Christoph Faulhaber

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Christoph Faulhaber (born June 17, 1972 in Osnabrück ) is an artist , performer , filmmaker and author living in Hamburg . Faulhaber is best known for his socially critical projects, which repeatedly attract a lot of attention.

Life

After graduating from high school, Faulhaber initially studied mechanical engineering from 1992 to 1993 at the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz University in Hanover . He broke off his studies within a short time and wandered through Spain and Andalusia for six months in 1993 . In the same year began Faulhaber at the University of Kaiserslautern his architectural studies . In 1996 he received his intermediate diploma there. He then moved to Lisbon , supported by the Erasmus funding program , until 1997 , where he went to the Universidade Tecnica de Lisboa and there a. a. revised his diaries from 1989 to 1996, and in 1997 he moved again to Hamburg , where he began an internship as a piano maker . In the following year Faulhaber began to work as a restorer in the Hamburg City Hall and at the same time worked at the Literaturhaus Hamburg until 2000 . After having received several unsuccessful applications and a. at the art academies in Berlin , Hamburg and Karlsruhe , Faulhaber began to study at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts in 1997 , to which he gained access through his former subject of architecture. In 2002 he completed his diploma with a thesis "New York, NY 10047 - The public process around the reconstruction of the World Trade Center". In 2000 and 2002 Faulhaber was also a visiting student at the Bauhaus University Weimar and the Pratt Institute New York . Between 2005 and 2007 he founded and ran the company "Mister Security" together with Lukasz Chrobok , "to monitor public space in front of the public". In 2007 he received a New York scholarship from the state of Rhineland-Palatinate for his work "I like it really was", which he was able to undertake in 2008 with a trip to the USA. Once there, Faulhaber was taken away from the airport and interrogated by anti-terror specialists. Only a few days after the interrogation, an FBI mission took place in the artist house “Location One”, New York . Finally, Faulhaber's lease was terminated and his scholarship revoked, he was urged back to Germany and put on the American terrorist list.

Work and reception

Through his socio-political projects, Christoph Faulhaber repeatedly comes into the focus of the public and the law. Like in 2009, when Faulhaber placed a ladder on the palisade of the construction site of the Federal Intelligence Service and took photos. Only a few minutes later, the artist was surrounded by security guards and the police who accused him of sabotage. The security company "Mister Security", which was founded on its own initiative, repeatedly comes across gray areas in legal terms. The Hamburg artist likes to provoke and places topics such as surveillance , security and control in the focus of his work. But not only the immediate reactions are part of his artistic work. All actions are recorded and received photographically.

Awards

  • 2001 Unilever Prize for young artists
  • 2003 AIA New York: Institute Honor for Collaborative Achievement
  • 2003 APA New York Metro: Annual Lawrence M. Orton Award
  • 2010 Zurich art in architecture competition

Exhibitions (selection, solo and group exhibition)

Projects (selection)

  • 2004-2007 Mister Security
  • 2008 Fidelity Real Estate , Cuba , real estate broker
  • 2009 The visit , construction site of the BND in Berlin
  • 2009 Guantanamo reception center , Hamburg-HafenCity
  • 2010 Turkish House , purchase of parts of the demolished Turkish House in Ludwigshafen
  • 2010/2011 Palau - Blue Sky , documentary about six former Guantanamo prisoners (together with Daniel Matzke )
  • 2004–2013 copy of the Amber Room from Popeln

literature

Exhibition catalogs

  • Kunsthaus Hamburg (ed.): Index03. Hamburg, 2003.
  • Faulhaber, Christoph, Kunsthalle Schaumburg: Everything has to go . Stadthagen, 2003.
  • Lhaba, GV (Ed.): Public Art , Vol. 13: Christoph Faulhaber. Hamburg / Munich, 2004.
  • BBK Munich / Gallery of Artists: The first years. Munich, 2005.
  • ZPAP (Związek Polskich Artystów Plastyków), Oddz. Kraków: Konfrontacje. Kraków, 2006.
  • National Gallery, Prague (Ed): 3rd International Triennale of Contemporary Art . Prague, 2007.
  • Zybok, Oliver (Ed.): Me: how it really was; A report from New York , Berlin: Revolver, 2009. Published on the occasion of the exhibition km500 # 2 in the Kunsthalle Mainz . ISBN 978-3-86895-044-1
  • Player, Reinhard (Ed.): Unbild / Projektkunst. An Introduction to Project Art , Bielefeld: Kerber, 2010. Published on the occasion of the exhibition Christoph Faulhaber. The life of the pictures in the Rudolf-Scharpf-Gallery of the Wilhelm-Hack-Museum Ludwigshafen am Rhein. ISBN 9783866784017
  • Faulhaber, Christoph: New York, NY 10047/48 , published 2010 by Kerber Verlag on the occasion of the exhibition Playing the City 2 in the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, ISBN 978-3-86678-454-3
  • Monitoring . Documentary and Video Festival Kassel, 2010.

