Karsten Bott

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Karsten Bott (* 1960 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German conceptual artist whose work primarily deals with everyday things and their meanings. Since 1988 he has been collecting consumer and everyday items from the middle of the 20th century in order to create an "archive for contemporary history". In exhibitions, he relates the objects to one another thematically.

Life

From 1986 to 1991 Bott completed art studies at the Frankfurt State University of Fine Arts - Städelschule , where he attended the film class with Peter Kubelka and studied in 1991 as part of a student exchange at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago .

Between 1993 and 2006, Bott was a recipient of various artist grants and worked, supported by studio grants, in London, Budapest and in the Czech town of Český Krumlov . Bott held guest lectures at universities, including in 2002 at the College of Design and Art in Cincinnati, 2005 at the Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach am Main , 2011 at the University of Fine Arts Braunschweig and 2013 at the Bauhaus University Weimar . From 2012 to 2014 he taught at the Kassel Art College .

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"Archive for present-day history"

Bott has been collecting, cataloging and archiving everyday objects since 1988, preferably from the 1950s onwards, in an “archive for contemporary history” with the aim of preserving “one of every thing” in his collection in order to “preserve the society in which we live to represent or depict things. ”“ All that has lost its value in the capitalist cycle; instead, it is being reassessed in the context of art. ”In terms of space, the archive consists of a storage room with around 5,000 filled banana boxes and around 500,000 large objects such as windows, mailboxes and lamps. In the sorting process, the objects are recorded on the computer, numbered, an index card with a photo is created and the various assignments are noted in an "alphabetical inventory catalog" before they are stored. In 2007 a photographic catalog was created with around 2,000 items that “works like an encyclopedia of our everyday life.” The result of this forensic collection “is a huge collection. Everything is somehow related to everything, because Karsten Bott is always concerned with the historical and social dimension in the process of collecting, archiving and remembering. "" Bott does not sell anything. He represents a documentary direction in art and stands outside the art market. "

For exhibitions in museums, Bott uses things from his archive or puts objects together in a location-specific manner by using objects that he finds in the respective city, in junk shops or from the bulky waste, such as for the exhibitions in the Open House of Culture Upper Austria in Linz 1993 or in MoMA PS1 in New York in 1998. He arranges them in specially made showcases and shelves or on the floor across the board. The exhibition areas are accessible via walkways that allow a top view. Its bars, shelves and showcase floors are always in RAL 7040 gray. The objects are arranged so that they do not lie on top of one another or cover one another. During the floor work, the smaller objects are arranged close to the footbridge, the larger ones further back. Bott's installations are "structured according to subject complexes, all of which are in economic and social contexts and are in dialogue with one another." or sexuality. In the case of the floor work, he marks fields that are then occupied with the thematically appropriate objects; in the case of the shelf and display cabinet work, the individual compartments serve to delimit the topics. "One recognizes immediately that the content of the subjects was not put together by chance, but is subject to a principle of order," which the viewer has to understand for himself.

"Pocket Collection"

Since the 1990s, Bott has been collecting the things that he carried in his trouser pockets during the day, his own everyday objects, fragments of things, but also found objects. In exhibitions he presents them in showcases, sorted by week and size, "in which the exhibits are finally relieved of their original use and pencil stubs, buttons, screws, cell phone displays and a lot of indefinable things merge into a single structure of everyday life."

Short films

During and after his studies, Bott made several short films between 1988 and 1994 . Bott won the 1992 30th Ann Arbor Film Festival with the 17-minute 16mm color short American Bread & Breasts . Occasionally the films were shown as part of his exhibitions, such as in 2000 in the exhibition hall in Frankfurt or in 2014 in the Neue Kunstverein Wuppertal. The 30-minute Super 8 color short film Day and Night Laundry Woman from 1988 "is also dedicated to the study of everyday life in film." For six months, a fixed camera automatically took a picture of a woman and the kitchen window every eight minutes laundry hung there. In 2014 the film was shown at the Austrian Film Museum as part of Peter Kubelka's eightieth birthday .

