Projects have included performance lectures, installations, video works, and net art. They have been widely exhibited and presented, including at the Venice Biennale (Architecture), the Moscow International Film Festival, ISEA Symposium for the Electronic Arts, the Center for Art and Media (ZKM) in Karlsruhe, Germany, the 2019 Yanping Art Harvest in Fujian, China, Suzhou Design Week (2021), ADE Future Lab in the West Bund Dome Shanghai (2021), and most recently the Michigan State University Museum (MuSeUm) (2022-23) and the Dianchi Art Season (2023 + 2024), in Kunming, Yunnan, China.
The catalogue is under construction.
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2024 | Symphony of the Everyday – Sunset Sonata
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2022 | Appetite for Deconstruction
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2021 | Re-weaving Shuangta
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2019 | Seats for Seeing
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1998 | Blue Room
Art in Public Space
07.04–31.05.2024 Dong, Y., Feng, L. and Westermann, C. Symphony of the Everyday – Sunset Sonata. Inserted into a small courtyard around which four families live, the work uses sound and light technology and small kinetic objects for subtle interventions that reveal the aesthetic dimension of the everyday objects within the courtyard. Haian village, Yunnan.
07.2021 Westermann, C. and S. Deng with Y. Yao, S. Wang, H. Gao and Z. Qin, “Reweaving Shuangta” (educational project, installation in public space), Suzhou, Shuangta, in the framework of Exploring the Histories of Shuangta: Heritage and Community, July 04, 2021–July 21, 2021.
11.2019-present Westermann, C. with A. Brillhart, F. Y. Chen, Y. Dong, O. Nanayakkara, T. Wortmann (team members listed in alphabetical order), “Seats for Seeing” – installation in public space, Beikeng village, Yanping district in Fujian province, China.
1998 Westermann, C., “Blue Room” – temporary multi-media installation in public space, Karlsruhe, Germany.
Work in Exhibitions and Festivals
2022-23 with Eryk Salvaggio (USA), Vinny Montag (Vicente Esteban) (XJTLU Industrial Design), and Hao Liu (XJTLU Environmental Science, PhD candidate), "Appetite for Deconstruction" research and installation project for the exhibition 1.5° Celsius (the Anthropocene) at the Michigan State University’s MuSeUm, 6 September 2022 – 25 February 2023.
2021 Westermann, C. and S. Deng with Y. Yao, S. Wang, H. Gao and Z. Qin, “Reweaving Shuangta” (educational project, art installation) exhibited within the framework of “Exploring the Histories of Shuangta: Heritage and Community” at Suzhou Design Week, December 3 – 7, 2021.
2021 Westermann, C. and S. Deng with Y. Yao, S. Wang, H. Gao and Z. Qin, “Reweaving Shuangta” (educational project, art installation) exhibited at XJTLU Design School at ADE Future Lab, Shanghai, November 28 - December 5, 2021. With catalogue entry.
2021 Westermann, C., invited by Clarissa Ribeiro to contribute a ’contaminant’ (video) to her Data-Confluences (2021) exhibition at the Re-Fest 2021 Virtual Gallery, UCLA Art | Sci Center, March 12 – May 1, 2021, online, Los Angeles, USA.
2019-2020 Westermann, C. with A. Brillhart, F. Y. Chen, Y. Dong, O. Nanayakkara, T. Wortmann (team members listed in alphabetical order), “Seats for Seeing” – installation in public space, in: 2019 China Yanping Art Harvest, November 30, 2019 - February 29, 2020, Fujian, China.
2014 Westermann, C., “Inhabitable Theories Exhibited” – multi-media installation, exhibited in: Shared Territories, an international exhibition of XJTLU’s Design Research Institute; October 2014.
2009 Westermann, C. and Reed, S., “btd x” – video composition, in: 50 years Studio for Electronic Music (1959 - 2009), Group Exhibition, University Mozarteum, Salzburg, Austria, Nov. 11-13
2007 Westermann, C. and Reed, S., “btd x” – video composition, in: Benefit for the Austrian Child Cancer Foundation, Group Exhibition, Kapitelsaal, Salzburg; Oct. 05
2007 Westermann, C. and Reed, S., “btd x” – video composition, in: Musica Viva, Group Exhibition, Gotischer Saal, Salzburg; April 07
2006 Westermann, C., ”you_are” – video installation / online, in: Artificial A.Gender, online exhibition, (Australia)
2005 Westermann, C., ”post communist condition no.01” in: Capturing Utopia, Group exhibition, Fournos, Centre for Digital Culture, Athen, Griechenland, Sept. 19-25
2005 Westermann, C., “I am…/waiting” – site-specific video installation, in: Project X Theatre + Planetary Collegium, Group exhibition; Project X, Dallas, USA, Sept. 05
2003 Westermann, C. and Reed, S., “btd x” – video compostion, in: International Festival of Cinema and Technology, New York, USA, Dec. 06-10
2003 Westermann, C. and Reed, S., “btd x”, Westermann, C. and Hecker, F., “widerhall”, and Westermann, C., “you_are”, in: Neues Cinema, Schauspielhaus Hamburg, Klub Katarakt, Hamburg, Germany
2002 Westermann, C. and Reed, S., “btd x” – video composition, in: ISEA, International Symposium for the Electronic Arts, Nagoya, Japan, Oct. 27-31
2002 Westermann, C. and Reed, S., “btd x” – video composition, in: Praterfernsehen, Volksbühne im Prater, Berlin, Germany
2002 Westermann, C. and Reed, S., “btd x”, and Westermann, C., “city”, in: mediaterra – touring exhibition, Athens and Lavrion in Greece, Sofia in Bulgaria, Belgrade in Yugoslavia, Maribor in Slovenia and in Frankfurt a.M. in Germany, Sept. 14 - Oct. 15
2001 Westermann, C. and Hecker, F., ”widerhall/~sh0wables” – video composition, in: trans oo4, Chicago, USA
2001 Westermann, C. and Hecker, F., ”widerhall/~sh0wables” – video composition, in: impact, Utrecht, the Netherlands
2001 Westermann, C. and Hecker, F., ”widerhall/~sh0wables” – video composition, in: Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Stuttgart, Germany
2001 Westermann, C., ”city” – light print installation, in: HfG Karlsruhe, opening exhibition at the ZKM, Germany
2001 Westermann, C. and Reed, S., “btd x” – video composition, in: screening 06, Hauptzollamt, Museum for Modern Art (MMK), Frankfurt a.M., Germany, March 9 -11
2001 Westermann, C. and Reed, S., “btd x” – video composition, in: media forum, XXIII. Moscow International Film Festival, Russia
2001 Westermann, C. and Reed, S., “btd x” – video composition, in: anima, Maison de la culture Plateau Mont-Royal, Montréal, Canada
2000 Westermann, C., ”city” – four digital 3D images, competition entry, in: Less Aesthetics, More Ethics – Città Terzo Millennio, Architecture Biennale, Venice, Italy, June 18 – Oct. 29
2000 Westermann, C., ”format” – installation with video still, in: S/He’ll Survive, Montevideo, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, April 08 - May 03
2000 Westermann, C. and Reed, S., “btd x”, and Westermann, C. and Hecker, F., ”widerhall/~ sh0wables” – video compositions, ZKM - Center for Art and Media Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
2000 Westermann, C. and Wagener, K., “Composition for a Web Page Quartet” – internet performance, in: Steirischer Herbst, Graz, Austria
2000 Westermann, C. and Reed, S., “btd x”, and Westermann, C. and Wagener, K., “Composition for a Web Page Quartet”, in: Videomedeja, Novi Sad, Serbia
1998 Westermann, C., “blue room” – temporary multi-media installation in public space, Karlsruhe, Germany
1997 Westermann, C., “Fly” – competition entry, a Monument for the Karhumäki brothers, city hall, Kuorevesi, Finland
1997 Westermann, C., “La petite Ceinture” – architectural proposal, Helsinki, Finland and Paris, France
1997 Westermann, C., “Moving Information Belt” – architectural proposal – Tidal Variations, Tampere, Finland