Heiko Zahlmann

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Heiko Zahlmann (* 1973 in Hamburg ) is a German graffiti artist. He is also known by his graffiti pseudonyms "Daddy Cool" or "RKT one" . Zahlmann lives and works in Hamburg.

Life

In 1999, Heiko Zahlmann founded the getting-up studio community in Hamburg together with the artists Mirko Reisser ( DAIM ) and Gerrit Peters ( Tasek ) . Since then, the artist collective has been working together on projects that have also attracted international attention.

Heiko Zahlmann is represented by the Borchardt gallery in Hamburg.

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“Heiko Zahlmann thinks it's wrong to simply put graffiti on canvas and into the room. Because the special thing about graffiti in the outdoor area can only be domesticated as a panel painting and rescued into the closed art space with difficulty. On concrete panels, he pays homage to the simple markings of his roots and gives the, so to speak, original material in the neutral exhibition space an idea of ​​the power of setting that a simple sprayed line can achieve. [...] Because as little as the name 'Graffiti' says something about the status of a work within what is now a wide field of the most varied of manifestations, so the reference to writing remains fundamental - at least to the gesture of writing. And so these works, too, are typefaces from more or less hermetic fragments of an individual artist’s handwriting to longer texts. Heiko Zahlmann remains completely a sprayer. "

- Hajo Schiff (art critic), 2007

“Heiko Zahlmann's 'Destroyline' seems far removed from his early work. The color variety of the eye-catching murals was reduced to a simple black. The letter and number combinations have also given way. All that remains is the concrete as work material and the line sprayed with a single movement of the hand. He comments on the imagery of minimal art in an ironic way and combines it with the aesthetics of graffiti through the targeted use of spray paint. "

- Carolin Oetzel: Urban Art: Works from the Reinking Collection. Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2009.

Projects

20357

In 2008, Heiko Zahlmann designed a concrete sculpture for Hamburg's Karolinenplatz with the title "20357".

Urban Discipline exhibitions

The Urban Discipline exhibitions, the first of which was conceived, curated and organized by Heiko Zahlmann in collaboration with Gerrit Peters and Mirko Reisser in 2000 , are among the world's most important graffiti exhibitions. Os Gêmeos spoke of a great project in interviews. Urban Discipline was one of the first and still largest graffiti exhibitions ever carried out, which also helped artists like Daniel Man and Banksy to take an important career step. It was important to the organizers to fight for its establishment as an art form at a time when graffiti was no longer just a scribble but was still not really taken seriously. International stars of the scene came to Hamburg for the first exhibition. The most important representatives of the international graffiti and street art scene gathered in the next two years, during which the project was still organized by getting-up . In 2001, Os Gêmeos from Brazil and Martha Cooper from New York, artists from all over Germany as well as from Brazil, Austria, France, the USA and Switzerland exhibited in the Alte Postortierhalle on Hamburg's Stephansplatz . In 2002 again 34 international artists from all over the world came together to exhibit on 1700 square meters in the Astra halls in Hamburg's St. Pauli district.

Dock Art

For two and a half years, Heiko Zahlmann and Mirko Reisser (DAIM) worked as artistic directors in collaboration with Lothar Knode on the Dock-Art project . The 2000 m² graffiti was unveiled in 2001 opposite the Landungsbrücken at the Port of Hamburg on the outer wall of Dock 10 of the Blohm + Voss shipyard .

Social

Heiko Zahlmann has already carried out several charitable projects together with the getting-up studio community : Mit Gefangenehilfe Jugend e. V. he cooperated on a project that included the visualization of the basic idea of ​​the association. The association works within the prison and aims to bring young people closer to everyday life in a correctional facility.

The Jamliner is a project of the State Youth Music School Hamburg and the MusikSchulVereins e. V. , Friends of the youth music school. Young people from the age of twelve from socially disadvantaged districts of Hamburg can attend a “rolling music school” directly on site and free of charge.

With the graffiti and street art workshop Stylekickz , once a year young people had the opportunity to realize an artistic project with professional support in order to gain qualifications in real-life topics.

Exhibitions

  • 2000: Urban Discipline 2000 , Thomas I-Punkt Halle, Hamburg.
  • 2001: Urban Discipline 2001 , Alte Postortierhalle am Stephansplatz, Hamburg.
  • 2002: getting-up , FREIRAUM, Museum for Art and Commerce Hamburg .
  • 2002: Urban Discipline 2002 , Bavaria-Halle, Hamburg.
  • 2003: Signs on the wall , Traces of Life Museum, Wels / Vienna, Austria.
  • 2003: Da Sein , Reinking Collection , Ernst Barlach Museum Ratzeburg.
  • 2005: Smell of paint in the air , Hall K3, Kampnagel, Hamburg.
  • 2005: Passion of collecting , old cotton spinning mill, Halle 14 , Leipzig.
  • 2005: Codigos Urbanos , Leganes, Spain.
  • 2005: Smell of paint in the air , Westwendischer Kunstverein, Gartow.
  • 2005: Art Cologne 2005 , Cologne, special exhibition Reinking Collection.
  • 2005: getting-up , Gallery K31, Lahr.
  • 2006: Minimal Illusions - Works from the Rik Reinking Collection , Villa Merkel , Esslingen.
  • 2006: What would I be without you… ‚German Art Last Forty Years , City Gallery Prague.
  • 2006: Coming Soon… , Blashofer Project Space, Berlin.
  • 2006: Artbeat , Post CS, Amsterdam.
  • 2007: Wakin Up Nights , de Pury & Luxembourg , Zurich, Switzerland.
  • 2007: Still on and non the wiser , Von der Heydt-Museum , Kunsthalle Barmen , Wuppertal.
  • 2007: Active Constellations , House of Art, Brno City, Czech Republic.
  • 2007: We are the people darker than blue , Stilwerk, Hamburg.
  • 2007: Black Pictures , Gallery Art Studio 1, yours.
  • 2009: Urban Art - Works from the Reinking Collection , Weserburg Museum for Modern Art , Bremen.
  • 2009: BANDE , Galerie Borchardt , Hamburg.
  • 2010: From the wall to the room in the sky , Galerie Borchardt , Hamburg.
  • 2011: Wild characters , Kunsthalle Krems , Krems, Austria.
  • 2011: Hall of Fame , David Bloch Gallery, Marrakech, Morocco.
  • 2012: reKOLLECT , Kunstraum Kreuzberg , Berlin.
  • 2012: (Dis) Placements , Schaartorhof, Hamburg.
  • 2018: Spectrum , Zimmerling & Jungfleisch Gallery, Saarbrücken.

Publications

  • Mirko Reisser, Gerrit Peters, Heiko Zahlmann (eds.): Urban Discipline 2000: Graffiti-Art . Urban Discipline: Graffiti Art, No. 1 . getting-up , Hamburg 2000, ISBN 3-00-006154-1 ( limited preview in the Google book search - exhibition catalog).
  • Mirko Reisser, Gerrit Peters, Heiko Zahlmann (eds.): Urban Discipline 2001: Graffiti-Art . Urban Discipline: Graffiti Art, No. 2 . getting-up, Hamburg 2001, ISBN 3-00-007960-2 ( limited preview in the Google book search - exhibition catalog).
  • Mirko Reisser, Gerrit Peters, Heiko Zahlmann (eds.): Urban Discipline 2002: Graffiti-Art . Urban Discipline: Graffiti Art, No. 3 . getting-up, Hamburg 2002, ISBN 3-00-009421-0 ( limited preview in Google book search - exhibition catalog).

Literature (selection)

  • Gerhard Finckh , Toke Lykeberg: still on and non the wiser: an exhibition with selected urban artists. 1st edition. Publikat Verlag, Mainaschaff 2008, ISBN 978-3-939566-20-5 (exhibition catalog).
  • Heiko Zahlmann, Hajo Schiff, Uwe Lewitzky, Galerie Peter Borchardt: From the wall to the room in the sky. Gudberg Verlag, Hamburg, 2009, ISBN 978-3-940558-44-2 (monograph).
  • Ingo Clauß , Stephen Riolo, Sotirios Bahtsetzis: Urban Art: Works from the Reinking Collection . 1st edition. Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2009, ISBN 978-3-7757-2503-3 , p. 30ff (exhibition catalog).
  • Heiko Zahlmann. sinn + form , booklet for the exhibition from September 6, 2012 to January 26, 2013, ed. from the Borchardt Gallery , Hamburg 2012, ISBN 3-9809031-9-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ingo Clauss, Stephen Riolo, Sotirios Bahtsetzis: Urban Art: Works from the Reinking Collection . 1st edition. Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2009, ISBN 978-3-7757-2503-3 , p. 30ff (exhibition catalog).
  2. ↑ 10, Part two of the world record painting ( Memento from March 4, 2014 in the Internet Archive ). In: Hamburger Abendblatt. No. 86 of April 11, 2001, p. 15.
  3. ↑ Further information under: The studio community. getting-up: Mirko Reisser, Gerrit Peters, Heiko Zahlmann, accessed on April 28, 2013 .
  4. ^ Graffiti in Hamburg. Art in public space. Schirmer Medienservice, accessed on April 28, 2013 .
  5. ↑ And about projects on: Press releases. Small selection. getting-up: Mirko Reisser, Gerrit Peters, Heiko Zahlmann, accessed on April 28, 2013 .
  6. ^ Ingo Clauss, Stephen Riolo, Sotirios Bahtsetzis: Urban Art: Works from the Reinking Collection. 1st edition. Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2009, ISBN 978-3-7757-2503-3 .
  7. ↑ Put graffiti on the concrete head , Spiegel Online, October 31, 2008.
  8. ^ Graffiti cast in concrete , Abendblatt.de, October 20, 2008.
  9. ↑ a b Funny spraying: The international graffiti elite meets at the Urban Discipline-Art on June 15. in the Thomas-I-Punkt-Halle. In: Hamburger Abendblatt. Live June 15, 2000.
  10. ↑ Julia Reinecke: Street Art: A Subculture Between Art and Commerce . Transcript Verlag, Bielefeld 2007, ISBN 978-3-89942-759-2 , p. 35 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  11. ↑ Os Gemeos in an interview. Kirchner, Marc, April 9, 2010, accessed on July 1, 2013 : “Yes, this exhibition was very important for us. And we are still very grateful for this opportunity back then. There, too, we got to know a lot of interesting writers from Germany and all over Europe. Thanks to DAIM , Tasek , Daddy Cool, Stohead and many others who worked really hard for it. We know that, it was a feat to make it all possible. Everything went very well, everyone helped everyone, no competition among each other, it was really a very good atmosphere. It was nice to be able to make our contribution and to be able to show a piece of Brazilian graffiti as part of the exhibition. We noticed very quickly that many did not even know that there was graffiti in Brazil, let alone something of life here. Some of them didn't understand our work at all back then. We still have a lot of respect for what happened in Hamburg back then. A great project with a great story behind it. Urban Discipline has actually been one of the first and still largest gallery exhibitions that have combined graffiti art, style and a professional presentation perfectly and successfully. For many this event was an important step for more, Daniel Man , DAIM and also Banksy ! "
  12. ↑ Graffiti exhibition HH: Graffiti is no longer just signs smeared on house walls. However, graffiti is still not taken seriously. The organizers of the Hamburg exhibition Urban Discipline are fighting for graffiti to be recognized as an art form. This is not new, but it requires constant re-examination and discussion. In: DE: BUG magazine for electronic aspects of life. July 19, 2002 ( online , accessed February 2, 2013).
