Mel Bochner on his recent work
Pdf, Lecture
In 2007, American artist Mel Bochner, considered one of the founders of Concept Art, gave a lecture at New York University's Institute of Fine Arts in which he spoke about his latest work. He discussed his series "If the Color Changes" (1998), after which the exhibition in Haus der Kunst is named, as well as other series from the last fifteen years.
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Mel Bochner on his early works
Essay
Read Mel Bochner's short texts "Working Drawings and Other Visible Things on Paper Not Necessarily Meant to Be Viewed as Art" (1997) and "Misunderstandings (A Theory of Photography 1967-70)" (2000). MORE
Ulrich Wilmes: "Between Reading and Seeing"
Essay
Curator Ulrich Wilmes on the art of American artist Mel Bochner, who is considered one of the founders of conceptual art. MORE
Mel Bochner: If the Color Changes
Exhibition catalogue
The exhibition catalog is published in German and English and contains a number of essays and numerous illustrations as well as texts by Mel Bochner about his work. MORE
Mel Bochner: If the Color Changes
Exhibition 07.03 – 23.06.13
The American artist Mel Bochner is considered one of the founders of Conceptual Art. He is thus part of an artist generation that radically broke with painting's dominant position in the early 1960s. MORE
Film on Mel Bochner's work
Film screening Thursday, 06.06, 7 pm
Lizbeth Marano's film shows Bochner in his studio and mounting the exhibition "If the Color Changes". Introduction by Ulrich Wilmes, curator of the exhibition. MORE
"Bringing back the Yiddish voice to the German culture ..."
discussion Monday, 17.06, 7:30 pm
Panel discussion held in conjunction with the installation "The Joys of Yiddish" by Mel Bochner MORE
Mel Bochner — If the Color Changes
In the press
TLS, the cultural supplement of the London-based newspaper The Times, describes Mel Bochner's show "When the Color Changes" as an "extraordinarily fine, even thrilling, exhibition". MORE
Mel Bochner: The Joys of Yiddish
"The Joys of Yiddish" is a monumental work redeveloped by Mel Bochner as a long term public sculpture specially for the façade of Haus der Kunst. MORE
Mel Bochner
Workshop for ages 6-10 / German, Workshop for ages 11-14 / German Saturday, 25.05, 12 am
Workshop: Blah Blah Blah. How are poems, colors, rhythms, and images created out of individual words? In the exhibition, we explore the relationship between word and color, word design, font and color background. MORE
Mel Bochner
VJ-ing / German Sunday, 26.05, 12 am
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Mel Bochner
Video Workshop / German Sunday, 09.06, 2 pm
Video Workshop: Seeing – Processes MORE
Mel Bochner
Workshop for ages 6-10 / German, Workshop for ages 11-14 / German Saturday, 15.06, 12 am
Workshop: Blah Blah Blah. How are poems, colors, rhythms, and images created out of individual words? In the exhibition, we explore the relationship between word and color, word design, font and color background. MORE
Mel Bochner
Tour and game / German Tuesday, 18.06, 4 pm
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Mel Bochner
VJ-ing / German Sunday, 23.06, 12 am
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Exhibition program on video
Video
A video containing brief visual descriptions of current exhibitions. MORE