Von hier aus – Zwei Monate neue deutsche Kunst in Düsseldorf (in English

English language

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 From here – Two months of new German art in Düsseldorf) is the title of an art exhibition (29 September 1984 – 2 December 1984). It was organised by the city of Düsseldorf

Düsseldorf

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 and the Gesellschaft für aktuelle Kunst Düsseldorf e.V. at Hall 13 of the Messe Düsseldorf

Messe Düsseldorf

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 and was curated by Kasper König.

The exhibition was one of the most important cultural events of the 1980s.

Participants

Peter Angermann Peter Angermann Peter Angermann is a German painter based in Nuremberg.-Education and Career:He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Nuremberg and at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf and was a student of Joseph Beuys.... Ina Barfuss Georg Baselitz Georg Baselitz Georg Baselitz is a German painter who studied in the former East Germany, before moving to what was then the country of West Germany... Eugen Batz Lothar Baumgarten Lothar Baumgarten Lothar Baumgarten is a German conceptual artist, based in New York and Düsseldorf. His work includes installation and film.-Life and work:... Thomas Bayrle Bernd und Hilla Becher Joseph Beuys Joseph Beuys Joseph Beuys was a German performance artist, sculptor, installation artist, graphic artist, art theorist and pedagogue of art.His extensive work is grounded in concepts of humanism, social philosophy and anthroposophy; it culminates in his "extended definition of art" and the idea of social... Bernhard Johannes Blume Jürgen Bordanowicz George Brecht George Brecht George Brecht , born George Ellis MacDiarmid, was an American conceptual artist and avant-garde composer as well as a professional chemist who worked as a consultant for companies including Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, and Mobil Oil... Marcel Broodthaers Marcel Broodthaers Marcel Broodthaers was a Belgian poet, filmmaker and artist with a highly literate and often witty approach to creating art works.... Werner Büttner Holger Bunk Walter Dahn Hanne Darboven Hanne Darboven Hanne Darboven was a German conceptual artist. She became best known for her large scale minimalist installations consisting of handwritten tables of numbers.-Early life and career:... Jiri Georg Dokoupil Jiri Georg Dokoupil Jiri Georg Dokoupil is a contemporary Czech painter. He was member of the artist groups Mülheimer Freiheit and Junge Wilde, which arose in the late 1970s and early 1980s.... Gerald Domenig Felix Droese Rainer Fetting Rainer Fetting Rainer Fetting is a German painter and sculptor.Rainer Fetting was one of the co-founders and main protagonists of the Galerie am Moritzplatz in Berlin, founded in the late 1970s by a group of young artists from the class of Karl Horst Hödicke at the former Berliner Hochschule für Bildende... Robert Filliou Robert Filliou Robert Filliou was a French Fluxus artist, who produced works as a filmmaker, "action poet," sculptor, and happenings maestro.... Lili Fischer Günther Förg Günther Förg Günther Förg is a prominent German painter, graphic designer, sculptor, and photographer. His abstract style is influenced by American abstract painting.- Vita :... Katharina Fritsch Katharina Fritsch Katharina Fritsch is a contemporary sculptor. She currently lives and works in Düsseldorf.-Life:...

Nikolaus Gerhart Ludwig Gosewitz Hans Haacke Hans Haacke Hans Haacke is a German-American artist who lives and works in New York.- Early life :Haacke was born in Cologne, Germany. He studied at the Staatliche Werkakademie in Kassel, Germany, from 1956 to 1960. He was a student of Stanley William Hayter, a well-known and influential English printmaker,... Eva Hesse Eva Hesse Eva Hesse , was a German-born American sculptor, known for her pioneering work in materials such as latex, fiberglass, and plastics. -Early life:Hesse was born into a family of observant Jews in Hamburg, Germany... Antonius Höckelmann Rebecca Horn Rebecca Horn Rebecca Horn is a German installation artist and film director most famous for her body modifications such as Einhorn , a body-suit with a very large horn projecting vertically from the headpiece, and Pencil Mask, a mesh harness for the head with many pencils projecting out... Thomas Huber Thomas Huber Thomas Huber , is a German climber and mountaineer. He lives in Berchtesgaden with his family. His brother and climbing partner is the German climber Alexander Huber.... Jörg Immendorff Jörg Immendorff Jörg Immendorff was one of the best known contemporary German painters; he was also a sculptor, stage designer and art professor.- Life and work :... Milan Kunc Axel Kasseböhmer Gerard Kever Hubert Kiecol Anselm Kiefer Anselm Kiefer Anselm Kiefer is a German painter and sculptor. He studied with Joseph Beuys and Peter Dreher during the 1970s. His works incorporate materials such as straw, ash, clay, lead, and shellac... Martin Kippenberger Martin Kippenberger Martin Kippenberger was a German artist known for his extremely prolific output in a wide range of styles and media as well as his provocative, jocular and hard-drinking public persona.... Per Kirkeby Per Kirkeby Per Kirkeby is a Danish painter, poet, filmmaker and sculptor.-Biography:1962 Studies at the Experimental Art School in Copenhagen; works in the School on painting, graphic arts, 8 millimeter films and performance pieces... Astrid Klein Imi Knoebel Imi Knoebel Imi Knoebel, born Klaus Wolf Knoebel , is a German artist. He is known primarily for his minimalist and abstract painting and sculpture. The "Messerschnitt" or "knife cuts," are a recurring technique he employs, along with his regular use of the primary colors, red, yellow and blue... Thomas Lange Thomas Lange Thomas Lange is a German rower who won two gold and one bronze Olympic medals in the single scull. He was born in Eisleben.... Silke Leverkühne Markus Lüpertz Markus Lüpertz Markus Lüpertz is a contemporary German painter and sculptor.In the 1960s, Lüpertz worked primarily in Berlin, moving on to take a professorship at Karlsruhe at the Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe in the 1970s, then to Düsseldorf where he was for over twenty years director of the Kunstakademie... Peter Mell Gerhard Merz Olaf Metzel

