Horst Tress

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Horst Tress (2011)

Horst Tress (* 1950 in Cologne ) is a German artist and author based in Cologne.

Life

Horst Tress was born as the son of Günter Tress (obstacle jockey) and Marianne Tress, b. Hinz (hairdresser), born in Cologne-Lindenthal.

Tress completed an apprenticeship as a typesetter at the Breker art print shop in Cologne from 1966 to 1969 and studied advertising graphics from 1970 to 1972. In 1973 he married Lydia Franken. The then Cologne avant-garde gallery owner Ingo Kümmel and the art critic Gerd Winkler made his first steps on the art market possible (Kunstwetterlage in the magazine pardon, Aspects / ZDF and author / Belser Verlag). In addition to his artistic work, in the following years he worked as a printing form manufacturer, calculator, media designer, art broker and copywriter. In the 1970s and 1980s, Horst Tress was one of the suppliers of ideas for harlequin gifts in Wiesbaden . His ideas were sold in department stores and gift boutiques across Germany. He himself edited a pin signed on the back with the imprint “Art is contagious!”. In 1981, with the help of Klaus Staeck , he organized an exhibition by Joseph Beuys in a Cologne inn. From 1989 to 2011 he was the publisher of the print edition of “Köllefornia” with original supplements by, among others, Klaus Staeck, HA Schult , Karlheinz Stockhausen and Ben Vautier . All editions are in the Cologne City Museum and in the Cologne Art and Museum Library. "Köllefornia" has been appearing online for several years.

  • Fluxpostphoto by Horst Tress "On a knife's edge".

Since 1970 he has participated in international exhibitions. Among others, he exhibited together with Joseph Beuys, Ryosuke Cohen, Robert Filliou, Jürgen O. Olbrich, Yoko Ono, Clemente Padin, Robert Rehfeldt, HA Schult, Klaus Staeck, Timm Ulrichs, Ben Vautier, Wolf Vostell and many others. Horst Tress made the term "Fluxpostphoto" his own. These are original photographs that are shown worldwide.

Exhibitions as an artist (selection)

From 1970 to 1982 one-man shows in Argentina, Belgium, Germany, Italy, France, Poland, Sweden and Spain.

  • 1971: New Reform Gallery, Aalst, Belgium
  • 1974: Centro de Arte y Comunicación , Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • 1976: Galerie an der Neupforte, Aachen
  • 1978: Galerie Chez Malabar et Cunégonde, Nice, France (Ben Vautier, documentation room)
  • 1979: Galerie s: t Petri, Lund, Sweden
  • 1979: Gallery KIS, Düsseldorf
  • 1979: Theater im Vringsveedel Cologne
  • 1981: City Treff Foundation, Cologne

He participated in over 800 exhibitions worldwide. As an example, everything started in 1970 with the “Cologne Neumarkt der Künste”.

  • 1976: "The Seventies", CAYC, Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • 1976: "The Venetian Tools Project", Venice Biennale (Swiss Pavilion)
  • 1976: Mail Art exhibition in the former GDR. The Atelierbund Erfurt showed Beuys, Friedman, Manigh, Rehfeldt and Tress among an initiated group of people.
  • 1978: Postcards from Albrecht D, Wolf Vostell, Horst Tress u. a. in the café of the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart
  • 1998: “Between Life and Death”, Cologne City Museum
  • 2001–2003: "Art on prescription", u. a. Museum Ratingen , Kunsthalle Erfurt , Museum of the City of Landau, Siegerland Museum Siegen, Berlin Medical History Museum of the Charité etc.
  • 2006–2020: A suitcase for the last trip . It has been shown in various locations in Germany, Mexico, Russia, Austria and Switzerland.
  • 2013: "Arte Postale", Academy of the Arts, Berlin
  • 2014: “Frida Kahlo a Woman in the Future”, Biblioteca Roncello, Comune di Roncello, Italy
  • 2015: "Art for All", Academy of the Arts , Berlin
  • 2015: “New York Big Apple I Project”, The New York Boyer Foundation, New York, USA
  • 2015: “Visual Poetry”, International Mail Art Event at Mac Museum, Museo de Arte Canadense, Argentina
  • 2015: "IMAGÉTICA 2015" - 1st International Exhibition of Visual Poetry of FACHA, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  • 2015–2016: “theRED”, Kunsthalle Schaffhausen, Switzerland
  • 2016–2017: "Pieter Bruegel", The Museum of Instant Images, Chaam, Netherlands
  • 2016: VIIª Biennale Internazionale Mail Art 2016, Cosenza, Italy
  • 2016: “Artists' Books”, San Donà di Piave Museum (Venice), Italy
  • 2016: “What would you put in the Hat of Joseph Beuys”, l'Archivio Ophen Virtual Art e la Collezione Bongiani Ophen Art Museum di Salerno, Italy
  • 2017: Visual Poetry, Velimir Khlebnikov Museum, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
  • 2017: “Fête du Fil” festival in Labastide-Rouairoux, France
  • 2017: The Hoyt Gallery at the USC Keck School of Medicine present “PAIN2”, Los Angeles, USA
  • 2018: "Lady Madonna", The Jheronimus Bosch Art Center, Chaam, Netherlands
  • 2018: "Dead Bird Art Show", Arkansas, USA
  • 2018: "La Follia - Madness", VIIIª Biennale Internazionale Mail Art 2018, Italy
  • 2018: “How do you see Europe?”, Chemnitz University of Technology
  • 2019: North Spokane County Library, Spokane, WA USA.
  • 2019: ART'S Birthday 2019, Museum Fluxus +, Potsdam
  • 2019: IV Exposición Internacional de Arte Postal, "el agua", Palacio de Valdecarzana, Avilés, Spain
  • 2019: Museum of Fine Arts, Leipzig, YOKO ONO - PEACE is POWER
  • 2019: Fluxfest 2019, Sheldon Rose Gallery, Toronto, Canada
  • 2019: “Structures”, Rokeby Museum, Ferrisburgh, Vermont, USA
  • 2019: “ART is always an assertion. COLLECTING too. 50 Years of the Kraft Collection ”, Villa Zanders Art Museum, Bergisch Gladbach
  • 2019–2020: “Like you”, Museum for Communication, Berlin
  • 2020: "1 Convocatoria Arte Postal", Museo Internacional de Elektrografia, Cuenca, Spain
  • 2020: "Liebeskirmes", dd 55 Gallery, Cologne, u. a. with Jürgen Raap, Hella von Sinnen and Volker Hildebrandt.
  • 2020: "Zimmererecken", Museum Villa Flora, Winterthur, Switzerland
  • 2020: “Stay Home / Mail Art”, Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld
  • 2020: "Underground Mail Art", Chiostro Grande di San Domenico atl Archaeological Museum in Perugia, Italy

