House Rucker Co
Haus-Rucker-Co was an Austrian group of architects and artists who, especially in the 1970s and 1980s in the border area between art and architecture, created sculptures, installations in public spaces and contributions to a special perception of architecture and urban design with the aim of “expanding awareness “Created.
history
The name of the - according to its own definition: "Architects-Artist Community " - indicates the Hausruck , an Austrian mountain range, at the same time the name suggests the "moving away" of old houses to make room for new ones.
The activities of Haus-Rucker-Co in the late sixties and early seventies, primarily utopian architectural concepts , were inspired by pop art and Fluxus , under the title: "Mind-Expanding-Program", entirely dedicated to the expansion of consciousness. Actions and installations in public space were intended to activate people's sensual perception and experience. The group also dealt with deconstructivism and the "second nature" - as a fusion of the natural and the artificial.
The later focus of the group was more in the direction of social sculpture , with the aim of pointing out environmental destruction and alienation from nature (the separation of humans from their environment was symbolically represented with plastic skins).
In 1967 Haus-Rucker-Co was founded in Vienna by the architects Laurids Ortner , Günter Zamp Kelp and the painter Klaus Pinter .
In 1970 the group opened studios in Düsseldorf and New York . In 1971 Manfred Ortner joined the group.
In 1972 Haus-Rucker-Co became two independent studios:
- Haus-Rucker-Co in Düsseldorf, with group members Laurids Ortner, Günther Zamp Kelp and Manfred Ortner.
- House-rucker-lnc. in New York with Klaus Pinter, Caroll Michels and other artists.
In 1977 the New York office Haus-Rucker-lnc was dissolved. Klaus Pinter and Caroll Michels started their own artistic activity.
In 1987 Laurids Ortner opened independent architecture offices with Manfred Ortner (" Ortner & Ortner Baukunst ") and Günter Zamp Kelp in order to devote themselves to specific construction tasks.
In 1992 Haus-Rucker-Co was finally dissolved.
Projects
- 1967 Mind Expander , Vienna . Installation of a "communication plastic" made of a seat shell that fixes two people in a certain position and a helmet-like balloon that is tipped over the heads of the two seated persons.
- 1968 Yellow Heart , Vienna . Installation of a pneumatic, pulsating communication space capsule for two people.
- 1971 Cover exhibition , Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld . The Lange house (built in 1921 by Mies van der Rohe ) was roofed over with an air dome made of white, coated fabric.
- 1972 OASE No. 7 on the occasion of documenta 5 in Kassel . Installation of a transparent sphere with a diameter of eight meters on the main facade of the Museum Fridericianum .
- 1976 Inclined Plane , Vienna . Installation of an inclined plane on the Vienna Naschmarkt
- 1977 Nike , planning for the art university in Linz .
- 1977 Frame construction on the occasion of documenta 6 in Kassel . Construction of a lattice frame with a steel walkway on the edge of Friedrichsplatz in Kassel to Karlsaue , which enables a section-like, picture-like view of the landscape behind and the orangery building.
- 1980 Forum Design . Construction of a temporary exhibition building made up of individual wagon-like halls in Linz .
- 1985 Neuss tower , Theodor-Heuss-Platz, Neuss . A walk-in steel installation in public space.
- 1987 The Ideal Museum on the occasion of documenta 8 in Kassel . A contribution by Haus-Rucker-Co on the special topic “The Ideal Museum”, to which some architects were invited.
- 1986 Opening of the linear house on the Lichtwiese campus of the TU Darmstadt .
Exhibitions
(Selection)
- 1967 Apollogasse Vienna, balloon for two / Schottenring construction pit, Vienna: yellow heart
- 1969 Kraftsporthalle Schleifmühlgasse, Vienna: Vanilla Future / Museum of the 20th Century, Vienna: New Objects / Museum of contemporary Crafts, New York: Plastic as Plastic / Galerie Zwirner, Cologne / Galerie Maerz, Linz
- 1970 Museum of the 20th Century, Vienna : Live l / Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York: Live ll / Kunsthalle Düsseldorf / State University of New York , Buffalo : Live / Kunsthalle Düsseldorf: Between
- 1971 Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld : Exhibition Cover / Walker Art Center Minneapolis : Food City l / Houston , Texas , Food City ll
- 1972 documenta 5 , Kassel : Oasis No. 7 / Kunsthalle Nürnberg : Go
- 1973 Kunsthalle Hamburg : Green Lungs
- 1974 Kunstverein Braunschweig : Sunset / Bonner Kunstverein : Drawings 1967-74 / Austrian Avantgarde, Innsbruck , Basel / City Museum, Trier : Environmental Pictures / Kunsthalle Köln : Seeing and Hearing
- 1976 International Design Center, Berlin / Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal
- 1977 documenta 6 , Kassel : frame construction / Linz , Forum Metall / Hochschule für Gestaltung, Linz: urban design
- 1978 Kunsthalle Düsseldorf : Streets and squares / Galerie Schmela , Düsseldorf: drawings, projects / Ungers studio gallery , Cologne : drawings and models
- 1979 Studio F., Ulm : Pavilion of the elements
- 1980 Palazzo Montauto-Niccolini, Florence : Umanesimo Disumanesimo / Linz : Forum Metall / Venice Biennale : ll tempo di Museo di Venezia
- 1981 Schmela Gallery, Düsseldorf
- 1984 National Gallery Berlin: 3 large city buildings / German Architecture Museum, Frankfurt am Main: Revision of Modernism / Kunsthalle Hamburg and Art Academy Munich: Architectural Visions, Concepts of the 80s / Kunsthaus Bonn : Architecture Mother of the Arts?
- 1985 Milan Triennial : Ricostruzione della Città / Center Georges Pompidou CCI, Paris : Nouveaux Plaisirs d'Architecture / Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe : Classicism and Classics - Trends in Contemporary European Architecture / Eindhoven University of Technology : Haus-Rucker-Co projects 1977–85
- 1986 Pratolino , Firenze Florence : Garden of Europe / Deutsches Architekturmuseum, Frankfurt am Main: Examples of a new architecture IBA, Berlin, 1987 / The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo : Revision of Modernism - Postmodern Architecture 1960—86
- 1987 documenta 8 , Kassel : The ideal museum / German Design Council, Frankfurt am Main : Subject and ritual / Secession Vienna: March in the Secession
- 1988 Galerie Maerz, Linz: Ecken / Galerie lnkt, The Hague : Lictring
- 1989 Galerie Kubus Hannover : cultural leap
- 1990 Trieste : Neoclassico.
- 1992 Kunsthalle Wien, Haus-Rucker-Co, objects, concepts, buildings 1967-92 / Kunstforum der Bank Austria, Vienna: art houses in plan / Vienna, London, Paris: museum positions.
- 1993 Architekturmuseum Basel : Haus-Rucker-Co.
- January 6 to April 18, 2005 (participation): Archilab: New Experiments in Architecture, Art and the City, 1950–2005. Mori Art Museum , Tokyo 2005. (Catalog)
- 2014/2015: Haus-Rucker-Co. Architectural utopia Reloaded , Haus am Waldsee , Berlin. Catalog.
Awards
- 1988 with Bene Büromöbel KG: State Design Award for the C5 office furniture range
literature
- Kramer, Verena; " Haus-Rucker-Co ", 3/95 Artothek in the Bonner Kunstverein inventory catalog
- Bogner, Dieter: Haus-Rucker-Co, thinking spaces, urban spaces 1967-1992 . Klagenfurt 1992.
- Bonner Kunstverein (Ed.): The Bonner Kunstverein 1963-1993 . Bonn 1993
- Large-scale European construction , Laurids Ortner, in: Werk, Bauen + Wohnen 8/1992
- Equal, mixed, humane , Laurids Ortner, in: Der Architekt 12/1988
- The need for generosity , Laurids Ortner, in: Archithese 3/1986
- Haus-Rucker-Co 1967-1983 , ed. by Heinrich Klotz, German Architecture Museum Frankfurt, Braunschweig: Vieweg Verlag, 1984
- Learning from Linz , Laurids Ortner, in: Yearbook for Architecture 1983, Vieweg Verlag
- Helmuth Gsöllpointner , Angela Hareiter , Laurids Ortner : Design is invisible , exhibition Linz 1980, Austrian Institute for Visual Design, Löcker Verlag, Vienna 1981, ISBN 3-85409-012-9 .
- Amnesty for the built reality , Laurids Ortner, in: Werk Archithese 17/18, May / June 1978
- Provisional architecture , Laurids Ortner, in: Transparent 6/1976, Kunstforum International 129/1977, Domus 569/1977
- Haus-Rucker-Co: Annual Report 1968
- Haus-Rucker-Co: Sunset . Exhib. Kat. Kunstverein Braunschweig 1974.
- Haus-Rucker-Co: Conversation at the white table . Exhibition catalog Bonner Kunstverein 1975.
- Ortner, Laurids: Haus-Rucker-Co. Provisional architecture . Catalog Düsseldorf 1976.
- Pohlen, Annelie: Commitment to art . In: db, deutsche Bauzeitung, 123, 1989, pp. 40–42.
Web links
- Literature by and about Haus-Rucker-Co in the catalog of the German National Library
- Materials by and about Haus-Rucker-Co in the documenta archive
- Presentation via Haus-Rucker-Co on the website of Günther Zamp Kelp
- Presentation via Haus-Rucker-Co on the website of the architects Ortner & Ortner Baukunst