barbara caveng

for a loving and visionary year 2023.

The artistic work HLAIBA (from ancient engl. hlaf “loaf bread”) addresses how livelihoods are not only destroyed by tanks and howitzers in wartime, but how hunger has always been created as an existentially destructive, power-political instrument of warfare.The starting point for the social bread work is an ear relief from the 1930s on a former granary in the town of Pasewalk in Mecklenburg/ Western Pomerania – a façade drawing made…

‘Even when I am doing the laundry, I think about something….
Sometimes I think about what to cook–
I think about the children–
About money too –

And how we will survive. –’
Helen

I am happy about the monograph on my artistic work in Kunstforum, volume 274 ‘Über Leben und Kunst’ by Matthias Reichelt >

in flight of thoughts – CORONOMANIA II | lockdown 2020 |©Joachim Gern

The ultimate Xmas present for your disco party at home “Oh-Marry & Happy 2020!” celebrating with 5 people from 2 households! HAIR special editioncaveng & Polydor Club P 92 147 / 92147 / German record pressing / 12 Inches Vinyl & Human Hair LP1968/2020 various human hair/ may contain traces of the artists hair / framed 40x50cm/ stamped & signed /Only €450.- inclusive VAT, exclusive shipping

The second Virtual Gallery Tour is just around the corner! On Wednesday, 4th November at 6 PM EAT/ 4PM MEZ the Goethe Zentrum Kampala presents the second session with the multidisciplinary artists barbara caveng, based in Germany and Pamela Enyonu, based in Uganda.
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Gallery Mönch is looking forward to welcoming you to lecture performances with barbara caveng and to an aperitif on the coming Saturdays, September 5, 12 and 19, starting at 4 pm.
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ONE DAY OF CHICKEN. Bones the next day. *
Objects and sculptures

You and your friends are cordially invited to the opening of the exhibition
on Saturday, August 22nd, from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m.
and on Sunday, August 23, from 12pm to 4pm
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Sunk in amnesia, the memory remains inaccessible. AMNESIA is the title of my exhibition at Kloster Bentlage (Bentlage Abbey) which will open on August 1st, 2020. Most of the works made by hair of several thousand humans were created last year during my residency grant at Künstlerdorf Schöppingen. The core of the exhibition will be the social sculpture HA [A] RVEST – the heavy hairball was bailed in a performance…