Handmade in Bangladesh

Florian Wehking was born in Westerstede (Lower Saxony, Germany) in 1982. From 2001 to 2003 he studied political science, philosophy and German philology at the Carl-von-Ossietzky-Universität in Oldenburg. Until 2009 he studied visual communication at the Bauhaus-Universität in Weimar, where he has been working as a freelance filmmaker, photographer and graphic designer since 2010. Since 2015 he is also an artistic associate at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar.
Various of his film works have received awards at film festivals and have been broadcast by ORF and MDR. Among other things, he received a grant from the Thüringer Graduiertenförderung des Freistaats Thüringen and artist’s grants from the Kulturstiftung des Freistaats Thüringen.
His works relate to the everyday survival of people on the edge of society. The political and social context is always an essential aspect, aiming to create empathy with the other – without which it proves impossible to live together.

Liz Bachhuber
Sculptor and Installation Artist Liz Bachhuber was a Professor of Fine Art (Freie Kunst) at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. Her research interests and artistic practice focuses on the environment with a particular emphasis on the found object in Art and the global implications of unbridled consumerism and the resulting garbage. She has a history, in the tradition of the Bauhaus-Universität, of working at the intersection of Art and Science in collaboration with environmental engineers.
Her long-standing interest in politics, recycling and technology led to the following research projects and exhibitions: “Das Müll Projekt” 1993; “Flottsam and Jetsam” 2001 and “Entrop(H)y: Garbage and Art” 2011 and “Border City – Chapter 1 & 2” 2013 & 2016 in collaboration with the Chair for Waste Management/Biotechnology in the Resource Economy at the Bauhaus-Universität. In 2001 – 2011 she founded and headed up the English-language, international MFA-Program Public Art and New Artistic Strategies with the support of the DAAD.
She has also spearheaded the interfaculty and international collaboration between Art, Environmental Engineering and Urbanism in the DAAD Strategic University Partnership with the University of California San Diego.