BIOGRAPHY

Born 1941 in Fuerstenwalde, Germany | 1962-68 Studies at Academy of Fine Arts, Kassel, and examination for teaching in artwork and theology | 1964 Public-Mentor at documenta III, Kassel (Germany) | 1969-74 Mixed Media workings with electronical panels, films, sounds, art-sculptures, environments | 1970 founded mediacontact-agency with the statement, to keep relations with the public systematically through information and to promote creative cooperation among artists and interested parties, with regard to the social significance of information on art and media research, Duesseldorf | 1970-73 Editor of the booklet series art information and media news | 1973 compiled an art-collection with works of Fluxus and Vienna actionists for Conz collection, Padua, Italy | 1975 moved to Berlin and stopped the contact with the conventional art scene | 1976 worked as a street-sweeper in the Wall-City Berlin | 1975 first contact with NO!art | 1978-88 proof-reader in a scientific-press | 1982 started as publisher the plusminuspress with booklet series | 1988 realized the First NO!art-anthology at Edition Hundertmark, Cologne | 1989-92 rubbish-collector in East-Berlin for documentation of history-changing | 1993-94 originator of NO!show at NGBK-Berlin | 1996-97 Guest-professor for Visual Communication, University Kassel | 2001 art work preparation for the show NO!art and the Aesthetics of Doom at Block Museum in Evanston/ Chicago | 1999 - 2003 co-editor and realizing of the book NO!art in Buchenwald with Boris Luries' writings in German stated Gedichtigtes/Geschriebigtes.

Boris Lurie about Dietmar Kirves: Teutonic Knight on stalwart horse: hail, here comes Dietmar! Attack injustices, head on—collect, arrange, catalogize, injustices collected—push on, to the self-appointed German Ostland, glorious task! Weed out the Infidel!—though even they be nearly—fidel; shout out and demonstrate! protect your skull from the batons—conceptualize life's War, with the Berliners' sharply poisoned tongue. Clean up the streets, of what has been the Third and one-half Reich, and try to keep them well-brushed clean, in what is now the Global Freedom's Fourth—dressed up in Welfare cleaning-man's Red Garb. Catalogue, photographize, and write the biting lines, computerize and archivize—the Times, you Don Quixote red-wine brimming Knight!

in: NO!art Show No 3, catalog, New York, 1998


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