Biography

FORT, made up of Alberta Niemann (1982 in Bremen) and Jenny Kropp (1978 in Frankfurt am Main), create experiential spaces and spatial experiences through their sculptural installations and performances. They adapt and transfer everyday objects to the exhibition space which often have a subtly surreal character, evoking an eerie atmosphere. By appropriating the existing and adding their own elements, FORT's works disturb the supposedly familiar with strange features, generating real and sensual references to our actual world, whilst also pointing to an imaginative elsewhere. Viewers become involuntary extras in a scene serving to make visible the mechanisms of consumer society and the art market, transforming the familiar into ambiguous, confusing, poetic, but also humorous and absurd settings.

Solo Exhibitions

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  • One in a Million, Galerie Elisabeth & Klaus Thoman, Vienna
  • Morgen letzter Tag, Kunsthaus Dresden
2012
  • Leck, Galerie Crone, Berlin
  • Lou, Exile, Berlin
2011
  • The Eye Balled Walls, LISTE 16, Basel
2010
  • FORT Hatchery Works, FHW Heating Plant Neukölln, Berlin
  • The Golden Rule, Galerie Lena Brüning, Berlin
2009
  • Point Gray, Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen
2008
  • Horror Vacui, Galerie Crystal Ball, Berlin
  • Point Gray, Sequences real time art festival, Reykjavik | Island

Group Exhibitions

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  • Creatio Continua, Haus der Kunst, Munich
  • Krankheit als Metapher. Das Irre im Garten der Arten, Kunsthaus Hamburg, Hamburg
  • One Night Stand #1, KW Inststitute for Contemporary Art Berlin, Berlin
2013
  • Only To Melt, Trustingly, Without Reproach, Gallery Škuc, Ljubljana
  • Fremd & Eigen, Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck
  • Risk Society, MoCA Museum of Contemporary Art Taipeh, Taiwan
  • Testing (Re-)Production, Muzeum Sztuki, Lodz
  • Skizze einer Generation am Ende der Geschichte, Motorenhalle, Dresden
2012
  • One On One, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
  • The Collective Eye, Centro de Exposiciones Subte, Montevideo
  • Various Stages – Bedingte Bühnen, Kunsthaus Dresden, Dresden
  • Andere Räume, Bundeskunsthalle Bonn, Bonn
  • Tomorrow, Die Bastei, Cologne
2011
  • Document Performance, Exile, Berlin
  • Mémoires du Futur - La Collection Olbricht, La maison rouge, Paris
  • Sonne, Höhle, Linie, Temporary Art Space Glogauerstraße, Berlin
2010
  • Rahmenprogramm, Available Works, Berlin
  • Wystawa, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw
2008
  • Hotel Marienbad, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin

Bibliography

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