ÉLODIE ANTOINE
ROSALÍA BANET
WIEBKE BARTSCH
BARBARA BERNSTEINER
TANIA CANDIANI
BARBARA CAVENG
LADA CERAR
ANDREJKA ČUFER
JOCHEN FLINZER
CLAUS FÖTTINGER
ZUZANNA JANIN
METKA KAVČIČ
JUSTYNA KOEKE
MICHAEL KOS
EDUARD LESJAK
MARTIN LÖFFKE
POLONA MAHER
ISA MELSHEIMER
JANET MORTON
ALEN OŽBOLT
SANDRINE PELLETIER
MARIJA MOJCA PUNGERČAR
IRIS SCHIEFERSTEIN
SAŠO SEDLAČEK
CHIHARU SHIOTA
KEI TAKEMURA
ANDRÉ TEMPEL
ANU TUOMINEN
JULIA VAN KOOLWIJK
MARJOLIJN VAN DER MEIJ
PETRA VARL
PATRICIA WALLER
SILKE WAWRO

Claus Föttinger


Phyllium celebicum, 2006 (glass base, copper stand, pigmented inkjet prints on cotton paper, laminated black thread), 41, 25 x 50 cm
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Conditionally Ready to Talk , 2004 (metal, wood, crayon, carbon, epoxy, pigmented inkjet prints on cotton, paper, concealed and varnished thread), 37 x 35 x 57 cm
Gallipoli, 2005 (needled photographs)
Last / Courtesy: Sies + Höke Galerie, Düsseldorf

In his work, Claus Föttinger employs thread as an exclusive means of finalising an an artwork. He uses cotton thread to bind photographs and other surfaces into art creations flirting with design and interior decoration. To be more precise, his works for this exhibition have been realised as a chandelier (Gallipoli), a lamp, and an object reminding of furniture (Bedingt Gesprächsbereit). As objects of art with an applied value, they have been included in the exhibition as a Trojan horse. These photographs reflect themes which open up questions about political phenomena (Gallipoli), while their forms – especially in the work Bedingt Gesprächsbereit, which alludes to a seat and a computer "box" featuring sentences of an accidental conversation between a man and a woman – point to social interaction and communication, which nowadays, in the rushed and ambitious time that we live in, can be very banal and inattentive. The work speaks about communication, which is nevertheless urgent for a harmonious, successful and satisfied life in private and in public.

Born in 1960 in Nürnberg (Germany). Between 1979 and 1981 he was an assistant to two advertisement photographers and worked as probationer in set design construction and painting at the Municipal Theatre in Nürnberg. Between 1982 and 1989 he studied at the Art Academy in Düsseldorf and worked as an assistant to Harald Klingelhöller and Katharine Fritsch for the following two years. In 1991 he founded the WP8 art association in Düsseldorf. In 1995 and
1996 he worked as a curator at the Ringenberg castle in Niederrhein (Germany). Since 1996
he works exclusively on his personal projects. He lives and works Düsseldorf and in Wolfheze near Arnheim (the Netherlands).

Samostojne razstave ( izbor) / Solo exhibitions (selection):

2006 Wirtschaftswunder Ost, MONKEY’S EAST, Düsseldorf
Gallipoli Projects, Sies + Höke Galerie, Düsseldorf
2005 90th Anniversary – Anzac Day, Gallipoli
2004 Luhmann-Eck, Galerie Sprüth/Magers, Cologne
2003 Suddenly, Sies + Höke, at Armory Show, New York
2002 Private C, Galerie Mini, Duisburg
Sies + Höke Galerie, Düsseldorf
2001 The Cronenberg’s, Museum Ludwig, Cologne

Skupinske razstave (izbor) / Group exhibitions (selection):

2006 WM-Bar – Die Rückkehr, Claus Föttinger, Andreas Gursky, Sies + Höke Galerie, Düsseldorf
Mondi Possibili, Galerie Sprüth Magers
2005 So klappt’s – Modelle des Gelingens, Galerie Station, Frankfurt am Main
Coca Cola Light, Art-Edition with Florian Slotawa and Johannes Wohnseifer
2004 Ausschwitz-Prozess 4 Ks 2/63, Frankfurt am Main, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin
2003 Im Park, Olympia Park München, Munich
Accessoire/Maximalismus, Kunsthalle Kiel
2002 come in, George Soros Center of the Art, Kiev
2001 Zero Gravity, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf
Einräumen, Kunsthalle Hamburg, Installation der Bar BRD Film/Politik 60/99
1994 Malerei 2000, Kunsthalle Malmö, Malmö

www.sieshoeke.com/artists/claus-foettinger
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claus_F%C3%B6ttinger