Martin Eckrich
Martin Eckrich (born February 21, 1963 in Kaiserslautern ) is a painter , performance artist and creator of room installations and sculptures . Martin Eckrich also writes poems and free poetic texts, especially as part of the installations and performances. He lives in Schifferstadt in the Palatinate .
life and work
Martin Eckrich was born the youngest of six children. His father Lorenz Eckrich was a teacher and honorary director of the local museum in Schifferstadt, his mother is the recognized ceramist Lisl Eckrich. From 1982 to 1983 he attended the free art school (Rödelschule) in Mannheim . Eckrich studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich from 1983 to 1989 with a scholarship from the Bayern-Pfalz Foundation . He successfully completed his studies with a diploma in cult space design as a master student under Professor Franz Bernhard Weißhaar .
During his time at the free art school, he practiced a realistic, sometimes almost photo-realistic style. Since 1983 he has been creating performances at the academy, mostly in connection with room installations. While his painterly works and collages were very abstract at the beginning of his work at the academy, in the course of time he again incorporated graphic elements in order to finally move on to mostly representational painting. The strong colourfulness has been preserved in many of his paintings.
Eckrich's constant themes are human heads, although these often express a lot of inner tension, strong feelings and drama in his paintings, while his ceramic works, his mother's art, are more thoughtful, withdrawn and aesthetically executed. With ceramics, like with wooden statues, he repeatedly creates full-body representations, whereby the wooden statues are more archaic, the clay structures are often very naturalistic, aesthetic and expressive, whereby the expression of positive feelings predominates. With ceramics, he also allows himself - otherwise atypical - humorous works. The request of his old father to design a garden gnome for him plunged him into the conflict of wanting to fulfill the old man's wish, but certainly not with a garden gnome, so that instead of creating a horde of small green garden gnomes full of childish arrogance, the also well received by the father. His landscape paintings, which are often made while traveling, are often expressively colorful. He also repeatedly performs nudes and erotic representations. Many of his metal installations and boxes are still abstract.
In the context of exhibition openings and as part of performances, Martin Eckrich repeatedly read poems and free poetic texts in order to express his thoughts and emotions on certain topics and works. In the course of time these poems were often accompanied by musician friends, mostly guitarists. The resulting expanded possibilities of expression prompted Eckrich to often accompany himself on the guitar and also to sing some texts. As part of art events, he likes to jam with musician friends under the Art Eckrich label.
Even though it cannot be used, Eckrich still puts a lot of effort into the creation of elaborate, abstract room installations up to the present day. His elongated garden with residential house and three garden houses in Schifferstadt has become a large room installation, in which he produces his wood, clay and metal works and also paints most of his pictures.
Martin Eckrich Gallery
In September 2013, Martin Eckrich opened his own gallery in his parents' house. He uses this to show his latest works to an interested audience. But events such as "Art Time - Martin Eckrich and Friends" also take place regularly in the gallery rooms.
Performances as group actions
Since 1983 he has been creating performances at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, mostly in connection with room installations. In the time after his training as a freelance artist, he continued to create elaborate room installations and presented them with performances. He also regularly accompanied exhibition openings of his paintings and sculptures with performances. This interest in action art and its special possibilities of expression also prompted him to join a performance group founded in Speyer, which he has had a major influence on since joining.
Performance group heir community Felix Gordon
In Speyer, Ulrich Brennhäuser and Stephan Güpping (later married Stephan Reim; †) met at the theater group Prisma and had the idea to do action art themselves and with like-minded people. They met up with friends in various places to improvise and explore the limits of theater and performance.
The first public appearance of the performance group on July 17, 1999 at the old Kriegerbrunnen on the main street in Speyer attracted considerable attention. In addition to performances on topics such as war and its glorification, religion, German unity, money, wrong turns, death and transience, as well as art, the group also organized seminars v. a. with the performance artist Boris Nieslony and meeting of performance artists. Further topics of performances were e.g. B. "No election" on Election Sunday September 22nd, 2002 or after dark.
