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
- 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 )
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Hoheisel, Horst |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German visual artist |
DATE OF BIRTH | December 6, 1944 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Poses |