Stephan Dillemuth

Stephan Dillemuth’s work centres on his keen interest in current changes in the relation between art and the public, often involving historical contexts. However, he always questions his own research by means of experimental artistic resources, the end results of which are installations, staged productions and collaborative works, as well as videos, lectures and publications.

Dillemuth sees as an important starting-point for these deliberations the idea of Bohemian research: “By this I mean extra-institutional research and free association on the part of the researchers. It is a question of production of knowledge, in exchange with others who have similar problems but different qualities to offer. This research arises from existential necessities, exploring everyday problems which actually concern the researchers. It is self-imposed research, research within life, into life and through life.”*

* from Texte zur Kunst, No. 82, June 2011, p 96, translated by Gail Schamberger.