Achim Lengerer, Pictures exemplify quite nicely the Exhibition as an Event from afar,Version Cologne

Achim Lengerer, Pictures exemplify
quite nicely the Exhibition as an
Event from afar, Version Cologne, 2009

In his live performance Achim Lengerer refers to his preceding exhibition Blows into the microphone: Is it all right? Voice off mike: It's all right. Pause… from 2006, in which he re-enacts a lecture of the American filmmaker Hollis Frampton and his famous film Nostalgia (1971) and comments on its avant-gardistic refraction of word and image. Achim Lengerer (born 1973) works with questions of language that he either thematises in his performances or spatialises within his installations. In the last years Lengerer founded different collaborative projects: labelfuerproduktion (2005) was initiated by Lengerer as a collaborative, process-oriented art project that presented performances, exhibitions and events at institutions like Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna or Kunstverein Braunschweig. He co-founded the artist-run space freitagsküche in Frankfurt a. M. in 2004 that later on moved to Berlin. The third long-term project, voiceoverhead is a collaboration with his artist colleague Dani Gal. On the basis of a huge record collection with sound documents, mainly speeches, the artists developed presentations and DJ-lectures at among others INSA Art Space, Seoul, SMART Project Space, Amsterdam and Portikus, Frankfurt am Main. Achim Lengerer has had various exhibitions and presentations at Kunstverein Braunschweig, Bonner Kunstverein, and others. Lengerer runs the travelling showroom and instant publishing house Scriptings – currently based in Amsterdam.