1935
born in Herford, Germany
1960-64
Study of Painting with Willem Grimm, Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Hamburg, Germany
1965
Apprentice to the sculptor George Rickey, West Lebanon, New York
1968
founded Intermedia and Video Art Program, School of Art and Art History, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
Emeritus F. Wendell Miller Distinguished Professor of Art, School of Art and Art History, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
Exhibitions (selected)
1965
International Artists' Seminar, Fairleigh Dickinson University, New Jersey
Riverside Museum, New York
1966
American Painting and Sculpture, Midland Group Gallery, Nottingham, Great Britain
As Found, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
Plastica Galeria de Arte, Buenos Aires, Argentina
1967
Richard Feigen Gallery, New York (one-artist exhibition)
Richard Feigen Gallery, Chicago (one-artist exhibition)
Exhibition of Recent Acquisitions, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1968
Kineticism: System Sculpture in Environmental Situations (Cultural Olympiad), Museo Universitario de Ciencias y Arte, Mexico City
Directions 1: Options, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois
1969
Superlimited: Books, Boxes and Things, The Jewish Museum, New York
Big New Works, Richard Feigen Gallery, New York
Affect/Effect, La Jolla Museum of Art, La Jolla, California
1970
Richard Feigen Gallery, New York (one-artist exhibition)
Richard Feigen Gallery, Chicago (one-artist exhibition)
1972
Galerie Marcel Liatowisch, Basle, Switzerland (one-artist exhibition)
Hybrids, Max Hutchinson Gallery, New York
1975
Video and Film Works 1971-1975, The Kitchen, Center for Video and Music, New York
1977
Signals, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
1979
Wolfgang Förster Galerie, Muenster, Germany (one-artist exhibition)
1980
Plakat Aktion, Gestaltreform M. Schuhl KG, Frankfurt, Germany
Video Sculpture, First Intermedia Festival, New York
1981
Hachmeister & Schnake Galerie, Muenster, Germany (one-artist exhibition)
1983
The Institute for Art and Urban Resources, Inc., P.S.1, Long Island City, New York
1984
Anti-City, International Architecture Exhibition, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
Portraits of the Urban Poor, Oacaca, Mexico; Anthology Film Archives, New York; The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Video Works 1982-84, Time Based Arts, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1986
My TV Dictionary, 2nd Videonale, Bonn, Germany
Ursonate 1986, Video and Language: Video as Language, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, California
1987
My TV Dictionary, Whitney Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Terrorising the Code - Recent US Video, The Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney
The Fine Arts Center Art Gallery, State University of New York at Stony Brook, New York (one-artist exhibition)
Schreiber/Cutler, Inc., New York (one-artist exhibition)
1988
Hachmeister Galerie, Muenster, Germany (one-artist exhibition)
1989
Painting Beyond the Death of Painting: Imaginistic and Abstract Work, First Group Exhibition of American Art
in the Soviet Union, Kuznetzky Most Exhibition Hall, Moscow
Under a Malicious Sky, Whitney Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York;
The 3rd Fukui International Video Biennale, Japan
Schreiber/Cutler, Inc., New York (one-artist exhibition)
1990
Ruth Siegel Gallery, New York (one-artist exhibition)
1991
From Here and There Too: Moscow Postcards 1989, Whitney Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Hachmeister Galerie, Muenster, Germany (one-artist exhibition)
1993
Penine Hart Gallery, New York (one-artist exhibition)
'68 - Kunst und Kultur, Bauhaus Dessau, Dessau, Germany
1995
Hachmeister Galerie, Muenster, Germany (one-artist exhibition)
1996
Billboards for Democracy, Hunter College of the City University of New York, New York
1997
Short Cuts: Anschlüsse an den Körper, Deutsche Arbeitsschutzausstellung, Dortmund, Germany
1998
Point of Reference, The International Association for Philosophy and Literature, UC Irvine, California
1999
The Nazi-Loop, Contact Zones: The Art of the CD-ROM, Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City; Dallas Video Festival 1999;
Virginia Film Festival, Charlottesville, Virginia
Hachmeister Galerie, Muenster, Germany (one-artist exhibition)
2000
Body/Sculpture, The Armory Show 2000, The International Fair of New York, New York
Mass in A-Minor for Suitcases, St. Petri Kirche, Dortmund, Germany
2001
Mitchell Algus Gallery, New York (one-artist exhibition)
2002
Body/Sculpture, The Armory Show 2002, The International Fair of New York, New York
Enacting the Liminal: Intermedia/Works 1964-2002, The University of Iowa, Museum of Art, Iowa City, Iowa (one-artist exhibition)
Bibliography (selected)
1967
Lil Picard, Four Directions, in: Das Kunstwerk, February
1968
George Rickey, Constructivist-Origins and Evolution, New York: George Braziller
Jack Burnham, Beyond Modern Sculpture, New York: George Braziller
Lawrence Alloway, Interfaces and Options-Participatory Art in Milwaukee and Chicago, in: Arts Magazine, September
1970
Rolf-Gunter Dienst, Deutsche Kunst: Eine Neue Generation, Cologne, Germany: M. DuMont
1973
Michael Kirby, Hybrids, in: The Drama Review, June
Gregory Battcock, Explorations in Video, in: Art and Artists, February
1974
Norman Laliberte and Alex Mogelon, Art in Boxes, New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold
1979
Hans Breder and Stephen Foster, Intermedia, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
David Mover, Through the Looking Glass and What the Artist Found There, in: Art International, September
1983
Ann-Sargent Wooster, Portrait of Rosa, in: Afterimage, January
1985
Stephen Foster and Estera Milman, The Media as Medium: Hans Breder's Berlin Work, in: Kansas Quarterly, Vol. 17, No. 3
1987
Helen A. Harrison, Diagrammatic Drawings Explore Duality of Nature, in: The New York Times, February 22
1988
Herman Rapaport, Hans Breder and the Auras of Video, in: Art Criticism, Vol. 4, No. 1
Hans Breder, Ana Mendieta: Imprints/Student Years 1972-1977, in: Sulfur, Vol. 22, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsillanti
Donald Kuspit, New York Reviews, in: Artforum, May
Gerrit Henry, Review of Exhibitions, in: Art in America, January
1990
Lucio Pozzi, Letter from New York, in: II Giornale Dell'Arte, No. 74, January
1992
Heiner Hachmeister (ed.), Hans Breder - Threshold States/Sprach-Schwellen, texts by Heiner Hachmeister, Stephen Foster,
Herman Rapaport, Donald Kuspit, Lucio Pozzi, Allen F. Roberts, Antonio R. Damasio, Muenster, Germany: Hachmeister Verlag
1995
Hans Breder and Herman Rapaport, The Luminous Object: Video Art/Video Theory, in: Visible Language 29.2,
Rhode Island School of Design
Hans Breder, Intermedia: Enacting the Liminal, in: Performance Arts Journal, Vol. XVII, No. 2/3, The Johns Hopkins University Press
1999
Marlena G. Corcoran, Skin Forms on Paint over Time: in the Work of Hans Breder, in: Art Criticism, Vol. 14, No. 1
Heiner Hachmeister (ed.), Hans Breder - New Paintings/Neue Bilder, text by Garrett Stewart, Muenster, Germany: Hachmeister Verlag
2001
Walter Robinson, Hans Breder, Body/Sculpture 1965-73 at Mitchell Algus Gallery, Weekend Update, Artnet.Com
2002
Heiner Hachmeister (ed.), Hans Breder - Works/Arbeiten 1964-2000, essay by Donald Kuspit, Muenster, Germany: Hachmeister Verlag
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