The 2026 tandem: Cornelius Grau from Dortmund and Henrik Nieratschker from Bremen. Henrik Nieratschker moves into the guest studio in Dortmund in April. Cornelius Grau will spend his stay in Bremen in August.

Henrik Nieratschker explores lived experiences of work in the face of rapid technological transformations, tracing threads between past political struggles and future possibilities. Engaging with autobiographically and historically situated fragments – from logistical labor to warehouse raves to miners’ protests – he explores how art might contribute to imagining speculative alternatives to the increasingly unbearable conditions of work and life amidst multiple crises.

This artistic engagement integrates art-making with research, theory, and collective organizing. It takes form in installations, performance, video, sound, publications, and discursive formats – developed both individually and as part of the artist collective and record label Research and Waves.

Cornelius Grau’s works in wood and on canvas mostly portray simple everyday objects and naïve fantasies. The works always have a high recognition value. At the same time, however, they are richly contrasted and brightly coloured, abstracted and overstaged in clear lines and surfaces, and suggest an ironic and seemingly carefree approach to the concept of art and its elitist amplifications. As a consequence, it is particularly the supposedly “small” and “trivial” aspects of life that are restaged. In Bremen, he will go in search of traces of long lost city icons…

For more information on the artists, see:
corneliusgrau.com ↗
kh-bremen.de/henrik-nieratschker ↗

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