https://gabrielhensche.com gabrielhensche.com Sun, 10 Oct 2021 20:17:03 +0000 https://gabrielhensche.com en https://gabrielhensche.com/Home Sun, 08 Oct 2017 13:15:00 +0000 gabrielhensche.com https://gabrielhensche.com/Home https://gabrielhensche.com/Exercises-for-the-digital-age Sat, 25 Apr 2020 11:14:33 +0000 gabrielhensche.com https://gabrielhensche.com/Exercises-for-the-digital-age EXERCISES FOR THE DIGITAL AGE 2020 - today &nbsp;20 videos, HD, colour, sound each between 1 and 5 min concept &amp; instigator – Gabriel Hensche curator &amp; collaborator – Ashlee Conery postproduction – Dernis Golenja sound design – Becky Brown camera – Petra Mrša advisor – Tomke Brown with contributions by OMSK Social Club, Rory Pilgrim, Mattin, Jin-me Yoon, Ayumi Goto, Peter Morin, Roberto Fassone, Jan Hofer, Niccolò Moronato, Raùl Hott, Dorothea Rust, Thanh Nguyen, Phung Nam, Kim Trang, Giang Nguyen Hoang, Claire Nichols, Stéphanie Cadoret, Jol Thoms, Delphine Pouillé, Sarah Friend, Mohsen Hazrati, Sophie Kahn, Gabriella Torres-Ferrer, Sonja Pregrad, Bjørn Melhus <img width="2250" height="1500" width_o="2250" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/94861c64321e5c187459b6577aa691ef18bc719ca66002f286979ca7cf2c07ec/Izlozba_Mentally-I-am-here_2025-87.jpg" data-mid="241972854" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/94861c64321e5c187459b6577aa691ef18bc719ca66002f286979ca7cf2c07ec/Izlozba_Mentally-I-am-here_2025-87.jpg" />Exercises for the digital age consist of co-created how-to videos that help you survive and thrive in the digital age. The internet and digital technologies bring new qualities to our lives by making things possible that were never possible before. But these technologies (and their monetarization) bring also challenges to our lives. (Data shows, for instance, that social media harm teens’ mental health). We need to be clear about what we want from these technologies and how we want to use them so that they benefit us and do not harm us. <img width="2250" height="1500" width_o="2250" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c8c677f7628db75d552323c1e1a1a027fb2917984fb04ccebc93e21ea9c9fbf9/Izlozba_Mentally-I-am-here_2025-104.jpg" data-mid="241974339" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c8c677f7628db75d552323c1e1a1a027fb2917984fb04ccebc93e21ea9c9fbf9/Izlozba_Mentally-I-am-here_2025-104.jpg" /> <img width="2250" height="1500" width_o="2250" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e7af2df1886b60527e7042da16ad9748bcd6bc435632d275f9de8b96c536bded/Izlozba_Mentally-I-am-here_2025-43.jpg" data-mid="241973147" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e7af2df1886b60527e7042da16ad9748bcd6bc435632d275f9de8b96c536bded/Izlozba_Mentally-I-am-here_2025-43.jpg" /> <img width="2250" height="1500" width_o="2250" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/82debb4224c54d87b75b07b76f6353afdde32f9e2f355096392fe037874762ab/Izlozba_Mentally-I-am-here_2025-79.jpg" data-mid="241972853" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/82debb4224c54d87b75b07b76f6353afdde32f9e2f355096392fe037874762ab/Izlozba_Mentally-I-am-here_2025-79.jpg" /> How can we get more out of the digital than we put in? What do we do to stay physically and mentally healthy while spending time online? And can our digital time be more playful and fun? Gabriel asks these questions to artists from around the internet and collaboratively develop an exercise with each of them for digital survival and thrival. These exercises vary from breathing with a tree, to smelling the digital or digitizing a dream. He then produces collaboratively with curator Ashlee B. Conery exercise videos to share these artists' practices for physical, mental and virtual ‘fitness’ to hopefully help audiences actively and joyfully move through online and offline spaces. <img width="2250" height="1500" width_o="2250" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3de40a196db8ae91fd929be5041a8a84f91caf434c9566bb1697774fe344a5b2/Izlozba_Mentally-I-am-here_2025-75.jpg" data-mid="241972857" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3de40a196db8ae91fd929be5041a8a84f91caf434c9566bb1697774fe344a5b2/Izlozba_Mentally-I-am-here_2025-75.jpg" /> Installation view “Mentally I am here” at Museum for Modern and Contemporary Art (MMSU) Rijeka 2025 how to produce an about video how to guide a web tour how to breathe the digital how to own the map how to rename and shuffle how to digitally digest how to feel safe in an unsafe way how to breathe with a tree how to create an encounter full of love and mystery “Dear Raúl, I hope you’re well. Do you sometimes draw while being on the phone? I’m talking about these mindless drawings on the edge of the sheet on your desk – these shapes, lines and doodles that emerge half consciously. For my project “Exercises for the Digital Age” that I developed in cooperation with the Goethe–Institut Hanoi, I would like to transfer this activity to a shared digital realm with you while talking about the relationship between you and your digital self. Hope you are up for it! For more than a year the pandemic has been affecting our lives. In my case, it led to more screen time –&nbsp; which is exhausting, but also led to wonderful conversations with peers where thoughts, words and expressions crossed time zones from CEST to BST. While lying on the couch, sitting at the kitchen table or walking in the streets, we can circulate among our virtual communities. As we are no longer merely confined to our physical bodies, we can slip in and out of our online lives. At the same time addiction algorithms of Las Vegas’ slot machines are transferred into digital technologies in order to create sticky screens and to collect eye–ball–hours. I’m interested in how you would describe how your digital self bleeds into your physical self (and vice versa), and learn more about what you personally do to not be at the mercy of digital media, but to proactively maneuver through it – virtually, physically or mentally? From time to time I found myself moving from the screen to the floor and following exercise instructions displayed on the screen. Curious where this behaviour came from, I started to look at the history of exercising. I learned that exercising–as we think of it today– was invented in the 1960’s in the US. With the growing standard of living in the 1950s, but also with the spread of television, more and more people have become couch potatoes. In the middle of the Cold War, the president at the time, John F. Kennedy was above all worried that he would not find enough fit soldiers in case of war. He created public programs to anchor body exercises in the lives of the American population.&nbsp;Jogging, fitness aerobics or the Muscle Beach Weightlifters gained popularity within a very short time supported by a growing commercialisation of these activities. If this kind of exercising emerged with the spread of television, with this project I want to collectively investigate what practices we need to develop in a time of the internet, digital media and AI. The project proposes a collective effort – in the form of one–on–one online conversations (with mouse/ trackpad/pen drawings as a conversational tool) – to connect the informal knowledge of artists, thinkers and practitioners that may lie at the backside of their practices. In a series of conversational online workshops we’ll create new exercises together, which will range from physical to mental, digital to analog, affirmative to critical, practical to utopic. They challenge the instrumentalization of affect, cure overstimulation or protect our desires from being hijacked. They could break habits we don’t need, implement new ones or just be a fragment of your practice that we believe is worth repeating. I know you are busy but since I’m sure that drawing, talking and associating with you would be fun and interesting, I would be happy to have you involved. Best regards,Gabriel” Exhibition catalog &nbsp;text“The Ignorant Schoolmaster,” 2021 by Gabriel Hensche edited by Tomke Braun <img width="1346" height="714" width_o="1346" height_o="714" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9a6a483c79d5f1a2a8a9651ab6a5001694e912f94cb0da4eb7988c5bd4e26f7b/Screenshot-2025-12-16-at-11.49.50.png" data-mid="241855770" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9a6a483c79d5f1a2a8a9651ab6a5001694e912f94cb0da4eb7988c5bd4e26f7b/Screenshot-2025-12-16-at-11.49.50.png" />on cube commons&nbsp; https://cubecommons.ca/profile/EDA on youtubehttps://www.youtube.com/@exercisesforthedigitalage <img width="7067" height="3899" width_o="7067" height_o="3899" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/475f2fe2932a928d943b0929a4551ebc044231850e190f2d662e564c4242cc6b/24-Bjrn-Melhus---Bjoern-Melhus.jpg" data-mid="241974279" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/475f2fe2932a928d943b0929a4551ebc044231850e190f2d662e564c4242cc6b/24-Bjrn-Melhus---Bjoern-Melhus.jpg" />drawing/conversation with Bjørn Melhus <img width="1058" height="1007" width_o="1058" height_o="1007" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5ff013f1c3b4a00b157ae62006a8ef8b33572bd5a9c274d35badd412e2a5b1b2/Exercise_for_the_digital_age_conversation_with_Raul_Hott.png" data-mid="121220405" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5ff013f1c3b4a00b157ae62006a8ef8b33572bd5a9c274d35badd412e2a5b1b2/Exercise_for_the_digital_age_conversation_with_Raul_Hott.png" />drawing/conversation with&nbsp;Raúl Hott <img width="7977" height="6142" width_o="7977" height_o="6142" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a276f58916164fecddd3a74d65ef4afe4c9793150df21addab120026fc7cfb34/13_OMSK_Social_Club---Installation-3.jpg" data-mid="241974281" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a276f58916164fecddd3a74d65ef4afe4c9793150df21addab120026fc7cfb34/13_OMSK_Social_Club---Installation-3.jpg" /> drawing/conversation with OMSK Social Club <img width="9333" height="5250" width_o="9333" height_o="5250" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/424dd9c9cd391fde832974ff94fe30fa7a43084a8f34f24a841721e29b058d95/18_Sarah-Friend---Frame-6.jpg" data-mid="243985036" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/424dd9c9cd391fde832974ff94fe30fa7a43084a8f34f24a841721e29b058d95/18_Sarah-Friend---Frame-6.jpg" /> drawing/conversation with Sarah Friend <img width="3671" height="4357" width_o="3671" height_o="4357" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/dac27af191ae9879db068db9fdfb193a468085e6a0e7b40bd21a42c2dbfe9300/Copy-of-11-Jin-me--Ayumi-Goto---Peter-Morin---Installation.jpg" data-mid="121226903" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/dac27af191ae9879db068db9fdfb193a468085e6a0e7b40bd21a42c2dbfe9300/Copy-of-11-Jin-me--Ayumi-Goto---Peter-Morin---Installation.jpg" />drawing/conversation with&nbsp;Jin-me Yoon, Ayumi Goto &amp; Peter Morin Supported by <img width="448" height="128" width_o="448" height_o="128" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a09c1dd0d6a946e4652003593b318f4f7ae0b8e767aa3876bff0ca7f52fb3798/22EF7A7F-3781-4E24-B01D-DAA0D713AFF2.png" data-mid="143383755" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/448/i/a09c1dd0d6a946e4652003593b318f4f7ae0b8e767aa3876bff0ca7f52fb3798/22EF7A7F-3781-4E24-B01D-DAA0D713AFF2.png" />&nbsp; https://gabrielhensche.com/How-to-Love-Many-in-Many-Ways Sun, 10 Oct 2021 20:17:03 +0000 gabrielhensche.com https://gabrielhensche.com/How-to-Love-Many-in-Many-Ways HOW TO LOVE MANY IN MANY WAYS 2022 -25a collection of games &amp; exercises&nbsp;https://engymohsen.com/How-to-Love-Many-in-Many-Ways in collaboration with Engy Mohsen edited by Ismail Fayed,&nbsp;visual identity by Engy Aly. Contributors:&nbsp;Eliana Otta, Ingo Niermann (The Army of Love), Mohamed Al-Bakeri, Nada Elkalaawy, Petra Mrša, Rania Atef, Raúl Hott, Shahd Omar, Soukaina Joual,&nbsp;Eleonora Toniolo What if we start practising love not only within our romantic relationships, our families or with our friends but with Ourselves, Other/s and Other Other/s? What happens if we understand love, not only as something that concerns us privately but also as something that we can practise collectively. What if we start to understand love not as something that happens to us, but also as something that we can actively practise. And what would a collective practice of love towards Ourselves, Other/s, and Other Other/s eventually look like? <img width="2953" height="1969" width_o="2953" height_o="1969" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/aec2675b8ac1adb3aa678d9aa1c3cd9ae957a2aaefe3c4a5328a136a274006c0/crtzabesk_dan1-9.jpg" data-mid="179257437" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/aec2675b8ac1adb3aa678d9aa1c3cd9ae957a2aaefe3c4a5328a136a274006c0/crtzabesk_dan1-9.jpg" /> How to Love Many in Many Ways is a set of games and exercises that playfully challenge the way we see and practise love and with whom we share it. Starting with the question of “How to Love Many in Many Ways” Engy Mohsen and Gabriel Hensche developed 12 exercises that can be played with Yourself, Other/s, and Other Other/s. The players can be objects, plants, animals or people that share a completely different worldview or come from a different context. <img width="2953" height="1969" width_o="2953" height_o="1969" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d0a4ceffa49e6ae9ff2922b4131e5228ef900418520801c2ad18bc660fa7f937/crtzabesk_dan1-13.jpg" data-mid="179257435" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d0a4ceffa49e6ae9ff2922b4131e5228ef900418520801c2ad18bc660fa7f937/crtzabesk_dan1-13.jpg" /><img width="2953" height="1969" width_o="2953" height_o="1969" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/046380ae5f73664d17b31e834e8241ea86fff82f4db6d0cd720d9fbe920eab28/crtzabesk_dan1-11.jpg" data-mid="179257434" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/046380ae5f73664d17b31e834e8241ea86fff82f4db6d0cd720d9fbe920eab28/crtzabesk_dan1-11.jpg" /> Believing that the question How to Love Many in Many Ways should be addressed by many, Gabriel and Engy invited artists to respond to the question “How to Love Many in Many Ways”. Each of the 9 other artists developed an exercises or game that offer ways of practising love that you might have never considered before. The response from contributors varied as did their diverse disciplines and backgrounds that range from the artistic to the scientific, and from the somatic to the satirical. <img width="2953" height="1969" width_o="2953" height_o="1969" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/90bf14df42848b164f08760896dcfcbb743ec0733fa515fc62a905868349f8d1/crtzabesk_dan1-1.jpg" data-mid="179257438" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/90bf14df42848b164f08760896dcfcbb743ec0733fa515fc62a905868349f8d1/crtzabesk_dan1-1.jpg" /> Crta za Beskraj: how to love many in many ways, Centar Knap, Zagreb, 2023. Phots: Ivor Lapić photos Engy Mohsen and Gabriel Hensche, artists (Cairo/Berlin), kicked off with the namesake How to Love Many in Many Ways, a set of exercises that invite you to enact many rituals with many options for potential players: Yourself, Other/s, Other Other/s. Eliana Otta, artist (Lima/Athens), responded with Rehearsing Horizontalities, a set of exercises that create scenarios in which players re-examine their relationship with others by playing with their spatial, choreographic, and acoustic awareness, all while maintaining what she calls a “horizontality pact” to re-examine our relationships with others. Eleonora Toniolo, interdisciplinary designer (Berlin), responded with NOI Game, a card game that attempts to challenge usual modes of communication by playing with individual and collective silence. Ingo Niermann (The Army of Love), writer and artist (Basel/Berlin), responded with Falling in Love with the World, an exercise that directs a group to overcome aversions and extend notions of love and care to others or objects. Mohamed Al Bakeri, artist (Cairo/Sierre), responded with The Things You Do for Love, a boardgame that invites players to think of love as a material need and a commodity, drawing from the world of online dating. Petra Mrša, artist and photographer (Berlin/Zagreb), responded with Shivering Throats, Breaking the Walls, playing with alternative notions of intimacy and encounter, presence and absence, and unconventional modes of communication and exchange. Philip Ullrich, artist (Bern/Zürich), responded with Take That Loving Grace, a game in which aspects of love such as the similarities and differences between parties as well as the power struggles that are at play can be explored in pointed ways. Rania Atef, artist (Cairo), responded with Bad Mother, a card game that critically and sarcastically scrutinizes the societal gaze on maternal love, mothers’ domestic performance, and the criteria for a “good mother.” Raúl Hott, artist and architect (Santiago), created Total Body (RADIANCE), an invitation to understand radiance – an experience of new ways of relating to affect and affection by interacting with all living beings and reconnecting with our planet. Shahd Omar, somatic practitioner (Cairo), responded with Embodied Encounters, a playful attempt to redefine consent as the process of establishing agreements, and how to communicate it beyond verbal exchanges. <img width="1304" height="1200" width_o="1304" height_o="1200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ed3386ae37d9fa3b02429cff80d91a542350f80bcfe7df057c206c836f02b0ff/Screenshot-2022-12-03-at-11.27.55.png" data-mid="160886098" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ed3386ae37d9fa3b02429cff80d91a542350f80bcfe7df057c206c836f02b0ff/Screenshot-2022-12-03-at-11.27.55.png" /> <img width="5760" height="3840" width_o="5760" height_o="3840" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3110689d3c43e88aba0d06692630ff6e43db07677693fa0c1d41d399f288adb8/_Q1A3735.jpg" data-mid="177582493" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3110689d3c43e88aba0d06692630ff6e43db07677693fa0c1d41d399f288adb8/_Q1A3735.jpg" /> <img width="5760" height="3840" width_o="5760" height_o="3840" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ec6b411f421a699320b9d5fc5a3e39e0f632444d67e8a1a27dfde7de0fbbb9ea/_Q1A3716.jpg" data-mid="177582476" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ec6b411f421a699320b9d5fc5a3e39e0f632444d67e8a1a27dfde7de0fbbb9ea/_Q1A3716.jpg" /> <img width="5760" height="3840" width_o="5760" height_o="3840" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4e523a5ccb945bc184fa8bdbad395ec7612d91d998b9bb07fd1e219b52cdbf14/_Q1A3717.jpg" data-mid="177582540" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4e523a5ccb945bc184fa8bdbad395ec7612d91d998b9bb07fd1e219b52cdbf14/_Q1A3717.jpg" /> Rehearsing Horizontalities by Eliana Otta, moderated by Engy Mohsen. 2023, Shedhalle, Proto-Club4, Photo: Carla Schleiffer <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f444adda5558e2b52b3f51bc1bdd93222690983fa6e15cae001c4ceab6c832c7/IMG-2708.jpg" data-mid="149361500" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f444adda5558e2b52b3f51bc1bdd93222690983fa6e15cae001c4ceab6c832c7/IMG-2708.jpg" />“How to&nbsp;How to Love Many in Many Ways“ moderated by Gabriel Hensche. Floating University, Berlin 2022 <img width="1536" height="2048" width_o="1536" height_o="2048" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0e6cbecc8e4f7bfc7dc463959bf69dbc2d73d3ee9185a80199de372b2d6de519/7f6f8290-0602-4d29-a998-5ec39fb97aa9.jpg" data-mid="177100865" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0e6cbecc8e4f7bfc7dc463959bf69dbc2d73d3ee9185a80199de372b2d6de519/7f6f8290-0602-4d29-a998-5ec39fb97aa9.jpg" />game session at Iron Velvet, New York 2022 Photo: Cristian Chironi <img width="1536" height="2048" width_o="1536" height_o="2048" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fc0edef7e6f25a508d2e029bec6fabb909f091b66469b97c3915c4384c49b0c5/e7c1daef-2291-4aa5-9a70-3b77ca69ca14.jpg" data-mid="121220350" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fc0edef7e6f25a508d2e029bec6fabb909f091b66469b97c3915c4384c49b0c5/e7c1daef-2291-4aa5-9a70-3b77ca69ca14.jpg" />game sesseion at Rote Fabrik, Zurich 2021 <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c9a0115cd5f7af05bd0eca49c1ac2c2bb572e4b924231b798acacbdd54a73484/IMG-2448.jpg" data-mid="149361501" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c9a0115cd5f7af05bd0eca49c1ac2c2bb572e4b924231b798acacbdd54a73484/IMG-2448.jpg" /> game session at school of commons, Zurich 2022 <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b849408a6cf43d3443b72230d7239cd010ae0c9b6633a8a4003bd64893cd3cb9/shedhalle-1.jpg" data-mid="177100862" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b849408a6cf43d3443b72230d7239cd010ae0c9b6633a8a4003bd64893cd3cb9/shedhalle-1.jpg" />game session at Shedhalle, Zurich 2022 <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5565913463fc0e1cbf34023051c4961ccc185604baedfc1d658d8f11e87fa4f1/IMG_0256.jpg" data-mid="121220353" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5565913463fc0e1cbf34023051c4961ccc185604baedfc1d658d8f11e87fa4f1/IMG_0256.jpg" />game sesseion at Rote Fabrik, Zurich 2021 <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/19c4b9b14eed8855eb7c9b6e5f27d05b26a27c56067cbdb54b23eacc8219cee7/fhnw2-1.jpg" data-mid="177100864" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/19c4b9b14eed8855eb7c9b6e5f27d05b26a27c56067cbdb54b23eacc8219cee7/fhnw2-1.jpg" />game session at the University, Bern 2022 https://gabrielhensche.com/Almost-Heaven-1 Tue, 05 Oct 2021 21:00:06 +0000 gabrielhensche.com https://gabrielhensche.com/Almost-Heaven-1 ALMOST HEAVEN 2020 video HD, color, sound 4 min There are things we like and we like that we like them. There are things we like but we don’t like that we like them. There are things we don’t like but we don’t like that we don’t like them. There are things we don’t like and we like that we don’t like them. <img width="3000" height="1707" width_o="3000" height_o="1707" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8ea50290b70f21c2442f727d33fb7c06ca21f97aa13107e6b5defb2e1ae74bba/AAP2021_Gallery_002.JPG" data-mid="154254240" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8ea50290b70f21c2442f727d33fb7c06ca21f97aa13107e6b5defb2e1ae74bba/AAP2021_Gallery_002.JPG" /> <img width="3000" height="2124" width_o="3000" height_o="2124" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d635bdfa5b28ed849b7036d6dcae58a12f18a96aa10ceebfb61558a8cc6b176c/AAP2021_Gallery_007.JPG" data-mid="154254261" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d635bdfa5b28ed849b7036d6dcae58a12f18a96aa10ceebfb61558a8cc6b176c/AAP2021_Gallery_007.JPG" /> <img width="3000" height="1431" width_o="3000" height_o="1431" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4ba0cd3215de7ac9e0c20de803ab9b493d33904e2cf1d5ca6f494c7a0029b60a/AAP2021_Gallery_004.JPG" data-mid="154254245" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4ba0cd3215de7ac9e0c20de803ab9b493d33904e2cf1d5ca6f494c7a0029b60a/AAP2021_Gallery_004.JPG" /> Installation view, York Art Gallery, UK, 2021 https://gabrielhensche.com/I-m-Not-Sure Sun, 08 Oct 2017 13:15:01 +0000 gabrielhensche.com https://gabrielhensche.com/I-m-Not-Sure I’M NOT SUREParis, 2017 video HD, colour, sound 7.49 min Why does he say “swimwear” when he sees René Magritte’s painting of a naked woman? Is he too shy to say “breast”, “butt” or “vagina”? Perhaps he has mainly been exposed to product pictures and was never introduced to art? The film “I'm Not Sure” shows how an App, designed to be a vision-aid for the visually impaired, interprets art. By confronting the Neural Image Caption Generator with Surrealist paintings, “I’m Not Sure” explores the psychology of an Artificial Intelligence. I'm Not Sure (excerpt) <img width="1237" height="1417" width_o="1237" height_o="1417" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b43952cf29b58c6d77ec5e6921d96ce3866eac33017255f9148f9e864ed64ced/web-.jpg" data-mid="31785153" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b43952cf29b58c6d77ec5e6921d96ce3866eac33017255f9148f9e864ed64ced/web-.jpg" /><img width="949" height="1080" width_o="949" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d328840d819ec37ef11bc673c7deca99b0adbab7a14acfce4997ad98cdd6e3f9/untitled-2.jpg" data-mid="31786390" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/949/i/d328840d819ec37ef11bc673c7deca99b0adbab7a14acfce4997ad98cdd6e3f9/untitled-2.jpg" /><img width="941" height="1080" width_o="941" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/60df47c6da82994c952862da831ad4b9d5141e403f5bc298f800f3909c6eee0a/ImNotSure_2.jpg" data-mid="31786387" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/941/i/60df47c6da82994c952862da831ad4b9d5141e403f5bc298f800f3909c6eee0a/ImNotSure_2.jpg" /><img width="945" height="1080" width_o="945" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fcc907388f44e15b29429004bd204c2d12320f193a3a6565a637fac8167d7c7f/ImNotSure_ohne_schwarz.jpg" data-mid="31785292" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/945/i/fcc907388f44e15b29429004bd204c2d12320f193a3a6565a637fac8167d7c7f/ImNotSure_ohne_schwarz.jpg" /><img width="943" height="1080" width_o="943" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8cfc3f78834b4b68e4b5ff844be09378377abc47fffabd0ea5d7935a330c5f22/ImNotSure_1.jpg" data-mid="31786318" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/943/i/8cfc3f78834b4b68e4b5ff844be09378377abc47fffabd0ea5d7935a330c5f22/ImNotSure_1.jpg" /> stills https://gabrielhensche.com/Father-s-Face Sun, 08 Oct 2017 13:15:00 +0000 gabrielhensche.com https://gabrielhensche.com/Father-s-Face FATHER’S FACE Milan, 2018 generated picture 13 x 17 cm I asked my mother to describe the face of my father – a Syrian engineer, who is unfamiliar to me. With the help of the programmer Animesh Karnewar a picture was generated by an algorithm that translated my mother's memory of my father into a visual image of his face. <img width="1843" height="2153" width_o="1843" height_o="2153" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/646d555d0f9c3f4668c0fedb2d00363106fe2780d46d5b78f4995a4bfd111a31/fathers_face_freigestellt_web.jpg" data-mid="31765550" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/646d555d0f9c3f4668c0fedb2d00363106fe2780d46d5b78f4995a4bfd111a31/fathers_face_freigestellt_web.jpg" />”He had beautiful features, brown eyes, a well-formed nose–more like a straight formed European nose.He had brown hair–beautifully wavy.The ears were nicely shaped.He had a friendly glance and a peaceful charisma.”My mother’s description of my father that was used to generate the picture https://gabrielhensche.com/Like-Father-Like-Son Sun, 08 Oct 2017 13:15:04 +0000 gabrielhensche.com https://gabrielhensche.com/Like-Father-Like-Son LIKE FATHER, LIKE SONParis, 2018 Performance / Photographs 10 Photos 13x18 cm The work was made during an exhibition in a Parisian apartment. I included a little note in the exhibition’s announcement asking visitors to bring their parents and grandparents, children and grandchildren—or any available family member—to the exhibition opening in the hope of gathering a group of visitors comprised of generations beyond the usual contemporary art audience. During the opening, I composed ‘new families’ by arranging people who did not know each other as if they were related and photographed them in a basic photo-studio like set-up installed in the exhibition space. <img width="1024" height="1417" width_o="1024" height_o="1417" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/42f45aa39891397f6bf17b1c198a7c4eb2ff11d25ffc1d793d98008ca44e8bd4/web-0212.jpg" data-mid="31827348" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/42f45aa39891397f6bf17b1c198a7c4eb2ff11d25ffc1d793d98008ca44e8bd4/web-0212.jpg" /><img width="1024" height="1417" width_o="1024" height_o="1417" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/92d3964462d4893b7afa57d80fbdfcf29604c9e76463a27d72c8af6aa3541688/web-0185.jpg" data-mid="31827346" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/92d3964462d4893b7afa57d80fbdfcf29604c9e76463a27d72c8af6aa3541688/web-0185.jpg" /><img width="1024" height="1417" width_o="1024" height_o="1417" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fd586de5e6f5992a38d950dc9d1def2b9a5813a7bd4ccb3d645efb78baafac57/web-0194.jpg" data-mid="31827347" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fd586de5e6f5992a38d950dc9d1def2b9a5813a7bd4ccb3d645efb78baafac57/web-0194.jpg" /> <img width="1417" height="945" width_o="1417" height_o="945" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/09664df9d4dedd2a059de863e961855a479df6d647d7fc8910e2f4ce32c2d942/web-01600.jpg" data-mid="31827560" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/09664df9d4dedd2a059de863e961855a479df6d647d7fc8910e2f4ce32c2d942/web-01600.jpg" /> <img width="1417" height="945" width_o="1417" height_o="945" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/94bcf0c6ba1923a2958bb6e546cf668cb6a89abe70004c1752798312251032c1/web-01633.jpg" data-mid="31827561" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/94bcf0c6ba1923a2958bb6e546cf668cb6a89abe70004c1752798312251032c1/web-01633.jpg" /> <img width="5472" height="3648" width_o="5472" height_o="3648" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1d3a59b54db11a6e3d934e0e573df39e1385238b9ab367c9ae3ffe3118c5a052/web-01617.jpg" data-mid="31828205" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1d3a59b54db11a6e3d934e0e573df39e1385238b9ab367c9ae3ffe3118c5a052/web-01617.jpg" /> Installation view: CCFA, Karslruhe 2018 Like Father Like Son became the eponymous for my solo show at Le Centre Culturel Franco-Allemand, where I installed these family portraits on the desks of CCFA employees instead of in the designated gallery space. https://gabrielhensche.com/Artist-In-Residence Fri, 04 Jan 2019 14:53:33 +0000 gabrielhensche.com https://gabrielhensche.com/Artist-In-Residence ARTIST IN RESIDENCEParis, 2017 Installation mixed media dimensions variable I hung all the objects I brought with me for my six-month residency at Le Cité Internationale des Arts, from the ceiling of my studio. Each object—no matter how big or small—was hung individually which made the installation look like a drawing in three dimensions, an explosion, that allowed the viewer to examine each object separately: smartphone, macbook, hard disc, ebook, SD-card, mini-projector, audio recorder, bluetooth speaker, notebook, pen, money, passport, keys, electric toothbrush, preservatives, socks, underwear, suitcase etc. <img width="3661" height="5492" width_o="3661" height_o="5492" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ace5aecdfff8d6799bd20222560da00aafd307a0b6ba30982ebe48dc6be06d2d/The-six-month-residency_web.jpg" data-mid="31838167" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ace5aecdfff8d6799bd20222560da00aafd307a0b6ba30982ebe48dc6be06d2d/The-six-month-residency_web.jpg" /> Installation view:&nbsp;Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris 2017&nbsp; https://gabrielhensche.com/The-Red-Shoes Sun, 01 Dec 2019 19:24:42 +0000 gabrielhensche.com https://gabrielhensche.com/The-Red-Shoes THE RED SHOES2019 collaborative film project video, 720p, color, sound7.30 min with: Kathleen Chimaras, Dean Frechtman, Ioana Vreme Moser, Joshua Hill, Martyna Izabela, João Telmo, Annika Weyhrich, Alice Rugai In privacy and seclusion, people dance in their homes to songs they have never heard before. 