Jakob Margit Wirth

Artist and PhD Candidate about Parasite Art as a subversive practice. Part of different collectives regarding the question of the production of space.

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“Unsichtbare Netzwerke” at Galerie Bernau: an AI named Bernd guides you from gallery to city via WhatsApp dérive - probing trust, exposure, and invisible systems. Back inside, infrared light reveals the hidden architecture shaping it all.

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2025. 72h Performance at Rathaus Reinickendorf.
Eintrag: Margit unfolds after the new Self-Determination Act: adopting the name Margit and changing the gender entry to “diverse” as a performative act inside the institution. Bureaucracy becomes life. Identity meets administration

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Public performance, Bordeaux. 1h30. Stretch foil. My Gender Stretch pulls at the transparent layers of heteronormative expectation — roles, behavior, embodied codes. Stretching cis sediments between privilege and violence. With Claire Géhin, part of Resonance by Goethe-Institut

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Public Performance, Berlin. With Claire Géhin in the French-German Resonance Program by the Goethe-Institut. 200kg pulled 1km along Kurfürstendamm. Naked → dressed → gendered → exhausted → gone. A body carrying the paradox of cis-male privilege: burdened and upheld at once.

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Collective Intervention, 2024, Mannheim. By assembling second-hand kitchen units donated by local residents, it transformed the square into a site of social and artistic exchange, bringing private practices into the public sphere to foster dialogue and collective engagement.

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Speculating on the Void — Parasite Intervention, 2024, Ku’damm Berlin.
Inside a 48,000 m² unfinished Signa building opposite KaDeWe, we temporarily occupied a “monument of speculation.” Living and working inside the void, reclaiming it for collective imagination over capital.

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2023/24. Parasite Paradoxa, Guest editor and author of the art magazine Kunstforum International.
Collaboration with Editors Marina Resende & Tonia Andresen.

Title (DE): Parasitäre Paradoxa – Kunst zwischen Anpassung und Widerstand

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Berlin, 2023. Intervention in an abandoned building site.
We inhabited a derelict prefab complex and turned a hostile void into a shared living room.
Against demolition logic: vacancy as resource, care as practice.

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Wunder Parking (Berlin, 2023), A hoax start-up renting out public parking spaces as cafés, offices or bedrooms. Absurd? Yes. Real? Also yes. A 1:1 parody of housing platforms that turn crisis into business.

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2023, 9x9x9 m, water, foil electric pump, tubes. Wasserturm Berlin.
As part of the Exhibition The Beauty of Covid.
This piece became a space of reflection and memorial about a time, that until now remains somehow hard to grasp.

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2022–23 · Public space intervention, Berlin. What if plastic wasn’t trash, but desire?
From illegal landfills to Berlin squares: plastic sold at a negative price (0,97 €/kg) to re-enter the recycling loop.
stoff♲wert turns waste, value, and responsibility inside out.

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2022 · Conceptual work, Museum Worpswede
Playing with the sacred logic of the white cube: 13.5 m² of museum space for rent.
Lease it, misuse it, curate it yourself — studio, storage, co-working or exhibition.
Not the museum decides what is art, but access, price, and use.

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2022. Alexa guides you around the Amazon Tower at Warschauer Straße. A voice assistant learning the neighborhood while the building tried to stay unnamed. An audio walk through gentrification, corporate camouflage and resistance, where participants choose their own path.

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2021–2023. Berlin & Chicago. A camouflaged platform that transforms parking lots into living spaces, stages and sites of exchange. Occupying urban gaps, it challenges car dominance and privatized public space, inviting to imagine post-car, more social, and ecological cities.

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Washed Away (2021)
A soap-waterfall installation on Nürnberg’s castle wall with Wolfgang Karl May, exploring boundaries, protection, purification, and the fleeting nature of crisis. Part of the city’s Lost and Found program.

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2020 ongoing. Magazine in-between art and activism. Berlin.
Where the parasite became conceptualized: Announcing the Parasite Art Magazine series of Issue 1 and 2 and more to follow…
Co-Editor: Marina Resende
Infos about all the authors in the magazine https://t.co/MXCh0Xfv4U

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2020. YouTube Channel. Chicago. USA.
Breaking the filter bubbles: The YouTube Channel TRUE MASCULINITIES responds in a series of videos to the question: How to be a Real Man?

[Renés Collapse Collection @collapse_rene]

"Man muss alles aus dem Nichts machen." [One needs to create everything from scratch.]

Benko’s fortune rose from nothing - not from possessions, but from belief. A dazzling image of abundance so magnificent that it filled skylines - and then vanished forever…

[Deutscher Mobilitätspreis @DMP_innovativ]

Künstlerische Ansätze prämieren wir in der Kategorie DMP | Art. Wir gratulieren Parasite Parking zum 1. Platz!

Die multifunktionale Plattform in Form eines Parkplatzes zeigt alternative Nutzungsmöglichkeiten für Parkplätze im öffentlichen Raum.
#ParasiteParking #Verkehrswende

[Newcity Chicago @newcity]

The intervention 'Parasite Parking,' created by Berlin-based artists Jakob Wirth and Alexander Sacharow, will occupy parking spots in different neighborhoods in Chicago, day and night, until Friday, October 8.

#NewcityArt #Newcity https://t.co/s5zGwLRN7T