Claus van Bebber

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Claus van Bebber (born December 18, 1949 ) has been active as a freelance artist since 1964.

He is interested in music as well as visual and performing arts. His musical work spans a wide spectrum of composed music and improvised experimental music .

Claus van Bebber, record concert, Kleve 2007

Music and sound

The musical beginnings in the 1960s were shaped by beat music . From the mid-1970s, Claus van Bebber worked as a drummer with free jazz and improvised music . There has been regular collaboration with the trio van Bebber / Schmidt / Thelosen , which has been active since 1977 and also performed at the Frankfurt Jazz Festival, as well as duos with Burghard Rogalla and Paul Hubweber .

Van Bebber was a co-founder of the artist group Heinrich Mucken , which experimented with improvised and composed music as well as sound performances in public spaces. The group existed until 1988, the highlight was their participation in Documenta 8 .

Van Bebber is a member of Fineworks , a large improvising ensemble with Georg Wissel , Carl Ludwig Hübsch , Paul Hubweber , Paul Lytton , Thomas Lehn , Mark Charig , Ute Völker , Uli Böttcher and Christoph Irmer, among others .

Records were already part of his sound instruments in the early 1970s, and he was not concerned with the audiophile reproduction of conserved music, but with the tonal properties of the record itself . In a guest scholarship from the Bielefeld artist initiative Artists Unlimited , he refined the concept of the record concerts. Since then, he has also been producing sound and image objects with records on a regular basis.

In his record concerts, records and turntables are used as sound generators, but the original content of the records can usually no longer be heard. Records are played with a manipulated speed, forced into repeated loops, masked with adhesive tape or only played in the end groove. The records form a set of instruments that form a sound universe of its own. Van Bebber often performs these record concerts in cooperation with other artists. B. Helmut Lemke , Rolf Glasmeier , Paul Hubweber, Carl Ludwig Hübsch, Jaap Blonk and Paul Lovens .

Artistic creation

Dealing with the situation on site is an important concern of Claus van Bebber. In the process, installations and objects are created that gain their meaning and effect through their relationship to the environment, to space, to the history of the location or to an exhibition theme.

Many of his objects appear in a museum context like archaic cult objects with which a ritual act seems to be connected.

There are landscape installations, excavation objects, wooden objects and found or uncovered objects by Claus van Bebber.

In 1994 van Bebber founded the ArToll art laboratory together with other artists. ArToll eV sees itself as a process-oriented gallery and regularly invites artists to work and exhibit there.

Awards and grants

  • Culture award of the city of Kevelaer 1992 for fine arts
  • Funding award 1992 from Melitta (with Helmut Lemke and Michael Vorfeld)

Van Bebber took part in numerous international artist symposiums. He has received grants as a guest artist at:

  • Artists Unlimited , Bielefeld 1989–1990
  • de Fabriek, Eindhoven NL 1993
  • Municipal gallery, Villingen-Schwenningen 1996

Works by Claus van Bebber are represented in private and public collections and museums:

  • Museums of the city of Lüdenscheid
  • Museum Goch
  • Peter Kerschgens art archive
  • Municipal gallery Villingen-Schwenningen

Anecdotes

Claus van Bebber was inspired by contemporary art early on. So his grandfather regularly took him to the van der Grinten brothers' stable exhibitions . There, at the age of 13, Claus van Bebber saw the Joseph Beuys Fluxus exhibition, which later became very famous . This exhibition impressed him so much that he and his younger brother Helmut van Bebber and other children from the neighborhood organized their own exhibition Kinderfluxus during the following Easter holidays .

Another contact with Joseph Beuys arose when he was sculpting the tomb of the van der Grinten family in the van Bebber family's basement. Claus van Bebber watched it.

Discography

  • TEFITON - SEIDL - CD 2008, with Erhard Hirt
  • Kreisel - CD 2005 with Michael Vorfeld
  • TEFITON - CD 2005 with Erhard Hirt
  • Vinyl + Blech IV - CD 2005 with Paul Hubweber
  • SERIES: reissue of 'Vinyl + Blech I - III', 2005 with Paul Hubweber
  • SERIES: reissue of 'WAN (d) KLANKEN' CD and booklet 2005 with Jeanne van Heeswijk
  • Fish for Breakfast - CD 2004
  • Improvisors - CD 2003 with Carl Ludwig Hübsch, Jaap Blonk
  • Klanglabor - CD 2003 with various artists
  • Vinyl + Blech - CD 2002 with Paul Hubweber
  • Viny'l'ists - CD 2002 with Philip Jeck
  • Six And More - Way Out - CD 2002 with Günter Schroth u. a.
  • Ladder to Heaven - CD 2001
  • Barcode Music - CD 2000 with Günter Schroth, Franziska Quandt
  • RUBBED + BLOWN 1999 with RoN Schmidt
  • FIRST FOUR 1999 with Stephan Froleyks , Lesley Olson and Barbara Hahn
  • Vinyl + Blech II - CD 1999 with Paul Hubweber
  • Vinyl + Blech I - CD 1998 with Paul Hubweber
  • Nahe der Stille - CD 1998 with various other artists
  • VOX - CD 1997 with various other artists
  • Record concert - CD 1993
  • <Prison 1002-1> - LP 1989 with Helmut Lemke
  • Piece by piece with Ron Schmidt and Toto Thelosen - LP 1977

media

  • Documentary: stayed there. The Lower Rhine artist Claus van Bebber (69 minutes; 2018). The filmmaker Carla Gottwein accompanied Claus van Bebber with the camera to concerts over a longer period of time. In addition, conversations, archival materials, relics of actions, work situations and works of art provide insights into the life and work of the Lower Rhine artist.

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personal data
SURNAME Bebber, Claus van
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German improvisation musician and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH December 18, 1949