Wide White Space Gallery

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Wide White Space was the name of a Belgian gallery in Antwerp that, in the short period of its existence, became one of the leading avant-garde galleries in Europe and worked closely with well-known artists such as Joseph Beuys and Panamarenko . It existed from 1966 to 1976 and was founded and managed by Anny de Decker and Bernd Lohaus .

History, meaning and performances

The artist Bernd Lohaus , who came from Düsseldorf, and the art historian Anny de Decker founded the gallery Wide White Space in 1966 in Plaatsnijderstraat 1 in Antwerp in order to offer a space to the new artists, for whom there were no exhibition opportunities in the traditionally conservative museums at the time where they could show their works. For orientation of the visitors, the invitations bore the ironic note “Behind the Museum”. The gallery was very attractive to the new art scene and was one of the first to develop activities on an international scale. Wide White Space had close contacts with the ZERO group , was always looking for new avant-garde artists in rapid rotation and supported them by participating in the emerging art markets, for example at documenta 4 . It was significant that the artists here “relocated to conceive their exhibitions themselves as total works of art, including all related elements from the invitation card to the ritual of the vernissage”, whereby the gallery organized some unique events. On February 9, 1968, Joseph Beuys carried out his second performance “ Eurasienstab ” in the gallery Wide White Space , which he created together with the Danish artist and Fluxus composer Henning Christiansen based on the basic idea of ​​the union of western and eastern cultures. The copper rod and the felt angles were adapted to the height of the gallery. Marcel Broodthaers ' cameraman , Paul de Fru, commissioned by Anny de Decker, made a film in the process, which was published on DVD in 2005 by the Joseph Beuys media archive with an accompanying book . For the gallery's stand at the Prospect 68 and Prospect 69 exhibitions in the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf , Beuys created several works, including the felt-covered concert grand piano Infiltration homogeneous for concert grand pianos (1968).

Well-known artists who exhibited in the gallery

year Artist
1966 Marcel Broodthaers, Panamarenko, Bernard Schultze
1967 Karel Appel , Arman , Joseph Beuys, Christo , Dan Flavin , Lucio Fontana , Winfred Gaul , Gotthard Graubner , Yves Klein , Piero Manzoni , Blinky Palermo , Gerhard Richter , Daniel Spoerri , Antoni Tàpies , Victor Vasarely
1968 Carl Andre , Victor Brauner , Pol Bury , Henning Christiansen , Reiner Ruthenbeck , Bernar Venet
1969 Ben d'Armagnac , Richard Artschwager , Daniel Buren , James Lee Byars , Sol LeWitt , Walter De Maria , Bruce Nauman , Lawrence Weiner
1970 Georg Baselitz , Edward Kienholz , Heinz Mack , Dieter Roth , Jean Tinguely , Günther Uecker , Andy Warhol
1971-76 Robert Filliou (1971), Arthur Køpcke , AR Penck (1972), Richard Long (1973), Niele Toroni , Lothar Baumgarten (1974) and others. a.

Exhibitions through the Wide White Space gallery

  • 1994: Palais voor Schone Kunsten (Palais des Beaux-Arts), Brussels
  • 1995: Kunstmuseum Bonn
  • 1996: MAC, galeries contemporaines des Musées de Marseille

Awards

literature

  • Yves Aupetitallot, Piet Coessens, Anny de Decker u. a .: Wide White Space. Behind the museum . German and English. Richter Verlag, Düsseldorf 1995. ISBN 3-928762-38-9
  • Anny de Decker: Over de Wide White Space Gallery . In: Museumjournaal . No. 5/1971. Amsterdam. ISSN  0924-526X
  • Anny de Decker: Report on the relationship between the Wide White Space gallery in Antwerp and the Düsseldorf Academy in the period 1965-1970 . In: Focus Düsseldorf. Joseph Beuys - The Academy - The General Awakening 1962 - 1987 , exhibition catalog Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf 1987.
  • Paul de Vree: De Galerijen in België . In: Museumjournaal . No. 5/1971. Amsterdam. ISSN  0924-526X
  • Dieter Helms: pillow pictures. Gotthard Graubner in Antwerp . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of June 9, 1967
  • Christos Konstantinopoulos: Wide White Space Gallery. A Chronicle of Innovation . In: Arti , Athens, No. 11-1992, ISSN  1105-8013

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ For example, a few times at the Cologne art market
  2. ↑ 1969 in the "Parkhotel Hessenland" Kassel (including Beuys, Broodthaers, Christo, Panamarenko)
  3. ↑ Piet Coessens, Dieter Ronte: Preface . In: Wide White Space , Düsseldorf 1995
  4. ↑ Anny De Decker and Bernd Lohaus in conversation with Brigitte Jakobs van Renswou on October 22, 2008 in Antwerp . In: Central archive of the international art trade e. V. ZADIK (Ed.): Joseph Beuys. We enter the art market . Verlag für Moderne Kunst Nürnberg; sediment, Mitteilungen zur Geschichte des Kunsthandels, Issue 16, 2009, p. 47, ISBN 978-3-941185-15-9
  5. ↑ Art Cologne media release Internet access on February 6, 2012