Strategic Vandalism: The Legacy of Asger Jorn's Modification

Axel Heil is an artist, curator, writer, and producer. He is the founder of fluid editions, a production platform for a wide range of projects and artistic research. Since 2001 he is Professor for "Experimental Transfers" at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Karlsruhe. Recently he has published essays in Jorn-Picasso: Myths and Meetings (Silkeborg, 2014) and Jorn & Pollock: Revolutionary Roads (Louisiana, Humlebæk, 2014) and In the Beginning Was the Image: Asger Jorn in the Canica Art Collection (Silkeborg, 2016) as well as the book Asger Jorn: The Open Hide (New York, 2016) in collaboration with Roberto Ohrt.

Roberto Ohrt lives in Hamburg, received his doctorate in 1988 from the University of Hamburg (Phantom Avantgarde, 1990), and has published numerous works on the history of modern art (with a focus on the Situationist International) and artists such as Martin Kippenberger, Raymond Pettibon, André Butzer, and Albert Oehlen. He has taught as a visiting professor in Munich, Frankfurt, and Kassel and curated exhibitions at the Center Georges Pompidou (1993), Golden Pudel Club (1993-2001), Museum der Moderne (with Margrit Brehm, Salzburg, 2005) and 8.Salon (2010-2015). Co-founded the Akademie lsotrop (1996-2001) and 8.Salon (since 2009).