Till Wittwer is an artist, writer and researcher.
He creates research-based narratives exploring the ways in which reality is constructed. These narratives come in the form of essays, publications, lectures, performances, and—occasionally—games. As an extension of his artistic work, he is interested in forms of education and the subjects they create.
Till is working towards a standard of life for cultural workers that transcends "dirt poor." He offers counseling in financial planning. If you would like to learn more about this, please visit finance.till-wittwer.net.
Want to get in touch?
hello |at| till-wittwer.net
Publications
2024
"Fabrikanten der Wirklichkeit (Display)," Monographic Catalog, Kunstverein Hannover Publishing
2022
"Vapor Work," in: Uncanny Entrepreneurship, Textem Verlag
2021
"STAGGED," Artist Book, essay and uranium wine glass in book cassette, published with Meta Copy — Zentrale für Künstlerpublikationen
2019
"Vapor Work," in: Amalgam Op. II and Through a Glass Darkly, University of Illinois at Chicago Press
"The Bubble," in: Enunciados. Lecturas de la Colección ESPAC
"I Papërfunduar," in: This is Badland #3
2018
"Disappearing Inside a Red Granite-Clad Correlate," in: Bricks From the Kiln #3
"Letter to the Academy" (with Robert Preusse and Stefanie Rau, as representatives of Parallel School), in: Extra-Curricular, Onomatopee Publishing
"Response," in: Un/Certain Futures — Rollen des Design in gesellschaftlichen Transformationsprozessen, transcript Verlag
2017
"Projecting Into Dark Matter," in: Untitled (Requesting / Projecting Into Dark Matter), Platform Editions
2016
"Letter to the Academy" (with Robert Preusse and Stefanie Rau, as representatives of Parallel School), in: Taking a Line for a Walk. Assignments in Design Education, Spector Books
"The Present Is Eternal and I Could Have Known It (When I Was a Spaceship Captain)," in: Gernot 3000, Rotato Press
"Johnny's Yodel," in: Letters to the Editors, Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite / AKV Berlin (also published in Letters to the Editors Magazine, No. 25, Deluge of Grandeur)
"The Starchitecture Industrial Complex," in: 2x1 Compression, Jan van Eyck Academie Press
2015
"»Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish«, Said the Academy and Fed Us to the Lions. Or: How to Starve With a Lot of Love in Your Stomach," in: Bricks From the Kiln #1 (also published in Parallel School Brno Magazine)
"Lieder der Immateriellen Arbeiter. Versuch eines Updates," in: die horen, Bd. 259, Sonne, Mond und Sterne. Von Literatur und Musik, Wallenstein Verlag
2014
"The Perfumed Carpet on This Arabian-Style Bazaar is Stained by Your Labor Conditions," Protocol Magazine #6, Platzangst, Magazin für Architektur im Kontext, Verlag der UdK Berlin
2013
"Model for a Business School of Art," in: Frieze d/e, No. 9, Braucht Berlin eine neue Kunstakademie?/Does Berlin Need a New Art School?, Frieze Publishing (also published online)
Performative Lectures
2023
"Ausgerechnet Hannover (wo die Häuser so engbrüstig sind)," Städtoskoop, Hanover, GER
2022
"Durch den Greenscreen denken. Wer hat die Wirklichkeit eigentlich als Special Effect Erfunden?," Fabrikanten der Wirklichkeit (Display), Kunstverein Hannover, GER
"Die Zeit wirft Falten in den Raum. Leibniz missverstehen mit Margaret Thatcher," Fabrikanten der Wirklichkeit (Display), Kunstverein Hannover, GER
"Sovereign Solo oder Escape-Mythologie. Web3 als transzendentaler Fiebertraum," Fabrikanten der Wirklichkeit (Display), Kunstverein Hannover, GER
"Die Verheißungen des Dezentralen," Re:Publica 22, Berlin, GER
2020
"Vapor Workers," Kunstverein Hannover / Sprengel Museum Hannover (Sprengel Readymades—How to Survive), GER
2019
"Ghosts in a Feedback Loop," Sprengel Museum Hannover, GER
