Fluxus Plus Museum
 museum FLUXUS +, entrance in Schirrhof, Schiffbauergasse |
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| place | Potsdam 
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Modern and contemporary art
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| opening | 2008 |
| ISIL | DE-MUS-031321 |
The Museum Fluxus Plus (spelling museum FLUXUS +) is Potsdam's first museum for contemporary and modern art . With an extensive private collection of works by Wolf Vostell and works by contemporary artists such as Mary Bauermeister , Costantino Ciervo , Lutz Friedel , Hella de Santarossa and Sebastian Heiner, the focus is on the Fluxus movement. The museum was opened in April 2008 and is located on Schiffbauergasse in the listed former hussar horse stables on Tiefen See .
background
The Berlin entrepreneur and art collector Heinrich Liman got to know the painter, sculptor, Fluxus and happening artist, graphic artist, composer and video artist Wolf Vostell in 1982 . Through his friendship with Vostell, Liman made the acquaintance of other Fluxus artists of the founding generation of the 1960s, such as Benjamin Patterson , Emmett Williams , Nam June Paik and Ben Vautier . Vernissages and Fluxus concerts were held on the premises of the collector's company. From 1989, after the fall of the Berlin Wall, these activities intensified. For example, art salons were organized to revitalize vacant old town quarters in the former East Berlin. Other Berlin-based artists came into the circle of acquaintances. These include Costantino Ciervo, Lutz Friedel, Hella De Santarossa, Sebastian Heiner and Ann Noël.
Against this background and with the aim of making a contribution to social and cultural education, Liman opened the Museum Fluxus Plus on April 21, 2008. Around half of the approx. 700 collection exhibits are presented in the permanent exhibition. It is varied by temporary special topics.
The “plus” in Museum Fluxus Plus stands for the inclusion of artists from the Fluxus area. In order to enable a view of today's interpretations of Wolf Vostell's maxim "Life is art, art is life", contemporary artists are exhibiting their works.
In order to maintain the museum in the long term and to further develop its content, the non-profit, unincorporated Museum Foundation Liman was founded in 2017. The museum is operated by museum FLUXUS + gGmbH at Schiffbauergasse in Potsdam.
exhibition
Works from the private collection are shown on two floors. This includes pictures, sculptures, installations, drawings, videos, films, action relics, multiples and also documents, correspondence, photos, books, catalogs and magazines. A permanent exhibition on the international and intermedia Fluxus movement is presented on the ground floor, which in addition to the initiator George Maciunas also included Wolf Vostell, Mary Bauermeister, Emmett Williams, Benjamin Patterson, Nam June Paik and many other artists in the 1960s. Works by other contemporaries and friends such as Arman , Lebel , Christo , Niki de Saint-Phalle , Raymond Hains , Manfred Leve, Ann Noël and others complete the image of the avant-garde in the second half of the 20th century. On the upper floor is the extensive collection of the works of Wolf Vostell and the contemporary artists Costantino Ciervo, Lutz Friedel, Hella de Santarossa and Sebastian Heiner.
Fluxus
Fluxus is an international art movement that has been forming in New York , Tokyo and various European cities since 1960 . In Fluxus, it's not just about the work of art, but also about the creative idea.
The Fluxus Plus Museum exhibits works by many well-known Fluxus artists and their surroundings: Eric Andersen, Ay-O , Joseph Beuys , Henning Christiansen, Robert Filou, Dick Higgins , Joe Jones, Milan Knížák , Alison Knowles , Larry Miller, Ann Noël , Yoko Ono , Nam June Paik, Benjamin Patterson, Ben Vautier , Emmett Williams and especially Wolf Vostell. The exhibition begins with a cross-section through the oeuvre of the artist Mary Bauermeister, whose activities contributed significantly to the development of Fluxus in Germany.
Wolf Vostell
Works of art by Wolf Vostell are a focus of the permanent exhibition in the Fluxus Plus Museum. Works from 45 years (1953–1998) of his creativity are shown. They are grouped into thematic sections on the upper floor and give a comprehensive overview of Vostell's creative phases, topics and techniques.
A cross-section of Wolf Vostell's life's work is shown; Works that reflect his entire spectrum under his maxim “Life is art, art is life” and show Vostell not only as a Fluxus and happening artist, but also as a graphic artist, sculptor, composer, painter and video artist . In the course of the exhibition Vostell - Fluxus - 1970 (2019), some rare editions and multiples were presented together with a Vostell study library set up in the exhibition area , which has since been permanently available to interested visitors on request.
Mary Farmer
Mary Bauermeister is a German artist whose activities contributed significantly to the development of Fluxus in Germany. She is represented with a total of 11 works in the permanent exhibition. The best-known groups of works in her oeuvre are optical boxes in which drawings undergo a metamorphosis through polished lenses, as well as prism, “dots” and stone collages.
Hella De Santarossa
Hella De Santarossa combines new with old media, crosses painting, glass, performance and film. Light, air and time are central elements in her works, of which various groups of works are exhibited.
Costantino Ciervo
Using different forms of expression and media, Costantino Ciervo examines the complex mechanisms of capitalism as a cause of alienation and reification. Various multi-media installations, interactive video objects and sculptures are exhibited. His light installation "The Ten Commandments" can be seen in the Schirrhof.
Lutz Friedel
As a sculptor and painter, Lutz Friedel creates works with metaphorical expressiveness. The artist, who lives in Havelland, is in the "contemporary artist" section with a total of 31 works. 29 of these are etchings from the series " Mensch! Klinger.
Sebastian Heiner
Sebastian Heiner turns to Asian culture in large-format canvases and deals with it. Various oil and acrylic paintings are part of the museum's collection.
Mediation
The Fluxus Plus Museum offers encounters with the art of the 20th and 21st centuries through various offers for different age groups. This is not only intended to convey art, but also to stimulate creative dialogue. The targeted promotion of art, the introduction of children and young people but also interested adults to art, is a long-term non-profit task that should be fulfilled.
In this context, the museum offers various guided tours, holiday programs and workshops for children and young people.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Collection and donor - museumFLUXUS. Retrieved April 20, 2020 .
- ↑ Fluxus - museumFLUXUS. Retrieved April 20, 2020 .
- ↑ https://www.fluxus-plus.de/studienbibliothek-vostell.html website of the study library
- ↑ Mary Bauermeister - museumFLUXUS. Retrieved April 20, 2020 .
- ↑ Hella De Santarossa - museumFLUXUS. Retrieved April 20, 2020 .
- ↑ Constantino Ciervo - museumFLUXUS. Retrieved April 20, 2020 .
- ↑ Lutz Friedel - museumFLUXUS. Retrieved April 20, 2020 .
- ↑ Sebastian Heiner - museumFLUXUS. Retrieved April 20, 2020 .