Franz John (artist)

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Franz John (* 1960 in Marktleugast ) is a German artist (installation, sculpture, photography). In his works he deals with nature and the possibilities of its media representation. His works combine intensive research and scientific analyzes with clear and often touchable and usable installations that can be found in public spaces.

life and work

Franz John has been represented at international solo and group exhibitions, including the Exploratorium (San Francisco / USA), the Goethe-Institut Warsaw, the São Paulo Biennale (Brazil), the Sculpture Biennale Münsterland and Über Lebenskunst in the Haus der Cultures of the World (Berlin). In 1996 he was Artist in Residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts near San Francisco and in 2011 received project funding from the German Federal Cultural Foundation. In 2007 and 2014 it was a scholarship holder of the Künstlerdorf Schöppingen Foundation.

He has taught in the Department of Art at Ohio State University, at the School of Art at the University of Michigan, and at the Institute for Art and Visual Culture at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg.

Franz John has lived and worked in Berlin since 1980.

Works (selection)

  • 1987: The copied gallery , Paranorm Gallery, West Berlin
  • 1992: Sky Nude , Karl Ernst Osthaus-Museum, Hagen
  • 1996: Military Eyes , Headlands Center for the Arts, San Francisco (USA)
  • 2000: Interzone , an interactive journey through time through the Berlin border system
  • 2001: Turing Tables: An Untitled Composition for Tectonic Spaces , Madrid, Berlin, San Francisco, Basel, Amsterdam, Valencia ... 2001 - ∞
  • 2011: 93 Million Miles Away ... , House of World Cultures, Berlin
  • 2016: Wow-Signal , Kunstsaele Berlin; Dornbirn, Austria; Space Identity in the tobacco factory Vierraden, Schwedt / Oder

Publications (selection)

  • 2019: Franz John, Resource Color , with an essay by Clemens Krümmel, ZF Kunststiftung and modo Verl., Freiburg 2019, ISBN 978-3-86833-277-3 .

Permanently installed works in public space (selection)

  • since 2005: The Salztangente , an 80-kilometer-long sculpture path over a dried out primeval sea in the Münsterland between Gronau and Bocholt
  • since 2017: Resource color , light installation in the old transformer station in Schöppingen (Westphalia)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Franz John, Biography / CV. Artist's website. Retrieved November 18, 2017.
  2. ^ Franz John, Projects Documentation of the artist's work on his website. Retrieved April 24, 2018.
  3. ^ ArtFacts, Franz John List of the artist's solo and group exhibitions. Retrieved November 20, 2017.
  4. ^ Franz John, Artist Statement on Military Eyes website of the Headlands Center for The Arts. Retrieved November 20, 2017.
  5. ^ Franz John, Interzone web presence of the project. Retrieved November 18, 2017.
  6. ^ Franz John, Turing Tables: An earthquake search and storage project in: Thomas Goldstrasz, Suchmaschinen (pp. 17-21), netzspannung.org (2004). Retrieved November 18, 2017.
  7. ↑ NRW-Skulptur, Die Salztangente web documentation. Retrieved November 18, 2017.
  8. ↑ Light installation at the transformer house: Franz John relies on sustainable art Article by Sigrid Winkler-Borck in: Westfälische Nachrichten of September 16, 2017. Accessed on November 21, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME John, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Marktleugast