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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: 5.5.2021 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 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 20 April 2021, 6:30 pm (online) 10 May to 26 September 2021 Prof. Dr. Timo Skrandies The Invisible Sculpture Joseph Beuys und die Kunst als Forschung The Expanded Concept of Art after Joseph Beuys Lecture series Exhibition Düsseldorf Heinrich-Heine-Universität Opening: 9 May 2021, 5 pm (online) Essen Stiftung Zollverein / Ruhr Museum, UNESCO Welterbe Zollverein, Halle 8 22 April 2021, 7 pm (online) Dr. Wolfgang Zumdick 11 May 2021, 6:30 pm (online) »Der Tod hält mich wach.« Über Tod und Auferstehung im Werk von Joseph Beuys und Rudolf Prof. Dr. Eugen Blume Steiner »Warum Beuys mir wichtig geblieben ist.« Lecture Lecutre series Wuppertal Skulpturenpark Waldfrieden, Cragg Foundation Düsseldorf Heinrich-Heine-Universität

27 April 2021, 6:30 pm (online) 12 to 16 May 2021 Dr. Bettina Paust 12.05.1921 – 12.05.2021 »Ich bin ein Sender. Ich strahle aus« – Eine Spurensuche nach der Rezeption der Kunst von Exhibition Joseph Beuys Düsseldorf Galerie Hans Mayer Lecutre series Düsseldorf Heinrich-Heine-Universität from 12 May 2021 beuysradio Radio – Podcast – Audiothek May online 12 May 2021, 7 pm 2 May to 29 August 2021 Linde Rohr-Bongard Joseph Beuys and the Shamans »Die F.I.U. – Freie internationale Hochschule für Kreativität und interdisziplinäre Forschung und Exhibition die Innsbrucktafel« Opening: 2 May 2021, 2 pm Lecture Bedburg-Hau Museum Schloss Moyland Wuppertal Skulpturenpark Waldfrieden, Cragg Foundation

2 May to 29 August 2021 14 May to 15 July 2021 The Catalyst Kiste, Flasche, Tuch – Die drei Teile des Aktionssockels. Joseph Beuys and Democracy today [Box, Bottle, Cloth – The Three Parts of the Action Plinth] Exhibition Exhibitions of Joseph Beuys at Konrad Fischer Opening: 2 May 2021, 12 pm Exhibition Leverkusen Museum Morsbroich Düsseldorf Konrad Fischer Galerie

4 May 2021, 6:30 pm (online) 18 May 2021, 6:30 pm (online) Dr. Alexandra Vinzenz Prof. Dr. Carl-Peter Buschkühle Joseph Beuys und das »Gesamtkunstwerk« Joseph Beuys und die Pädagogik der Kunst Lecutre series Lecutre series Düsseldorf Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf Heinrich-Heine-Universität

7 May to 8 August 2021 20 May 2021, 7 pm Empty Boxes as a Plastic Theme in the Work of Joseph Beuys Dr. Walter Kugler Exhibition »‘Wir arbeiten ja auch nach dem Dreigliederungsmodell von Rudolf Steiner‘. Beuys’ Annähe- Opening: 6 May 2021, 7:30 pm rung an ‚ein radikales Freiheitsmodell‘« Bergisch-Gladbach Kunstmuseum Villa Zanders Lecture Wuppertal Skulpturenpark Waldfrieden, Cragg Foundation 7 May to 6 September 2021 Joseph Beuys 25 May 2021, 6:30 pm (online) Collection highlights on the occasion of his 100th birthday NIna Schulze Exhibition Was hat es mit dem Sprechen von Joseph Beuys auf sich? Kleve Museum Kurhaus Kleve Lecutre series Düsseldorf Heinrich-Heine-Universität 4 5 June 17 June 2021, 7 pm Dr. Gabriele Mackert 2 to 6 June 2021 »Der is doll« aber: »Dat kauft doch keiner« The Infinity of the Moment Lecture Performances after Joseph Beuys Wuppertal Skulpturenpark Waldfrieden, Cragg Foundation Performance Various locations in Wuppertal 19 June to 3 October 2021 Wuppertal Kulturbüro Wuppertal Intuition! Dimensions of the Early Work of Joseph Beuys 1946–1961 2 June 2021, 7 pm Exhibition Prof. Dr. Karen van den Berg Opening: 19 June 2021, 7:30 pm »Joseph Beuys und das Erbe der Sozialen Plastik« Kleve Museum Kurhaus Kleve Lecture Wuppertal Skulpturenpark Waldfrieden, Cragg Foundation 22 June 2021, 6:30 pm (online) Prof. Dr. Barbara Lange 3 June to 24 October 2021 Arbeit am sozialen Organismus. Das Konzept von Kunst im Werk von Joseph Beuys Institutional Critique – The Museum as a Site of Permanent Conference (J.B.) Lecutre series Ghislaine Leung. Portraits and Werkstattbericht Sammlung/Archiv Andersch (Beuys) Düsseldorf Heinrich-Heine-Universität Exhibition Mönchengladbach Museum Abteiberg 25 June to 1 November 2021 Beuys — Lehmbruck 8 June 2021, 6:30 pm (online) Thinking is Sculpture Prof. Dr. Philip Ursprung Exhibition – in cooperation with Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg »Eurasienstab« – Beuys und die europäische Integration Bonn Bundeskunsthalle Bonn Lecutre series 26 June to 1 November 2021 Düsseldorf Heinrich-Heine-Universität Lehmbruck — Beuys 9 June to end of September 2021 Everything is Sculpture Exhibition – in cooperation with Bundeskunsthalle Bonn Sculptural Democracy Lehmbruck Museum Forms of the »We« Duisburg Models – Parliaments – Lab 29 June 2021, 6:30 pm (online) Düsseldorf Kunstakademie Düsseldorf and Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf Gustaf-Gründgens-Platz in front of the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus Dr. Catherine Nichols Erweiterter Kunstbegriff Lecutre series 9 June 2021, 7 pm Düsseldorf Heinrich-Heine-Universität Prof. Dr. Eugen Blume Joseph Beuys: »Die Idee, einem Tier etwas zu erklären, fördert den Sinn für das Geheimnis 29 June 2021, 8 pm der Welt und der Existenz…« Lecture Beuys D 1981 | 11 Min. | D: Werner Nekes and Dore O. Wuppertal Skulpturenpark Waldfrieden, Cragg Foundation Joseph Beuys und seine Klasse D 1971 | 40 Min. | D: Hans Emmerling and Edwin K. Braun 9 June 2021, 7 pm Film series »Joseph Beuys – his public image. Films with, after and about Joseph Beuys« Bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen Filmwerkstatt Düsseldorf Talk Düsseldorf Bonn Kunstmuseum Bonn

15 June 2021, 6:30 pm (online) July Dr. Magdalena Holzhey Arbeitsplatz eines Wissenschaftlers/Künstlers – Joseph Beuys und die Naturwissenschaften 1 July 2021, 8 pm am Beispiel der Krefelder Beuys-Räume Joseph Beuys: Jeder Mensch ist ein Künstler Lecutre series D 1979 | 54 Min. | D: Werner Krüger Düsseldorf Heinrich-Heine-Universität Film series »Joseph Beuys – his public image. Films with, after and about Joseph Beuys« Düsseldorf Filmwerkstatt Düsseldorf

6 7 2 to 4 July 2021 August Sebastian Blasius: Absent Wolves Performance 13 August to 17 October 2021 in cooperation with Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Stiftung Zollverein and Folkwang Universität Revolution Beuys der Künste Essen/Bochum MO-Schaufenster#27 Essen Stiftung Zollverein Exhibition Dortmund Museum Ostwall at Dortmunder U 6 July 2021, 6:30 pm (online) Dr. Ursula Ströbele 20 August 2021, 8 pm Zur skulpturalen Ästhetik des Lebendigen: Joseph Beuys und die Soziale Plastik im Kontext der Das Kapital – Mensch und Geld Living Sculpture Woher kommt das Geld und wie definieren wir Kapital? Lecutre series Talk Düsseldorf Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf Filmwerkstatt Düsseldorf

