Horst Hoheisel and Andreas Knitz

Horst Hoheisel and Andreas Knitz together with Marcelo Brodsky (left) at the Rio de la Plata

Horst Hoheisel

The German artist was born in Poznan, Poland, in 1944. While graduating in Forest Sciences, he also attended classes as an auditor student at the Academy of Arts, in Munich. Hoheisel promoted the ecological analysis of a tropical forest in Venezuela, at the Forest Engineering Institute for the study of the tropics, at Göttingen University, as a scientific assistant. While attending classes at the Kassel Academy of Arts, Hoheisel lived amidst a Yanomami Indian tribe at Orinoco, Amazon, Brazil, and also made several trips to the Sahara.
For the last 20 years Horst Hoheisel's work has concerned the comemmoration of victims of the German National Socialist Movement. Jointly with Andreas Knitz, he elaborated and produced new shapes of monuments, which became internationally known as ‘negative-monuments’ or ‘counter-monuments’ (www.zermahlenegeschichte.de).
Besides the memory of open air landmarks, his works also belong to the patrimonies of several international museums (Museum of Modern Art, NY; the Jewish Musuem, NY; Yad Vashem, Jerusalem; Jüdisches Museum, Berlin; Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin; Gedenkstätte Deustscher Widerstand, Berlin; Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Kassel, and others).
The drawings Life-signs are shown the first time in the Museu Lasar Segall, Sao Paulo
Lives and works in Kassel, Germany

Andreas Knitz

Andreas Knitz 1963 born in Ravensburg, Germany

1981 cabinetmaking and restaurations
1988-1993 Studies Architecture at the University Kassel
1993 – 2000 Architect in Kassel
since 1995 Art-Projects and interventions in the public space
Memorials / Counter-Memorials together with Horst Hoheisel
Lives and works in Ravensburg, South-Germany

Projects of Andreas Knitz (together with Horst Hoheisel):
A memorial to a memorial (Buchenwald 1995)
Crushed History - Zermahlene Geschichte (Weimar 1997 - 2002)
GERMAN GROUND - German grounds (Frankfurt/Berlin 1998)
1752 x 12 kg produkt linz (Oberöstereichische Landesgalerie Linz 2000)
Temporary Light-Installation in the new built
police-presidency of Kassel (Kassel 2000)
Arte da Memória (Sao Paulo 2001 and 2002)
Peace-freighter (Tel Aviv 2001)
Pássaro Livre / Vogel Frei (Pinacoteca Sao Paulo 2003)

Selection of Projects and Exhibitions

Projects of Horst Hoheisel:
Negative Memorial Aschrottbrunnen (Kassel 1986/87);
The Artist as Katalysator of Memory Thought-Stones-Collection,
(Kassel, Berlin, Munich 1986-1990);
Holocaust-Memorial Brandenburger Tor Gate - The Memorial as a blank void (Berlin 1994/95);
The Gateways of the Germans (Memorial for one night): Slide-Projection
of the Auschwitz-Gate on the Brandenburger Tor (Berlin 27. Januar 1997)

Projects of Horst Hoheisel and Andreas Knitz:
A memorial to a memorial (Buchenwald 1995)
Crushed History - Zermahlene Geschichte (Weimar 1997 - 2002)
GERMAN GROUND - German grounds (Frankfurt/Berlin 1998)
1752 x 12 kg produkt linz (Linz 2000)
Arte da Memória (Sao Paulo 2001)
MariAntonia / memoriAntonia (Sao Paulo 2002 und 2003)
Pássaro Livre - Vogel Frei (Sao Paulo 2003)

Exhibitions of Horst Hoheisel (Single-Exhibitions and Participations):
1978 München, Lenbachhaus, Kunstforum; 1983 Berlin, Pankehallen
1986 Köln, Moltkerei; 1994 Jewish Museum, New York;
1994 Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin; 1995 Stadtmuseum, München
1995 Duisburg, Innenhafen; 1998 Yad Vashem,Israel
2000 Stiftung DKM, Lehmbruckmuseum, Jewish community, Duisburg
2000 Museum of Modern Art, New York: Open Ends, Counter Monuments and Memory
2003 Fluchtweg Brandenburger Tor, Haus der Commerzbank Berlin
2003 Berlin Torlos, Jüdisches Museum Berlin
2003 LebensZeich-n-en, Museo Lasar Segall Sao Paulo

Exhibitions Hoheisel and Knitz (Single-Exhibitions and Participations):
1995 Museum of Sepulchral, Kassel;
1999 Crushed History - Art as a roundabout way, Thuringia Main State Archive Weimar;
2000 Oberösterreichische Landesgalerie, Linz
2001 Arte da Memória, USP Maria Antonia Sao Paulo
2002 and 2003 MariAntonia / memoriAntonia, USP Maria Antonia Sao Paulo
2003 Pássaro Livre - Vogel Frei, Pinacoteca Sao Paulo

Works in Gallerys and Museums:
Lenbachhaus, München; Staatliche Museen, Kassel;
Museum für Sepulkralkultur, Kassel; Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin;
Jüdisches Museum, Berlin; Gedenkstätte Yad Vashem;
Gedenkstätte Buchenwald; Haus der Geschichte, Bonn; Stadtmuseum, München;
Lehmbruckmuseum, Duisburg; Jewish Museum, New York; Museum of Modern Art,
New York; Thuringia Main State Archive Weimar; Botanical Garden, Linz.

www.zermahlenegeschichte.de
www.knitz.net