John Bock
John Bock ( b. 1965 in Gribbohm, Schleswig -Holstein ) is a German performance artist. He lives in Berlin.
Life and work
Bock studied business in Hamburg before he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Hamburg until 1997. His materials are everyday objects of all kinds, such as slippers, eggshells or men's socks. Since the winter semester 2004/ 05 he teaches at the Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe as Professor for sculpture.
Quote
"I started with theoretical, mathematical lectures and I do not want to be actionistically. You can just slip right into it, builds a costume, builds an object and then you say to yourself: the white wall is no longer enough - so you build a stage, then a stage - and as you keep adding das. "
Exhibitions / presentations / performances
- 2013/14: In the mud of the sum of mutation, Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany, Bonn
- 2010 The Surreal House, Barbican Art Gallery, London; Anton Kern Gallery, New York ( NY), USA
- 2010 FischGrätenMelkStand, Temporary Kunsthalle Berlin
- 2009 Fashion Show The bendsteering in the luggage gets tangled up with the white shirt, House of World Cultures; Precarious form, Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna
- 2007 John Bock. Movies at the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt
- 2006 John Bock's Medusa in Tam Tam Club, Magazine of the Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Berlin. Performance by John Bock with Anne Tismer, the band Blackmail and Others
- 2004 Bluebox Video: John Bock, The Guest, 2004 at the Sprengel Museum in Hannover
- 2004 Utopia Station, Haus der Kunst (Munich )
- 2004 Klutterkammer, ICA London
- 2004 People's Palace, Palace of the Republic, Berlin
- 2004 John Bock, Anton Kern Gallery, New York
- 2004 Manifesta 5, San Sebastian 2003/2004
- 2004 cremers heap. Art of the 60s and today, Landesmuseum Münster
- 2002 participants of the platform 5 at Documenta 11 in Kassel
- 1999 Venice Biennale
- 1992 lecture " How do I become famous? "