Vera Hofmann

Visual Identity for Schwules Museum

A new strategic visual appearance for the museum: CI, logo, website, above and below the line material

graphic design, intervention

"Und, wie ist es so, im Schwulen Museum zu arbeiten?"

A poster commenting on the process of renewal at the Gay Museum Berlin from the perspective of a queer women*'s perspective. Commissioned for the poster archive of Forum Homosexuality Munich.

A day of care and healing for the queer community in Berlin.

graphic design, hosting, installation, organizing, workshop

We keep losing our spaces but we can still hold [on to] each other

A collective action as a bar night at "Bei Cosy" addressing the complex realities of LGBT*IQA+ spaces along the fluid(itie)s of our bodies.

action, graphic design, performance, ritual

On the presence of the other. A disruptive moment into the habitual procedure of film screenings.

Bright Eyes

video

All I Wanna Do Is Sit In The Sun For A While

Contemporary Cure Compendium

Artistic research and multi-disciplinary works on alternative methods of healing. By learning from ancient therapies, queering contemporary ones, remixing and reformulating them in an artistic, empowering DIY approach trying to achieve a higher sensitivity for social and political conditions, interpersonal and intrapersonal connections.

**group of works**

An immersive site-specific installation with quadrophonic sound as an angry meditation on the loss of a spiritually intimate other, altered states of consciousness during orgasms and the (self-) exploitation in the art market.

exhibition, installation, intervention, sound, text

A text that combines autobiographical recollection, academic essay and satirical yet hopeful analysis. It compounds considerations of Western, non-Western, and alternative healthcare, and the potentials and possibilities of healing in the wake of the illness and death of a loved one.

2016

The Legacy

text

Immersive participative installation where selected leaves, branches and stems of plants become a sonic instrument.

2016

Aux Origines des La Cure

E-health. An online pilgrimate to the source of cure.

video

Amsterdam, NL

2016

Because we can swim in the immense

A group ritual on empowerment. Reappropriating museum space, irritating economy, celebrating togetherness and disobedience in times of crisis.

action, intervention

Amsterdam, NL

2016

SevenEightElevenInfinity

A multitude of procedures on heartbreak.

action, graphics, object, installation, photography, ritual, sound, video

Amsterdam, NL, Berlin, DE

2016

A month of Doing Nothing

How to show what has been not produced.

graphic design, photography, text, video

Amsterdam, NL

2015

Chryptochromatic Jetlag

5 nights with one guest artist each in the Botanic Garden.

action, blog, hosting, intervention, performance, photography, object, ritual, sound, text, website, video

Amsterdam, NL

2015

The Shepherdess

A healing trip with the help of the psychoactive plants of the Botanic Garden.

ritual, video

Amsterdam, NL

2015

Musical Plant Cave

installation, sound

ART ON DEMAND (AOD) is a collaborative participatory project. Its primary aim is to make art accessible by taking it out of the expected exhibition spaces and bringing it to targeted private spaces, creating tailor-made works that are intimate, useful and immersive.

2015

Disco Cactus

Stealing the precious red-list cactae collection of the Botanic Garden and taking the plants on a tour around town for some fun before them going extinct.

action, intervention, video

Amsterdam, NL

2015

Hunger Strike

A complaint letter about the conditions of artistic production.

writing

Amsterdam, NL

2015

The Nutritionist

A lecture on plant-based nutrition.

lecture

Amsterdam, NL

2015

Time Capsule

On the potential of water as a medium for information storage.

photography, writing

Amsterdam, NL

2015

Meditation for Schäuble

Sending love to the enemy as last resort in existential crisis.

action, hosting, intervention, ritual

Greece, Athens, GR

2015

MC AU Playlists

Bonding over music instead of creating expected art works in a "mental institution".

photography, text

Netherlands

2014

Useless Artist Disease

Self-diagnosis and loose investigation on the role, responsibility and value of the contemporary artist.

action, graphic design, hosting, text, ritual

Amsterdam, Netherlands

2014

Art On Demand

action, video, website

Finland

2013

BENTEN CLAY

A global corporation with a cross-disciplinary approach. The focus lies on the production of a long-term project titled Age of an End in which the appearance of the now is analyzed, assessing the limitation of natural resources, their implementations, as well as mechanisms of power and volatility inherent to the human pursuit of control.

**group of works**

Blank

Possibilities for transformation and the reclaiming of mental and physical territories.

photography, publication, object

Greece

2014

Caesium

Fashion runway: An outfit for the age of an end.

action, design, textile

Netherlands

2014

Haukipää

Music video: A sublime sanctum resonating with the enchanting whimsy of the Finnish landscape.

video

Finland, Berlin, DE

2014

33 bpm

A response to the strawberry fields incident in Manolada.

object, sound, video, exhibition

Athens, GR

2013

Free Water

An action on limitation and empowerment.

action, object

Portugal

2013

Circle

Portrait series of the staff of a museum. The circle as a basic form of human togetherness, the temporal course of transformation becomes an unfinished process, similar to an open band.

photography