  13. ↑ Anna von Villiez: Hello, here I am: Maximum HipHop: the world's most famous graffiti artists are coming to Hamburg. In: TAZ, the daily newspaper. Kultur, taz Hamburg from June 14, 2000.
  14. ↑ Anna von Villiez: Sprayed Utopias: Plastic Imagery from Sao Paulo: "Os Gemeos" at the graffiti exhibition on Stephansplatz. In: TAZ, the daily newspaper. Kultur, taz Hamburg from June 14, 2001.
  15. ↑ Stefan Krulle: Fine can paintings. Best before: June 18: Hot spray continues: International graffiti art in the old mail sorting hall on Stephansplatz. In: The world. Features from June 12, 2001.
  16. ↑ Images, determined by feeling: Every line counts in the Urban Discipline 2002 Graffiti Art … In: Hamburger Abendblatt. Live June 20, 2002.
  17. ↑ Hamburg and the world as a giant painting in the harbor. In: The world. May 4, 2001, p. 48.
  18. Jump up ↑ Dock 10 - The new gem in the port. In: Hamburger Abendblatt. No. 85 of April 10, 2001, p. 13.
  19. ↑ Dock 10, Part two of the world record painting. In: Hamburger Abendblatt. No. 86 of April 11, 2001, p. 15.
  20. ↑ Prisoners help young people. getting-up, May 12, 2000, accessed on July 14, 2013 : "Artists: DAIM , Daddy Cool, Stohead , Tasek , Trol, Seak " Prisoners help young people "Hamburg, 02.2000, realization in the JVA - Santa Fu."
  21. ↑ Jamliner. getting-up, May 18, 2001, accessed on July 14, 2013 : “Hamburg's musical bus line. getting-up designed both buses that are on the road for the Jamliner project in Hamburg. "
  22. ↑ Stylekickz. getting-up, May 18, 2001, accessed July 14, 2013 .
  23. ↑ Mirko Reisser, Gerrit Peters, Heiko Zahlmann (eds.): Urban Discipline 2000: Graffiti-Art . Urban Discipline: Graffiti Art, No. 1 . getting-up , Hamburg 2000, ISBN 3-00-006154-1 ( limited preview in the Google book search - exhibition catalog).
  24. ↑ Mirko Reisser, Gerrit Peters, Heiko Zahlmann (eds.): Urban Discipline 2001: Graffiti-Art . Urban Discipline: Graffiti Art, No. 2 . getting-up, Hamburg 2001, ISBN 3-00-007960-2 ( limited preview in the Google book search - exhibition catalog).
  25. ↑ Silke Schlichting: Legal facade design: formerly a sprayer, now a commercial artist: a studio community shows their graffiti in the Museum of Art and Industry. In: TAZ, the daily newspaper. Hamburg, April 25, 2002.
  26. ↑ Mirko Reisser, Gerrit Peters, Heiko Zahlmann (eds.): Urban Discipline 2002: Graffiti-Art . Urban Discipline: Graffiti Art, No. 3 . getting-up, Hamburg 2002, ISBN 3-00-009421-0 ( limited preview in Google book search - exhibition catalog).
  27. ↑ Against the wall. Wakin 'up Nights at de Pury & Luxembourg, Zurich. ArtNet, March 20, 2007, accessed on January 27, 2014 .
  28. ^ Galerie de Pury & Luxembourg (eds.): Wakin 'Up Nights . Exhibition catalog. Galerie de Pury & Luxembourg, Zurich 2007 (en).
  29. ^ Gerhard Finckh , Toke Lykeberg: still on and non the wiser: an exhibition with selected urban artists. Publikat Verlag, Mainaschaff 2008, ISBN 978-3-939566-20-5 (exhibition catalog).
  30. ^ Urban Art. Works from the Reinking Collection. New Museum Weserburg Bremen Foundation, 2009, accessed on June 25, 2013 : “Participating artists: Akim, Ash, Herbert Baglione , Banksy , Blu , Boxi , Bronco, Dave the Chimp, Brad Downey , Ben Eine, Shepard Fairey , Mark Jenkins , Kaws, Daniel Man , Miss Van, Mode 2, Os Gêmeos , Mirko Reisser ( DAIM ,) Space Invader , Swoon, DTagno, Tilt, Vitché , Heiko Zahlmann, Zevs, Zezão "
  31. ^ Ingo Clauss, Stephen Riolo, Sotirios Bahtsetzis: Urban Art: Works from the Reinking Collection. Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2009, ISBN 978-3-7757-2503-3 .
personal data
SURNAME Zahlmann, Heiko
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Daddy Cool (pseudonym); RKT one (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German graffiti artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg