BBUG/VENUE:
The Baden-Badener Unternehmer Gespräche (Baden-Baden Entrepreneur Talks) forge connections between business and society, commerce and politics. It brings people together. Over three weeks of meetings, it invites guests to reflect and to question, encouraging them towards new approaches and to search out previously unknown answers. The BBUG alumni network consists of over 3,000 top executives and today represents one of the largest cross-sector networks in Germany. The BBUG is a non-profit association supported by some 120 member organizations from across industry, commerce, transport, the digital economy, media and communication, as well as banking and insurance. (source: https://www.bbug.de/)

CONCEPT:
Malcolm Gompf is a German-American conceptual artist whose work is informed by a deep interest in global markets, the digitalization of art, and the concept of the readymade. He combines these topics with classic art historical positions and examines them in an innovative way. His current series is a commentary on cultural and industrial appropriation structures in an increasingly digitalized world. Gompf deals with the comparison between reality and metaverse as well as original and copy. He artistically transforms key works in art history – from Gerhard Richter and Jackson Pollock to René Magritte and Edward Hopper – and transforms them into “highly pixelated” digital images. Despite the abstracted aesthetics, the quality of the color harmony and composition of these works remains noticeable, revealing a new dimension of their meaning.

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