Prof. Michael Clegg

E-Mail: mclegg@'+'hfg-karlsruhe.'+'de
 
Sekretariat:
Elvira Heise, Tel. +49 721/8203-2338
E-Mail: heise@'+'hfg-karlsruhe.'+'de
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
Clegg & Guttmann (Michael Clegg and Martin Guttmann b. 1957) have been collaborating since 1980. Their work has been shown extensively in the United States and Europe and is in the collections of the Whitney Museum for American Art, Guggenheim Museum, New York, the Centre Pompidou Paris, the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Museo Cappo di Monte, Naples - to name a few. Throughout the 80’s their work revolved around the representation of power - a theme that was elaborated in portraits, still life and landscape photography. Since 1990 Clegg & Guttmann have expanded their work into the public domain and began their outdoor projects and Spontaneous Operas – socially imbedded sculpture and performance.
 
 
Einzelausstellungen und Projekte

2009 Variants of Aesthetic Collectivism, Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Wien • Portraits, FO.CU.S BTV Stadtforum, Innsbruck • The Mechanical Bull, Art Unlimited project, Basel 2008 The Age of Syncopation, Wilkinson Gallery, London • Studiolo Nuovo, Lia Rumma, Mailand • Proposal for a memorial for the victims of the Nazi medical Crimes, Gugging bei Wien • Illustrations from the Social History of Reading, Projekt für Bibliothek Innsbruck 2007 The Prisoners Dilemma, Henry Street Settlement, New York • Temi ed Elementi di un Nuovo Studiolo Napoletano , Lia Rumma, Neapel • Revolution of the Poetic Language, Galerie Georg Kargl, Wien 2006 The Story Reader Library, Museion, Bozen • Social Sculptures, Community Portraits and Spontaneous Operas 1990-2006, Cornerhouse, Manchester • Mach vs. Boltzmann II, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig • Mach Vs. Bolzmann, Secession, Wien (Kat.) 2005 Social Sculptures, Community Portraits and spontaneous Operas 1990-2005, Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Wien • Franz West and Clegg & Guttmann, Galerie Klaus Thoman, Innsbruck 2004 A Monument for Historical Change – Denkmal im öffentlichen Raum, Berlin • Sha‘at’nez oder die verschobene Bibliothek, im Rahmen der Installationsreihe Außenansicht, View from Outside, Sigmund-Freud-Museum, Wien • The Moebius Library, im Rahmen von Waldzell Dialogue for Inspiration, Stift Melk • The street and its double, Denkmalprojekt für Rosa Luxemburg, Rosa Luxemburg Platz, Berlin • The Jewish Metaphysics of Death, Installation, Jüdischen Friedhof, Krems • Light, Photography, Portraiture and the Metaphysics of the Self, Performance, Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Wien • Museum in progress, Projekt im Standard, 31. Januar 2004 2003 Decomposition - Reconstitution Berlin - 1918: Anti Capitalism, Avant-Garde, Art, Atonal Music, Galerie Christian Nagel, Berlin (Kat.) 2002 Negations of Strict Order: Anarchism, Cubism and Syncopated Music, American Fine Arts, New York 2001 Minister und Senatoren - Politische Physiognomische Fragmente, Galerie Christian Nagel, Köln • Falsa Prosspettiva - Knowledge Sculpture, Galleria Lia Rumma, Mailand (Kat.) • Neuer Turmbau zu Babel, öffentliches Kunstprojekt für den Münchner Stadtteil Riem (Kat.) • Die offene Bibliothek Augsburg, Gesellschaft für Gegenwartskunst e.V., Neue Galerie im Höhmannhaus, Augsburg • Clegg & Guttmann, Galleria Emi Fontana, Mailand 2000 The Historical Soccer Stadium, Denkmalvorschlag für Deutsche Bank, Frankfurt 1999 Portaits, Still Lifes and Landscapes 1985-1999, Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea, Trento • Die sieben Brücken von Königsberg - Die Offene Bibliothek, in Kant-Park, Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg • Powerlines for an Urban Park, Projekt im Rahmen von  Dreamcity, Alter Botanischer Garten, München 1997 The Open Public Speakers Platform, Grieskirchen, Österreich 1897: Der erste Zionistenkongress in Basel, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel Michel Clegg & Martin Guttmann – Zionism as Separatism, Öffentliche  Bibliothek der Universität Basel, Basel • The Sick Soul IV - An Auditorium for Film, a Runway for Fashion, a Stage for Music Performance, in Zusammenarbeit mit CCSIS, Mamacita Fashion, Mexico City 1996 The Sick Soul III, Galerie Christian Nagel, Köln • The Sick Soul II, American Fine Arts, New York • The Sick Soul - Morbid Fascination and Behavioral Research in Sociology, TV Entertainment and Photography, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz • Holocaust-Mahnmal und Gedenkstätte für Jüdische Opfer, Denkmalvorschlag für Juden Platz, Wien 1995 Breaking the Boundaries between Art and  Life, New School for Social Research, New York 1994 The Transformation of Data into Portraiture, Kunstraum der Universität Lüneburg (Kat.) • Die offene Bibliothek Mainz, Landesmuseum Mainz, Mainz • Vérité, Galerie Christian Nagel, Köln 1993 Die offene Bibliothek Hamburg, Hamburger Kunstverein, Hamburg (Kat.) • Die offene Bibliothek Graz, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum, Graz 1992 From the Index of Commissioned and Non-Commissioned Photographic Portraits: Gazes in the Direction Perpendicular to the Picture Plane, Placed in a Sequence According to their Intensity, and Accompanied by Varying Postures and Hand Arrangements, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York • The Outdoor Exibition Space, Munich-San Francisco, Kunstraum Daxer, München The Outdoor Exibition Space, Janacek-Hof, Wien • The Salon of Rejected, Jay Gorney Art Modern, New York 1991 Printing and Framing, Galerie Christian Nagel, Köln. • The Open Tool Shelter: A Model, The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto • Die öffentliche Bibliothek Graz, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz • The Two and Four, Edition Julye Sylvester, New York, in Zusammenarbeit mit Franz West • Landscapes, Akira Ikeda, Tokyo/Nagoya 1990 A Model for a Free Standing Outdoor Library, Kabinett für aktuelle Kunst, Bremerhaven • Corporate Landscapes, Museum Schloss Hardenberg, Velbert-Neviges • The Free Public Library, Jay Gorney Art Modern, New York • Corporate Landscapes , Nordanstad-Skarstedt Galleri, Stockholm, Schweden • Galerie Achim Kubinkski, Stuttgart 1989 FRAC Aquitaine, Centre Culturel, Dax • Corporate Landscapes, Kunstverein Bremerhaven, Bremerhaven (Kat.) • Galerie Peter Pakesch, Wien • Galleria Giorgio Persano, Turin • Galérie Pierre Huber, Genf • Portraits des Groupes de 1980 à 1989, CAPC Musée d'Art Contemporain, Bordeaux • International Landscape, XPO Galerie, Hamburg 1988 Portraits, Landscapes, Still Lifes, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles • Collected Portraits, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart • Galérie Hussenot, Paris • Landscapes and Still Lifes, Achim Kubinski, Stuttgart. 1987 Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York • Petrified Forest Estates, Cable Gallery, New York, in Zusammenarbeit mit David Robbins • Galleria Lia Rumma, Neapel • Galerie Achim Kubinski, Stuttgart • Clegg & Guttmann Works 1986-87, Israel Museum, Jerusalem 1986  Clegg & Guttmann and Joseph Kosuth, Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York • Galerie Christoph Dürr, München • Galerie `t Venster, Rotterdam Art Foundation, Rotterdam 1985 Einzel-, Doppel- und Gruppenporträts, Galerie Löhrl, Mönchengladbach • Galerie Achim Kubinski, Stuttgart • Still Lifes, Cable Gallery, New York 1984 Galerie Tanja Grunert, Köln • Galerie Achim Kubinski, Stuttgart • Portrait-Singles, Doubles and Triples, Cable Gallery, New York • Of Certain Men Who Ate Us, Eric Fabre, Paris 1983 The Desease of Reason, Galerie Achim Kubinski, Stuttgart • Allegories of Stock Exchange, Olsen Gallery, New York 1982 Galerie Michelle Lachowsky, Antwerpen 1981 Group Portraits of Executives, Annina Nosei Gallery, New York
 
