Wide White Space Gallery
Wide White Space was the name of a Belgian gallery in Antwerp, which became one of the leading avant-garde galleries in Europe in the short time of its existence, and worked closely with artists such as Joseph Beuys and Panamarenko. It existed from 1966 to 1976 and was founded and directed by Anny de Decker and Bernd Lohaus.
History, Meaning and performances
A native of Dusseldorf artist Bernd Lohaus and the art historian Anny de Decker founded in 1966 in the Plaatsnijderstraat 1 in Antwerp Gallery Wide White Space, to provide a space for the new artists for whom there was no exhibition opportunities in the then conventional conservative museums, where they could show their works. To orient the visitor invitations bore the ironic remark " Behind the museum ." The gallery had a great attraction for the new art scene and was among the first to have developed activities on an international scale. Wide White Space had close contacts to the group ZERO, sought in rapid rotation always new avant-garde artists and promoted it through participation in the emerging art markets, such as at the documenta 4 Significantly was that artists here on " laid their exhibitions to design, including the gallery itself as total works of art, including all related elements of the invitation card to the ritual of opening ", whereby some one-time events were organized by the gallery. So Joseph Beuys led on 9 February 1968 in the gallery Wide White Space for the second time his performance " Eurasienstab " by which he created together with the Danish artist and composer Henning Christiansen Fluxus to the idea of union of Eastern and Western cultures. The copper rod and the Filzwinkel the ceiling height of the gallery have been adjusted. The commissioned by Anny de Decker cinematographer Marcel Broodthaers, Paul de Fru, thereby making a film, it was launched in 2005 with an accompanying book by Joseph Beuys Media Archive on DVD. For the state of the gallery at the exhibitions prospectus and prospectus 68 69 at the Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, Beuys created several works, including the covered with felt grand piano infiltration homogeneous for concert piano (1968).
Well-known artists who exhibited in the gallery
Exhibitions on the gallery Wide White Space
Awards
- 2012: Art Cologne Price