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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

Dortmund Essen

Duisburg

Krefeld Wuppertal Düsseldorf Mönchengladbach

Leverkusen

Bergisch Gladbach

Aachen

Bonn

Last update: 23.8.2021

Joseph Beuys’s 100th birthday in 2021 is an occasion for around 25 museums and cultural institutions in 13 cities in North Rhine-West- phalia to honour, rediscover and critically question the Rhine- land-born artist, his complex work and his international influence.

Throughout 2021, a variety of exhibitions, actions and performanc- es, theatre, music and teaching events will explore the fascinating as well as controversial ideas of one of the world‘s most influential artistic personalities of the 20th century.

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 pandemic. You can find the updated programme in the press section of the website www.beuys2021.de/en.

2 Calendar

January

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

March

27 March to 15 August 2021 Everyone is an Artist Cosmopolitan Exercises with Joseph Beuys Exhibition Opening: 27 March 2021, 5 pm (digital) Düsseldorf K20 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen

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

28 March to 1 August 2021 Art = Human Joseph Beuys in Krefeld Exhibition Krefeld Kunstmuseen Krefeld, Kaiser Wilhelm Museum

28 March to 20 June 2021 Joseph Beuys. Perpetual Motion Exhibition Opening: 28 March 2021, 11 am Wuppertal Skulpturenpark Waldfrieden, Cragg Foundation

April

20 April 2021, 6:30 pm (online) Timo Skrandies Joseph Beuys und die Kunst als Forschung Lecture series »I’m searching for the dumbest person« Düsseldorf Heinrich-Heine-Universität 3 22 April 2021, 7 pm (online) Wolfgang Zumdick »Der Tod hält mich wach.« Über Tod und Auferstehung im Werk von Joseph Beuys und Rudolf Steiner Lecture Wuppertal Skulpturenpark Waldfrieden, Cragg Foundation

27 April 2021, 6:30 pm (online) Bettina Paust »Ich bin ein Sender. Ich strahle aus« – Eine Spurensuche nach der Rezeption der Kunst von Joseph Beuys Lecture series »I’m searching for the dumbest person« Düsseldorf Heinrich-Heine-Universität

May

2 May to 19 September 2021 Joseph Beuys and the Shamans Exhibition Opening: 2 May 2021, 2 pm (online) Bedburg-Hau Museum Schloss Moyland

2 May to 29 August 2021 The Catalyst Joseph Beuys and Democracy today Exhibition Opening: 2 May 2021, 12 pm (online) Leverkusen Museum Morsbroich

4 May 2021, 6:30 pm (online) Alexandra Vinzenz Joseph Beuys und das »Gesamtkunstwerk« Lecture series »I’m searching for the dumbest person« Düsseldorf Heinrich-Heine-Universität

7 May to 8 August 2021 Empty Boxes as a Plastic Theme in the Work of Joseph Beuys Exhibition Bergisch-Gladbach Kunstmuseum Villa Zanders

7 May to 6 September 2021 Joseph Beuys Collection highlights on the occasion of his 100th birthday Exhibition Kleve Museum Kurhaus Kleve

10 May to 26 September 2021 The Invisible Sculpture The Expanded Concept of Art after Joseph Beuys Exhibition Opening: 9 May 2021, 5 pm (online) Essen Stiftung Zollverein / Ruhr Museum, UNESCO Welterbe Zollverein, Halle 8

4 from 11 May 2021, every Tuesday A talk series with Johannes Stüttgen As part of the exhibition »The Invisible Sculpture« Discussion Essen Stiftung Zollverein / Ruhr Museum, UNESCO Welterbe Zollverein, Halle 8

11 May 2021, 6:30 pm (online) Eugen Blume »Warum Beuys mir wichtig geblieben ist.« Lecture series »I’m searching for the dumbest person« Düsseldorf Heinrich-Heine-Universität

12 May to 12 June 2021 12.05.1921 – 12.05.2021 Exhibition Düsseldorf Galerie Hans Mayer from 12 May 2021 beuysradio Radio – Podcast – Audiothek Online from 12 May 2021 beuys ar A metaphysical journey through the world and ideas of Joseph Beuys Augmented Reality Online in cooperation with Rosy DX and Scavengar

12 May to 31 December 2021 (online) Beuys verstehen Virtual exhibition in cooperation with Zaubar Exhibition Online Goethe-Institut Prag and Goethe-Institut Warschau

12 May 2021, 7 pm Linde Rohr-Bongard Die F.I.U. – Freie internationale Hochschule für Kreativität und interdisziplinäre Forschung und die Innsbrucktafel Lecture Wuppertal Skulpturenpark Waldfrieden, Cragg Foundation

14 May to 15 July 2021 Kiste, Flasche, Tuch – Die drei Teile des Aktionssockels [Box, Bottle, Cloth – The Three Parts of the Action Plinth] Exhibitions of Joseph Beuys at Konrad Fischer Exhibition Düsseldorf Konrad Fischer Galerie

18 May 2021, 6:30 pm (online) Carl-Peter Buschkühle Joseph Beuys und die Pädagogik der Kunst Lecture series »I’m searching for the dumbest person« Düsseldorf Heinrich-Heine-Universität

5 20 May 2021, 7 pm Walter Kugler »Wir arbeiten ja auch nach dem Dreigliederungsmodell von Rudolf Steiner.« Beuys’ An- näherung an »ein radikales Freiheitsmodell« Lecture Wuppertal Skulpturenpark Waldfrieden, Cragg Foundation

25 May 2021, 6:30 pm (online) NIna Schulze Was hat es mit dem Sprechen von Joseph Beuys auf sich? Lecture series »I’m searching for the dumbest person« Düsseldorf Heinrich-Heine-Universität

June

2 June 2021, 7 pm (online) Prof. Dr. Karen van den Berg »Joseph Beuys und das Erbe der Sozialen Plastik« Lecture Wuppertal Skulpturenpark Waldfrieden, Cragg Foundation

2 to 6 June 2021 The Infinity of the Moment Performances after Joseph Beuys Performance Various locations in Wuppertal + online Wuppertal Kulturbüro Wuppertal

3 June to 24 October 2021 Institutional Critique – The Museum as a Site of Permanent Conference (J.B.) Ghislaine Leung. Portraits and Workshop Report Collection/Archive Andersch (Beuys) Exhibition Mönchengladbach Museum Abteiberg

5 June 2021, 8 pm (online) Natur = Plastik. Ökologie und Nachaltigkeit Conversation with everyday experts Laboratory »Ursache = Zukunft« (Cause = Future) In cooperation with Kunstmuseum Bonn, Alanus-Hochschule, A Fair Land Pforzheim Bonn Bundeskunsthalle, on the museum square

6 June 2021, 12 pm (online) Philip Ursprung Joseph Beuys. Kunst Kapital Revolution Lecture and Talk Mönchengladbach Museum Abteiberg

6 June 2021, 3 pm (online) Susanne Rennert »Das ist ja überhaupt alles sehr beweglich« – Joseph Beuys und Fluxus Lecture Mönchengladbach Museum Abteiberg

6 8 to 15 June 2021 Sculptural Democracy: Kick-off The Forms of the »We« Lectures Düsseldorf Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, HHU Düsseldorf, raumlaborberlin on the Gustaf-Gründgens-Platz in front of Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus

8 June 2021, 6:30 pm (online) Philip Ursprung »Eurasienstab« – Beuys und die europäische Integration Lecture series »I’m searching for the dumbest person« Düsseldorf Heinrich-Heine-Universität

9 June 2021, 7 pm (online) Eugen Blume Joseph Beuys: »Die Idee, einem Tier etwas zu erklären, fördert den Sinn für das Geheimnis der Welt und der Existenz…« Lecture Wuppertal Skulpturenpark Waldfrieden, Cragg Foundation

