Volker March

Volker März (* 1957 in Mannheim ) is a German artist .

Life

Mar. studied from 1977 to 1983 at the Academy of Arts in Berlin, in 2001 since 1 November University of the Arts is.

Works

Volker März combines several art forms in his works, e.g. B. Sculpture , installation and performance .

Since 1986 he has made installations and performances on Friedrich Nietzsche , Giordano Bruno , Martin Heidegger , Heinrich von Kleist , Marquis de Sade , Georges Bataille , Peter Sloterdijk , Franz Kafka , Walter Benjamin , Hans Henny Jahnn , Rolf Dieter Brinkmann , Joseph Beuys , Pina Bausch and Hannah Arendt .

He combined the media of sculpture, painting, photography, text, film and music to create space-related stagings that increasingly bear provocative political references.

From 2005 to 2006 he was with the "Guerilla Performance Group Unos United" he founded as part of the art and culture program of the federal government for the 2006 soccer World Cup with door-sized erasers in Europe and ironically bridged the gap between historically contaminated places Shoah and world championship beaten because in such a tournament only those who eradicate all other nations can become world champions.

In 2006 the Akademie der Künste in Berlin bought the "Eichmann Room", which was supposedly created in March, along with the saying "Auschwitz is human." However, March did not complete this work.

In 2009 the exhibition “Kafka in Israel” at the Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art in Israel caused a sensation and was discussed controversially in the Israeli media.

Exhibitions

• 1996: Nietzschehaus, Naumburg
• 2000: Museum for Communication, Berlin
• 2003: Medical History Museum, Berlin
• 2004: Museum for Sculpture, Heilbronn
• 2005: German Hygiene Museum, Dresden
• 2007: Kunsthaus, Potsdam
• 2009: Mannheim Art Association
• 2010: Film, animated painting for the opera Die Vögel , Konzerthaus am Gendarmenmarkt, Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv, Galerie Helga Hofmann, Netherlands, Kunstverein Mannheim, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Israel, Edwin Scharff Museum, Neu-Ulm, Galerie Tammen, Berlin, Poland Biennale, Posznan
• 2011: Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv, Galerie Römerapotheke, Zurich, Galerie Tammen, Berlin, Galerie Lake, Oldenburg, Manzara, Istanbul
• 2012: Israel hangs Kafka, Meinblau, Berlin, Midle East Europe, DOX, Prague, Galerie Kontrapost, Leipzig, Galerie Wagner-Marks, Frankfurt, Gallery 350, Istanbul, Galerie Lake, Oldenburg, Galerie Kit Schulte, Berlin, Bamberg Cathedral
• 2013: Amsterdam, You, Berlin, Galerie Tammen, Laughing Windows, Edwin Scharff Museum, Neu-Ulm, Laughing Windows, DOX, Prague, Arendt-Eichmann, ICI, Berlin, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer , Munich
• 2014: Galerie Tammen - with Moritz Götze, Galerie Stern Wywiol, Hamburg
• 2015: Galerie Tammen - with Jacki McInnes, Galerie Lake, Oldenburg, Galerie Römerapotheke, Zurich
• 2016: Wits Arts Museum, Johannesburg, Lemgo Art Association, Ilayda Gallery, Istanbul
• 2017: Galerie Stern Wywiol, Hamburg

Participation in exhibitions

• "Death and Life", Upper Gallery, House on Lützowplatz , Tiergarten Art Office, Berlin, with Waldemar Grzimek , Karl Hofer , Käthe Kollwitz , Alfred Kubin , Heinrich Richter-Berlin , Georges Rouault , Carola Dewor, Galli , Franz Gutmann , Manfred Henkel, Lizzie Hosaeus , Claus Korch , Ingo Kühl , Sigrun Paulsen , Günter Scharein , Erika Schewski-Rühling, Ludmila Seefried-Matějková , Renée Strecker and others, 1986
• “Writing, Images, Thinking”, Haus am Waldsee , Berlin, with Gerhard Richter , Joseph Beuys , Timm Ulrichs and others, 2005
• Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzliya , Israel, with Steve McQueen , 2010
• Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Munich, with Ólafur Elíasson , 2013

Web links

• Literature by and about Volker March in the catalog of the German National Library
• Volker March - March Works: MÄRZWERKE
• Volker March, sculpture, installation, Kafka, Arendt, Benjamin
• Volker March Works - Stern-Wywiol Galerie