Jochen Kienzle

Jochen Kienzle (born November 24, 1959 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) is a German art collector and board member of the Berlin Kienzle Art Foundation.

Life

Jochen Kienzle was born on November 24, 1959 in Freiburg im Breisgau as the son of the entrepreneur Jochen Kienzle Sr. and his wife Luitgard Kienzle into the traditional entrepreneurial family Kienzle. He is the great-grandson of Jakob Kienzle , the founder of “ Kienzle Uhrenfabriken ”, one of the world's most important watch manufacturers at the turn of the century. Over the decades, Jochen Kienzle's grandfather Herbert Kienzle Sr. founded the company Kienzle Apparate GmbH Villingen , whose management was finally taken over by Jochen Kienzle's father together with his brother Herbert Kienzle Jr. until 1990.

After spending his early childhood in Villingen-Schwenningen , Jochen Kienzle attended the Schloss Salem boarding school in Hohenfels from 1971 to 1972 . Following his general university on Wirtschaftsgymnasium Donaueschingen he graduated in the early 80s, first a carpenter training in Konstanz. This was followed from 1986 to 1996 by studying art history and perceptual psychology at the Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich. During this time, Jochen Kienzle was strongly committed to promoting up-and-coming artists and initiated the “Exhibition for the Promotion of Young Artists in Private Spaces”.

Kienzle Art Commission GmbH and Kienzle Art Foundation

After moving to Berlin, in 1997 he founded the Kienzle & Gmeiner GmbH gallery together with Anette Gmeiner. In 2001 Jochen Kienzle took over the sole management of the gallery. In 2009 the name was finally changed to Kienzle Art Commission GmbH. In the same year, Jochen Kienzle finally launched the Kienzle Art Foundation (foundation under civil law), of which he is still director today.

The Kienzle Art Foundation places a special focus on the public communication of art. At its core is Jochen Kienzle's art collection, which includes works from the 1960s to contemporary conceptual tendencies. Important artists in the collection are Klaus Merkel , Josef Kramhöller , Jack Goldstein , Jonathan Lasker , Gary Stephan , Franz Erhard Walther , Louise Fishman, Michael Ballou, Anna Oppermann, Bertold Mathes, Fabian Ginsberg, Stefan Hayn, Anke Völk, Frank Maier, Claudia Kugler , Jasmine Justice and Peter Zimmermann.

In the public eye, Jochen Kienzle is primarily in his role as director of the Kienzle Art Foundation, which has entered into various collaborations with other art foundations and associations since its establishment. Here Jochen Kienzle acted both as an initiator and as a partner in projects to promote artistic outsider positions and the rediscovery of "forgotten" artists, and over the years made a name for himself as an active member of the Berlin art scene. Jochen Kienzle represented two artists of the documenta (Jonathan Lasker and Emilio Prini ).

As a private art collector, Jochen Kienzle regularly makes works from his collection available on loan, takes part in discussions and discussions with experts, and is often asked for as an exhibition guide, where he especially oversees events for young art enthusiasts. An exhibition of his collection outside his own rooms took place for the first time in 2013 at the Magdeburg Art Museum .

