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29 January - 29 May 2022
Boris Lurie & Wolf Vostell
Art After Auschwitz
Die konfrontative Kunst von Boris Lurie (1924 – 2008) und Wolf Vostell (1932 – 1998) wird in Kunst nach Auschwitz erstmals gemeinsam gezeigt. Ab den späten 1950er Jahren beschäftigten sich die beiden Künstler auf radikale Weise mit der Shoah (ein hebräisches Wort für „Katastrophe“, das den Holocaust bezeichnet). In einer Zeit, in der der Krieg in weiten Teilen der Gesellschaft noch ein Tabuthema war, entschieden sie sich für eine Kunst, die den Betrachter mit dieser schmerzhaften Zeit konfrontiert. Indem sie die entsetzlichsten Bilder von Kriegsverbrechen mit oberflächlichen Werbebildern kombinieren, ist ihre Arbeit auch eine Anklage gegen die Konsumgesellschaft der Nachkriegszeit, die einfach wieder aufgenommen wurde, ohne Rücksicht auf das Trauma, das die Juden und Andere erlitten hatten. Um diesen schockierenden Effekt zu erzielen, haben beide Künstler modernste Techniken in ihre Arbeit integriert.
Nach einem Treffen in New York in den frühen 1960er Jahren wurden Lurie und Vostell enge Freunde, und sie korrespondierten viele Jahre lang. Eine Auswahl ihrer Korrespondenz wird erstmals öffentlich in Kunst nach Auschwitz gezeigt, die auch Dutzende von Bildern und Gemälden beinhaltet.
Ein umfangreicher Katalog erscheint im Hatje/Cantz Verlag
After meeting in New York in the early 1960s Lurie and Vostell became close friends, and they corresponded for many years. A selection of their correspondence will be shown in public for the first time in Art after Auschwitz, which will also feature dozens of paintings and objects by both artists.
An extensive catalog is published by Hatje/Cantz Verlag
Ausstellungsbesprechungen:
December 2021
Alles ist Kunst? – happening & fluxus in Köln
Anlässlich des 50. Jubiläums der Skandal-Ausstellung „happening & fluxus“ im Kölnischen Kunstverein erinnert „Köln im Film“ mit zwei Filmabenden am 09. & 10. Dezember an die Zeit, in der Köln zur Kunstmetropole wurde
Im Programm:
Vostell und andere oder Lippenstifte für Vietnam
Regie: Paul Karalus, WDR 1970, 43 min.
Das experimentell anmutende TV-Porträt zeigt den Kölner Künstler Wolf Vostell bei der Arbeit, u.a. beim 5-Tage-Rennen mit der Gruppe Labor e.V. zur Erforschung akustischer und visueller Ereignisse in der Tiefgarage der Kölner Kunsthalle. Vostell und weitere Happening Künstler kommen zu Wort und interpretieren eigene Aktionen.
Oktober 2021
Multipl-eye-ing Fluxus at HEART Museum, Herning (Denmark)
14. – 30. October. 2021
Featuring multiples, books and magazines by Wolf Vostell, Joseph Beuys,
Dieter Roth, Peter van Beveren, and many more.
Vom 7. bis 17. Oktober wiederbeleben die Berliner Festspiele das seit Jahren stillgelegte Internationale Congress Centrum Berlin (ICC) mit Performances, Artistik, Musik, Filmen und Installationen. Das Projekt lädt ein, die für zehn Tage geöffnete Architekturikone im Zusammenspiel mit künstlerischen Arbeiten frei zu erkunden.
Allan Kaprow und
Wolf
Vostell,
Berliner Festwochen 1976
Tabea Blumenschein in „Regen“ von Wolf Vostell, Berliner Festwochen 1976 © RBB | Allan Kaprow Estate | Courtesy Hauser & Wirth | The Wolf Vostell Estate
September 2021
Online show
Paradoxical Objects is now open to the public.
