Hubertus Gojowczyk

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Hubertus Gojowczyk (* 1943 in Oels , Silesia , Germany ; lives in Krefeld ) is a German object and concept artist . Since 1968 he has designed book objects and installations with printed matter.

life and work

Hubertus Gojowczyk was born in 1943 in Oels in Silesia and grew up in Northeim in Lower Saxony and in Duderstadt in Eichsfeld . He studied from 1963 to 1965 at the Pedagogical University in Koblenz . In 1965 he entered the school service and married Imme Terhoeven, with whom he has three children. Gojowczyk has lived and worked in Krefeld since 1967. From 1967 to 1971 he studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy with Rolf Sackenheim , Dieter Roth and Joseph Beuys . From 1972 to 1997 he was an art teacher at the Fichte-Gymnasium Krefeld .

He was particularly inspired by Dieter Roth to work as an artist with books. Hubertus Gojowczyk has created more than 1000 book objects and installations since 1968, including public ones such as the wall works and installations in the new media library in Krefeld.

Gojowczyk takes books as a starting point and material for alienation, changes and metamorphoses. His handling of the book can be both destructive and poetic in nature. He calls his objects, for example, a book with a wound , a book with an ax , a fire book or a feather book , a spring song , a book with a lawn or an ideal landscape . Hubertus Gojowczyk's art is irony, social and cultural criticism and a serious cultural and intellectual concern. With his book objects he creates reinterpretations and redefinitions and thus triggers associations in the viewer and stimulates them to think without having given them an overly specific interpretation.

Since 1971 Hubertus Gojowczyk has been present with his book objects and nationwide and internationally more than 100 times in individual and group exhibitions in galleries, museums, libraries and at trade fairs. He took part in documenta 5 in Kassel in 1972 with the installation "Shop windows with book objects". His contribution to documenta 6 in 1977 was the "Door to the Library" walled up with books, which is still part of the permanent exhibition in the Neue Galerie in Kassel is. The German National Library in Frankfurt dedicated a retrospective to Gojowczyk in 2008 for his 65th birthday under the title "Gutenberg Labyrinth".

Literature and Sources

  • Exhibition catalog: documenta 5. Survey of Reality - Imagery Today ; Catalog (as a file folder) Volume 1: (Material); Volume 2: (list of exhibits); Kassel 1972
  • documenta archive (ed.); Resubmission d5 - A survey of the archive on documenta 1972 ; Kassel / Ostfildern 2001, ISBN 3-7757-1121-X
  • Catalog for documenta 6: Volume 1: Painting, sculpture / environment, performance; Volume 2: photography, film, video; Volume 3: Hand drawings, utopian design, books; Kassel 1977, ISBN 3-920453-00-X
  • Exhibition catalog: Book objects for the Wunderkammer ; Frankesche Foundations; Halle an der Saale 2001, ISBN 3-931479-21-8
  • Exhibition catalog: Through the labyrinth ; German Museum of Books and Writing; Leipzig 2003, ISBN 3-933641-48-9
  • Exhibition catalog: The book as object ; Moeller Fine Art; New York 2005
  • Exhibition catalog: Gutenberg labyrinth ; German National Library; Frankfurt a. M. 2008, ISBN 978-3-941113-00-8

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gutenberg Labyrinth, p. 83
  2. ↑ Gutenberg labyrinth, catalog raisonné 1968–2008, pp. 97–149, since then numerous other book objects
  3. ↑ Gutenberglabyrinth, exhibitions / participation in exhibitions and trade fairs (selection), pp. 85–88, continuously since 2008
  4. ↑ http://www.dnb.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/DE/DNB/sammlungen/gojowczykKatalog.pdf?__blob=publicationFile
  5. ↑ https://www.mkffi.nrw/sites/default/files/asset/document/foerderpreistraeger-57-2015.pdf
  6. ↑ http://www.artomi.org/about/francis-j-greenburger-awards
personal data
SURNAME Gojowczyk, Hubertus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gojowczyk, Hubert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German object and concept artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Oels, Silesia