Johann Manfred Kleber

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Johann Manfred Kleber (2011)

Johann Manfred Kleber (born November 11, 1941 in Berlin ) is a visual artist living in Berlin .

Live and act

Johann Manfred Kleber has been a choir singer since he was eight: first in the boys' choir of St. Hedwig's Cathedral, since 1962 in the mixed choir of St. Hedwig's Cathedral . He also sang in the choir of the Theater des Westens, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, in the RIAS chamber choir and in the great Berlin amateur choirs as reinforcement. He still sings in the Karl Forster Choir, the former choir of St. Hedwig's Cathedral in West Berlin. After graduating from high school, JM Kleber studied musicology at the Free University of Berlin and violin at the Berlin Conservatory .

In 1965 he and others published the FESTSCHRIFT FÜR KLSCHTAKOFTA , handwritten in hollow letters , the so-called martialis Klangholdis . In 1969 JM Kleber gave up studying and opened a "culture bar". In this GALERIE NATUBS in Berlin-Wilmersdorf there were regular exhibitions, readings (including HC Artmann , Nicolas Born , Günter Herburger ), concerts, film screenings, early performances ("Johannes Grützke makes them sick (TBC)"). instead of. In 1974 the Berlin hymn table was founded there - the landlord JM Kleber was one of the founding members.

In 1971 he and his wife Andrea Kleber founded GALERIE KLEBER in Berlin-Charlottenburg. The artists represented by the gallery included Johannes Grützke , Manfred Bluth , Matthias Koeppel and Karlheinz Ziegler ( School of New Magnificence ), as well as Anna Oppermann , Natascha Ungeheuer , Janus Kadel , Horst Haack, Jo Imog (actually Ute Schröder), Peter Vogel ( Object artist) , u. a.

Since 1989, after giving up the pub and gallery, JM Kleber has been working as a visual artist: he writes pictures in hollow and shadow characters. He's now called a scriptopath . For his typefaces he uses his own, strange, absurd and nonsense texts, which he alienates until they are illegible. He has been exhibiting regularly since 1996.

Exhibitions

  • Scriptural utterances , multi-cultural media café, Berlin-Schöneberg (1996)
  • Communicative typefaces , Gallery 13 in the Kuhlen Lampe, Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg (1999)
  • Typefaces , House of Hungary, Berlin-Mitte (2000)
  • Sch / Reibereien, Carlos Hulsch Gallery, Berlin-Charlottenburg (2001)
  • Kinski poems , Kulturverein Kinski, Berlin-Neukölln (2001)
  • A thousand German felts (OKBD), Galerie Zone F, Berlin-Mitte (2002), Become who you are! (Group exhibition), Galerie Carlos Hulsch, Berlin (2002)
  • 1000 German felts , Terzo Mondo Gallery, Berlin-Charlottenburg (2004), Pseudologica phantastica (GA), Zone F Gallery, Berlin (2004)
  • Gray auras. Scriptures , Fort Knox (later aip gallery artists in progress), Berlin-Charlottenburg (2005)
  • Trau mir , Galerie Zone F, Berlin (2006)
  • Escrituras writings , Can Cires, Ibiza, Spain (2008), Wat kiekstn Wassup. Scriptures - Associations , aip gallery Berlin (2008)
  • Swinging loaves - YOU DO NOT PLAY WITH FOOD! , aip galerie, Berlin (2009), weidmannsheil (GA) Wiensalonberlin, Berlin-Kreuzberg (2009)
  • Petrarch, Laura and me. Typefaces by JMKleber , Buchhändlerkeller, Berlin-Charlottenburg (2010), profiles, warnings, notices, ordinances and other pronouncements , Wiensalonberlin, Berlin (2010)
  • A thousand German felts , neighborhood gallery of the KungerKiezInitiative eV, Berlin-Treptow (2011), Schriftbilder , Kunsthalle Brennabor , Brandenburg ad Havel (2011), Alles Schrift , Halle LinX / Goerz-Höfe, Berlin-Friedenau (2011)
  • Fanallappen (installations and pictures), Halle LinX / Goerz-Höfe, Berlin (2012)
  • Names Sound Smoke Typefaces. 22 Ibizan family names , Can Cires Ibiza, Spain (2013), Verzeih-Verzeiht , Galerie Terzo Mondo, Berlin (2013)
  • U-Bahngesichter , Galerie Terzo Mondo, Berlin (2015), Imperative in the MPI , Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin-Steglitz (2015), MEN SCH RIFT again (installations and pictures), Halle LinX / Goerz-Höfe, Berlin (2015)

Publications

  • Festschrift for Klschtakofta , self-published, Berlin 1964
  • FONT IMAGES. Scriptural art , Verlag Art In Flow, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-938457-09-2
  • Imperatives. Scriptural , Verlag Art In Flow, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-938457-29-0

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Berlin hymn table
  2. ↑ ZEIT article from 1975
  3. ↑ color offsets by H. Haack
  4. ^ Taz article "The shadow writer" by Gabriele Schmelz, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Kleber, Johann Manfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German visual artist
DATE OF BIRTH November 11, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin