Bernd Lohaus

Bernd Lohaus studied at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. Training under Joseph Beuys is recorded. The recorded working language is German. Places of work recorded in the authority are Belgium. Work by Bernd Lohaus is recorded in the collections of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Mu.ZEE - Kunstmuseum aan Zee, Wallonia-Brussels Federation Museum of Contemporary Arts and Middelheim Museum.

Lohaus studied from 1963 to 1966 at the Düsseldorf Academy of Fine Arts under Professor Joseph Beuys. From 1964 to 1965, together with Panamarenko, Hugo Heyrman and Wout Vercammen, he edited the magazine New Happening. During a trip to Spain he met Anny de Decker, an art history professor, whom he married in 1966. They later moved to Antwerp where they opened the avant-garde Wide White Space Galley in their home, displaying important exhibitions by Marcel Broodthaers in 1996 and Joseph Beuys in 1967. They also collaborated with the Danish artist Henning Christiansen, a member of the Fluxus current, with the famous Eurasienstab action. The gallery closed in 1976. Bernd Lohaus works mainly involve wood, stone and paper. He often uses beams, rods, boards and nuts of Azobe wood, the hardest wood in West Africa. Lohaus's works gives importance to the relationship between the work and the surrounding environment. Language also plays an important role in the works. The artistic intervention is aimed at simplicity and reduced to sensitive actions. The works of Bernd Lohaus are born with the influence of the artistic movement of Fluxus, Arte Povera, Minimal Art and materialism, creating a new style in its own right. • Illustration — Wellen zur Hand gegebenes Echo (Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens) • Illustration — Zichzelf getroffen (Haarlem) • Illustration — Zonder titel (Middelheimmuseum)

• 1975 Paris Biennale • 1980 Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf • 1990 Kunsthalle Bielefeld • 1992 documenta IX • 1995 MuHKA, Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst (Anversa) • 1997 Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona • 2000 Königliches Museum der Schönen Künste (Anversa) • 2005 SMAK, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (Gent)