Heiko Daxl

Heiko Daxl ( born September 21, 1957 in Oldenburg, Lower Saxony, † 21 May, 2012 Berlin) was a German media artist, curator, gallery owner and design / art collector.

Life

Daxl grew to 1976 in Varel, Dangast at the Jade Bay and Neuchâtel (Friesland) on the Neuchâtel jungle. During school time on Lothar Meyer Gymnasium in Varel and occasional forays to Jever he came in contact with the medium of film, and from this a relationship that should be decisive for his future development. After the termination of the study of architecture, urbanism, research space / spatial planning at the Technical University of Braunschweig (1978), he moved to the University of Osnabrück, Germany at that time offered the far -off program in Communication and aesthetics. Here he studied Media Studies at Joachim Paech, Werner Faulstich, Walter Fähnders, Peter of males, Ingo Petzke and Wolfgang Becker, and art history at Franz -Joachim Verspohl, Walter Grasskamp, Lothar Knapp and Jutta hero. He received the Master of Arts in 1985. Further stations of his studies were German literature and literary studies at the Technical University of Berlin and Art History at the University of Zurich.

Work and work

The interest in " Moving Pictures " was always at the center of his work and so he founded together with other in 1980 under the direction of Ingo Petzke the Experimentalfilm workshop, an annual festival for experimental film art, which in 1988 the European Media Art Festival ( EMAF ) further developed. Daxl was involved until 1992 instrumental in profiling this major global forum for media art. 1990 until 1991 he edited together with Evgenia Dimitrieva and Keiko Sei, the tenth and final edition of the initiated by Gabor Body International Video Art magazine Infermental in Skopje -Osnabrück.

Through his work in international cultural exchange in more than 50 countries for the Goethe Institute in 1988, he met his future wife and partner Ingeborg Fülepp know in The Hague. They married in 1990 in Zagreb, then Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, today Croatia. Both established then there since 1991 during the war in Croatia, the exhibition series Media - Scape with international media art first at the Mimara Museum and then at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb (until 1999 ) and, since 2005, together with Jerica Ziherl in the Galerija Rigo and Muzey Lapidary in Novigrad (Istria ) ( Cittanova ) in the Croatian region of Istria. In 2006, this program series was developed in collaboration with Noam Braslavsky under the title Strictly Berlin in the Gallery of Arts ( GdK ) extended by the Berlin site.

Heiko Daxl and Ingeborg Fülepp worked since 1990 under the name mediainmotion and dafü ® together on the working fields of film, video, interactive multimedia projects, digital art, video art, video installations and art education.

In addition to her own artistic oeuvre, her teaching and her staff at the Studio for Electroacoustic Music Academy of the Arts ( Berlin) ( 1995-2002) they have worked together as part of concerts and theatrical performances with numerous contemporary composers. Music and sound production are integral to the work of Daxl and Fülepp. When the music goes around in cooperation with the experimental Noise_ ( music) composer Dror Feiler, Masami Akita ( Merzbow ), Zbigniew Karkowski and Elliott Sharp at the limits of tolerability, she finds the cut visual inventories of technical errors, image collapses and staccato rhythms its cinematic counterpart. The cooperation with Georg Katzer, Mona Mur, Steve Roach, Gerhard Staebler / Ensemble Modern, Bert Wrede, Tobias PM Cutting, Valerio Pizzorno, Igor Kuljeric and Mario Verandi other hand, have more of a worn mood and associative narrative character.

Since 1991 they work ( Daxl and Fülepp ) together as an artist couple. They have created a variety of works that demonstrate their experimentation and always move in the border areas of still unknown. Explore new technologies and other unknown optical and acoustic phenomena. The senses, both hearing, seeing and feeling are always consciously addressed and irritated with them the perception of the viewer. Daxl and Fülepp show new ways of artistic exploration of technical options that produce sounds and abstract images that force the viewer to a holistic picture. It may be their intention to bring the recipient to think about the reality that is conveyed him artificial and technical means.

From 2008 Daxl was in the co-financed by the European Union project "X- OP - Exchange of Art Operators and Producers" between Helsinki and Istanbul active.

Exhibitions (selection)

In addition to exhibitions and festival participations in Europe, America, Asia and Australia among others commissioned work created for museums and various institutions throughout Europe.

• 2000 Hamburg, Budge -Palais, " dead Floss "

• 2001 Osnabrück, European Media Art Festival (K / C)

• 2002 Dortmund ( D) " Ruhr Festival " (K / C)

• 2003 Berlin (D), clamping " Long Night of the Museums" (K / C)

• 2004 Berlin (D) Neuer Berliner Kunstverein " conjunctive relations "

• 2005 Munich ( D), Cult station WhiteBox, "All About Berlin - Staged imagery - questioning the reality - Today "

• 2006 Karlsruhe ( D), ZKM - Center for Art and Media Technology, " Infermental - video vocabulary of the '80s"

• 2007 Berlin (D), Academy of Arts, transmediale 07

• 2008 Novigrad ( HR), Muzey - Museo Lapidary, " Mediascape - Beyond Horizon"

• 2010 Berlin (D), the Max Liebermann Villa am Wannsee, "100 Years of villa and garden "

Curatorial work (selection)

• 2006 " Strictly Berlin 2000-2006 ", Gallery of the Arts Berlin ( with Ingeborg Fülepp )

• 2007 "Strictly Berlin - Targets of Opportunity ", Gallery of the Arts Berlin ( with Ingeborg Fülepp )

References / literature

• Heiko Daxl: "Music of Light" in Ingo Petzke ( Ed.): The Experimental Film Handbook Series of the German Film Museum, Frankfurt am Main 1989
• "Longing Inc "
• Http://www.blankjeron.com/sero/Handshake-Feldreise/D/ostranenie/EEVideo/Kroatien.html
• Sonambiente 1996
• International Media Art Award 2000
• Virtual Portal to Croatian Culture