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© Federico Pedrotti, Portrait, München 2006
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Born in
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16 June 1947
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in Hückeswagen (FRG)
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”In the beginning all things were together; then Mind came and created order.” (Anaxagoras)
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1953-57
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Primaryschool, Odenthal
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Encounters sculpture’s timelessness and the power of ritual: altar boy and St. Sebastian in the village church, Odenthal
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1957-62
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Nikolaus Cusanus Gymnasium Bergisch-Gladbach
Violinlessons
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Painter and high-school teacher Podgarski sends the ten-year-olds in search of their inner pictures: they gather material for a picture atlas from the middle ages to modernity and discover the recurrence of their models in the history of art.
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1962-65
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Apprentice watchmaker (qualified), Schildgen
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Watchmaking demands precision and mindfulness just as painting is a painstaking handicraft.
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1964-68
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Attends professional night school, Leverkusen
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1965-67
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Instruction with freelance artist Kirchgässer in Leverkusen, Schloss Morsbroich (paintingtechniques, woodcut, screen printing)
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1968
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Moves to Cologne
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1969-72
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Studies at the Academy of Art, Duesseldorf, Joseph Beuys’ class
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”It is not things that are difficult to make—the difficulty consists in getting oneself into a position in which one can make them.” (Constantin Brancusi)
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Film and book reviews for newspaper and radio (Neue Rheinzeitung, Westdeutscher Rundfunk), e.g. Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s Liebe, kälter als der Tod (1969); Acid: Neue amerikanische Szene, ed. R.D. Brinkmann and R.R. Rygulla, Darmstadt (1969); Joseph Beuys—Zeichnungen 1947–59, Lothar Schirmer Verlag, Cologne (1972).
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1969
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First group exhibition: ”Operationen,” Museum Fridericianum, Cassel
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1972
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First solo exhibition, Comprehensive School, Rodenkirchen
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1973
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Eight-month stay in London, working as stagehand for the Royal Festival Ballet
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Assistant to R.B. Kitaj Encounters Gauguin’s ”Nevermore” at the Courtauld Institute
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1974
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Produces the LP Planes with Anselm Rogmans (guitar and sound-mixing, sound-spaces); productions at Galerie Oppenheim, Cologne
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1974-89
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Assistant cameraman and sound technician on documentary films in e.g. Italy and Mexico (Dieter-Storp-Produktion, Duesseldorf, and OM-Film, Cologne, for e.g. WDR, ZDF broadcasting stations)
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1976
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Solo exhibition, Galerie Jöllenbeck, Cologne, and Artothek, Cologne (pictures, drawings, photographs)
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Encounter with Paul Thek Figuration and Exoticism Gauguin and the Mournful Tropes Yearning among Hawaii Shirts
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1979
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Solo exhibition: ”Les Tricots Atmosphériques de la Morte de Couleur à Tahiti,” Galerie Jöllenbeck, Cologne
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1981-82
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City of Cologne grant to work at P.S.I Contemporary Art Center, Queens, New York
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1983
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Mural commissioned by the City of Cologne
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1984
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At the invitation of the Canada Council, solo exhibitions in Montreal (Optica) and Toronto (Mercer Union) in combination with lectures on own work (”In der Fremde”) at Ottawa University (Ottawa) and Concordia University (Montreal)
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1986
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Three-month working stay at the Leighton Artists’ Colony, Banff, Alberta; lectures on own work at the Banff School for the Arts; ”Untitled Triptych” (later exhibited at René Blouin Gallery, Montreal)
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16 mm film for the German television show ”Die Sendung mit der Maus”: ”Wie ein Bild entsteht” (How a picture comes into being), 1987
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Video: True Love (3:20 min.)
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Meets the Russian painters Komar and Melamid
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1986-88
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Holds art courses at the Volkshochschule, Siegburg
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1989
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Solo exhibition: „Demut und Altlasten“, Städtisches Museum, Mühlheim/Ruhr
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Takes part in discussion panel with Boris Groys
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Moves to Munich
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Seit 1990
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Cover and book design for Schirmer/Mosel Verlag, Munich
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Seit 1994
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”Kindheiterkeit” (pictures, drawings, photographs), ”Der Stallgeruch, Bleikristall und Kernseife” (editions)
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1995-2000
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”The meaning of life is seeing.” (China, 13th century)
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2002/03
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Three-month working stay in Montreal including lectures at the
Concordia University Montreal - Remains and Traces
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2005
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Lecturer at the Mozarteum-Salzburg
Moves to Berlin
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Additional solo exhibitions
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1995 / '97
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Galerie Schneiderei, Cologne
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2000
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Offene Friedenskirche Cologne
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2002
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CityKirche Konkordien, Mannheim
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"denkbar", Frankfurt/Main
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2003
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Galerie Westend, Munich
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2004
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Europäische ZentralGalerie, Frankfurt/Main
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2006
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> Inselglück < Moabiter Kulturtage, Berlin
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2007
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HSC Realitätenbüro, Munich
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Works in public collections
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- Museum Ludwig, Cologne
- Schloß Morsbroich, Leverkusen
- Hedendaagse Kunst, Utrecht
- Stadtmuseum Ratingen
- Städtisches Museum Mülheim an der Ruhr
- CityKirche Konkordien, Mannheim
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