Hans-Peter Feldman
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Hans-Peter Feldmann is a German visual artist. Feldmann's approach to art-making is one of collecting, ordering and re-presenting.
in Austria
. He began working in 1968, producing the first of the small handmade books that would become a signature part of his work. These modest books, simply entitled Bilde (Picture) or Bilder (Pictures), would include one or more reproductions from a certain type--knees of women, shoes, chairs, film stars, etc.--their subjects isolated in their ubiquity and presented without captions.
movement and practitioner in the artist book and multiple formats. Feldmann's approach to art-making is one of collecting, ordering and re-presenting amateur snapshots, print photographic reproductions, toys and trivial works of art. Feldmann reproduces and recontextualizes our reading of them in books, postcards, posters or multiples.
Works from the early 1970s include 70 snapshots depicting All the Clothes of a Woman and four Time Series projects including, for example, a row of 36 pictures of a ship moving along a river. Feldmann's series Photographs Taken From Hotel Room Windows While Traveling clusters 108 nondescript, unframed snapshots of buildings, streets and parking lots. (Like other Feldmann projects, this calls to mind Ed Ruscha's photographic catalogs.) 11 Left Shoes presents 11 shoes borrowed from 303 Gallery employees, in a row on the floor. Que Sera has the words of the song of that title handwritten on the wall. Bed With Photograph simulates part of a hotel room with a slept-in bed, a side table and a framed photograph of a woman in leopard-print pants.
Feldman's photographic essays might have a more intimate singularity in book form. His bookSecret Picturebook (1973) -- is a thick, densely printed, scholarly tome with little pictures of women's torsos in sexy underwear inserted at intervals. It most pointedly embodies the artist's mischievous relationship to high culture. Another book, “1967-1993 Die Toten” reproduces images from newspapers of all of the lives lost due to the violence and terrorism that permeated contemporary German history.
Creating carefully conceived installations from everyday images is what Feldmann is best known for. In 2004-5 MoMA P.S. 1 showed “100 Years,” an exhibition made up of 101 photographic portraits of people ages 8 months to 100 years. And at the International Center of Photography
in 2008 he filled a room with the framed front pages of 100 newspapers — from New York, Paris, Dubai, Sydney, Seoul and elsewhere — printed on Sept. 12, 2001.
Hans Peter Feldmann is represented by Simon Lee Gallery in London, Galerie Martine Aboucaya in Paris and 303 Gallery in New York.
in 2010. This prize includes an exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
, New York, in May 2011.
Early life and career
In the 1960s, Feldmann studied painting at the University of Arts and Industrial Design LinzUniversity of Arts and Industrial Design Linz
The University of Arts and Industrial Design Linz is one of four universities in Linz, the capital of Upper Austria.At present, approximately 800 students are enrolled.-External links:* *...
in Austria
Austria
Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...
. He began working in 1968, producing the first of the small handmade books that would become a signature part of his work. These modest books, simply entitled Bilde (Picture) or Bilder (Pictures), would include one or more reproductions from a certain type--knees of women, shoes, chairs, film stars, etc.--their subjects isolated in their ubiquity and presented without captions.
Work
Hans-Peter Feldmann is a figure in the conceptual artConceptual art
Conceptual art is art in which the concept or idea involved in the work take precedence over traditional aesthetic and material concerns. Many of the works, sometimes called installations, of the artist Sol LeWitt may be constructed by anyone simply by following a set of written instructions...
movement and practitioner in the artist book and multiple formats. Feldmann's approach to art-making is one of collecting, ordering and re-presenting amateur snapshots, print photographic reproductions, toys and trivial works of art. Feldmann reproduces and recontextualizes our reading of them in books, postcards, posters or multiples.
Works from the early 1970s include 70 snapshots depicting All the Clothes of a Woman and four Time Series projects including, for example, a row of 36 pictures of a ship moving along a river. Feldmann's series Photographs Taken From Hotel Room Windows While Traveling clusters 108 nondescript, unframed snapshots of buildings, streets and parking lots. (Like other Feldmann projects, this calls to mind Ed Ruscha's photographic catalogs.) 11 Left Shoes presents 11 shoes borrowed from 303 Gallery employees, in a row on the floor. Que Sera has the words of the song of that title handwritten on the wall. Bed With Photograph simulates part of a hotel room with a slept-in bed, a side table and a framed photograph of a woman in leopard-print pants.
