Serielle Formationen 1967/2017

In 1967 Peter Roehr and Paul Maenz curated the exhibition “Serielle Formationen” for the Studiengalerie of the Universität Frankfurt/M., one of the very first exhibitions on Minimal art in Germany. Within the framework of the exhibition and publication series “Minimalism in Germany,” launched in 2005, the Daimler Art Collection is now undertaking the first attempt at a re-staging of this historically important presentation. At the time it had summarised, at a high level, the current international minimalist tendencies and set positions by German artists against them. The criterion for the selection of the 62 works by 48 artists shown was the principle of serial order as a visual characteristic of pictures and objects. Behind this, of course, various and indeed contrary concepts could be concealed. Thus the European Zero movement was represented just as much as American Minimal and Concept art, and aspects of Nouveau Réalisme, Pop and Op art were presented as well – the aim being, as Paul Maenz wrote in the accompanying catalogue booklet, “the informative ambition of clarifying the differences between similar manifestations.” What is special about the publication accompanying the current Berlin exhibition is the complete reprint, contained in the catalogue, of the original catalogue, much sought after today, which is an excellent example of early conceptual book design.

Artists 1967/2017: Carl Andre, Arman, Thomas Bayrle, Ronald Bladen, Hans Breder, Enrico Castellani, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Jan Dibbets, May Fasnacht, Eberhard Fiebig, Dan Flavin, Raimund Girke, Kuno Gonschior, Hermann Goepfert, Hans Haacke, Jan Henderikse, Ewerdt Hilgemann, Bernhard Höke, Donald Judd, Yayoi Kusama, Walter Leblanc, Thomas Lenk, Sol LeWitt, Konrad Lueg, Adolf Luther, Piero Manzoni, Agnes Martin, Almir da Silva Mavignier, Henk Peeters, Larry Poons, Charlotte Posenenske, Markus Raetz, Bridget Riley, Peter Roehr, Dieter Roth, Felix Schlenker, Wolfgang Schmidt, Jan Schoonhoven, Klaus Staudt, Michael Steiner, Frank Stella, Paul Talman, Günther Uecker, Victor Vasarely, Herman de Vries, Andy Warhol, Gruppe X

Artists from the wider context: Karl-Heinz Adler, Hartmut Böhm, Hal Busse, Hanne Darboven, Rolf Glasmeier, Hermann Glöckner, Mathias Goeritz, Gerhard von Graevenitz, Marie-Luise Heller, Hans-Peter Hoch, Oskar Holweck, Heinz Mack, Christian Megert, Christian Roeckenschuss, Ulrich Rückriem, Eckhard Schene, Mike Steiner, Franz Erhard Walther