Karl-Heinz Mauermann
Karl-Heinz Mauermann (* 1958 ) is a German artist and art educator . His forms of expression range from drawing to video and performances , with some of the works being located in the border areas between literature and music .
Life
After studying German , philosophy , art education and graphic design in Bochum and Essen, he became a member of the Kunsthaus Essen in 1984 . He had a studio there until 2002 and was temporarily a member of the board. He has been showing his work in exhibitions and projects since the early 1990s. Mauermann works at the Erich Kästner Comprehensive School in Essen as a teacher for German and art education.
art
Since the mid-1990s, he has developed projects and exhibitions as independent artistic works, e.g. B. Long live the noble craft of the butcher! , Exhibition in the courtyard of a former butcher's shop in cooperation with the Folkwang Museum, 2000 or with Matthias Schamp u. a. The Helix-Studio Hochbau, Events on the Extended Concept of Art , Kunsthaus Essen, 1995. Since then he has been working with Schamp on several projects. So they develop metaperformance miniatures , a program in which they use hand puppets that they have built in their own image, the Schamperl and the Brickman, to perform classic performances from art history.
Since 2003 he has been working with musicians and sound artists. With Frank Niehusmann he developed performances that they also showed internationally, B. in Maxis II, International Festival / Symposium of Sound and Experimental Music , 2003, University of Leeds, in The State of Affairs: Exploring the Relationship Between Visual and Sonic Arts , 2003, Middlesex University, London, in Profile Intermedia - Magnificent 7 , Bremen, 2004 or in ExtraSchicht 2010 in the Oberhausen gasometer . His radio play Mascninen premiered in 2006 on Deutschlandradio Kultur .
Together with bassist Christoph Kammer, Mauermann performed live films in the Lichtburg (Essen) and in the Grillo-Theater . In these, the two accompany the film images pre-produced by Mauermann musically as well as with spoken texts and thus tell or comment on the film. With the keyboard player and music therapist Uli West, he tells seemingly surreal , absurd stories in which they improvise together over images and sounds. Video performances that work with time manipulation have been the result of a collaboration with saxophonist Florian Walter since 2013. On Calculating a Curve Using the Leg Muscles, a dance theater project by the choreographer Tim Čečatka at the Folkwang School, he developed sound and motion-controlled live video works.
honors and awards
- 1986 Special prize of the Max Ernst Scholarship of the City of Brühl for the video aren't we drawing such lines whenever we move?
- 2006 (together with Frank Niehusmann) “Phonurgia Nova” radio play award for the radio play Machines .
reception
Necmi Sönmez, curator for contemporary art at the Museum Folkwang wrote: “In this work ( golden table for the mayor of Essen ), Mauermann plays with a range of connotations, some of which comment on one another, and which also reveal contradictions. These begin with the “Golden Madonna” located in the Essen Minster Treasure ... They range from allusions to the structural change in the Revier, to nasty comments on the megalomania of the Revierstädte, which try to outdo each other, to the homage to the workers, whose diligence they rely on the former prosperity of the region established, up to the antagonism that the mayor is sitting at the golden table in view of a million dollar hole in the city treasury. "
The art historian Karin Stempel wrote: “Yes or no, on or off - the user of Mauermann's automatons and semi-automatons is in a permanent neurosis of decision making; What is more, the logic of the machines subverts the logic of the user, although there are no malfunctions. But on the contrary. ... Admit it: you have tricked Mauermann's banal devices. Everything is always completely different than expected, even if everything is always exactly as one could have expected. "
literature
- Sven Drühl, Tanz mit dem Tod, Kunstforum international, Vol. 153, 1/3 2001
- Marcus Lütkemeyer, Tische der Kommunikation, Kunstforum international, Vol. 157, 11/12 2001
- Jürgen Raap, battles and slaughter festivals, Kunstforum international, vol. 160, 6/7 2002
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Archive Deutschlandradio Kultur, Klangkunst, Maschinen , a radio play by Frank Niehusmann and Karl-Heinz Mauermann
- ^ Art for the masses , solo exhibition in the Städtisches Museum Gelsenkirchen, 1991, catalog
- ^ Everyone : Pavane , choreography for the Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund, 1996, catalog
- ↑ College of the EKS Essen (with picture)
- ↑ Anthology Long live the noble craft of the butchers! Municipal gallery in Museum Folkwang as a guest in the courtyard of a former butcher's shop, final documentation of an exhibition series 1996 - 2000, published by Museum Folkwang and Kunsthaus Essen
- ↑ Matthias Schamp's website
- ↑ http://www.lehmbruckmuseum.de/?ai1ec_event=plastikbar-das-schamperl-und-das-mauermaennchen-proudly-present-metaperformance-miniaturen
- ^ Maxis II, Program, School of Music, University of Leeds
- ↑ The State of Affairs: Exploring the Relationship Between Visual and Sonic Arts , symposium organized by the Sonic Arts Program at Middlesex University ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as broken. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Publication by the city of Oberhausen
- ↑ Press release, Deutschlandradio Kultur
- ↑ (Pina Bausch Theater, Folkwang University of the Arts)
- ↑ palmarès 2006 . phnurgia.org, accessed January 29, 2019
- ↑ Ed. Museum Folkwang, Tische der Kommunikation (catalog), Essen, 2001
- ^ Article on the exhibition in the journal Kunstforum international, 2001
- ↑ Karin Stempel, in: 4 | 4 the third, exhibition catalog, publisher Kunsthaus Essen, 1994
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Mauermann, Karl-Heinz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German artist and art educator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1958 |