Volker Hildebrandt

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Volker Hildebrandt (* 1953 in Duisburg ) is a German media artist. His work includes graphics , painting , video , multimedia , object and drawing .

Volker Hildebrandt in the "Pink Room", 1985 during "Artware", CCH-Hamburg

Life

From 1972 to 1978 Hildebrandt studied art history and special education in Bonn and Cologne. He then moved into a studio in Duisburg, where he stayed until 1988. Hildebrandt has lived and worked in Cologne ever since. In 1992 he received the art prize of the Anker Bank Cologne.

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At the end of the 1970s, Volker Hildebrandt's work can be classified as conceptual art ; The means of language are used to deal with space and time. At the beginning of the 1980s Hildebrandt turned increasingly to the electronic media of television, computer and video text (BTX), later also to video , in order to critically review the image creation processes typical of these devices in his art. Dealing with the structure and production methods of media images is an essential aspect of his art. The perception and reception of media icons from film , art , sport and politics also make up a large part of his artistic work.

After the introduction of the BTX in Germany in 1983, Hildebrandt was the first German artist to use the new medium to transmit an immaterial exhibition of specially designed works of art ( Bildstören - Hildebrandt , 1983; BTX Dance , 1983; Hotel Rasputin , 1989) and thus to use it simultaneously accessible to many recipients regardless of their location.

In 1983, Volker Hildebrandt also dealt with the phenomenon of image disturbance on television for the first time , in the indeterminacy of which all imaginable images are contained as a possibility ( BTX exhibition , 1985). Hildebrandt has since translated the drifting snow of the white, gray and black dots into pastose , tangible, tangible paintings, with which he canvases ( Pictory exhibitions , 1994), objects (TV Baby, 1998) and spatial installations ( Rosa Raum , 1985; Rosa Schnecke , 1986; Rosa Zimmer , 1997). The inclusion of language again plays a role, which is particularly evident when working with daily newspapers (exhib. Spektuleer , 1991): on the newspaper pages covered with shimmering dots, only the left-blank headlines provide an ironic comment on the otherwise empty application of paint.

For Hildebrandt, the encrypted pictures of pay TV in the 1990s are comparable to the phenomenon of picture disturbance , which only show what is shown in a blurred manner and thus, unlike conventional TV pictures, stimulate the viewer's imagination, especially when coded transmission of porn films ( Kiss , 1998; Moodoo , 1999).

Volker Hildebrandt continues the preoccupation with the visual construction of perception by the mass media in the series of VIPs . Sequences of film or video recordings of famous stars, splintered into their individual parts, reveal the process of image creation on the one hand, and on the other hand - in a small format lined up in a grid - result in a completely new image that can no longer be deciphered from afar. Conversely, Hildebrandt, for example, transfers the photographic portraits of the German Chancellors (2005) into pointillist gray paintings that only produce a recognizable image from a distance.

Since 2000, Volker Hildebrandt has also been working with and in the media film ( Kill Bill Still , 2007) and video ( M dna , 2002). In 2008 he submitted an application to the UNESCO World Heritage Committee to include the phenomenon of image disturbance in the list of goods worthy of protection and to declare it a world cultural heritage.

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 1976 Willich, Löhrl Gallery
    Volker Hildebrandt: Kennedy: Dallas , 2004, C-Print, 100 × 100 cm
  • 1977 Warsaw, Galeria Wspolczesna
  • 1980 Bremerhaven, Kunstverein: Do I have time? Time has me!
  • 1981 Klagenfurt, Hildebrand Gallery
  • 1983 on-screen text : Image disturbance - Hildebrandt
  • 1986 Mülheim an der Ruhr, Municipal Museum: Pink Snail
  • 1989 Screen text: Welcome to Hotel Rasputin
  • 1990 Cologne, Art Cologne, funding program , Karin Bolz Gallery
  • 1990 Leverkusen, Museum Morsbroich: The hall of the collection and the room of the collector
  • 1991 Wuppertal, Epikur Gallery: spectacular
  • 1992 Regensburg, Lindinger + Schmid Gallery
  • 1994 Chemnitz, Städtische Kunstsammlungen: Pictory - the victory of pictures
  • 1995 Regensburg, Museum Ostdeutsche Galerie: A kind of recycling
  • 1996 Cologne, Lutz Teutloff Gallery: La Fantasia
  • 1998 Bochum, TZR Gallery: The two sides of the mess
  • 1999 Wuppertal, Epikur Gallery: Image Disturbance
  • 2001 Hamburg, Erotic Art Museum: Transvision - Back to Hotel Rasputin
  • 2002 Munich, Museum of Modern Art: Goddesses
  • 2003 Munich, Jörg Heitsch Gallery: Goddesses
  • 2006 Frankfurt, German Film Museum Frankfurt a. M .: Football, quiet
  • 2006 Munich, Hilton Munich City Gallery: Germany versus Holland (with Rob Scholte)
  • 2007 Wuppertal, Epikur Gallery: Elephants. Eyes
  • 2007 Cologne, Zoo: Elephants. Eyes (satellite exhibition of the animal show of the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum)
  • 2008 Amsterdam, Galerie Witteveen: Biltstoeroong

Group exhibitions (selection)

  • 1986 Mülheim ad Ruhr, Municipal Museum: BTX-Art
  • 1992 Hagen, Karl Ernst Osthaus-Museum: Trivial Machines
  • 1997 Konstanz, Kunstverein: The new face
  • 1997 Leverkusen, Museum Morsbroich: Location Germany
  • 1997 Wuppertal, Von der Heydt Museum: Contemporary Art by German Artists
  • 1998 Leverkusen, Museum Morsbroich: Global Fun
  • 1999 Leverkusen, Museum Morsbroich: Aspects 1942–1998
  • 2000 Cologne, German Sports and Olympic Museum : Art football - football art
  • 2000 Leverkusen, Museum Morsbroich: Face to Face
  • 2002 Karlsruhe, Center for Art and Media Technology (ZKM): Media Art in Dialogue 1992–2002
  • 2003 London, The Country Hall Gallery: Marilyn Monroe - Life of a Legend
  • 2004 Düsseldorf, artist association Malkasten: You'll never walk alone - art and sport
  • 2005 Vienna, BA ~ CA Kunstforum and Kunsthalle Wien: Superstars - From Warhol to Madonna
  • 2005 Vienna, Vienna Museum: John F. Kennedy
  • 2006 Munich, Münchner Stadtmuseum: Soccer: One game - many worlds
  • 2007 Karlsruhe, Center for Art and Media Technology (ZKM): art_clips, .ch.at.de
  • 2008 Chicago, Cultural Center: Life as a Legend: Marilyn Monroe

Projects with newspapers

  • 1992 artist kunstmagazin, issue 14/15: Artists edition
  • 1992 the week, 25th year No. 22 of May 27, 1992
  • 1994 Culture, 5th year No. 39: Concetto triviale
  • 1995 Hamburger Morgenpost, No. 296/51 of December 19, 1995
  • 1995 Kultur-Joker, 5th year, 37th / 38th year Week September 15-28, 1995
  • 2003 Plattlinger Anzeiger, May 16, 2003: Eintracht Deggendorf

Videos

  • 2002 M dna , with Marco Lietz, SVCD with graphics, Galerie Epikur Wuppertal
  • 2002 HKvsRB , SVCD and graphics, Galerie Epikur Wuppertal
  • 2004 Never , DVD and graphics
  • 2006 iLife Beckenbauer , DVD and graphics

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personal data
SURNAME Hildebrandt, Volker
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German media artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Duisburg