Heinz Peter Schwerfel

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Heinz Peter Schwerfel (* 1954 in Cologne ) is a German art critic , filmmaker and author .

Vita

After studying philosophy and art history in Aachen and Paris (Sorbonne IV), Schwerfel, born in Cologne in 1954, worked in Paris from 1979 as a political editor at the French press agency AFP . From the early eighties he wrote as an art and film critic a. a. for Transatlantik , art - Das Kunstmagazin , Das Magazin der Zeit , Lui, Art Press , Beaux Arts Magazine , Filmkorrepondenz . Freelance work for Radio SWF 3 and television, where he worked regularly for the popular cinema program Etoiles et Toiles on the French TV channel TF 1, presented by Frédéric Mitterrand, who was responsible for interviews.

After working on a documentary about the American surrealist Man Ray (directed by Deidi von Schaewen , 1982), Schwerfel made numerous documentaries on contemporary art as a director and producer from 1985 and published several interview volumes in the series 'Art Today' (Kiepenheuer & Witsch. In 1989 he founded Artcore Film GmbH in Berlin and expanded his spectrum: in addition to artist portraits, there were fiction ('Tanguera', 'Artcore', 'Die Insschrift des Gottes'), theater (Christoph Marthaler), literature (Cees Nooteboom), design ( he invented the 'Design' series for Arte, which continued until 2011, as well as several filmic essays on free cultural topics, including with Jean Baudrillard, Peter Sloterdijk, Heiner Müller, Peter Ludwig etc.). Retrospectives of his films took place. a. in Paris (Center Pompidou), New York (Film Anthologies and MoMA) or Buenos Aires (Malba).

In 1998 Schwerfel went to Hamburg as deputy editor-in-chief of the art magazine ART for two years. He has published several books on contemporary art in Cologne's DuMont Buchverlag ('Kunst-Scandale', 'Kunst nach Ground Zero', 'Kino und Kunst'). In 2004 he moved to Buenos Aires for three years, where he made films for television and the Ministry of Culture, for example about the history of the Baroque in South America. About his stay in Argentina he wrote the city portrait "Buenos Aires intensive - Tango Urbano" (Kiepenheuer & Witsch). In 2002 he founded the KunstFilmBiennale in Cologne, a film festival for art and cinema, of which he was artistic director until 2010. In 2013, 'Kino der Kunst' followed in Munich, which was both a film festival and an art exhibition.

Schwerfel is married to the tango singer Silvana Deluigi and lives in Paris and Cologne.

Filmography (selection)

  • Peinture Fraiche made in France, 1985, 52 '
  • Malstrom, 1985, 52 '
  • I Grandi Manoveri, 1986, 52 '
  • The third dimension, 1986/87, 135 '
  • Me, Georg Baselitz, 1987, 45 '
  • Tanguera, (fiction), 1989, 52 'with Silvana Deluigi , Enrico Pinti, Juan José Mosalini etc.
  • Jeff Koons, 1990, 45 '
  • The finiteness of freedom, 80 ', 16mm, engl. U title, 1991 with Defa and Berlin Senate. Awarded at the film festivals Montreal 1991, Asolo 1991, Lausanne 1992, Paris 1992. With Heiner Müller as narrator, as well as Mario Merz, Hans Haacke, Jannis Kounellis, Rebecca Horn, Raffael Rheinsberg, Volker Via Lewandowski and others. a.
  • An erotic concert - Rebecca Horn , 1993, 45 ', video, WDR / 3Sat. Award for Best Reportage Art Film Festival Montreal 1993
  • Jannis Kounellis - Fragments of a Diary, 1996, 45 ', 35mm, WDR / 3Sat
  • Bruce Nauman - Make Me Think, 1997, 70 ', 35mm, Arte / 3Sat / Arts Council, theatrical release in all major German cities.
  • Protest, Rebellion, Subversion - Socially critical art since Fluxus, 1997, 60 ', essay with Günter Brus, Katharina Sieverding, Christian Boltanski, Ilya Kabakov, Hans Haacke, Joseph Kosuth u. v. a. Archives with Beuys, Vostell, Burden etc.
  • Virealities 1998, 70 'with Jean Baudrillard, Mark Dery, Stanislaw Lem, William Gibson a. a.
  • Jochen Gerz - Your Art. 1998, Video, 60 ', WDR / 3Sat / INA / Center Pompidou. Award for best artist program at the Montreal Art Film Festival
  • Design 1999–2003, series: Lounge Chair, TGV, Vespa, Swatch, Leica, Jaguar E, Braun Phonosuper
  • Kounellis in Mexico, 2000, 14 '
  • Utopia or The Art of Survival, 2000, 60 ', with Wolf Singer, Peter Sloterdijk, Willam J. Mitchell, Francis Fukuyama, Thilo Bode u. a.
  • Annette Messager - Plaisirs / Déplaisirs, 2000, 52 ', price for best essay, artist film festival Montreal 2001
  • Jürgen Klauke - cantilever chair, 2001, 52 '
  • What you want, 2001, 135 ', TV version of Christoph Marthaler's production in the Schauspielhaus Zurich
  • Frenzied Standstill - The Theater of Christoph Marthaler, 2001, 60 '
  • Alex Katz - What about Style, 2002, 60 '
  • Hotel Nooteboom, 2003, 90 '
  • Baselitz, 2004, 52 '
  • Eight pictures to think about what to do next - the Flick Collection, 2004, 60 '
  • Matisse, 2005, 60 '
  • Barroco, 2006/2007, 90 '
  • Berlin - poor but sexy, 2008, 52 '
  • The Possible Lives of Christian Boltanski, 2009, 52 '
  • Julian Rosefeldt - American Night, 2009, 52 '
  • Annette Messager - Pudique et publique, 2010, 52 '
  • The world of Anish Kapoor, 2011, 52 '
  • Daniel Buren au Grand Palais, 2012, 26 '
  • Kabakov au Grand Palais, 2014, 26 '
  • Live Art - 14 Rooms, 2014
  • Live Art - Philippe Parreno, 2015
  • Live Art - Joan Jonas, 2015
  • Live Art - Adrián Villar Rojas , 2015

Retrospectives

  • 1988 Musée National d'Art Moderne (Center Georges Pompidou), Paris
  • 1992 New York (Goethe-Institut, MoMA, Anthology Film Society, Institut Français)
  • 1998 Buenos Aires, Córdoba, Santiago de Chile, Asunción, Montevideo
  • 2000 Rio de Janeiro (Centro Cultural Banco do Bresil)
  • 2001 Helsinki (State Art Museum), Mexico City (Cinematheque)
  • 2004 Buenos Aires (Museum of Latin American Art)
  • 2007 Málaga (Museum of Modern Art)

Book publications

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personal data
SURNAME Schwerfel, Heinz Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist, author and film director
DATE OF BIRTH 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne