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Christoph Schäfer * 1964 in Essen, lives in Hambourg

Since the early 1990s, the artist has worked on urban everyday life and the production of spaces for and by collective desires. This interest is mirrored in a wide range of work, that often reflects and sometimes intervenes, in unusual drawings, installations and collective projects. His main contributions include the independent urban-planning-as-art-and-activism project Park Fiction (1994-2005, documenta11 2002), the drawing series and book The City is Our Factory (2010), the programmatic [...]

Since the early 1990s, the artist has worked on urban everyday life and the production of spaces for and by collective desires. This interest is mirrored in a wide range of work, that often reflects and sometimes intervenes, in unusual drawings, installations and collective projects. His main contributions include the independent urban-planning-as-art-and-activism project Park Fiction (1994-2005, documenta11 2002), the drawing series and book The City is Our Factory (2010), the programmatic development of temporary University Campus ContainerUni (2012), the drawing series Bostanorama (Istanbul Biennial 2013) and the co-founding of the transdisciplinary planning office PlanBude (since 2014).

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