ABOUT Annett Zinsmeister
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MONOGRAPHS:
Real Fiction. Installations by Annett Zinsmeister monograph (Berlin 2026)
The Art of Fold. Works by Annett Zinsmeister monograph (Berlin 2025)
Annett Zinsmeister. Searching for Identity monograph (Berlin: Jovis 2012)
Plattenbau. Artprojects by Annett Zinsmeister catalogue box 12 picture cards limit. ed. 2nd. edition (Berlin: ethicdesign 2012)
Plattenbau. Artprojects by Annett Zinsmeister catalogue box 12 picture cards limit. ed. (Berlin: ethicdesign 2010)
City + War. A Trip to Sarajevo by Annett Zinsmeister (Stuttgart: merz&solitude 2008)
Plattenbau oder die Kunst, Utopie im Baukasten zu warten (Karl Ernst Osthaus Museum Hagen 2002)
UnFolding. Works by Annett Zinsmeister. exhibition catalogue limited edition (Berlin 1996)
VIDEOS:
ANNETT ZINSMEISTER Artist portray (german with english subtitles) by aboutanartist 2023
ANNETT ZINSMEISTER: INSIDE_OUT AUSSER HAUS by KUNSTHALLE TÜBINGEN 2021
WAHRNEHMUNG GESTALTEN / DESIGNING PERCEPTION lecture (german) by invitation of Typographic Design Society Munich 2012
SPACE MATTERS lecture SPACE MATTERS lecture (english) by ANNETT ZINSMEISTER at University of Visual Arts Linz 2012 >> Video
ANNETT ZINSMEISTER Plattenbau ART video portray (german with english subtitles) in the series Plattenköpfe, 2011 >> Video
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CATALOGUES (exhibitions):
Time Shift Catalogue Ed. Schloss Biesdorf, Berlin 2021
20 Years Kunstverein Nuertingen Ed. Kunstverein Nuertingen 2021
Decade One Ed. dr.julius|ap, Berlin 2018
Marcher dans le rêve d´un autre Ed. Abdelkader Damani + Luca Galofaro, Orléans 2017
#1 Biennale d´Architecture Orléans. Art Contemporain en region Centre-Val de Loire Ed. FRAC Centre-Val de Loire, Orléans 2017
Spatial Miracles Ed. Museum Ritter, Marli Hoppe-Ritter Stiftung, Stuttgart 2016
Are we Human? The Design of the Species Biennale Istanbul, Ed: IKSV Tasarim mit Beatriz Colomina + Mark Wigley, Istanbul 2016
Highlike Yearbook on global contemporary ART and CULTURE. Ed. FILE – Electronic Language International Festival & SES, Brazil 2015
The Art of Fold, Ed. Museum for Concrete Art Ingolstadt, Simone Schimpf, Amely Deiss, Kehrer Heidelberg 2014
Tracing the grid - The grid in visual arts after 1945. Ed. Ulrike Groos, Simone Schimpf / Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, 2012
(In)visible Cities Ed. Simone Kraft / Kunstverein Wilhelmshöhe Ettlingen, 2011
ZEIGEN. An Audiotour through Berlin by Karin Sander. Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin, 2010
urban hacking, paraflows 09, festival for digital art + culture, Ed. mono/monochrom Wien 2009
Vorfahrt - international exhibition Ed. Wolfgang Seitz, Arnoldsche Stuttgart 2006
Talking Cities - The Micropolitics of Urban Space Eds. Francesca Ferguson; urban drift. Birkhäuser book 2006
Solitude yearbook 05, Ed. Jean Baptiste Joly, Stuttgart 2006, p.194-196
Museutopia. Schritte in andere Welten, Ed. Michael Fehr, Thomas Rieger, Karl Ernst Osthaus Museum Hagen 2003
ÜBER WASSER – Crossing the waters, Düren 1997 >> Interview
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CONTRIBUTIONS + Interviews (print, audio, TV, video):
COMEBACK der PLATTE Identity, culture, living space TV broadcast on 3sat by Angela Scheele 2024 >> Video (german)
Annett Zinsmeister Interview in: Beauty Fatigue Blog by Sharlene Walker April 2024 >> Interview>> Interview
Cities with no limits Interview by Saskia Miller in: Monocle # 165 Jul./Aug. 2023
