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Secret Maps
Shared by Tanja Geiss, Jutta Pöstges and Jan Liesegang | Traced by Vibeke Jensen
What stories do our everyday paths hold? How do the objects around us shape our experience of the world? In Secret Maps, you are invited to explore these questions through personal mapping and artistic observation. Inspired by Tanja Geiss' work, this course transforms familiar objects into biographical landscapes, where each drawing and observation uncovers hidden connections. Through intimate acts of mapping, we will reimagine our surroundings and trace the secret journeys of our lives.
Tanja Geiss is an artist based in Cologne working primarily in painting. Her works are deeply rooted in a sensory foundation of life - its movement, unpredictability, and the boundless beauty of colour and form - in a close perspective on the world without separation. Each painting is an honest view expressing both admiration and confusion about the world, revealing both its fundamental mystery and the mystery of how we see ourselves.
Jutta Pöstges is artistic director of Kunsthaus KAT 18 - an art space with studios, a project room, gallery and café in Cologne, Germany. At KAT 18 different abilities and perspectives on the world come together, creating a group portrait of diversity in art with a focus on fostering a sense of belonging and collaboration. Kat 18 promotes artistic and cultural processes with the goal of improving the living conditions of the artists in their studio community.
Jan Liesegang is a founding member of the architect-collective raumlaborberlin. They have a strong focus on the activation of public spaces in process based, participatory projects. Jan is especially interested in exploring the limits of the narrative dimensions in architecture and in strengthening the identity of urban spaces. Jan is working on the ongoing project development for an inclusive artist house and academy in collaboration with X-SÜD, a mixed-abled artist collective in Cologne. He is professor of architecture at the Bergen School of Architecture.
Vibeke Jensen is an artist and teacher at BAS who adopts a critical spatial practice investigating the poetic power and political potency of art through sensory and provocative interventions in public space. As part of DE JENZ, they presently engage in framing spaces for dialog involving local communities. These are international and domestic artworks that give form to and facilitate encounters between strangers to stimulate reflection, imagination and agency in shared spaces.
