Second tandem tour - Geyso20 at the Sprengel Museum Hanover

Das Atelier als Gemeinschaft#Geyso20 - Markus Zimmermann and Timo Winner

Sprengel Museum Hanover, february 14, 2025.

How do we want to live together? Timo Winner, artist at the Geyso20 studio, has very concrete answers optimising the urban space. In 2023, he has started his collaboration with Markus Zimmermann: As part of a workshop week, organised by Atelier 23, Lebenshilfe Gießen, they have built an object showing a covered traffic network.

Markus Zimmermann, an artist living and working in Frankfurt on the Main, creates something new out of something used. At first glance, no longer useful, Zimmermann returns things to the social sphere. Collaborative experiences with the ‘new’ create encounters and connections, provide answers.

The tandem tour focuses on a work of Winner presenting a possible future traffic plan of the city of Hanover: The industrial estates are better accessible for commuters and for people with disabilities.

Timo Winners' artistic theme accompanies the 57-year-old artist since his teenager years. Markus Zimmermann is fascinated by the innovative power of the plans having the people in focus.

Finally, many questions are answered concerning the special characteristics of the work of an open studio: How does the structure of an open studio differ from a class at an art academy? How are conflicts solved in Geyso20?

Photographs: Nina Roskamp