Jochem Ahmann

Jochem Ahmann , actually Johannes Jochem Ahmann, (born September 23, 1957 in Herten ) is a German artist and designer who works in the fields of installation , painting , drawing , photography and performance .

Life

After graduating from high school in 1978 at the Petrinum high school in Recklinghausen , Ahmann studied at the Dortmund University of Applied Sciences with Pitt Moog and Hartmut Böhm and graduated in 1985 with a degree in designer.

In 1984 Jochem Ahmann was a co-founder of the committee for optical-acoustic interaction . In the committee, visual artists and free jazzers like u. a. Dietrich Rauschtenberger , Martin Blume or Peter Brötzmann interactive performances.

In 1985 Ahmann founded the producer gallery 365 in Berlin together with Stefan Micheel , HS Winkler, Georg Glückman and Suwan Laimanee.

From 1991 to 1999 he was a member of the group for design - gfg around Rolf Glasmeier , Gelsenkirchen . In 1991 he founded the Fegefeuer-Press in Gelsenkirchen together with the writer Jürgen Schimanek and designed various book art objects.

Since around 1995 Ahmann has been working as a designer in the field of trade fair / shop fitting / TV productions / gastronomy.

Ahmann has been responsible for the artistic design of exhibition stands at Euroshop '96, Düsseldorf, Cebit'97, Hanover, Beauty'97, Düsseldorf, IFA'97, Berlin, VENUS'97, Berlin and Cebit'98 , Hanover responsible.

Since 1996, Jochem Ahmann has made a name for himself in the scene as the artistic designer of clubs and discos.

Discos / clubs (selection)

1996 Planet , Bochum
1997 Robespierre, Bochum - Drum beat boat 2000, popkomm , Cologne
1998 Krokodil, Hamm - FZW / Freizeitzentrum West, Dortmund
2001 Turbinenhalle Oberhausen , areas blade and cosmo - old daddy, Haltern -
2002 Turbinenhalle, Oberhausen - old daddy, Duisburg - saints, Oberhausen - Anton´s Bierkönig, Dortmund
2003 angel, Haltern - FZW / West Leisure Center, Dortmund - Upper Bavaria's Anton, Bochum
2004 Upper Bavaria's Anton, Duisburg
2005 Anton´s Bierkönig, Essen
2006 Megaparc, Soest - Turbinenhalle, Oberhausen
2007 Megaparc, Gütersloh
2008 Joys, Lippstadt

Grants, prizes and grants

1992 transfer scholarship in Antwerp / Belgium, secretariat for joint cultural work, Wuppertal and Ministry of Culture of North Rhine-Westphalia
1992 to 1993 international studio program Künstlerhaus Bethanien , Berlin
1994 Laureate of the Märkisches Scholarship for fine arts , sculpture
1993 Project funding Society for the Promotion of Westphalian Cultural Work , Münster
2009 Project funding for the Westphalia-Lippe Regional Association , LWL
2015 guest studio Cité Internationale des Arts Paris

From 1987 to 1997, Ahmann was chairman of the Vestische Künstlerbund based in the Kunsthalle Recklinghausen. At his suggestion, the city of Recklinghausen made the vacant coach house available to the Vestische Künstlerbund and the Kunstverein Recklinghausen for joint use. In 1989 Ferdinand Ullrich , director of the Städt. Museums Recklinghausen and Jochem Ahmann dissolved the historical Kunstverein Recklinghausen, which was in agony, and in autumn 1989 brought the current Kunstverein Recklinghausen into being together with Martin Bartel and Sigurd Evers.

In 1997 Ahmann was appointed to the German Werkbund , in 2000 he was accepted into the West German Artists 'Union and in 2009 he was accepted into the German Artists' Association . Since 2014 Ahmann has been a member of the Association of Düsseldorf Artists from 1844 and of the Association for the Organization of Art Exhibitions

Jochem Ahmann has been a board member of the West German Artists Association since 2002 and was an honorary member of the board of the Deutscher WerkbundNW from 2007 to 2014.

Since 1987 Ahmann has worked as a lecturer at various institutes (including FFFZ: Film Funk TV Center of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland, Düsseldorf, Westphalian Theater School Recklinghausen, Puppet Theater College in Bochum). Since 2009 he has been a lecturer in experimental design and free painting at the summer academy of the Free Academy of Fine Arts Essen, fadbk. In 2010, Ahmann held a teaching position as a substitute for a professorship at the Bochum University / Faculty of Architecture in the field of design principles . Since 2012 he has been a lecturer at the summer academy on Rothaarsteig, Siegen. From the 2015/2016 winter semester to 2019, Ahmann held a teaching position for painting at the Ruhrakademie , Schwerte.

Jochem Ahmann has lived in Bochum since 1988 .

