Martin Rendel

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Martin Rendel (* 1968 in Limburg an der Lahn ) is a German cultural manager and university professor . The central theme of his work is innovation through intercultural and interdisciplinary cooperation.

Life

Rendel studied industrial design at Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences and communication design at the Art Center College of Design in La Tour-de-Peilz, Switzerland . During his studies he worked in the design studios of Aldo Cibic (Milan), Matteo Thun (Milan) and Dieter Sieger ( Harkotten Castle ). His thesis, an abortion, met with broad media interest after the then AP photographer Karsten Thielker became aware of the project during a private stay in Darmstadt in 1992 and had the photos distributed via the Associated Press. Roger Willemsen then invited Rendel to the talk show 0137 , while the Süddeutsche Zeitung celebrated the work as a “cultural revolution”.

As the winner of an international design competition, after completing his studies, Rendel was invited to France by Moulinex on a scholarship , which led to an encounter with the architect Isabelle Galzin. Both opened a studio for design and communication, first in Hamburg (1994) and then in Paris (1996). A collaboration with Federico Restrepo and clients such as Yves Saint Laurent , Gucci Parfum, Fred Joaillier and others came about .

At the same time, from 1996 to 1999, Rendel was involved in an art project on rails, initiated by the Italian sculptor Gianpaolo d'Andrea Moravecchia and the Amsterdam artists' association Stichting de Blinde Schilders , and a train as a rolling exhibition through Europe (Denmark, Greece, Yugoslavia, Hungary , Austria, Poland and the Netherlands), was involved as art director . The project was initially known as “De Valigia” and was later changed to “Europartrain”.

In 1998, together with communications consultant René Spitz , Rendel founded the advertising agency rendel & spitz, which in 2006 became a consultancy for strategic brand management. In the years 2001 to 2006 the office building (architects: b & k + / Arno Brandlhuber , Bernd Kniess), the narrowest building in Cologne on Eigelstein 115, offered space on the ground floor for installations during the Cologne furniture fair Imm cologne as part of the so-called Passagen program. Participated in it u. a. the designers and architects Konstantin Grcic (Munich), Johanna Grawunder (Los Angeles), Timo Salli (Helsinki), Ross Lovegrove (London), Greg Lynn (Los Angeles), Tokujin Yoshioka (Tokyo), Andrea Branzi (Milan), Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec (Paris) and Stefan Ytterborn (Stockholm). The Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich has added Greg Lynn's spatial sculpture from the installation in 2002 to its permanent collection.

Together with Spitz, he was the curator responsible for exhibitions a. a. in the Haus der Gegenwart (Munich), New Museum Nuremberg , Museum of Applied Art Cologne , Dortmunder U , Museum am Rothenbaum (Hamburg) and Today Art Museum (Beijing). Self-directed exhibitions followed in Shanghai, Tianjin, Tianshui, Chiang Mai and Bangkok.

In 2015, together with the Chinese artist Li Xue, Rendel founded the art association K29 in Düsseldorf, which campaigned for freedom of expression in art. Personal differences in the founding phase led to the re-establishment under the name K26. One of K26's first major projects in the same year was the performance of the Beijing Independent Film Festival (BIFF) during the Hamburg Film Festival , which the director Albert Wiederspiel made possible as a festival within the festival. The project found well-known supporters such as Alexander Kluge , Michael Kahn-Ackermann and Ai Weiwei . However, it created diplomatic tensions between Germany and China. The Chinese festival director Li Xianting and his team had to be unloaded and the cooperation ended with immediate effect. The festival took place anyway and the winners of the K26 Film Award received their prizes at the opening ceremony in Hamburg. Since then, K26's activities have focused on artistic photography.

At the end of 2018, there was cooperation with Germany - Land of Ideas . As part of the international competition Beyond Bauhaus - Prototyping the Future , Rendel initiated a cooperation with the Beijing Institute of Technology Zhuhai , which co-organized the competition in the People's Republic. This was followed by a guest professorship and the appointment as honorary professor (Prof. hc PR of China) there. The managing director of Germany - Land of Ideas , Ute E. Weiland, appointed Rendel as the initiative's ambassador in China.

In addition to Zhuhai, Rendel has also been visiting professor at King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Lat Krabang in Bangkok since 2019 . Guest lectures and lectureships led him a. a. to the Peter Behrens School of Arts (Düsseldorf), Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts (Tianjin), Communication University of China (Beijing), Sichuan University of the Arts (Chongqing), Rhenish University of Applied Sciences Cologne , Chiang Mai University (Chiang Mai).

Exhibitions and Festivals (selection)

  • 2019 Invisible Things TCDC Museum , Bangkok, curated together with Philip Cornwel-Smith and Piboon Amornjiraporn
  • 2018 Invisible Things , TCDC Museum, Chiang Mai, curated together with Philip Cornwel-Smith and Piboon Amornjiraporn
  • 2018 The Second Image of Silk Road , Tianshui Photography Biennale
  • 2017 Parabiosis , Changjiang Museum of Contemporary Art, Chongqing
  • 2015 Chinese Independent Cinema , EthnoFilmFest Munich, curated together with Stefan Eisenhofer
  • 2015 Beijing Independent Film Festival , Filmfest Hamburg, curated together with Jens Geiger
  • 2015 Jiang Jian , Galerie Julian Sander, curated together with Julian Sander and Catherine Cheng
  • 2014 August Sander & Jiang Jian , Photo Shanghai, curated together with Julian Sander and Catherine Cheng
  • 2014 Purple.Blue. - A tribute to Kong Qian No. 6 Zone Museum of Art, Tianjin, curated with Catherine Cheng
  • 2014 Jiang Jian - Archives PhotoBookMuseum , Cologne, curated together with Markus Schaden and Catherine Cheng
  • 2014 Invisible Things Museum am Rothenbaum - Cultures and Arts of the World , Hamburg, curated together with Wu Xuefu and René Spitz
  • 2013 Invisible Things , Today Art Museum , Beijing, curated together with Wu Xuefu and René Spitz
  • 2011 Terraced cooking , Museum of Applied Arts Cologne Cologne (MAKK), curated together with René Spitz
  • 2010 Neighborhood , New Museum Nuremberg , curated together with René Spitz
  • 2008 In German Terraced Houses , Museum of Applied Arts Cologne , curated together with René Spitz
  • 2006 Liebes Tagebuch , Eigelstein 115, Cologne, curated together with René Spitz
  • 2004 Not identified , Eigelstein 115, Cologne, curated together with René Spitz
  • 2003 Blühende Lücke , Eigelstein 115, Cologne, curated together with René Spitz
  • 2002 Das Weite sucht , Eigelstein 115, Cologne, curated together with René Spitz
  • 2001 Mut zur Lücke , Eigelstein 115, Cologne, curated together with René Spitz

Awards (selection)

  • core design award, Stockholm 2001
  • iF Design Award , Hanover 2002
  • Red Dot Design Award : best of the best Communication Design, Essen 2001
  • Red Dot Design Award Communication Design, Essen 2001 and 2002
  • DDC award , Frankfurt am Main 2001
  • Berliner Type, Berlin 2001

Publications (selection)

Ed. With K26 Sino-German Art Association published by Kettler:

Ed. With Daniel Arnold and René Spitz at Callwey Verlag, Munich:

Ed. With René Spitz in Verlag Axel Menges, Stuttgart / London:

Ed. With De Blinde Schilders Foundation, Amsterdam:

  • 1999 De Valigia in Austria
  • 1998 De Valigia in Hungary
  • 1997 De Valigia in Yugoslavia
  • 1996 De Valigia in Greece
  • 1996 De Valigia in Denmark

Individual evidence

  1. ↑
    Roger Willemsen and Martin Rendel on the talk show 0137

    Broadcast on February 20, 1993

  2. ^ Edition of February 6, 1993
  3. ^ Moritz Piehler: "Forbidden Pictures". In: Spiegel online. Rudolf Augstein, accessed September 30, 2015 .
  4. ↑
    K26 Film Award

    K26 film award for independent film

  5. ↑ Martin Kunze: This Worldly Life & K26 Film Award. In: Filmfest Hamburg. Retrieved October 2, 2015 .
  6. ^ Heide Häusler: Portfolio Review. International Photoscene Cologne, accessed on September 21, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Interview from January 5, 2016, WDR 3 Resonanzen, editor: Sascha Ziehn
  8. ^ Beyond Bauhaus - Prototyping the Future. In: Beijing Institute of Technology Zhuhai. College of Art and Design, accessed March 5, 2019 (Chamorro).
  9. ^ Beyond Bauhaus - Prototyping the Future. KMITL, accessed October 7, 2019 (Thai).
  10. ↑ melanin Mahavongtrakul: "The sacred and the mundane." Bangkok Post, accessed July 17, 2019 .
  11. ↑ "Invisible Things" comes to Bangkok. In: Goethe Institute Thailand. Retrieved June 3, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Invisible Things at TCDC. In: City Life Magazine. City Life Group, Chiang Mai, accessed November 24, 2018 .
  13. ↑ Su Yuezhuo: "The 2nd Image of Silk Road - Tianshui Photography Biennial". In: Photoint. Retrieved June 21, 2018 .
  14. ^ Tianshui International Photography Biennale, 2018
  15. ^ Parabiosis International Contemporary Art Exhibition. Changjiang Art Museum, accessed October 22, 2016 .
  16. ↑ EthnoFilmFest Munich 2015. In: Ludwig Maximilians University Munich. Ethnological Institute, accessed on November 20, 2015 .
  17. ^ Jiang Jian - Archives on Orphans. In: Galerie Julian Sander. Retrieved August 22, 2015 .
  18. ↑ Photo Shanghai 2014
  19. ↑ Stefanie Thiedig: "The invisible things come to Hamburg". Cultural property, accessed on May 5, 2014 .
  20. ↑ Wang Ran: "Invisible Things": Getting to know China and Germany through everyday things. In: German.China.org. Retrieved July 5, 2013 .
  21. ^ Invisible Things in the Today Art Museum Beijing, 2013
  22. ↑ Row home cooking. MAKK - Museum of Applied Arts Cologne, accessed on September 16, 2011 .
  23. ↑ Row home cooking. In: Vimeo. Accessed in 2012 .
  24. ↑ neighborhood. In: Vimeo. Accessed in 2012 .
  25. ↑ In German terraced houses. In: Vimeo. Accessed in 2012 .
  26. ↑ Barbara Schlei: "Design determines being". Retrieved January 29, 2004 .
  27. ↑ Mark Siemons: "Black sky over the Tiananmen". In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Retrieved May 13, 2016 .
  28. ↑ Silke Lahmann-Lammert: In German row houses. NDR, accessed June 26, 2011 .

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personal data
SURNAME Rendel, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cultural manager and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Limburg ad Lahn