The project Staging Dioramas is curated by Stefan Aue, Jana Eske and Jessica Páez. It was developed during the master programme Cultures of the Curatorial at the Academy of Fine Arts in Leipzig, directed by Beatrice von Bismarck, Benjamin Meyer-Krahmer and Thomas Weski. Using methods of collaborative research and collective working practices, the project focuses on knowledge production in institutions. Operating on the basis of temporary interventions, it combines methods of theoretical and practical thinking, provoking coalitions and collisions of scientific and artistic systems of thought. The aim is to perform, to exhibit or to stage these interactions within different institutional settings.
Stefan Aue works at the House of World Cultures (HKW) in Berlin, currently curating and coordinating the project Dictionary of Now (2015-2019). In 2015 he organised the international Wohnungsfrage Academy as part of the project The Housing Question at HKW. Before this he worked as researcher and project manager for the Mobile Academy Berlin developing the conferences Why talk to animals and Eternity. In 2011/12 he coordinated the two-year programme ArteFakte at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, where he was responsible for the conception and realisation of a cross-disciplinary series of more than thirty individual scientific and artistic events. He has organised conferences, performances and exhibitions in collaboration with institutions such as the National Museums of Berlin, the German Federal Cultural Foundation and the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florence. Between 2008 and 2010 he worked in the field of scientific mediation and political education for the Heinrich Böll Foundation, the Federal Agency for Civic Education and others. He holds an MA in Cultures of the Curatorial (2015), as well as in Sociology, Psychology and Media Science (2006) with a focus on urban research and sociology of space. He is co-editor of the volume ArteFakte: Reflexionen und Praktiken wissenschaftlich-künstlerischer Begegnungen (2014, Transcript) and managing editor of the book Hospitality – Hosting Relations in Exhibitions (2016, Sternberg).
Jana Eske works as cultural programmer and project manager in the field of Cultural Entrepreneurship at the FHNW Academy of Art and Design in Basel. She produced the research project Swiss Cultural Entrepreneurship and has developed the Swiss Cultural Challenge, a further education program for young designers and artists. In recent years she also taught the course Aesthetic Practice at the University of the Arts Berlin (UdK). Her activities include exhibitions such as Play, Paper, Scissors – Journey to Everyday Objects at the Alvar Aalto Museum in Jyväskylä, FeldForschungsFestival_Kultur 2010 at the Berlin Academy of Arts NEU NOW, in collaboration with the European League of Art Institutes. Her video works have been presented in venues and art spaces such as the Videonale 10 at the Kunstmuseum Bonn, GL Strand in Copenhagen and at the Moscow International Biennial for Young Art. Jana Eske is a research candidate at Tokyo Wonder Site in Japan (2017) and has been supported by the German Academic Scholarship Foundation, the Baden Würtemberg Foundation and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). She holds an MA in Cultures of the Curatorial (2015) and New Media Art (2008). Since her studies in Karlsruhe, Helsinki, New York and Leipzig she has worked with storytelling as a tool for revealing social processes, behaviour and actions in art, design and scientific contexts. Her areas of expertise include situations and contexts within which altered perceptions of life are expressed, as well as the configuration of institutional conditions and locations.
Jessica Páez is an independent cultural practitioner in theatre and visual art based in Berlin and has an MA in Cultures of the Curatorial and Communication, History of Art and Political Science. She works as a project coordinator at House of World Cultures (HKW) since 2015. Her first exhibition was The Housing Question curated by Jesko Fezer, Nikolaus Hirsch, Wilfried Kuehn and Hila Peleg. This was followed by Rimini Protokoll’s theatre project State 1 – 4, a collaboration between the HKW, the Münchner Kammerspiele, the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus, the Staatsschauspiel Dresden and the Schauspiel Zürich (2016 - 2018). Before her time at the HKW, she collaborated with a number of theatre makers such as Nuran David Calis, Jan Klata and was a dramaturge for Dominic Huber and Damian Rebgetz. With Damian Rebgetz she worked on the (de)construction of identity via sound and music in several pieces such as Something for the Fans. She previously worked for five years on several projects at the theatre HAU - Hebbel am Ufer Berlin during which time she was the production manager on the discourse series Phantasm and Politics curated by Helmut Draxler and Christoph Gurk about the desire of the arts to be political as well as other productions. 2016 she collaborated with the video artist Kerstin Honeit on mi castillo tu castillo, a video performance about the construction of post-national identity, taking the reconstruction of the Berliner Stadtschloss (Berlin City Palace) as its point of departure.