Can it go? The urban planning heritage of the GDR live on TV on 5.4.2022, Bundesstiftung Aufarbeitung Archive >> Video in german (contribution from min. 52.44)
Interview in: ARD Audiothek by Tobias Ignée for SWR 2 Kultur, 27.05.2021 >> Audio in German
Annett Zinsmeister Interview for the show Interflugs 30: feral methods Archive Ed. Interflugs, UdK Berlin, NGBK Berlin, 2021
Notes from the Studio in: Contemporary Scenography: Practices and Aesthetics in German Theatre, Arts and Design, Ed. Birgit Wiens, Bloomsbury 2019
Chromanoids Interview podcast 3rd Design Biennial Istanbul by Ivan L. Mununera, Princeton University 2016
Architecture in the Media of Photography in: Architektur Fotografie: Darstellung - Verwendung - Gestaltung Ed. Hubert Locher, Rolf Sachsse, Deutscher Kunstverlag Munich 2015
Spatial Turn in: Perception in Architecture. Here and Now. Ed. Claudia Perren, Miriam Mledeck, ANCB (Cambridge Scholars Publishers / Fine Arts 2015)
Artistic Operations. A Conversation with Annett Zinsmeister von Sabin Bors, anti-utopias 2014 >> Interview
Annett Zinsmeister in: architects. profile.life.oeuvre, Ed. Joppien, Kirrkamm, Hornstein, Wuppertal 2014
Plattenbau as artistic blue print by Jeannine Fiedler, in: Plattenbauten in Berlin, Ed. Ulrich Giersch, Bien, Berlin 2013, p.81
Passion and Rationality in: Pathos des Gestischen, Der Architekt vol.4/2013
Annett Zinsmeister: Plattenbau in: Plattenbauten in Berlin, Ed. Roland Enke, Ulrich Giersch, panorama Berlin 2013 >> download
ART - Annett Zinsmeister in: ELLE City: The 1st league. These five Personalites have set new standards in Stuttgart, p.49, ELLE December 2012
Searching for Identity in: Annett Zinsmeister - Searching for Identity, Berlin 2012
Interview with Annett Zinsmeister in: Rasterfahndung - The grid in visual arts after 1945. Ed. Ulrike Groos, Simone Schimpf / Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, 2012
To be Creative is not enough von Stefanie Woit in: DIE ZEIT, 24.3.2011 No. 13, p.75 >> download
Architecture can not and must not only be negotiated as a built space Interview with Annett Zinsmeister by Simone Kraft in: www.architekturzeitung.eu 9.1.2011
outside in / virtual interior. Works by artist Annett Zinsmeister in: urbanspacemag # 3 copy + paste, Dez. 2010, p.56-59 >> download
Standstill is not a fact. Interview with Annett Zinsmeister by Bernd Haasis in: Stuttgarter Nachrichten 6.12.2010, p.14
Time travel - Spreemoderne Radio feature by Adolf Stock: Deutschlandradio Kultur, 21.10.09, 7.30 p.m
Fanning out jubilantly, searching tumultuarily ... in: wolkenkuckucksheim, http://www.cloud-cuckoo.net/ (December 2008)
Annett Zinsmeister. Interview in: junk jet vol.2 The speculative architecture issue, Ed. Gerd de Bruyn, Mona Mahall, Asli Serbest, Stuttgart, Nov. 2008 p.66-69
Plattenbau: Annett Zinsmeister in: Revue für postheroisches Management Ed. Dirk Baecker, issue 1-07, first edition Witten/Berlin 2007 featured artist
Virtual art: Annett Zinsmeister in: eyemazing issue 3-06, p.178-183, Amsterdam July 2006
beauty and the beast. exhibitions by German artist Annett Zinsmeister in: Mark - Another Architecture issue 3 - 06, p.34-35 Amsterdam July 2006
outside_in / Ausstellung und Interview mit Annett Zinsmeister by Pernille Jensen in: Solitude yearbook 2005, Ed. Jean Baptiste Joly, Stuttgart 2006
Norm and Norma in Paradise by Krystian Woznicki in: telepolis 02.10.2005
Turbulences in the Typical. A ficitve dialogue with Annett Zinsmeister by Eckhard Siepmann, Berlin 2004
Cementated future visions by Michael Thompson in: Die Unruhe der Kultur, Ed. Jörn Rüsen, Michael Fehr, Weilerswist 2004
