Dreier & Hanousek GfBH
Dreier & Hanousek GfBH (GfBH stands for Community for BildErHalt ) are a German artist couple, consisting of Petra Dreier and Michael Hanousek. They work together in the fields of painting and photography . You live and work in Düsseldorf and Krefeld .
Life
Petra Dreier (* 1958 in Sevelen, Niederrhein ) studied from 1977 to 1985 at the Düsseldorf Art Academy (Prof. Crummenauer, Prof. Graubner) as a master class student.
Michael Hanousek (* 1955 in Ostrau , former Czechoslovakia ) studied from 1977 to 1983 at the Düsseldorf Art Academy (Prof. Graubner) as a master class student.
plant
The first joint work was done in 1991; At the same time Dreier and Hanousek pursued their own artistic work until 1997. In 1997 the GfBH - Association for BildErHalt was founded . Since then, only joint works have been created, summarized under the term upheavals . These deal with structural change, instability, seduction, freedom / lack of freedom, surveillance, flight, placelessness. This is made clear by the combination of different image systems (painting, photography, written language).
Paintings since 2011, called territories , are a collective term for abstract landscapes ( desolate landscapes ). Globalized worldviews and disintegrating systems reveal themselves in fragments. This is how kaleidoscopic spaces are formed that appear labyrinthine, swaying, contradictory and offer hardly any refuge or security, not without the idea of utopia.
Creatures , the third subject area, is formally related to the Territories group of works . The protagonists go through various stages in which they can become actors, players, provocateurs, gamblers, but also hybrids and androids.
Inherent in them is "the positive creativity that enables the creation of great works and the aggressive subjugation of the world, which can lead to the exploitation and ultimately to the destruction of the living space" (Angelika Hille-Sandvoss).
Petra Dreier and Michael Hanousek have been looking after / accompanying a painting group of mentally ill people at Diakoniewerk Duisburg GmbH, department of social psychiatry, the MALzeitler since 2004 . For them they organize u. a. Exhibitions and inclusive art projects, also with professional artists.
literature
- 1996 Catalog, Petra Dreier & Michael Hanousek, Museum Bochum
- 1999 catalog "Dreier & Hanousek GfBH, ... and in between quicksand, from angels and visionaries", with texts by Dr. Ursula Mildner, Dr. Carola Muysers
- 2000 “Liebe Macht Kunst”, artist couples in the 20th century, ed. by Dr. Renate Berger in Böhlau Verlag , 2000, therein: Dr. Carola Muyser's “The symbol of twin” using the example of the artist couples “Bigert & Bergström”, “Twin Gabriel”, “Christine & Irene Hohenbüchler” and the “GfBH” (Petra Dreier & Michael Hanousek)
- 2011 "Art after 1945 in the Museum of the City of Ratingen", ed. by Dr. Marie-Luise Otten from Wienand Verlag
- 2017 Catalog "One place - no place", Kunstverein Wesseling
Working in public space
Ministry of Culture of North Rhine-Westphalia, Stadtsparkasse Düsseldorf, Museum Bochum, IG-Metall Frankfurt / M., Museum of the City of Ratingen, District President Tübingen, Tiptel AG Ratingen, publishing house Bagel Düsseldorf, art collection of the University of Brno