Berlin | ArtRegion: Berlin, Charlottenburg

Kicken Berlin

Klaus Rinke: projects (moma 1973 et al.)

30. April – 17. Juni 2022

On the occasion of Gallery Weekend 2022, the haubrok foundation and Kicken Berlin will be showing extensive work groups of Klaus Rinke (b. 1939), spanning from the 1960s to the 1980s, in a two-part exhibition project. Rinke counts among the most important contemporary artists internationally. As a pioneer of performance and action art, his works explored the relationship between body in space and time. Trained at the Folkwangschule in Essen from 1957-1960 and then a professor of sculpture in Dusseldorf from 1974 until 2004, Rinke feels at home in a variety of disciplines and embodies like few others an expanded definition of the artist. He is drawer, painter, photographer, sculptor, action, and concept artist at once.

The haubrok foundation’s exhibition of the series Wasserwerk Rinke focuses on early performative works and is accompanied by the exhibition Sequenzen. Konzeptuelle Fotographie by Angelika Platen, which shows Rinke’s environment in the 1970s. Entitled Klaus Rinke | Projects (MoMA 1973 et al.), Kicken Berlin will present a series of iconic “primary demonstrations,” which largely originated from his first solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York in 1973.