Stefan Aue works at the House of World Cultures (HKW) in Berlin, currently curating and coordinating the project Dictionary of Now (2015-2019). In 2015 he organised the international Wohnungsfrage Academy as part of the project The Housing Question at HKW. Before this he worked as researcher and project manager for the Mobile Academy Berlin developing the conferences Why talk to animals and Eternity. In 2011/12 he coordinated the two-year programme ArteFakte at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, where he was responsible for the conception and realisation of a cross-disciplinary series of more than thirty individual scientific and artistic events. He has organised conferences, performances and exhibitions in collaboration with institutions such as the National Museums of Berlin, the German Federal Cultural Foundation and the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florence. Between 2008 and 2010 he worked in the field of scientific mediation and political education for the Heinrich Böll Foundation, the Federal Agency for Civic Education and others. He holds an MA in Cultures of the Curatorial (2015), as well as in Sociology, Psychology and Media Science (2006) with a focus on urban research and sociology of space. He is co-editor of the volume ArteFakte: Reflexionen und Praktiken wissenschaftlich-künstlerischer Begegnungen (2014, Transcript) and managing editor of the book Hospitality – Hosting Relations in Exhibitions (2016, Sternberg).
Jana Eske works as cultural programmer and project manager in the field of Cultural Entrepreneurship at the FHNW Academy of Art and Design in Basel. She produced the research project Swiss Cultural Entrepreneurship and has developed the Swiss Cultural Challenge, a further education program for young designers and artists. In recent years she also taught the course Aesthetic Practice at the University of the Arts Berlin (UdK). Her activities include exhibitions such as Play, Paper, Scissors – Journey to Everyday Objects at the Alvar Aalto Museum in Jyväskylä, FeldForschungsFestival_Kultur 2010 at the Berlin Academy of Arts NEU NOW, in collaboration with the European League of Art Institutes. Her video works have been presented in venues and art spaces such as the Videonale 10 at the Kunstmuseum Bonn, GL Strand in Copenhagen and at the Moscow International Biennial for Young Art. Jana Eske is a research candidate at Tokyo Wonder Site in Japan (2017) and has been supported by the German Academic Scholarship Foundation, the Baden Würtemberg Foundation and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). She holds an MA in Cultures of the Curatorial (2015) and New Media Art (2008). Since her studies in Karlsruhe, Helsinki, New York and Leipzig she has worked with storytelling as a tool for revealing social processes, behaviour and actions in art, design and scientific contexts. Her areas of expertise include situations and contexts within which altered perceptions of life are expressed, as well as the configuration of institutional conditions and locations.
Jessica Páez is an independent cultural practitioner in theatre and visual art based in Berlin and has an MA in Cultures of the Curatorial and Communication, History of Art and Political Science. She works as a project coordinator at House of World Cultures (HKW) since 2015. Her first exhibition was The Housing Question curated by Jesko Fezer, Nikolaus Hirsch, Wilfried Kuehn and Hila Peleg. This was followed by Rimini Protokoll’s theatre project State 1 – 4, a collaboration between the HKW, the Münchner Kammerspiele, the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus, the Staatsschauspiel Dresden and the Schauspiel Zürich (2016 - 2018). Before her time at the HKW, she collaborated with a number of theatre makers such as Nuran David Calis, Jan Klata and was a dramaturge for Dominic Huber and Damian Rebgetz. With Damian Rebgetz she worked on the (de)construction of identity via sound and music in several pieces such as Something for the Fans. She previously worked for five years on several projects at the theatre HAU - Hebbel am Ufer Berlin during which time she was the production manager on the discourse series Phantasm and Politics curated by Helmut Draxler and Christoph Gurk about the desire of the arts to be political as well as other productions. 2016 she collaborated with the video artist Kerstin Honeit on mi castillo tu castillo, a video performance about the construction of post-national identity, taking the reconstruction of the Berliner Stadtschloss (Berlin City Palace) as its point of departure.
Image: The Indian Village, Diorama in the GRASSI Museum in Leipzig, Photo: Jana Eske
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