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Biography<\/h1>\n

1930<\/h5>\n

Born 13 March in Wendorf (Mecklenburg). Father a farmer. Grown up on the W\u00fcstrow peninsula in the former GDR he starts an apprenticeship in 1949 and qualifies as a painter and advertising designer.<\/p>\n

1949\u20131953<\/h5>\n

Studies at the Fachschule f\u00fcr angewandte Kunst in Wismar. Helps to organise political marches, designs window displays and a 20 metres high banner with a portrait of Stalin and enlargements of Picasso\u2019s Dove of Peace. Later studies at the Kunstakademie Berlin-Wei\u00dfensee.<\/p>\n

1951<\/h5>\n

Participates in the World Youth Games in East Berlin. Finds himself confused and gripped by an encounter with the abstract world of Kandinsky in an exhibition in West Berlin.<\/p>\n

1953<\/h5>\n

Moves to West Berlin and becomes one of the first \u2018squatters\u2019 in a room in the former Reichssozialgericht behind the later erected Neue Nationalgalerie in the Potsdamer Stra\u00dfe.<\/p>\n

1955\u20131958<\/h5>\n

Studies at the Kunstakademie in D\u00fcsseldorf with Otto Pankok, drawn by the latter\u2019s socially-aware thinking and anti-fascist views. After making figurative and abstract woodcuts turns to manual structures (Fingermalereien and Dreckbild).
\nFirst nail object (1955\/56).<\/p>\n

1957<\/h5>\n

Meets Yves Klein, Heinz Mack and Otto Piene. First nail pictures.<\/p>\n

1958<\/h5>\n

Participates in the evening exhibition Das rote Bild<\/em> organised by Mack and Piene in their studios in Gladbacher Stra\u00dfe 69. This leads to the Group ZERO which Uecker joins in 1961.<\/p>\n

1960<\/h5>\n

Pfeilbilder: demonstration of arrow pictures<\/em> at the Festival d\u2019art d\u2019avantgarde in Paris. Participates in konkrete kuns<\/em>t in the Helmhaus, Zurich.<\/p>\n

1961<\/p>\n

Malerische Handlung Wei\u00dfe Zone<\/em> as part of the exhibition ZERO \u2013 Edition, Exposition,<\/em> Demonstration in D\u00fcsseldorf: Uecker paints the Hunsr\u00fcckenstra\u00dfe in front of the Galerie Schmela white. Participates in Bewogen Beweging<\/em> in the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and in Nove Tendencije in Zagreb.<\/p>\n

1962<\/h5>\n

Salon de lumi\u00e8re with Mack and Piene as part of the exhibition Heinz Mack, Otto Piene et G\u00fcnther Uecker – Dynamo<\/em> in the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels.
\nZERO demonstration by the Rhine in D\u00fcsseldorf. First \u2018nailings\u2019 of everyday objects.
\nParticipates in nul<\/em> in the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.<\/p>\n

1963<\/h5>\n

Lichtsalon<\/em> with Mack and Piene in the Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld.
\n\u2018Nailings\u2019 of furniture. First prize for ZERO and gruppo n at the 4th Biennial in San Marino.<\/p>\n

1964<\/h5>\n

Uecker nails a piano in the Pianohaus Kohl in Gelsenkirchen. Participates in the ZERO presentation Lichtraum<\/em> at documenta III in Kassel.<\/p>\n

1965<\/h5>\n

Creates his revolving sacks of nails (New York Dancers). Hommage \u00e0 Malewitsch<\/em> and the object Verlorene Erinnerung.<\/em> First sand spirals. The action Wei\u00dfer Wald<\/em> in Bern. ZERO exhibition with Mack and Piene in the Kestner Gesellschaft, Hanover.
\nParticipates in The Retrospective Eye<\/em> in the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Award at the 4th Biennale des Jeunes in Paris.<\/p>\n

1966<\/h5>\n

Studio in New York. Zero Garden N.Y. at the Howard Wise Gallery in New York. Elektrischer Nagel, Sandm\u00fchle und Messerskulptur<\/em> at the Galerie Schmela in D\u00fcsseldorf. Blitzaggregat, Kunsthalle in Bern. Lichtregen<\/em> as part of the exhibition Licht \u2013 Kunst \u2013 Licht<\/em> in the Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven and at documenta IV in Kassel (1968).<\/p>\n

1967<\/h5>\n

The action Fl\u00e4mische Landschaft<\/em> with Jef Verheyen in Mullem, Belgium.<\/p>\n

