Das Müllprojekt

Anke Haarmann

»Beautiful Trash«
Videoinstallation, Found Footage Collage, 2017

The internet is full of beautiful pictures of people scavenging landfills in front of a dramatic sky and a steaming backdrop. In the no-man’s land of the driveway to Recyclinghof St. Pauli, there are people in small trucks waiting to informally take over the electronic scrap from those who are on their way to the municipal containers. Apparently waste has developed into a wonderful and prospering market. »Beautiful Trash« processes found material to create a video collage.

Anke Haarmann — Hamburg

works as an artist and theoretician. She has extensively dealt with visual culture and the public space in long-term projects. Her works are explorative, often serial, sometimes interventionistic installations, collages or video essays. In her theoretical work she has explored the field of artistic research for many years. She studied art at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts, philosophy at the Free University of Berlin and Hamburg University. Furthermore, she participated in the international postgraduate programme in the fields of fine art, design and art theory at the Jan van Eyck Academie Maastricht and attained her PhD at Potsdam University. She teaches as a professor for design research at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences