FORT

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Flight of the Ribbon 1 - FORT Photo © Galerie Elisabeth & Klaus Thoman / kunst-dokumentation.com, FORT, Flight of Ribbon, 2024
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FORT consists of Alberta Niemann (*1982 in Bremen) and Jenny Kropp (*1978 in Frankfurt am Main). Since 2008, they have been creating installations, performances, and video installations (until 2013 with Anna Jandt). As of 2023/2024, FORT has held the professorship for sculpture (sculpture/installation/spatial conception) in the Fine Arts program at the Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts in Kiel.

The group of artists FORT, made up of Alberta Niemann (1982 in Bremen) and Jenny Kropp (1978 in Frankfurt am Main), moves like a seismograph through our contemporary everyday world, tracing current social, political, and economic events and developments. A key part in their artistic practice is played by the assimilation, transformation and staging of different situations that they either find or create for themselves. On occasion their detailed arrangements – which are often produced in connection with performative interventions – resemble stages or experimental set-ups.
They start out from these to examine and disclose mechanisms of consumer society and the art mar-ket, the conditions of current art production, or the prevailing ideas about a place. It is frequently possible to discern borrowed forms or content from film, literature and music, which are subtly interwoven in the group’s works. In their inter-ventions, performances and installations, on the one hand FORT respond to existing structures and conditions; at the same time, the artists add alien aspects to their found situations and play with our perception and a re-contextualising of the apparently familiar. (Lotte Dinse)
Selected institutional exhibitions and prizes: MGK Siegen (solo, 2023), Kunstverein Ruhr (solo, 2020), Kunsthalle Gießen (solo, 2019), Kunstverein in Hamburg (solo, 2019), Kunstverein in Hamburg (2019), Langen Foundation (2017), Cremer Prize (2016), kestnergesellschaft (solo, 2015), New Positions Award with Galerie Elisabeth & Klaus Thoman at Art Cologne (2014), Karl H. Ditze Preis (2013), Neues Museum Weserburg (2009), KW Institute for Contemporary Art Berlin (2008).

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SOLO EXHIBITIONS (Selection)

2025 Fantasy Island, Museum für moderne Kunst Weserburg, GER

2024 At Night We Stay Awake Defending The Form, Galerie Elisabeth & Klaus Thoman, Innsbruck, AT

2023 Archiv der Sorgen, MGKSiegen, Siegen, GER

The Great Await, Sies + Höke, Düsseldorf, GER

2021 Egale Lage, AkA – Atelier für kulturelle Angelegenheiten, Weske-Borken, GER

2020 INNER CIRCLE, Kunstverein Ruhr, Essen, GER

2019 Undercover, Kunsthalle Gießen, Gießen, GER

2018 Sweet Sickness, Sies + Höke, Düsseldorf, GER

Night Shift, Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg, GER

2017 Limbo, Langen Foundation, Neuss, GER

Night Shift, Casino – Forum d’art contemporain, Luxembourg, LUX

2016 The School of Art, Science and Technical Classes, MOSTYN, Wales, Wales, UK

Retired, LWL. Museum für Kunst und Kultur, Münster, GER

2015 About Blank, Sies + Höke, Düsseldorf, GER

The Daily Sun, artothek, Cologne, GER

FORT – shift, kestnergesellschaft, Hannover, GER (cat.)

2014 The Shining, Art Cologne New Positions with Galerie Elisabeth & Klaus Thoman, Cologne, GER

Dream Of Capri – CAPRI, Düsseldorf, GER

2013 One in a Million, Galerie Elisabeth & Klaus Thoman, Vienna, AT

Morgen Letzter Tag, Kunsthaus Dresden, GER

2012 Leck, Galerie Crone, Berlin, GER

Lou, Exile, Berlin, GER

2011 The Eye Balled Walls, LISTE 16, Basel mit Gallery Exile, Berlin, GER

2010 Fort Hatchery Works, Fernheizwerk Neukölln, Berlin, GER

The Golden Rule, Galerie Lena Brüning, Berlin, GER

2009 Point Gray, Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen, GER

Horror Vacui, Galerie Crystal Ball, Berlin, GER

2008 Point Gray, Sequences Real Time Art Festival, Reykjavik, ISL

Hotel Marienbad, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, GER


GROUP EXHIBITION (Selection)

2024 20 Jahre Langen Foundation: Drei Generationen – Eine Leidenschaft, Langen Foundation, Neuss, GER

2023 Zwei. Zur Aktualität des Duos, Städtische Galerie, Villingen-Schwenningen, GER

Die Stadt ist anderswo. Revision eines Traums, Situation Kunst (für Max Imdahl), Museum unter Tage, Bochum, GER

Gegenwartsgesellschaft – 50 Jahre / 50 years Produzentengalerie Hamburg, Produzentengalerie, Hamburg, GER

2022 Die Vögel des Zufalls, Galerie Norbert Arns, Cologne, GER

So wie wir sind 4.0, Weserburg, Museum für moderne Kunst, Bremen, GER

On Equal Terms, Open Studios, Uferhallen e.V., Berlin, GER

2021 Ever Seen Never Seen, FAHRENHEIT, Berlin, GER

AUSZEIT VON PAUSEN UND MOMENTEN DES AUFBRUCHS, Kunstmuseum Ravensburg, Ravensburg, GER

So wie wir sind 3.0, Weserburg, Museum für moderne Kunst, Bremen, GER

Taking my Thoughts for a Walk, Kunstverein Dortmund, Dortmund, GER

Macht! Licht!, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, GER

2020 Invitation to Love | curated by FORT, Kunstverein Bremerhaven, Bremerhaven, GER

1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1 Art.8 GG Versammlungsfreiheit, Villa Schöningen, Potsdam, GER

Garten der Gegenwart, salondergegenwart, Hamburg, GER

Lichtparcours, Braunschweig, GER

So wie wir sind 2.0, Weserburg | Museum für moderne Kunst, Bremen, GER

2019 Zwei, Produzentengalerie, Hamburg, GER

Zone dangereuse, Zidoun & Bossuyt, Luxembourg, LUX

Im Licht der Nacht – Vom Leben im Halbdunkel, Marta Herford, Herford, GER

Im Licht der Nacht – Die Stadt schläft nie, Kai 10 | Arthena Foundation, Düsseldorf, GER

Beyond, me, Collectors Room, Berlin, GER

So wie wir sind 1.0, Weserburg, Museum für moderne Kunst, Bremen, GER

Act, Q18, Cologne, GER

2018 Rinnzekete bee bee nnz krr müü, Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden, GER

Mass X (The Unfolding), Supportico Lopez, Berlin, GER

Gruppenbild, Kulturkirche St. Stephani, Bremen, GER

I Am Large, I Contain Multitudes, Galerie Wedding – Raum für zeitgenössische Kunst, Berlin, GER

2017 I’m not here to make friends, Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof, Hamburg, GER

Rumors of Glory, Basis, Frankfurt, GER

You Are Here, West, Den Haag, GER

2016 Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Stipendium. Die Ausstellung 2016, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, GER

This Is Your Replacement, Sies + Höke, Düsseldorf, GER

2015 Letztes Jahr in Marienbad. Ein Film als Kunstwerk, Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen, GER

RETRO STORE, curated by_Veit Loers, Galerie Elisabeth & Klaus Thoman, Vienna, AT

drawing now, Galerie Elisabeth & Klaus Thoman, Vienna, AT


AWARDS & SCHOLARSHIPS

2022/23 Artist in Residence Siegen, University of Siegen with the Museum of Contemporary Art Siegen, GER

2016/17 New York Studio Scholarship from the Hessian Cultural Foundation, GER

2016 Cremer Prize, GER

2014 New Positions Award, with Galerie Elisabeth & Klaus Thoman at Art Cologne, GER

Kunstfonds Foundation Work Scholarship, GER

2013 Karl H. Ditze Young Talent Promotion, GER

2012 Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Scholarship, GER

2008 Stiftung Kunstfonds Projektförderung, GER

Shortlist blauorange, GER

Echo of Forms - FORT, JULIA HAUGENEDER, MAI-THU PERRET, MARIA BRUNNER, PETER SANDBICHLER
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At Night We Stay Awake Defending The Form - FORT
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FORT at Weserburg — Museum für moderne Kunst FORT, Last Song (Detail), 2025, Courtesy FORT, Photo: Tobias Hübel
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