REINIGUNGSGESELLSCHAFT represents a project-oriented way of
working as an artist. The name can be translated as “cleaning society.” It shows the interest in interventional practice outside the art context.
The group of oversized smoking figures which is shown at the Prague Biennale is inspired to the folk art of the East German Ore Mountains. It symbolizes an upheaval in the identity of the East Germans. Like in many other former Eastern Bloc states it marks a re-orientation towards a western value system.
Also on display the video “No Limits For Frank!”. It shows one day in a pensioners life, who is a leisure time hero and a passionate owner of a motorized bicycle. With his very own lifestyle he is a supporter of slowing down everyday life. On a cold day in January, he rides 60 kilometres in order to buy a carton of cigarettes at the border of the Czech Republic and to describe his philosophy of life at a gas station.


Martin Keil (1968, Schlema, Germany), Henrik Mayer (1971, Freiberg, Germany)

Selected solo exhibitions: 2001: New Museum, Weimar; Laden, Lothringer Str. 13, Munich; 2000: Olaf Stüber, Berlin; 1999: ACC, Weimar.
Selected group exhibitions: 2003: Balkan Consulat, <rotor>, Graz, Austria; 2002: Split Points, National Gallery/ Veletrzni Palace, Prague; International Biennial of Young Art, Turin; 2001: Success, Kunst Haus, Dresden; 2000: Neues Leben, Gallery for Contemporary Art, Leipzig, Germany; DynamoEintracht, Frankfurt/ Dresden; 1999: German Open, Art Museum, Wolfsburg.