Radio, television, appearances (selection)

  • 1971: WDR 3, Critical Diary , Karlhans Frank reviews the Tress book “Fear!”.
  • 1978: ZDF “Aspects” shows a film about Tress and auctioned a work of art.
  • 1981: Kultur-Varieté “Die Bunte Kuh”, Kölner Wolkenburg. With Hella von Sinnen, Dirk Bach, Jürgen Domian and Horst Tress.
  • 2006: “Farbphänomene”, 1-hour radio broadcast from Studio Flok / Radio Cologne (with Paula Cremer, Heinz Bleser and Horst Tress).

In collections and archives as artist and editor (selection)

The Hanns Sohm archive in the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart houses publications and postcard originals, the archive for alternative literature in Duisburg houses all editions of its "Zeitung für Alle" from the 1980s, the Museum for Post and Communication, Frankfurt, its entire mail art Correspondence with international artists. The Cologne City Museum owns works and materials. Multiples is in the holdings of the Potsdamer Museum Fluxus + and the Wuppertal Von der Heydt Museum. Horst Tress is also represented in the Danish Lomholt Mail Art Archive and the Associazione Culturale Art Gallery Museum NabilaFluxus as well as the Bongiani Ophen Art Museum in Italy. The Archive Artist Publications of the collector Hubert Kretschmer in Munich, as well as the Dee Bee Smith Artcollection in Hamburg and the Center for Artist Publications Weserburg, Bremen, keep many of his works for posterity. In the USA, the Archives of the Eternal Network in Santa Fe houses some of his works. The Mail Art Archive Vienna - MAAV is a new addition.

Publications as artist and author (selection)

Since 1970 hundreds of publications, secondary literature in catalogs, magazines, daily press, magazines etc.

  • 1973: Horst Tress "Neuland", Gauke Verlag
  • 1977: Edition Zufall, Cologne (portfolio with Robert Rehfeldt, Horst Tress and Janos Urban)
  • 1977: “Still life” with Jochen Gerz, Arnulf Rainer and Horst Tress, art report, German Association of Artists
  • 1979: "Horst Tress pa S: t Petri", Skanska Dagbladet, Lund, Sweden
  • 1979: Dana Cebulla "Art Show", Cologne city revue
  • 1979: "Profile No. 3", Gallery KIS, Düsseldorf
  • 1981: Doris Schreiber "City-Tress for President", Kölnische Rundschau
  • 1981: Heinz Weyers “You can't start a fire with a match for 280 marks”, Bild Zeitung
  • 1998: "Art about death and mourning", Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger
  • 2001: Prof. Dr. Hartmut Kraft "Art on Prescription", Salon Verlag
  • 2006: Fritz Roth "Once Beyond and Back", Gütersloher publishing house ,
  • 2014: "Between exit and action", Kerber Verlag
  • 2015: Edition love pro toto, Cologne
  • 2016: Catalog texts for the artists Joelle Meissner, Lo Graf von Blickensdorf and Malte Sonnenfeld
  • 2017: Horst Tress “Art and Communication”, text was published in various publications worldwide.
  • 2018: ANGRY OLD MAN magazine, USA
  • 2018: Stampzine No. 10 and No. 12, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cologne Art Library. In: kubi-koeln.de. Retrieved November 24, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Köllefornia magazine. In: magazin-koellefornia.blogspot.de. January 8, 2015, accessed January 9, 2015 .
  3. ↑ Insights on his homepage fluxpost.jimdo.com
  4. ↑ Specific Object: Hacia un Perful del Arte Latinoamericano (Towards a Latin American Profile of Art). In: specificobject.com. Retrieved January 9, 2015 .
  5. ^ Franziska Dittert: Mail-Art in the GDR. Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH, 2010, ISBN 978-3-8325-2618-4 , p. 322. Limited preview in Google book search
  6. ^ Private Mourning Academy Fritz Roth: projects and actions - Pütz-Roth funerals and mourning support. In: puetz-roth.de. March 6, 2015, accessed January 9, 2015 .
  7. ↑ List of exhibited works . (PDF)
  8. ^ Hubert Kretschmer: Archive Artist Publications. Retrieved October 4, 2018 .
  9. ^ Art about death and mourning. (PDF) In: Kölner Stadtanzeiger from November 17, 1998
  10. ↑ Fritz Roth: Once Beyond and Back. Gütersloher publishing house. In: randomhouse.de. Retrieved January 9, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Tress, Horst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author, painter and artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne