International Artist Board
The International Artists' Committee (IKG) is an association of artists, curators and critics and sees itself as analogous to the PEN Club . The IKG is a member of the German Cultural Council and the Art Fund Foundation Council .
Origin and work
The IKG was founded in Cologne on January 14, 1976 on the initiative of Joseph Beuys and Klaus Staeck , together with Jochen Gerz and Georg Jappe as well as thirty other internationally renowned artists and art critics . A central reason for the foundation, besides the claim to the preservation of the freedom of art, was that in the times of the Iron Curtain artists from the Eastern Bloc countries needed an invitation from an official association for a travel permit to Western Europe. The concept of the IKG aims to bring people who are active in the field of visual arts together across national borders with the aim of exchanging different attitudes, perspectives and forms of expression. Following the founding of the company, the committee is still trying to establish relations with Eastern Europe. Conferences were held in Krakow , Łódź , Belgrade and Budapest , among others .
The body
The committee meets once a year at different locations in Europe. It is headed by a president and a secretary. In the past, Harry Kramer , Nan Hoover , Ryszard Waśko , Fritz Schwegler , Heinrich Brummack , Norbert Radermacher and Jens Brand served as presidents ; among the secretaries was Gunter Demnig . In 2017 Anna Tretter took over the office of President and Claudia Busching took over the management.
The conferences consist of exhibitions, encounters and debates. The participants form a network that works according to the pyramid scheme in that old and new members come together with internationally invited guests who could become future members. The International Artist Board currently has 245 members from Australia, Belgium, Germany, Finland, France, Great Britain, Israel, Italy, Japan, Canada, Korea, the Netherlands, Austria, Poland, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland, Slovakia, Serbia, Czech Republic, Hungary and the United States of America.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Götz Adriani, Winfried Konnertz , Karin Thomas: Joseph Beuys . DuMont, Cologne 1994, ISBN 3-7701-3321-8 , p. 150
- ^ Statutes of the IKG , accessed on May 18, 2010
- ↑ Homepage of the IKG , accessed on October 7, 2019
- ↑ According to information from the IKG website , accessed on May 18, 2010