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  • Bio

    Florian Göttke is a visual artist, researcher, and writer based in Amsterdam. He combines visual modes of research (collecting, close reading, and image montage) with academic research to investigate the functioning of public images and their relationship to social memory and politics. Göttke has exhibited internationally, has written articles for academic journals and art publications. His book Toppled, an iconological study of the toppled statues of Saddam Hussein, was nominated for the Dutch Doc Award 2011.

    Göttke obtained a PhD Artistic Research at the University of Amsterdam and the Dutch Art Institute in 2019. His dissertation entitled "Burning Images: Performing Effigies as Political Protest" investigates the peculiar practice to hang or burn effigies—scarecrow-like puppets representing despised politicians—as a form of political protest. His dissertation, which will be published at the end of 2020 with Valiz, Amsterdam, combines two discursive narratives: a linear text and a parallel assemblage of images. Image narrative and text are like the two voices in a musical composition, each in turn taking the lead to introduce themes, structure the work, direct the reader, set tempo and rhythm, halt the attention or accelerate the flow.

  • Curriculum Vitæ

     

    education

    April 2019 PhD defense
    2012 - 2019 PhD research at the University of Amsterdam and the Dutch Art Institute
    1995 - 1997 MFA, Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam
    1993 - 1995 Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Audiovisual, Amsterdam
       

    residencies

    2015 Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
    2011 ABA Berlin Alexanderplatz
    2007 Banff Art Center, Canada
       

    publications

    2022

    “Performance and Perception: Make-Believe and Aspect Change.” In Atlas of Aspect Change: A Book of Shifting Meanings. Edited by Tine Melzer. Zürich: Rollo Press, 2022.

     

    “1 Week/1 Dag/1 Werk: Der Agitator (1929) van George Grosz,” MetropolisM, 26 December 2022. https://www.metropolism.com/nl/features/48485_1_week_1_dag_1_werk_der_agitator_1929_van_george_grosz.

     

    “Gazes From Syria: Media Witnessing in Times of Crisis,” Conference Proceedings: AHM Conference 2022, Witnessing, Memory, and Crisis, Amsterdam University Press, 2022. https://doi.org/10.5117/9789048557578/AHM.2022.013.

    2021

    Burning Images: History of Effigy Protest, Amsterdam: Valiz, Summer 2021. 

     

    “Jaar van vallende standbeelden,” Columnn in Metropolis M, 2 (March 2021)

    2020

     “Burning United States Presidents: Protest Effigies in Iraq, Iran and Afghanistan.” In The Political Portrait: Leadership, Image and Power, edited by Luciano Cheles and Alessandro Giacone, London: Routledge, 2020.

     

    “Contra Cancel Culture.” Column in MetropolisM 6 (Dec 2020).

      Vademecum Löwen und Adler, (2020) self published as part of the installation Löwen und Adler at Kunstverein Rosa Luxemburg Platz, Berlin.
    2019

    “Burning Images for Punishment and Change,” in Trigger, Nr.1 (Nov 2019) published by Fotomuseum Antwerpen and Fw:Books.

     

    "Burning Images: Performing Effigies as Political Protest," PhD dissertation, University of Amsterdam.

      "Of Falling Statues: Destabilizing a Media Icon," in Decoding Dictatorial Statues by Ted Hyunhak Yoon, Eindhoven: Onomatopee, 2019.
    2017

    ”Plaatsvervangende Lichamen.” Metropolis M, 2 (2017)

    2015
    "Burning Effigies with Bakhtinian Laughter," in European Journal of Humour Research
    "A Protester in Homs, Syria" in FOAM magazine #41
    2014 "A Protester in Homs, Syria,” in Pavilion – journal for politics and culture #17, reader of the Bucharest Biennial 6
    2013 “A Protester in Homs, Syria”, in Open!, platform for Art & the Public Domain, Nov 2013, www.onlineopen.org
      Löwen und Adler, German edition, research results of the residency “The Slipping of the Symbolic Tongue”, May-August 2011 in ABA Berlin
    2011 Eagles and Lions, research results of the residency “The Slipping of the Symbolic Tongue”, May-August in ABA Berlin
     
    "The Slipping of the Symbolic Tongue", in: Reconstruction and Pathos, SparwasserHQ, Berlin, Germany
    2010
    Toppled, Post Editions, Rotterdam
       

    exhibitions

    2022

    "Löwen und Adler / Aufmarschwege," in Stadt, Land, Dance, ratskeller – Galerie für zeitgenössische Kunst, Berlin, 2 Sep — 23 Oct 2022.

     

    “Gazes From Syria: Eleven Years Of Uprising / Multi-Sided Civil, Sectarian and Proxy War.” Art History Department of the University of Amsterdam, 15 March – 8 April.

    2021 

    “Burning Images: Aesthetic of Defamation,” in DENUNZIATION!, ACC Galerie Weimar, 11 Dec 2021 - 20 Feb 2022 Exhibition "Gazes From Syria,” Noorderlicht Photo Festival 2021, Groningen, 7 Aug – 3 Oct. 

     

    "Gazes From Syria,” Noorderlicht Photo Festival 2021, Groningen, 7 August — 3 October. 

    2020

    Blinde Winkel, Kunstverein Rosa-Luxemburg Platz Berlin.

    2019 Joint Memory: Photographic Fragments, Fotodok, Utrecht, NL
    2015 Löwen und Adler,  presentation during the Open Studios at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
    2014 Balconism, MoMart, Amsterdam, NL
      Photos! Power! Freedom!, Centre national de l’audiovisuel, Luxemburg
    2013 If Mind Was All There Was, Kunstverein Göttingen, DE
      Photos! Power! Freedom!, Fotomuseum Antwerpen, BE
    2012 Barbaren der Oberschicht, Ratskeller, Berlin, DE
      Vague Storytelling, The Cameraclub of New York, US
      Mit krimineller Energie, Halle 14, Leipzig + ACC Weimar, DE
      On Icons, Jan van Eyckacademie, Maastricht, NL
    2011 Modelling Standard, gallery Joan Prats, Barcelona, ES
      Art Istanbul with gallery The Empty Quarter, Dubai
      Eagles and Lions, Salon of the artist residency ABA, Berlin, DE
      Paris Photo with gallery The Empty Quarter, Dubai
      Diep, festival de la côte d’albâtre, Dieppe, F
      Dutch Doc Award 2011, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, NL
    2010 “Snow is White”, Fotodok, Utrecht, NL
      Toppled – book launch at Stroom, Den Haag, NL
      “Anti-Beeld”, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, NL
    2009 Remain in Light – W139, Amsterdam, NL
    2008 Werkplaats Thorbecke – Stroom, Den Haag, NL
      Schaal 1 - ∞, Quartair, Den Haag, NL
      Mermaid Hair in the Outboard Motor, lecture, Smart Project Space, Amsterdam, NL
      Urban Tendency – London Festival of Architecture, United Kingdom
      Anthroprosaic – Art Rotterdam with gallery Metis, NL
    2007 Toppled – lecture, De Balie, Amsterdam
      Toppled – lecture, Studium Generale, Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam
      Anthroprosaic, Metis_NL, Amsterdam
      Magic Beans – SBK Osdorp, Amsterdam
    2006 Straal – de Balie, Amsterdam
    2005 Gut und Nah – Artwalk, Amsterdam
      Borrowed Sceneries – Museum De Paviljoens, Almere
      Low Tech, - Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam
    2004 Borrowed Scenery (Enriched Semi-Naturalistic Enclosure) – Centro Arte Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain
      Illuminating Shadows - Film Graz, Austria
    2003 Artissima - Art Fair, Turin, Italy with gallery Metis_NL
      Ten Goats Pulled Ten Pounds of Sugar to the Zoo - Consortium, Amsterdam
      Stumbling Over Distant Planets – gallery Metis_NL, Amsterdam
      The Picnic - Marleben, Germany, in collaboration with Rebecca Sakoun
      Conflicts/Resolution - Collection Essl, Vienna, Austria
      Art Position - Brauerei Ottakringer, Vienna, Austria
      Quattro Venti - Manciano, Italy, in collaboration with Govinda Mens
      Tremor - Lothringer13, München, Germany
    2002 Entre Amis - Le Plate-forme, Duinkerken, France
      Biennale of the One Minutes - Centraal Museum Utrecht
      A Haunted House of Art – Outline, Amsterdam
      Franciscus - Fries Museum, Leeuwarden
      Not I - NICC, Antwerp, Belgium
    2001 The People's Art - Witte de With, Rotterdam
      Present Future - Artissima, Art Fair, Turin, Italy
      Amsterdam x Kyoto - new directions - Kyoto Art Center, Japan
      Until Tilt - Consortium, Amsterdam
      A Garden Built for You - Smart Project Space, Amsterdam
      The People's Art - Porto, Portugal, an exhibition of Witte de With
       
     

    teaching

    2021 - current rMA Art and Performance Research Studies, University of Amsterdam
    2006 - current Dutch Art Institute/MfA ArtEZ, Arnhem www.dutchartinstitute.eu
    2010 - 2012 Dogtime, Gerrit Rietveld Academy
    2004 – 2006 Public Art – ArtEZ, Arnhem, Zwolle, Enschede
    2000 – 2006 guestlecturer for the Gerrit Rietveld Academy  and the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam,  the CABK in Zwolle, the Academy Minerva in Groningen, the Dutch Art Institute in Enschede, the Art Academy in Munich, Germany and the University for Design in Weimar, Germany.
  • Curriculum Vitæ

     

    education

    April 2019 PhD defense
    2012 - 2019 PhD research at the University of Amsterdam and the Dutch Art Institute
    1995 - 1997 MFA, Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam
    1993 - 1995 Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Audiovisual, Amsterdam
       

    residencies

    2015 Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
    2011 ABA Berlin Alexanderplatz
    2007 Banff Art Center, Canada
       

    publications

    2022

    “Performance and Perception: Make-Believe and Aspect Change.” In Atlas of Aspect Change: A Book of Shifting Meanings. Edited by Tine Melzer. Zürich: Rollo Press, 2022.

     

    “1 Week/1 Dag/1 Werk: Der Agitator (1929) van George Grosz,” MetropolisM, 26 December 2022. https://www.metropolism.com/nl/features/48485_1_week_1_dag_1_werk_der_agitator_1929_van_george_grosz.

     

    “Gazes From Syria: Media Witnessing in Times of Crisis,” Conference Proceedings: AHM Conference 2022, Witnessing, Memory, and Crisis, Amsterdam University Press, 2022. https://doi.org/10.5117/9789048557578/AHM.2022.013.

    2021

    Burning Images: History of Effigy Protest, Amsterdam: Valiz, Summer 2021. 

     

    “Jaar van vallende standbeelden,” Columnn in Metropolis M, 2 (March 2021)

    2020

     “Burning United States Presidents: Protest Effigies in Iraq, Iran and Afghanistan.” In The Political Portrait: Leadership, Image and Power, edited by Luciano Cheles and Alessandro Giacone, London: Routledge, 2020.

     

    “Contra Cancel Culture.” Column in MetropolisM 6 (Dec 2020).

      Vademecum Löwen und Adler, (2020) self published as part of the installation Löwen und Adler at Kunstverein Rosa Luxemburg Platz, Berlin.
    2019

    “Burning Images for Punishment and Change,” in Trigger, Nr.1 (Nov 2019) published by Fotomuseum Antwerpen and Fw:Books.

     

    "Burning Images: Performing Effigies as Political Protest," PhD dissertation, University of Amsterdam.

      "Of Falling Statues: Destabilizing a Media Icon," in Decoding Dictatorial Statues by Ted Hyunhak Yoon, Eindhoven: Onomatopee, 2019.
    2017

    ”Plaatsvervangende Lichamen.” Metropolis M, 2 (2017)

    2015
    "Burning Effigies with Bakhtinian Laughter," in European Journal of Humour Research
    "A Protester in Homs, Syria" in FOAM magazine #41
    2014 "A Protester in Homs, Syria,” in Pavilion – journal for politics and culture #17, reader of the Bucharest Biennial 6
    2013 “A Protester in Homs, Syria”, in Open!, platform for Art & the Public Domain, Nov 2013, www.onlineopen.org
      Löwen und Adler, German edition, research results of the residency “The Slipping of the Symbolic Tongue”, May-August 2011 in ABA Berlin
    2011 Eagles and Lions, research results of the residency “The Slipping of the Symbolic Tongue”, May-August in ABA Berlin
     
    "The Slipping of the Symbolic Tongue", in: Reconstruction and Pathos, SparwasserHQ, Berlin, Germany
    2010
    Toppled, Post Editions, Rotterdam
       

    exhibitions

    2022

    "Löwen und Adler / Aufmarschwege," in Stadt, Land, Dance, ratskeller – Galerie für zeitgenössische Kunst, Berlin, 2 Sep — 23 Oct 2022.

     

    “Gazes From Syria: Eleven Years Of Uprising / Multi-Sided Civil, Sectarian and Proxy War.” Art History Department of the University of Amsterdam, 15 March – 8 April.

    2021 

    “Burning Images: Aesthetic of Defamation,” in DENUNZIATION!, ACC Galerie Weimar, 11 Dec 2021 - 20 Feb 2022 Exhibition "Gazes From Syria,” Noorderlicht Photo Festival 2021, Groningen, 7 Aug – 3 Oct. 

     

    "Gazes From Syria,” Noorderlicht Photo Festival 2021, Groningen, 7 August — 3 October. 

    2020

    Blinde Winkel, Kunstverein Rosa-Luxemburg Platz Berlin.

    2019 Joint Memory: Photographic Fragments, Fotodok, Utrecht, NL
    2015 Löwen und Adler,  presentation during the Open Studios at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
    2014 Balconism, MoMart, Amsterdam, NL
      Photos! Power! Freedom!, Centre national de l’audiovisuel, Luxemburg
    2013 If Mind Was All There Was, Kunstverein Göttingen, DE
      Photos! Power! Freedom!, Fotomuseum Antwerpen, BE
    2012 Barbaren der Oberschicht, Ratskeller, Berlin, DE
      Vague Storytelling, The Cameraclub of New York, US
      Mit krimineller Energie, Halle 14, Leipzig + ACC Weimar, DE
      On Icons, Jan van Eyckacademie, Maastricht, NL
    2011 Modelling Standard, gallery Joan Prats, Barcelona, ES
      Art Istanbul with gallery The Empty Quarter, Dubai
      Eagles and Lions, Salon of the artist residency ABA, Berlin, DE
      Paris Photo with gallery The Empty Quarter, Dubai
      Diep, festival de la côte d’albâtre, Dieppe, F
      Dutch Doc Award 2011, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, NL
    2010 “Snow is White”, Fotodok, Utrecht, NL
      Toppled – book launch at Stroom, Den Haag, NL
      “Anti-Beeld”, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, NL
    2009 Remain in Light – W139, Amsterdam, NL
    2008 Werkplaats Thorbecke – Stroom, Den Haag, NL
      Schaal 1 - ∞, Quartair, Den Haag, NL
      Mermaid Hair in the Outboard Motor, lecture, Smart Project Space, Amsterdam, NL
      Urban Tendency – London Festival of Architecture, United Kingdom
      Anthroprosaic – Art Rotterdam with gallery Metis, NL
    2007 Toppled – lecture, De Balie, Amsterdam
      Toppled – lecture, Studium Generale, Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam
      Anthroprosaic, Metis_NL, Amsterdam
      Magic Beans – SBK Osdorp, Amsterdam
    2006 Straal – de Balie, Amsterdam
    2005 Gut und Nah – Artwalk, Amsterdam
      Borrowed Sceneries – Museum De Paviljoens, Almere
      Low Tech, - Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam
    2004 Borrowed Scenery (Enriched Semi-Naturalistic Enclosure) – Centro Arte Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain
      Illuminating Shadows - Film Graz, Austria
    2003 Artissima - Art Fair, Turin, Italy with gallery Metis_NL
      Ten Goats Pulled Ten Pounds of Sugar to the Zoo - Consortium, Amsterdam
      Stumbling Over Distant Planets – gallery Metis_NL, Amsterdam
      The Picnic - Marleben, Germany, in collaboration with Rebecca Sakoun
      Conflicts/Resolution - Collection Essl, Vienna, Austria
      Art Position - Brauerei Ottakringer, Vienna, Austria
      Quattro Venti - Manciano, Italy, in collaboration with Govinda Mens
      Tremor - Lothringer13, München, Germany
    2002 Entre Amis - Le Plate-forme, Duinkerken, France
      Biennale of the One Minutes - Centraal Museum Utrecht
      A Haunted House of Art – Outline, Amsterdam
      Franciscus - Fries Museum, Leeuwarden
      Not I - NICC, Antwerp, Belgium
    2001 The People's Art - Witte de With, Rotterdam
      Present Future - Artissima, Art Fair, Turin, Italy
      Amsterdam x Kyoto - new directions - Kyoto Art Center, Japan
      Until Tilt - Consortium, Amsterdam
      A Garden Built for You - Smart Project Space, Amsterdam
      The People's Art - Porto, Portugal, an exhibition of Witte de With
       
     

    teaching

    2021 - current rMA Art and Performance Research Studies, University of Amsterdam
    2006 - current Dutch Art Institute/MfA ArtEZ, Arnhem www.dutchartinstitute.eu
    2010 - 2012 Dogtime, Gerrit Rietveld Academy
    2004 – 2006 Public Art – ArtEZ, Arnhem, Zwolle, Enschede
    2000 – 2006 guestlecturer for the Gerrit Rietveld Academy  and the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam,  the CABK in Zwolle, the Academy Minerva in Groningen, the Dutch Art Institute in Enschede, the Art Academy in Munich, Germany and the University for Design in Weimar, Germany.
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