Video sculpture art from 1968 to today.
Curated by Sue Bachmeier and Peggy Schoenegge
Presented by peer to space
Web Design by Camilla Murgia
Date of launch: September 24, 2021
Feauturing "The Winds", 1981. Car-TV-Installation by Wolf Vostell, among others
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Wolf Vostell "Die Winde" (The Winds), 1981. Car-TV-Installation.
Wolf Vostell "Lipstick Bomber B 52", 1968. Currently on view at Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg
Wolf Vostell "Entwurf einer neuen Fahne für die BRD", 1973. Knochen auf Leinwandfoto.
Schönheit und Schrecken des Erdölzeitalters
4.9.2021 - 9.1.2022
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg
August 2021
nemaf
21st Seoul International ALT Cinema & Media Festival
2021. 08. 19 ~ 08. 27
Presents Wolf Vostell Video Film "Sun in your head" 1963, among others.
July 2021
Inge Baecker mit einem Bild von Wolf Vostell im Hintergrund
Wir trauern um unsere Freundin und langjährige Galeristin Inge Baecker, die im Alter von 78 Jahren verstarb. Wie der „Kölner Stadtanzeiger“ in seinem Nachruf schreibt, wurde Baecker
in Ihrer Wahlheimat Bad Münstereifel, wie so viele, von der verheerenden Flutkatastrophe überrascht. „Nach Ausfall des Stroms konnte sie keinen Notruf mehr absetzen…“ Inge Baecker gründete 1970 in
Bochum eine Galerie für Fluxus-Kunst. Wolf Vostell war einer der ersten Stammkünstler in Ihrem Programm.
Von 1970 bis zu ihrem Tod hat Inge Baecker unzählige Ausstellungen von Wolf Vostell und Fluxus veranstaltet, Happenings, Aktionen und Performances organisiert und war Wolf Vostell
immer eine gute Freundin und Beraterin. Sie organisierte 1992 die große Vostell Retrospektive, die in fünf Museen gleichzeitig im Rheinland stattfand.
Nach dem Tod von Wolf Vostell in 1998 arbeitete sie eng mit dem Vostell Nachlass zusammen und organisierte zahlreiche Vostell Ausstellungen, u.a. die Ausstellung "Die Happenings von
Wolf Vostell" im Museum Morsbroich in Leverkusen.
Inge, wir vermissen Dich sehr. Du warst Wolf und der Familie Vostell immer eine gute und treue Freundin. Du bist in unseren Herzen für immer.
Nachruf Inge Baecker im Kölner Stadtanzeiger, 19.Juli 2021:
https://www.ksta.de/kultur/inge-baecker-galeristin-kommt-bei-flutkatastrophe-ums-leben-38917992
June 2021
Marcel Duchamp, Arturo Schwarz and Wolf Vostell in Düsseldorf, 1964
We remember our friend, gallery owner, critic, publisher and collector Arturo Schwarz, who has past away in Milan at the age of 97.
Su Majestad el Rey de España, la Consejera de Cultura de Extremadura y Rafael Vostell en la entrega de la Medalla de Oro de Merito en Bellas Artes al Museo Vostell Malpartida.
Seine Majestät der König von Spanien, die Kulturministeinr der Extremadura und Rafael Vostell bei der Übergabe der Goldenen Verdienstmedaille der Schönen Künste an das Museum Vostell Malpartida.
Madrid, 23. Juni 2021
March 2021
Museum ES BALUARD in Palma de Mallorca
Defense of memory. Physical and mental architectures.
Group exhibition with various artists including the video film "Starfighter", 1967 by Wolf Vostell.
Exhibition curator: Imma Prieto
March 26 - September 26, 2021
THE WOLF VOSTELL ESTATE presents the new WOLF VOSTELL VIRTUAL GALLERY
January 2021
We are pleased to announce that the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León (MUSAC), in Spain has acquired the work "Endogenous Depression", 1980 by Wolf Vostell. The work is currently on view at MUSAC.
December 2020
November 2020
We are deeply saddened to learn that Aldo Tambellini has passed.
He was a good friend of Boris Lurie and a fellow NO!artist.
Aldo Tambellini, a avant-garde filmmaker, pioneer video artist and veteran practitioner of multimedia installations
died on Thursday November 12, 2020 in Cambridge, Mass.
He was 90.⠀
Boris Lurie and Aldo Tambellini at the HOWL! Festival, New York, NY 2005. Photo by Anna Salamone
In memory of our uncle and best friend Thomas Sommer,
who passed away today, November 9, 2020 at the age of 61 years.
Thomas, we miss you so much.
Thank you for the wonderful time with you.
We love you and will never forget you.
Miriam & Rafael Vostell
October 2020
The Museum of Art and Design (MOAD) at Miami Dade College (MDC) presents The Body Electric, a major exhibition that looks at our fraught relationship to technology, particularly the increasingly inescapable interface between our bodies and screens. The remarkably varied art in the exhibition examines the last 50 years of artists addressing the way technological mediation has come to dominate our interactions with the world, with each other, and with ourselves. The Body Electric will be on view from Nov. 5, 2020, through May 30, 2021.
The exhibition begins with a pioneering generation of artists active in the mid-1960s—Jaime Davidovich, Shigeko Kubota, Marta Minujín, Charlotte Moorman, Nam June Paik, and Wolf Vostell—for whom the television was both the subject and object of their expanded practices that spanned performance, sculpture, and the moving image. Footage of performances by the Wooster Group offers a frenetic meditation on the all-pervasive presence of technology, and the fusion of body and screen.
Wolf Vostell "Endogene Depression", 1984. On view at MDC. Courtesy The Box Gallery. © The Wolf Vostell Estate
The Body Electric
Nov. 5, 2020, through May 30, 2021
Museum of Art and Design at MDC
Miami, Florida
June 2020
Wolf Vostell at Berlin's studio house at Käuzchensteig,
today's Kunsthaus Dahlem.
Permanent exhibition starting on June 21, 2020
Wolf Vostell's former studio in Berlin. Stone studio at Käuzchensteig. Today's Kunsthaus Dahlem
On view at Kunsthaus Dahlem: Wolf Vostell "Hebrew suite for seven violins", 1997. Assemblage. 275 x 235 x 15 cm. Collection Rafael & Levin Vostell. © The Wolf Vostell Estate
May 2020
May 31th, 2020
The Wolf Vostell Estate want to express our condolences on the death of the Bulgarian/American artist
Christo
His career as an artist was linked on many occasions to that of Wolf Vostell, both participating in meetings between avant-garde artists and in group exhibitions during the 1960s. Christo was one of the invited by Vostell to participate in his happening "Cityrama 2", in 1962, along with César, Yves Klein, Daniel Spoerri or Ben Patterson, among others.
A happening that was going to be sponsored by the Gallery DuMont, in Cologne, but which, unfortunately, never happened; However, we can find his documentary trail in the Vostell Happening Archive at the Museo Vostell Malpartida, in addition to epistolary testimonies of the friendship between these two artists.
Wolf Vostell. Score for his Happening "Cityrama 2", 1962. © AMVM
From right to left: Christo, Vostell, Kaprow among others at Lil Picard's place in New York 1966. © AMVM
January 2020
We are pleased to announce that the Museum of Modern Art in New York has acquired the work "B 52 Lipstick Bomber", 1968 by Wolf Vostell. The work is currently on view at the MoMA.
October 2019
30 YEARS FALL OF THE BERLIN. WALL. Exhibition at Museum Schloss Biesdorf, Berlin
THE WINDS, 1981. Car-TV-Sculpture by WOLF VOSTELL among other artists. On view at Stadstriënnale Hasselt, Belgium 2019. SCREEN IT. October 2019 - January 2020
June 2019
Exhibition of the collection Museum Es Baluard Palma de Mallorca at the Museum CCK-CABA Buenos Aires, Argentina. Including video works by Wolf Vostell
Exhibition at the WALKER ART CENTER Minneapolis, USA. The Body Electric; Vostell, Kubota, Paik, Moorman among others. On view until July 21, 2019
NEUERSCHEINUNG. NEW PUBLISHING Verlag/Publisher: Puente Editores. Spanisch, Englisch ISBN 978-8494969416 Größe: 24 x 30 cm. Geklammert: 132 Seiten
A new book is published
The history of the Museum Vostell Malpartida
Written by the wife of the artist Wolf Vostell, Mercedes Guardado.
Spanish language.
Edition The Wolf Vostell Estate, 2019
WOLF VOSTELL
LIFE=ART=LIFE
MUSAC
Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Léon, Spain
December 1, 2018 - May 26, 2019
WOLF VOSTELL; LIFE=ART=LIFE. Exhibition view Museum MUSAC, Léon, Spain. December 1st, 2018 to May 26th, 2019
Ausstellungsansicht FLASHES OF THE FUTURE: Von links nach rechts: Wolf Vostell, Boris Lurie, Boris Lurie, Hans-Peter Alvermann, Wolf Vostell
On show works by Vostell, Lurie, Alvermann, Spoerri, Beuys, Lebel among other artists.
Wolf Vostell exhibition at ART FAIR THESSALONIKI / 23.-26.11.2017. Special event in collaboration with a private greek art collection.
Wolf Vostell "E.d.H.R. Elektronischer dé-coll/age Happening Raum", 1968 (Detail). Exhibition "Moving in every direction" on view at Hamburger Bahnhof Berlin, March - September 2017
Exhibition view VOSTELL CONCRETE/ Smart Museum of Art, Chicago January - June 2017
Wolf Vostell's "Concrete Traffic" arrived last weekend after a 20-mile-long procession through Chicago with Cadillacs, cement mixer, and performances on campus and was installed Saturday, October 1st, 2016 in the entrance to the parking garage.
http://chicagotonight.wttw.
The History of Wolf Vostell’s Concrete Traffic (1970)
Concrete Traffic is a large-scale outdoor public sculpture consisting of a 1957 Cadillac, which, save for its undercarriage and whitewall rubber tires, is encased in several tons of concrete. Conceived by the German Fluxus artist Wolf Vostell (1932-1998) as an “instant happening” and an “event sculpture,” Concrete Traffic was commissioned by the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago (MCA) under its first director, Jan van der Marck. Over the course of several weeks in late December 1969 and into January 1970, local artisans made the molds for the sculpture according to the artist’s instructions. On January 16, 1970, during the morning commute, local contractors poured concrete into the molds of the sculpture, in the middle of an active parking lot on Ontario Street at North St. Clair near the original MCA building. Several days later, the molds were removed, revealing a monumental concrete sculpture bearing the contours of the Cadillac embedded within. Given several months of parking fees along with the MCA’s status at the time as a non-collecting institution, the artist and the museum gifted the sculpture to the University of Chicago. On June 13, 1970, construction crews transported the sculpture via a flatbed truck to its new location just outside the University’s Midway Studios, at the southern side of 60th Street, near Ingleside Avenue.
The sculpture remained in this location for nearly 40 years, when in 2008 it was moved to make way for the construction of the Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts. Since 2008, the sculpture has been stored at a facility managed by Methods and Materials, specialist in large-scale fine art rigging and installation, located in the Humboldt Park neighborhood of Chicago. On April 29, 2015, Robert J. Zimmer, President of the University of Chicago, approved a new home for the sculpture on the University’s campus, in the University’s main parking garage situated between Ellis and Greenwood Avenues and 55th Street, adjacent to the Department of Art History and the David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art. Zimmer’s decision has now made it possible for conservation work to move forward
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