Wolf Vostell

Wolf Vostell

Wolf Vostell (14 October 1932 Leverkusen – 3 April 1998 Berlin) was a German painter and sculptor of the second half of the 20th century. Wolf Vostell is considered one of the early adopters of Video art, Environment, Installation, Happening and the Fluxus Movement. Techniques such as blurring and the Dé-collage are characteristic of his work, as is embedding objects in concrete.

Movies for Wolf Vostell...

Malpartida Fluxus Village
Title: Malpartida Fluxus Village
Released: November 27, 2015
Type: Movie
The German artist Wolf Vostell and his family moved to a little village in Cáceres (Extremadura/Spain) in the seventies. In the middle of this primitive environment, he founded a contemporary art museum in connection with the local inhabitants, thus turning Malpartida into the first Fluxus village.
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Happening, Kunst, Protest 1968
Title: Happening, Kunst, Protest 1968
Character: Himself
Released: January 2, 1981
Type: Movie
Documentary by Helmut Herbst.
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Ticket of No Return
Title: Ticket of No Return
Released: October 27, 1979
Type: Movie
A sartorially resplendent woman of few words arrives in Berlin with plans to live out the rest of her days as a drunkard.
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Berlinfever – Wolf Vostell
Title: Berlinfever – Wolf Vostell
Character: self
Released: October 1, 1973
Type: Movie
In 1973, Wolf Vostell, an artist associated with Fluxus, made a happening in which participants were required to perform a series of ritual, obsessive actions, such as “go to the trunk of your vehicle, there open and close the trunk 750 times and 375 times put a white plate in it and take it out 375 times.” Described by Ottinger as a documentation of what Vostell called “dé-coll/age-happening”, the film is an illustration of her creative method, a surrealist act, a separate work of art, and a strange object. She would later describe her method as “fragments of reality assembled in an unusual manner”.
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Kunst und Ketchup
Title: Kunst und Ketchup
Released: February 14, 1966
Type: Movie
Early documentary about the pop art scene and happenings in Germany.