ART HISTORY

3. August 2023

How it all began

Today it’s hard to believe but in Akt mit Pferd was once a joke.

To be able to explain the genesis of Akt mit Pferd/Nude with Horse you have to tell the following story: In 2014 Jens Maria Mayer and Beni von Alemann lived for some years in a shared apartment in Berlin Kreuzberg at the border to Neukölln. In that same house lived, by chance, a former fellow student from Weimar, with whom they have been close friends ever since – by the way, the lady on the Nudes with Horse #126 to #153/10,000. This neighbor friend … [read more]

12. February 2017

Advertise or die!

Our first ad has been published this week! In the 18th edition of Jungsheft, Germany’s first porn magazine for girls, there is half a page dedicated to our – not at all pornographic – art. The Jungsheft, as its sibling Giddyheft (which is for boys), is generally a good read. The actual edition for example features a cover story on the history of 10,000 years of sex. You could say, one year for every Nude with Horse. Well, if those aren’t rosy prospects.

11. December 2015

10,000 Horsepower

a guest piece by Martin Martin Schlesinger / Institut für Zeitgenossenschaft
The oldest of the drawings made by mankind depict horses—as do the most recent. The long-term art project “Akt mit Pferd” launched by Benjamin von Alemann and Jens Ole Mayer is added to the fold, joining a stable steeped in artistic tradition, from the horses heads in the Chauvet caves to the series of equine photography by Eadweard Muybridge …