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HOHEISEL&KNITZ
 

Horst Hoheisel and Andreas Knitz
 


 



Horst Hoheisel and Andreas Knitz together with Marcelo Brodsky (left) at the Rio de la Plata


 


 


 

Horst Hoheisel

 

O artista alemao nasceu em Poznan, Polônia, em 1944. Durante seus estudos em ciências florestais, foi aluno ouvinte na Academia de Artes de Munique. Promoveu a ecoanálise de uma floresta tropical da Venezuela, tendo sido assistente científico do Instituto de Engenharia Florestal dos trópicos na Universidade de Göttingen. Simultaneamente aos estudos de arte na Academia de Arte de Kassel, viveu numa comunidade indígena Yanomami no Orinoco- Amazonas, Brasil. Viajou, ainda, por diversas vezes para o deserto do Saara.

Durante mais de vinte anos, Horst Hoheisel dedicou-se artisticamente ao nacional-socialismo e, com Andreas Knitz, elaborou e realizou novas formas de monumentos que ficaram conhecidos internacionalmente como monumentos-negativos ou contra-monumentos (www.zermahlenegeschichte.de).

Ao lado dos marcos de memória em espaço aberto, seus trabalhos também fazem parte de diversos acervos de vários museus internacionais (Museum of Modern Art, NY; Jewish Museum, NY; Yad Vashem, Jerusalem; Jüdisches Museum, Berlim; Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlim, Gedenkstätte Deutscher Widerstand, Berlim, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Kassel, entre outros).

Os desenhos de Horst Hoheisel estão sendo mostrados pela primeira vez em São Paulo, no Museu Lasar Segall.

 


 


 


 

Andreas Knitz


 

Andreas Knitz nasceu em Ravensburg, 1963
Em 1981 trabalhou com marcenaria e restauração
Estudou arquitetura de 1988 a 1993 na Universidade Kasse
De 1993 a 2000 trabalhou como arquiteto em Kassel
Desde 1995 realiza projetos de arte e intervenções em espaço público
e memoriais e contra-memoriais com Horst Hoheisel.
Vive e trabalha em Ravensburg, Alemanha.
Projetos de Horst Hoheisel & Andreas Knitz
2002/2001 Arte da memória, São Paulo
1997/2002 História esmagada, Weimar
2001 Cargueiro da paz, Tel Aviv
2000 1752 x 12 kg produto Linz, Linz
2000 Luz temporária, instalação no novo prédio da polícia de Kassel
1998 "German Ground" German grounds, Frankfurt; Berlim
1995 Um memorial para um memorial, Buchenwald
 

Andreas Knitz

Born in Ravensburg in 1963
Vocational training as a furniture carpenter
Degree course in architecture at Kassel University
1993 Diploma: Thesis on "Dynamics and Mobility in Architecture"
1993-2001 Work as an architect in Kassel
2001 Opening of his office RAUMSTATION in Ravensburg-Berg
The essence of his work is to discover an individual architectural form that fulfils the task of
creating a liveable and useable sculptural line of multiple room experiences.
Alongside his architectural activities Andreas Knitz has been active as an artist since 1995.
The main part of his artistic work has been in cooperation with Horst Hoheisel in the
TEAM Hoheisel & Knitz. The TEAM has participated in numerous exhibitions, art projects,
interventions and has presented artistic statements on art and memory dealing with the suppressed
and tabooed history in Germany, Austria, the U.S.A. and Latin America. Their aim is to develop
new forms of artistic memory dealing with the usually tabooed topics of past dictatorships,
social traumata and violent events.
Andreas Knitz is an artistic catalyst in the process of remembering long forgotten and suppressed events.
His artistic conceptive work focuses on the points of intersection between history, architecture, society and art.
In the context of exhibitions and talks, Andreas Knitz has chaired compact seminars and workshops on these
topics at the universities of Sao Paolo and Baltimore along with Horst Hoheisel.
His intention is to bring the individual and joint memory of unloved history out of the shadows so
that it is openly recognised as part of our joint history; no longer to be suppressed.
He continually chooses new and unusual methods or eye-catching ways of sharpening
historic self-consciousness that it be passed on to future generations.
The memorial project Grey Busses is thus a memorial on the move and in time.
To actually keep this monument on the move as a dynamic process of remembrance instead
of the usual static and finite memorial is an import impulse in his and Horst Hoheisel's artistic interventions.






 

Selection of Projects and Exhibitions

Projects of Horst Hoheisel:
Negative Memorial Aschrottbrunnen (Kassel 1986/87);
The Artist as Katalysator of Memory Thought-Stones-Collection,
(Kassel, Berlin, Munich 1986-1990);
Holocaust-Memorial Brandenburger Tor Gate - The Memorial as a blank void (Berlin 1994/95);
The Gateways of the Germans (Memorial for one night): Slide-Projection
of the Auschwitz-Gate on the Brandenburger Tor (Berlin 27. Januar 1997)


 

Projects of Horst Hoheisel and Andreas Knitz:
A memorial to a memorial (Buchenwald 1995)
Crushed History - Zermahlene Geschichte (Weimar 1997 - 2002)
GERMAN GROUND - German grounds (Frankfurt/Berlin 1998)
1752 x 12 kg produkt linz (Linz 2000)
Arte da Memória (Sao Paulo 2001)
MariAntonia / memoriAntonia (Sao Paulo 2002 und 2003)
Pássaro Livre - Vogel Frei (Sao Paulo 2003)
Denkmal der grauen Busse - Moving Monument (Ravensburg 2006)
Growing Memory (Eberswalde 2011)


 

Exhibitions of Horst Hoheisel (Single-Exhibitions and Participations):
1978 München, Lenbachhaus, Kunstforum; 1983 Berlin, Pankehallen
1986 Köln, Moltkerei; 1994 Jewish Museum, New York;
1994 Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin; 1995 Stadtmuseum, München
1995 Duisburg, Innenhafen; 1998 Yad Vashem,Israel
2000 Stiftung DKM, Lehmbruckmuseum, Jewish community, Duisburg
2000 Museum of Modern Art, New York: Open Ends, Counter Monuments and Memory
2003 Fluchtweg Brandenburger Tor, Haus der Commerzbank Berlin
2003 Berlin Torlos, Jüdisches Museum Berlin
2003 LebensZeich-n-en, Museo Lasar Segall Sao Paulo


 

Exhibitions Hoheisel and Knitz (Single-Exhibitions and Participations):
1995 Museum of Sepulchral, Kassel;
1999 Crushed History - Art as a roundabout way, Thuringia Main State Archive Weimar;
2000 Oberösterreichische Landesgalerie, Linz
2001 Arte da Memória, USP Maria Antonia Sao Paulo
2002 and 2003 MariAntonia / memoriAntonia, USP Maria Antonia Sao Paulo
2003 Pássaro Livre - Vogel Frei, Pinacoteca Sao Paulo
2004 Arte da Memória,  Palacio do Congreso, Brasilia


 

Works in Gallerys and Museums:
Lenbachhaus, München; Staatliche Museen, Kassel;
Museum für Sepulkralkultur, Kassel; Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin;
Jüdisches Museum, Berlin; Gedenkstätte Yad Vashem;
Gedenkstätte Buchenwald; Haus der Geschichte, Bonn; Stadtmuseum, München;
Lehmbruckmuseum, Duisburg; Jewish Museum, New York; Museum of Modern Art,
New York; Thuringia Main State Archive Weimar; Botanical Garden, Linz.


 

www.zermahlenegeschichte.de
www.knitz.net