Stephan Geiger

Stephan Geiger (born January 28, 1968 in Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt ) is a German art historian , curator , gallery owner and author .

Stephan Geiger (2020)

Life

Stephan Geiger was born in Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt in 1968. He grew up in an environment characterized by art and artists. His father is the screen printer and gallery owner Roland Geiger , who has been in close contact with artists from the Hölzel School in Stuttgart (such as Max Ackermann and Richard Neuz ) and group 11 ( Atila , Günther C. Kirchberger , Georg Karl Pfahler ) since the 1960s . After graduating from high school in 1987, Stephan Geiger accompanied the philosopher couple Max Bense and Elisabeth Walther-Bense on a study trip to the USA lasting several months. The subsequent military service he performed from October 1987 to December 1988 in a special ammunition depot of NATO from. He recorded his experiences in this final phase of the Cold War and the subsequent turning point in Bonn in the book Bunker und Beethoven published by Kid Verlag in 2019 .

1989 Geiger began to study at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms University in Bonn with the subjects of art history , philosophy and classical archeology . His fellow students there included Leander Scholz and Florian Illies . In 1995 he completed his studies with a thesis on the art theorist Konrad Fiedler with Andreas Tönnesmann as a Magister Artium . Since 1996 he has been working as a gallery owner, curator and author with a focus on the art of the sixties. After research stays in New York, he wrote a dissertation on The Art of Assemblage in 2006 . The Museum of Modern Art, 1961. The new reality of art in the early sixties .

Act

Geiger has been involved in numerous exhibition projects and publications since 1995 (including on Hans Jörg Glattfelder , Heinz Mack , Christian Megert , Daniel Spoerri , Anton Stankowski , Herman de Vries and the international ZERO movement). As an author, he was flanked to a larger audience primarily by the science satire Socrates, published in 2002! A short history of philosophy of football is known, in which the European history of philosophy is retold based on football comparisons.

Together with his father, Stephan Geiger now runs the gallery of the same name in Konstanz , which represents ZERO artists such as Heinz Mack, Christian Megert, Daniel Spoerri and Herman de Vries, as well as positions in concrete art . He is a member of the board of the Association of Galleries in Baden-Württemberg and has been teaching at the University of Konstanz on the subject of mechanisms of the art market since 2012 . Since 2017 Geiger is also as an art historical advisor to the archive GC Kirchberger on Castle Filseck responsible act and for the Series of the archive. He lives and works in Konstanz on Lake Constance.

Works

as an author

• Bunker and Beethoven. My peaceful year. Kid Verlag, Bonn 2019, ISBN 978-3-947759-11-8 .
• Günther C. Kirchberger and the group 11 - a departure into the International (series of archive GC Kirchberger Issue 2), Göppingen 2019, ISBN 978-3-9819931-1-0 .
• Günther C. Kirchberger. A key figure of the Stuttgart avant-garde (series of publications by the GC Kirchberger Archive, issue 1), Göppingen 2018, ISBN 978-3-9819931-0-3 .
• The Art of Assemblage. The Museum of Modern Art, 1961. The new reality of art in the early sixties. Verlag Silke Schreiber, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-88960-098-1 .
• Socrates crosses! A little history of philosophy of football. Parerga Verlag, Düsseldorf 2002, ISBN 978-3-930450-71-8 .
• Richard Neuz (1894-1976). Catalog raisonné of the screen prints and print drafts from 1966 to 1975 in descriptive form. Kornwestheim 1997, ISBN 978-3-9804895-2-2 .

as co-author (selection)

• herman de vries - how green is the grass? Exhibition catalog Georg Kolbe Museum , Berlin 2020.
• Hans Jörg Glattfelder. From the particular to the general. Exhibition cat. Museum Ritter , Verlag Das Wunderhorn, Heidelberg 2019, ISBN 978-3-88423-621-5 .
• Heinz Mack. Collages. Exhibition cat. Galerie Geiger, Konstanz 2019, ISBN 978-3-946060-06-2 .
• Acts of Light - Mack & Goethe. Exhibition cat. Goethe Museum Düsseldorf . Hatje Cantz Verlag, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-7757-4407-2 .
• Daniel Spoerri. every, day, life. Exhibition cat. Galerie Geiger, Konstanz 2018, ISBN 978-3-946060-05-5 .
• herman de vries. earth, ashes, blood. Exhibition cat. Galerie Geiger, Konstanz 2018, ISBN 978-3-946060-04-8 .
• Heinz Mack. Light and Matter. Exhibition cat. Galerie Geiger, Konstanz 2017, ISBN 978-3-946060-03-1 .
• Hans Jörg Glattfelder. Through Time and Space - Highlights from 50 years. Exhibition cat. Galerie Geiger, Konstanz 2016, ISBN 978-3-946060-01-7 .
• The artist as curator. Collaborative Initiatives in The International ZERO Movement 1957-1967. ZERO Foundation, Ghent 2015, ISBN 978-94-9177-568-0 .
• Pure Blessed. Beyond. Sytagma Verlag, Freiburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-940548-39-9 .
• herman de vries. zero is the gate. Exhibition cat. Galerie Geiger, Konstanz 2014, ISBN 978-3-9809227-8-4 .
• Günther C. Kirchberger. In focus. Exhibition cat. Museum im Kleihues-Bau Kornwestheim, Brandes Verlag, Altenriet 2013, ISBN 978-3-9816175-2-8 .
• Hans Jörg Glattfelder. What is the case ? Museum Haus Konstruktiv , Zurich 2013, ISBN 978-3-86832-181-4
• Christian Megert - because it is real. Exhibition cat. Galerie Geiger, Konstanz 2012, ISBN 978-3-9809227-6-0 .
• Heinz Mack. The language of my hand. Exhibition cat. Museum Kunstpalast Düsseldorf, Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern 2011, ISBN 978-3-7757-2978-9 .
• Heinz Mack. One Time Several Times. Exhibition cat. Galerie Geiger, Konstanz 2011, ISBN 978-3-9809227-5-3 .
• Squares. Constructive tendencies from Germany's southwest. Exhibition cat. Art Museum Gelsenkirchen , 2005.
• Max Ackermann. The search for the whole. Exhibition cat. Zeppelin Museum Friedrichshafen, Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg 2004, ISBN 978-3-89870-192-1 .
• Günther C. Kirchberger. free gesture - strict form. Exhibition cat. Kunstmuseum Singen , Singen 2008, ISBN 978-3-931629-03-8 .
• Anton Stankowski. Oil paintings, acrylic paintings and photographs. Exhibition cat. Galerie Geiger, Konstanz 2003, ISBN 3-9809227-0-7 .
• Karl Gerstner. Synchromies. Exhibition cat. Galerie Geiger, Konstanz 2002, ISBN 3-9804895-5-8 .
• Daniel Spoerri. La Médecine opératoire dessinée d'après nature par NH Jacob (1839). Exhibition cat. Galerie Geiger, Konstanz 2002, ISBN 3-9804895-4-X .
• Eye and hand. Konrad Fiedler's art theory in context. Wilhelm Fink Verlag, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-7705-3187-6 .

literature

• German Literature Lexicon. The 20th century . Founded by Wilhelm Kosch, continued by Carl Ludwig Lang. Zurich and Munich 2007, Volume 10, ISBN 978-3-908255-10-9 , Sp. 558-559.
• Our artists, our friends. 40 years of Galerie Geiger. Galerie Geiger, Konstanz 2015, ISBN 978-3-946060-00-0 .
• Swantje Karich: You were free. In: Welt am Sonntag June 7, 2015 ( welt.de interview with Stephan Geiger).

Web links

• Literature by and about Stephan Geiger in the catalog of the German National Library
• Homepage Gallery Geiger
• Homepage of the Schloss Filseck Foundation
• Homepage of the State Association of Galleries in Baden-Württemberg eV

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ebba Hagenberg-Miliu: When the students dreamed of world peace. In: General-Anzeiger Bonn from October 15, 2019
2. ↑ Review of The Art of Assemblage In: Die Welt.
3. ↑ Review of The Art of Assemblage in the portal sehepunkte.
4. ↑ Philosophy: Well dribbled . In: Der Spiegel . No. 8 , 1975 ( online ). - Book review by Socrates flank!
5. ↑ Nick Hornby's Heirs In: The Time. 2002 - Book review of Socrates flank!