Mike Hentz

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Zurich on August 1, 1978: Mike Hentz (center) in the Minus Delta t group .

Mike Hentz ( Mike Andrew Hentz , born July 2, 1954 in New Jersey ) is an international graphic artist , photographer, musician, performance artist and video artist. He has taught at various art schools and is mainly concerned with media art .

biography

Mike Hentz, who speaks fluent English, German, Italian and French, grew up as the son of an engineer and an interpreter in the USA, Italy, Switzerland and Austria. He is a Swiss and US citizen. Hentz received classical lessons on the violin , attended a hotel management school in Lausanne , trained at the music theater in Paris and traveled through Europe. In the late 1970s, Hentz moved to North Rhine-Westphalia, worked as a situation and action artist and first joined the music theater performance group padlt noidlt (with Michael Jansen , Frank Köllges , Andreas Brüning , later Xaõ Seffcheque ) in Düsseldorf . He then co-founded the Minus Delta t performance group .

In between, Hentz lived in Zurich and was significantly involved in the organization of the 3rd “Padlt Noidlt” festival in Graz. In the 80s he held several guest professorships at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts , was an actor at the Frankfurt Opera House and recorded the album Death Opera with "Minus Delta t" .

In 1980 he was co-founder of “Frigo” and “Radio Bellevue”, and in 1989 of “European Media Art Lab”. In 1988 Hentz realized an issue of the video art magazine Infermental . In the 1990s he realized the “Piazza Virtuale” project with Van Gogh TV and numerous interactive television events via cable or satellite with “Universcity TV” . Hentz also expanded his sphere of activity to the Eastern European countries, where he taught at the Institute for Art and Technology in Moscow and at the University in Riga and in Warsaw , in cooperation with Polish television, dealt with the design and dissemination of media art.

From 2003 to 2008 Hentz taught at the Stuttgart Art Academy , Intermedial Design.

Exhibitions (selection)

literature

  • Minus Delta t Plus: The Bangkok Project . Merve, Berlin 1st edition 1982.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jürgen Teipel: Waste your youth . A documentary novel about German punk and new wave. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt / Main 2001, ISBN 3-518-39771-0 .
  2. ↑ Mike Hentz on the website of Kunstaspekte
  3. ↑ FRIGO - History of the group of artists and production facility in Lyon
  4. ↑ Mike Hentz at the Baden-Württemberg State Academy for advanced training and personnel development at schools, Esslingen
  5. ↑ art - Das Kunstmagazin, issue 07/2008, page 123.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.art-magazin.de  
  6. ^ Gallery Oel-Früh, Hamburg .
  7. ↑ Mike Hentz: Flatware before the big storm, Anna Klinkhammer Galerie, Düsseldorf, 2016-2017
  8. ↑ FRIGO at the Musée d'art contemporain de Lyon
  9. ↑ Listen to the Image, Look at the Sound , Kai 10 - Arthena Foundation, Düsseldorf, June 7th to September 8th, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Hentz, Mike
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hentz, Mike Andrew (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American graphic artist, musician and performance artist
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd July 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH New Jersey , USA