Michael Glasmeier

Michael Glasmeier (* 1951 in Bochum ) is a professor of art history , essayist , publicist , poet and exhibition organizer. His work focuses on the diverse relationships between the visual arts, music, language, film, photography, theater and comedy, discretion, form of action or image strategy.

Life

After cartoons appeared in youth magazines in 1965, Glasmeier published his first poems in anthologies from 1969 and appeared in West Germany with readings. His texts were inspired by the visual poetry and American poetry of Robert Creeley , Allen Ginsberg , William Carlos Williams and Frank O'Hara . At the same time, Super 8 films were made in the context of expanded cinema . In 1970 the WDR broadcast its experimental radio play "Kaputt".

After completing his military service, Glasmeier studied philosophy, art and literature at the Technical University of Berlin from 1973 to 1981 and also worked at the Heinrich Heine bookstore in the Bahnhof Zoo. After contributions to visual poetry (including in the magazine “Volksfoto”), after the play “Tableau um / mit Musik” (Theater heute, 10/1979) and after the first essays for “Language in the Technical Age”, he began with sequential reductionist poetry which he published in individual issues.

In 1976 he received a scholarship for literature from the city of Gelsenkirchen. From the 1980s Glasmeier could be found in the vicinity of Merve Verlag and Edition Sirene , the international mail artist , the Gelsenkirchen studio of his brother Rolf Glasmeier , who died in 2003 , the Berlin magazine "GEPEIN", the Berlin office and SO36 . With Fritz Rahmann he developed the exhibition "Encyclopedia" in Berlin in 1980. All these different, subcultural production strategies were presented in 1982 with the solo exhibition "Auszüge" at the Berlin Merve Verlag.

After his master's thesis on the Panoptikum of Karl Valentin , which was partly included in the 1982 catalog for the anniversary exhibition “Karl Valentin. Folk singer? Dadaist? ”Was published in the Munich City Museum, Glasmeier continued his studies in Marburg and completed it in 1984 with a doctorate“ Karl Valentin. The comedian and the arts ”.

In the now beginning years of freelance work, lyrical production faded more and more into the background and Glasmeier began to work in the field of art. He wrote catalog texts, art reviews and essays for “new visual art”, “Daidalos” and the city magazines tip and zitty , worked with artists and in 1986 showed his exhibition “The Art Reception After 1945” in the Hotel-Pension Nürnberger Eck.

In 1987 a series of large thematic and historical exhibitions began on concrete and visual poetry, on artist records, on the strategy of narration, on artist books, on crime, on the relationship between Bruce Nauman and Samuel Beckett , on the Baroque and tableaux vivants , which took place in 2005 with the Kassler The show for the 50th anniversary of the documenta reached its preliminary climax.

His exhibition “Yesterday or on the 2nd floor. Karl Valentin, Art and Comedy since 1948 ”, which took place in the Munich City Museum in 2009 (with Wolfgang Till), brought together international artists from John Baldessari , George Brecht , Samuel Beckett , Frieder Butzmann , Rodney Graham , Richard Hamilton , Thomas Kapielski to Roman Signer , William Wegman , Olav Westphalen and Erwin Wurm . It was named a “Special Exhibition 2009” by the German section of the international art critic association AICA.

After teaching positions in Zurich, a substitute professorship for the history and theory of art at the University of Architecture and Building in Weimar from 1992 to 1993 and a professorship for art studies at the University of Fine Arts Braunschweig from 1996 to 2005, Glasmeier taught as a professor from 2005 to 2016 for art history at the University of the Arts Bremen .

Glasmeier was director of the Institute for Art Studies at the University of Fine Arts Braunschweig from 2002–2005, 2008–2016 director of the Institute for Art and Musicology at the University of the Arts Bremen and from 2005 to 2016 on the board of the Research Association for Artists' Publications at the Weserburg Museum , Bremen.

He is a founding member of the Terry Fox Association, Cologne and a member of the board of trustees of the Melton Prior Institute , Düsseldorf.

