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| Coordinators and Participants |
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Project Co-ordination Germany: Stephanie Endter, Annemarie Oberschmidt Project Co-ordination Hungary: Szabina Kerényi, Réka Mán-Várhegyi Editor in Chief: Isabella Willinger (ViSdP) Editorial Assistance: Moritz Gathmann Graphic Design: Carsten Aermes, Hanna Zeckau (www.kiosk-royal.com) Image Editors and Exhibition Curators: Stephanie Endter, Carmen von Kende Web Design: Jarek Sierpinski (www.apfelzet.de) Consultant Language Editors: Ian Cook, Sean Ronald Tucker Nosztalgia Team: Josefina Bajer, Benjamin Busshoff, Heidi Dommaschke, Esther Draeger, Elisabeth Drescher click on the pictures from our seminar...
CV´s Balázs Antal was born in 1978 in Debrecen, Hungary. He studied printing graphics at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest and sculpture at the Kunsthochschule Weissensee in Berlin. He had exhibitions in Paris, Berlin, Budapest, Sopron and Miskolc. He curated solo exhibitions during two years in Extra, Budapest and is a member of the 70×100 graphical workshop, Budapest. He is living and working as an artist in Budapest. project... Andy Blättler was born in 1970 in Kehrsiten, Switzerland. He studied media science, art history and German language and literature in Basel. Since 2001 he has done several documentary movies. Currently, he is writing a thesis about mediality of time in different artworks of Dieter Roth, Jeff Wall and Heath Bunting. project... Gábor Csuday was born in 1979 in Budapest, where he studied Hispanic and Media Studies together with Aesthetics at Eötvös Loránd Univesity. Besides his academic interests he has been working with photography. He had two expositions in Budapest since 2004. After his graduation he is making an investigation on his grandfather's life with the objective of writing a biographical book. Andrea Dezsö, an artist and writer, grew up in Transylvania. She has shown at the Jack Tilton Gallery in New York, Art Basel Miami Beach, and The New York Armory Show; her work was featured in The New York Times, The Village Voice, Graphic and Print magazine. Dezsö's writing and art appeared in McSweeney's, Esopus, Blab! and Print. She is the recipient of a 2007 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Artist's Books, a 2007 Six Points Fellowship in Visual Arts, and theUcross Foundation's Lois Nellie Gill Award for Female Visual Artist of Exceptional Merit. She is Assistant Professor of Media Design at Parsons The New School for Design in New York City. project... Nicole Dietrich was born in 1973 in Vienna, where she studied contemporary history and anthropology. She has been a freelance radio journalist since 2000, working mainly for ORF/Ö1. 2005/06 she realised a research and radio project in Berlin. Her main focus of interest lies in the field of cultural studies, perception and narration as well as auditive culture. project... Nicole Doerr was born in 1978 and grew up in a rural periphery of Western Germany. Her areas of interest include visuality, gender and culture in public and private everyday spaces and media. She looks out for how new and social transformative meanings and dialogues can emerge, possibly through the telling of other, seemingly forgotten or neglected narratives in text and image. She is part of the Plotki network and its femzine and fashion collective. project... Stephanie Endter was born in 1979 in Munich. She studied Photography at Reading College of Art and Design, UK. Since 2003 she has been based in Berlin and is working as a freelance photographer and cultural project co-ordinator with a focus on the PLOTKI region. She curated "Work is Elsewhere" - an exhibition dealing with labour migration within Central Eastern Europe. (n\osztalgia project co-ordinator in Germany) Magda Falska was born in 1977 in Warsaw. She studied architecture and urban design in Warsaw, Karlsruhe and Berlin. Since 2003 she has worked for different architecture offices in Poland, Switzerland and Germany. Her main interest lies in the connection of media, art and minimal space in an architectural context. project... Balázs Frida, cultural anthropologist, one of the founders of Anthropolis Association, was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1975. He graduated from the University of Miskolc. His research focus was on the modernisation of a rural community called Tchangos In the Eastern Carpathians. Since then he has been participating in many projects and has published several articles in the field of modernisation and civil society in Central-Europe, on Hungarian international relations and on globalisation issues. project... Ágnes Gagyi, born in Miercurea Ciuc, Romania in 1980, as the daughter of a Hungarian family. She studied Literature and Philosophy at Cluj and then turned to Social Science. Presently she is preparing a PhD in Social Communication at the University of Pecs, Hungary, on alterglobalisationist grassroots movements, in which she is also actively engaged. project... Lisa K. Grund was born in 1982 in Bonn. She lived in Germany and Britain and grew up in Lisbon, Portugal. After starting her studies in Geography, Political Science and Religious Comparative Studies and continuing with International Politics and Human Rights, she eventually finished her studies with a Master in Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester. Currently living in Berlin, she is trying to orientate herself how to contribute her part to this world. project... Achim Hatzius, born in 1971 in Rostock (GDR) and since 1977 attending the local conservatoire. He moved to Hamburg (FRG) in 1986, where he studied design and photography. He is a member of the Hamburg based photographers/artists group '18'. Since 2000 he has been living in Berlin, working as a freelance commercial and editorial photographer and realising photographic research and art projects presented in exhibitions or publications. project... László Hatházi, was born in 1978. He graduated at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts Budapest at the Painting Department in 2003. He is living in Budapest and study in the Art University of Pécs, making his DLA studies. The appearance of ornaments in figurative paintings are in the focus of his art. He had exhibitions in Budapest, Pécs, Berlin, Marseille and Strassbourg. He is member of the Elesd Art Assocciation and the The Studio of Young Artists (FKSE). He Studied at the École des Beaux Arts Marseille (2002), and the University of Art and Design Hertfordshire (2007) with Erasmus scolarship. project... Marlise Huijzer was born in Vianen, the Netherlands, on the 25th of February 1983. She now lives in Amsterdam, where she got her bachelor´s degree in Cultural Anthropology with a minor degree in European International Relations at the University of Amsterdam in 2004-2005. She is currently writing her masters thesis, for which she did extensive research on former GDR products and young East Germans in Berlin from February to May 2007. project... Mariya Ivancheva, born in Pleven, Bulgaria, grew up in Sofia. Holds a BA in Philosophy, University of Sofia, and an MA in European Studies from the University College London. Lived abroad since 2003, in Saarbruecken, London, Berlin and Budapest. Currently she is a PhD student in Sociology at the Central European University. Her main fields of interest are Western conceptions of dissent under socialism in the Cold War era and representations of the communist past in its aftermath. project... Carmen v. Kende was born in New York, 1978. She studied East European Studies and Communications in Berlin, Paris and Moscow and graduated from the Freie Universität Berlin (M.A.). Central-east european origins and interest in visual-arts brought her to PLOTKI, where she has been involved in photographical and curatorial work. (n\osztalgia project co-ordinator in Germany) Szabina Kerényi, was born in 1978 in Budapest. She has lived for shorter periods in Sofia, Brno and Copenhagen, currently looking for further ways out of her beloved Budapest. With a background in Slavic Philology and Social Sciences, she is a doctoral student in Sociology, focused on urban social movements. (n\osztalgia project co-ordinator in Hungary) Artyom Kosmarski was born in 1982 in Moscow. He holds a BA in Turkic studies and Linguistics (Institute of Asian and African Studies, Moscow State University) and an MA in Sociology and Social Anthropology, Central European University (Budapest). He is editor-in-chief of the online journal “Communitas / Soobschestvo” (www.ecsocman.edu.ru/communitas). His focus is on urban studies, the anthropology of Central Asia and late Soviet history. project... Jasna Koteska, born 1970 in Skopje, Macedonia, is associate professor of literature, gender studies and psychoanalysis at the University of Skopje. She holds an MA in gender studies from the Central European University in Budapest, and an MPhil and Ph.D. in literature from the University of Skopje. She is the author of the books "Postmodern literary studies" (2002), "Macedonian Women Writings" (2003) and "Sanitary Enigma" (2006). Her articles have been translated into several languages. Currently, she is writing a book on Macedonian communism ("Dossier 5622"). project... Aleksandra Kostiuk was born in 1978, having her roots in the Eastern border areas of Poland. After graduating from Warsaw Art High School she left for Paris where she studied at the Ecole Nationale Superieure d'Art Plastiques and continued at the Ecole Nationale d'Art Decoratif in Paris. Currently she is completing her post-graduate studies in Art Therapy. Apart from organising exhibitions, taking part in art projects, organising workshops for children and adults in an art atelier and conducting workshops in art therapy, she is dealing with photography and painting in her atelier in Bordeaux. project... Réka Mán-Várhegyi was born in Romania in 1979, since 1990 she has been living in Hungary. She studied Sociology and Aesthetics in Budapest, and a bit of Museum Studies in Berlin. She is interested in visuality and representation. She has too many jobs - usually she is writing, editing or conducting interviews. (n\osztalgia project co-ordinator in Hungary) Peggy Meinfelder was born in 1975 in Hildburghausen (Suhl). After finishing High School she trained to become a stonemason. Until 2004 she studied Fine Arts in Weimar and Munich. Her work with historical material was translated from her handicraft into art based upon her biography. project... Paula Muhr was born in 1977 in the former Yugoslavia. She holds an MA and a BA in Photography and studied General Literature in Belgrade. Currently, she is a master-class student of photography at the Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig. Her work has been exhibited in