Steffen Terk

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Steffen Terk (* 1950 in Dresden ; artist name , real name Steffen Wolf-Peter Kuhnert) is a German painter , graphic artist and sculptor .

Self-portrait of Steffen Terk

Life

Steffen Terk was born in 1950 as Steffen Wolf-Peter Kuhnert and in 1974 took his stage name "Terk". From 1969 to 1972 he received lessons as a private student from Gerd Kaden-Cuba , who maintained a studio at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts without a teaching assignment . From 1971 to 1976 he was a member of the illegal Dresden artist group " Lücke ". He showed his early works in 1971 in the solo exhibition "UNDERGROUND" in the "Lücke" studio. The term “underground” was first used aggressively by an artist in the GDR to describe himself. Terk was expatriated from the GDR at his own request in 1980 and has lived and worked in Bonn ever since .

Artistic concept

From the experiences of the artistic discussions within the group “Lücke”, which painted community pictures, he developed his conception of painting as a game in which everything conceivable can become visible. The embedding in broad theoretical horizons is characteristic of his work. In system-analytical penetration and self-reflection of the art media, he further developed the approach and methodology of the artist group “Lücke”.

Fishing in the flow of time

Exhibitions (selection)

Works in public collections

literature

  • The tip of the iceberg , room 41, exhibition catalog, editors Walter Smerling, Bonn 1985 (group exhibition)
  • Gap TPT : joint pictures by H. Gallasch, W. Opitz, AR Penck, Terk, Dresden 1971–1976, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel, March 21 to June 22, 1992, Städtische Galerie im Städel, Frankfurt am Main, July 16 to September 27, 1992, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Gemäldegalerie Neue Meister, November 1, 1992 to January 3, 1993, exhibition catalog ed. v. K. Gallwitz, D. Koepplin et al. W. Schmidt; Catalog: B. v. Bismarck among colleagues. v. P. Nussbaum
  • Yvonne Fiedler: Art in the Corridor. Private galleries in the GDR between autonomy and illegality, Berlin 2013
  • ART SYNCHRON , artist book, private print 1987
  • the tent , exhibition catalog, Bonner Atelierhaus, 1995
  • terk: painting + plastic, private printing 1998
  • Atelierhaus 1992–2000, exhibition cat. Artists' Forum Bonn, ed. v. Pierre Granoux and Norvin Leineweber, Bonn 2000
  • White plant : glances at a painting, ed. v. Secretary art trade Marcel Bouziri, idea and photos by Stefan Adam, the painting by Terk (1999), private print, Essen 2003
  • Steffen Terk: The humanized animal / Gli Animali Umanizzati, exhibition catalog of the Lorenzelli Arte gallery, Milano 2008,
  • Steffen Terk: Das Rheinisches Tor , exhibition catalog Artsekretaer, Bonn 2008
  • Painting game. Project documentation, initiated and ed. v. Steffen Terk, private print 2013

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Boheme and dictatorship in the GDR , exhibition in the German Historical Museum
  2. ↑ The linocut invitation card is shown in the exhibition catalog “Lücke TPT” (lit. no. 2), p. 38; On the exhibition activities of the "Lücke": Fiedler 2013 (Lit. No. 3), pp. 62, 159, 250 u. 373
  3. ↑ A description of this interaction: Jürgen Schweinbraden, reflections and descriptions of a bygone era: Recollections 1956-1980, in: Art Documentation SBZ / DDR, 1945–1990, essays, reports, materials, ed. v. G. Feist, E. Gillen, et al. B. Vierneisel, Cologne 1996, pp. 676–727, here p. 710. The invitation card for this concert is shown in the exhibition catalog “Lücke TPT” (lit. no. 2), p. 35
personal data
SURNAME Terk, Steffen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kuhnert, Steffen Wolf-Peter (maiden name); Terk (stage name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, graphic artist and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden