Lawrence Weiner (b. 1942 in the Bronx, New York, d. 2021) came to Berlin at the invitation of the Berliner Künstlerprogramm des DAAD in January 1975. With his “Declaration of Intent” (1968), which proposes that “1. The artist may construct the piece. 2. The piece may be fabricated. 3. The piece need not be built,” Weiner became one of the central figures of the Conceptual art movement in the US. His text-based works, which he regards as sculptures, were published and exhibited from the mid-1960s onward, above all by his gallerists Seth Siegelaub and Konrad Fischer. Weiner’s first book Statements (1968), a sixty-four page paperback containing descriptions of several projects, is considered to be one of the most important works of this period in relation to Conceptual art. In 1969/70 Weiner took part in the groundbreaking exhibition Live in Your Head: When Attitudes Become Form at the Kunsthalle Basel, curated by Harald Szeemann. While wall installations have been Weiner’s primary medium since the early 1970s, he has also experimented with video, film, audio, and performance art, and has published numerous artist’s books, posters, multiples, and prints. On December 10, 1975, Weiner’s film A Second Quarter premiered at the Klick cinema on Windscheidstrasse, Berlin, in collaboration with the Artists-in-Berlin Program. The film was produced with financial support from the Program during the artist’s year-long stay in Berlin. The film’s “location” (Berlin) is the catalyst for the “action” (the work). Many of the texts the protagonists (Beatrice Conrad Eybesfeld, Hans Düttmann, Coosje Kapteyn, Tony Long, and Kirsten Vibeke Thueson, among others) recite deal with barriers and borders or with physical and geophysical phenomena. The film was also screened in Berlin on April 2, 1976, as part of the DAAD Filmtage at the Akademie der Künste (West). In cooperation with the Artists-in-Berlin Program, the Kabinett für aktuelle Kunst in Bremerhaven published two artist’s books by Lawrence Weiner: Auf ein vernünftiges Ende zu (1975) and Mit einem Hauch von Rosa (1978). Text: Eva Scharrer, translation: Jacqueline Todd @daad_artists archive: https://www.berliner-kuenstlerprogramm.de #LawrenceWeiner #daad_artists_alumni

Berliner Korrespondenzen: Break-Up #2 der Allianz Kulturstiftung im Maxim Gorki Theater am 7.12.: Generationendialog zur politischen Situation Ungarns, u.a. mit den Berliner Künstlerprogramm des DAAD Alumni György Dalos und László Földényi.

Berliner Korrespondenzen der @AllianzKultur im @gorkitheater am 7.12.: Generationendialog zur politischen Situation Ungarns, u.a. mit den @DAAD_Artists alumni György Dalos und László Földényi https://t.co/LIFNeS8zyo