Dirk Luckow Livres

Meisterwerke französischer Malerei und Bildhauerei treten in der Ausstellung der Kunsthalle zu Kiel so zueinander in Beziehung, dass die regionalen Eigenheiten und europäischen Konzepte der französischen Kunst des 19. Jahrhunderts erkennbar werden.

„Ich nehme die Moderne als Vokabular“, sagt Anselm Reyle (geb. 1970 in Tübingen, lebt und arbeitet in Berlin). Für seine Reliefs, Bilder und Skulpturen benutzt er Werkstoffe wie PVC-Folie, Acryl, Spiegel oder Beton. Er experimentiert mit Autolacken, Spachtelmasse, LED-Leuchten und afrikanischen Skulpturen. Reyle setzte sich schon mit Abstraktion und Formalismus auseinander, als der Kunstmarkt noch nach figurativer Malerei schrie. Themen, die man mit der Moderne erledigt glaubte, erhalten durch ihn neue Impulse, indem er mit alltäglichen Materialien und Assoziationen der Gegenwart arbeitet. Dabei thematisiert er immer wieder die Fragwürdigkeit des Effekts und des Dekorativen. „Mystic Silver“ ist eine umfassende Präsentation von rund 80 ausgewählten Arbeiten aus verschiedenen Werkgruppen der letzten Jahre. Das Buch erklärt Zusammenhänge – auch mit anderen Künstlern – und zeigt, dass Hochglanz und Trash, Luxus und Fundstücke für Reyle keine Widersprüche sind. Mit seiner knallbunten Kunst, mit der er bewusst Geschmacksgrenzen überschreitet, hat er sich den Ruf als Heavy-Metal-Star der Kunstszene eingehandelt. Seine Arbeiten werden nicht nur von bedeutenden Kunstsammlern, sondern auch von Hollywoodstars und Modedesignern gekauft. Mit Texten von David Ebony und Dirk Luckow und einem Gespräch zwischen Friedrich von Borries und Anselm Reyle.

As early as the 1960s, Nancy Spero's work was breaking ranks with the establishment. Her unique pictorial vocabulary and insistent political engagement was a far cry--and a loud cry--from the styles of abstraction that dominated the American art world at that time. She articulated and has continued to drive at themes of burning interest to protest against the Vietnam War, the alienation of society and violence against women, for example against Jewish woman under National Socialism and in the historical contexts of witch hunts. A Continuous Present pairs her War Series (1966-70), a cycle of anti-Vietnam War gouaches, with an overview of her work from the last decade. Between 1992 and 2001, Spero created infinite-seeming works on long horizontal and vertical bands of paper--a format borrowed from Egyptian papyrus rolls, Chinese scroll painting and antique friezes--populating them with female figures taken from mythology, various epochs and diverse cultures, giving them feminist momentum via highly charged or parodistic confrontations.

On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Falckenberg Collection, Deichtorhallen Hamburg/ Falckenberg Collection will present a comprehensive exhibition focusing on installation and sculptural works from the collection. The exhibition presents around 100 works by over 60 internationally renowned artists, which have already been on loan to the Centre Pompidou, PS1, Walker Art Center, Tate Modern, MoMA New York, MOCA Los Angeles as well as the Venice and Shanghai Biennales. For the first time, these works will now be brought together in a large survey exhibition at the Falckenberg Collection in Hamburg-Harburg. Some of the exhibits will be on display for the first time in the Phoenix Hallen in Harburg. Many of the works on show, such as Jon Kessler's multimedia installation "The Palace at 4 A.M.," will be carefully restored especially for this exhibition and thus made newly accessible for visitors. In addition, the permanent installations at the Falckenberg Collection by Jonathan Meese, Thomas Hirschhorn and John Bock are an integral part of the show.

The Deichtorhallen Hamburg are showing the largest solo exhibition of the artist Katharina -Sieverding to date on four floors of the Falckenberg Collection. Around 120 works span all -phases of the artist's oeuvre. For more than five decades, Katharina Sieverding has been one of the pioneers who recognized the diverse expressive possibilities of photography early on and -continually expanded the medium conceptually and formally. Her subjects and artistic principle are »transformation processes, questions about identity, gender, and race« as she states. She became known for the unprecedented consistency with which she has used her portrait, enlarging and manipulating it in a variety of ways, in film and photography since the 1960s. Beginning in the 1970s she worked on large-format montages on the state of the world, first shown internationally at documenta 6 in 1977. The exhibition as well as the book places a special focus on the unbroken high topicality of earlier works and the artist's -interest in creating instal-lative approaches to the medium of photography.

The book FUZZY DARK SPOT accompanying the exhibition at Falckenberg Collection / Deichtorhallen Hamburg examines in 56 positions how video, as an artistic medium, interprets social and media irritations and manipulations. This refers to television, to progressive movements by the counter-public during the 1970s, the use of video as a surveillance medium and means of artistic narration as a psychosocial mirror or instrument of self-optimization in the digital present. The great influence of video images on our collective memory and consciousness in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries turns doubts about an image, discomfort with the established, and distrust of claims to truth into important motives for artistic reflection. The title of the exhibition brings together these strands and describes a nebulous, fuzzy, obscure point, place or state. The term Fuzzy Dark Spot comes from an Internet forum where mold contaminating camera lenses is discussed. The exhibition curated by Hamburg-based video artist Wolfgang Oelze in the context of the Falckenberg Collection offers a comprehensive look at work by artists from Hamburg.00Exhibition: Deichtorhallen Hamburg / Sammlung Falckenberg, Hamburg-Harburg, Germany (13.04. - 03.11.2019)

The opening of the Elbphilharmonie by Herzog & de Meuron inspired the Deichtorhallen Hamburg to explore new artistic avenues. For this exhibition and book project, acclaimed artists with a strong connection to architecture were invited to create artworks during the building's test phase. This initiative led to a diverse range of pieces, including photography, installations, sculptures, and films. Since modernism's inception, artists have responded to architectural environments, often blurring the lines between visual art, architecture, and design. Peter Buggenhout's large-scale installations reflect a dystopian yet picturesque world of construction, while Candida Höfer's large-format photographs capture the Elbphilharmonie's monumental essence, emphasizing its intricate details in the tradition of architectural photography. The exhibition also resonates with Minimal Art, a significant influence on contemporary art, as seen in works by Monica Bonvicini and Sarah Morris. Although the exhibition concept originated from the Elbphilharmonie, the artworks were developed independently, sharing a critical perspective that explores essential questions about aesthetics and the realities of life within the dialogue between architecture and fine art. Featured artists include Baltic Raw Org, Jean-Marc Bustamente, Janet Cardiff / George Bures Miller, Tacita Dean, Uli M. Fischer, Liam Gillick, Thomas Ruff, and Tomás Saraceno. The exhibition

The Viehof Collections at Deichtorhallen Hamburg showcases one of Germany's most significant private contemporary art collections across two venues: the Hall for Contemporary Art and the Falckenberg Collection in Hamburg-Harburg. Featuring over 950 works, the collection emphasizes German art from the post-war era to the present, including pieces from the Speck and Rheingold Collections. The exhibition highlights outstanding works by artists such as Georg Baselitz, Joseph Beuys, Candida Höfer, and Sigmar Polke, among others. Curated by Dirk Luckow, the presentation aims to foster dialogue between artistic and curated spaces, showcasing larger bodies of work with artist participation. This comprehensive exhibition reveals the collection's extraordinary range, covering movements from Minimalism, represented by Carl Andre and Dan Flavin, to the influential 1980s Cologne scene with Walter Dahn and Martin Kippenberger, as well as the Düsseldorf School of Photography with Struth and Ruff. The display also includes contemporary figurative art from the 21st century, featuring works by André Butzer, Peter Doig, and Neo Rauch, alongside numerous other notable artists. The exhibition runs from October 1, 2016, to January 15, 2017.

No artist of the 20th century garners as much public attention as Pablo Picasso, whose works draw large museum crowds and inspire a diverse array of artists. Since 1912, when Juan Gris created the Cubist portrait "Hommage à Picasso," Picasso's art has served as both a challenge and an incentive for generations of creators. Iconic pieces like "Les demoiselles d'Avignon" (1907) and "Guernica" (1937) have been reinterpreted in myriad ways, regardless of the artists' individual styles. The boundless imagination in Picasso’s work fosters ongoing dialogues between abstraction and figuration, artistic creativity, and political commentary. This extensive volume accompanies an exhibition marking the reopening of the renovated Nordhalle, celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Deichtorhallen. Featured artists include Dia Al-Azzawi, Art & Language, Kader Attia, Donald Baechler, Georg Baselitz, Walead Beshty, Mike Bidlo, Erwin Blumenfeld, and many others, showcasing a wide range of interpretations and responses to Picasso's profound influence on contemporary art. The exhibition runs from January 4 to December 7, 2015, at Deichtorhallen Hamburg.