B1 (artist group)
B1 was a German artist group that was founded in 1969 and was based in the Ruhr area .
The artists Helmut Bettenhausen , Günter Dohr , Rolf Glasmeier , Kuno Gonschior , Friedrich Gräsel , Ewerdt Hilgemann , Franz Rudolf Knubel , Ferdinand Spindel , Günter Tollmann and Bernd Damke formed an "exhibition collective" in 1969 and named themselves after Bundesstraße 1 that runs through the Ruhr area. Here, supported Thomas Grochowiak , then director of the Kunsthalle Recklinghausen , the establishment of the group significantly.
Founding member Helmut Bettenhausen described the idea as follows: "We took the B1 as a given, wanted to design it artistically and make it aware of what was here."
The manifesto signed by the ten members states: “B1 makes objects, projects, sculptures, pictures and spaces, B1 works kinetically and statically, mobile and stable, B1 is productive, B1 is geared towards manufacturing and industry, B1 plays and is always curious, B1 are 10 who live at B1 and B1 leads to B1, the environment at B1 is shaped by B1. "
Through artistic design it was thought that the region, which was shaped by industry, could be given back “a humane value” (Uwe Rüth). Joint projects of the ten artists were never realized.
literature
- Burkhard Leismann, Uwe Rüth (Ed.): Industrial Land Art in the Ruhrland. Klartext-Verlag, Essen 2009, ISBN 978-3-89861-651-5 .
- Daniel Spanke: B1. Utopia and reality of an artist group in the Ruhr area . In: '68. Art and culture ; ed. v. Secretariat for Cultural Cooperation in North Rhine-Westphalia, Puhlheim 1993, pp. 74- 85, ISBN 978-3-929769-02-9 .
- City of Herne, Emschertal Museum, Herne (Ed.): B1. An exhibition in the Flottmann-Hallen-Herne . Herne 1989.
- Thomas Grochowiak (Ed.): B1 at the "B1". Städtische Galerie Schloß Oberhausen, August 30th - October 12th 1969. Gelsenkirchen 1969.
Web links
- "Warning: diversion! Unterwegs im Kunst-Verkehr ” ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) at www.Kunstgebiet.Ruhr, April 30, 2015. Accessed on July 24, 2015.