Projects
Performa Hub
2009For the Ground Floor space of the new Cooper Union’s building on Cooper Square, the Berlin-based architectural practice nOffice/Studio Miessen have been commissioned by RoseLee Goldberg/ Performa to design and construct a symbiosis of Performa’s central hub and a pavilion in which nOffice will broadcast an architectural statement.
Art Basel Statements
2009/10Das Kunstjahr ist vorbei, aber für eine Pause ist kaum Zeit. Nach sämtlichen Biennalen, Kunstmessen, kulturellen Veranstaltungen und Ausstellungen erwartet die Art Basel als führende globale Kunstmesse die nächsten Besucherströme. Das neue Jahr hat begonnen und die Messen und Biennalen werden in diesem Jahr die globalen Kunstnomaden wieder um den Erdball führen.
Dubai Düsseldorf
2009For the last years, Dubai’s ruler, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, has pursued a simple goal: to become number one in everything. Dubai would get the world’s biggest cargo port, the world’s tallest skyscraper, the world’s largest airport…
Archive Kabinett
2009Archive Kabinett’s purpose is to create a space where to experiment with formats and concepts related to the field of publishing, to stimulate a challenging collaboration between artists, writers and curators while exploring their roles.
Portscapes
2009Portscapes involves artists from The Netherlands, China, Mexico, Austria and the United States. By creating events varied in scale, temporary art works, performances, excursions and screenings in the port area, for example, Portscapes will evolve as a kind of cultural guidebook to the port area, focusing on the future and Maasvlakte 2.
Closed Waters
2009The Freedom of the Sea (Mare Liberum, 1609) is a book on international law written by the Dutch jurist and philosopher Hugo Grotius, formulating the new principle that the sea was international territory and all nations were free to use it for seafaring trade.
East Coast Europe
2008The title “East Coast Europe” is a word play. “Europe” in the title is the central topic for investigation, its contemporary culture, expansion, and its status as a continuing social project. “East Coast” refers to two distinct edges of Europe, both real and imaginary…
Credit Suisse – Art & Entrepreneurship
March 12, 2008Credit Suisse launches its “Art & Entrepreneurship” exhibition tour at Art Dubai, featuring a new generation of 19 successful artists from around the globe. The exhibition contains unique pieces of art, which are all based on the theme of entrepreneurship…
Urban Jealousy the 1st International Roaming Biennial of Tehran
30th May - 6th July 2008The theme of this biennial is URBAN JEALOUSY. A Jalousie * (“jealousy” in French) is a window that one can see through but not be seen; barriers that allow us to observe the world without being invited to the table.
The Great Pyramid
2008Contemporary societies still focus on the cult of the youth, yet slowly but inevitably the discourse is acknowledging the demographic facts of the aging population. The new question is: How does a society react to a reality in which age and death shift into its centre?
The Violence of Participation
2007Is Europe a place, a space, or a temporary community of shared interests? As a political space, Europe is as conflictual as its debated constitution. It is a construct that must be continuously negotiated…
AA Winter School – Learning From Dubai
2008 - OngoingAn intensive workshop-based programme which runs a design-led curriculum that combines conceptual and material research in the process of radical criticism and the rigorous production of ideas.
Host Not Found: A Traveling Monument to the Suppression of Search
2007As a mobile entity, the monument travels alongside the conferences organized by ITU and is installed on both the facade of conference facilities, as well as the interior spaces of the proceedings.
43b Bar at Max Wigram Gallery
2006During the course of the Max Wigram Gallery move in summer 2006, the East London gallery (43b Mitchell Street, EC1) remained unoccupied for three months, before being returned to the landlord.
The Momental
2006What is an institution today?
Does it have to be physical?
Can it be temporary, ephemeral, re-occurring, or invisible?
Pyongyang: Rules of Engagement
2006Being on the ‘Axis of Evil’ equates North Korea with ‘pariah’ status. For now. Today’s pariah state is tomorrow’s heroic paradigm of ideological resistance.
Spaces of Uncertainty
2003Spaces of Uncertainty is a collaborative of two architects, Kenny Cupers and Markus Miessen, working at different institutions and locations. Moving between urbanism, sociology and the visual arts, this project presented urban research and a photographic essay on the life of leftover spaces in Berlin.