Peter Weibel (artist)

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Peter Weibel, June 2013, in Frankfurt am Main

Peter Weibel (born March 5, 1944 in Odessa , Ukrainian SSR , Soviet Union ) is an Austrian artist, exhibition curator , art and media theorist .

Life

Peter Weibel spent his childhood and school days in a home in a small town in Upper Austria. After leaving school, he first studied French , film and comparative literature in Paris for a year , began studying medicine in Vienna in 1964 and then switched to mathematics with a focus on logic , which he did not graduate.

His work can be grouped into conceptual art , performance , experimental film , video art , computer art and media art in general .

Based on semiotic and linguistic considerations ( John Langshaw Austin , Roman Ossipowitsch Jakobson , Charles S. Peirce , Ludwig Wittgenstein and others) Peter Weibel developed an artistic language that led him from experimental literature to performance from 1965. In his performative actions, he not only examines the “media” language and body, but also film , video , tape and interactive electronic environments. He critically analyzes their function in the construction of reality. In addition to campaigns with representatives of Viennese actionism , from 1967 (together with Valie Export , Ernst Schmidt Jr. and Hans Scheugl ) he worked on an “extended cinema”. It is inspired by the American expanded cinema and reflects the ideological and technical conditions of cinematic representation. From 1969 onwards, Peter Weibel consistently developed these ideas further in his video tapes and video installations. With his television campaigns, the teleaktionen, which Austrian television ( ORF ) broadcast in 1972 as part of the Impulse program, he crossed the boundaries of the gallery space and examined video technology in its application in the mass medium of television .

On June 7, 1968, Weibel took part in the “ Art and Revolution ” campaign in a lecture hall at the University of Vienna , where he gave a lecture ( ranting tirade ) against the government of the time with a burning glove . The lecture was entitled What to do? , based on the famous Lenin text What to do? . The action was one of the high points of the student movement in Austria in 1968 .

“The globe as a suitcase” (2004), installation in the Austrian Sculpture Park near Graz

Peter Weibel pursues his artistic problems in a wide variety of materials, forms and techniques: in texts, sculptures , installations , films and videos. So he turned to music in 1978. Together with Loys Egg he founded the band “Hotel Morphila Orchester”. In the mid-1980s he explored the possibilities of computer-aided editing of video . In the early 1990s he realized the first interactive computer-based installations with which he addressed the relationship between media and the construction of reality.

In his numerous lectures and articles, Weibel publishes on contemporary art, media history , media theory , film , video art and philosophy . As theoretician and curator, he advocates an art and an art historiography that takes into account the history of technology and the history of science . In his role as a teacher at universities and longtime head of institutions such as the Ars Electronica , Linz, the Institute for New Media in Frankfurt am Main , and the Center for Art and Media (ZKM) in Karlsruhe it affects particularly the European scene of the so-called computer art by Conferences, exhibitions and publications.

Peter Weibel has headed the Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe since January 1999 .

Research and Teaching

Peter Weibel

From 1976 Peter Weibel taught at several universities, including the University of Applied Arts Vienna , the College of Art and Design in Halifax , Canada and the Kassel University . In 1984 he was appointed Associate Professor for Video and Digital Arts at the Center for Media Study at the State University of New York in Buffalo , N.Y. for five years . In 1984 he received the professorship for visual media design ( Vismed ) at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna . In 1989 he was commissioned to set up the Institute for New Media at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main , which he headed as director until 1994. Since 2009 he has been visiting professor at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. Since 2017 he has been director of the Peter Weibel - Research Institute for Digital Cultures at the University of Applied Arts Vienna.

Curatorial activity

Peter Weibel has been Ars Electronica's artistic advisor since 1986, and its artistic director from 1992 to 1995. From 1993 to 1999 he curated the Austrian State Pavilion at the Venice Biennale . Between 1992 and 2011 he was chief curator of the Neue Galerie Graz . In 2008 he curated the Seville International Biennale. In 2011 he was curator for the 4th Moscow Biennale . From 2015 to 2017 he was curator of lichtsicht , the projection biennale in Bad Rothenfelde.

