cindy wegner
cindy wegner

Directory

Index of projects, works, exhibitions, performances, publications and residencies.

year section title partner / name location venue description link
2026 Project Biochar as carbon memory and renewal Amsterdam Artistic research project on biochar as a material for carbon storage and ecological renewal, developed with artists and scientific partners.
2026 Work Audio Layer Amsterdam Spatial sound research exploring layered listening and 4D sound environments.
2025 Project Innovation Museum Amsterdam Municipality of Amsterdam, Directorate of Digitalisation and Innovation, Division of Urban Innovation and R&D; with Studio Kunstwerk (Michael Klinkenberg and Niklas van Woerden). Amsterdam Marineterrein Amsterdam Semi-permanent exhibition mapping ten years of social and technological innovation in Amsterdam, curated and co-designed with the city’s Innovation Department. view
2024 Project Digital Urban Planning Lab Municipality of Amsterdam, Directorate of Digitalisation and Innovation, Division of Urban Innovation and R&D; in cooperation with the Bloomberg Center for Public Innovation at Johns Hopkins University; Bloomberg Philanthropies. Amsterdam Marineterrein Amsterdam Artist in Residence (AiR) working across public service and innovation teams to address civic and environmental challenges through art-led research, community engagement, and place-based interventions and spatial prototypes. view
2024 Project House of Artistry Fair Municipality of Amsterdam, Directorate of Digitalisation and Innovation, Division of Urban Innovation and R&D; Kazerne Reigersbos; Sankofa Archives; Museumnacht Amsterdam; and 4DSOUND. Amsterdam Kazerne Reigersbos, OSCAM - Open Space Contemporary Art Museum, Paradiso Amsterdam Neighbourhood festival and art fair that brought together art, culture and knowledge around social themes at different locations in Amsterdam. Across several three day editions in 2024, the fair focuses on community recognition and empowerment in Amsterdam Southeast and responds to the challenges of temporary community spaces. view
2022 Project The fourth wall is missing IntoDance e.V.; supported by Heidehof Stiftung, the Senate Department for Culture Berlin. Berlin public space Site-specific audio walk and choreography. The piece explored how responsive audio and inclusive dance training can challenge spatial norms and expand collective agency in public space. view
2021 Project Book Tree Project Housing community Nautilus; Stadshout Amsterdam, supported by the Municipality of Amsterdam. Amsterdam public space Public artwork and neighbourhood library that turns a shared outdoor space into a community-run book commons. view
2020 Project LandscapeGardenPassage Commissioned by BPD Gebiedsontwikkeling; and the Contemporary Commoning research consortium: Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Sandberg Instituut, Waag Futurelab, University of Amsterdam (Center for Urban Studies), Casco Art Institute, and Studio René Boer; in collaboration with architect Rachael Tillotson. Amsterdam Sandberg Instituut Spatial study and design proposal for a shared garden passage on Zeeburgereiland, researching commoning and collective authorship in public space. view
2018 Project Ensemble Commissioned by Landesverband freie darstellende Künste Berlin e.V.; Performing Arts Festival Berlin; Werkstatt der Kulturen. Berlin Werkstatt der Kulturen Merging classical music with experimental sound; public programming.
2019 Work Let Me Sleep on the Table Sandberg Instituut. Amsterdam Sandberg Instituut 7” flexi-disc, 6 min. track combining spoken word with experimental sound. view
2025 Exhibition Building stronger ground for trust and an engaged citizenry Municipality of Amsterdam, Directorate of Digitalisation and Innovation, Division of Urban Innovation and R&D. Amsterdam Marineterrein Amsterdam Cooordination of exhibition and closing conference synthesising findings from pilots developed by Digital Urban Planning Lab, and issuing a call to advance and implement the developed tools and insights.
2019 Exhibition Sound piece Het Nieuwe Instituut, Programme The Common Inn. Rotterdam Het Nieuwe Instituut Open-format event in a motel-like setting, curated by Simon Becks and Jules van den Langenberg, featuring 75+ designers, architects and artists in a non-selective, decentralised exhibition model. view
2019 Exhibition Sound piece Biopsie exhibition partners. Berlin R. - Raum für Drastische Massnahmen Exhibition presenting works that explored the intersections of materiality, environment and textile-based practices.
2020 Exhibition LandscapeGardenPassage / RED Sandberg Instituut; Enric Monfort (percussion); Simone Giacomini (guitar). Zaandam Het Hem Installation, video, and live performance combining spoken text, percussion and electric guitar; translating themes from LandscapeGardenPassage into a staged intervention, merging voice, rhythm and sound to explore shifting atmospheres within the industrial space.
2020 Exhibition The fourth wall is missing Public Sandberg Programme, Sandberg Instituut; musicians from the Conservatorium van Amsterdam: Anže Mikulan (drums) and Miranda Agnew (trumpet). Amsterdam public space Improvised musical intervention, merging spoken text with live percussion and trumpet. view
2019 Project I have to confess, it is very hard to be fearless Holland Festival; Dutch National Opera; University of the Underground Research Office; Sandberg Instituut; University of Amsterdam (MA International Dramaturgy); Amsterdam Conservatory (Amsterdam Electronic Music Academy); programme direction by opera director Sjaron Minailo and dramaturge Ricarda Franzen; with Jaïr Buisman and Louise Lindskov. Amsterdam Westergastheater Commissioned opera responding to 'Now the Earth Was Formless and Empty' exploring alternative Genesis narratives; drawing on questions raised in the Amsterdam Fearless City policy programme, the work translates themes of urban vulnerability, public agency and socio-political imagination into a performative composition of voice, text and music. view
2018 Publication Biopsie Berlin R. - Raum für Drastische Massnahmen Exhibition publication presenting works that explored the intersections of materiality, environment and textile-based practices.
2018 Presentation radio broadcast for Left Performance Histories neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst (nGbK), Berlin; reboot.fm; curatorial collective of Left Performance Histories, initiated by Anna Bromley. Berlin nGbK Berlin Public Listening program; Radio-feature combining archival and field recordings, interviews and audio montage, produced in response to the exhibition Left Performance Histories and aired via reboot.fm.
2017 Presentation Chalk Lines Concordia University Montréal. Montréal Concordia University Montréal Workshop series at Concordia University.
2015 Exhibition Das Haus der Jungen Mühe Museum of Modern Art Odessa (МСИО); Stiftung „Erinnerung, Verantwortung und Zukunft“ (EVZ) / Foundation “Remembrance, Responsibility and Future”; participating students of the Faculty of Philosophy. Odessa Museum of Modern Art Odessa (МСИО) Conceived for the exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art Odessa, seven performers enacted a collective-gesture intervention during the opening.
2015 Project Placeless Spaces Prins Claus Conservatorium; Club for Deaf People Groningen; The Night of Arts and Science Groningen; Academie Minerva; Conference Groningen 3D: Art and Science. Groningen public space Conceived as a public-space work, a deaf/sign-language choir performed an intervention on a bridge, articulating shared participation through non-verbal, collective gesture.
2014 Presentation Geopoetry Geopoetry Walk; The Mediated City Conference; Ravensbourne College London. London public space Site-responsive walk along the Thames tracing the area's histories through spatial narration and poetic intervention.
2013 Participation Global Prayers Aernout Mik; Former West Congress; Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), Berlin. Berlin HKW Berlin Performance by Aernout Mik within a programme that brought together artists and theorists to examine intersections of urban transformation, globalisation, and collective or spiritual practices.
2025 Presentation Innovation Museum Amsterdam Municipality of Amsterdam. Amsterdam Marineterrein Amsterdam Opening programme. view
2025 Presentation Municipal Artists in Residence - Learning from Bloomberg Philanthropies’ i-Team Pilot + Beyond Bloomberg Philanthropies advisor and founder of the New York PAIR Programme; in dialogue with staff of the Arts and Culture Office Amsterdam Southeast. Amsterdam Marineterrein Amsterdam Panel on how embedding artists within local government and innovation teams can hold space for new forms of collaboration within public service.
2024 Presentation Blueprint for Participation Municipality of Amsterdam, Bloomberg Philanthropies Community of Practice. Amsterdam Online Presentation of the Blueprint for Participation, outlining practical tools and early prototypes for strengthening resident-centred civic engagement within municipal innovation workflows.
2024 Presentation Studio Visit Serpentine Galleries, London. Amsterdam Online Artist-in-Residence Cohort, Bloomberg Philanthropies.
2023 Presentation Founding organizations with social missions Social Economy Berlin. Berlin ARENA Berlin Workshop supporting emerging founders in shaping socially driven organisations.
2023 Presentation Zentrumsdialog Berlin Urban Planning Office (Stadtplanungsamt Berlin-Neukölln). Berlin public space Impulse contribution calling for sustained support for art and culture in the public spaces along Karl-Marx-Straße.
2023 Presentation Bildung und Kultur Berlin Urban Planning Office (Stadtplanungsamt Berlin-Neukölln). Berlin public space Public-space tour of student-produced artworks, connecting young participants to cultural initiatives and the artistic and social fabric of Karl-Marx-Straße.
2022 Presentation Founding organizations in a Social Context: Practical Case Studies Social Economy Berlin. Berlin ARENA Berlin Workshop exploring how social initiatives take form, using concrete case studies to guide participants from early concept to community-responsive organisational structures.
2022 Participation Threshold Barriers by Aernout Mik Threshold Barriers by Aernout Mik. Rotterdam Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt Performing participant in video installation by Aernout Mik on display in a solo exhibition at the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt. The Dutch artist creates stressful scenarios and tracks the behavior and interaction of groups in precarious social conditions through his choreographed video works. view
2022 Presentation Freiräume Berlin Urban Planning Office (Stadtplanungsamt Berlin-Neukölln). Berlin public space Guided tour in public space focusing on ecological and community-led initiatives in the neighbourhood, highlighting emerging “open space” concepts, including conversations on urban resilience and civic co-creation. view
2019 Presentation Mixing Deck, Shaping the Future Northern Dimension Partnership on Culture (NDPC). Saint Petersburg Group contribution to the NDPC Shaping the Future Creative & Cultural Industries Hackathon.
2019 Presentation Interlude, Our House is On Fire Assembly Casco Art Institute: Working for the Commons; Assembly Steering Committee; Climate Justice Code Editorial Committee; supported by Utrecht City Council, DOEN Foundation (via Arts Collaboratory), and the Foundation for Arts Initiatives. Utrecht Casco Art Institute Artistic contribution examining institutional responsibility, shared governance, and climate-justice imaginaries within a convening on systemic change through the commons. view
2018 Presentation RAI conference, Art, Materiality and Representation The British Museum, London. London The British Museum Presentation at international art-theory conference.
2026 Publication Artists in Public Innovation Wegner, C. (2026). Amsterdam Publication synthesising methods from community-engaged pilots and urban-innovation collaborations, demonstrating how artistic inquiry, situated research and prototyping advance public-sector learning and citizen-centred innovation.
2026 Publication Innovation Museum Amsterdam Municipality of Amsterdam (2026). Amsterdam openresearch.amsterdam (2025)
2025 Publication Path to Public Innovation Playbook Bloomberg Center for Public Innovation at Johns Hopkins University; Bloomberg Philanthropies. USA Playbook that compiles more than ten years of city innovation-team practice into a practical guide for mayors and public leaders. It outlines a tested public-innovation methodology, with frameworks for problem framing, research, ideation and inclusive design, and presents case studies showing how cities worldwide use these tools to address complex social challenges and build trust in government. view
2022 Publication Contemporary Commoning: about art and living together on Zeeburgereiland Boomgard, J.; Boer, R. (eds.) (2022). Gerrit Rietveld Academie / Sandberg Instituut; University of Amsterdam; Waag Futurelab; Casco Art Institute: Working for the Commons; Studio René Boer; Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO); BPD / Bouwfonds Gebiedsontwikkeling. Amsterdam Credited for contribution to the research process and local engagement efforts within the project’s collaborative framework. view
2022 Review Een nieuwe, maatschappelijke rol voor het publieke kunstwerk Masha van Vliet; Tubelight. Netherlands Review that mentions Wegner among the artists proposing a public artwork for the Zeeburgereiland development by BPD. view
2021 Review Book Tree Project Municipality of Amsterdam (2021). Amsterdam Contribution to the 12/2021 issue of Gemeente Amsterdam Stadsdeel Oost magazine.
2021 Publication Claiming Common Spaces III Bündnis internationaler Produktionshäuser e.V.; Kampnagel Hamburg; FFT Düsseldorf; HAU Hebbel am Ufer Berlin; HELLERAU Europäisches Zentrum der Künste Dresden; Künstlerhaus Mousonturm Frankfurt am Main; PACT Zollverein Essen; tanzhaus nrw Düsseldorf; edited by Amelie Deuflhard, Nadine Jessen, and Uta Lambertz. Berlin Publication presenting visual reflections on pandemic-era public space, compiled through an international open call as part of the Claiming Common Spaces III programme. Includes Wegner’s contribution Kulturorte (3), selected for the collective visual narrative. view
2020 Publication The fourth wall is missing Wegner, C. (2020); Sandberg Instituut; supervisor Tamar Shafrir; guest juror Jeanne van Heeswijk. Amsterdam Thesis exploring how performance and spatial intervention can articulate experiences of belonging and transition in rapidly changing urban contexts.
2020 Review The Subject of The Email Leon van Kruijswijk (2020); Sandberg Instituut; Public Sandberg. Amsterdam Critical review by curator Leon van Kruijswijk analysing Wegner’s approach to borders, local citizenship and the material conditions of urban transformation through performance, spatial engagement and structured movement. view
2020 Review Programming the Community Otto, L.; Toussaint, J. H.; van der Langenberg, J. (2020); Sandberg Instituut (online publication). Amsterdam Review on how artistic methods organise collective authorship and public engagement, and how communities become active participants in cultural and urban processes. view
2019 Review Pilot Project Municipality of Amsterdam (2019). Amsterdam Contribution to the 11/2019 issue of Gemeente Amsterdam Stadsdeel Oost magazine.
2015 Publication что сказать,так сказать / was zu sagen sozusagen Museum of Modern Art Odessa; Kulturbüro Berlin; CS6 Berlin; Goethe-Institut Ukraine; Ukraine Crisis Media Center; Cultural Forum Art and Community: Urban Transformations; Odessa Regional Administration, Department of Culture. Odessa Publication accompanying the German–Ukrainian residency and exhibition series at the Museum of Modern Art Odessa.
2015 Publication Metropolis M Metropolis M. Netherlands Artist portrait featured in print issue of Metropolis M.
2024 Residency Digital Urban Planning Lab Municipality of Amsterdam. Amsterdam Artist in Residence (AiR) working across public service and innovation teams to address civic and environmental challenges through art-led research, community engagement, and place-based interventions and spatial prototypes.
2017 Residency Immediations Program Milieux Institute for Arts, Culture and Technology, Concordia University Montréal. Montreal Research residency at the Milieux Institute in Montréal within the ‘immediations’ programme across arts and humanities.
2016 Residency Alps Art Academy Institute for Land and Environmental Art. Versam A land and environmental art residency connecting land and environmental art with the Alpine landscape. view
2015 Residency Art Creates Understanding Stiftung Erinnerung, Verantwortung und Zukunft (EVZ), within the programme Kunst schafft Verständigung; hosted by the Museum of Modern Art Odessa; with participation from the University of the Arts Berlin, Bauhaus University Weimar, art academies in the Netherlands and France, and local partners in Odessa. Odessa The programme brought artists together in Odessa for a period of collaborative research, shared production and site-oriented reflection. Connected to the city’s layered histories, participants explored how artistic practice can engage with memory and lived experience in a local context.