Jan Gerber & Sebastian Lütgert
Jan Gerber and Sebastian Lütgert live in Berlin and work as artists and programmers. In the last two decades, they have initiated a variety of collaborative projects – shared workspaces, online archives, conference series and software platforms – situated at the intersections of art, politics and technology. They are co-founders of The Pirate School (since 2020), Wiederaufbau für Kreditanstalt (2007), Amerikanische Botschaft (2005), Pirate Cinema Berlin(since 2004) and Bootlab (2000-2007), and developers of the pan.do/ra media archive platform (since 2012).
Courses
Exhibitions
2021 Feral Methods, nGbK, Berlin. 2020 Zin Ex: From Abstraction to Algorithm, Tabakalera, San Sebastian (ES). Sebastian Lütgert: No-Show, Edith-Russ Haus, Oldenburg. Bärenzwinger, Berlin. Transmediale, Berlin. 2019 Open Scores, Panke Gallery, Berlin. A Cinematic Museum of the Everyday, NextMixing, Shanghai. Screenshots: Desire and Automated Image, Galleri Image, Aarhus (DK). 2018 Berlin: Zentrum der Netzkunst, Panke Gallery, Berlin. Between Points, Supportico Lopez, Berlin. Open Codes, Max Mueller Bhavan, Mumbai (IN). 2017 Kiev Biennale, Kiev. The School of Everything, Documenta 14, Kassel (DE), Athens. Taylor Macklin, Zurich (CH). 2015 Istanbul Biennale, Istanbul (TR). 2014 Public Library, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart (DE). 2012 Poor Man's Expression, Artists Space, New York, NY (US). Center for Contemporary Art, Tbilisi. 2010 Speak Memory, Townhouse, Cairo. Homeworks, Beirut.
Publications
Archive Projects
2021 The New Abécédaire: A Dictionary of 2020, https://798.ma/abc. 2019 Leftovers (with MayDayRooms, London), https://leftove.rs. 2018 Fwd: Re: Archive (with CAMP, Mumbai), https://studio.camp/events/Fwd:Re:Archive. CineMuseSpace (with University of Cambridge) https://www.cinemusespace.arct.cam.ac.uk. 2017 858.ma (with Mosireen, Cairo), https://858.ma. The Critical Dictionary of South-East Asia (with Ho Tzu Nyen), https://cdosea.org. 2014 DAU media archive (with Phenomen Films, London), http://dau.com. Bak.ma (with Videooccupy, Istanbul), https://bak.ma. Turkishcine.ma (with Bilkent University, Ankara), https://turkishcine.ma. 2013 Indiancine.ma(Bangalore, Calcutta, Delhi, Mumbai), https://indiancine.ma. 2011 Properties of the Autonomous Archive (with CAMP, Mumbai), https://studio.camp/events/propertiesofthearchive. 2008 Pad.ma (with CAMP, Mumbai), https://pad.ma. 2007 0xDB, https://0xdb.org. The Oil of the 21st Century (Amsterdam, New York, Berlin, Mumbai), https://oil21.org. 2006 Dictionary of War (Frankfurt, Munich, Graz, Berlin, Novi Sad, Gwangju, Bolzano, Taipei, New York), https://dictionaryofwar.org