Controversy over alleged dissertation

Plagiarism rumors about Weibel's alleged doctorate caused a stir in the media. In his curriculum vitae, Weibel stated for years that he had written a dissertation, but without making it clear that there was never a Rigorosum , that is, he had not obtained a doctorate . In his statements, Weibel played with the distinction between dissertation and doctorate, which media scientist Stefan Weber ironically referred to as Weibel's dissertation-doctoral paradox. With the distinction between the allegedly written dissertation and the doctorate - which he never claimed - Weibel circumvented the accusation of stealth.

Projects and exhibitions

Curatorial projects

Solo exhibitions

  • 1975: Cosmology of the Paradox , Galerie next St. Stephan, Vienna
  • 1988: Staged Art History , Museum of Applied Art, Vienna
  • 1991: Scanned Objects , Galerie Grita Insam , Vienna
  • 1992: Virtual Worlds , Tanja Grunnert Gallery, Cologne
  • 1992: Painting between anarchy and research , Neue Galerie Graz
  • 1993: Expulsion of Reason , Venice Biennale, Venice
  • 1995: Copyleft , Galerie & Edition Artelier, Graz
  • 1996: The symbol time has expired , Galerie & Edition Artelier, Graz
  • 1999: Global Greed , Carinthian State Gallery, Klagenfurt
  • 2003: B-Picture. A film about Peter Weibel , Künstlerhaus Palais Thurn und Taxis, Bregenz
  • 2004: peter weibel. social matrix. works 1965–79 , Meyer Riegger Gallery, Karlsruhe
  • 2004: peter weibel. the open work 1964–1979 , Neue Galerie Graz; Mucsarnok, Budapest Art Gallery; Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana
  • 2004: Legal subject instead of human , Artelier Contemporary, Graz
  • 2009: Lines of Crime , Galerie Grita Insam, Vienna
  • 2009: Peter Weibel, Rewriter , Slought Foundation, Philadelphia, PA
  • 2011: Peter Weibel, Life in the 20th Century: 225 Million Murders , oratorio for 42nd soundtrack passage in the MQ, Vienna [1]
  • 2011: Peter Weibel, Art is the beekeeper. Not the bee , Lisi Hämmerle Gallery, Bregenz
  • 2012: Mobile Poeme , Kunstraum Tosterglope, Tosterglope
  • 2013: Political Performance , Galerie Anita Beckers, Frankfurt
  • 2014: Peter Weibel - media rebel. Warning! This exhibition can change your life , 21er Haus , Vienna
  • 2015: Scanned World , Artelier Contemporary, Graz
  • 2015: The coldest planet in the universe: the human heart. Violence and Genocide in the 20th Century . Center for Art and Media Technology , Karlsruhe
  • 2019: respectively Peter Weibel . Center for Art and Media Technology , Karlsruhe

Group exhibitions

  • 1966: Destruction in Art Symposium , London
  • 1968: Art and Revolution , University of Vienna
  • 1968: Underground Explosion , Munich, Cologne, Stuttgart
  • 1970: Concrete Poetry Festival , Hanau
  • 1970: First International Underground Film Festival. London
  • 1971: Experimenta 4 , Frankfurt
  • 1973: Trigon 73 , Neue Galerie, Graz
  • 1973: The Austrian Exhibition , ICA, London; Richard Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh
  • 1974: Experimental. International Experimental Film Festival , Knokke, Belgium
  • 1975: Video , Serpentine Gallery, London
  • 1977: Documenta 6 , Kassel
  • 1978: 38th Venice Biennale
  • 1983: currently 83 , Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich
  • 1984: 31st Cannes Film Festival
  • 1984: Recent Acquisitions , Museum of Modern Art, New York
  • 1985: Time - the 4th Dimension , Museum of Modern Art, Vienna
  • 1986: Artist philosopher , Kunsthaus, Zurich
  • 1989: The game of the unspeakable , Vienna Secession, Vienna; Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels
  • 1990: Le desenchantement du Monde , Villa Arson , Nice
  • 1991: Images du Futur , Montréal, Québec [CDN]
  • 1996: World invention dream machine , Kunsthalle, Vienna
  • 1996: Copyright , Galerie & Edition Artelier, Graz
  • 1997: L'empreinte , Center Georges Pompidou, Paris
  • 1997: Unimplosive Art , Venice Biennale
  • 1998: Out of Actions , Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
  • 2001: Morphologies , Artspace Visual Art Center, Woolloomooloo / Sydney, Australia
  • 2004: Virtual Frame , Kunsthalle Wien [cooperation with Bernhard Faiss and Ronald Genswaider]
  • 2005: Open Systems , Tate Modern, London
  • 2009: LINIE , 401contemporary, Berlin
  • 2009: We Interrupt This Program , Mercer Union, Toronto
  • 2010: MEMENTO , 401contemporary, Berlin
  • 2012: Vidéo Vintage , Center Georges Pompidou , Paris

Awards

literature

Editing

  • together with Valie Export: Bildkompendium Wiener Aktionismus und Film. Kohlkunstverlag, Frankfurt am Main 1970.
  • together Christa Steinle : Critique of Art. Art of criticism: it says & I say. Youth and People, Vienna, Munich 1973.
  • Twenty years of work in the media of language, writing, paper, stone, photo, sound, film and video. Series of logs. Born 1982, Vol. 2, Jugend und Volk, Vienna, Munich 1982, ISBN 3-224-16617-7 .
  • with Werner DePauli-Schimanovich : Kurt Gödel . A math myth. Hölder-Pichler-Tempsky, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-209-00865-5 .
  • Gamma and amplitude. Media and art theory writings . Philo & Philo Fine Arts, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-86572-515-5 .
  • Peter Weibel. The open work 1964–1979 . Cantz, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-7757-1539-3 .
  • together Holger Jost: Claus Bremer : play along. Activating the audience: from dynamic theater to theater city. Dramaturgical texts 1948-1971. zkm book published by Alexander Verlag, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-89581-336-8 .
  • Beuys Brock Vostell. Action demonstration participation 1949-1983 . Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2014, ISBN 978-3-7757-3864-4 .

Secondary literature

  • Catalog: Peter Weibel. Painting between anarchy and research. New gallery; Graz 1992.
  • Catalog: Robert Fleck (Ed.): Peter Weibel. To justify the hypothetical nature of art and the non-identity in the object world. Grunnert, Cologne 1992, ISBN 3-88375-166-9 .
  • Romana Schuler (Ed.): Peter Weibel. Pictorial worlds 1982–1996. Catalog raisonné with exhibitions and writings by P. Weibel. Triton, Vienna 1996, ISBN 3-901310-21-5 .
  • Catalog: Peter Weibel: Global Greed. Carinthian State Gallery, Klagenfurt 1999.
  • Catalog: Marcus Huemer, Wilhelm Meusburger (Ed.): B-Picture. Revolver, Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 3-937577-75-0 .
  • Corner Bonk, Peter Gente, Margit Rosen (ed.): 05-03-44: Greetings from Odessa: for Peter Weibel. Merve, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-88396-199-X .
  • Alfred Kolleritsch, Christa Steinle (eds.): Peter Weibel: X-Dream. Droschl, Graz a. a. 2004, ISBN 3-85420-671-2 .
  • Herbert Kapfer , Margit Rosen (ed.): Peter Weibel Tribute. intermedium records, Munich, ISBN 978-3-939444-72-5 .
  • Agnes Husslein-Arco , Alfred Weidinger (ed.): Peter Weibel - Medienrebell . Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König , Cologne 2014, ISBN 978-3863356712 .
  • Heinrich Deisl, Katharina Gsöllpointner (ed.): "Peter Weibel". The portrait 014, Vienna, 2015. ISBN 978-3-903043-03-9 .

Web links

Commons : Peter Weibel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. For the reasons behind the termination of Weibel's work there, see archived correspondence and reports on joanneum-weibel-steinle.mur.at
  2. see the editor's comments on the subject of the book ( Memento of the original from December 3, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ejournal.at

Individual evidence

  1. Peter Weibel - Research Institute for Digital Cultures. Retrieved July 8, 2018 .
  2. Joanneum dismisses media artist Peter Weibel . On March 30, 2011 on diepresse.com
  3. ^ Doubts about Peter Weibel's dissertation. In: DiePresse.com. September 27, 2010, accessed January 7, 2018 .
  4. http://plagiatsgutachten.de/das-weibelsche-dissertations-doktorats-paradoxon-wdd-paradoxon/
  5. Lynn Hershman Leeson: Civic Radar | December 13, 2014 to April 6, 2015 | ZKM. Retrieved May 16, 2020 .
  6. Lichtsicht , accessed on February 20, 2016.
  7. Deichtorhallen Hamburg. Retrieved on May 16, 2020 (German).
  8. The city is the star - art on the construction site | 06/19/2015 to 09/27/2015 | ZKM. Retrieved May 16, 2020 .
  9. Schlosslichtspiele 2015 | 06/20/2015 - 22:00 to 09/26/2015 - 00:00 | ZKM. Retrieved May 16, 2020 .
  10. GLOBAL: Ryoji Ikeda | 06/21/2015 to 08/09/2015 | ZKM. Retrieved May 16, 2020 .
  11. GLOBALE: HA Schult: Action Blue | 06/21/2015 to 09/30/2015 | ZKM. Retrieved May 16, 2020 .
  12. GLOBAL: Transsolar + Tetsuo Kondo | 06/21/2015 to 09/15/2015 | ZKM. Retrieved May 16, 2020 .
  13. GLOBALE: Bottomless - Vilém Flusser and the Arts | 08/15/2015 to 10/18/2015 | ZKM. Retrieved May 16, 2020 .
  14. GLOBAL: Infosphere | 05.09.2015 to 31.01.2016 | ZKM. Retrieved May 16, 2020 .
  15. GLOBALE: Exo-Evolution | October 31, 2015 to February 28, 2016 | ZKM. Retrieved May 16, 2020 .
  16. Lynn Hershman Leeson. Liquid Identities - lehmbruckmuseum. Retrieved on May 16, 2020 (German).
  17. Digital water features | 07/21/2016 to 09/24/2016 | ZKM. Retrieved May 16, 2020 .
  18. Schlosslichtspiele 2016 | 08/07/2016 to 09/25/2016 | ZKM. Retrieved May 16, 2020 .
  19. ^ William Kentridge: "More Sweetly Play the Dance" | 09.09.2016 to 08.01.2017 | ZKM. Retrieved May 16, 2020 .
  20. ^ Art in Europe 1945–1968 | 10/22/2016 to 01/29/2017 | ZKM. Retrieved May 16, 2020 .
  21. Beat Generation | 11/26/2016 to 04/30/2017 | ZKM. Retrieved May 16, 2020 .
  22. ^ Art in Europe 1945–1968. The future in view | 07.03.2017 to 28.05.2017 | ZKM. Retrieved May 16, 2020 .
  23. BOTTOMLESS. VILÉM FLUSSER AND THE ARTS. In: GAMU. Retrieved May 8, 2017, May 16, 2020 (UK English).
  24. Schlosslichtspiele 2017 | 08/03/2017 to 09/10/2017 | ZKM. Retrieved May 16, 2020 .
  25. DIA-LOGOS | 03/17/2018 to 08/05/2018 | ZKM. Retrieved May 16, 2020 .
  26. generator marx: | 22.06.2018 to 09.12.2018 | ZKM. Retrieved May 16, 2020 .
  27. The coldest planet in the universe: The human heart | 06/19/2015 to 08/09/2015 | ZKM. Retrieved May 16, 2020 .
  28. respectively Peter Weibel | 09/28/2019 to 03/08/2020 | ZKM. Retrieved May 16, 2020 .
  29. List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 in 10542 / AB XXIV. GP - query response of April 23, 2012. p. 1292 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
  30. Awarding of great decorations . On December 4, 2007 on kommunikation.steiermark.at
  31. Helsinki: Honorary doctorate for Peter Weibel . On January 4, 2007 on derstandard.at
  32. ^ Minister of Culture Claudia Schmied: Media artist Peter Weibel receives the Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art 1st Class ( Memento from November 22, 2012 in the Internet Archive ). On December 4th, 2010 on bmukk.gv.at (via Wayback Machine )
  33. Peter Weibel received an honorary doctorate from the University of Pecs . On November 28, 2013 on salzburg.com
  34. ^ The 2014 Kokoschka Prize goes to Peter Weibel . On December 2, 2013 on orf.at