'The Red Shoes'–named after the fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen–is the result of Hensche’s collaboration with living-room-dancers that responded to his public call in Berlin. Through the lens of their webcam, we watch them as they listen and move, pause and skip songs of their ‘Tastebreaker’ playlist, created and customized by Spotify’s algorithms to break their taste. . https://gabrielhensche.com/Publication-Incident-Reports Wed, 17 Jul 2019 11:20:33 +0000 gabrielhensche.com https://gabrielhensche.com/Publication-Incident-Reports <img width="960" height="960" width_o="960" height_o="960" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a85aa252565d27cd21172e76bfe6ec443f326495d6812d0b782e5d857378e9fa/INC_2SS02.jpeg" data-mid="50030580" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/960/i/a85aa252565d27cd21172e76bfe6ec443f326495d6812d0b782e5d857378e9fa/INC_2SS02.jpeg" /><img width="960" height="960" width_o="960" height_o="960" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/26f41dc07a7592d3711c19f63bf95f0daaa5f1d1a88114c4aa6858f4d399288a/INC_2SS01.jpeg" data-mid="50030579" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/960/i/26f41dc07a7592d3711c19f63bf95f0daaa5f1d1a88114c4aa6858f4d399288a/INC_2SS01.jpeg" /> <img width="960" height="960" width_o="960" height_o="960" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b967c6ed3b0cf8eee776f658637fe40a57bcc39c6999b5897dfc5ae62616e406/INC_2SS06.jpeg" data-mid="50030586" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/960/i/b967c6ed3b0cf8eee776f658637fe40a57bcc39c6999b5897dfc5ae62616e406/INC_2SS06.jpeg" /><img width="960" height="960" width_o="960" height_o="960" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8d85449d0287e9e4c6727b0ada2f39cc0f771f7bf2e31197f95f71257ac201c0/INC_2SS08.jpeg" data-mid="50030589" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/960/i/8d85449d0287e9e4c6727b0ada2f39cc0f771f7bf2e31197f95f71257ac201c0/INC_2SS08.jpeg" />Photos by Burrow, Berlin INCIDENT REPORTS 2019 artist book in collaboration with Ashlee Conery design: Burrow, Berlin publisher: Verlag Für Moderne Kunst Artist Gabriel Hensche and curator Ashlee Conery have compiled a catalogue of the work Hensche produced while in residence at Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, in 2017. The publication includes witness reports that are formally based on actual incident report forms. Adopting the posture of an onlooker, while at the same time acknowledging his role as instigator, Hensche recounts observations of his works as incidents by taking into account the involvement of people and circumstances that led to the events. These protocols are concluded with a final report by Conery in which she adopts the conditions of a mother, a partner and a particle for considering one’s own perspective when acting as a witness, a curator or a bystander. Bibliographic information published by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek: The Deutsche Nationalbibliothek lists this publication in the Deutschen National- bibliografie: detailed bibliographic data is available in the Internet at http://dnb.de All rights reserved; no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior written permission from the publisher. ISBN 978-3-903269-76-7Printed in Germany Published byVfmK Verlag für moderne Kunst GmbH Schwedenplatz 2/24A-1010 Viennahello@vfmk.orgwww.vfmk.org DistributionEurope: LKG, www.lkg-va.deUK: Cornerhouse Publications, www.cornerhousepublications.org USA: D.A.P., www.artbook.com The book can be ordered here: www.vfmk.org/shop/gabriel-hensche <img width="1000" height="1419" width_o="1000" height_o="1419" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/289c9edc7f615fb9378bca6e028e052ed7649b9f1923bef3ab6b8b44e467cf6b/Hensche_cover.jpg" data-mid="55431430" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/289c9edc7f615fb9378bca6e028e052ed7649b9f1923bef3ab6b8b44e467cf6b/Hensche_cover.jpg" /><img width="1600" height="1135" width_o="1600" height_o="1135" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9dbbb3949959be9cb8ecb510179300950572fc42f3f4be1a7ac3c1f5224ea423/Hensche_spread01.jpg" data-mid="54839814" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9dbbb3949959be9cb8ecb510179300950572fc42f3f4be1a7ac3c1f5224ea423/Hensche_spread01.jpg" /><img width="1600" height="1135" width_o="1600" height_o="1135" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ec7ce649e8ff3a789f87ac34853a990b22d566c4299464e06cb92c4ad972cb5a/Hensche_spread02.jpg" data-mid="54839805" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ec7ce649e8ff3a789f87ac34853a990b22d566c4299464e06cb92c4ad972cb5a/Hensche_spread02.jpg" /><img width="1600" height="1135" width_o="1600" height_o="1135" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bdb8eede7d35cc9f6461d27cfd696166c780d96fc1133b1e31aaece287dd4460/Hensche_spread03.jpg" data-mid="54839806" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bdb8eede7d35cc9f6461d27cfd696166c780d96fc1133b1e31aaece287dd4460/Hensche_spread03.jpg" />Excerpts ‘Incident Reports’