Markus Ambach

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Markus Ambach (2014)

Markus Ambach (* 1963 in Darmstadt ) is a German exhibition maker, artist, curator, author and initiator of art projects in public spaces .

Education and career

Markus Ambach studied from 1984 to 1987 at the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Offenbach am Main and from 1987 at the Art Academy in Düsseldorf . He was a master student of Christian Megert (1990). After numerous exhibitions at home and abroad as an artist, he began freelance project work in public spaces in 2002.

Projects

In 2002, Ambach founded the project platform MAP, which develops, implements and operates international context-related projects in urban space, but also other topic-specific exhibition formats. Exhibitions such as B1 | A40 The Beauty of the Great Street in 2010 for the Ruhr Capital of Culture. 2010 and 2014, with artists, scientists, residents and other social groups, address the relationship between art, society, urbanity and the city in a context-specific manner. Ambach is also particularly interested in the subject of "Representations of nature in an urban context". In exhibition projects in gardens, parks and other forms of public interpretation of nature, he discusses the relationship between city, culture and nature.

  • In 2017 and 2018 Ambach carried out the interdisciplinary exhibition project " From foreign countries in their own cities " in the Düsseldorf train station district. After a prologue in 2017 with an extensive program of events, a large exhibition in public space with artists such as Katharina Sieverding , Andreas Siekmann , Natascha Sadr Haghighian , Paloma Varga Weisz and Neil Beloufa took place in 2018 .
  • In 2017 he carried out the project "Mülheimer Wunderkammer" together with Kay von Keitz as part of "Seeing the City" of the Cologne Theater .
  • In 2016, Ambach together with Susanne Titz curated the exhibition " Von den Strömen der Stadt " with new artistic positions on the relationship between art, urbanity and the public in the Abteiberg Museum , Mönchengladbach.
  • Since 2012 Ambach has been running the project “An unsuspecting dream of the park” together with the Abteiberg Museum . It deals in several phases with the integration of the museum into its urban environment and initiated a dialogue between art in public space, planning initiatives and urban actors.
  • Ambach has also been implementing the curatorial concept " Choreography of a landscape " on the site of the former Lohberg colliery since 2012 . Thomas Schütte and Jakob Kolding carried out work there for the newly created mountain park. Jeanne van Heeswijk and Folke Köbberling and Martin Kaltwasser have initiated participatory projects and are working on site over the long term.
  • Between 2012 and 2014, Ambach and Kay von Keitz carried out the pilot project “ Der urbane Kongress ” on behalf of the City of Cologne, which (re) established awareness of the connections between art and urban space and concepts for the future use of art in public space want to develop.
  • From 2010 to 2012 Ambach operated the project space “ The Chain ”. The group and solo exhibitions in the rooms in Düsseldorf Bilk were dedicated to the structures and conditions of artistic work and value production.
  • In 2009, Ambach, together with the Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen , initiated the interdisciplinary discursive project " The Unredeemed Promise " on the architecture of the 1970s and the then current urban planning discourse in Düsseldorf.
  • Also in 2009, with the project " Public Garden Public Generation " in cooperation with the New Aachen Art Association , he examined the urban park as the last open place of urban society.
  • For ten years (between 2003 and 2012) he and the artist Birgit Jensen organized the series of events WG / 3ZI / K / BAR at the artists' association Malkasten Düsseldorf. The flat share was an open house and meeting place for artists.
  • In the three-part project “ parcours interdit ” from 2007–2009, Ambach focused on the culturalization of nature on the theme of the park. In an exhibition in the "Jacobigarten" of the Düsseldorf artist association Malkasten , various works formulated the park as a choreographed staging of nature as its representation in the urban context.
  • Ambach's commitment to an art commission in Düsseldorf began in 2002 with “stadtraum.org”, which has since been implemented by the city of Düsseldorf with his assistance. [1] With Andrea Knobloch, he ran a discussion forum on art in public space until 2006, which culminated in the model test of the Art Commission for Düsseldorf at five schools in Düsseldorf.
  • Markus Ambach carried out his first project in his own garden. From 2002 to 2004 he invited artists to show their work there as part of “Wildlife” and to organize concerts and the like.

Teaching

In 2017/2018 he held the chair for plastics at RWTH Aachen University . 2014–2015 he held a substitute professorship at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart. 2005–2007 and 2012–2013 he held a teaching position at the Berlin University of the Arts . 2006–2007 an endowed professorship at the Offenbach University of Design. 2005–2006 Markus Ambach had a teaching position at the Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart ,

Exhibitions (selection)

In addition to his work as an exhibition maker and project author, which is at the center of Ambach's work, he sporadically resumes his previous artistic practice, also to refer to the origin of the project work from the artistic environment:

  • 2017: Hacking Urban Furniture , ZK / U Center for Art and Urbanism, Berlin
  • 2014: Crime scene Paderborn - phenomenon pedestrian zone, Paderborn
  • 2012: Museucampus, Museu do Chiado, Lisbon, Portugal
  • 2011: In the garden, Nordico City Museum, Linz, Austria
  • 2010: Walking over water, Ruhr 2010 Capital of Culture
  • 2010: Track Changes, Gallery for Contemporary Art, Leipzig
  • 2010: Hotel Chelsea Suites, Plan 10, Cologne
  • 2009: Gartenstadt-Stadtgarten, Hildesheim Art Association
  • 2009: Asyl e. V., New Aachen Art Association, Aachen
  • 2008: What game shall we play today ?, Tokyo Wonder Site, Tokyo, Japan
  • 2008: Institute for Alpine Affairs, Manifesta 7
  • 2008: Galerie Rupert Pfab, Düsseldorf

Working groups (selection)

Markus Ambach works in various working groups and initiates such:

  • 2017 - 2019 member of the KÖR jury (art in public space Vienna)
  • KUKODUS - Working group for the preparation of an art commission for "Art in Architecture" in Düsseldorf
  • Free group Düsseldorf

Awards (selection)

  • 2010: “The special exhibition 2010” Award from the AICA Critics Association for the project “B1 | A40 The beauty of the big road”
  • 1994: Award for fine arts from the state capital Düsseldorf

Publications (selection)

  • as publisher: An unsuspecting dream of the park | From the rivers of the city. Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne, 2017, ISBN 978-3-96098-169-5 (German, English).
  • as editor: Choreography of a landscape. Wienand Verlag, 2015, ISBN 978-3-86832-302-3 .
  • as editor: B1 | A40 The beauty of the big street 2014. Wienand Verlag, 2015, ISBN 978-3-86832-301-6 (German, English).
  • with Kay von Keitz (ed.): The urban congress. Art and the city in context. A model project as part of the StadtLab for art in public space, Cologne. Wienand Verlag, Cologne 2015, ISBN 978-3-86832-267-5 .
  • Artists' Association Malkasten (Ed.): WG / 3Zi / K / Bar. A house for artists, guests and friends. Düsseldorf 2013, ISBN 978-3-00-045900-9 .
  • Interdit course. Düsseldorf 2011, OCLC 935487831 .
  • as editor: B1 | A40 The beauty of the big street 2010 Jovis Verlag, 2010, ISBN 978-3-86859-077-7 (German, English).
  • with Jörg Beckmann, Jens Renner, Jeroen Verbrugge: Mobility and Security. Offenbach 2007, ISBN 978-3-921997-65-9 .
  • as editor: wildlife. Richter Verlag, Düsseldorf 2005, ISBN 3-937572-42-2 .

Web links

Commons : Markus Ambach  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ MAP Markus Ambach projects. In: Urban Artists Ruhr. Kultur Ruhr GmbH, accessed on February 14, 2016 .
  2. ^ Markus Ambach, artist. Museum for Architecture and Engineering NRW, accessed on February 14, 2016 .
  3. ^ Anke Ernst: Markus Ambach Projects. In: INDEX - The new art magazine for Düsseldorf. Retrieved February 14, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Markus Ambach: Is Art City Planning? - Lecture by Markus Ambach on October 17, 2011 in Vienna as part of the lecture series "City of the Future - Colloquium on the Practice of Urban Development". In: Youtube. Retrieved February 4, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Markus Ambach: Representations of nature in an urban context . In: Kay von Keitz, Sabine Voggenreiter (eds.): "En passant" traveling through urban spaces . Jovis, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-86859-061-6 .
  6. ↑ Raimer Stange: To make the (train) court of art. Retrieved March 15, 2019 .
  7. ^ Sabine Maria Schmidt: From foreign countries in their own cities . In: Kunstforum International . tape 255 , p. 260 ff .
  8. ↑ FOCUS Online: Local, global and universal - From the currents of the city. Retrieved March 15, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Dirk Richerdt: Along the dream street of the museum. In: Rheinische Post , May 24, 2013, accessed on February 29, 2016 ( rp-online.de ).
  10. ^ Art that creates identification , Kreativ.quartier-lohberg.de, accessed on February 29, 2016
  11. ↑ Oliver Junge: Can it be done? Cologne examines art in public spaces. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. April 18, 2012.
  12. ^ Anke Ernst: Markus Ambach Projects. In: INDEX, Das Düsseldorfer Kunstmagazin, accessed on February 29, 2016.
  13. ↑ WG in art blog Perisphere (called on 29 February 2016).
  14. ↑ to stadtraum.org (accessed on February 29, 2016).
  15. ↑ to the Wildlife website (accessed February 29, 2016).
  16. ↑ Markus Ambach | Studio visits. Accessed March 15, 2019 (German).
  17. ↑ Andrej Klahn: Our daily scrap . In: Welt am Sonntag . No. 26 . Axel Springer SE, June 29, 2014, p. 9 ( welt.de [accessed on February 14, 2016]).
  18. ^ Markus Ambach in the New Aachen Art Association.
  19. ^ Exhibition Rupert Pfab.
  20. ↑ Jury 2017 - 2019 / Art in Public Space Vienna. Retrieved March 15, 2019 .
  21. ↑ Arne Lieb: Art in architecture: who should determine? In: Rheinische Post. June 11, 2015 ( rp-online.de ), accessed on February 29, 2016.
  22. ↑ Change of course, please! - Interview with Hans-Jürgen Hafner and Markus Ambach on cultural policy in Düsseldorf. In: Monopol, magazine for art and life. Juno Kunstverlag GmbH, December 18, 2014, accessed on February 14, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Ambach, Markus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Darmstadt