let´s start it with a classic phrase: in retrospective a year appears short, actually it was a long time with much happening in it. taking a look on the journal and the news I can look back on a year that appears successful and took me to great places. I was allowed to make shows in museums in mülheim and gelsenkirchen, I could finally come up with a common show with matthias danberg at kunstraum unten and was part of smaller but for me also important shows and projects. well, at least receiving the ruhrpreis made the year perfect for me already questioning if I can top it. from a financial point of view the year has also been more successful than others, not only because of the prize money.
this year I was able to go to places I like a lot, the netherlands´ coast, luxembourg, antwerp, liége, leipzig and even dessau surprisingly stole my heard. I must have been on the road a lot. if you know me you will expect the downside. indeed, i´m simply not trained to simply boast without telling the whole story. while things look good on the outside, I usually like to bring in the inside views. I am al little bit like a chocolate bunny, fat and great on the outside, hollow on the inside.

the last year was also coined by depression, sorrow, solitude and a lack of orientation. losing tobi was tough for us. the year also brought great moments of happiness, discovering the pleasure of barbecue became an island of happiness. also I have expanded the studio and hope that I can expand my work.

also I feel that I lose more friends than I make. reconsidering it made me realize that it is the other way around.
a strong issue was for me the preparation of a common show at my so far representing gallery. it is amazing how much faith you can destroy by announcing the need to talk about problems without actually doing it. a lack of interest in calming the whole thing down has put it over the edge. the result is a show that did not take place and me without representation. this issue has grinded me for about a year and I have finally realized that I have lost something I even had not had before. in the end it is not issue of friendship and it has never been an issue of business.

the general gallery issue is still a big topic for me, on the one hand I can look back on a bunch of bad experiences sustained by numerous anecdotes from friends being artists in the same struggle. on the other hand I still believe that the professional sale is an important part of the system and I want to be in it. I still have the romantic idea of teaming up for something great instead of tactical manoeuvring against each other for profit and finding a scapegoat.

my ambitions as a musician are getting smaller and smaller, kent granyon aka chris huff does not really like to perform on stage, also AESTATE never really made contact to bookers and venues that look for us. the project will go on and there is output on its way but we are pretty relaxed. working with record of tides again is great and feels unleashed. I hope to put out a lot strange stuff next year!


2017 will be the year of postcards. I will present postcards in the ludwiggalerie as part of ‘bückware’, so you will be able to buy a piece at a very low price. also, I will use the postcards for another idea in making connection. let´s see… maybe I’ll do another postcard exhibition afterwards…


W/I/S/H/I/N/G/E/T/T/I/N/G is another project to set off for 2017. I´m not sure if I should skip it or if it is a good idea to bring people together and give a value to artworks. Feel free to join! have a great new year´s eve.

wishingetting[...].com

let´s keep the great stuff and try something new in 2017.




finally and still the record of tides album is out kreislauf.org. check the videos, download the album. a perfect soundtrack for a rainy day. or a sunny one at the sea...

recordoftides.aestate-online.com


check out the 'genesis' video!


AESTATE started with idm and abstract electronica in 2006 but quickly added some susiesounds soon, you can hear the best of the best, of what we made with AESTATE in the first 10 years.

AESTATE 'GREATEST HITS'
album as free mp3 download bundle

aestate-online.com


sven piayda | a sudden gust of wind &
duracell video after vom bruch and fibonacci
LET`S BUY IT / KUNST UND EINKAUF
LUDWIGGALERIE Schloss Oberhausen, Oberhausen
2017-01-22 — 2017-05-14
opening 2011-01-21, 7pm

sven piayda is expected to be preset
introduction by dr christine vogt
press conference 2017-01-19, 11am

konrad-adenauer-allee 46
46049 oberhausen

tue-sun 11 am - 6 pm
tickets 8 euro (discounted 4 euro)

ludwiggalerie.de


sven piayda | eve, happy prince & spirit with thorne
JAHRESAUSSTELLUNG MÜLHEIMER KÜNSTLERINNEN UND KÜNSTLER
kunstmuseum mülheim an der ruhr
2017-01-29 — 2017-02-26
opening 2016-01-28, 6 pm

sven piayda is expected to be preset
salutation by ulrich scholten, mayor
salutation by dr. beate reese
introduction by anja bauer m.a.

synagogenplatz 1
45468 mülheim an der ruhr

tue-sun 11 am - 6 pm
free entry on wednesdays, 2 - 6 pm
tickets 4 euro (discounted 2 euro)

www.kunstmuseum-mh.de






questions? complaints?
click here

you might have read about the ruhrpreis thing, after all these thrilling days I feel the need to share some inside views with you. getting a prize is great, no doubt about that. also it is great to get mails and clicks with congratulations and making you feel that you deserve it and the jury has picked the right one. it is also great to see who is happy for you and who is not. indeed, you appear to be more important than before and it appears appropriate now to like your work, finally. without understanding the jury´s decision, nobody would ever dare to question it. yes, this is hype, you are known for being successful and appreciated, but this is just the surface and true for only a surprisingly short period of time. a few days later the hype means nothing more like an anecdote of an old man wishing back better times. and here I’m in and I try to look on myself from the outside via media. to be honest, when I see others win or succeed a tiny part of me does not understand questioning the quality and the system. did they really chose the best position? now, finding me on the other side being the chosen one does not answer these questions, I still do not know why I was chosen and if I’m reading about it in the newspaper and on facebook makes me look like I am. there are many strange feelings around for the sensitive ones among us.

do not get me wrong , there is nothing wrong about getting prizes (who ever may get one), nothing wrong about this one and I am still thankful, thrilled and somewhat high because of it. I just want to share the layers beyond the surface.

the ceremony was well organized and reminded me of a movie set bringing me in to play my role putting me under pressure. facing my upcoming acknowledgment speech made me extremely nervous knowing people joining it to find something fitting their expectations, this ceremony does not have place for disappointment (or a nervous breakdown). fortunately, everything worked out pretty well and felt pretty huge.

you may ask yourself what to expect and even if I was told that the prize is great and a big pusher for the career, I do not really see it coming, even if I hope for it. do not get me wrong , I would and still make and art shows at the anyway because it is great to remember what and who enabled me to start making shows. but nevertheless I feel a certain frustration caused by different struggles I have faced in the scene so there are certain things I would not do anymore in the future. my state of being driven in making shows gets weaker, I am looking forward to make two great museum group shows in the first half of 2017 but there is nothing beyond so far. and this idea is getting clearer and clearer, more and more: if there won´t be a professional gallery or a similar instance putting me in a cadre I will consider to quit what I do. I mean I cannot stop being an artist or stop working but I will have to question the need to offer my work when people do not really what to pay for it, for works or tickets. I am not doing it for money, I could use my skills in more professional ways to generate money, this is not the point. honestly I do not want to end up as an artist craving for relevance who is considered as a lame joke by the rest of the world. well, that is my idea about the future right now.


yet another picture of the major and his awardees, I look a lot less happy than I was, acting in front of the camera is weird. I should get back behind it again…


I am still collecting documentary pictures made by my friends joining me, here are some screens during the portfolio mash-up, check the exhibitions section for full collection.


even before I was off to dessau is got this piece from the past out of the book café in the basement of the petrikirchenhaus. the originally packed book made me hesitate, looking into it made me realize it is actually from the nineties. video has developed quickly but has already its heroes like klaus vom bruch and bill viola. well, much ideas and stuff for adaptation, um, i mean inspiration...


cutback humor: back in 2013 when Ii was still a student and less into christmas we came up with the idea to make a party for our student mates crossing bauhaus and christmas — whatever that was supposed to mean...
it is even funny that I was in deassau last month during the christmas season and it it is even more funny that we made our (first?) party on this day 13 years ago.

what is less funny are the things happening yesterday night on the breitscheidplatz in berlin. we all feel shocked and desperate, we are sad und do not understand. also, we are angry, questioning how these things can happen and how we can prevent them. I know that it is easy to talk about it because i am not involved. we all hope for quick answers and solutions, but they won´t work. we as a society believe in justice, not in revenge.
let´s send consolation and be thankful.
have a good christmas season and let us pray for better times.




finally the record of tides album is out kreislauf.org. check the videos, download the album. a perfect soundtrack for a rainy day. or a sunny one at the sea...

recordoftides.aestate-online.com


check out the 'genesis' video!


AESTATE started with idm and abstract electronica in 2006 but quickly added some susiesounds soon, you can hear the best of the best, of what we made with AESTATE in the first 10 years.

AESTATE 'GREATEST HITS'
album as free mp3 download bundle

aestate-online.com


sven piayda | a sudden gust of wind &
duracell video after vom bruch and fibonacci
LET`S BUY IT / KUNST UND EINKAUF
LUDWIGGALERIE Schloss Oberhausen, Oberhausen
2017-01-22 — 2017-05-14
opening 2011-01-21, 7pm

sven piayda is expected to be preset
introduction by dr christine vogt
press conference 2017-01-19, 11am

konrad-adenauer-allee 46
46049 oberhausen

tue-sun 11 am - 6 pm
tickets 8 euro (discounted 4 euro)

ludwiggalerie.de






questions? complaints?
click here

after discovering dessau and realizing it be a lot smaller and more beautiful than expected you may ask yourself where to go find a point of interest nearby. leipzig in the pre-christmas season appeared to be a good choice.
leipzig once again nails the phenomenon of east germany: an university, malls and shops looking modern and contemporary (sometimes even futuristic) are set surrounded by the fossils of the GDR. now and then are visible without any transition…

above you see me in front of the leipzig university, an impressive post-modern building paced behind the shopping street.


leipzig main station is even impressive by entering it: the steel skeleton of its roof reminds you of stations in france (even if I haven’t seen one before) but leaving the train to enter the station is even more wired: you find yourself directly in a giant mall, two levels down along the ending tracks offering all the franchise you will find everywhere. no need to leave the station when you are a 14 year old girl with a credit card.


art follows me wherever I go, no way out. a sneak around a corner delivered something I could not name but made me realize to be a piece of art immediately, remembering a variation without being able to tell the artist. well, I am now: this is a ‘real life’ painting by ross sinclair. this house is obviously thankful for some colour.


update 2016-12-08: above you have another little close-up of me in the bauhaus. i´m already back of course but next to some new impressions and pictures i have also brought a bad cold back from dessau. these days are short and full of stuff to do, i´m tired, and i´m looking forward to finally get the award and leave the ceremony behind, things are really thrilling and making me nervous, surrounded by things i have to do because of my duties. anyway, i had a meeting with dr. christine vogt today who is going to hold the laudatio on me. i´m happy, but also tired and i need some time off, even if this means christmas...
cross your fingers...


don´t forget: getting an award is great, this one makes me face some stressful issues in organisation and preparing media. anyway, we look forward to the ceremony on december 11. the city will sent out invitations, if you want to get one, please leave your address to studio[at]svenpiayda.com




finally the record of tides album is out kreislauf.org. check the videos, download the album. a perfect soundtrack for a rainy day. or a sunny one at the sea...

recordoftides.aestate-online.com


check out the 'genesis' video!




update 2016-12-08: yet another idea spinning around in my head on a larger video/exhibition project to be finished next year: adaptation (high definition) (physical, under a toatstool, die entdeckung europas) escorted by forthcoming music by record of tides (evolution, primordial chaos, the swan). this is going to be large and plays on adaptation. the upcoming show is supposed to be called adaptation (you´re mine). just for your records, and even more for mine.


AESTATE started with idm and abstract electronica in 2006 but quickly added some susiesounds soon, you can hear the best of the best, of what we made with AESTATE in the first 10 years.

