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Painting as an Event|Malerei als Ereignis

Background of Pianting as an Event

Beginning with American Critc Harold Rosenberg [PAINTING AS AN EVENT]

  • Jackson Pollock *28.01.1912 †11.08.1956
  • Pablo Picasso *25.10.1881 †08.04.1973

Continuation with German Critc Michael Klant {MALEREI ALS EREIGNIS]

  • Yves Klein *28.04.1928 †06.06.1962
  • Keith Haring *04.05.1958 †16.02.1990
  • Niki de St. Phalle *29.10.1930 †21.05.2002
  • Maria Lassnig *09.09.1919 †06.05.2014
  • Karl Otto Goetz *22.02.1914 †19.08.2017
  • Barbara Heinisch *16.07.1944


Active now is only Barbara Heinisch




Evolution III

THE ORIGIN OF PAINTING of Barbara Heinisch with the dancer Chris Parker and the musician Uwe Weisbrod in the Museum Ratingen to 22.08.2014 (collection Museum Ratingen)
- Video : Kurt Koehler (9:24 min)

About

1969 Studies under Joseph Beuys, Art Academy, Düsseldorf
1977 First PAINTING AS AN EVENT deploying the concept of making the human figure the basis of the painting
1977 First one person show, Gallery Zellermayer, Berlin
1978 EUROPAN PERFORMANCE SERIES, Brooklyn-Museum, New York - poster
1978 PERFORMANCE FESTIVAL, Theater aan de Rijn, Arnhem (NL) - poster
1979 GERMAN ART CRITICS PRIZE for the figurative arts, Berlin
1980 PORTRAIT A. VITASEK, Performance Festival, ARC – Musee d’Art Moderne, Paris
1980 MALEREI ALS LEBENDIGER PROZESS [417 KB] (painting as a living process), Galerie Diagonale, Paris
1980 Frederick S. Wight Art Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles [292 KB] .
1981 TV LIVE-KUNST, III nach 9, RB III - Studio, Bremen
1981 PERFORMANCE EINS and 1982 Performance ZWEI, Kuenstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin - catalog
1982 – 1983 Grant from DAAD for MoMA PS1, New York
1982 THE AMERICAN BLUE, MoMA PS1 , New York (video - image)
1983
INFLUX - CONCEPT N.Y. [286 KB] , painting as an event in my studio, 5th ave 1982 and in the Clocktower 1983 , New York City
1984 Art Academie, Oslo (Visiting Professorship)
1984 PORTRAIT S.TOLAAS, Art Akademie, Oslo
1985 – 1986 Art Academie Berlin (Visiting Professorship)
1988 PHOENIX , process painting, Folkwang-Museum, Essen - video - painting - press
1992
TV LIVE-KUNST, ZDF-Matinée, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt
2004 Integrated into the anthology KUNST IN BEWEGUNG (art in motion) - book and DVD of Michael Klant - JACKSON POLLOCK, PABLO PICASSO, YVES KLEIN, KARL OTTO GOETZ, NIKI DE ST. PHALLE, MARIA LASSNIG, KEITH HARING and BARBARA HEINISCH in the chapter MALEREI ALS EREIGNIS
2006 MALAKTION NACH BARBARA HEINISCH integrated into KREATIVE IDEENBOERSE KUNST (creative ideas of arts) together with KEITH HARING, PAUL KLEE, JOAN MIRÓ, VINCENT VAN GOGH, RETER BREUGEL, FRIEDENSREICH HUNDERTWASSER, GERHARD RICHTER
2008 THE LIQUIDATION OF THE SUBJECT: REFLECTIONS ON SUBJECTIVITY AND EDUCATION AFTER ADORNO , in: CRITIQUE & HUMANISM JOURNAL, Issue 26/2008 von Prof. Dr. Ludwig Pongratz
2009 Video of my interactive process painting at Gallery Meta Weber, Krefeld
2011 Video POWER STRUGGLE (MACHTKAMPF) in the group show KUNSTKÖRPERLICH-KÖRPERKÜNSTLICH 3, Bodies ; amongst others: Vanessa Beecroft, Andy Warhol, Damien Hirst and Marc Quinn
2012 BARBARA HEINISCH - PAINTING AS AN EVENT [2.312 KB] by Dr. Susanne Liessegang
2013 ART AS ACTION - BARBARA HEINISCH AND THE ROLE OF TRADITION [59 KB] by Dr. Gerhard Charles Rump
2014 BARBARA HEINISCH - DER URSPRUNG DER MALEREI (THE ORIGIN OF PAINTING)
2016 HOSIANNA... HOSIANNA ! (In Memoriam Paris november, 15th 2015) , Jesuitenkirche Trier - Video
2016 BEGEGNUNG IM BILD (ENCOUNTER IN THE IMAGE), EUROPEAN ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS, Trier - Presse - Video
2017 THE WALL, EUROPEAN ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS, Trier - Presse - Video
2017 KAIN AND ABEL, MUSEUM AM DOM, Trier - Video
2020 BLACK AND RED DANCE, Studio Bad Nauheim (Corona conditional)
2021 FIERY DANCE, Studio Bad Nauheim
2022 THE LIVING CANVAS 2.0, KI-Style Flow with the Art Collective LUNAR RING AI, Tübingen
2022 -2023 EUROPEAN ARTS ENCOUNTER , traveling exhibition (Germany, France, Belgium)