@harry.copas

MFA at Bauhaus Universität Weimar.
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A corner of my sky, 2026, engraved brass, nails, 131.5 x 64.2 mm. An ongoing series of brass bench plaques, which replicate screen shots taken on an iPhone 12 Mini whilst stargazing through the Stellarium app. The plaques are installed in the exact spot where the screen shot was collected, and notes only the time it was taken and the compass direction the phone was pointed in. GPS coordinates for the locations of each plaque can be found on my website.
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2 months ago
A collection of recently framed pieces, both my own work and things I’ve collected over the past few months. I mostly use recycled wood found in and around Weimar. Always open to small framing jobs, if you need anything done get in touch. but is it something this city can not give, 2026, rain and powdered graphite on watercolour paper, framed under a raw steel passpartout, mounted in a vintage metal picture frame, 50 x 70 cm. A Yoko Ono puzzle from an installation in her 2025 exhibition at the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin. Although visitors were only allowed to take one piece home, a dear friend painstakingly assembled two complete puzzles. I’m not a huge Yoko fan, but I love the story. I’ve framed both of these in American walnut. A business card from Jonathan Monk, also framed in American walnut under a placid green passpartout. No such thing as a victimless crime, 2025, instant postcard framed under painted MDF passpartout, 28.5 x 41.5 cm. This is part of a series of three works which document a collaborative performance with Charlotte Rein at Lake Balaton, Hungary. Every night we would wander around stealing things, to stage compositions in front of an instant postcard machine in the town. After the photographs were taken, we quietly returned our trophies to their rightful owners. Charlotte and I designed and built the frames together and exhibited them during Summerary last year. Still available for purchase. Hiding to nothing, 2025, porcelain framed in recycled oak, 26 x 32 cm. Reframed after sustaining some damage on its way back from an exhibition in Hong Kong last year. Still available for purchase.
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2 months ago
Underbelly, 2026, chewing gum, plastic envelope, paper, stickers, 22 x 12.5 x 1 cm, edition of 10 + 2 AP. A map that unfolds to the exact dimensions of a desk in the Limona building at the Bauhaus University Library in Weimar, Germany. Forty-two pieces of chewing gum were found stuck underneath desks in the library. These were photographed and reproduced as stickers. Each edition invites the owner to apply the stickers onto the map however they choose. Published in Weimar by Harry Copas in February 2026 in an edition of 10 + 2 AP. Exhibited as part of ‘Chasing paper’ at the Bauhaus University Library in February 2026. Documentation courtesy of the artist and Thyra Kolde. Installation views courtesy of Anneliese John.
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2 months ago
A huge thank you to everyone who made it to the opening of ‘Chasing Paper’ last week. The exhibition will run until this Saturday 14th of February, and is open during normal library opening hours. Floor plans can be found at the front desk in the Limona building. For anyone who hasn’t had a chance to explore the show yet, I will be running two more guided tours of the exhibition: Thursday 12.02 at 3pm. Saturday 14.02 at 2pm. The meeting point will be in the ground floor foyer of the university library, next to the main entrance. Many thanks to Anneliese John for the beautiful documentation @anneliese.jn
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3 months ago
So proud of all the participants in my Bauhaus module this semester “Wait, later this will be nothing”. We’ve put together a very fun exhibition in the Limona building at the University Library. There’s a really diverse range of perspectives on show, and the attention to detail is incredible. I’m still in awe at how far everyone has come as book artists, but come see for yourself! Vernissage: 5.02.2026 7-10pm in the ground floor foyer of the Bauhaus University Library. Please join us for a celebratory cocktail before exploring the exhibition. Opening hours: 6.2.-14.2. Mo-Fr 9-23h Sa 10-16h poster by @llisamayr ‘Chasing paper’ is more than an exhibition—it’s a scavenger hunt through the shelves of Limona, the university’s art and design library. Thirteen students have created artist books hidden in plain sight within the stacks. Visitors are invited to decipher a specially designed floor plan to locate each work. The books exhibited push the boundaries of representation and storytelling through unexpected materials and unorthodox forms. Collectively, they explore themes of tactility, accessibility, and temporality, encouraging close attention and interaction. ‘Chasing paper’ is presented by students of ‘Wait, later this will be nothing’, a Bauhaus Module led by @harry.copas .
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3 months ago
Chasing Paper 📍 Universitätsbibliothek/Limona (Steubenstraße 6/8) 🥂 5.2. 19h ‘Chasing paper’ is more than an exhibition—it’s a scavenger hunt through the shelves of Limona, the university’s art and design library. Thirteen students have created artist books hidden in plain sight within the stacks. Visitors are invited to decipher a specially designed floor plan to locate each work. The books exhibited push the boundaries of representation and storytelling through unexpected materials and unorthodox forms. Collectively, they explore themes of tactility, accessibility, and temporality, encouraging close attention and interaction. ‘Chasing paper’ is presented by students of ‘Wait, later this will be nothing’, a Bauhaus Module led by @harry.copas . opening hours: 6.2.-14.2. Mo-Fr 9-23h Sa 10-16h poster by @llisamayr
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3 months ago
📖 I’m teaching a Bauhaus Module this coming winter semester on artist books. I spent a large chunk of the summer researching and building the course, as well as lining up some fascinating guest lecturers and planning a series of fun workshops and field trips. If you are interested in spending the next couple of months reading, discussing and making books, course registrations are open until Sunday the 12th of October on the Bison portal. The 6ECTS fachmodul is open to Bachelor and Masters students from Architektur und Urbanistik // Architecture and Urbanism, Bau und Umwelt // Civil and Environmental Engineering, Kunst und Gestaltung // Art and Design, and Medien // Media. 📕
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7 months ago
From one to another, 2025, oak, photographs, an exact replica of Marcel Breuer’s TI-1A chair, bolts, cardboard box, tape, label, dimensions variable. A broken bed was found while cleaning out the collective studio storeroom. No one knew where it had come from, but it was saved from the trash. A few weeks later, a photograph of the same bed appeared, pinned to the wall of the studio hallway. No further clues emerged about its history or origin. After some research, the only certainties were that it had been made in Germany from European oak sometime in the 1920s, most likely near Weimar. In that sense, it was not unlike Marcel Breuer’s TI-1A chair—one of his first designs realised in the Bauhaus Holzwerkstatt. Yet only one of these objects had endured the test of time. The bed was then reworked into an exact replica of Breuer’s chair, adapted to be flat-packable and easily repaired. The resulting installation plays with absence and presence simultaneously. Both objects exist through material—the offcuts of the bed, the chair sealed in a cardboard box—yet can only be conceived through images: the original photograph of the bed, and the printed label on the box. Installation view as part of ‘Unboxing Bauhaus’ at Kunsthaus Kunstverein Potsdam, Germany, July 2025. Images 1 & 7 courtesy of Bernd Hiepe, and images 2-6 courtesy of Charlotte Rein.
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7 months ago
this room could be a room. Friday, Oct 17th @harry.copas and @jovan_turcinovic at @tunnel19_de Little separates an empty gallery space from a newly rented room. That strange, hesitant excitement where everything still feels open—waiting. You want to linger in that moment, before anything is placed or arranged, before decisions start to close things off. Eventually, something has to happen. Objects appear. Things get moved, hung, removed, replaced. But there’s always a balance to keep. It needs to be navigable. The things need to speak to each other. Make sense, or maybe not make sense—but still belong somehow. Harry Copas and Jovan Turčinović come together around the idea of revealing the exhibition space as a potential room - not one defined by function, but by presence. A space where things echo, even when they appear to do nothing at all. Somewhere in this back-and-forth between memory and possibility, this room could be a room.
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7 months ago
Sans Souci, 2025, salvaged brass letters, 60 x 8 x 0.6 cm. Installed at @kunstraumpotsdam as part of ‘Unboxing Bauhaus’. Potsdam is famous for the palace of Sanssouci, which also happens to be the namesake of the Sydney suburb ‘Sans Souci’. The name is adorned in large brass letters over the entrance of the palace. Whilst the direct translation in French is “without worries”, in Sydney it has been casually misinterpreted to accomodate for the popular Australianism “no worries”. The piece is installed on a crumbling archway above the gallery entrance. Documentation courtesy of: Image 1: Tilmann Finner @thatbastart Image 2: Charlotte Rein. @charlotte__rein Image 3: Masihne Rasuli. @masihne
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8 months ago
Selected Works and Artists [Documentation Part I] 1. Catalogue designed by @kisschunk printed by @yyasmineliar 2. remnants (rearranged) by Charlotte Rein @charlotte__rein 3. Hiding to nothing. by Harry Copas @harry.copas 4. Dramaturgical Archiving By Chance by Hou Ching @houfreeworld 5. 2 Pages of Fake Eye by Lau Sze Man @lau.szeman 6. Memory Box by Marie Kobler 7. Map of curiosities by Nilya Musaeva @wishious & Julia Vollmer @volljus 8. A selected artists list in alphabetical order — 𝙁𝙊𝙐𝙉𝘿 & 𝙁𝙀𝙇𝙏 Date: 7-30SEP 2025 Opening: 1-6PM 7SEP (SUN) Venue: CRASH 303 JCCAC HK RSVP to visit at @crash.a.space or email: [email protected] Curated by Kylie and Jennifer Poster designed by CRASH Team Photo courtesy of Artists and CRASH Team
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8 months ago
Brösel piece, 2025, event score. I made an artist book to accompany a score I performed last semester. It documents 15 different measures of the time spent performing the score, as well as space for the reader to record their own iterations. Edition of 10 + 2 AP. They are available for purchase for 12€.
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8 months ago