Juergen Staack

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Juergen Staack (* 1978 in Doberlug-Kirchhain ) is a German minimal and concept artist from Düsseldorf .

Career

Juergen Staack trained as a photographer after graduating from high school. He then studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy from 2002 to 2008 and was a master class student with Thomas Ruff , and completed his academy letter with Christopher Williams . While still studying, he founded the loose artist group FEHLSTELLE in 2003 with other graduates of the class.

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Staack developed his own forms of expression in conceptual photography early on, which emphasized both the translatability of photography into language and "the material fragility of the analog and, in its volatility, digital photographic image". To do this, he draws on various media such as performance , sound , video , sculptures or photographs , and it is not uncommon for the viewer to become a constituent part of an artistic work. Recurring themes set in Staacks work the relationship between image and image as well as their authenticity and origin is that it calls into question again and again. “His drawings, sound installations, speaking images and poetic performances”, writes the journalist Helga Meister laconically, “demonstrate the limits of visual representation”. Peter Friese , former director of the Museum Weserburg Bremen , states:

“In his artistic work, Staack is not only concerned with the questions: What is a picture? What is a picture? How, when and where is it created? But also: How important is a picture in a world that is characterized by visual stimuli? And it is precisely in the controversially discussed claim to truth of the image and the meanwhile mass penetration of our world with increasingly advanced communication media that he finds his terrain as a concept artist. The results of this research are his sometimes surprising image and media critical investigations. Staack moves in the border area of ​​photography and looks with his interrelationships questioning view on the socially anchored handling of images, cross-media information, language and text. "

Unexpected transformation and translation processes often play a special role for Staack, both literally and figuratively: Illegible codes or dissolving messages mean that his work repeatedly disrupts classic communication structures, sometimes reducing them to absurdity. In turn, they show “not only the serious flaws between perception and communication , but also the limits of visual representation . In the age of a global visual culture that dominates everything ", so the art historian Sabine Maria Schmidt," Juergen Staack poses the question of the image-generating bases and elements in a completely new way. "

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 2006: Left Behind,… Missing Pictures , Gallery Space Other, Boston
  • 2010: Transformation , Konrad Fischer Gallery, Düsseldorf
  • 2013: SAKHA , Konrad Fischer Gallery, Berlin
  • 2013: Script , artothek - space for young art, Cologne
  • 2014: Two , Konrad Fischer Gallery, Düsseldorf
  • 2016: Reduction of Reality , Kunstverein Oldenburg , Oldenburg
  • 2016: DISPUT , Kunstverein Ruhr, Essen
  • 2020: Hans-Peter Feldmann , Thomas Ruff , Juergen Staack , Galerie Konrad Fischer, Düsseldorf

Group exhibitions (selection)

  • 2004 realismus update , Jacobi Haus Künstlerverein Malkasten , Düsseldorf
  • 2005: Rencontre des Arles , Arles
  • 2009: DEFEAT - LA ZONA , Public Space, Milan
  • 2010: But black is not a color , Konrad Fischer Gallery, Düsseldorf
  • 2011: ars viva - 2011/12 , Museum Folkwang , Essen; Riga Art Space, Riga (Lithuania); Weserburg Museum , Bremen
  • 2011: Hantmann Staack , Kunstraum , Düsseldorf
  • 2012: Renania Libre , Gallery Helga de Alvear, Madrid
  • 2013: Transfer , MMCA, National Museum for Contemporary Art, Seoul ; Museum Osthaus , Hagen
  • 2015: AAA - Art and the City , Zurich
  • 2015: More Concept - Conception now , Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen
  • 2015: daily sounds around , Weltkunstzimmer, Düsseldorf
  • 2016: Open depot , Kunsthaus NRW Kornelimünster , Aachen
  • 2017: Duet with artist , Museum Morsbroich , Leverkusen
  • 2017: Luther and the avant-garde , Old Prison , Wittenberg
  • 2017: asphalt - Kunststörer , Alte Kämmerei, Düsseldorf
  • 2017: To grasp with your hands and yet not to grasp , Kunsthalle Mainz , Mainz
  • 2017: Stress Field , Fine Arts Literature Art Center, Wuhan
  • 2017: Duet with artist , Belvedere 21 , Vienna
  • 2018: Germany is not an island , Bundeskunsthalle , Bonn
  • 2018: office complex , Kunsthaus NRW , Aachen
  • 2019: Listen to the image, look at the sound , Kai10 - Arthena Foundation, Düsseldorf