9 June 2021, 6 pm (online) Konkrete Utopie – Bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen Talk with experts of the everyday life Laboratory »Ursache = Zukunft« [Cause = Future] In cooperation with Kunstmuseum Bonn, Alanus-Hochschule, A Fair Land Pforzheim Bonn Bundeskunsthalle, on the museum square

15 June 2021, 6:30 pm (online) Magdalena Holzhey Arbeitsplatz eines Wissenschaftlers/Künstlers – Joseph Beuys und die Naturwissenschaften am Beispiel der Krefelder Beuys-Räume Lecture series »I’m searching for the dumbest person« Düsseldorf Heinrich-Heine-Universität

15 June 2021, 7:30 pm Gespräche im Roten Salon With Hartmut Kraft Lecture Bergisch-Gladbach Kunstmuseum Villa Zanders

17 June 2021, 7 pm (online) Gabriele Mackert »Der is doll« aber: »Dat kauft doch keiner« Lecture Wuppertal Skulpturenpark Waldfrieden, Cragg Foundation

17 June 2021, 7 pm (online) Igor Sacharow-Ross Artist Talk Bedburg-Hau Museum Schloss Moyland

7 19 June to 3 October 2021 Intuition! Dimensions of the Early Work of Joseph Beuys 1946–1961 Exhibition Opening: 19 June 2021, 7:30 pm Kleve Museum Kurhaus Kleve

22 June 2021, 6:30 pm (online) Barbara Lange Arbeit am sozialen Organismus. Das Konzept von Kunst im Werk von Joseph Beuys Lecture series »I’m searching for the dumbest person« Düsseldorf Heinrich-Heine-Universität

25 June to 1 November 2021 Beuys — Lehmbruck Thinking is Sculpture Exhibition – in cooperation with Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg Bonn Bundeskunsthalle Bonn

26 June to 1 November 2021 Lehmbruck — Beuys Everything is Sculpture Exhibition – in cooperation with Bundeskunsthalle Bonn Duisburg Lehmbruck Museum

27 June 2021, 11 am Amélie Schenk Du musst zu den wildesten Orten gehen Lecture Bedburg-Hau Museum Schloss Moyland

29 June 2021, 6:30 pm (online) Catherine Nichols Wenn jeder Mensch ein*e Künstler*in ist. Zum Erweiterten Kunstbegriff von Joseph Beuys Lecture series »I’m searching for the dumbest person« Düsseldorf Heinrich-Heine-Universität

29 June 2021, 8 pm Beuys D 1981 | 11 min. | D: Werner Nekes and Dore O. Joseph Beuys und seine Klasse D 1971 | 40 min. | D: Hans Emmerling and Edwin K. Braun Film series »Joseph Beuys – his public image. Films with, after and about Joseph Beuys« Düsseldorf Filmwerkstatt Düsseldorf

July

1 July 2021, 8 pm Joseph Beuys: Jeder Mensch ist ein Künstler D 1979 | 54 min. | D: Werner Krüger Film series »Joseph Beuys – his public image. Films with, after and about Joseph Beuys« Düsseldorf Filmwerkstatt Düsseldorf

8 2 to 4 July 2021 Sebastian Blasius: Absent Wolves Performance In cooperation with Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Stiftung Zollverein and Folkwang Universität der Künste Essen/Bochum Essen UNESCO-Welterbe Zollverein

6 July 2021, 6:30 pm (online) Ursula Ströbele Zur skulpturalen Ästhetik des Lebendigen: Joseph Beuys und die Soziale Plastik im Kontext der Living Sculpture Lecture series »I’m searching for the dumbest person« Düsseldorf Heinrich-Heine-Universität

6 July 2021, 8 pm Transformer USA 1979 | 59 min. | D: John Halpern Film series »Joseph Beuys – his public image. Films with, after and about Joseph Beuys« Düsseldorf Filmwerkstatt Düsseldorf

8 July 2021, 8 pm Zeige deine Wunde – Kunst and Spiritualität bei Joseph Beuys D 2015 | 85 min. | D: Rudiger Sunner Film series »Joseph Beuys – his public image. Films with, after and about Joseph Beuys« Düsseldorf Filmwerkstatt Düsseldorf

9 July to 29 September 2021 Sculptural Democracy: Models Forms of the »We« Launch Archive + Guerilla Action Düsseldorf Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, HHU Düsseldorf, raumlaborberlin on the Gustaf-Gründgens-Platz in front of Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus and in the urban space

13 July 2021, 6:30 pm (online) Wolfgang Zumdick Denken als plastische Praxis. Joseph Beuys und die Philosophie Lecture series »I’m searching for the dumbest person« Düsseldorf Heinrich-Heine-Universität

15 July 2021, 6 pm Werkstattbericht Sammlung/Archiv Andersch (Beuys) With Bianca Grüger and Karl Heinz Rummeny Exhibition Talks Mönchengladbach Museum Abteiberg

16 July 2021, 6 pm Creativity = Capital. Alternative economy Talk with experts of everyday life Laboratory »Ursache = Zukunft« [Cause = Future] In cooperation with Kunstmuseum Bonn, Alanus-Hochschule, A Fair Land Pforzheim Bonn Bundeskunsthalle, on the museum square

9 16 July 2021, 7 pm Talk with the photographer Stanislav Krupař Artist Talk Bedburg-Hau Museum Schloss Moyland

17 July 2021, 6 pm Ethnopoetisches Erzählspiel Unterm runden Himmel – Nomadengeschichten und Schamanenwelten Narrative Play Bedburg-Hau Museum Schloss Moyland

17 July 2021 Stadtverwaldung 2021 Wo stehen wir, wo geht es hin? Talk afterwards: Beuys D 2017 | 107 min. | D: Andres Veiel Screening Düsseldorf Filmwerkstatt Düsseldorf

July 2021 Joseph Beuys-Handbuch Leben – Werk – Wirkung Book presentation J.B. Metzler Verlag; Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Department of Art History Düsseldorf Haus der Universität at Schadowplatz

August

7 to 8 August 2021 Sebastian Blasius: Absent Wolves Performance In cooperation with Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Stiftung Zollverein and Folkwang Universität der Künste Essen/Bochum Düsseldorf Kunsthalle Düsseldorf

13 August to 17 October 2021 MO-SCHAUFENSTER #27: revolution beuys Exhibition Dortmund Museum Ostwall at Dortmunder U

14 August 2021, 6 pm Vorträge mit Prof. Dr. Gustav Dobos und Dr. Petra Richter Lecture Bedburg-Hau Museum Schloss Moyland

15 August 2021, 11 am Ulrike Bohnet: Altes Wissen, neue Wege Zeitgenössischer Schamanismus am Beispiel Tuwa, Südsibirien Lecture Bedburg-Hau Museum Schloss Moyland

10 15 August 2021, 1 pm Annette Maria Rieger: Die Gabe zu heilen Movie and Talk about spiritual healers Movie Bedburg-Hau Museum Schloss Moyland

20 August 2021, 8 pm Das Kapital – Mensch und Geld Woher kommt das Geld und wie definieren wir Kapital? Talk afterwards: Oeconomia D 2020 | 89 min. | D: Carmen Losmann Screening Düsseldorf Filmwerkstatt Düsseldorf

21 and 22 August 2021 Christian Rätsch und Claudia Müller-Ebeling: Fliegenpilz, Stechapfel, psychoaktive Pflanzen Inspiration, Imagination und wie Honig zum Happening wurde und der Kojote zur Kunst Lecture seminary Bedburg-Hau Museum Schloss Moyland

21 August 2021, 6 pm U We Claus: »Kamillentee ist meine Lieblingsdroge« Heilpflanzen, psychotrope Pflanzen und Pilze bei Joseph Beuys Seminary Bedburg-Hau Museum Schloss Moyland from 24 August 2021 (online) Online-Discussion ith Bruce Hainley, Fatima Hellberg, Susanne Titz and Haris Giannouras Exhibition talk Mönchengladbach Museum Abteiberg

