innovative semantic technology solutions at Semantic Web Company (SWC), a leading IT company in semantic AI solutions.