P E A C E F U L N E W Y E A R 2 0 2 6
May we all enter a peaceful New Year 2026, free of tyranny, full of magic, and with faith in art’s freedom.
2026
Part of my work
I See the Forest for the Ghosts
– on more or less displaced stones, animals and grandmothers;
on lead on paper, and on all the wood I burned
will be shown at Akademie der Künste as part of the group show Vessel & Voyager
opening: March 12 2026
participating artists: Ilit Azoulay, Patrizia Bach, Fanny Brandauer, Eva Dessecker, Anna Dobrova & Yuliia Rusylo / MetaLab, Sarah Doerfel, Marie Clémentine Dusabejambo, Nina Emge, Solomon Garçon, gruppe-aja, Thembinkosi Hlatshwayo, Dominique Hurth, Mehdi Jahan, Khensani Jurczok-de Klerk, René Kemp, Josephine Macken, Marina Naprushkina, Thuy-Han Nguyen-Chi, Hrishikesh Pawar, Sophie Seita, Sara Stevanović, Diána Vonnák, Franziska Wenning, Hana Yoo, Saikal Zhunush
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2025
Soloshow:
Patrizia Bach: Vergangenheit, in jedem ihrer Momente zitierbar || Past, in Each of its Moments be Citable || Her Anıyla Alıntılanan Geçmiş
at the Navies Kitchen at Kulturakademie Tarabya (Istanbul) 2025
So overly joyed that an excerpt of my long-year project was shown at Kulturakademie Tarabya as part of the summer-festival.
The work is dedicated to Osman Kavala
and came to life with the assistance of many helping hands and input by
Asli Odman, Duygu Yeral, Goethe-Institute Istanbul, Salt-Online-Research, Asena Günal, Lena Alpozan, the team of the Tarabya Kulturakademie (Yusuf Bahar, Tijen Togay, Leonie Dinsch, Sinem Tekel), the private city-archive of Asli Odman and Jean-Frainçois Perousé the trust by Osman Kavala in the first place and my love to the city, her animals, spirits and her wayward history.
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Participation at the Gaza Biennale (Istanbul Pavilion) with the lecture performance I conceptualized on Walter Benjamin’s On the Concept of History as part of my work Past, in Each of its Moments be Citable
Together with Aslı Odman, Khaled Alsaid, Shulamit Bruckstein
In four languages: Arabic, Turkish, German, English
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I am overjoyed and proud to share that I have won the first prize in an »Kunst am Bau« (art in public space) competition for the new Elisabeth-Selbert-Haus in Berlin (Unter den Linden), offered by the the Federal Agency for Public Property (Bundesanstalt für Immobilienaufgaben).
The work »Trotzdem küsse ich deine Nasenspitze [I still kiss the tip of your nose]« was created in close cooperation with the Robert-Havemann-Gesellschaft (Archive of the GDR Opposition) and tells the story of the lesbian and women’s groups as well as the independent women’s movement in the GDR, which – among others – paved the way for the Monday Demonstrations in the fall of 1989 and thus laid a decisive foundation for the reunification of Germany.
This work is dedicated to the courage and perseverance of all the women involved, whose great actions irrevocably changed their own lives and who were often punished with deprivation of liberty, state surveillance and banishment.
A special and personal dedication goes to Petra Leonhardt (♰ November 22, 2023).
The work consists of two parts: A wall drawing, made up of 260 individual drawings whose motifs are inspired by photographs and samizdats from the Grauzone archive collection.
A special developed website accompanies the drawings with quotes, texts and archive material to convey the history of the women’s movement in the GDR.
The AI and the online publication are being realised by Lydia Ickler.
Very special thanks to her, the whole team of the Robert-Havemann-Gesellschaft, the Jury for their trust and of course to all the women out there.
Images:
1: RHG_Fo_GZ_1775 // Excerpt + mock-up of the wall-installation at Elisabet-Selbert-Haus, Berlin
2: RHG_Fo_GZ_1375 // »Unabhängige Presse«, Demonstration auf dem internationalen Frauentag 1990 // »Independent Press«, demonstration at the international women’s day 1990 // Photo: Leo Tesch
3: RHG_Fo_S-FfF_001 // Frauen für den Frieden 1983, Treffen in Bollewick // Women for Peace at a meeting in Bollewick 1983 // Photo: Katja Havemann
4: RHG_Fo_GZ_0396 // »Lesben in der Kirche«, Friedenswerkstatt 1985, Erlöserkirche Berlin // »Lesbians ind the Church« 1985, Berlin // Photo: Bettina Dziggel
5: RHG_Fo_GZ_0675: Erstes Dresdener Frauenfest, Dresden 1985 // First Dresden’s Festival of/for Woman, Dresden 1985 // Photo: Christine Starke
6: RHG_Fo_GZ_1311 //Modenschau der Künstlerinnengruppe Erfurt in der Moritzbastei 1989 // Fashion-show at Moritzbastei in Erfurt, 1989 // Photo: Mechthild Ziegenhagen
7: RHG_Fo_GZ_1883 // Redaktion Ypsilon Magazin // editors of Ypsilon magazine // Fotografin: Kerstin Baarmann
8+9: collage of drawings, each: 42 × 29,7 cm, Polychromos on concrete
10 + 11: mock-up of the wall-installation at Elisabet-Selbert-Haus, Berlin, including the mobile version of the accompanying digital publication
© all photographs: Robert-Havemann-Stiftung / the photographers © all drawings / installation-views: Patrizia Bach
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Performative Reading
On the Concept of History in two languages (TR/EN) together with Duygu Yeral
within the framework of my solo-show Past, in Each of its Moments be Citable
at Kulturakademie Tarabya, Istanbul
This work is dedicated to Osman Kavala
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Lecture
Past in Each of its Moments Be Citable, University of Stuttgart (idg)
© Gabriela Jamil Youssef
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New Archive, new life.
Building up my Haus-Archiv in northern Brandenburg
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Alumni-Fond Kulturakademie, Tarabya (Istanbul)
looking forward to being in Istanbul for some months and finishing my long-term research-work
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2024
Villa-Serpentara-Fellowship, Akademie der Künste, Berlin
I am staying at enchanting Villa Serpentara for 3 months and finally becoming
Patrizia Ruscello for real while engaging with
more or less displaced stones
more or less displaced animals
more or less displaced grandmothers
and the spirits of the forest.
Thank you Akademie der Künste, Berlin & Villa Massimo, Roma
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Exhibition
Patrizia Bach: Ständiges Klopfen unterhalb des Bauchnabels [Constant Knocking Below the Belly Button]: 262 Inventory-Drawings as part of the group-show:
Das Cathrin Pichler Archiv von RPU-Artaud-001 bis DAV-Plakate-029
8.11.2024–2.2.2025
Exhibit Gallery, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
Curatedy by Leon Hösl and Magdalena Stöger in collaboration with Martina Genetti
Artists: Nika Autor, Patrizia Bach, Samuel Bich, Pille-Riin Jaik, İpek Hamzaoğlu, Miriam Stoney
photo: Peter Mochi
photo: Peter Mochi
photo: Patrizia Bach
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new publication out there
Das Cathrin Pichler Archiv
Von RPU-Artaud-001 bis DAV-Plakate-029
Edited by Magdalena Stöger & Leon Hösl
including my work
Ständiges Klopfen unterhalb des Bauchnabels
[Constant Knocking Below the Belly Button]
262 new Inventory-Drawings I made at / for the Cathrin Pichler Archiv, Vienna
and a re-cataloguing in form of keywords and sentences of the complete photographic prints (262) at the Archive.
With contributions by: Nika Autor, Patrizia Bach, Martina Genetti, İpek Hamzaoğlu, Leon Hösl, Pille-Riin Jaik, Miriam Stoney, Magdalena Stöger, Felicitas Thun-Hohenstein.
Design: Astrid Seme, Studio // Publisher: Mark Pezinger Books, 2024
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I liked being in Serramonacesca for the summer
Serramonacesca is where I came from
for many years I did not know
for some years now it leads me back to my roots
they return the love I used to feel
bring witch-craft into my life
and introduce me to the child I could have been
it is where I can look into eyes that saw my grandparents eyes
(and greet my grandmother through them)
it is where I listen to stories that teach me that there is still something good in this most paradoxical of all times
Serramonacesca, you bring sparkling magic into my life and work, you wake me up, you narrate of and by more or less displaced stones and animals, you gift me the sea, the mountains the stillness to listen to them
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New publication out there
von den in den Felsspalten zahllos hausenden Schlagen –
sugli innumerevoli serpenti che dimorano nelle fessure rocciose
Commissioned by Akademie der Künste, Berlin, 2023/24
as part of the publication: Im Schlangenhain. Nella Serpentara, edited by Clara Hermann and Anneka Metzger, Akademie der Künste, Berlin
Self-designed publication as a booklet to be inserted into the anniversary publication, bilingual (de/it) 32 pages, 57 drawings, archive material, quotes, text: Anneka Metzger.
