Marcel Odenbach is a German video artist . One of the German video artists, together with media artist Klaus from the break and the sculptor, video and performance artist Ulrike Rosenbach, forms Marcel Odenbach the trio of internationally best known German video artists (who has also been working together since the 1970s).
Marcel Odenbach is internationally known, but is closely arrested by his life and work: he was born in Cologne on July 7, 1953, has mainly lived in Cologne, has long worked in a professorship and as a vice sector at the art college for media Cologne and is especially in an illustrated company of AI Weiwei, Candida Höfer, Claes Gerhard Rosemarie and To Cologne and the celebrated museum in the exhibition "We call it Ludwig. The museum will be 40!" the Museum Ludwig in Cologne (more about the artists involved and the anniversary exhibition in the Kunstplaza article: "Jubilee exhibition 2016: Museum Ludwig shows Museum Ludwig" and in artists' portraits).
Marcel Odenbach is currently ranked # 474 . It has been led among the 500 most important contemporary artists for decades and has scratched 300th place around 2008.
A versatile artist and his multi -layered art
Marcel Odenbach studied art, including from 1974 to 1979 at the Aachen Technical University . No practical art, but art history , and not just art, but also architecture and semiotics .
Semiotics is the drawing theory, science that deals with sign systems. It forms and examines the effect of signs of all kinds, image writing, gestures, formula signs, language -forming characters such as letters, regulating characters and traffic signs.
The numerous conspiracy theorists who are currently traveling can now begin to look for hidden signs in Marcel Odenbach's art. But be careful, Marcel Odenbach's art is full of signs that cannot be seen immediately for every dödel. However, they point to real political difficulties, the strenuous and necessary combat of which the conspiracy theorists want to avoid their creative repression practice.
In 1976 Marcel Odenbach founded the "producer group ATV" with fellow students (still in their studies), which will be mentioned below.
1978, perhaps as a creative break before the stressful degree of studies, Odenbach had an extraordinary productive year:
"Keep yourself happy!" topic of game treated in 13 sequences , the uncut recordings of scenes, in which the politically heated climate of the terrorist hunt in the "hot autumn" of Germany from 1977 is captured.
With the "great misunderstanding" created in the same year, Odenbach reached a larger public for the first time. "The great misunderstanding" is an ironic performance, a satirical art form of performance, in which Odenbach, as "fool of the ruler" or (art-creating) variety artist, shows his magic plays in order to be the "great attraction used in the art earlier and also for a profit). Misunderstanding " - to give the opportunity to produce yourself when looking and evaluated.
The work of art was presented in Basel, the most important international art market in addition to Cologne, and at that time Odenbach bothered little that he was able to formulate his criticism of "art and art in modern times" by supporting a Swiss gallery .
How we still have to take a role model today, the money is always sitting among the protagonists of the exploitative, inhuman, environmentally destructive systems that have to be combated "for the good of the world".
Also from 1978: "I think I have lost myself", a performance recorded on video that describes the feelings in the scenario "The artist and his loneliness in the exhibition company" in a fairly clear symbolism, which introverted artists suffer from the public in the public presentation of their works and "when the elephant becomes an ivory dealer" , a photo work on the "German Autumn" of RAF terrorism, in which the importance of technology is Modern rule instrument is criticized.
The work "Get a picture of a picture" from 2016 can currently be seen at the anniversary exhibition of the Museum Ludwig, of which only so much is to be revealed that a perfidious search game is contained in which to be searched for typical Nazi art.
In the period from 1978 to the present, many other videos have been created that are left to them for discovery. To stimulate the curiosity, a small sequence of titles follows (which already writes a kind of "title story"):
As if memories could be deceptive, the silence of German spaces scares me, the consumption of my own criticism, the distance between me and my losses, the falsehood of reason or: tried to sleep over the problem, three -hand piano concert for horrificly versatile instruments, a day by the east and west, turn in the circles, in silent ponds crocodiles, men stories 1, it has my head, it has my head, twisted as long as the ball rolls, do not fall, do not fall, silent movements, traumatic tropics, disturbed places, wine, child, if the wall moves to the table, too good to be true ...
Marcel Odenbach has often explained why he (so happy) works with the medium video:
- "Since video combines three different elements, a) the picture, b) action processes, c) the tone to show the power of technology and progress in society.
- Since the television picture of today's viewing habits corresponds more than the panel picture.
- Since television as a pastime with its high entertainment character has triggered social, that is, political changes "to a large extent".
- Since media analysis and criticism has become a central topic of our society.
- Since I can theoretically address a larger group of recipients than the museum visitors.
- Since my visual representation can no longer be used as a decorative and representative wall jewelry.
- Because art loses part of its character of the goods.
- Since I can set more extensive alternatives! "
(Quoted from www.medienkunstnetz.de/kuenstler/odenbach/Biography )
Nevertheless, he has always made the blackboard pictures disqualified in this statement (which simply means two-dimensional images), next to and/or in preparation for his video work.
In the United States, it is even the main "blackboard pictures" that are connected to the artist Marcel Odenbach and who have made him known. With us, Marcel Odenbach's table art is more like an insider tip that is waiting for discovery, here are some insights into this part of Odenbach's artistic work:
- 1975: "If that goes on" ... from: Saying of the month, pencil and colored pencil on paper, three parts
- 1977: "Keep yourself happy", collage and concept for the video work of the same title, pencil, color pen, ink on paper, three parts
- 2004: "moved", collage, ink on paper
- 2005: Marcel Odenbach, "March 20, 2003", collage, photocopy and cardboard on paper, ink, pencil
- 2006: Marcel Odenbach, "Daylight", collage, photo and gouache on paper
- 2010: Marcel Odenbach, "Probe", collage, ink and pencil on paper
- 2012: Marcel Odenbach, "Sitzfleisch", collage, photocopy and cardboard on paper, ink, pencil
- 2013: "Filed and hung up", collage, ink on paper
Marcel Odenbach: public life, exhibitions, awards
Since 1992, Odenbach has taught as a professor at the State University of Design Karlsruhe and the Cologne University of Media, and in Cologne he was also Vice -Presector from the art college for a while.
In the 2010 summer semester, Odenbach was appointed ordinary professor to the Düsseldorf Art Academy, since then he has been teaching film and video there.
He was also elected to the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and the Arts in 2010.
Marcel Odenbach Art was seen 300 exhibitions 50 individual exhibitions and 250 group exhibitions in all important exhibition locations and sites of contemporary art.
With MoMA New York and Hamburg train station Museum for the Present Berlin, Kunst- und Exhibition Hall of the FRG Bonn and Kunstraum Düsseldorf, de Appel Center for Contemporary Art Amsterdam and Badischer Kunstverein Karlsruhe, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía Madrid and Musée D´Art Contemporain Monttréal, Center Pompidou Paris and Folkwang Museum Essen, Academy of the Arts Berlin and Latvian National Museum of Arts Riga, Museum of Contemporary Art Kraków and Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Sharjah Art Foundation and South African National Gallery Cape Town, Para/Site Art Space Hong Kong and Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney and the Taipei Fine Arts Museum. Have you ever become an artist because he likes to travel through the world?
With the 41st Biennale of Venice 1984, the 18 ° Bienal de Sao Paulo 1985, the 19 ° Bienal de Sao Paulo and Documenta 8 Kassel 1987, the 25 ° Bienal de São Paulo 2002, 8th International İstanbul Biennial 2003. Biennale (triennale, quadriennale, quintessential)?
Art by Marcel Odenbach can be viewed in the following public collections :
- Germany : Hamburger Bahnhof Museum for the Present Berlin, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Kolumba and Museum Ludwig Cologne, Cottbus Art Museum, Cottbus Museum, Museum of Modern Art Frankfurt/Main, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Center for Art and Media Technology Karlsruhe, Kunsthalle to Kiel, Gallery for Contemporary Art Leipzig, Pinakothek der Moderne Munich
- France : Frac des Pays de la Loire Carquefou, Center Pompidou Paris
- Italy : Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia
- Canada : Musée des Beaux-Arts du Canada, Ottawa, on
- Liechtenstein : Liechtenstein Art Museum, Vaduz
- Hungary : Ludwig Museum Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest
2004 collage was included in the official collection of contemporary art in the Federal Republic of Germany .
Legendary stories about Marcel Odenbach
No scandals to get, Marcel Odenbach lives and works simply. Significant for his pleasantly laconic way is the following little Sentenz from the art talk "Seven years later" for the exhibition "Political Populism" in the Kunsthalle Vienna:
Interviewer: "You have more or less chosen the work on the exhibition of political populism um, so to speak, on this topic. I find a very exciting um, there is a series with the concise title um 'German symbol' and two of the German symbols are Volkswagen and Deutsche Bank, which has just been achieved this year for inglorious international known through scandals So that, so to speak, that the being of the German successful industrial company or the German banking company, so to speak, has been questioned sustainably, but actually this work um has also been created from a context- why did you choose the German symbol for political populism? "
Marcel Odenbach: "This is over-interpreted, of course I took what there was ..." (shortened in terms of content, Odenbach actually adapted to the interviewer's language style and answered even more to listen/see in the following video).
