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Achim Mohné

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After my studies at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen, I completed my postgraduate studies in 1997 in the class of Jürgen Klauke and Valie Export at the KHM Cologne. This was followed by guest professorships at the Kunstakademie Münster, Folkwang University of the Arts Essen, Indiana University, Bloomington, among others. In 2007, I founded REMOTEWORDS with Uta Kopp. From 2013 to WS 2019/2020 I taught photography and new media at the ETH Zurich, where my last position was head of 3D research. In my photo-based works I deal - in the context of a socio-critical discourse - with the function of images that can be understood as a link between social, interdisciplinary and intermedial actions.

Statement

In my work, terms such as apparatus, interface and intermediality, the post-photographic and the virtual play a major role. Through media projects and performances, such as " Remotewords " or the series "Seen_through_the_Eyes_of_Google_Earth ", I draw on the new digital media and communication technologies and try to rethink perception and redefine consciousness. ’Digital immateriality and virtual physicality' - these are topics that challenge and fascinate me as an artist. Since my studies at the Folkwang University of the Arts Essen, at the KHM Cologne, or during my research work at the ETH Zurich in the field of 3D modelling/3D printing, I have been influenced by Vilém Flusser, or Isamu Noguchi, among others.

Education

  • 1997 | Diploma at KHM Academy of Media Arts, Cologne (DE)
  • 1995-1997 | Postgraduate Studies in the class of Jürgen Klauke and Valie Export, KHM Academy of Media Arts, Cologne (DE)
  • 1994 | Diploma at Communication Design, Folkwang Universität der Künste, Essen (DE)
  • 1986-1988 | Study of Communication Design, Folkwang Universität der Künste, Essen (DE)

Institution (Work Experience)

  • 2013-19/20 | Lecturer at ETH Zurich (CH)
  • 2018-19/20 | Head of 3D Research „3D-Modeling/3D- Printing“, ETH Zurich (CH)
  • 2013, 2006, 2003 | Lectureship at Kunstakademie Münster (DE)
  • 2011 | Lectureship at Folkwang Universität der Künste, Essen (DE)
  • 2007 | Visiting professorship at Indiana University, Bloomington (US)
  • 2004 | Appointment to the ‚German Photographic Academy’ (DE)
  • 2003 | Founding of REMOTEWORDS with Uta Kopp (DE)
  • 1998 | Founding of the artist group AUTOPSI (DE)
  • 1997 | Lecturer in the Department of New Media and Photography at SK Stiftung Kultur, Cologne (DE)
  • 1990-94 | Photo essays and contract works for Frankfurter Allgemeine, Adventure and Travel, Globo, amongst others (DE)

Selected Awards

  • 2009 | Artist in Residence at jozi art:lab, Johannesburg (ZA)
  • 2005 | Artist in Residence at The Center for Land Use Interpretation, Los Angeles, CA (US)
  • 2004 | Artist in Residence at the Centre for Contemporary Art FUTURA and Goethe Institute, Prague (CZ)
  • 2002 | Working scholarship of the Kunststiftung NRW (DE)
  • 2001 | Nominee Medienkunstpreis ZKM Zentrum für Kunst und Medien, Karlsruhe (DE)
  • 2000 | Villa Aurora Scholarship, Pacific Palisades, CA (US)
  • 1999 | Chargesheimer Scholarship, Cologne (DE)
  • 1998 | Video Art Award, Bremen (DE)
  • 1997 | Hermann Claasen Award DE)

