Jan Vormann
| Jan Vormann | |
|---|---|
 Landesgartenschau BA013.JPG Dispatchwork of Jan Vormann in Bamberg | |
| Born | 1983 (age 42–43) |
| 🏳️ Nationality | French-German |
| 🏫 Education | Weißensee Academy of Art Berlin |
| 💼 Occupation | |
| Known for | Dispatchwork, Sculpture |
| 🌐 Website | www |
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Jan Vormann is a sculptor / visual artist. He was born to a Tunisian/French mother and a German father in Bamberg, Germany. Vormann grew up in Bamberg, where he studied one year of art history and conservation at the University of Bamberg before changing his studies to visual arts. He earned his diploma in sculpture from the Weißensee Academy of Art Berlin, where he studied under Karin Sander, Bernd Wilde and Inge Mahn. He studied for the duration of one year at the Saint Petersburg Stieglitz State Academy of Art and Design in Russia in 2009/2010.[1] [2]
Jan Vormann’s work stands out in the simple visual language that it uses. Through a wide variety of media, from kinetic sculpture, videos and installations in both confined artistic spaces and in public space, Vormann gained publicity by commenting pointedly on everyday occurrences and giving them a social, political or ironic twist. His visual style is recognisable in the context of young European and US-American artists such as Octavi Serra, Amparito and Brad Downey.
Vormann became known for his public installation called Dispatchwork, utilizing plastic-construction bricks such as Lego to repair damaged structures worldwide.[3][4] While refusing to take material support from plastic-brick-producers due to his anti-capitalist stance, and regardless of the ephemeral nature of the bricks loosely (and without glue) inserted inside old buildings, the work can be seen in many cities worldwide. From the Times Square in New York City to the Great Wall of China Vormann has launched a worldwide network of repair of broken structures with the help of a broad following. On the interactive website, the project Dispatchwork[5] has collected more than 200 dispatch art interventions worldwide, with people of all ages joining in and even initiating projects in their own cities.[6] [7] [8]
Vormann also works with kinetic installations, the soap-bubble-life-extension machine being one of his most famous works. A soap-bubble is kept alive through a system of pumps and motors and thus given an extended period of life of up to a couple of days.[9]
Jan Vormann holds workshops with students in institutions like the institute for Architecture Arcam in Amsterdam and the Peggy Guggenheim collection in Venice. [10] Formerly a professor of Creative Physics in the Interaction-Design department at the Berliner Technische Kunsthochschule, he now teaches in the New Media Department of the Austral University of Chile (UACh) in Valdivia, Chile.
Vormann gained further fame by organizing one of the first exhibitions of Streetartists in the digital space of the computer Game Minecraft. Curated in collaboration with Brad Downey and the Italian YouTuber Surry (Salvatore Cinquegrana), he invited artists such as Vhils, Addfuel, Jazoo Yang, Michael Johansson, Esther Stocker, John Fekner and Octavi Serra to use this digital space as a canvas for their installations and opened them to the public in the form of an “Anarchy Server” of Minecraft in 2021, called “Between Particles and Waves”.[11][12] In 2022 the project “Between particles and Waves” was relaunched in collaboration with the Total Museum of Contemporary Art in Seoul by including three more artists inside the same world-seed. The new artists were Sihoon Kim, Sanghee and the collective of architects and urbanists IVAAIU-City. [13] Jan Vormann has exhibited his works in Museums worldwide such as the Altes Museum in Berlin, participated in conferences at the Russian Museum for Contemporary Art in Moscow and renowned biennials and festivals such as the Venice Biennale for Arts (2012), the Venice Biennial for Architecture in the French Pavilion (2018) [14], besides different public space art festivals such as La Nuit Blanche in Paris. [15]
References
- ↑ "Jan Vormann - Biography". www.artnet.com. Retrieved 2023-02-27.
- ↑ "Overcoming. Art Practices for the New Normal | Peggy Guggenheim Collection". www.guggenheim-venice.it. Retrieved 2023-02-27.
- ↑ BauNetz. "Mauerwerkssanierung mit Lego | Mauerwerk | News/Archiv | Baunetz_Wissen". Baunetz Wissen. Retrieved 2023-02-27.
- ↑ "Großes Eröffnungswochenende der Urban Art Biennale 2022 im Weltkulturerbe Völklinger Hütte - Reisenews vom 29.04.2022". Tambiente - Ihr Urlaubsmagazin (in Deutsch). Retrieved 2023-02-27.
- ↑ "Dispatchwork". Dispatchwork. Retrieved 2023-02-27.
- ↑ "Street Art". Die Presse (in Deutsch). 2010-06-24. Retrieved 2023-02-27.
- ↑ designboom, andy butler I. (2009-06-07). "jan vormann: dispatchwork". designboom | architecture & design magazine. Retrieved 2023-02-27.
- ↑ "Jan Vormann travels the world repairing crumbling monuments with Lego". www.telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 2023-02-27.
- ↑ "SLEM 4b". Jan Vormann. Retrieved 2023-02-27.
- ↑ "Overcoming. Art Practices for the New Normal | Peggy Guggenheim Collection". www.guggenheim-venice.it. Retrieved 2023-02-27.
- ↑ DeJevx, R. "Between Particles and Waves". betweenparticlesandwaves.com. Retrieved 2023-02-27.
- ↑ Vormann, Jan; Downey, Brad. "BETWEEN PARTICLES AND WAVES Street-Art Heavyweights Exhibiting in the Virtual World of Minecraft" (PDF). Nuart Journal. 3 (2): 90–101. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2023-02-27. Retrieved 2023-03-09.
- ↑ "- IVAAIU CITY -". ivaaiu.com. Retrieved 2023-02-27.
- ↑ "Venice Architecture Biennal". Jan Vormann. Retrieved 2023-02-27.
- ↑ "Nuit Blanche 2014 – Selected artworks". Time Out Paris. Retrieved 2023-02-27.
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