Alekos Hofstetter

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Alekos Hofstetter (born August 30, 1967 in Bonn ) is a German painter and draftsman .

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painting

Alekos Hofstetter was born in Bonn in 1967 and grew up in Bonn, Brussels and Bangkok. 1989 after dropping out of a philosophy degree at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn , moving to Dresden. In 1989 he founded the artist group movement Nurr together with Christian Steuer and Daniel H. Wild in Dresden , which is dedicated to the subject of art in public space. Hofstetter has lived and worked in Berlin since 1996. First, his pictures dealt with the destruction and ruin in media landscapes and their media distribution. Since 2011 he has been increasingly concerned with topics of modern architecture and post-war architecture in his work cycle Tannhäuser Tor , in particular with so-called brutalism , e.g. B. in exhibitions at the Goethe-Institut Toronto, the New Society for Fine Arts (NGBK Berlin), and most recently in 2018 with the street artist Evol in the listed school building Sckellstraße, Dortmund, funded by the Association of German Architects (BDA eV).

Theater work

Alekos Hofstetter also collaborates on various theater projects with the Berlin set designer Nina von Mechow, including for plays by George Tabori at the Theater in der Josefstadt , Vienna , and for René Pollesch at the Deutsches Theater Berlin .

Scholarships

Hofstetter's works were partly supported by grants from the Kulturfonds Foundation, Berlin, the F.AIM Foundation, The Hague, the Else Heiliger Fund, Berlin, the Dr. Robert and Lina Thyll – Dürr, Elba / I, Künstlerhauses Lukas, Ahrenshoop and the Stanglerhof Residency, Bozen / IT.

literature

  • "BEYOND ARCHITECTURE - Architecture in Art", Lukas Feireiss (Ed.), Die Gestalten Verlag, Berlin 2009. ISBN 978-3-89955-235-5
  • "Imagine Architectutre. Artistic Visions of the Urban Realm ", Lukas Feireiss (Ed.), Gestalten Verlag, Berlin 2014. ISBN 978-3-89955-544-8
  • "TANNHÄUSER TOR I", catalog with texts by Daniel H. Wild (ed.) And Lukas Feireiss, Fantôme Verlag, Vol. 51, Berlin 2015. ISBN 978-3-940999-03-0
  • "TANNHÄUSER TOR II", catalog with texts by Daniel H. Wild (ed.) And Holm Friebe , Fantôme Verlag, Vol. 56, Berlin 2018. ISBN 978-3-940999-38-2

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A Fight for Memory: Monument Honors Sinti Boxer Murdered by the Nazis. www.spiegel.de, June 30, 2010, accessed on February 4, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Stream of images of the broken: Alekos Hofstetter explores the relationship between shrinking information and increasing destruction in images. www.taz.de, May 24, 2006, accessed February 4, 2018 .
  3. ^ Exhibition Society for the Appreciation of Brutalism. www.art-in.de, April 8, 2017, accessed on February 4, 2018 .
  4. ^ Art in beautiful buildings from the 1960s. www.bda-muenster.de, August 17, 2018, accessed on February 4, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Hofstetter, Alekos
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and draftsman
DATE OF BIRTH August 30, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Bonn