Samuel J. Fleiner

Samuel J. Fleiner (* 1963 in Regensburg ) is a German conceptual artist and composer. a. works with the means of action art performance.

He develops action and performance projects that question everyday human behavior and place them in an artistic context.

Fleiner lives and works in Wiesenbach near Heidelberg .

Projects

His works are comparable to scores that lead to artistic acts. An important project was z. B. his "Concerto for seven ship's horns and a regional train" , which was premiered in 1993 in the Hessian Neckar valley . The goal: to understand the landscape near Neckarsteinach as an instrument, to make the topography audible. The ship's horns and train whistles played accordingly ship and platoon leaders. For the concert, permission had to be obtained from the Heidelberg Waterways and Shipping Office for the “illegal use of a ship's signaling device on a federal waterway” .

Fleiner's other projects deal with National Socialism and its consequences. “From Vienna to Vladivostok , a gesture of reconciliation” took place in a total of three special trains that traveled on deportation routes. During the trip, “International Rolling Future Workshops ” took place, in which experts from across disciplines and countries discussed possible utopias in terms of a better form of society.

His project "30-33" in 1995, also in Neckarsteinach, showed 33 beech trunks, 3 of which were splayed. The background: In Neckarsteinach, 30 people of Jewish faith lived in 1930, and in 1933 none.

The project "out-of-the-books and re-unbound" was created in 2003 on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the book burning . Fleiner turned books that were supposed to be thrown away into furniture and art objects, thus saving them from destruction. The exhibition was u. a. can be seen in the library of the Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany Bonn and in the Ernst Bloch Center Ludwigshafen .

Fleiner has also realized numerous art projects in the context of the environment and sustainability in the following years. The “Construction (m) measure” campaign for the new building for the Federal Environment Agency in Dessau resulted in a tree-planting campaign that replaced trees that fell victim to the new building.

The project “marble machine” , which he realized in 1998 together with the sculptor and set designer Michael Thomas, became a memorial for the rethinking - changing - 100,000 days without a car campaign. In this project, 1,000 drivers gave up their cars for 100 days. Similarly, the marble machine can hold and circulate 100,000 glass marbles. The machine is set in motion by means of a pedal drive. The project was scientifically supported by the Wuppertal Institute.

The sun-wind-music machine is a flat-plate collector Stirling engine that supplies a reed pipe organ with air. The machine is controlled by the wind direction and speed and is considered the first solar mechanical organ in the world.

His exhibition project “RE-ART ONe - Art and Design in the Context of Waste and Recycling” was recognized by UNESCO in 2005 as a trend-setting project in the UN decade of “Education for Sustainability”. The exhibition shows 52 artists from 15 countries, all of whom work with waste. In 2005 it was the official contribution of the Federal Republic of Germany to the World Environment Day in San Francisco and then the first art exhibition in the new Federal Environment Agency in Dessau. In 2006 RE-ART ONe was invited to Nairobi, Kenya by the United Nations. There the exhibition was on display in the main lobby for a total of 10 weeks. The opening was organized by Anna Tibajuka Executive Director of UN-habitat and one of the deputies of Kofi Annan , Prof. Wangari Maathai , Kenyan Nobel Peace Prize Laureate 2004 and Prof. Dr. Klaus Töpfer , former Federal Environment Minister D. and Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Organization (UNEP).

Fleiner's machine choreographies and noise concerts, which are part of his cycle of art and the world of work, were great media successes. From his pen come z. As a ballet for excavators and construction machines, a concert for wrecking ball and Siberian mouth drummer , a container ballet in Mannheim port , a ballet for wheelchair users and trucks by a machine dance music, a ballet for road pavers, a concert for tram bells, a ballet with road rollers and compactors, the "E-Music" a concert for electronic devices and the composition project "Body Sounds - Lebenslaut", a piece of music specifically for medical diagnosis sounds in which EEG waves were also made audible. In his concert "PartyZipation - Concert for Citizens' Voices, Building Participants and an Mayor" on April 10, 1997 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein, the then Lord Mayor of the city, Dr. Wolfgang Schulte in the main role.

Web links

• Projects Fleiners
• Portrait of the curator of the RE-ART hall