Click here to see works

 

Born 1952 in Mönchengladbach, Germany

Lives and works in Berlin.

 

1970-73 Art Studies at Werkkunstschule Krefeld

 

Projects / Performances / Exhibitions

(Selection)

 

1973

 

• Kommune Praterstrasse Short Film, Super 8, Farbe, 18 min.

 

1974

 

FUT.EX.COM.

• Performance - Lecture, Kommune Praterstrasse, Werkkunstschule Krefeld

 

1973-90

 

• Kommuneexperiment Wien / Friedrichshof Editor of the magazine

‘AA News’. Magazine for alternative lifestyles

 

1977-80

 

Performances:

 

* ‘Concert for 3 bodies’, Galerie Ariadne, New York 1977

(with Brooke McGowen and Schlomo Skopic)

* ‘Aufforderung an die Kunst’, Kassel 1977

* ‘Megalo’, University of Düsseldorf, 1977

* ‘Voyage dans l´enfance’, Cree, Paris 1978

* ‘Patriamat’, Cree, Paris 1979

* ‘RAMADAN’, Cree, Paris 1979

* ‘Megalo II’, Museum Bochum, 1979

* ‘Übung für Frau Laim’, Video, Düsseldorf 1979 (with Illo Lehr)

* ‘Ridicuel’, Werkplaats, Amsterdam 1979

* ‘N. & M.’, Werkkunstschule Krefeld, 1979

* ‘Waschungen I’, Video, Werkbund Darmstadt,1980

* ‘Waschungen II’, Video, Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, 1980

* ‘Dance of Psychic References’, Plan K, Brüssel 1980

 

 

 

 

 

1980-84

 

* Foundation of the ‘Kunstbüro Friedrichshof’

* Cooperation with Joseph Beuys and FIU:Project ‘7000 Oaks’, documenta7

Kassel 1980 – 83 Apollozelt, 100 Days Performance, Kassel 1982

(with Rhea Thönges and Johannes Stüttgen)

Project ‘Institut für Kunst and Gesellschaft’

(FIU and Friedrichshof)

‘Conversations with Beuys’, Book, Ritter Verlag,

in cooperation with Oswald Oberhuber

 

Since 1982

 

* Texts about art and interviews with Joseph Beuys,George Baselitz,

Wolfgang Laib, Bernhard Blume, Annelies Strba, Georg Dokoupil, Herbert Brandl and

Günter Brus

 

1983-92

 

* Initiator and curator of the Collection Viennese Actionismus, Friedrichshof

(in cooperation with Josefine Rob)

* Curator of following exhibitions:

 

Brus-Muehl-Nitsch- Vom Informel zum Aktionismus, Schüttkasten, Friedrichshof 1984 (Katalog)

 

Otto Muehl- Van Gogh Serie,

Reithalle, Friedrichshof 1985

 

Otto Muehl-Unfälle in Haushalt

Schüttkasten, Friedrichshof 1986

 

1984-87

 

* Main actor in the following film productions:

 

Vincent van Gogh in ‘Vincent’

Pablo Picasso in ‘Picasso’

Richard Gerstl in ‘Back to fucking Cambridge’

in cooperation with Otto Muehl and

Terese Panoutsopoulos

 

1986-94

 

* Project ‘Atelier del Sur (Artists in Residence)’,

El Cabrito, La Gomera, Spanien.

Exhibitions with Albert Oehlen, Bernhard Blume, Royden Rabinowitch,

A.R. Penck, George Dokoupil, Annelies Strba, Herbert Brandl, Günter Brus

 

 

 

1990-91

 

Andy Warhol in ‘Andy´s Cake’ Film,

Director: Terese Panoutsopoulos

 

‘Kinderstimmen’, Video - Installation,

Schüttkasten, Friedrichshof

 

Foundation of the Art Association ‘KunstWerk’

* Curator of the exhibitions: ‘AUGEN SPRUNG BLICK WECHSEL’,

‘Annelies Strba’ , ‘Herbert Brandl’, ‘Raimund von Luckwald & Franz West’

 

1992

 

‘In Cooperation with den wirklichen und unwirklichen Bedürfnissen der

Menschen in Deutschland’, Exhibition, ‘Orion Sex Shop’, Kassel

 

1993

 

* ‘MUT TER SP RACHE’, Exhibition, Galerie Bruno Brunnet, Berlin

* ‘Sexual correctness’, The Friedrichshof Experiment,

Performance-Lecture, Hochschule der Künste, Berlin

* ‘Utopische Kunst- künstliche Utopie’ group exhibition and symposium,

in cooperation with Robert Fleck and Josefine Rob

* ‘Sexual correctness II’, Performance-Lecture Schulhaus Friedrichshof

* ‘A.H.: Ich bin Künstler’, Video-Performance, Unfair, Köln

 

1994

 

* ‘NAME’ Band Project, with Alexander Gutsch and Karl Iro-Goldblat

* ‘Observers’, Video,

* Opening Show, Group exhibition with H. Brandl / P. Kogler /A. Oehlen /

Eva Schlegel and others, Brasilica, Wien

 

1995

 

* ‘MASS IVE LIE BE’ (Nin-Artrud Version),

Exhibition, Brasilica, Wien

* ‘JOINED’

A Fusion of electronic music and contemporary art,

club event + exhibition with COSMIC ORGASM

and 4B, KHD-Hallen, Köln

* Love Parade Berlin, Video

* Street Parade Zürich, Video

 

1996

 

* ‘MASS IVE LIE BE’, club event + exhibition,

Rhephlex / London (Aphes Twin, Squarepusher, u.a) and contemporary artists,

FLEX, Wien

* Dance performance with DJ Hell, WMF, Berlin

* Brasilica presents:“junge zähne“- the art of electronicmusic,

Group exhibition, Secession Wien

 

1997

 

* Noche de Techno - Salsa, dance performance and DJ Set,

Casa de FEU, University of Havana, Cuba

* ‘ODER NICE’, List and Link Music

(in cooperation with Alexander Gutsch)

* CD Sinn Zucar 001, Hör Spiel Musik, HSM 004

DAS ES, Call Age Door, CD Sinn Zucar 002

* Dance Performances: SONAR, Barcelona; DIX DIMENSION, Paris

 

* ‘ÄSTE OF DIE ARTS’, contemporary art and electronic music,

club event + dance performance + exhibition

Stammheim, Kassel

 

* ‘Sueno Latino’, dance performance, Ludwig Stiftung Havana, Cuba

 

* ‘ODER NICE’, List and Link Music, live act, Stammheim, Kassel

 

* ‘Du hast dich aus mir zurückgezogen’, exhibition, Brasilica, Wien

 

1998

 

* ‘DAS ES’, live act

Flex, Wien; Subground, Berlin; Ultraschall, München; Dock 11, Berlin

* Dance Performance with DJ Hell,

Casa de FEU, University of Havana, Cuba

 

1999

 

* ‘TURKISH WOMAN’, Video, with Djuna Lou Finidee

Marrakesch, Marokko

* ‘ODER NICE’, live act, Sprach Nacht,

O.K Centrum für Gegenwartskunst, Linz

* Eine kleine Frequenztheorie, Film, Farbe 20 min.,

in cooperation with Djuna Lou Finidee

* ‘Alles Nichts?! Gesellschaftsutopien im 20. Jahrhundert

symposium and lecture (Aktuelle gesellschaftliche Gegenentwürfe)

+ Live act DAS ES, feat. Djuna Lou Finidee,

Kunstverein Glarus / Amden, Schweiz

* ‘DAS ES’, live act, feat. Djuna Lou Finidee,

Earth Dance Festival, Pfefferberg, Berlin

 

2000

 

* Fliegende Fische / Flying Fishes, Group exhibition,

Haus des Lehrers, Berlin

* LKW Leben Kunst Werk, Group exhibition

Kunsthaus Begrenz, Österreich

 

2001

 

* The Paradise Experiment, book, with Paolo Bianchi and Günter Brus

Triton Verlag, Wien

* Experiment Paradies - Theo Altenberg :

Photography 1973-1978, Exhibition,

PICTUREshow Galerie, Berlin

* 2002

‘Intentional Communities’,

Group exhibition,

Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö;

CAC Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius

* ‘Sex - Vom Wissen and Wünschen’,

Group exhibition,

Hygiene-Museum, Dresden

* ‘St. Petrischnee’, Group exhibition,

Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich

* ‘ELF ZU O’, Exhibition

Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach

 

2003

 

* Aktionskreis : Selbstdarstellung

with Christoph Schlingensief and the Ensemble of Volksbühne, Berlin

 

2004

 

* ‘Experiment Paradise’, exhibition Galerie Maxla, Riga, Lettland

* Le Plaisir, exhibition (paintings 1998 – 2004),

Le Salon des Dépendentes Brasilica, Wien

 

2005

 

* ‘Wall of Women - Installation Kommune’, Club 103, Berlin

* Performance Aktionskreis

Xplore 05, Berlin

* Performance ‘ENDE NEU’

Palast der Republik, Berlin

* ‘KÖRPER’ group exhibition

Galerie Hummel, Wien

* ‘VINCENT’Performance

Galerie Maurus Gmür, Berlin

 

2006

 

* ‘Fuck Back Kommune Revisited’, installation

Volksbühne, Berlin

* Sammlung Hummel, group exhibition

Mumok, Wien

* Talking Heads, group exhibition

Galerie Hummel, Wien

 

 

 

 

back