AESTATE 'GREATEST HITS'
album as free mp3 download bundle

aestate-online.com


sven piayda | a sudden gust of wind &
duracell video after vom bruch and fibonacci
LET`S BUY IT / KUNST UND EINKAUF
LUDWIGGALERIE Schloss Oberhausen, Oberhausen
2017-01-22 — 2017-05-14
opening 2011-01-21, 7pm

sven piayda is expected to be preset
introduction by dr christine vogt
press conference 2017-01-19, 11am

konrad-adenauer-allee 46
46049 oberhausen

tue-sun 11 am - 6 pm
tickets 8 euro (discounted 4 euro)

ludwiggalerie.de






questions? complaints?
click here

after facing different issues and much work with my students i had the chance to go to dessau and visit the bauhaus as well as further points of interest around. every once in a while I’m happy to get out of the everyday pattern and bring some new impressions in while trying to keep the rest on the replacement bench.
having studied arts, crafts and design the bauhaus in dessau is something like mecca for artists and designers. I heard and read much about it but going to the place, getting guided tours and workshops made me finally get some deeper views, making workshops made me feel like a student again, entering the first exercises in his architecture career. indeed, I feel the end of some trails again, it is just logical to stop and take a look around.

well, going to dessau made me feel uncomfortable at first, I imagined everything to be black and white and extremely dismal. I was surprised; dessau is a lot smaller that I expected, a lot greener and even more beautiful. no doubt, you can tell by the architecture and people around where the GDR ended and when a new era began. It is really strange, like watching future and past at the same time. anyway, I look back with joy and I consider to return next year.



a view on the bauhaus from the bauhaus. also, some views of me in the foyer with some students around, once again.



a classic view of the balconies of the student´s rooms. I can see them fool around in my mind. also, a view of the balcony from the inside. you are not allowed to enter it, or only on your own risk as the balustrade is pretty low for today´s standards. I was wondering if the low balustrade is even more pulling me down than no boundary at all?



making a workshop was great, not planning and guiding through a lesson but simply joining it appears as pure luxury. I was designing a chair model hitting the principles of steel pipe design as developed at bauhaus. another workshop was more into architecture making a piece of paper into something stiff, strong and static.



when the bauhaus moved from weimar to dessau, the city of dessau had a lot money to invest so walter gropius did not only draft and build the bauhaus school but also houses for his professors (and friends) and a villa for himself. visiting them made me realize that the ‘meisterhäuser’ are built next to a street and are not set in the woods, also, they look a lot more modern on the outside but still have the spirit of the 19th century on the inside. also, gropius´ villa and the first master house had been destroyed by a bomb and have been brought back as abstract 1:1 models of the original buildings using today´s materials.


a new and impressive building in dessau is the umweltbundesamt (bureau for environmental issues). lying like a 9 on the map, the glass-roofed counter makes it appear like a human zoo, here you can watch the officials in their natural environment.




dessau was great. we´ll meet again. next stop: leipzig.


don´t forget: getting an award is great, this one makes me face some stressful issues in organisation and preparing media. anyway, we look forward to the ceremony on december 11. the city will sent out invitations, if you want to get one, please leave your address to studio[at]svenpiayda.com




finally the record of tides album is out kreislauf.org. check the videos, download the album. a perfect soundtrack for a rainy day. or a sunny one at the sea...

recordoftides.aestate-online.com


check out the 'genesis' video!


AESTATE started with idm and abstract electronica in 2006 but quickly added some susiesounds soon, you can hear the best of the best, of what we made with AESTATE in the first 10 years.

AESTATE 'GREATEST HITS'
album as free mp3 download bundle

aestate-online.com


sven piayda | a sudden gust of wind &
duracell video after vom bruch and fibonacci
LET`S BUY IT / KUNST UND EINKAUF
LUDWIGGALERIE Schloss Oberhausen, Oberhausen
2017-01-22 — 2017-05-14
opening 2011-01-21, 7pm

sven piayda is expected to be preset
introduction by dr christine vogt
press conference 2017-01-19, 11am

konrad-adenauer-allee 46
46049 oberhausen

tue-sun 11 am - 6 pm
tickets 8 euro (discounted 4 euro)

ludwiggalerie.de






questions? complaints?
click here

that is a quite quick follow-up to the last blog post. the report on the CAR was actually a little low motivated and pretty superficial, I know about the variety in quality of my articles. nevertheless, yesterday brought a surprise by simple rediscovery. after getting through the night without any ‘trick or treat’ requests is finally was looking forward to a day off. free time also has some problematic issues, of course, it does not want to be wasted, even when the sun pretends to stay a little longer making the colourd leaves gloom in the woods.

it´s no secret, spending a day that does need me in the car driving somewhere is luxury, anyway, we were back on the highway to visit small woods nearby, the spontaneous idea came up to go straigt to venray for a visit of saint oda and her fascinating but strange sculpture park.
we have already been there last year, see 2015-08-04 sweetlove´s waterwars at odapark | entry by sven. returning on a day in autumn (november 1, all saints day) was pretty surrealistic, the strange crepuscule light was escorted by raven´s croaking, the sculptures apperad even more than strange than usually. the works to be found in the park differ a lot from other sculpture parks, the pieces often do not appear to be made to face eternity, they appear more like strange inhabitants facing their own life and transformations. even the place is beautiful and stange at the same time, like an island in the city expanding a big variety of nature on a quite small place being a mixture of a municipal park sculpture park, woods, camping fireplace and playground. the odapark is a strange planet. beautiful and surrealistic.

above you see me checking out helmut smits´ ‘carrara snowman‘, probably the only snowman to survive global warming.

haidée henry´s installative set-up would have scared me as a kid, still it can make you feel uncomfortable. checking different pictures of it on the net makes you realize that this sculpture actually transforms a lot, which indicates something like an own live making it even more scary. this time the deer even exposed some boobs making it even more scary and fascinating: an intimate moment of fear.

erik habets´‘scheissbär‘ is a joke, but a great one, getting better each time told. this it what it looks like in summer, this is what it looks like in autum. must be a big poo, or epic costiveness?

I cannot match this one witht now, I will look cool out of context in social media. a classic ‘my dad can beat up your dad’, just a little more cute.


finally, the sculpture of oda, not meant to be an artwork itself but is a great sculpture and surrounded by an installation by e.pietersen. to find out about saint oda, google yourself, it is worth it.
or check here: odapark.nl/english/oda-legend


plus: i am very busy in preparing a greater contribution to an upcoming 2017 museum group show documented via catalogue. there is something good coming up and i will bring in two video works. also another museum will also show some works in a group show. this is going to be fun, i guess, do not miss it!


don´t forget: getting an award is great, this one makes me face some stressful issues in organisation and preparing media. anyway, we look forward to the ceremony on december 11. the city will sent out invitations, if you want to get one, please leave your address to studio[at]svenpiayda.com




finally the record of tides album is out kreislauf.org. check the videos, download the album. a perfect soundtrack for a rainy day. or a sunny one at the sea...

recordoftides.aestate-online.com


check out the 'genesis' video!


AESTATE started with idm and abstract electronica in 2006 but quickly added some susiesounds soon, you can hear the best of the best, of what we made with AESTATE in the first 10 years.

AESTATE 'GREATEST HITS'
album as free mp3 download bundle

aestate-online.com


roman pilgrim / verena cojic / sven piayda
WAR // ist
eurasia & pilgrim.art, gelsenkirchen
2016-09-30 — 2016-11-19
opening 2016-09-30, 7 pm

open sat 2 - 5pm

bergmannstr.32
gelsenkirchen

facebook event
warist.de







questions? complaints?
click here

its annual art fair week again, art fair cologne (including blooom award), contemporary art ruhr and kuboshow. well, after struggling for years with the stuff offered I have made peace with the system, more or less. it is a place to sale stuff, you make it as multi-coloured and full of variations to make it look like a supermarket, because it is a supermarket. I have realized to have never seen works by david claerbout or laurent montaron on art fairs, maybe for a good reason.

I was invented to join the art fair in cologne once again being a place for the art scene and society to show up, it is an event, of course, and the party feeling helps to place sales. cologne and its fair shows up as a global player that it is, but it will move to düsseldorf next year. I will have to have a look at it.
the contemporary art ruhr in essen (see picture above) usually appears smaller, with a more wide variety in style, discipline and quality. I would like to call it a little bit provincial and old-fashioned, which is meant as a compliment: the CAR still presents classic disciplines without hunting for trends while cologne is bound to hipness.

the CAR also brought some new discoveries and rediscoveries: hiroyuki masuyama and kim demuth both are talented artist using digital technologies to explore new imagery beyond the medium wile skipping the need of pure effect. unfortunately, they are both represented by galleries I have learned to dislike in the past and it would be feigned to advertise them here. it feels ironic that they come up with stuff I would even consider to buy; but this is not an option anymore.

next to cologne and essen, herne opens the kuboshow. this is actually the first fair I have visited for years but decided to skip because I know what can be found. the fair is specialized on painting and sculpture, usually great works but strictly commercial.


the blooom award was holding a surprise for us. we have been happy for matthias danberg to be in the top ten of nominees for the blooom art award and we have been even more happy to witness him winning it. congrats, buddy!

there are also benefits in posting where you are and what you are doing all the time: after putting cologne snapshots on instagram during a traffic jam on the bridge sneaker lover and kitsch queen cojicy contacted me and after lots of seesaw changes we could bring her on the fair to join matthias´special moment of fame. don´t forget: our common exhibition ‘WAR // ist’ can still be seen at eurasia & pilgrim art in gelsenkirchen every saturday until november 19.


don´t forget: getting an award is great, this one makes me face some stressful issues in organisation and preparing media. anyway, we look forward to the ceremony on december 11. the city will sent out invitations, if you want to get one, please leave your address to studio[at]svenpiayda.com




finally the record of tides album is out kreislauf.org. check the videos, download the album. a perfect soundtrack for a rainy day. or a sunny one at the sea...

recordoftides.aestate-online.com


check out the 'genesis' video!


AESTATE started with idm and abstract electronica in 2006 but quickly added some susiesounds soon, you can hear the best of the best, of what we made with AESTATE in the first 10 years.

AESTATE 'GREATEST HITS'
album as free mp3 download bundle

aestate-online.com


roman pilgrim / verena cojic / sven piayda
WAR // ist
eurasia & pilgrim.art, gelsenkirchen
2016-09-30 — 2016-11-19
opening 2016-09-30, 7 pm

open sat 2 - 5pm

bergmannstr.32
gelsenkirchen

facebook event
warist.de







questions? complaints?
click here

you know I had to drop out a little, I am truly seeking all this conversation and hanging around, all of this working on stuff and teaming up, but I also like to withdraw and find inspiration. I wanted to do the trip and the visual work on scholarship. I did not turn out to be one of the chosen ones leaving me with a laughing and a crying eye, it was clear for me to do the trip anyway… let´s go back to inspiration: actually, the kirchberg plateau in luxembourg has become one of these inspirational places. one hand because of what is: you can look down on it like on a model railroad layout and you can reach everything by foot. the city appears small and old somehow but also like a big city in the middle of europe. it really combines these contradictions without antagonism. nevertheless, it is extremely beautiful and relaxed, except if you find yourself in a car during the rush hour.

the other inspiration source is the mudam. I have reported about it a million times, discovering it in 2011 meant love at first sight. this year a large wim delvoye retrospective made our visit obsolete, so I planned a day for it. well, leaving the museum after two hours again appeared surprisingly short, I felt irritated and somehow sublime disappointed. the museum has done nothing wrong, it is simply hard to make a show in the shadow of ‘eppur si muove’ and ‘out-of-sync’. delvoye offers an endlessly wide range of humorous works delivering joy. maybe his works are even large enough to make the museum appear limited in space. even this is an achievement.

the wooden concrete mixer and a lead glazed soccer goal are older works I already saw at museum kunst palast in düsseldorf years ago. I remember realizing delvoye even back in 1999 when I started to get into contemporary art seriously. I still think these early works are the strongest, everybody understands the joke directly, combinig arts, craft and design with objects having no aesthetic demanding at all.


the concrete mixer also returns as gothic adaptation in later works, unfortunately it has not the aesthetic appearance like handcrafted pieces. high ability combined with a lack of necessity are most joyful. even the early photographs showing short notes as brought into mountains in giant letters made an influence on me years ago, no doubt, and they are still impressive and funny.


a main piece in all of its variations is the cloaca. delvoye wanted to create an expensive and complex machine that actually produces something anyone would ask for. well, it simply produces shit. I remember seeing the machine doing a poo back in düsseldorf, this time cloaca stayed clean. the idea it holds is also to value someone by his legacy. a human being produces shit, so what is his value? an artist produces art, or even more shit, so what is his value? can we aim at producing something of value or are we doomed to only produce only what a human can produce anyway? maybe cloaca appears like a bad joke, but I may tell more about the human race than any other machine: a simple truth with an open interpretation.

next to putting complex and expensive ornaments on mixers and suitcases, a rare replica of a maserati chassis was also to be found. well, that does not really work for me, ususally functional things got some beauty added, the maserati is already a perfect beauty, where is the joke to add even more decoration? I had to think of infinitely rich sheiks having their brand new ferraris tuned increasing its value and making it unique.
well, I thought I would look good next to it, because it reminded me of my ‘happy prince’ that has been one of my main works this year and because I guess that everyone likes me better standing next to an expensive car. (well, except the guy who owns it, of course.)



the basement offered a solo show by cristina lucas. her work reminded me a lot of alicia kwade having things scaled up and technically engineered. next to logo-prints and documentary interview videos the main piece appeared to be the ‘clockwise’ room. 360 clocks in a white room ticking and running set five minutes apart from one another. being in this room makes you think: you can watch time running by if you want to and wait long enough, but even more important seems to be the fact that the current time is absolutely randomly chosen. there is no time for something certain, there is only now. and it takes a room full of clocks to making you realize that these little fingers pointing in all directions have no natural meaning at all. time is obviously the most valuable thing.


a visit at the mudam cafe is a perfect oppotunity to relax. a great place pretending to be outside, actually inside. i really want to perform here one day.



yet another classic routine picture carsten roth called a rediscovered caspar david friedrich. well, this one even got an upgrade: standing on the edge.



update 2016-10-23: a little update as i am leaving the kirchberg plateau again to work on stuff in germany. above you see one of many possible and compleately different views on the luxembourg congress nearby. a perfect and surreal picture, see the offices hovering over the street leading down from the plateu.
below a rediscovered classic: old clothes make you feel too fat? are they 'ze enk' as we say in luxembourg? well, get rid of them, especially when the staged photograph on the side of the container looks like a mirror.


don´t forget: getting an award is great, this one makes me face some stressful issues in organisation and preparing media. anyway, we look forward to the ceremony on december 11. the city will sent out invitations, if you want to get one, please leave your address to studio[at]svenpiayda.com




finally the record of tides album is out kreislauf.org. check the videos, download the album. a perfect soundtrack for a rainy day. or a sunny one at the sea...

recordoftides.aestate-online.com


check out the 'genesis' video!


