meine drei lyrischen ichs

In the organizer's words:

LYRIK: Elena Kaufmann (Berlin), Christoph Szalay (Styria)
TEXT AND ART: Jan Erbelding (Munich), Hannes Heinrich (Munich/London)

In the last edition of my three lyrical I's this year, not only do highly exciting positions in contemporary poetry and art come together. The event is also dedicated to the interplay and fluid transitions between the different areas of artistic practice. We are looking forward to the following guests:

Christoph Szalay, born 1987 in Graz, is active as a literary and curatorial artist and often combines literary and artistic spaces in his transdisciplinary works. He studied German Studies in Graz and Art in Context at the UdK Berlin and practiced winter sports professionally. Szalay is anchored in the Upper Styrian Alpine region. His most recent publications include H U R T, Ritter Verlag (2024); S O F T (Acts of Tenderness), playing cards, Center for Social Vision, Sofia (2023).

Elena Kaufmann, born in 1992, writes poetry and theater texts and works in multimedia with text images and video. After studying literature and philosophy in Munich and Paris, she now lives and works in Berlin. She has published in Jahrbuch der Lyrik, BELLA triste and others. Her artist's book Dear world you have made the persons slow has been exhibited internationally. She received a working grant from the Berlin Senate to work on her poetry collection Hiat Heute, in which she deals with perception in the information age.

Jan Erbelding is an author, photographer and object artist. His mostly text-based artistic practice is conveyed through performances, spatial installations and his own publications. Erbelding combines personal experiences and ideas with historical facts and figures, literary references and socio-political commentary to create ramified, poetic narratives. Most recently, Financial Times. A Wall Street Journal (2024) and Simone Weil Fanboy Text (2022) were published by the zine label Vague Intellectual Pleasures. Together with Leo Heinik and Maria VMier, Jan Erbelding has formed the artist collective Ruine München since 2017.

Hannes Heinrich, born in 1989, studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich under Karin Kneffel and at the SLADE School of Fine Arts London (UCL). In his works, non-objectivity and figuration are not contradictory, but are equally important possibilities in his painting vocabulary. He superimposes the constant, concrete re-questioning of the pictorial space with the seemingly banal ramifications of everyday life, plays with casualness and drama, chance and decision and thus creates images that question one's own perception and consistently endure contradictions. Hannes Heinrich lives and works in Munich and London.

Admission: 7/5
Curation and moderation: Daniel Bayerstorfer, Tristan Marquardt, Annalena Roters, Nora Zapf

With the kind support of the Cultural Department of the City of Munich

Price information:

7/5