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Copa & Sordes

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The artist duo Copa & Sordes (Birgit Krueger & Eric Schmutz Krueger) have been working together since 1995. Central topics are the interfaces between art and everyday culture.

Biography

The artist duo Copa & Sordes (Birgit Krueger & Eric Schmutz Krueger) lives and works in Basel (CH). Their coorperation began in 1995.

Studies in medicine, language, linguistics, history and art at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (A), and at the Schule für Gestaltung und Kunst, Bern (CH) were part of their education.

Central issues of their series and projects are the interfaces of art and every day culture. Copa & Sordes had gallery stays in New Caledonia, Vanuatu, Paris and Marseille.

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exhibitions (selection)

Grants und Auszeichnungen

  • 2018 Kuratorium Aargau, studio grant Paris
  • 2015 Kuratorium Aargau, studio grant Berlin
  • 2010 Kunstkredit Basel Stadt, Freies Kunstprojekt, „Helping Points“
  • 2009 iaab-studio in Marseille (F) Asterides, Christoph Merian FoundationFachausschuss Audivision Multimedia beider Basel, Göhner Foundation „Concrete and Flowers“
  • 2006 Kartause Ittingen (CH), AtelierSonderpreis Aktionskunst, Blickachse Worms (D); Performance „Newton erklärt die Zeit“Winner of the golden Cow 06, Gstaadfilm, Gstaad (CH) für „Rabenfrühstück“
  • 2005 Migros Kulturprozent, Migros Aare, Förderung für „Newton‘s Archives of Time“
  • 2004 kulturelles bl, Kunstkredit Basel-Stadt & ProHelvetia, Beiträge zur Ausstellung Stilleben, Fotogalerie Wien (A)
  • 2001 Studio of the Canton Basel Stadt, Cité des Arts, Paris (France) Film- und Videokredit beider Basel, support for „still lives alive“ video project
  • 1999 Exchange Programm iaab of the Christoph Merian Foundation in Nouméa, New CaldoniaVisiting Artists, Canberra School of Art, Australien National UniversityProHelvetia, Cooperation Project with Artist in Port Vila, Vanuatu

Exhibitions

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  • Camenisch / Vetsch (Basel/CH)
  • Christoph Dahlhausen (Bonn/DE + Melbourne/AUS)
  • Copa & Sordes (Basel/CH)
  • Karel Doing (London/UK)
  • Adam Knight (London/UK)
  • Marianne Halter (Zurich/CH)
  • Monika Rechsteiner (Basel/CH + Berlin/GER)

Kollateral | Collateral

08.12.2011 – 19.01.2012

The video programme “Kollateral/Collateral” attempts to illuminate the unkle time: with the light of the projected videos and as an invitation to open the view for the collateral – the simultaneous, neighbouring and often overlooked.

Past
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  • Camenisch / Vetsch (Basel/CH)
  • Celina Jure (Buenos Aires/ARG)
  • Christoph Bucher (Dusseldorf/CH)
  • Christoph Dahlhausen (Bonn/DE + Melbourne/AUS)
  • Copa & Sordes (Basel/CH)
  • Doris Schmid (Berlin/GER)
  • Dorothee von Rechenberg (Basel/CH)
  • Eric Cruikshank (Edinburgh/UK)
  • Felix Baudenbacher (London/UK)
  • Ingrid Roscheck (Cologne/DE)
  • Katarzyna Badach (Berlin/GER + Havanna/CUB)
  • Magdalena Gerber (Geneva/CH)
  • Maria Magdalena Z`Graggen (Basel/CH)
  • Marianne Eigenheer (Basel/CH + London/UK)
  • Marianne Halter (Zurich/CH)
  • Monika Rechsteiner (Basel/CH + Berlin/GER)
  • Petra Egg (Vienna/AT)
  • Rainer Barzen (Cologne / GER)
  • Selma Weber (Basel/CH)
  • Sibylle Feucht (Bonn/GER)
  • stöckerselig (Basel/CH)

DAS ESSZIMMER goes Weltraum – during Art Basel 2017

14.06.2017 – 16.06.2017

The second collaboration between the Weltraum (Basel/CH) and the ESSZIMMER during the ART Basel.

Past
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  • Copa & Sordes (Basel/CH)

Human Conditions

23.08.2012 – 27.09.2012

Copa & Sordes (Basel/CH) want to permeate art and everyday life in such a way that they point beyond their pure functionality of human existence.

Past
  • goes
  • Adam Knight (London/UK)
  • Alfredo Ramoz Fernandez (Berlin/GER + Havanna/CUB)
  • Anne Hody (Basel/CH)
  • Camenisch / Vetsch (Basel/CH)
  • Christine de la Garenne (Berlin/GER)
  • Christoph Bucher (Dusseldorf/CH)
  • Christoph Dahlhausen (Bonn/DE + Melbourne/AUS)
  • Copa & Sordes (Basel/CH)
  • Doris Schmid (Berlin/GER)
  • Dorothee von Rechenberg (Basel/CH)
  • Eric Cruikshank (Edinburgh/UK)
  • Felix Baudenbacher (London/UK)
  • Ingrid Roscheck (Cologne/DE)
  • Katarzyna Badach (Berlin/GER + Havanna/CUB)
  • Magdalena Gerber (Geneva/CH)
  • Maria Magdalena Z`Graggen (Basel/CH)
  • Marianne Eigenheer (Basel/CH + London/UK)
  • Marianne Halter (Zurich/CH)
  • Monika Rechsteiner (Basel/CH + Berlin/GER)
  • Petra Egg (Vienna/AT)
  • Rainer Barzen (Cologne / GER)
  • Selma Weber (Basel/CH)
  • Sibylle Feucht (Bonn/GER)
  • stöckerselig (Basel/CH)
  • Celina Jure (Buenos Aires/ARG)

DAS ESSZIMMER goes Weltraum – during Art Basel 2016

15.06.2016 – 17.06.2016

Gesamtkunstwerk of 49 artist’s opens up the discussion on authorship and genius.