Miraculous transformation of the plates by Kai-Uwe Hemken in: Plattenbau oder die Kunst Utopie im Baukasten zu warten, Ed. Annett Zinsmeister (KEOM Hagen / Berlin 2002)
Memodul. A Plattenbau by Wolfgang Ernst in: Plattenbau oder die Kunst, Utopie im Baukasten zu warten Ed. Annett Zinsmeister (KEOM Hagen / Berlin 2002)
About plates and platelets by Claus Pias in: Plattenbau oder die Kunst, Utopie im Baukasten zu warten Ed. Annett Zinsmeister (KEOM Hagen / Berlin 2002)
New kitchens for the land. Interview with Annett Zinsmeister by Adolf Stock, Deutschlandradio, 1998
New Ideas for Plattenbau by Kay Rosansky in: DBZ. Deutsche Bauzeitschrift 3/1997, S.116-117
UnFolding by Angelika Schnell in: UnFolding. pieces by Annett Zinsmeister exhibition catalogue, Berlin 1996
Artist talks – Interview in: interflugs, Berlin 1994
REVIEWS:
Designing light. The Kunstmuseum Celle presents the light art prizewinners Hans Kotter and Annett Zinsmeister by Hennig Queren: in: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung 17.12.2024, p.26
A wonderful world of light, optics and new perspectives in: Cellesche Zeitung 16.11.2024, p.61
Hypnotic and oppressive in the Celle Art by Sandrine Hare in: NDR, 02.10.2024
Spaces to immerse and find yourself by Doris Hennies in: Cellesche Zeitung 24.09.2024, p.13
East-Berlin Icon becomes an art venue by Thomas Fitzel in: rbb24 Culture 14.4.2024 >> Article in German
How smells the Spreepark? First show at the new Art Space at Eierhäuschen by Ulrike Martin in: Berliner Woche 26.3.2024 >> Article in German
Reopening and exhibition in the legendary Eierhäuschen in: rbb Abendschau Kultur 25.4.2024 >> Mediathek
The Spreepark Art Space has opened in the Eierhäuschen in: art in berlin 25.3.2024 >> Article in German
Platte pur and the poetry of old buildings voices about the show TIME SHIFT at Schloß Biesdorf 2022 >> Video in German
Annett Zinsmeister in Tübingen in: Arte Concreta Blog about Concrete Art 2.8 2021 >> Feature in German
Inside Out. Installation by Annett Zinsmeister Video on youtube by BFG Media Group for Kunsthalle Tübingen,10.06.2021 >> film in German
Tyranny of the Grid. Annett Zinsmeister's architectural landscapes immediately cast a spell on the public by Georg Leisten in Stuttgarter Zeitung, 16.11.2018 >> Article (german)
Space. Fragment. Formation by Nicole Carina Fritz in: Kunst + Kultur / Gatzani Verlag Blog >> Articlel (german)
Preview "Space. Fragment. Formation" by Annett Zinsmeister by Idzumi Neumärker in: FB 27. Oktober 2018 >> Article (german)
Three previews with !!! in: stuttgart-art-blog, 28.10.2019 >> Article (german)
Confronting the Future in TAGESSPIEGEL 26.05.2018 >> Article (german)
Espacios Concretos en la Galería Impakto in:TV robles Peru 17.10.2017 >> Article (spanisch)
Arte y estructura in cosas.pe, 24.10.2017 >> Article (spanisch)
Espacios Concretos en la Galería Impakto von Andrés Chávez Alcorta >> Bildstrecke
Art Scene celebrates season start in Bonn 2017 by Thomas Kliemann, in Generalanzeiger Bonn 18.09.2017 >> Article (german)
Plattenbau as an artwork series by Annett Zinsmeister by Gudrun von Schoenebeck in Generalanzeiger Bonn 10.08.2017 >> Article (german)
Exhibition in Munich: Annett Zinsmeister - Urban Shelter? by Claudia Rinne in Architektur aktuell 26.2.2017, S.14 -15 >> Article (german)
Escape to the inner Security by Evelyn Vogel in SZ Sueddeutsche Zeitung 7.1.2017 >> Article (german)
Knowldege up to the Ceiling by Georg Leisten >> Article (german)
Contra la"estupidez" del "buen designo" en la Bienal de Estambul by Javier Pérez de la Cruzi in: ABC Cultura Arte 16.11.2016 >> Artikel (spanish)