6 July 2021, 8 pm 20 August 2021, 9:45 pm Transformer Oeconomia USA 1979 | 59 Min. | D: John Halpern D 2020 | 89 Min. | D: Carmen Losmann Film series »Joseph Beuys – his public image. Films with, after and about Joseph Beuys« Screening Düsseldorf Filmwerkstatt Düsseldorf Düsseldorf Filmwerkstatt Düsseldorf

8 July 2021, 8 pm 29 August 2021 Zeige deine Wunde – Kunst and Spiritualität bei Joseph Beuys BEUYS’ erdklavier + ensemble CRUSH D 2015 | 85 Min. | D: Rudiger Sunner Performance concert Film series »Joseph Beuys – his public image. Films with, after and about Joseph Beuys« Bedburg-Hau Museum Schloss Moyland Düsseldorf Filmwerkstatt Düsseldorf August 2021 13 July 2021, 6:30 pm (online) Sebastian Blasius: Absent Wolves Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Zumdick Performance Denken als plastische Praxis. Joseph Beuys und die Philosophie In cooperation with Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Stiftung Zollverein and Folkwang Universität Lecutre series der Künste Essen/Bochum Düsseldorf Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf Kunsthalle Düsseldorf 17 July 2021 Stadtverwaldung 2021 Wo stehen wir, wo geht es hin? September Talk Düsseldorf Filmwerkstatt Düsseldorf 7 September 2021, 8 pm Heiner Goebbels: A House of Call 17 July 2021 My Imaginary Notebook (2020/21) Beuys Concert D 2017 | 107 Min. | D: Andres Veiel Düsseldorf Ensemble Modern Orchestra at Tonhalle Düsseldorf Screening Düsseldorf Filmwerkstatt Düsseldorf 16 September 2021 BEUYS’ erdklavier + ensemble CRUSH July 2021 Performance concert Joseph Beuys-Handbuch Duisburg Lehmbruck Museum Leben – Werk – Wirkung Book presentation 19 September 2021 to 9 January 2022 J.B. Metzler Verlag; Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Department of Art History Torn out of Time Düsseldorf Haus der Universität at Schadowplatz Joseph Beuys: Actions – Photographed by Ute Klophaus 1965–1986 Exhibition Opening: 19 September 2021, 11:30 am Wuppertal Von der Heydt-Museum

8 9 18 to 19 September 2021 November Music from the Future A 24-hour musical homage to Joseph Beuys on the occasion of his centenary 7 and 11 November 2021 Concert BEUYS’ erdklavier + ensemble CRUSH Düsseldorf K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen Performance concert Krefeld Kunstmuseen Krefeld, Kaiser Wilhelm Museum 26 September 2021 bis 6. März 2022 Joseph Beuys – On Printed Matter Modified Newspapers and Works with Newsprint by Joseph Beuyss Ausstellung Bedburg-Hau Museum Schloss Moyland

October

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 Kunstmuseum 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)

15 to 16 October 2021 The Problem with Beuys A Mentality and Reception History of Joseph Beuys Symposium Düsseldorf Haus der Universität at Schadowplatz

22 to 23 October 2021 Beuys, Fluxus and the Impact The Festival of New Art in Aachen Symposium Aachen Ludwig Forum für internationale Kunst and Chair of Art History at RWTH Aachen

28 October 2021 to 20 January 2022 Anyone who doesn’t want to think will be thrown [throw themselves] out Joseph Beuys and the Shape of the Future Exhibition Opening: 28 October 2021, 6 pm Düsseldorf Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Düsseldorf 10 11 Programme Bedburg-Hau [sorted alphabetically by city] Joseph Beuys and the Shamans Exhibition Museum Schloss Moyland 2 May to 29 August 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. 12 13 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 1992 ). 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.

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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.

16 17 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 Germany, 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 20 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.

18 19 Joseph Beuys – His Public Image beuysparcours Films with, after and about Joseph Beuys Events on Joseph Beuys’s 100th birthday Film series beuysparcours Filmwerkstatt Düsseldorf Various locations in Düsseldorf and NRW 29 June to 8 July 2021 — [artistic director: Jan Wagner] 11 May, 6 pm to 12 May, 11 pm

The film series with and about Joseph Beuys presents five films that Joseph Beuys’s 100th birthday will celebrated with a parcours show him as an artist, teacher and political activist. All three roles comprising 15 programme items in Düsseldorf and across NRW. are inherent in his artistic development model and contributed to The museums that have already opened their Beuys exhibition at the emergence of a public figure whose radiance touched and this time will offer free admission to the relevant galleries. changed art and society alike. On view are Joseph Beuys und The parcours opens with »Music from the Future«, a 24-hour seine Klasse, Beuys, Joseph Beuys: Jeder Mensch ist ein Künstler, musical homage to the artist, that will be performed on the piazza Joseph Beuys / Transformer und Zeige deine Wunde – Kunst und of K21. From 6 pm on 11 May to 6 pm on 12 May 24 musicians will Spiritualität bei Joseph Beuys. honour Beuys as an artist who regarded music as an important component in his visual thinking and whose concept of expanded art significantly affected the course of music history. The performance will be concluded at 6 pm on 12 May with the launch of »beuysradio«. Depending on the Covid-19 situation at that point in time, the launch will be celebrated either in the context 12.05.1921 – 12.05.2021 of a party or online. Details will be announced on the website www. Exhibition beuys2021.de and on the social media platforms of »beuys 2021« Galerie Hans Mayer closer to the date. 12 to 16 May 2021 14

When Joseph Beuys entered Hans Mayer Galerie on May 18, 1979, beuysparcours in Düsseldorf: the atmosphere was full of tension. Beuys approached the cauti- ously smiling Andy with his tremendous radiance: love at first sight 11 May, 6 pm to 12 May, 6 pm at Hans Mayer. beuysradio The moment when Beuys and Andy Warhol met in the gallery rooms radio – podcast – audio library at his exhibition »Indians, Portraits, Torsos« wrote art history. Radio Launch Coming from opposite starting points, two very extended concepts Online of art mixed for a brief moment to form »Kunst = Kapital«. It almost 13 did not come to the clash of the two personalities who were among 10 am to 6 pm the most important artists of the 20th century. Hans Mayer recalls Everyone Is An Artist. that Beuys did not feel much like coming to the spectacle in the Cosmopolitan Exercises with Joseph Beuys gallery. But Mayer did convince Beuys: after all, Beuys would surely Exhibition be happy about a return visit by Warhol to his exhibition – Beuys K20 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen saw that. In memory of this event, Hans Mayer Galerie is showing videos, 11:45 am (Drakeplatz 4) and 12 pm (Horionplatz / Haroldstraße) photos and press material from the exhibition at that time. Private Unveiling of the Beuys Memorial Plaques photos from Hans Mayer’s archive are also on display, offering Atelier at Drakeplatz and 7000 Eichen at Horionplatz insights into the gallery owner‘s shared experiences with Beuys and Inauguration Warhol. And included are photographic works by Christopher Düsseldorfer Jonges Makos, who often accompanied Warhol. Photographic documents also show Beuys in the workshop of Hans Mayer Galerie.. 12 pm to 6 pm Mataré + Beuys + Immendorff An Encounter of the Works of Teacher and Student Exhibition Akademie-Galerie – die Neue Sammlung.

12 pm to 6 pm 12.05.1921 – 12.05.2021 Exhibition Galerie Hans Mayer 20 21 12 pm to 6 pm Kiste, Flasche, Tuch – Die drei Teile des Aktionssockels Lutz Mommartz: Soziale Plastik [Social Sculpture] Exhibitions by Joseph Beuys at Konrad Fischer Jan Bonny & Alex Wissel: Jupp, watt hamwer jemaht? [Joe, what’ve we done?] Exhibition Screening Konrad Fischer Galerie Julia Stoschek Collection 14 May to 15 July 2021

The works of Joseph Beuys were presented in three exhibitions at beuysparcours in NRW: Konrad Fischer in Düsseldorf: »Drei Teile des Aktionssockels von 24 Stunden, 5. Juni 1965, 0-24 h« in September 1976, »dumme Kiste« in 11 am to 6 pm May 1983 and »hinter dem Knochen wird gezählt – Schmerzraum« Joseph Beuys and the Shamans from December 1983 to February 1984. Exhibition The »Aktionssockel« was part of the »24 Stunden Happening« in the Museum Schloss Moyland, Bedburg-Hau Wuppertal gallery Parnass. Three pieces from this action – an orange crate, an oilcloth and a bottle were shown at Konrad Fischer in 1976. 2 pm bis 6 pm During the energy-sapping performance, Beuys was the only one to Empty Boxes as a Plastic Theme in the Work of Joseph Beuys stay awake for 24 hours, as Rudolf Jährling recalls. Exhibition In 1983, the »dumme Kiste« and the »Schmerzraum« followed, which Kunstmuseum Villa Zanders, Bergisch Gladbach Joseph Beuys completely lined with lead plates, illuminated only by a bare light bulb, whose weak light illuminated two silver rings mounted 10 am to 6 pm on the ceiling. On the floor, a gray telephone. The lead as a possible Invisible Sculpture. protective shield against radioactive rays, the telephone as a possibility The Expanded Concept of Art after Joseph Beuys of communication. Exhibition Ruhr Museum / Stiftung Zollverein, Halle 8, Essen

11 am to 5 pm Art = Human Sculptural Democracy Joseph Beuys in Krefeld Forms of the »We« Exhibition Models – Parliaments – Lab Kunstmuseen Krefeld. Kaiser-Wilhelm-Museum Kunstakademie Düsseldorf and Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf Gustaf-Gründgens-Platz in front of Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus 11 am to 5 pm 9 June to end of September 2021— [artistic directors: Eugen Blume and Catherine The Catalyst Nichols (beuys 2021), Markus Bader, Frauke Gerstenberg and Andrea Hofmann Joseph Beuys and Democracy Today (raumlaborberlin), Ludger Schwarte (Kunstakademie Düsseldorf), Timo Skrandies Exhibition (Heinrich-Heine-Universität)] Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen The Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, the Heinrich-Heine-Universität 11 am to 5 pm Düsseldorf, raumlaborberlin and the project team for beuys 2021 Joseph Beuys want to explore, discuss, revive, critically question and further think Collection highlights on the occasion of his 100th birthday about the impulses for the radical co-design of democracy that Exhibition were taken up by Beuys and emanated from him. For Beuys those Museum Kurhaus Kleve stimuli culminated in his idea such impulses culminated in the »idea of the university«, which he understood as a model of society in the 11 am to 6 pm 15 tradition of Wilhelm von Humboldt and John Dewey and explored in Joseph Beuys. Perpetual Motion the form of his Free International University (FIU) founded in 1973. Exhibition Under the direction of raumlaborberlin, an experimental architec- Skulpturenpark Waldfrieden, Cragg Foundation, Wuppertal ture is being created in front of the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus on Gustaf-Gründgens-Platz in Düsseldorf. 7 pm The building is divided into three interconnected areas that provide Linde Rohr-Bongard space for (1) research and comparison (Models), (2) discussion »Die F.I.U. - Freie internationale Hochschule für Kreativität und interdisziplinäre Forschung und and negotiation (Parliaments) and (3) communal being, working, die Innsbrucktafel« thinking, eating and living (Lab). Lecture Skulpturenpark Waldfrieden, Cragg Foundation 23 Joseph Beuys-Handbuch The capital – humans and money Leben – Werk – Wirkung Where does money come from and how do we define capital? Book presentation Discussion J.B. Metzler Verlag; Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Institut für Kunstgeschichte Followed by a screening of: »Oeconomia« Haus der Universität at Schadowplatz Filmwerkstatt Düsseldorf July 2021 — [edited by Timo Skrandies and Bettina Paust] 20 August 2021, 8 pm — [Guests: Carmen Losmann (director, »Oeconomia«), Eugen Blume (beuys 2021), Moderation: Jan Wagner] »Joseph Beuys. Leben – Werk – Wirkung«, a 400-page handbook edited by Bettina Paust and Timo Skrandies, with over 80 articles Carmen Losmann‘s film »Oeconomia« surprises us with the by around 50 authors, will be the first ever comprehensive compen- realization that many ideas we have about the capitalist system are dium on the artist Joseph Beuys. Its publication by Metzler Verlag simply wrong. Yet capital, or what we think of as capital, is a in Stuttgart in early 2021 will mark the beginning of Beuys’s decisive factor when it comes to understanding and changing a centenary celebrations. social value system. In a discussion with the director Carmen On the one hand, the handbook will serve as a repository of Losmann, a representative from the world of finance and the artistic knowledge and ideas for current and future Beuys research and director of »beuys 2021« Dr. Eugen Blume, we would like to pose 16 provide inspiration for further research. On the other hand, it is the question of the function and effective power of capital in our cur- also designed to serve as a standard reference work and source of rent social system and consider alternative systems of capital, as information for a wider public interested in Beuys and, in so doing, formulated not least in Joseph Beuys‘ expanded concept of art. to promote the discussion of his oeuvre. The publication comprises seven section: Time and Persona; Works, Groups of Works, Forms of Work; Recognition; Contexts; People; Trends and Institutions; Terms and Concepts; Reception; Appendix and Index.

Heiner Goebbels: A House of Call My Imaginary Notebook (2020/21) Concert Ensemble Modern Orchestra in the Tonhalle Düsseldorf 7 September 2021 — [Ensemble Modern Orchestra; conductor: Vimbayi Kaziboni, Stadtverwaldung 2021 lighting director: Heiner Goebbels, sound director: Norbert Ommer] State of Things Discussion The Beuys celebrations in 2021 could not pass by without special Followed by a screening of: »Beuys« consideration being given to his impact on other art forms and on Filmwerkstatt Düsseldorf the work of artists today whose ideas, methods and themes would 17 July 2021, 8 pm — [Guests: Cornelia Zuschke (Head of Planning Düsseldorf), Prof. hardly have come about in their present form without his influence. Almut Grüntuch-Ernst (IDAS Institute for Design and Architectural Strategy and editor of The artist and composer Heiner Goebbels is inspired both by »Hortitecture -The Power of Architecture and Plants«), Moritz Fiedler (artist and project Beuys’s musical Fluxus actions and by the political and ecological manager of »Tita Giese Pflanzenprojekte«), Clara Gerlach (Mayor, Die Grünen), Modera- dimensions of his art. Goebbels’s most recent orchestral work »A tion: Jan Wagner] House of Call. My Imaginary Notebook« has multiple connections with prominent themes in Beuys’s work: foreign voices from Central Beuys‘s work »7000 Eichen – Stadtverwaldung statt Stadtverwal- Asia, Georgia and Iran are heard in this »lieder evening for or- tung« on the occasion of the Dokumenta 7 dates back almost 40 chestra« as are ritual language forms devised by Samuel Beckett years and marks a clear commitment to the ecology movement of and Heiner Müller, which are juxtaposed with shamanistic recita- the 1980s. The green city remains mostly an unfulfilled promise to tions by indigenous peoples in Colombia. As if executing secular this day, but has gained in importance against the backdrop of responses, the whole orchestra reacts to these cries, utterances, climate change. We discuss the state of planning in Düsseldorf and prayers and incantations. the future potential of forested cities with a group of four actors from 17 architecture, urban planning, art and politics.

