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Johann Arens works with installation and video to survey how shared infrastructures impact our communal life and shape civil behaviour. These site-related installations take place in facets of the public domain; at community centres, schools, hospitals, digital learning centres, internet cafes, local markets as well as art spaces and are tailored to be platforms to celebrate and mushroom forms of communality.
He has realised public art commissions with
Arnolfini Bristol, Bold Tendencies London, Kettle’s Yard Cambridge, Jerwood Space London and
UCL Culture, and works since 2020 with researcher Dr. Hanna Baumann on the long-term project
Another Provision.
His work has recently been shown at
Manifesta13 Marseille; Pump House Gallery London; IMMA Irish Museum of Modern Art Dublin; P/////AKT Amsterdam, IFFR Rotterdam and
Neuer Aachener Kunstverein.
Johann has been visiting lecturer at various art schools, amongst others at the
Royal College of Art London; Goldsmiths University of London; EKA Estonian Academy for the Arts; UDEM University of Monterrey Mexico; Manchester School of Art; AHK Amsterdam University of the Arts; ArtEZ University of the Arts Zwolle and
University of Liverpool.