Lysann König


*Zwickau (DE), lives and works in Basel (CH)

 

Since 2021 Head of KASKO, Projektraum für aktuelle Kunst, Performance Und Vermittlung in Basel (CH), www.kasko.ch
2019 – 2021 MFA, Art Gender Nature, HGK FHNW, Basel (CH)
Since 2015 Part of the coordination team of ∑ - Summe, the network platform for independent, non-commercial art spaces in Basel, with Yolanda E. Natsch, Chris Regn, Ana Vujic, Till Lamgschied, Laurie Mlodzik, Thomas Heimann, & Ieva Zuklyte, www.summe.xyz
2012 – 2019 Part of the Künstler-Kuratoren-Kollektivs Dr. Kuckucks Labrador, Basel, Festivals, exhibitions, performance events & projects in public space, with Chris Hunter, Sara Grüter, Yolanda E. Natsch, Natascha Nüesch, Raphael Stucky & Silvia Studerus(2012-2014),  www.drkuckuckslabrador.ch
2012 – 2014 Audio Bustour, kuratierte Bustour an der Regionale, mit Olivar Garcia & Yolanda Natsch, eingeladen von Felizitas Diering
2009 – 2012 BA Fine Arts, Art Gender Nature, HGK FHNW, Basel

 

EXHIBITIONS (SOLO & GROUP SHOWS), SCREENINGS & COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS

2023 — SUPERMARKET - Stockholm Independet Art Fair, invited and curated by DAS ESSZIMMER, Stockholm (SE)

2023 approach 1.0, curated by stöckerseelig, weltraum, Basel (CH)
2022 — The fridge show, curated by PALAZZINA, PALAZZINA, Allschwil (CH)
2022 — Sitting in front of the Miror, curated by Émilie d’Ornano, Accélérateur de particules, Strassburg (FR)
2022
— We are so many here, curated by  Rut Himmelsbach, Cécile Hummel, Sophie Jung, Edit Oderbolz, Hannah Weinberger & Johannes Willi., Kunsthalle Basel (CH)
2022 — Mit Haut und Haar - Körperkunst jetzt, curated by Lena Friedli, Forum Schlossplatz, Aarau (CH)

2022 — Put on Your Red Shoes (and Dance the Blues)!, curated by Claudia Waldner, Dorothee Messmer und Katja Herlach , Kunstmuseum Olten (CH)
2022 — Entrepreneurship – oder die Verheissung des brotlosen Glücks, curated by Fabio Luks, Kunst Raum Riehen (CH)
2022 — BECOMING LYSANN, solo show, invited by Thomas Heimann, Ausstellungsraum Klingental, Basel (CH)
2021  — Worlds Rainbow, curated by Chus Martinez & Claire Hoffmann, Kunsthaus Baselland (CH)
2021  — Transit, curated by Ana Vujic, Voltage, Basel (CH)
­2021  — 100 +100 ≠ 400 Ouverture, Regionale 21, curated by Gerda Maise, FABRIKculture, Hegenheim (FR)
2021  — AMORE EMERGENCY, curated by Osama Alrayyan, Samuel Grand & Marilola Wili, AMORE, Basel (CH)

2020 — ÄRT, curated by Laurie Mlodzik, Jacob Ott & Eveline Wüthrich, Appartment of Laurie Mlodzik, Basel (CH)
2020 — Blumen kommt raus, trefft euch in Basel, collaborative group show, curated by Chris Regn, Kaskadenkondensator, Basel (CH)
2020 — try yu zu uit, 53 Stunden Prozess challenged by Juice Rispetta, PilzWelleLust, Basel (CH)
2020 — Film um 4, Screening, invited by von Simon Krebs, RANK, Basel (CH)
2020 — Mind the Gap, curated by Simone Flüeler & Eveline Schüpp, DOCK Archiv- & Kunstraum, Basel (CH)

2019  — I AND THE MACHINE, Regionale 20, curated by Heidi Brunnschweiler, EWERK, Freiburg (DE)
2019  — Blumen am Rand eines alten Kraters, collaborative group show, curated by Chris Regn, Atelier Mondial Berlin (DE)

2018  — Survival of an Artist, Screening, invited by Nina Ivanović, U10 Art Space, Belgrade (SRB)
2018  — Blumen im Haus eines spanischen Psychiaters, collaborative group show, curated by Chris Regn, Amerbachstudios, Basel (CH)
2018  — PANCH - Performance Photography, curated by PANCH – Performance Art Network CH, Special Guest at LISTE Art Fair, Basel (CH)
2018  — play.song.lines, curated by Matthias Aeberli & Chris Regn, Projektraum M54, Basel (CH)
2018  — BIKINI Collection Pop-up Store, curated by Lea Rüegg & Cyrill Hübscher, BIKINI Space, Basel (CH)
2018  — Texte aus dem Dunstkreis: nun gehört!, Reading, invited by Muda Mathis & Chris Regn, Amerbachstudios, Basel (CH)

2017  — Blumen im Haus ersparen den Psychiater, collaborative group show, curated by Chris Regn, Westwerk, Hamburg (DE)
2017  — SWIMMING IN LOVE, collaborative Project initiated by Julia Minnig, artachment, Basel (CH)

2016  — Dr. Kuckucks Labrador, curated by Lidija Delić & Nina Ivanović, U10 Art Space, Belgrade (SRB)
2016  — LISTE TOTAL, curated by Dr. Kuckucks Labrador, Special Guest at LISTE 21, Basel (CH)
2016  — Dem Leben zuhören, wie es spricht..., curated by Clement Stähli, FABRIKculture, Hégenheim (FR)

2015  — videoförmig, invited by Chris Regn zum ∑ SUMME Festival, Villa Renata, Basel (CH)

2014  — to do, solo show, invited by Jasmin Glaab, kunsthallekleinbasel, Basel (CH)
2014  — Die Jäger der Artemis, with Lena Lengsfeld, curated by Yvonne Michel Conrad, Kabinett der Visionäre, Chur (CH)
2014  — Burst Sculpture, curated by Claire Reinau-Zumstein, ZIP, Basel (CH)

2013  — Territoriale und erzählerische Expeditionen, Regionale 14, curated by Samuel Dangel, Kunstverein L6, Freiburg (DE)

2012  — Hommage a Tarkovskij 2012, curated by Reinhard Manz & Nadine Reinert, Philosophicum at Ackermannshof, Basel (CH)

 

PERFORMANCES (SELECTION)
2023 —Künstler*innen-Ball, invited by  Rut Himmelsbach, Cécile Hummel, Sophie Jung, Edit Oderbolz, Hannah Weinberger & Johannes Willi., Kunsthalle Basel (CH)

2022 — BANG BANG – Soziale Eleganz, with Martina Gmür, Chris Hunter, Lena Lengsfeld, Claudius Skorski, Ste Thierstein, curated by PANCH, Museum Tinguely, Basel (CH)
2022 — Entrepreneurship, with Simon Sauerkraut, invited by Fabio Luks, Kunst Raum Riehen (CH)

2020 — How deep is your love, invited by Alexandra Meyer, Kunstkästen, Schaffhausen (CH)
2020 — Must or Not – focus performance & photography, invited by Andrea Saemann, Kaskadenkondensator, Basel (CH)
2020 — Online PUDEL-Rudel, online performance event, curated with Chris Regn, Realisation: Tabea Lurk & Jürgen Enge, HGK | FHNW Basel (CH)

2019  — Freundschafftsabend, with Sinon Sauerkraut, invited by Les Reines Prochaines, HUMBUG, Basel (CH)
2019  — Woman on earth, Master symposium, invited by Chus Martinez, Art Institut, HGK FHNW, Basel (CH)
2019  — 10 Jahre DOCK, with Chris Hunter, Meta Hammel, Simon, Sauerkraut, Patrick Salz, Arbera Murati & Linus Weber, invited by Ingvild Jervidalo, DOCK, Basel (CH)
2019  — International Performance Art Giswil – Full Moon Edition, with Meta Hammel, Simon Sauerkraut & Linus Weber, invited by Andrea Saemann, Giswil (CH)
2019  — Swiss Performance Art Award, with the Manifesto Reflex Collective, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau (CH)
2019  — Late Night Varieté, with Patrick Savolainen, invited by Simone Lappert, Lyrikfestival, Kaskadenkondensator, Basel (CH)

2018 — New Swiss Performance Now, with OPPRESSED BY PRIVILEGE / PRIVILEGED BY OPPRESSION, invited by Elena Filipovic & Renate Wagner, Kunsthalle Basel (CH)

2017 — OPPRESSED BY PRIVILEGE / PRIVILEGED BY OPPRESSION,  Collaborative performance event, Ausstellungsraum Klingental, Basel (CH)

2016 — kunsthallekleinbasel Performance, with Olivar Garcia, invited by Jasmin Glaab, Cabaret Voltaire, Zürich (CH)
2016 — SPACE – Projekträume zu Gast, with Könige Kleiner Länder, invited by Ariane Koch, Schwarzwaldalle, Basel (CH)
2016 — ART‘S BIRTHDAY, invited by Nicoletta Torcelli, E-Werk, Freiburg (DE)

