Rachel Haferkamp
since 1997 Managing Director of Internationales Künstlergremium e.V. (an organization of artists, curators and critics) member of the German Kunstrat, which form partly an advisory board for cultural affairs of the German Government.
Georg Dietzler studied Fine Arts, Philosophy, Pedagogy and Ethnology.
Born
1958, Burgbrohl, Germany
Education
Academy of Fine Arts Münster/Düsseldorf, 1979-84
Master of Fine Arts 1984
University Münster Studies in Philosophy
Pedagogy and Ethnology, 1980-84
Teaching experience:
1998 Visiting Professor at the SFAI Sculpture Dept.
"Public Art" and "Art and Science"
1997 Visiting Professor at the SFAI Interdiscilinary Dept.
"Art & Ecology" and New Genres "Social Sculpture"
1991 Swiss School Rome, Italy
Selected SOLO exhibitions:
1996 - 1997
San Francisco Art Institute, site specific installation, San Francisco, CA
1996 - 1997
Oyster-mushroom recultivate industrial ground
contaminated by PCB (Polychlorinated Biphenyl),
Association for Nature & Civilization, Cologne
1994
Museum of Kaiserslautern (Germany)
1991
In seven windows of 'Unione Militare', Rome
1989
Association of Contemporary Art, Recklinghausen
1988
Museum of Kaiserslautern
1988
Moltkerei Werkstatt, Cologne
1986
Fünf mal Skulptur (Five Positions of Sculpture),
Association of Contemporary Art, Münster
Selected GROUP exhibitions (since 1988)
Important exhibitions personally and for Art, Nature and Ecology
2002
Biennale Balticum 2002, Rauma,Finland
Ecovention, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
1999
Natural Reality, Ludwig Forum Aachen
1998
To celebrate, commemorate and remember the Fiftieth Anniversary of the
UNITED NATIONS Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UN U.D.H.R.):
'Speaking Words into the Wind---on air' San Francisco (CA)
1997
Le Jardin des Biotechnologies, La cité -Museum of sciences
and industry, Paris
1996
9th World Conference for International Soil Conservation,
Bundeskunsthalle Bonn (Germany)
Post-Waste , Arts Benicia, Benica (CA)
Gratis - Beyond the water, Guadiana River Spain/Portugal
and Museo de Arte Extremeno e Iberoamericano, Badajoz
E.A.C. Photoscene Cologne
1995
National Museum of History, St. Petersburg
Triology at the office Bremen (Bob Lens) Galerie Cornelius '
Hertz, Bremen, " Mirrow - Skin - Food "
Köln Kunst IV , Josef-Haubrich-Museum, Cologne
DIN A 4 (German Industrial Norm A 4), Association of
Contemporary Art Recklinghausen
The Sisyphos-Syndrom, Associations of Contemporary Art Castles Plüschow and Plön
Naturkunden (Natural History), Galerie Pazti-Bott at the ArToll-Laboratory, Bedburg-Hau
"Earthquake", presented by the Goethe-Institut Osaka (Japan)
at Osaka Matsuzakaya Gallerie; Kokura FukuokaGallery;
Tokuyama Yamaguchi Gallery; Himeji Hyogo Gallery
1994
"Poiesis" Institut of Applied Botany, Hamburg
"ArToll-Laboratory", Bedburg-Hau
Artists-in-Residence of the German Accademie Villa Massimo Rome
1988 - 1992, A.o.C.A. Hannover
1993
"Denk ich an Deutschland" (artists against hostility to strangers), Castle Hambach
"Fontanelle - art in (x) incidents", Kunstspeicher Potsdam
1992
"Young Art" Saarlandmuseum Saarbrücken
"Third Bitterfeld Conference for Culture", Bitterfeld
"Depth"- Art inside the bunker of the castle Mannheim
"Passagen" - art in public peripheral areas, Senat Bremen
1991
"Positions", A.o.C.A. Herrenhof Mußbach
1990
"Below Earth",A,o.C.A. Wesel
"Resource Art", Museum Budapest/Hungaria
1989
"Resource Kunst", Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Akademie der Künste Berlin;
Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken; Kulturreferat Munich
"Appearance and Reality", Villa Clementine Wiesbaden &
Municipal Museum of Würzburg
"Look back forward", A.o.C.A. Heidelberg
1988
"La nature del'art", Paris parc della Villette, cité des sciences et de l'industrie
et l'institute Goethe
(A.o.C.A. = Association of Contemporary Art/Kunstverein)
Honors and Awards:
1995
Award for Graphics, Labor Union Metall, Mannheim
1994
Kahnweiler-Award, Kahnw.-Foundation Rockenhausen
1992
NEC-Award for draft version for the airport Munich II
1991 - 1989
RecidencyGerman Accademie Villa Massimo, Rome
1985
Artist-in-Residence Grant, Orleàns (France)
Artist-in-Residence Grant Paris, office franco-allemand pour la jeunesse
Curatorial Work
2002
"Museutopia" artist-curator/mentor for utopian potentials in art, science, ecology and its utopian potential in museum and
educational programs
Karl Ernst Osthaus Museum, Hagen (Germany)
2000 - 2001
Project Manager of BCN-CGN art, literature, DJ and experimetal music projects from Barcelona presented in Cologne (curated by Uta M. Reindl)
Since 1994
Project Manager of Art Special: Hansa 1996 and 1997 (Community Art Project)
Co-Curator and Coordinator of "Art Special: Hansa" 1996-98, - "A Project of the UNESCO World-decade for
Cultural Development" and pilot research project of
the German ministry for Education, Sciences, Research and Technologies. An experimental research and testing questioning how can
interdisciplinary arts become a major part of a school profile related to the neighborhood community connected to an extended sense of
cultural activities , a network between art, school, art organizations, international agencies for cultural relations and new technology
(Concept: Uta M. Reindl and Georg Dietzler)
1989
Founder of the Show-room "Domstraße 36" with Renate Paulsen, Engelbert Becker and Bence Fritschze.Exhibitions
round the Art-market and strategy of art and artists.
1984
Founder of "Lagerhalle Scharnhorststraße" with Mona Wehling, Jochen Fischer and
Pavel Fidermak. Installation and Performance in public areas.
1995
Amsterdam & 1996 Cologne & 1997 Lodz (Poland) Organization of the
19 & 20 & 21 Annual Conferences of International Artists Commitee
1999
Organization of the 22nd Annual Conference of IKG in Bremen, New PR- Strategies of IKG organization of
the 23rd Annual Conference of IKG in Düsseldorf,
organization of the 24th Annual Conference of IKG in Prague,
organization of the 25th Annual Conference of IKG in Berlin
1997-2001
manager of IKG (International Artists Committee - an organization of artists, curators and critics)
member of the German Kunst- and Kulturrat the Parliament of Arts for German and European Cultural Affairs, Humanities, Art and Rights.
Selection of Lectures
Lecturer at the Potsdam conference on art and ecology:visions, enactments, collaborations - artists and ecologists in
transaction with the cultural landscape. (Organized by Helen and Newton Harrison)
Society for Ecological Restoration-conference, Liverpool (England)
Engage- Conference educational programms, Cardiff (Wales)
2002
University of California, Berkely
Stanford
Mills College
Claremont College
Pasadena City College
Manchester Craftsmens Guild, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Diapason, New York
1999
CCAC, Oakland (CA)
San Francisco Art Institute (CA)
UC Berkeley (CA)
City College Pasadena (CA)
1997
Bauhaus University Weimar
San Bruno Prison (CA)
1996
San Francisco Art Institute (CA)
5 lectures
Carnegie Mellon University (PA)
1995
Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation, Bonn
Producer of socio-political projects and ecological future-visions -
Redevelopment schemes among Art and Sciences - Environmental Art
Photographer for art and archtiectural documentation and politico-cultural events
Consultant for art projects and politico-cultural meetings