27 and 28 August 2021 Sculptural Democracy: Parliaments Art and political party Discussions and Performances Düsseldorf Foyer in the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus

29 August 2021, 5 pm BEUYS’ erdklavier + ensemble CRUSH Performance concert Bedburg-Hau Museum Schloss Moyland

September

4 September 2021, 6 pm Raum = Gesellschaft. Stadtplanung und öffentlicher Raum Talk with experts of the everyday life Laboratory »Ursache = Zukunft« [Cause = Future] In cooperation with Kunstmuseum Bonn, Alanus-Hochschule, A Fair Land Pforzheim Bonn Bundeskunsthalle, on the museum square

11 7 September 2021, 8 pm Heiner Goebbels: A House of Call My Imaginary Notebook (2020/21) Concert Düsseldorf Ensemble Modern Orchestra at Tonhalle Düsseldorf

12 September 2021, 7 pm Tierrechte Talk Bonn Kunstmuseum Bonn

16 September 2021 BEUYS’ erdklavier + ensemble CRUSH Performance concert Duisburg Lehmbruck Museum

16 September 2021, 6 pm Werkstattbericht Sammlung/Archiv Andersch (Beuys) With Felicia Rappe and Denise Wegener Exhibition Talks Mönchengladbach Museum Abteiberg

18 September 2021 BEUYS’ erdklavier + ensemble CRUSH Performance conzert Kleve Museum Kurhaus

18 to 19 September 2021 Music from the Future A 24-hour musical homage to Joseph Beuys on the occasion of his centenary Concert Düsseldorf K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen

19 September 2021 to 9 January 2022 Torn out of Time Joseph Beuys: Actions – Photographed by Ute Klophaus 1965–1986 | Lothar Schirmer Collection Exhibition Opening: 19 September 2021, 11:30 am Wuppertal Von der Heydt-Museum

26 September 2021 to 6 March 2022 Joseph Beuys – On Printed Matter Modified Newspapers and Works with Newsprint by Joseph Beuyss Exhibition Bedburg-Hau Museum Schloss Moyland

22 and 29 September 2021 Sculptural Democracy: Live-in Lab Forms of the »We« Workshops and Living together Düsseldorf Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, HHU Düsseldorf, raumlaborberlin auf dem Gustaf-Gründgens-Platz vor dem Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus und im Stadtraum

12 October

3 October 2021 Ghislaine Leung – catalogue presentation Book presentation Mönchengladbach Museum Abteiberg

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 »My whole life has been advertising « How Beuys became Beuys Exhibition Opening: 28 October 2021, 6 pm Düsseldorf Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Düsseldorf

Autumn 2021 beuys 2021. 100 jahre joseph beuys – a balance Book presentation Düsseldorf Location tba.

13 November

7 and 11 November 2021 BEUYS’ erdklavier + ensemble CRUSH Performance concert Krefeld Kunstmuseen Krefeld, Kaiser Wilhelm Museum from 7 November 2021 (online) Online-Discussion Susanne Titz in conversation with Ghislaine Leung Exhibition talks Mönchengladbach Museum Abteiberg

13 November 2021 to 13 February 2022 Alicja Rogalska From Ground to Horizon Exhibition Cologne Temporary Gallery

14 Programme [sorted alphabetically by city]

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Aachen

Beuys, Fluxus and the Impact The Festival of New Art in Aachen Symposium 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 Markschies]

The name Joseph Beuys is indelibly associated with an incident 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 student landed a punch on his nose, drawing blood, and the event was abruptly called to a halt. Photographs taken that evening have 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 in the wake of that festival in Aachen. Participants will critically examine that situation over fifty years ago in light of its importance to art, politics and society today, with particular reference to works by contemporary artists. 2 Presented in cooperation with the Chair of Art History, this two-day symposium will welcome numerous expert speakers to the Audimax (the original festival venue) and to the Ludwig Forum Aachen. 15 Bedburg-Hau

Joseph Beuys and the Shamans Exhibition Museum Schloss Moyland 2 May to 19 September 2021 — [curated by Barbara Strieder and Ulrike Bohnet]

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

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BEUYS’ erdklavier + ensemble CRUSH Performance concert – ensemble CRUSH at Beuys’s places 29 August 2021 Museum Schloss Moyland, Bedburg-Hau — [Ensemble CRUSH: Pia Marei Hauser (flute) – Andrei Simion (violoncello) – Slavi Grigorov (accordion) – Marin Petrov (piano)]

further dates: 16 September – Wilhelm Lehmbruck-Museum, Duisburg 7 and 11 November – Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld tba. – LWL Museum für Kunst und Kultur, Münster tba. – Museum Kurhaus Kleve

The musical aspect is omnipresent in the work of Joseph Beuys. The instrument piano, for example, combines sculpture and sound. Beuys had developed the idea of the earth piano for the Fluxus Festival, but never realized it. it remained a concept. The ensemble crush takes this up and prescribes it as the program for a perfor- mance concert. An acoustic-performative experience based on works from the year of Beuys’s birth as well as the work by Peter 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 unconventional programming and breaking up the usual - also spatial - concert situation. 16 Bergisch-Gladbach

Empty Boxes as a Plastic Theme in the Work of Joseph Beuys Exhibition Kunstmuseum Villa Zanders 7 May to 8 August 2021— [curated by Hartmut Kraft]

Many art collections have a small open box made from pinewood; it is marked inside, in Beuys’s own hand, with the word »Intuition« above two horizontal lines. It is signed and dated on the back. Around 12,000 examples of this seemingly unremarkable object were produced. In fact Beuys made each one of these multiples himself: ». . . I have to make these things myself, otherwise they’re nothing« (Joseph Beuys 1971). For both Beuys and his publisher Wolfgang Feelisch, founder of the VICE-Versand distribution company, the Intuition box ultimately came out in the largest edition of anything either of them produced. This exhibition provides an insight into the genesis of these multiples and their variants, a for example by artists such as Mauricio Kagel and Alfonso Hüppi. There will also be a focus on the »empty box« as a recurrent topic in the work of Joseph Beuys, from 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 empty box and the existential crisis he suffered in the mid-1950s.

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17 Bonn

Beuys — Lehmbruck Thinking is Sculpture Exhibition in cooperation with Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg Bundeskunsthalle Bonn 25 June to 1 November 2021— [curated by Johanna Adam]

In 1986, just a few days before his death, Beuys was awarded the Wilhelm Lehmbruck Prize. In his acceptance speech, he stressed the importance the art of the Expressionist sculptor Wilhelm Lehmbruck had for him. Marking the 100th birthday of Joseph Beuys, the exhibition Beuys – Lehmbruck. Thinking is Sculpture explores this connection and presents the work of these two artists. There are not many artists who caused as radical an upheaval in the history of art as Joseph Beuys. This exhibition brings together a series of key works by Beuys and presents them alongside some of Wilhelm Lehmbruck’s most important sculptures. The focus of the exhibition, however, is not on stylistic or formal similarities, instead, it seeks to shed light on a single pivotal question: What is the revolutionary potential of art in the context of its time?

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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 to come.

