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<strong>Wolf</strong> <strong>Kahlen</strong> Video Pioneer, Media Sculptor<br />
*1940 Aix-la-Chapelle (Aachen), Germany<br />
1960–65 Studies of art, art history and philosophy<br />
at Werkkunstschule Braunschweig, Ateneum<br />
Helsinki, Hochschule der Künste Berlin,<br />
Freie Universität Berlin and Columbia<br />
University New York<br />
1969 Starting with films and video work, video<br />
sculptures, photography and performance<br />
1970/71 Co-initiator of the foundation of Video-Forum<br />
Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (NBK), inaugurated<br />
in 1971 with the 16-mm-film of <strong>Kahlen</strong> Reversible<br />
Processes (production NBK)<br />
1973/74 Co-founder and participator in ADA I and<br />
ADA II (Actions of the Avantgarde) in Berlin<br />
1982 Founder, designer and builder of the art center<br />
Ruine der Künste Berlin, opening in 1985<br />
1988 Founder of the 24 hours artists radio: Sender<br />
Ruine der Kuenste Berlin (1988–1994)<br />
2005 Opening of the <strong>Wolf</strong> <strong>Kahlen</strong> <strong>Museum</strong>, <strong>Bernau</strong><br />
bei Berlin<br />
Since 1969 numerous video- and photo-performanceactivities<br />
and one-man shows in Western and Eastern<br />
Europe, in the USA, in Middle- and South-America and<br />
in Asia. Among others:<br />
1975 25 Video Tapes Cycle Assimilations<br />
1982 Arbeiten mit dem Zufall, den es nicht gibt,<br />
NBK, Berlin; Neue Galerie, Aachen<br />
1986 Video Sculptures 1969–86, Galerie am Körnerpark<br />
Berlin<br />
1988 Lichtjahr 1988 (artists, scientists and psychic<br />
media on the subject of time) Ruine der Künste<br />
Berlin, contribution to: Berlin – Kulturstadt<br />
Europa<br />
1992 Ephemere Stuecke, <strong>Museum</strong> of Foreign Art,<br />
Riga, Latvia; <strong>Museum</strong> Manes, Prague; Neuer<br />
Aachener Kunstverein<br />
1996 Nothing But Dust, video-, photo-, sound- and<br />
dust-installations, Peking Art <strong>Museum</strong><br />
1998 Shanghai Art <strong>Museum</strong>; Turn Table Hong Kong,<br />
Goethe-Institute Hong Kong; ITPark Gallery<br />
Taipei; Mongolian Cultural Center Taipei;<br />
365 answers in/on time, Radio Sender Freies<br />
Berlin, 11 hours production<br />
1999 Inhaling Time – Exhaling Space, video-, photo-,<br />
sound- and dust-installations at IT Park Gallery<br />
Taipei; Huang Rui Studio, Osaka<br />
2<br />
3<br />
Since 1985 continuous video documentations in Tibetan<br />
influenced Himalayan countries like Bhutan, Sikkim, Spiti,<br />
Nepal, India, Mongolia, Tibet and China, so far 16 productions<br />
(90–120 min. each) so called Thang-stong rGyal-po<br />
Series.<br />
Retrospectives<br />
2000–03 Three years retrospective in ten parts at Ruine<br />
der Künste Berlin<br />
2010 <strong>Museum</strong> Folkwang Essen, ZKM Karlsruhe,<br />
WRO Wroclaw, Poland, Ruine der Künste<br />
Berlin<br />
Participation in all major<br />
international video group shows like:<br />
1974 Projekt 74, Kunsthalle Köln<br />
1976 Video satelite show, University of Iowa<br />
1977 documenta 6, Kassel;<br />
1989 Video-Skulptur retrospectiv und aktuell 1963–<br />
1989, Cologne, Berlin, Zurich etc., with early<br />
video sculptures from 1969<br />
1996– today ifa-travelling exhibition Video in Germany,<br />
Hong Kong, Groningen, Rostock, Taipei etc.<br />
Internet-shows include:<br />
2000 CynetArt, Dresden<br />
FILE – Electronic Language International Festival<br />
São Paulo<br />
ISEA – Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts (since<br />
2008: ISEA International)<br />
In the centre of the eye of art, Warsaw<br />
The Electrical and digital art show, Johannesburg,<br />
South Africa<br />
Splitski Film Festival<br />
2001 CynetArt, Dresden; File, São Paulo<br />
Rhizome, New York NY<br />
LITE Show, Boston MA<br />
Recent solo shows (selection):<br />
2013 Tribute to <strong>Wolf</strong> <strong>Kahlen</strong>, Videoakt – International Video<br />
Biennale, Barcelona<br />
Tibet’s Leonardo, Mudam Luxembourg, Musée d’Art<br />
Moderne Grand-Duc Jean<br />
Artist in Residence in Venice at Emily Harvey Foundation<br />
Hinter den Spiegel stecken, Ruine der Künste Berlin<br />
... lernen vom Bauhaus ...1 bis 4, Ruine der Künste Berlin<br />
Framing the Globe – Die Welt rahmen, <strong>Wolf</strong> <strong>Kahlen</strong><br />
<strong>Museum</strong>, <strong>Bernau</strong> bei Berlin<br />
2014 Medium Teller – Teller, Kannen, Schalen im Werk von<br />
<strong>Wolf</strong> <strong>Kahlen</strong>, <strong>Wolf</strong> <strong>Kahlen</strong> <strong>Museum</strong>, <strong>Bernau</strong> bei Berlin<br />
2015 VideoBank, National <strong>Museum</strong> Wroclaw, Poland
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