Siegfried Kärcher

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Siegfried Kärcher (born October 4, 1974 in Bad Kreuznach ) is a German painter , media artist and musician.

Siegfried Kärcher - Force Inc. Music Works - Live Concert Xerox Exotique # 039, Institute for New Media, Frankfurt, April 16, 2019

Life

After passing the highly gifted examination, Kärcher began studying "fine arts" at the Ottersberg University of Applied Sciences , which he graduated in 2001 with a diploma. As a freelance artist, he founded a studio community on the studio ship in Frankfurt am Main that same year. This was followed by participation in exhibitions at home and abroad and various teaching assignments for art, design and multimedia. He was a board member of the Professional Association of Visual Artists Frankfurt and a representative at state and federal level. As a musician he played hundreds of concerts in Germany and abroad.

Making music together “jam” is a special form of expression for him. He played with musicians like Cold Cut , Blurt , Pyrolator , Kebu and Harald Grosskopf . He has been an active member of the hacking, demo and computer scene since the 1980s. He publishes electronic music on the Frankfurt label collective Force Inc. and Mille Plateaux .

Since 2014 he has been organizing the Siegfried Kärcher Art Days in the Radom on the Wasserkuppe with changing guest artists . He is the reigning champion of the music fair Beatbattle Frankfurt.

Art prizes (selection)

  • 2012: 1st Prize Audio / Visual Award of the Stockholm Fringe Festival Kulturhuset Stockholm Sweden. Siegfried Kärcher prevailed among 400 artists from 40 countries and won 1st prize in the audio / visual category with his work "Liph". (Catalog)
  • 2014: 1st prize in art for Siegfried Kärcher's work "1984_ZUSE_hen" on the subject of computer science and society - computers and mind - aspects of a position assessment by the Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences. Program Committee: Prof. Dr. G. Doeben-Henisch. Prof. Dr. J. Schäfer and Dr. Dominik Wolf.

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1997: "Aufbruch / Ausbruch II" / Galerie Günther Klonz, Bad Kissingen
  • 1998: "Rest rooms / rest (t) räume" / Kunstverein Freiberg
  • 2000: "Situation for Art @ Cuxhaven" / Alte Wache, Cuxhaven
  • 2002: "Situation for Art: My Frankfurt" / Museumsuferfest Frankfurt / M.
  • 2003: "New Paintings" / Atelierschiff Frankfurt / M. (Catalog)
  • 2004: "Serie Rose 1" / Atelierschiff Frankfurt / M. (Cat.)
  • 2004: "Serie Rose 2" / Small House, Kissinger Art and Culture Group. (Cat.)
  • 2006: "Passion and Resurrection in Form and Color", Church of the Redeemer Bad Kissingen
  • 2008: Solo exhibition, Baztille, Zoetermeer -Den Haag (NL)
  • 2008: "Passion and Resurrection in Form and Color", Erlöserkirche Frankfurt (cat.)
  • 2009: Solo exhibition, Nelimarkka Museum Alajärvi (FIN)
  • 2009: Live performance, Museum Egon Schiele Art Centrum , Cesky Krumlov (CZ)
  • 2009: Solo exhibition "Reclaiming Heaven", Kreisgalerie Mellrichstadt (D)
  • 2014: Siegfried Kärcher Art Days in the Radom on the Wasserkuppe
  • 2015: Siegfried Kärcher Art Days in the Radom on the Wasserkuppe
  • 2017: Audiovisual installation “Inside / Outside” art space of IG Galleries Wiesbaden
  • 2017: Siegfried Kärcher Art Days in the Radom on the Wasserkuppe
  • 2019: Audiovisual installation at the highlights of Fürth
  • 2020: Audiovisual installation on the Rosenhöhe in the Neue Künstlerkolonie Darmstadt

Group exhibitions (selection)

  • 1999 "Traces of Travel" / Kunstverein Uelzen (catalog)
  • 2000 "Art supplies" / project space Berlin-Mitte (cat.)
  • 2000 "Rhönsalon" / Kunststation Kleinsassen, Fulda (cat.)
  • 2000 "Traces of travel" / Grenzfahrt 21, Germany / Czech Republic (cat.)
  • 2004 "Art direct" / art fair Rhineland-Palatinate, Rheingoldhalle Mainz (cat.)
  • 2004 “Open studios Rhineland-Palatinate”, Frei-Laubersheim
  • 2004 "Phoean" / German Historical Museum, Berlin (cat.)
  • 2005 “Open studios Rhineland-Palatinate”, Frei-Laubersheim
  • 2005 "Rhönsalon" / Kunststation Kleinsassen & Museum Tann, Fulda (cat.)
  • 2005 "Artist of the House" / Galerie Wildwechsel, Frankfurt (cat.)
  • 2006 “Shedding” / Atelierschiff Frankfurt
  • 2008 "Art Direct" / Art Fair Rhineland-Palatinate, Rheingoldhalle Mainz
  • 2008: Artist in Residence, Fala, Koszalin, Poland
  • 2009: Moldau scholarship from the Hessian Ministry of Science and Art
  • 2010: Direct Action Performance Festival Berlin
  • 2010: A guest in the Otto-Dix-Stadt Gera
  • 2010: Guest artist and exhibition Ricklundgården Museum Lapland / Sweden (cat.)
  • 2012: Stockholm Fringe Festival Kulturhaus Stockholm ( catalog available in two languages, print and on the Internet )
  • 2012: Media art projects for the Luminale Festival of Light Culture in the Zeilgalerie and the Palmengarten Frankfurt
  • 2013: "Guest performance 2013" audiovisual concert. First performance in the Bogenhof Fürth
  • 2013: Room installation in Frankfurt-Höchst train station
  • 2014: “The Wagner Experiment” in the Bad Münster am Stein spa gardens
  • 2015: Audiovisual concert for the revision in the E-Werk Saarbrücken
  • 2015: Audiovisual concert for Evoke in the adventure halls Cologne-Kalk
  • 2015: "Arcade Games Ambient" audiovisual concert in the Babylon Kino Fürth
  • 2016: Audiovisual concert at Glitch it! Festival at the Institute for New Media in Frankfurt
  • 2016: Siegfried Kärcher's Y8N8 waveforms, Yachtclub Frankfurt
  • 2017: World premiere of the composition “Inside / Outside” at the short night of the galleries and museums in Wiesbaden
  • 2017: Guest appearance at Superbooth FEZ-Berlin
  • 2017: Concert and visuals for Mijk van Dijk and AV-Workshop Playground AV Vienna
  • 2017: World premiere of “Thoughts on Metropolis” at the 3rd Cinefonie-Tag Saarbrücken
  • 2018: Live Performers Festival Museum Mattatoio Rome Italy with A / V workshop
  • 2018: Noiselab Berlin Teufelsberg
Siegfried Kaercher Live Performance Luminale 2012 at Zeilgalerie Frankfurt
Siegfried Kaercher Stage design Kissinger Sommer Regentenbau Bad Kissingen

Performances / concerts (selection)

  • 2020: Corona benefit concert in the Retro Games Club Museum in Hamburg
  • 2019: E-Waves Music Festival
  • 2019: Digital analogue 2019 Gasteig Munich
  • 2019: Dutch Modular Fest The Hague
  • 2019: Amiga34 Rheinisches Landestheater Neuss
  • 2019: Lecture concert "Fachsamplen" for the 100th anniversary of the Darmstadt Secession in the Designhaus Hessen
  • 2019: Siegfried Kärcher Wanderlust European Tour iklectik London
  • 2019: Siegfried Kärcher Wanderlust European Tour Kazimier Liverpool
  • 2019: Concert as support from Look Mum No Computer (UK) in Horst Frankfurt
  • 2019: Audiovisual concert Xerox Exotique # 039 at the Institute for New Media in Frankfurt
  • 2019: Concert as support from Blurt (UK) in Horst Frankfurt
  • 2018: Concert at the 35th Chaos Computer Congress in the Leipzig Exhibition Center
  • 2018: Concert / Performance Sluice 2018 in the Kühlhaus Berlin
  • 2018: Concert as support from Kebu at Zoom Frankfurt
  • 2018: Own club night "Klängbilder" "Saturdays at Maze Berlin
  • 2018: “Siegfried Kärcher's sound images special” on the occasion of Karlheinz Stockhausen's 90th birthday at the Kunstverein Montez Frankfurt
  • 2018: Noiselab Dada performance with arsonist and live concert with world premiere of the work Teufelsberg
  • 2018: A / V concerts at the Mattatoio Museum , Rome
  • 2018: 35th Chaos Computer Congress
  • 2018: Luminale - Biennale of Light Art
  • 2018: Sound and Space Ambient Festival with Kompakt and Siegfried Kärcher St. Gertrud Cologne
  • 2017: 34th Chaos Computer Congress
  • 2017: Audiovisual live concert in the art space of IG Galleries Wiesbaden Faulbrunnenstraße Wiesbaden on the night of the museums in Wiesbaden
  • 2017: "A little night music with a focus on the origin and development of German techno " DJ set, Short Night of the Wiesbaden Museums, Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden
  • 2016: 33rd Chaos Computer Congress
  • 2015: Siegfried Kärcher's "Stromkilometer 543". First performance in the Rheintheater Bacharach.
  • 2010: Blue Shift 3rd International Performance Festival Leipzig.
  • 2010: Direct Action Performance Festival Berlin
  • 2002: “Liturgical Night”, reading and music for the Passion, poems by Ingeborg Bachmann. Chants of silence. Reading and presentation, synthesizer and piano improvisation; Melchior Franck: God's servant motets , Siegfried Kärcher: Multi-media installation.
Siegfried Kaercher in the studio for electronic music in Cologne with the studio manager of Karl-Heinz Stockhausen
Siegfried Kaercher Award Ceremony Kulturhuset Stockholm