18 Ursache = Zukunft [Cause = Future] On the occasion of the exhibition »Beuys – Lehmbruck. Thinking is sculpture« Laboratory in cooperation with Kunstmuseum Bonn, Alanus-Hochschule, A Fair Land Pforzheim Bundeskunsthalle, on the museum square 5 June to 1 November 2021

For Beuys, the society of the future is a great »social sculpture« in which we all participate together. In 1977, he has his Free Interna- tional University take place at documenta 6. Every day he holds discussions there with the public and with people working on alternative models of society. On the Museum Square, the Bundeskunsthalle and the Kunstmu- seum Bonn are setting up a meeting place that follows these ideas. For this purpose, students of the Alanus Hochschule für Kunst und Gesellschaft have designed an architectural platform and a sculptural straw bale garden. There, under the guidance of the collective »A Fair Land Pforzheim«, different varieties of pumpkins are grown and harvested together – a growing process that promises abundant harvest and use. Throughout the summer, the platform will host talks and workshops on various topics will take place: How do we want to shape our future? What is socially and ecologically sustainable? Who owns the public space? We invite you to drop by and join the conversation

7 19 Dortmund

MO-SCHAUFENSTER #27: revolution beuys Exhibition Museum Ostwall im Dortmunder U 13 August to 17 October 2021 — [curated by Sarah Hübscher and Elvira Neuendank]

Form-finding in various media, artistic representation, and the daily staging of empowerment as a global cultural technique all directly connect with questions posed in Beuys’s work. The motor of »insight« and »reason« instigate moments of self-empowerment that Beuys expresses in his art and in his words: »Make use of the power that you have through your right to self-determination! All of you!« (Joseph Beuys, 1970) This collaborative exhibition project, presented in the Schaufenster exhibition space in Museum Ostwall, assembles objects and issues in a setting that combines political action and reaction. It addresses historic, current, and future processes of social interaction, forms of activism, and assumptions about the human condition. This project involving Museum Ostwall and TU Dortmund (IAEB) codes the exhibition space as a social laboratory and as a place of »perma- nent conference«, thereby enabling visitors to engage in a critical discussion ranging from the objects and concepts on display to themes appropriated by Beuys.

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

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

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20 Duisburg

Lehmbruck — Beuys Everything is Sculpture Exhibition in cooperation with Bundeskunsthalle Bonn Lehmbruck Museum 26 June to 1 November 2021 — [curated by Söke Dinkla and Jessica Keilholz-Busch]

Is Joseph Beuys an artist? Or is he a shaman, a reformer and political activist who has changed not only art, but society as a whole? The sight of a sculpture by Wilhelm Lehmbruck became a pivotal experience for the young Beuys. Both Lehmbruck and Beuys were convinced that art has the power not only to explain the world, but also to change it for the better. In keeping with Beuys’s own maxim that »everything is sculpture«, this exhibition explores the special relationship between two of the most impor- tant German artists of the twentieth century. »Sculpture is the essence of things, the essence of nature, of that which is eternally human« – Beuys took this insight of Lehmbruck’s as the starting point for his Social Sculpture, which subsequently revolutionised the art of the twentieth century. Ever since then, sculptural forming – making art – has not primarily referred to the shaping of materials but to the shaping of ideas, the shaping of the social fabric as a whole. The Duisburg exhibition examines the progress of this future-oriented idea from its inception to the present day.

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21 Düsseldorf

Lutz Mommartz Soziale Plastik Jan Bonny & Alex Wissel Jupp, watt hamwer jemaht? Screening Julia Stoschek Collection Düsseldorf 17 January to 19 December 2021

JSC Düsseldorf presents the 16mm film »Soziale Plastik« (1969) by Lutz Mommartz. The film is a homage by the filmmaker to his artist colleague, who died in 1986 and is still known today for his confrontational political as well as artistic approach. Beuys did not shy away from confrontation and entered into direct contact with his audience. Soziale Plastik shows this in the form of a cinematic portrait in which Beuys’s face can be seen. His eyes fix the audience through a camera gaze that appears endless in the loop. 10 On the occasion of »beuys 2021. 100 years of joseph beuys«, JSC Düsseldorf shows the feature film »Jupp, watt hamwer jemaht?« by Jan Bonny & Alex Wissel. It is a hybrid of film and theatre produc- tion, whose stage setting can also be understood as an spatial installation. The production is to be understood as a satire on the art world of the noughties in Germany, torn between politics and art, 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.

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

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

22 Mataré + Beuys + Immendorff An Encounter between the Works of Teacher and Student Exhibition Akademie-Galerie – Die Neue Sammlung. Eine Einrichtung der Kunstakademie ­Düsseldorf 27 March to 20 June 2021 — [curated by Vanessa Sondermann]

In spring 1947 Joseph Beuys became a student in the class of Ewald Mataré at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, and in 1951 he became a master student under Mataré. Beuys’s works from these years show that he engaged comprehensively and productively with the aesthetics taught by his teacher, especially with regard to religion, mythology and anthroposophy. Beuys later broke away from traditional notions of art and artistic-didactic concepts both in his Actions and in his teaching with its focus on early drawings, sculptures and woodcuts, this exhibition presents and analyses the proximity and disparity of Mataré and Beuys’s artistic roots. Encounters between the works of teacher and student reveal numerous aesthetic affiiis ad rmral paralll i thei spiritual lives. In addition, one exhibition room is devoted to works 11 by Jörg Immendorff. In these works Immendorff, the »Beuys Knight« and future professor at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, reflects on Beuys as a teacher and on his charismatic artistic persona.

I’m searching for the dumbest person Joseph Beuys and Science Lecture series Haus der Universität at Schadowplatz (online) 20 April to 23 July 2021 — [directed by Timo Skrandies]

This lecture series brings together scholars and scientists from 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 incorporates the principles of sculpture. Beuys’s universal plea for a revolution of concepts will be critically examined through the prism of disciplines ranging from physics to poetry, from economics to the law.

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23 Joseph Beuys – His Public Image Films with, after and about Joseph Beuys Film series Filmwerkstatt Düsseldorf 29 June to 8 July 2021 — [artistic director: Jan Wagner]

The film series with and about Joseph Beuys presents five films that show him as an artist, teacher and political activist. All three roles are inherent in his artistic development model and contributed to the emergence of a public figure whose radiance touched and changed art and society alike. On view are Joseph Beuys und seine Klasse, Beuys, Joseph Beuys: Jeder Mensch ist ein Künstler, Joseph Beuys / Transformer und Zeige deine Wunde – Kunst und Spiritualität bei Joseph Beuys.

Kiste, Flasche, Tuch – Die drei Teile des Aktionssockels Exhibitions by Joseph Beuys at Konrad Fischer Exhibition Konrad Fischer Galerie 14 May to 15 July 2021

The works of Joseph Beuys were presented in three exhibitions at Konrad Fischer in Düsseldorf: »Drei Teile des Aktionssockels von 24 Stunden, 5. Juni 1965, 0-24 h« in September 1976, »dumme Kiste« in May 1983 and »hinter dem Knochen wird gezählt – Schmerzraum« from December 1983 to February 1984. The »Aktionssockel« was part of the »24 Stunden Happening« in the Wuppertal gallery Parnass. Three pieces from this action – an orange crate, an oilcloth and a bottle were shown at Konrad Fischer in 1976. During the energy-sapping performance, Beuys was the only one to stay awake for 24 hours, as Rudolf Jährling recalls. In 1983, the »dumme Kiste« and the »Schmerzraum« followed, which Joseph Beuys completely lined with lead plates, illuminated only by a bare light bulb, whose weak light illuminated two silver rings mounted on the ceiling. On the floor, a gray telephone. The lead as a possible protective shield against radioactive rays, the telephone as a possibility of communication.

