Timo Menke

I intend to migrate, extend and transform “my” life, body and work beyond the limits of “myself” — essentially to become embodied artwork, to inhabit other non-human beings and forms, and to infiltrate the art world and its agents. My proposal is concerned with a radical human donation practice, i.e., the act of giving of “myself” to the world, on the premise of kinship and similarity between eukaryotes.

Timo Menke was born in Germany, and lives and works in Sweden since 1988. He received a Master of Fine Arts from Konstfack, the University College of Arts, Crafts and Design, Stockholm in 1999. Between 2004 and 2014 he has been teaching as Senior lecturer at the department of art at Konstfack, Stockholm and is currently working as a visual artist and freelance film director. He is also engaged at the Filmform foundation, the Art Film and Video Archive, in Stockholm, dealing with archiving and distribution of film and video art.

His work is represented at Moderna Museet, Stockholm, and distributed by Filmform. His work has been exhibited in numerous exhibitions and festival screenings in Sweden and internationally, including Kalmar Konstmuseum and Umeå Galleri Verkligheten (2015), Moscow Biennale (special project 2013 and 2015), Manifesta St. Petersburg (special project 2014), Stuttgarter Filmwinter (2001 and 2011) and Konsthall C Hökarängen (2008).