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Jürgen Claus

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    Jürgen Claus
    RaumSolar
    Lachnerstrasse 3
    80639 München
    phone: 0049 – 89 – 15 89 00 11
    Germany
    and
    Overoth 5
    4837 Baelen
    Belgium
    phone: 0032-87-74 37 91
    fax: 0032-87-74 37 96
    Email: jurclaus@euregio.net
    Web site: http://
    www.jurgenclaus.de

BORN 1935 in Berlin, Germany
EDUCATION 1954-60 Universities of Marburg, Munich, Germany (Theater, Philosophy, Art)
His appointments: 1972 Artist-in-Residence, Institute for Humanistic Studies, in Aspen, USA; 1883 Fellow, 1987-89 Research Affiliate, Center for Advanced Visual Studies, MIT,Cambridge; Professor Media Arts at Academy of Media Arts Cologne, Germany.

He is the director of Centre Overoth, in Baelen, Belgium.

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Institute for Humanistic Studies, Aspen, USA 1972
University of the Arts, Osaka, Japan 1975
Nature Museum, Lucerne, Switzerland 1979
prodomo, Vienna, Austria 1986
Autoren Galerie, Munich, Germany 1979-2004
Katholische Akademie, Freiburg, Germany 1996
RaumSolar, Munich, Germany 2003-2007

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Biennale San Marino, Italy 1970
ArtTransition, Cambrige, USA, Munich, Germany 1975, 1983, 1990
Electra, Musee d’art moderne, Paris 1983-84
Ars electronica, Linz, Austria 1986
Lumia, International Lyskunst, Charlottenborg Udstillingsbygning, Copenhagen, Denmark 1999-2000
ELEMENTA 1, Otto Galerie, Munich, Germany 2005
Lichtkunst aus Kunstlicht, ZKM Karlsruhe 2006

SELECTED WORKS IN PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Collection Pansa di Biumo, Italy
Atlantic Richfield Company, Los Angeles, USA
Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, Germany
Städtische Sammlung, Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany
Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

PUBLIC SOLAR WORKS
Solar Crystal, Juelich, Germany 1995
Solar Icosahedron, Geislingen, Germany 1997/98

SOME AWARDS & GRANTS
Prix Lago Maggiore, Videoart Festival, Locarno, Switzerland 1988
European Solar Prize, Bonn, Germany 1995 (with Nora Claus)
Deputy Governor, ABIRA, American Biographical Institute – Research Association, USA (from 2000)

BOOKS (Selection)
Theorien zeitgenössischer Malerei, rowohlts deutsche enzyklopädie, Germany 1963
Teorie della pittura contemporanea, Il Saggiatore, Milan, Italy 1967
Kunst heute, rowohlts deutsche enzyklopädie, Germany 1965
Expansion der Kunst, rowohlts deutsche enzyklopädie, Germany 1970
Expansion del Arte, Mexico 1970
Planet Meer, Verlag DuMont Schauberg, Cologne, Germany 1972
ChippppKunst, Ullstein Materialien, Berlin, Germany 1985
Das elektronische Bauhaus, Edition Interfrom, Osnabrück, Germany 1987
Kulturelement Soinne, Edition Interfrom, Osnabrück, Germany 1997

BIOGRAPHY
Jürgen Claus: SonnenMeer. Ed. Heiner Stachelhaus. Wienand Verlag, Cologne 1995



Updated 30 January 2007.

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