Artist Talk: Erica Baum
On the occasion of the conference ‚Folding the Page‘ at Tate, Erica Baum held a Keynote Speech about her Art – Friday 25th November 2022.
On the occasion of the conference ‚Folding the Page‘ at Tate, Erica Baum held a Keynote Speech about her Art – Friday 25th November 2022.
„… I’m quite curious to see whether it will be successful, particularly in this location, to critically reflect and reconstruct the colonial history of this collection. The building does not offer the best conditions for this.“
„Around the turn of the year 1999/2000 I took photos for the series Kulisse. I walked through Berlin for days. I tried to find my place, my center. Construction was going on everywhere. The paralyzing standstill that had characterized the last years of the GDR and the various attempts …“
„I expected to find in my photo archive pictures of the palace mockup built around the Palast der Republik in 1993. … „
„In this mini series, I present some posts from my archive. I have always been interested in the area in the center of Berlin, which is called Schlossplatz and was once called Marx-Engels-Platz, where the Palast der Republik was located and the Humboldt Forum will soon open as a mockup of baroque palace.“
Erica Baum | A METHOD OF A CLOAK, MAR 6 – JUN 13, 2020 @ Klemm’s, Berlin
On May 04 – 08, Erica Baum took over the Instagram account of Klemm’s Berlin. She shared some aspects of her practice, communicated directly with the audience and presented her newly produced Spoken Word pieces via Story as well.
In relation to her current show at Klemm’s A Method of a Cloak and for her takeover week (May 04-08, 2020), Erica Baum, poet-photographer, has produced spoken word pieces, where we can listen to her reading piano rolls, Dog Ear and Tender Buttons.
In relation to her current show at Klemm’s A Method of a Cloak and for her takeover week (May 04-08, 2020), Erica Baum, poet-photographer, has produced spoken word pieces, where we can listen to her reading piano rolls, Dog Ear and Tender Buttons.
In relation to her current show at Klemm’s A Method of a Cloak and for her takeover week (May 04-08, 2020), Erica Baum, poet-photographer, has produced spoken word pieces, where we can listen to her reading piano rolls, Dog Ear and Tender Buttons.