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Lars Schumacher
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Lars Schumacher's Events
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Susanne Schumacher – Light and Shadow
May 9, 2026 at 11am to May 10, 2026 at 6pm – KUNSTRAUM MITTE37
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CALL FOR ART – TREES
Fluxus 2025 & Collage – OPEN TINY BIG
Fluxus 2025 – “Ja, dann ist das so!” (“Yes, then that’s how it is!”)
September 6, 2025 at 12am to September 7, 2025 at 7pmThe Ocean Between VIII – Luminosity Sparks Transatlantic Artistic Dialogue in Chicago
August 1, 2025 from 6pm to 9pmFluxus 2025 & Collage – OPEN TINY BIG
October 10, 2025 at 6pm to October 12, 2025 at 5pm
Fluxus 2025 – “Ja, dann ist das so!” (“Yes, then that’s how it is!”)
Showing Me Home – Art as a Landscape of Belonging
Fluxus 2025 – A Creative Exploration of the Fluxus Movement at 1650 W Foster Ave, Chicago, IL 60640
mail art - postcard-sized collage at Lars Schumacher
Profile Information
- Mail-Artist since:
- I have been involved in Mail Art since the fall of the Berlin Wall, when I began sending my own films through the postal system as artistic gestures of connection and exchange.
- My Website (without http://):
- http://www.larsschumacher.art
- Why I am involved in Mail-Art:
- Lars Schumacher’s involvement in international Mail Art is rooted in a fundamental understanding of what this global network truly is: a living system of exchange, trust, and artistic generosity. Mail Art has never been an institution — it is a community built through action. One becomes part of it not by declaration, but by sending, receiving, responding, and initiating. Schumacher’s practice embodies exactly this principle.
His ongoing Mail Art calls — such as Heimat, Sehnsucht nach einem Gefühl, Tempelhof, or Fluxus 2025 — position him not only as a participant but as an active node within the network. Calls are the connective tissue of Mail Art: they invite strangers, dissolve hierarchies, and create temporary communities around shared themes. By organizing them, Schumacher contributes to the self‑renewing structure that has sustained Mail Art since the 1960s.
What distinguishes his role is the way he frames these calls. Rather than treating them as mere collection mechanisms, he uses them as conceptual frameworks:
Heimat becomes a reflection on belonging and displacement.
Sehnsucht nach einem Gefühl explores emotional memory as a transnational language.
Tempelhof invokes a site charged with history, mobility, and transformation.
Fluxus 2025 situates Mail Art within a lineage of performative, process‑based art that resists commodification.
Through these themes, Schumacher creates spaces of resonance where contributors from different countries can respond with their own cultural, political, and personal perspectives. This dialogical structure is central to Mail Art’s ethos: the artwork is not the object alone, but the network of responses it generates.
Moreover, Schumacher’s own outgoing works — painterly, tactile, and unmistakably his — circulate internationally and act as ambassadors of his artistic language. Each postcard becomes a travelling micro‑exhibition, carrying his visual vocabulary into mailboxes, archives, and collections across the world. In doing so, he strengthens the reciprocal bonds that define Mail Art: to send is to connect; to receive is to continue the chain.
His practice therefore situates him as both contributor and catalyst.
He participates, but he also initiates.
He responds, but he also sets impulses.
He is embedded in the network because he helps sustain it.
In the tradition of Ray Johnson’s Correspondence School, Fluxus exchange structures, and the decentralized Mail Art communities of the late 20th century, Schumacher’s work affirms that Mail Art is not a genre but a social sculpture — one that only exists through the people who keep it alive.
- My Mail-Adress (snail and/or E-mail)
- Lars Schumacher
Mittelstraße 37
D-31303 Burgdorf - Hannover
Germany - Deutschland
eMail: larsschumacher@okok.de
latest update 04/2026
Lars Schumacher's Photos
Comment Wall (3 comments)
- At 5:36pm on April 5, 2025,
Julian Foster said…
Thanks Lars for the L'art au Lavoir card
Julian
- At 11:59am on July 23, 2022,
Lau Wilmet said…
Welcome Lars
- At 6:34am on July 22, 2022,
Monster-A-GoGo said…
Welcome to IUOMA.
Lars Schumacher's Blog
Fluxus 2025 & Collage – OPEN TINY BIG
Posted on September 15, 2025 at 9:00pm 0 Comments 4 Likes
OPEN TINY BIG: Fluxus Reimagined in Berlin’s Avant-Garde Laboratory
From October 10–12, 2025, Berlin’s Open Tiny space will host Fluxus 2025 & Collage – OPEN TINY BIG, a three-day artistic convergence that reactivates the radical spirit of the Fluxus movement for a…
ContinueFluxus 2025 – “Ja, dann ist das so!” (“Yes, then that’s how it is!”)
Posted on August 29, 2025 at 1:55pm 0 Comments 1 Like
Fluxus 2025 – “Ja, dann ist das so!”: A Living Archive of Artistic Resistance and Renewal
On September 6–7, 2025, the Kunst & Musik Etage Hannover will host Fluxus 2025 – “Ja, dann ist das so!”, a two-day event that defies the conventions of traditional exhibition-making. Conceived by interdisciplinary…
ContinueFLUXUS 2025 – Mail Art Call
Posted on July 14, 2025 at 3:30pm 0 Comments 0 Likes
Illuminating Connections: The Ocean Between VIII – Luminosity Sparks Transatlantic Artistic Dialogue in Chicago
In an era of global polarization, it is a rare gift when art steps forward as a universal language. The Ocean Between VIII –…
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