Publications

  • Holten, Johan (ed.): Power of the powerless . Verlag Der Buchhandlung König, 2013.
  • Burcu Dogramaci (Ed.) Migration and Artistic Production - Current Perspectives . Transcript, 2013.
  • Roderick Hönig: Art and Architecture in Dialog. 50 works of art and buildings in Zurich . Edition Hochparterre 2013
  • Sielke, S., Kloeckner, C (Ed.): Beyond 9/11: Transdisciplinary Perspectives on 21st-Century US-American Culture . Peter Lang, Frankfurt 2012.
  • Ulrich, M. Schirn Kunsthalle (Ed.): Playing the City: Interviews . Sternberg Press, Berlin, 2012.
  • Koch, A .: Il Monte Analogo . Antolini Editore, Tione in Trento, 2012.
  • Klanten, R., M. Hübner, M., Bieber, A., Alonzo, P., Jansen G .: Art & Agenda, Political Art and Activism . Die Gestalten Verlag , Berlin, 2011.
  • Holten, J., New Art in Hamburg e. V .: 6 artists-6 trips-6 exhibitions . Hamburg, 2011.
  • Schmidt, Sabine Maria (Ed.): A Liquid Star of Boiling Water . (Jan Bonny and Alex Wissel, Jimmie Durham , Christoph Faulhaber, Adela Goldbard, Andrea Winkler). Kunstraum Düsseldorf, 2017.
  • Schmidt, Sabine Maria (Ed.): Christoph Faulhaber. A golden age . Hatje Cantz, Kunsthalle Osnabrück, 2018.

Movies and DVDs

  • AG Kurzfilm: German Short Films . Dresden, 2012. (Catalog and DVD)
  • Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt (ed.): Playing the City 2 . Absolut Medien, Berlin, 2011. (DVD)

Monographic articles

  • Faulhaber, Christoph: GAC - Guantanamo recording camp . Revolver Publishing, Berlin, 2012.
  • Faulhaber, Christoph, D. Lutz (Ed.): Theater Pößneck: An anthology . Revolver Publishing, Berlin, 2011.
  • Faulhaber, Christoph: New York, NY 10047/48. The public process of rebuilding the World Trade Center after September 11, 2001 . Kerber, Bielefeld, 2010.
  • Zybok, Oliver: Life as a project. A conversation with Christoph Faulhaber , published in KUNSTFORUM International Volume 205, 2010, p. 152
  • Player, R. Wilhelm-Hack-Museum (Ed.): Christoph Faulhaber: Unbild / Projektkunst, with texts by WJT Mitchell and Kerstin Skrobanek. Kerber, Bielefeld, 2010.
  • Zybok, Oliver (Ed.): Christoph Faulhaber: Me as it really was. A report from New York . Revolver Publishing by VVV, Berlin, 2009.
  • Ship, Hajo: Christoph Faulhaber. Guantanamo Allocation Center , published in KUNSTFORUM International Volume 199, 2009, p. 283
  • Author unknown: Culture swap. Terror and Art , published in Der Spiegel 51/2008, p. 145 online view
  • Zybok, Oliver (Eds.): L. Chrobok, C. Faulhaber: Mister Security. To serve and to observe . Revolver, Frankfurt, 2007.
  • Zybok, Oliver (Eds.): L. Chrobok, C. Faulhaber: Cloning Terror Series . Revolver, Frankfurt, 2007.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A man from Hamburg is looking for visions for Ground Zero , welt.de of March 23, 2014
  2. ↑ [1] accessed on March 23, 2014
  3. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from April 18, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , published on October 29, 2013 in Art - Das Kunstmagazin , accessed on March 23, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.art-magazin.de
  4. ↑ Faulhaber, Christoph: I like it really was. A report from New York. Revolver Publishing 2009.
  5. ↑ [2] , accessed on March 23, 2014
  6. ↑ An artist under suspicion of terrorism , published on March 3, 2009 in Art - Das Kunstmagazin , accessed on March 22, 2014
  7. ↑ [3] , accessed on March 23, 2014
  8. ↑ Announcement of the exhibition on the website of the Kunstverein Kassel ( Memento of the original from March 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed March 22, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kasselerkunstverein.de
  9. ↑ http://malkasten.org/archives/2011/05/christoph-faulhaber.php
  10. ↑ 3 questions to: Christoph Faulhaber | Monopol - magazine for art and life. Retrieved February 20, 2018 .
  11. ↑ [4] , accessed on March 24, 2014
  12. ↑ http://www.gac-web.org
  13. ↑ http://www.palau-blue-sky.de
  14. ↑ [5] , accessed on March 24, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Faulhaber, Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist
DATE OF BIRTH 17th June 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Osnabrück