Hella Boehm

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Hella Böhm, photographed by Odiliapiel

Hella Böhm (born January 18, 1952 in Stuttgart ; died January 4, 2016 in Berlin ) was a German video artist. She worked and taught in Stuttgart, Hamburg and Berlin. She founded the video workshop in the Künstlerhaus Stuttgart .

Life

Hella Böhm studied art in Stuttgart from 1970 to 1976 at the State Academy of Fine Arts and Art History , Romance Studies and Literary Studies at the University of Stuttgart. From 1977 she worked as a freelance artist with media and in particular with the new medium video and as a lecturer in the likewise new field of media education .

Artistic activity and teaching

Together with Jula Dech and Ilona Zarypow , she has been developing participatory film and video production projects at the Technical University and Free University of Berlin since 1977 as part of their art studies. From 1983 to 1988 she worked in the video workshop of the Künstlerhaus Stuttgart , where she set up the video studio. Working on projects related to new media , as a video pioneer she created structures for artistic work with the medium of video. Together with Heinz Legler , Rudolf Bumiller and Achim Kubinsky she ran the art school in the Neue Weinsteige. Harry Walther said in an interview about the Künstlerhaus Stuttgart:

The contacts arose in the Neue Weinsteige, which was led by Rudolf Bumiller, Achim Kubinsky, Heinz Legler and Hella Böhm. I worked there as a 'lecturer'. I come from theory, which means I studied art history and philosophy. The concept of art was very open, so it didn't matter that I didn't come from an artistic field. As early as 1978 we had an exhibition downstairs, in the current café, called "Project No. 3".

From 1988 to 2006, Böhm was also a lecturer at the University of the Arts at the Institute for Art in Context.

Prizes and awards

With her work, Böhm took part in international video film festivals, which are now part of the collection of the ZKM and the New Berlin Art Association NBK . In 1985 and 1989 she received a scholarship from the Baden-Württemberg Art Foundation . In 1987 and 1990 her videos were funded by the Hamburg Film Fund. Umbildern was the title of a film program in the Special section of the 30th Lesbian and Gay Film Days Hamburg in 2019, where her films, together with film and video works by the artists Maria Lang , Muriel Utinger, Tina Z'Rotz, Sabin Tünschel and Verena Moser, will be shown and were honored.

Working method

After the feminist, performative and diary-like work, she was also interested in media-referential work with video, and she worked on installation and action around time-based media. In Stuttgart, she founded the women's video collective , which existed from 1981 to 1984, the Frauen-Treff , in 1981 organized the series of events for women filmmakers in the municipal cinema and a film initiative with Loretta Walz , but also took on commissioned work for art and cultural institutions. She worked in exchange with other artists, curators and researchers such as Bildwechsel , Yvonne P. Doderer , Ute Meta Bauer , Zorah Mari Bauer and Viola Kiefner .

She worked with the artist Ilse Teipelke on the medial translation of performative processes and stepped into the limelight with a work at the Documenta .

“ The mountain , your performance for documenta 8 , arose from sound experiments with terracotta pieces. This “invention” is the sound of ceramic parts immersed in water. Depending on the material used, its shape and the temperature at which it was fired, an unbelievable variety of sounds can be heard during this immersion process due to the escaping air. Reinforced via a mixer and visually experienceable in detail through micro-recordings by the artist Hella Böhm, the sound pieces by Ilse Teipelke open up an area of ​​previously unheard music from inside the earth. "

- Catalog documenta 8

Projects / exhibitions

  • 1978 Project No. 3 , Künstlerhaus Stuttgart
  • 1981 Stuttgart artist , Künstlerhaus Hamburg
  • 1984 Art Landscape FRG , Frankfurter Kunstverein / Württembergischer Kunstverein
  • 1985 1st International Video Biennial , Vienna
  • 1985 The self-portrait in the age of photography , Württembergischer Kunstverein
  • 1985 Feminale , Cologne
  • 1986 International Film Festival Mannheim
  • 1986 2nd Videonale , Bonn
  • 1986 Women make Videos , Los Angeles
  • 1987 Der Berg , Ilse Teipelke with Hella Böhm as a contribution to documenta 8 , Kassel
  • 1989 Licht-Raum-Bild , Württembergischer Kunstverein / Kunsthaus Hamburg
  • 1997 10th Stuttgart Film Winter
  • 2005, Inventing the Wheel / Inventing the Wheel - Participatory Practice in Art since 1970, NgbK Berlin
  • 2007 Sometime the end of fun! Interventions in advertising , Arttransponder, Berlin
  • 2017 Artwork Krastal - 1967 - 2017. The first fifty years of artwork Krastal , Einöde bei Villach , Austria

