Klaus Mähring
Klaus Mähring
Klaus arrived in Newcastle having driven from Austria in his mobile atelier: an artist talk took place to look around Klaus's travelling studio and home, and to hear about The Nomadic Village project, which was based in a rural location in County Durham.
Klaus tours around remote rural locations connecting with local communities and setting up temporary spaces for artists to work and collaborate. The work produced during the journeys is exhibited in 'Galerie Nowhere', a mobile gallery set up in the locations.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Klaus Mähring is an Austrian photographer: he often works with an old 5 X 4 plate camera to create stunning portraits of people living in rural locations around Eastern Europe. Klaus also runs 'On The Road Productions', a company which aims to develop and run collaborative projects with other nomadic artists. He tours in his converted 1970's bus, which acts as his home, studio and means of transport as well as hosting a cinema, residency space, darkroom and rooftop terrace. In the past On The Road Productions has set up a Nomadic Village in a small community north of Sofia, Bulgaria. It allowed other artists with mobile homes and studios to join Klaus in the temporary settlement to create work in response to the community, landscape and each other. North East artists Lindsay Duncanson and Marek Gabrysch travelled there to be part of this process.
"By driving around, I find pictures, people, places... Realising the Nomadic Village in 2009, I gladly found out that there are some other artists for whom mobility generates the same autonomy of work, like I have been experiencing. Being on the road means being somewhere else, being in a certain in between that hasn't been categorised or pigeonholed yet."
- Klaus Mähring
Klaus tours around remote rural locations connecting with local communities and setting up temporary spaces for artists to work and collaborate. The work produced during the journeys is exhibited in 'Galerie Nowhere', a mobile gallery set up in the locations.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Klaus Mähring is an Austrian photographer: he often works with an old 5 X 4 plate camera to create stunning portraits of people living in rural locations around Eastern Europe. Klaus also runs 'On The Road Productions', a company which aims to develop and run collaborative projects with other nomadic artists. He tours in his converted 1970's bus, which acts as his home, studio and means of transport as well as hosting a cinema, residency space, darkroom and rooftop terrace. In the past On The Road Productions has set up a Nomadic Village in a small community north of Sofia, Bulgaria. It allowed other artists with mobile homes and studios to join Klaus in the temporary settlement to create work in response to the community, landscape and each other. North East artists Lindsay Duncanson and Marek Gabrysch travelled there to be part of this process.
"By driving around, I find pictures, people, places... Realising the Nomadic Village in 2009, I gladly found out that there are some other artists for whom mobility generates the same autonomy of work, like I have been experiencing. Being on the road means being somewhere else, being in a certain in between that hasn't been categorised or pigeonholed yet."
- Klaus Mähring