Michael Dreyer

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Michael Dreyer
Born1953
Coburg, West Germany
Occupation(s)Author, artistic director, artist

Michael Dreyer (born 1953) is a German artist, author, and director, who analyzes the basis of art. He creates, analyses and proves the connection between the presentation, history, attraction and forms of Art. Since 1982, Dreyer had worked as a professor at Merz Akademie in Stuttgart, Germany, where he had been teaching visual communication.

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Career

In his art pieces, Dreyer works with sculptures, environments, movies, theater pieces, musical issues, graphics and texts, with which he dissects the modules of their connection to each other. [1]

In 2006, Dreyer founded the exhibition space W.O. Scheibe Museum in Stuttgart, where he organised the "Palindrom". He also exhibited "Oben und Unten mit Rex Whistler & Friends" with Tom Holert in 2009, as well as "white albums" with Diedrich Diederichsen, Helmut Draxler, Julian Göthe, Wolfgang Paukner and Hans-Jürgen Hafner in 2010. [2]

Works

Single exhibitions, performances and movies

The following is a list of Dreyer's single works: [3]

Group exhibitions

The following is a list of Dreyer's works with a group: [4]

Literature

Further reading

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References

  1. Michael Dreyer: A nose is a nose is a nose. In: Tom Holert – Michael Dreyer (Hrsg.): PALINDROM, Stuttgart 2009.
  2. Hans-Jürgen Hafner: Michael Dreyer, Berlin 2012, 10.
  3. "Dreyer's single works". Aanantzoo. Retrieved 2014-07-03.
  4. "Dreyer's group exhibitions". Aanantzoo. Retrieved 2014-07-03.