Monika Günther and Ruedi Schill

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Monika Günther (* 1944 in Bad Hersfeld , Germany ) and Ruedi Schill (* June 18, 1941 , † July 31, 2020 in Lucerne, Switzerland) are an important artist couple in the field of Performance Art . As artistic personalities , through their artistic and curatorial work they have been making a decisive contribution to the development, promotion and dissemination of performance art in Lucerne, throughout Switzerland and to its international perception since the 1980s .

Career

They have been realizing performance art, exhibitions, workshops and organizing festivals since 1995. They accepted invitations to conferences and festivals around the world, performed their work in public places and in a museum context, and taught the art of action. Helen Koriath wrote in 2016 in the SIKART Lexicon:

“In 1995 they decided to collaborate in a performative manner and to this day have created an unmistakable collaborative work in which human behavior, rituals and patterns of perception are thematized and social issues are impressively transferred into the aesthetic. For this they have received high international recognition. "

Monika Günther studied painting under Gerhard Hoehme from 1966–1971 at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . She works with painting, drawing , sculpture , installation , photography and action art. Since 1980 she has been exhibiting , realizing art in public spaces and showing performances. Monika Günther has lectureships and guest lectureships for performance art at various art schools and universities. In 2007 Edith Krebs wrote about Monika Günther's work in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung:

"The German artist Monika Günther, who has lived in Lucerne for many years and who often performs with her partner Ruedi Schill, describes herself as a niche inhabitant." "Pain and injury are central themes in Günther's art, which is heavily based on intuition Topic with herself until she feels ready to embody it performatively. The artist repeatedly speaks of the phenomenon of presence, which is essential for the performance. "You have it or you don't have it," Günther is convinced of. She has it, you can feel that with every sentence the sensitive artist speaks into the camera. "

Ruedi Schill graduated from the Biberach Graphic Arts School from 1962–1963 and the Design School, now the F + F School for Art and Design , in Zurich from 1971–1972 . He had been active in the then new field of action art since 1979 , but also practiced Land Art and worked with interdisciplinary and experimental approaches with all new media and actions. His great presence as a performance artist in museums and at international festivals is always described.

In 1971 he founded the Apropos gallery, which has been organized together with Monika Günther since 1995 and exists in Lucerne as the Apropos project space . In 1982 he curated the first Performance Art Festival in Switzerland at Palazzo Liestal in Liestal. From 1995-2007 he taught performance art at the Lucerne School of Art and Design (HGKL), first as a guest lecturer and then as a lecturer.

Boards of Trustees and Awards

Prices

  • 2000: Work contribution from the Canton and City of Lucerne
  • 2002: Working grant from the Dr. Robert and Lina Thyll-Dürr, Elba Island, Italy
  • 2002: Acquisition of the performance “The Lucerne Piece” by the Canton of Lucerne, Switzerland
  • 2004: Project and work contribution from the Kulturfonds, Federal Office for Culture, Bern, Switzerland
  • 2004: Art and Culture Prize of the City of Lucerne
  • 2008: Contribution to the Performance Art competition, Kunstkredit Basel, Switzerland (now Performance Prize Switzerland)

Conception, organization, artistic direction

  • 1982: first performance art festival in Switzerland, curated by Ruedi Schill, Palazzo, Liestal
  • since 1995: Head of the Apropos project space (formerly Galerie Apropos ) in Lucerne, Switzerland
  • 1998–2000: artistic director, International Performance Days Giswil
  • 2000: Guest curators for the performances in the exhibition SURPRISE , Kunstpanorama Luzern, Switzerland
  • 2001: Artistic director Young Performance Art , performance days in the Apropos project room, Lucerne, Switzerland
  • 2003: 2003 artistic director, international performance ArtWillisau , a series of events by Stadtmühle Willisau, Switzerland
  • 2005–2013: artistic director, International Performance Art in Giswil

Literature / media

  • 1983: Ruedi Schill. Performances 1979–1983. Text: Martin Kunz. Apropos gallery, Lucerne.
  • 1989: Nice weather today or pulling a rope is more dangerous than living. Texts: Martin Kunz. Lucerne Art Museum.
  • 2007: Performance Saga, Interview 03, Monika Günther. DVD edition, Ed .: Andrea Saemann, Katrin Grögel. edition fink, Zurich. ISBN 978-3-03746-114-3
  • 2014: Performance Art: Monika Günther / Ruedi Schill: Monograph. Helen Koriath. Vexer Publishing House.
  • 2015: Dorothea Rust writes after the performance by Monika Günther & Ruedi Schill. On the occasion of Brise ° 3, the Performance Art Festival in Flensburg, Augustenborg from July 3rd to 5th, 2015.
  • 2018: Vidéo d'artiste: Ruedi Schill et l'art alternatif en Suisse alémanique. ARCHIVES ECART, Ruedi Schill, April 4, 2018, Galerie Apropos, Lucerne.

Joint performances and presentations

1995

  • The Italian House, MA, European-Asian Performance Festival, Mathildenhöhe Institute, Darmstadt, Germany; Kunstraum Düsseldorf, Germany
  • foundation, performance index, cascade capacitor, Werkraum Warteck PP, Basel, Switzerland
  • Schlangengarten, Apropos project space, Lucerne, Switzerland

1996

  • The Milky Way, 50 years of art landscapes in NRW, Tonhalle, Düsseldorf, Germany and State Music Academy NRW, Heek, Germany
  • The Italian House, Kunstpanorama Luzern, Switzerland
  • In the front yard, Der Helix-Hochbau: Events on the expanded concept of art, Kunsthaus Essen, Germany

1997

  • Blast furnace 5, Akzente 97, Nordpark Duisburg, Germany
  • Au Sauvage I to VI, Performance Art in NRW 1997, Maschinenhaus Essen; Cobra cultural center, Solingen; Moltkerei workshop, Cologne; Künstlerhaus Dortmund; Women's Museum Bonn; Art space Düsseldorf
  • L'art pour l'espoir, Volkshochschule Essen, Germany

1998

  • Electricity, International Performance Days, Kunstraum Giswil, Switzerland
  • Collecting, House for Art Uri, Altdorf, Switzerland

1999

  • Untitled, 8th International Performance Conference, Casino in the former IG-Farbenhaus, Frankfurt / Main, Germany
  • Wind piece, Baltrum Island, Germany
  • L'art pour l'espoir II, annual exhibition of central Swiss artists 1998, Lucerne Art Museum, Switzerland
  • Intermezzo I and II, At the wrong time. At the wrong place. Art, Dalvazza, Switzerland
  • Bureau de Performance as a guest at Apropos, 7th Performance Conference, Performance Art Network CH, Apropos project room, Lucerne, Switzerland
  • Scheuch poses, performance for the opening of the art garden by Monika Günther, Landesgartenschau Oberhausen, Germany

2000

  • Performance for the handover of the Black Ark, Performance Days 2000, Seedamm-Kulturzentrum, Pfäffikon, Switzerland
  • This is not a miracle, 9th International Performance Conference, Alte Feuerwache, Mannheim, Germany
  • Untitled, cascade capacitor Basel, Switzerland
  • Work in progress, General Consumer Association, Braunschweig, Germany
  • Untitled, Summer Academy Irsee / Allgäu, in cooperation with the University of Augsburg

2001

  • The Bernese Piece, BONE IV, Stadtgalerie Bern, Switzerland
  • Au Sauvage VIII, 1st International Performance Day, Galerie für Zeitkunst, Bamberg, Germany
  • Au Sauvage VII, migma Perfomancetage, exhibition room oT and Prosart, room for contemporary art, Lucerne, Switzerland
  • Untitled, from the outside to the inside, cultural project on the ship "Graf Zeppelin", Friedrichshafen, Germany
  • Untitled, Summer Academy Irsee / Allgäu, in cooperation with the University of Augsburg

2002

  • The Lucerne Piece, Art Panorama Lucerne, Switzerland
  • The Essener Piece, EPI Center NRW, European Performance Institute, Maschinenhaus Essen, Germany
  • The Berlin Piece, Fraktale III, Reichstag underground station, Berlin, Germany
  • Castrum Romain, Expo 02, Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland
  • Stone Age, photo action, Elba Island, Italy
  • Untitled, performance day, Ökostation Bergkamen, Germany

2003

  • Piece for Hanover, Across the border, performance festival, Städtische Galerie KUBUS, Hanover, Germany
  • Das Dresdener Stück, 8th International Dresden Performance Meeting, Germany
  • The blue grotto, Potsdam-Marquardt, Germany:
  • Blauer Ort I, Marquardt Castle Park,
  • Blauer Ort II, Marquardt Castle Ballroom

2004

  • Without censorship, “On site”, Dahl Gallery of Contemporary Art, Lucerne, Switzerland
  • Lo que tu digos, III Encuentro Internacional de Performance Yucatan, México in Dzidzantun
  • El Placer, III Encuentro Internacional de Performance Yucatan, México in Progreso
  • Untitled, "Québec I" Rencontre Internationale d'Art Performance de Québec, Rouje Gallery in Québec City, Canada
  • Untitled, “Québec II” Rencontre Internationale d'Art Performance de Québec, Galerie du Center Sagamie in Alma, Québec, Canada
  • Better not to say anything, performance festival “BONE 7”, Schlachthaus Theater Bern, Switzerland

2005

  • Short Pieces, Galeria Dzialan Warsaw, Poland
  • Better to say nothing II, International Art Action Festival “Interakcje”, Piotrkow Trybunalski, Poland
  • Dialogue, “The longest day”, Kunsthof Zurich, Switzerland
  • Dialog II, Hungarian Performance Festival in Szentendre, Hungary

2006

  • Get it on, MOMENTUM, Platform for Performance-Art, Bains, Connective, Bruxelles, Belgium
  • Talking Hands, Navinki, The 8th International Performance-Art Festival, Palace of Art, Minsk, Belarus
  • Talking Hands, The 14th International Performance Art Conference Vietnam, in Dalat and Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon)
  • Talking Hands, OVER SIXTY, Festival de Performances, Le Théatre de l'Usine, Genève, Switzerland
  • and BONE 9 Performance Art Festival, Schlachthaus Theater Bern

2007

  • Talking Mirrors , “Art of Encounter”, a performance art project together with 7 Japanese performance artists, Essen, Germany
  • Talking Mirrors , “The Future of Imagination 4”, International Performance Art Festival, Singapore
  • Yuko's Home, "The Long Breath", EPI Center NRW, European Performance Institute, Maschinenhaus Essen, Germany
  • Talking Hands, IPAH 2007, 2nd International Performance Art Meeting, Hildesheim, Germany

2008

  • Talking Hands , "Top of Central Switzerland 2007", Lucerne Art Museum, Switzerland
  • Untitled , performance series "tanzt" im Kaskadenkondensator, Basel, Switzerland
  • Talking Hands , VI International Performance Art Meeting, IVAM Institut Valencià d'Art Modern, Spain
  • Talking Hands , University of Osnabrück, Germany
  • Talking Hands , Harta, 6th International Performance Art Festival, Teatrino della Villa Reale di Monza, Italy
  • Untitled , "Blow! 4", forming station, Ilseder Hütte, Gross Ilsede, Germany
  • Time after Time , Navinki, The 10th International Performance Art Festival in Minsk, Belarus
  • Talking Hands , “View of the Original”, Kunsthaus Baselland, Muttenz, Switzerland, final round in the “Performance” competition of the Kunstkredit Basel-Stadt
  • 2nd International Performance Art Biennal DEFORMES de Chile: Song for a Dog , Universidad Arcis Factoria, Santiago de Chile, Talking Hands , Museo de Arte Contemporaneo MAC, Valdivia, Chile

2009

  • For Stuart Brisley , Performance Saga Festival, Arsenic - Center d'art scénique contemporain, Lausanne, Switzerland
  • Untitled , migma performance days, in the Swiss Museum of Transport in Lucerne, Switzerland
  • Untitled , Performance Art Laboratory (PALA) Project in Tejakula, Bali, Indonesia
  • Song for a Dog , Undisclosed Territory No. 3, Padepokan Lemah Putih in Solo, Java, Indonesia
  • Talking Hands , International Performance Art Festival at the 2nd Thessaloniki Biennal of Contemporary Art in the State Museum of Contemporary Art in Thessaloniki, Greece
  • Untitled , FADO Performance Art Center, Urban Space Gallery, Toronto, Canada
  • Untitled , “Art Nomade 2009”, La Pulperie and Espace Virtuel, Chicoutimi and Sporobole, Center en art actuel, Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada
  • Untitled , "Accion! 09MAD", 6th Encuentro Internacional de Arte de Accion, Laboratorio de Arte Joven, Murcia, Spain
  • por momentos , "Accion! 09MAD", 6th Encuentro Internacional de Arte de Accion, Matadero Madrid, Spain

2010

  • The 17th Nippon International Performance Art Festival (NIPAF'10)
  • NIPAF Tokyo - NIPAF Osaka - NIPAF Nagano / Japan
  • LA MUGA CAULA, trobada de poesia d'accio i performance
  • Les Escaules / Spain
  • ZAZ Festival, International Performance Art Festival
  • Tel Aviv and Haifa / Israel

2011

  • New Territories, International Festival of Live Art
  • Glasgow / Scotland
  • NAVINKI, 13th International Performance Art Festival
  • Minsk / Belarus

2012

  • Monika Günther and Ruedi Schill: News from the sugar bowl. Archive stories. Lucerne Art Gallery
  • Feeling red for the birds , Asiatopia 14/2012, International Performance Art Festival, Bangkok and Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand
  • Feeling red , Friction, International Performance Art Festival, Konstmuseum, Uppsala, Sweden
  • Feeling red , Rencontre Internationale d'Art, Performance de Quebec RIAP, Le Lieu, Center en Art actuel, Québec City, Canada

2013

  • Feeling red , Duo-Days, Belfast, Northern Ireland
  • Feeling red , Diplomatic Club Geneva, Switzerland, residence of the permanent representative of Switzerland to the United Nations
  • Feeling red , Performance Na 3, Bergen, Norway
  • Feeling red , Lucerne Art Museum, Switzerland

2014

  • International Performance Art Giswil 2014, Turbine Giswil, Switzerland
  • The 20th Nippon International Performance Art Festival (NIPAF'14), Japan Memories , Arts Chiyoda 3331, Tokyo, Issho ni aruku , Creative Center, Osaka

2015

  • Kormoran , performed on the occasion of the Swiss Performance Days 2015 on October 18, 2015 in the Kunstmuseum Luzern, purchased by the City of Lucerne
  • Art of Encountering / Art of Encounter , Kaskadenkondensator, Basel, Switzerland

2016

  • Performance series Neu Oerlikon, Zurich, Neu Oerlikon, Switzerland
  • GUYU Performance Art Festival, Xi'an, China
  • BONE 19, Bern slaughterhouse

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Helen Koriath: Monika Günther / Ruedi Schill (Bureau de Performance). In: SIKART Lexicon on Art in Switzerland. March 20, 2018, accessed November 12, 2019 .
  2. ^ Niklaus Oberholzer: Ruedi Schill: Lucerne artist has died. Retrieved August 16, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Edith Krebs: “La performance, c'est moi” | NZZ. Retrieved May 11, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Schill, Ruedi - SIKART Lexicon on Art in Switzerland. Retrieved May 11, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Muda Mathis, Andrea Saemann, Chris Regn, Gisela Hochuli, Judith Huber, Pascale Grau: Performance-Art-Roll-On. (PDF) In: www.panch.li. PANCH, Kaskadenkondensator, Muda Mathis, Andrea Saemann, 2018, accessed on November 12, 2019 (German, English).
  6. ↑ Monika Günther, Andrea Saemann, Chris Regn: Monika Günther. DVD with an interview by Andrea Saemann and Chris Regn with Monika Günther (German spoken / English subtitles). In: Performance saga text booklet with a contribution by Helge Meyer (German / English), 24 pages, 4 illustrations, DVD, 49 min., PAL, DigiPack with booklet. Edition Fink, 2007, accessed on November 12, 2019 (English, German).
  7. ↑ Koriath, Helen .: Performance Art: Monika Günther / Ruedi Schill: Monograph . Vexer Verlag, St. Gallen 2014, ISBN 978-3-909090-65-5 .
  8. ↑ Dorothea Rust: Monika and Ruedi or Ruedi and Monika - ApresPerf - moving performance to text. Retrieved November 12, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Migma 2009 Monika Guenther and Ruedi Schill. Accessed on November 13, 2019 (German).
  10. ↑ Urs Bugmann: What was hidden for a long time. Monika Günther and Ruedi Schill have lived with and for art for decades: Now they are opening their archive in an exhibition in Lucerne. In: Neue Luzerner Zeitung . July 14, 2012, accessed November 13, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Acquisitions 2015 City of Lucerne, Fine Arts Commission ... Monika Günther /. Ruedi Schill. Performance "Kormoran" ,. In: www.stadtluzern. City of Lucerne, 2015, accessed on November 12, 2019 .
  12. ^ X-CFCA. Retrieved November 13, 2019 .