The future of art

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Movie
Original title The future of art
The Future of Art - Cover.jpg
Country of production Germany
original language German , English
Publishing year 2010
length 150 minutes
Rod
Director Erik Niedling ,
Ingo Niermann
script Ingo Niermann
production Erik Niedling
music Katrin Vellrath
camera Christian Görmer
cut David Adlhoch

The Future of Art is a documentary by Erik Niedling and Ingo Niermann . The world premiere took place on November 10, 2010 in Berlin .

content

The artist Erik Niedling and the writer Ingo Niermann take a trip to various artists, gallery owners, collectors and museum directors. Filmed mainly in Berlin, Hamburg , Frankfurt am Main and New York .

The interviewees include (in chronological order) Olafur Eliasson , Gabriel Loebell , Philomene Magers , Harald Falckenberg , Antje Majewski , Damien Hirst , Gregor Jansen , Hans-Ulrich Obrist , Thomas Olbricht , Marina Abramović (she is not interviewed, but during her performance "The Artist Is Present" shown in MoMA ), Olaf Breuning , Terence Koh , Genesis P-Orridge , Friedrich Petzel , Boris Groys , Tobias Rehberger , Thomas Bayrle and Hans Georg Wagner , the lord of the fortress Wachsenburg in Thuringia .

The Wachsenburg on the A4 in Thuringia

The individual interview sections deal with the functioning of the art business and the question of how one can be successful as an artist and create a lasting work. In the course of the film, Niermann develops the idea for an epochal work of art as an example:

"What I've been thinking about is to pose a really big riddle to myself, and that is to create a work of art that will retain its relevance beyond the 21st century, just as Michelangelo's David is probably still there and is valued, also from people who have long been optimized, much, much smarter than us, but who somehow can still appreciate it as such a primitive art form of their ancestors. "

- Niermann in conversation with Gregor Jansen

Niermann then developed the idea of ​​a pyramid, which should be peeled out of a mountain or hill several hundred meters high, starting from above, financed by a collector who would then be buried inside the resulting pyramid. After the death of the collector, however, the removed material should be poured back up, and the pyramid should therefore disappear. The trip ends at the Wachsenburg in Thuringia, where Niedling and Niermann submit their idea to the lord of the castle and ask how much a collector would have to pay so that the castle could be temporarily razed and then the pyramid could be peeled out of the mountain as planned.

construction

The film begins with an intro (Niermann takes a bath in the Schlachtensee ). The interviews that follow are grouped into four larger chapters:

I. Investigation
II. Work
III. Incubation
IV. Presentation

Screenings and DVD

After the world premiere, “The Future of Art” was shown from November 10th to 28th, 2010 in the Angermuseum in Erfurt , parallel to an exhibition by the artist Erik Niedling (“Status”). Since November 10, 2010, the individual interviews have gradually been activated on the web series portal 3min.de operated by Deutsche Telekom , where the film was completely available until the portal was closed in May 2011. In September 2011 Sternberg Press released a DVD and the booklet "The Future of Art. A Manual".

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See the publisher's website .