Marcel Odenbach's work and the future
Marcel Odenbach began to pass on his knowledge before his fourth decade of life was completed as a professor at the State University of Design Karlsruhe, the Kunsthochschule für Medien Cologne and the Düsseldorf Art Academy.
As a decent member of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Arts, he has also been part of a scholarly company since 2010 that advises the state government on the performance of its tasks in the field of science and art, whereby the academy members are heard primarily in the area of suggestion and promotion of new research projects.
Furthermore, the members of the seven German country academies maintain a lively scientific exchange of ideas with each other and with other scientific institutions in Germany or abroad, support the young scientific and shape the regular public events of the academies.
As Marcel Odenbach has always loved to combine explosive sociopolitical questions with an apparently banal topic, he today uses the framework of "beautiful art" for political engagement.
So in 2008 in the artist discussion with Werner Gephart and Stephan Berg in the Kunstmuseum Bonn (it is about the "Law in the picture", see the following video No. 1, deepening from the works of Odenbach-> Video No. 2) or in the art talk "Seven years later" from 2015 for the exhibition of political populism in the Kunsthalle Vienna (06.11.2015 to 07/07/2016, Kunst-Talk on YouTube further above).
Video No. 1 - "Law in the picture"
His art is never loud and rough, but very finely woven up the aftermath of National Socialism in the present and other unsustainable conditions. Wache art fans will continue to pursue political side of modern art Our time really has enough for political engagement.
A very early Odenbach idea in connection with the question of the future of the future of our television could be exciting: Marcel Odenbach and fellow students Klaus vom Bruch and Ulrike Rosenbach founded the "producer group ATV" .
ATV stands for alternatively TV, it is the first TV pirate station based in Cologne.
Odenbach, Rosenbach and from the break, four decades ago, the private form of the publication, which is currently messing up the entire media landscape. The artist trio, which was barely imagined at the time, was directed to the fact that members of the media industry, which are particularly professioned in the media industry, do not make the program and send out the program, but that the normal citizen (interested) sends information, while at the same time represents the potential recipients of this information.
"We are making our own television ," was the slogan, a provocation at the time: television apparatus that has been distributed in households in a socially relevant number has only been around for around a decades, and the color was only showered over the screen a few years ago; For “Otto normal citizens”, the television -makers who passed on selected and didactically prepared sections of their knowledge of rule to the population were. Unheard that a few young artists believed that they could make television themselves.
Today almost nothing is outrageous and visual messages from citizens of citizens are the order of the day. The "knowledge of rule" has become "knowledge for all citizens" available via the Internet, without the knowing gentlemen being revealed to all citizens, how to check whether a source contains knowledge or lies. In addition, a section from the TV talk show "Maischberger" on the subject of "Lügenpresse" , in which Pegida supporters and AfD member Joachim Radke comments:
"From my point of view, we experienced this equal connection at the time, with current camera, 1+2nd program Eastern television, radio programs, all print media-everything. Of course, I don't have to say that you always have to differentiate, and you have gratefully accepted that you had the opportunity to switch the remote control over and get the opposite opinion on ARD and ZDF. a neutral opinion formed from both.
I didn't believe the West media impartially and certainly not the East media. And just as, Mr. Lobo, I do it today, that is, that means: I will still bring very good things as far as political things are concerned, I will listen to, look at, see it, but will also go into the net at the same time, whether it is Tichys insight, whether it is oh, whether it is young freedom, whether it is young and naive, there are many examples.
The important thing is that one does not believe anything to one or the other, but for yourself personally from the experiences you have and that you have practical ... ”
The rest of the sentence goes under in general murmur.
Sandra Maischberger intervenes: "... it is still hanging, and I have to take it up again, this" same -tied ", that is also a big reproach on your side and the second is just” … Cuts other topics, journalist Ulrich Wickert comments on one of these topics.
As soon as he has their say, bloggers and social media expert Sascha Lobo : "Have you seriously claimed here on German television that the synchronization was now more blatant than in the GDR?"
Radke: "You didn't listen to it, I said it is not as bad as it was in the GDR back then."
Lobo: "Then I put it correctly as a question, but still I would really ask you to read again on Wikipedia - you are a big fan of the Internet - what is really like a circuit, and this word, which has been shaped in National Socialism, to use an idea of more deliberate and maybe not with the salt shaker; just like lying press, you can say that.
