Claes Oldenburg (* 1929, Stockholm, Sweden) has not only been a major artist in Pop Art, Performance Art and Installation Art but, in partnership with Coosje van Bruggen, also a strong influence on art in public spaces with his monumental Large Scale Projects in numerous major cities worldwide. With his humorous and profound depictions of everyday objects he is one of the most important and admired artists since the late 1950s. One central point of reference in Oldenburg’s oeuvre is the industrially produced object—the object as a commodity which, in ever-new metamorphoses of media and form, becomes a conveyor of culture and a symbol of the imagination, desires, and obsessions of the modern world.
In Cooperation with the Museum Ludwig Cologne and the mumok Vienna we produce a documentary which is focused on the exhibition "Claes Oldenburg - The 60s" which will be schown at the mumok Vienna, Museum Ludwig Cologne, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, MOMA New York and the Walker Art Center Minneapolis.
WATCH THE VIDEO!
Foto: Ralph Goertz © IKS 2012 NEWS:
IKS TAKES PART AT THE DÜSSELDORF PHOTO WEEKEND
Februar 4th, 2012 - NRW-Forum Düsseldorf - Ehrenhof 2 - Rotunde
On February, 4th about 20 Galleries and Institutes will open their Photo exhibitions between
11 a.m. and 7 p.m. The IKS will screen a special programm of their documentaries about international best known photographers and photo artists.
Program:
11 Uhr MICHEL COMTE / 46min. / english
12 Uhr CANDIDA HÖFER / 41min. / german
13 Uhr PETER LINDBERGH / 45min. / german
14 Uhr ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE / 40min. / english
15 Uhr THOMAS RUFF / 50 min. / german
16 Uhr STEPHEN SHORE / 50min. / english
17 Uhr THOMAS STRUTH / 33min. / german
18 Uhr ALBERT WATSON / 33min. / english
Candida Höfer / Photo: Ralph Goertz @ IKS 2012 NEWS:
LOUISIANA MUSEUM OF MODERN ART SHOWS OUR FILM ABOUT WOMAN ARTISTS
Women Artists of the Avant-garde 1920-1940
14 February – 28 May 2012
Sophie Taeuber-Arp (1889-1943), Sonia Delaunay (1885-1979), Hannah Höch (1889-1978), Florence Henri (1893-1982), Claude Cahun (1894-1954), Dora Maar (1907-1997), Katarzyna Kobro (1898-1951) and Germaine Dulac, France (1882-1942).
The exhibition Women Artists of the Avant-garde presents these eight Avant-garde women artists and their wide-ranging artistic works as a unified totality for the first time. The aim is to present the similarities, differences and relationships in the life and work of these artists and to widen the perspective on the historical Avant-garde in the Europe of the 1920s and 1930, to shed light on new facets and to show how this group of artists made crucial contributions to the aesthetic innovations that took place in those years in cities like Berlin, Zürich and Paris in particular. Some 200 works are included in the exhibition showing the variety of aesthetic movements from Dada through Constructivism to Surrealism, and the presentation attempts to show and to put into perspective similarities and connections among the artists in question, who expressed themselves in painting, photography, collage, design, film and sculpture. The exhibition is both thematic and biographical, and it pinpoints the distinctive careers and characteristics of the artists.
NEWS:
GRAND GALLERY OPENING IN DÜSSELDORF
Seven of the best known galleries in Düsseldorf are opening on February, 20th in Flingern.
We were allowed to accompany the austrian artist Werner Reiterer during the setup of his exhibition at the gallery COSAR HMT. Besides his sensitive and ironic works he very often handle with elements of physicality in his installation. With calls like "Yell as loud as you can, now!" or "Please put me somewhere else" he wants to involve the viewer in his artworks.
WATCH THE VIDEO!
photo: Isabel Hernandez © IKS 2012 NEWS:
LIVING PICTURES AT THE MUSEUM KUNSTPALAST DÜSSELDORF
The head of IKS, Ralph Goertz, staged "Living Pictures".
Premier: January 12th, 20h
Performances: January 13th/14th, 20h; January 15th, 17h.
In cooperation with the Museum Kunstpalast, the Robert Schumann Music Academy and the German Opera in Düsseldorf, the production "Living Pictures" is a special performance as part of the exhibition "WORLD CLASS: The Düsseldorf School of painting 1819-1918"
photo: "Hussitenpredigt" by C.F. Lessing