Imprint

This website is a work-in-progress. Works – Contemporaneities – Information are the three sections of this website. It includes the e_Catalogue Raisonné of Jochen Gerz's œuvre and his autobiographical Contemporaneities notes.

Editor Laurence Vanpoulle Gerz studio, Sneem, Ireland

Editorial team Guido Meincke, Renate Petzinger, Lill Sommer, Laurence Vanpoulle

Translation Jennifer Taylor, Lill Sommer, Tricia Hegarty, Sabine Niewalda

Web concept and design Edenspiekermann AG, Amsterdam, Berlin, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Singapore and the editorial team.

Reproductions for all works © Jochen Gerz, VG Bild-Kunst 2024.
This website may not be relied upon as constituting a warranty that a work is or is not a work of Jochen Gerz.

The aim of this website is to provide information for the general public, for the art world and for academic research. Its purpose is to further the public authorship of civil society.


Quotes A full reference for each quote can be found in the Bibliography.

Emmanuel Abela, Helen Adkins, Liliana Albertazzi, Peter Althaus, Marcella Anglani, art. hatjecantz.de, art-of-the-day.info, Aleida Assmann, Diana Augaitis, Jacques Beauffet, Annette Becker, Christian Besson, Paolo Bianchi, Detlef Blümler, Jean-Michel Bouhours, britannica.com, Davide Brocchi, Wolfgang Brückle, James D. Campbell, Bernard Ceysson, James M. Clark, climatechange.gc.ca, Sacha Craddock, Ralf Georg Czapla, Anne Dagbert, Octave Debary, Jean-François de Canchy, Thomas Deecke, Jean-Louis Déotte, Gary Dufour, Aidan Dunne, Régis Durand, Tina Darb O’Sullivan, epa.gov, Werner Fenz, Michael Flügge, Alfred Franlowski, Erich Franz, Sigmund Freud, Rudolf Frieling, Peter Friese, Pietro Gagliano, Colette Garraud, Gunter Gebauer, getty.edu, Jochen Gerz, Adrienne Göhler, Kirby Gookin, C.E. Beryl Graham, Walter Grasskamp, Richard Grey, Gilles Guignes, Carl-Albrecht Haenlein, Heimo Halbrainer, Andreas Hapkemeyer, Georges Heck, Helmut Heißenbüttel, history.com, historyextra.com, Marion Hohldfeldt, Klaus Honnef, Jeremy Hunt, icom.museum, imf.org, Angeli Janhsen, Janez Jansa, Patrick Javault, Margarethe Jochimsen, Lou Jonas, James Joyce, Bernhard Jüssen, Wolf Kahlen, Ulrich Keller, Alexander Klar, Barbara Klemm, Gottfried Knapp, Ulrich Krempel, Lieselotte Kugler, kuratierenundkritik.net, Oskar Lafontaine, Anna-Sophie Laug, Eleonora Louis, Friedemann Malsch, Mechtild Manus, Judith Mastai, A.B. Meadows, Guido Meincke, Günter Metken, Malcolm Miles, Steven Miles, Catherine Millet, Quercioli Mincer, Pankaj Mishra, Manfred Mohr, Herbert Molderings, Jean Monet, Sarita Mulabdic, Colin Murphy, Museumsplattform NRW, netopia.eu, Karlheinz Nowald, Inken Nowald, Mordechai Omer, Helga Pakasaar, Camille Paulhan, Bojana Pejic, Renate Petzinger, Hermann Pfütze, Jean-Marc Poinsot, Jean Louis Poitevin, Volker Rattemeyer, Roland Recht, Maike Rellecke, Lawrence Rinder, Irit Rogoff, Ruine der Künste, Christoph Rüter, Uwe Rüth, Wolfgang Sauré, Georges Schlocker, Hans-Werner Schmidt, Rainer Schoch, Mark Siemons, Stephen Snoddy, Angelika Stepken, Lara Strumej, Marie Luise Syring, Christine Tacke, techtarget.com, Jacques Heinrich Toussaint, Dominique Trouche, Daniela Trincia, Marcia Tucker, unesco.org, Roberta Valtorta, Isabel Vasseur, Jonathan Vickery, Paul Virilio, Kristian Vistrup Madsen, Doris von Drathen, Barbara von Jhering, Constanze von Marlin, Stephan von Wiese, Andreas Vowinkel, Thomas Wagner, Gérard Wajcman, Peter Weibel, Mechthild Widrich, Wikipedia.org, William Wilson, Sarah Wilson, James E. Young, Joëlle Zask, Adachiara Zevi.

Photographers

Blaise Adilon, S. Ahlbrand, Akademie der Künste Berlin, Robert Baumann, Olaf Bergmann, Martin Blanke, Bündner Kunstmuseum, Véronique von Büren, Philippe Chardon, Kevin Clarke, Colourspace - Institut für Kunst im öffentlichen Raum Steiermark, Comune di Cinisello Balsamo, Crowley, Frédéric Delpech, Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, Clemens Dinkloh, Anselm Dreher, Duisburger Akzente, Benoît Duley, Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, F. Fischer, Roland Fischer, Joachim Fliegner, R. Friedrich, Rose Fourcaut, Galerie ak, Galerie Baudoin Lebon, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Galerie nächst St. Stephan, Galerie Stampa, Galerie Yuill, Klaus Gallwitz, Claude Gaspari, Pierre Gaudin, Studio Gauditz, Jochen Gerz, Kestner Gesellschaft, Claude Gibault, Reinhard Oefele, Horst Hahn, Atelier Horst Hamann, Brigitte Hellgoth, Renate Heyne, Anke Hervol, Markus Hofbauer, Ger Hukkelhoven, Otto Hoppe, Francoise Janicot, Elisabeth Jappe, Heinz Jokisch, B. P. Keiser, Dietmar Kirves, Bernd Kirtz, Ulrike Koecher, Brigitte Kraemer, Rainer Krause, Kulturbehörde, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Kunstmuseum Thurgau, P. Lacoste, Christian Larrieu, Rüdiger Last, Pierre Lasvenes, Jacques Leenhardt, Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Littmann Kulturprojekte, Location Photographics, Pam Maddoch, Marie Marie, Matsuyama, Guido Meincke, Trevor Mills, Herbert Molderings, Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain, Strasbourg, Musée d’Art Moderne de St. Etienne, Museion Bolzano, Museo di Fotografia Contemporanea, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, Museo Nacional de Soares dos Reis/Centro de Arte Contemporânea, Museum Wiesbaden (Ed Restle), Musée Réattu, Stefan Neuenhausen, Hubert Neuerburg, Floris M. Neusüss, Boris Nieslony, Karlheinz Nowald, Passauer Neue Presse, Walter Phillips Gallery, J. Philippot, The Phoenix Initiative, Daniel Poensgen, Projekt Waldskulpturenweg Wittgenstein-Sauerland, Bernard Puech, Marc von Rahden, Teofilo Rego, Galerie Bama, Fried Rosenstiel, Sonja Rothweiler, Daniel Roussel, Hessischer Rundfunk, Adam Rzepka, Sabitha Saul, Walter Schmidt, KH Schwoebel, SFMOMA, Esther Shalev-Gerz, Alain Snyders, Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken, Städtisches Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf, Sammlung Witzleben, Stadt Karlsruhe, Studio Gap, Studio national des arts contemporains Le Fresnoy, Helmut Tezak, David von Becker, Falk von Traubenberg, Regina Troschke, Laurence Vanpoulle, Villa Arson, Rudolf Wakonigg, Elke Walford, Hildegard Weber, Yuill/Crowley Gallery, Inge Zimmermann, Peter Zöller.

My name is Jochen Gerz