Since 2006 Glasmeier has performed the four-hour program “Passion and Ostinato” as a baroque DJ (including in Arles, Berlin, Bremen, Dresden, Hamburg, Cologne, Zurich) and since 2015 with “Dancing the Underground” as a DJ of the 1960-70s psychedelic -Skirt on.

position

Glasmeier, who has remained experimental and poetic in his scientific, curatorial and archival work, does not deny his penchant for comedy , silliness and subversion and constantly explores new areas digressively and passionately, neither follows the purity laws and exclusion procedures of fashionable discourses , nor the laws of the art market. Rather, Glasmeier prefers contradiction and transgression (to be read, for example, from the controversially discussed part of the exhibition “Discrete Energies” for the anniversary of the documenta, of all places) and the inexhaustible wealth of possible ways of thinking about art, such as that which emerged from 1995 to 2001 together with Gerti Fietzek's fundus series on art.

Publications

Monographs

• 2016: Noises, ritornelle for an art history of sound. From Fra Angelico and Claudio Monteverdi to Marcel Duchamp and Terry Fox . Ed. V. Tania Prill and Andrea Sick, Textem Verlag, Hamburg
• 2012: Learning from nuts. Adriaen Coorte and the art of the small. Textem Verlag , Hamburg
• 2011: and between between and between and ... In: Jan-Frederik Bandel (Ed.): Poetic Hefts and Cycles 1979–1987. Textem Verlag, Hamburg
• 2011: silliness . Together with Lisa Steib. Textem Verlag, Hamburg
• 2009: The skeleton town musicians and the happiness of the cows. Fairy tale motifs in contemporary art. Two lectures. Salon Verlag, Cologne
• 2008: The whole thing in motion. Essays on an Art History of the Present. Philo Fine Arts (Fundus Books), Hamburg
• 2002: Loop. On the history and theory of the endless loop using the example of Rodney Graham. Cologne
• 2001: Extreme 1-8. Lectures on art. Salon Verlag, Cologne
• 2000: practice. Essays on Art. Salon Verlag, Cologne, ISBN 3932189558
• 1996: Sports friend Willi Müller, artist Yves Klein. An encounter in Gelsenkirchen. Vienna's Shop & Publishing House, Berlin
• 1987: Karl Valentin. The comedian and the arts. Carl Hanser Verlag , Munich / Vienna
• 1997: texts on texts. Experimental Texts, No. 10, Siegen
• 1984: Whaling in the southern ice. Vogelsang, Berlin
• 1983: Territorial flexions. Soul, Berlin
• 1981: Some illustrated sayings by JW Goethe. Patio, Frankfurt am Main

Editing

• 2016: Henry James. Picture and text. Together with Alexander Roob. Piet Meyer Verlag, Bern / Vienna
• 2016: Typography as an artistic event . Together with Tania Prill. Textem Verlag, Hamburg
• 2016: Clemens Brentano, Joseph Görres. Watchmakers, bearskins and musical journeys. Satires of the Heidelberg Romanticism . Together with Thomas Isermann. Extended new edition, Textem Verlag, Hamburg
• 2014: Strategies of Drawing. Art of illustration . Textem Verlag, Hamburg
• 2012: art and design. An affair. Together with Annette Geiger . Textem Verlag, Hamburg
• 2012: artist as scientist, art historian and writer. Salon Verlag, Cologne
• 2011: The Eye of Prey. Beckett's film, television and video works. Together with Gaby Hartel. Suhrkamp Verlag , Berlin
• 2011: Anarchy of Laughter. Comedy in the arts. Silke Schreiber, Munich, ISBN 3889601243
• 2007: Artist in teaching. Texts from Ad Reinhardt to Ulrike Grossarth . Together with Elke Bippus. Philo & Philo Fine Arts (Fundus Books), Hamburg
• 2005: Playtime . Interdisciplinary film. Together with Heike Klippel. Lit Verlag , Münster, ISBN 9783825883751
• 2005: Erwin Panofsky. What is baroque? Together with Johannes Zahlten . Philo & Philo Fine Arts (Fundus Books) Berlin / Hamburg
• 2005: Painting the Picture. Together with Thomas Köhler and Annelie Lütgens. Salon Verlag, Cologne
• 2004: The exhibition catalog. Contributions to history and theory. Together with Dagmar Bosse and Agnes Prus. Salon Verlag, Cologne
• 2000: Samuel Beckett. The same thing again differently. Together with Gaby Hartel. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main
• 1997: forgotten. Yearbook of the University of Fine Arts Braunschweig. Together with Maurice Korbel, Gabriele Mackert, Hannes Malte Mahler , Nicole Viehöver, Salon Verlag, Cologne
• 1995: Wilhelm Fraenger. Forms of the comic. Verlag der Kunst (Fundus), Dresden / Basel
• 1994: Johann Carl Wezel. Files from the symposium of the comprehensive college / University of Kassel from October 15 to 18, 1992. Together with Rolf Lobeck. Jenior & Pressler, Kassel
• 1992: Peripheral museums in Berlin. Merve, Berlin
• 1990: literally literal Nuremberg days. Together with Lucius Grisebach. Kunsthalle Nürnberg, publishing house for modern art, Nürnberg
• 1990: Script samples from Peter Hammer (ie Joseph Görres ). Together with Thomas Isermann. Merve Verlag , Berlin
• 1988: Clemens Brentano, Joseph Görres. Watchmakers, bearskins and musical journeys. Satires of the Heidelberg Romanticism. Edition Sirene , Berlin
• 1983: Encyclopedia, an exhibition. Together with Fritz Rahmann . Soul, Berlin

Exhibition catalogs (selection)

• 2011: Beginning of summer Getting smaller. Gallery on the Black Sea, Bremen
• 2009: Yesterday or on the 2nd floor. Karl Valentin, comedy and art since 1948. Münchner Stadtmuseum, Verlag Silke Schreiber, Munich (with Wolfgang Till)
• 2005: 50 years / Years documenta: Discrete energies. archive in motion. 2 vols., Kunsthalle Fridericianum Kassel. Steidl Verlag , Göttingen
• 2002: Tableaux vivants. Living images and attitudes in photography, film and video. Kunsthalle Wien (with Sabine Folie)
• 2001: a baroque party. Moments of world theater in contemporary art. Kunsthalle Wien (with Sabine Folie)
• 2000: Samuel Beckett Bruce Nauman. Kunsthalle Wien (co-editor)
• 1999: Private Eye. Crimes & Cases. Haus am Waldsee , Berlin (ed.)
• 1996: Thomas Kapielski : After a break in sobriety. Catalog of works 1979 to 1996. Valentin-Musäum , Munich; Vienna's Shop & Publishing House, Berlin
• 1995: In a slipcase. en passant 1–9. Booklets accompanying the exhibition series Art in the Foyer, Podewil , Berlin-Mitte, March 1994 to May 1995. Distributed by the Walther König bookstore , Cologne, (with Raffael Rheinsberg , Christian Boltanski , Claus Böhmler , Sibylle Hofter, Hulda Hakon, Paul-Armand Gette and others)
• 1994: Artists' Books. Publications and editions in Germany since the 1960s. Institute for Foreign Relations, Stuttgart; Edition Hansjörg Mayer, Stuttgart, London
• 1994: TELL. An anthology. Academy of the Arts Berlin, Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern
• 1993: Donation from Christian Boltanski. Valentin-Musäum, Munich; Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne
• 1989: Broken Music. Artists' Recordworks. Berlin artist program of the DAAD, yellow music Berlin, (with Ursula Block)
• 1987: literally literally - literally literally. A collection of concrete and visual poetry from the sixties in the Nationalgalerie Berlin. State Museums of Prussian Cultural Heritage, Berlin
• 1983: Encyclopedia. An exhibition. Together with Fritz Rahman . Soul Publishing House, Berlin

Radio plays (author)

• 2014: Pontormos Deluge - Realization and music: Frieder Butzmann - (radio play - DKultur )

Web links

• Literature by and about Michael Glasmeier in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Michael Glasmeier  in the German Digital Library
• Search for Michael Glasmeier in the SPK digital portal of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation
• Library of the University of the Arts Bremen