Academy of Fine Arts at the University of the Arts Helsinki
Denise Ziegler, DFA, is a Helsinki based visual artist and researcher of public space. In her artistic practice and research, she questions the concepts of urban space and public art. Instead of interrogating people and involving them in the process, Ziegler’s interventional artworks put questions directly to public infrastructure, to walls, fences, or vehicles of public transport. In a post-Beuysian vein, an artist workshop is extended to public space in order to work with its mechanisms and possibilities. Ziegler has made permanent and temporary works in and for public space, her practice includes in three-dimensional assemblages of objects, drawings, paintings, videos, literary-visual works, and writing. Ziegler is currently working as a professor of artistic research at the doctoral programme of the Academy of Fine Arts at the University of the Arts Helsinki and as university lecturer at Transdisciplinary Art Studies (TAITE) at the Department of Art and Media at Aalto University.
http://denise-ziegler.squarespace.com/
Secondment destination
Project Arts Centre, Dublin, Ireland, Spring 2024