Games with Mirror and Light by Thomas Volkmann in: SZBZ 5.11.2016 >> Article (german)
Are We Human? byMaria Cristina Didero in: domus 3.11.2016>> Article (english)
From Harvest storage to Space installation by Gunther Nethin in: Stuttgarter Nachrichten 3.11.2016 >> Article (german)
Virtual Interior by Annett Zinsmeister in: Are We Human? 3rd Design Biennial Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts 3.11.2016 >> Article (english)
Exhibition in Munich: "Urban Shelter?", Annett Zinsmeister by Claudia Rinne in: architektur aktuell 1.11.2016 >> Article ( german + english)
Diseno + Humano / Bienal del Diseno de Estambul by Daniel Pernudo in: dxi magazine 26.10.2016 >> Article (spanisch)
Istanbul’s third Design Biennial explores the human imprint byAli Morris in: wallpaper 24.10.2016 >> Article (english)
Die Kunst tritt in die Stadt hinaus von Elisabeth Kanski in: Teckbote 19.10.2016 >> Article (german)
Between Reality and Fiction by in: Teckbote 07.10.2016 >> Article i(german)
Urban Shelter? | Annett ZINSMEISTER in Munich by Simone Kraft in: deconarch, 2.10.2016 >> Article (german)
Urban shelters. Exhibition by Annett Zinsmeister in Munich Bunker in: baunetz 30.09.2016 >> Article (german)
The Otherworldly Modern Homes that Were Never Built by Allison Meier in: hyperallergic on February 18, 2016 >> Article (english)
Annett Zinsmeister à la galerie Nery Marino - Virtual interior Paris de Nathalie Morgado à: Galleriemoi 15 février 2016 >> Article (french)
Explore the concept of Endless House at the MoMA by AFine Lyne in: untapped cities.com, New York 01/26/2016 >> Article (english)
New York/Ocean of Images by Brian Rose in: Journal, January 15, 2016 >> Article (english)
Warm Your Artistic Soul This Season: 10 Must-See Winter Art Exhibits in NYC by Astrid Sarmiento in: Spoiled New York January 14, 2016 >> Article (english)
MoMA exhibition highlights how artists have used the house as a means to explore universal topicsin: artdaily.org, Thursday, July 9, 2015 >> Article (english)
Endless House: Experimental archetypes of dwelling in: The Architectural Review, New York 07/2015 >> Article (english)
Elogio al Mestizaje in: Cosas Perú 07/2015 >> Article (spanish)
"The Art of Fold" in Freiburg in: Badische Zeitung, Kultur 23.03.2015 >> Article (german)
Space is change. Data.Grid.Room.Modules by Annett Zinsmeister in: Stuttgarter Nachrichten, Kultur 25.2.2015 >> Article (german)
Showing the edge by Joerg Restorff in: Kunstzeitung, December 2014, p.6 >> article (german)
In the focus of curious camera eyes by Dietrich Heißenbüttel in: Stuttgarter Zeitung, 23.6.2014, S.18 >> article (german)
Unreal spaces "scenarios of the uncanny" in the Kunstverein Neuhausen by Elke Eberle in: Esslinger Zeitung / Kultur, 3.6.2014 >> article (german)
Ethic and Aesthetic. Moral and Distance by Philipp Hindahl in: artefakt. Journal for Art and Art history, 4.1.2013 >> article (german)
The Grid, not just a topic for architects by Dagmar Meister-Klaiber in: Bauwelt 22.12, Juni 2012 >> article (german)
The grid - my friend, by Nikolai B. Forstbauer in: Stuttgarter Nachrichten, 5.5.2012, p.20 >> article (german)
Architecture and Photography by Florian Henrich in: Rundbrief Fotografie, Vol.19 (2012), No.1, p.41 ff >> article (german)
From the fantastic, impossible and lost space - (In)visible Cities by Brigitte Schultz in: bauwelt 42.11, Oktober 2011 >> article (german)
Staging the (un) visible city by Günter Baumann in: SUR Ausgabe 18 Oktober / November 2011, p.58 (german)
Built Worlds - (In)visible Cities at Kunstverein Wilhelmshöhe Ettlingen by Michael Hübl in: Baden Nachrichten 26.10.2011 (german)
