Jürgen O. Olbrich

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Jürgen O. Olbrich (born November 25, 1955 in Bielefeld ) is a German visual artist , editor and curator . The performance artist is a representative of concrete as well as visual poetry and an artist of copy and mail art .

Life

Training in London

As early as 1973, the media artist was working on copy-art series and copy-art books , which he expanded from 1975 to include copy-art performances and editions . In 1973, Olbrich began his artistic work with the copier . It is not only the virtuoso electro-photographic original and the innovative technical mastery of this new print-graphic medium that make Olbrich's copy-art incunabula outstanding artistic evidence. He also includes the copier in his performances. After training as a set designer from 1974 to 1975 in London , Olbrich is based in Kassel. He is constantly traveling around the world.

Mail Art - Copy Art - Happenings - Performances

Olbrich has been active in the worldwide communication platform of the Mail Art network since the 1970s. He also becomes an important partner for oppositional artists in the former GDR . Olbrich's involvement in Mail Art means distancing ourselves from the established art business and the economic usability of art in favor of grassroots democracy-oriented art forms in the sense of art for everyone. This goes hand in hand with the collective collaboration as with The Artist's Memory , for which 34 artist friends Olbrichs designed the memory cards. In 1976 Jürgen O. Olbrich's magazine Collective Copy was published . His Archive of Lost Information , which has been running since 1977, consists of hundreds of thousands of rubbish copies collected from paper bins with copier waste. In the 1979 Photo-Copy-Rock'n Roll performance , Olbrich dances to loud rock music on the device that is continuously copying. Process-like forms the basis of his work in other groups of works as well. Jürgen O. Olbrich ran his studio gallery from 1978 to 1987 as a Kassel art space , which has established itself as a communicative center of young art. With Rolf Behme and Klaus Urbons he founded the artist group Trikop in 1980 . While Olbrich made a two-hour detour to Dresden on his way to Poland in 1981 , he met Birger Jesch during an illegal artist meeting in a private apartment. In 1986, Olbrich founded the international performance group The Nomads and worked with Yoko Ono , among others . From 1986 to 1992, in collaboration with Wolfgang Luh , Olbrich was the editor of the artists' magazine “Zeitschrift für Tiegel & Tumult (ZfT & T)”, which appeared every three months. The magazine appeared in 24 issues with an edition of 150 copies.

documenta 8 contribution - Paper Police

In 1987 he took part in documenta 8 in Kassel and became internationally known. His contribution City souvenir: Expanded Performance was made with artist friends like u. a. Wolfgang Hainke , Arno Arts performed from June 12 to July 5, 1987 as part of the performance department of documenta 8 in Kassel. The performance utensils were exhibited in the Neue Galerie .

In 1989 he began his cycle of works Paper Police . For this long-term project he collects waste paper from Kassel paper containers for his artistic work . He collects what others dispose of and bundles and packs a wide variety of found objects and finally gives away the resulting packages to exhibition visitors. This way, collecting becomes communicative and interactive. Olbrich's paper recycling is a reflection of the throwaway society.

Visiting professor and Kassel Art Association

From 1995 to 1996, Olbrich was appointed visiting professor at the University of Kassel . From 2001 to 2013 he was a curating member of the board of directors of the Kasseler Kunstverein. For the exhibition Auto-nom-mobil 2006 in the Kulturbahnhof Kassel he created the work number plate poetry, for which he wrote down the license plates for half an hour on the sign at the entrance to Kassel, leaving free interpretation and association to the viewer.

Jürgen O. Olbrich lives and works in Kassel.

plant

Olbrich's artistic roots lie in the Dada and Fluxus movements and in happenings . He works artistically on projects , performances , installations and archives that are constantly remembered through the reproduction of his work and thus counteract oblivion. The networker, forensics, archivist and concept artist involve collaboration partners globally. Long-term collaborations connect Olbrich u. a. with Wolfgang Hainke, Norbert Klassen , Niall Monro , Commissioner Hjuler , Ann Noel and Emmett Williams . The artist works with found materials, methods of chance and word-image combinations in order to document the passage of time as impermanence.

Solo exhibitions

  • 2015: Art Association, Siegen
  • 2015: El Museo Internacional de Electrografía, Toledo
  • 2014: exhibition center, Huglfing
  • 2011: E. Harvey Found, Venice
  • 2012: Essenheim Art Association
  • 2009: E. Harvey Found, Venice
  • 2008, E. Harvey Found, Venice
  • 2008: House Pommern (Gropius wallpaper), Berlin-Gropiusstadt
  • 2003: Warsaw Municipal Gallery
  • 2002: Kunstverein Kassel
  • 2002: Jena City Museum
  • 2000: New Gallery, Kassel
  • 1997: Guy Bleus ' email Art Archives, CBK, Hasselt
  • 1994: Gallery S, Siegen,
  • 1991: Maximum Gallery, Nuremberg
  • 1987: Patio Gallery, Neu-Isenburg
  • 1987: Galerie Christel Schüppenhauer, Essen
  • 1986: University Library, Siegen

Group exhibitions

  • 2017: Art Temple , Kassel
  • 2015: Arp Museum: Collages - The Meerwein Collection , Remagen
  • 2007: PING-PONG , together with Birger Jesch , accompanying program with Norbert Klassen , ACC Gallery Weimar
  • 2006: Exhibition Auto-nom-mobile Kulturbahnhof Kassel
  • 1996: Galerie Maerz: Copy book art internat , Linz
  • 1993: Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern: Copy Art
  • 1993: Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern: New acquisitions of the large collection
  • 1989: AK: Resource Art , Berlin
  • 1988: Kunstverein Kassel: Real Time
  • 1987: documenta 8, Kassel
  • 1987: S. Bronfman Center: Medium: Photocopy , Montreal

Works in collections

Book projects

  • Jürgen O. Olbrich, Performance Works: [life is art enough] / Concept / Red .: Jürgen O. Olbrich; Christel Schüppenhauer, Essen, ISBN 3-926226-11-0

literature

  • H. Höfchen (arrangement), new acquisitions of the large collection 1986–1993, Kaiserslautern 1993 (Pfalz-Galerie Kaiserslautern, inventory catalog of the large collection)
  • Michael Eissenhauer (Ed.), A House for Modernity (K), Kassel 2001.
  • Heiner Georgsdorf : Jürgen O. Olbrich: His coffee filter archive ... and what else he collects in Art + Teaching, 2000, pp. 41–43, ISSN  0023-5466 ; ISSN  0170-6225 ; ISSN  0931-7112

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ De Gruyter-online - Article at De Gruyter, accessed on October 25, 2017
  2. ↑ Pêle-Mêle. Guy Bleus - 42.292, ed.R. Geladé, N. Coninx & F. Bleus, Cultuurcentrum, Hasselt, 2010, p. 132
  3. ↑ Jurgen O. Olbrich , Cultuurnieuws - Provinciaal Centrum voor Beeldende Kunsten, February 1998, Hasselt, Belgium, p. 4
  4. ↑ ONE, TWO, PERFORMANCE. An evening with Norbert Klassen (Bern) and Jürgen O. Olbrich (Kassel). In: acc-weimar.de. February 14, 2007, archived from the original on December 26, 2009 ; accessed on May 30, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Olbrich, Jürgen O.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist, editor, curator
DATE OF BIRTH November 25, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Bielefeld