Michael Kress artist talk

Michael Kress is a conceptual artist based in Hamburg, Germany. His work focuses on semiotics and language as a normative moment in the construction of a media identity. Since 2004, Kress has been examining spatial imagination in various 1960s movies. Coming from a background in conceptual art, he uses different media, such as video, drawing, writing, sound, and photography, in his examinations. In 2015, Kress initiated the network project Hyper Cultural Passengers. This cooperation of artists, philosophers, and other cultural activists questions the myth of the autonomous, and thereby self-sufficient, subject and proposes instead the figure of the hypercultural passenger. Kress has been engaged in cultural politics for several years. He was a member of the executive committee of FRISE/Hamburg, one of the longest-existing artist-studio houses in Germany. Since 2012, he has been part of the executive committee of the Deutscher Künstlerbund (German Association of Artists). From 1996-2003, Kress was a member of the board of the International Association of Fine Arts (iaa/UNESCO).