1968<\/h5>\n

Demonstration with Gerhard Richter: Leben im Museum – Museen k\u00f6nnen bewohnbare Orte sein,<\/em> performance Terrororchester und Schreitanz \u2013 both as part of the exhibition 14 x 14 \u2013 Young German artists in the Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden.
\nStreet barricade in D\u00fcsseldorf. Participates in documenta 4 in Kassel. Publishes Issue 0 of the Uecker Zeitung which appears twelve times giving information and news on Uecker\u2019s activities.<\/p>\n

1969<\/h5>\n

The action Walk on Snow<\/em> at the first Earth Art Symposium, Cornell University in Ithaca, USA. Participates in the exhibition Art by Telephone,<\/em> Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.<\/p>\n

1970<\/h5>\n

Shoots burning arrows into the sea.
\nParticipates in the German Pavilion at the 35th Venice Biennale (along with Lenk, Mack and Pfahler).<\/p>\n

1971<\/h5>\n

The German contribution to the Venice Biennale presented in the Sacheta in Warsaw as the first exhibition of contemporary German art in Poland. G\u00fcnther Uecker \u2013 Bildobjekte 1957\u20131970,<\/em> Moderna Museet, Stockholm. Participates in the S\u00e3o Paulo Biennial, critics\u2019 prize.<\/p>\n

1972<\/h5>\n

Schwarzraum \u2013 Wei\u00dfraum<\/em> as part of the exhibition Szene Rhein-Ruhr 72 in the Museum Folkwang Essen (video film). Participates in the exhibition Amsterdam Paris D\u00fcsseldorf<\/em> in the Guggenheim Museum, New York.<\/p>\n

1973<\/h5>\n

Five-month trip through Africa.<\/p>\n

1974<\/h5>\n

Appointed professor at the Kunstakademie in D\u00fcsseldorf. Manuelle Reihungen for the exhibition Strukturen in the Muzeum Sztuki, Lodz. Travels to Asia.<\/p>\n

1975<\/h5>\n

The action Schwarzraum \u2013 Wei\u00dfraum<\/em> in the Museum Folkwang, Essen. G\u00fcnther Uecker \u2013 Zeichnungen<\/em>, Kunstmuseum, D\u00fcsseldorf.
\nUecker als B\u00fchnenbildner \u2013 Ideen, Skizzen, Modelle, Figurinen,<\/em> Kunstmuseum D\u00fcsseldorf. Das Schweigen der Schrift, Erker Galerie, St. Gallen.<\/p>\n

1976<\/h5>\n

G\u00fcnther Uecker and Klaus Rinke, as newly appointed professors, ride into the Kunstakademie on camels. Stage set and figurines for Wagner\u2019s Parsifal with G\u00f6tz Friedrich in the Staatstheater Stuttgart. G\u00fcnther Uecker \u2013 das zeichnerische Fr\u00fchwerk,<\/em> Staatsgalerie Stuttgart.<\/p>\n

1977<\/h5>\n

Wall relief for the United Nations in Geneva. Participates in the documenta VI, Kassel. Projects in the Libyan Desert..<\/p>\n

1978<\/h5>\n

Zum Schweigen der Schrift oder die Sprachlosigkeit<\/em> at the Galerie Reckermann, Cologne.<\/p>\n

1979<\/h5>\n

Designs for Wagner\u2019s Lohengrin for the Bayreuth Festival with G\u00f6tz Friedrich.
\nParticipates in the Sydney Biennial.<\/p>\n

1980<\/h5>\n

Creates the boat sculpture Chichicastenango for the exhibition Zeichen des Glaubens \u2013 Geist der Avantgarde<\/em> in Berlin, Schloss Charlottenburg, Berlin.<\/p>\n

1981<\/p>\n

Verletzte Felder. Feuerst\u00e4tte Schwarz<\/em> for the exhibition Schwarz in the Kunsthalle D\u00fcsseldorf. Terrororchester und Schlagende T\u00fcr,<\/em> Basel. Trip to the Sahara: water colours and collages: W\u00fcstenfunde.<\/p>\n

1982<\/h5>\n

Schleifender Stein:<\/em> stone dragged in an action at the Nationalgalerie Berlin.<\/p>\n

1983<\/h5>\n

Uecker \u2013 Bibliophile Werke,<\/em> Kunsthalle, D\u00fcsseldorf and Galerie der Stadt Esslingen (1984).
\nAwarded the Kaiserring of the city of Goslar. Installation Die Gef\u00e4hrdung des Menschen durch den Menschen<\/em> in the M\u00f6nchehaus-Museum, Goslar.<\/p>\n

