Marcel Odenbach

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Marcel Odenbach
Born1953
Nationality German
Known for Video art, Sculpture, Photography

Marcel Odenbach is a German video artist. In the 1970s, with Ulrike Rosenbach and Klaus vom Bruch, he formed the producer group ATV. Odenbach's works criticize the conditions of German society. [1]

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Life and work

Odenbach was born in 1953 in Cologne, Germany, where he studied architecture, art history and semiotics between 1974–79. In the late 1970s, he started using video work, tapes, installations, performances and drawings to probe the cultural identity of his native Germany. His ambivalence to cultural history shows in works such as "Make a Fist in the Pocket", a German expression for hiding one's rage.[ clarification needed ]

Odenbach was a professor of media art at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design between 1992–98. He now lives and works in Cologne and is the professor for film and video art at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf since 2010. [2]

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References

  1. Kölnischer Kunstverein. Fünf in Köln: Michael Buthe, Sigmar Polke, Ulrike Rosenbach, Gerhard Rühm, Alf Schuler : [Ausstellung] Kölnischer Kunstverein, 24.1.-18.2.1979. Köln: Der Kunstverein, 1979.
  2. Odenbach, Marcel, and Dan Cameron. Marcel Odenbach. New York: New Museum of Contemporary Art, 1998.
  3. Imai – inter media art institute video Vom Kommen und Gehen http://www.imaionline-katalog.de/servlet/fc?oid=11647&script=f&col=1616&p=1&srid=0&c=3&r=1000&f=180&mf=1&lng=de&order=name&JServSessionIdroot=zsf3ogtnq1&lb=0&wacc_cmd=imageprocessing.1&c=1&imp_type=3