Reinhard Mucha Christa Näher Gruppe Normal (Peter Angermann Peter Angermann Peter Angermann is a German painter based in Nuremberg.-Education and Career:He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Nuremberg and at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf and was a student of Joseph Beuys.... , Jan Knap, Milan Kunc) Albert Oehlen Albert Oehlen Albert Oehlen is a contemporary German artist. He graduated from the Hochschule für Bildende Kunst, Hamburg, in 1978. Closely associated with the Cologne art scene, he was a member of the Lord Jim Lodge, along with Martin Kippenberger among others... Markus Oehlen Markus Oehlen Markus Oehlen is a German artist. He studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf . His is formative participant of the German art movement Neue Wilde... Nam June Paik Nam June Paik Nam June Paik was a Korean American artist. He worked with a variety of media and is considered to be the first video artist.... A. R. Penck Sigmar Polke Sigmar Polke Sigmar Polke was a German painter and photographer.Polke experimented with a wide range of styles, subject matter and materials. In the 1970s, he concentrated on photography, returning to paint in the 1980s, when he produced abstract works created by chance through chemical reactions between paint... Gerhard Richter Gerhard Richter Gerhard Richter is a German visual artist. Richter has simultaneously produced abstract and photorealistic painted works, as well as photographs and glass pieces, thus undermining the concept of the artist’s obligation to maintain a single cohesive style.- Biography :Gerhard Richter was born in... Dieter Roth Dieter Roth Dieter Roth was an Icelandic artist of Swiss German origin best known for his artist's books and for his sculptures and pictures made with rotting food stuffs. He was also known as Dieter Rot and Diter Rot.... Reiner Ruthenbeck Ulrich Rückriem Salomé Tomas Schmit Tomas Schmit Tomas Schmit Tomas Schmit died on 4 October 2006 at the age of 63 in Berlin, Germany. The artist and author is one of the pioneers of the Fluxus movement of the early 1960s. During the subsequent 40 years, he developed a ramified work of drawings, texts, books and concepts of artists' books... Thomas Schütte Thomas Schütte Thomas Schütte is a German contemporary artist. From 1973 to 1981 he studied art at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf alongside Katharina Fritsch under Gerhard Richter and Fritz Schwegler. He lives and works in Düsseldorf.-Work:In the early 1980s Schütte began a series of small sculptural works... Andreas Schulze Manfred Schulze Manfred Stumpf Manfred Stumpf Manfred Stumpf is a German draftsman, sculptor, and digital artist. He started to study 1976 with Thomas Bayrle at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main, since 1978 with Hans Haake at the Cooper Union in New York, and since 1979 with Bazon Brock at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, Austria... Norbert Tadeusz Herman de Vries Herman de vries herman de vries is a Dutch artist. He writes his name in lower-case "to avoid hierarchy". de vries works and lives with his wife Susanne in Eschenau near Knetzgau, Germany.... Thomas Wachweger Andy Warhol Andy Warhol Andrew Warhola , known as Andy Warhol, was an American painter, printmaker, and filmmaker who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art...

Video:

• Marina Abramovic
  Marina Abramovic
  Marina Abramović is a Belgrade-born New York-based Serbian performance artist who began her career in the early 1970s. Active for over three decades, she has recently begun to describe herself as the “grandmother of performance art.” Abramović's work explores the relationship between performer and...
  
  
• Klaus vom Bruch
  Klaus vom Bruch
  Klaus vom Bruch is a German media artist who is considered a pioneer of German video art.-Biography:Vom Bruch studied conceptual art at the California Institute of the Arts with John Baldessari from 1975 to 1976, and philosophy at the University of Cologne from 1976 to 1980. With Ulrike Rosenbach...
  
  
• Marcel Odenbach
  Marcel Odenbach
  Marcel Odenbach, with Ulrike Rosenbach and Klaus vom Bruch, is one of the most well-established and internationally known German video artists. In the 1970s, they formed the producer group ATV...
  
  

Literature and Film

• Kasper König (Hrsg.) and Karin Thomas (Verlagsredaktion), Ulrich Look ans others (Texts): von hier aus – Zwei Monate neue deutsche Kunst in Düsseldorf, Ausstellungskatalog, Köln 1984 (DuMont) ISBN 3-7701-1650-X (472 Seiten)
• Art Magazin 10/1983: Ereignis im Niveau von Westkunst und Zeitgeist, Szeemann als Leiter geplant.
• Art Magazin 10/1984: von hier aus Rekord Versuch in Halle 13, Aufbaubericht
• Art Magazin 11/1984: Die Kunst-Landschaft im Container, In den ersten Tagen 22000 Besucher.
• Art Magazin 2/1985: Deutsche Kunst – schamlos, nationalistisch und nazihaft?, Kritik eines französischen Kulturbeamten.
• Westermanns Monatshefte 12/1984: Kraftakt mit Deutschkunst, Seite 108
• PAN Zeitschrift für Kunst und Kultur, 11/1984, Seite 80

• The exhibitions ecpired the regisseur Peter Herrmann to the film „Von hier aus: neue deutsche Kunst in Düsseldorf“, 45 Minutes, Munich, 1984, Artcom. The Film shows interviews with the artists: Bernhard Johannes Blume, Tomas Schmit, Joseph Beuys, Jörg Immendorff, Salom', Dieter Roth and the curator Kasper König.

External links

• www.kunstaspekte.de