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LES HETEROTOPIES I
oil on canvas 180 x 200 cm
70.86 x 78.74 inch
© Klaus Hu 2011
   
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KLAUS HU
is working across different media with research based topics and mapping strategies. His work is informed by archival research as well as traditional studio-based techniques by juxtaposing historical with contemporary and critical investigations upon global / local issues of identity and transformation by implementing narrative and abstract notions. By mapping narrative and structural/reflective territories, his paintings depict landscapes and abstracted story lines in mostly large scale formats.  He received a fellowship for photography from the Berlin Senate and took part in national and international site-specific competitions like MAXXI Rome, Sharjah Biennale and Deutscher Bundestag (Marie Elisabeth Lüders competition). 

He runs a Studio in Berlin and also collaborates in group exhibitions, that challenge the notion of curatorial issues.  While publishing his work online, most of his works are conceived for exhibition, installation or collection. 

In his earlier career, he took part in several  international video festivals, like JVC Japan, special merit award, WRO WROCLAW, Poland, ONE MINUTE Sao Paulo. His early videos STILL RUN were premiered at CINEMA ARSENAL in Berlin.

Some of his STUDIOWORKS are in private collections. 




ON MAPS 2011/12 /

STUDIO based & RESEARCH PROJECT / CURATORIAL

work in progress






MARS 2009/10 
Painting / collages / gouaches
& Edition 1/1 of 20 Pigment Prints on Hahnemuehlen Fine Art Pearl,
each 63 x 112 cm (each 24.8 x 44.9 inch)

While questions of intellectual property and the era of financial crisis melt with strategies of survival, a recent and ongoing research is based on two photographic series, shot by the two Mars robots "Opportunity" and Spirit", whose panoramic and fragmented images show empty and stony landscapes, sometimes in true colour, sometimes in false colour and sometimes in 3-D in low- and high resolution (bridging an up to 320 Million km distance of data transmission). The records distributed by the NASA question intellectual property, identity, science and narrativity in current global crisis of climate and finance. They open a new challenge of perception and abstraction, referencing Robert Smithson`s research of (mythical) landscape, fiction and industrial / archival spaces of the 60 ́s. The project researches long distance data transmission of images. One Edition of 20 images of this research is printed as digital high resolution print on Hahnemühlen fine art photo paper PEARL 63 x 112 cm, accompanied by a booklet as documentation of the work in progress, including photos, drawings/paintings and a sci-fictional essay by Peter Allen: "2035".

additional image rights courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech.


DESERT 2007/8
Painting

Desertlike landscapes, reminding to Nevada, are covered with art historical and daily references. They juxtapose to painted quotations of John Cages "Record Player", an outdated model of playing several long play records after another, juxtapose with city planning strategies (here: Venice), covered by poetic ice cream tops, juxtaposing with an adaptation as diptych of Jacques-Louis Davids "Marat" (here "Marat Phalanx") as a reference to death and political correctness in utopian and revolutionary dialectics.


BEACH 2006
Painting

Like filmic sequences, unedited, but taken into a selection process, five cut-outs and blow ups of fictive stills are rendered in oil on the canvas. The scenarios take place at the imaginary beach. A subjective commentary unto the entertainment industry. While painting here replaces film, the industrial orfeature film, it is also a statement upon the conditions of an industry where hierarchical structures replace individual perception. The five scenarios and stills in oil on the canvas take place at the same time at the imaginary beach, faking an imaginary camera, taking snapshots. The sequence of paintings is edited as a parallel montage.
   

Klaus Hu

1963 born in Heidelberg, Germany

Lives and works in Berlin, Germany

Education

2011.......curatorial training at UdK, (University of the arts), Berlin
2008.......ISEA Singapore (July 2008) guest lecture / presentation
2007.......MUTAMORPHOSIS Prague (Leonardo Forum) and RE-PLACE Berlin
1998/99..gueststudy in cultural studies and multimedia at Katharina Sieverding,
..............UdK (University of the arts), Berlin.
1992....... given lectures in scriptdevelopment, UdK, Berlin.
1985/91...studies in stage design, photography, video UdK, Berlin.
1988........assistance for Robert Wilson, stagedesign and directing.
1982/83...germanic & romance studies, anthropology, University Heidelberg.

Grants

1992..fellowship for photography, senate of Berlin, catalogue, groupshow.
1992..special merit award videofestival Tokyo for the animation "STAGEBOX".

Solo Exhibitions

2009...........TRILOGY: MARS DESERT BEACH /Sept/Dec /open studio Berlin

/ completed videos / films
2006............CITY HARDWARE / TRANSITION, DVD, 12.30 min
1998/2003...STILLRUNREMIX & NEW YORK PILOT, DVD 90 min, installation.
2001............IN SEARCH FOR J.D., video/installation, SVHS 16 min.
1998............TRANSITION, SVHS, 128 min, beta SP, pal, 8 min, transitional video.
1994............SENTO, 16 mm / beta SP, pal, 7.10 min, short narrative.
1992/96.......P.E.N, beta Sp, pal, 11.40 min, 4 musicclips.
1987/91.......STILL RUN, SVHS, DVD, pal, 55 min, a compilation of 7 genres.
1987.............STAGEBOX, SVHs, Umatic, 11 min, animation
1987.............LA COURTe DUREE, U-matic, 58 min, narrative.

Group Exhibitions

2011...........Art & Architecture, exhibition / presentation of competition
..................at "KUNST-RAUM" of German Bundestag
2011...........DIFFERENT WORLDS / at Skalitzer140 / Berlin /
..................with Alessandro Vitali/ Raluca C.E Blidar / Sabrina Schieke
2010...........participation in site specific competition for
..................MARIE ELISABETH LUEDERS HAUS, Berlin
2010...........END OF SUMMER SHOW / Atelierhof Kreuzberg / Berlin / with
..................Marc Bijl / Daniel Kingery and Andreas Helfer
2009...........participation at Sharjah Biennale, open call
2009...........participation MAXXI, Rome, competition
2008...........Celeste Kunstpreis Berlin, participation, catalogue
2006...........preparation of curatorial project BODIES DESIRES.
2005...........McCormick Freedom Museum, Chicago, competition.
2005...........BUSAN BIENNIAL, outdoor sculpture, competition partizipation.
2004...........VENEZIA per la realizzazione di opera d´arte nella nuova
.................Citadella della giustizia di Venezia, participation at competition.
2003/4........scriptdevelopment DESTINATION.
2003...........Arriyadh housing competition, Arriyadh, Saudi Arabia.
2003...........installation DVD, ART FORUM, Berlin.
2001/2/3...."VM"_development of architectural design for a museum of the future.
2001..........acceptance at Artistsspace NY onlinefile.
2001..........workshop with DAVID LAMELAS.
1991/98.... videoscreenings at international media and videofestivals:
.................CINEMA ARSENAL, Berlin
.................ONE MINUTE Sao Paulo, Brazil,
.................JVC Tokyo, Japan,
.................WRO Wroclaw, Poland,
..................EMAF Osnabrück, Germany,
..................AVE Arnheim, Netherlands.
1989...........NEW WORKS, paintings, gallery Deplana, Berlin, solo exhibition.
1989...........DAILY NEWS, performance, AVE Festival, Arnhem, Netherlands.
1988...........EACH SENTENCE, mediaperformance, Hotel Esplanade, Berlin.

Projects

MARS 2009/10
DESERT 2007/8
BEACH 2006

MAPS / curatorial / research

Collections

coll Schäumer / Berlin
coll Specker / Berlin
coll Maffre-Baugé / Berlin-London

Bibliography

2009........TRILOGY MARS DESERT BEACH, 3 booklets
...............http://klaushu.blogspot.com
2008........ISEA Singapore, conference proceeding, catalogue
...............http://www.slideshare.net/klaushu/documents
.............. http://klaushu.blogspot.com
2008........CELESTE KUNSTPREIS BERLIN, cat
1992........FOTOLABORATORY BERLIN, Berlinische Galerie.Germany.groupshow.cat
1992/96...JVC.VIDEOFESTIVAL.TOKYO.Japan.cat
1992........WOLKENKRATZER.Frankfurt.Germany.publication
1991........WRO WROCLAW.Poland.cat
1998/90...AVE FESTIVAL ARNHEM.Netherlands.cat
1988........EASA.BERLIN.Germany.publication



VIDEO/INSTALLATION

1998/2003
STILL RUN REMIX & NY PILOT
DVD, 90 min, ed 3 + 1 AP, installation
videocredits © KLAUS HU
a meditative installation about the NY eastside,
the literary beatgeneration and the digital now.
For spatial installations/projections only.
musiccredits © Rykodisk London

1994/2006
CITY HARDWARE, 4.30 min
DVD, 12.30 min, ed 3 + 1 AP
is a 16 mm parallel cameradrive towards an american small town.
A repetitive and minimal sequence with insertions of mirrorshots in the hotelroom in Amsterdam and the veiling of the MAO portrait at TienenmanSquare in 1989.
Underlaying is minimal Rock as sound.
videocredits © KLAUS HU
musiccredits "The Travel" © KLAUS HU

TRANSITION, 8 min, 1998/2006
is a nonlinear narrative in BLUE, wherein the narration is completely lost.
You see a compartment of a train, a fence at the airport, water at the seaside, the zooming into the parking place. What does it mean? Has migrational global
storytelling completely lost its essence?
vide0credits © KLAUS HU
musiccredits © TrancePlanet

SENTO - 16 mm, beta Sp,pal, DVD 7.40 min.
an experimental fiction about the loss of
public bathing houses.
credits © Klaus Hu 94 / 96 / 2008
UA cinema Arsenal Berlin.
acting: Frank Brückner, Klaus Hu.
music excerpt © Satoshi Suzuki :
"Essay No III for Contra Bass Solo"


1987/91
STILL RUN - original sound
DVD - 55 min, ed 2
a compilation of 7 genres
videocredits © KLAUS HU
musiccredits various

UA cinema Arsenal Berlin 1991.
Videofestival Tokyo, Japan, special merit award.
WRO Festival Wroclaw, Poland;
AVE Festival Arnhem, Netherlands;
One minute world festival, Sao Paulo, Brasil;
Volksbühne, Berlin, Germany;

   

Klaus Hu

KLAUS HU
Studio Berlin: Wildenbruch 77
12045 Berlin
tel 49.(0)30.68081524
klaushu@yahoo.de
mobile: 49.(0)176.87577269
Skype: skypeklaushu


KLAUS HU IS REPRESENTED BY VG BILD-KUNST, Bonn, Germany

Steuernummer 16/355/62802 nach § 19 Abs 1 UStG

klaushu@yahoo.de

   



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