Horst Hoheisel

Horst Hoheisel (born December 6, 1944 in Posen ) is a German visual artist.

Life

Hoheisel studied forest sciences in Munich and Göttingen as well as art at the Munich Art Academy and the Kassel Art Academy . The artist lived for some time in a Yanomami indigenous settlement in the Orinoco Amazon region and did his doctorate on the rainforest ecosystem in Venezuela . Hoheisel lives and works in Kassel. He was a participant in documenta 13 in 2012 .

Artistic work

Together with the architect Andreas Knitz, Horst Hoheisel is known for his artistic work, so-called negative monuments or counter monuments. These works of remembrance of National Socialism see themselves as "signs of remembrance in public space". Exhibition locations are u. a .:

• German Historical Museum , Berlin
• German Resistance Memorial Center , Berlin
• Jewish Museum , New York
• Jewish Museum Berlin
• Museu Lasar Segall , São Paulo
• Museum of Modern Art , New York
• Museum landscape Hessen Kassel and Aschrottbrunnen , Kassel
• Yad Vashem , Jerusalem
• Weissenau Memorial , Ravensburg

Projects

• Negative Memorial Aschrottbrunnen (Kassel 1986/87);
• The Artist as Catalyst of Memory Thought Stones Collection, (Kassel, Berlin, Munich 1986–1990);
• Holocaust Memorial Brandenburger Tor Gate - The Memorial as a blank void (Berlin 1994/95);
• The Gateways of the Germans (Memorial for one night): Slide-Projection of the Auschwitz-Gate on the Brandenburger Tor (Berlin January 27, 1997)
• Track 13/14 - The memory of the tracks (Kassel 2015)

In collaboration with Andreas Knitz

Braunschweig : Monument to the gray buses in front of the Braunschweig Castle

• A memorial to a memorial (Buchenwald 1995)
• Crushed History ( Weimar 1997-2002)
• GERMAN GROUND - German grounds (Frankfurt / Berlin 1998)
• 1752 × 12 kg product linz ( Linz 2000)
• Arte da Memória (São Paulo 2001)
• MariAntonia / memoriAntonia ( São Paulo 2002 and 2003)
• Pássaro Livre - Vogel Frei (São Paulo 2003)
• The memorial of the gray buses (from 2006)
• Bookmarks - Memory of the Book Burning (Bonn 2013)

Exhibitions

• 1978 Munich, Lenbachhaus , Kunstforum
• 1983 Berlin, Pankehallen
• 1986 Cologne, Moltkerei
• 1994 Jewish Museum , New York
• 1994 German Historical Museum , Berlin; 1995 City Museum, Munich
• 1995 Duisburg, inner harbor;
• 1998 Yad Vashem , Israel
• 2000 DKM Foundation, Lehmbruck Museum , Jewish community, Duisburg
• 2000 Museum of Modern Art , New York: Open Ends, Counter Monuments and Memory
• 2003 Escape route to the Brandenburg Gate, Commerzbank Berlin building
• 2003 Berlin Torlos, Jewish Museum Berlin
• 2003 LebensZeich-n-s, Museo Lasar Segall São Paulo

Exhibitions with Andreas Knitz

• 1995 Museum for Sepulchral Culture , Kassel
• 1999 Crushed History - Art as a roundabout way, Thuringia Main State Archive Weimar
• 2000 Upper Austrian State Gallery, Linz
• 2001 Arte da Memória, USP Maria Antonia São Paulo
• 2002 and 2003 MariAntonia / memoriAntonia, USP Maria Antonia São Paulo
• 2003 Pássaro Livre - Vogel Frei, Pinacoteca São Paulo

literature

• Horst Hoheisel, Andreas Knitz: Ground history - art as a detour. Projects by Horst Hoheisel and Andreas Knitz , Weimar 1999
• A Alma dos Edificos_The Soul of the Buildings_The Soul of the Buildings Horst Hoheisel and Andreas Knitz , Fulvia Molina, Marcelo Brodsky São Paulo, Brasilia 2004
• James E. Young : After-Images of the Holocaust in Contemporary Art and Architecture . Translation of Ekkehard Knörer . Hamburg: Hamburger Edition, 2002 ISBN 3-930908-70-0 , pp. 116–126

Web links

Commons : Sculptures by Horst Hoheisel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Horst Hoheisel in the catalog of the German National Library
• http://www.zermahlenegeschichte.de/
• http://www.chgs.umn.edu/Visual___Artistic_Resources/Horst_Hoheisel/horst_hoheisel.html
• Horst Hoheisel, Kassel / Berlin ( Memento from January 18, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
• “Berlin goalless. The Brandenburg Gate - an empty place " ( Memento from September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive )