Category Archives: Installations_Spaces

TOPOGRAPHICAL INTERLACING MAKHAZIN

24. October 2025 |

October 25–26, 2025, Haus der Kunst Munich, Super BOOKS 6

Michaela Rotsch and Kadir Fadhel present the URAUSGABE of their workbook TOPOGRAPHICAL INTERLACING MAKHAZIN (2025, 2 vols.) at Super BOOKS 6 at Haus der Kunst in Munich. Since 2018, they have been collaborating with the CENTER OF TURBULENCE RE. on the site-specific publishing format: IN SITU PUBLISHING. This project creates publications that are immersively linked to processes in publicly accessible spaces. Media-related elements of these locations are inscribed in the act of publishing.

Workbook Vol. 1, Plate 36 / Michaela Rotsch, pigment print, 84 x 118 cm

PUBLIC REGISTER_MAKHAZIN # 3 /4-5

October 2025 |

PUBLIC REGISTER_MAKHAZIN

23. September 2025 |

ORIGINALISIERUNGEN_MAKHAZIN

17. September 2025 |

SYNTOPY and cross-disciplinary research / urban studies

7. January 2025 |

Cross-disciplinary urban space research

with the art-based concept of syntopy:

Michaela Rotsch: Disziplinenüberschreitende Stadtraumforschung mit dem auf Kunst basierenden Konzept der Syntopie, in: Raphaela Kogler/Alexander Hamedinger (Hg.), Interdisziplinäre Stadtforschung II, urban studies, transcript Bielefeld 2024: 273-291.

Content:

interdisciplinarity and syntopy: a research approach
art-based urban space research with the media lens SYNTOPIAN VAGABOND
transdisciplinary project GLASPALÄSTE
SYNTOPIC SALON Potsdam and Munich
syntopy: a place of interdisciplinarity

NEERSTROM

30. November 2024 |

Constellation, Videography:

November 27, 2024, 4:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.

WORKPIECE#1 from GROUND TILLING

Michaela Rotsch & Kadir Fadhel, 2022,

Center of Turbulence Re. Baghdad

with Bruce Buttfield Design, 1931,

Whitney Museum of American Art,

New York Studio School,

8 W 8th St, NYC 10011

IN SITU PUBLISHING / ORTSGEBUNDENES PUBLIZIEREN

11. November 2024 |

2. – 3. 11. 2024, Haus der Kunst München, super BOOKS 5

Michaela Rotsch and Kadir Fadhel are introducing the original edition of the workbook INDIZIEN DER REIBUNGSZONE (2024) at Super BOOKS 5 at Haus der Kunst in Munich; furthermore publications from Baghdad, Berlin, Munich, Vienna and Wittenberg. Since 2018, they have been working with the CENTER OF TURBULENCE RE. on the work format ORTSGEBUNDENES PUBLIZIEREN / IN SITU PUBLISHING: Here, publications are created that are immersively linked to processes in publicly accessible locations. Medial indications of the places are inscribed in the act of publishing.

Mophradat (Michaela Rotsch) aus INDIZIEN DER REIBUNGSZONE

Super BOOKS is a cooperative project between Haus der Kunst, AAP Artist Publications Archive, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Akademie der Bildenden Künste München, and Kunsthochschule Kassel. It is curated by:

Sabine Brantl (Haus der Kunst) with

Hubert Kretschmer (AAP) and

Lilian Landes (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek)

LYSISTRATA – A SYNTOPY

4. August 2024 |

A syntopic experiment between an installative GOBOTAG action/ Michaela Rotsch and a serial research performance/ Malin Kraus.

August 23 to 25, 2024, Sat. and Sun., 12:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.

Performance on August 23 and 25, 7:00 p.m.

Brunnenstrasse 107, 13355 Berlin Gesundbrunnen

GOBOTAG_FLOTSAM: SUPERFLUOUS

30. March 2024 |

03/23/24 3:00 p.m. – 11:00 p.m.

Vienna, Praterstern, FLUCC Deck_Focus contemporary art.

The ULTRAPORTABLE team: Roland Essl, Ildiko Meny and Michaela Rotsch, works in a syntopic process with Transcultural Emancipation, an audiovisual, performative inventory and an interspatial encirclement.

Michaela Rotsch brings superfluous GOBOTAG_flotsam from Rotterdam to Vienna to the FLUCC Deck.

Configurative installation: 12 textile pattern blocks, 24 tagged images, from: GOBOTAG production in Shanghai, 2009; ULTRAPORTABLE corner, suitcase, 2 video projections, from: Ortsvektor Rotterdam, 2022; Sound-Praterstern by Roland Essl; 1 base, 2 glass screens from: 6:9 World Promises 2017.

The experiment is part of the series “Ecologies of Work 1- Care on Earth”: The estimated remuneration corresponds to the minimum wage of 11.52 euros per hour, with “Acht Stunden sind kein Tag” (R. W. Fassbinder 1972)

MARKET AREA: 6 GLASSY STANDS

20. June 2023 |

Premature estate by Michaela Rotsch

Market area at the Vienna Naschmarkt
June 17, 2023, 2:00 a.m. – 8:00 p.m.

With six glassy stands, I am bringing my work structures from the last two decades to the area of the Vienna flea market in order to give them an arabesque organization. To do this, I am mixing workpieces as artifacts without provenance into the flea market. They are indications between the individual and the pattern, glassy passages and indicative collections.

The six-part installative action was recorded on media. It will be transformed into a SLIPCASE COLLECTION with 6 books:

Volume 1: Rotsch, Michaela: ARABESQUE SPREAD, Munich 2023

The installative action is supported by:

Turbulence Indices

23. May 2022 |

Hybrid building: Rotsch/Fadhel, Center for Turbulence Re., Baghdad 2022

DIRECTION BAGHDAD DOWNTOWN_ BLANK SPACE I

23. October 2018 |

Video, 9’09’’, color, sound, 2016/2018

in BLANK SPACE BAGHDAD / Leerstelle Bagdad

–> Calouste Gulbenkian Museum

Art and Architecture between Lisbon and Baghdad

Lisbon // 26 october 2018 – 28 january 2019

GOBOTAG_STATION: TEL AVIV-BAGHDAD

15. January 2015 |

ongoing project…

JUNCTION | VECTOR VS SYNTOPIAN VAGABOND I BERLIN

7. September 2014 |

September 5 /6, 2014, (on the corner of) Rudi Dutschke & Axel Springer Street

artists journal –> VECTOR

mobile installation space –> SYNTOPIAN VAGABOND

1000 – VECTOR information Flyers for VECTOR ARTISTS JOURNAL #5, BERLIN will be on display and given out of the SYNTOPIAN VAGABOND mobile installation space, during a 2 day happening by Peter Gregorio. The space will be parked on the corner of Rudi Dutschke & Axel Springer Street in Berlin.

VECTOR ARTISTS JOURNAL #5, BERLIN, managing editors, Peter Gregorio, Javier Barrios; artists included: Quirin Bäumler, Birthe Blauth, John Bock, Anina Brisolla, Daniel Chluba, Tobias Dostal, Jacqueline Doyen, Friederike Feldmann, Xenia Fink, Heiner Franzen, Asta Gröting, Philip Grözinger, Gregor Hildebrandt, Andy Hope 1930, Fabian Knecht, Dirk Lange, Adrian Lohmüller, Paul McDevitt, John Monteith, Regine Müller-Waldeck, Manfred Peckl, Daniel Permanetter, Dean Rosenzweig, Benja Sachau, Friedemann von Stockhausen, Meghan Tomeo, Syntopian Vagabond – Michaela Rotsch

PARKPLATZ (PARKING_PLACE)

12. November 2013 |

Votivpark in Vienna in november, viennese park bench, in –> SYNTOPIAN VAGABOND

12 x SLOVENIA_TEXTIL black/beige, acrylic/wool Read More »

INLAY

10. October 2013 |

Installations_Spaces

Textile pattern blocks with motiv from the Gobotag-project, mirrors

Kunstbau Lenbachhaus, Munich

48 pieces of SLOVENIA_TEXTIL, 80, x 0,15 m, black/beige, acrylic/wool

In: -> Inside the Box (Konzept: Albert Coers):
Read More »

PERSONALIZED

8. October 2013 |

Votivpark Vienna, 59 x SLOVENIA_TEXTIL black / beige, acryl / wool, 6 x photography

in the –> SYNTOPIAN VAGABOND Read More »

DIAPOSITIV: PUBLIC REGISTER_PUBLIC COLLECTION

15. September 2013 |

Munich, on august 28 – september 07 2013

at the –> SCHAUSTELLE_PINAKOTHEK DER MODERNE

in the –> SYNTOPIAN VAGABOND

A public image collection is created through a process of collective image sorting with passers-by and protagonists. The PUBLIC COLLECTION is based on a find of 5000 slides with icons of European art history from antiquity to the present. How is the pre-sorted archive deconstructed and re-sorted? Under which procedural conventions is the PUBLIC COLLECTION created?

The PUBLIC COLLECTION was designed as a collective project by Michaela Rotsch (visual art), Juliane Zellner (urban studies) and Rob Lugo (media).

ROTER TEPPICH (RED CARPET)

28. May 2013 |

Votivpark Vienna, 9th district, CHINA_TEXTIL, 33 x 0,80 meter

with the –> SYNTOPIAN VAGABOND

GOBOTAG + SYNTOPIAN VAGABOND

21. April 2013 |

Votivpark in Vienna, -> SYNTOPIAN VAGABOND

GOBOTAG and SYNTOPIAN VAGABOND are connected.

