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]

ars viva 11/12 | Sprache - Language

The spoken and the written word have long since found their way into the visual arts: as epigrams, marginal notes, quotes, collaged text fragments, or part of a performance, a video, or a sound installation. In particular since the advent of Conceptual Art, language has even been regarded as the actual and independent material and medium of the visual arts. [more]

Norbert Schwontkowski

 

art 54 Sprache und Film

Sprache ist im Film viel selbstverständlicher als in der Kunst. Dialoge gehören zum Spielfilm und Kommentare zum Dokumentarfilm. Sprache gab es sogar schon im Stummfilm (als Zwischentitel oder live durch den Kinoerzähler). Aber wie in der Kunst kann der Einsatz von Sprache auch im Film dem selbstreflektorischen Erkenntnisgewinn dienen.

Ein Programm mit ausgewählten Arbeiten aus Kanada, den USA und Österreich zeigt den vielfältigen Umgang von Experimentalfilmern und Videokünstlern mit der gesprochenen und geschriebenen Sprache.

Durch das Programm führt die Kuratorin Christine Rüffert, Universität Bremen.

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Meisterschüler der Hochschule für Künste 2012

Der Eintritt ist frei.

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With its course of studies for master students, the University of the Arts Bremen (HfK) affords outstanding graduates of Fine Arts the opportunity to explore their personal stances for two more semesters. For young artists at the HfK, the joint master student exhibition is both the culmination of their course of studies and marks the departure for new shores. The master student exhibition 2012 offers fascinating insight into the reflection on existential and social issues by young artists. It is combined with the awarding of one of the most prominent art grants at German universities, the Karin Hollweg Prize, which comes with prize money totaling €15,000.  [more]