Scholarships, awards, miscellaneous (selection)

  • 1996: Admission to study art through proof of giftedness according to the Lower Saxony University Act
  • 2003: artist portrait in the Hessenschau / HR television
  • 2004: Board member of the Professional Association of Visual Artists Frankfurt am Main.
  • 2005: Board spokesman and federal delegate professional association of visual artists
  • 2005: Exhibition funding by the City of Frankfurt am Main
  • 2006: Stage design for the Johannes Passion by Johann Sebastian Bach with the German Chamber Choir for the Kissinger Summer in the Regentenbau , Bad Kissingen
  • 2008: Scholarship from the Dutch Sjabien Foundation
  • 2008: Scholarship from the Künstlerbahnhof Ebernburg eV
  • 2008: Exhibition funding by the City of Frankfurt am Main
  • 2008: Artist in Residence, Fala, Koszalin, Poland
  • 2009: Grant and exhibition at the Finnish Nelimarkka Museum
  • 2009: Moldova scholarship from the state of Hesse
  • 2010: As a guest artist of the Otto-Dix-Stadt Gera, Kärcher realizes a multimedia sculpture in the ZEN cube of the BUGA park
  • 2010: Scholarship from the Dutch Sjabien Foundation
  • 2010: Guest artist and exhibition at Ricklundgården Museum Lapland / Sweden
  • 2010: In an art theft in May 2010 in Bad Kissingen's Erlöserkirche, three watercolors from Siegfried Kärcher's Cross Cycle I were stolen in addition to classic oil paintings .
  • 2011: Scholarship Künstlerhof Roter Ochse Schleusingen
  • 2011: Extension of the scholarship and solo exhibition at Künstlerhof Roter Ochse Schleusingen
  • 2012: Media art projects for the Luminale Festival of Light Culture in the Zeilgalerie and the Palmengarten Frankfurt am Main
  • 2016: TV report "Hessenschau" on the occasion of Make Rhein-Main in the Kunstverein Lola Montez Frankfurt
  • 2020: Scholarship from the State of Rhineland-Palatinate

Publications, catalogs, lectures (selection)

  • 2003: Siegfried Kärcher - New paintings. Exhibition catalog. Ed .: Atelierschiff Frankfurt. Catalog design: Siegfried Kärcher. Texts Andrea Pooch.
  • 2015: Lecture My time as a creative member of the computer scene at Webmontag Frankfurt Brotfabrik Frankfurt
  • 2018: Recording of the CCC lecture My time as a member of the creative computer scene , Technische Universität Darmstadt
  • 2019: Invitation to the 19th Easterhegg of the Chaos Computer Club at the TU Vienna to give a lecture on digital art in the history of home computers.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Concert “Stromkilometer 543” Siegfried Kärcher. In: World Heritage Middle Rhine: Bacharach. Retrieved January 5, 2017 .
  2. ↑ 14.3. Frankfurt Horst BLURT Ted Milton Siegfried Kärcher. Retrieved on May 13, 2019 (German).
  3. ↑ lsb.TV: VA - Ambient Jam # 01 @ lsb.TV Cologne (episode V / chapter II). November 13, 2018, accessed May 13, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Webmontag Frankfurt: Siegfried Karcher: my time as a creative member of the computer scene. June 9, 2015, accessed May 16, 2019 .
  5. ^ Siegfried Kaercher - Frankfurter Waves, by Force Inc. / Mille Plateaux. Retrieved May 11, 2019 .
  6. ^ Force Inc. Music Works: siegfried kaercher let it snow. February 10, 2019, accessed May 11, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Passion & Resurrection. Retrieved May 14, 2019 .
  8. ^ Siegfried Kärcher Art Days in the Radom ad Wasserkuppe. Retrieved July 27, 2018 .
  9. ↑ "Music makes the most sense up here". In: marktkorb.de. August 3, 2015, accessed February 18, 2017 .
  10. ^ Art with a one-night-only effect - installation vernissage today in Faulbrunnenstrasse. In: sensor magazine Wiesbaden. January 26, 2017. Retrieved January 29, 2017 .
  11. ↑ Fürther Glanzlichter 2019 - FürthWiki. Retrieved November 29, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Why the New Artists' Colony in Darmstadt shines. December 22, 2019, accessed December 23, 2019 .
  13. ↑ Grenzfahrt 21. Accessed on 18 February 2017 .
  14. ↑ DIRECT ACTION and DIRECT ACTION 2013 - perisphere. Retrieved on May 16, 2019 (German).
  15. ↑ Guest performance 2013 at the Bogenhof. The Bogenhof - Coworking and Coliving in Fürth, accessed on February 18, 2017 .
  16. ↑ Alexandra Flieth: Creatives are drawn to Höchst . In: Highest circular sheet . July 6, 2013 ( online [accessed February 18, 2017]).
  17. ↑ Chnutz vom Hopfen: Homepage for the event. July 19, 2013. Retrieved February 18, 2017 .
  18. ↑ Revision Demoparty: Revision 2015 - Event - Lord's Atmospheric Threeway Intro. April 14, 2015, accessed January 29, 2017 .
  19. ^ Christian Ilg: Performance Night. Babylon Kino am Stadtpark Fürth, accessed on February 18, 2017 .
  20. ↑ Siegfried Kärcher Y8n8 - A dance party with electronic music. In: unvermittelbar.de. May 7, 2016. Retrieved February 18, 2017 .
  21. ↑ Birgitta Lamparth: The one who paints with the keys . In: Wiesbadener Tagblatt . March 8, 2017 ( online ).
  22. ^ Siegfried Kärcher live. Superbooth , 2017, archived from the original on April 8, 2017 ; Retrieved April 8, 2017 .
  23. ↑ Playground AV Festival 2017. AVnode, accessed on July 27, 2018 .
  24. ↑ Tobias Kessler: Loud silent films and a stubborn synthesizer. In: Saarbrücker Zeitung . October 15, 2017. Retrieved October 25, 2017 .
  25. ↑ LPM Festival. Retrieved May 11, 2019 .
  26. ^ E-Waves Music Festival. Retrieved November 29, 2019 .
  27. ↑ Dark Waves - Cosmic Music. In: DIGITAL ANALOG. October 1, 2019, accessed on November 29, 2019 (German).
  28. ↑ DMF night | dutchmodularfest. Retrieved November 29, 2019 (nl-NL).
  29. ↑ Amiga34, Neuss - Day2-09- Siegfried Kärcher. Retrieved November 29, 2019 (German).
  30. ↑ Subject samples IV. Accessed on September 17, 2019 .
  31. ↑ [1]
  32. ↑ Monoton0815: Siegfried Kärcher LIVE 8 5 2019 Horst Frankfurt. May 9, 2019, accessed May 13, 2019 .
  33. ↑ EXCHANGE BERLIN 2018. Retrieved on May 13, 2019 .
  34. ↑ siegfried kärcher's sound images |. In: maze.berlin. May 24, 2018, accessed on May 13, 2019 (German).
  35. ↑ webdill: Stockhausen 90.Retrieved on May 13, 2019 (German).
  36. ↑ Luminal - BASILEA RE Church. Retrieved May 13, 2019 .
  37. ↑ artist. Retrieved May 14, 2019 (American English).
  38. ^ Night of Galleries and Museums | Rhine-Main.Euro art. Retrieved on May 16, 2019 (German).
  39. ↑ DIRECT ACTION and DIRECT ACTION 2013 - perisphere. Retrieved on May 16, 2019 (German).
  40. ↑ Star dust: English: Siegfried Kaercher Stage Design Kissinger summer Regentenbau Bad Kissingen. 2006, accessed May 15, 2019 .
  41. ^ Art theft. Retrieved May 14, 2019 .
  42. ↑ Pictures of the stolen works of art. May 21, 2010, accessed August 11, 2019 .
  43. ↑ https://www.balmoral.de/index.php?id=328&tx_news_pi1%5Bnews%5D=533&tx_news_pi1%5Bcontroller%5D=News&tx_news_pi1%5Baction%5D=detail&cHash=6dbde3a504c05447d8c
  44. ↑ Specimen copy DNB 970324219 at the German National Library .
  45. ↑ Amiga! Amigaaa! Disksalvation & Scene Gathering Easterhegg 2019. Retrieved May 11, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Kärcher, Siegfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and media artist
DATE OF BIRTH 4th October 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Kreuznach