Jårg Geismar

Jårg Geismar (born January 19, 1958 in Burgsvik , Gotland , Sweden ; † February 26, 2019 in Essen ) was a German artist . He lived and worked in Düsseldorf .

Life

Jårg Geismar studied from 1979 to 1980 at the Justus Liebig University in Gießen and at the Ruhr University Bochum . His interests were in animation, drawing, psychology and sociology. From 1980 to 1986 he studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy with Fritz Schwegler and Irmin Kamp. In the following years from 1986 to 1988 he studied at the New School of Social Research and at the Parsons School of Design in New York City . His teachers were u. a. Richard van Buren and Ronald Bladen . His main areas of work in New York were fine arts, art history and architecture with an MFA ( Master of Fine Arts ) degree .

In 1985 he founded ATW - Around the world (30) - a global forum for interdisciplinary exchange. Since then he has worked internationally on numerous projects and symposia together with authors, scientists, artists, dancers and musicians. Since 1995 he has been a lecturer and visiting professor at various academies and art schools in Europe, Asia and the United States.

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Jårg Geismar's works range from painting to room installations, video art and cooperation projects with artists from different fields. For him, all materials and objects can be used to make art out of them.

“New meanings are revealed in everyday objects, from cellophane and carbon paper to keys and mattresses to wire and cord. In a completely extraordinary way we get to know the ordinary anew ... Geismar's work is based on a very down-to-earth "do-it-yourself" aesthetic - an elegant sense of the transience of things, very refreshing in one of money, shiny Splendor and other materialistic clunkers determined the present. .. Geismar's efforts are closely related to those of Jasper John , according to the motto: take an object, change it, change it again, and then make something else out of it. "Kenny Schachter in" The Red Line ". (1a)

Awards (selection)

1986 DAAD scholarship for New York
1987 Artist Space, Grant, New York, USA
1990 Art Fund Foundation , Bonn e. V., Germany
1990 Merit of Excellence, Kansai Science City, Japan (together with Holger Drees)
1993 Cartier Foundation Scholarship, Paris, France
1996 Künstlerdorf Schöppingen Foundation , Germany
1997/98 IASPIS scholarship, Stockholm, Sweden (36)
2000 AIAV scholarship, Akiyoshidai, Japan (6)
2001 Atelier d 'Artists grant, Marseille, France
2010 Vrije Academy Scholarship The Hague, Netherlands

Solo exhibitions (selection)

2015 “Piccolo Cinema”, Leyer-Pritzkow exhibitions, Düsseldorf
2009 "Aquarium", Japanese-German Center Berlin
2002 “Silence”, Märkisches Museum (Berlin) , Berlin
2002 "Jag är född här och min far dog här" BAC Baltic Art Center, Visby, Sweden
2000 "We meet in :::", The Prefectural Yamaguchi Art Museum, Yamaguchi, and AIAV, Yamaguchi, Japan
1999 "Future in Mind" National Gallery Bangkok , Thailand
1998 “Low Budget” Kunsthallen Göteborg, Sweden; 1997 also Kunsthalle Kiel , Kiel, Germany
1994 "Public Copyright", Art Association for the Rhineland and Westphalia , Düsseldorf

Group exhibitions (selection)

2013 “LE PONT” MAC, Contemporary Art Museum Marseille and European Capital of Culture Marseille-Provence, Marseille, France Curator: Thierry Ollat; u. a. with Marina Abramović , Absalon, Vito Acconci, Denis Adams, Francis Alys , Jean-Michel Basquiat , Chen Zhen, Marlene Dumas , Jimmie Durham , Peter Friedel, Felix Gonzales -Torres, Mona Hatoum, Douglas Gordon , Pierre Huyghe , Alfredo Jaar, Ilya Kabakov , Emilia Kabakov, William Kentridge , Kimsooja, Roman Ondak, Gabriel Orozco, Adrian Paci, Dan Perjovschi, Anri Sale, Yinka Shonibare, Andy Warhol , Fiona Tan , Beat Streuli, Lazlo Moholy-Nagy , Barthelemy Toguo, Guido van der Werve ( 38)
2013 “THE COLLECTOR”, Uppsala Art Museum, Sweden Curators: Elisabeth Fagerstedt and Åsa Thornlund, u. a. with Magnus Bärtås, Annika Erikson, Hyun-Jin Kwak, Charles LaBelle, Matts Leiderstam (c) (13)
2008 "ITCA Triennale", The National Gallery Prague, Czech Republic Curator: Hiroshi Minamishima (c) (14)
2007 "T / raum (a) * 68", 2007, Hallen Belfort, Brugge, Belgium; Curators: Michel de Wilde, Stef van Bellingen; u. a. with Marcel Broodthaers , Jeff Cornelis, Daniel Dewale, Jef Geys, Felix Gmelin, Pablo Lafuente, Gianni Motti, Erwin Wurm , in video DVD a. a. with interviews with Harun Farocki, Jan Debbaut, Christian Heise, Ben Borthwick, Iwona Blazwick, Hans-Ulrich Obrist , Julie Espeel, Ugo Dossi . (15) (c)
2007 “Attitude 2007”, CAMK Contemporary Art Museum Kumamoto, Kumamoto, Japan; Curator Hiroshi Minamishima; u. a. with Nobuyoshi Araki, Boris Mikhailov, Leonid Sokov, Rasa Todosijevic, Judy Chicago, Miwa Yanagi, Zbigniew Liberia. (16) (c)
2007 "The Art of Collecting", Museum Kunstpalast , Düsseldorf (c)
2006 "Class Kamp 1974-2006", Kunsthalle Düsseldorf , a. a. with Christoph Büchel, Luka Fineisen, Maik and Dirk Löbbert, Dieter Lennartz, Heike Pallanca, Takashi Kuribayashi, Birgit Werres, Axel Lieber u. a. (17) (c)
2005 “Daumenkino”, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf and Photo Museum Provincie Antwerp, Belgium (2006) Curator: Daniel Gethmann / Christoph Schulz; with 110 international artists, (18) (c)
2004 “Conceptual Clothing”, Musashino Library Museum and Kirishima Open Air Museum, Japan (2005), curator: Kazuko Koike; with Yayoi Kusama, Issey Miyake, Yasumasa Morimura, Lucy Orta, Kosuke Tsumura (c) (19)
2002 "Transfer" Bildmuseum Umea, Sweden, curator Jan-Erik Lundström, u. a. with Batholomeo Togue, Annee Olofsson, Ingrid Falk & Gustavo Aguerre.
2001 “Tirana Biennale. Escape 1 ", Tirana, Albania, curator: Jan-Erik Lundström (20) (c)
2001 "Cabinet of Drawings" Art Association for the Rhineland and Westphalia, Düsseldorf, Art Association Lingen Art Hall, Chemnitz Art Collections, Art Association Stuttgart, (21) (c)
2000 “Less Aesthetics more Ethics”, participant in the 7th Architecture Biennale di Venezia , Italian-Swiss pavilion; Curator: Harm Lux (c) (22)
1998 “ARKIPELAG” Cultural Capital of Europe, Stockholm, Sweden Curator: David Neuman, in section 2 u. a. with Miriam Bäckström, Tobias Rehberger, Andrea Zittel, Jason Rhoades, Carsten Nicolai, Chen Zhen, Nari Ward, Sigmar Polke , Helmut Federle (c) (23)
1998 “Medialization”, Edsvik Konst Kultur, Sollentuna Sweden and Eesti Kunstimuuseum, Tallinn, Estonia; Curator: Joseph Backstein ; u. a. with Frederic Wretman, CM von Hauswolf, Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Eva Koch, Dellbrügge & Moll, Zbigniew Libera, Oleg Kulik, AES, Peter Kogler, IRWIN, Nedkov Solakov, Uri Tzaig , Kendell Geers , Soo-ja Kim, Andres Serrano , (c)
1996 “Multimedia Squared”, Lansdowne House, London, England; u. a. with Arni Gudmundson, Sadachiko Odashima, Cecilia Parsberg, Tom Philips, Colin Self, Ben Vautier , Darrel Viner and Peter Greenaway , curator: Robert Conolly (c)
1996 "Dialogues" Atatürk Kültüt Merkezi and Museum Kunstpalast Düsseldorf, artist a. a. with Erdag Aksel, Esra Ersen, Eberhard Bosslet, Felix and Irmel Droese , Ernst Hesse, Julia Lohmann, Osman, Thomas Schütte , Yuji Takeoka, Iskender Yediler, Adem Yilmaz, Paul Pozozza Museum, curator: Beral Madra and Ernst Hesse (c)
1997 "Arctic - Antarctic" Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany , Bonn, (c) (24) Curator Stephan Andreae, Arved Fuchs, Sven Lundström,
1994 “lovestories”, House of World Cultures, Berlin; u. a. with Collette, Dirk Sommer, Mercedes Barros. (c)
1994 "Body of Gender", Offenes Kulturhaus Linz, Austria, a. a. with Valie Export , Vera Frenkel , Piotr Nathan, Joanna Jones, Ilse Haider (c) (25) Curator: Sigrid Schade
1993 “Cardinal Points of Art”, participant in the 45th Biennale di Venezia, Turkish Pavilion; Curator Beral Madra, Italy (c) (26)
1992 "Adam and Eve", The National Museum of Modern Art Saitama, Japan in the section "Distance" u. a. with Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, Yasumasa Morimura, Robert Longo, Eiko Hosoe, Cindy Sherman, Genieve Cadieux, Jürgen Klauke, Ulay / Abramovic, Jiri Takamatsu, Leiko Ikemura (c) (32)
1992 "Sites of Intolerance", The Institute of Contemporary Art, MoMA PS1 , New York, USA; u. a. with Gretchen Bender, Peter Fend, Scott Gilliam, Katharina Karrenberg, Catherine Owens, Dara Silverman; (c) (37) Curator: Zdenka Gabulova
1991 "Exposition de L'ecole du Magasin" Center National d'art Contemporain de Grenoble, Grenoble, France, a. a. with Michel Aubry, Perejaume, Andreas Slominski , Richard Venlet, Bernard Voita (2c) (28)
1990 "Treibhaus V", Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, a. a. with Annette von der Bey, Ursula Damm , Dag Erik Elgin, Manuel Franke, Till Hohn, Detlef Holtgrewe, Ulrike Holthöfer, Klaus Kehrwald, Susanne Klaner, Bertolt Mohr, Martin Schwenk (c) (27) Curator: Stefan von Wiese
1990 "Color and / or Monochrome", The National Museum of Modern Art Kyoto, Japan a. a. with Katharina Fritsch , Leiko Ikemura, Wolfgang Laib, Mark Tansey, Noriyuki Haraguchi. (c) (29)
1989 "Stücki I" piece dyeing works in Basel, Switzerland a. a. with Mario Merz , Ulrich Rückriem, Dieter Roth , Vittorio Messina, DSR, Corsin Fontana, Franka Hörnschemeyer , Sander Doerbecker, Min Tanaka, Frank Kölges (c) Curators: Klaus Littmann and Gabriele Rivet
1989 “Special Exhibition Art Basel” Art Basel 1989, with Reiner Ruthenbeck , Franka Hörnschemeyer, Jim Whiting, Vittorio Messina; Curators: Klaus Littmann and Gabriele Rivet
1989 "Color and / or Monochrome", The National Museum of Modern Art Tokyo, Japan; Curators: Ichikawa, Masanori / Matsumoto, Tohru; u. a. with Katharina Fritsch, Leiko Ikemura, Wolfgang Laib, Mark Tansey, Noriyuki, Haraguchi. (c)
1988 “200-1” Shakespearehaus Cologne, curator Adem Yilmaz; with Guillaume Bijl, Michael Buthe, Bernh. Joh. Blume, Sigmar Polke, Magdalene Jetolova, Adem Yilmaz, Christian Sery, Theo Lambertin, Wolfgang Luy, Peter Mönig, Mic Enneper, Georg Herold , Cologne (31)
1988 “Sunrise Highway” John Gibbson Gallery, New York, USA; u. a. with Cady Noland, Matthew McCaslin, Tom Ward
1986 “Location Düsseldorf”, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, curators: Jürgen Harten, Marie Luise Syring and Hans-Werner Schmidt; u. a. with Gereon Lepper, Wilhelm Mundt, Chris Reinecke, Klaus Ritterbusch and Thomas Struth (c) (33)
1986 “unbalanced”, Kölnischer Kunstverein , Cologne; curated by Ingo Kümmel; u. a. with Elisabeth Jappe, Kasper König , Herbert Olderings, Karl Ruhrberg, Manfred Schneckenburger and Dietmar Schneider with Julius, Guillaume Bijl, Al Hansen, Frank Kölges, Gotthard Graubner . (c) (34)
1985 "Kamp Class", Museum Kunstpalast , Düsseldorf (c)
1983 “The Last Scream” Hetjens Museum / Art Museum Düsseldorf, curator: Stefan von Wiese; u. a. with Joseph Beuys , Abraham David Christian, Bertram Jesdinsky, Meuser, Reiner Ruthenbeck, Halina Jaworski. (c) (35)

Works in public collections (selection)

MAC Contemporary Art Museum Marseille, France
Uppsala Konstmuseum, UppsalaSweden
The Prefectural Yamaguchi Museum of Art, Yamaguchi, Japan
CAMK Contemporary Art Museum Kumamoto, Kumamoto, Japan
The Musashino Library Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Konstmuseum Uppsala, Sweden
JDZB Japanese-German Center Berlin, Berlin
Hetjens Museum, Düsseldorf
Bagel, Düsseldorf
Artists Museum Lodz, Poland

Literature (selection)

The red line. Jårg Geismar. Hatje Cantz, Stuttgart 2013, ISBN 978-3-7757-3633-6 .
Uppsala Konstmuseum (Ed.): The collector. Uppsala Konstmuseum, 2012, ISBN 978-91-978807-6-3 .
Nepredvidljivo. Koroška galerija likovnih umetnosti, Slovenj Gradec 2010 ISBN 978-961-6827-01-0 .
Cosimo Ricatto (ed.): Jårg Geismar: essence. C&H artspace, Amsterdam 2011, ISBN 978-90-815987-3-6 .
Coup de ville: Sint-Niklaas September 11, 2010 to October 24, 2010. Lannoo, Tielt 2010, ISBN 978-90-209-9340-0 .
Ivan Hartmann u. a. (Ed.): International Triennale of Contemporary Art. Kant Verlag, 2008, ISBN 978-80-86970-65-3 .

Web links (selection)

personal data
SURNAME	Geismar, Jårg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German artist
DATE OF BIRTH	January 19, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH	Burgsvik
DATE OF DEATH	26th February 2019
Place of death	eat