24 12.05.1921 – 12.05.2021 Exhibition Galerie Hans Mayer 12 May to 12 June 2021

When Joseph Beuys entered Hans Mayer Galerie on May 18, 1979, the atmosphere was full of tension. Beuys approached the cauti- ously smiling Andy with his tremendous radiance: love at first sight at Hans Mayer. The moment when Beuys and Andy Warhol met in the gallery rooms at his exhibition »Indians, Portraits, Torsos« wrote art history. Coming from opposite starting points, two very extended concepts of art mixed for a brief moment to form »Kunst = Kapital«. It almost did not come to the clash of the two personalities who were among the most important artists of the 20th century. Hans Mayer recalls that Beuys did not feel much like coming to the spectacle in the gallery. But Mayer did convince Beuys: after all, Beuys would surely be happy about a return visit by Warhol to his exhibition – Beuys saw that. In memory of this event, Hans Mayer Galerie is showing videos, photos and press material from the exhibition at that time. Private photos from Hans Mayer’s archive are also on display, offering insights into the gallery owner‘s shared experiences with Beuys and Warhol. And included are photographic works by Christopher Makos, who often accompanied Warhol. Photographic documents also show Beuys in the workshop of Hans Mayer Galerie..

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25 Sculptural Democracy The forms of the »we« Models – Parliaments – Laboratory Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf and raumlabor berlin Gustaf-Gründgens-Platz in front of Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus 8 June to 29 September 2021— [artistic direction: Eugen Blume and Catherine Nichols (beuys 2021), Frauke Gerstenberg, Andrea Hofmann and Markus Bader (raumlabor­ berlin), Ludger Schwarte (Kunstakademie Düsseldorf), Timo Skrandies (Heinrich-­Heine- Universität)]

»Sculptural Democracy. The Forms of the We« is a lab. From June to September 2021, it will unfold online and in public space in Düsseldorf. The multifaceted experimental arrangement takes the 100th birthday of Joseph Beuys as an occasion to illuminate his impulses for the radical co-design of democracy according to the principles of sculpture and to examine them with regard to today‘s challenges. 15 The central themes of our time will be negotiated: the political system, climate, capital, digitalization, education and living to- gether. Behind the collectively developed project are the Kunstaka- demie Düsseldorf, the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, raumlaborberlin and the project team »beuys 2021«. Together, they invite architects, artists, scientists, students and visitors to explore and discuss Beuys‘ ideas, to contextualize and update them. The nucleus of the project is an experimental architecture de- veloped by raumlaborberlin on Gustaf-Gründgens-Platz: in front of the Düsseldorf Schauspielhaus in the center of the city. Here - in this structure that serves as stage, image and building at the same time - pioneering radical democratic models are explored and compared. Utopias, ideas, plans for a more democratic democracy are discussed and negotiated. And people live together. Whether cooking, eating, working or hanging out, speaking, performing or living: Sharing and participating are integral parts of the intended thought process as well as of the research project

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

Models – 9 July to 29 September 2021 The models are dedicated to the study of 100 radical democratic projects. On the one hand, this collection of projects places Beuys‘ political actions in a historical context. On the other hand, the online archive offers an insight into numerous attempts to establish truly democratic structures in society. From 9 june to 12 september everyone is invited to view and expand the interactive model database online.

9 July Online Launch of the database »Models« 12 July Guerilla poster action in the urban space

Parliaments | Part I »Art & Politics« – 27 and 28 August 2021 The parliaments provide the stage for a series of debates on the main topics of »Sculptural De- mocracy«: the political system, climate, capital, digitalization, education and living together. In each debate, two teams will discuss a thesis by Joseph Beuys that is still highly topical today. The democratization of money and political participation are just two concrete topics that will be discussed in teams and with the audience.

27 August, 7 pm Performance: Die Urbane. Eine HipHop Partei (Antikolonial & Machtkritisch) 8 pm Talk: Raphael HIllebrand with Fabian Blume

28 August, 2 pm Parliament #1: Kunst und Realpolitik bei Joseph Beuys 4 pm Performance: Pastor Leumund – Reizwortmeditation und Diskurs-Disko 4:30 pm Parliament #2: Kunst und Partei 2021 6:00 pm Performance: Die Urbane. Eine HipHop Partei (Antikolonial & Machtkritisch)

Live-In Lab – 22 to 29 September 2021 The Live-in Lab takes place in the experimental architecture designed by raumlaborberlin in front of the Düsseldorf Schauspielhaus on Gustaf-Gründgens-Platz. Part of the Live-In Lab is exploring and comparing the models, discussing and negotiating ideas and being together, working, thinking, eating and living on site. Everyone interested can find the Open Call for participation here starting in July! The team of »Sculptural Democracy« is looking forward to numerous applications.

Parliaments | Part II »Debates« – Autumn 2021 The parliaments provide the stage for a series of debates on the main topics of »Sculptural De- mocracy«: the political system, climate, capital, digitalization, education and living together. In each debate, two teams will discuss a thesis by Joseph Beuys that is still highly topical today. The democratization of money and political participation are just two concrete topics that will be discussed in teams and with the audience.

All current information on www.plastischedemokratie.de

27 Joseph Beuys-Handbuch Leben – Werk – Wirkung Book presentation J.B. Metzler Verlag; Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Institut für Kunstgeschichte Haus der Universität at Schadowplatz July 2021 — [edited by Timo Skrandies and Bettina Paust]

»Joseph Beuys. Leben – Werk – Wirkung«, a 400-page handbook edited by Bettina Paust and Timo Skrandies, with over 80 articles by around 50 authors, will be the first ever comprehensive compen- dium on the artist Joseph Beuys. Its publication by Metzler Verlag in Stuttgart in early 2021 will mark the beginning of Beuys’s centenary celebrations. On the one hand, the handbook will serve as a repository of knowledge and ideas for current and future Beuys research and 16 provide inspiration for further research. On the other hand, it is also designed to serve as a standard reference work and source of information for a wider public interested in Beuys and, in so doing, 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.

Stadtverwaldung 2021 State of Things Discussion Followed by a screening of: »Beuys« Filmwerkstatt Düsseldorf 17 July 2021, 8 pm — [Guests: Cornelia Zuschke (Head of Planning Düsseldorf), Moritz Fiedler (artist and project manager of »Tita Giese Pflanzenprojekte«), Prof. Dr. Boris Schröder Esselbach (geoecologist, TU Braunschweig), Moderation: Jan Wagner]

Beuys‘s work »7000 Eichen – Stadtverwaldung statt Stadtverwal- tung« on the occasion of the Dokumenta 7 dates back almost 40 years and marks a clear commitment to the ecology movement of the 1980s. The green city remains mostly an unfulfilled promise to this day, but has gained in importance against the backdrop of climate change. We discuss the state of planning in Düsseldorf and the future potential of forested cities with a group of four actors from architecture, urban planning, art and politics.

28 The capital – humans and money Where does money come from and how do we define capital? Discussion Followed by a screening of: »Oeconomia« Filmwerkstatt Düsseldorf 20 August 2021, 8 pm — [Guests: Carmen Losmann (director, »Oeconomia«), Eugen Blume (beuys 2021), Moderation: Jan Wagner]

Carmen Losmann‘s film »Oeconomia« surprises us with the realization that many ideas we have about the capitalist system are simply wrong. Yet capital, or what we think of as capital, is a decisive factor when it comes to understanding and changing a social value system. In a discussion with the director Carmen Losmann, a representative from the world of finance and the artistic director of »beuys 2021« Dr. Eugen Blume, we would like to pose the question of the function and effective power of capital in our cur- rent social system and consider alternative systems of capital, as formulated not least in Joseph Beuys‘ expanded concept of art.

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

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

29 Music from the Future A 24-hour musical homage to Joseph Beuys on the occasion of his 100th birthday Concert K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf 18 to 19 September 2021 — [artistic director: Matthias Osterwold]

24 musicians honour Beuys as a ground-breaking artist, who regarded music as an important component in his visual thinking and whose concept of expanded art significantly affected the course of music. The point of departure for this homage is Beuys’s longstanding interest in the work and thinking of French composer Erik Satie: 24 musicians from different disciplines, nations, and generations will present a relay performance of Erik Satie’s »Vexations« for piano. Each will play for an hour before handing over to the next performer. The 24 players are not exclusively professional pianists, there are also visual artists, curators, school pupils. This event, as plastic as it is polyphonic, which opens the programme for »beuys 2021. 100 jahre joseph beuys«, takes its lead from Beuys’s own transformative,deeply human approach to his work. It asks, with Beuys, how music today, how art today can contribute to social renewal.

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30 The Problem with Beuys A Mentality and Reception History of Joseph Beuys Symposium Haus der Universität at Schadowplatz 15 to 16 October 2021 — [organized by Eugen Blume, Catherine Nichols, Bettina Paust, Timo Skrandies]

In dealing with Joseph Beuys one cannot help but wonder to what extent he actually achieved the degree of personal and social transformation to which he aspired in his artistic practice. The complex oeuvre of Beuys as well as its controversial reception show that this is not any easy question to answer. Can his work be understood as a form of coming to terms with history, as an attempt at transformation? Or was Beuys, as the art historian Benjamin Buchloh argued as early as 1980, a master of repression who, with much mysticism and charlatanry, glossed over his national socialist past? Did he remain, as beat Wyss postulated in 2008 and Hans Peter Riegel in 2013, the eternal Hitler Youth? A charismatic dazzler who to this day manages to mesmerise people around the world? On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Joseph Beuys’s birth, 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 31 beuys 2021. 100 years of joseph beuys — a balance Book presentation Location tba. Autumn 2021 — [edited by Eugen Blume and Catherine Nichols]

Who was Joseph Beuys? What do our thoughts, our feelings and desires have to do with sculpture? Is art the only revolutionary force? Is the future a category of art? Are these even the questions we need to be asking? 100 years after the birth of Joseph Beuys, one of the most significant twentieth-century artists, the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia is rearticulating these questions so fundamental to both his art and thought. The book begins with a critical interrogation of the history of the reception of Joseph Beuys conducted by the artistic directors of »beuys 2021. 100 years of joseph beuys«, Catherine Nichols and Eugen Blume. Focusing on key publications from the beginning of Beuys’s career to the present day that have documented and formed his practice over time, their unique and highly visual analysis offers an accessible insight into the problem with Beuys. They reflect on the ongoing construction and deconstruction of this equally contentious and captivating public figure, whose idiosyncratic, self-mythologizing, syncretic approach to history continues to polarize responses to the artist and his work even today. Their analysis is followed by a series of essays by renowned authors who reflect from different perspec- tives on the overall outcomes and contribution to scholarship emerging from North Rhine-Westphalia’s centenary programme. The second section of the book examines the media response to »beuys 2021«. An overview essay explores the most recent reac- tions to the legacy and the treatment of Joseph Beuys, situating the current enquiry within the context of the artist’s overall reception. The essay is accompanied by selected newspaper articles offering an insight into palpably polarising impact of Beuys 100 years after his birth. In the following section the book provides an overview of the extensive program of »beuys 2021. 100 years of joseph beuys«. Here the 32 events comprising the centenary, including exhibitions, performances, concerts, film screenings, lectures, labs, symposia and podcasts, are introduced in brief essays that contribute to the overall interrogation of what makes this artist as controversial as he is contemporary. They look at his ideas on democracy, ecology, education, capital and the possibility of a universal subject. Together they explore Beuys’s complex oeuvre, consider his international impact and evaluate the revolutionary potential of his thought. The volume concludes with an imaginary conversation with Beuys on 15 issues of relevance to our times. Featuring original works by the award-winning, internationally renowned graphic designers cyan, Berlin, the dialogue brings together a multitude of voices from many different spheres, generations and cultures who enter into a richly associative, critical dialogue with the artist’s well-known aphorisms. Together they explore the genesis, viability and relevance of Beuys’s vision of a future based on the principles of art.

32 »My whole life has been advertising.« How Beuys became Beuys Exhibition Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Düsseldorf 28 October 2021 to 20 January 2022

The exhibition »Anyone who doesn’t want to think will be thrown [throw themselves] out« in the foyer of the University and State Library Düsseldorf at the Heinrich-Heine-Universität focuses on Joseph Beuys’s boxing match for direct democracy through referendums. Beuys’s fight on 8 October 1972, the last day of documenta 5, is symbolic of the physical attrition and absolute commitment without which, according to Beuys, nothing new can be created. Visitors taking the exhibition tour in effect enter the ring for four roundsalongside the artist and thinker Joseph Beuys. The coales- cence of Beuys’s artistic career and work, his art and his life, is mirrored in the boxing match. Analogies between boxing and Beuys’s lifelong fight will be explored using boxing terminology and selected objects, including items from the collection of the Universi- ty and State Library, thereby providing a new perspective on the work of one of the most important artists of the twentieth century. The fight for life and death, in the ring and in society, is a fight to shape the future.

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 Further dates: Kunsthalle Düsseldorf 7 to 8 August 2021 — [concept and direction: Sebastian Blasius]

Voices from the urban society of Düsseldorf and Essen meet nomadic practices meet instructions for wolf hunting. We have become accustomed to the absent wolves as a result of their deliberate extermination: With the settling down of man, the wolf was declared our competitor. Deprived of his natural hunting grounds, he invaded the man-made order, helped himself to the stock of useful animals. Who, on the other hand, could we be if we had developed a different, non-dominating relationship to our environment, in which the wolf could also coexist? The performance project experiments with new forms of the collective and nomadic and includes voices of citizens of Düssel- dorf and Essen: what alternative ways of being-in-the-world are imaginable for them? How does it feel to live without wolves? The project is designed as an installation, spectators can choose the moment of their arrival and departure. 33 The Invisible Sculpture The Expanded Concept of Art after Joseph Beuys Exhibition Stiftung Zollverein/Ruhr Museum, Unesco-Welterbe Zollverein, Halle 8 10 May to 26 September 2021 — [curated by Heinrich Theodor Grütter, Rosa ­Schmitt-Neubauer, Christoph Schurian, Johannes Stüttgen, Achim Weber and Carla Zimmermann]

This exhibition at the UNESCO World Heritage Site Zollverein highlights the socio-political dimension of the work of Joseph Beuys and addresses its importance for the present and the future. Beuys’s visionary commitment to democracy expanded the international concept of art. This exhibition revisits his work in the context of the present global debate on ecology and democracy. Taking Joseph Beuys’s expanded concept of art as its starting point, The Invisible Sculpture resists the historicization and canonization of his work. The juxtaposition of seminal works by Beuys with specially selected materials – including many unpublished items – is designed to reignite the debate regarding the significance of his oeuvre and to locate his work in a broader cultural and socio-politi- cal context. To this end, there will be a particular focus on the 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.

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Intuition! Dimensions of the Early Work of Joseph Beuys 1946–1961 Exhibition Museum Kurhaus Kleve 19 June to 3 October 2021 — [curated by Harald Kunde, Susanne Figner and guest curator Wolfgang Zumdick]

The exhibition »Intuition! Dimensions of the Early Work of Joseph Beuys 1946–1961« examines the period between Joseph Beuys’s return to Kleve after the war at the age of twenty-four and his appointment as a professor at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in 1961. During this »incubation period«, themes relevant to his future work emerged and a series of three-dimensional essays on these themes now provides a framework for the exhibition: 1. Biography as material for artistic forming, 2. Kindred spirits (Lohengrin, Cloots, Steiner, Lehmbruck), 3. Early companions (Lamers, Getlinger, Mataré), 4. Christian influences and Eurasian horizons, 5. Depic- tions of animals: from elementary experiences to the body politic, 6. 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

Joseph Beuys: Collection Highlights for the 100th birthday Exhibition Museum Kurhaus Kleve 7 May to 6 September 2021 — [curated by Harald Kunde]

On the occasion of the 100th birthday of Joseph Beuys (1921– 1986), Museum Kurhaus Kleve will show a representative selection of his Beuys collection holdings from 7 May to 5 September 2021 in the largest room of the house, the so-called Wandelhalle. On view will be, for example, the monumental sculpture »Badewanne« (1961/1987), the four-part work »Ohne Titel (Mein Kölner Dom)« (1980), an extensive block of color lithographs from the 1970s, and the fragile wall piece »Seven Palms« (1974). This presentation is intended to complement the following exhibition, »Intuition! Dimensions of the Early Work of Joseph Beuys, 1946–1961« which 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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Alicja Rogalska From Ground to Horizon Exhibition Temporary Gallery 13 November 2021 to 13 February 2022 — [curated by Aneta Rostowska]

Creating collaborative situations, processes and actions underpins Alicja Rogalska’s artistic practice. She often works with people who live in precarious economic and political contexts, activists and researchers: migrant workers, people who have been stripped of their citizenship, care workers, street musicians, asylum seekers trained as lawyers, young farmers, folk singing groups or feminist 22 and queer activists. What emerges from these interactions are temporary collectives formed on the basis of a shared life situation, class, political beliefs or a commitment to social change. The videos, images and objects created through the collective proces- ses foreground moments of agency, rebellion and solidarity. Questioning the logic of capitalism, the works attempt to carve a space for imagining other, more just possibilities. The exhibition From Ground to Horizon sits within an immersive, landscape-like exhibition design by Mateusz Okoński

Krefeld

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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36 Beuys and Duchamp Artists of the Future Exhibition Kunstmuseen Krefeld, Kaiser Wilhelm Museum 8 October 2021 to 16 January 2022 — [curated by Magdalena Holzhey (­Kunstmuseen Krefeld) and Kornelia Röder (Duchamp Research Center, Schwerin)]

This exhibition will be the first large-scale juxtaposition of the work of Joseph Beuys with that of Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968). Beuys repeatedly referred to his »challenger« Duchamp, not least in the Action »Das Schweigen von Marcel Duchamp wird überbewertet« [The Silence of Marcel Duchamp is Overrated]. Yet there are in fact deep links and connections between these two artists, which, for all the dissimilarity of their work, can be seen in many themes and aspects of their art. This exhibition will not be purely retrospective, but will review their work from today’s perspective and shed new light on the forward-looking potential of the radical, interdisciplinary strategies of both artists. The dialogue between these two protago- 24 nists also raises fundamental questions regarding the role of art in daily life and in society as a whole, and these will be pursued in greater depth with input from works by a number of contemporary artists.

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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 Cologne 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 25 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.

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Institutional Critique – The Museum as a Site of Permanent Conference (J.B.) Ghislaine Leung. Portraits / Workshop Report Collection/Archive Andersch (Beuys) Exhibition Museum Abteiberg 3 June to 21 November 2021 — [»Ghislaine Leung. Portraits« curated by Susanne Titz with Haris Giannouras. »Workshop Report« curated by Felicia Rappe with Denise Wegener]

Institutional Critique: The Museum as a Site of Permanent Confer- ence. Two exhibitions displayed at Museum Abteiberg from 3 June to 24 October 2021 as part of »beuys 2021«. The two exhibitions will comprise of one solo exhibition and one archival exhibition. The solo exhibition will comprise of works by the London-based artist Ghislaine Leung as commissioned by Museum Abteiberg and produced in 2020 and 2021. The archival exhibition will comprise of materials by Joseph Beuys from the Andersch Collection and 26 Archive at Museum Abteiberg and will be presented alongside materials by FLUXUS and related artists from the 1960s through to the 1980s. The solo exhibition will be curated by Susanne Titz and the archival exhibition by Felicia Rappe. This information is 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.

Wuppertal

Joseph Beuys. Perpetual Motion Exhibition Skulpturenpark Waldfrieden, Cragg Foundation 28 March to 20 June 2021 — [curated by Corinna Thierolf and Tony Cragg, curatorial assistance from Cora Faßbender]

Joseph Beuys’s maxim »Every human being is an artist« redefined the boundaries of art. He devoted his creative energies to finding a way of involving all human beings in the realization of a fair society. For Beuys every work of art was a way of advancing human knowledge and understanding –and a test bed for his own far-reaching ideas. He often developed works during the course of public discussions and Actions. When Beuys delivered one of his unorthodox lectures on the dynamic continuum of life and art at the Whitechapel Gallery in London in 1972, his words and performance were an inspiration for the then 23-year-old student Tony Cragg and continued to influence Cragg’s engagement with the core topics of matter and movement. In honour of Beuys’s 100th birthday Cragg has selected 20 exhibits from the collections of some of Beuys’s most important fellow travellers. These works, in conjunction with a 27 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 could be described – in the Beuysian sense – as a battery filled with energy, a reservoir of potential and ideas. 38 The Infinity of the Moment Performances after Joseph Beuys Kulturbüro Wuppertal Various locations in Wuppertal 2 to 6 June 2021 — [curated by Bettina Paust, Barbara Gronau (Universität der Kün- ste Berlin) and Timo Skrandies (Heinrich-Heine-Universität)]

In Wuppertal, the city of performance, the Kulturbüro will present a festival from 2 to 6 June 2021 with artistic and scholarly contribu- tions that will engage with the impact of Joseph Beuys’s art on performative trends in art today. It was specifically in the realm of performance that Joseph Beuys so crucially influenced contemporary art. This performance festival will bring together international and local artists and artists’ collec- tives whose work has widely varied points of contact with Beuys’s Action art. The Infinity of the Moment, which will take place at various locations in Wuppertal, will provide the only platform dedicated to the ephemeral art of performance during the Beuys centenary celebra- tions. Lectures by leading academics will examine the special features of Beuys’s Actions with a particular focus on their current artistic reception.

Torn out of Time Joseph Beuys: Actions – photographed by Ute Klophaus. 1965–1986 | Lothar Schirmer Collection Exhibition Von der Heydt-Museum 19 September 2021 to 9 January 2022 — [curated by Antje Birthälmer]

Taking its lead from the 24-hour Happening at Galerie Parnass in Wuppertal in 1965, this exhibition of photographs by Ute Klophaus (1940–2010) focuses on her images of Actions by Joseph Beuys. Her shots of moments »torn out of the flow of time« in Beuys’s performances also capture the special charisma, intensity and energy of Beuys in action. This exhibition mainly draws on the wealth of Klophaus photographs in the collection of Lothar Schirmer in Munich. The 24-hour Happening, where other participants included artists such as Nam June Paik, Bazon Brock, Tomas Schmit and Wolf Vostell, was both a high point in the international Fluxus movement and a key experience for Klophaus in her native city. That encounter with Beuys crucially informed her subsequent development and she went on to photograph Beuys and his work for over twenty years. In the process, she developed the ability to give visible form to perceptions that go beyond the visual and to convey a sense of the hidden, elusive factors that also informed Beuys’s designs for the world.

39 Online beuysradio Radio – Podcast – Audio Library Podcast from 12 May 2021 — [a cooperation of »beuys 2021«,Goethe-Institut, Munich, under the direction of Catherine Nichols and Marc-André Schmachtel]

Is everyone an artist? Are trees more intelligent than people? Is plasticity synonymous with humanity? Are we the revolution? Do we live in a pseudo-democracy? Are capitalism’s days numbered? 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 himself remain the subject of such heated debate today. beuysradio takes up his hypotheses and questions and has a fresh look at them in the here and now. This free online audio programme dedicated to the critical analysis of Joseph Beuys presents 100 voices exploring him as a person, 20 podcasts on his most provoc- 28 ative questions, a wide range of reports on the festivities compris- ing the centenary programme »beuys 2021« and a series of playlists introducing the music he listened to, made, influenced and inspired.

Podcast »the earth is speaking« how does joseph beuys speak to us today? How do people evaluate Joseph Beuys in 2021? How are his ideas on art, capitalism, democracy and the environment received in different cultural environments? Are his ideas compromised by his self-mytholo- gisation? Does he play a role at all for the current generation of artists? 10 podcasts by influential artists, scholars and authors from Germany alternate with podcasts by activists, DJs and artists from 14 different countries offer answers to these questions both from a German and an international perspective. New podcasts in the series appear once a week. You can listen to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, at Amazon Music or Deezer. And you can also subscribe to us there.

Published so far: Benjamin Hasselhorn – The Whole Reality – Does Democracy Need Myths? [ger] Anna Bromley – Creating a New Organ – Beuys and Social Media [ger] Künstlerkollektiv Orta – 7,000 Pyramids of Beuys [eng] DJ Sniff – Sounds of Eurasia – Constructing a network through Beuys/voice mail [eng] Ralf Schlüter – »Everyone is an artist« [ger] Juanita Fernandez – 2 crosses [eng] Fatma Aydemir – Pseudodemocracy everywhere? Art and its relationship to the critique of power [ger] Andreas Treske und Aras Ozgun - Yağ (Fat) [eng] An Paenhuysen – Every revolution begins with silly questions [ger] Francesca Blandido – Joseph Beuys. The time of art is the time of revolution, even today [eng] Max Czollek – Beuys will be Beuys. Beuys will be deutsch [ger] Fabian Malzacher, Robo Švarc & Michal Hvorecky – Malzacher: I believe in performative power [ger] Alioum Moussa – Maroua, Honey, Mythology. Or the mythopoetics of going back to ones roots [eng/fr]

40 100 voices who was, who is joseph beuys? What makes him so controversial? Is he still relevant, still pertinent? In the art world and beyond? 100 people, 100 voices from different countries and cultures express themselves here. Sometimes critical, sometimes witty, sometimes anecdotal, philosophical, poetic or performative, they reflect on the artist‘s significance today. Taken as a whole, they offer an insight into the contradictions inherent in Beuys as a person and his reception.

Interviews Published so far: 27 April Raimar Stange in conversation with Marina Naprushkina 30 April Raimar Stange in conversation with Joulia Strauss 1 May Raimar Stange in conversation with Peter Niemann 3 May Raimar Stange in conversation with Ulf Aminde 4 May Raimar Stange in conversation with Olga von Schubert 8 May Susanne Titz in conversation with Kasper König 8 May Eugen Blume in conversation with Sebastian Blasius 9 May Yuan Gong: Five questions about Joseph Beuys 9 May Catherine Nichols in conversation with Raimar Stange 19 May Raimar Stange in conversation with Claus Föttinger

Music For Beuys, sound was as important a sculptural material as fat, felt, or copper. He was certain that you hear a sculpture before you see it. While he equated classical music more with a piece of pork than with cultural heritage, he greatly valued the music of Erik Satie and the anti-music of Nam June Paik among others. Here, in a series of playlists and compositions, you will experience the music that Beuys listened to and performed with others in his actions, the music that emerged around him, that he shaped and still inspires today.

Reports From »uber-artist« to »pseudo-democrat«, from »do-gooder« to »German redeemer«: the explosive nature of the current discussion about the artist Joseph Beuys reflects his complexity and contentious- ness. Beuys is received in contradictory ways now as he was during his lifetime. This lively discussion, which has been going on intensively since the beginning of the Beuys centenary, can be experienced in numerous radio interviews and reports. Various radio features also shed light on important aspects of the artist‘s work and influence. Here you will find an overview of the most informative contributions.

41 Understanding Beuys A virtual gallery of the Goethe-Institut Warschau and Prag Exhibition 12 May to 31 December 2021 — [curated by Eugen Blume and Catherine Nichols, conception: Renata Prokurat (Goethe-Institut Warschau) and Fabian Mrongowius (XR Producer, ZAUBAR)]

The »expanded concept of art« developed by Joseph Beuys forms the inspiration for the work of the Goethe-Institut to address the political, social and ecological issues of the artist in the form of a virtual exhibition in the anniversary year. The virtual gallery is conceived as an approach to the person and the work of Joseph Beuys, in particular to his life theme »social transformation«. It 29 illustrates the artist‘s perspective on issues such as capital, ecology, democracy and the future. The exhibition makes Beuys’ theory and practice of »social sculpture« tangible in these thematic contexts, and it illuminates his visual and material language. In this way, it also asks about the topicality of the phenomenon Joseph Beuys beyond the centenary of his birth. The virtual gallery »Understan- ding Beuys« will also be accessible in Polish, Czech, Slovakian, Hungarian, Lithuanian and Slovenian from mid-May 2021.

beuys ar A metaphysical journey through the world and ideas of Joseph Beuys Augmented Reality in cooperation with Rosy DX and Scavengar from 12 May 2021 — [Curation & Production: Fernanda Parente, Design: Merlin Baum, Art Direction: Vesela Stanoeva, 3D Artist: Elisabeth Drache, Sound Design: Christian Bröer, Production Assistant: Yuliana Mosheeva]

Inspired by Beuys’s revolutionary approach and futurological thinking the augmented reality experience aims to connect the past, present and future, playfully expanding the discourse around his ideas and their relevance today. The starting point is the city of Düsseldorf, where Beuys lived and worked most of his life. Three chosen locations that were relevant to Beuys will act as departing points into three metaphysical journeys inspired by the artist’s ideas 30 – in augmented reality. Following Beuys’s interest in shamanism the experience is divided into the three worlds of the shamanic journey: the underworld, the middle world and the upper world. As users travel through the experience, they encounter creatures and objects that relate to Beuys’s universe and are challenged to engage with political, social and environmental questions posed by the artist. They are given tasks to be completed that use the mechanics of a scavenger hunt. At the end of each experience, users are given a special task intended to give them a sense of empowerment. The vision is to inspire users to become agents of transformation in the real reality resonating Beuys’s concept of »social sculpture«. We believe that Beuys would have liked to see every one of us activate our creative powers and engage in shaping this one great work of art which is society and that’s what we are aiming to spark with this experience.

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Credits

1 Joseph Beuys, Scheveningen, 1976, photograph: Caroline Tisdall 2 Joseph Beuys at the »Festival of New Art« at the RWTH Aachen on 20 July 1964, photograph: Heinrich Riebesehl / © VG ­Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2020 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, Paris, 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 Aufbau der Beuys-Plattform, Bonn, Museumplatz 2021 © Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland GmbH 8 Suzanne Treister, TECHNOSHAMANIC SYSTEMS / Diagram / Technoshamanic Architectures and Design, 2020, Courtesy the artist, Annely Juda Fine Art, London and PPOW Gallery, New York 9 Joseph Beuys accepting the Wilhelm Lehmbruck Prize awarded by the city of Duisburg, Lehmbruck Museum, 12 January 1986, photograph: Britta Lauer 10 Lutz Mommartz, Soziale Plastik, 1969, 16-mm-Film, transferiert auf Video, 11’41’’, S/W, kein Ton. Courtesy of the artist 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 14b Foto von der Auftakt-Woche der Plastischen Demokratie auf dem Gustaf-Gründgens-Platz in Düsseldorf. Foto: Antonia Maisch © raumlaborberlin 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 News Medley, 2020, Video-Still, Courtesy of Alicja Rogalska, Katalin Erdődi, Réka Annus and the Women’s Choir of Kartal 23 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 24 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 25 Karolina Jabłońska „Krzyczący ludzie“ (Schreiende Leute / Screaming People), 2017, Öl auf Leinwand, 170 × 190 cm, Courtesy of the artist and Tomasz Pasiek Collection 26 Ghislaine Leung, 2020, Courtesy of Ghislaine Leung and Essex Street, New York 27 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 28 beuysradio visual © cyan, berlin 29 Beuys verstehen, die virtuelle Galerie @ Goethe-Institut, Zaubar 30 beuys ar © Rosy DX

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