Video works

  • 1980/81 video diary , 24 ', Stuttgart
  • 1981 materials on the film work of women , 4-part documentation of the women's video collective Stuttgart by Hella Böhm - with contributions to the association of film workers , the magazine women and film and a conversation with the filmmaker Ulrike Ottinger , U-Matic b / w, Stuttgart
  • 1984 La vue , 24 ', Stuttgart
  • 1985 Bugaboo , 9 ', Stuttgart
  • 1985 Barbara , 10'30 ", Berlin, Stuttgart
  • 1985 the shy guys , 2'45 '', Stuttgart in the Ghetto. the shy guys on YouTube
  • 1985 The bride freezes , 2'25 ", Stuttgart
  • 1985 Das Schneetape , 1'40 ", Stuttgart
  • 1988 Hawk , 28'30 ", Hamburg, Stuttgart
  • 1986 Der Klangraum , 17 ', performance by Ilse Teipelke & Gabi Goos
  • 1990 Black Forrest - Blue Danube , 14'13 ", Zorah Mari Bauer, Viola Kiefner, Hella Böhm, Martin Kreissig, Betacam SP, color, mono, Hamburg
  • 1993 own laß-das , 5 ', live video recording, Berlin, Haus am Kleistpark
  • 1993 The palaces and gardens of Potsdam, 55 min., Together with m. Loretta Walz. Commissioned by the Potsdam-Sanssouci Palace and Gardens Foundation

Publications

further reading

  • Arbeitsgemeinschaft Deutscher Kunstvereine (Ed.): KunstLandschaft BundesRepublik. Stuttgart and Württemberg. Young art in German art associations . Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 978-3-60876199-3 .
  • Art Foundation scholarship holders. Baden-Württemberg. Yasuhiko Ando; Hella Boehm; Sabine Braun et al. Issue 7. Stuttgart 1986.
  • GEDOK (Ed.): Uroboros. A Third Gender - Myth and Aesthetic Projection . Schleswig-Holstein State Museum at Gottorf Castle, 1987.
  • Wessbecher, Angelika (ed.): Light, space, image . Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart 1988.
  • Yvonne P. Doderer: Urban Practices. Strategies and spatial productions of the feminist women's public . Monsenstein and Vannerdat publishing house, Münster 2003, ISBN 3-936600-79-1 .

Web links

credentials

  1. ↑ a b c haus.0 - research interviews with founding members of the Künstlerhaus. In: haussite.net - haus.0 in the Künstlerhaus Stuttgart 1999–2002. Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, 1999, accessed on October 12, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Pasewald'scher Hof without Hella Böhm. In: Kiez and Kneipe Neukölln. February 6, 2016, accessed October 12, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Inventing the Wheel (2005) - nGbK Archive. Retrieved October 12, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Jula Dech's website
  5. ^ Art school Weinsteige - Künstlerhaus Stuttgart. Retrieved October 13, 2019 (American English).
  6. ^ Hella Böhm in the ZKM collection
  7. ↑ a b Hella Böhm in the NBK collection
  8. ^ Scholarship archive - Kunststiftung BW. Retrieved October 13, 2019 .
  9. ↑ GEDOK: Uroboros. A third gender. Myth and Aesthetic Projection . 1987.
  10. ↑ Festival 2019 - Specials 2019 :: Lesbian and Gay Film Days Hamburg | International Queer Film Festival. Retrieved March 15, 2020 .
  11. ↑ Maja Riepl-Schmidt, Theresa Stark, Dietlinde Wenzl-Reimspiess: Stuttgarter Frauenbuch . Ed .: Maja Riepl-Schmidt. Edition Cordeliers, 1983, ISBN 3-922836-03-8 , pp. 204 .
  12. ↑ documenta 8 catalog: Volume 1: Essays; Volume 2: Catalog page 309; Volume 3: artist book; Kassel 1987, ISBN 3-925272-13-5
  13. ^ History 1986. In: Internationales Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg. Retrieved October 13, 2019 .
  14. ↑ Exhibition Archive 2013-1970 - Kunsthaus Hamburg. In: kunsthaushamburg.de. Retrieved October 12, 2019 .
  15. ↑ Inventing the Wheel (2005) - nGbK Archive. Retrieved October 13, 2019 .
  16. ↑ Steffi: “At some point there is no more fun! Interventions in Advertising ”. In: colon. Retrieved October 13, 2019 .
  17. ↑ Hella Böhm. Artist. In: Artfacts.net. Retrieved October 12, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Bohm, Hella
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German video artist
DATE OF BIRTH January 18, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH 4th January 2016
Place of death Berlin