Bergelt, Sven
Im Westen nichts Neues / 2014
The installation is a part of the project „Situation Room“
Eilmeldungen, Liveticker und Tweets begleiten die tägliche Informationskultur in den Massenmedien. Für den Zuschauer und Konsumenten der Medien wird ein Gefühl der permanenten Ereignishaftigkeit produziert. Krisen, Katastrophen, Unglücke und Kriege wechseln sich ab, überlagern sich und verschwimmen im Dschungel der Medienevents. Das Klima der permanenten Ereignishaftigkeit egalisiert das plötzliche Hereinbrechen eines Ereignisses und negiert dessen Schockwirkung. Stattdessen hat sich der Umgang mit katastrophalen Nachrichten zur Normalität manifestiert. In steter Erwartung eines Ereignisses, ist aus erschütternden Ereignissen, eine erschütternde Ereignislosigkeit erwachsen.
@basjanader_#i’mtstty / 2013
Mixed media Installation, 2013
The installation „@basjanader_#i’mtstty“ approach the youtube- karaoke phenomenon. Sven Bergelt created an archive of video remakes and -responses from the Bas Jan Ader Film „I’m too sad to tell you“ from 1971. The collection of the audiovisual and textual material thematize the „copy culture“ in the internet as well as the communication and failure of communication through the user comments, video responses with the origin from 1971 and between the remakes among.
53 Comments / 2013
The installation is composed of four different maps. One is made of soil; it extends from the floor to encompass the entirety of the room, two are printed on tracing paper and the third is a video piece of seven hours, in which the creation process is documented.
32 blankets with patch, 24 Loudspeakers on tripod, Duration 17min, Loop, 2013 The sound installation „53 Comments“ consists of the readers comments about the re-enactment of the Völkerschlacht in 2012 published in the online issue of the daily newspaper in Leipzig. In a controversial discussion the reader talks about the „authentic“ representation of history in the presence. 32 speaker present the one year old discussion simultaneously and concerning the contents close to…) to the re-enactment of the battle in 2013.
Im Dickicht Necken / 2013
Wood, Laminate, LED’s, public art, parking block Lipschitzallee Berlin 2013
metro station Lipschitzallee Berlin, 2012
Three light installations on the top of a and in a parking block in Berlin-Gropiusstadt play linguistically with the specific urban space and urban planning in Gropiusstadt – a large house estate built in the 1960s. The texts and LED-lights counteracted the parking block (parking lot) as a space of fear and show it in a jocular way as an alternative use of space.
Noise / 2012
DV-Video transfered to DVD
4:30min, PAL, Color, Sound, Loop
Ants are moving on a white backround.
In the beginning of the video the ants are vergy agile. Later their movement slackens.
The so called „Ant- War“ – the snow on the TV- is transfered into living protagonists. But in difference to the TV-Ants the real ones did not move constantly.
The real ants almost stopped moving after they realized that there is no possibility to get out of the frame. Because ants communicate with scents. They tell each other that it is pointless to try to get out. In the mediated representation the ants turn into teeming agents that activate a tight feeling.
Vorne Fahrn / 2012
3 billboards 250 x 350 cm, public art
metro station Lipschitzallee Berlin, 2012
The three videostills of the work „The Inner Circle“ show the artist walking continuously the same rectangle on a grassland. 30 days as a whole, one hour every day.
As a result of the repetitive and monotous action, a trail becomes more and more visible that indicates the time that has been passed by.The ambivalence between the metro as place for mobility and the seemingly endless circling walk displayed on the billboard poses questions of repeating patterns in everyday life.
Welcome to reality / 2012
Project proposal for art in the public call, project: [10].lindenau, granted with the 2nd place, 2012
„Welcome to reality“ is a project proposal for ten display windows of a new shopping mall at „Lindenauer Markt“ place. The open call invited artists to controversially reflect on the social, geographical and architectural change the construction of the shopping mall brings up. Bergelts proposal for the installation in the display window consists of a mirrorfoil that reflects the Wilhelminian style architecture by that the new mall is surrounded. And secondly of text (vinyl cutter type) on the window glass which shows a discussion about the construction of the mall that was held on the web over 2 years. Thereby the people can review the different opinions about the construction and match them with the present.
Circle / 2012
3-Channel-Videoinstallation, 750 x 400 cm, 2012
The 3-channel video-installation „Circle“ consists of 3 videos that form a cycle.
„The Inner Circle“ shows the artist, walking the same rectangle on a grassland. 30 days as a whole, one hour every day. As a result of the repetitive and monotous action, a trail becomes more and more visible that indicates the time that has been passed.
In the video „The Unknown Shore“ the same person undresses, then steps into the ocean water and starts swimming. He slowly moves away from the shore further and further, until the eye can’t recognize him anymore. This romantic image picks out yearnings as a central theme: the desire for nature, wanderlust, the leap into the unknown and ultimate wideness and – the death wish.
In the third video „The Scene Behind“ the artist leaves the forest in the background and begins to stonewall brick for brick a square cube around him. This act ends when his body has been totally covered by the stonewall around him what hides him from the spectators gaze.
Vita
* 1983 in Freiberg / Saxony
Education
2013 Lectureship „Re-enactment in Art, Media and Politics“ with Prof. Dieter Daniels, Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig
since 2012 postgraduate „Meisterschüler“ with Prof. Alba D’Urbano, Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig
2012 Diploma with Prof. Tina Bara and Prof. Dr. Dieter Daniels
2007 – 2012 Studies in Photography with Prof. Tina Bara, Academy of Visual Arts, Leipzig
2003 – 2007 Studies in Communication Design, Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts and Design Kiel
Grants / Awards
2012 Competition Public Art [10].lindenau, 2nd Price
2011 Project Grant by the State of Saxony
2011 Project Grant by the Karin Abt-Straubinger Foundation
2009 Residency at „Hidden Places“ Görlitz
2009 Nominated for Studienpreis of the Freundeskreis of the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig
2008 „Hiwar Fanni“ Scholarship of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) for Lebanon
Exhibtions
2013 „Prager Str.“,OneNightGallery #11
2013 „CYNETART“, International Festival for computerbased Art Dresden
2013 „Enviroment of Life“ Gyeongnam International Photography Festival
2013 „53 comments“ Kalthalle of the Photomuseum Markkleeberg (Solo Exhibition)
2013 „Im Dickicht Necken“ parking block Lipschitzallee, Berlin
2013 „INTIMATE“ Gallery EIGEN + ART, Leipzig
2013 „Restraining Order – The Art of Self-Control“ Einstein Forum, Potsdam
2013 „Rundgang“ Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig
2012 „Paul-Langheinrichstr.“ OnenightGallery #10
2012 „August-Bebel-Str.83“ OneNightGallery #9
2012 „Vorne Fahrn – Kunst im Untergrund“ Metro Station Lipschitzallee, Berlin (NGBK)
2012 „In der Zwischenzeit“ Begehungen Chemnitz
2012 „Festungen – Innen und Außen. Junge Kunst aus Leipzig“ Festung Rosenberg Kronach
2012 „Limburgerstr.45“ OneNightGallery #8
2012 „Crisis – Everyone has one he deserves“ Museum Contemporary Wroclaw (Poland)
2012 „[10].lindenau“ Lofft Theater Leipzig
2012 „Circle“ Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig