The concept and performance artist Amy J. Klement (born in 1968 in NJ, USA, based in Berlin, Germany, since 1997) has exhibited sculptures, videos, and photographs in Berlin and the United States and presented solo performances as well as collaborative performances with the OpenSpace Performunion at festivals and events in Europe, the United States, Canada, and Asia since 2000. In 2005, she founded the “‘Kraft durch Häkeln’ (Strength thru Crochet) Anarchic Crochet Circle,” which went on to initiate various large-format, cooperative, crochet-based social sculptures in open space. She opened the artspace “Im Grünen Bereich” (in cooperation with the artist Frédéric Krauke) in Berlin in 2018. It has since then hosted various international artists and presented exhibitions and performances.
Performance
| 2021 | International Multimedial Arts Festival (IMAF), online edition |
| Is less more? Or is more less?—Sudeten Festival of Naked Forms, Kyjov, Czech Republic | |
| 2019 | Compacting: Art Doesn’t Last, Life Doesn’t Last, It Doesn’t Matter—Im Grünen Bereich Artspace, 48 Std. Neukölln, Berlin |
| Compacting the Trash of the World—with music by Zam Johnson, Ungemütlich VI, Forum Factory, Berlin | |
| Taking a Line for a Walk—a performative reading with Anais Poulet (dance), Leander Reckhausen, and Marion Ruault (music), Toolbox Gallery, Berlin | |
| 2018 | Manipulation—with the Open Space Performunion, MyFest, Berlin |
| Taking a Line for a Walk, Performing Arts Festival, Berlin | |
| Self-Mortification—When Is Enough Enough?, Festival of Naked Forms, Prague | |
| 2017 | Mortification—When Is Enough Enough?—with sounds by Lars Crosby, Ungemütlich V, Willner Brauerei, Berlin |
| American Spirit—Burn It Up! III—with sounds by Zam Johnson, PAF 2017, Ventilator Projektraum, Berlin | |
| Burn It Up! II—with sounds by Lars Crosby, ‘Fear-Less’—18th SoToDo Performance Art Congress, Berlin | |
| Trumpsexit—with the OpenSpace Performunion, MyFest 2017, Büllenwinkel, Berlin | |
| 2015 | Taking a Line for a Walk . . . , Augsburg Peace Festival, Augsburg |
| The Isminator—Soma Gallery, part of the Month of Performance Art, Berlin | |
| 2014 | The Funneling—Olobianco Performance Festival, Magdeburg |
| The Lettuce Eater—‘De Nada’—17th SoToDo Performance Art Congress, Ibiza, Spain | |
| Taking a Line for a Walk—‘1, 2, 3’ event, Month of Performance Art, Berlin, and as part of the Survival International Performance Festival, Berlin | |
| World Redesign—with Michael Steger, opening of the 1st annual week of Workshops with International Artists, Philippine High School of the Arts, Mount Makiling, Los Baños, the Philippines | |
| 2013 | The Funneling II: Flags—with sounds by Christian Ogrinz, KEAF—Korean Experimental Arts Festival, Seoul, South Korea |
| Backstube—Brotzeitgeschichten—a baking intervention, Konstapoteket, Hökarängen, Sweden | |
| The First Cut Is . . . —with Christoph N. Fuhrer, Lars Crosby, and Heike Kujus, CUT International Performance Festival, Berlin | |
| Living Bauhaus—with the OpenSpace Performunion, MyFest 2013, and the East Side Gallery, Berlin | |
| Collective Invention—sounds Lady 4 Jane, ‘Love Loopers’ performance evening, Loophole, Berlin | |
| 2012 | (F)Light and Naked Kitchen—with the OpenSpace Performunion, Grace Exhibition Space, Brooklyn |
| Typewriter II—with Christoph N. Fuhrer, ‘Love Loopers’ performance evening, Loophole, Berlin | |
| Die Lorelei—‚Kanaldisko‘ intervention, with Tom Albrecht, 48 Std. Neukölln, Berlin | |
| F(L)IGHT, Naked Kitchen, and Zucker und Peitsche (with Michael Steger)—Escape International Performance Festival, Supamolly and BLO-Ateliers, Berlin | |
| Guerilla Art Parade and Guerilla Performance—group performances directed by Kim Baek-Ki (Korea), BLO-Ateliers and the streets of Berlin | |
| 2011 | Typewriter I—Row, Row, Row Your Boat—’Performancetage‘ at Café Stadler, Berlin |
| The Mathematical and Performative Aspects of Crochet—performance lecture, University of New Mexico, Las Cruces | |
| Die Eintrichterung / The Funneling—Hunger International Performance Festival, Berlin | |
| 2010 | The Isminator—with sounds by Zam Johnson, Diverse Universe Festival, Berlin |
| Make Your Mark—potato-printing intervention with Rudina the pig, Literaturherbst, Pfullendorf, Germany | |
| 2009 | A Dress Full of Color and Joy for the Trümmerfrauen-Denkmal—with the OpenSpace Performunion, 48 Std. Neukölln, Hasenheide Park, Berlin-Neukölln; selected as one of the 10 highlights of the festival |
| 2008 | The Ejaculator—with sounds by Zam Johnson, concurrent with the exhibition Spermaflut, Lid Schaufenstergalerie, Berlin, and Sperm Project, El Escaparate, Barcelona |
| 2007 | A Sperm Is Born—December 24th, King Kong Klub, Berlin |
| An Advent of Sperm—Galerie Frei Ruum, Berlin | |
| Prime Subtraction and American Spirit—Burn It Up! I (with Ornicart)—15th SoToDo Performance Art Congress, Innsbruck, Austria | |
| The Fibonacci Numbers of Sperm—Open Space Festival of Free Arts, Berlin | |
| 2006 | Body Bag Piñata—13th SoToDo Performance Art Congress, Sacramento, California, USA |
| How many sperm can a woman produce in 24 hours?—a multi-media performance of crochet and patience, and A Baptism of Sperm—Viva Performance Festival, Montreal, Canada | |
| Das Menetekel—concurrent with the solo exhibition Chaos Kreist, Schillerpalais, Berlin | |
| 2005 | Traces of Identity III—Traces of Neukölln, Kunstnacht in Kindl Boulevard, Berlin |
| Traces of Identity II—Traces of Münster and Management of Internal Controls—12th SoToDo Performance Art Congress, Münster | |
| Baggage of the Body, Metamorphosis, and Mine—Diverse Universe, Estonia and Finland | |
| Traces of Identity I—Traces of My Identity—‘Ich Schiller mir ein Denkmal,’ Schiller Palais, Berlin | |
| 2004 | There Be Mermaids—What for?—11th SoToDo Performance Art Congress, Open Space, Berlin |
| 2003 | Metamorphosis of Leda—9th SoToDo Performance Art Congress, Open Space, Berlin |
| A Tale of Love—told to sounds by Lady 4 Jane, ‘The Power of Love—Infochill,’ Michaelkirche, Berlin | |
| 2002 | Caught in the Web—Crocheted Dolls & Fairytales, 8th SoToDo Performance Art Congress, Berlin |
| This Fragile Shell—a globe crocheted in 3 days, 7th SoToDo Performance Art Congress, Paris | |
| A Seminal Monument—performance sculpting, MauerStripFest am Engeldamm, Berlin | |
| RestCycling Festival—performance sculpting, RAW Tempel, Berlin | |
| 2001 | A Cosmos from the Chaos—Crocheting, Baking & Fairytales, 6th SoToDo Performance Art Congress, Schloss Bröllin, |
| 2000 | Head—performance sculpting, 5th SoToDo Performance Art Congress, Schloss Bröllin |
| Tree-Of-Life—performance sculpting, Open Space MauerStripFest, Engeldamm, Berlin |
Crochet Interventions
| 2014 | ‘Water’ for a Dry Fountain—‘Gropiusstadt Strickt und Häkelt,’ a collaborative knitting and crochet intervention in public space, part of ‘Gropiusstadt Bewegt Sich,’ Berlin-Neukölln |
| 2013 | A Tribute to the Women Water Carriers of Jeju Island, KEAF—Korean Experimental Arts Festival, Jeju Island, South Korea |
| 2011 | A Coat of Divide for Abraham Lincoln—crochet intervention, Lincoln Memorial, Louisville, Kentucky, Lex Lac Lou Performance Art Congress, Louisville and Lexington, Kentucky |
| 2010 | Soft Stones—a crochet intervention with Berliner cobblestones, begun at MyFest 2010, Berlin |
| 2009 | A Dress Full of Color and Joy for the Trümmerfrauen Denkmal—a six-month-long collaborative crochet intervention in public space in Berlin, including the 23h Anarchic Crochet Circle at Kunstraum Art-Uhr |
| 2007 | A Sperm a Day—a yearlong crochet intervention in public space from January 1 to December 31 |
| Dressing Matka Polka—a collaborative crochet intervention in public space with the women of Ratiborz and the OpenSpace Performunion, Racibórz Festival of Arts, Raciborz, Poland | |
| 2005 | Birth of the Anarchic Crochet Circle—an ongoing collaborative crochet intervention in public space |
Exhibitions / Installations
| 2021 |
DOTS . . ., pop-up solo exhibition at Käse Lager, Berlin-Neukölln |
| 2020 | Fabric of Memory Project: Lee Mingwei: Gifts and Rituals, Gropius Bau, Berlin |
| 2018 | Ungemütlich VI—group exhibition and performance event, Forum Factory, Berlin |
| 2017 | Fensterflügel—group exhibition, Ventilator Projektraum, Berlin |
| Ungemütlich V—group exhibition and performance event, Willner Brauerei Berlin | |
| 2014 | Spinning—Animal / Homme residency, Bouffanges, Creuse, France |
| Hysteria—group exhibition, Soma Gallery, Berlin | |
| Rund und Bunt—group exhibition, Westwerk, Hamburg | |
| 2011 | Spermatopia, ‘Café Schönstedt,’ Gefängnis (prison) Neukölln, 48 Std. Neukölln, Berlin |
| 2010 | Pr(a)egnant—solo exhibition, Galerie Frei Ruum, Berlin |
| 2008 | Threading Trends—group exhibition, Alte Post, Berlin |
| Sperm Project—El Escaparate, Barcelona | |
| Spermaflut—solo exhibition, Lid Schaufenstergalerie, Berlin | |
| 2007 | Giant Sperm—Open Space Festival of Free Arts, Berlin |
| 2006 | ChaosKreist—solo exhibition, Schillerpalais, Berlin |
| Textil-Kunst Berlin, group exhibition, Max-Taut-Schule, Berlin | |
| 2005 | The Platonic Forms—installation with music by Lady 4 Jane, TekTek, Berlin |
| There Be Mermaids—video installation with live music by Antonello Marafioti, Maybachüfer, Nacht & Nebel Neukölln, Berlin | |
| 2004 | International Assemblage Art Exhibition—Gallery24, Berlin |
| 2003 | Paradise—M.A.I.S. exhibition, bunker under Alexanderplatz, Berlin |
| International Assemblage Art Exhibition—Gallery24, Berlin | |
| Fashion in Art / Art in Fashion—Galerie Berliner Kunst, Berlin | |
| Sicherheit 03—Galerie Pozzo Pozozza, Berlin | |
| 2002 | Schöner November—group show, Prenzlauerberg, Berlin |
| Künstler Helfen Kinder—group show, Emporium am Gendarmenmarkt, Berlin | |
| 2001 | Group show—Movin‘ Art Gallery, Berlin |
| Art Event III—Galerie Widder & Klafki, Berlin | |
| 2000 | BUGS—solo exhibition, Open Space, Berlin |
| 1999 | WIRED—solo exhibition, Open Space, Berlin |
| 1998 | Magic Garden—group show, curator Michael Steger, Stiftung Starke, Berlin |
| 1995 | Group show—Common Boundaries Gallery, Jersey City, NJ |
| 1994 | Group show—Tribes Gallery, New York, NY |
| 1992 | Finding Common Ground in NY—group show, State University of New York, New York City |