Scott Holmquist

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Scott Holmquist at a panel discussion of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation in Berlin, 2018

Scott Holmquist (born in Minneapolis ) is an American-French conceptual artist . His work includes the production of art books, installations and the creation of special archives. He works on non-conformist movements in Sweden, California and Germany. He was best known for his work on drug sellers in Berlin parks and marijuana farmers in Northern California.

Life

Holmquist grew up in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He currently lives in Berlin . He speaks French, German and Swedish.

Education

Holmquist studied social economics at the University of Gothenburg , where he worked on the Löntagarfonderna (employee funds) and social theory at the University of California , Berkeley. He also worked as a research fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, DC

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Holmquist's artistic work received media and institutional attention. After his research on the Swedish subculture Raggare , invitations to lectures at the Nordiska Museet in Stockholm followed. The Washington Post described his work in Peace.Love.Insurgency as follows: “Political and yet imaginative”.

Lothar Müller wrote in the Süddeutsche Zeitung in 2014 about Holmquist's solo exhibition “The Third Wall and the Last Hero” in the Berlin Kreuzberg Museum : “[... Holmquist has] monumentalized and crossed the uprising of the marijuana farmers in Northern California against the US government in the form of art books then the Atlantic to immerse yourself in the revolutionary spirit of Kreuzberg. "

Artnet reported in 2016 that Holmquist's petition "... to erect a memorial for African drug dealers in a Berlin park in the Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg district [...] received political support from the Pirate Party Germany ." The media from various countries reported on this artistic intervention. In 2017 and 2018, Holmquist's exhibition "Other Homeland - Origin and Migration Routes of Drug Sales in Berlin Parks", supported by the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation , caused outrage across Germany, but also received support.

The attempt by the CDU Berlin in October 2017 to ban the exhibition through an initiated procedure in the district assembly for the Kreuzberg Museum was prevented by members of the Greens and the Left.

Artist books and publications (selection)

  • Low Tide - object index draft 2 (2015)
  • BGzSReb and BuUmZoG years 2090 (Federal Act for the Protection and Promotion of the Tradition and Culture of Rebellion (BGzSReb) and the Federal Zoning Act (BuUmZoG)) (2013)
  • 50 x 50 - object index draft 1 (2013)
  • Hippies & Weed Portable Insurgent, “chronic freedom series,” book - sound-images broadsheet (2013)
  • Big Drug Factory - Unfound, “Chronic Freedom Series” (2011)
  • chronic freedom, "chronic freedom series" (2010)
  • dirt, "Chronic Freedom Series" (2010)
  • light, "chronic freedom series" (2010)
  • 3 books, "Chronic Freedom Series" (2009)
  • Hot Cars and Cool Media: The Swedish Raggare Subculture, In: The Global Village: Dead or Alive? ed. Ray Brown and Marshall Fishwick (1999, Bowling Green State University Popular Press)
  • Pope in transit; dictator “in transition”. These Times, April 29, 1987.
  • Vital Resources: An Annotated Bibliography in Community Economic Development, Community Information Exchange, National Urban Coalition and Institute for Policy Studies (1987)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b about Holmquist In: scottholmquist.com , accessed on April 11, 2018. (English)
  2. ↑ Peace.Love.Insurgency. In: furthermorellc.com .
  3. ^ Marc Jenkins: Peace. Love. Insurgency. In: The Washington Post , Nov. 8, 2013.
  4. ↑ FHXB Museum: The Third Wall and the Last Hero ( Memento of the original from January 13, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: fhxb-museum.de , accessed on April 11, 2018. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fhxb-museum.de
  5. ↑ Lothar Müller: The Third Wall - Süddeutsche Zeitung In: scottholmquist.com , accessed on April 11, 2018.
  6. ↑ Memorial for the African Park Drug Dealer In: openendung.de , July 2016.
  7. ↑ Thomas Schmoll: Controversial art project: “Dealer exhibition important and courageous” In: n-tv.de , December 2, 2017, accessed on April 11, 2018.
  8. ↑ Raphael Piotrowki: Exhibition to dealers in Berlin: drug traffickers in the museum In: taz.de , November 21, 2017 accessed on 11 April 2018th
  9. ^ Scan from "Pope in transit" on Scott Holmquist's website
personal data
SURNAME Holmquist, Scott
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American-French conceptual artist
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Minneapolis