Al Hansen

1927 - 1995

Curriculum Vitae


EARLY BACKGROUND

1927 Born in Richmond Hill, Queens, New York

1945 Military Service, 82nd Airborne Division, Frankfurt; Cologne

1948 Berlin, Germany.

1950 US Airforce, Tactical Air Command

1954 South Carolina

EDUCATION

1949 Art Students League. New York City - John Groth

1950 Brooklyn College - Al Terris

1956 New School For Social Research - Experimental Music - John Cage

1959 Pratt Institute

1963 Environmental Loft Studio and Mixed Media Event Studies

TEACHING HISTORY

1967-74 Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey

1970 Parsons School of Design

1979 Eskimo Art School Nuuk-G., Greenland

1987 Founded the Ultimate Akademie with Lisa Cieslik, Cologne, Germany

1988 Hochschule fur Bildende Kunst, Hamburg, Germany

Solo Exhibitions\Editions

highlights

1960
New York 6 Gallery, Watercolors. New York City, New York

1961
New York Walking Show, New York, New York

1964
Judson Gallery, New York, New York

1966
Eastend Gallery, Massachussetts

1967
Ringelhaupt Gallery, Boston, Massachussetts

Hallmark Gallery, New York, New York

1970
Galerie Block, Berlin, Germany

Galerie Ingo Kummel, Cologne, Germany

1972
Galerie Inge Baecker, Bochum, Germany

1974
Galerie der Spiegel, Cologne, Germany- Archive Show

1979
"Collage and Construction", Galerie A, Amsterdam, Holland

Henie Museum, Oslo, Norway

Royal Academy of Art, Copenhagen, Denmark

1980
Munchatelier, Kultusministerium, Oslo, Norway

1981
Edition and Galerie Hundertmark. "Black Book" Cologne, Germany

Karl Valentin Museum, Munich, Germany.

1982
Petersom Galerie Berlin, Germany.

1986
"Structures and Sculptures" Galerie Offermann, Cologne, Germany

"In Search of the Goddess" Gracie Mansion Gallery, NYC, New York

Zeichnungen, Aquerelle. "Andy Warhol Attentat" Edition Hundertmark, Cologne, Germany

1988
"Collagen, Objekte, Fingerbilder." Galerie Klewan, Munich, Germany

Gracie Mansion Gallery, NYC, New York

1989
Artothek Koln, Cologne, Germany

Galerie Kolon, Cologne, Germany

Gracie Mansion Gallery, NYC, New York

1990
"The Temple Of The Goddess" Galerie Kolon, Cologne, Germany

1991
Galerie Klewan, Munich, Germany

"Exposition" Galerie 1900-2000 Marcel Fleiss

1992
Lisi Hamerle Gallery, Bregenz, Austria

1993
Galerie Klewan, Munich, Germany

1994
Troy Gallery Los Angeles, California

1995
Michael Wewerka Gallery, Berlin, Germany

Gracie Mansion Gallery, NYC, New York

Kunstverein Rosenheim, Rosenheim, Germany

1996
Kölnisches Stadt Museum, Cologne, Germany

1998
Emily Harvey Gallery in association with Gracie Mansion Gallery

Galerie Helmut Klewan, Munich Germany

1999
Galerie und Edition Hundertmark Objekte, Collagen, Aqurarelle, Fotos

2000
Galerie Inge Baecker, Cologne, Germany

2002
Galerie und Edition Hundertmark, Cologne, Germany

2003
"Life is Fluxus" Lattuada Studio Gallery, Milan, Italy

2006
Andrea Rosen Gallery, NYC, New York

2008
Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark

GROUP SHOWS

1959
"Below Zero" With Rauschenberg, Oldenburg, Dine, Kaprow, Reuben Gallery, NYC, New York

1960
"Ray Gun Spex" With Kaprow, Dine, Oldenburg, Judson Gallery (Hansen: Multiple Projections), New York City, New York

1963
"Fluxus Anti-Musik Festival" With Beuys, Hansen, Paik, and Spoerri

Staatliche Kunstakademie, Dusseldorf, Germany

1966
"Juxtapositionen." Neue Galerie, Aachen, Germany

1969
"Happening & Fluxus." Kolnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany

1970
"This Is Not Here Show" With Yoko Ono and John Lennon, Everson Museum, Syracuse, New York.

1973
Galerie Block, Berlin, Phenomenatransactionskunst: A Hansen Mini- Retrospective

1975
Galerie Baecker, Bochum. Collage/Decollage Works by Brecht, Filliou, Hansen, Schwitters, Spoerri, Vostell, Watts and others.

1977
Galerie Rene Block, Berlin. Photographie Exhibition. Works by: Beuys, Duchamp, Baumgarten, Becher, Hansen, Hodicke, Kaprow, Knoebel

1982
"Attersee Party Performance." With Beuys, Dieter Rot, Lupertz, Attersee, Wurthie, Iannone in der Exil Bar, Kreuzberg, Berlin

1984
"Gruppenausstel" With Hansen, Cieslik and Yilmaz, Cologne

1986
"Unausgewogen." Kolnischer Kunstverein. Cologne, Germany

1987
"Conflux-Ausstellung." Wewerka Galerie, Berlin, Germany

1988
"Mobel als Kunstobjekt." Kunstlerwerkstatt. Munich, Germany

"Parallel, Dokumentas Banana, Erotica, Fotografica"Ultimate AkademieAusstellungen, Cologne, Germany