2015 — Balta Nakts, invited by Janīna Gutermann, Zunda Dars, Riga (LV)

2014 — Das Ohr an der Tür, with Raphael Stucky, invited by Raphael Stucky, Ausstellungsraum Klingental, Basel (CH)
2014 — …till it seemed only the feet could see, invited by Angelo Cerullo & Gorgio Bloch, Kaskadenkondensator, Basel (CH)

2013  — Favela unlimited, Loose activist group, initiated by Dominik Wullimann, Public space in front of Art Basel (CH)

2012  — Hidden/Obvious, Regionale 13, with Yolanda E. Natsch, curated by Sabine Himmelsbach, HeK, Basel (CH)


AWARDS & RESIDENCIES
2022   — Werkbeitrag, Kunstkredit Basel-Stadt

2022   — Atelier Mondial, Residency in Genoa (IT)
2019   — Audience award, Swiss Performance Art Award with the Manifesto Reflex Collective


BIBLIOGRAPHY
2018   — U10 Exhibition catalogue 2017–2018, published by U10 Art Space, Belgrade (SRB)
2016­   — Art Guide Basel, published by My Art Guides
2016   — Anarchie! Fakten und Fiktionen, published by Annette Amberg & Philip Sippel, Strauhof Zürich (CH)
2015   — LASSO MAGAZIN N°7 cosmic (ed.), published by Alain Gloor, Ariane Koch, Dominik Denzler & Samira LIebendörfer
2014   — kunsthallekleinbasel 1, Exhibition catalogue 2014 (ed.), published by Amsel Verlag
2013   — LASSO MAGAZIN N°5 Blackout (ed.), published by Alain Gloor, Ariane Koch, Dominik Denzler & Samira LIebendörfer
2013   — LASSO MAGAZIN N°4 Nackt und Nebel (ed.), published by Alain Gloor, Ariane Koch, Dominik Denzler & Samira LIebendörfer

PUBLICATIONS AS AUTHOR
2022   — Mit Haut und Haar. Körperkunst jetzt., published by Lena Friedli & Theres Inauen for Forum Schlosspaltz

2018   — Share – Medientechnologie und Kulturvermittlung, with who writes his_tory?, published by Sabine Himmelsbach & Shusha Niederberger, Christoph Merian Verlag
2018   — Oppressed by Privelege / Priveleged by Oppresion, mit Oppressed by Privelege / Priveleged by Oppresion Vinyl (ed.), published by A Tree in a Field Records
2016   — Every Contact Leaves A Trace, BA & MA  Ausstellungskatalog, published by Insitut Kunst, HGK FHNW
2013   — Könige Kleiner Länder – Flacher Mann mit Hund, with Simon Egger & Raphael Stucky, published by Könige Kleiner Länder
2012   — Jäger von Zoest, with Yolanda E. Natsch, self-published


CURATORIAL ACTIVITIES & EVENTS (SELECTION)
2022  —MENTAL DOOR: Performance X Sound, co-curated with Steven Schoch, Yolanda E. Natsch & Almut Dhraif, KASKO Basel

2021  — Quickie of Fame: Lotte Rose Kjær Skau, co-curated with Martina Böttiger and Yolanda E. Natsch, KASKO, Basel
2021  — ∑ SUMME, online opening with Artina and 3 days on air at Radiox.ch with the independent art spaces of Basel, organised by the ∑ SUMME team, Radio X and the Mediathek HGK FHNW, Basel
2020  — Online Pudel-Rudel, online performance event, co-curated with Chris Regn, Realisation: Tabea Lurk & Jürgen Enge, Mediathek, HGK,FHNW
2019  — Depo Istanbul, art space from Istanbul, organised by Dr. Kuckucks Labrador, Special Guest at Liste Art Fair, Basel
2019  — #datatrap, group show, co-curated with Dr. Kuckucks Labrador, Kaskadenkondensator, Basel
2019  — 5 Jahre ∑ SUMME, organised by ∑ SUMME Team & Dr. Kuckucks Labrador, HUMBUG & at the independent art spaces in Basel
2018  — ∑ SUMME-Stammtisch, network project of the independent art spaces of Basel, organised by Dr. Kuckucks Labrador, Restaurant Alter Zoll, Basel
2018  — ∑ SUMME, Exhibition & network project of the independent art spaces of Basel, organised by Dr. Kuckucks Labrador, Basel
2017  — Video-∑ SUMME, Exhibition & network project of the independent art spaces of Basel, organised by Dr. Kuckucks Labrador, Basel
2017  — Kuckucks-Nest, Residency program initiated with Dr. Kuckucks Labrador in cooperation with Amerbachstudios, Basel
2017  — Kunst im Ring, Performance night, co-curated with Dr. Kuckucks Labrador, Boxclub, Basel

2016  — ∑ SUMME, Exhibition & network project of the independent art spaces of Basel, organised by Dr. Kuckucks Labrador, Basel
2016  — Every Contact Leaves A Trace, BA & MA  exhibition of the Art Insitute, HGK FHNW, co-curated with Chus Martinez, Kaskadenkondensator & Kunsthalle Basel,
2016  — LISTE TOTAL, Exhibition with 180 local artists, co-curated with Dr. Kuckucks Labrador, Special Guest at Liste Art Fair, Basel
2016  — Kunst in dr Bäiz, Performance night, co-curated with Dr. Kuckucks Labrador, Sääli zum goldenen Fass, Basel
2016  — Rauschbereit, Performance von Lara Stanic, organised by Dr. Kuckucks Labrador, Kaskadenkondensator, Basel
2015  — ∑ SUMME, Exhibition & network project of the independent art spaces of Basel, organised by Dr. Kuckucks Labrador, Villa Renata, Basel
2015  — U10, U10 Art Space von Belgrade an der Liste, organised by Dr. Kuckucks Labrador, Special Guest at Liste Art Fair, Basel
2015  — ATOPIE II, Interventions in public space, organised by Dr. Kuckucks Labrador, Basel
2014  — Audio Bustour, 2 hours of audio work, co-curated with Olivar Garcia, invited by Felizitas Diering, Regionale Bustour Basel–Freiburg
2014  — ATOPIE I - ein Experiment, Exhibition, workshops, concerts and events, organised by Dr. Kuckucks Labrador, Basel
2013  — Audio Bustour, 2 hours of audio work, co-curated with Olivar Garcia, invited by Felizitas Diering, Regionale bus tour Basel–Freiburg
2013  — Behind the Movement, Performance-Event, organized with Dr. Kuckucks Labrador, Theater Roxy, Birsfelden
2013  — Kunst und Maschinen - Kunstmaschinen, group show, co-curated with Dr. Kuckucks Labrador, Kaskadenkondensator, Basel
2012  — Final Exhibition, mit Heath Bunting & Wai Wai, co-curated with Dr. Kuckucks Labrador, Kaskadenkondensator, Basel
2012  — Audio Bustour, 2 hours of audio work, co-curated with Yolanda Natsch, invited by Felizitas Diering, Regionale bus tour Basel–Freiburg

 

ARTIST TALKS, SYMPOSIA & CONFERENCES
2020 — Florieren statt stagnieren, invited by Irene Maag, online panel discussion about livelihood concerns & diversity in the visual arts, Realisation: Mediathek HGK FHNW, Tabea Lurk & Jürgen Enge
2018  — Artist Talk, invited by U10 Art Space, U10 Art Space, Belgrade (SRB)
2017  — Konferenz – Digitale Kulturvermittlung, mit with who writes his_tory?, invited by Shusha Niederberger, HeK, Basel (CH)
2017  — Is technology sexist?, Symposium, mit who writes his_tory?, invited by Chus Martinez, Institut Kunst, HGK, FHNW, Basel (CH)
2016  — Art Taaalksss, invited by Reinhard Storz, Institut Kunst, HGK FHNW, Basel (CH)
2016  — Visarte Tribunal, mit Almut Rembges, invited by Matthias Aeberli, Visarte Basel, Projeltraum M54, Basel (CH)
2015  — Sorgenkinder, invited by Chris Regn, Kaskadenkondensator, Basel (CH)
2014  — Favela Unlimited. – Von Kunst, Eseln und Machtmissbrauch, Loose activist group, invited by Klaus Schönberger, ZHdK, Zürich (CH)
2014  — Small Symposium OCCUPY, with Dr. Kuckucks Labrador, invited by Chus Martinez, Institut Kunst, HGK, FHNW, Basel (CH)


OTHER PROJECTS

Since 2019    Terror Tanga, music project with Simon Sauerkraut, Terror Tanga YouTube Channel
2016 – 2019    Part of the Wikipedia editing collective who writes his_tory?, with Nicole Boillat, Daniela Brugger & Chris Regn, www.whowriteshistory.me
2011 – 2017    Könige Kleiner Länder, music project with Simon Egger, Olivar Garcia & Raphael Stucky, Könige Kleiner Länder on Bandcamp

 

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