Movement Nurr

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The Nurr movement is an artist collective founded in Dresden in 1989 that is active in the fields of sculpture , installation , graffiti , video art , photography and painting .

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17 Strangers , a sandstone group of sculptures on the Brühl Terrace in Dresden, 1995

The group deals with topics such as market economy and media by dealing with the phenomena and symptoms of the service society. The omnipresent marketing and representation codes of the western service society are illuminated as well as their waste products and psychoses , the results of the fear of failure and the spiritual vacuum of capitalism. The art form of movement has been described as “parodic elegance between seriousness and nonsense, comedy and catastrophe”.

The development of the artist collective ranges from the graffiti in Dresden Neustadt in the early 1990s to the sculptures, videos, paintings and installations of today. Her subversive strategies in the visual arts often reveal cross-references to the artist groups General Idea (Felix Partz, Jorge Zontal, AA Bronson) and Die Tödliche Doris (Wolfgang Müller, Nikolaus Utermöhlen , Käthe Kruse, Tabea Blumenschein ) who were active in the 1980s and 1990s .

Art in public space

9841 - Temporary memorial for Johann Rukeli Trollmann in Viktoriapark in Berlin-Kreuzberg, 2010

With its temporary monument “9841” in 2010 in Berlin's Viktoriapark and in 2011 on the Hanoverian Ballhofplatz , the movement commemorated the sinto- German boxing champion Johann Wilhelm Trollmann , who was denied success and social advancement due to his ethnic roots under National Socialism . Disenfranchised and marginalized, Trollmann gradually lost his livelihood, was imprisoned in Neuengamme concentration camp in 1942 and murdered in the Wittenberge subcamp in 1944 . He not only lost his rightful claim to the sporting title, but - like many other "non-Aryan" athletes with him - his life. June 9th (on the same day in 1933 Johann Wilhelm Trollmann became German light heavyweight champion) was taken as an opportunity in 2010 to inaugurate the boxing ring sculpture 9841 in Viktoriapark in Berlin-Kreuzberg .

In the summer of 2014, the artist collective built a "House of 28 Doors" on Tempelhofer Feld - a walk-in pavilion that presented the EU as a shielded space to address European refugee policy. After the building was moved to Oranienplatz in Kreuzberg , it was destroyed by arson on the night of March 31, 2015.

Members

  • 1989: Alekos Hofstetter , Christian Steuer and Daniel H. Wild
  • 1996 to 2008: Alekos Hofstetter, Christian Steuer, Lokiev Stoof
  • since 2009: Alekos Hofstetter, Christian Steuer and Florian Göpfert

literature

  •  Boris Abel (Ed.): MOVEMENT ONLY. Leonhardi-Museum , Dresden, 2002,  ISBN 3-930516-15-2 .
  •  Peter Lang (Ed.):  KLASSIK - On the history of the artist group BEWEGUNG NURR 1989–2005.  Revolver - Archive for Current Art, Frankfurt / M., 2005,  ISBN 3-86588-172-6 .
  •  Galerie Lisi Hämmerle (ed.): MOVEMENT ONLY - THE CAPITULATION. Galerie Fischer and Fischer, Berlin, 2011. 
  •  Tanja Vonseelen (Ed.): 9841 - Temporary memorial for Johann Trollmann. Hellerau - European Center for the Arts , Dresden, 2012.    

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Marcus Woeller: Infiltrating and undermining . taz online . February 2, 2013. Retrieved February 19, 2013.
  2. ↑ Veit Stiller: Power and Powerlessness: Boris Abel shows the movement NURR . The world . October 10, 2003. Retrieved March 13, 2013.
  3. ↑ Dominikus Müller: Clear rounds and anniversaries: The artist collective movement Nurr celebrates its 20th anniversary . taz online . May 7, 2010. Retrieved February 19, 2013.
  4. ↑ Elegant between seriousness and nonsense . Saxon newspaper . September 1, 2005. Archived from the original on November 3, 2013. Retrieved March 9, 2013.
  5. ^ Siobhán Dowling: A Fight for Memory: Monument Honors Sinti Boxer Murdered by the Nazis . Spiegel Online . June 30, 2010. Retrieved February 19, 2013.
  6. ↑ A boxer from Hanover . NDR . Archived from the original on December 3, 2016. Retrieved February 19, 2013.
  7. ↑ Beate Scheder: Learning to understand refugee dramas . Berlin newspaper . July 25, 2014. Retrieved August 14, 2014.
  8. ^ Arson at Oranienplatz in Kreuzberg: "That was a targeted attack" . Daily mirror . March 31, 2015. Accessed April 2, 2015.
  9. ^ Refugee art project "The House of 28 Doors" burned down . RBB Online . March 31, 2015. Archived from the original on April 2, 2015. Retrieved on April 2, 2015.