Lectures by Renate Wiehager
Dr. Renate Wiehager
Germany in the Sixties, 1958-1968
ZERO—Concrete Art—Conceptualism—Minimalism
Keynote
October 15th, 2016, at 10 am
on the occasion of the symposium
“Minimalism: Location Aspect Moment”
Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton
Organisers: Sarah Hayden, Paul Hegarty and Ryan Bishop
October 14th/15th, Winchester Guildhall, King Charles Room
In the 1960s in Germany, a new kind of Minimalism developed that was initially largely independent from the developments in America at the time. This German Minimalism was in many cases stimulated by, but also in conflict with, Concrete Art and the European Zero avant-garde, which drew attention to itself from 1957 on, starting in Düsseldorf, with unusually staged exhibitions and spectacular projects for public space. The presentation discusses important trends in 1960s abstract art in Germany: Constructivism, Zero, Minimal Art, Concept und Seriality. Starting from predecessors in the 1950s—such as Josef Albers, Norbert Kricke, Franz Erhard Walther—the documentation of developments in abstract art in the cities of Frankfurt, Düsseldorf and Krefeld, Stuttgart, Berlin, Munich will provide a survey of tendencies which show a lasting impact also in contemporary art.
Dr. Renate Wiehager
Reflexionsebene Kunst: Auseinandersetzung mit der Ästhetisierung
October 11th, 2016, at 10 am
on the occassion of Stuttgarter Tage zur Automobil- und Unternehmensgeschichte 2016
“Einfach nur schön? Automobilität im Museum”
October 10th/11th, 2016, Mercedes-Benz Museum, Stuttgart