1984<\/h5>\n

Travels through the Navaho reservations in Arizona and researches into the history of the American Indians: Black Mesa, knife sculptures. Travels on the Trans-Siberian Railway through Russia, Siberia, Mongolia and China: Journey to Japan: creates his tree sculptures. Exhibition at the gallery Kamakura, Tokyo. First Nagelwald<\/em> in the exhibition Kunstpranger in Wuppertal.<\/p>\n

1985<\/h5>\n

Participates in the exhibitions: Kunst in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland<\/em> at the Nationalgalerie Berlin, in German Art in the 20th Century in the Royal Academy of Arts, London and at the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, as well as in German Art 1945\u20131985<\/em> in the Taipei Fine Arts Museum.<\/p>\n

1986<\/h5>\n

Creates Aschebilder<\/em> and the space sculpture Aufwischen<\/em> in response to the nuclear catastrophe in Tschernobyl. Participates in Positionen \u2013 Malerei aus der Bundesrepublik Deutschland,<\/em> Altes Museum Berlin-Ost and Albertinum, Dresden.<\/p>\n

1987<\/h5>\n

Exhibition in the Vasarely M\u00fazeum in P\u00e9cs, Hungary. Retrospective exhibition in the Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen.<\/p>\n

1988<\/h5>\n

Visits Seoul, South Korea. Cycle of drawings: Tusche flie\u00dfend-Han-Seoul.
\nConstructs a knife sculpture in the Olympic Park in Seoul. Series of pictures: Kann Fruchtbarkeit auf Asche gr\u00fcnden<\/em> for the Muzeum Sztuki in Lodz (exhibition 1989).
\nMost comprehensive Uecker retrospective so far in the Central Artists\u2019 House on the Crimean Wall in Moscow with 820 works. Order of Merit of Land North Rhine-Westphalia.<\/p>\n

1989<\/h5>\n

Series of pictures: Architektonische Landschaften<\/em>. Film portrait of Uecker Wie ein Bauer auf dem Feld by Michael Kluth. Exhibition in the Muzeum Sztuki in Lodz.<\/p>\n

1990<\/h5>\n

Participates in the exhibition Ausgeb\u00fcrgert. K\u00fcnstler aus der DDR und aus dem Sowjetischen Sektor Berlins 1949\u20131989<\/em> in the Albertinum, Dresden.<\/p>\n

1991<\/h5>\n

Aschebilder<\/em> at the gallery ULUV, Prague. Participates in Zone D \u2013 Innenraum<\/em> at the Leipziger Galerie f\u00fcr zeitgen\u00f6ssische Kunst, the first joint exhibition of West and East German artists.<\/p>\n

1992<\/h5>\n

Wei\u00dfe Strukturbilder, Malerische Handlungen<\/em>. in the Sacheta in Warsaw.
\nExhibition in Schwerin to mark the Day of German Unity. Exhibition Uecker, Museum moderner Kunst,<\/em> Vienna.<\/p>\n

1993<\/h5>\n

Travels to Cambodia, studies the culture of the Khmer. Completion of the portrait of his work Der geschundene Mensch<\/em> (14 \u2018pacified tools\u2019 and 120 verbal expressions of aggression): touring exhibition of the Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations, Retrospective in the Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich.<\/p>\n

1994<\/h5>\n

The exhibition Brief an Peking,<\/em> organised by the Hanmo Art Centre and the Goethe-Institut, Beijing, was cancelled before the opening and was shown in 1995 in Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin.<\/p>\n

1995<\/h5>\n

Travels to Japan. Schwebend schweben,<\/em> Kitakanto Museum of Fine Arts, Gunma. Highest award of the 21st International Biennial of Graphic Arts in Ljubljana.<\/p>\n

1996<\/h5>\n

Chilean Critics\u2018 Choice Award for the best foreign exhibition in 1996.<\/p>\n

1997<\/h5>\n

Anschlag \u2013 Zum Schweigen der Schrift,<\/em> Galerie L\u00f6hrl, M\u00f6nchengladbach.
\nTravels to Mexico and Hot Springs, South Dakota, USA.<\/p>\n

1998<\/h5>\n

Travels to Czechia. Artistic design for the oratory of the Reichstag building, Berlin. Medal of Masovia, Warzaw for services rendered to the cultural cooperation between Germany and Poland.<\/p>\n

