“Back in town, in an empty shop-front near the main square (the festival ‘hub’), German artist Christoph Schäfer and his compatriot DJ Booty Carrell […]
A Cloud On the Mountain that Blocks the Way | Cappadocia Struck | Uchisar Turkey 2015
A Cloud on the mountain that blocks the way, Shadowplay on Video, ca. 15 Minutes, English, filmed, produced and recorded on site in Uchisar Cappadocia, […]
Bostanorama: Exhibition in Hamburg, Publication by Spector Books, Edwin Scharff Award (English)
English Deutsch Christoph Schäfer Bostanorama 20 February–21 March 2015 Selekta Studio 1 Bernhard-Nocht-Str. 67 20359 Hamburg Germany Opening: Thursday Februar 19, 20:00 Award Presentation: […]
Bostanorama: Edwin Scharff Preis, Ausstellung, Publikation bei Spector Books
deutsch english Eines der meistbesuchten (und getwitterten) Kunstwerke der letzten Istanbul Biennale ist das Bostanorama von Christoph Schäfer. Zeichnend und notierend streifte der Künstler 2013 […]
curated by_Vienna 2014: Sleeping Producers / Charim Galerie
Sleeping Producers curated by Matteo Lucchetti curated by_Vienna 2014: The Century of the Bed Lisl Ponger Christoph Schäfer Stephen Willats http://curatedby.at/ Opening: 02.10.2014 Charim Galerie […]
Utopian Pulse: Salon Public Happiness – Vienna Secession
Megafonchor Foto Margit Czenki Salon Public Happiness – Bodies, Space and Media in Urban Struggles subcurated by Christoph Schäfer in the frame of Utopian Pulse […]
Going Public (Istanbul Cook Book)
Can you imagine another country, where people eat together as a form of protest? The Lady next to me smiles while we indulge in shared […]
Works in Collections
Image: Oh no! It’s the Monkeyman! Acrylic on paper, Narula Collection, Delhi
13th Istanbul Biennial public programme | ‘Making The City Public’
A Machine of Possibilities: the urban turn, art and the right to the city – Lecture illustrated by hand: Christoph Schäfer (conceptual artist, sparkling draughtsman, […]
On Jo Ractliffe and Johannesburg Innercity Works
A continuous flow of conversations weaves through the days and the town, thoughts move between classes and continue in bars, a talk in the day […]
Lamentation on the Destruction of Ur | Hallein, 2012
Christoph Schäfer – Lamentation on the Destruction of Ur Opening: July 19, 2012, 20.00 Intro: Jo Ractliffe Because (this) bitter dolor had been destined for […]
Topography of the Commons | kunstwegen | 2012
Topography of the Commons is a three-piece installation [Raven Tree / Flood / Cinema] that marks three places in Samern. The elements connect the shared […]
Talk at Forum/Design Centrum Malmö
Technically speaking, this is a lousy video. But a fantastic talk, and an easy introduction to “The City is Our Factory”.
Video | Talk – The City is Our Factory | HfbK Hamburg 9.2.2012
Symposium “Why Design?” HfbK Hamburg 9.2.2012. A 34 Minute lecture by Christoph Schäfer on “The City is our Factory” in English. Plus a short talk […]
A Portrait of Ulyanovsk, seen through it’s bars and nightclubs
Ulyanovsk Airport, Foto: Christoph Schäfer, November 2010 NOVEMBER 8: I arrive from Moscow in a Saab airplane filled with 25 men and 2 women. While […]
Moscow Diary | 2010
Strolling through Moscow in November, I came across the biggest billboard I have ever seen. The giant timeline is hanging right next to the Kremlin. […]
Aggressive Cosiness – The Forever Young Pensioners, Ballykinlar, Northern Ireland
Embedded artists vs. interventionist residents It was in the early nineties that I discussed the term “interventionist” for the first time. Curator Sabine B. Vogel […]
The City is Our Factory (Book), Christoph Schäfer
The City is our Factory, by Christoph Schäfer, Leipzig 2010, 306 pages, 28 €, ISBN: 978-3-940064-95-0, Spector Books The City is Our Factory is a […]
Factory City – MIT Fall Lecture Series “CITY AS STAGE, CITY AS PROCESS”
http://techtv.mit.edu/videos/4174-christoph-schaefer-factory-city September 28, 2009. The City is our Factory: Politics of desire and the production of urban spaces between Grande Latte and Park Fiction. […]
Networks of Imagination
…talk on the connection between Renaissance Explorers and Auto-Rikshaw-Drivers, Urban Imagination, Cybermohalla, Park Fiction, atelier d’architecture autogerée, Axel Claes’ work on, in, with and against […]
Park Fiction | Documenta11 | Kassel | 2002
Park Fiction organises Collective Productions of Desires for a park in Hamburg’s red light district, St.Pauli, since 1995. For more and detailed information in German […]