Marcel Hiller
Researcher Fine Art
01.01.10 – 31.12.11
I want to prove my doubts about the gap between the real and the virtual, by using my understanding of material and objects. Elemental questions in my artistic work are: How to use and influence the connotations of material?; What does an object offer to tell about itself, its history, present, future and about the system describing its worth?; How can I connect different ideas and systems of material and knowledge?; What is material, what is an object in our time of turbo-democratic ideology?
I want to work with a system of objects and material that does not correspond to cultural phenomena or that does not appear in cultural phenomena and closed systems of objects and material. Some feasible examples of this are the entire staff of a company in a bankruptcy or the possessions of someone who has died. I am not so much interested in exhibiting the attainable visible and invisible knowledge about that kidnapped system of material, but rather in creating a temporary archive about the possibilities of using everything – in order to activate different systems of understanding and creating. It will become something like a post-utopia: so-called research as a method of turbo-individualisation in a tradition of science and specialisation.
This project will become a temporary, but never-ending staging of backstage information and connotations.
Potsdam-Babelberg, DE
Diploma Fine Arts and Meisterschüler of Suchan Kinoshita. Kunstakademie Münster, Münster, DE.
Fine Arts. Kunstakademie Münster, Münster, DE.
Founder of project space CLUB69. Münster, DE.
Cité des Arts, Paris, FR.
Stipend. Ecole supérieure des beaux-arts, Geneva, CH.
(Untitled). In: Crosskick. European art academies as guests in German Kunstvereine. Cologne, DE: Walther König Verlag.
Im Streit. In: Hildegund Amanshauser (Ed.). Kunst aus Bildung. Heraus aus dem Elfenbeinturm!, 2. Bonn, DE: Montag Stiftung Bonn.
Auf zur Formalismusdebatte! - sozusagen backstage (und ausführlicher). Sprechstück for one or multiple persons.
Auzität, ja klasse! With Michael Pohl. Interviews with and work of Marcel Hiller and Michael Pohl.
Interview mit Andreas Siekmann. In: Artic das Magazin der frölichen Wissenschaften.
Anna Sophia Schultz. Marcel Hiller. In: Christoph Bertsch & Silvia Höller (Eds). Cella. Strutture di emarginazione e disciplinamento [Strukturen der Ausgrenzung und Disziplinierung], pp. 68-71. Innsbruck, AT: Skarabæus.
Strategies of using and reusing as well as cancelling and revaluating of things and connections. In: Opening week 2010. (11 – 15 January). Maastricht, NL: Jan van Eyck Academie.
It’s nothing but it’s perfect. (15 – 30 November). Duo exhibition. With Jasper Coppes. Maastricht, NL: Jan van Eyck Academie.
Georges V. hat die Sonne verschluckt und Reenactment ist unser Reflexionstool deluxe. (5 – 7 March). Vienna, AT: Raumstation Liebhartsgasse.
Becoming ahh. With Francis Alÿs, Wolfgang Fütterer, Paul Gangloff, Dominique Hurth, Axel Loytved & Nicholas Matranga. In: BACA Laureaat 2010: Francis Alÿs. (7 November 2010 – 27 March 2011). Maastricht, NL: Bonnefantenmuseum.
Villa Offdeutschland. (24 September – 13 November). Nevers, FR: Galerie Arko.
The merger - by following this 1 easy rule.... (12 – 21 February). Chicago, US: 1366 North Milwaukee Avenue.
All that is solid melts into air. In: City visions. Organised by Museum Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen (MuHKA). Mechelen, BE.
Aufriss. Münster, DE: Westfällisches Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte.
Cella. Rome, IT: Complesso.
Eleven three fourteen. (29 June – 12 July). Maastricht, NL.
Over and out. Münster, DE: Ausstellungshalle zeitgenössische Kunst.
Videonale 12. Bonn, DE.
003. (26 June – 17 July). Münster, DE: Förderverein Aktuelle Kunst (FAK).
Malerei 2008. Förderpreis des Westfälischen Kunstvereins. (28 June – 24 August). Münster, DE: Westfälischer Kunstverein Münster.
The ideal academy. Cologne, DE: Westfälischer Kunstverein Münster.
Zaungäste. Cologne, DE: Neuer Kunstverein Köln.
Wanderpause. Moers, DE: Kunstverein Peschkenhaus.
Ausblick 03. Wittenberge, DE.
Werk 2. Leipzig, DE.