Klaus Jung (artist)

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Klaus Jung (born March 12, 1955 in Solingen ) is a German installation artist , art college teacher and art college manager.

Life

Jung studied from 1973 to 1979 at the Art Academy in Düsseldorf with Fritz Schwegler and Klaus Rinke and then attended the Royal College of Art in London for a year as a DAAD scholarship holder . In 1982 he received a MoMA PS1 grant and in 1985 a grant from Art Cologne .

From 1990 to 1995 he headed the Kunstakademiet i Trondheim (faculty and institute of the NTNU ) as rector , from 1995 to 2002 the Bergen School of Art and Design , from 2002 to 2009 the School of Fine Art at the Glasgow School of Art and from 2009 to 2014 the Academy of Media Arts Cologne . Since 2015 he has been head of the Faculty of Fine Arts at the Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten .

Exhibitions

Since 1977 Jung has exhibited his works several times in individual and group exhibitions in Germany and other European countries.

Solo exhibitions

Group exhibitions

literature

  • Bernd Fäthke, Klaus Jung, in exhib. Cat .: Rinkes class in "Room 27", 10th action in "Room 27", last time you said that you were not making art, Museum Wiesbaden, March 21st - March 28th 1976
  • Thomas Hirsch: Jung, Klaus . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 78, de Gruyter, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-11-023183-0 , p. 503.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ CV. Accessed February 1, 2017 (German).
  2. ↑ Klaus Jung new rector at the Art Academy for Media Cologne  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. KHM.de@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / lbtest.khm.de  
  3. ↑ us [Bruno Russ], Rinke and his students, 10th action in room 27, Wiesbadener Kurier, Monday, March 22nd, 1976, us [Bruno Russ], Düsseldorfer Kunstakademie - and what emerges from it, Wiesbadener Kurier, Wednesday, March 24th March 1976, Düsseldorfer Happyning in the Wiesbaden Museum, Wiesbadener Kurier, Saturday, March 27, 1976
personal data
SURNAME Jung, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German installation artist, art college professor and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Solingen