About Dietmar Kirves

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DIETMAR KIRVES born 1941 in Fürstenwalde/Spree, Germany. Since 1964 mixed media works with film, photos, music, sculptures and environments. Founded 1970 ►mediacontact agency in Düsseldorf in collaboration with Jochen Gerz and Terry Fox. Worked with Joseph Beuys, Kraftwerk and Creamcheese events in Duesseldorf. Quitted 1975 the traditional art scene and moved to Wall City Berlin. First meeting with ►Boris Lurie in 1978 for pushing NO!art movement to stronger development. Works since 1999 at the world wide web for continuation the NO!art. Leads the NO!art headquarters east in Berlin together with Clayton Patterson at the NO!art headquarters west in New York. – Lives and works in Berlin-Kreuzberg. ► WIKIPEDIA ►FACEBOOK ►KIRVES

THE PRICE FOR COLLABORATION IN ART is – as in the concentration camps – excremental suffocation. It is not by submission, coolness, apathy, boredom that great art is created – no matter what the cynics tell us. The secret ingredient is what is most difficult to learn – courage. —Boris Lurie

2020 COVID with NABUCCO'S PRISONER CHOIRS | Frontshots, Berlin

2018 FRONTSHOTS | Photographs from the NO!art front

2017 NO!art MANIPULATION | Analytical Investigation for an Impeachment Process

2016 THE STREET GANGS OF THE LOWER EAST SIDE | book design, New York
BORIS LURIE: NO COMPROMISES | Jewish Museum Berlin [undercover]

2015 NO SHOW | tête gallery, Berlin
FACESHOT | anonymizations by mainstream media

2014  CULTURE AFTER FALLING WALL | discussion, Kreuzberg Museum Berlin
           NO!art-REPORT | shots during one month visiting Clayton Patterson at LES
           IN CONVERSATION WITH CHARLES REHWINKEL | Friend of Boris Lurie

2013 ARTE POSTALE | Akademie der Künste [groupshow], Berlin

2012 ILLEGALNET | graffiti shots and such like for people's brainstorming

2011 BLOCKSHOTS | mind-forming shots in my surroundings
NO!art INFRINGEMENT | Ultimatum by Boris Lurie Art Foundation, New York

2010 ART INFORMATION | mediacontact, Weserburg, Museum of Modern Art, Bremen
INTERVIEW WITH ALDO TAMBELLINI | about NO and LES, Cambridge/MA

2009  ZEIGEN / POINTING | Groupshow, Temporaere Kunsthalle Berlin
           NEIGHBORHOODS | Retrospect on Wall City Berlin, Haus am Luetzowplatz, Berlin
           MINDSHOTS | Website about word manipulations at the NO!art front, Berlin

2007 PLAKART | NO!art on Outside Videoboard, insideout, Brunswick/Germany