Selected Exhibitions/Publications

  • Ausstellungen / Exhibitions:
  • 2019 | The Wrong Biennale, NRW Forum, Düsseldorf (DE)
  • 2019 | Shenzhen Pingshan Sculpture Exhibition, Shenzhen (CN) - as Remotewords
  • 2018 | Galerie Judith Andreae, Bonn (DE)
  • 2017 | Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn (DE) ;
  • 2017 | Historic Prison, Wittenberg (DE)
  • 2017 | CENART, MExico City (MX) - as Remotewords
  • 2015, 2012, 2002 | ZKM, Karlsruhe (DE) - 2015 as Remotewords
  • 2015 | Haus für elektronische Künste Basel (CH) - as Remotewords
  • 2015 | Akademie der Künste, Berlin (DE)
  • 2010 | jozi art:lab, Johannesburg (ZA)
  • 2010 | Neues Kunstforum, Cologne (DE)
  • 2010 | Museum Folkwang, Essen (DE)
  • 2005 | The Center For Land Use Interpretation, Los Angeles (US)
  • 2001 | Ludwig Forum für internationale Kunst, Aachen (DE)
  • 2000 | Edith Russ Haus für Medienkunst, Oldenburg (DE)
  • 2000 | Museum Ludwig, Cologne (DE)
  • 1999 | Gesellschaft für aktuelle Kunst, Bremen (DE)
  • 1999 | Arlington Art Center, Washington (US)
  • 1998 | Trinitatis Kirche, Cologne (DE)
  • Publikationen / Publications:
  • 2020 | DI-GI-TA-LIS. A Plant Scan Project by Achim Mohné, Hatje Cantz (DE)
  • 2019 | Vodou/Rara, 10’’ vinyl, The Tapeworm London (UK)
  • 2018 | Orbitale Irritationen, Herbert von Halem (DE)
  • 2018 | Sketches for Violin & Vinyl, CD Evil Rabbit Records (DE)
  • 2018 | THE_VEGAN_SCANNING_PRINTING_COOKING_PROJECT, Essentials#12, Galerie Judith Andreae, Bonn (DE)
  • 2011 | Achim Mohné / Uta Kopp - REMOTEWORDS, Fuhrwerkswaage, Cologne (DE)
  • 2007 | Achim Mohné, Lasergraphs, Tim Otto Roth (DE)
  • 2003 | Achim Mohné, Denzel+Huhn, Live@Off Broadway, Galerie Schmidt Maczollek (DE)
  • 2001 | Achim Mohné, Fireflies, Kunstsalon Cologne (DE)
  • 2001 | Achim Mohné, Panopticon, Forum Ludwig, Aachen (DE);
  • 2001 | Achim Mohné, Wer das liest, ist doof!, Kunstsalon Cologne (DE)
  • 2000 | Achim Mohné, One to another, Vinyl 12’’, Edition Autopsi (DE)
  • 2000 | Achim Mohné, Aufzeichnung im Kellerloch, Audio CD, Edition Autopsi (ED)
  • 1998 | Achim Mohné, Arbeiten 1996/98, KHM Cologne (DE)
  • 1997 | Achim Mohné, Herman Feldhaus, Cinecorpse, CD, Edition Autopsi (ED)

Personal Website

https://www.achimmohné.net

Works

Achim Mohné | 3D-GOOGLE-EARTH-MODELS (2018 – ongoing)

Achim Mohné | 3D-GOOGLE-EARTH-MODELS (2018 – ongoing)

“[...] Bizarre aesthetics and digital abstraction resulting from the recording and translation of the Earth's surface by satellites and drones attracted Achim Mohné in a new series of print sculptures. The first 3D-Google-Earth Model #1 (2018) was exhibited at the Fuhrwerkswaage in Cologne in December 2018. Since then, the German artist has continually worked on the new 3D series in which he is investigating the 3D display methods of virtual globes, which "aesthetically prepare" users for future media such as VR or AR and mixed realities.“ Prof. Dr. Pamela C. Scorzin, “Orbital Art in the Age of Internet and Space Flight: From Terrestrial to Orbital Perspectives - with a particular focus on German artist Achim Mohné“, in: Art Style | Art & Culture International Magazine, vol 5, issue 5, March 2020, pp. 25 - 49.

