Cloudpaths - Drawing and Space

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This workshop invites participants to explore the medium of drawing to its boundaries. It encourages you to use drawing as a starting point to discover urban voids and transform them into projection surfaces for new mental and drawn visions.

Paths and roads are like drawn lines. Voids and interspaces invite us to develop new narratives and to imagine utopias - whether in the physical space of the city or in the imagination.

In Ersilia, to establish the relationships that sustain the city’s life, the inhabitants stretch strings from the corners of the houses, white or black or gray or black-and-white according to whether they mark a relationdhip of blood, of trade, authority, agency. When the strings become so numerous that you can no longer pass among them, the inhabitants leave: the houses are dismantled; only the strings and their supports remain. (Italo Calvino (1972) Invisible Cities)

The workshop would like to encourage you to discover the graphical qualities of urban space in all its diversity and to think about unusual materials and approaches. We will move through the urban space together, capturing movement and traces, crossing borders and reflecting on connections between inside and outside, fiction and reality. In an introductory event, we approach the questions of utopian world concepts, especially in the field of drawing. We will discuss what we understand by urban interstices, what possibilities they offer and how we can explore and redefine them artistically. We will also discuss our approach for the week, during which we will draw both in urban space and at the university. The focus of the workshop is on practical work, which will be accompanied by critical discourse. Studiovisits and/or exhibitions will be integrated to deepen our experiences.

Knowledge requirements
The course is suitable for people with an artistic background in the fields of fine art, architecture, design, visual communication or dance and for people who are generally interested in experimenting with different approaches to drawing.

Pauline Kraneis is a Berlin-based artist, born in London and raised in Stuttgart. Since her studies at the Berlin University of the Arts and Glasgow School of Art, drawing has been at the centre of her artistic practice. It is the starting point for observations, reflections, and questioning of space. The tension between line and space, two- and three-dimensionality, and the interplay between abstract concepts and lived experience are key themes in her work. This has led her to expand drawing beyond the paper, integrating it into physical space. Among other awards, Pauline Kraneis held scholarships from the Berlin Senate and Stiftung Kunstfonds, received The GASAG promotion award, and was a guest at various residency programs such as Künstlerstätte Schloss Bleckede and CPH AIR Copenhagen. Pauline Kraneis’ work has been shown e.a. at Kupferstichkabinett (Berlin), Kunstmuseum Bonn, Kunsthalle Gießen, Kunstverein am Rosa Luxemburg Platz (Berlin), Bonner Kunstverein, Kasseler Kunstverein, Heidelberger Kunstverein, Institute of Contemporary Arts/ ICA (London), Lodeveans Collection London, Arter (Istanbul), MALG (Pelotas, Brasil), Museo de Arte del Banco de la República (Bogota, Columbia), Adam Art Gallery Te Pataka Toi (Wellington, NewZealand), Galerie M+R Fricke (Berlin/Düsseldorf). Since 2008 she has been teaching Drawing at Universität der Künste Berlin, Brandenburg Technische Universität Cottbus, Universität Kassel, Kunstakademie Stuttgart, Art Academy Nanjing, China.
www.paulinekraneis.de