AESTATE started with idm and abstract electronica in 2006 but quickly added some susiesounds soon, you can hear the best of the best, of what we made with AESTATE in the first 10 years.

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roman pilgrim / verena cojic / sven piayda
WAR // ist
eurasia & pilgrim.art, gelsenkirchen
2016-09-30 — 2016-11-19
opening 2016-09-30, 7 pm

open sat 2 - 5pm

bergmannstr.32
gelsenkirchen

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once again, there is a longer pause between the entries, i was busy, lazy, all of it, between inspiration, meditation, stress and sadness.
at the beginning of october we finally managed to go to tilburg in the netherlands to visit the de pont museum. this one teased with two great shows but turned out to be even more great. atelier van lieshout was featured with an uptaded collection of the 'slave city' concept. parallel the museum displays a david claerbout solo show, featuring five video works plus sometimes extremely funny production sketches with notes on dealing with anger about fat collectors and elvis presley´s baby speck.
also the museum has a large collection and even much space to display a lot. it is always great to catch up familiar icons as jeff wall or gerhard richter, but for me it was new to stand in front of works by bernard frize or anish kapoor. the five hours spent at de pont we not really enough, the museum has even more to offer: a cafe, a shop and even more surprising: a garden.
well, i had a great day, try yourself: depont.nl

it has become a strange little tradition: whenever there is a show featuring david claerbout´s work around we try to get there if it is possible an nearby from home or the stay in hollidays. when i entered claerbout´s FUTURE in the de pond museum, i realized having never before seen a solo show. to cut a long story short: i was not a fan i´d be right now. you now that i´m often frustrated about the art scene and often consider to leave it all behind , but being in a show like this one makes you realize where you actually want to go. claerbout is a big influence for me, but i do not try to copy his work. what i have learned is to make work that is technically accurate and exploring even emotional issues.
brought to two screens 'olympia' is not a video, it is a real-time simulation to run for the next thousand years exploring nature taking back nazi architecture which was build to last even that span. of course, it is conceptional, and tilburg does not have anything else to offer making you want to stay even ten years there, but this is actually a video that will look different when you see it again. who says a piece of art is something finished to be there without changes forever?

davidclaerbout.com




more inspiration: as i wanted to go somewhere in the woods in the south of essen, is missed every opportunity to park the car and found myself driving over rural landscapes, suddenly we arrived in neviges. the city is actually known for a brutalist church and - as far as i know - nothing else. i was taken there about 25 years ago with my church community, accidently returning was strange, familiar and surreal. the biggest surprise is the fact that it is just a 30 minutes away from my home, i always considered it to be a day trip! the chuch building is strange and beautiful, i looks more like a mountain, and the inside appears more like a cave. somehow my interest for architecture pulled me into a church triggering even spiritual feelings. for me art and religion have much in common like searching for answers and bringing people together, maybe that is just my idea of it, not finding it leaves you disappointed from the community and the scene...


after half a year on display the screening of 'puddle' at kunstmuseum gelsenkirchen ended. as arty friend beatrice richter announced interest in watching it, i thought it was a good opportunity to make a video documentation and to visit the newly arranged kinetic collection. as you know the video was not running on this last day due technical problems ( i apologise) we had more time for the collection. also it was a great opportunity to show a great aphex twin smile.

düsseldorf based artist beatrice richter is on my watchlist since 2013, after making and visiting shows togeher, and after colloborating on different stuff, i finally got 'ghost ship' for my collection, and i finally have it on the wall! the prices will rise but i won´t sell. find out yourself: beatricerichter.de.


'tragic kingdom (exquidite boredom)' is over. we stated to plan things one year ago, and planning with more than two people means it is a very dynamic proccess. you cannot see how much work was invested in this show, nevertheless, it was a great one.


getting an award is great, this one makes me face some stressful issues in organisation and preparing media. anyway, we look forward to the ceremony on december 11. the city will sent out invitations, if you want to get one, please leave your address to studio[at]svenpiayda.com


some sad news: september 13 was a sunny day with time off for making music, relaxing with the cat and doing sports. when i returned from sports leaving the car i discovered tobi lying on the street. he was hit by the car driving behind me breaking his neck and killing him immediately. even in that night we buried him in the garden.
why tobi did not notice the car remains a question for us, we knew that he was always very circumspective. this furry arrogant dummy with his small beautiful alien face has broken our hearts, even a month later we are still very sad. he only turned nine years old, he only spend one year with us, we had wished for more, but we find consolation in the fact that we did nothing wrong and tobi had the time of his life chasing and relaxing in the garden. deeply missed.


even with some days off i am really busy recently. i like to do less now, to sit on the kirchberg like last year and keep the computer turned off. i´m sure to come back with new ideas and pictures.
well, obsession is nothing to leave at home for vacation.




finally the record of tides album is out kreislauf.org. check the videos, download the album. a perfect soundtrack for a rainy day. or a sunny one at the sea...

recordoftides.aestate-online.com


AESTATE started with idm and abstract electronica in 2006 but quickly added some susiesounds soon, you can hear the best of the best, of what we made with AESTATE in the first 10 years.

AESTATE 'GREATEST HITS'
album as free mp3 download bundle

aestate-online.com


roman pilgrim / verena cojic / sven piayda
WAR // ist
eurasia & pilgrim.art, gelsenkirchen
2016-09-30 — 2016-11-19
opening 2016-09-30, 7 pm

open sat 2 - 5pm

bergmannstr.32
gelsenkirchen

facebook event
warist.de







questions? complaints?
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one month without blogging appears like a quite long time to me. many impressions and pictures have been waiting to be posted and commented. as i look back on summer (even it is still hot these days) i try to make sense of it.
having an eye on my work and leisure proportion, these things are often close to one another or even seem to take place at the same time which are actually luxurious moments.

here we go, this time i do not even try to explrse deeper meanings, this time it is just a catalogue of things, we might try to figure something out next time.

above yoe see me being in liége, belgium as photographed by dietmar sturm last tuesday. the perfect weather actually forces you to take as many pictures as possible. if i will turn them into artworks we will find out later. anyway, a great opportunity to have a good time in one of my favourite benelux countries. well, it looks like time-off, but it is already business...

more off-time in museums ending up un prepring a show again. matthias danberg and me attended the K20 in düsseldorf for andreas gursky and dominiqie gonzales-foerster. we were impressed concerning the technical brilliance in the gonzales-foerster show, but also pissed about the random and flat content. the gurshy show delivers everything you might expect plus some exclusively produced ambient sounds by richie hawtin. what we have learned that day was: a contemporary how needs sound. so we decided to have sound on 'tragic kingdom (exquidite boredom)'. later we discussed the possibilities of bringing the tragic kingdom into the exhibition space...


after discussing the possibilities of golden wallpaper or golden wallpaint we considered the problem of making it look to funny and rediculous. as you know, i do not want to have an ironic way of communicating via art, so we agreed on making a writing on the window in old english letters, see above. i will look gorgeous on the window, cross your fingers! installing and press work starts these days, watch out!


yet another well planned opportunity to watch art and to discuss it with the right people. the 'triumverat of future art', as we like to call ourselves without avoiding a humorious undertone, from left top right: myself, matthias danberg and wolfgang van triel had great fun visiting the 'philara collection' in düsseldorf some weeks ago. i considered starting my own collection, wait...

düsseldorf based artist beatrice richter attended the studio last week for having a good time and talking about ongoing and future collaborations: we have been working on different issues concerning public relations and building up a collection for months now. we are also heading up for creating common works. more soon. keep it coming, bea! check out her website over at beatricerichter.de.


the kunstmuseum bonn offered 'echtzeit (die kunst der langsamkeit)' and as david claerbout was part of the show our visit was a must. actually we had two attempts to visit the show as we could not make it the first time because of traffic issues. anyway, claerbout´s 'highway wreck' once again is a masterpiece, following his workgroup of black and white slideshows, this piece has a lot of cgi in it. and under all this technical perfection and processing magic, there is still something touching in it making you experience time as something different...


his little brook is also quite a phenomenon to me. this peaceful place could be a setting for a david claerbout video installation, actually it a a place about 200 meters away from where i live. the question is why i do not attent it more often. and this is strange: if i would not live here and just imagine to live here, i would say i would go there very often, because it is perfect, now that i actually am here, this place seems to vanish from the map. whishing and really wanting it are two different things.


yet another picture of me in liége by friend and collegue dietmar sturm. we had a great day and spent the afternoon with an activity that i call 'photo safari', well, actually without lions and zebras but with towers and panoramas.



and here is the full panorama (the head images is taken from) dietmar has made. click the image for a larger version. this is what you have putting two dudes with cameras into an european city with perfect weather.


michaela and me have finished our 'wishing well', you see it already has some coins in it. now we are excited to see what it will look like when the wheather works on it. see more picture at the exhibitions section.


as tobi already has his own fan community i just wnated to spread this cute posture in the garden. i can hear you say 'aaawww'!


finally the record of tides album is out on zany music. kreislauf.org has already announced to put out the record as digital version on october 10. you can already watch the video for 'tidal dance' on youtube and vimeo. another video is also supposed to come up in autumn.

recordoftides.aestate-online.com


AESTATE started with idm and abstract electronica in 2006 but quickly added some susiesounds soon, you can hear the best of the best, of what we made with AESTATE in the first 10 years.

AESTATE 'GREATEST HITS'
album as free mp3 download bundle

aestate-online.com



matthias danberg & sven piayda
TRAGIC KINGDOM (EXQUISITE BOREDOM)
curated by linda schöer
kunstraum unten, bochum
2016-09-02 — 2016-10-07
opening 2016-09-02, 7 pm
introduction by linda schröer

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kunstraum-unten.de
kunstraum-bochum.de


sven piayda
PUDDLE
im gäestezimmer
kunstmuseum gelsenkirchen, gelsenkirchen
2016-04-13 — 2016-10-05
press conference 2016-04-13, 11.00am
guided tour by kerrin postert 2016-05-29, 3pm

curated by christiane wanken

kunstmuseum gelsenkirchen
horster straße 5-7
45897 gelsenkirchen

kunstmuseum-gelsenkirchen.de






questions? complaints?
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after a longer break i had my annual days off at the sea. well, it seems like i cannot do something else, however, different circumstances made it difficult to find a different plan and we could not find something appropriate in britain. this year delivered the holy trinity of holidays that i would call classic: art, beach and fish.

even when i spend some (very few) days off, the studio was and is still busy in production for upcoming shows in bochum and oberhausen. well, let´s start with the museum part first.
whenever i´m on holiday, next to running around in the city a visit of a local museum of contemprary art is a must. we have spent some days in haarlem and decided to drive back home via amsterdam.
this city offers a range of museums, we decided for the stedelijk, of course, being placed next to the van-gogh-museum.
as parking is brutally expensive in this city (four euro per hour) you cannot effort to stay too long and the rainy weather forced us to stay in the museum anyway.

what made the stedelijk museum interesting for me are the contemporary positions placed next to old masters and the dutch design school. the solo show of avery singer is a must see for me next to a solo show by jon rafman.
a few years ago i read an article about ten upcoming artists you must have an eye on. the article focussed and introduced artists that are in the line of post-internet art (a phenomenon that i consider as very strange). singer and rafman were among these ten artists. the art magazine was right, no doubt about that. there are long and succuessful careers ahead. well, i have to question why...

jon rafman is an upcoming superstar, i guess he will become the jeff koons of his generation. honestly, i do not understand why. the texts about him tell that he is searching for beauty in the depth of the internet, explores digital identities and the effect on real life. if you forget about all this texts and simply have a look at his work it seems the core of it are awkwardly composed found footage from the web presented in installations that force you into strage positions, like a a box, swing or ball bath. sometimes stupid, sometimes sexual or brutal you wonder what it is all about all the time. you leave as stupid as you have entered as you realize it is about nothing, actually. i guess that is no position.

avery singer creates (let´s call it ) paitings that fascinated me right from the start. she creates these tableaus using 3d-software and projects the compositions on canvas where the grey areas are airbrushed onto it. these pictures seem to quote cubism somehow and explore stereotype scenes of artists doing what they are doing. the pure exploring of these pictures is great but if you read in catalogues or the interenet everything falls apart. the poses appear flat and fitting into the post-internet hype and this extra knowledge makes the work suspicious: are all these layers of meaning bound in production and motif just coincidental?

the great aspect of these two shows at stedelijk is that the museum has found and exhibited two positions that are extremly contemporary, even pointing into the future. i do not have to mention that i like computer aided image production, singer found a very unique way of creating something worth watching. what scares me about it is the lack of aesthetics and meaning, the future seems to be a collage (not a remix) of material without trying to get somewhere. everything is somehow ironic and the problem with irony is very simple: you can say what you do not mean which means you do not say what you really mean. at this point i feel like a fossil and it bothers me. they are not even trying go somewhere, so i cannot follow.



