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Anna Maria Tekampe is a curator, researcher and artist focused on Media Politics, Media Aesthetics and Media Philosophy – especially interested in interdisciplinary and artistic research. She studied Art and Media theory, Media Art and Philosophy at the State University of Arts and Design in Karlsruhe. Furthermore she studied Art in the classes of Prof. Silvia Bächli and Prof. Mischa Kuball at the State Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe (Kunstakademie Karlsruhe). She worked as a researcher, curator and curatorial assistant for several projects and institutions (bb5, ZKM, Venice Biennale and many more) She was a lecturer at the academic chair Medienwissenschaft - Digitale Medientechnologien II (Media Studies and Digital Media Technologies II) at the University of Siegen and research assistant to Prof. Dr. Natascha Adamowsky. Now she leads her own scientific project at University of Heidelberg. For her research and artistic work, she received a number of prices and scholarships. Among others she received support from the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom, IFK Vienna, eikones Basel, Montag Stiftung, Bonn and Cité des Arts, Paris. Her PhD focuses on political action in the digital age and proposes a new way of approaching cooperative practices.
Die Praxis von Anna Maria Tekampe umfasst Video, Installation, Schreiben und Zeichnen als eine dauerhafte Übung. Oftmals verwendet sie Körperformen als Ausgangsmaterial, welche sie gemeinsam mit anderen Objekten kombiniert und soziale, philosophische und persönliche Recherchen hinzufügt. Das Wort von Augustinus „Ich bin mir selbst zu einer Frage geworden“ quaestio mihi factus sum“ (Confessiones IV, 4.9) kann als leitend für ihre Praxis gesehen werden. In ihren aktuellen Arbeiten konzentriert sich Tekampe auf großformatige Zeichnungen, Skulptur und Essayfilm.
As an artist the practice of Anna Tekampe involves video, installation, writing - and drawing as a permanent exercise. Often she uses body forms as a resource material - which she combines to other objects and to which she adds social, philosophical and also personal research. The quote of Augustinus „I have become a question to myself" - “quaestio mihi factus sum“ (Confessiones IV, 4.9) can be seen as a leading word for her. Her current work is focused on text, drawing and sculpture.
Recently Tekampe focuses on emotional landscapes and questions of intuition and body politics. She creates her very own pictorial universe, her own iconography in wich she deals with pain in form of her personal iconography.
Anna Tekampe is a researcher, artist and scientist based in Germany. She is especially interested in phenomenological research and phenomenology of the body.