Daimler Contemporary
Conceptual
Tendencies 1960s to today
Isabell
Heimerdinger
Waiting, Acting, Waiting, 2002
Filmstills
Concept Art as an independent artistic movement developed in the USA and Europe in the mid 1960s, based on fundamentally new definitions of the work of art the role of the viewer in Minimal Art and Zero Avantgarde around 1960. The characteristic formal features are clearly defined: objective structures, creative systems that are complete in themselves, the new role of photography and quotation, as well as a tendency to seriality and minimalizing material. The conditions under which art comes into being are examined, along with temporal and spatial structures, the congruency of theory and practice, the possibility of involving the viewer intellectually and physically, and also the general conditions for presenting and responding to art in institutions. The exhibition features around 80 art works by 21 german and international artists from the 1960s to today.
Martin
Boyce, winner of the Turner Prize 2012, is represented with a group of
connected works in the exhibition.
Artist talk with Martin Boyce at Daimler Contemporary Berlin January 12,
2012, 7 pm
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Shusaku Arakawa + Madeline Gins (J + USA), Robert Barry (USA), Martin Boyce (GB), Daniel Buren (F), Ian Burn (AUS), André Cadere (P), Ceal Floyer (GB), Poul Gernes (DK), Dan Graham (USA), Isabell Heimerdinger (D), Joseph Kosuth (USA), Sol LeWitt (USA), Albert Mertz (DK), Jonathan Monk (GB), Francois Morellet (F), Olivier Mosset (CH), Andreas Reiter Raabe (A), Lasse Schmidt Hansen (D), Santiago Sierra (E), Michel Verjux (F)