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5/4/2008

Marcel Odenbach

Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen

Plans 1975-1983. Video installations. New drawings

For ten years now, the Kunsthalle Bremen has been devoting major exhibitions with catalogues to the most influential artists of video art, like Nam June Paik or Peter Campus, but also to successful younger artists such as Björn Melhus, Diana Thater or Yves Netzhammer.

This year, we will be focusing on one of the most significant, internationally productive and – for several decades – successful German artists: Marcel Odenbach.

The exhibition and the catalogue concentrate on his “Plans” from 1975 – 1983; these are fascinating collage sheets with texts and drawings relating to the artist’s performances and installations employing video. The “Plans” will be exhibited and published in their entirety for the first time, whether they were realised or remained concepts. One highlight in this context is the 22-metre-long collage “Freeing myself from my thoughts”, which combines everyday and personal observations made by the 22-year-old artist with pieces torn from newspapers, and drawings. During a performance in 1976, Marcel Odenbach tore up this strip after he had wrapped himself in it. The collage will be reassembled for the first time for our exhibition, and the full work is reproduced in the catalogue.

At the centre of this exhibition, we are showing one of Odenbach’s main works, “Oh, how good that no-one knows” dating from 1999. In this large-format, four-part projection, historical recordings (“found footage”) from German history are combined with the artist’s own new images and then interwoven with his own and cited film images showing past and contemporary Africa. Personal responsibility, emotional proximity and the presence of history are united on four large-format picture surfaces within a single room, and the viewer stands at their centre. Three more prize-winning video tapes illustrate the links between Odenbach’s paper “Plans” and the realised works and offer a vivid insight into the artist’s œuvre. Our survey is completed by four new large-format works on paper.

The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue:
Marcel Odenbach - "Caught on the Point of Escape"
Plans 1975-1983. Video installations. New drawings
With texts by Wulf Herzogenrath, Angela Breidbach and Sabine Maria Schmidt
as well as over 70 coloured images on 180 pages
german/english
Verlag Walther König

Image: Performance Aachen, 1978. Foto: Anne Gold

An exhibition by the Förderkreis für Gegenwartskunst in the Kunstverein Bremen.
The exhibition is kindly supported by Bremer Landesbank.


Until 12 May 2008
Karl Dannemann (1896-1945) - Painter and Film Star from Bremen

This exhibition represents a first attempt to show both the actor and painter Karl Dannemann, and to remember his work. His time as a film actor coincided with the Nazi regime in Germany, making it necessary to take a critical look at his work. The works shown are paintings, drawings and printed graphic art by Karl Dannemann from the collection of the Kunsthalle Bremen and also extensive documentary material (letters, photographs, magazines) from his time as a film actor. In addition, it will be possible to see numerous excerpts from his films.

Until 4 May 2008
Ian Hamilton Finlay - Printed Graphic Works

The Scottish artist Ian Hamilton Finlay (1925-2006) became known in Germany for his Avenue of Guillotines at the documenta 8 in Kassel, 1987. Art lovers ardently praise his enchanted sculpture garden "Little Sparta" in Stonypath, south-west of Edinburgh, which he left very rarely. Finlay was a loner caught between the arts and between the ages. We will be showing a selection of his printed graphic works that link opposites such as short stories and Minimalism, Concrete Poetry and visual poems - always using an idiosyncratic aesthetic typography! Themes of the French Revolution or of National Socialism, war history or the Navy can be found alongside references to ideal nature, often as quotations realised using long-forgotten typeface. His unconventional panorama oscillates between Classisism, Modernism and irony.

Kunsthalle Bremen
Am Wall 207 D - 28195 Bremen
Opening Hours
Wednesday to Sunday
10 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Tuesday 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Monday closed
Easter Sunday and Easter Monday
1 May/Ascension Day, Whit Monday and Whit Sunday
10 a.m. - 5 p.m.

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