Awards and grants

Exhibitions

Permanent exhibitions / works in public space

  • Since 2017: Installation from each one in the permanent exhibition "Frankfurt Einst?" of the Historisches Museum Frankfurt in one of the two study rooms
  • Since 2001: extensive sculpture furniture and cakes made of everyday objects cast in concrete in the SkulpTourenPark in Dietzenbach , which was created as part of the 2001 Hessentag
  • Since 2000: Installation from each one - the size of a head in the historical chamber of art and curiosities of the Badisches Landesmuseum in Karlsruhe

Solo exhibitions (selection)

Group exhibitions (selection)

Publications and exhibition catalogs (selection)

  • Anne Berk: Dear thing - Object Love . Exhibition catalog. Museum Morsbroich (Ed.), Verlag für moderne Kunst, Vienna, 2020, ISBN 978-3-903320-49-9
  • Equal multiples - Karsten Bott . Exhibition catalog. Historisches Museum Frankfurt (Ed.), Frankfurt am Main, 2015, ISBN 978-3-89282-056-7
  • Anette Hüsch: From Trash to Treasure. On the value of the worthless in art . Exhibition catalog. Kunsthalle Kiel, Anette Hüsch (ed.), Kerber art, Bielefeld / Berlin, 2011, ISBN 978-3-86678-626-4
  • Karsten Bott: One of each . Illustrated book. König, Cologne, 2007, ISBN 978-3-86560-267-1 (English edition: One of each . König, Cologne, 2007, ISBN 978-3-86560-307-4 )
  • People, powers, markets. Art and memory . Exhibition catalog. Municipal Gallery Villingen-Schwenningen, City of Villingen-Schwenningen (Ed.), 1999, ISBN 978-3-927987-55-5
  • Deep Storage: Collecting, Storing, and Archiving in Art . Exhibition catalog. Prestel Verlag, Munich, 1998, ISBN 978-3-79131-920-9
  • Karsten Bott, Daniel Stier, Iris Reepen: Yellow bags . Exhibition catalog. Dreieich Art Days 8th Municipal Gallery (Dreieich) (Ed.), Dreieich, 1998
  • Karsten Bott, Andreas Exner, Ulrike Gabriel, Nikolaus List, Charlotte Malcolm-Smith, Susanne Paesler, Andreas Schlaegel, Martin Schmidt / Florian Haas, Markus Zuckermann: Graduates from the Städelschule in Frankfurt. Ninth exhibition of the Jürgen Ponto Foundation in 1995 . Exhibition catalog. Frankfurter Kunstverein Steinernes Haus am Römerberg (ed.), Jürgen Ponto Foundation for the Promotion of Young Artists, Frankfurt am Main, 1995

literature

  • Sabiene Autsch: Dealing with the things in the archive for contemporary history. Karsten Bott in conversation with Sabiene Ouch . In: Material and Artistic Action: Positions and Perspectives in Contemporary Art . Sabiene Autsch, Sara Hornäk (ed.), Transcript Verlag, Vienna, 2017, ISBN 978-3-839434-17-8 , pp. 133-144
  • Jean-Christophe Ammann : Art? Yes, art !: The longing for pictures . Westend Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 2014, ISBN 978-3-864895-46-3 , chap. 4, Society: Worldwide - Karsten Bott , pp. 169–175

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Anna von Münchhausen: The thing survived . In: Die Zeit , issue 03 from January 15, 2015. Accessed on September 8, 2020
  2. ↑ a b c d e Werkleitz Gesellschaft : Karsten Bott . Retrieved August 28, 2020
  3. ↑ a b c d e f Silo talks at the University of Paderborn: Karsten Bott. The archive for contemporary history - "From Everyone One" . Communication dated June 17, 2013. Retrieved August 15, 2020
  4. ^ Bauhaus-Universität Weimar: One of Each: The Archive of Contemporary History, December 16, 2013. Retrieved September 6, 2020
  5. ↑ Karsten Bott's website: Info . Retrieved September 6, 2020
  6. ^ A b Marc Peschke: Where art looks like a giant flea market . In: Handelsblatt of April 4, 2011. Retrieved on August 15, 2020
  7. ↑ a b c d e f Sabiene Autsch: Dealing with the things in the archive for contemporary history. Karsten Bott in conversation with Sabiene Ouch . In: Material and Artistic Action: Positions and Perspectives in Contemporary Art . Sabiene Autsch, Sara Hornäk (Ed.), Transcript Verlag, Vienna, 2017, ISBN 978-3-839434-17-8 , pp. 133-145
  8. ↑ a b Karsten Bott: The all-collector . SWR2 "Matinee" on May 24, 2020, 9:00 min. Retrieved August 16, 2020
  9. ↑ a b c d Christoph Schröder: The world of things speaks . In: Frankfurter Rundschau of March 7, 2011. Accessed August 15, 2020
  10. ↑ Karsten Bott's website: Archive . Retrieved August 15, 2020
  11. ↑ Denise Wilde: Collecting things: Approaches to a cultural technique . transcript Verlag, Bielefeld, 2015, ISBN 978-3-8376-2940-8 , p. 205
  12. ^ A b Maximilian Burk: Exhibition "Liebes Ding" in the Museum Morsbroich . WDR " West ART " from January 25, 2020, (03:35 min), min. 01: 55-03: 35. Accessed August 16, 2020
  13. ↑ a b Hans Riebsamen: Show “Equal Multiples”: The world in 5000 banana boxes . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of April 18, 2015. Retrieved on August 15, 2020
  14. ^ Jean-Christophe Ammann : Art? Yes, art !: The longing for pictures . Westend Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 2014, ISBN 978-3-864895-46-3 , chap. 4, Society: Worldwide - Karsten Bott , pp. 169–175
  15. ↑ a b Program: 30th Ann Arbor Film Festival . Retrieved August 15, 2020
  16. ↑ a b Sandra Danicke : The things. Karsten Bott's collection . Article of the Frankfurter Rundschau, Kulturspiegel of May 20, 2000 on the website of the Frankfurt exhibition hall. Retrieved September 3, 2020
  17. ^ A b New Art Association Wuppertal: Karsten Bott - Things . Retrieved September 3, 2020
  18. ↑ Karsten Bott's website: Films . Retrieved August 28, 2020
  19. ^ Austrian Film Museum: Studying at Kubelka - Städelschule 3 . Retrieved August 28, 2020
  20. ^ Egon Schiele Art Centrum: Artists . Retrieved August 15, 2020
  21. ↑ a b District town Dietzenbach: SkulpTouren Park . Retrieved September 3, 2020
  22. ↑ Hessian Cultural Foundation: Scholarship Recipients: Karsten Bott . Retrieved September 6, 2020
  23. ^ Jürgen Raap: News forum : Awards & grants . In: Kunstforum International : Pandoras Box: Design - To an iconography of the design of the useful. Painting: Series I, Vol. 130, 1995, pp. 18-21
  24. ↑ Karsten Bott, Andreas Exner, Ulrike Gabriel, Nikolaus List, Charlotte Malcolm-Smith, Susanne Paesler, Andreas Schlaegel, Martin Schmidt / Florian Haas, Markus Zuckermann: Graduates of the Städelschule Frankfurt: Ninth exhibition of the Jürgen Ponto Foundation 1995 . Frankfurter Kunstverein (publisher), Jürgen Ponto Foundation for the Promotion of Young Artists, Frankfurt 1995
  25. ↑ Historisches Museum Frankfurt: Artist talk: Karsten Bott - Thomas Bayerle . Retrieved September 3, 2020
  26. ^ District town Dietzenbach: Furniture and cakes . Retrieved September 3, 2020
  27. ↑ Where from and where to? Collecting in the museum. Museum Association Texts, Issue No. 15, Hessischer Museumsverband e. V. (Ed.), Kassel 2013, pp. 16-18
  28. ↑ Work discussion with Karsten Bott in the art gallery . In: Rhein Zeitung of March 23, 2011. Retrieved on August 15, 2020
  29. ↑ Museum Morsbroich: January 26, 2020 - June 1, 2020 . Accessed August 16, 2020
  30. ↑ Jörg Mayer: The love things . WDR 5 "Scala" from January 24, 2020 (11:31 min), min. 09: 15-11: 12. Retrieved August 16, 2020
  31. ^ Schader Foundation: The Subtle Violence of Things, October 31, 2012. Accessed August 27, 2020
  32. ^ Hatje Cantz Publisher: Frankfurter Kreuz. Transformations of the everyday in contemporary art . Retrieved September 6, 2020
  33. ^ Gabriele Hoffmann: Concentrated Refusal . In: taz of July 16, 2001, edition 6497, p. 14. Accessed on September 6, 2020
  34. ^ MoMA PS1: Deep Storage . Retrieved August 15, 2020
  35. ^ Haus am Lützowplatz: Exhibition history-1990-1999 . Retrieved September 6, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Bott, Karsten
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main