1999<\/h5>\n

Sculpture Verletzungen \u2013 Verbindungen<\/em> in Hanoi. Leviathan, Goethe-Institut, Thessaloniki. Wort \u2013 Schrift – Zeichen,<\/em> Erker Galerie, St. Gallen. Participates in the exhibition ZERO aus Deutschland 1957-1966<\/em> at the Galerie der Stadt Esslingen, Esslingen. Die Bilderwelt des G\u00fcnther Uecker<\/em> by Micael Kluth. First Prize in the competition \u201asculpture park\u2019 Kamp-Lintfort.<\/p>\n

2000<\/h5>\n

Travels to Japan. Cycle of works Barbarei und Hoffnung I bis X<\/em> as part of the exhibition Zwischen Barbarei und Hoffnung \u2013 Positionen zum zwanzigsten Jahrhundert,<\/em> Goethe-Institut Rotterdam. Verletzungen \u2013 Verbindungen,<\/em> G\u00fcnther Uecker zum 70. Geburtstag, Schloss Rheinsbeg, Rheinsbeg. Admitted into the order Pour le M\u00e9rite for science and arts.<\/p>\n

2001<\/h5>\n

Creates a piece of speaking, a piece of writing Sich stellen,<\/em> Theaterplatz, Weimar. Zeichen und Schriften,<\/em> in the German Bundestag, Paul-L\u00f6be-Haus, Berlin (2002). Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.<\/p>\n

2002<\/h5>\n

Participates in the Petersburg Dialogue in Petersburg and Weimar. Creates the Memorial Fall for the exhibition Kulturverlust, Deutsches Nationaltheater, Weimar.
\nParticipates in the exhibition Wasser Sand Weite<\/em> in Sharjah Art Museum, UE.
\nG\u00fcnther Uecker \u2013 Neue Arbeiten<\/em>, Akira Ikeda Gallery, Berlin. G\u00fcnther Uecker \u2013 Dialog,<\/em> Museum Moderne Kunst, Passau.<\/p>\n

2003<\/h5>\n

Sculptures for Friedrich Schillers\u2019 Wilhelm Tell in an open-air performance (2004) of the Deutsches Nationaltheater. G\u00fcnther Uecker \u2013 Graphien,<\/em> Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg. Participates in the exhibitions Berlin\/Moskau,<\/em> Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, M_ARS \u2013 Kunst und Krieg,<\/em> Neue Galerie, Graz, The Spirit of White<\/em> at the Galerie Beyeler, Basel and ZERO.<\/p>\n

2004<\/h5>\n

Participates in the exhibitions: ZERO 1958-1968<\/em>. Germania e Italia<\/em> in the Palazzo delle Papesse in Siena; Declaration \u2013 100 Artists of Peace<\/em> in the National Museum of ContArt in Seoul; Monocromos de Malevich al presente in the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid.<\/p>\n

2005<\/h5>\n

Solo exhibitions: Zwanzig Kapitel,<\/em> Martin-Gropius-Bau, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein and Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin; Klangobjekte: Terrororchester, Hommage \u00e0 John Cage,<\/em> Kunsthalle Bremen; G\u00fcnther Uecker. Old Words, New Expressions<\/em> in the German Cultural Centre and the National Museum of History, Taipei and in the Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. Participates in the exhibitions: Formen des Kinetischen,<\/em> Museum Tinguely, Basel; Crossart. Van Gogh bis Beuys,<\/em> Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle, Bonn; G\u00fcnther Uecker \u2013 Poesie der Destruktion,<\/em> film by Michael Kluth for Arte by order of West German Broadcasting Corporation Cologne.<\/p>\n

2006<\/h5>\n

G\u00fcnther Uecker \u2013 Letter to China,<\/em> Kunsthalle TAFA in Tianjin, China. Zeichen und Schriften, Friedenstexte aus Bibel und Koran,<\/em> in Leopold-Hoesch-Museum.
\nParticipates in the exhibitions: Zero, internationale K\u00fcnstler-Avantgarde der 50er\/60er Jahre,<\/em> Kunstpalast in D\u00fcsseldorf and Mus\u00e9e d\u2019Art Moderne in Saint-Etienne.<\/p>\n

