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

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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: 6.4.2021 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 in -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. 12 April to 23 July 2021 I’m searching for the dumbest person Joseph Beuys and Science Lecture series Düsseldorf Haus der Universität at Schadowplatz 2 3 May from 12 May 2021 beuysradio 2 May to 29 August 2021 Radio – Podcast – Audiothek Joseph Beuys and the Shamans online Exhibition Opening: 2 May 2021, 2 pm 12 May 2021 Bedburg-Hau Museum Schloss Moyland BEUYS’ erdklavier + ensemble CRUSH Performance concert 2 May to 29 August 2021 Münster LWL Museum für Kunst and Kultur The Catalyst Joseph Beuys and Democracy today 12 May to 15 July 2021 Exhibition »Kiste, Flasche, Tuch – Die drei Teile des Aktionssockels. Opening: 2 May 2021, 12 pm [Box, Bottle, Cloth – The Three Parts of the Action Plinth] Leverkusen Museum Morsbroich Exhibitions of Joseph Beuys at Konrad Fischer« Exhibition 6 May 2021, 8 pm Düsseldorf Konrad Fischer Galerie Joseph Beuys und seine Klasse D 1971 | 40 Min. | D: Hans Emmerling and Edwin K. Braun 13 May 2021, 8 pm Beuys Joseph Beuys: Jeder Mensch ist ein Künstler D 1981 | 11 Min. | D: and Dore O. D 1979 | 54 Min. | D: Werner Krüger Film series »Joseph Beuys – his public image. Films with, after and about Joseph Beuys« Film series »Joseph Beuys – his public image. Films with, after and about Joseph Beuys« Düsseldorf Filmwerkstatt Düsseldorf Düsseldorf Filmwerkstatt Düsseldorf

7 May to 8 August 2021 20 May 2021, 8 pm Empty Boxes as a Plastic Theme in the Work of Joseph Beuys Transformer Exhibition USA 1979 | 59 Min. | D: John Halpern Opening: 6 May 2021, 7:30 pm Film series »Joseph Beuys – his public image. Films with, after and about Joseph Beuys« Bergisch-Gladbach Kunstmuseum Zanders Düsseldorf Filmwerkstatt Düsseldorf

10. May to 26 September 2021 27 May 2021, 8 pm The Invisible Sculpture Zeige deine Wunde – Kunst and Spiritualität bei Joseph Beuys The Expanded Concept of Art after Joseph Beuys D 2015 | 85 Min. | D: Rudiger Sunner Exhibition Film series »Joseph Beuys – his public image. Films with, after and about Joseph Beuys« Essen Zollverein / Museum, UNESCO Welterbe Zollverein, 8 Düsseldorf Filmwerkstatt Düsseldorf

11 to 12 May 2021, 6 pm Music from the Future June A 24-hour musical homage to Joseph Beuys on the occasion of his 100th birthday Concert 2 to 6 June 2021 Düsseldorf K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen The Infinity of the Moment Performances after Joseph Beuys 11 and 12 May 2021, 7 pm Performance Sebastian Blasius: Absent Wolves Various locations in Wuppertal Performance Wuppertal Kulturbüro Wuppertal In cooperation with Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Stiftung Zollverein and Folkwang Universität der Künste Essen/ 3 June to 24 October 2021 Düsseldorf Kunsthalle Düsseldorf Institutional Critique The Museum as a Site of Permanent Conference (J.B.) 12 to 16 May 2021 Exhibition 12.05.1921 – 12.05.2021 Mönchengladbach Museum Abteiberg Exhibition Düsseldorf Galerie Hans Mayer

4 5 8 to 20 June 2021 Sculptural Democracy August Forms of the »We« 13 August to 17 October 2021 Models – Parliaments – Lab Revolution Beuys Düsseldorf Kunstakademie Düsseldorf and Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf MO-Schaufenster#27 Gustaf-Gründgens-Platz vor dem Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus Exhibition Dortmund Museum Ostwall at Dortmunder U 19 June to 3 October 2021 Intuition! 20 August 2021, 8 pm Dimensions of the Early Work of Joseph Beuys 1946–1961 Das Kapital – Mensch und Geld Exhibition Woher kommt das Geld und wie definieren wir Kapital? Opening: 19 June 2021, 7:30 pm Talk Kleve Museum Kurhaus Kleve Düsseldorf Filmwerkstatt Düsseldorf 25 June to 1 November 2021 20 August 2021, 9:45 pm Beuys — Lehmbruck Oeconomia Thinking is Sculpture D 2020 | 89 Min. | D: Carmen Losmann Exhibition – in cooperation with Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg Screening Bonn Bundeskunsthalle Bonn Düsseldorf Filmwerkstatt Düsseldorf 26 June to 1 November 2021 29 August 2021 Lehmbruck — Beuys Everything is Sculpture BEUYS’ erdklavier + ensemble CRUSH Performance concert Exhibition – in cooperation with Bundeskunsthalle Bonn Bedburg-Hau Museum Schloss Moyland Duisburg Lehmbruck Museum

July September 7 September 2021, 8 pm 2 to 4 July 2021 Heiner Goebbels: A House of Call Sebastian Blasius: Absent Wolves My Notebook (2020/21) Performance Concert in cooperation with Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Stiftung Zollverein and Folkwang Universität Düsseldorf Ensemble Modern Orchestra at Tonhalle Düsseldorf der Künste Essen/Bochum Essen Stiftung Zollverein 16 September 2021 BEUYS’ erdklavier + ensemble CRUSH 17 July 2021 Performance concert Stadtverwaldung Duisburg Lehmbruck Museum Talk Düsseldorf Filmwerkstatt Düsseldorf 19 September 2021 to 9 January 2022 Torn out of Time July 2021 Joseph Beuys: Actions – Photographed by Ute Klophaus 1965–1986 Joseph Beuys-Handbuch Exhibition Leben – Werk – Wirkung Opening: 19 September 2021, 11:30 am Book presentation Wuppertal Von der Heydt-Museum J.B. Metzler Verlag; Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Institut für Kunstgeschichte Düsseldorf Haus der Universität at Schadowplatz

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7 October 2021 to 9 January 2022 Ticket to the Future Joseph Beuys, Katinka Bock, Christian Jankowski, Jon Rafman Exhibition Opening: 6 October 2021 Bonn

8 October 2021 to 16 January 2022 Beuys and Duchamp Artists of the Future Exhibition Opening: 7 October 2021, 7 pm Krefeld Kunstmuseen Krefeld, Kaiser Wilhelm Museum

9 October 2021 to 6 March 2022 Technoshamanism Exhibition Opening: 8 October 2021, 7 pm Dortmund Hartware MedienKunstVerein (HMKV) 1 15 to 16 October 2021 The Problem with Beuys A Mentality and Reception History of Joseph Beuys Symposium Aachen Düsseldorf Haus der Universität at Schadowplatz Beuys, Fluxus and the Impact 22 to 23 October 2021 The Festival of New Art in Aachen Beuys, Fluxus and the Impact Symposium The Festival of New Art in Aachen Ludwig Forum für internationale Kunst and Chair of Art History at RWTH Aachen Symposium 22 to 23 October 2021 — [curated by Myriam Kroll, Annette Lagler and Alexander Aachen Ludwig Forum für internationale Kunst and Chair Markschies] of Art History at RWTH Aachen 28 October 2021 to 20 January 2022 The name Joseph Beuys is indelibly associated with an incident at the Festival of New Art on 20 July 1964 in the main lecture Anyone who doesn’t want to think will be thrown [throw themselves] out hall – the Audimax – of the RWTH technical university in Aachen. Joseph Beuys and the Shape of the Future A performance by Beuys took a dramatic turn when an agitated Exhibition student landed a punch on his nose, drawing blood, and the event Opening: 28 October 2021, 6 pm was abruptly called to a halt. Photographs taken that evening have Düsseldorf Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Düsseldorf become part of our collective memory, even if few people nowa- days are fully aware of the circumstances. The symposium to be held in Aachen during beuys 21 will focus on the relationship between Joseph Beuys and the Fluxus movement November in the wake of that festival in Aachen. Participants will critically examine that situation over fifty years ago in light of its importance 7 and 11 November 2021 to art, politics and society today, with particular reference to works BEUYS’ erdklavier + ensemble CRUSH by contemporary artists. Performance concert 2 Presented in cooperation with the Chair of Art History, this two-day Krefeld Kunstmuseen Krefeld, Kaiser Wilhelm Museum symposium will welcome numerous expert speakers to the Audimax (the original festival venue) and to the Ludwig Forum Aachen. 8 9 Bedburg-Hau Bonn

Joseph Beuys and the Shamans Beuys — Lehmbruck Exhibition Thinking is Sculpture Museum Schloss Moyland Exhibition in cooperation with Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg 2 May to 29 August 2021 — [curated by Barbara Strieder and Ulrike Bohnet] Bundeskunsthalle Bonn 25 June to 1 November 2021— [curated by Johanna Adam] In his early works Joseph Beuys repeatedly focused on shamans and on the contexts in which they operate. In a number of Actions In 1986, just a few days before his death, Beuys was awarded the he either assumed the role of the shaman or drew on shamanic Wilhelm Lehmbruck Prize. In his acceptance speech, he stressed practices. For Beuys, Eurasia was a spiritual space that stood for the importance the art of the Expressionist sculptor Wilhelm the reconciliation of opposites such as reason and intuition. Lehmbruck had for him. Marking the 100th birthday of Joseph This ethnological exhibition highlights fundamental aspects of Beuys, the exhibition Beuys – Lehmbruck. Thinking is Sculpture historical and contemporary indigenous shamanism and of the explores this connection and presents the work of these two artists. shamanic worlds that Beuys so often referred to. There are not many artists who caused as radical an upheaval in It will also include work by contemporary artists such as Marcus the history of art as Joseph Beuys. This exhibition brings together a Coates, Lili Fischer, Anatol Donkan and Igor Sacharow-Ross, series of key works by Beuys and presents them alongside some of demonstrating the relevance of the topic of shamanism to the Wilhelm Lehmbruck’s most important sculptures. The focus of the current artistic discourse with its particular interest in social issues exhibition, however, is not on stylistic or formal similarities, instead, and ecology. it seeks to shed light on a single pivotal question: What is the revolutionary potential of art in the context of its time? 3

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Empty Boxes as a Plastic Theme in the Work of Joseph Beuys Ticket to the Future Exhibition Joseph Beuys, Katinka Bock, Christian Jankowski, Jon Rafman Kunstmuseum Villa Zanders Exhibition 7 May to 8 August 2021— [curated by Hartmut Kraft] Kunstmuseum Bonn 7 October 2021 to 9 January 2022 — [curated by Stefanie Kreuzer and ­Christoph Schreier] Many art collections have a small open box made from pinewood; it is marked inside, in Beuys’s own hand, with the word »Intuition« Beuys was a magnificent draughtsman and sculptor and an artist above two horizontal lines. It is signed and dated on the back. whose ultimate aim was to shape society as a whole. His Multiples, Around 12,000 examples of this seemingly unremarkable object which were intended to bring homeopathic doses of his thinking into were produced. In fact Beuys made each one of these multiples every household, served him to this end. Between 1965 and 1986 himself: ». . . I have to make these things myself, otherwise they’re he created 556 Multiples, of which more than 400 are part of the nothing« (Joseph Beuys 1992 ). collection of Kunstmuseum Bonn. Ranging from bags of dried 4 For both Beuys and his publisher Wolfgang Feelisch, founder of the hare’s blood to political manifestos, these works reflect his thinking VICE-Versand distribution company, the Intuition box ultimately and his art. The Multiples lead to the centre of his oeuvre as a came out in the largest edition of anything either of them produced. 6 whole. This exhibition provides an insight into the genesis of these The social, ecological and existential questions raised in Beuys’s multiples and their variants, a for example by artists such as works underpin the great topicality of his art. His works are sign- and Alfonso Hüppi. There will also be a focus on the posts for a society in need of reform, which requires lateral thinkers »empty box« as a recurrent topic in the work of Joseph Beuys, from like Beuys. There is growing interest in his art, especially among the »Rubberized Box« (1957) to the »Sulphur-Covered Zinc Box the younger generation of artists and researchers: Beuys is (Plugged Corner)« (1970) and the series of prints »Wandering Box« contemporary! The exhibition draws on the Kunstmuseum’s (1980). Beuys himself felt there was a connection between the Multiples and presents them alongside current artistic positions. empty box and the existential crisis he suffered in the mid-1950s. Thus, the historical view of Beuys’s work is also a preview of what is to come.

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Revolution Beuys Lehmbruck — Beuys MO-Schaufenster#27 Everything is Sculpture Exhibition Exhibition in cooperation with Bundeskunsthalle Bonn Museum Ostwall im Dortmunder U Lehmbruck Museum 13 August to 17 October 2021 — [curated by Sarah Hübscher and Elvira Neuendank] 26 June to 1 November 2021 — [curated by Söke Dinkla and Jessica Keilholz-Busch]

Form-finding in various media, artistic representation, and the daily Is Joseph Beuys an artist? Or is he a shaman, a reformer and staging of empowerment as a global cultural technique all directly political activist who has changed not only art, but society as a connect with questions posed in Beuys’s work. The motor of whole? The sight of a sculpture by Wilhelm Lehmbruck became a »insight« and »reason« instigate moments of self-empowerment pivotal experience for the young Beuys. Both Lehmbruck and that Beuys expresses in his art and in his words: »Make use of the Beuys were convinced that art has the power not only to explain power that you have through your right to self-determination! All of the world, but also to change it for the better. In keeping with you!« (Joseph Beuys, 1970) Beuys’s own maxim that »everything is sculpture«, this exhibition This collaborative exhibition project, presented in the Schaufenster explores the special relationship between two of the most impor- exhibition space in Museum Ostwall, assembles objects and issues tant German artists of the twentieth century. in a setting that combines political action and reaction. It addresses »Sculpture is the essence of things, the essence of nature, of that historic, current, and future processes of social interaction, forms of which is eternally human« – Beuys took this insight of Lehmbruck’s activism, and assumptions about the human condition. This project as the starting point for his Social Sculpture, which subsequently involving Museum Ostwall and TU Dortmund (IAEB) codes the revolutionised the art of the twentieth century. Ever since then, exhibition space as a social laboratory and as a place of »perma- sculptural forming – making art – has not primarily referred to the nent conference«, thereby enabling visitors to engage in a critical shaping of materials but to the shaping of ideas, the shaping of the discussion ranging from the objects and concepts on display to social fabric as a whole. The Duisburg exhibition examines the themes appropriated by Beuys. progress of this future-oriented idea from its inception to the present day.

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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12 13 Düsseldorf Mataré + Beuys + Immendorff An Encounter between the Works of Teacher and Student Lutz Mommartz Exhibition Soziale Plastik Akademie-Galerie – Die Neue Sammlung. Eine Einrichtung der Kunstakademie Jan Bonny & Alex Wissel ­Düsseldorf Jupp, watt hamwer jemaht? 27 March to 20 June 2021 — [curated by Vanessa Sondermann] Screening Julia Stoschek Collection Düsseldorf In spring 1947 Joseph Beuys became a student in the class of 17 January to 19 December 2021 Ewald Mataré at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, and in 1951 he became a master student under Mataré. Beuys’s works from these JSC Düsseldorf presents the 16mm film »Soziale Plastik« (1969) years show that he engaged comprehensively and productively by Lutz Mommartz. The film is a homage by the filmmaker to his with the aesthetics taught by his teacher, especially with regard to artist colleague, who died in 1986 and is still known today for his religion, mythology and anthroposophy. Beuys later broke away confrontational political as well as artistic approach. Beuys did not from traditional notions of art and artistic-didactic concepts both in shy away from confrontation and entered into direct contact with his his Actions and in his teaching with its focus on early drawings, audience. Soziale Plastik shows this in the form of a cinematic sculptures and woodcuts, this exhibition presents and analyses the portrait in which Beuys’s face can be seen. His eyes fix the proximity and disparity of Mataré and Beuys’s artistic roots. audience through a camera gaze that appears endless in the loop. Encounters between the works of teacher and student reveal 9 On the occasion of »beuys 2021. 100 years of joseph beuys«, JSC numerous aesthetic affiiis ad rmral paralll i thei Düsseldorf shows the feature film »Jupp, watt hamwer jemaht?« by spiritual lives. In addition, one exhibition room is devoted to works Jan Bonny & Alex Wissel. It is a hybrid of film and theatre produc- 11 by Jörg Immendorff. In these works Immendorff, the »Beuys tion, whose stage setting can also be understood as an spatial Knight« and future professor at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, installation. The production is to be understood as a satire on the reflects on Beuys as a teacher and on his charismatic artistic art world of the noughties in , torn between politics and art, persona. authenticity, staging and lies, morality and power. In the midst of the film’s action, Joseph Beuys appears again and again as a ghost of the past.

I’m searching for the dumbest person Joseph Beuys and Science Lecture series Everyone is an Artist Haus der Universität at Schadowplatz Cosmopolitan Exercises with Joseph Beuys 12 April to 23 July 2021 — [directed by Timo Skrandies] Exhibition K20 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf 27 March to 15 August 2021 — [curated by Eugen Blume, Isabelle Malz and This lecture series brings together scholars and scientists from ­Catherine Nichols] many fields with an interest in Joseph Beuys’s call to create the conditions for a new life that can sustain the kind of thinking that The exhibition provides profound insight into the cosmopolitical incorporates the principles of sculpture. Beuys’s universal plea for a thinking of Joseph Beuys as manifested in his actions. revolution of concepts will be critically examined through the prism For here – as an acting, speaking, and moving figure – Beuys of disciplines ranging from physics to poetry, from economics to the examined the central and radical idea of his expanded concept of law. art: »everyone is an artist«. The goal of his universalist approach 12 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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14 15 Joseph Beuys – His Public Image 11 and 12 May, 10 am to 6 pm Films with, after and about Joseph Beuys Everyone Is An Artist. Film series Cosmopolitan Exercises with Joseph Beuys Filmwerkstatt Düsseldorf Exhibition May 2021 — [artistic director: Jan Wagner] K20 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen

The film series with and about Joseph Beuys presents five films that 11 and 12 May, 11 am to 6 pm show him as an artist, teacher and political activist. All three roles Kiste, Flasche, Tuch – Die drei Teile des Aktionssockels are inherent in his artistic development model and contributed to [Box, Bottle, Cloth – The Three Parts of the Action Plinth] the emergence of a public figure whose radiance touched and Exhibitions by Joseph Beuys at Konrad Fischer changed art and society alike. On view are Joseph Beuys und Exhibition seine Klasse, Beuys, Joseph Beuys: Jeder Mensch ist ein Künstler, Konrad Fischer Galerie Joseph Beuys / Transformer und Zeige deine Wunde – Kunst und Spiritualität bei Joseph Beuys. 12 May, 11:45 am (Drakeplatz 4) and 12 pm (Horionplatz / Haroldstraße) Unveiling of the Beuys Memorial Plaques Atelier at Drakeplatz and 7000 Eichen at Horionplatz Inauguration Düsseldorfer Jonges beuysparcours Events on Joseph Beuys’s 100th birthday 11 and 12 May, 7 pm beuysparcours Sebastian Blasius: Absent Wolves Various locations in Düsseldorf and NRW Performance 11 May, 6 pm to 12 May, 11 pm Kunsthalle Düsseldorf

12 May, 12 pm to 6 pm Joseph Beuys’s 100th birthday will celebrated with a parcours Mataré + Beuys + Immendorff comprising 15 programme items in Düsseldorf and across NRW. An Encounter of the Works of Teacher and Student The museums that have already opened their Beuys exhibition at Exhibition this time will offer free admission to the relevant galleries. Akademie-Galerie – die Neue Sammlung. Eine Einrichtung der Kunstakademie Düsseldorf The parcours opens with »Music from the Future«, a 24-hour musical homage to the artist, that will be performed on the piazza of 12 May, 12 pm to 6 pm K21. From 6 pm on 11 May to 6 pm on 12 May 24 musicians will 12.05.1921 – 12.05.2021 honour Beuys as an artist who regarded music as an important Exhibition component in his visual thinking and whose concept of expanded Galerie Hans Mayer art significantly affected the course of music history. The performance will be concluded at 6 pm on 12 May with the 12 May, 12 pm to 6 pm launch of »beuysradio«. Depending on the Covid-19 situation at Lutz Mommartz: Soziale Plastik [Social Sculpture] that point in time, the launch will be celebrated either in the context Jan Bonny & Alex Wissel: Jupp, watt hamwer jemaht? [Joe, what’ve we done?] of a party or online. Details will be announced on the website www. Screening beuys2021.de and on the social media platforms of »beuys 2021« Julia Stoschek Collection closer to the date. 13 12 May, from 6 pm beuysradio radio – podcast – audio library Radio Launch beuysparcours in Düsseldorf: Online

11 May, 6 pm, to 12 May, 6 pm 12 May Music from the Future beuys 2021: 100 years of joseph beuys A 24-Hour Musical Homage to Joseph Beuys on the Occasion of His 100th Birthday Book presentation Concert Location tba. K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen

16 17 beuysparcours in NRW: beuys 2021: 100 years of joseph beuys Book presentation 11 and 12 May, 11 am to 6 pm Haus der Universität at Schadowplatz Joseph Beuys and the Shamans 12 May 2021 — [editors: Eugen Blume, Catherine Nichols] Exhibition Museum Schloss Moyland, Bedburg-Hau Who was Joseph Beuys? What do our thoughts, our feelings and desires have to do with sculpture? Is art the only revolutionary 11 and 12 May, 2 pm bis 6 pm force? Is the future a category of art? Are these even the questions Empty Boxes as a Plastic Theme in the Work of Joseph Beuys we need to be asking? 100 years after the birth of Joseph Beuys, Exhibition one of the most significant twentieth-century artists, the German Kunstmuseum Villa Zanders, Bergisch Gladbach state of North Rhine-Westphalia is rearticulating these questions so 11 and 12 May, 10 am to 6 pm fundamental to both his art and thought. Invisible Sculpture. This programme book begins with a critical interrogation of the The Expanded Concept of Art after Joseph Beuys history of the reception of Joseph Beuys conducted by the artistic Exhibition directors of »beuys 2021. 100 years of joseph beuys«, Catherine / Stiftung Zollverein, Halle 8, Essen Nichols and Eugen Blume. Focusing on key publications from the beginning of Beuys’s career to the present day that have document- 11 and 12 May, 11 am to 5 pm ed and formed his practice over time, their unique and highly visual Art = Human analysis offers an accessible insight into the problem with Beuys. Joseph Beuys in Krefeld They reflect on the ongoing construction and deconstruction of this Exhibition equally contentious and captivating public figure, whose approach Kunstmuseen Krefeld. Kaiser-Wilhelm-Museum 14 to history continues to polarize responses to the artist and his work even today. 11 and 12 May, 11 am to 5 pm In the following section the book provides an overview of the The Catalyst extensive program of »beuys 2021. 100 years of joseph beuys«. Joseph Beuys and Democracy Today Here the 36 events comprising the centenary, including exhibitions, Exhibition performances, concerts, film screenings, lectures, labs, symposia Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen and podcasts, are introduced in brief essays that contribute to the enquiry into what it is that makes this artist so controversial and still 11 and 12 May, 11 am to 6 pm so very topical. They look at his ideas on democracy, ecology, Joseph Beuys. Perpetual Motion education, capital and the possibility of a universal subject. Togeth- Exhibition er they explore Beuys’s complex oeuvre, consider his international Skulpturenpark Waldfrieden, Cragg Foundation, Wuppertal impact and evaluate the revolutionary potential of his thought. The richly illustrated book concludes with an imaginary conversa- 12 May 2021, 7:30 pm tion with Beuys. Featuring original works by the award-winning, BEUYS’ erdklavier + ensemble CRUSH internationally renowned graphic designers cyan, , the Performance concert dialogue brings together 100 voices from many different spheres, LWL – Museum für Kunst und Kultur, Münster 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.

Publishing House: Steidl, Göttingen Book design: cyan, Berlin Publication date: 12 May 2021 384 pages, 16.5 × 22 cm ISBN 978-3-95829-922-1 48,00 €

18 19 Music from the Future Kiste, Flasche, Tuch - Die drei Teile des Aktionssockels A 24-hour musical homage to Joseph Beuys on the occasion of his 100th birthday Exhibitions by Joseph Beuys at Konrad Fischer Concert Exhibition K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf Konrad Fischer Galerie 11 to 12 May 2021 — [artistic director: Matthias Osterwold] 12 May to 15 July 2021

Beuys’s centenary will be celebrated on the 12th of May with a The works of Joseph Beuys were presented in three exhibitions at Kon- 24-hour musical homage to the artist at K21 in Düsseldorf. 24 rad Fischer in Düsseldorf: »Drei Teile des Aktionssockels von 24 musicians honour Beuys as a ground-breaking artist, who regarded Stunden, 5. Juni 1965, 0-24 h« in September 1976, »dumme Kiste« in music as an important component in his visual thinking and whose May 1983 and »hinter dem Knochen wird gezählt - Schmerzraum« concept of expanded art significantly affected the course of music. from December 1983 to February 1984. The point of departure for this homage is Beuys’s longstanding The »Aktionssockel« was part of the »24 Stunden Happening« in the interest in the work and thinking of French composer Erik Satie: 24 Wuppertal gallery Parnass. Three pieces from this action - an orange crate, an oilcloth and a bottle were shown at Konrad Fischer in 1976. 15 musicians from different disciplines, nations, and generations will present a relay performance of Erik Satie’s »Vexations« for piano. During the energy-sapping performance, Beuys was the only one to Each will play for an hour before handing over to the next performer. stay awake for 24 hours, as Rudolf Jährling recalls. The 24 players are not exclusively professional pianists, there are In 1983, the »dumme Kiste« and the »Schmerzraum« followed, which also visual artists, curators, school pupils. This event, as plastic as Joseph Beuys completely lined with lead plates, illuminated only by a it is polyphonic, which opens the programme for »beuys 2021. 100 bare light bulb, whose weak light illuminated two silver rings mounted jahre joseph beuys«, takes its lead from Beuys’s own transformative,deeply human approach on the ceiling. On the floor, a gray . The lead as a possible to his work. It asks, with Beuys, how music today, how art today can contribute to social protective shield against radioactive rays, the telephone as a possibility renewal. of communication.

Sebastian Blasius: Absent Wolves Sculptural Democracy Performance Forms of the »We« In cooperation with Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Stiftung Zollverein and Folkwang Universität Models – Parliaments – Lab der Künste Essen/Bochum Kunstakademie Düsseldorf and Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf Kunsthalle Düsseldorf Gustaf-Gründgens-Platz in front of Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus 11 and 12 May 2021 8 to 20 June 2021— [artistic directors: Eugen Blume and Catherine Nichols (beuys 2021), Stiftung Zollverein Essen Markus Bader, Frauke Gerstenberg and Andrea Hofmann (raumlabor­berlin), 2 to 4 July 2021 — [concept and direction: Sebastian Blasius] Schwarte (Kunstakademie Düsseldorf), Timo Skrandies (Heinrich-­Heine-Universität)]

Voices from the urban society of Düsseldorf and Essen meet The Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, the Heinrich-Heine-Universität nomadic practices meet instructions for wolf hunting. We have Düsseldorf, raumlaborberlin and the project team for beuys 2021 become accustomed to the absent wolves as a result of their want to explore, discuss, revive, critically question and further think deliberate extermination: With the settling down of man, the wolf about the impulses for the radical co-design of democracy that was declared our competitor. Deprived of his natural hunting were taken up by Beuys and emanated from him. For Beuys those grounds, he invaded the man-made order, helped himself to the stimuli culminated in his idea such impulses culminated in the stock of useful animals. Who, on the other hand, could we be if we »idea of the university«, which he understood as a model of society had developed a different, non-dominating relationship to our in the tradition of Wilhelm von Humboldt and John Dewey and environment, in which the wolf could also coexist? 16 explored in the form of his Free International University (FIU) The performance project experiments with new forms of the founded in 1973. collective and nomadic and includes voices of citizens of Düssel- The three-part, collectively developed project runs from June 8 to dorf and Essen: what alternative ways of being-in-the-world are 20, 2021. Under the direction of raumlaborberlin, an experimental imaginable for them? How does it feel to live without wolves? architecture is being created in front of the Düsseldorfer Schaus- The project is designed as an installation, spectators can choose pielhaus on Gustaf-Gründgens-Platz in Düsseldorf. the moment of their arrival and departure. The building is divided into three interconnected areas that provide space for (1) research and comparison (Models), (2) discussion and negotiation (Parliaments) and (3) communal being, working, thinking, eating and living (Lab).

20 21 Joseph Beuys-Handbuch The Problem with Beuys Leben – Werk – Wirkung A Mentality and Reception History of Joseph Beuys Book presentation Symposium J.B. Metzler Verlag; Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Institut für Kunstgeschichte Haus der Universität at Schadowplatz Haus der Universität at Schadowplatz 15 to 16 October 2021 — [unter der Leitung von Eugen Blume, Catherine Nichols, July 2021 — [edited by Timo Skrandies and Bettina Paust] Bettina Paust, Timo Skrandies]

»Joseph Beuys. Leben – Werk – Wirkung«, a 400-page handbook In dealing with Joseph Beuys one cannot help but wonder to what edited by Bettina Paust and Timo Skrandies, with over 80 articles extent he actually achieved the degree of personal and social by around 50 authors, will be the first ever comprehensive compen- transformation to which he aspired in his artistic practice. The dium on the artist Joseph Beuys. Its publication by Metzler Verlag complex oeuvre of Beuys as well as its controversial reception in in early 2021 will mark the beginning of Beuys’s show that this is not any easy question to answer. Can his work be centenary celebrations. understood as a form of coming to terms with history, as an attempt On the one hand, the handbook will serve as a repository of at transformation? Or was Beuys, as the art historian Benjamin knowledge and ideas for current and future Beuys research and 17 Buchloh argued as early as 1980, a master of repression who, with provide inspiration for further research. On the other hand, it is much mysticism and charlatanry, glossed over his national socialist also designed to serve as a standard reference work and source of past? Did he remain, as beat Wyss postulated in 2008 and Hans information for a wider public interested in Beuys and, in so doing, Peter Riegel in 2013, the eternal Hitler Youth? A charismatic dazzler to promote the discussion of his oeuvre. who to this day manages to mesmerise people around the world? The publication comprises seven section: Time and Persona; On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Joseph Beuys’s birth, Works, Groups of Works, Forms of Work; Recognition; Contexts; these and other questions concerning the mentality and reception People; Trends and Institutions; Terms and Concepts; Reception; history of the artist will be addressed at an academic conference. Appendix and Index. Beginning with the problem of the artist’s constructed biography, which he saw as an integral part of his extended concept of art, the relationship of the figure Beuys to the person Beuys will be examined in depth. A strong focus will be on the books, catalogues, exhibitions, media, and people that have contributed to the Heiner Goebbels: A House of Call construction and deconstruction of the artist. The role of copyright, My Imaginary Notebook (2020/21) licensing, and censorship will also be explored in a thematic block. Concert Live stream will be considered if the pandemic preventative Ensemble Modern Orchestra in the Tonhalle Düsseldorf measures should restrict the number of visitors. 7 September 2021 — [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 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. 18

19 22 23 Anyone who doesn’t want to think will be thrown [throw themselves] out Essen Joseph Beuys and the Shape of the Future Exhibition The Invisible Sculpture Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Düsseldorf The Expanded Concept of Art after Joseph Beuys 28 October 2021 to 20 January 2022 — [curated by Anne-Marie Franz and Inga Nake] Exhibition Stiftung Zollverein/Ruhr Museum, Unesco-Welterbe Zollverein, Halle 8 The exhibition »Anyone who doesn’t want to think will be thrown 10. May to 26 September 2021 — [curated by Heinrich Theodor Grütter, [throw themselves] out« in the foyer of the University and State Rosa ­Schmitt-Neubauer, Christoph Schurian, Johannes Stüttgen, Achim Weber Library Düsseldorf at the Heinrich-Heine-Universität focuses on and Carla Zimmermann] Joseph Beuys’s boxing match for direct democracy through referendums. This exhibition at the UNESCO World Heritage Site Zollverein Beuys’s fight on 8 October 1972, the last day of documenta highlights the socio-political dimension of the work of Joseph Beuys 5, is symbolic of the physical attrition and absolute commitment and addresses its importance for the present and the future. without which, according to Beuys, nothing new can be created. Beuys’s visionary commitment to democracy expanded the Visitors taking the exhibition tour in effect enter the ring for four international concept of art. This exhibition revisits his work in the roundsalongside the artist and thinker Joseph Beuys. The coales- context of the present global debate on ecology and democracy. cence of Beuys’s artistic career and work, his art and his life, is Taking Joseph Beuys’s expanded concept of art as its starting point, mirrored in the boxing match. Analogies between boxing and The Invisible Sculpture resists the historicization and canonization Beuys’s lifelong fight will be explored using boxing terminology and of his work. The juxtaposition of seminal works by Beuys with selected objects, including items from the collection of the Universi- specially selected materials – including many unpublished items – ty and State Library, thereby providing a new perspective on the is designed to reignite the debate regarding the significance of his work of one of the most important artists of the twentieth century. oeuvre and to locate his work in a broader cultural and socio-politi- The fight for life and death, in the ring and in society, is a fight to cal context. To this end, there will be a particular focus on the shape the future. philosophical and aesthetic aspects of Beuys’s work that relate both to the current discourse on social coexistence and to the relation- ship between humankind and nature.

20 24 25 Kleve Intuition! Dimensions of the Early Work of Joseph Beuys 1946–1961 BEUYS’ erdklavier + ensemble CRUSH Exhibition Performance concert Museum Kurhaus Kleve Ensemble CRUSH at Beuys’s places 19 June to 3 October 2021 — [curated by Harald Kunde, Susanne Figner and Gastkurator 8 May 2021 Wolfgang Zumdick] Kurhaus Museum, Kleve — [Ensemble CRUSH: Pia Marei Hauser (flute) – Andrei Simion (violoncello) – Slavi The exhibition »Intuition! Dimensions of the Early Work of Joseph Grigorov (accordion) – Marin Petrov (piano)] Beuys 1946–1961« examines the period between Joseph Beuys’s return to Kleve after the war at the age of twenty-four and his further dates: appointment as a professor at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in 12 May – LWL Museum für Kunst and Kultur, Münster 1961. During this »incubation period«, themes relevant to his future 29 August – Museum Schloss Moyland, Bedburg-Hau work emerged and a series of three-dimensional essays on these 16 September – Wilhelm Lehmbruck-Museum, Duisburg themes now provides a framework for the exhibition: 1. Biography 7 and 11 November – Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld as material for artistic forming, 2. Kindred spirits (Lohengrin, Cloots, Steiner, Lehmbruck), 3. Early companions (Lamers, Getlinger, The musical aspect is omnipresent in the work of Joseph Beuys. Mataré), 4. Christian influences and Eurasian horizons, 5. Depic- The instrument piano, for example, combines sculpture and sound. tions of animals: from elementary experiences to the body politic, 6. Beuys had developed the idea of the earth piano for the Fluxus Self-image – image – action, 7. Universalist thinking today? Festival, but never realized it. it remained a concept. The ensemble The aim of the exhibition is neither to venerate a local saint nor to crush takes this up and prescribes it as the program for a perfor- topple an artist from an earlier generation. Instead it highlights the mance concert. An acoustic-performative experience based on influences, ideas and caesuras that saw Beuys develop from a »sensitive traditionalist« into a »visionary social sculptor«. works from the year of Beuys’s birth as well as the work by Peter 21 Gahn composed especially for this project. The work »Four6« by John Cage - to whom Beuys said he felt particularly close - forms the counterpart to the first half of the programme. The grand piano will be played by four musicians simultaneously and thus expanded. The Ensemble Crush, founded in 2013, plays contemporary music and works closely with composers. Its particular interest lies in Krefeld unconventional programming and breaking up the usual - also spatial - concert situation. Art = Human Joseph Beuys in Krefeld Exhibition Kunstmuseen Krefeld, Kaiser Wilhelm Museum 28 March to 1 August 2021 — [curated by Magdalena Holzhey]

The Kaiser Wilhelm Museum is the only art institution in North Rhine-Westphalia with a sculptural ensemble by Joseph Beuys that has been preserved exactly as the artist himself installed it. With their permanently installed Beuys rooms still on display, Kunstmu- seen Krefeld will launch their Beuys year with a display of works and documents by Beuys from their own holdings – at the heart of this presentation is the lecture »Kunst = Mensch«, which Beuys delivered when the Kaiser Wilhelm Museum acquired a key work – his Barraque D’Dull Odde. Beuys later categorized that lecture as an Action.

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26 27 Beuys and Duchamp Mönchengladbach Artists of the Future Exhibition Institutional Critique Kunstmuseen Krefeld, Kaiser Wilhelm Museum The Museum as a Site of Permanent Conference (J.B.) 8 October 2021 to 16 January 2022 — [curated by Magdalena Holzhey (­Kunstmuseen Exhibition Krefeld) and Kornelia Röder (Duchamp-Forschungszentrum, Schwerin)] Museum Abteiberg 3 June to 24 October 2021 — [curated by Felicia Rappe and Susanne Titz] This exhibition will be the first large-scale juxtaposition of the work of Joseph Beuys with that of Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968). Beuys Institutional Critique: The Museum as a Site of Permanent Confer- repeatedly referred to his »challenger« Duchamp, not least in the ence. Two exhibitions displayed at Museum Abteiberg from 3 June Action »Das Schweigen von Marcel Duchamp wird überbewertet« to 24 October 2021 as part of »beuys 2021«. The two exhibitions [The Silence of Marcel Duchamp is Overrated]. Yet there are in fact will deep links and connections between these two artists, which, for all comprise of one solo exhibition and one archival exhibition. The the dissimilarity of their work, can be seen in many themes and solo exhibition will comprise of works by the London-based artist aspects of their art. This exhibition will not be purely retrospective, Ghislaine Leung as commissioned by Museum Abteiberg and but will review their work from today’s perspective and shed new produced in 2020 and 2021. The archival exhibition will comprise of light on the forward-looking potential of the radical, interdisciplinary materials by Joseph Beuys from the Andersch Collection and strategies of both artists. The dialogue between these two protago- 23 Archive at Museum Abteiberg and will be presented alongside nists also raises fundamental questions regarding the role of art in materials by FLUXUS and related artists from the 1960s through to daily life and in society as a whole, and these will be pursued in the 1980s. The solo exhibition will be curated by Susanne Titz and greater depth with input from works by a number of contemporary the archival exhibition by Felicia Rappe. This information is artists. provided as per the required 1000 characters and has been edited by Ghislaine Leung, Susanne Titz and Felicia Rappe. Details are correct as of April 2020 and are subject to change dependent on requirements and resources available.

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The Catalyst Joseph Beuys and Democracy today Exhibition Museum Morsbroich 2 May to 29 August 2021 — [curated by Ania Czerlitzki]

Joseph Beuys’s »Straßenaktion« [Street Action] of 1971 in chimed with the aims of a younger generation that self-confidently demanded the opening-up of society. Beuys sympathized with their revolutionary stance, particularly their ideal of direct democracy, which he supported with his »Straßenaktion« . He felt it was worth fighting for direct democracy as a form of political coexistence, which would see the power to make decisions no longer the preserve of elected representatives but rather the outcome of widespread participation in a daily discourse. Fifty years later, this idea is still topical. The exhibition »The Catalyst« thus examines whether and how, in our current situation – an era of global complexity and digitization that is changing almost all areas of life – new forms of political coexistence can be developed, indeed, whether democratic values are in fact immuta- ble? These questions will be examined on the basis of contempo- rary artistic positions – sometimes explicitly, sometimes implicitly.

24 28 29 Wuppertal Torn out of Time Joseph Beuys: Actions – photographed by Ute Klophaus. 1965–1986 Joseph Beuys. Perpetual Motion Exhibition Exhibition Von der Heydt-Museum Skulpturenpark Waldfrieden, Cragg Foundation 19 September 2021 to 9 January 2022 — [curated by Antje Birthälmer] 28 March to 20 June 2021 — [curated by Corinna Thierolf and , curatorial assistance from Cora Faßbender] Taking its lead from the 24-hour Happening at Galerie Parnass in Wuppertal in 1965, this exhibition of photographs by Ute Klophaus Joseph Beuys’s maxim »Every human being is an artist« redefined (1940–2010) focuses on her images of Actions by Joseph Beuys. the boundaries of art. He devoted his creative energies to finding a Her shots of moments »torn out of the flow of time« in Beuys’s way of involving all human beings in the realization of a fair society. performances also capture the special charisma, intensity and For Beuys every work of art was a way of advancing human energy of knowledge and understanding –and a test bed for his own Beuys in action. This exhibition mainly draws on the wealth of far-reaching ideas. He often developed works during the course of Klophaus photographs in the collection of Lothar Schirmer in public discussions and Actions. When Beuys delivered one of his . unorthodox lectures on the dynamic continuum of life and art at the The 24-hour Happening, where other participants included artists Whitechapel Gallery in London in 1972, his words and performance such as Nam June Paik, Bazon Brock, Tomas Schmit and Wolf were an inspiration for the then 23-year-old student Tony Cragg and Vostell, was both a high point in the international Fluxus movement continued to influence Cragg’s engagement with the core topics of and a key experience for Klophaus in her native city. That encounter matter and movement. In honour of Beuys’s 100th birthday Cragg with Beuys crucially informed her subsequent development and she has selected 20 exhibits from the collections of some of Beuys’s went on to photograph Beuys and his work for over twenty years. In most important fellow travellers. These works, in conjunction with a the process, she developed the ability to give visible form to perceptions that go beyond the visual and to convey a sense of the 25 series of lectures, pave the way for an in-depth re-examination of Beuys’s art. The exhibits enter into dialogue with each other and hidden, elusive factors that also informed Beuys’s designs for the could be described – in the Beuysian sense – as a battery filled world. with energy, a of potential and ideas. Online beuysradio The Infinity of the Moment Radio – Podcast – Audio Library Performances after Joseph Beuys Podcast Kulturbüro Wuppertal from 12 May 2021 — [a cooperation of »beuys 2021«,Goethe-Institut, Munich, under the Various locations in Wuppertal direction of Catherine Nichols and Marc-André Schmachtel] 2 to 6 June 2021 — [curated by Bettina Paust, Barbara Gronau (Universität der Kün- ste Berlin) and Timo Skrandies (Heinrich-Heine-Universität)] Is everyone an artist? Are trees more intelligent than people? Is plasticity synonymous with humanity? Are we the revolution? Do In Wuppertal, the city of performance, the Kulturbüro will present a we live in a pseudo-democracy? Are capitalism’s days numbered? festival from 2 to 6 June 2021 with artistic and scholarly contribu- Joseph Beuys posed many of the questions that we most urgently tions that will engage with the impact of Joseph Beuys’s art on face today. beuysradio investigates who Beuys was, what he performative trends in art today. actually said, how that is pertinent and why his ideas and he It was specifically in the realm of performance that Joseph Beuys himself remain the subject of such heated debate today. beuysradio so crucially influenced contemporary art. This performance festival takes up his hypotheses and questions and has a fresh look at will bring together international and local artists and artists’ collec- them in the here and now. This free online audio programme tives whose work has widely varied points of contact with Beuys’s dedicated to the critical analysis of Joseph Beuys presents 100 Action art. voices exploring him as a person, 20 podcasts on his most provoc- The Infinity of the Moment, which will take place at various locations ative questions, a wide range of reports on the festivities compris- in Wuppertal, will provide the only platform dedicated to the ing the centenary programme »beuys 2021« and a series of ephemeral art of performance during the Beuys centenary celebra- playlists introducing the music he listened to, made, influenced and tions. Lectures by leading academics will examine the special inspired. features of Beuys’s Actions with a particular focus on their current artistic reception. The first two podcasts are a cooperation of WDR 3 with the Goethe Institute, Munich and »beuys 2021« to mark the 100th birthday of Joseph Beuys. 30 31 Benjamin Hassselhorn: Further topics: It’s about reality in its entirety. Are we the revolution? On the significance of myths in the 21st century On the usefulness of universalisms and the idea of revolution Beuys described himself as a storyteller and cultivated an uninhibited approach to myths. But aren’t myths problematic or even dangerous, especially when they become political? Pseudo-democracy everywhere. Why can’t we get rid of myths even in the 21st century? And how can we deal with them How can we make democracy more democratic? constructively? Are trees more intelligent than people? The extension of rights towards everything that breathes Benjamin Hasselhorn is a historian and theologian. From 2014 to 2019, he was curator of What is capital? the Luther Memorials Foundation in Saxony-Anhalt. Since 2019, he has been an assistant Sustainable economic values and money professor at the Department of Modern History at the University of Würzburg, where he is Is plasticity synonymous with humanity? working on a postdoctoral thesis on historical myths. Queering Beuys Genghis Khan’s daughter. Anna Bromley: Beuys, art, feminism Creating a new organ. Social sculpture and social media among others. Beuys was in favour of »humans creating a whole new organ for themselves« that would provide them with forms of »speaking out«. How would he like Twitter and Clubhouse? Drawing is thinking, according to Beuys. Anna Bromley takes him at his word and speculates about current ›organs‹ while looking between his lines and words

Anna Bromley is an artist, author and radio host. She is host of the program »Lautstrom« at reboot.fm, among others. For documenta 14, she collaborated with Brandon LaBelle on a radio program titled »The Laughter of the Hyposubject«.

Ralf Schlüter: Is everyone an artist? The expanded concept of art in the expanded art world With his famous phrase, Joseph Beuys aims at the creative potential of each individual, which is realized in the “social sculpture” of a new society. The podcast discusses this utopia with the Indonesian artist collective ruangrupa, which will curate documenta 15 in in 2022.

Ralf Schlüter is a cultural journalist. From 2006 to 2020 he was deputy editor-in-chief of the art magazine »Art«. Since 2020, he has been the author of the ZEIT podcast series »Zeitgeister – der Podcast für Musik, Kulturgeschichte und Gegenwart«. From 2013 to 2020 he hosted the show »Art Mixtape« at the web radio station ByteFM.

An Paenhuysen: Every revolution begins with silly questions. The potential of nonsense and dilletantism There is a common misconception that profound analysis requires great seriousness. Humour is thought to be the exact opposite. This misunderstanding also pertains to art. Kicking off with the question »Why do we think something is deep because it is serious?«, An Paenhuysen explores the political and philosophical potential of nonsense in a conversation with artists about works by Joseph Beuys.

An Paenhuysen is a historian, curator, writer, and blogger. She is a lecturer in art writing 26 and cultural theory at the Node Center for Curatorial Studies, Berlin. She directs the House of Deadly Doris, and researches dilettantism, nonsense, and silliness. She has published widely, most recently Silly Poems (2020). 32 33 Press images

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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 ­-Kunst, Bonn 2020 3 Joseph Beuys, undated, photograph: Ute Klophaus, Stiftung Museum Schloss Moyland, Joseph Beuys Archiv jba-f 90613 / bpk 4 Joseph Beuys working on intuition boxes outside Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, photograph: Nino Barbieri, 1970s © VG ­Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2021 5 Composing, portrait of Joseph Beuys, , around 1985, © imago images/Leemage and Wilhelm Lehmbruck, Große Kniende, 1911, Lehmbruck Estate, Lehmbruck-Museum, Duisburg, © akg-images / cda / guillot 6 Joseph Beuys, Capri-Batterie, 1985, photograph: Reni Hansen, Kunstmuseum Bonn / © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2020 7 Suzanne Treister, TECHNOSHAMANIC SYSTEMS / Diagram / Technoshamanic Architectures and Design, 2020, Courtesy the artist, Annely Juda Fine Art, London and PPOW Gallery, New York 8 Joseph Beuys accepting the Wilhelm Lehmbruck Prize awarded by the city of Duisburg, Lehmbruck Museum, 12 January 1986, photograph: Britta Lauer 9 Lutz Mommartz, Soziale Plastik, 1969, 16-mm-Film, transferiert auf Video, 11’41’’, S/W, kein Ton. Courtesy of the artist 10 Joseph Beuys pflanzt den ersten Baum von 7000 Eichen – Stadtverwaldung statt Stadtverwaltung, documenta 7 in Kassel, 16. März 1982, Photo: Dieter Schwerdtle, © documenta archiv, Joseph Beuys/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2021 11 Jörg Immendorff, Mona Schwana, 1965, Museum Schloss Moyland, Bedburg-Hau / msm 29004 © the estate of Jörg Immendorff, courtesy Galerie Michael Werner Märkisch Wilmersdorf, Cologne & New York. photograph: Maurice Dorren, Museum Schloss Moyland 12 Joseph Beuys während der Diskussion bei der Ausstellungseröffnung »Beuys and seine Klasse«, a. Main 1976, Foto: Ute Klophaus, © bpk / Stiftung Museum Schloss Moyland / Ute Klophaus / Leihgabe der Ernst von Siemens Kunststiftung / © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2021 13 Joseph Beuys, probably 1969, photograph: Klaus Eschen, © slub / Deutsche Fotothek / Klaus Eschen 14 Joseph Beuys, 1968, photograph: Angelika Platen, © bpk / Angelika Platen 15 Joseph Beuys, Kukei, Akopee – Nein!, Braunkreuz – Fettecken – Modellfettecken, during the Festival of New Art, 20 July 1964, © photograph: Peter Thomann / Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst Aachen / © VG ­Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2020 16 Sculptural democracy © raumlaborberlin, drawing: Claire Mothais 17 Joseph Beuys, 1975, photograph: Caroline Tisdall 18 Heiner Goebbels, Ruhrtriennale 2012, photograph: Wonge Bergmann 19 Joseph Beuys mit Studierdenden (v. l. Johannes Stüttgen, Gerda Hühn, Chris Reinecke, Jörgen Dobloug, Fernand Ries) im 5. 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 20 Joseph Beuys at the 1st jour fixe on 27 march 1981 in Düsseldorf © Fotoarchiv Ruhr Museum; Foto: Jürgen Leiendecker / © 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 22 Joseph Beuys and Paul Wember during the Action »kunst = mensch«, Kaiser Wilhelm Museum Krefeld, 15 December 1971, 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 , Depositum Ernst Franz Vogelmann-­Stiftung © VG ­Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2020 24 Ghislaine Leung, 2020, Courtesy of Ghislaine Leung and Essex Street, New York 25 Backrest for a fine-limbed person (hair-type) of the 20th century ad, 1972-1982, Galerie Thaddeus Ropac, London / Paris / Salzburg, photograph: Ulrich Ghezzi, © Estate Joseph Beuys, VG-Bildkunst, Bonn 2021 26 Joseph Beuys in front of Pierre de Wiessant by Auguste Rodin, 1968, photograph: Angelika Platen, © bpk / Angelika Platen

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