New Concrete Poetry
The symposium »The New Concrete Poetry« investigates in the current artistic interest in concrete poetry. In addition to a keynote lecture by Eugen Gomringer, the symposium presents readings, lectures, talks and live performances by contemporary artists and poets. In the tradition of the »Bielefelder Colloquium Neue Poesie«
(1978 – 2003) this event showcases a wide range of voices and transdisciplinary forms of contemporary poetry.
Reservation and attendance fee
Due to limited access your reservation via email (kontakt@bielefelder-kunstverein.de) or Fax (+49-521-178810) is requested. The attendance fee of the conference will be 10 euros (reduced 6 euros, members for free).
EUGEN GOMRINGER
Eugen Gomringer, born in Cachuela Esperanza (BOL) in 1925 and grew up in Switzerland, lives and works in Rehau, Germany. He studied economics and art history in Bern and Rome. In the 1950s, he was Max Bill’s secretary at the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Ulm [Ulm School of Design] and at that time belonged to the circles of the Wiener Gruppe [Vienna Group] around Oswald Wiener and Gerhard Rühm as well as the Stuttgarter Schule [Stuttgart School] around Max Bense. Among other things, he worked in the 1960s as manager of the Schweizer Werkbund [Swiss Werkbund] and as a member of the council for the documenta 4 in 1968. From 1967 onwards, he was an artistic adviser and cultural director to Rosenthal AG in Selb for almost twenty years. From 1978 to 1990, he held the position of Professor for Theory and Aesthetics at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf [Düsseldorf Academy of Art]. From 1986 onwards, he held a guest professorship in Bamberg and in 1988 became the creative director of the Internationales Forum für Gestaltung in Ulm (International Forum for Design). In 2000 he founded the Institute of Concrete Art and Poetry – Archive Eugen Gomringer in Rehau. He is one of the most important theoreticians of the concrete in art and literature and has written many programmatic publications. Alongside that, he has also authored monographs, essays and poems on works by Josef Albers, Heinz Gappmayr, Rupprecht Geiger, Otto Herbert Hajek, Marcello Morandini, Heinz-Günter Prager and Günther Uecker.
Foto: Dennis Neuschäfer-Rube
CIA RINNE
Cia Rinne, born in Gothenburg (SWE) in 1973, lives and works as a poet and artist in Berlin. To her numerous publications are belonging, among others, »zaroum« (2001), »notes of soloists« (2009) and »should we blind ourselves and leave thebes (a short history of either or)« (2013). She participated with her work in numerous group exhibitions, among others, at the Tallinn Print Triennial (FIN) (2014), at NorrlandsOperan in Umeå (SWE), at Haus am Waldsee in Berlin, at Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center (beide 2013) as well as at Grimmuseum in Berlin (2012).
MICHALIS PICHLER
Michalis Pichler, born in Berlin in 1972, lives and works as an artist in Berlin. Most recently, Printed Matter in New York City (USA) (2015), OEI colour project in Stockholm (SWE) (2014) and PrintRoom in Rotterdam (NL) (2013) has presented solo exhibitions by the artist. Furthermore he has participated in numerous group exhibitions, among others, at Kunsthal Aarhus (DK) (2015), at Nassauischen Kunstverein (2014) as well as at Center for Book Arts in New York City (USA). He is co-founder of the art book fair Miss Read and the Conceptual Poetic Days in Berlin.
ANN COTTEN
Ann Cotten, born in Ames (USA) in 1982, lives and works as a writer and poet in Berlin. In 2014, she received the Wilhelm Lehmann Prize and the Adelbert von Chamisso Prize for her previous oeuvre, especially for the anthology »Der schaudernde Fächer« (2013). She received the advancement award of the Hermann Hesse Literary Prize for her anthology »Florida-Räume« (2010) and the Reinhard Priessnitz Prize as well as the Clemens Brentano Advancement Award for Literatur for »Fremdwörterbuchsonette« (2007).
