WochenKlausur

The artist group WochenKlausur has been conducting social interventions since 1993, focusing on concrete, small-scale solutions to sociopolitical issues. Unlike the broad use of the term “intervention” in art today, WochenKlausur’s projects are developed through invitations from art institutions to address specific deficits.

Inspired by twentieth-century artists who shaped society, they view art as a tool for improving human coexistence. Creative problem-solving, traditionally used in shaping materials, is applied to areas like ecology, education, and city planning.

WochenKlausur believes that artistic projects can address problems conventional approaches cannot, provided the task is clearly defined and articulated. Interventionist art is only effective when the problem is precisely identified.

City

Bern

Country

Switzerland

Region

Europe

Year of Creation

1992

Featured Project

Women-led Workers´ Cooperative
Invited to do a project within the frame of the ECONOMY exhibition WochenKlausur decided to help a group of unemployed women to start their own business in Drumchapel, an area of high deprivation in Glasgow.
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Resources

Hawley, E. S. (2015). Art, activism, and democracy: Wochenklausur’s social interventions. Peace & Change, 40(1), 83-109.

Davis, H. (2011). Art that loves people: relational subjectivity in community-based art (Doctoral dissertation, Concordia University).

Hoyer, D. (2016). The Retopian Approach to Art. Revista de estudios globales y arte contemporaneo, 4(1), 123-149.

Meschini, E. R. (2021). Fixing a (Legal) Loophole. How a Group of Artists Used the Venice Biennale to Improve the School System During the Balkans War. OBOE JOURNAL, 2(1).

More Information

https://www.wochenklausur.at

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