Georg HeroldWhat a Life

Movable feasts – at the beginning of the 1980s Georg Herold, together with Martin Kippenberger, Werner Büttner and Albert Oehlen, called art and the art business into question and developed from this – unlike the “Junge Wilde” of that generation – a lasting skepticism that remains productive to this day. His sculptures made of materials such as roofing battens, bricks, wire and objets trouvés refer critically and ironically to society, politics and modern art and invite the viewer to think further about the concepts with which he approaches art. This extensive publication offers a comprehensive survey of Georg Herold’s work from the early 1980s through to the video works of 2005. It becomes clear that absurdity and paradox may falter in text-bound theory, yet prove mobile and inventive in Georg Herold’s thinking in images.

Exhibition:
Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, 5/3 – 9/4/2005
Kunstverein Hannover, 16/4 – 29/5/2005
Museum Moderner Kunst Klagenfurt, 16/6 – 28/8/2005