AKH_GOBOTAG

April 2013 |

Vienna, AKH (general hospital)

The transfer of GOBOTAG from the AKH to its’ new location in the –> SYNTOPIAN VAGABOND

WINTER_STATION

18. February 2013 |

Installations_Spaces

Munich, Goethestr. 31, -> SYNTOPISCHER SALON ; Snow-GOBOTAG, self-organizing outline form

RAYS -MPP

14. November 2012 |

Installations_Spaces

The third installation of RAYS: Paderborn, in the Glasmalerei Peters Studios

Founded almost a hundred years ago, Glasmalerei Peters Studios is one of the most renowned workshops for glass design using traditional and modern techniques.

More: the second installation -> RAYS and the first installation of RAYS -> CHECKOUT_RAYS Read More »

CULTURE OF THE “BETWEEN”_GOBOTAG

30. August 2012 |

PUBLIC LABORATORY INSTALLATION

Potsdam, in the transparent lab of the SYNTOPIC SALON –> SYNTOPISCHER SALON, 90 neurospora crassa cultures, petri dishes, acrylic sheet, 300 x 80 cm

90 GOBOTAGS have been grown in cultures of the model organism “neurospora crassa” and installed in a transparent „laboratory“ at the Neuer Markt in Potsdam. The laboratory here acts like an incubator for the tissue culture of the „between“ represented by the GOBOTAG. The “laboratory” separates the growing cultures from the clean, newly-renovated urban environment. Over a period of two weeks, passersby may observe these cultures forming the black outline of the GOBOTAG.

In cooperation with Manfred Gödel (biology), the institute of medical psychology, Ludwigs-Maximilians-Universität München and the Berlin Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften.

Interdisciplinary discussion with: Manfred Gödel (Biology), Michaela Rotsch (Fine Arts), Ingeborg Reichle (Art History), Ernst Pöppel (Neurosciences) and passersby at the Neuer Markt about cultures of the “space between” and world views.

RAYS

15. July 2012 |

Installations_Spaces

Potsdam, Neuer Markt, in the transparent lab of the Syntopic Salon -> SYNTOPISCHEN SALON

180 x 90 x 135 cm // two GS acrylic slices, each 90 x 180 x 1 cm // prints: nano based ink / light box, frames aluminium, led, 90 x 180 x 12 cm.

CHECKOUT_RAYS

June 2012 |

Installations_Spaces

Munich, in the transparent lab of the Syntopic Salon -> SYNTOPISCHEN SALON

180 x 90 x 135 cm // two GS acrylic slices, each 90 x 180 x 1 cm // prints: nano based ink / light box, frames aluminium, led, 90 x 180 x 12 cm.

second installation -> RAYS

third installation -> RAYS MPP

in cooperation with Ildiko Meny (medicine) and the research project „Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi. Glasmalereiforschung“ of the Berlin Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften.

SYNTOPIAN REFUGE: GOBOTAG_STATION

18. September 2011 |

Installations_Spaces

installation: four auto-pole / forex, digital-print, 90x40x230cm / backlite print 350x250x200cm, videoprojection 45min

Istanbul, -> Siemens Sanat, Biennale -> Cityscale

The SYNTOPIAN REFUGE materializes in a temporary micro-space that manifests a transportable protective skin. GOBOTAG_STATION presents a public opinion becomes sculpture. The installation is based on a multi-part urban happening, which employed a pedestrian opinion poll on five vedute of Munich and Istanbul. The choices of the passers-by were converted into a six-part “diagram sculpture”. The sculpture is surrounded by a three-dimensional wall piece representing an “analysis” of the structure of the passers-by. Read More »

GOBOTAG_STATION SIRKECI – GOETHE

8. September 2011 |

Istanbul, Sirkeci Station. Pedestrian opinion poll on vedute of Istanbul and Munich

materials: urban interface with five vedute, flyers, stamps, passers-by

performers: Fatma Gul, Juliane Zellner

POTEMKINSCHE BORDSTEINSKULPTUR

August 2011 |

Installations_Spaces

diagram-sculpture: forex, digiprint, 90x40x230cm, Goethestr. 31, Munich

The sculpture presents a public opinion become sculpture. It is based on urban happening GOETHE–SIRKECI.

-> GOBOTAG_STATION

This employed a pedestrian opinion poll on five vedute of Munich and Istanbul. The choices of the passers-by were converted into a five-part floor sculpture recalling a three-dimensional diagram as used in statistical investigations. This ‘diagram sculpture’ consists of mockups of five piles of the vedute, the height of each pile depending on how often a veduta has been chosen. Every vedute is tagged by a GOBOTAG. Therefore it becomes a TAGGED IMAGE.

Upcoming:

This diagram sculpture is one part of a multi-part urban happening which next stop is taking place at Sirkeci a trainstation in Istanbul in september the 7th. From september the 9th the sculpture is being presented in the installation SYNTOPIAN REFUGE_GOBOTAG STATION at the exhibition –> “cityscale” in Siemens Sanat, Istanbul.