This April, Michael Hoepfner met AUCA and Chuikov Academy students to tell about his experience and create an installation for exhibition. Michael Hoepfner defines himself as a walking artist. His works are based on his hiking trips around the world. What does it mean to be the walking artist? First of all, this is not the idea I created. Ever since the Greek philosophers time, artists were doing it to connect themselves with nature and try to discover something out of civil

STEP, TWO, THREE To walk is the most simple way to explore our environment. It is a practice in everyday life: we walk to our office, to the supermarket or to meet a friend; mostly we do this without reflecting on where we are, we look out for traffic, or at shop-windows. For visual artists, walking was since early modernity a strategy to get out of the studio, the Art Academy, into life on the street, to experience the new modern city; but also to run away from it all, get i

Walking can be understood as a way to get in touch with our environment and our body. Urban architecture, nature or wilderness make us move differently. Art picks up these daily routines, questions the way we live and deal with our environment. A 2-day walk from the urban center of Bishkek south to the foot of the mountains resulted in an installation that reflects the experiences of the step by step movements of a group of 15 students of Chuikov Art School and young artists

Walking can be understood as a way to get in touch with our environment and our body. Urban architecture, nature or wilderness make us move differently. Art picks up these daily routines, questions the way we live and deal with our environment. A 2-day walk from the urban center of Bishkek south to the foot of the mountains resulted in an installation that reflects the experiences of the step by step movements of a group of 15 students of Chuikov Art School and young artists