"Vapor Workers," Michelin, Milwaukee, USA / University of Illinois at Chicago, USA / Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule, Halle/Saale, GER
"Perpetual Motion and the Control Grid. A Nokiawave Primer," Filmfront, Chicago, USA (with Jacob Lindgren)
2018
"Vapor Workers," Hopscotch Reading Room, Berlin, GER / Onomatopee, Eindhoven, NL / San Serriffe, Amsterdam, NL / Accademia di Communità (La Foresta & Brave New Alps), Rovereto, IT
"Forgotten Clips," Filmfront, Chicago, USA
2017
"Projecting Into Dark Matter," University of Illinois at Chicago, USA / TOKONOMA, Kassel, GER
2016
"Stereoscopic Thinking," Ashley Berlin, GER / Project Space Luis Leu, Karlsruhe, GER / Artists Unlimited, Bielefeld, GER
"Ghosts in a Feedback Loop," Universität der Künste Berlin, GER
2015
"A Google Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Invisible Hand," 20. Internationales Bremer Symposium zum Film, GER / GfZK Leipzig, GER / ACUD MACHT NEU, Berlin, GER / UP Gallery, Berlin, GER
"Invisible Hands," Verein der Gestaltung, Berlin, GER
2014
"Forging Forgery," Literature Museum Tbilisi, GE
"»Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish«, Said the Academy and Fed Us to the Lions. Or: How to Starve With a Lot of Love in Your Stomach," 26th International Biennial of Graphic Design, Brno, CZ
"The Perfumed Carpet on This Arabian-Style Bazaar is Stained by Your Labor Conditions," Kreuzberg Pavillon, Berlin, GER / Universität der Künste Berlin, GER
2013
"Money on Monday. No Short Cuts," Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, GER
Exhibitions
2023
Das große Tableau / The Big Picture, Halle 14, Leipzig, GER
2022
"Fabrikanten der Wirklichkeit (Display)," Kunstverein Hannover, GER
2021
89. Herbstausstellung, Kunstverein Hannover, GER
"STAGGED," Artist Book, Bewegter Raum: Das KünstlerInnenbuch als Ausstellung, Meta Copy Hannover, GER
2019
"Ghosts in a Feedback Loop," 2-Channel Video Installation, Permanent Collection of Sprengel Museum Hannover, GER
2018
88. Herbstausstellung, Kunstverein Hannover, GER
"The Medium is Massage (Un Salon des Amateur*e*s)," Cabane B, Berne, CH (with Nora Longatti)
2017
Generate!° Festival for Electronic Arts, Tübingen, GER
"Uncategorized Factoids," Video Revival, New York, USA
"⸑," Project Space LOKAL-INT, Biel/Bienne, CH (with Nora Longatti and Deirdre O'Leary)
2016
"My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nine P̶i̶z̶z̶a̶s̶," Project Space Luis Leu, Karlsruhe, GER (with Paul Niedermayer)
2015
"Stories From the End," UP Gallery Berlin, GER
"Re:Re:Re:Fwd," Former Space of LEAP Berlin, GER
"Image is a Virus—On Activism," ACUD MACHT NEU, Berlin, GER
"Festisvall Fünf," SomoS Berlin, GER
"A Summer of Films," KOW Gallery, Berlin, GER
"FUTURETEC," GfZK Leipzig, GER
2014
"Place an Image / Place in Image," Museum für Fotografie, Berlin, GER
26th International Biennial of Graphic Design, Brno, CZ
"What it is," Composing Rooms, Berlin, GER
"Zdálo se ti o horách? III," Ceské Centrum Praha, Prague, CZ (with Alpine Desire Collective)
"Kongress der Artikulation," Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin, GER
"Hast du von Bergen geträumt II," Czech Center, Berlin, GER (with Alpine Desire Collective)
2013
"Tubby Struggle, pt. 1," AlpinClub Berlin, GER (with Alpine Desire Collective)
"Game Room," Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA
2012
f/stop. 5. Festival für Fotografie, "The History of Now," Leipzig, GER
"The Parlour," Route du Nord Festival, Rotterdam, NL (with Mara Kanthak and Thomas Pearce)
"It's Hardly Softcore," BKS Garage, Copenhagen, DK (with Alpine Desire Collective)
Games
"The Great Success Machine" (with Elbe Trakal). Live Action Role Playing. Download factsheet here
"Ordnungswissenschaft" (with Marek Plichta). Physical Activity. Download instructions here
"Inspector". Digital
"Erudiendae Artibus Iuventuti". Digital
