SONDER (Peter Behrbohm & Anton Steenbock)

URBAN COSMETICS
↑ Photo courtesy of SONDER.

Berlin, Germany / Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2024
Team
SONDER (Peter Behrbohm & Anton Steenbock)
Team members
Peter Behrbohm
Anton Steenbock
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SONDER is an art duo surgically intervening in public spaces, routines and infrastructures. Founded in 2009 by Peter Behrbohm and Anton Steenbock, SONDER has specialised in conflict refinement, order implementation and the search for new collective futures.

In 2018 SONDER introduced a security service clandestinely watching over the people of Jena, Thuringia from a monitoring station disguised as a pile of sand. In 2021, they unveiled an equestrian statue with bonfire on Berlin's Karl-Marx-Allee. 2023 they received the A.I. Anarchies Fellowship from the Berlin's Academy of the Arts to implement their socialist start-up TOTAL.EARTH, looking for a new collective afterlife. In 2023, they found the cleaning service "Urban Cosmetics" in Stuttgart, which was the first to use innovative fine cleaning measures and aggression-reducing vandalism replicas and recently expanded to Berlin.

Within the LINA programme, SONDER aims to develop new site-specific interventions, once again conceived as fused dychotomies.


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