Starship Projects
Starship Projects is the joint artistic practice of Ariane Mueller and Martin Ebner in the context of exhibition contributions with site-specific aspects, art in public space and curated exhibitions
Starship Projects is part of the legal entity Starship e.V. – Verein zur Erweiterung des Öffentlichkeitsbegriffs in der Bildenden Kunst.
Founded in Berlin in 2005, Starship e.V. is run by Hans-Christian Dany, Martin Ebner, and Ariane Mueller.
Throughout the last 25 years, even before the non-profit was founded, the artists under the name Starship had been running art-spaces, conceived and realized exhibitions, and acted as an artistic group by conceiving joint projects, often in the collaboration with others. Invited by various institutions to show a practice, that is mainly founded in the production of a magazine – the Berlin based art magazine STARSHIP – this practice has resulted in temporary installations inside and outside of institutions. This was lead by the effort to find an artistic and abstract form for collaboration, and a visual language how to address the production of space with artistic means.
Starship Projects thus answers to invitations mostly by institutions, but also works in opening up possibilities for other artists by conceiving and curating exhibitions.
This is based in the individual practice of the artists.
Ariane Mueller
Ariane Mueller is a visual artist, writer, and urbanist with 20 years of working practice for the UN agency UN-HABITAT in the field of sustainable urban development.
Besides of her international career as an individual artist, throughout her artistic career she worked in collaborations to develop artistic projects, with Linda Bilda to found and establish Artfan, an influential magazine in the early 1990ies in Vienna, with Deborah Schamoni to develop Kino Raum 3, an art space for moving images, and with Verena Kathrein on the research project Then I would like to make a happy end for once, on comedy and feminism, photography and drawing.
Martin Ebner
Martin Ebner is a visual artist, his artistic practice stems from early collaborative practice, as in the artist group You Never Know, founded in Vienna. Following an individual artistic career, he contributed in various settings, like together with Florian Zeyfang to establish the research and exhibition project Poor Man’s Expression to work on Berlin’s Arsenal film archive in a contemporary artistic format, and in sound and music projects like Recycling Plastic Inevitable, together with Eleni Poulou, Theresa Patzschke, and Sebastian Luetgert.
He has also been working as a senior motion design and visual effects artist in numerous video and television productions, for other artists, and in commercial environments.
Together they join their competencies in media, sound, installation, and their expertise on urban conditions, participation, and spatial analysis to develop urban artistic projects with an experimental, researched but unexpectedly moving approach.