Contents:
57 drawings: Archive-Inventory-Drawings on photographic archive material at the Archive of Akademie der Künste
and Forest-Inventory-Drawings as well as frottages of the century-old oak trees from the Bosco Serpentara, Olevano Romano (Italy)
9 photographs: Archive of the Akademie der Künste)
Research work: Collection of quotations from over 4000 sheets of the historical Archive of Akademie der Künste, Berlin on the history of the Villa Serpentara
as well as quotations/conversation from/with approx. 70 former Villa Serpentara scholarship holders
Book-presentation: 25th of October 2024, Olevano Romano, organized by Akademie der Künste, Berlin and Villa Massimo, Roma
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Looking forward to 2024
Finally my online publication F105 [one convolute of the TOMIKO Archive] will be lauched in May at Weserburg, Bremen (Museum of Modern Art, Bremen) in remembrance of wonderful Bettina Brach. With over 30 contributions by artists, writers and thinkers. (–> listed here). Organized and curated together with wonderful Isolde Loock
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After DUA (Regina Dürig & Patrizia Bach) will stay as fellows at Künstlerhaus S11 (Solothurn, CH) with the aim to be fully present in difficult times. Everyone invited. Open doors to tenderness. (DUA: Ganz da sein, S11, 01.06–31.07. 2024)
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June: Launch of the publication in occasion of the 150. anniverary of Villa Serpentara at Akademie der Künste, Berlin, with an additional artist-book I made (Archive-Interventions at the Archive at Akademie der Künste, Berlin and in the forest Serpentara in Olevano Romano in Italy)
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And before I’ll start my residency at Villa Serpentara (fellowship of Junge Akademie, Akademie der Künste, Berlin) in Olevano Romano for three months – starting in October – I will continue my search for the spritis at Castel Menardo in Serramonaceca.
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November: Booklaunch of the second publication of the Cathrin Pichler Archiv, Wien with a contribution of 261 archive-drawings I made at the Cathrin Pichler Archive.
The launch will be accompanied by an exhibition at Exhibit Galerie, Vienna.
Edited and curated by Magdalena Stöger and Leon Hösl.
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2023
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Learning the language of the trees in 2023/24
following an invitation by Akademie der Künste, Berlin for the publication of the 150th anniversary of Villa Serpentara in Olevano Romano.
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following an invitation by Magdalena Stöger and Leon Hösl
for their next publication for and by the Cathrin Pichler Archive in Vienna: 260 Archive-Drawings
all 20 x 24 cm, pencil on paper // installation-view: Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Vienna, 2023
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DUA as part of the publication: On Care. A Journey into the Relational Nature of Artists‘ Residencies.
(VfmK Verlag für moderne Kunst)
Artistic Friendship – Meeting Between the Lines
Despite years of narrowly missing each other in life, visual artist Patrizia Bach and writer Regina Dürig finally connected at the artists’ residency program Akademie Schloss Solitude. Their shared time bloomed into sisterhood. Like feeling for something together that each could not grasp on their own. This profound exchange between two artists is part of the publication On Care. A Journey into the Relational Nature of Artists‘ Residencies.
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wishing everyonw a p e a c e f u l 2023
with magic from the spirits of Castell Menardo in Serramonacesca, Italy
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2022
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Photo: Frank Kleinbach
Part of my project Past, in Each of its Moments be Citable (taking Istanbul as an example) is shown
at Hospitalhof Stuttgart at the exhibition
Die Lust an der Zeichnung 07.10–16.11.2022
curated by Marie-Luise Zielonka
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Part of my Arcades-Work is shown at Berlinische Galerie from their collection at the exhibtion
Images in Fashion–Clothing in Art, 18.2.22 – 30.5.22
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DUA: Federn Lassen,
Reading and presentation of the edition at oqbo, Berlin
Edition is now availabe at oqbo
watch the video here
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DUA: Federn Lassen,
Reading and presentation of the edition at oqbo, Berlin
Edition is now availabe at oqbo
watch the video here
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Exhibition at Pavillion am Milchhof (Berlin) – together with Regina Dürig
DUA: On the Convolute F119, opening 1. July
2021
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New in 2021:
THE TOMIKO ARCHIVE IS FINALLY ONLINE !!!
launch –> Biennale für Freiburg | www.tomikoarchiv.de
Finally!! – After almost 20 years of collecting and 10 years of re-ordering, thinking and digitizing, the TOMIKO Archive will be now be accessible.
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Exhibition: Biennale für Freiburg
Project: Past, in Each of its Moments be Citable
© Marc Doradzillo
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Exhibition: Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin – with Regina Dürig
Project: Federn lassen (Losing Skin)
© Eric Tschernow
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Artist in Residency @ Kulturakademie Tarayba, Istanbul (Feb–Sept 2021):
Studio View Kulturakademie Tarabya
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Studio-Visit by ARTE.TV
Städte in Zeichensprache / les villes en langue des signes
2020
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Exhibition: Drawing the City / Gezeichnete Stadt, Berlinische Galerie
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Exhibition: on F119 (TOMIKO-Archive), with Regina Dürig, Kunsthaus Langenthal (CH)
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Exhibition: Footnote 14: Angel of History, Cãsa Sao Roque, Centro de Arte, Porto (PRT)
2019
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staying in London with Regina Dürig
thinking of new things and ways of togetherness
2018
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Artist in Residency and Studio visit at Akademie Schloss Solitude: Archive Works
