THEO ALTENBERG

Untitled 2011-2015
Oil on cardboard
35 x 29 cm

5.650,00 EUR
inkl 13% MwSt.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Born 1952 in Mönchengladbach, Germany
1970 – 73 Art Studies at Werkkunstschule Krefeld
Lives in Berlin

 

Projects / Performances / Exhibitions (Selection)

1973

  • Kommune Praterstrasse Short Film, Super 8, Farbe, 18 min.

1974

  • FUT.EX.COM.: Performance – Lecture, Kommune Praterstrasse, Werkkunstschule Krefeld

1973 – 90

  • Kommuneexperiment Wien / Friedrichshof
    Editor of the magazine ‘AA News’. Magazine for alternative lifestyles

1977 – 80

Performances:

  • ‘Concert for 3 bodies’, Galerie Ariadne, New York 1977 (with Brooke McGowen and Schlomo Skopic)
  • ‘Aufforderung an die Kunst’, Kassel 1977
  • ‘Megalo’, University of Düsseldorf, 1977
  • ‘Voyage dans l´enfance’, Cree, Paris 1978
  • ‘Patriamat’, Cree, Paris 1979
  • ‘RAMADAN’, Cree, Paris 1979
  • ‘Megalo II’, Museum Bochum, 1979
  • ‘Übung für Frau Laim’, Video, Düsseldorf 1979 (with Illo Lehr)
  • ‘Ridicuel’, Werkplaats, Amsterdam 1979
  • ‘N. & M.’, Werkkunstschule Krefeld, 1979
  • ‘Waschungen I’, Video, Werkbund Darmstadt,1980
  • ‘Waschungen II’, Video, Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, 1980
  • ‘Dance of Psychic References’, Plan K, Brüssel 1980

1980 – 84

  • Foundation of the ‘Kunstbüro Friedrichshof’
  • Cooperation with Joseph Beuys and FIU:Project ‘7000 Oaks’, documenta 7, Kassel 1980 – 83 Apollozelt, 100 Days Performance, Kassel 1982 (with Rhea Thönges and Johannes Stüttgen) Project ‘Institut für Kunst and Gesellschaft’ (FIU and Friedrichshof) ‘Conversations with Beuys’, Book, Ritter Verlag, in cooperation with Oswald Oberhuber

 

Theo Altenberg and Joseph Beuys: talk about „7.000 oaks“ documenta 7, Kassel, Video 40 min.

 

Since 1982

  • Texts about art and interviews with Joseph Beuys, George Baselitz, Wolfgang Laib, Bernhard Blume, Annelies Strba, Georg Dokoupil, Herbert Brandl and Günter Brus

1983 – 92

  • Initiator and curator of the Collection Viennese Actionismus, Friedrichshof (in cooperation with Josefine Rob)
  • Curator of following exhibitions:
  • Brus Muehl Nitsch Vom Informel zum Aktionismus, Schüttkasten, Friedrichshof 1984 (Katalog)
    Otto Muehl Van Gogh Serie, Reithalle, Friedrichshof 1985  Otto Muehl Unfälle in Haushalt Schüttkasten, Friedrichshof 1986

1984 – 87

  • Main actor in the following film productions:
  • Vincent van Gogh in ‘Vincent’ Pablo Picasso in ‘Picasso’ Richard Gerstl in ‘Back to fucking Cambridge’ in cooperation with Otto Muehl and Terese Panoutsopoulos

 

Theo Altenberg als Vincent van Gogh, Film „Vincent“, 1984

 

1986 – 94

  • Project ‘Atelier del Sur (Artists in Residence)’, El Cabrito, La Gomera, Spanien.
    Exhibitions with Albert Oehlen, Bernhard Blume, Royden Rabinowitch, A.R. Penck, George Dokoupil, Annelies Strba, Herbert Brandl, Günter Brus

1990 – 91

  • Andy Warhol in ‘Andy´s Cake’ Film, Director: Terese Panoutsopoulos
  • ‘Kinderstimmen’, Video – Installation, Schüttkasten, Friedrichshof
  • Foundation of the Art Association ‘KunstWerk’
  • Curator of the exhibitions: ‘AUGEN SPRUNG BLICK WECHSEL’, ‘Annelies Strba’ , ‘Herbert Brandl’, ‘Raimund von Luckwald & Franz West’

1992

  • ‘In Cooperation with den wirklichen und unwirklichen Bedürfnissen der Menschen in Deutschland’, Exhibition, ‘Orion Sex Shop’, Kassel

1993

  • ‘MUT TER SP RACHE’, Exhibition, Galerie Bruno Brunnet, Berlin
  • ‘Sexual correctness’, The Friedrichshof Experiment,Performance-Lecture, Hochschule der Künste, Berlin
  • ‘Utopische Kunst- künstliche Utopie’ group exhibition and symposium, in cooperation with Robert Fleck and Josefine Rob
  • ‘Sexual correctness II’, Performance-Lecture Schulhaus Friedrichshof
  • ‘A.H.: Ich bin Künstler’, Video-Performance, Unfair, Köln

1994

  • ‘NAME’ Band Project, with Alexander Gutsch and Karl Iro-Goldblat
  • ‘Observers’, Video,
  • Opening Show, Group exhibition with H. Brandl / P. Kogler / A. Oehlen / Eva Schlegel and others, Brasilica, Wien

1995

  • ‘MASS IVE LIE BE’ (Nin-Artrud Version), Exhibition, Brasilica, Wien
  • ‘JOINED’A Fusion of electronic music and contemporary art,club event + exhibition with COSMIC ORGASMand 4B, KHD-Hallen, Köln
  • Love Parade Berlin, Video
  • Street Parade Zürich, Video

1996

  • ‘MASS IVE LIE BE’, club event + exhibition,Rhephlex / London (Aphes Twin, Squarepusher, u.a) and contemporary artists, FLEX, Wien
  • Dance performance with DJ Hell, WMF, Berlin
  • Brasilica presents: “junge zähne“- the art of electronicmusic, Group exhibition, Secession Wien

1997

  • Noche de Techno – Salsa, dance performance and DJ Set
    Casa de FEU, University of Havana, Cuba
  • ‘ODER NICE’, List and Link Music (in cooperation with Alexander Gutsch)
  • CD Sinn Zucar 001, Hör Spiel Musik, HSM 004DAS ES, Call Age Door, CD Sinn Zucar 002
  • Dance Performances: SONAR, Barcelona; DIX DIMENSION, Paris
  • ‘ÄSTE OF DIE ARTS’, contemporary art and electronic music
    club event + dance performance + exhibition Stammheim, Kassel
  • ‘Sueno Latino’, dance performance, Ludwig Stiftung Havana, Cuba
  • ‘ODER NICE’, List and Link Music, live act, Stammheim, Kassel
  • ‘Du hast dich aus mir zurückgezogen’, exhibition, Brasilica, Wien

1998

  • ‘DAS ES’, live act Flex, Wien; Subground, Berlin; Ultraschall, München; Dock 11, Berlin
  • Dance Performance with DJ Hell,Casa de FEU, University of Havana, Cuba

1999

  • ‘TURKISH WOMAN’, Video, with Djuna Lou Finidee Marrakesch, Marokko
  • ‘ODER NICE’, live act, Sprach Nacht, O.K Centrum für Gegenwartskunst, Linz
  • Eine kleine Frequenztheorie, Film, Farbe 20 min., in cooperation with Djuna Lou Finidee
  • ‘Alles Nichts?! Gesellschaftsutopien im 20. Jahrhundertsymposium and lecture (Aktuelle gesellschaftliche Gegenentwürfe) + Live act DAS ES, feat. Djuna Lou Finidee, Kunstverein Glarus / Amden, Schweiz
  • ‘DAS ES’, live act, feat. Djuna Lou Finidee, Earth Dance Festival, Pfefferberg, Berlin

2000

  • Fliegende Fische / Flying Fishes, Group exhibition, Haus des Lehrers, Berlin
  • LKW Leben Kunst Werk, Group exhibition Kunsthaus Begrenz, Österreich

2001

  • The Paradise Experiment, book, with Paolo Bianchi and Günter Brus Triton Verlag, Wien
  • Experiment Paradies – Theo Altenberg: Photography 1973-1978, Exhibition, PICTURE show Galerie, Berlin

2002

  • ‘Intentional Communities’, Group exhibition, Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö; CAC Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius
  • ‘Sex – Vom Wissen and Wünschen’, Group exhibition, Hygiene-Museum, Dresden
  • ‘St. Petrischnee’, Group exhibition, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich
  • ‘ELF ZU O’, Exhibition Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach

2003

  • Aktionskreis : Selbstdarstellung with Christoph Schlingensief and the Ensemble of Volksbühne, Berlin

2004

  • ‘Experiment Paradise’, exhibition Galerie Maxla, Riga, Lettland
  • Le Plaisir, exhibition (paintings 1998 – 2004), Le Salon des Dépendentes Brasilica, Wien

2005

  • ‘Wall of Women – Installation Kommune’, Club 103, Berlin
  • Performance Aktionskreis Xplore 05, Berlin
  • Performance ‘ENDE NEU’ Palast der Republik, Berlin
  • ‘KÖRPER’ group exhibition Galerie Hummel, Wien
  • ‘VINCENT’ Performance Galerie Maurus Gmür, Berlin

2006

  • ‘Fuck Back Kommune Revisited’, installation Volksbühne, Berlin
  • Sammlung Hummel, group exhibition Mumok, Wien
  • Talking Heads, group exhibition Galerie Hummel, Wien

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