Fort Krauss As Part of the project ”PRODUCTION AS PROCESS” at Konsthögskolan Umeå Bernd Krauss will reinstall an installation at VERKLIGHETEN, that was first shown in 1996 at Kunstraum VIA 113, Artgenossen in Hildesheim/Germany. Maria Lind has chosen this piece in her function being curator of the show out of a bunch of documentation leftovers from Bernd Krauss` student work at the University of Hildesheim. At the beginning the show will start with a totally new reconstructed version. From then on students of the Konsthögskolan Umeå are invited to take part in the program. That could mean they come along with one work or they start an own project in that preoccupied exhibition space, play a concert or having breakfast in the FORT KRAUSS garden. In that way the exhibition brings work together that is produced at art schools at different times and tries to find out about similarities and differences and mix up both. Seen as part of PRODUCTION AS PROCESS this is a possibility for the students to react on the inversive practise Bernd Krauss established the last three months as an artist-in-residence at Konsthögskolan. Bernd Krauss Bernd Krauss, based in Berlin, often works with series of mutually related spatial situations and actions, involving almost all kinds of traditional artistic expression including paintings, sculptures, drawings, objects, videos, photographs, performances etc. Bernd is interested in the most varied levels and manifestations of creative activity, which he refers to humorously in his ”do-it-yourself” works. Modernist art is then often acting as a backdrop to his own more amateur-inspired tinkering. As an on-going project he is for instance in various locations regularly video-filming events of local character which he edits directly in the video-camera adding his own commentary and thereby refering to the kind of local television which you find in most parts of Europe. In many cases Bernd Krauss is living near or inside the installations he is working on. As a ”maker” he is constantly adding new playful elements to his overall environments, referencing and mocking the inviting institution/organisation. Over the years he has managed to create a lifestyle where he survives on small means, for instance accepting all kinds of unusual residencies for artists, in order to continue working with his art production.