Gruber, Bernhard
The unauthorized Story / 2013
approx. 100 Lambda Archival Prints, 18 x 13,5 cm each
Kunsterde (Art Soil) / 2008-2009
Installation
dimensions variable
Art soil is different from conventional soil insofar, as it consists of only one single species of plant. Over the duration of 6 months, 50 different kinds of plants were being composted in a scientifically controlled process, separately, in flower pots.
Although the art soil is an artificially created product regarding its basic raw material and the controlled applied process, natural phenomena were used in its creation. The generated product oscillates between naturalness and artificiality.
While natural soils are always, geographically and historically, bound by their nature of origin and point of origin, art soils can only reference their fictional point of origin – the artist´s laboratory.
Kunsterde – documentation
Centre For Astronautical Hygiene / 2008, work in progress
multimedia-based Installation
dimensions variable
Centre for Astronautical Hygiene examines man´s relationship to outer space. The project investigates the motivations behind the exploration of outer space. Furthermore, media-based representations of outer space are being scrutinized.
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Centre For Astronautical Hygiene – performance, 3D anaglyph image
The exoticness of antiseptic soap / 2007
Installation
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The Installation concerns itself with the fictional character of memories by replacing these with fictions. The work consists of more than 80 wooden picture frames. The frames contain cut-out words from different books which have been rearranged to form new sentences or sequences of words.
One of the frames contains a typewritten letter with the following text:
Dear Sirs,
in August 2006, the most curious thing happened to me. Five hours of my memory went missing. I have no recollection of what happened to me during that time. The circumstances of this are dubious. Investigations in the outside world did not lead to any satisfactory answers. This is an attempt to reclaim what was supposed to be mine.
Sincerely yours
The exoticness of antiseptic soap – installation plan
Conversations with LaLaLand / 2005
8 channel sound installation
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The Visitors enter a dark room. Eight loudspeakers play sound collages made from conversational fragments and various noises taken from movies and TV series. Each sound collage is played back as a loop and is between 22 and 28 minutes in duration.
The characters in the collages were snatched away from their original audiovisual medium and seem to be disoriented, agitated and often scared.
LaLaLand occupies a fictional space without geography. Visitors find themselves in many different fictional places at the same time, such as a laboratory, a spaceship or a park in good or bad weather.
[audio:students/gruber/gruber_01_lalaland.mp3]LaLaLand 2 channel stereo excerpt
Vita
*1977 in Munich
Education
Since 2009 Media Art (Prof. Alba D´Urbano) Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig
2005 – 2009 Media Art and Design (Prof. Robin Minard, Prof. Christine Hill) Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
2003 – 2004 Media Studies, SAE Institute, Munich
1999 – 2005 Sociology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
1998 – 1999 Computer Sciences, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München