Klaus vom Bruch

Klaus vom Bruch (born 1952 in Cologne) is a German media artist and former university professor. He is regarded as a pioneer of German video art.[1][2]

Biography

Vom Bruch studied conceptual art at the California Institute of the Arts under John Baldessari from 1975 to 1976 and philosophy at the University of Cologne from 1976 to 1979.[1]

In 1977, together with Ulrike Rosenbach and Marcel Odenbach, he participated in Alternativ Television (ATV), an artist-run television project that illegally broadcast a self-produced programme from a studio in Cologne to the surrounding neighbourhood.[3]

His early video Das Schleyerband (1977–1978) consists largely of television footage recorded between September 1977 and June 1978 concerning the kidnapping and murder of industrialist Hanns Martin Schleyer by the Red Army Faction and the related events of the German Autumn.[4]

From 1992 to 1998, vom Bruch was professor of media art at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design. From 1999 to 2018, he held a professorship in media art at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich.[1] In 2000, he was a visiting professor at Columbia University in New York City.[5]

Awards and fellowships

Selected exhibitions

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Klaus vom Bruch". ZKM (in German). ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe. Retrieved 23 August 2026.
  2. ↑ "Klaus vom Bruch: Ausgewählte Videos". ZKM (in German). ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe. 27 March 2006. Retrieved 23 August 2026.
  3. ↑ "Overview of Media Art: Society". Media Art Net. Retrieved 23 August 2026.
  4. ↑ "Das Schleyerband". Media Art Net. Retrieved 23 August 2026.
  5. ↑ "Stop making sense, it's as good as it gets: Imaginary Display(s)" (PDF). Academy of Fine Arts Munich. Retrieved 23 August 2026.
  6. ↑ "Dorothea von Stetten-Kunstpreis". Van Abbemuseum. 1986. Retrieved 23 August 2026.
  7. ↑ "Fellows of the Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Scholarship 1977–2020" (PDF). Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes. Retrieved 23 August 2026.
  8. ↑ Brenson, Michael (3 October 1986). "Art: 'A Distanced View,' by Group from Europe". The New York Times. Retrieved 23 August 2026.
  9. ↑ "d8 1987". documenta archive. 1987. Retrieved 23 August 2026.
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