Hermann Josef Hack

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Hermann Josef Hack (2013)

Hermann Josef Hack (born June 20, 1956 in Bad Honnef ) is a German artist .

Act

From 1973, at the age of 17, Hack was one of Joseph Beuys' numerous students at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . From 1977 to 1979 he completed his studies and an apprenticeship as a graduate in administration at the Deutsche Bundesbahn. From 1990 to 1997 he was the art commissioner of the Federal Ministry for Research and Technology and from 1992 to 1998 a member of the founding board of trustees of the art and exhibition hall of the Federal Republic of Germany . He became known through socio-political campaigns such as the poor sock carpet (1998) and the World Climate Refugee Camp , a miniature refugee camp made up of over 1,000 tents, which he sets up in the center of European capitals to draw attention to the victims of climate change . As a painter , Hack uses tarpaulin to depict global challenges.

Important stations of his activity were u. a. the world's first interactive television project Piazza Virtuale at Van Gogh TV , which he carried out together with the artist group Ponton for Documenta IX in 1992. The first videophone connection between researchers at the North Pole and the South Pole and visitors to the Kunstmuseum Siegburg in 1994 (the so-called "polar night" was also included in the Guinness Book of Records), as well as the first video conference between the crew of the research vessel Polarstern in the Antarctic and visitors of the Koenig Museum in Bonn were other activities he undertook to bring scientists into conversation with the public.

With his "World Climate Refugee Camp", a climate refugee camp in miniature format made of tents made by Hack and provided with inscriptions, the artist traveled to the metropolises of Europe and also to other continents through the touring exhibition "Recommended for imitation!" In order to respond to the needs of the already to point out those threatened by climate change and to advocate their recognition as refugees. Since 2013, Hack has been transforming his pictures on tarpaulins into so-called "habitable pictures" by using them e.g. B. can protrude from the museum wall into the room, so that they form a protective tarpaulin or act as emergency housing on a substructure knotted together from sticks. During the UN Climate Change Conference COP 20 in Lima, Hack “occupied” the Goethe-Institut Lima and declared it a “Global Brainstorming Expedition Camp Lima”. From here, together with his colleague and project partner Andreas Pohlmann , he undertook various public interventions with the population and founded the “Policia Agua” (water police) to counteract the waste of this precious resource.

For World Refugee Day on June 20, 2014, Hack built seven refugee tents in front of the Reichstag in Berlin from his pictures. At Christmas 2014 at the Sankt Peter Art Station in Cologne , Hack used his pictures to create the expansive tent installation “Base Camp”, a symbolic refugee tent under which the congregation held their church services. On September 22, 2015, Hack founded the First Refugee Academy of the Liberal Arts (EFFK) together with Andreas Pohlmann.

Art actions

  • Art campaign with 600 small climate refugee tents in
    front of Hanover Central Station

  • Hack as ambassador of the Climate Refugee Republic at the Foreign Office, Berlin 2010

  • Hack declares the Goethe-Institut Lima a "Global Brainstorming Expedition Camp"

Hack was or is guest lecturer u. a. at the Academy for Political Education in Tutzing , the University of Hohenheim , the ecosign Design Academy Cologne, the Leuphana University Lüneburg and the private University of Witten / Herdecke .

He has his studio in Siegburg .

On November 6, 2017, Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier awarded Hack the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesverdienstkreuz) for his artistic work.

Actions, exhibitions and projects

  • 2000 Ultimedia, Siegburg City Museum
  • 2001 stock exchange bible in front of the Frankfurt stock exchange
  • 2001 "You are Cologne" campaign
  • 2009 campaign for the urban climate day in Leipzig
  • 2010–2012 “Recommended for imitation! - Examples to follow! ", Uferhallen Berlin (with Yes Men Group, Olafur Eliasson, Tue Greenvort etc.)
  • 2012–2015 “Recommended for imitation! - Ejemplos a seguir! ", Further stations with hacks" World Climate Refugee Camp "in Mumbai, Beijing, Sao Paulo, Puebla / Mexico, Essen ( Zeche Zollverein ), Lima / Peru
  • 2015 “Basecamp - Base Camp”, Art Station Sankt Peter Cologne

literature

  • Andreas Pohlmann (Ed.): Hermann Josef Hack, Ultimedia . Stadtmuseum Siegburg, 2000, ISBN 3-935005-00-8 .

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Web links

Commons : Hermann Josef Hack  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Internet page Kunstnetzwerk NRW  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / kunstnetznrw.com  
  2. ^ Kunstforum, Volume 1988, 2009, p. 216
  3. ↑ Awards: Federal Cross of Merit for Hermann-Josef Hack. In: www.kunstforum.de (art forum). Retrieved December 22, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Die Welt: Bible for Stockbrokers , April 28, 2001
  5. ^ Action artist Hack New names for Cologne's streets , in: Spiegel Online from October 29, 2001
  6. ↑ Magazine art: ( Memento from December 16, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Hermann Josef Hack - Interview - “Ovens instead of hot spots” from June 15, 2009
  7. ↑ http://www.kulturstiftung-des-bundes.de/cms/de/programme/kultur_der_nachhaltigkeit/zur_nachahmung_empfohlen.html
personal data
SURNAME Hack, Hermann Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist and founder of the Global Brainstorming Project
DATE OF BIRTH June 20, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Honnef