Klaus from the break
Klaus vom Bruch (* 1952 in Cologne ) is a German media artist and university professor. He has been working with video since 1975, initially as a videotape, and since the mid-1980s mainly in installations.
Life
Vom Bruch studied Conceptual Art at the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia with John Baldessari from 1975 to 1976 and philosophy at the University of Cologne from 1976 to 1980 . Together with Ulrike Rosenbach and Marcel Odenbach , he formed the ATV producer group in the 1970s . In 1986 he received the Dorothea von Stetten Art Prize . 1992 to 1998 he took over a professorship for media art at the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Karlsruhe. From 1999 to 2018 he held a professorship for media art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich . In 2000 he was visiting professor at Columbia University in New York.
The break became known in the 1970s with his video tape Das Schleyerband . On the first day of Hanns-Martin Schleyer's kidnapping by the RAF, he recorded the police radio . In the Allied Band (1982) he assembled original material from the invasion of US soldiers in the Rhineland, in Softiband (1980) he used material from himself as a pilot.
Prizes and awards
Solo exhibitions
- 1990: Kestnergesellschaft , Hanover (catalog)
- 1991: Buchholz Gallery , Cologne; Institute of Contemporary Arts , London; Eigen & Art Gallery, Leipzig
- 1993: Kölnischer Kunstverein (catalog)
- 1995: Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany , Bonn
- 1997: Diözesanmuseum , Cologne (catalog)
- 1998: Max Hetzler Gallery , Berlin; Gallery Schipper & Krome, Berlin
- 2000: Gallery next St. Stephan, Vienna
- 2008, 2011, 2013: Galerie Françoise Heitsch, Munich
- 2014: Sassa Truelzsch, Berlin
Group exhibition
- 1980: XI Biennale de Paris , Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
- 1984: “ Biennale di Venezia ”, International Pavilion, Venice; From here - two months of new German art in Düsseldorf
- 1987: " documenta 8 ", Museum Fridericianum, Kassel
- 1995: “Illusion - Emotion - Reality” 100 years of cinema, Kunsthaus Zürich .
- 1996: "2. Biennale “Lyon
- 1997: "Pictures of Germany", Martin-Gropius-Bau , Berlin
- 1998: "Fast Forward", Kunstverein Hamburg
- 1999: "Moving Images", gallery for contemporary art, Leipzig
- "Art of the 20th Century" National Gallery , Berlin
- 2000: "Seeing Time" The Kramlich Collection , San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
- 2005: RAF - Exhibition "To the Presentation of Terror", artworks Berlin
- 2007: "True Romance", Kunsthalle Wien
- 2012: Pictures against the Dark. Video art from the imai archive at KIT , Kunst im Tunnel , Düsseldorf
- 2014: Expansion of the combat zone , Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin
Public collections
Germany
- nbk video forum , Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin
- Hamburger Bahnhof , Museum of the Present, Berlin
- Art Museum Bonn , Bonn
- Museum for New Art & Media Museum (ZKM) , Karlsruhe
- Kunsthalle zu Kiel of the Christian Albrechts University, Kiel
- Kolumba , Cologne
- Museum Ludwig , Cologne
- Kunsthalle , Bremen
- Gallery for Contemporary Art - GfZK, Leipzig
- Folkwang Museum , Essen
- Lenbachhaus , Munich
United States
Canada
- Vancouver Art Gallery , Vancouver, British Columbia
Netherlands
- Netherlands Media Art Institute - Montevideo / Time Based Arts, Amsterdam
- Stedelijk Museum , Amsterdam
Austria
Web links
- Literature by and about Klaus vom Bruch in the catalog of the German National Library
- Website from Klaus vom Bruch
- Klaus vom Bruch on kunstaspekte.de
- Current students and graduates of the Klaus vom Bruch class
- The Schleyer Band (1977–1978)
- Klaus vom Bruch in the ZKM
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ludger Blanke: Excites the nerve. In: Friday. Retrieved September 15, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bruch, Klaus from |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German media artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1952 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cologne |