Dietmar Kirves

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Dietmar Kirves (* 1941 in Fürstenwalde ) is a German artist who works in the fields of film, photography, music, sculpture and events.

life and work

After the early death of his parents, he grew up with relatives in Westphalia and Lower Saxony. From 1962 to 1968 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kassel with a focus on painting, graphics, philosophy, sociology and politics. During his studies he took part in the public and press relations for documenta III . After completing his studies, he first published mixed media works with films and sound effects, which he financed by working as an art director in Düsseldorf advertising agencies.

In 1970 he founded the gallery mediacontact, press & agency in Düsseldorf's Oststraße and in the same year showed exhibitions by Jochen Gerz , Terry Fox / Joseph Beuys , Klaus Staeck , and in 1971 actions with Vito Acconci , Fox, Peter Hutchinson , Klaus Rinke and William Wegman . The aim of his gallery was to present the social relevance of art information and media research. He also worked on various editions of the literary and art magazine " Ausgabe ", Edition Hundertmark , Cologne.

In 1975 he moved to Berlin, where he devoted himself to outsider art and action, which for him meant leaving the conventional art scene. In Berlin he documented inscriptions on the wall (“No Power for Nobody!”), Others were published in the East Berlin EP Edition Schweinbraden (“33 Statements”).

In 1978 he met Boris Lurie and joined the NO! Art movement around Boris Lurie, Sam Goodman and Stanley Fisher. While in the movement, he began documenting NO! Art activities. In 2001 he reconstructed B. an untitled work by Sam Goodman from 1964 made of plastic and paint, when some artists also included excrement in their work, the Merda d'artista (German artist shit ). From 1978 to 1988 he worked with Boris Lurie on the creation of the first NO! Art anthology and on other publications such as the NO! Art Box, Edition Hundertmark, Cologne.

In 2010 the Neues Museum Weserburg recognized his publishing activities in the early 1970s for the artist series “art information” and “media news”.

NO! Art Movement

Dietmar Kirves has been running the “Headquarter East” of the NO! Art Movement since 1999, and he is also responsible for documenting NO! Art activities on the Internet.

Members of NO! Art are Rocco Armento, Isser Aronovici, Enrico Baj , Paolo Baratella, Herb Brown, Ronaldo Brunet, Günter Brus , Al D'Arcangelo, Aleksey Dayen, Frank-Kirk Ehm-Marks, Erró , Klaus Fabricius, Charles Gatewood, Paul Georges, Jochen Gerz, Dorothie Gillespie, Esther Morgenstern Gilman, Amikam Goldman, Leon Golub , Blalla W. Hallmann, Harry Hass, Allan Kaprow , Commissioner Hjuler (Detlev Hjuler) and Mama Baer (Andrea Katharina Ingeborg Hjuler), Yayoi Kusama , Konstantin K. Kuzminsky, Jean-Jacques Lebel , Suzanne Long (Harriet Wood), LST, Enzo Mastrangelo, Stu Mead , Peter Meseck, Lil Picard, Leonid Pinchevsky, Bernard Rancillac, Francis Salles, Naomi Tereza Salmon , Reinhard Scheibner, Bruno Schleinstein , Dominik Stahlberg, Michelle Stuart , Aldo Tambellini, Seth Tobocman , Jean Toche , Toyo Tsuchiya , Wolf Vostell , Friedrich Wall, Mathilda Wolf, Natalia E. Woytasik, Miron Zownir.

Works and writings

  • SIGNALS, SIGNALE, SIGNAUX , with Winfred Gaul . mediacontact, Düsseldorf 1971.
  • TO CASES. Edition Zufall, Cologne 1979.
  • Volker Hauptvogel , Dietmar Kirves: The refusers in the political frenzy of Berlin: Politics becomes music. The Mekanik Destrüktiw Komandöh, the story of a band. Kramer, Berlin 1983, ISBN 3-87956-148-6 .
  • 35 puzzles. Edition Hundertmark, Berlin 1977. 52. Box, 35 sheets, edition 100 (preface: Jürgen Schweinbraden ).
  • Changes for everyone / From sales and distributions. Edition Hundertmark, Cologne 1984.
  • 33 Findings. EP Edition Verlag Jürgen Schweinbraden , Niedenstein o. J. (postcard box).
  • 99 TABOO. Edition Hundertmark, Cologne 1985. 105. Cardboard, 8th book, 210 pages, edition of 300.
  • Seven seconds in eight phases. Edition Hundertmark, Cologne 1983. ( Issue of Edition Hundertmark. 12). Also: Plus-Minus-Presse, Diedenbach, 1985.
  • Lesson: ON THE INEQUALITIES. Edition Hundertmark, Cologne 1985.
  • IT DOES NOTHING WE DON'T WANT! Diter Roth Verlag, Basel 1987.
  • TON STEINE SCHERBEN , Wolfgang Seidel (Ed.), Contribution MDK, Mainz 2005.
  • The NO! Art Statements Boris Lurie / Dietmar Kirves / Mama Baer / Kommissar Hjuler , long-playing record, Psych.KG, Euskirchen, 2015.

Exhibitions

  • 1967: wire sculptures, vibration objects (with Peter Staechelin , Hans Martin Erhardt and Walter Nikusch), Kassel Kunstverein
  • 1980: 10 years Edition Hundertmark 1970–1980 Berlin – Cologne , daadgalerie , Berlin
  • 2010: Dietmar Kirves - art information , Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Art Yearbook, Volume 2, Schmidt-Küster, 1979, p. 231
  2. ^ Website of the edition at Edition Hundertmark
  3. ↑ Images on riolyrics.de , accessed on April 28, 2011
  4. ^ Artopia, February 15, 2009 : Poop art: Manzoni sono buoni. English, Retrieved April 28, 2011
  5. ↑ NO! Art info [1]
  6. ↑ artax [2]
  7. ↑ NO! Art [3]
  8. ↑ NO! Art Members [4]
  9. ↑ The Artists' Books - Publications and Editions since the 1960s in Germany. Institute for Foreign Relations; Edition Hansjörg Mayer 1994, p. 212, fig. 518.
  10. ↑ exhibition side to Dietmar Kirves, New Museum Weserburg , accessed 28 April 2011
personal data
SURNAME Kirves, Dietmar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Fürstenwalde