Exhibitions

• 2019: The Rise And Fall Of The Rise And Fall, Michael Franz, Kienzle Art Foundation, Berlin
• 2019: Gaming: The System, Malte Frey, Julian Reiser, Kienzle Art Foundation, Berlin
• 2018: The embodiment of the public, Fareed Armaly, Penelope Georgiou, Josef Kramhöller, David Lamelas, Ketty La Rocca, Verena Pfisterer, Kienzle Art Foundation, Berlin
• 2018: A Pound of Sound is Round, Michael Ballou, Kienzle Art Foundation, Berlin
• 2018: Changes, Felix Schramm, Kienzle Art Foundation, Berlin
• 2017: Kienzle Collection at the Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Marieta Chirulescu, Louise Fishman, Jack Goldstein, Ferdinand Kriwet, Ketty La Rocca, Jonathan Lasker, Klaus Merkel, Anna Oppermann, Verena Pfisterer, Emilio Prini, David Reed, Gary Stephan, Franz Erhard Walther, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz
• 2017: The Future of Reading, Gary Stephan, Kienzle Art Foundation, Berlin
• 2017: All The Right Moves, Vela Arbutina, Inna Babaeva, Johannes Bendzulla, Corinne Chotycki, Jesse Farber, Michael Franz, Jasmine Justice, Kristina Kramer, Claudia Kugler, Joe Nanashe, Erin Thurlow, Kienzle Art Foundation, Berlin
• 2017: Text | Template | Activation - Black | Red | Weiss, Kienzle Art Foundation, Berlin
• 2017: Chromaintensity, Anke Völk, Kienzle Art Foundation, Berlin
• 2016: Whose Propitious Garden is This? Stefan Hayn, Kienzle Art Foundation, Berlin
• 2016: Most .. At Night and Fog, Dominik Steiner, Kienzle Art Foundation, Berlin
• 2016: Personalities, Linde Burkhardt, Kienzle Art Foundation, Berlin
• 2016: We Are Alive At The Same Time, Jasmine Justice, Kienzle Art Foundation, Berlin
• 2016: How to Be Unique, Rafeed Armaly, Monika Baer, ​​Michael Ballou, Wolfgang Betke, Francois Joseph Chabrillat, Marieta Chirulescu, Elisabeth Cooper, Cheryl Donegan, Louise Fishman, Jack Goldstein, Gerald Jackson, Jasmine Justice, Paul Klee, Josef Kramhöller, Ferdinand Kriwet, Claudia Kugler, Ketty La Rocca, David Lamelas, Jonathan Lasker, Berthold Mathes, Klaus Merkel, Alfred Müller, Marcus Neufanger, Verena Pfisterer, David Reed, Dominik Sittig, Gary Stephan, Jos van Merendonk, Franz Erhard Walther, Jack Whitten , Christopher Williams, Kienzle Art Foundation, Berlin
• 2015: Laquitude, Celine Adamo, Kienzle Art Foundation, Berlin
• 2015: The namesake, Fabian Ginsberg, Kienzle Art Foundation, Berlin
• 2015: I don't want to be astonished, I want to be amazed - works from 1960 to 1973, Johannes Gachnang, Kienzle Art Foundation, Berlin
• 2014: Songs About the Midway - Works from 1982 to 2014, Bertold Mathes, Kienzle Art Foundation, Berlin
• 2014: Pure Matter, Jos van Merendonk, Kienzle Art Foundation, Berlin
• 2014: Documentary Works, Guillaume Cailleau, Ben Russel, Hanna Slak, Kienzle Art Foundation, Berlin
• 2014: Eins Svei Dry Cat, Nathan Baker, Suzanne Joelson, Sreshta Rit Premnath, Aura Rosenberg, Holly Zausner, Kienzle Art Foundation, Berlin
• 2013: Multi-Plex, Michael Ballou, Kienzle Art Foundation, Berlin
• 2013: no watchword! Painting - action - concept , Fareed Armaly, Monika Baer, ​​Michael Buthe, Marieta Chirulescu, Elisabeth Cooper, Louise Fishman, Isa Genzken, Jack Goldstein, Gerald Jackson, Jasmine Justice, Josef Kramhölleer, Ferdinand Kriwet, Ketty La Rocca, David LAmelas, Jonathan Lasker, Berthold Mathes, Klaus Merkel, Anna Oppermann, David Reed, Emil Schumacher, Kurt Schwitters, Gary Stephan, Franz Erhard Walther, Jack Whitten, Christopher Williams, Kunstmuseum Magdeburg
• 2013: No watchword. Action painting concept,
• 2013: What a Fucking Waste of Time: Alfred Müller, Marcus Neufanger, Kienzle Art Foundation, Berlin
• 2012: Family Theater: Monika Baer, ​​Jürgen Brodwolf, Marieta Chirulescu, Louise Fishman, Jack Goldstein, Gerald Jackson, Jana Kiewit, Paul Klee, Josef Kramhöller, Michael Krebber, Claudia Kugler, Ketty La Rocca, David Lamelas, Rodney McMillian, Klaus Merkel , Pawel Pepperstein, Verena Pfisterer, Emilio Prini, Emil Schumacher, Dominik Sittig, Michael E. Smith, Walther Swennen, Franz Erhard Walther, Jack Whitten, Elmar Zimmermann, Peter Zimmermann, Brandenburgischer Kunstverein Potsdam and Kienzle Art Foundation, Berlin
• 2012: Related Structures, Achim Sakic, Frank Maier, Kienzle Art Foundation, Berlin
• 2011: About Painting, Josef Kramhöller, ABC Art Berlin Contemporary
• 2011: early 80s | Late 80s, Klaus Merkel, Kienzle Art Foundation, Berlin
• 2011: Alien. Eerie creatures from a strange world, Marieta Chirulescu, Louise Fishman, Claudia Kugler, David Lamles, Bertold Mathes, Tom Meacham, Klaus Merkel, Gary Stephan, Franz erhard Walther, Jack Whitten, Brandenburgischer Kunstverein Potsdam
• 2011: A Lecture On My Face, Fabienne Audeod, Kienzle Art Foundation, Berlin
• 2011: What a Serious Horror Writing a Play, Bara, Thomas Helbig, Andy Hope 1930, Franziska Hufnagel, Florian Hüttner, Jochen Klein, Josef Kramhöller, Amelie von Wulffen, Kienzle Art Foundation, Berlin
• 2010: Twisted Standards, Emilio Prini, Elmar Zimmermann, Kienzle Art Foundation, Berlin
• 2010: Loose Joints, Joseph Beuys, Josef Kramhöller, Ketty La Rocca, Jonathan Lasker, Ernst Wilhelm Nay, Emil Schumacher, Kurt Schwitters, Franz Erhard Walther, Wols, Elmar Zimmermann, Kienzle Art Foundation, Berlin
• 2009: False Friends, Brandenburgischer Kunstverein Potsdam

Web links

• Website of the Kienzle Art Foundation
• Gesine Borcherdt: Interview with Jochen Kienzle on artnet , August 31, 2011

Individual evidence

• Website of the Kienzle Art Foundation

literature

• Busing, N. and SA Barrilà. 2012. BMW Art Guide by Independent Collectors. Hatje Cantz Publishing House
• Armin Müller: Kienzle. A German industrial company in the 20th century, 2nd edition, Franz Steiner Verlag: Stuttgart 2014, ISBN 978-3-515-10669-6
• Armin Müller: Herbert Kienzle. Motor of a success story, in: Südkurier, June 1, 2012