Feldman's photographic essays might have a more intimate singularity in book form. His bookSecret Picturebook (1973) -- is a thick, densely printed, scholarly tome with little pictures of women's torsos in sexy underwear inserted at intervals. It most pointedly embodies the artist's mischievous relationship to high culture. Another book, “1967-1993 Die Toten” reproduces images from newspapers of all of the lives lost due to the violence and terrorism that permeated contemporary German history.
Creating carefully conceived installations from everyday images is what Feldmann is best known for. In 2004-5 MoMA P.S. 1 showed “100 Years,” an exhibition made up of 101 photographic portraits of people ages 8 months to 100 years. And at the International Center of Photography
International Center of Photography
The International Center of Photography is a photography museum, school, and research center in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, United States...
in 2008 he filled a room with the framed front pages of 100 newspapers — from New York, Paris, Dubai, Sydney, Seoul and elsewhere — printed on Sept. 12, 2001.
Hans Peter Feldmann is represented by Simon Lee Gallery in London, Galerie Martine Aboucaya in Paris and 303 Gallery in New York.
Recognition
Hans-Peter Feldmann has been named winner of the eighth Biennal Hugo Boss PrizeHugo Boss Prize
The Hugo Boss Prize is awarded every other year to an artist working in any medium, anywhere in the world. Since its establishment in 1996, it has distinguished itself from other art awards because it has no restrictions on nationality or age...
in 2010. This prize includes an exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is a well-known museum located on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City, United States. It is the permanent home to a renowned collection of Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, early Modern, and contemporary art and also features special exhibitions...
, New York, in May 2011.
Exhibitions
- 1972 - Billeder af Feldmann (Bilder von Feldmann), Daner Galleriet, Copenhagen, Denmark
- 1977 - Eine Stadt: Essen, Museum Folkwang Essen
- 1990 - Hans-Peter Feldmann, das Museum im Kopf, Portikus, Frankfurt; Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf
- 1999 - Hans-Peter Feldmann: Bücher, Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen
- 2001 - Hans-Peter Feldmann, 100 Jahre, Museum Folkwang Essen 2001
- 2001 - Hans-Peter Feldmann 272 pages, Fundacio Antoni Tapies Barcelona
- 2002 - Hans-Peter Feldman 272 pages, Centre nationale de la photographie Paris, Fotomuseum Winterthur
- 2006 - Hans-Peter Feldmann in der Antikensammlung der Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Kunsthalle Kiel der Christian Albrechts-Universität, Schleswig-Holsteinischer Kunstverein Kiel
- 2007 - Hans-Peter Feldmann, Museum am Ostwall in Dortmund, Die Toten, RAF bis heute
- 2007 - Hans-Peter Feldmann, Skulptur ProjekteSkulptur Projekte MünsterSkulptur Projekte Münster is an exhibition of sculptures in public places in the town of Münster...
Münster 2007, Sanierung, bzw. Neugestaltung der Toilettenanlagen am Domplatz - 2010 - Hans-Peter Feldmann, Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, Sweden
- 2010 - An Art Exhibition, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía MNCARS, Madrid, Spain
- 2010 - Hans-Peter Feldmann, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany
- 2010 - Les Rencontres d'Arles, France.
Survey exhibitions
- 1972 - documentaDocumentadocumenta is an exhibition of modern and contemporary art which takes place every five years in Kassel, Germany. It was founded by artist, teacher and curator Arnold Bode in 1955 as part of the Bundesgartenschau which took place in Kassel at that time...
5, Kassel/Germany - 1975 - Biennale de la Jeunesse, Paris/France
- 1977 - documentaDocumentadocumenta is an exhibition of modern and contemporary art which takes place every five years in Kassel, Germany. It was founded by artist, teacher and curator Arnold Bode in 1955 as part of the Bundesgartenschau which took place in Kassel at that time...
6, Kassel/Germany - 2003 - Biennale di Venezia/Italy
- 2009 - Biennale di Venezia/Italy
- 2010 - Museum für Moderne KunstMuseum für Moderne KunstThe Museum für Moderne Kunst in Frankfurt am Main was founded in 1981. The museum was designed by the Viennese architect Hans Hollein. Because of its triangular shape, it is called "piece of cake"....
(MMK), Frankfurt/Germany - 2010 - Ruhrblicke, Zeche Zollverein, Essen/Germany
Publications (selected)
- Eine Stadt. Essen. Ausst.-Kat. Museum Folkwang, Essen 1977
- Hans-Peter Feldmann: Telefonbuch. AQ-Verlag, Dudweiler 1980. ISBN 3-922441-16-5
- Hans-Peter Feldmann: Das Museum im Kopf. Ausst.-Kat. Frankfurt, Düsseldorf. Walther König, Köln 1989. ISBN 3-88375-117-0
- Hans-Peter Feldmann: Eine Firma, Siemens. München 1991
- Hans-Peter Feldmann: Arbeiten. Kunstverein Heinsberg 1991
- Hans-Peter Feldmann: Kunstgeschichten. Paris 1992
- Hans-Peter Feldmann: Portrait. Schirmer/Mosel München 1994
- Hans-Peter Feldmann: Ferien, Seccesion. Wien 1994
- Hans-Peter Feldmann: Voyeur 1.Aufl. La Fleche 1994
- Hans-Peter Feldmann: Voyeur 2.Aufl. König, Köln 1997
- Hans-Peter Feldmann: Ein Energieunternehmen, EVN. Maria Enzersdorf 1997
- Hans-Peter Feldmann: Die Toten. Düsseldorf 1998
- Hans-Peter Feldmann: Bücher. Ausst.-Kat. Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen 1999 (Serie Sammlung der Künstlerbücher Bd. 23). ISBN 3-928761-44-7
- Hans-Peter Feldmann: Alle Kleider einer Frau. Düsseldorf - Toronto 1999
- Hans-Peter Feldmann, C. Konrad: Die Johanneskirche in Düsseldorf. 1999
- Hans-Peter Feldmann: Graz. Camera Austria 2000
- Hans-Peter Feldmann: Profil ohne Worte. 2 Magazine 2000
- Hans-Peter Feldmann: 100 Jahre. Anlässlich der Ausstellung im Museum Folkwang Essen. Schirmer/Mosel, München 2001. ISBN 3-88814-975-4
- Celine Duval, Hans-Peter Feldmann: cahier d’images. 7 Magazine 2001
- Hans-Peter Feldmann: Bilder / Pictures. 2002
- Helena Tatay: Hans-Peter Feldmann 272 pages, Ausst.-Kat. Centre nationale de la photographie Paris u.a. ISBN 3-9807903-0-4 (Englisch-Deutsch)
- Hans-Peter Feldmann: Vistas desde habitaciones de hotel. Barcelona 2003
- Hans-Peter Feldmann: 1941. Düsseldorf 2003
- Hans-Peter Feldmann: Babel ‘About Beauty’. Berlin 2004
- Hans-Peter Feldmann: Das kleine Mövenbuch. Walther König, Köln 2004
- Hans-Peter Feldmann: Abstrakte Kunst. Salon Verlag 2004
- Hans-Peter Feldmann: Frauen im Gefängnis. Walther König, Köln 2005
- Hans-Peter Feldmann: Paris. Salon Verlag 2005
- Hans-Peter Feldmann: Liebe/Love. Walther König, Köln 2006
- Hans-Peter Feldmann: Die beunruhigenden Musen. Hans-Peter Feldmann in der Antikensammlung der Kunsthalle zu Kiel. Ausst.-Kat. Kunsthalle Kiel, Schleswig-Holsteinischer Kunstverein, Kiel. Walther König, Köln 2006. ISBN 3-86560-080-8
- Hans-Peter Feldmann: Birgit. Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver 2006
- Hans-Peter Feldmann: Blau. Walther König, Köln 2006
- Hans-Peter Feldmann: Zeitungsphotos. Walther König, Köln 2006
- Hans-Peter Feldmann: Foto. Galerie Langhans, Praha 2006
- Hans-Peter Feldmann: Voyeur 3.Aufl.. König, Köln 2006
- Hans-Peter Feldmann: Buch / Book # 9. Sprengel Museum Hannover 2007
- Hans-Peter Feldmann: Smoke. Walther König, Köln 2007
- Hans-Peter Feldmann: Album. Walther König, Köln 2008
- Hans-Peter Feldmann: Voyeur 4.Auflage. Walther König, Köln 2009
- Hans-Peter Feldmann: Interview zusammen mit Hans Ulrich Obrist. Walther König, Köln 2009