 
Kataloge und Publikationen (Auswahl)

Mach and Boltzmann, "Spatio-Temporal construction in eight parts or Composition for early modernist cognitive exercise", Secession Vienna, 2006, ISBN 3-901926-91-7 (English)

"Monument for Historical Change and Other Social Sculptures, Community Portraits and Spontaneous Operas 1990-2005", Schlebrügge Editor,  2005, ISBN 3-85160-059-2 (English)

"Decomposition - Reconstruction, Berlin-1918: Anti Capitalism, Avant-Gard Art, Atonal Music", Schlebrügge Editor, 2003, ISBN 3-85160-029-0 (German – English)

"Falsa Prospettiva: Reflections on Claustrophobia, Paranoia and Conspiracy Theory", Fama & Fortune Bulletine, Heft 27 Vienna, March 2001, (English)

"Portraits, Still Life and Landscapes 1985 – 1999", Galleria Civica Di Arte Contemporanea Trento,1999 , ISBN 88-86802-32-3 (Italian/English)

"Annual Report for Ringier Company", Zurich, 1998, (German/English)
"Clegg & Guttmann: Museum for the Workplace", DG Bank, Luminita Sabau, Regensburg, 1998

"1897 The First Zionist Congress Basel", Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, 1997, ISBN 1421- 1726 (German/English)

"The Sick Soul - Morbid Fascination and Behavioral Research in Sociology, TV Entertainment and Photography", in: Durch, Bd. 10, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, 1996, ISBN 1010-8378 (German/English)

"Breaking Down the Boundaries to Life and Avantgarde Practice and Democratic Theory", Text und Material, Nr. 1 AKKU, Vienna, 1995, ISBN 3-90157-00-x (German/English)

"Die offene Bibliothek / The Open Public Library", Cantz (Herausgegeben von Achim Könneke im Autrag der Kulturbehörde Hamburg in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Kunstraum der Universität Lüneburg), 1994, ISBN 3-89322-684-2 (German/English)
"The Outdoor Exhibition Space, Munich-San Francisco", K-raum Daxer, Munich, 1994 (German/English)

"Conversation - (John Baldessari, Clegg & Guttmann, Régis Durand)", CAPC Musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux, 1990, ISBN 2-87721-077-4 (French/English)
"The Free Public Library", Union City, North Bergen, Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York, 1990

"Corporate Landscapes", Museum Schloß Hardenberg & Kunstverein Bremerhaven, 1989 (German/English)
"Portraits de groupes de 1980 á 1989", CAPC Musée d'art contemporain, Bordeaux, 1989, ISBN 2-87721-069-3 (French)

"Collected Portraits", Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, Giancarlo Politi Editore, 1988 (German)
"Collected Portraits", Giancarlo Politi Editore, 1988 (English)

"Clegg & Guttmann", Israel Museum, 1987, (printed in Ditzingen, Germany)

"Clegg & Guttmann", Achim Kubinski, Stuttgart, 1986

"Einzel, Doppel und Gruppenportraits", Galerie Löhrl, Mönchengladbach, 1985 (German/English)