Rebecca Horn

Rebecca Horn is one of the most prominent contemporary artists. Known worldwide for her space-consuming installations, her protean oeuvre comprises drawings, collages, performances, films, as well as objects and moving sculptures that develop a secret life of their own. Concurrent with the TANZ BREMEN festival, the Weserburg is going back to the beginnings of her creative work and is mounting an exhibition centered around her films and performances. Her early works already exhibit striking poetic force and iconographic diversity; their point of departure and source of energy is the human body, whose possibilities and limitations she explores and seeks to overcome. [more]

Kabinettstücke | Cabinet Pieces

Jürgen Wesseler has been presenting works by international artists in a small, former store in Bremerhaven since 1967. The special thing about his exhibition concept is that he succeeds in convincing the artists he has invited to let themselves in for exhibiting in a space that measures thirty-five square meters and has a display window. And they have been doing this for forty-five years how in a way that has meanwhile become exemplary for the international art and curator scene! It is not an overstatement to maintain that the small space opposite Bremerhaven’s Municipal Theater has been inscribed in the annals of art history and enjoys an international reputation. [more]

Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt

Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt, born in 1932 in Wurzen, Saxony, is one of the few women artists from the former GDR to address in depth the relationship between text and image. Through their involvement in the Mail Art network, she and her husband Robert Rehfeldt were able to surmount the ban on exhibitions and publications by alternative artists during the GDR period. Her artistic activity came to an end with the unification of Germany in 1989. This is the first ever exhibition of her poetic and visual “Typewritings”. [more]

Ray Johnson

The New York Times called him "the most famous unknown artist in New York." In fact Ray Johnson (1927–1995) remained an insider's tip for a long time. The significance and influence of his oeuvre, though, cannot be valued highly enough. Ray Johnson was involved in a lively exchange of ideas with the most important artists of his era, from John Cage to Andy Warhol. For him, art was a communicative process which could also take place apart from established institutions. Pursuing this idea, he built up during the 1960s, under the name "New York Correspondance [sic] School," an extensive network of postal communications and is accordingly considered to be the founder of the international movement of Mail Art. He mailed to friends, acquaintances, and also to strangers innumerable, mostly small-sized works. These include drawings, collages, reworked photographs and postcards, as well as personal messages and short notes. [more]

Vortrag zu Rebecca Horn von Dr. Alexandra Tacke

Dr. Alexandra Tacke ist wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Institut für dt. Literatur der Humboldt-Universität, Berlin. Sie hat 2010 mit der kulturwissenschaftlichen Arbeit „Rebecca Horn. Künstlerische Selbstpositionierungen im kulturellen Raum“ (2011 im Böhlau-Verlag) promoviert. Im Zentrum der Arbeit steht das multimediale Werk von Rebecca Horn, einer Künstlerin, die entscheidend zur Erweiterung des Kunstbegriffs beigetragen hat. Performances, kinetische Objekte, ortsspezifische und kinematografische Installationen, Künstlerfilme, Selbstinszenierungen, Texte, Künstlerbücher und -objekte werden in der Studie erstmals in der gesamten Breite vorgestellt und analysiert. Ihren Schwerpunkt legt sie auf Rebecca Horns Auseinandersetzung mit politischen, historischen, sozialen und medialen Räumen.

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