Jörg Scheller

Jörg Scheller, 2012

Jörg Scheller (* 1979 in Stuttgart ) is a German art historian , journalist and musician . He teaches at the Zurich University of the Arts .

Life

Jörg Scheller studied art history , philosophy , media art and English at the University of Stuttgart , at the State University for Design Karlsruhe (HfG) and at the University of Heidelberg . During his studies he had several stays abroad in Poland . From 2007 to 2009 he was a scholarship holder of the DFG graduate program Bild Körper Medium at the State University of Design in Karlsruhe . He received his doctorate there with a humanities study on Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2011. After working as a research assistant at the Art History Institute of the University of Siegen and at the Swiss Institute for Art Studies , he was appointed to a lectureship in art history and cultural theory at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) in 2012 , where he led the photography specialization with Marianne Mueller from 2013-2016 . Since 2015 he has been visiting professor at the Poznań School of Art , Poland. From 2016–2020 he headed the theory department in the Bachelor Art & Media at the ZHdK. In 2019 he was appointed to a professorship for art history in the Department of Fine Arts. He researches physical culture with a focus on bodybuilding , exhibition history, pop culture and pop music . He presented his topics and theses in numerous lectures at international universities and museums. The NZZ portrayed him in 2016 as a "cross and lateral thinker" who "shortens high and pop culture into an explosive whole"; of Metal Hammer in 2020 as "de [n] steel [n] Professor." Scheller has been a strength athlete and certified fitness trainer according to Dr. Axel Gottlob .

As a journalist, Scheller publishes regularly a. a. in Die Zeit , Süddeutsche Zeitung , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , Neue Zürcher Zeitung , Swiss Month , Contemporary History , Psychology Today . His focus is on contemporary diagnostic essays and reviews on exhibitions in Germany, France, Italy, Austria, Poland and Switzerland. In 2019 he became the Contributing Editor of Frieze Magazine in London . He has been a columnist for the Stuttgarter Zeitung since 2018 . In 2016 he was awarded the ADKV Art Cologne Prize for Art Criticism . For the bodybuilding blog got-big.de he wrote the column ABC of bodybuilding from 2011 to 2015 .

Since 2003 Scheller has been the singer and bassist of the heavy metal duo Malmzeit, which operates a heavy metal delivery service. In 2015 he founded the regressive rock duo The Silver Ants. He is a supporter of the undogmatic wing of the straight-edge scene.

As a curator, he was involved in several exhibitions. Among other things, he was co-curator with Claudia Emmert of the exhibition possibility human in the Zeppelin Museum Friedrichshafen 2016 and curator of the exhibition Building Modern Bodies. The art of bodybuilding 2015/16 in the Kunsthalle Zürich . In 2013 he curated the Salon Suisse at the 55th Venice Biennale on behalf of the Swiss cultural foundation Pro Helvetia .

Scheller regularly contributes to political debates with analyzes and comments. In 2002 he warned against a new salon ability of right-wing ideology through "everyday aesthetics as a cover" and "intellectualization" in the right-wing music scene. In 2019, he attested the AfD an "anti-German romanticism" and in 2016 an escape "into mental emergency structures of the 19th and early 20th centuries." In 2018 he argued that the supposedly conservative turn of the 21st century was in truth a regressive turn. Instead of a leading culture, he called for "a common concept of justice" and a liberal "fairness in diversity". He accused nominally philanthropic left activists, with a view to the methods he considered unfair, of adapting to their opponents and criticized the trivialization of left totalitarianism and left extremism.

Publications (selection)

Monographs and editorships

• Metal morphoses. The improbable changes of heavy metal , Stuttgart: Franz Steiner , 2020. ISBN 978-3-515-12638-0
• Appetite for the Magnificent. Von Aquarien / On Aquaria (with photographs by Tania & David Willen, German and English language edition), Zurich: Edition Patrick Frey, 2017. ISBN 978-3-906803-47-0
• Anything grows. 15 essays on the history, aesthetics and importance of the beard. (Ed. With Alexander Schwinghammer), Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag , 2014. ISBN 978-3-515-09708-6
• Arnold Schwarzenegger or The Art of Living a Life. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner , 2012. ISBN 978-3-515-10106-6
• Superhero. For the aestheticization and politicization of human extraordinaryness. (Ed. With Joseph Imorde ), Critical Reports 1/2011, Volume 39
• Softener. Wellness in art and consumption. (Ed. With Alma-Elisa Kittner and Ulrike Stoltz), Bielefeld: transcript , 2010. ISBN 978-3-8376-1579-1
• No Sports! On the aesthetics of bodybuilding. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner , 2010. ISBN 978-3-515-09713-0
• Inter View Pop Comics. (with Christopher Tauber ), Cologne: Ehapa , 2006. ISBN 978-3-7704-0977-8

Essays

• "Eastern Europeanizing Globalization: Polish Artists at the Venice Art Biennale and the Historical Microcosms of Globalization", in: Beata Hock & Anu Allas (eds.), Globalizing East European Art Histories. Past and Present , New York / London: Routledge, 2018. ISBN 978-1138054325
• “Against Gnosis: A Kon-Text on the Role of Research in Hans Danuser's Work”, in: Stephan Kunz and Lynn Kost (eds.), Hans Danuser : Dunkelkammern der Fotografie , Göttingen: Steidl, 2017. ISBN 978-3958293847
• "Trainscendence: Bodybuilding as Post-Sport or Meta-Sport and Post-Religion", in: Acta Academiae Artium Vilnensis , No. 80/2016.
• "Pneumopathology and Dividuality. On dealing with the modern image of man in the work of Benedikt Hipps ”, in: Benedikt Hipp. I couldn't believe my eyes or my ears , Aust. Kat. Wilhelm Hack Museum Ludwigshafen, 2015. ISBN 978-3735601643
• "Adorning Heavy Metal. Critical theory as an amplifier of metal research ”, in: Florian Heesch & Anna-Katharina Höpflinger (eds.), Methods of Heavy Metal Research. Interdisciplinary approaches , Münster: Waxmann, 2014. ISBN 978-3830930648
• Beat Wyss & Jörg Scheller, “The Venetian Bazaar”, in: ILLUMInations, 54th International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia (International Venice Biennale Art Exhibition) , official exh. Cat., Venice: Marsilio, 2011. ISBN 978-88-317-0820-3

Curatorial projects (selection)

• Possibility man. Bodies, spheres, devices , Zeppelin Museum Friedrichshafen, April 28, 2016 to October 9, 2016
• "I'll Think About It Tonight". An artistic exploration of Chisinau in 7 days , exhibition in the Zpatiu art space, Chisinau , Moldova , March 25, 2016
• Building Modern Bodies. The art of bodybuilding , exhibition in the Kunsthalle Zurich , November 21, 2015 to February 7, 2016
• Salon Suisse , supporting program for Swiss participation in the 55th Venice Biennale , June 1 to November 23, 2013
• Le Nouveau Vague , exhibition at Villa Floreal, Cadegliano, November 20, 2010 to October 2, 2011
• ÖLMACHTGELD , exhibition in the Kunstarkaden Munich, October 8 to November 1, 2008

CD and LP publications (selection)

• The Silver Ants, Shotguns & Shells, Bandcamp, 2017 (LP)
• longjumpmin, fading like as2holes, O-phon 2005 (LP)
• longjumpmin, Monotoaster, Chaos (Bauer Studios), 2000 (CD)

Radio plays and features

• 2015: Hip-Hop and Heavy Metal (The hidden high cultures) - Director: Tina Klopp ( Feature - DLF)
• 2019: Ethno-Discourse and Cultural Theory: Fairness in Diversity - ( Feature - DLF)

Web links

• Literature by and about Jörg Scheller in the catalog of the German National Library
• Website by Jörg Scheller
• Short biography and reviews of works by Jörg Scheller at perlentaucher.de
• Panel discussion with Wolfgang Welsch and Jörg Scheller at the Venice Biennale 2013
• Interview about Schwarzenegger in Cicero magazine from August 1, 2012
• Deutschlandfunk essay and discourse from February 3, 2019: Expeditions. Fairness in diversity

Individual evidence

1. ↑ JÖRG SCHELLER - CV. Retrieved December 4, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from October 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from September 26, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ↑ http://joergscheller.de/academia/
5. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original dated December 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
6. ↑ https://www.zhdk.ch/meldung/joerg-scheller-uebernehmen-professorenstelle-kunst-seit-dada-3383
7. ↑ https://www.nzz.ch/gesellschaft/aktuelle-themen/haben-kennzeichen-der-kreuz-und-quer-denker-ld.114679
8. ↑ https://twitter.com/joergscheller1/status/1296489622319632388
9. ↑ http://joergscheller.de/
10. ↑ http://joergscheller.de/data/documents/Urkunde-Gottlob-2020.jpg
11. ↑ https://frieze.com/contributor/j%C3%B6rg-scheller
12. ↑ http://joergscheller.de/blog/kolumne-die-kunst-und-alles-andere/
13. ↑ http://www.kunstvereine.de/web/fileadmin/mitarbeiter/Preis_f_r_Kunstkritik/2016_Scheller/PM_Kritikerpreis_2016_J_rg_Scheller.pdf
14. ↑ https://www.got-big.de/Blog/a-wie-anfaenge-die-geschichte-des-bodybuildings/
15. ↑ http://www.malmzeit.de/
16. ↑ http://www.dradio.de/dkultur/sendung/neonlicht/1960327/
17. ↑ https://thesilverants.bandcamp.com/releases
18. ↑ http://joergscheller.de/blog/uebertreibung-in-richtung-reinheit-die-straight-edge-szene-als-erbin-der-kulturkritik/
19. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from May 1, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
20. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from November 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
21. ↑ http://www.biennials.ch/home/ProjectDetail.aspx?ProjectId=13
22. ↑ Stuttgarter Nachrichten, April 6, 2002, with Marcel Singer
23. ↑ https://geschichtedergegenwart.ch/antideutsche-romantik-wie-die-afd-die-romantik-spaltet-um-sie-zu-regieren/
24. ↑ https://www.zeit.de/2016/03/afd-partei-ideologie-philosoph-marc-jongen
25. ↑ https://www.nzz.ch/feuilleton/wer-das-gute-bewahren-will-baut-bruecken-die-im-wind-schwingen-ld.1430263
26. ↑ https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/ethno-diskurs-und-kulturtheorie-fairness-in-der-vielfalt.1184.de.html?dram:article_id=437275
27. ↑ http://joergscheller.de/blog/die-neue-avantgarde-rueckblick-auf-ein-podium-das-nicht-stattfand-1/
28. ↑ http://chiosc.oberliht.com/2016/03/25/chisinau-exploration/
29. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from November 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
30. ↑ https://biennials.ch/download/PagePartFiles/fmc_0_d_factsheet_salon_suisse.pdf
31. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from November 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
32. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from November 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.