The artists group Club Real was founded in 2000 and is devising and realising participatory site-specific projects: Installations, one-to-one encounters, political role play scenarios and participatory urban development projects invite visitors to help shape alternative concepts of reality.
For the project Folkstheater/Teatr Ludowy, for example, the group developed practices for collective art production in Frankfurt (Oder) and Słubice from 2015 to 2017. This process has been documented in the book Partizipation Stadt Theater (Theater der Zeit, 2018).
Since 2018, Club Real has been working on the participatory political experiment Organism Democracy in Berlin, Vienna and Gelsenkirchen . Equal political rights for all living beings - this is the radical demand of the project, which is implemented in real terms within the framework of the individual Organisms Democracy project. In 2019, Club Real was invited to the Impulse Theatre Festival with "Jenseits der Natur- Volksherrschaft im Garten_Wien". Also since 2019, there has been an Organisms Democracy in Berlin, which is currently going through its seventhlegislative period, and in Gelsenkirchen Club Real was able to start another long-term work with 800,000 Years of Photosynthesis - Organism Democracy Gelsenkirchen. In Augsburg Club Real has been commissioned by Brecht Festival to realize Organisms Republic 2022 to 2025.
The cycle of work is documented and being continued on the website organismdemocracy.org.
Active members are currently: Marianna Sonneck, Paz Ponce, Georg Reinhardt and Mathias Lenz.
Honorary members are: Monika Hartz (+2019), Johann Müller and Gabi Coura
From left to right: Georg Reinhardt, Paz Ponce, Marianna Sonneck with Candelario in Havana, Cuba at the 13th Biennial of Havana in 2019
Mathias Lenz in 2019 at the Constitutional Court of Organisms Democracy Vienna, Austria
Marianna Sonneck is a performance artist with a focus on interactive formats and installations in public space. She was a founding member of the artist group Club Real in Berlin in 2000. Trained as an actress (Kunstuniverstät Graz), she first worked at state-run theaters as an actress before turning to less hierarchical forms of collaboration and forms of presentation beyond the classical theater logic. From 2015 to 2017, she realized the project Folkstheater/Teatr Ludowy with Club Real in Frankfurt (Oder) and published a book about it with Theater der Zeit with the title Partizipation Stadt Theater. Club Real was further invited to the ImpulseTheater Festival 2019 with the project "Beyond Nature" and they were also represented at the 13th Havana Biennale in Cuba with "LASA10CARNAVAL" in 2019. Since 2018 she has been focusing on the project cycle Organisms Democracy and manages the ongoing durational project Organisms Democracy Berlin Osloer Straße.
Paz Ponce is the founder and co-director of the project space "neue häute" at the Uferstudios in Berlin. As a cultural producer and researcher, she focuses on "contemporary artistic creation" and approaches the dramaturgy of the collective in relation to exhibitions, residencies and art projects in Europe, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean. She is a consultant for the Erasmus + project "Curating in context 2019 - 2021" and has published on artistic practices in Cuba.
Mathias Lenz is an actor, sound engineer and inventor. He completed his acting training at the Vienna Conservatory. His clients include the Burgtheater Vienna and the Stadttheater Gera; he has also worked at the Sophiensaelen in Berlin, with the muunkompanie Vienna and with the Teatro Stazzioni in Florence. He is a member of the Berlin-based artists' group Club Real. As a sound and event technician, he accompanies book fairs, panel discussions and the band Worst Case Phantasies. He has also been involved in the realization of various short feature films. He holds three registered patents for new inventions, including the "radiological storage grid".
Georg Reinhardt, born Georg Springer in Vienna in 1972. Trained as a gardener in Vienna and England. Studied architecture at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts. 1996-1999: engagements at the Schauspiel Erfurt and Schauspielhaus Bochum. Worked as a book illustrator, graphic designer and voice-over artist for radio plays. Since 2000, Georg Reinhardt has been working as a draughtsman, make-up artist, performance and conceptual artist in the Berlin-based artists' group Club Real, which he co-founded. With Club Real, he has worked on the conception and realization of more than 50 projects in Germany, Austria, Finland, Cuba, Poland, Spain and Bulgaria. Since 2017, he has been involved in Organisms Politics together with Hannes Anbelang. Co-author of the Universal Declaration of Organism Rights.
