21. 4. – 30. 6. 2018
Center for Contemporary Art, upper floor
On the occasion of his 80th birthday, the Citadel is dedicating an extensive solo exhibition to the artist Hartmut Böhm. On over 600 square metres, Böhm is developing a space-consuming installation that responds to the strict architecture of the barracks building from the middle of the 19th century. Reduction, systematics and concentration are fundamental principles of his work.
Hartmut Böhm was born in Kassel in 1938. From 1958 to 1962, he studied at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste there, among others at the
Documenta founder Arnold Bode. As an artist and long-standing university lecturer, he is one of the most influential figures in the field of concrete-constructive art in Germany and his work is based on strictly mathematical-geometric considerations. His aesthetics, which are close to Minimal Art, draw on industrially prefabricated materials such as steel girders and plastics, but also on everyday objects. From these Böhm develops not only spatial interventions and settings, but also plastically concentrated works of strict poetry.
