Marcel Odenbach

Marcel Odenbach (born July 7, 1953 in Cologne ) is a German video artist .

life and work

From 1974 to 1979 he studied architecture , art history and semiotics at the Technical University of Aachen . Since 1976 he has been working with video in performances, installations and tapes. In 1984 he was represented at the group exhibition Von hier aus - Two months of new German art in Düsseldorf . Since 1992 he has held professorships at the Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung, Karlsruhe , and the Kunsthochschule für Medien Cologne , where he held the office of Vice Rector .

Odenbach lives and works in Cologne. Marcel Odenbach has held a full professorship for film and video at the Düsseldorf Art Academy since the 2010 summer semester . In the same year he was elected to the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Arts .

Marcel Odenbach, along with Ulrike Rosenbach and Klaus vom Bruch, is one of the three internationally recognized German video artists. Together they formed the ATV producer group in the 1970s .

Public collections

Germany

• Hamburger Bahnhof , Museum of the Present , Berlin
• Art Museum Bonn , Bonn
• Hamburger Kunsthalle , Hamburg
• Museum for New Art & Media Museum (ZKM) , Karlsruhe
• Kunsthalle Kiel of the Christian Albrechts University, Kiel
• Kolumba , Cologne
• Museum Ludwig , Cologne
• Gallery for Contemporary Art - GfZK, Leipzig

France

• Regional Art Contemporain Fund - Pays de Loire, Carquefou
• Center Georges Pompidou , Musée National d'Art Moderne , Paris

Canada

• National Gallery of Canada - Musée des beaux-arts du Canada, Ottawa, Ontario

Liechtenstein

• Liechtenstein Art Museum , Vaduz

Netherlands

• Netherlands Media Art Institute - Montevideo / Time Based Arts, Amsterdam

Exhibitions

• 2012 Group exhibition: Pictures against the Dark. Video art from the imai archive at KIT , Kunst im Tunnel , Düsseldorf
• 2017 Personale: Marcel Odenbach. Proof of nothing , Kunsthalle Wien , Vienna
• 1987: documenta 8 , Kassel

literature

• Slavko Kacunko: Marcel Odenbach. Concept, performance, video, installation 1975 - 1998; Marcel Odenbach as a model of an artistic development in dealing with the medium of video and its role and significance for the integration of time-bound art forms in the art-historical context. Mainz: Chorus-Verl., 1999 (Zugl .: Düsseldorf, Univ., Diss., 1998).

Web links

• Literature by and about Marcel Odenbach in the catalog of the German National Library
• Marcel Odenbach at the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Arts
• Marcel Odenbach: Works on Paper 1975 - 2013, retrospective at the Kunstmuseum Bonn