Honest investigation of environment by Susanne Marschall, Ettlinger Zeitung, 4.10.2011, p.14 >> article (german)
Book - Figure of Motion in: UrbanTick, 23.8.2011 >> article (german)
Update! 90 years of Bauhaus – what now? by Jeannette Kunsmann in: baunetzwoche # 214, März 2011, p.4 >> download (german)
Libri: Le Ultime Uscite in Italia e nel Mondo: 56 titoli per 44 editori by Michela Rosso in: IL GIORNALE DELL’ARCHITETTURA, N. 91,febraio 2011, p.27 >> article (german)
Bauhaus tomorrow by Jürgen Tietz in Neue Zürcher Zeitung 18th January 2011, p. >> article (german)
The question of the identity of the urban soloshow by Annett Zinsmeister at Nürtinger Kunstvereins since Thursday by Heinz Böhler, in: Nürtinger Zeitung 13.11.2010, coverstory, p.1 >> article (german)
Listening instead: An audio tour through Berlin in the Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin by Simone Kraft in www.deconarch.com, 12/2009 (german)
URBAN HACKING paraflows 09, Jana Wisniewski in: e-motion Artspace Internetkunstzeitschrift 09/2009, http://e-motion-artspace.info/hacking.htm (english)
Architecture as spatial irritation, Michael Isenberg in: Stuttgarter Nachrichten. Kulturmagazin, vol.140, 18.6.2008, p.17 (german)
The aesthetic plane in space in: form follows behavior - informal reflections, von Christian Marc Schmidt, 30.5.2008 (english)
Window, wall, window. Exceptionel views at Digital Art Museum, Tom Mustroph in: Neues Deutschland, 4.1.2008, p. 17 (german)
Understanding the Enemy by Eva Horn & Claus Pias in: Junge Akademie Magazin, Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften Berlin 2006, p.14-15(german)
highlights of month: Stuttgart in december 2005 by Günter Baumann in: www.portalkunstgeschichte.de, Dec. 2005 (german)
HyperKult II: Locating analogue and digital media by Florian Spengler, in: Theaterforschung www.theaterforschung.de (german)
Digital transformations by Stefan Benaburger in designreport 5/05, S.66 (german)
Annett Zinsmeister, ed. Plattenbau, or The art of maintaining utopia in a modular system by Gerd Bayer in: Utopian Studies, Vol. 14.1, 2003 p. 285-88 >> article (english)
Agony in the net. The first "Media Art Days" in Bad Ems by Georg Imdahl in: FAZ - Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung 4.6.2003 Nr.128 Feuilleton S.128 (german)
Annett Zinsmeister Plattenbau, or The art of maintaining utopia in a modular system by Ina Christin Männle in: Beton - und Stahlbetonbau issue 8 98.Jahrgang S.A 34 August 2003 (german)
Change / Wallpaper " P2/11 white" by Annett Zinsmeister by Nicole Weißkirchen in: www.arcguide.de & arcguide-Magazin Titel/Thema (7. Ausgabe 06/2003) (german)
Little memory of the utopia of the Platte by Andreas Denk in: Der Architekt Ausgabe 3-4 April 2003 S.8 (german)
Plattenbau on the screen - Annett Zinsmeister: Memodul by Axel John Wieder in: www.fluter.de Dez.2002/ Jan.2003 (german)
Plattenbau by Mercedes Bunz in: DE:BUG 66, Dezember 2002, S.46 (german)
Utopia in the construction kit in: BAUNETZ, 20.11.2002 (german)
Playground of Visions by Ira Mazzoni in: SÜDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG, 11. Juli 2002, S.17 (german)
Museutopia by Ursula Baus in: db. deutsche bauzeitung 9/02, S.14 (german)
Annett Zinsmeister: MEMODUL - Ein digitales Memory zu Plattenbauten und anderen modularen Utopien by Bernhard Thilo Kroeschell in: www.PORTALKUNSTGESCHICHTE.de, 2002 (german)
New Ideas for Plattenbau by Oliver Kempert in: BERLINER MORGENPOST 7.2.1996, S.31 (german)
New Ideas for Plattenbau Reportage in: TROCKENBAU AKUSTIK 6/96, S.65 (german)
