Wilfried Dickhoff

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Wilfried Dickhoff (* 1953 in Cologne ) is an author, editor, publisher, book designer and curator in the field of art and philosophy.

Life

Together with the philosopher Marcus Steinweg he publishes Inaesthetics - A Journal for Art & Philosophy at Merve Verlag Berlin.

Together with Maryam Sachs, he founded ÉDITIONS MOON RAINBOW in 2012, a publisher dedicated to encounters between poetry and visual art in book form. Current publications: "Marcel Broodthaers: Album. Un Coup de Dés", "Rosemarie Trockel & Henri Michaux: Hell becomes wool", "Poems Paintings" and "Jean Fautrier & Francis Ponge: L'Asparagus".

Wilfried Dickhoff studied philosophy , German language and literature and theater, film and television studies (TFF) and received his doctorate in 1982 at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main with a dissertation on the hermeneutics of silence .

In addition to the publication of monographs and catalogs on contemporary art - u. a. to Marcel Broodthaers, Jean Fautrier, Martin Kippenberger, Cindy Sherman, George Condo, Rosemarie Trockel, Albert Oehlen, Brice Marden, Walter Dahn, Joseph Beuys, Philip Taaffe, Axel Kasseböhmer, Ross Bleckner, Brice Marden and Don Van Vliet - he was from 1984 to 1987 head of the art department of the Skyscraper Art Journal and from 1989 to 2000 editor of the book series Art Today, Conversations with contemporary artists in the publishing house Kiepenheuer & Witsch .

Wilfried Dickhoff has taught at various institutes, including De Ateliers Amsterdam, the HfG Karlsruhe and the University of Basel . From 1996 to 1999 he was head of the Theory Department of the Academy of Fine Arts , Postgraduate Studies in Enschede and in 2005 visiting professor for "Issues in Contemporary Art" at Princeton University in the USA.

Since 1986 he has curated exhibitions and art projects in public space, for example What it is ( New York 1986), Albert Oehlen : Abräumung (Kunsthalle Zürich 1987), Ars Pro Domo ( Museum Ludwig Cologne 1992), In Between , the art project of Expo 2000 , Hanover, Tony Oursler : Shock Rock (Bad Driburg 2003) and Concept Korea (New York Public Library 2010).

From 1990 to 2005 he was a curator and member of the art advisory board of the St. Peter Art Station in Cologne, where he worked with Friedhelm Mennekes Installations a. a. realized by Siegfried Anzinger , James Lee Byars , Gaston Chaissac , Marlene Dumas , Jenny Holzer , Barbara Kruger , David Salle and Cindy Sherman .

In 2002 he founded the Wilfried Dickhoff publishing house , in which u. a. the books "Maurice Blanchot: Museum Disease", "Katja Ka: Retrouvagen" and "Leiko Ikemura: Asuka" have been published.

Publications as author and editor (selection)

  • On the hermeneutics of silence . Frankfurt am Main 1984. ISBN 3-445-02332-8
  • Martin Kippenberger: The INP pictures , Cologne 1984.
  • What it is , New York 1986.
  • "George Condo", New York 1985.
  • "Don Van Vliet", Cologne 1987.
  • "Kabuki Paintings" (Julian Schnabel), Pace Gallery Publications, New York 1987.
  • "Brice Marden", Cologne 1989.
  • "Art Today", Volume 1-Volume 20, Cologne 1989–2000.
  • Ars Pro Domo , Cologne 1992.
  • "Philip Taaffe", Cologne 1992.
  • Rosemarie Trockel: Every animal is an artist , Lund 1993
  • After nihilism. Essays on Contemporary Art Cambridge University Press 2000, ISBN 0-521-59698-X
  • In between. The art project of the EXPO 2000. Cologne 2000. ISBN 3-7701-5405-3
  • For an art of the impossible. Cologne 2002. ISBN 3-46202-989-4
  • Marcel Broodthaers Box , a monograph and artist books in one box, Tinaia 9, Cologne 1994
  • Axel Kasseböhmer: Landscapes . Cologne 2006
  • Kirsten Ortwed: Heavymetalopenspace . Cologne 2006.
  • Maurice Blanchot: Museum sickness . Wilfried Dickhoff Verlag, Cologne 2007. ISBN 3-9810613-5-7
  • The courteous. An art criticism , diaphanes, Zurich / Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-03734-063-9
  • Katja Ka: Retrouvagen, Wilfried Dickhoff Verlag, Berlin. 2009, ISBN 978-3-9810613-1-4
  • Leiko Ikemura: Asuka, Wilfried Dickhoff Verlag, Berlin. 2010, ISBN 978-3-9810613-3-8
  • Dokoupil: Soap Bubble Paintings, Verlag Wilfried Dickhoff, Berlin 2015
  • Francesco Clemente: After Omeros - Edition Wilfried Dickhoff, Berlin 2016

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personal data
SURNAME Dickhoff, Wilfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art critic, author, editor and curator
DATE OF BIRTH 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne