Wolfram P. Kastner

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Wolfram Kastner, 2019
Wolfram Kastner creates the "scorch trace" on Munich's Königsplatz, 2019

Wolfram P. Kastner (born April 23, 1947 in Munich ) is a German artist , especially action artist , whose works and actions mostly deal with political and historical topics, especially the time of National Socialism in Germany and Austria. Painting and drawing, photo series, installations and objects are equally at the center of his work.

Life

Kastner studied from 1966 to 1972 at the Academy of Fine Arts with Franz Nagel and Robert Jacobsen and at the University of Munich .

The Trail of the Books , one of his most famous campaigns, is reminiscent of the 1933 book burning in Germany . His actions regularly arouse admiration and recognition as well as conflicts with the administration, the police and the judiciary.

Wolfram Kastner is co-founder and chairman of the board of trustees of the Kurt Eisner Kulturstiftung , which was founded in 1989 by artists in Munich. Kastner is a member of the scientific advisory board of the Giordano Bruno Foundation . Wolfram Kastner is a member of the German Association of Artists . He lives and works in Munich.

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 1980: Galerie Klaus Lea , Munich
  • 1981: Sisyphus on strike , Galerie van de Loo , Munich
  • 1982: Political graphics , Kunstverein Erlangen
  • 1985: Galerie Wolfgang Gmyrek, Düsseldorf
  • 1991: Flags and A Shadow of Beauty , Association for Original Etching, Munich
  • 1994: realities , Gallery 5020, Salzburg
  • 1994: Container Ordinance , Kunstverein, Munich
  • 1995: Forgotten - one street , with F. Kochseder, Munich and Dachau
  • 1996: How grass grows over history , shown in the Haus der Kunst, Munich, and in Wuppertal
  • 1998: Traces of fire in Heidelberg , Kunstverein Heidelberg
  • 1998: Brandspur Mannheim , Mannheimer Kunstverein
  • 1999–2000: SSehStören , shown in Galerie 5020, Salzburg and in the European Parliament, Strasbourg
  • 2000: Positions in contemporary art to remember , Upper Austrian State Museum, Linz
  • 2000 Column Order , Artothek Munich
  • 2000 Fate (un) known (with Christian Lehsten), Christ Church Munich and Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial
  • 2001 return , gallery 5020, public space in Salzburg with Martin Krenn
  • 2003 Bunker order Art Bunker Tumulka, Munich
  • 2003 (Un) voluntarily funny , Karl-Valentin-Musäum (today Valentin-Karlstadt-Musäum), Munich
  • 2005 Gallery 1Blick. Art in the Vorhaus , Hallein
  • 2013 Gallery 1Blick , Hallein

Participation in group exhibitions (selection)

  • 1982: New acquisitions , Lenbachgalerie
  • 1988: Freedom rises its head , Kunstverein Munich
  • 1991: Flag , Kunstverein Landau, Kaiserslautern, Frankfurt (Oder), Wrocław a. a.
  • 1996–98: At the limit of what is allowed (art and censorship), University Cultural Center Klagenfurt, Graz, Innsbruck, Linz, Salzburg a. a.
  • 1998: Contemporary Art , Erwin von Kreibig Museum, Munich
  • 2000: more than half a century ago - Positions of Contemporary Art to Remember, Landesgalerie in the Upper Austrian State Museum , Linz
  • 2001: Impossible Art Maximilianeum Munich (curated together with Günther Gerstenberg)
  • 2017: After the Fact. Propaganda in the 21st century. Kunstbau, Lenbachhaus , Munich , with the work Schöner Wohnen (2004)

Actions (selection)

  • 1982: Disarmament conversion , design of an advertising wall at the Bundeswehr University, Neubiberg.
  • 1986: Denk-Loch , Kurt Eisner art project, with E. Zylla.
  • 1987: Artist against census , design of a billboard in Munich-Schwabing.
  • 1988: Stumbling block , art campaign with the erection of a memorial stone, police action, confiscation and investigation by the public prosecutor.
  • 1993: Only the security guard is watching , art action in the justice building in Munich (the death sentences against members of the "white rose" were passed there) with interruptions by 6 judicial officers, since then a bronze plaque on the main portal.
  • 1993: We remember , performance in memory of the pogroms of November 9, 1938 in the F, ended by the police and an investigation by the public prosecutor.
  • 1994: black blood , memory performance for Gustav Landauer
  • 1995: White Flag, Liberation Day , Marienplatz, Munich.
  • 1995: Traces of fire , memory of the book burning on Munich's Königsplatz on May 10, 1933. The action has been repeated annually since 2013 after previous demands by the artist for a renewal of the burn mark had been rejected.
  • 1999: ElserSpuren , addition of the name of Georg Elser on a granite cube created by Leo Kornbrust in 1969 and set up in 1996 in Munich's Hofgarten to commemorate the resistance opponents of the Nazi regime
  • 2006: silhouette , action on November 1st at the Salzburg municipal cemetery with silhouette of the SS wreath bow.
  • 2006: Away with the Concordat , an action by WP Kastner with Georg Ledig, termination by state security and investigation by the public prosecutor, acquittal at the Munich Administrative Court.
  • 2013: Appreciation and rehabilitation of those who were innocently murdered in Eichstätt for "witchcraft" , letter of March 25, 2013 to Bishop Gregor Maria Hanke Eichstätt
  • 2013: White suitcase project to commemorate Jewish life in Neuhausen
  • since 2014: Protests against honoring Paul von Hindenburg in Dietramszell .
  • since 2015 actions against the cenotaph of Alfred Jodl on the Fraueninsel in the Chiemsee

Awards

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Florian Klenk: Wolfram P. Kastner - A Bavarian artist is punished for damaging a wreath of the SS . In: Die Zeit , No. 11/2006.
  2. ^ Kurt Eisner Cultural Foundation: Board of Trustees
  3. ↑ giordano-bruno-stiftung.de ( Memento from February 6, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ^ Members "K" / Wolfram Kastner . kuenstlerbund.de; accessed on September 7, 2015
  5. ↑ List of exhibitions ( Memento of October 6, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed June 30, 2008)
  6. ↑ ... more than half a century ago. Upper Austria State Gallery in the Upper Austrian State Museum. January 20 - March 5, 2000. Catalog published by Verlag Publication P No 1, Weitra 2000. ISBN 3-85474-046-8 .
  7. ^ Lenbachhaus: After the fact - Propaganda in the 21st century May 20, 2017 - September 17, 2017
  8. ↑ Helga Pfoertner: Living with history. Volume 1. Literareron, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-89675-859-4 , pp. 27–30, ns-dokumentationszentrum-muenchen.de ( Memento from April 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 1.1 MB)
  9. ^ Resolution of the general assembly of the city council on March 19, 2003 (PDF; 73 kB)
  10. ↑ Remembering the book burning. In: Abendzeitung-muenchen.de . May 10, 2013, accessed October 10, 2013 .
  11. ↑ Art campaign "ElserSpuren" by Wolfram P. Kastner on georg-elser-arbeitskreis.de; Retrieved June 12, 2014.
  12. ↑ weissekoffer.de
  13. ↑ Münchner Mekur: After the excitement about bust: Symposium in Dietramszell is dedicated to Hindenburg , October 28, 2019
  14. ↑ Nobody Should Honor a War Criminal , Humanistic Press Service (hpd), accessed March 17, 2019
  15. ↑ Decision in the "Jodl Trial" postponed
personal data
SURNAME Kastner, Wolfram P.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist
DATE OF BIRTH April 23, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich