The Wand is a project run by visual artist Melissa Steckbauer with an aim toward experimentation, play, and facilitating progressive artistic goals. Steckbauer works closely with creative individuals whose intentions are multi-faceted and multilateral to actualize dreams within the powerful and dynamic community of Berlin.
The Wand is Closed, Long Live The Wand
Photo: ag/lt
From May 2012 - March 2014, The Wand existed as a physical venue located at Paulstr. 34 in Berlin. The current position of The Wand is that it maintains an artistic platform but it has new legs, i.e., mobility, i.e., it is not a single physical venue but a multitude. This has lead to a new programming venture with an aim toward intensive and focused collaboration between its director, Melissa Steckbauer, and select groups and individuals. Current and upcoming projects will reflect this shift.
We'd like to thank a broad range of participants who've contributed to the magic-making prior to our change of direction. For exhibition photos and press releases please review our Past Exhibitions page; the complete archive of which is forthcoming. Our indelible thanks goes out to: Emmy Skensved and Grégoire Blunt, Wolfgang Ganter, Sara-Lena Maierhofer, Sabine Dehnel (and Andreas), Marion Auburtin, Furious Golden Shower, TBASS Robot, Alexine Chanel, Monica Salazar, Anna Russ, Peter Cairns, Philip Russ, Anna Kostreva, Elizabeth Feder, Irina Novarese, Robert Gorny, Barbara K. Prokop, DJ Señor Eskimo Goldberg, Anna Weilhartner, Caitlin Berrigan, Peter Böhnisch, Jean-Ulrick Désert, Sven Drühl, Anneke Eussen, Felix & Mumford, Robert Gschwantner, Sarah Goodrum, John Isaacs, Stefan Kaminski, Annegret Kellner, Kelly Kleinschrodt, Anna Lehmann-Brauns, Isabella Lewandowski, Catherine Lorent, Antje Majewski/ƒƒ, Veronika Schumacher, Ulrika Segerberg, Caro Suerkemper, Klaus-Martin Treder, Klaus Winichner, Alex Tennigkeit, Petra Couwenbergs & Michi, Star Kim, Kurtis the dog, Kathrin Sarwasch, Gerrit, Herr Tennigkeit, Maximilian Schmidbauer, Fabian Jentsch, Anja Gröschel, Kate Hers, Birgit Riegger, Michael Barthel, Enrico Bertelli, Barbara Breitenfellner, Mirja Busch, Leif Elggren, Agnès Geoffray, Marthe Krüger, Benjamin L. Aman, Daniel Löwenbrück, Jean-François Robardet, Frank Eickhoff, Friedrich Herz, Fabian Knecht, Anna-Katarina Gravgaard, William Wheeler, Ayman Oghanna, Stefan Saalfeld, Viktor Timofeev, Marcelina Wellmer, Max Schreier, T. Biber, M. Dornfeld, C. Ernst, F. Hufnagel, S. Mannel, F. Muser, D. Wood, Artur Frank, Peter Freitag, Susa Templin, Katharina Raab, Claudia Chaseling, Jared Lindsay Clark, Olivier Guesselé-Garai, Silke Kästner, Iwan van 't Spijker, V&B(Alex Jacobs and Ellemieke Schoenmaker), Mariana Hahn, Dafni Barbageorgopoulou, Eli Cortiñas, Anna Redeker, Polina Stroganova, John Phillip Abbott, Michel Aniol, Nina Backman, Lisa Beck, Ada Bell, Enrico Bertelli, Magdalena Bichler, Stefan Bohnhoff, Melanie Bonajo, Amanda Brennan, Mark Briggs, Agnieszka Brzezanska, Benjamin Busch, CALL (Ida Lennartsson, Gitte Jabs, Stine Midtsæter & Max Boss/Easter, Sandra Poppe, Jana Schumacher, Anna Steinert, Cathrin Ulikowski), Anetta Mona Chisa & Lucia Tkacova, Catherine Chung and Faye Chiao, Sebastian Cichocki, Coco Rosie, Tammi L Coles, Lizza May David, Juliette Déjoué, Kai Dieterich, Christina Dimitriadis/ƒƒ, Milena Dragicevic, Viviana Druga, Sophie Dupont, Mary Beth Edelson, Eve Eisenstadt, Korhan Erel, Sophie Erlund, Xenia Fink, Ali Fitzgerald, Wolfgang Ganter, Adrienne Goehler, Björn Gottstein, Gabriele Franziska Götz, Cecilie Gravesen, Mathiew Greenfield, Mariola Groener, Eva Grubinger, Guðný Guðmundsdóttir, Hulda Ros Gudnadottir and Claus Lehmann, Sadie Lune, Nilbar Gures, Constantin Hartenstein, Veronika Hauer, Risk Hazekamp, Manfred Ahriman Heinfeldner, Hesselholdt & Mejlvang, Sue Hlavenka, Sonja Hornung, Michelle Howard, J&K (Janne Schäfer and Kristine Agergaard)/ƒƒ and The Artist Kelsie, Anne E. Johnson, Renata Kaminska, Barbara Kapusta, Linards Kulless, Anik Lazar, Julia Lazarus, Hanne Lippard, Melissa Logan, Max Lust, Mad Kate, Matthew Magee, Lorena Mal, Matthieu Martin, Kate McCurdy, Mary Meixner, Paula Johanna Mierzowsky and Christian Philip Berger, Kirsi Mikkola, Linda Mary Montano, Ingo Niermann, Nissa Nishikawa, Hester Oerlemans, Kirsten Otzen Keck, Kirsten Palz, Isabel Parkes, Nicola Pacini, Luis Pedro de Castro, Kai Pfeiffer, Marcello Pisu, Barbara Piwowarska, Anne Sherwood Pundyk, Diana Puntar, Mildred Rambaud, Roseline Rannoch and Claudia Zweifel, Jen Ray/ƒƒ, Tonia Reeh, Cornelia Renz, Oliver Ressler, Jorge Rojas, Lisa Ruyter/ƒƒ, Sylvia Sadzinski, Jerry Saltz, Dennis Schep, Eva M. K. Schippers, Inez Schippers, Frauke Schmidt, Tanja Schomaker, Maria Schoof, Joshua Schreier, Kerstin Schröder, Marike Schuurman, Philip Shafer, Jason Shulman, Alexander Skora, Hildegard Skowasch, Kathrin Sohn, Juliane Solmsdorf/ƒƒ, Aurin Squire, Eliza Stamps, Marie Steckbauer, Monica Steckbauer, Bettina Steinbrügge, Madeline Stillwelll, Stoll & Wachall, Suwanne CCtv, Mathilde ter Heijne/ƒƒ, Rosa ter Heijne, The Oracle, Samuel Thoma, Tiedeken, Tine Tillmann, Betty Tompkins, Magda Tothova/ƒƒ, Jessica Vaughn, Naomi Vona, Renate Wagner, Klaus Weber, Annette Weisser, Melanie Jame Wolf (Savage Amusement), Huang Xiaopeng, Ella Ziegler, Paul Zopel, Sherry Zopel, Christina Zurfluh, Lorenzo Sandoval, Anita Iannacchione, Monika Karczmarczyk, Ariel Moatti, Ana Sanchez de Vivar, Lizzie Stevens, Konstantin Solmsdorf, Manuel Wischnewski/ƒƒ, Valerie Senden, Sylvia Sadzinski, Kirsa Geiser, Isabelle Borges, Clara Brörmann, Mirja Busch, Ronald de Bloeme, Oliver Godow, Ulrich Hakel, Franziska Holstein, Wonkun Jun, Christine Nippe, Sebastian Schemann, Wolfgang Schneider, Alex BL, Elena Bari, Farhad Pocha, Lukas Töpfer, AnimalNacht, Sergio Belinchón, Damien Cadio, Konstantino Dregos, James Edmonds, Juliette Fontaine, Thierry Fournier, Marc Freeman, Daniela Fromberg & Stefan Roigk, Juan Garaizabal, Laura López Paniagua, Marta Marcé, Myriam Mechita, Leandro Quintero, Jean-François Robardet & Simon Hitziger, Ruben Rodrigo, Bosse Sudenburg, Santiago Ydañez, Veronica Sanchez, Christina Kohorst, Lena Winter, Bianca Benenti, Maria Dabow, Tatiana Echeverri Fernandez, Yusuf Etiman, Simone Gilges, Dirk Peuker, Mathilde Rosier, Philip Shafer, Jaro Straub, Sophie-Therese Trenka-Dalton, Katharina Wulff, Hendrik Zimmer, Aron Rauschhardt.
We'd like to thank a broad range of participants who've contributed to the magic-making prior to our change of direction. For exhibition photos and press releases please review our Past Exhibitions page; the complete archive of which is forthcoming. Our indelible thanks goes out to: Emmy Skensved and Grégoire Blunt, Wolfgang Ganter, Sara-Lena Maierhofer, Sabine Dehnel (and Andreas), Marion Auburtin, Furious Golden Shower, TBASS Robot, Alexine Chanel, Monica Salazar, Anna Russ, Peter Cairns, Philip Russ, Anna Kostreva, Elizabeth Feder, Irina Novarese, Robert Gorny, Barbara K. Prokop, DJ Señor Eskimo Goldberg, Anna Weilhartner, Caitlin Berrigan, Peter Böhnisch, Jean-Ulrick Désert, Sven Drühl, Anneke Eussen, Felix & Mumford, Robert Gschwantner, Sarah Goodrum, John Isaacs, Stefan Kaminski, Annegret Kellner, Kelly Kleinschrodt, Anna Lehmann-Brauns, Isabella Lewandowski, Catherine Lorent, Antje Majewski/ƒƒ, Veronika Schumacher, Ulrika Segerberg, Caro Suerkemper, Klaus-Martin Treder, Klaus Winichner, Alex Tennigkeit, Petra Couwenbergs & Michi, Star Kim, Kurtis the dog, Kathrin Sarwasch, Gerrit, Herr Tennigkeit, Maximilian Schmidbauer, Fabian Jentsch, Anja Gröschel, Kate Hers, Birgit Riegger, Michael Barthel, Enrico Bertelli, Barbara Breitenfellner, Mirja Busch, Leif Elggren, Agnès Geoffray, Marthe Krüger, Benjamin L. Aman, Daniel Löwenbrück, Jean-François Robardet, Frank Eickhoff, Friedrich Herz, Fabian Knecht, Anna-Katarina Gravgaard, William Wheeler, Ayman Oghanna, Stefan Saalfeld, Viktor Timofeev, Marcelina Wellmer, Max Schreier, T. Biber, M. Dornfeld, C. Ernst, F. Hufnagel, S. Mannel, F. Muser, D. Wood, Artur Frank, Peter Freitag, Susa Templin, Katharina Raab, Claudia Chaseling, Jared Lindsay Clark, Olivier Guesselé-Garai, Silke Kästner, Iwan van 't Spijker, V&B(Alex Jacobs and Ellemieke Schoenmaker), Mariana Hahn, Dafni Barbageorgopoulou, Eli Cortiñas, Anna Redeker, Polina Stroganova, John Phillip Abbott, Michel Aniol, Nina Backman, Lisa Beck, Ada Bell, Enrico Bertelli, Magdalena Bichler, Stefan Bohnhoff, Melanie Bonajo, Amanda Brennan, Mark Briggs, Agnieszka Brzezanska, Benjamin Busch, CALL (Ida Lennartsson, Gitte Jabs, Stine Midtsæter & Max Boss/Easter, Sandra Poppe, Jana Schumacher, Anna Steinert, Cathrin Ulikowski), Anetta Mona Chisa & Lucia Tkacova, Catherine Chung and Faye Chiao, Sebastian Cichocki, Coco Rosie, Tammi L Coles, Lizza May David, Juliette Déjoué, Kai Dieterich, Christina Dimitriadis/ƒƒ, Milena Dragicevic, Viviana Druga, Sophie Dupont, Mary Beth Edelson, Eve Eisenstadt, Korhan Erel, Sophie Erlund, Xenia Fink, Ali Fitzgerald, Wolfgang Ganter, Adrienne Goehler, Björn Gottstein, Gabriele Franziska Götz, Cecilie Gravesen, Mathiew Greenfield, Mariola Groener, Eva Grubinger, Guðný Guðmundsdóttir, Hulda Ros Gudnadottir and Claus Lehmann, Sadie Lune, Nilbar Gures, Constantin Hartenstein, Veronika Hauer, Risk Hazekamp, Manfred Ahriman Heinfeldner, Hesselholdt & Mejlvang, Sue Hlavenka, Sonja Hornung, Michelle Howard, J&K (Janne Schäfer and Kristine Agergaard)/ƒƒ and The Artist Kelsie, Anne E. Johnson, Renata Kaminska, Barbara Kapusta, Linards Kulless, Anik Lazar, Julia Lazarus, Hanne Lippard, Melissa Logan, Max Lust, Mad Kate, Matthew Magee, Lorena Mal, Matthieu Martin, Kate McCurdy, Mary Meixner, Paula Johanna Mierzowsky and Christian Philip Berger, Kirsi Mikkola, Linda Mary Montano, Ingo Niermann, Nissa Nishikawa, Hester Oerlemans, Kirsten Otzen Keck, Kirsten Palz, Isabel Parkes, Nicola Pacini, Luis Pedro de Castro, Kai Pfeiffer, Marcello Pisu, Barbara Piwowarska, Anne Sherwood Pundyk, Diana Puntar, Mildred Rambaud, Roseline Rannoch and Claudia Zweifel, Jen Ray/ƒƒ, Tonia Reeh, Cornelia Renz, Oliver Ressler, Jorge Rojas, Lisa Ruyter/ƒƒ, Sylvia Sadzinski, Jerry Saltz, Dennis Schep, Eva M. K. Schippers, Inez Schippers, Frauke Schmidt, Tanja Schomaker, Maria Schoof, Joshua Schreier, Kerstin Schröder, Marike Schuurman, Philip Shafer, Jason Shulman, Alexander Skora, Hildegard Skowasch, Kathrin Sohn, Juliane Solmsdorf/ƒƒ, Aurin Squire, Eliza Stamps, Marie Steckbauer, Monica Steckbauer, Bettina Steinbrügge, Madeline Stillwelll, Stoll & Wachall, Suwanne CCtv, Mathilde ter Heijne/ƒƒ, Rosa ter Heijne, The Oracle, Samuel Thoma, Tiedeken, Tine Tillmann, Betty Tompkins, Magda Tothova/ƒƒ, Jessica Vaughn, Naomi Vona, Renate Wagner, Klaus Weber, Annette Weisser, Melanie Jame Wolf (Savage Amusement), Huang Xiaopeng, Ella Ziegler, Paul Zopel, Sherry Zopel, Christina Zurfluh, Lorenzo Sandoval, Anita Iannacchione, Monika Karczmarczyk, Ariel Moatti, Ana Sanchez de Vivar, Lizzie Stevens, Konstantin Solmsdorf, Manuel Wischnewski/ƒƒ, Valerie Senden, Sylvia Sadzinski, Kirsa Geiser, Isabelle Borges, Clara Brörmann, Mirja Busch, Ronald de Bloeme, Oliver Godow, Ulrich Hakel, Franziska Holstein, Wonkun Jun, Christine Nippe, Sebastian Schemann, Wolfgang Schneider, Alex BL, Elena Bari, Farhad Pocha, Lukas Töpfer, AnimalNacht, Sergio Belinchón, Damien Cadio, Konstantino Dregos, James Edmonds, Juliette Fontaine, Thierry Fournier, Marc Freeman, Daniela Fromberg & Stefan Roigk, Juan Garaizabal, Laura López Paniagua, Marta Marcé, Myriam Mechita, Leandro Quintero, Jean-François Robardet & Simon Hitziger, Ruben Rodrigo, Bosse Sudenburg, Santiago Ydañez, Veronica Sanchez, Christina Kohorst, Lena Winter, Bianca Benenti, Maria Dabow, Tatiana Echeverri Fernandez, Yusuf Etiman, Simone Gilges, Dirk Peuker, Mathilde Rosier, Philip Shafer, Jaro Straub, Sophie-Therese Trenka-Dalton, Katharina Wulff, Hendrik Zimmer, Aron Rauschhardt.