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Achim Mohné | 3D-GOOGLE-EARTH-MODELS (2018 – ongoing)
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Achim Mohné | THE_VEGAN_SCANNING (2018 – ongoing)

Achim Mohné | THE_VEGAN_SCANNING (2018 – ongoing)

"For me, experiments with the medium of photography arise in syntactical experiments at the intersections of device, interface, software, action, and intermedia, not in picture series hung in museums. Questioning and juxtaposing different analogue and digital media is just as important as investigating the instruments and the processes of distribution. I conducted this sort of “media performance” with scanners for the first time in the year 2000. The issue then was overfishing, which people were gradually becoming more aware of and that is today a major problem. I wanted to show the beauty of fish, crabs and crustaceans. (...) Here, too, cooking and eating together in the form of a ceremony was at the fore. The purpose is not primarily to produce pictures. Instead, it is about pictures functioning as links between social, interdisciplinary, intermedia actions. The attempt to counter ecological offenses is not meant as a moral pointing finger, but rather to show that there are alternatives—in this case even very tasty ones." Achim Mohné, “THE_VEGAN_SCANNING_PRINTING_COOKING_PROJECT“, in: Essentials#12, Galerie Judith Andreae, Bonn 2018.

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Achim Mohné | THE_VEGAN_SCANNING (2018 – ongoing)
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Achim Mohné | 0,000627 MEGAPIXEL – CITIZEN TO BE SEEN FROM MARS (2017)

Achim Mohné | 0,000627 MEGAPIXEL – CITIZEN TO BE SEEN FROM MARS (2017)

The "fast" medium of letterpress printing in his time made the Reformation possible for Luther; Edward Snowden's worldwide revelations beat the digital technology, which was leading in his "present", with its own weapons. Both "whistleblowers" had the goal of exposing systemic injustices. Lucas Cranach's portrait of Luther is an icon of the Reformation; Snowden's globally circulating portrait stands for the personified resistance against digital surveillance methods. Paradoxically, the portrait of Edward Snowden, which consists of 672 paving stones and measures 12 x 14 meters, is not recognizable on the ground, but only becomes visible through a form of surveillance medium: As soon as the image is captured by satellites, it appears on Google Earth, Apple Maps and other navigation systems.

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Achim Mohné | 0,000627 MEGAPIXEL – CITIZEN TO BE SEEN FROM MARS (2017)
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2017
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Achim Mohné

Achim Mohné | ALETSCH_DRAG&DROP drag 46°31'53.1"N 7°59'19.7"E, 15.10.17, 09:20 UCT drop 47°25‘02.88“N 8°33‘38.09“E (2018)

Achim Mohné | ALETSCH_DRAG&DROP drag 46°31'53.1"N 7°59'19.7"E, 15.10.17, 09:20 UCT drop 47°25‘02.88“N 8°33‘38.09“E (2018)

“For New North Zurich, Achim Mohné has thematised climate problems. On the roof of the main Swiss Radio and Television (SRF) building, where weather forecast announcers present the weather at close quarters on a daily basis, he causes a piece of the Aletsch Glacier, the biggest glacier in the Alps and a warning symbol of melting ice, to appear in the form of a 1:1 scale aerial photograph (taken during a balloon flight). Printed on PVC film, it converts this gravel-covered, bitumen-sealed flat roof in North Zurich into a white-coloured statement against climate change. A white roof absorbs about 80 % less light than a dark roof and functions as an effective weapon against the ongoing global warming.” „Achim Mohné ALETSCH_DRAG&DROP. Google Earth: Das Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen, SRF“ in: Neuer Norden Zürich, 2018

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gndOudrAhKQ
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Achim Mohné | ALETSCH_DRAG&DROP drag 46°31'53.1"N 7°59'19.7"E, 15.10.17, 09:20 UCT drop 47°25‘02.88“N 8°33‘38.09“E (2018)
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2018
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gndOudrAhKQ