Awards and Scholarships
| 2024 | Jahresstipendium Bildende Kunst / One-year scholarship, State of Lower Saxony | |
| 2022 | NEUSTART-Stipendium, Stiftung Kunstfonds | |
| 2019 | Förderstipendium Niedersachsen / Development Grant, State of Lower Saxony | |
| 2018 | Preis des Kunstvereins Hannover / Award of the Art Association of Hanover | |
| 2018 | European Cultural Foundation Travel Grant | |
| 2017 | GraFöG Grant, DAAD | |
| 2016 | Elsa-Neumann Grant, State of Berlin | |
| 2012 | Award for Teaching Excellence, UdK Berlin | |
| 2011 | NICA Grant, DAAD | |
| 2011 | Award for Best Interaction and shortlisted for Best Game Design, IndieCade International Festival for Independent Games |
Teaching
Till has taught classes, given workshops, tutored, and lectured at Universität der Künste Berlin, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Zürcher Hochschule der Künste, Hochschule für Bildende Künste Hamburg, HAW Hamburg, Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule Halle/Saale, Cooper Union, NYU, UCLA, University of Illinois at Chicago, Summer School Telavi, Parallel School Berlin, and Parallel School Brno.
He is involved in Parallel School and a co-founder of Open-End-Ed, as well as the Neoliberalism Study Group.
From 2017-2018, he was a Research Scholar at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (FVNMA Department).
Legalities
This website was built by Till Wittwer
The content and works provided on this website is governed by the copyright laws of Germany. Duplication, processing, distribution, or any form of commercialization of such material beyond the scope of the copyright law shall require the prior written consent of its respective author or creator. This site contains links to third-party Web sites. The content of such third-party sites is the exclusive responsibility of the respective owners/providers.
All rights reserved © Till Wittwer, 2024
Till Wittwer is an artist, writer and researcher.
He creates research-based narratives exploring the ways in which reality is constructed. These narratives come in the form of essays, publications, lectures, performances, and—occasionally—games. As an extension of his artistic work, he is interested in forms of education and the subjects they create.
Till is working towards a standard of life for cultural workers that transcends "dirt poor." He offers counseling in financial planning. If you would like to learn more about this, please visit finance.till-wittwer.net.
Want to get in touch?
hello |at| till-wittwer.net
Publications
2024
"Fabrikanten der Wirklichkeit (Display)," Monographic Catalog, Kunstverein Hannover Publishing
2022
"Vapor Work," in: Uncanny Entrepreneurship, Textem Verlag
2021
"STAGGED," Artist Book, essay and uranium wine glass in book cassette, published with Meta Copy — Zentrale für Künstlerpublikationen
2019
"Vapor Work," in: Amalgam Op. II and Through a Glass Darkly, University of Illinois at Chicago Press
"The Bubble," in: Enunciados. Lecturas de la Colección ESPAC
"I Papërfunduar," in: This is Badland #3
2018
"Disappearing Inside a Red Granite-Clad Correlate," in: Bricks From the Kiln #3
"Letter to the Academy" (with Robert Preusse and Stefanie Rau, as representatives of Parallel School), in: Extra-Curricular, Onomatopee Publishing
"Response," in: Un/Certain Futures — Rollen des Design in gesellschaftlichen Transformationsprozessen, transcript Verlag
2017
"Projecting Into Dark Matter," in: Untitled (Requesting / Projecting Into Dark Matter), Platform Editions
2016
"Letter to the Academy" (with Robert Preusse and Stefanie Rau, as representatives of Parallel School), in: Taking a Line for a Walk. Assignments in Design Education, Spector Books
"The Present Is Eternal and I Could Have Known It (When I Was a Spaceship Captain)," in: Gernot 3000, Rotato Press
