Christof Kohlhöfer
Christof Kohlhöfer , also Christof Kohlhofer (born September 22, 1942 in Bad Nauheim ) is a German painter , photographer and video artist .
life and work
Kohlhöfer attended evening school at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main and then studied from 1965 to 1971 at the Düsseldorf Art Academy with Karl Otto Götz and Joseph Beuys . He became a master class student and gained experience in the animation studios of Universum Film (UFA) . In 1967 he met the painter Sigmar Polke in Düsseldorf , who had already completed his studies with Götz. For Polke he photographed the now legendary 14-part graphic series “… Höhere Wesen befehlen”, which appeared in 1968 in edition 10 of the René Block gallery in Berlin.
In 1967 he shot the film “Fire” with a double-8 camera , in which two films were shown in parallel. In 1968 he shot “Tanzstunde” on 16mm film , the theme of which was the visit of young people with Down syndrome to a Düsseldorf dance school. The film The whole body feels light and wants to fly (16 mm, b / w and color, 35 minutes) was made together with Polke in 1969 . “[Polke] will appear in front of the camera shortly afterwards - Polke plays Polke. Christof Kohlhöfer is behind the camera. Together the artists show absurd scenarios and breathe a secret life into everyday things with anarchic humor and subversive magic. The "Polke-Film", a perfect collaboration, in keeping with the zeitgeist. "(Heike Brehm)
In the early 1970s he was one of the regular visitors to the trendy Ratinger Hof meeting point in Düsseldorf's old town, which his wife Ingrid ran together with Carmen Knoebel ( Imi Knoebel's wife ). In 1974 he and Lothar Baumgarten received the Heinrich-Heine-Förderpreis of the city of Düsseldorf .
In 1977 he moved with his then partner Ulli Rimkus to New York, to East Thirteenth Street on the Lower East Side. With Rimkus and befriended Kiki Smith , he became a member of the artist group Colab . In May 1979 he designed the cover and logo of the first edition of the New York culture magazine The East Village Eye and was the magazine's first art director. Kohlhofer produced multilayer stencils that he also illegally attached to the street, such as a stencil from Crazy Horse in 1983.
In 1999 Kohlhöfer accepted a visiting professorship at the University of California , Los Angeles .
Exhibitions (selection)
Solo exhibitions
- 1968: Hella Nebelung , Düsseldorf, chairs ,
- 1969: Intermedia 69, Heidelberg, comics and films
- 1970: Galerie Heiner Friedrich , Munich (with Sigmar Polke )
- 1973: Galerie Grafik Meyer, Karlsruhe, Newton's Obsession
- 1995: Society of Friends of Young Art, Baden-Baden, Somesting Old, Something New
- 2003: Bicycle hall, Offenbach am Main, Iced Tea
- 2011: Galerie Thomas Hühsam, Offenbach am Main, current work
- 2013: Galerie Thomas Hühsam, Offenbach am Main, BaBA rARA CUcU dADa
Group exhibitions
- 1972: documenta 5 , Kassel in the Individual Mythologies : Film department
- 1977: documenta 6 , Kassel
- 1994: Frankfurter Kunstverein , Frankfurt galleries in the Kunstverein
- 1995: Museum of Contemporary Art , Los Angeles
- 1996: Los Angeles County Museum of Art , Ports of Entry: William S. Burroughs and the Arts
- 1999: Kunsthalle Baden-Baden : Bad-Bad, (That is a good excuse)
- 2005: Museum der Moderne Salzburg - Mönchsberg, Salzburg: Les Grands Spectacles - 120 years of art and mass culture
- 2007: Villa Merkel , Esslingen: Brave Lonesome Heroes; Topoi of the Western in contemporary art
- 2008: Kunstmuseum Bonn , 1001 Nights: Early slide series and films from the collection
- 2014: MoMA , alibis: Sigmar Polke, 1963-2010
- 2014: Tate modern , alibis: Sigmar Polke, 1963–2010
- 2014: Museum Ludwig, Cologne , alibis: Sigmar Polke, 1963–2010
- 2015: Galerie Thomas Hühsam, Offenbach am Main, 25 years
Films (selection)
- 1966: fire; Fire , other colors; Fire , upper projection (24 minutes)
- 1966: Fire , lower projection The man in the room (24 minutes)
- 1968: Shit (7 minutes)
- 1968/75: First forgery (5 minutes)
- 1969: The whole body feels light and wants to fly (35 minutes); together with Sigmar Polke.
Individual evidence
- ^ Sigmar Polke, early prints 1967–1976 , Galerie Bernd Slutzky, Frankfurt am Main 1996, p. 26, ISBN 3-9802923-8-X .
- ↑ Heike Brehm, in: The whole body feels light and wants to fly (in Kunstportal BW)
- ^ The New Yorker Magazin: Fish Tales: How a neighborhood bar became an art-world scene of March 7, 2011.
- ↑ Tiernan Morgan: The East Village Eye: Where Art, Hip Hop, and Punk Collided, November 11, 2014.
- ^ Allan Schwarzman: Street Art. New York 1985, p. 72.
- ^ Empty promises from the city of dreams in FAZ from July 4, 2011, page 34.
- Jump up over both ears with an asterisk in FAZ of October 22, 2013, page 41.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kohlhöfer, Christof |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kohlhöfer, Chris; Kohlhofer, Christof |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter, photographer and video artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 22, 1942 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bad Nauheim , Hesse |