Exhibitions (selection)

1985: Our Fritz colliery , Herne - Wanne

1987: Young West Art Prize, Recklinghausen Art Gallery

1989: 3 generations, owner-occupied Kunsthalle Recklinghausen

1989: Kunstverein Pictura, Dordrecht / NL

1990: Märkisches scholarship for fine arts, Städtische Galerie Lüdenscheid

1991: InterArt, Sokolniki Hall, Moscow / USSR

1991: forum of young art, Kunsthalle Kiel , Städtische Galerie Wolfsburg , Museum Bochum

1991: Ida Gerhardi Prize, Städtische Galerie Lüdenscheid

1993: Transfer, Sint-Pietersabdij Gent / Belgium, Goethe-Institut Brussels / Belgium

1993: Märkisches scholarship for fine arts , Städtische Galerie Lüdenscheid

1993: toys are us, Künstlerhaus Bethanien , Berlin

1994: Transfer, Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, Musee des Beaux Arts, Charleroi / Belgium

1994: OnEITHERside, Kunsthalle t'Elzenveld, Antwerp / Belgium

1994: Intermezzo, Jordan Gallery, Wilnsdorf

1995: Galerie Annick Ketele, Antwerp / Belgium

1995: Pearls Vol.II, Strong Foundation, Löwenpalais, Berlin

1996: With flags flying ... through time, Flottmann-Hallen , Herne

2000: Movable letters, Gallery of the City of Remscheid

2001: mega-pearls, Galerie weisser elefant, Berlin

2002: Overview - West German Artists Association, Museum Bochum

2002: Grenzzüge, 25 years Märkisches Scholarship, Museum Lüdenscheid

2004: unsupportable reality, MC Kurlionis National Museum of Art, Kaunas / Lithuania , Telsiai Exposition Hall, Telsiat / Lithuania, Klaipėda / Lithuania

2006: Still & Konsequent, Uwe Obier Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art , Siegen

2007: NOW! Artists in the German Werkbund, Zeche Unser Fritz , Herne-Wanne

2009: Environment work, project space Deutscher Künstlerbund, Berlin

2009: Götterwind - KU 28 academy gallery, fadbk Essen

2009: everything was playful - Flottmann-Hallen , Herne

2010: Transposition - Werkbund artist across borders, Viehmarktthermen , Trier

2011: Words - Language in Art, Museum of the City of Bad Berleburg

2011: Art throwing - Situatives Brachland Museum , Bochum

2012: Words - Language in Art, City Gallery Herne , City Gallery Haus Seel, Siegen, Art Museum Gelsenkirchen

2012: regionally - with Ulrich Langenbach , KU 28 Akademiegalerie, fadbk Essen

2012: Werkbundtag 2012, werk bund. Interdisciplinary art project. "RheinSCHIENE & WarenSTROM. Future workshop cultural landscape, Koblenz , State Museum Koblenz - Ehrenbreitstein Fortress

2013: Great Düsseldorf art exhibition, Museum Kunstpalast in the courtyard

2013: we are here again - annual exhibition of the West German Artists Association, Bochum Art Museum

2013: seriousness becomes fun - the ironic in art, project space Deutscher Künstlerbund, Berlin

2013: Words - Language in Art, Meno Parkas Gallery , Kaunas / Lithuania, Beckum City Museum

2014: International Watercolor Biennial, Ciurlionis National Art Museum, Kaunas / Lithuania

2014: short_hand_made, Grindelallee, Hamburg

2015: song of sirens - Cité Internationale des Arts Paris

2016: sopwith camel - Emschertal-Museum Herne, Städtische Galerie

2016: Seemannsgrab - Kulturbahnhof Kreuztal

2016: 7th International Exhibition of Watercolor "Aquabiennale 2016, City Exhibition Hall Petrozavodsk, Russia

2017: InDiscreet - The Problem of Intimicy, exhibition hall Am Hawerkamp, Münster

2017:> Heimat? <, Deutscher Künstlerbund project space , Berlin

2017: unrelated - until now, Kutscherhaus Recklinghausen

2017: Bønner - Recipes with beans- Konsthallen S.ta Anna, Vagnhärad, Sweden

2018: ... with their horses and mutts - Kunstverein Bochumer Kulturrat

2017: InDiscreet - The Problem of Intimicy, Kutscherhaus Recklinghausen

2018: The sea and other abysses are quiet - Haus Herbede, Witten

2019: Stiftung Starke / Löwenpalais Berlin - anniversary exhibition

2019: Visibility-West German Artists Association, Osthaus Museum Hagen + Städtische Galerie Iserlohn

2019 Fleeting Drafts - Projektraum Deutscher Künstlerbund , Berlin

2019: InDiscreet-The Problem of Intimicy, Stadtmuseum Hattingen

Individual evidence

↑ coolibri.de: Jochem Ahmann: Impressions from Paris (accessed on August 30, 2015)
↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Members "A" / Jochem Ahmann (accessed on August 30, 2015)

literature

Artistic finishing techniques - new furnishing effects through patina and co , artwerk Verlag, Dortmund 2008, ISBN 3-938-92727-5

100 years of the Deutscher Werkbund NW 1907–2007, Klartext Verlag , Essen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89861-823-6

verbal garment - language in art, Seltmann Druck, Lüdenscheid, ISBN 978-3-942831-05-5

Web links

personal data
SURNAME	Ahmann, Jochem
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Jochem, Johannes (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German artist and designer
DATE OF BIRTH	September 23, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH	Herten

[1] ri.de: Jochem Ahmann: Impressions from Paris (accessed on August 30, 2015)

[2] uenstlerbund.de: Members "A" / Jochem Ahmann (accessed on August 30, 2015)