24 25 Music from the Future The Problem with Beuys A 24-hour musical homage to Joseph Beuys on the occasion of his 100th birthday A Mentality and Reception History of Joseph Beuys Concert Symposium K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf Haus der Universität at Schadowplatz 18 to 19 September 2021 — [artistic director: Matthias Osterwold] 15 to 16 October 2021 — [unter der Leitung von Eugen Blume, Catherine Nichols, Bettina Paust, Timo Skrandies] 24 musicians honour Beuys as a ground-breaking artist, who regarded music as an important component in his visual thinking In dealing with Joseph Beuys one cannot help but wonder to what and whose concept of expanded art significantly affected the extent he actually achieved the degree of personal and social course of music. The point of departure for this homage is Beuys’s transformation to which he aspired in his artistic practice. The longstanding interest in the work and thinking of French composer complex oeuvre of Beuys as well as its controversial reception Erik Satie: 24 musicians from different disciplines, nations, and show that this is not any easy question to answer. Can his work be generations will present a relay performance of Erik Satie’s understood as a form of coming to terms with history, as an attempt »Vexations« for piano. Each will play for an hour before handing at transformation? Or was Beuys, as the art historian Benjamin over to the next performer. The 24 players are not exclusively Buchloh argued as early as 1980, a master of repression who, with professional pianists, there are also visual artists, curators, school much mysticism and charlatanry, glossed over his national socialist pupils. This event, as plastic as it is polyphonic, which opens the past? Did he remain, as beat Wyss postulated in 2008 and Hans programme for »beuys 2021. 100 jahre joseph beuys«, takes its Peter Riegel in 2013, the eternal Hitler Youth? A charismatic dazzler lead from Beuys’s own transformative,deeply human approach to who to this day manages to mesmerise people around the world? his work. It asks, with Beuys, how music today, how art today can On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Joseph Beuys’s birth, contribute to social renewal. these and other questions concerning the mentality and reception history of the artist will be addressed at an academic conference. 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 construction and deconstruction of the artist. The role of copyright, licensing, and censorship will also be explored in a thematic block. Live stream will be considered if the pandemic preventative measures should restrict the number of visitors.

19 26 27 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.

Essen

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 Kunsthalle Düsseldorf 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 28 29 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 Gastkurator 28 March to 1 August 2021 — [curated by Magdalena Holzhey] 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-Forschungszentrum, 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.

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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 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- 25 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.

Mönchengladbach

Institutional Critique – The Museum as a Site of Permanent Conference (J.B.) The Infinity of the Moment Ghislaine Leung. Portraits Performances after Joseph Beuys Werkstattbericht Sammlung / Archiv 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. »Werkstattbericht« 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. 24 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. 32 33 Torn out of Time Benjamin Hassselhorn: Joseph Beuys: Actions – photographed by Ute Klophaus. 1965–1986 It’s about reality in its entirety. Exhibition On the significance of myths in the 21st century Von der Heydt-Museum Beuys described himself as a storyteller and cultivated an uninhibited approach to myths. 19 September 2021 to 9 January 2022 — [curated by Antje Birthälmer] But aren’t myths problematic or even dangerous, especially when they become political? Why can’t we get rid of myths even in the 21st century? And how can we deal with them Taking its lead from the 24-hour Happening at Galerie Parnass in constructively? Wuppertal in 1965, this exhibition of photographs by Ute Klophaus (1940–2010) focuses on her images of Actions by Joseph Beuys. Benjamin Hasselhorn is a historian and theologian. From 2014 to 2019, he was curator of Her shots of moments »torn out of the flow of time« in Beuys’s the Luther Memorials Foundation in Saxony-Anhalt. Since 2019, he has been an assistant performances also capture the special charisma, intensity and professor at the Department of Modern History at the University of Würzburg, where he is energy of working on a postdoctoral thesis on historical myths. Beuys in action. This exhibition mainly draws on the wealth of Klophaus photographs in the collection of Lothar Schirmer in Munich. Anna Bromley: The 24-hour Happening, where other participants included artists Creating a new organ. such as Nam June Paik, Bazon Brock, Tomas Schmit and Wolf Social sculpture and social media Vostell, was both a high point in the international Fluxus movement Beuys was in favour of »humans creating a whole new organ for themselves« that would and a key experience for Klophaus in her native city. That encounter provide them with forms of »speaking out«. How would he like Twitter and Clubhouse? with Beuys crucially informed her subsequent development and she Drawing is thinking, according to Beuys. Anna Bromley takes him at his word and went on to photograph Beuys and his work for over twenty years. In speculates about current ›organs‹ while looking between his lines and words the process, she developed the ability to give visible form to perceptions that go beyond the visual and to convey a sense of the Anna Bromley is an artist, author and radio host. She is host of the program »Lautstrom« hidden, elusive factors that also informed Beuys’s designs for the at reboot.fm, among others. For documenta 14, she collaborated with Brandon LaBelle world. on a radio program titled »The Laughter of the Hyposubject«.

Ralf Schlüter: Online Is everyone an artist? The expanded concept of art in the expanded art world beuysradio With his famous phrase, Joseph Beuys aims at the creative potential of each individual, Radio – Podcast – Audio Library which is realized in the “social sculpture” of a new society. The podcast discusses this Podcast utopia with the Indonesian artist collective ruangrupa, which will curate documenta 15 in from 12 May 2021 — [a cooperation of »beuys 2021«,Goethe-Institut, Munich, under the Kassel in 2022. direction of Catherine Nichols and Marc-André Schmachtel] Ralf Schlüter is a cultural journalist. From 2006 to 2020 he was deputy editor-in-chief of Is everyone an artist? Are trees more intelligent than people? Is the art magazine »Art«. Since 2020, he has been the author of the ZEIT podcast series plasticity synonymous with humanity? Are we the revolution? Do »Zeitgeister – der Podcast für Musik, Kulturgeschichte und Gegenwart«. From 2013 to we live in a pseudo-democracy? Are capitalism’s days numbered? 2020 he hosted the show »Art Mixtape« at the web radio station ByteFM. Joseph Beuys posed many of the questions that we most urgently face today. beuysradio investigates who Beuys was, what he actually said, how that is pertinent and why his ideas and he An Paenhuysen: himself remain the subject of such heated debate today. beuysradio Every revolution begins with silly questions. takes up his hypotheses and questions and has a fresh look at The potential of nonsense and dilletantism them in the here and now. This free online audio programme There is a common misconception that profound analysis requires great seriousness. dedicated to the critical analysis of Joseph Beuys presents 100 Humour is thought to be the exact opposite. This misunderstanding also pertains to art. voices exploring him as a person, 20 podcasts on his most provoc- Kicking off with the question »Why do we think something is deep because it is serious?«, ative questions, a wide range of reports on the festivities compris- An Paenhuysen explores the political and philosophical potential of nonsense in a ing the centenary programme »beuys 2021« and a series of conversation with artists about works by Joseph Beuys. playlists introducing the music he listened to, made, influenced and inspired. An Paenhuysen is a historian, curator, writer, and blogger. She is a lecturer in art writing and cultural theory at the Node Center for Curatorial Studies, Berlin. She directs the The first two podcasts are a cooperation of WDR 3 with the Goethe Institute, Munich and House of Deadly Doris, and researches dilettantism, nonsense, and silliness. She has »beuys 2021« to mark the 100th birthday of Joseph Beuys. published widely, most recently Silly Poems (2020). 34 35 Further topics: Press images Are we the revolution? Please note that the images and contents are subject to copyright and that they are provided for use exclusively in the context with On the usefulness of universalisms and the idea of revolution the current reporting of the respective programme partner. All informations and downloads on beuys2021.de/en/press. Pseudo-democracy everywhere. How can we make democracy more democratic? Credits 1 Joseph Beuys, Scheveningen, 1976, photograph: Caroline Tisdall Are trees more intelligent than people? 2 Joseph Beuys at the »Festival of New Art« at the RWTH Aachen on 20 July 1964, photograph: Heinrich Riebesehl / The extension of rights towards everything that breathes © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2020 3 Joseph Beuys, undated, photograph: Ute Klophaus, Stiftung Museum Schloss Moyland, Joseph Beuys Archiv jba-f 90613 / bpk What is capital? 4 Joseph Beuys working on intuition boxes outside Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, photograph: Nino Barbieri, 1970s Sustainable economic values and money © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2021 5 Composing, portrait of Joseph Beuys, Paris, around 1985, © imago images/Leemage and Wilhelm Lehmbruck, Große Is plasticity synonymous with humanity? Kniende, 1911, Lehmbruck Estate, Lehmbruck-Museum, Duisburg, © akg-images / cda / guillot Queering Beuys 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 Genghis Khan’s daughter. the artist, Annely Juda Fine Art, London and PPOW Gallery, New York Beuys, art, feminism 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 among others. 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«, Frankfurt 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 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 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 1964, © photograph: Peter Thomann / Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst Aachen / © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2020 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 Heilbronn, 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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