2007<\/h5>\n

Solo exhibitions: Brief an Peking,<\/em> NAMOC National Art Museum of China, Beijing. Participates in exhibitions: Op Art,<\/em> Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt; Vertigo, Museo d\u2019Arte Moderna di Bologna, Italy; Chronik einer Nicht-Ausstellung 1969-73,<\/em> Kunsthalle D\u00fcsseldorf. Bronze medal of the Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation, Berlin.<\/p>\n

2008<\/h5>\n

Solo exhibitions: Sound of Art. Musik in der Bildenden Kunst,<\/em> Museum der Moderne, Salzburg; Post for Ordos,<\/em> Ordos Art Museum, Inner Mongolia China; G\u00fcnther Uecker. Brief an Peking.<\/em> Participates in the exhibitions: The thin shadow line,<\/em> Fondazione Mudima, Italy; Druckstelle, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden; Sotto Voce, Gallery Yvon Lambert, New York; ZERO lebt,<\/em> Kunsthalle Weishaupt, Ulm.<\/p>\n

2009<\/h5>\n

Solo exhibitions: G\u00fcnther Uecker \u2013 Huldigung an die Steppe,<\/em> Gallery of Modern Art of Mongolia, Ulan Bator; Participates in the exhibitions: 60 Jahre \u2013 60 Werke,<\/em> Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin; aus\/gezeichnet\/zeichnen,<\/em> Akademie der K\u00fcnste, Berlin; Essential Experiences,<\/em> Museo d\u2019arte contemporanea della Sicilia, Palermo, Italy; Art of Two Germanys \/ Cold War Cultures,<\/em> Los Angeles County Museum of Art, L.A.; Kunst und Kalter Krieg \u2013 Deutsche Positionen 1945-1989,<\/em> Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin and Germanisches Nationalmuseum, N\u00fcrnberg.<\/p>\n

2010<\/h5>\n

G\u00fcnther Uecker \u2013 Handlungen.<\/em> Werke aus drei Jahrzehnten, Kunsthalle Osnabr\u00fcck, Ulmer Museum. G\u00fcnther Uecker \u2013 Works 1995-2007,<\/em> Akira Ikeda Gallery in Taura and Tokyo, Japan. Participates in the exhibitions: Isole mai trovate,<\/em> Palazzo Ducale in Genua, Italy and Mus\u00e9e d\u2019art moderne in St. Etienne, France; Honoured with the Jan-Willem-Ring of the state capitel D\u00fcsseldorf for his contribution to the cultural diversity of the city and its importance for visual arts.<\/p>\n

2011<\/h5>\n

G\u00fcnther Uecker \u2013 The Early Years,<\/em> L&M Arts, New York; G\u00fcnther Uecker \u2013 Sandspirale,<\/em> Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt; Geschriebene Bilder,<\/em> Walter Storms Galerie, Munich. Participates in the exhibitions: 55 Jahre Kunst in D\u00fcsseldorf,<\/em> Museum Kunstpalast, D\u00fcsseldorf; Art on Lake,<\/em> Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest.<\/p>\n

2012<\/h5>\n

Enrico Castellani et G\u00fcnther Uecker<\/em>, Galleria Internazionale d\u2019Arte Moderna Ca\u2019Pesaro, Venice, Italy. Participates in the exhibitions: End of the Earth: Land Art<\/em>
\n to 1974<\/em>, MoCA, Los Angeles, USA; Aufbruch. Malerei und realer Raum,<\/em> Akademie der K\u00fcnste Berlin, Kunsthalle Rostock.<\/p>\n

2012<\/h5>\n

Injuries – Connections.<\/em> Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art (Tmoca), Iran<\/p>\n

2013<\/h5>\n

Injuries – Connections.<\/em> Isfahan Museum of Contemporary Art, Iran<\/p>\n

2014<\/h5>\n

Injuries – Connections.<\/em> Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana, Cuba<\/p>\n

2015<\/h5>\n

Uecker<\/em> \u2013 Museum\u2019s art collection Nordrhein-Westfalen in K20 Dusseldorf-Germany<\/p>\n

2016<\/h5>\n

Kunsthalle Rostock. Rostock, Germany<\/p>\n

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G\u00fcnther Uecker lives and works in D\u00fcsseldorf.<\/p>\n

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Biography 1930 Born 13 March in Wendorf (Mecklenburg). Father a farmer. Grown up on the W\u00fcstrow peninsula in the former GDR he starts an apprenticeship in 1949 and qualifies as a painter and advertising designer. 1949\u20131953 Studies at the Fachschule f\u00fcr angewandte Kunst in Wismar. Helps to organise political marches, designs window displays and a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-sidebar.php","meta":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n