In addition to performances on Speyerer Hauptstrasse, at the Kriegerbrunnen, in the cathedral garden, in the old cloister at the Sparkasse, in the Audimax of the DHV and during festivals, the group also accompanies exhibitions and installations by Martin Eckrich, who joined the group, with the implementation of their very free and associative actions. Due to the membership of several artists in the group consisting of around 10 people, their understanding of art is broad. The performance days organized by the group in 2008 in the Künstlerhaus Speyer were accompanied by an exhibition of paintings and sculptures as well as a poetry reading of several hours by members of the group and guests with and without musical accompaniment. In addition to Martin Eckrich, permanent members (2008) are Guido Lill, Johanna Schellenberger, Thomas Schollenberger and Cornelius Bredow. After the death of Stephan Reim in Crete in 2004, who had strongly shaped the artistic concept of the group in a ritualized form and contributed a lot to the inspiration of the individual projects, the group's conception developed more and more away from the very ritualistic designs. After a long break, it continued in August 2015 with a performance at the long reading night in Schifferstadt. The group continues to meet regularly and today consists of the members Ulrich Brennhäuser, Guido Lill, Johanna Schellenberger, Jean.l. Bonaudo, Stefan Halbgewachs and Reinhard Arnold. The next performance (100 years of Dada) is planned for May 29, 2016 as part of an exhibition by Stefan Halbgewachs in the Remigiushaus in Otterstadt.
martin.eckrich.world formula
In individual cases, the artist group also included theatrical play elements, speeches to the audience, dialogues as well as dance or musical elements in their performances. After a lengthy discussion within the group, the group was renamed martin.eckrich.weltformel in order to make the conclusion of this transformation process clear and as a reference to Martin Eckrich as the inspirer and organizer. On the occasion of a reading of Michael Jentzsch's autobiographical report Blutsbrüder: Our friendship in Liberia through a friendship against the background of the civil war in Sierra Leone, the group deals with the topic of violence, as well as with the creation of a sculpture as in the performance " In the Wind "in 2010.
Installations
A key feature of Martin Eckrich's artistic work are his elaborate installations and cult rooms. If a room is available to him as an exhibition space, he does not simply use it to show his pictures and sculptures, but often to provide it with an installation that takes days to complete, sometimes as a cult space. He accepts that these room-filling installations cannot be sold.
On his installation "Resurrection", shown in Munich in 1986, Michael Hofstätter presented the following comment to the former Beuys student Prof. Bernhard Johannes Blume in an art talk:
Hofstätter: In contrast to Beuys, a proliferating principle prevails with Eckrich, i.e. a continuous worldview, while with Beuys the principle of setting and composing predominates.
Prof. Bernhard Johannes Blume replied: "Beuys came back as a disillusioned adult from the Second World War, while this young man's battlefield is the studio. That's why he looks so emaciated. He's also fighting for his life. But of course he's better off , he can fight in the studio ... But here in the house it's phenomenal. And I find that so characteristic that this process, this informal life process that is so rampant there, articulates in a highly poetic and intelligent way that it is in a Class for "sacred art" takes place and not elsewhere ... Obviously, in this class for "sacred art" there is a good opportunity to thematize existence again as painting, as rampant painting. "
Prof. Herbert Dellwing writes about Eckrich's installations: Martin Eckrich distances himself from common aesthetics and the conception of the work of art as an isolated, measurable object. He sees the danger that thinking will stray too far from the real world. Against the disenchantment of reality by science and technology, he places the secret of unfathomable matter, the spiritual content of things. He relies on sensory experience, on sensory perception as the basis of knowledge. ... His works prove the sensitization for the material we use every day, the change from cheap, shabby and dirty matter into the spiritual, the banal matter in art.
Selected actions and exhibitions
- April 1986: Group exhibition of 12 academy students in Munich City Hall
- 1986–1989: Lead glass windows in the 4 areas of the Hubert-Sternberg-Schule Wiesloch
- October 1988: group exhibition with Sigmar Polke , Michael Buthe , Magdalena Jetelová ; Installation "Wahnzimmer" together with Bernhard Johannes Blume in the Shakespeare House in Cologne
- 1988: Solo exhibition at Galerie Eins in Speyer
- 1990: Installation "The Baptism" at the joint exhibition with Martin Liebscher in the Künstlerhaus Speyer
- 11/1991: "Prometheus", at "Caduta Sassi", Munich
- 1991: Solo exhibition painting / installation / performance in the town hall of Schifferstadt
- April 1994: Installation and performance "Sun under the Earth" in the vaulted cellars of the Kurpfalzsektkellerei in Speyer
- "Die Reise" Gallery floor above the theater, Frankenthal
- 4/1992: Installation "Resurrection", with daily ritual in the Hochfeld Gallery, Munich
- 1993: Organizer "Artists against Violence", Schifferstadt
- 1994: "Leben", artist workshop Lothringer Strasse, Munich
- 1994: Solo exhibition "Menschenbild" in the Schifferstadt gallery in Odermatt
- 1994: Exhibition with René Fison and Ilse Müller in the cjm gallery Speyer
- 1995: "The Metamorphosis" Kulturgarten, Speyer
- 1995: Solo exhibition, Altes Rathaus Waldsee
- 1997: Group exhibition by Gedok, State Museum for Technology and Work , Mannheim, "Women and Technology"
- 1997: Solo exhibition Habitat - Environment; LIVING ROOMS, cultural meeting place Alter Bahnhof, Neulußheim
- 1997: Room installation "In the realm of shadows", Kunstkeller Speyer
- 1998: "The Redemption" gable room, Dannstadt
- 1999: Installation and performance "River in the Deep" in the Maximilian vaulted cellar in Speyer
- 2000: Group exhibition at Gedok Heidelberg, "Many forms and colors", Augustinum Heidelberg
- 2000: Installation "Der Irrweg" in the old city hall Speyer
- 2003: Group exhibition Sarg-Art in the Speyer old town gallery
- 2003: Solo exhibition "Grown" with pictures and wooden sculptures, Old Town Hall Schifferstadt
- 2003: Installation and performance The Way of the Cross in the Evangelical City Church, Marktbreit
- 2004: Installation The Encounter in the House at Westbahnhof, Landau , exhibition of the picture cycle "Between the Senses"
- 2004: Installation Die Wandlung in the Hainich National Park , Thuringia
- 11/2004: Installation corners light in the Caduta Gallery, Munich
- 2005: Installation " Lined up " and "Stations" in the DHV Speyer
- 2006: Installation Entrissen Ludwigshafen am Rhein Theater in the Pfalzbau
- 2006: Painting and sculpture at the Lingenfeld Art Association
- 2006: INEINANDER - INRÄUMEN, organ factory Karlsruhe , installations by Martin Eckrich and photographs by Irmtrud Saarbourg.
- 2007: "Touchings" at the Feuerbachhaus Speyer eV association, Museum Birthplace Anselm Feuerbach Speyer "with an introductory speech by Beate Steigner-Kukatzki, art historian ( Memento from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- May 6th to June 1st 2007: Ilse Müller, Martin Eckrich, The highest nature of mankind, art in the district building Südliche Weinstrasse , Landau , An der Kreuzmühle 2
- June 23 - July 8, 2007: Installation, drawing, photography, Poly Producer Gallery eV, Karlsruhe , Viktoriastrasse 9
- 2008: Exhibition " knife edge light " Brunnen45, Berlin
- 2008: " In Transition " Kunstverein Hockenheim
- 2008: "..tanzen" Kulturhof Flachsgasse, Kunstverein Speyer
- 2008: " Files " with the Akzent group, Feuerbach-Haus, Speyer
- 2008: " Posting " Künstlerbund Speyer
- 2009: " Das Metronom " Lager40, Mannheim
- 2009: " Die Vision " art shop, Mannheim
- September 2009: guest of the Portuguese city of Evora , [1] studio in the local museum of prehistory, creation of installations, sculptures, paintings and implementation of performances, exhibitions there: " The gifted " and " The light condition "
- 2010: "Evora", Speyer Artists Association
- 2010: “The gold of the sun”, Schifferstadt town hall
- 2010: “Blue cast in the lake” and performance “Kulturschlaf”, Speyer
- 2010: Performance "Sanktus Demenzia", Theaterhaus G7 , Mannheim
- 2010: Performance and pictures “Limitless”, climbing forest, Speyer
- 2010: Performance " The Gold of the Sun ", Rathausplatz Schifferstadt
- 2010: Performance "Schauplatz Erde", District Administration Südliche Weinstrasse, Landau; Utopia Azuŀ, Évora , Portugal
- 2010: Exhibition, art gallery at the castle, Bad Bergzabern
- 2010: Exhibition " Megilla " with the Künstlerbund Speyer in Berlin, state representation Rhineland-Palatinate
- 2011: Exhibition and installation "Unframed" at "Artist for Freedom", Ludwigshafen am Rhein
- 2011: Installation "The dream of marriage" at the joint exhibition "Art in the Villa Körbling" of the Künstlerbund Speyer
- 2012: Exhibition "ARTvent" with the Künstlerbund Speyer and the performance "The happy message"
- 2012: Exhibition "Megilla" in Yavne , Israel
- 2012: Exhibition "Offen SICHT" with the installation "Lichtkauf" and the performance of the same name in the Rathaus-Center, Ludwigshafen am Rhein. Painting performance "purchase of light"
- 2012: Exhibition "Face" in the Zehnthaus Römerberg with picture performance
- 2012: Exhibition "With all senses" with the installation "Lebenssinn" and the performance "Sinnierungen im Zwischen", Atelier Galerie Eins, Nuremberg
- 2012: Exhibition "Composers" and Installation "Das Orchester", Music Fever, Center for Music and Stage, Ludwigshafen am Rhein
- 2013: Exhibition "People" at the German University for Administrative Sciences Speyer
Printing units
- Kunstverein Speyer (ed.): Martin Eckrich. Cult rooms. with texts by Herbert Dellwing, Klaus Fresenius, Beate Steiger Kukatzki. Verlag Bild & Kunst, Harthausen 2000, ISBN 3-930358-02-9 .
- Martin Eckrich: both, rhymes and pictures 1990 - 1994; [Good and bad, wrong and right]. Chroma Verlag, 1994, ISBN 3-9801911-2-5 .
- Marianne Oetjen (author), Martin Eckrich (illustration): Mimi and the sky swing, a parable above the clouds for big and small. December 2010.
- Martin Eckrich. 2010 Schifferstadt, selected pictures and a feature section by Prof. Dr. Herbert Dellwing
literature
- Cornelia Kurth: torn beauty of life. Portrait. Sculptor Martin Eckrich lives in Schifferstadt in a garden full of sculptures. In: Lampertheimer Zeitung as well as in Bürstädter Zeitung. July 21, 2009. (online) (online)
- Beate Steigner-Kukatzki: From the material to the immaterial. The Schifferstadt artist Martin Eckrich not only pushes the limits with artistic techniques. In: Heimat-Jahrbuch. Ed .: Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis Vol. 30 (2013), pp. 30–33. ISSN 1860-3378 ; ISBN 978-3-00-042960-6 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento from September 11, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
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- ↑ a b Nobody knew what was going on ( Memento from August 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
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- ↑ ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: picture of the action, Stephan Reim )
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of November 13, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
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- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento from April 26, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
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- ^ Conversation between the author and Guido Lill, following a performance by the group on the subject of violence on the occasion of a reading by Michael Jentzsch from his novel Blutsbrüder, 2010 in the Speyer climbing forest
- ↑ ( page no longer available , search in web archives )
- ^ Kunstverein Speyer (ed.): Martin Eckrich. Cult rooms. Harthausen 2000, p. 6 on the section "Resurrection"
- ^ Kunstverein Speyer (ed.): Martin Eckrich. Cult rooms. Harthausen 2000, p. 4 Introduction
- ↑ http://www.bbkrlp.de/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=136:martineckrich&catid=104:e&Itemid=99 ( Memento from February 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ http://tig7.de/?p=2508
Web links
- Literature by and about Martin Eckrich in the catalog of the German National Library
- Entry for Martin Eckrich in the Rhineland-Palatinate personal database
- Homepage of the artist
- Brief presentation on the website of the State Professional Association of Visual Artists Rhineland-Palatinate; with pictures of "In the Realm of Shadows" and "River in the Deep"
- PDF file: Appreciation of Martin Eckrich's exhibition at the German University of Administrative Sciences Speyer by the art historian Clemens Jöckle in the university's in-house magazine, pp. 20–22. (1.46 MB)
performance
Room installations
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Eckrich, Martin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter, performance artist and creator of room installations and sculptures |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 21, 1963 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kaiserslautern |