"Johnny's Yodel," in: Letters to the Editors, Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite / AKV Berlin (also published in Letters to the Editors Magazine, No. 25, Deluge of Grandeur)
"The Starchitecture Industrial Complex," in: 2x1 Compression, Jan van Eyck Academie Press
2015
"»Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish«, Said the Academy and Fed Us to the Lions. Or: How to Starve With a Lot of Love in Your Stomach," in: Bricks From the Kiln #1 (also published in Parallel School Brno Magazine)
"Lieder der Immateriellen Arbeiter. Versuch eines Updates," in: die horen, Bd. 259, Sonne, Mond und Sterne. Von Literatur und Musik, Wallenstein Verlag
2014
"The Perfumed Carpet on This Arabian-Style Bazaar is Stained by Your Labor Conditions," Protocol Magazine #6, Platzangst, Magazin für Architektur im Kontext, Verlag der UdK Berlin
2013
"Model for a Business School of Art," in: Frieze d/e, No. 9, Braucht Berlin eine neue Kunstakademie?/Does Berlin Need a New Art School?, Frieze Publishing (also published online)
Performative Lectures
2023
"Ausgerechnet Hannover (wo die Häuser so engbrüstig sind)," Städtoskoop, Hanover, GER
2022
"Durch den Greenscreen denken. Wer hat die Wirklichkeit eigentlich als Special Effect Erfunden?," Fabrikanten der Wirklichkeit (Display), Kunstverein Hannover, GER
"Die Zeit wirft Falten in den Raum. Leibniz missverstehen mit Margaret Thatcher," Fabrikanten der Wirklichkeit (Display), Kunstverein Hannover, GER
"Sovereign Solo oder Escape-Mythologie. Web3 als transzendentaler Fiebertraum," Fabrikanten der Wirklichkeit (Display), Kunstverein Hannover, GER
"Die Verheißungen des Dezentralen," Re:Publica 22, Berlin, GER
2020
"Vapor Workers," Kunstverein Hannover / Sprengel Museum Hannover (Sprengel Readymades—How to Survive), GER
2019
"Ghosts in a Feedback Loop," Sprengel Museum Hannover, GER
"Vapor Workers," Michelin, Milwaukee, USA / University of Illinois at Chicago, USA / Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule, Halle/Saale, GER
"Perpetual Motion and the Control Grid. A Nokiawave Primer," Filmfront, Chicago, USA (with Jacob Lindgren)
2018
"Vapor Workers," Hopscotch Reading Room, Berlin, GER / Onomatopee, Eindhoven, NL / San Serriffe, Amsterdam, NL / Accademia di Communità (La Foresta & Brave New Alps), Rovereto, IT
"Forgotten Clips," Filmfront, Chicago, USA
2017
"Projecting Into Dark Matter," University of Illinois at Chicago, USA / TOKONOMA, Kassel, GER
2016
"Stereoscopic Thinking," Ashley Berlin, GER / Project Space Luis Leu, Karlsruhe, GER / Artists Unlimited, Bielefeld, GER
"Ghosts in a Feedback Loop," Universität der Künste Berlin, GER
2015
"A Google Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Invisible Hand," 20. Internationales Bremer Symposium zum Film, GER / GfZK Leipzig, GER / ACUD MACHT NEU, Berlin, GER / UP Gallery, Berlin, GER
"Invisible Hands," Verein der Gestaltung, Berlin, GER
2014
"Forging Forgery," Literature Museum Tbilisi, GE
"»Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish«, Said the Academy and Fed Us to the Lions. Or: How to Starve With a Lot of Love in Your Stomach," 26th International Biennial of Graphic Design, Brno, CZ
"The Perfumed Carpet on This Arabian-Style Bazaar is Stained by Your Labor Conditions," Kreuzberg Pavillon, Berlin, GER / Universität der Künste Berlin, GER
2013
"Money on Monday. No Short Cuts," Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, GER
Exhibitions
2023
Das große Tableau / The Big Picture, Halle 14, Leipzig, GER
2022
"Fabrikanten der Wirklichkeit (Display)," Kunstverein Hannover, GER
2021
89. Herbstausstellung, Kunstverein Hannover, GER
"STAGGED," Artist Book, Bewegter Raum: Das KünstlerInnenbuch als Ausstellung, Meta Copy Hannover, GER
2019
"Ghosts in a Feedback Loop," 2-Channel Video Installation, Permanent Collection of Sprengel Museum Hannover, GER
2018
88. Herbstausstellung, Kunstverein Hannover, GER
"The Medium is Massage (Un Salon des Amateur*e*s)," Cabane B, Berne, CH (with Nora Longatti)
2017
Generate!° Festival for Electronic Arts, Tübingen, GER
"Uncategorized Factoids," Video Revival, New York, USA
"⸑," Project Space LOKAL-INT, Biel/Bienne, CH (with Nora Longatti and Deirdre O'Leary)
2016
"My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nine P̶i̶z̶z̶a̶s̶," Project Space Luis Leu, Karlsruhe, GER (with Paul Niedermayer)
2015
"Stories From the End," UP Gallery Berlin, GER
"Re:Re:Re:Fwd," Former Space of LEAP Berlin, GER
"Image is a Virus—On Activism," ACUD MACHT NEU, Berlin, GER
"Festisvall Fünf," SomoS Berlin, GER
"A Summer of Films," KOW Gallery, Berlin, GER
"FUTURETEC," GfZK Leipzig, GER
2014
"Place an Image / Place in Image," Museum für Fotografie, Berlin, GER
26th International Biennial of Graphic Design, Brno, CZ
"What it is," Composing Rooms, Berlin, GER
"Zdálo se ti o horách? III," Ceské Centrum Praha, Prague, CZ (with Alpine Desire Collective)
"Kongress der Artikulation," Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin, GER
"Hast du von Bergen geträumt II," Czech Center, Berlin, GER (with Alpine Desire Collective)
2013
"Tubby Struggle, pt. 1," AlpinClub Berlin, GER (with Alpine Desire Collective)
"Game Room," Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA
2012
f/stop. 5. Festival für Fotografie, "The History of Now," Leipzig, GER
"The Parlour," Route du Nord Festival, Rotterdam, NL (with Mara Kanthak and Thomas Pearce)
"It's Hardly Softcore," BKS Garage, Copenhagen, DK (with Alpine Desire Collective)
Games
"The Great Success Machine" (with Elbe Trakal). Live Action Role Playing. Download factsheet here
"Ordnungswissenschaft" (with Marek Plichta). Physical Activity. Download instructions here
"Inspector". Digital
"Erudiendae Artibus Iuventuti". Digital
Awards and Scholarships
| 2024 | Jahresstipendium Bildende Kunst / One-year scholarship, State of Lower Saxony | |
| 2022 | NEUSTART-Stipendium, Stiftung Kunstfonds | |
| 2019 | Förderstipendium Niedersachsen / Development Grant, State of Lower Saxony | |
| 2018 | Preis des Kunstvereins Hannover / Award of the Art Association of Hanover | |
| 2018 | European Cultural Foundation Travel Grant | |
| 2017 | GraFöG Grant, DAAD | |
| 2016 | Elsa-Neumann Grant, State of Berlin | |
| 2012 | Award for Teaching Excellence, UdK Berlin | |
| 2011 | NICA Grant, DAAD | |
| 2011 | Award for Best Interaction and shortlisted for Best Game Design, IndieCade International Festival for Independent Games |
Teaching
Till has taught classes, given workshops, tutored, and lectured at Universität der Künste Berlin, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Zürcher Hochschule der Künste, Hochschule für Bildende Künste Hamburg, HAW Hamburg, Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule Halle/Saale, Cooper Union, NYU, UCLA, University of Illinois at Chicago, Summer School Telavi, Parallel School Berlin, and Parallel School Brno.
He is involved in Parallel School and a co-founder of Open-End-Ed, as well as the Neoliberalism Study Group.
From 2017-2018, he was a Research Scholar at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (FVNMA Department).
Legalities
This website was built by Till Wittwer
The content and works provided on this website is governed by the copyright laws of Germany. Duplication, processing, distribution, or any form of commercialization of such material beyond the scope of the copyright law shall require the prior written consent of its respective author or creator. This site contains links to third-party Web sites. The content of such third-party sites is the exclusive responsibility of the respective owners/providers.
All rights reserved © Till Wittwer, 2024
