Joseph Beuys
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Actie / Action / Action /...
Joseph Beuys’ practice can be described as being actions, whether artistic, social or political. Inspired by his contacts with the Fluxus mov
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Anti - Modern / Anti - Mo...
Joseph Beuys was an artist who worked against the logic and hegemony of modernism. Modernism can be characterised by a shift towards individu
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Antwerpen / Anvers / Antw...
J Joseph Beuys visited Antwerp in the late 1960s and early 1970s for exhibitions and events at Wide White Space Gallery run by Anny De De
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Boeken & Catalogi [Books ...
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CAPITALISM
Capitalism Capitalism is an economic and political system based on private ownership of the means of production for goods and services in the
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CULTURE WARS
Culture Wars The phrase culture war is a translation from the German Kulturkampf and was first used in the second half of the 19th century t
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Dieren / Animaux / Animal...
From the very beginning, animals played an important role in Joseph Beuys work. Bees, hares, stags, swans and several other animals constantl
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Energie / Énergie / Energ...
Joseph Beuys extensively used the term 'energy' in relation to his work. He often used materials such as fat and copper, one can associate wi
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Fluxus / Fluxus / Fluxus ...
Fluxus was a movement from the early of the 1960s which wanted to broaden the concept of art by eliminating the boundaries between the variou
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Free International Univer...
In 1974, Joseph Beuys and writer Heinrich Böll founded the Freie Internationale Hochschule für Kreativität und Interdisziplinäre Forschung (F
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Joseph Beuys' Eurasia
The term Eurasia refers to the land mass, or supercontinent, that includes the regions of Europe and Asia. Within the work of Joseph Beuys, E
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Materiaal / Matériel / Ma...
Joseph Beuys often used unconventional materials for his work. They perform an important function, providing complex layers of associations a
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M HKA_DEFAULT_PUBLICATIONS
Since the end of May 2002, the M HKA has strayed from the beaten track of museum catalogues. The M HKA does not consider a systematic thereof
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MONOCULTURE – ARTEFACTS
As with a number of exhibitions M HKA has organised in recent years exploring questions we feel to be relevant for society and culture at lar
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MONOCULTURE - ARTWORKS
The exhibition Monoculture – A Recent History brings together art from the last one hundred years, to consider the impetus for the monocultur
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NATION
Nation State A nation state is a political entity regulated under a system of government which holds power within its defined territory, and
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Natuur / Nature / Nature ...
From a very early age, Joseph Beuys was fascinated by nature, obsessively busy cataloguing the fauna and flora in his living environment. At
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Politiek / Politics / Pol...
From the 1960s onwards, Joseph Beuys was actively engaged in politics. Out of his extensive concept of art and his belief that the creativity
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Tekenen / Drawing / Dessi...
To make his works on paper, Joseph Beuys used different materials, from more traditional ones such as pencil, pastel, oil and collage, to rat