at the Institute of Cultural Inquiry
Christel Dillbohner (www.dillbohner.de), an Associate of the Institute of Cultural Inquiry for over 20 years, is an experienced visual researcher, societal explorer and world traveler. Hailing from Cologne, Germany, she now calls Los Angeles and Berkeley, CA, her homes. She translates her findings from the field into visual thoughts by using a variety of materials such as pigments, wax and clay, plant matter and found objects. An Associate of the Institute of Cultural Inquiry for over 20 years, she has presented her results in a multitude of collaborative projects and interventions.
Projects:
2013 Visualist-in-Residence
2012 Fingerübungen
2003 AIDS CHRONICLES, Los Angeles, Project Coordinator
1995 AIDS CHRONICLES, Los Angeles, Project Coordinator
1993 AIDS BOTTLE PROJECT, City University of New York, and the Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA, Project Coordinator
1992 AIDS BOTTLE PROJECT, Los Angeles, Project Coordinator
1991 AIDS BOTTLE PROJECT, Los Angeles, Project Coordinator
ICI Publications:
2007 Searching for Sebald
2001 Benjamin’s Blind Spot & The Manual of Lost Ideas
1997 Bataille’s Eye & ICI Field Notes 4
Field Projects:
1993 Wunderkammern: Salzburg, Wien, Guggingen, Praha, Dresden, Berlin, Bochum, Köln
1999 Museums of Remembering: Berlin, Krakow, Ausschwitz, Praha, Venezia
2004 Searching for Sebald: London, Oxford, Lowestoft, Southwold, Dunwich
2006 Book Publishing: Rhode Island, Dia Beacon
2008 Book Fair: New York City
2009 Interventions: Venezia, Frankfurt
2012 Barthesisan Musings: London, Gränna, Sweden
In conjunction with Interlaced Motive, ICI Associate Christel Dillbohner’s multi-disciplinary installation project at The Bonnafont Gallery in San Francisco, James Linnehan will be presenting “Center and Periphery: Byways of the Shadow Culture” — his thoughts on what occurs when we look at the shadow, and not the light or what interrupts it. Saturday, November 12th, at 5.30 pm.
The Institute of Cultural Inquiry (ICI) is pleased to announce the launch of With Everything but the Monkey Head: Theorizing Art’s Untheorizable Practices, a major project centered on the burgeoning field of studio-based research in the visual arts. This project will be a long-term collaboration with a host of diverse participants including nine researchers who have participated in some sort of visual research at the ICI; a set of specially selected interlocutors whose questions will help construct and strengthen the ideas central to each researcher’s project; and the curious spectators who bring discussion and debate to public exchanges.
The sixth iteration of the project will feature Christel Dillbohner, a 2013 participant in the ICI’s Visualist-in-Residence (VIR) project. Dillbohner returns to the ICI for an intense one-week mini residency during which time she’ll share her thoughts about her own research practices while collaborating with the ICI to build a treatise on the organization’s own visual research endeavors. Her stay will culminate in a finissage on August 13, 2016 during which time she’ll share her ideas with the public.
During her residency, Dillbohner will examine the roles of coincidence and serendipity, to render the (seemingly) invisible connection between these two phenomena into visibility and generate new possibilities for seeing and being in the world—ones which demand the conscientiousness of open eyes and an emptied mind to observe things “mit dem anderen Blick”.
Each iteration of With Everything but the Monkey Head will be accompanied with a unique laboratory workbook created by the researcher over the course of their short residency. In addition, each researcher will contribute to the project’s catalog, which is being produced to emulate late 19th century ‘sample’ books used by traveling salesmen, books whose form lends itself to an idea that is still unfolding.
All parts of the project can be followed on the ICI’s website. The construction of the lab books and the catalog will be charted on ISSUU where finished publications will be offered to the public through the print on demand service of ICI Press.
A PDF version of the press release for this iteration of the projects can be downloaded here.
ICI Associate Christel Dillbohner is featured in a new solo exhibition entitled Christel Dillbohner “Recent paintings” at Donald Soker Gallery in San Francisco, CA.
The exhibition is on view until January 23, 2016. Artist Talk: January 9, 2016; 3-4pm
ICI Associate, Christel Dillbohner, and her collaborator Danae mattes are featured in a new art exhibition, entitled CircumNavigators, the GTU Library in Berkeley from .
The opening reception will be on Thursday, April 30th, from 6pm-8pm with a special event, “Interval at the Atrium”, a reading of poems and prose texts related to the issues presented, at 7pm.
The Flora Lamson Hewlett Library, GTU,
2400 Ridge Road, Berkeley CA
Open & Free to the Public during Library Hours
Visual Language: Mystery and Meaning with work by Thekla Hammond, Cheryl Calleri and Christel Dillbohner
Opening Reception Sunday, April 19, 2015
at St. Mary’s College Museum of Art
1928 Saint Mary’s Road
Moraga, CA 94575
Visual Language: Mystery and Meaning, work by Thekla Hammond, Cheryl Calleri, and Christel Dillbohner, April 19 – June 21, 2015 at St. Mary’s College Museum of Art. Opening reception, Sunday, April 19 from 2 – 4.30 pm.
In May Circum Navigators, a collaborative project between Danae Mattes and ICI Associate, Christel Dillbohner will be shown at the Flora Lamson Hewlett Library, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley
ICI Associate, Christel Dillbohner’s new exhibition, “Ice Floe Journals,” on view at 1821 Gallery & Studios, has been reviewed by the Fresno Bee.
The full story is available here.
ICI Associate, Christel Dillbohner is being featured in a new exhibition, “ICE FLOE JOURNALS” at 1821 Gallery & Studios in Fresno from September 4 – October 18, 2014.
“In the last five years, she has been creating a large series of contemplative, abstract, process paintings circling around imaginative, clearly Nordic-looking, landscapes. In these works she is exploring – with the melting glaciers in mind – the balance of process transformation, geological reference and emotional drama. For this group of works she has developed a new painting method with pigments dissolved and strained into an emulsion of water, oil and wax. The liquefied pigments are poured onto the canvases, wooden panels or sheets of absorbent paper. […] She allows the material to oscillate between the principles for randomness and control until she has found what she is looking for.”
Art Hop opening reception, Thursday, September 4th, 5-8pm
Artist Presentation and Discussion, Friday, September 5th, 7pm.
Searching for Sebald – Reader’s Edition
The Reader’s Edition includes a softcover trade edition of Searching for Sebald with a free-standing print of Christel Dillbohner’s project for Searching for Sebald. Book and poster are housed in a silver cardboard sleeve.
Purchase the Reader’s Edition of Searching for Sebald at our gift shop.