White House (gallery)
The White House Gallery was a gallery for video and media art by Thomas Wegner in Hamburg . It was the first commercial art gallery in this area in Germany.
The gallery worked with artists such as Nam June Paik , James Turrell , Marie-Jo Lafontaine , Fabrizio Plessi and Thorbjørn Lausten .
history
The gallery was founded in 1989 in Wegner's private residence, an Art Nouveau villa on the Alster called the White House , and was open to visitors every Thursday until 1990. In 1991 she moved to Admiralitätsstrasse 71 on Fleetinsel, where a gallery community for contemporary art was established in the early 1990s, and was renamed the White Room .
Thomas Wegner dealt with media art from a young age, he himself staged concerts in the old Elbe tunnel, in the botanical gardens and the planetarium in Hamburg's city park. After selling his consumer electronics chain, he focused entirely on working with artists and organizing exhibitions and media art events.
Exhibitions
White House
- 1989: Nam June Paik
- September 7th – 2nd November 1989: Stephan von Huene
- November 23, 1989-15. February 1990: Marie-Jo Lafontaine
- February 22nd – 10th May 1990: Thorbjørn Lausten
- May 10th - May 28th June 1990: Klaus vom Bruch
White space
- February 14th - 27th April 1991: Ingo Günther , "Shaheed"
- September 6th - September 30th November 1991: Fabrizio Plessi , "La Stanza del Mare"
- April 3 - April 27 June 1992: Bernhard Leitner
- September 25th-28th December 1992: James Turrell
- September 4th - December 31st November 1994: Fabrizio Plessi , "Paris Paris"
- February 4th – 29th April 1995: Ulrike Rosenbach
- May 2–30. June 1995: Giovanni Albanese , "Extracomunitariextra"
- 1995: Yvonne Goulbier
Individual evidence
- ↑ Elke von Radziewsky: Art is Lifestyle , Zeit Online from June 2, 1989, accessed on August 14, 2018
- ↑ Olaf Wunder: Thomas Wegner († 68): The man who invented Schaulandt. In: mopo.de. December 27, 2016, accessed August 14, 2018 .
- ^ Hamburg: Exhibition house for video, sound and light art: Art is lifestyle . In: ZEIT ONLINE . ( zeit.de [accessed on August 14, 2018]).
- ↑ Selected Solo Exhibitions . In: James Turrell . ( jamesturrell.com [accessed August 14, 2018]).