programme aachen / bedburg-hau / bergisch gladbach / bonn / dortmund / duisburg / düsseldorf / essen / kleve / krefeld / leverkusen / mönchengladbach / wuppertal

100 years of joseph beuys a project of the ministry of culture and science of the state of north rhine-westphalia in collaboration with the heinrich-heine-university düsseldorf

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Bedburg-Hau

January

Dortmund 17 January to 19 December 2021 Essen Lutz Mommartz Duisburg Soziale Plastik [Social Sculpture] Jan Bonny & Alex Wissel Krefeld Jupp, watt hamwer jemaht? [Joe, what’ve we done?] Wuppertal Screening Düsseldorf Düsseldorf Julia Stoschek Collection Mönchengladbach

Leverkusen March

Bergisch Gladbach 27 March to 15 August 2021 Everyone is an Artist Cosmopolitan Exercises with Joseph Beuys Exhibition Aachen Opening: 27 March 2021, 5 pm (digital) Düsseldorf K20 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen Bonn 27 March to 20 June 2021 Mataré + Beuys + Immendorff An Encounter between the Works of Teacher and Student Exhibition Düsseldorf Akademie-Galerie – Die Neue Sammlung. Eine Einrichtung der Kunstakademie Düsseldorf Last update: 6.7.2021 28 March to 1 August 2021 Joseph Beuys’s 100th birthday in 2021 is an occasion for around 25 Art = Human museums and cultural institutions in 13 cities in North Rhine-West- Joseph Beuys in Krefeld phalia to honour, rediscover and critically question the Rhine- Exhibition land-born artist, his complex work and his international influence. Krefeld Kunstmuseen Krefeld, Kaiser Wilhelm Museum

Throughout 2021, a variety of exhibitions, actions and performanc- 28 March to 20 June 2021 es, theatre, music and teaching events will explore the fascinating Joseph Beuys. Perpetual Motion as well as controversial ideas of one of the world‘s most influential Exhibition artistic personalities of the 20th century. Opening: 28 March 2021, 11 am Wuppertal Skulpturenpark Waldfrieden, Cragg Foundation In this programme overview we would like to give you a brief summary of the upcoming events of the anniversary year.

Please note that dates are subject to change due to the ongoing April pandemic. You can find the updated programme in the press section of the website www.beuys2021.de/en. 20 April 2021, 6:30 pm (online) Timo Skrandies Joseph Beuys und die Kunst als Forschung Lecture series »I’m searching for the dumbest person« Düsseldorf Heinrich-Heine-Universität 2 3 22 April 2021, 7 pm (online) 11 May 2021, 6:30 pm (online) Wolfgang Zumdick Eugen Blume »Der Tod hält mich wach.« Über Tod und Auferstehung im Werk von Joseph Beuys und Rudolf »Warum Beuys mir wichtig geblieben ist.« Steiner Lecture series »I’m searching for the dumbest person« Lecture Düsseldorf Heinrich-Heine-Universität Wuppertal Skulpturenpark Waldfrieden, Cragg Foundation 12 May to 12 June 2021 27 April 2021, 6:30 pm (online) 12.05.1921 – 12.05.2021 Bettina Paust Exhibition »Ich bin ein Sender. Ich strahle aus« – Eine Spurensuche nach der Rezeption der Kunst von Düsseldorf Galerie Hans Mayer Joseph Beuys Lecture series »I’m searching for the dumbest person« from 12 May 2021 Düsseldorf Heinrich-Heine-Universität beuysradio Radio – Podcast – Audiothek Online

May from 12 May 2021 beuys ar 2 May to 19 September 2021 A metaphysical journey through the world and ideas of Joseph Beuys Joseph Beuys and the Shamans Augmented Reality Exhibition Online in cooperation with Rosy DX and Scavengar Opening: 2 May 2021, 2 pm (online)

Bedburg-Hau Museum Schloss Moyland 12 May to 31 December 2021 (online) Beuys verstehen 2 May to 29 August 2021 Virtual exhibition in cooperation with Zaubar The Catalyst Exhibition Joseph Beuys and Democracy today Online Goethe-Institut Prag and Goethe-Institut Warschau Exhibition

Opening: 2 May 2021, 12 pm (online) 12 May 2021, 7 pm Leverkusen Museum Morsbroich Linde Rohr-Bongard Die F.I.U. – Freie internationale Hochschule für Kreativität und interdisziplinäre Forschung und 4 May 2021, 6:30 pm (online) die Innsbrucktafel Alexandra Vinzenz Lecture Joseph Beuys und das »Gesamtkunstwerk« Wuppertal Skulpturenpark Waldfrieden, Cragg Foundation Lecture series »I’m searching for the dumbest person« Düsseldorf Heinrich-Heine-Universität 14 May to 15 July 2021 Kiste, Flasche, Tuch – Die drei Teile des Aktionssockels 7 May to 8 August 2021 [Box, Bottle, Cloth – The Three Parts of the Action Plinth] Empty Boxes as a Plastic Theme in the Work of Joseph Beuys Exhibitions of Joseph Beuys at Konrad Fischer Exhibition Exhibition Bergisch-Gladbach Kunstmuseum Villa Zanders Düsseldorf Konrad Fischer Galerie

7 May to 6 September 2021 18 May 2021, 6:30 pm (online) Joseph Beuys Carl-Peter Buschkühle Collection highlights on the occasion of his 100th birthday Joseph Beuys und die Pädagogik der Kunst Exhibition Lecture series »I’m searching for the dumbest person« Kleve Museum Kurhaus Kleve Düsseldorf Heinrich-Heine-Universität

10 May to 26 September 2021 20 May 2021, 7 pm The Invisible Sculpture Walter Kugler The Expanded Concept of Art after Joseph Beuys »Wir arbeiten ja auch nach dem Dreigliederungsmodell von Rudolf Steiner.« Beuys’ An- Exhibition näherung an »ein radikales Freiheitsmodell« Opening: 9 May 2021, 5 pm (online) Lecture Essen Stiftung Zollverein / Ruhr Museum, UNESCO Welterbe Zollverein, Halle 8 Wuppertal Skulpturenpark Waldfrieden, Cragg Foundation 4 5 25 May 2021, 6:30 pm (online) 8 June 2021, 6:30 pm (online) NIna Schulze Philip Ursprung Was hat es mit dem Sprechen von Joseph Beuys auf sich? »Eurasienstab« – Beuys und die europäische Integration Lecture series »I’m searching for the dumbest person« Lecture series »I’m searching for the dumbest person« Düsseldorf Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf Heinrich-Heine-Universität

9 June 2021, 7 pm (online) Eugen Blume June Joseph Beuys: »Die Idee, einem Tier etwas zu erklären, fördert den Sinn für das Geheimnis der Welt und der Existenz…« 2 June 2021, 7 pm (online) Lecture Prof. Dr. Karen van den Berg Wuppertal Skulpturenpark Waldfrieden, Cragg Foundation »Joseph Beuys und das Erbe der Sozialen Plastik« Lecture 9 June 2021, 6 pm (online) Wuppertal Skulpturenpark Waldfrieden, Cragg Foundation Konkrete Utopie – Bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen Talk with experts of the everyday life 2 to 6 June 2021 Laboratory »Ursache = Zukunft« [Cause = Future] The Infinity of the Moment In cooperation with Kunstmuseum Bonn, Alanus-Hochschule, A Fair Land Pforzheim Performances after Joseph Beuys Bonn Bundeskunsthalle, on the museum square Performance Various locations in Wuppertal + online 15 June 2021, 6:30 pm (online) Wuppertal Kulturbüro Wuppertal Magdalena Holzhey Arbeitsplatz eines Wissenschaftlers/Künstlers – Joseph Beuys und die Naturwissenschaften 3 June to 24 October 2021 am Beispiel der Krefelder Beuys-Räume Institutional Critique – The Museum as a Site of Permanent Conference (J.B.) Lecture series »I’m searching for the dumbest person« Ghislaine Leung. Portraits and Workshop Report Collection/Archive Andersch (Beuys) Düsseldorf Heinrich-Heine-Universität Exhibition Mönchengladbach Museum Abteiberg 15 June 2021, 7:30 pm Gespräche im Roten Salon 5 June 2021, 8 pm (online) With Hartmut Kraft Natur = Plastik. Ökologie und Nachaltigkeit Lecture Conversation with everyday experts Bergisch-Gladbach Kunstmuseum Villa Zanders Laboratory »Ursache = Zukunft« (Cause = Future) In cooperation with Kunstmuseum Bonn, Alanus-Hochschule, A Fair Land Pforzheim 17 June 2021, 7 pm (online) Bonn Bundeskunsthalle, on the museum square Gabriele Mackert »Der is doll« aber: »Dat kauft doch keiner« 6 June 2021, 12 pm (online) Lecture Philip Ursprung Wuppertal Skulpturenpark Waldfrieden, Cragg Foundation Joseph Beuys. Kunst Kapital Revolution Lecture and Talk 17 June 2021, 7 pm (online) Mönchengladbach Museum Abteiberg Igor Sacharow-Ross Artist Talk 6 June 2021, 3 pm (online) Bedburg-Hau Museum Schloss Moyland Susanne Rennert »Das ist ja überhaupt alles sehr beweglich« – Joseph Beuys und Fluxus 19 June to 3 October 2021 Lecture Intuition! Mönchengladbach Museum Abteiberg Dimensions of the Early Work of Joseph Beuys 1946–1961 Exhibition 8 to 15 June 2021 Opening: 19 June 2021, 7:30 pm Sculptural Democracy: Kick-off Kleve Museum Kurhaus Kleve The Forms of the »We« Lectures Düsseldorf Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, HHU Düsseldorf, raumlaborberlin on the Gustaf-Gründgens-Platz in front of Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus

6 7 22 June 2021, 6:30 pm (online) 6 July 2021, 6:30 pm (online) Barbara Lange Ursula Ströbele Arbeit am sozialen Organismus. Das Konzept von Kunst im Werk von Joseph Beuys Zur skulpturalen Ästhetik des Lebendigen: Joseph Beuys und die Soziale Plastik im Kontext der Lecture series »I’m searching for the dumbest person« Living Sculpture Düsseldorf Heinrich-Heine-Universität Lecture series »I’m searching for the dumbest person« Düsseldorf Heinrich-Heine-Universität 25 June to 1 November 2021 Beuys — Lehmbruck 6 July 2021, 8 pm Thinking is Sculpture Transformer Exhibition – in cooperation with Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg USA 1979 | 59 min. | D: John Halpern Bonn Bundeskunsthalle Bonn Film series »Joseph Beuys – his public image. Films with, after and about Joseph Beuys« Düsseldorf Filmwerkstatt Düsseldorf 26 June to 1 November 2021 Lehmbruck — Beuys 8 July 2021, 8 pm Everything is Sculpture Zeige deine Wunde – Kunst and Spiritualität bei Joseph Beuys Exhibition – in cooperation with Bundeskunsthalle Bonn D 2015 | 85 min. | D: Rudiger Sunner Duisburg Lehmbruck Museum Film series »Joseph Beuys – his public image. Films with, after and about Joseph Beuys« Düsseldorf Filmwerkstatt Düsseldorf 27 June 2021, 11 am Amélie Schenk 9 July to 29 September 2021 Du musst zu den wildesten Orten gehen Sculptural Democracy: Models Lecture Forms of the »We« Bedburg-Hau Museum Schloss Moyland Launch Archive + Guerilla Action Düsseldorf Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, HHU Düsseldorf, raumlaborberlin on the 29 June 2021, 6:30 pm (online) Gustaf-Gründgens-Platz in front of Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus and in the urban space Catherine Nichols Wenn jeder Mensch ein*e Künstler*in ist. Zum Erweiterten Kunstbegriff von Joseph Beuys 13 July 2021, 6:30 pm (online) Lecture series »I’m searching for the dumbest person« Wolfgang Zumdick Düsseldorf Heinrich-Heine-Universität Denken als plastische Praxis. Joseph Beuys und die Philosophie Lecture series »I’m searching for the dumbest person« 29 June 2021, 8 pm Düsseldorf Heinrich-Heine-Universität Beuys D 1981 | 11 min. | D: Werner Nekes and Dore O. 15 July 2021, 6 pm Joseph Beuys und seine Klasse Werkstattbericht Sammlung/Archiv Andersch (Beuys) D 1971 | 40 min. | D: Hans Emmerling and Edwin K. Braun With Bianca Grüger and Karl Heinz Rummeny Film series »Joseph Beuys – his public image. Films with, after and about Joseph Beuys« Exhibition Talks Düsseldorf Filmwerkstatt Düsseldorf Mönchengladbach Museum Abteiberg

16 July 2021, 6 pm Creativity = Capital. Alternative economy July Talk with experts of everyday life Laboratory »Ursache = Zukunft« [Cause = Future] 1 July 2021, 8 pm In cooperation with Kunstmuseum Bonn, Alanus-Hochschule, A Fair Land Pforzheim Joseph Beuys: Jeder Mensch ist ein Künstler Bonn Bundeskunsthalle, on the museum square D 1979 | 54 min. | D: Werner Krüger Film series »Joseph Beuys – his public image. Films with, after and about Joseph Beuys« 16 July 2021, 7 pm Düsseldorf Filmwerkstatt Düsseldorf Talk with the photographer Stanislav Krupař Artist Talk 2 to 4 July 2021 Bedburg-Hau Museum Schloss Moyland Sebastian Blasius: Absent Wolves Performance 17 July 2021, 6 pm In cooperation with Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Stiftung Zollverein and Folkwang Universität Ethnopoetisches Erzählspiel der Künste Essen/Bochum Unterm runden Himmel – Nomadengeschichten und Schamanenwelten Essen UNESCO-Welterbe Zollverein Narrative Play Bedburg-Hau Museum Schloss Moyland 8 9 17 July 2021 20 August 2021, 9:45 pm Stadtverwaldung 2021 Oeconomia Wo stehen wir, wo geht es hin? D 2020 | 89 min. | D: Carmen Losmann Talk Screening Düsseldorf Filmwerkstatt Düsseldorf Düsseldorf Filmwerkstatt Düsseldorf

17 July 2021 21 and 22 August 2021 Beuys Christian Rätsch und Claudia Müller-Ebeling: Fliegenpilz, Stechapfel, psychoaktive Pflanzen D 2017 | 107 min. | D: Andres Veiel Inspiration, Imagination und wie Honig zum Happening wurde und der Kojote zur Kunst Screening Lecture seminary Düsseldorf Filmwerkstatt Düsseldorf Bedburg-Hau Museum Schloss Moyland

July 2021 21 August 2021, 6 pm Joseph Beuys-Handbuch U We Claus: »Kamillentee ist meine Lieblingsdroge« Leben – Werk – Wirkung Heilpflanzen, psychotrope Pflanzen und Pilze bei Joseph Beuys Book presentation Seminary J.B. Metzler Verlag; Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Department of Art History Bedburg-Hau Museum Schloss Moyland Düsseldorf Haus der Universität at Schadowplatz 27 and 28 August 2021 Sculptural Democracy: Parliaments Forms of the »We« August Debates Düsseldorf Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, HHU Düsseldorf, raumlaborberlin auf dem 13 August to 17 October 2021 Gustaf-Gründgens-Platz vor dem Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus und im Stadtraum MO-SCHAUFENSTER #27: revolution beuys Exhibition 29 August 2021, 5 pm Dortmund Museum Ostwall at Dortmunder U BEUYS’ erdklavier + ensemble CRUSH Performance concert 14 August 2021, 6 pm Bedburg-Hau Museum Schloss Moyland Vorträge mit Prof. Dr. Gustav Dobos und Dr. Petra Richter Lecture 7 to 8 August 2021 Bedburg-Hau Museum Schloss Moyland Sebastian Blasius: Absent Wolves Performance 15 August 2021, 11 am In cooperation with Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Stiftung Zollverein and Folkwang Universität Ulrike Bohnet: Altes Wissen, neue Wege der Künste Essen/Bochum Zeitgenössischer Schamanismus am Beispiel Tuwa, Südsibirien Düsseldorf Kunsthalle Düsseldorf Lecture Bedburg-Hau Museum Schloss Moyland

15 August 2021, 1 pm September Annette Maria Rieger: Die Gabe zu heilen Movie and Talk about spiritual healers 4 September 2021, 6 pm Movie Raum = Gesellschaft. Stadtplanung und öffentlicher Raum Bedburg-Hau Museum Schloss Moyland Talk with experts of the everyday life Laboratory »Ursache = Zukunft« [Cause = Future] 20 August 2021, 8 pm In cooperation with Kunstmuseum Bonn, Alanus-Hochschule, A Fair Land Pforzheim Das Kapital – Mensch und Geld Bonn Bundeskunsthalle, on the museum square Woher kommt das Geld und wie definieren wir Kapital? Talk 7 September 2021, 8 pm Düsseldorf Filmwerkstatt Düsseldorf Heiner Goebbels: A House of Call My Imaginary Notebook (2020/21) Concert Düsseldorf Ensemble Modern Orchestra at Tonhalle Düsseldorf

10 11 12 September 2021, 7 pm October Tierrechte Talk 7 October 2021 to 9 January 2022 Bonn Kunstmuseum Bonn Ticket to the Future Joseph Beuys, Katinka Bock, Christian Jankowski, Jon Rafman 16 September 2021 Exhibition BEUYS’ erdklavier + ensemble CRUSH Opening: 6 October 2021 Performance concert Bonn Kunstmuseum Bonn Duisburg Lehmbruck Museum 8 October 2021 to 16 January 2022 16 September 2021, 6 pm Beuys and Duchamp Werkstattbericht Sammlung/Archiv Andersch (Beuys) Artists of the Future With Felicia Rappe and Denise Wegener Exhibition Exhibition Talks Opening: 7 October 2021, 7 pm Mönchengladbach Museum Abteiberg Krefeld Kunstmuseen Krefeld, Kaiser Wilhelm Museum

18 September 2021 9 October 2021 to 6 March 2022 BEUYS’ erdklavier + ensemble CRUSH Technoshamanism Performance conzert Exhibition Kleve Museum Kurhaus Opening: 8 October 2021, 7 pm Dortmund Hartware MedienKunstVerein (HMKV) 18 to 19 September 2021 Music from the Future 15 to 16 October 2021 A 24-hour musical homage to Joseph Beuys on the occasion of his centenary The Problem with Beuys Concert A Mentality and Reception History of Joseph Beuys Düsseldorf K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen Symposium Düsseldorf Haus der Universität at Schadowplatz 19 September 2021 to 9 January 2022 Torn out of Time 22 to 23 October 2021 Joseph Beuys: Actions – Photographed by Ute Klophaus 1965–1986 Beuys, Fluxus and the Impact Exhibition The Festival of New Art in Aachen Opening: 19 September 2021, 11:30 am Symposium Wuppertal Von der Heydt-Museum Aachen Ludwig Forum für internationale Kunst and Chair of Art History at RWTH Aachen 26 September 2021 to 6 March 2022 Joseph Beuys – On Printed Matter 28 October 2021 to 20 January 2022 Modified Newspapers and Works with Newsprint by Joseph Beuyss Anyone who doesn’t want to think will be thrown [throw themselves] out Exhibition Joseph Beuys and the Shape of the Future Bedburg-Hau Museum Schloss Moyland Exhibition Opening: 28 October 2021, 6 pm 22 and 29 September 2021 Düsseldorf Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Düsseldorf Sculptural Democracy: Live-in Lab Forms of the »We« Autumn 2021 Workshops and Living together beuys 2021. 100 jahre joseph beuys – a balance Düsseldorf Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, HHU Düsseldorf, raumlaborberlin auf dem Book presentation Gustaf-Gründgens-Platz vor dem Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus und im Stadtraum Düsseldorf Location tba.

November

7 and 11 November 2021 BEUYS’ erdklavier + ensemble CRUSH Performance concert Krefeld Kunstmuseen Krefeld, Kaiser Wilhelm Museum 12 13 Programme Bedburg-Hau [sorted alphabetically by city] Joseph Beuys and the Shamans Exhibition Museum Schloss Moyland 2 May to 19 September 2021 — [curated by Barbara Strieder and Ulrike Bohnet]

In his early works Joseph Beuys repeatedly focused on shamans and on the contexts in which they operate. In a number of Actions he either assumed the role of the shaman or drew on shamanic practices. For Beuys, Eurasia was a spiritual space that stood for the reconciliation of opposites such as reason and intuition. This ethnological exhibition highlights fundamental aspects of historical and contemporary indigenous shamanism and of the shamanic worlds that Beuys so often referred to. It will also include work by contemporary artists such as Marcus Coates, Lili Fischer, Anatol Donkan and Igor Sacharow-Ross, demonstrating the relevance of the topic of shamanism to the current artistic discourse with its particular interest in social issues and ecology.

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Aachen BEUYS’ erdklavier + ensemble CRUSH Performance concert – ensemble CRUSH at Beuys’s places Beuys, Fluxus and the Impact 29 August 2021 The Festival of New Art in Aachen Museum Schloss Moyland, Bedburg-Hau — [Ensemble CRUSH: Pia Marei Hauser (flute) Symposium – Andrei Simion (violoncello) – Slavi Grigorov (accordion) – Marin Petrov (piano)] Ludwig Forum für internationale Kunst and Chair of Art History at RWTH Aachen 22 to 23 October 2021 — [curated by Myriam Kroll, Annette Lagler and Alexander further dates: Markschies] 16 September – Wilhelm Lehmbruck-Museum, Duisburg 7 and 11 November – Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld tba. – LWL Museum für Kunst und Kultur, Münster The name Joseph Beuys is indelibly associated with an incident tba. – Museum Kurhaus Kleve at the Festival of New Art on 20 July 1964 in the main lecture hall – the Audimax – of the RWTH technical university in Aachen. A performance by Beuys took a dramatic turn when an agitated The musical aspect is omnipresent in the work of Joseph Beuys. student landed a punch on his nose, drawing blood, and the event The instrument piano, for example, combines sculpture and sound. was abruptly called to a halt. Photographs taken that evening have Beuys had developed the idea of the earth piano for the Fluxus become part of our collective memory, even if few people nowa- Festival, but never realized it. it remained a concept. The ensemble days are fully aware of the circumstances. crush takes this up and prescribes it as the program for a perfor- The symposium to be held in Aachen during beuys 21 will focus on mance concert. An acoustic-performative experience based on the relationship between Joseph Beuys and the Fluxus movement works from the year of Beuys’s birth as well as the work by Peter in the wake of that festival in Aachen. Participants will critically Gahn composed especially for this project. The work »Four6« by examine that situation over fifty years ago in light of its importance John Cage - to whom Beuys said he felt particularly close - forms to art, politics and society today, with particular reference to works the counterpart to the first half of the programme. The grand piano by contemporary artists. will be played by four musicians simultaneously and thus expanded. 2 Presented in cooperation with the Chair of Art History, this two-day The Ensemble Crush, founded in 2013, plays contemporary music symposium will welcome numerous expert speakers to the and works closely with composers. Its particular interest lies in Audimax (the original festival venue) and to the Ludwig Forum unconventional programming and breaking up the usual - also Aachen. spatial - concert situation. 14 15 Bergisch-Gladbach Bonn

Empty Boxes as a Plastic Theme in the Work of Joseph Beuys Beuys — Lehmbruck Exhibition Thinking is Sculpture Kunstmuseum Villa Zanders Exhibition in cooperation with Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg 7 May to 8 August 2021— [curated by Hartmut Kraft] Bundeskunsthalle Bonn 25 June to 1 November 2021— [curated by Johanna Adam] Many art collections have a small open box made from pinewood; it is marked inside, in Beuys’s own hand, with the word »Intuition« In 1986, just a few days before his death, Beuys was awarded the above two horizontal lines. It is signed and dated on the back. Wilhelm Lehmbruck Prize. In his acceptance speech, he stressed Around 12,000 examples of this seemingly unremarkable object the importance the art of the Expressionist sculptor Wilhelm were produced. In fact Beuys made each one of these multiples Lehmbruck had for him. Marking the 100th birthday of Joseph himself: ». . . I have to make these things myself, otherwise they’re Beuys, the exhibition Beuys – Lehmbruck. Thinking is Sculpture nothing« (Joseph Beuys 1971). explores this connection and presents the work of these two artists. For both Beuys and his publisher Wolfgang Feelisch, founder of the There are not many artists who caused as radical an upheaval in VICE-Versand distribution company, the Intuition box ultimately the history of art as Joseph Beuys. This exhibition brings together a came out in the largest edition of anything either of them produced. series of key works by Beuys and presents them alongside some of This exhibition provides an insight into the genesis of these Wilhelm Lehmbruck’s most important sculptures. The focus of the multiples and their variants, a for example by artists such as exhibition, however, is not on stylistic or formal similarities, instead, Mauricio Kagel and Alfonso Hüppi. There will also be a focus on the it seeks to shed light on a single pivotal question: What is the »empty box« as a recurrent topic in the work of Joseph Beuys, from revolutionary potential of art in the context of its time? the »Rubberized Box« (1957) to the »Sulphur-Covered Zinc Box (Plugged Corner)« (1970) and the series of prints »Wandering Box« (1980). Beuys himself felt there was a connection between the 5 empty box and the existential crisis he suffered in the mid-1950s.

Ticket to the Future Joseph Beuys, Katinka Bock, Christian Jankowski, Jon Rafman Exhibition Kunstmuseum Bonn 7 October 2021 to 9 January 2022 — [curated by Stefanie Kreuzer and ­Christoph Schreier]

Beuys was a magnificent draughtsman and sculptor and an artist whose ultimate aim was to shape society as a whole. His Multiples, which were intended to bring homeopathic doses of his thinking into every household, served him to this end. Between 1965 and 1986 he created 556 Multiples, of which more than 400 are part of the collection of Kunstmuseum Bonn. Ranging from bags of dried hare’s blood to political manifestos, these works reflect his thinking and his art. The Multiples lead to the centre of his oeuvre as a 6 whole. The social, ecological and existential questions raised in Beuys’s works underpin the great topicality of his art. His works are sign- posts for a society in need of reform, which requires lateral thinkers like Beuys. There is growing interest in his art, especially among the younger generation of artists and researchers: Beuys is contemporary! The exhibition draws on the Kunstmuseum’s Multiples and presents them alongside current artistic positions. Thus, the historical view of Beuys’s work is also a preview of what is 4 to come.

16 17 Ursache = Zukunft [Cause = Future] Dortmund On the occasion of the exhibition »Beuys – Lehmbruck. Thinking is sculpture« Laboratory in cooperation with Kunstmuseum Bonn, Alanus-Hochschule, A Fair Land MO-SCHAUFENSTER #27: revolution beuys Pforzheim Exhibition Bundeskunsthalle, on the museum square Museum Ostwall im Dortmunder U 5 June to 1 November 2021 13 August to 17 October 2021 — [curated by Sarah Hübscher and Elvira Neuendank]

For Beuys, the society of the future is a great »social sculpture« in Form-finding in various media, artistic representation, and the daily which we all participate together. In 1977, he has his Free Interna- staging of empowerment as a global cultural technique all directly tional University take place at documenta 6. Every day he holds connect with questions posed in Beuys’s work. The motor of discussions there with the public and with people working on »insight« and »reason« instigate moments of self-empowerment alternative models of society. that Beuys expresses in his art and in his words: »Make use of the On the Museum Square, the Bundeskunsthalle and the Kunstmu- power that you have through your right to self-determination! All of seum Bonn are setting up a meeting place that follows these ideas. you!« (Joseph Beuys, 1970) For this purpose, students of the Alanus Hochschule für Kunst und This collaborative exhibition project, presented in the Schaufenster Gesellschaft have designed an architectural platform and a exhibition space in Museum Ostwall, assembles objects and issues sculptural straw bale garden. There, under the guidance of the in a setting that combines political action and reaction. It addresses collective »A Fair Land Pforzheim«, different varieties of pumpkins historic, current, and future processes of social interaction, forms of are grown and harvested together – a growing process that activism, and assumptions about the human condition. This project promises abundant harvest and use. Throughout the summer, the involving Museum Ostwall and TU Dortmund (IAEB) codes the platform will host talks and workshops on various topics will take exhibition space as a social laboratory and as a place of »perma- place: How do we want to shape our future? What is socially and nent conference«, thereby enabling visitors to engage in a critical ecologically sustainable? Who owns the public space? We invite discussion ranging from the objects and concepts on display to you to drop by and join the conversation themes appropriated by Beuys.

Technoshamanism Exhibition Hartware MedienKunstVerein (HMKV) 9 October 2021 to 6 March 2022 — [curated by Inke Arns]

With the figure of the shaman that Joseph Beuys cultivated throughout his career as its starting point, this exhibition focuses on »technoshamanistic« artistic positions today. The artists in question not only regard shamanism as a technology in its own right, they also use other (speculative) technologies to seek out shamanic energies. Many of the tropes that Beuys so iconically employed to heal and transform society, to cultivate a spiritual connection with the environment, to overcome the power and the logic of capital are now deployed by contemporary artists, who thus update his strategies and questions for the digital age.

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Lehmbruck — Beuys Lutz Mommartz Everything is Sculpture Soziale Plastik Exhibition in cooperation with Bundeskunsthalle Bonn Jan Bonny & Alex Wissel Lehmbruck Museum Jupp, watt hamwer jemaht? 26 June to 1 November 2021 — [curated by Söke Dinkla and Jessica Keilholz-Busch] Screening Julia Stoschek Collection Düsseldorf 17 January to 19 December 2021 Is Joseph Beuys an artist? Or is he a shaman, a reformer and political activist who has changed not only art, but society as a JSC Düsseldorf presents the 16mm film »Soziale Plastik« (1969) whole? The sight of a sculpture by Wilhelm Lehmbruck became a by Lutz Mommartz. The film is a homage by the filmmaker to his pivotal experience for the young Beuys. Both Lehmbruck and artist colleague, who died in 1986 and is still known today for his Beuys were convinced that art has the power not only to explain confrontational political as well as artistic approach. Beuys did not the world, but also to change it for the better. In keeping with shy away from confrontation and entered into direct contact with his Beuys’s own maxim that »everything is sculpture«, this exhibition audience. Soziale Plastik shows this in the form of a cinematic explores the special relationship between two of the most impor- portrait in which Beuys’s face can be seen. His eyes fix the tant German artists of the twentieth century. audience through a camera gaze that appears endless in the loop. »Sculpture is the essence of things, the essence of nature, of that 10 On the occasion of »beuys 2021. 100 years of joseph beuys«, JSC which is eternally human« – Beuys took this insight of Lehmbruck’s Düsseldorf shows the feature film »Jupp, watt hamwer jemaht?« by as the starting point for his Social Sculpture, which subsequently Jan Bonny & Alex Wissel. It is a hybrid of film and theatre produc- revolutionised the art of the twentieth century. Ever since then, tion, whose stage setting can also be understood as an spatial sculptural forming – making art – has not primarily referred to the installation. The production is to be understood as a satire on the shaping of materials but to the shaping of ideas, the shaping of the art world of the noughties in Germany, torn between politics and art, social fabric as a whole. The Duisburg exhibition examines the authenticity, staging and lies, morality and power. In the midst of the progress of this future-oriented idea from its inception to the film’s action, Joseph Beuys appears again and again as a ghost of present day. the past.

Everyone is an Artist Cosmopolitan Exercises with Joseph Beuys Exhibition K20 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf 27 March to 15 August 2021 — [curated by Eugen Blume, Isabelle Malz and ­Catherine Nichols]

The exhibition provides profound insight into the cosmopolitical thinking of Joseph Beuys as manifested in his actions. For here – as an acting, speaking, and moving figure – Beuys examined the central and radical idea of his expanded concept of art: »everyone is an artist«. The goal of his universalist approach was to renew society from the ground up. In the exhibition, contemporary artists, along with representatives from the most diverse areas of society, enter into a multi-layered, transcultural dialogue with Beuys. From today’s perspective, they confirm, question, and expand his theses on the possibilities of a future conceived in terms of art.

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20 21 Mataré + Beuys + Immendorff Joseph Beuys – His Public Image An Encounter between the Works of Teacher and Student Films with, after and about Joseph Beuys Exhibition Film series Akademie-Galerie – Die Neue Sammlung. Eine Einrichtung der Kunstakademie Filmwerkstatt Düsseldorf ­Düsseldorf 29 June to 8 July 2021 — [artistic director: Jan Wagner] 27 March to 20 June 2021 — [curated by Vanessa Sondermann] The film series with and about Joseph Beuys presents five films that In spring 1947 Joseph Beuys became a student in the class of show him as an artist, teacher and political activist. All three roles Ewald Mataré at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, and in 1951 he are inherent in his artistic development model and contributed to became a master student under Mataré. Beuys’s works from these the emergence of a public figure whose radiance touched and years show that he engaged comprehensively and productively changed art and society alike. On view are Joseph Beuys und with the aesthetics taught by his teacher, especially with regard to seine Klasse, Beuys, Joseph Beuys: Jeder Mensch ist ein Künstler, religion, mythology and anthroposophy. Beuys later broke away Joseph Beuys / Transformer und Zeige deine Wunde – Kunst und from traditional notions of art and artistic-didactic concepts both in Spiritualität bei Joseph Beuys. his Actions and in his teaching with its focus on early drawings, sculptures and woodcuts, this exhibition presents and analyses the proximity and disparity of Mataré and Beuys’s artistic roots. Encounters between the works of teacher and student reveal numerous aesthetic affiiis ad rmral paralll i thei spiritual lives. In addition, one exhibition room is devoted to works 11 by Jörg Immendorff. In these works Immendorff, the »Beuys Kiste, Flasche, Tuch – Die drei Teile des Aktionssockels Knight« and future professor at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Exhibitions by Joseph Beuys at Konrad Fischer reflects on Beuys as a teacher and on his charismatic artistic Exhibition persona. Konrad Fischer Galerie 14 May to 15 July 2021

The works of Joseph Beuys were presented in three exhibitions at Konrad Fischer in Düsseldorf: »Drei Teile des Aktionssockels von 24 I’m searching for the dumbest person Stunden, 5. Juni 1965, 0-24 h« in September 1976, »dumme Kiste« in Joseph Beuys and Science May 1983 and »hinter dem Knochen wird gezählt – Schmerzraum« Lecture series from December 1983 to February 1984. Haus der Universität at Schadowplatz (online) The »Aktionssockel« was part of the »24 Stunden Happening« in the 20 April to 23 July 2021 — [directed by Timo Skrandies] Wuppertal gallery Parnass. Three pieces from this action – an orange crate, an oilcloth and a bottle were shown at Konrad Fischer in 1976. This lecture series brings together scholars and scientists from During the energy-sapping performance, Beuys was the only one to many fields with an interest in Joseph Beuys’s call to create the stay awake for 24 hours, as Rudolf Jährling recalls. conditions for a new life that can sustain the kind of thinking that In 1983, the »dumme Kiste« and the »Schmerzraum« followed, which incorporates the principles of sculpture. Beuys’s universal plea for a Joseph Beuys completely lined with lead plates, illuminated only by a revolution of concepts will be critically examined through the prism bare light bulb, whose weak light illuminated two silver rings mounted of disciplines ranging from physics to poetry, from economics to the on the ceiling. On the floor, a gray telephone. The lead as a possible law. protective shield against radioactive rays, the telephone as a possibility of communication. 12

22 23 12.05.1921 – 12.05.2021 Sculptural Democracy Exhibition The forms of the »we« Galerie Hans Mayer Models – Parliaments – Laboratory 12 May to 12 June 2021 Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf and raumlabor berlin Gustaf-Gründgens-Platz in front of Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus When Joseph Beuys entered Hans Mayer Galerie on May 18, 1979, 8 June to 29 September 2021— [artistic direction: Eugen Blume and Catherine Nichols the atmosphere was full of tension. Beuys approached the cauti- (beuys 2021), Frauke Gerstenberg, Andrea Hofmann and Markus Bader (raumlabor­ ously smiling Andy with his tremendous radiance: love at first sight berlin), Ludger Schwarte (Kunstakademie Düsseldorf), Timo Skrandies (Heinrich-­Heine- at Hans Mayer. Universität)] The moment when Beuys and Andy Warhol met in the gallery rooms at his exhibition »Indians, Portraits, Torsos« wrote art history. »Sculptural Democracy. The Forms of the We« is a lab. From June Coming from opposite starting points, two very extended concepts to September 2021, it will unfold online and in public space in of art mixed for a brief moment to form »Kunst = Kapital«. It almost Düsseldorf. The multifaceted experimental arrangement takes the did not come to the clash of the two personalities who were among 100th birthday of Joseph Beuys as an occasion to illuminate his the most important artists of the 20th century. Hans Mayer recalls impulses for the radical co-design of democracy according to the that Beuys did not feel much like coming to the spectacle in the principles of sculpture and to examine them with regard to today‘s gallery. But Mayer did convince Beuys: after all, Beuys would surely challenges. be happy about a return visit by Warhol to his exhibition – Beuys 15 The central themes of our time will be negotiated: the political saw that. system, climate, capital, digitalization, education and living to- In memory of this event, Hans Mayer Galerie is showing videos, gether. Behind the collectively developed project are the Kunstaka- photos and press material from the exhibition at that time. Private demie Düsseldorf, the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, photos from Hans Mayer’s archive are also on display, offering raumlaborberlin and the project team »beuys 2021«. Together, they insights into the gallery owner‘s shared experiences with Beuys invite architects, artists, scientists, students and visitors to explore and Warhol. And included are photographic works by Christopher and discuss Beuys‘ ideas, to contextualize and update them. Makos, who often accompanied Warhol. Photographic documents The nucleus of the project is an experimental architecture de- also show Beuys in the workshop of Hans Mayer Galerie.. veloped by raumlaborberlin on Gustaf-Gründgens-Platz: in front of the Düsseldorf Schauspielhaus in the center of the city. Here - in this structure that serves as stage, image and building at the same time - pioneering radical democratic models are explored and compared. Utopias, ideas, plans for a more democratic democracy are discussed and negotiated. And people live together. Whether cooking, eating, working or hanging out, speaking, performing or living: Sharing and participating are integral parts of the intended thought process as well as of the research project

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Kick-off– 8 to 15 June 2021 What are we missing? What are we fighting for? What should our political system look like? With what kind of democracy can we face the future? These and similar questions will be attempted to be addressed by a series of lectures and discussions that will take place in Düsseldorf at the start of the »SCULPTURAL DEMOCRACY« project. There will not be any »boxing matches for direct democracy (by referendum)« to be expected, but very different approaches, especially from the field of political philosophy, with which we will begin our discussion and work, in comparison to the impulses of Joseph Beuys and in view of today‘s necessities and challenges..

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24 25 Kick-off schedule on the Gustaf-Gründgens-Platz + online Joseph Beuys-Handbuch 8 June »The democracy we need. Protest, freedom, university« Leben – Werk – Wirkung – Oliver Marchart Book presentation »What does plastic democracy mean? From the German Student Party to the Free University« J.B. Metzler Verlag; Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Institut für Kunstgeschichte – Catherine Nichols, Eugen Blume 9 June »Transformative power of urban practice« Haus der Universität at Schadowplatz – raumlabor berlin July 2021 — [edited by Timo Skrandies and Bettina Paust] »Raw materials recovery centre Düsseldorf« – Martin Kaltwasser und Maike Fraas »Joseph Beuys. Leben – Werk – Wirkung«, a 400-page handbook 10 June »Abolitionist democracy« edited by Bettina Paust and Timo Skrandies, with over 80 articles – Daniel Loick by around 50 authors, will be the first ever comprehensive compen- 11 June »Love to life, love to world: Hannah Arendt and James Baldwin« dium on the artist Joseph Beuys. Its publication by Metzler Verlag – Juliane Rebentisch in Stuttgart in early 2021 will mark the beginning of Beuys’s »The imitation of life. Democracy by Beuys« – Christoph Menke centenary celebrations. 14 June »Utopies figuratives et mondes sens dessus dessous / Figurative utopias and inverted worlds« On the one hand, the handbook will serve as a repository of – Georges Didi-Huberman knowledge and ideas for current and future Beuys research and 15 June »Affect formation, materiality and aesthetic resistance - Feminist practices and 16 provide inspiration for further research. On the other hand, it is radical democracy« also designed to serve as a standard reference work and source of – Francesca Raimondi information for a wider public interested in Beuys and, in so doing, »›La Rivoluzione siamo noi‹: Anti-art and sculptural democracy« to promote the discussion of his oeuvre. – Ludger Schwarte The publication comprises seven section: Time and Persona; Works, Groups of Works, Forms of Work; Recognition; Contexts; Models – 9 July to 29 September 2021 People; Trends and Institutions; Terms and Concepts; Reception; The models are dedicated to the study of 100 radical democratic projects. On the one hand, this Appendix and Index. collection of projects places Beuys‘ political actions in a historical context. On the other hand, the online archive offers an insight into numerous attempts to establish truly democratic structures in society. From 9 june to 12 september everyone is invited to view and expand the interactive model database online.

9 July Online Launch of the database »Models« 12 July Guerilla poster action in the urban space from 12 July Open Call for Live-in Lab Stadtverwaldung 2021 State of Things Discussion Parliaments – 27 and 2. August 2021 Followed by a screening of: »Beuys« The parliaments provide the stage for a series of debates on the main topics of »Sculptural De- Filmwerkstatt Düsseldorf mocracy«: the political system, climate, capital, digitalization, education and living together. In each 17 July 2021, 8 pm — [Guests: Cornelia Zuschke (Head of Planning Düsseldorf), Moritz debate, two teams will discuss a thesis by Joseph Beuys that is still highly topical today. The Fiedler (artist and project manager of »Tita Giese Pflanzenprojekte«), Prof. Dr. Boris democratization of money and political participation are just two concrete topics that will be discussed in teams and with the audience. Schröder Esselbach (geoecologist, TU Braunschweig), Moderation: Jan Wagner]

Beuys‘s work »7000 Eichen – Stadtverwaldung statt Stadtverwal- Live-In Lab – 22 to 29 September 2021 tung« on the occasion of the Dokumenta 7 dates back almost 40 The Live-in Lab takes place in the experimental architecture designed by raumlaborberlin in front of years and marks a clear commitment to the ecology movement of the Düsseldorf Schauspielhaus on Gustaf-Gründgens-Platz. Part of the Live-In Lab is exploring and the 1980s. The green city remains mostly an unfulfilled promise to comparing the models, discussing and negotiating ideas and being together, working, thinking, this day, but has gained in importance against the backdrop of eating and living on site. Everyone interested can find the Open Call for participation here starting in climate change. We discuss the state of planning in Düsseldorf and July! The team of »Sculptural Democracy« is looking forward to numerous applications. the future potential of forested cities with a group of four actors from architecture, urban planning, art and politics.

All current information on www.plastischedemokratie.de

26 27 The capital – humans and money Music from the Future Where does money come from and how do we define capital? A 24-hour musical homage to Joseph Beuys on the occasion of his 100th birthday Discussion Concert Followed by a screening of: »Oeconomia« K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf Filmwerkstatt Düsseldorf 18 to 19 September 2021 — [artistic director: Matthias Osterwold] 20 August 2021, 8 pm — [Guests: Carmen Losmann (director, »Oeconomia«), Eugen Blume (beuys 2021), Moderation: Jan Wagner] 24 musicians honour Beuys as a ground-breaking artist, who regarded music as an important component in his visual thinking Carmen Losmann‘s film »Oeconomia« surprises us with the and whose concept of expanded art significantly affected the realization that many ideas we have about the capitalist system are course of music. The point of departure for this homage is Beuys’s simply wrong. Yet capital, or what we think of as capital, is a longstanding interest in the work and thinking of French composer decisive factor when it comes to understanding and changing a Erik Satie: 24 musicians from different disciplines, nations, and social value system. In a discussion with the director Carmen generations will present a relay performance of Erik Satie’s Losmann, a representative from the world of finance and the artistic »Vexations« for piano. Each will play for an hour before handing director of »beuys 2021« Dr. Eugen Blume, we would like to pose over to the next performer. The 24 players are not exclusively the question of the function and effective power of capital in our cur- professional pianists, there are also visual artists, curators, school rent social system and consider alternative systems of capital, as pupils. This event, as plastic as it is polyphonic, which opens the formulated not least in Joseph Beuys‘ expanded concept of art. programme for »beuys 2021. 100 jahre joseph beuys«, takes its lead from Beuys’s own transformative,deeply human approach to his work. It asks, with Beuys, how music today, how art today can contribute to social renewal.

Heiner Goebbels: A House of Call My Imaginary Notebook (2020/21) Concert Ensemble Modern Orchestra in the Tonhalle Düsseldorf 7 September 2021, 8 pm — [Ensemble Modern Orchestra; conductor: Vimbayi Kaziboni, ­ lighting director: Heiner Goebbels, sound director: Norbert Ommer]

The Beuys celebrations in 2021 could not pass by without special consideration being given to his impact on other art forms and on the work of artists today whose ideas, methods and themes would hardly have come about in their present form without his influence. The artist and composer Heiner Goebbels is inspired both by Beuys’s musical Fluxus actions and by the political and ecological dimensions of his art. Goebbels’s most recent orchestral work »A House of Call. My Imaginary Notebook« has multiple connections with prominent themes in Beuys’s work: foreign voices from Central Asia, Georgia and Iran are heard in this »lieder evening for or- chestra« as are ritual language forms devised by Samuel Beckett and Heiner Müller, which are juxtaposed with shamanistic recita- tions by indigenous peoples in Colombia. As if executing secular responses, the whole orchestra reacts to these cries, utterances, prayers and incantations. 17

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28 29 The Problem with Beuys beuys 2021. 100 years of joseph beuys — a balance A Mentality and Reception History of Joseph Beuys Book presentation Symposium Location tba. Haus der Universität at Schadowplatz Autumn 2021 — [edited by Eugen Blume and Catherine Nichols] 15 to 16 October 2021 — [organized by Eugen Blume, Catherine Nichols, Bettina Paust, Timo Skrandies] Who was Joseph Beuys? What do our thoughts, our feelings and desires have to do with sculpture? Is art the only revolutionary force? In dealing with Joseph Beuys one cannot help but wonder to what Is the future a category of art? Are these even the questions we need extent he actually achieved the degree of personal and social to be asking? 100 years after the birth of Joseph Beuys, one of the transformation to which he aspired in his artistic practice. The most significant twentieth-century artists, the German state of North complex oeuvre of Beuys as well as its controversial reception Rhine-Westphalia is rearticulating these questions so fundamental to show that this is not any easy question to answer. Can his work be both his art and thought. understood as a form of coming to terms with history, as an attempt The book begins with a critical interrogation of the history of the at transformation? Or was Beuys, as the art historian Benjamin reception of Joseph Beuys conducted by the artistic directors of Buchloh argued as early as 1980, a master of repression who, with »beuys 2021. 100 years of joseph beuys«, Catherine Nichols and much mysticism and charlatanry, glossed over his national socialist Eugen Blume. Focusing on key publications from the beginning of past? Did he remain, as beat Wyss postulated in 2008 and Hans Beuys’s career to the present day that have documented and formed Peter Riegel in 2013, the eternal Hitler Youth? A charismatic dazzler his practice over time, their unique and highly visual analysis offers who to this day manages to mesmerise people around the world? an accessible insight into the problem with Beuys. They reflect on the On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Joseph Beuys’s birth, ongoing construction and deconstruction of this equally contentious these and other questions concerning the mentality and reception and captivating public figure, whose idiosyncratic, self-mythologizing, history of the artist will be addressed at an academic conference. syncretic approach to history continues to polarize responses to the Beginning with the problem of the artist’s constructed biography, artist and his work even today. Their analysis is followed by a series which he saw as an integral part of his extended concept of art, the of essays by renowned authors who reflect from different perspec- relationship of the figure Beuys to the person Beuys will be tives on the overall outcomes and contribution to scholarship examined in depth. A strong focus will be on the books, catalogues, emerging from North Rhine-Westphalia’s centenary programme. exhibitions, media, and people that have contributed to the The second section of the book examines the media response to construction and deconstruction of the artist. The role of copyright, »beuys 2021«. An overview essay explores the most recent reac- licensing, and censorship will also be explored in a thematic block. tions to the legacy and the treatment of Joseph Beuys, situating the Live stream will be considered if the pandemic preventative current enquiry within the context of the artist’s overall reception. The measures should restrict the number of visitors. essay is accompanied by selected newspaper articles offering an insight into palpably polarising impact of Beuys 100 years after his birth. In the following section the book provides an overview of the extensive program of »beuys 2021. 100 years of joseph beuys«. Here the 32 events comprising the centenary, including exhibitions, performances, concerts, film screenings, lectures, labs, symposia and podcasts, are introduced in brief essays that contribute to the overall interrogation of what makes this artist as controversial as he is contemporary. They look at his ideas on democracy, ecology, education, capital and the possibility of a universal subject. Together they explore Beuys’s complex oeuvre, consider his international impact and evaluate the revolutionary potential of his thought. The volume concludes with an imaginary conversation with Beuys on 15 issues of relevance to our times. Featuring original works by the award-winning, internationally renowned graphic designers cyan, Berlin, the dialogue brings together a multitude of voices from many different spheres, generations and cultures who enter into a richly associative, critical dialogue with the artist’s well-known aphorisms. Together they explore the genesis, viability and relevance of Beuys’s vision of a future based on the principles of art.

19 30 31 Anyone who doesn’t want to think will be thrown [throw themselves] out The Invisible Sculpture Joseph Beuys and the Shape of the Future The Expanded Concept of Art after Joseph Beuys Exhibition Exhibition Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Düsseldorf Stiftung Zollverein/Ruhr Museum, Unesco-Welterbe Zollverein, Halle 8 28 October 2021 to 20 January 2022 — [curated by Anne-Marie Franz and Inga Nake] 10 May to 26 September 2021 — [curated by Heinrich Theodor Grütter, Rosa ­Schmitt-Neubauer, Christoph Schurian, Johannes Stüttgen, Achim Weber The exhibition »Anyone who doesn’t want to think will be thrown and Carla Zimmermann] [throw themselves] out« in the foyer of the University and State Library Düsseldorf at the Heinrich-Heine-Universität focuses on This exhibition at the UNESCO World Heritage Site Zollverein Joseph Beuys’s boxing match for direct democracy through highlights the socio-political dimension of the work of Joseph Beuys referendums. and addresses its importance for the present and the future. Beuys’s fight on 8 October 1972, the last day of documenta Beuys’s visionary commitment to democracy expanded the 5, is symbolic of the physical attrition and absolute commitment international concept of art. This exhibition revisits his work in the without which, according to Beuys, nothing new can be created. context of the present global debate on ecology and democracy. Visitors taking the exhibition tour in effect enter the ring for four Taking Joseph Beuys’s expanded concept of art as its starting point, roundsalongside the artist and thinker Joseph Beuys. The coales- The Invisible Sculpture resists the historicization and canonization cence of Beuys’s artistic career and work, his art and his life, is of his work. The juxtaposition of seminal works by Beuys with mirrored in the boxing match. Analogies between boxing and specially selected materials – including many unpublished items – Beuys’s lifelong fight will be explored using boxing terminology and is designed to reignite the debate regarding the significance of his selected objects, including items from the collection of the Universi- oeuvre and to locate his work in a broader cultural and socio-politi- ty and State Library, thereby providing a new perspective on the cal context. To this end, there will be a particular focus on the work of one of the most important artists of the twentieth century. philosophical and aesthetic aspects of Beuys’s work that relate both The fight for life and death, in the ring and in society, is a fight to to the current discourse on social coexistence and to the relation- shape the future. ship between humankind and nature.

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Sebastian Blasius: Absent Wolves Performance In cooperation with Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Stiftung Zollverein and Folkwang Universität der Künste Essen/Bochum Stiftung Zollverein Essen 2 to 4 July 2021 Further dates: Kunsthalle Düsseldorf 7 to 8 August 2021 — [concept and direction: Sebastian Blasius]

Voices from the urban society of Düsseldorf and Essen meet nomadic practices meet instructions for wolf hunting. We have become accustomed to the absent wolves as a result of their deliberate extermination: With the settling down of man, the wolf was declared our competitor. Deprived of his natural hunting grounds, he invaded the man-made order, helped himself to the stock of useful animals. Who, on the other hand, could we be if we had developed a different, non-dominating relationship to our environment, in which the wolf could also coexist? The performance project experiments with new forms of the collective and nomadic and includes voices of citizens of Düssel- dorf and Essen: what alternative ways of being-in-the-world are imaginable for them? How does it feel to live without wolves? The project is designed as an installation, spectators can choose the moment of their arrival and departure. 20 Kleve Krefeld

Intuition! Art = Human Dimensions of the Early Work of Joseph Beuys 1946–1961 Joseph Beuys in Krefeld Exhibition Exhibition Museum Kurhaus Kleve Kunstmuseen Krefeld, Kaiser Wilhelm Museum 19 June to 3 October 2021 — [curated by Harald Kunde, Susanne Figner and guest 28 March to 1 August 2021 — [curated by Magdalena Holzhey] curator Wolfgang Zumdick] The Kaiser Wilhelm Museum is the only art institution in North The exhibition »Intuition! Dimensions of the Early Work of Joseph Rhine-Westphalia with a sculptural ensemble by Joseph Beuys that Beuys 1946–1961« examines the period between Joseph Beuys’s has been preserved exactly as the artist himself installed it. With return to Kleve after the war at the age of twenty-four and his their permanently installed Beuys rooms still on display, Kunstmu- appointment as a professor at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in seen Krefeld will launch their Beuys year with a display of works 1961. During this »incubation period«, themes relevant to his future and documents by Beuys from their own holdings – at the heart of work emerged and a series of three-dimensional essays on these this presentation is the lecture »Kunst = Mensch«, which Beuys themes now provides a framework for the exhibition: 1. Biography delivered when the Kaiser Wilhelm Museum acquired a key work – as material for artistic forming, 2. Kindred spirits (Lohengrin, Cloots, his Barraque D’Dull Odde. Beuys later categorized that lecture as Steiner, Lehmbruck), 3. Early companions (Lamers, Getlinger, an Action. Mataré), 4. Christian influences and Eurasian horizons, 5. Depic- tions of animals: from elementary experiences to the body politic, 6. 22 Self-image – image – action, 7. Universalist thinking today? The aim of the exhibition is neither to venerate a local saint nor to topple an artist from an earlier generation. Instead it highlights the influences, ideas and caesuras that saw Beuys develop from a »sensitive traditionalist« into a »visionary social sculptor«. 21 Beuys and Duchamp Artists of the Future Exhibition Kunstmuseen Krefeld, Kaiser Wilhelm Museum 8 October 2021 to 16 January 2022 — [curated by Magdalena Holzhey (­Kunstmuseen Krefeld) and Kornelia Röder (Duchamp Research Center, Schwerin)] Joseph Beuys: Collection Highlights for the 100th birthday This exhibition will be the first large-scale juxtaposition of the work Exhibition of Joseph Beuys with that of Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968). Beuys Museum Kurhaus Kleve repeatedly referred to his »challenger« Duchamp, not least in the 7 May to 6 September 2021 — [curated by Harald Kunde] Action »Das Schweigen von Marcel Duchamp wird überbewertet« [The Silence of Marcel Duchamp is Overrated]. Yet there are in fact On the occasion of the 100th birthday of Joseph Beuys (1921– deep links and connections between these two artists, which, for all 1986), Museum Kurhaus Kleve will show a representative selection the dissimilarity of their work, can be seen in many themes and of his Beuys collection holdings from 7 May to 5 September 2021 in aspects of their art. This exhibition will not be purely retrospective, the largest room of the house, the so-called Wandelhalle. On view but will review their work from today’s perspective and shed new will be, for example, the monumental sculpture »Badewanne« light on the forward-looking potential of the radical, interdisciplinary (1961/1987), the four-part work »Ohne Titel (Mein Kölner Dom)« strategies of both artists. The dialogue between these two protago- (1980), an extensive block of color lithographs from the 1970s, and 23 nists also raises fundamental questions regarding the role of art in the fragile wall piece »Seven Palms« (1974). This presentation is daily life and in society as a whole, and these will be pursued in intended to complement the following exhibition, »Intuition! greater depth with input from works by a number of contemporary Dimensions of the Early Work of Joseph Beuys, 1946–1961« which artists. will be on view from 19 June to 3 October 2021 in all rooms of the Joseph Beuys West Wing surrounding the artist’s former studio. Leverkusen Wuppertal

The Catalyst Joseph Beuys. Perpetual Motion Joseph Beuys and Democracy today Exhibition Exhibition Skulpturenpark Waldfrieden, Cragg Foundation Museum Morsbroich 28 March to 20 June 2021 — [curated by Corinna Thierolf and Tony Cragg, curatorial 2 May to 29 August 2021 — [curated by Ania Czerlitzki] assistance from Cora Faßbender]

Joseph Beuys’s »Straßenaktion« [Street Action] of 1971 in Cologne Joseph Beuys’s maxim »Every human being is an artist« redefined chimed with the aims of a younger generation that self-confidently the boundaries of art. He devoted his creative energies to finding a demanded the opening-up of society. Beuys sympathized with their way of involving all human beings in the realization of a fair society. revolutionary stance, particularly their ideal of direct democracy, For Beuys every work of art was a way of advancing human which he supported with his »Straßenaktion« . He felt it was worth knowledge and understanding –and a test bed for his own fighting for direct democracy as a form of political coexistence, far-reaching ideas. He often developed works during the course of which would see the power to make decisions no longer the public discussions and Actions. When Beuys delivered one of his preserve of elected representatives but rather the outcome of unorthodox lectures on the dynamic continuum of life and art at the widespread participation in a daily discourse. Whitechapel Gallery in London in 1972, his words and performance Fifty years later, this idea is still topical. The exhibition »The were an inspiration for the then 23-year-old student Tony Cragg and 24 Catalyst« thus examines whether and how, in our current situation continued to influence Cragg’s engagement with the core topics of – an era of global complexity and digitization that is changing matter and movement. In honour of Beuys’s 100th birthday Cragg almost all areas of life – new forms of political coexistence can be has selected 20 exhibits from the collections of some of Beuys’s developed, indeed, whether democratic values are in fact immuta- most important fellow travellers. These works, in conjunction with a ble? These questions will be examined on the basis of contempo- 26 series of lectures, pave the way for an in-depth re-examination of rary artistic positions – sometimes explicitly, sometimes implicitly. Beuys’s art. The exhibits enter into dialogue with each other and could be described – in the Beuysian sense – as a battery filled with energy, a reservoir of potential and ideas.

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Institutional Critique – The Museum as a Site of Permanent Conference (J.B.) The Infinity of the Moment Ghislaine Leung. Portraits Performances after Joseph Beuys Workshop Report Collection/Archive Andersch (Beuys) Kulturbüro Wuppertal Exhibition Various locations in Wuppertal Museum Abteiberg 2 to 6 June 2021 — [curated by Bettina Paust, Barbara Gronau (Universität der Kün- 3 June to 24 October 2021 — [»Ghislaine Leung. Portraits« curated by Susanne Titz with ste Berlin) and Timo Skrandies (Heinrich-Heine-Universität)] Haris Giannouras. »Workshop Report« curated by Felicia Rappe with Denise Wegener] In Wuppertal, the city of performance, the Kulturbüro will present a Institutional Critique: The Museum as a Site of Permanent Confer- festival from 2 to 6 June 2021 with artistic and scholarly contribu- ence. Two exhibitions displayed at Museum Abteiberg from 3 June tions that will engage with the impact of Joseph Beuys’s art on to 24 October 2021 as part of »beuys 2021«. The two exhibitions performative trends in art today. will comprise of one solo exhibition and one archival exhibition. The It was specifically in the realm of performance that Joseph Beuys solo exhibition will comprise of works by the London-based artist so crucially influenced contemporary art. This performance festival Ghislaine Leung as commissioned by Museum Abteiberg and will bring together international and local artists and artists’ collec- produced in 2020 and 2021. The archival exhibition will comprise of tives whose work has widely varied points of contact with Beuys’s materials by Joseph Beuys from the Andersch Collection and Action art. 25 Archive at Museum Abteiberg and will be presented alongside The Infinity of the Moment, which will take place at various locations materials by FLUXUS and related artists from the 1960s through to in Wuppertal, will provide the only platform dedicated to the the 1980s. The solo exhibition will be curated by Susanne Titz and ephemeral art of performance during the Beuys centenary celebra- the archival exhibition by Felicia Rappe. This information is tions. Lectures by leading academics will examine the special provided as per the required 1000 characters and has been edited features of Beuys’s Actions with a particular focus on their current by Ghislaine Leung, Susanne Titz and Felicia Rappe. Details are artistic reception. correct as of April 2020 and are subject to change dependent on requirements and resources available. Torn out of Time Podcast »the earth is speaking« Joseph Beuys: Actions – photographed by Ute Klophaus. 1965–1986 | Lothar Schirmer Collection how does joseph beuys speak to us today? Exhibition How do people evaluate Joseph Beuys in 2021? How are his ideas on art, capitalism, democracy and the Von der Heydt-Museum environment received in different cultural environments? Are his ideas compromised by his self-mytholo- gisation? Does he play a role at all for the current generation of artists? 10 podcasts by influential artists, 19 September 2021 to 9 January 2022 — [curated by Antje Birthälmer] scholars and authors from Germany alternate with podcasts by activists, DJs and artists from 14 different countries offer answers to these questions both from a German and an international perspective. New Taking its lead from the 24-hour Happening at Galerie Parnass in podcasts in the series appear once a week. You can listen to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Wuppertal in 1965, this exhibition of photographs by Ute Klophaus Podcasts, at Amazon Music or Deezer. And you can also subscribe to us there. (1940–2010) focuses on her images of Actions by Joseph Beuys. Published so far: Her shots of moments »torn out of the flow of time« in Beuys’s Benjamin Hasselhorn – The Whole Reality – Does Democracy Need Myths? [ger] performances also capture the special charisma, intensity and Anna Bromley – Creating a New Organ – Beuys and Social Media [ger] energy of Künstlerkollektiv Orta – 7,000 Pyramids of Beuys [eng] Beuys in action. This exhibition mainly draws on the wealth of DJ Sniff – Sounds of Eurasia – Constructing a network through Beuys/voice mail [eng] Klophaus photographs in the collection of Lothar Schirmer in Ralf Schlüter – »Everyone is an artist« [ger] Munich. Juanita Fernandez – 2 crosses [eng] The 24-hour Happening, where other participants included artists Fatma Aydemir – Pseudodemocracy everywhere? Art and its relationship to the critique of power [ger] Andreas Treske und Aras Ozgun - Yağ (Fat) [eng] such as Nam June Paik, Bazon Brock, Tomas Schmit and Wolf Vostell, was both a high point in the international Fluxus movement and a key experience for Klophaus in her native city. That encounter 100 voices with Beuys crucially informed her subsequent development and she who was, who is joseph beuys? What makes him so controversial? Is he still relevant, still pertinent? In went on to photograph Beuys and his work for over twenty years. In the art world and beyond? 100 people, 100 voices from different countries and cultures express the process, she developed the ability to give visible form to themselves here. Sometimes critical, sometimes witty, sometimes anecdotal, philosophical, poetic or perceptions that go beyond the visual and to convey a sense of the performative, they reflect on the artist‘s significance today. Taken as a whole, they offer an insight into the hidden, elusive factors that also informed Beuys’s designs for the contradictions inherent in Beuys as a person and his reception. world. Interviews Published so far: 27 April Raimar Stange in conversation with Marina Naprushkina Online 30 April Raimar Stange in conversation with Joulia Strauss 1 May Raimar Stange in conversation with Peter Niemann beuysradio 3 May Raimar Stange in conversation with Ulf Aminde Radio – Podcast – Audio Library 4 May Raimar Stange in conversation with Olga von Schubert Podcast 8 May Susanne Titz in conversation with Kasper König 8 May Eugen Blume in conversation with Sebastian Blasius from 12 May 2021 — [a cooperation of »beuys 2021«,Goethe-Institut, Munich, under the 9 May Yuan Gong: Five questions about Joseph Beuys direction of Catherine Nichols and Marc-André Schmachtel] 9 May Catherine Nichols in conversation with Raimar Stange 19 May Raimar Stange in conversation with Claus Föttinger Is everyone an artist? Are trees more intelligent than people? Is plasticity synonymous with humanity? Are we the revolution? Do Music we live in a pseudo-democracy? Are capitalism’s days numbered? For Beuys, sound was as important a sculptural material as fat, felt, or copper. He was certain that you Joseph Beuys posed many of the questions that we most urgently hear a sculpture before you see it. While he equated classical music more with a piece of pork than with face today. beuysradio investigates who Beuys was, what he cultural heritage, he greatly valued the music of Erik Satie and the anti-music of Nam June Paik among actually said, how that is pertinent and why his ideas and he others. Here, in a series of playlists and compositions, you will experience the music that Beuys listened himself remain the subject of such heated debate today. beuysradio to and performed with others in his actions, the music that emerged around him, that he shaped and still takes up his hypotheses and questions and has a fresh look at inspires today. them in the here and now. This free online audio programme dedicated to the critical analysis of Joseph Beuys presents 100 Reports voices exploring him as a person, 20 podcasts on his most provoc- 27 From »uber-artist« to »pseudo-democrat«, from »do-gooder« to »German redeemer«: the explosive ative questions, a wide range of reports on the festivities compris- nature of the current discussion about the artist Joseph Beuys reflects his complexity and contentious- ing the centenary programme »beuys 2021« and a series of ness. Beuys is received in contradictory ways now as he was during his lifetime. This lively discussion, playlists introducing the music he listened to, made, influenced and which has been going on intensively since the beginning of the Beuys centenary, can be experienced in inspired. numerous radio interviews and reports. Various radio features also shed light on important aspects of the artist‘s work and influence. Here you will find an overview of the most informative contributions. Understanding Beuys Press images A virtual gallery of the Goethe-Institut Warschau and Prag Please note that the images and contents are subject to copyright and that they are provided for use exclusively in the context with Exhibition the current reporting of the respective programme partner. All informations and downloads on beuys2021.de/en/press. 12 May to 31 December 2021 — [curated by Eugen Blume and Catherine Nichols, conception: Renata Prokurat (Goethe-Institut Warschau) and Fabian Mrongowius (XR Credits Producer, ZAUBAR)] 1 Joseph Beuys, Scheveningen, 1976, photograph: Caroline Tisdall 2 Joseph Beuys at the »Festival of New Art« at the RWTH Aachen on 20 July 1964, photograph: Heinrich Riebesehl / © VG ­Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2020 The »expanded concept of art« developed by Joseph Beuys forms 3 Joseph Beuys, undated, photograph: Ute Klophaus, Stiftung Museum Schloss Moyland, Joseph Beuys Archiv jba-f 90613 / bpk the inspiration for the work of the Goethe-Institut to address the 4 Joseph Beuys working on intuition boxes outside Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, photograph: Nino Barbieri, 1970s political, social and ecological issues of the artist in the form of a © VG ­Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2021 5 Composing, portrait of Joseph Beuys, Paris, around 1985, © imago images/Leemage and Wilhelm Lehmbruck, Große virtual exhibition in the anniversary year. The virtual gallery is Kniende, 1911, Lehmbruck Estate, Lehmbruck-Museum, Duisburg, © akg-images / cda / guillot conceived as an approach to the person and the work of Joseph 6 Joseph Beuys, Capri-Batterie, 1985, photograph: Reni Hansen, Kunstmuseum Bonn / © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2020 Beuys, in particular to his life theme »social transformation«. It 7 Aufbau der Beuys-Plattform, Bonn, Museumplatz 2021 © Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland GmbH 28 8 Suzanne Treister, TECHNOSHAMANIC SYSTEMS / Diagram / Technoshamanic Architectures and Design, 2020, Courtesy illustrates the artist‘s perspective on issues such as capital, ecology, the artist, Annely Juda Fine Art, London and PPOW Gallery, New York democracy and the future. The exhibition makes Beuys’ theory and 9 Joseph Beuys accepting the Wilhelm Lehmbruck Prize awarded by the city of Duisburg, Lehmbruck Museum, 12 January 1986, photograph: Britta Lauer practice of »social sculpture« tangible in these thematic contexts, 10 Lutz Mommartz, Soziale Plastik, 1969, 16-mm-Film, transferiert auf Video, 11’41’’, S/W, kein Ton. Courtesy of the artist and it illuminates his visual and material language. In this way, it 11 Jörg Immendorff, Mona Schwana, 1965, Museum Schloss Moyland, Bedburg-Hau / msm 29004 © the estate of Jörg also asks about the topicality of the phenomenon Joseph Beuys Immendorff, courtesy Galerie Michael Werner Märkisch Wilmersdorf, Cologne & New York. photograph: Maurice Dorren, Museum Schloss Moyland beyond the centenary of his birth. The virtual gallery »Understan- 12 Joseph Beuys während der Diskussion bei der Ausstellungseröffnung »Beuys and seine Klasse«, Frankfurt a. Main 1976, ding Beuys« will also be accessible in Polish, Czech, Slovakian, Foto: Ute Klophaus, © bpk / Stiftung Museum Schloss Moyland / Ute Klophaus / Leihgabe der Ernst von Siemens Kunststiftung / © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2021 Hungarian, Lithuanian and Slovenian from mid-May 2021. 13 Joseph Beuys and Andy Warhol at Warhol’s exhibition opening Andy »Indians, Portraits, Torsos« on May 18, 1979 at the Galerie Hans Mayer – outside queues of people, inside big crowd, photo: Werner Raeune 14 Joseph Beuys, probably 1969, photograph: Klaus Eschen, © slub Dresden / Deutsche Fotothek / Klaus Eschen 15 Sculptural democracy © raumlaborberlin, drawing: Claire Mothais 16 Joseph Beuys, 1975, photograph: Caroline Tisdall beuys ar 17 Heiner Goebbels, Ruhrtriennale 2012, photograph: Wonge Bergmann 18 Joseph Beuys, Kukei, Akopee – Nein!, Braunkreuz – Fettecken – Modellfettecken, during the Festival of New Art, 20 July A metaphysical journey through the world and ideas of Joseph Beuys 1964, © photograph: Peter Thomann / Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst Aachen / © VG ­Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2020 Augmented Reality in cooperation with Rosy DX and Scavengar 19 Joseph Beuys mit Studierdenden (v. l. Johannes Stüttgen, Gerda Hühn, Chris Reinecke, Jörgen Dobloug, Fernand Ries) im 5. from 12 May 2021 — [Curation & Production: Fernanda Parente, Design: Merlin Baum, Ringgespräch, Staatliche Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Wintersemester 1967/68, Foto: Ute Klophaus, © bpk / Stiftung Museum Schloss Moyland / Ute Klophaus / Leihgabe der Ernst von Siemens Kunststiftung/ © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2021 Art Direction: Vesela Stanoeva, 3D Artist: Elisabeth Drache, Sound Design: Christian 20 Joseph Beuys at the 1st jour fixe on 27 march 1981 in Düsseldorf © Fotoarchiv Ruhr Museum; Foto: Jürgen Leiendecker / Bröer, Production Assistant: Yuliana Mosheeva] © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 202020 21 Joseph Beuys, portrait, 1947, Museum Kurhaus Kleve – on loan from Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, photograph: Anne Gossens / © VG ­Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2020 Inspired by Beuys’s revolutionary approach and futurological 22 Joseph Beuys and Paul Wember during the Action »kunst = mensch«, Kaiser Wilhelm Museum Krefeld, 15 December 1971, thinking the augmented reality experience aims to connect the past, photograph: Theo Windges, Krefeld / © VG ­Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2020 23 Joseph Beuys, from: »3-tonnen-edition«, 1973–85, double-sided serigraphy on pvc film, Städtische Museen Heilbronn, present and future, playfully expanding the discourse around his Depositum Ernst Franz Vogelmann-­Stiftung © VG ­Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2020 ideas and their relevance today. The starting point is the city of 24 Karolina Jabłońska „Krzyczący ludzie“ (Schreiende Leute / Screaming People), 2017, Öl auf Leinwand, 170 × 190 cm, Courtesy of the artist and Tomasz Pasiek Collection Düsseldorf, where Beuys lived and worked most of his life. Three 25 Ghislaine Leung, 2020, Courtesy of Ghislaine Leung and Essex Street, New York chosen locations that were relevant to Beuys will act as departing 26 Backrest for a fine-limbed person (hair-type) of the 20th century ad, 1972-1982, Galerie Thaddeus Ropac, London / Paris / points into three metaphysical journeys inspired by the artist’s ideas Salzburg, photograph: Ulrich Ghezzi, © Estate Joseph Beuys, VG-Bildkunst, Bonn 2021 27 Rückenstütze für eine feingliedrige Person (Hasenart) des 20. Jahrhunderts n. Chr., 1972-1982, Galerie Thaddeus Ropac, 29 – in augmented reality. Following Beuys’s interest in shamanism the London / Paris / Salzburg, Foto: Ulrich Ghezzi, © Estate Joseph Beuys, VG-Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2021 experience is divided into the three worlds of the shamanic journey: 28 beuysradio visual © cyan, berlin 28 Beuys verstehen, die virtuelle Galerie @ Goethe-Institut, Zaubar the underworld, the middle world and the upper world. As users 29 beuys ar © Rosy DX travel through the experience, they encounter creatures and objects that relate to Beuys’s universe and are challenged to engage with political, social and environmental questions posed by the artist. Press contact They are given tasks to be completed that use the mechanics of a scavenger hunt. At the end of each experience, users are given a Kathrin Luz Jochen Mohr Dr. Victoria Meinschäfer special task intended to give them a sense of empowerment. 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