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Martin Beck in conversation with Stephan Dillemuth
Martin Beck: In the late nineteen-seventies you studied painting in Düsseldorf, then lived in Chicago for a while and, in the late eighties, moved from there to Cologne. What was the motivation for that move?
Stephan Dillemuth: In Chicago I developed a great distance to my work as a painter and, more generally, everything that took itself so seriously in the German eighties art scene seemed ridiculous to me. This “laughter from outside” was on the one hand very liberating, but I noticed after about two years that I did not want to become an American artist, indeed could not do so, and realized I had to work with a cultural context that I was better able to read and understand. In Germany the hype around an entire generation of painters, such as the Mülheimer Freiheit group, seemed to have faded, and I moved to Cologne in 1989 because I felt I would find a more open situation there. By chance Christian Nagel, whom I knew from Munich, was looking for a space in Cologne at the time too. Texte zur Kunst was just being set up. Cologne seemed to be in the throes of upheaval.
M.B.: Did you arrive with the idea of opening an art space?
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Stephan Dillemuth – Selected Films
Stephan Dillemuth – Selected Films
LUX 28, 28 Shacklewell Lane, Dalston, London E8
Exhibition: 18 – 28 September 2008. Opening hours: 12 - 6, Wednesday - Saturday
Free entry
A rare opportunity to see the recent films of Munich-based artist Stephan Dillemuth presented for the first time with English subtitles. Curated by Anja Kirschner.
Stephan Dillemuth is an artist who sees art as a tool for artistic research and critical reflection on the circumstances of contemporary life. His inquiry into recent changes in the idea of the public sphere takes place against the backdrop of our globalised, localised and fragmented publics. Considering the impact of ‘lifestyle’ as a new ideology of self-fulfilment and liberation, Stephan Dillemuth has investigated the German Lebensreform movements at the turn of the 19th to the 20th century.
Colliding performance footage, TV documentary, archive material and pirated costume drama, Dillemuth's shrewd and often darkly humorous films evince the seriousness of his research and the deftness with which he handles historical material. He avoids didactic explanations or direct comparisons with the present, his work settles in the gap between a contemporary and an historical reading.
Opening event: Thursd