numerous solo and group shows and she participated in a number of photography festivals. Her photographs have been published in Capricious (New York), Fotograf (Brno) and Purple Journal (Paris). She is also active as a curator and contributes reviews to Imago, international magazine for Central European photography. project... Fruzsina Müller was born in 1981 in Budapest, where she studied German philology and journalism. Since 2005 she has been living in Leipzig as a freelance journalist and tourist guide in the museum for state security of the former GDR. In 2007 she started her doctoral studies and will write about the relationship of consumption and national consciousness in Hungary in the socialist times and today. project... Annemarie Oberschmidt, born in 1976, grew up in Northern Germany and, during holidays, in Western Poland. Studied East European Studies, Political Science and East European History at the Freie Universität Berlin and the University of Warsaw. Occupied with spending EU money for political and cultural projects in Eastern Europe. (n\osztalgia project co-ordinator in Germany) Florin Poenaru was born in 1983 in Romania. He is currently doing a PhD in Socio-Anthropology at the Central European University in Budapest. His areas of research include urban anthropology, architecture and infrastructural studies. project... Neeltje Reijerman, born in 1975 to a Dutch father and a German mother who fled the GDR at the age of 25. Grew up in Munich. She holds a Diploma in Photography from the Royal Academy of Art, Den Haag and an M.A. in Cultural Studies, Cultural Anthropology and Art History from the University of Leipzig. She is also editor of the art magazine sensor. She currently lives in Berlin. project... Zita Sárvári was born in 1981. She is in her last year at the University of Pécs at the Communication and Media Sciences and Art Philosophy Departments. She research the hyper-aesthetism of mass culture and the new aesthitical dimensions of contemporary art. She studied at the Humboldt Universitaet zu Berlin at Europaische Ethnographie and Kulturwissenschaft Departments in the Wintersemester of 2005/2006. Next to her scientifical researches she was the coordinator of The International Summer University of Ratzeburg in 2005 and of Lauenburg in 2006, where five nations youths worked together on different sociological art projects. project... Jörg Frank Seemann was born in 1976 in Erfurt, (East)Germany. He works as a stage director and designer and his main medium is light. He is presently living in Stockholm and Berlin. project... Alnis Stakle, born in 1975 in Latvia, is a lecturer of photography at the Art and Music faculty, Daugavpils University and visiting professor of photojournalism at Rigas Stradina University. Since 1998 his work has been shown in 16 solo exhibitions and he has participated in more then 30 group exhibitions. project... Vladimir Stankovic, born in Belgrade, grew up, lives and works in Novi Sad, Serbia. He finished his masters studies at the department of drawing at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad. His work deals mainly with existence. Creating the ‘nothing’, he aims at expressing all reflections and realities around us. project... Alexandra Trencséni, artist, writer and videoessayist. Her publications are ‘Der Vogelzug (Die Wiederholung)’, subtitled 'study on models of space in relation to identity-constructions via ornithological homing-experiments' 1850-1990, Berlin 2000; 'Ribbons (knot-talks 3)' Berlin 2004; 'heim@t', Karl-Hofer Preis, Berlin 2005. Works in progress: 'Shout-City' (a novel); 'Robert de Niro and his Double' (audio piece); Emlék-archive: videobased installations, movies and texts on the invention of Hungary. project... Anna Voswinckel was born in 1975 in Hamburg, Germany, where she studied visual communication. Since 2001 she worked as a freelance graphic designer and photographer in Berlin. This year she graduated in MAS Cultural/Genderstudies at the University of the Arts Zürich, Switzerland. Reflecting her practice as a curator of the feminist art exhibition "Lost&Found" in Zürich and as a designer for PLOTKI magazine, she investigated the transformative potentials and the complexities of visual communication within transnational social networks. Together with Nicole Doerr she conducted a workshop on post-socialist nostalgia, gender and images at the n\osztalgia seminar in Zánka. Isabella Willinger was born in Munich in 1978. She studied Slavic Studies, American Studies and Sociology in Berlin, Prague and New York. After completing her MA with a thesis on the works of Ukrainian film director Kira Muratova in 2006, Isabella started to study film-making herself at Munich film-school. She has been a contributing editor for plotki-magazine since 2001. project... Tanya Zamirovskaya was born in 1980 in Borisov, a small industrial town 60 km from Minsk, Belarus. Since 1997 she has been living in Minsk. After she finished the Belarusian State University faculty of journalism, she started writing her PhD thesis on music journalism and discourse analysis in 2003. She is working as a journalist for the Belarussian press and radio and writes short stories, some of them being published as well. Her spheres of professional and personal interests are luckily connected: modern music, linguistics, culture and creative writing. project... |
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