Marcel Odenbach (Bilingual edition)

Description

Using collage and montage as a medium and always in connection with his own biography, Marcel Odenbach investigates politically and culturally relevant topics of his time, such as for example the process of coming to terms with Nazi crimes, remembrance culture, the effects and after-effects of European colonialism in Africa, racism and time and time again the relationship between the individual and society. The artist Marcel Odenbach (*1953) lives in Cologne, Berlin and intermittently in Ghana. Since 1976 he has worked with video. His filmic collages and installations have contributed to the fact that today video art is a central medium in contemporary international art. Parallel to this he has created a wide-ranging graphic oeuvre. In the joint consideration of his video and paper works it becomes clear that Odenbach regards art and culture under a socio-political perspective and at the same time relies on the strength of the sensuous-aesthetical experience of images.

Susanne Gaensheimer is a German art historian and curator and director of the K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen in Dusseldorf, Germany. Doris Krystof is the curator of K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen in Dusseldorf. Important exhibition projects curated by Krystof are Yves Klein (Cologne / Dusseldorf 1994), Daniel Buren (Dusseldorf 1996), Steve McQueen (Vienna 2001), Heimo Zobernig (Vienna / Basel / Dusseldorf 2002/2003), "Ich ist etwas anderes" (Dusseldorf 2000), "Sie traumt von ihrem Lieblingsstar. Er spricht mit einer anderen Sprache. Vier Raume aus der Sammlung Schurmann" (Dusseldorf 2002), and a retrospective by Martin Kippenberger (Dusseldorf 2006, in collaboration with Tate Modern, London). She studied art history, linguistics/literature and history in Freiburg and Cologne.