Start to understand that you are sitting in front of an audience of millions and seriously telling the story that this synchronization suppresses your opinion. Start noticing what a contradiction in itself - can't be that you do not understand that ... "
Radke: "Maybe you should notice that you are constantly trying to exaggerate intellectually."
With the rest of the quoted program to look at YouTube (video has unfortunately been removed), Joachim Radke received a lot of applause in the comments, while Sascha Lobo was showered with insults.
Sulprise, but Radke said that the equalization on GDR television was "not so blatant", "as it is today", as can be seen in the above linguistic statement and, in addition to Lobo, was also understood by Maischberger.
The word synchronization describes the first phase of the seizure of power of the National Socialists, the process of unification of the entire social and political life initiated in 1933, the first phase of the abolition of democracy .
Anyone who publicly claims that the media working in a democracy is aligned with the correct interpretation according to historically guaranteed terms that the work of this media is not in line with the democratic basic order that it aims to abolish democracy.
This in turn is a direct attack on this democracy, in which these media perform democratic tasks in the context of the constitutional order; Democratic -minded citizens are rightly very difficult with such statements.
As a "lying press" , media have always been happy to be attacked in the German -speaking world that took a different opinion than their own.
The Nazis only defamed all as a "lying press" who still had the courage to write against anti -Semitic conspiracy theories; When the opponents of the injustice regime were successfully "murdered" (murdered, hunted out of the country, to be grown by prison and other pressals), the media of the later opponents of the war were oked as "lying press" -this word no longer wanted to hear democratically arrested citizens today.
Tichy's insight is an (online) monthly magazine by the former Helmut Kohl employee Roland Tichy , who, in the opinion of experts (who has studied politics and have worked with politics for at least 8 hours on each of their working days after completing their studies, has been (departed) quite far to the right since then.
This assessment makes the suitability of this publication appear questionable for the formation of a neutral opinion. In addition, the Radke, who was employed by the Berlin transport businesses, will soon no longer read this magazine: until the Maischberger broadcast, he had escaped that the "insight" started as opinion and monthly magazine for the liberal conservative elite, i.e. addressed the subjects fought by Radke.
The national weekly newspaper "Junge Freiheit" was examined by political scientists and assigned to the "border area between conservatism and right -wing extremism " as a "mouthpiece of the new right There is no "neutral opinion" here either.
Achgut.com leads to the "axis of the good", also an opinion platform for political outsiders, which with its proximity to the Swiss World week can certainly be classified more right than left of the middle.
Young and naive means "Jung & Naiv-Politics for Disintered" and is a regularly broadcast political interview program. Journalist and operator Tilo Jung would like to answer politicians who would also understand 14-year-olds, foreign words must not be used, technical terms must be explained from scratch.
That sounds like if the interviews were excellent sources of information for citizens who, due to their upbringing in a dictatorship, still have difficulty understanding the cornerstones of the democratic order. In fact, they are not because the experimental concept dispenses with any political orientation and thus presupposes exactly that secured democracy knowledge and understanding acquired in long years of school, which Mr. Radke obviously has to acquire through his information work.
Radke himself proves that it behaves in this way by specifying his sources: ARD and ZDF , three sources from the right edge of the spectrum and an "experimental explanatory bear side" are not a suitable basis for forming a "neutral opinion".
With all the respect for the deviating opinion of fellow citizens (and all the sympathy of the typical Berliner for "his" Berlin bus drivers), every democratic citizen is responsible for the task of unintellectual and exaggerated by people like Mr. Radke.
Back to the entire content of television and television consumption (apart from talk shows on sociopolitical topics, apart from the own pirate broadcaster), to which Marcel Odenbach has already commented at the work "The Consumption of my own criticism" , 1976 - 1979.
Odenbach explained to this work and his criticism of consumption: "[In my work] I am concerned with the preservation of passive consumer maintenance on television ... Conditional consuming, since the switch -on rate is crucial for program design. Time and ways to do an alternative are made away by commercial entertainment programs ... The consumer is very difficult, due to the narcotizing effect of the media, to recognize his consumption ” (shortens from: www.medienkunstnetz.de/werke/der-konsum-meiner-Eigen-kritik ).
That was in 1976, since then passive consumption in front of the television has driven the average weight up in the population; In the United States, a special trade for oversized recliners (television armchairs) was created, in which extreme cases such as this: Kurzelinks.de/QMSQ no longer fit in.
The program to be consumed has taken quality recurrence for critical observers since then, a small highlight of the development towards increasingly stupid television was September 30, 2016, on which one plus and ZDF culture were switched off.
One plus was the "youth broadcaster", which, in addition to embarrassing magazines and series concerts, shows, comedy, films, advice, knowledge and information, was also interesting for every older person with interest in the development of our world.
ZDF culture covered the areas of music, performing arts, film culture, network culture and gaming; Together with the third programs, both transmitters took a good percentage part of what was not yet an early -wasted consumer under the remote control.
One plus is replaced by "One" , according to one.ard.de/wir_sind_one.jsp "One for you, the most beautiful thing that television has to offer" .
The most beautiful is presented individually: an American late night show, a crime series with a 1920s private detective, "Doctor Who" (from 1963), crime scene repetitions, the British sketch show "Little Britain" and the crazy hospital series "Nurse Jackie" (which is eliminated by the most sensitive hospital patients because they Too much reminds of how crazy things are actually going in in many German hospitals).
There are hot programs, but if that's the most beautiful thing that the previously appointed television makers bring about, it is time for their departure.
Such a diagnosis could also suggest the enjoyment of "funk" The program offer of the "non-linear digital content" (quote producer), which replaces ZDF culture, is reproduced as a AZ list of broadcast titles: on a coffee with Moritz Neumeier (do you have to know it?), On to toil Question, start to live, fuck yourself! (You too!), FinalClash, Frei.weg.weg (immediately), Funk Life, Game Two, Germania, good work Originals, good morning, internet! (she flutes every morning), headlinez, upright (unusable the show?), Iam.serafina, Jäger & Gatherer (now it gets Helle: we are ready again), Janas Diary, bachelor, Kliemannsland, Kostas Kind, Lidiro, Living the Healthy Choice ('Nutrition Consultation would also have sounded'), openly (of course), pop) Date, Schönschlau, Starstarspace, Superpolepsycholum, crime scene-the show (has proven to be a yawn), Team Playground, Tourettikette, what with Fabian (and who cares), Wishlist, World of Wolfram (dry or moist?), Wumms!, Y-collective, 1080 nerd scope.
Marcel Odenbach has already mixed with his pirate broadcaster "another television" and in 1989 with the first real attempt of alternative program development: the art channel/Art Channel von RTL Plus , the first time "made artists television" with a range of worth mentioning, around 50 artists a week of broadcast, during which a viewer of 2 million was reached.
What sounds like nothing quickly becomes a sensational success: you only need to show yourself that it must have been with all 2 million viewers for humans who do not switch off television when the program is failing, but zap them, and that came across this art channel when they are zapping; The RTL Plus regular audience should be assumed that it rejects art as a "intellectual exaggeration" (one can also add a number of art lovers who immediately switched away at the sight of the enchanting graphic art of the "jack").
Because the art program on this broadcaster could not be anything, it has remained so far that visual artists only help shape the “public space” in the rare minutes in which their art is presented.
At the moment, with exceptions, there is a rather low level on television, which results logically from the success measurement about the switch -on quota - which is no longer a "same manner". There is murder, murder and again murder in almost all programs for the best broadcast time, a thousand times the same film classics and series and recently increasing harassment through fake "documentaries" that achieve inhuman regions in their stupidity ...
Probably it would be the chance of television to secure a diverse, comprehensive, comprehensive and balanced media offer in fulfillment of his basic care mandate "In the interest of freedom of information and democracy" (program order, § 11 Paragraphs 2 and 3 Broadcasting Treaty) to a real image of society - and other artists, and many other social groups - are enabled within a catalog Democratic, human rights, etc. (to be democratically created) of self-responsibility to make television programs that can only be measured from a kind of television law 5 percent hurdle (of course with many fewer percentage because there are much more socially relevant individual topics than parties).
Marcel Odenbach, short short biography
- July 7, 1953 Marcel Odenbach was born in Cologne
- 1974 to 1979 studies, architecture, art history and semiotics, Aachen Technical University, completion of Dipl.-Ing.
- 1976 Foundation of the ATV producer group with Ulrike Rosenbach and Klaus vom Bruch
- 1976 to the present day, videos in performances, installations and tapes and two -dimensional pictures
- 1992 Start of teaching as a professor, State University of Design Karlsruhe + Kunsthochschule for Media Cologne (also Vice -Rector)
- 2010 ordinary professorship for film and video at the Düsseldorf Art Academy
- 2010 election in the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and the Arts
- Marcel Odenbach lives mainly in Cologne Ostheim and Ghana and also has an apartment in Berlin.
