Michael Riedel

Michael Riedel (also: Michael S. Riedel , born July 12, 1972 in Rüsselsheim ) is a German conceptual artist .

life and work

Riedel studied from 1996 to 2000 at the Düsseldorf Art Academy , the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris and the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main. There he became a master student with Hermann Nitsch . The "S.", which Riedel temporarily carried in his name, came from his time at the Städelschule. He first used the name "Michael S. Riedel" - back then all in lower case - as a label on a paper bag that he put over his head in 1997 at the end of a lecture he had given at the Städelschule. The letter "S." was fictitious. He sold it to a friend ten years later. She has carried it in her name ever since.

Then he initiated the art project "Oskar-von-Miller Straße 16" together with Dennis Loesch in an empty house.

Riedel worked with conversations, exhibitions, films and performances by artist colleagues. The titles of the actions conceived with Loesch indicate the artistic duplication: Gert & Georg ( Gilbert & George ) , the Clubbed Clubs and Filmed Films (film recordings of screenings of experimental films that Riedel had made from his respective seat in the cinema). The posters and invitations were also reused for this purpose, but with the addition of a reference to the new venue. The concept was based on Andy Warhol's New York Factory - it was "a kind of gigantic copying machine".

In 2004, the Frankfurt nightclub Robert Johnson was imitated in an exhibition at the Frankfurt gallery owner Michael Neff. However, the entire facility hung from the ceiling upside down, and the dance music was played backwards.

All events were photographed in detail and documented.

In 2004, Riedel founded the Friday kitchen on Oskar-von-Miller-Strasse, a culinary and social meeting place, a restaurant where artists cooked for visitors and which was only open one evening a week. After the art space was demolished, Riedel and Loesch temporarily relocated their artistic activities and the Friday kitchen to Berlin-Mitte , at Weydinger Strasse 20. Riedel returned to Frankfurt in 2010, where the Friday kitchen still exists today.

In 2009 Riedel responded with a parallel project to the exhibition Der Meister von Flémalle and Rogier van der Weyden , which took place in 2009 at the Städel in Frankfurt . “The focus of his interest is less on the works of art themselves than on the processing of the visual material of the exhibits. In particular, the communication media - posters, flyers, postcards, exhibition catalog - are used by Riedel to produce four variations of the individual print products. "

A focus of Riedel's work is the design of books , catalogs , brochures , posters and invitations. These works have accompanied his installations and actions since the 1990s , and they document his work.

Newer works since 2010 include the "Poster and PowerPoint Paintings", in which he uses, among other things, screenshots of transitions created by the Microsoft PowerPoint presentation program .

Riedel makes "a kind of appropriation art " by using already existing things, appropriating them, repeating them and creating a second picture of them. As far as Riedel works with text in his works, it serves as a "graphic element". For example, the reproduction of the source texts of websites are “not blind texts”, but “material that has documentary value”, with which Riedel, as he himself says, “works in painting”.

On April 1, 2017, Michael Riedel took over the professorship for painting in the painting / graphics course at the University of Graphics and Book Art Leipzig . He thus succeeded Astrid Klein .

Exhibitions (selection)

• 2003: Context, Form, Troja , Vienna Secession
• 2005: Michael Riedel: Momentane Monuments, Aedes West and Berlinische Galerie, Berlin
• 2007: vicini Michael S. Riedel John Bo , Kunstraum Innsbruck ; Dennis Loesch & Michael S. Riedel, Kunstverein am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin
• 2008: Michael Riedel and the exhibition Der Meister von Flémalle and Rogier van der Weyden , Städel Museum , Frankfurt am Main
• 2009: Stutter , Tate Modern , London; Four Proposals for Change , Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main
• 2010: New Frankfurt Internationals: Stories and Stages , Museum for Modern Art (MMK), Frankfurt am Main
• 2010: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog , Kunstverein Hamburg
• 2011: This is how we do it . Techniques and Aesthetics of Appropriation, Kunsthaus Bregenz
• 2012: Kunste zur Text , Schirn Kunsthalle , Frankfurt am Main
• 2013: Jacques comité [Giacometti] , Palais de Tokyo, Paris [part 1]
• 2014: Interventions 03 , Goethe-Institut, Amsterdam; Michael Riedel: Dual air [Dürer] , Palais de Tokyo, Paris [Part 2]
• 2015: Michael Riedel: Untitled , Le Box - Fund M-ARCO, Marseille, France; Visited and unattended exhibitions [invitations 1997-2015] , Kunstverein Braunschweig ; EFFJ KNOOS [JEFF KOONS] , Palais de Tokyo, Paris [part 3]
• 2016: Situation # 55. Michael Riedel: One and Three Chairs (Winterthur) , Fotomuseum Winterthur , Switzerland
• 2017: Michael Riedel: L at Art Cologne, Cologne
• 2017: Michael Riedel: CV , Kunsthalle Zürich , Zürich.
• 2018: Michael Riedel. Graphics as an event , Museum of Applied Arts , Frankfurt am Main

Prices

• 2006: 1822 Art Prize , Frankfurt am Main

Fonts

• Oskar: a novel. Zwirner, New York, 2014 ISBN 978-0-9899809-5-1 .
• Wilfried Kühn (Ed.) Tirala. Schlebrügge, Vienna, 2006 ISBN 978-3-85160-086-5 .
• Complains. König, Cologne, 2009 ISBN 978-3-86560-691-4 .
• Pearl stone. König, Cologne, 2011 ISBN 978-3-86560-975-5 .

literature

• Max Hollein, Matthias Ulrich (ed.): Art for text. Walther König. Cologne. 2012. ISBN 978-3-86335-207-3 (catalog for the retrospective of the same name in the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt).

Web links

• Literature by and about Michael Riedel in the catalog of the German National Library
• Michael Riedel on kunstaspekte.de
• Schirn Kunsthalle: Art for Text , 2012
• Exhibition Made in Germany , 2012

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Unless otherwise stated, the presentation follows the following articles: Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt: Michael Riedel. Art on text  ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) . Press information on the exhibition. May 12, 2012. Accessed on August 24, 2012. David Zwirner: Michael Riedel ( Memento from September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 226 kB) . Biography. July 13, 2012. Retrieved August 23, 2012. Daniel Birnbaum: Michael S. Riedel. (Openings) (Critical Essay) . In: Artforum International. October 2005. Retrieved August 23, 2012 via HighBeam Research; and: David Birnbaum: Sampling the globe. (Pop art) . In: Artforum International. October 2004. Retrieved January 6, 2016 via Questia.
2. ^ Fabian Famulok: 8 Art & Publication . In: Schirn-Mag. August 15, 2012. Retrieved August 26, 2012.
3. ↑ Michael Riedel . In: Level 2 Gallery: Stutter. Artists. tate.org.uk. Without a date. Retrieved August 26, 2012.
4. ^ So Daniel Birnbaum: Michael S. Riedel. (Openings) (Critical Essay) . In: Artforum International. October 2005. Retrieved on January 6, 2016 via Questia: “… his only formalized long-term collaborator is artist Dennis Loesch, with whom he took over an abandoned building on Oskar-von-Miller Straße 16 in Frankfurt in 2000 and turned it into a kind of giant copy machine, spitting out puzzling printed replicas of ads and posters for films, exhibitions, and concerts. "
5. ↑ Friday kitchen . Website of today's Friday kitchen. Retrieved August 24, 2012.
6. ^ Sarah Elsing: Friday kitchen Frankfurt: Everything else is like in Berlin . In: The time. December 22, 2010. Retrieved August 24, 2012.
7. ↑ Grit Weber: The Friday kitchen is back . In: Journal Frankfurt. September 2, 2011. Retrieved August 24, 2012.
8. ↑ Michael Riedel: Four suggestions for change . Städel Museum. 7th-8th March 2009. Retrieved August 30, 2012.
9. ↑ Annika Sellmann: Form speaking - form language . In: Schirn-Mag. August 15, 2012. Retrieved August 26, 2012.
10. ^ Matthias Ulrich. In: Michael Riedel: Art for text . Short film about the exhibition. Schirn art gallery. July 4, 2012. Retrieved August 26, 2012 (2:03–3:05 minutes).
11. ^ Matthias Ulrich. In: Michael Riedel: Art for text . Short film about the exhibition. Schirn art gallery. July 4, 2012. Retrieved August 26, 2012 (1:16–1.35 minutes).
12. ↑ Michael Riedel. In: Michael Riedel: Art for text . Short film about the exhibition. Schirn art gallery. July 4, 2012. Retrieved August 26, 2012 (0.09–0.29 minutes).
13. ↑ MMK Frankfurt am Main | Museum of Modern Art: Exhibition details ::: MMK Frankfurt am Main. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; Retrieved June 29, 2017 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  
14. ↑ Art Cologne: ART COLOGNE commissions Michael Riedel for large-scale installation. Retrieved March 29, 2017 .