1989
"The Junk Aesthetic" Whitney Museum, NYC, New York

"Happening & Fluxus" Galerie 1900 bis 2000, Paris, France

"Walk Don't Walk" Walkman Show, Kunstlerbuch Galerie, Cologne

1992
"Fluxus-Virus" Cologne Kuntsverein, Cologne, Germany

"L'Art Est Inutile" Bregenzer Kunstverein, Palais Thurm und Taxis, Bregenz, Austria

1994
Galerie Mamus, Copenhagen, Denmark, With Hansen, Gyr, Den Fria , Henryk Pryds Beck and others

1995
Fluxus Virus - St. Petersberg and Moscow, Russia-With Hansen and Ben Patterson, Vautier, Joe Jones, Bob Watts, Nam June Paik, Alison Knowles, Larry Miller, Emmett Williams, Dick Higgins and others

Louis Stern Gallery, Los Angeles - "Pasted Papers" Collage in the 20th Century"

UBU Gallery, NYC, New York "The Gun: Icon of Twenthieth Century Art"

1996
Fotouhi Cramer Gallery, "Box", NYC, New York

Rafael Vostell Fine Art, Berlin, Germany "Aus der Sammlung"

Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (IFA), Stuttgart, Germany Fluxus in Germany

A large exhibition of Fluxus works, spanning the period and sponsored by the Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (IFA) of Stuttgart. Curators: René Block and Gabriele Knapstein

Zacheta Gallery, Warsaw, Poland Fluxus in Germany

Contemporary Art Center - CAC, Vilnius, Lithuania Fluxus in Germany

1997

Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje, Macedonia Fluxus in Germany

1998

And I Quote... Mary Delahoyd Gallery New York; curated by Pavel Zoubok

Queensland Art Gallery, Queensland, Australia, "Francesco Conz-Intermedia and the Avant Garde"

Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles, "Out of Actions: Between Performance and the Object 1949-1979"

Museum für angewnadte Kunst (MAK), Vienna "Out of Actions: Between Performance and the Object 1949-1979"

Santa Monica Museum of Art, "Beck & Al Hansen: Playing With Matches" Channing Hansen performed Al Hansen's "Elegy for the Fluxus Dead" and "Yoko Ono Piano Drop" during the two opening nights, May 7th and 8th

Thread Waxing Space, New York, "Beck & Al Hansen: Playing With Matches"; performances by Channing Hansen, Beck Hansen, Marianne Faithfull, foot (Thurston Moore, Don Fleming, Jim Dunbar), Larry Miller, Rebecca Moore & special guests; Happening conducted by Bibbe Hansen; Panel Discussion with Hannah Higgins, Wayne Baerwaldt, Carlo McCormick, Francesco Conz and Bibbe Hansen

Plug, In, Winnipeg, Canada, "Beck & Al Hansen: Playing With Matches"; performance by Channing Hansen - Al Hansen's "Elegy for the Fluxus Dead"

1999

Art Beatus, Vancouver, Canada, "Beck & Al Hansen: Playing With Matches"; performance by Channing Hansen - Al Hansen's "Elegy for the Fluxus Dead"

LaForet, Tokyo, Japan, "Beck & Al Hansen: Playing With Matches"; performance by Channing Hansen - Al Hansen's "Elegy for the Fluxus Dead"

LaForet, Fukuoka, Japan, "Beck & Al Hansen: Playing With Matches"

La Foret, Nagoya, Japan, "Beck & Al Hansen: Playing With Matches"

Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff Centre for the Arts, Canada, "Beck & Al Hansen: Playing With Matches"

Gallery talk by Bibbe Hansen, Francesco Conz and Wayne Baerwaldt performance by Channing Hansen - Al Hansen's "Elegy for the Fluxus Dead."

2000

Power Plant, Toronto, Canada, "Beck & Al Hansen: Playing With Matches"; performance by Channing Hansen - Al Hansen's "Elegy for the Fluxus Dead"

Schloss Moyland Museum, Joseph Beuys Institute, Germany, "Beck & Al Hansen: Playing With Matches";

Panel Discussion with Bibbe Hansen, Channing Hansen, Wayne Baerwaldt, Beck Hansen

Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queens University, Kingston, Canada, "Beck & Al Hansen: Playing With Matches"; Lecture "Al Hansen, His Life and Art" by Bibbe Hansen; performance by Channing Hansen - Al Hansen's "Elegy for the Fluxus Dead"

2001

Centre Pompidou, Paris, France Les Années Pop

Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand Fluxus in Germany

Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art, "Beck & Al Hansen: Playing With Matches"; Performance Workshop conducted by Bibbe Hansen; Happening conducted by Bibbe Hansen including workshop participants; Lecture "Al Hansen, His Life and Art" by Bibbe Hansen; performance by Channing Hansen - Al Hansen's "Elegy for the Fluxus Dead"

2002

Galerie Berndt, Cologne, Germany

COPIA Food and Wine Museum, Napa Valley, California Sweet Tooth

Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology - RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, Australia Fluxus in Germany

Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China Fluxus in Germany

2003

Mead Art Gallery, New Brunswick, New Jersey Critical Mass: Happenings, Fluxus, Performance, Intermedia and Rutgers University 1958 - 1972

Grimm Rosenfed Gallery, Munich Germany -- "Game Over"

2004

National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland Fluxus in Germany

Museo Rufino Tamayo de Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico D.F., Mexico Fluxus in Germany

2005

Hal Bromm Gallery, NYC, New York

Pavel Zoubok Gallery, NYC, New York -- "Collage, Signs and Surfaces"

Museo de Arte Contemporaneo - MAC, Santiago, Chile Fluxus in Germany

Andrea Rosen Gallery, NYC, New York -- "Looking at Words"

Ludwig Museum, Cologne, Germany -- Induction to the permanent collection.

2006

Pavel Zoubok Gallery, NYC, New York -- "Constellation"




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