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STUDIO KLAUS HU
Wildenbruch 77
12045 Berlin / Germany
tel +49.30.68081524
klaushu (at) yahoo.de
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represented by VG BILD-KUNST BONN / Germany.
Steuernummer 16/355/62802 nach § 19 Abs 1 UStG
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KLAUS HU, living and working in Berlin, born 1963 in Heidelberg / Germany, works mainly in PAINTING, drawing and along photographic research, with extended practice on site specific and curatorial concepts.
His main subjects address landscape and land use in both terrestrial and extraterrestrial territories, digital and archival sources. More recently his paintings address fragmentary and absurd storylines informed by deep time, a pandemic and imbalances, not only as societal experience, but as subjective narrative. Each work group of middle and large scale canvases and its subjects spans across 1 - 3 years of workout.
He has self published 6 books on painting / photography.
His education was in anthropology, Germanic and Romance studies / literature at University of Heidelberg 1982 / 83 and at University of the Arts Berlin (UdK) from 1985 / 1991, and 1998 / 99 in stage design, photography and video at Achim Freyer and Katharina Sieverding. In 1992 he received the Berlin Senate fellowship / working grant for 1 year and more recently a studio grant / residency at Santa Fe Art Institute, New Mexico, USA in 2013.
His main subjects address landscape and land use in both terrestrial and extraterrestrial territories, digital and archival sources. More recently his paintings address fragmentary and absurd storylines informed by deep time, a pandemic and imbalances, not only as societal experience, but as subjective narrative. Each work group of middle and large scale canvases and its subjects spans across 1 - 3 years of workout.
He has self published 6 books on painting / photography.
His education was in anthropology, Germanic and Romance studies / literature at University of Heidelberg 1982 / 83 and at University of the Arts Berlin (UdK) from 1985 / 1991, and 1998 / 99 in stage design, photography and video at Achim Freyer and Katharina Sieverding. In 1992 he received the Berlin Senate fellowship / working grant for 1 year and more recently a studio grant / residency at Santa Fe Art Institute, New Mexico, USA in 2013.
CURRENTLY IN THE STUDIO
studio based / painting
a metaphorical reflection on the art industry and its cloudy weather.
studio based / painting
a memory of the future and a precognition of the prehistoric.
solo exhibition at Villa Heike Berlin, June 2022.
RECENTLY IN THE STUDIO
LAYERS OF TIME redux 2017 / 18
research
/ compilation for a transatlantic curatorial project on the layers of
history and how archives interconnect with the studio based process.
various artists from the US and Europe. curatorial.
painting series, which refines one color as the main subject for narrative and abstract responses on daily / subjective and on geopolitical issues.
painting series, that challenges the historical and the digital archive as source of citation as a different kind of perception and of discourse.
painting - photography
On landscape, land-use of the South West of the US - partly made possible via residency at Santa Fe Art Institute, NM, USA, 2013 - final outcome has been presented at SOMOS, Berlin, 2015 Germany as solo exhibition / painting / photography / with scientific talks on uranium mining with scientist and with video / photographic presentations of the research, while at Santa Fe Art Institute.
New Mexico, USA, 2013
most recent / upcoming / selection of EXHIBITIONS and PARTICIPATIONS
2022 HI ALTITUDE 2019 21 / at Villa Heike Berlin / June 2022 / solo
2020 MIT EIGENEM BLICK alumni 76 / 99 exhibition / group at
ACHIM FREYER FOUNDATION Berlin / Germany.
2019 EARTH, FAIL BIGGER! invited for site specific competition /
Stuttgart / Karlsruhe, Germany.
2018 / 19 ANAMORPHOSES site specific concept.
participation for Leonardo high school. Berlin.
2018 invited for short time research residency at French Villa Medici / Rome
2015 UNSETTLED LANDSCAPES, solo exhibition at SOMOS, Berlin, Germany.
2013 Residency at SANTA FE ART INSTITUTE, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA.
2011 Exhibition at GERMAN PARLIAMENT,
participation in site-specific competition. Germany.
2009 Participation in open call MAXXI, Rome, site-specific. Italy.
2009 Participation in open call MAXXI, Rome, site-specific. Italy.
2009 Participation in open call, SHARJAH BIENNALE, site-specific. UAE.
2008 Invited for ISEA SINGAPORE. Singapore.
Presented keynote / paper SPACE AND NARRATIVE IDENTITY.
Presented keynote / paper SPACE AND NARRATIVE IDENTITY.
Funded by IFA, Stuttgart.
available as hardcover / print on demand
1: HI ALTITUDE 2019 21
2: PAINTING KLAUS HU 2006 / 19
3: SPIRAL JETTY ACOMA MADRID BANDELIER 2013 / 14
4: NEW MEXICAN TRAVELS 2013
5: MARS_SPIRIT 2009 / 12
6: NY 92 / 12
STUDIES
2011 curatorial training at UdK Berlin, University of the Arts, Berlin
with Dr Eugen Blume (Hamburger Bahnhof Berlin,
Dr Katja Blomberg (Haus am Waldsee Berlin)
and Dirk Luckow (Deichtorhallen Hamburg) among others
1998 / 99 guest study in Visual Culture Studies
UdK, University of the Arts, Berlin at Katharina Sieverding
1985 / 91 studies in stage design, photography, video
UdK, University of the Arts, Berlin at Achim Freyer and Marcel Odenbach
1982 / 83 studies in Anthropology, Germanic- and Romance literature
University Heidelberg
FELLOWSHIPS / PRIZES / RESIDENCIES
2020 / 21 invited residency for 18TH STREET LA, Los Angeles, USA
( cancelled due to Covid 19 measures )
( cancelled due to Covid 19 measures )
2018 invited research residency Villa Medici / Rome / FRANCE / ITALY
2013 residency SANTA FE ART INSTITUTE, NEW MEXICO, USA / studio grant
1992 Berlin Senate 1 year fellowship working grant, Berlin, GERMANY
PORTFOLIO SELECTION 2013 - 2022 / 4 WORK SERIES BY KLAUS HU
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all works and photos © KLAUS HU & VG BILD-KUNST BONN
except courtesy
on STRIPES 2015 / 16
Edward S Curtis 1868-1952
Frame of peyote sweat-lodge
1 photogravure :
brown ink ; 14 x 19 cm [image size],
18 x 22 cm [plate size]Original photogravure produced in Cambridge, MA, by Suffolk Engraving Co.
1927
Source: The North American Indian (1907-1930)
v.19
Cambridge, Mass. :The University Press], 1930),
Facing page 206
courtesy Northwestern University
Digital Library Collections
and on UNSETTLED LANDSCAPES 2013 / 15
photos on uranium disposal cells courtesy CENTER FOR LAND USE INTERPRETATION
additional text by / courtesy JAMES REICH writer / Santa Fe, NM / USA
and historical photos courtesy TIMOTHY H. O`SULLIVAN / 1868 - 1873
"Inventory of the T.H. O´Sullivan Photographs, 1868 - 1873
courtesy Rare Book, Manuscript and special Collections Library,
Duke University, Durham, NC, USA