Heiner Blum

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Heiner Blum, 2018

Heiner Blum (born February 4, 1959 in Stuttgart ) is a German conceptual artist . Since 1997 he has been a professor for experimental spatial concepts at the Offenbach am Main University of Design .

biography

Heiner Blum studied visual communication at the Kassel University from 1977 to 1983 . After studying until 1998, he worked as a photographer for magazines such as Art , Geo , Stern and Frankfurter Allgemeine Magazin . In 1981 he received the Otto Steinert Prize of the German Society for Photography and began his own artistic productions. His series of works on paper with the title Alarm, comprising 205 parts from 1982 to 1983, is now in the collection of the Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main .

From 1991 to 1992, Blum held a teaching position in the interior design department at the Trier University of Applied Sciences , and in 1996 he was visiting professor at the Bremen University of the Arts . Since 1998 he has been a professor of design principles and experimental spatial concepts in the visual communication department at the Offenbach am Main University of Design. From 2000 to 2003 he developed a cross-genre, experimental club concept under the aegis of William Forsythe in the Bockenheimer Depot in Frankfurt under the title Schmalklub, together with students and the dramaturge Steve Valk . “The narrow club was not a theater, a party, an exhibition, an event, an installation, or a performance. He was a piece of life ”.

Wollheim Memorial , 2008, University of Frankfurt am Main (conception and design: Heiner Blum)

In 2008, a Norbert Wollheim memorial designed by Blum was opened on the campus of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt , named after Norbert Wollheim (1913–1998), a survivor of the Buna / Monowitz concentration camp . Blum's conception consists of the interior and exterior design of the pavilion and photo panels in the university park. Wollheim's prisoner number is written in large brass over the door of the pavilion, which was previously used as a guard house. Inside is the wall inscription “We are saved, but we are not liberated. Norbert Wollheim, August 26, 1945 ”and two monitors on which survivors of the concentration camp report on their childhood and youth in video interviews.

In the summer semester of 2009 he was artist in residence as a guest at the Cluster of Excellence “Cultural Foundations of Integration” at the University of Konstanz . In 2011, Blum designed the emergency shelter for the homeless in the city of Frankfurt am Main for the Frankfurt Association , which will replace an existing container village.

Blum lives in Offenbach am Main .

Exhibitions (selection)

Solo exhibitions

  • 1987: Gallery next St. Stephan, Vienna (with Heinrich Dunst)
  • 1988: Galerie Grässlin-Ehrhardt, Frankfurt am Main (also 1991)
  • 1989: Kunstverein Kassel , Kassel
  • 1993: Museum of Modern Art , Frankfurt am Main, Alarm / Games, TIME
  • 1995: 4'33 , Galerie Bärbel Grässlin, Frankfurt am Main (also 2000); Kunsthalle Baden-Baden (with Michaela Melián)
  • 2006: Kunsthalle Mannheim , perpetrator-victim-hero

Group exhibitions

  • 1981: New German Photography , Photographers Gallery, London
  • 1988: Sleep of Reason , Museum Fridericianum , Kassel
  • 1989: Prospect 89 , Schirn Kunsthalle , Frankfurt am Main
  • 1992: Art Meets Ads - Avantgarde and Campaign , Städtische Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf
  • 1994: Positions of current art of the 80s and 90s : an exhibition project of the Museum of Modern Art, Frankfurt am Main
  • 1995: 3rd International Photo Triennial , Villa Merkel , Esslingen
  • 1996: Change of scene X , Museum of Modern Art, Frankfurt am Main
  • 1996: Speck Collection , Museum Ludwig , Cologne
  • 1997: Views from Abroad , Museum of Modern Art, Frankfurt am Main
  • 1997: Magic of Numbers , State Gallery, Stuttgart
  • 2002: Schwarzwaldhochstrasse , Kunsthalle Baden-Baden
  • 2003/2004: Heiner Blum & Wolfgang Tillmans . The Neue Kunsthalle II: natural-physical-sensual, Kunsthalle Mannheim
  • 2008: Familiar Terrain , Center for Art and Media Technology, Karlsruhe
  • 2008: Parrworld , House of Art , Munich
  • 2016: Dystotal , Ludwigforum Aachen

Fonts

  • with Juliane Rebentisch: Second World. Heinrich Editions / Galerie Bärbel Grässlin, Frankfurt am Main 2017, ISBN 978-3-943407-62-4
  • Rolf Lauter (Ed.): A / B 1987/2000. Museum of Modern Art, Frankfurt am Main 2000.
  • Rolf Lauter (Ed.), Heiner Blum, Alarm 1982-83 , Museum of Modern Art, Frankfurt am Main 1993. ISBN 978-3-98030-532-7
  • Rolf Lauter (ed.), Heiner Blum, ship catalog , Museum of Modern Art, Frankfurt am Main 2001. ISBN 978-3-88270-491-4

Awards and grants

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ - Heiner Blum
  2. ↑ website of the narrow club
  3. ^ Website of the Offenbach am Main University of Design
  4. ↑ Internet site of the Wollheim Commission of the Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main
personal data
SURNAME Blum, Heiner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and conceptual artist
DATE OF BIRTH 4th February 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart