Jürgen Claus

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Jürgen Claus (2007)
studio
Solar sculpture in the Aldenhoven Roman Park
“Space Solar” with works by the artist
Jürgen Claus, diver at the bell tower
Jürgen Claus, underwater sculptures

Jürgen Claus (born May 28, 1935 in Berlin ) is a German painter and author .

Jürgen Claus works as a visual artist in various techniques: painting, film, light and solar installations and underwater art. As an author, he has written numerous works on media art and its theories.

Life

Jürgen Claus studied theater studies at the University of Munich and other universities and, from 1967, developed an environmentally-related art that includes the sea, water and sun. From 1969 to 1972 he worked as an artistic assistant at the Summer Olympics in Munich. From 1983 to 1988 he worked as a Fellow and Research Affiliate at CAVS / MIT, Cambridge, USA. In 1986 he was given a teaching position for art, technology and the environment at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich . Jürgen Claus taught from 1991 to 2000 as professor for media art at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne . In this position he also headed the EU project "Bimode - Development of Bi-functional Photovoltaic Modules for Building" from 1997. In 2011 Claus received a scholarship from the Center for Art and Media Technology (ZKM) in Karlsruhe.

He lives and works in Aachen and Baelen (Belgium), where he and his wife Nora have been running the Center Overoth with a focus on biosphere art since 1989. In 2004 he curated the exhibition "Designing with the Sun" in Munich and Dillingen / Saar. Between 2003 and 2013, Jürgen Claus organized exhibitions and symposia on the subject of the “Solar Age” in his artist gallery “Raum-Solar” in Munich. In 2011 he became a member of the African Renewable Energy Alliance (AREA), which aims for a more sensible solar energy supply in Africa.

Art under water

With “Submarine Structures” the artist began in 1967 to carry out artistic installations under the water surface. “The adventure I'm involved in today began at Lake Constance : to discover the adventure, the sea, the space below the surface of the sea as an artistic space for people to experience. It started on a small scale, at the Staad marina , through observation. In 1967, I was invited to design a 'space' (an 'environment') in the Munich House of Art, at that time at Lake Constance I moved my colored bodies - simple, geometric bodies - into the water, saw how theirs too, through the moving medium of water Perception changed. ”(Jürgen Claus,“ The future lies in the water ”, Artis, 5/1976, p. 20 f.) In 1969 Claus developed plans for a 'Center Submarin'. It comprised three parts: an experimental dive center , a theory and research center, and an audiovisual center. Claus gives a detailed account of this in his book “Planet Meer. Art & Environmental Research Unterwasser ”, 1972. Here it says:“ The Submarin Center does not have to have local continuity. It must have a continuity of intellectual, biological provocation. ”Jürgen Claus understands the underwater films that were made from the 1970s as parts of this submarine artistic and research enterprise. The connection between perceptions that are conveyed to the diver optically, acoustically and haptically, i.e. sensory influences and his behavior on the other hand, as well as the two linking inner brain mechanisms, is examined, experimentally checked and expanded. In 1975, near Almeria (Spain), artificial gardens in the form of sea anemones were anchored at a depth of 10 m. Claus calls the emerging film Sea Flowers . It records a night dive in which the dimensions of the above and below can no longer be defined. The diver gets into extreme trance movements. Planet Ocean , 1979/80 is based on an artistic underwater garden. A sextet of divers explores the space of weightlessness. It is determined by 16 star and 18 teardrop shapes, tires, as they also occur in nature. The digital post-processing of the film scenes merges natural forms (corals) and art forms (stars, drops). A bell tower anchored on the sea floor is equipped with torches (= light ). made to sound. In 1975 Claus presented a version of the "Aqua Center" for the World Exhibition of the Sea in Okinawa, Japan, and in 1978 co-designed the immersion pool at boot in Düsseldorf.

Solo exhibitions (selection)

approx. 50 solo exhibitions from 1958, including:

  • Galerie S Ben Wargin, Berlin 1963 (catalog)
  • Galerie Kümmel, Cologne 1968 (leaflet)
  • Galerie Klaus Lüpcke, Frankfurt 1968
  • Kunsthalle Nürnberg 1975 (catalog)
  • University of the Arts, Osaka (Japan) 1975
  • Lucerne Natural History Museum 1979 (catalog)
  • Authors Gallery 1, Munich 1979, 80, 82, 90, 96 (catalogs)
  • prodomo, Vienna 1986 (catalog)
  • Itertal Clinic, Aachen 1991
  • Kultuskulum, Aachen 1992
  • Basten House, Geilenkirchen 1994
  • Catholic Academy, Freiburg / Brsg. 1996
  • German-Maltese Circle, Valletta, Malta 1998
  • Authors Gallery 1, Munich 1999/2004
  • SIG combibloc, Linnich 1999/2000
  • kultüren, RaumSolar, Munich 2003/2004/2005 (leaflet)
  • Jürgen Claus: Pictures-Sea-Sun , KempenKrause Ingenieurgesellschaft, Aachen 2008
  • Hans Richter-Jürgen Claus, RaumSolar, Munich 2008
  • Gallery Perplies, Aachen 2008
  • Museum Reich of Crystals, Munich 2009
  • Solar2010, RaumSolar, Munich 2010
  • Jürgen Claus - SonnenMeer , Funkhaus Belgischer Rundfunk, Eupen 2013
  • Articulation of time: Jürgen Claus - Hans Richter , project.claus ..., Aachen 2014
  • Sky and Ocean - Otto Piene and Jürgen Claus , project.claus ..., Aachen 2015
  • Hearing with your eyes , project.claus ..., Aachen 2016
  • Je suis Atoll , IKOB - Museum of Contemporary Art, Eupen 2018

Group exhibitions (selection)

over 100 group exhibitions from 1960, including a catalog:

  • San Marino Biennial 1970
  • ArtTransition, CAVS / MIT, Cambridge (USA), BMW Gallery, Munich 1975, 83.90
  • Electra, Paris Museum of Modern Art 1983–1984
  • Art and Technology, BMFT Bonn 1984
  • Terminal Kunst, ars electronica, Linz 1986 (with Nora Claus)
  • Computerkunst '88, Städtisches Museum Gladbeck; Victories; Aachen 1988
  • ART Nuremberg 4, Exhibition Center Nuremberg 1989
  • 40 years of art in the Federal Republic of Germany, Recklinghausen Municipal Gallery
  • Artists and the Light, Manege, Reims 1991 (with Nora Claus)
  • Kandinsky Congress, BMW Office for Europe, Brussels 1993
  • 68 - Art and Culture, Bauhaus Dessau 1993
  • Solar year - sculptura, art foundation and Ulm University 1996
  • Holographic Network, Akademie der Künste, Berlin 1996
  • Solar art, Leonberg Town Hall 1997
  • Aurrinko - Sun, Rauma Art Museum, Finland 1997
  • Art for the Ocean with Love, Castell'Arquato, Piacenza 1998
  • Lumia, International Lyskunst, Charlottenborg Udstillingsbygning, Copenhagen 1999/2000
  • Neighborhood guests, Center d'Art Contemporain du Luxembourg Belge, Jamoigne 2000
  • Large Munich art exhibition, Haus der Kunst, Munich 2002
  • Fondazione D'Ars - Oscar Signorini, Salone Arengo del Broletto, Novara 2003
  • Homage to Leoš Janáček, House of Arts, Brno (Brno) 2004
  • Design with the sun: Solarkunst, RaumSolar Munich 2004; Old Castle, Dillingen / Saar 2004
  • Pictures of friendship, RaumSolar Munich 2005
  • Jürgen Claus: Pictures-Sea-Sun, KempenKrause Ingenieurgesellschaft, Aachen 2008
  • ELEMENTA 1, Otto Gallery Munich 2005
  • ELEMENTA 2, Building Center Munich, 2005
  • Light art from artificial light, ZKM Karlsruhe 2006
  • William Blake-Jürgen Claus-Jean Lurcat: Tri.logos, RaumSolar Munich 2007
  • Performing the City. Lothringer 13th Municipal Art Gallery Munich 2008
  • Ha two ooo. A water exhibition, Vienna Children's Museum 2010
  • Action space 1, Museum of Modern Art Vienna 2011
  • Vilem Flusser and the Arts, ZKM Karlsruhe, Academy of Arts Berlin 2015/16
  • Exo evolution. ZKM Karlsruhe 2015/16

Solar sculptures in public spaces (selection)

  • Solar-Kristall, FH Jülich 1995; since November 2010 in the Römerpark Aldenhoven
  • Solar icosahedron, AlbWerk, Geislingen / Steige 1997/98

Works in public and institutional collections (selection)

  • Atlantic Richfield Company, Los Angeles
  • BASF, Ludwigshafen
  • Combibloc, Linnich
  • IKOB. Museum of Contemporary Art, Eupen
  • Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro
  • City Gallery Wolfsburg
  • Municipal collection, Lenbachhaus, Munich
  • Panza di Biumo collection, Italy
  • Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg

Awards, prizes, grants

  • Art Fund Bonn 1983
  • Institute for Foreign Relations Stuttgart 1987
  • Prix ​​Lago Maggiore, Videoart Festival Locarno 1988
  • European Solar Prize, Freiburg 1995 (with Nora Claus)

Own books and editions (selection)

  • The sun takes over. How culture shapes the solar age. Artist edition project.claus, Aachen 2018, ISBN

978-3-00-061356-2.

  • The space of the sea. Art / architecture / research. Artist edition project.claus ..., Aachen 2017, ISBN 978-3-00-057652-2 .
  • The expansion. Media & Performative Art. Annotated catalog raisonné. Artist edition project.claus ..., Aachen 2015, ISBN 978-3-00-050798-4 .
  • Galaxies. Works on paper. Annotated catalog raisonné. Artist edition project.claus ..., Aachen 2015, ISBN 978-3-00-048769-9 .
  • Paradises & arks. Catalog raisonné on canvas. Artist edition project.claus ..., Aachen 2015, ISBN 978-3-00-048444-5 .
  • Klee der Sonne - Distant Stars: Poems. Artist edition project.claus ..., Aachen 2014, ISBN 978-3-00-047228-2 .
  • Love the art. An autobiography in twenty-one encounters. Kerber Verlag, Bielefeld 2013, ISBN 978-3-86678-788-9 .
  • The sun and us. Live with solar sculptures. Edition RaumSolar Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-00-024586-2 .
  • The will to imagine. Edition RaumSolar Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-00-023526-9 .
  • The audio-visual age. Edition ZKM. Hatje Cantz, 2007, ISBN 978-3-7757-2117-2 .
  • Cultural element of the sun. The solar age. (= TEXTS + THESES. Volume 274). Edition Interfrom, Osnabrück / Zurich 1997.
  • SonnenMeer - Projects of an ecological art. Wienand Verlag, Cologne 1995.
  • Electronic creation in art and design. (= rororo computer ). Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, Reinbek near Hamburg 1991.
  • The electronic Bauhaus. Design with the environment. (= TEXTS + THESES. Volume 204). Edition Interfrom,, Osnabrück / Zurich 1987.
  • ChippppArt. Computer holography cybernetics laser. (= Ullstein materials. Volume 355232). Ullstein Verlag, Frankfurt am Main / Berlin 1985.
  • Art today. People. Analyzes. Documents. (= Ullstein materials. Volume 35241). Ullstein Verlag, Frankfurt am Main / Berlin, May 1986 (revised new edition).
  • Painting as an action. (= Ullstein materials. Volume 35247). Ullstein Verlag, Frankfurt am Main / Berlin, Nov. 1986.
  • Environmental art. Departure into new realities. (= TEXTS + THESES. Volume 151). Edition Interfrom, Osnabrück / Zurich 1982.
  • Meeting point art. Present and future of the creative in nature - media - politics. Keil Verlag, Bonn 1982.
  • Planet sea. Art & Environmental Research Underwater. (= DuMont Current ). Verlag M. DuMont Schauberg, Cologne 1972. (Spanish edition: Planeta Mar, Mexico 1973).
  • Expansion of art. Contributions to the theory and practice of public art. (= Rowohlt's German encyclopedia. Volume 334/335). Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1970. (Spanish edition: Expansion del Arte, Mexico 1970), (Japanese edition: Tokyo 1972), (Revised new edition: UllsteinKunstBuch, 36069, Ullstein Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Vienna, Dec. 1982).
  • Art today. People. Analyzes. Documents. (= Rowohlt's German encyclopedia. Volume 238/239). Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, Reinbek near Hamburg 1965 (4th edition 1971, new: Ullstein 1986).
  • Theories of contemporary painting in self-testimony. (= Rowohlt's German encyclopedia. Volume 182). Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1963. (Italian edition: Teorie della pittura contemporanea, Milano 1967), (new: painting as action, Ullstein materials 1986).

biography

  • Jürgen Claus: Sun Sea. H. Stachelhaus, Wienand Verlag Cologne, publisher 1995
  • Jürgen Claus: love art. An autobiography in twenty-one encounters. Kerber Verlag, Bielefeld / ZKM Karlsruhe 2013, ISBN 978-3-86678-788-9 .

Biographies in lexicons (selection)

  • Phaidon Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art. Phaidon, London / New York 1973.
  • The new pocket dictionary. Bertelsmann Lexikon Verlag, Gütersloh 1992.
  • Contemporary Artists, Fourth Edition. St. James Press, Detroit 1996.
  • Marquis Who'sWho in the World. 15th edition. New Providence 1996 u. following conditions.
  • Kürschner's Handbook of Fine Artists. KG Saur Verlag, Leipzig 1998, 2006/2007.
  • DuMont's 20th Century Art Dictionary: Artist Styles and Terms. DuMont, Cologne 2000, 2005.

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personal data
SURNAME Claus, Jürgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and author
DATE OF BIRTH May 28, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin