Käthe Wenzel

She uses techniques from surveys to speculative fiction to explore "the collective production of culture, the interface of art and science, and the production and negotiation of public space". She modifies or mimics urban signs, advertisements, or services, jolting viewers out of their habitual ruts, upsetting conventional ways of seeing and of representing the world. Her interview-based drawing projects connect the streets and the Internet. Her aim is to create space for unusual thoughts and empowered communication: "The point is to rewrite existing structures as alterable, to change and rethink them (..) Through a collective work process (Wenzel) opens up new perspectives and visions of specific themes."

• Name — Kaethe Wenzel • Born — 1972 • Birthplace — Aachen, Germany • Field — Urban and participatory art

• Illustration — Käthe Wenzel: Bonebots, 2010 In 2016, Wenzel became professor for Aesthetic Practice and Contexts at European University Flensburg. She studied in Marburg, Florence, and Berlin. In 2003 she received a PhD for her work "Meat as a Material in Art. Objects on the Interface of Art and Medicine" about oppositional artistic structures in the German Democratic Republic (GDR). She was an exchange scholar with the Fulbright Program. In a direct reaction to her time in New York City she developed the Cartoonorama project, which combines drawing, interview, and cartography. Her art can be found in museums and collections including the German Museum of Technology Berlin; the Szént István Király Múzeum, Székesfehérvár, Hungary; the Koblenz Middlerhine Museum, and the Roemer-Pelizaeus-Museum in Hildesheim. • Illustration — Kaethe Wenzel: Future M, Still, 2016 • Illustration — Käthe Wenzel: Future M, Still, 2016