Works in collections

  • Bundeskunstsammlung (collection of contemporary art of the Federal Republic of Germany)
  • Museum Folkwang Collection
  • Funding Collection NRW
  • Collection of the Art Palace
  • Wemhöhner Collection
  • Philara collection

Awards and promotions

Prices

  • 2011: Award of the city of Düsseldorf for the fine arts
  • 2011: ars viva prize for fine arts
  • 2012: NEW POSITIONS (Art Cologne)

Grants

  • 2009: Artist in Residence, Tokyo Wonder Site
  • 2009: Kunststiftung NRW, project funding for Transcription-Image (the language of the Ainu )
  • 2012: Kunststiftung NRW , project funding for ice whisperers
  • 2012: Artist in Residence, Changdong Seoul (TRANSFER NRW – Korea), South Korea
  • 2013: Artist in Residence, Art Space Estemp, Sao Paulo
  • 2015: Art Fund Foundation (working grant)
  • 2015: Artist in Residence, Hongcheon (Pink Factory), South Korea
  • 2020: Art Fund Foundation, 7 Rooms of Life project funding
  • 2020: Art Fund Foundation , project funding Unser-Deutsch in Papua New Guinea

literature

  • "Germany is not an island". Collection of contemporary art from the Federal Republic of Germany. Purchases from 2012 to 2016. Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany and Wienand Verlag, Cologne 2018.
  • Reduction of reality. Juergen Staack. Exhibition catalog. Edited by Oldenburg Art Association. Oldenburg 2017.
  • 4th Documentary Exhibition of Fine Arts: Stress Field. Ed. Hubei Museum of Art & Fine Arts Literature Art Center. Wuhan 2017.
  • ars viva 2011/2012 - Sprache / Language: Erik Bünger, Philipp Goldbach, Juergen Staack. Edited by Cultural group of the German economy in the BDI e. V. Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern 2012, ISBN 978-3-7757-3269-7 .
  • Estemp (orary). Five exhibitions in the “off-room”. Düsseldorf 2010, ISBN 978-3-00-032381-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Meister, Helga: After the Sputnik: New images from the Düsseldorf photo scene . Ed .: 701 e. V. Jan van der Most, Düsseldorf 2007, p. 61 .
  2. ↑ a b c Sabine Maria Schmidt: Juergen Staack . In: artist art magazine - new positions . No. 110 . Bremen 2017, p. 28-31 .
  3. ^ Hubei Museum of Art & Fine Arts Literature Art Center (ed.): 4th Documentary Exhibition of Fine Arts: Stress Field. Wuhan 2017, p. 214-215 .
  4. ↑ Smerling, Walter (ed.): Luther and the avant-garde. Contemporary art in the old prison in Wittenberg with special presentations in Berlin and Kassel . With contributions by Heinrich Bedford-Strom, Markus Gabriel, Kay Heymer, Thomas Kaufmann, Susanne Kleine, Dimitri Ozerkov, Walter Smerling, Wolfgang Ulrich, Peter Weibel and Dan Xu. Photographs by Daniel Biskup. Wienand, Cologne 2017, ISBN 978-3-86832-366-5 , pp. 357 .
  5. ↑ Helga Meister: Düsseldorf: artist lets the sun paint the shadow of the flower. Retrieved August 16, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Friese, Peter: image. Limits. Exceed . In: Juergen Staack. Reduction of reality. Exhibition catalog. Ed .: Oldenburger Kunstverein. Oldenburg 2017, p. 14-19 .
  7. ↑ Juergen Staack - CV. Retrieved on August 15, 2020 .
  8. ↑ The City of Düsseldorf Prize for Fine Arts Website of the City of Düsseldorf
  9. ↑ https://arsviva.kulturkreis.eu/2011. Retrieved August 22, 2020 .
  10. ↑ NEW POSITIONS (Art Cologne)
  11. ↑ Juergen Staack - CV. Retrieved on August 15, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Staack, Juergen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German minimal art and concept artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Doberlug-Kirchhain