show a direct relationship to the urban processes of Berlin, which are full of brutal contradictions, but also moments of cloaked elegance. The final project is the design and construction of a garden pavilion for HomeBase Berlin. The pavilion will serve as a highly flexible structure for leisure, urban gardening, and performance, for the future artists in residence.
Brett Gustafson (USA) b. 1986, North Dakota, USA. Lives and works in Chicago, USA. Gustafson studied painting and sculpture at universities in Oregon, Minnesota, and Berlin before receiving a BFA from the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis in 2009. He is currently a Masters of Architecture candidate at University of Illinois Chicago. At times his work is easily defined in terms of disciplinary boundaries, but at other times it attempts to find a curious position between the ambitions of visual art and architecture.
‘Pankow Free Jazz’ By using Pankow as the site for a series of formal experiments that take form in drawings, sculpture, and constructed architectural space, Gustafson attempts to find new territories between these formal disciplines. Collage informs Drawings and painting, drawing and painting informs sculpture, sculpture informs architecture. With in this process more specific projects come to fruition. Like Neu Flanuér Exercises which builds on the Situationists invention of the Deríve and formally activates the artist’s paths through Pankow. Collages built from images found around Pankow serve as starting for further projects but also