performances

- WITTSTOCK Herma Auguste, Family, 2008, Umformerstation Ilseder, Ilsede, Allemagne. 30 minutes/live performance Ilsede is the village wherre I grew up. Days before the piece starts I had asked my family to write a letter for me with a performance I have...

- WITTSTOCK Herma Auguste, Fucking Kunst, 2010, Galerie Friedrichshöhe, Berlin. 45 minutes/live performance Fucking Kunst is written on my belly with slimy and white colour. I’m dressed in a skirt with a 20 meter long trail made of buble wrap. Slowly...

- WITTSTOCK Herma Auguste, Paula, 2007, Künstlerhäuser Worpswede, Worpswede, Allemagne. 1 hour/live performance I’m outside on green grass. I’m wearing a white simple short dress. In my hands I’m holding a spade. I dig the grass up. After a while I dig...

- WITTSTOCK Herma Auguste, Snot, 2005, Binnenkant 21, Amsterdam. 13 minutes/video performance In this film my face is filmed from a low angle. The light is low, the shot stays the same. I cry. After a while snot starts running from my nose. After a big...

- WITTSTOCK Herma Auguste, Movie Star, 2003, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, Allemagne. I am alone in a small room. In the middle of the room is a pedestal which I am standing on. I am naked, but my skin is corvered with honey. I stand on the pedestal...

- WITTSTOCK Herma Auguste, Rapunzel, 2009, Humboldt Umspannwerk Kunstsalon, Berlin. 30 minutes/live performance I stand on a 15 meters high balcony, wear a white tutu and have a 18 meters long, brown braid on my head. I let the braid down. Some people...

- WITTSTOCK Herma Auguste, Six Images of Toronto, 2006, X-Space, Toronto, Canada. I’m naked, just wearing white socks with red maple leaves on it and on the lead a cap for winter. I’m sitting down and in front of me is a big mountain of colourful maple...

- WITTSTOCK Herma Auguste & HAASE Christine, Sold, 2009, Humbold Umspannwerk Kunstsalon, Berlin. 2 hours/live performance/collaboration with Christine Haase. Christine and I stand next to each other. I have a red dot on my face. On the floor infront of...

- WITTSTOCK Herma Auguste, Rhythm-Piece, 2008, Happenstudio, Berlin. 3 hours 30 minutes/live performance I stand in a room wering a plain, black evening dress. From the stuccoed ceiling over me a big roll of toilet paper hangs from a small chain. I unroll...

- WITTSTOCK Herma Auguste, Sundaybath 2, 2003, Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milano, Italie. 3 hours 30 minutes/live performance In the centre of the room stands a zinc bathtub. The tub is too small for me to sit in it. It is filled with long iron...

- WITTSTOCK Herma Auguste, Because 8 Is Great, 2003 / 45 minutes / live performance / Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Braunschweig, DE Collaboration with Declan Rooney Because 8 Is Great consists of eight parts: 1. No. One: Declan stands on my belly and...

- WITTSTOCK Herma Auguste, Wedding Carriage, 2009, Ilsede, Allemagne. 30 minutes/live performance/Trinitatiskirche Ölsburg, Ilsede. On 6th June 2009 Jens and me had our church wedding. When we walk out of church, a green Landauer carriage without horses...

- WITTSTOCK Herma Auguste, Sweet For My Sweet, 2005, Berlin. 6 hours/live performance/HAU 1, Berlin. My body is covered in sugar icing. Sweet For My Sweet is an interactive work. The audience as invited to lick the sugar from my skin.

- WITTSTOCK Herma Auguste, Thank You Iceland, 2010, Kiasma Theatre at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finlande. 30 minutes/live performance/ Kiasma Theatre at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finlande. I lie on the stage floor. My legs...

- WITTSTOCK Herma Auguste & MUSLERA Natacha, The End, Friche La Belle de Mai, terminus du tram, Mairie 1er/7ème, Marseille. Collaboration with Natacha Muslera. Wearing white underwear and a simple back shirt, Natacha and me sit at the end of the tram...

- WITTSTOCK Herma Auguste, Pepper, 2009, Citykirche St. Jakobi, Hildesheim, Allemagne. 30 minutes/live performance/ Citykirche St. Jakobi, Hildesheim, Allemagne. I lie on my belly on the altar of St. Jakobi church. I wear a long, dark-red dress and in...

- WITTSTOCK Herma Auguste, Welcome to Singapure, 2007, Singapore. 20 Minutes/live performance/Theatre Woks (Singapore) Ltd, Singapore, SG. I’m standing in front of the public, wearing a transparent dress and looking into the eyes of the people around...

- WITTSTOCK Herma Auguste, Waiting For Jens 2, 2005. 10 minutes/video performance/Binnenkant 21, Amsterdam, NL. I set up a camera in a kitchen, filming nothing in paticular. After a while I forgot the camera was running. I ate, drank and smoked, read...

- WITTSTOCK Herma Auguste, For The Cow I Didn’t Get or Grüezi Giswil, 2008, Giswil, Suisse. 30 minutes/liveperformance/Turbine Giswil, Giswil, CH. Wearing only jeans, I stand in the middle of a huge hall. My hands are stretched upwards and hold a knife....

- WITTSTOCK Herma Auguste, Fat Free In America, 2004. 6 hours/live performance/P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, NYC I stand on a mountain of sugar. I wear an evening dress, looking like a beauty queen with a crown and sash. On the sash are written the words...

- WITTSTOCK Herma Auguste, French Conversation, 2008. 45 minutes/live performance/Friche la Belle de Mai, terminus du tram, Mairie1er/7ème, Marseille. Wearing a plain light violet dress, a spot light on me, I stand next to a wall, holding a glass of red...