| | | | | | | | Jürgen Klauke
Verdichtungsvorgang 1, 2004/2006
black and white print
180 ✕ 240 cm
© Jürgen Klauke / VG-Bildkunst, Bonn | | | | | | Wackelkontakt | | | | 27 October 2022 - 7 January 2023 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Jürgen Klauke
Verdichtungsvorgang 3 Teiler, 2004/2006
black and white print
je 171 ✕ 80 cm
© Jürgen Klauke / VG-Bildkunst, Bonn | | | | | | Since the 1970s, Jürgen Klauke has been exploring questions of human existence in his photo sequences, video performances and drawings. Identity, sexuality, fears, religion, life and death are recurring themes that he confronts in ever new constellations. In doing so, he himself is usually the sole actor in his formally strictly composed scenarios, which are often combined in thematic cycles and make processes of inner or outer tensions and transformations visible.
In the exhibition Wackelkontakt we present a selection from a complex of works from 2004-2006 that deals with electrophysiology: Experimental Neurosis, Wackelkontakt I, and Verdichtungsvorgang are large-scale, serial black-and-white photographs. In Experimentelle Neurose and Verdichtungsvorgang Jürgen Klauke is physically present and his body is connected to electric current via cable harnesses.
The other series shows differently arranged sockets, which only represent the system of electrical energy itself. The works seem like a prophecy in today’s world and take on a startling topicality and urgency: after all, it is not only the individual body that depends on the energy of light and electricity, but also the collective social body, which in the current energy crisis is sensitively affected by the catastrophic scenario of the failure or disruption of the life-sustaining flow of energy. | | | | | | | | | Jürgen Klauke
Wackelkontakt 5, 2004/2006
black and white print
180 ✕ 240 cm
© Jürgen Klauke / VG-Bildkunst, Bonn | | | | | | | Jürgen Klauke was born in Kliding/Cochem in 1943. He studied free graphics at the Fachhochschule für Design und Kunst in Cologne from 1964-70, where he subsequently held a teaching position until 1975. This was followed by further guest professorships at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Hamburg, the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Munich and the Gesamthochschule in Kassel. He has lived in Cologne since 1968. His work is represented in numerous national and international exhibitions and museum collections. He participated in e.g. documenta 6 in 1977, documenta 8 in 1987 and the Venice Biennale in 1980. | | | | | | | | | Jürgen Klauke
Kulturanmerkung, 1981-82
Unicat, C print
60 ✕ 50 cm
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