do not get me wrong, even when i am very critical about the art i have explored i do not consider it as a waste of time, singer and rafman take place in the international art scene and the success makes it unquestinable. at least they have created positions worth talking about. anyway, the netherlands do not only have great museums, they also have a long beach. the older i get the more i can calm down and lie around at the beach making my skin a little less white. fried fish or calamaris makes it perfect, isn´t that a great dutch still life impression?



you might remember my longer post about the spooky aspects of hotels in begium last year over at 2015-07-20 belgian hotel hopping and room phenomena | entry by sven. the hotel in haarlem also had some scary aspects, staying at room 663 i was definitely the neighbour of the beast. i read about hotels avoiding or skipping the 13th level or room #13, well, 666 is obviously no problem. also, the hallway triggered my 'shining', i was waiting for high waves of blood to rush down the hallway. fortunately this did not happen. anyway, i was prepared...



today´s impressions of the studio: new prints arrived waiting to be cut into frames and mounted, also a sound based piece is supposed to come up. more soon and below.


and here is a snapshot of us preparing the upcoming show 'TRAGIC KINGDOM (EXQUISITE BOREDOM)' at kunstraum unten in bochum. from left to right: myself, curator linda schröer and matthias danberg. it looks like we have kidnapped linda, honestly we did not. we hope to present a great show featuring photography, cgi and video as well as a great introduction speech on september 2nd. keep checking back i will hopefully report the process of becoming.

kunstraum-unten.de




yet another snaphot at kuno park. i wil team up with michaela for our 'wishing well' project, a sculpture featuring sound and the ability to make wishes more likely to become true. more soon.


finally the record of tides album will be out on august 1st on zany music. kreislauf.org has already announced to put out the record as digital version on october 10. you can already watch the video for 'tidal dance' on youtube and vimeo. another video is also supposed to come up in autumn.

recordoftides.aestate-online.com


AESTATE started with idm and abstract electronica in 2006 but quickly added some susiesounds soon, you can hear the best of the best, of what we made with AESTATE in the first 10 years.

AESTATE 'GREATEST HITS'
album as free mp3 download bundle

aestate-online.com


sven piayda
PUDDLE
im gäestezimmer
kunstmuseum gelsenkirchen, gelsenkirchen
2016-04-13 — 2016-10-05
press conference 2016-04-13, 11.00am
guided tour by kerrin postert 2016-05-29, 3pm

curated by christiane wanken

kunstmuseum gelsenkirchen
horster straße 5-7
45897 gelsenkirchen

kunstmuseum-gelsenkirchen.de






questions? complaints?
click here

i have realized attending the white nights at raffelbergbark for ten years now, a long time actually. even when there have been years with cancelled events, years with never ending rainfall, i was there. you know that i am bound to traditions, this one is great, actually, the worst thing about it is the phenomenon of faster and faster rushing by after putting it on the list every year.

and it is strange, every year i promise to visit the theatre, then i simply forget. nevertheless the white nights as held by the theater an der ruhr are allways great, creating a great atmosphere coined by performence, music, illuminations, great food and drinks...

and the tenth (?) visit (the theatre claimed it to be the 13th white nights) also brought up a new awareness: the is no tree left to take a picture from... every corner of teh park had been photographed, for the blog or the portfolio, nothings left...

the park bridge last friday: it was already part of my portfolio in 2006 and 2013 and were exhibited during 'show/time' together exploring the time span of seven years after pretending to be a simple day/night picture. well, looking at the mobile phone shot from this year i guess i have hit the right times getting a perfect proportion of bridge and fauna. right?

the theater also liks to bring up musicians from the past from time to time. ATONOR once again used different household devices to trigger midi signals, this year, it was nevertheless funny but also more impressive from a performative point of view compared to their gig in 2008.


a classic view on the outside stage. georges feydeau´s 'monsieur chasse oder wie man hasen jagt' appears to be quite an old pice, once again appears contemporary and thoughtful in this production as directed by roberto ciulli. actually, this play was escorted with no rain, even if the script would have recommended it...



classic shot under an illuminated tree. you cannot do that a hundred times, even the first try from 2006 (escorted by jay and michaela) looks strange... anyway, white nights 2017? you know what to do...



i have been busy in traveling to some less attempted places due business issues. it is funny, because it brings you to places where you would probably never go. the dutch border nearby made me visit venlo more often than usually to get some music, beer and cheese. the price was higher than expected, today the dutch ministry of justice told me to pay 100 euro for driving to fast. it seems that i allways get in trouble driving around (or even parking) in benelux. my life as an outlaw is getting too expensive right now...


finally the record of tides album will be out on auguast 1st on zany music. the production is pretty simple and low-fi, and there is a lack of ambition, but the result is magic, actually. more to come...

recordoftides.aestate-online.com


tobi made an impression in the facebook community following his prophecies. the finals of theeuropean soccer championship was no more interesting for him, a longer nap was more appropriate, even if his opinion was requested. well, you know the behaviour of these newcomer superstars...
tobi promised to come with more prophecies for the world championship!


AESTATE started with idm and abstrcat electronica in 2006 but quickly added some susiesounds soon, you can hear the best of the best, of what we made with AESTATE in the first 10 years.

AESTATE 'GREATEST HITS'
album as free mp3 download bundle

aestate-online.com


sven piayda
PUDDLE
im gäestezimmer
kunstmuseum gelsenkirchen, gelsenkirchen
2016-04-13 — 2016-10-05
press conference 2016-04-13, 11.00am
guided tour by kerrin postert 2016-05-29, 3pm

curated by christiane wanken

kunstmuseum gelsenkirchen
horster straße 5-7
45897 gelsenkirchen

kunstmuseum-gelsenkirchen.de






questions? complaints?
click here

i have reported in the last entries about local events that are quite loose connected to myself. there are no shows with my participation recently except the ongoing video loop of 'puddle' at the kunstmuseum gelsenkirchen.
usually, i tell people not to visit the kunstmuseum gelsenkirchen just to see my work (a three minute video loop is not entertaining enough to justify a 60 minute travel to it) but now there is a great opportunity for you to visit 'puddle' and explore (or rediscover) more moving artworks.
over the last months curator cristiane wanken (see picture above during the opening of 'puddle') rearranged the great kinetic collection of the museum into a more contemporary way of showing.
the collection will be reopened on sunday. actually i expected an opening ceremony, speeches or drinks, but the the museum decided for a calm opening. you will probably not meet christiane wanken that day, i do not even know if i will enter the collection on july 10, but it is a great opportunity for the next weeks. truly recommended.

kunstmuseum-gelsenkirchen.de

a classic piece from the kinetic collection: peter vogel´s 'klangsäule' (1980) sends electronic sounds into the room triggered by you surrounding it. i remember running around it as a kid, now it is still there and has not lost fascination.
if you need some guidance to the show, the museum offers guided tours this sunday at 1.30pm and 3pm.

also, do not forget to spend some time with my 'puddle'. i still remember the long discussion on the choice of the right video piece and i am still impressed that christane had a strong concern about what would work here, and what would not. i´m looking forward to upcoming collaborations.


even when i am putting your attention on a lot of other things going on, i can assure you that the studio is very busy. i am preparing the upcoming show with matthias danberg and curator linda schröer at kunstraum unten. also there ia a larger group show at a big museum scheduled for 2017. in studio i am facing complex renderings, linda schröer recommended agnes martin to me, which ended up in googling a bit finding hilma af klint, ending up in deep fascination (or obsession) with her work and the need to create more complex tableaus based upon her work. things really take their time, this time, i hope to have them at the wall next year.



coming home late, or early, does not happen to often to me, but when it is allway pretty surrealistic. getting home means to take an uncanny path next to the highway, which is only at dawn okay, more or less. fortunately, there are big plates guiding you home! and yes, the last time i came home at dawn was in october 2010, well, now you know the wild party animal that i am.


still: the theater an der ruhr is doing the white nights again, the free festival featuring illumination, music and theatre in the raffelbergpark from july 8 to july 10. find the details over here.


finally the record of tides album will be out on auguast 1st on zany music. the production is pretty simple and low-fi, and there is a lack of ambition, but the result is magic, actually. more to come...

recordoftides.aestate-online.com


exciting days for tobi, here posing as an imperial at-at and celebrating his birthday on july 4 with an extra mouse.
still, the european soccer championship is still on, and the german team is still in. tobi predicted the winner of the match correctly again and again and is now waitng to tell the right winner for the match next thursday...


AESTATE started with idm and abstrcat electronica in 2006 but quickly added some susiesounds soon, you can hear the best of the best, of what we made with AESTATE in the first 10 years.

AESTATE 'GREATEST HITS'
album as free mp3 download bundle

aestate-online.com


sven piayda
PUDDLE
im gäestezimmer
kunstmuseum gelsenkirchen, gelsenkirchen
2016-04-13 — 2016-10-05
press conference 2016-04-13, 11.00am
guided tour by kerrin postert 2016-05-29, 3pm

curated by christiane wanken

kunstmuseum gelsenkirchen
horster straße 5-7
45897 gelsenkirchen

kunstmuseum-gelsenkirchen.de






questions? complaints?
click here

usually i do not comment politics here, because it is not my topic and things appear too complex and quickly changing to turn them into a blog post. great britain´s decision to leave the european union, in short 'brexit', made me think a bit more. I cannot say if this is a good thing or a bad thing, I cannot predict the future of the island, nor I want to participate in the common britain-bashing. in fact, the common opinion seems to state that we have an island of idiots making a false decision. but is the majority always right? how can we judge a nation for making their own way? there seems to be a common sense of right and wrong, of clever and stupid. even if the britains appear recently not too clever and in shock about their anticipated result of leaving we should ask ourselves if the result isn´t a product of the set-up…

I have a problem with referendums, not because I do not believe in democracy, but because they obviously have not too much in common with a group ruling itself. the problem of decisions on a certain topic with a group of people will lead into a certain phenomenon: you cannot really discuss in a group bigger than five entities and the content becomes more and more flat the bigger the group of participants becomes. in this case the group was everyone in britain and the flat content was reduced to binary answers of 'in' or 'out'. you can say, one person has an idea, a group has an ideology (andreas gursky).

also, the result reveals another phenomenon: after having voted for 'out', the britains appaer shocked about their own decision. most the 'out'- voters might never have thought about the actual consequences, which might be the difference to a politician, even if he focusses on his own consequences. here we go back to the problem of the referendum: it appears to be very democratic, but I believe it is mediacratic. if you can decide what people read or see you actually decide what they think or say (borads of canada). also the surprise of consequence reveals another aspect: germans voting for extremist parties are usually referred as 'protest voters', a diffuse feeling of insecureness might (in combination with certain media input) lead to an extreme vote, an emotional statement expressing the own frustration, not an actual plan for the future.
I have to think of a phrase I have read some time ago which is spinning in my head: 'employees do not quit jobs, they quit bosses'.

this time I write about politics because I am interested in the sublime layer, there is a message in this historic decision, but it is not 'in' or 'out'. you have asked tor a direction, but you have recieved a statement.


by the way, in 2012 I exhibited the 2011 cgi work 'band of twelve' for a group show dealing with the artists´ view on europe. the picture appears topical again reminding that a group allways follows the looping process of forming and falling apart. (click here for more installation views.)
I really have sympathy for all this frustration and sullen will to destroy, but the grown-ups among us know that making friends is the only way to create and to succeed.


another exquisite summer date for tomorrow: the museum folkwang will be screening videos by phil collins (the visual artist) and ale bachlechner. I discovered her 'saturn return' at the 2015 art clologne and remember it as a highlight. It is dealing with personal relationship experience re-enacted in strange costumes somewhere in mexico. even when i usually do not like video art getting to close to cinematic narration, this one was strange enough to wander between the poles. thursday, june 30, 6 pm, museum folkwang, essen. seeya!




there have been rumors of a sampler coming up on july 1st featuring a new track ba AESTATE. there seem to be delays, you have to be patient and watch the social media profiles for quick developments.


still: the theater an der ruhr is doing the white nights again, the free festival featuring illumination, music and theatre in the raffelbergpark from july 8 to july 10. find the details over here.


do not forget: chritiane wanken, curator for the gästezimmer, is recently working on the new arrangement and restoration of the collection of kinetic art of the kunstmuseum gelsenkirchen. the collection has been closed and is expected to be reopened on july 10. this date is what the museum website announces, even when we had other dates around. this may be a great opportunity to visit the museum and enjoy the kinitec collection as well as my 'puddle' again. by the way, I won´t come up with new stuff before september. everything at the website of kunstmuseum gelsenkirchen over here.


still, the european soccer championship is still on, and the german team is still in. tobi predicted the winner of the match correctly again and is now doing some research to tell the right winner for the match next saturday...
plus: july 10 offers a lot: kinetic reopening, white nights and soccer finals. where do we go?


AESTATE started with idm and abstrcat electronica in 2006 but quickly added some susiesounds soon, you can hear the best of the best, of what we made with AESTATE in the first 10 years.

AESTATE 'GREATEST HITS'
album as free mp3 download bundle

aestate-online.com


sven piayda
PUDDLE
im gäestezimmer
kunstmuseum gelsenkirchen, gelsenkirchen
2016-04-13 — 2016-10-05
press conference 2016-04-13, 11.00am
guided tour by kerrin postert 2016-05-29, 3pm

curated by christiane wanken

kunstmuseum gelsenkirchen
horster straße 5-7
45897 gelsenkirchen

kunstmuseum-gelsenkirchen.de






questions? complaints?
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even if they offer it five days a week for at least only one week, it is hard to get there, i managed to attempt the park sounds yesterday, and this might be the experience for this year.
the wheather forced a cancellation on monday and even this set was held at the edge of a thunderstorm getting quickly closer after the set had ended.
the idea is brilliant, playing electronic music to the relaxed audience lying in the park. it is exciting to approach the park wiile you hear the droning bass pumping. a perfect contemporary way to link culture and party.
i was there on the right day to enjoy the aphex twin classics, radiohead and nine inch nails. (plus some new stuff i need to invest research on...) have a look at yesterday´s set list here.

even in all of this fascination, i feel wrong among people. the park is always well-attended but i do not get why people go there. more or less everyone appears stoned or drunk, but i really wonder why people meet in all this sound to talk all the time.
if there is an opportunity on a warm summer´s eve to shut up and listen, this is it.


you need to find the right place to get somehow into a stereo triangle, and this is delivering the classic view on the rwe tower as you see. the set was great, combining classics and new discoveries for me. but i guess some things might have changed, the tracks had been edited, especially when it was not nessesary. why should you shorten ‘vordhosbn‘ or put echo on 'avril 14th', or play radiohead backwards?


still: the theater an der ruhr is doing the white nights again, the free festival featuring illumination, music and theatre in the raffelbergpark from july 8 to july 10. find the details over here.


do not forget: chritiane wanken, curator for the gästezimmer, is recently working on the new arrangement and restoration of the collection of kinetic art of the kunstmuseum gelsenkirchen. the collection has been closed and is expected to be reopened on july 10. this date is what the museum website announces, even when we had other dates around. this may be a great opportunity to visit the museum and enjoy the kinitec collection as well as my 'puddle' again. by the way, I won´t come up with new stuff before september. everything at the website of kunstmuseum gelsenkirchen over here.


still, the european soccer championship is still on, and the german team is still in. tobi is ready to tell the upcoming winner, this sunday.
plus: july 10 offers a lot: kinetic reopening, white nights and soccer finals. where do we go?


AESTATE started with idm and abstrcat electronica in 2006 but quickly added some susiesounds soon, you can hear the best of the best, of what we made with AESTATE in the first 10 years.

AESTATE 'GREATEST HITS'
album as free mp3 download bundle

aestate-online.com


sven piayda
PUDDLE
im gäestezimmer
kunstmuseum gelsenkirchen, gelsenkirchen
2016-04-13 — 2016-10-05
press conference 2016-04-13, 11.00am
guided tour by kerrin postert 2016-05-29, 3pm

curated by christiane wanken

kunstmuseum gelsenkirchen
horster straße 5-7
45897 gelsenkirchen

kunstmuseum-gelsenkirchen.de






questions? complaints?
click here

the last days have been surrounded by congratulations on receiving the ruhrpreis having it absolutely not expected. even when I am facing different issues recently, this is putting some silver linings in the horizon, it feels like being back in the game.
now, more than ever before, it seems to make sense to live where I live, and my work appears to have a connection to the city and I am not the only one realizing. after returning from cologne last night I once again feel that I appreciate mülheim a lot more, it may not be the place-to-be, but honestly, you do not want to spend your time with people in search of the place-to-be, do you?

you know that I also spread some critical views on the city like my reconsideration of the eichbaumoper project, but only for taking culture and the people in very serious. as every year, the region (not only mülheim, also essen and gelsenkirchen (we love living in the periphery)) has two dates I like to draw your focus on. they are free and outside, you can join it. please say 'hi' when I am around.

the park sounds in essen will offer once again electronic sounds. from june 20 the whole week will be sounding from 8 to 10pm. I cannot say it often enough, it is great to hear an old aphex twin track droning through the park. recommended, all info here.


the theater an der ruhr is doing the white nights again, the free festival featuring illumination, music and theatre in the raffelbergpark from july 8 to july 10. find the details over here.


chritiane wanken, curator for the gästezimmer, is recently working on the new arrangement and restoration of the collection of kinetic art of the kunstmuseum gelsenkirchen. the collection has been closed and is expected to be reopened on july 10. this date is what the museum website announces, even when we had other dates around. this may be a great opportunity to visit the museum and enjoy the kinitec collection as well as my 'puddle' again. by the way, I won´t come up with new stuff before september. everything at the website of kunstmuseum gelsenkirchen over here.


a document of the past, I have incidently found a catalogue escorting the 2012 group show at museum abtei liesborn in wadersloh-liesborn. above you see me getting handed over a rose by curator dr. ellen markgraf for participating. please recognize my gothinc smurf style. you can watch and or download the catalogue to this great past show over here.



update 2016-06-17: when you live with a cat you get used to the fact that you are sometimes delivered dead mice or birds, especially if your cat likes you. tobi (see upper picture) has added a new variation: bringing in mice that are alive and well to watch and even ignore them making the human residents catch and release the mouse (see lower picture). tobi prefers to stay away from these catching actions, he found a now destination in playing the european champianship soccer oracle. two paper tubes with goodies in it with a dedication for a certain country and a cat finding one of the goodies first to tell the winner. so far, we have just been asking for matches with german participation and tobi was right. well, more or less, he predicted the right result in the first two matches and decided for poland yesterday. as it ended up in a draw, he was right, more or less, i guess...

by the way, the photograph in the background is a work by klaus jost, and it is pure coincidence that it portrays michaela as niki de saint phalle with a gun pointing on a half-domesticated mouse. the mouse was released pretty well and surprised about it´s luck,
tobi did not care.


AESTATE started with idm and abstrcat electronica in 2006 but quickly added some susiesounds soon, you can hear the best of the best, of what we made with AESTATE in the first 10 years.

AESTATE 'GREATEST HITS'
album as free mp3 download bundle

aestate-online.com


sven piayda
PUDDLE
im gäestezimmer
kunstmuseum gelsenkirchen, gelsenkirchen
2016-04-13 — 2016-10-05
press conference 2016-04-13, 11.00am
guided tour by kerrin postert 2016-05-29, 3pm

curated by christiane wanken

kunstmuseum gelsenkirchen
horster straße 5-7
45897 gelsenkirchen

kunstmuseum-gelsenkirchen.de






questions? complaints?
click here

it feels a little bit strange if you look into a certain direction and realizing the seconds you need to understand what is different: the opernbauhütte is gone. even if this architecture looked a little bit strange, it has become a fixed part of the landscape and the place it belonged to, even if it has lost its destination years ago. but let´s sum it up first of all. in 2008 the grillo theater in essen started in collaboration with the ringlokschuppen in mülheim and raumlaborberlin the ‘eichbaumoper’, a project to transform the no-go-area of the eichbaum station in mülheim into an open and vivid space to create an opera based upon on for this special location. I remember the project not being well attended at first, it took some time to get peoples´ attention and to make them become a part of it.

I remember spending a lot time there and actually liking the place a lot, the strange container building in the brutalist architecture of the station surrounded by overwhelming green. it was great to meet and spend time with bernadette la hengst (starring the tram within the opera and doing great gigs there) and the late architect matthias rick (drafting the obh) enjoying his improvised harddeejay-sets mostly coined by ‘the streets’. it was awesome to join the opera and be part of it with AESTATE (we played about two or three times at the opernbauhütte).

also I remember all the chaos in organization and the question for a new direction of this enterprise. after the opera, the place fell back into frustrating disorientation; the collaborative partners had lost interest in the opernbauhütte, even demounting it appeared to be too expensive. we as residents and free collaborators had ideas about a gallery or educative place, maybe a café or info center, all of the ideas were not taken up. looking back I do not have wished for more requested effort, but what bothers me are the vocabularies used in the concepts leading to the financing of a project like this one. terms like ‘problem aera’ and ‘sustainability’ are classic items to make a concept successful. actually, cultural and social issues are often mixed up here, it often looked like artists are doing social worker´s jobs and once again, that culture is in need to be brought to those who do not have any of it (which is actually arrogant and false). do not get me wrong, this enterprise had some brilliant aspects concerning, opera, architecture, interaction and even making party. but after all, and after checking the empty place last sunday (it looks like nothing has ever happened there) I have to question the impact on the problem area and the sustainability of the opera and the network making it.
there is a bitter aftertaste, not because of the people making it, but because of the instances making it happen and fade away again. well, this is probably the last entry on the eichbaum issue.

classic views: standing in the station watching the tracks. I remember boredom in cold sprng 2009 and cycling to the eichbaum station enjoying a classic view. maybe a place to be, sometimes…


the view back, you could always see the top level poking out of the trees, like a giant robot looking for friends. even if the building was empty and useless, it has become an icon of the region, I wonder how much it is worth now that it is gone without any echoes…



a collection of classic views on the obh, from 2008 to 2016 and its transformations. without spoiling too much i can tell that he upcoming AESTATE video will be dealing with it, too.



more collected stuff from the past: my first approach and my last one, from curiosity to alienation.


a link to the past: see the installation of the opernbauhütte including its architect matthias rick giving orders.


also, my report on the contemporary art ruhr media art fair will be missing this year. while entering the fair celebrating its 10th anniversary my foreboding did not make me enter as press but made me pay the the expensive ticket, I would not be in the need to write something about it. well, I was right. if you cannot say something good about it, you should say nothing about it.



AESTATE started with idm and abstrcat electronica in 2006 but quickly added some susiesounds soon, you can hear the best of the best, of what we made with AESTATE in the first 10 years.

AESTATE 'GREATEST HITS'
album as free mp3 download bundle

aestate-online.com


sven piayda
PUDDLE
im gäestezimmer
kunstmuseum gelsenkirchen, gelsenkirchen
2016-04-13 — 2016-10-05
press conference 2016-04-13, 11.00am
guided tour by kerrin postert 2016-05-29, 3pm

curated by christiane wanken

kunstmuseum gelsenkirchen
horster straße 5-7
45897 gelsenkirchen

kunstmuseum-gelsenkirchen.de






questions? complaints?
click here

as I have already reported before I am trapped in studio work, producing and networking again, making applications and all this stuff you have to do next to thinking about art and finally making it. now, that I have found out to not have won an art award I have applied for in a quite complex form I have once again realized all the other things I have put in the pipeline waiting to be dismissed.

as I have reported before, it is strange, you just keep going. a few days ago I watched a movie called ‘focus’ with will smith making him say that you have to double the wager after losing the bet until you will win. this strategy means to invest a lot…
it also reminds me of ‘taxes for the dumb’, a term michaela uses to describe the phenomenon of lottery players using the same numbers for decades without winning. of course, you can never stop doing it, imagine quitting and hearing about your numbers winning? you are doomed to keep on buying and playing forever. it seems to be an easy way to make people spend their money for something that is a glimpse of hope.
the money invested in taking part in competitions and networking is my tax for the dumb. this means that I must be dumb. on the other hand it is a still a cheap way to buy some hope, even if it leads to disappointment.

to cut a long story short: still there is a lot in pipeline and even this year we will have something great for you. for the meantime, i´d like to share with you the complex concept paper I and we have written for the 2016 limburg art award. you can read or download it, you may imagine what the show was supposed to look like and decide if it would have been great or crap. also, you may get an idea of the effort I invest on stuff that is never taken up and usually remains invisible.
cross your fingers, one lottery ticket must be the lucky one…

check the /CAMP




update 2016-06-04: here is another teaser from the concept available concept. i took a picture before putting it into the envelope, yesterday the material returned. this is what we call volley return. still, i´m pretty convinced and could imagine to transfer it into an other room. let´s see, check the /CAMP!


update 2016-06-04: my cheap toshiba notebook (see 2012 file photo above )decided to crack up even more, now half of the screen is decored with truly beautiful but nevertheless annoying stripes. so my main communicator is down. answering fb messages and email is complicated again, please enjoy the delays.
didn´t i say i would have to invest...?


AESTATE started with idm and abstrcat electronica in 2006 but quickly added some susiesounds soon, you can hear the best of the best, of what we made with AESTATE in the first 10 years.

AESTATE 'GREATEST HITS'
album as free mp3 download bundle

aestate-online.com


sven piayda
PUDDLE
im gäestezimmer
kunstmuseum gelsenkirchen, gelsenkirchen
2016-04-13 — 2016-10-05
press conference 2016-04-13, 11.00am
guided tour by kerrin postert 2016-05-29, 3pm

curated by christiane wanken

kunstmuseum gelsenkirchen
horster straße 5-7
45897 gelsenkirchen

kunstmuseum-gelsenkirchen.de






questions? complaints?
click here

once again i am taking care of producing and preparing, i have reported a few times that creating an artwork is only one part of miking it happen. all this networking and delivering as well as keeping in touch is the other half of it. this may sound like talking to people os work to me, actually it is not, but i have to admit that i´m not that much in the mood right now. i´d rather stay in the studio or at home and return with something more entertaingit to tell, and maybe even to show.

this year holds a lot of frustration for me, you might have read the last entry 2016-05-06 'culture mine' - a show that never happened and you might get a glipse of what it feels when things end up in the bin. anyway, i have discovered that i am simply not able to give up, which might might an advantage in bringing things to the end, but it is also a disadvantage when you invest in something that is already over. i guess i have never learned to give up, i have to bring things to an end. it is pretty strange to watch myself doing things i cannot stop myself from, things sometimes become even more serious that they are...

to cut a long story short, all this frustration did not lead into quitting the studio (which i consider a few times a week) but into producing and delivering. you may have have realized the structure and design changes of this site but that was just a small facelift.
following requests we have produced a video piece called 'a sudden gust of wind' and delivered it online for the curator, also we placed my first short film (based upon videos and animated photogratphs) 'never is a long time' online to offer it to festival makes.
even when i do not want to spoil you, and even when i have learned that talking too much about things in the making may prevent them, i do not care. i have wasted too much time thinking about strategies no-one realized in the end. at least, work should be available to the ones who are interested, isn´t it?

you can find the vdeo pieces as well as further exclusive material in the /CAMP. also, we have created a site telling you what the/CAMP is and how to handle it, to be found over here.

enjoy and cross your fingers, video belongs to to the big screen.
even if there is nothing to tell recently, no portfolio updates or shows to be opened recently, there are some sneak peeks from the studio, i hope you like it.


there are full albums from record of tides and AESTATE in the line but there are delays everywhere. it seems that it is getting more and more complicated to put out music, the time spans get longer. so it is great to announce that AESTATE have finished and delivered a new track for a 2016 label compilation. recently, theer is not more to tell, you may guess the label, what i can tell you is that the track is great!

aestate-online.com


you might remember the eichbaumoper and the opernbauhütte and the impact the project by raumlabor berlin had on me. above you see the opernbauhütte the way it apperad in 2014 for it´s last usage during the eichbaumgold transformation. i have surprisingly discovered that the building has vanished. another great symbol for a gap which has been financed by public funds following the terms 'sustainability' and 'transformation' now turning it back into the no-go-area it has been before. do not get me wrong, raumlabor berlin and the great late matthias rick did fantastic work here, but the local cultural partners did not know what to do with it and turned the whole talking about 'sustainability' and 'transformation' into a flat joke.
i´ll hand in a current picture of theis place asap.


galeire143 will move to adlerstraße 63 in dortmund and re-open at the new place on may 25. i am not sure if i can join it, i hope for a great re-start. actually we did great shows together, i hope for some more to come.

galerie143.de


AESTATE started with idm and abstrcat electronica in 2006 but quickly added some susiesounds soon, you can hear the best of the best, of what we made with AESTATE in the first 10 years.

AESTATE 'GREATEST HITS'
album as free mp3 download bundle

aestate-online.com


sven piayda
PUDDLE
im gäestezimmer
kunstmuseum gelsenkirchen, gelsenkirchen
2016-04-13 — 2016-10-05
press conference 2016-04-13, 11.00am

curated by christiane wanken

kunstmuseum gelsenkirchen
horster straße 5-7
45897 gelsenkirchen

kunstmuseum-gelsenkirchen.de






questions? complaints?
click here

even when I have defined my blogging activities to be positive without speaking bad about anyone, I have to call it what it is when it comes to the phenomenon of being non-professional and even rude.
artists are often treated badly by institutions, simply because there are enough of them and you simply find someone else to do it. well, you might ask yourself why artists do it anyway. at least someone has to believe in your art, maybe it is only yourself and yes, that is not a valid indicator for quality. who else could tell the value of your work? gallerists worrying about profit, museums worrying about visitor numbers or off-spaces worrying about coolness?
the artists keep producing and keep trying, simply because they have to. so, what makes a show happen or not happen? let´s tell a true story right from the start, from my point of view of course.

in 2014 curator carsten roth invited my to do a show at the kunstverein bochumer kulturrat, we did a great job together, carsten took things serious enough to make it outstanding and unique. as we were considering how to promote the show generate visitors we decided to make a curator guided tour with an artist talk (see picture above). I thought it would be great to interact with visitors personally and attract even people from other kunstvereine and galleries to get in touch which might lead to further collaborations.
the idea was not bad and succeeded, even if only one person from so many invited ones appeared. my work and ideas were highly appreciated, there was the direct decision to work together.

I was invited by the dorsten based kunstverein virtuell visuell to do a solo show after the kunstverein has moved into an old machinery hall. as the new space was a lot more difficult to use I was asked to confirm the request as far as I was sure to work with it. I confirmed right away and I was offered to check out the machinery hall even before opening but I attended to the first show opening at this new space in spring 2015 (one year ago from now) to check out what would be possible. I confirmed again, we were planning to schedule the show for summer 2016. I went into the studio to draft the show called 'culture mine' (kulturförderung) dealing with cgi photographs, a tryptch video projection and a sound installation. I fixed the ideas in an editable html document and sent the status quo of my ideas to the curator who had invited me back in may 2014. I asked for some feedback in june and was just told that I will be contacted. In november 2015 I have once again requested some feedback and info concerning dates (even if that was quite late). I have also mentioned that I would like to be informed in case of being no longer on schedule of the kunstverein. no answer at all and my decision to quit thinking and planning for virtuell visuell. I could say that it was non-professional but there was no money in it anyway. sometimes I consider writing a bill for making me work on demand without making it happen anyway. what I have learned is to stay away from this kunstverein, it is simply a waste of time. when they tread artists like that, I cannot take them seriously.

I have published my sketches for the show. I wanted to offer them in the /CAMP, now they are open for everyone. It is up to you to decide, if it is a concept worth to be ignored.
in consequence I will put more of my show sketches in the /CAMP, especially when I think they are convincing and took a lot of work in doing them, even when they have not been chosen in a competition. I guess you can probably learn or question how to structure and compose a show and maybe understand how I try to create these more complex things. maybe it´s educative, maybe just entertaining, maybe I just want to feel like I do not work for the paper bin.

in conclusion: I am talking about virtuell visuell because they do not want to communicate with me anymore. I would have loved to work with them but they have somewhere decided to sort me out without even telling me. I guess it is okay to be pissed. maybe there are good reasons for all of this, well, I would like to learn about them and pass them on to you. promised.

the story surprisingly got an update in march 2016: when institutions and entities suddenly stop talking to you, even ignoring you it makes me think. first of all I feel alienated and then I start thinking about what could be wrong with me. as there is no interpersonal contact anyway I consider my image as displayed via internet and social media. did I post something strange? something that makes me appear fascist, sexist, homophobic, non-credible, bad-smelling or evil in any possible way? did they get aware that I am a loser, a faker or the truth about myself that only I can know myself?

and here this endlessly grinding self-destructing monologue gets a twist: there is an inside man.
actually by complete coincident, I met an artist colleague on a vernissage who is also member of virtuell visuell in dorsten. I told him about the epic story (you have just read above) and he promised me to place a question, talk to the curator and report.

we meat again by complete coincidence during the opening of thomas struth´s 'nature & politics' and my inside man told me to have talked back to the curator. I felt two sides of me struggling for the right direction: the reasonable side of me pretending lowered interest and the aggrieved part of me needing to know the reason for turning me down.
before we were separated by the event and its numerous people my inside man only said one sentence: 'i´ve talked to the curator and she said 'oh yeah, I really need to contact him.''

to be honest, I could not think of something more profane. that is supposed to be everything? after all of my preparing, calling, writing, despairing and waiting on request I was simply forgotten and/or in the line of people to be called back!? (some day!?) well, more or less. that´s far below everything I could have imagined. but let´s bring this story to an end. I do not work with non-professionals.

all of this is pretty disappointing and it took a lot of thinking and investing and now i´m even spending time and thoughts on turning the whole thing into a blog post. well, I just want to make me feel like I have turned all this effort at least into a story when it did not even turn into a great show. I even feel that a lot of my potential is wasted, but maybe that is just my point of view.
maybe you can get an exemplary idea of what it looks like when something does not happen, maybe you are a successful artist and feel sorry for me, maybe you are a frustrated artist and see that things like this happen to all of us. anyway, let´s take a step backwards and have a look at the bigger picture. as I see the art scene as a playground model for the world and it´s society I´d like you to ask to be aware of the things you make other people do. setting sail for a common purpose makes you responsible to the whole challenge.
I cannot stand all this cheap talk without any action, making people work for a goal and then telling them it is no longer needed. you may trigger a lot of frustration here, if you re unlucky even aggression.

wow, that was a lot, now you know what drives me nuts. fortunately, I can put my thoughts here and get over it. more or less.

to cut a long story short: let us be productive, everything else is just cheap talk!


at least I made this picture: 'everlasting vow', produced in may 2015 showing the view out of the machinery hall during the opening of the first show at this venue. the large ring symbolizing the vow appears like a strange forecast now, a sculptural agreement waiting to be broken. now it seems it was all there, right from the start. check the portfolio over at svenpiayda.com/photography


AESTATE started with idm and abstrcat electronica in 2006 but quickly added some susiesounds soon, you can hear the best of the best, of what we made with AESTATE in the first 10 years. you can hear susie on only three tracks of this best-of-compilation, but you find her at her best!

AESTATE 'GREATEST HITS'
album as free mp3 download bundle

aestate-online.com


sven piayda
PUDDLE
im gäestezimmer
kunstmuseum gelsenkirchen, gelsenkirchen
2016-04-13 — 2016-10-05
press conference 2016-04-13, 11.00am

curated by christiane wanken

kunstmuseum gelsenkirchen
horster straße 5-7
45897 gelsenkirchen

kunstmuseum-gelsenkirchen.de


sven piayda | memento mori memory
MIKRO SPECIAL EDITION III
HYSTERICAL MEDIA ART EXHIBITION
ziggo dome, amsterdam, netherlands
2016-05-07 — 2016-06-07

artist list
more info tba.






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art cologne 2016 means business as usual on the one hand but also looking back and reflecting on the other. following the ritual I could not miss it and I found what I have expected. the fair is a big machine running without noticing resistance, a variation of the well-known. over the years my acceptance for the commercial focus has grown and from this point of view you find a wide variation of the decorative; you cannot sell something deeply touching but something superficially beautiful.
without any irony, my acceptance to that has never been bigger, maybe an art fair must differ a lot from a museum. whenever I was interested in a work or discovered something like a highlight for me I realized big names. even when I was not looking for works or artists I know, I was attracted by their pieces anyway, maybe after all this commercial success and presence, there must be a certain quality that shines among the ocean of pieces floating around. you will find some examples a little lower in this post.

usually I was looking for trends defining the year but I have given up to look for it over the last years. this time it was clear: the three layers of the fair mirror there three ways gallerist act and create their trend:
the lowest hall level features post war and modern classics, sometimes garnished with a settled contemporary artist like hirst. here you have to invest much money but you can be sure it is worth it, the pieces will remain or gain value, no doubt about that.iIf you have some play money, you cannot go wrong here.
the middle level offers the big contemporary gallerists with their stars, here I have found some remarkable pieces. the top level comes up with new positions and lead into complete desperation. upcoming gallerists and artists seem to have found a new symbolic language: everything appears accidental, ironic, unskilled and not really attractive. there seems to be a spirit of post post everything, you cannot develop fascination for a world where the ultimate thing is something like whatever. back home I realized to having taken not a single picture on that level.

anyway, I am thankful to be able to realize trends again, and even if I feel dislike for newest developments it is great to see that the giant ship of culture is looking for a course. let´s have a look on some strikes.


the first thing getting my attention was plain paining, karin kneffel is a great richter follow up.


john de andrea´s ‘lisa’ was the star of the fair of course. I know his work since 2010 and already witnessed the accuracy of his works in other pieces. you might say that simple hyperrealism adds nothing to the bronze sculture and that this is simply showing skills. also you might say that the fascination lies in the fact of a naked woman, but it is realy not that simple. meeting ‘lisa’ face to face has an effect on you. maybe it is the aura of the work?


a fountain of bulbs might be pure kitsch but sue webster and tim noble present something at blain|southern on which you cannot simply pass by.


blain|southern also offered marius bercea´s paintings, actually a new discovery for me, wild and decent at the same time, a great technique that could fit on my wall…


seeing an anselm reyle stripe piece did not kick at all. whenever I think of him I have to consider that fact that he pauses his production pretending to quit as an artist. still something that fascinates me questioning if it is possible to quit doing what you have to do or is it a simple trick to make to prices go up? well, the other thing fascinating about him is a photo showing him next to kanye west you can find quickly be googling him…


more kanye: jürgen teller´s strange – let’s call it – portrait of kim kardashian´s ass already went viral and now appears blown up in (over-)lifesize. teller´s way to make photos is great and unique, and once again it is great how he puts it on the edge: adorable or embarrassing? today´s media world does not offer many examples that leave the answer to you.


the khm is always a must see for me and usually I look forward to these works. works that are not for sale look fresh on a fair. this year the khm did not have much space and they did not have an appropriate dark and calm chamber like the years before. Sara hoffmann´s ‘dash #2’ made its impression anyway, making you endlessly stare into a panting dog´s mouth.


fortunately there was a dark video chamber for some anniversary celebrating the discipline of video featuring klaus vom bruch, corinna schnitt and manuel graf to name a few.


I might sound paranoid but markus lüppertz seems to be omnipresent these days. I´m sorry, you can realize him by his work and I know and understand his approach but I do not understand the fascination for his work.


a last view into the fair, there is always a paul mccarthy sculpture making sure that you are leaving through the right gate.


as usually a proof that I was there myself after tricky haunt for a coffee. happy anniversary, art cologne. let´s see what´s next…


AESTATE started with idm and abstrcat electronica in 2006 but quickly added some susiesounds soon, you can hear the best of the best, of what we made with AESTATE in the first 10 years. you can hear susie on only three tracks of this best-of-compilation, but you find her at her best!

AESTATE 'GREATEST HITS'
album as free mp3 download bundle

aestate-online.com

sven piayda
PUDDLE
im gäestezimmer
kunstmuseum gelsenkirchen, gelsenkirchen
2016-04-13 — 2016-10-05
press conference 2016-04-13, 11.00am

curated by christiane wanken

kunstmuseum gelsenkirchen
horster straße 5-7
45897 gelsenkirchen

kunstmuseum-gelsenkirchen.de


sven piayda | memento mori memory
MIKRO SPECIAL EDITION III
HYSTERICAL MEDIA ART EXHIBITION
ziggo dome, amsterdam, netherlands
2016-05-07 — 2016-06-07

more info tba.






questions? complaints?
click here

wow, that was quick. i am a happy user of an engl savage 120 amp, actually more an ex-user, becuase it was strongly in need of new tubes since 2008. i got up yesterday and and it was like: now or never. i wanted to bring it to a technician years ago, i never did caused by so much other tings to do and money issues, of course.
letting other people put their fingers on you gear is a question of faith, where to go with your broke treasure?

bochum wattenscheid is more or less the capital for musical gear in the ruhr region and since three yeas there is another good reason to go there. and once again i feel old, because i look back and that is a benefit somehow. creating a triangle of instrument stores my primary school friend sebastian brennert started his very own shop caled ruhrcoast music. fortunately, we made it to get over primary school and our first horrible sounding bad called 'no naim'. he used his talents and is now fronting the progessive rock band invertigo.

so i brought my engl top and well, it is impossible to go into a guitar store without trying one or two, maybe eight guitars. i like the fenders but they do not convince me usually in sound and handling.i was looking for a steal string acousic for years and i have finally made a match, a low pice model at a super deal. and here i am, a proud and finger aching player of a 7/8 size steal string acoustic after decates of searching, testing and trying to be reasonable.
susie is going to be jealous, but more on it later...


the great thing about ruhrcoast music is its ambience. you do not feel like in a storehouse, you feel like in your living room, especially because of this old radio sourruned by guitar models debuting around the same time the radio was state of the art.
you really find a wide range of models from different dacades aiming at different syles from jazz to metal.
and even if you are not a musician, this presentation feels like a museum for classic and contemorary approches when it comes to defining an electric guitar.

by the way, this post is not a sponsored one or advertising, i just write about it because i want to. i do not get money for it or special deals because of it. i get special deals anyway.

thank you to to michaela best for the perfect pictures.


a new axe in town, susie is going to be jealous. you might know i call my 1998 warmouth prototype 'susie' (as reference to slege hammer´s gun) and even after testing hundreds of models i always return to susie, it is getting the perfect sound i want, i did not find something more convincing before or even afterwards. i do not get why you do not find a serial model with a brian-may-switching, seymour duncan hotrails and a missing pickguard.
anyway, this one is mine, an after bringing a new guitar home, i thought about the perfomances of susie, so here are some documented highlights:


live in 2005 with dissident(en) club at rosamunde in gelsenkirchen. i remember a very hot summer and very wild performance. i remember using a line6 pod, sebastian had sold me before and coining my sound a lot.


this is a classic shot, more or less an icon, i have actually copied the posture from an guitar advertising i have seen, but i looks even good for me. this photo must have been taken back in 2006 during the 'euphoria' sessions, you can hear it on every song as well as the engl amp.


supporting factor-4 in dortmund, the techno project wnated me to add some rock guitars to their sound which worked pretty good. i remember having a bad cold that night and taking flu repressing drugs, i felt pretty strage. and yes, i was wearing a wig, i thought it would be the perfect rock delivery - and it was!


the last time i was on stage with susie as 2011, playing with AESTATE at the FZW in dortmund. above you see me at the afternoon before during the soundcheck. if you look closely, you can see some signs of usage. but anyway, susie never sounded better.

even if the last pic on stage is five years old now, susie was in use for some new post rock tracks...


AESTATE started with idm and abstrcat electronica in 2006 but quickly added some susiesounds soon, you can hear the best of the best, of what we made with AESTATE in the first 10 years. you can hear susie on only three tracks of this best-of-compilation, but you find her at her best!

AESTATE 'GREATEST HITS'
album as free mp3 download bundle

aestate-online.com


update 2016-03-25: i finally managed to visit the LWL-landesmuseum für kunst und kulturgeschichte in münster, an impressive building creating much space for space and for a collection that goes back to the 12th century. it is incredible what these artistst were able to do with stone and their hands compared to what we do today with so much technically assisted production. to be honest, it was not the collection that draw me to müsnster, it was the yves netzhammer installation and the sculptures spread all over the city.i am reading alot about the 2007 sculpture festival to be well prepared for the 2017 update.


update 2016-03-25: the first accidentally installed sculpture i meat at LWL-landesmuseum für kunst und kulturgeschichte in münster was at the men´s toilet, two urinals behind a barricade, reminding of duchamp, of course. let´s call it 'VIPiss'. sculpture? done.



update 2016-03-25: yves netzhammers´s installation 'selbstgespräche nähern sich wie scheue rehe' in the old but well-restored halation was a blast. i know his videos for a long time now but i never really liked them because of the grapghic and typical (maybe cheap) animation style. in combination with the great on-wall drawings and the surreal and perfectly manufactured sculptures, the video animations make sense and fit surprisingly well into the whole ensamble and its reduced style. i cannot really say what it is all about, but i can see it is about something and it is is pretty complex and beautiful at the same time. maybe there is nothing to understand here, maybe it is more to something for having a clue. whatever i like shows with sound and video anyway, an achetypical way for me to put up an installation. it may have taken some years, but now i´m a fan now. strongly recommended.

netzhammer.com
lwl.org/LWL/Kultur/museumkunstkultur


hope to see you at the EGGXPO on easter saturday and sunday, an do not forget to come aroundclick the flyer for a larger view, .
plus: check the facebook site for recent news.


matthias danberg & sven piayda
DIGITAL LECTURE | ZUM DIGITALEN IN DER KUNST
in conversation with anja bauer m.a.
kunstmuseum mülheim an der ruhr
2016-04-07, 6.30 pm

synagogenplatz 1
45468 mülheim an der ruhr

tickets free

facebook event
www.kunstmuseum-mh.de


sven piayda
PUDDLE
im gäestezimmer
kunstmuseum gelsenkirchen, gelsenkirchen
2016-04-13 — 2016-10-09
press conference 2016-04-13, 11.00am

curated by christiane wanken

kunstmuseum gelsenkirchen
horster straße 5-7
45897 gelsenkirchen

kunstmuseum-gelsenkirchen.de


sven piayda | memento mori memory
MIKRO SPECIAL EDITION III
HYSTERICAL MEDIA ART EXHIBITION
ziggo dome, amsterdam, netherlands
2016-05-07 — 2016-06-07

more info tba.






questions? complaints?
click here

recently there is not too much to tell about my own actions, preparing shows and events with museums is a lot more effort compared to gallery or off-space exhibitions, even when the upcoming things are quite small – but on a big stage. also there is still a lot work recently, in making money, making art, making friends and thinking about past and recent collaborations. well, this year will probably have some shows that do not take place, even after much work in sketching them. like i´ve said, not much to tell, no fixed results recently.

for the meantime i´d like to draw your attention on the upcoming EGGXPO show. in 2011 i was lucky enough to participate at atelier kuno lange and returned for the 2013 tinkrather festspiele at kuno park, see picture above. having not participated many times because of its effort, I have been requested to return to confirm my membership in the 'mülheim bubble'. summing it up, the EGGXPO will take place on easter saturday and sunday with participation of my favorites kuno lange, klaus jost, peter helmke and kelbassas panoptikum. great art, good prices and a good time as usual, but at a new place: this time the show takes place at peter helmke´s studio, see flyer below.
i hope i can join the show, buy and win art, and most of all: meet great people! and yes, i need to loin it as an artist again!


click the flyer for a larger view, an do not forget to come around.
plus: check the facebook site for recent news.


video documentary: tinkrather festspiele 2013


video documentary: EGGXPO 2011


some off-topic: the idea to close the museum morsbroich in leverkusen was discussed vividly in the media and on facebook, it triggered gerhard richter as well as friendship artists to comment. even I have found myself in a conversation discussing the scandalous idea. to make it short, I understand that a museum costs more money than it generates, but I have to ask if everything can make profit: what about the firewarden, the hospital or the kindergarten? is profit the only thing that legitimates what happens and will the saved money invested reasonably?
even museums need blockbusters, but if the visitors response is the only thing that matters, culture will end up as popcorn cinema and chart music, profit generating and hollow. in times where we are facing global issues with nothing but our moralized identity as nation and entity, we must ask us why we are what we are. we need a save playground to try thoughts which might be helpful in a bigger context.
the city can save money everywhere without losing depts, but it can define what it wants to be by spending money on chosen things.
whenever you decide to spend money on a product or an organization you benefit the world you want to live in.
and a final phrase to bring back the relativity into this big issue: people explaining you how to invest your money usually just want it.


update 2016-03-21: kent granyon and me went quite spontaneously to the opening of thomas struth´s 'nature and politics' at museum folkwang. actually a great show exploring the maximum of what is photography. surprising for me, the opening seemed to be skating exhibition for everyone else of the scene, i saw gursky, lüppertz, ruff, schütte, but actually no struth. being sure to get some celebrity shots, the monopol magazine sent their own photographer to capture some portraits of the worthy ones. and here we are: we did not realize it during the show but found ourselves on the website, actually just in the background and out of focus.... well, there you have a real rare paparazzi shot: the latest photo of AESTATE!


update 2016-03-21: we are recently working on the installing and promoting the exhibition project at kunstmuseum gelsenkirchen and i have started dreaming about a new catalogue. well, the new show simply features only one video but that means over 4000 different frames (or photographs), so wouldn´t it be nice to put some of them into a catalogue?


AESTATE 'GREATEST HITS'
album as free mp3 download bundle

aestate-online.com


matthias danberg & sven piayda
DIGITAL LECTURE | ZUM DIGITALEN IN DER KUNST
in conversation with anja bauer m.a.
kunstmuseum mülheim an der ruhr
2016-04-07, 6.30 pm

synagogenplatz 1
45468 mülheim an der ruhr

tickets tba.

www.kunstmuseum-mh.de


sven piayda
PUDDLE
im gäestezimmer
kunstmuseum gelsenkirchen, gelsenkirchen
2016-04-13 — 2016-10-09
press conference 2016-04-13, 11.00am

curated by christiane wanken

kunstmuseum gelsenkirchen
horster straße 5-7
45897 gelsenkirchen

kunstmuseum-gelsenkirchen.de


sven piayda | memento mori memory
MIKRO SPECIAL EDITION III
HYSTERICAL MEDIA ART EXHIBITION
ziggo dome, amsterdam, netherlands
2016-05-07 — 2016-06-07

more info tba.






questions? complaints?
click here

once again I made my way up to the coast, fresh fish and belgian beer at the dutch sea are still the best things to relax quickly. when I went to zeeland in 2014 I produced ‘the impossibility to take pictures of the sea’ and the ‘puddle’ video. also we rediscovered the chippie and fish stall of brassem (het groentje 4, 4357 bc domburg, niederlande).
I wanted to report even earlier but it got lost somehow, now after returning to it last week i guess it is time to bring up the old picture again. I was wondering if I should tell you about this insider tip, but as you see it is well attended at any time so it is no insider tip at all. without being paid to tell you I can recommend you to have a fish at brassem whenever you are in domburg. and the jackdaws in the trees around you will also attest the outstanding quality, I mean, if you share some unsupervised fish.


and this is the object of desire: a shrimp croquette makes the day. once again, this is a file photo from 2014.


and this is the 2016 update: some filet pieces waiting to get escorted by a shrimp croquette. wait, am just writing about fish here? maybe. but there is more. all of these short trips to the sea made me decide to bring up new record of tides stuff.
in 2014 I decided to work on new r.o.t. tracks and so I did, now in 2016 the day of release is getting closer. the website received a facelift, the new album is about to be finished, the artwork is done and i´m about to finish a video based upon material taken in the last two years. to be honest, the album contains material produced in 2004, and mostly stuff I started 2014 and it is one of the best stuff I have done. you will be surprised. did you really think this is just about fish!?

recordoftides.aestate-online.com



more snapshots from the short trip last week. I´m back and deeply trapped in work.


yet another picture of michael em walter and me. as I have posted pictures of him he had taken next to my works and then even screenshots of my sites reporting about him I wanted to come up with an old photograph of us. I guess it is the oldest and probably first picture showing us together. I guess it must have been 2002 while working on his first single.
we both look a lot different now, unfortunately we had the same stupid haircuts over the years, fortunately never at the same time...

well keep it coming, feel free to send me pictures of yourself next to my works, i´ll bring them up here!

by the way, did you realize the futurama quote in the title?


don’t forget the artist talk at kunstmuseum mülheim on 2016-02-21, 11.30 am. it might get interesting.


sven piayda | achetypes
JAHRESAUSSTELLUNG MÜLHEIMER KÜNSTLERINNEN UND KÜNSTLER
kunstmuseum mülheim an der ruhr
2016-01-31 — 2016-02-21
opening 2016-01-30, 6 pm

sven piayda is expected to be preset
salutation by margarete wietelmann, mayor
salutation by dr. beate reese
introduction by anja bauer m.a.

press conference 2016-01-28, 11 am
artist talk 2016-02-21, 11.30 am

synagogenplatz 1
45468 mülheim an der ruhr

tue-sun 11 am - 6 pm
free entry on wednesdays, 2 - 6 pm
tickets 4 euro (discounted 2 euro)

www.kunstmuseum-mh.de






questions? complaints?
click here

I was checking out old boxes full of prints and negatives looking for stuff to rediscover or simply to bring back. actually I did not only find masterpieces but also pictures documenting my ambition in making shows. above you see me in a classic pose in front of my works, well, if I compare it to today’s documentations I can say that nothing has changed. I might look different today but i´m still proud to get my works on the wall somewhere and watch people in front of it.

the scene above was taken in 2001 in a small gallery which was (let´s say it politely) not very professional. it seems that I am doing shows for 15 years now, but to be honest there was a longer gap between 2003 and 2007. my first attempts were disappointing, I did not make it into the scene, there was no scene at all, just me as an absolute beginner wanting to make experiences. I was disappointed and pretty desperate about the situation and decided to focus on music, which offered me a lot more control on my output and distribution. it was a strange time and I feel old looking back. I remember being driven to do it even facing resistance (and there was a lot, see 2011-10-31 ten years after the 'alternative portrait' | entry by sven). today I still feel the need to go on, to push it further, to see how far I can take it. discover some added rediscoverd and digitalized installation views from 2001 and 2002.


the ‘playground’ series is the object of my actual desire. finding the negatives will hopefully lead to high quality scans and beautiful prints which will be seen in a show one day. above you see a reconstructed picture showing the works (analogue photo prints) in my old bedroom, unfortunately they never made it to be shown in public. still I think they should: I do not have a great concept here, these views of a playground in the woods in denmak are magic and seductive to me and after 15 years they still look fresh.



everyone needs obsessive fans! composer michael em walter did it again, a selfie next to my works. above you see him next to the ‘videotape/spool’ monitor in the kunstmuseum gelsenkirchen. (by the way, it will be on display o it´s last week now). and it was not the first time: the smaller pictures show him in the 2013 jahresausstellung at kunstmuseum mülheim and in the ‘show/time’ solo exhibition at kunstverein bochumer kulturrat in 2014. even this tradition is longer: I remember michael visiting me and my work in the 2002 sichtwerk group show at zollverein.


update 2016-02-07: stalking me, stalking you: it is funny, as I take mr walter´s selfies from facebook to repost them on my journal, he has found a semi-analogue way to share interesting content on his fb profile wich is sometimes feauring him. well, so let us sum it up, I post things I´ve found on his site while he takes a picture of it to post it on his site making me download it to post it on my site...we con go on like this forever, buddy...


update 2016-02-07: last chance today:'videotape/spool' at JAHRESSCHAU GELSENKIRCHENER KÜNSTLERINNEN UND KÜNSTLER at k>unstmuseum gelsenkirchen. open only today until 6 pm.


don’t forget the artist talk at kunstmuseum mülheim on 2016-02-21, 11.30 am.


more returns from the past. we have relaunched the record of tides website and we will have some new sounds this year.

recordoftides.aestate-online.com


sven piayda | videotape/spool
JAHRESSCHAU GELSENKIRCHENER
KÜNSTLERINNEN UND KÜNSTLER
kunstmuseum gelsenkirchen, gelsenkirchen
2015-12-13 — 2016-02-07
opening 2015-12-13, 11.30am

greeting by leane schäfer, director kunstmuseum gelsenkirchen
greeting by frank baranowski, major of gelsenkirchen
introduction by dr. christine vogt, director ludwiggalerie
sven piayda is expected to be present

kunstmuseum gelsenkirchen
horster straße 5-7
45897 gelsenkirchen

open tue to sun, 11am to 6pm
please note, the museum will be closed from
december 24 until january 1st.

kunstmuseum-gelsenkirchen.de


sven piayda | achetypes
JAHRESAUSSTELLUNG MÜLHEIMER KÜNSTLERINNEN UND KÜNSTLER
kunstmuseum mülheim an der ruhr
2016-01-31 — 2016-02-21
opening 2016-01-30, 6 pm

sven piayda is expected to be preset
salutation by margarete wietelmann, mayor
salutation by dr. beate reese
introduction by anja bauer m.a.

press conference 2016-01-28, 11 am
artist talk 2016-02-21, 11.30 am

synagogenplatz 1
45468 mülheim an der ruhr

tue-sun 11 am - 6 pm
free entry on wednesdays, 2 - 6 pm
tickets 4 euro (discounted 2 euro)

www.kunstmuseum-mh.de






questions? complaints?
click here

even when i´m blessed to be chosen for the third time to contribute to the annual group show at the kunstmuseum mülheim of contemporary and locally based artists it is still exciting.
working with museums is always a pleasure, professionals usually take their job seriously and so do i. this time is special also special to me because I was curated with comparatively many works into the show, also none of them are photographic or classic video shots. this time it is about reworking classics from art and media history, well there is a lot to choose from. next to it there is to mention that I am showing works which have been produced for this show, they cannot be found in the online portfolio so far or have been on exhibition (for sale) somewhere else. this time the annual group show is looking into the future, not to the past (even it is playing with it).

the production was complicated this time driving me nuts. the photo lab has somehow lazed away the prints putting me under pressure in following the time schedule. somehow they came up again leading into mounting and framing. well, the whole process was expensive and annoying, but it led to surprisingly brilliant and good looking works. above you see ‘mediaeval landscapes’ (2014-2016) during the delivery at the museum. if they will end up on the wall they stand next to is not fix yet, we will be surprised anyway.

the show will be opened on saturday, january 30 and I guess it is going to be a great one. a first look appears teasing and multi-coloured. honestly, you should not miss this one. it is great to have natalija usakova on the show again and it is bad to have michaela best not in the show. once again, her works might have been a great addition in discipline and concept…


my video ‘duracell video after vom bruch and fibonacci’ will be shown on this large monitor. it is new in my collection and a brutal work-out in getting it from one place to the other. well, like in the current show at kunstmuseum gelsenkirchen I am not the only one showing video, jet another aspect making me curious and nervous.


over the last years I have shown a lot of pictures from the front of the museum, well, this is the back, where we deliver our works. even the building is a great experience having some good white cubes for the works.


I cannot remember if I ever had two museums shows at the same time. that phase sounds arrogant and strange, but never the less I really cannot remember. and still, i´m happy to have it, it is much work and much luck. sometimes these two work together. so do not forget to visit the show at kunstmuseum gelsenkirchen.



I know there is the danger of spoiling and showing to much making a visit of the show obsolete, but this time I am so proud and excited coming up with a number of new works so I have to share the process with you. I hope it makes you enter instead of stay away. In about a month I will know if this strategy was working…


sven piayda
# H O W D E E P I S Y O U R L O V E
galerie tellerrand, gelsenkirchen
2015-11-01 — 2016-01-31 (extended)
opening 2015-11-01, 8 pm

laudatio by michael em walter
features interview with michael em walter and sven piayda

galerie-tellerrand.de


sven piayda | videotape/spool
JAHRESSCHAU GELSENKIRCHENER
KÜNSTLERINNEN UND KÜNSTLER
kunstmuseum gelsenkirchen, gelsenkirchen
2015-12-13 — 2016-02-07
opening 2015-12-13, 11.30am

greeting by leane schäfer, director kunstmuseum gelsenkirchen
greeting by frank baranowski, major of gelsenkirchen
introduction by dr. christine vogt, director ludwiggalerie
sven piayda is expected to be present

kunstmuseum gelsenkirchen
horster straße 5-7
45897 gelsenkirchen

open tue to sun, 11am to 6pm
please note, the museum will be closed from
december 24 until january 1st.

kunstmuseum-gelsenkirchen.de


sven piayda | achetypes
JAHRESAUSSTELLUNG MÜLHEIMER KÜNSTLERINNEN UND KÜNSTLER
kunstmuseum mülheim an der ruhr
2016-01-31 — 2016-02-21
opening 2016-01-30, 6 pm

sven piayda is expected to be preset
salutation by margarete wietelmann, mayor
salutation by dr. beate reese
introduction by anja bauer m.a.

press conference 2016-01-28, 11 am
artist talk 2016-02-21, 11.30 am

synagogenplatz 1
45468 mülheim an der ruhr

tue-sun 11 am - 6 pm
free entry on wednesdays, 2 - 6 pm
tickets 4 euro (discounted 2 euro)

www.kunstmuseum-mh.de






questions? complaints?
click here

these are quite bad news to start the year´s journal. I was just checking my smart phone to check the whether forecast when I read the words that did not seem to fit together. so, this is the post-bowie-era. I feel scared.
I can tell a story about bowie like everyone, but I know, I cannot present facts you do not already know. the only thing I can do is to proof bowie´s influence on my life…
I don´t know, there is no story I can remember when I got to know bowie, he seemed to be always there. I remember the moment when I started to be deeply impressed and starting to become fan: it must have been 1997 when bowie performed ‘little wonder’ on ‘wetten dass…!?’. it appeard so unique and trend-setting. there was this old man (from my young and naïve perspective) who still appeared to be cool and somehow young and still wanting something. the song delivered pretty hard drum’n’bass sounds and that did not seem to the venue, nor to this evergreen…
bowies promise of eternal youth became true, many more great albums and a back catalogue which is enough for three lifetimes, to do and to discover. even when I did not expect something to come up anymore he surprised us with ‘the next day’ and even now with ‘blackstar’.

everyone has his own favorite decade, mine is somewhere between ‘black tie white noise’ and ‘heathen’ and i´m still discovering. but to be honest, the music was just a part of his massive impact. bowie´s style was even making me think about fashion and defined my facial hair for a long time. he discovered the internet as a place to interact, to start projects and to get close to fans everywhere. ‘bowienet v 2.0’ was my most frequented website in the early years of the new millennium. I tried to copy bowienet ending up in strange flash-based eye-candy and even when I have dropped the design, the structure and purpose of my site is still based upon the idea he developed more than 15 years ago, well, a long time in internet years.
plus, and I have reported one or two times about it, the bowieart print competition in 2000 ending up with me winning making a limited edition print signed by david bowie and myself (see picture above). believe it or not, we were collaborators. when the whole thing started I was very excited, I did not know what it could mean for a ‘career’. however, I felt taken seriously and it made me to go on, also confirming the idea that you can be a musician, a visual artist, an actor and author at the same time. you may like to read 2000-12-07 sven wins bowieart print competition!!! and 2008-12-18 bowieart print competition revisited | entry by sven.

without having it short, bowie made a big impression on me as a musician, maybe the songwriting but surely the way to sing, knowing I was never more than a lame copy.
to bring it to an end, what I have really learned from david bowie is the fact of ongoing changes, concerning myself and the world. as the world keeps spinning, you are never too old for a change, for a new direction, for a collaboration, for new love. even when this day feels strange and dark, I believe that the spirit and soul of an infinitely creative and life-loving being is unable to die.
thank you, david.
and keep it coming.


sven piayda
# H O W D E E P I S Y O U R L O V E
galerie tellerrand, gelsenkirchen
2015-11-01 — 2016-01-31 (extended)
opening 2015-11-01, 8 pm

laudatio by michael em walter
features interview with michael em walter and sven piayda

galerie-tellerrand.de


sven piayda | videotape/spool
JAHRESSCHAU GELSENKIRCHENER
KÜNSTLERINNEN UND KÜNSTLER
kunstmuseum gelsenkirchen, gelsenkirchen
2015-12-13 — 2016-02-07
opening 2015-12-13, 11.30am

greeting by leane schäfer, director kunstmuseum gelsenkirchen
greeting by frank baranowski, major of gelsenkirchen
introduction by dr. christine vogt, director ludwiggalerie
sven piayda is expected to be present

kunstmuseum gelsenkirchen
horster straße 5-7
45897 gelsenkirchen

open tue to sun, 11am to 6pm
please note, the museum will be closed from
december 24 until january 1st.

kunstmuseum-gelsenkirchen.de






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