Jochen Gerz

Jochen Gerz received Peter-Weiss Prize, Knight of the National Order of Merit and German Critics' Prize for Visual Art. Work by Jochen Gerz is held by Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, CODA Museum and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

13 works under this name are catalogued by Wikidata Query Service and Wellcome Collection. Their recorded dates run from 1980 to 2005.

2-3 Streets. The Square Of The Invisible Monument. Le Monument vivant de Biron, dated 1996. The Future Monument. Amaptocare, dated 2003. Platz der Grundrechte, dated 2005. People Speak [from the portfolio ‘I Am You’], dated 1993, held by M HKA - Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, inventory S0066_07. It Was a Warm Summer Night, dated 1980, held by M HKA - Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, inventory S0143. I Am You, dated 1995, held by M HKA - Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, inventory S0066. The Competition, dated 2002. The side of a building with the question "One day, when all diseases will be overcome, shall we finally learn how to live", referring to AIDS. Colour silk screen print after Jochen Gerz, 1993., dated [1993], held by Wellcome Collection. Profiles of two human faces facing each other, separated by letters spelling the word AIDS. Colour screenprint by J. Rajlich, 1994., dated [1994], held by Wellcome Collection. Instructions on the mounting of an exhibition of AIDS posters by ARTIS. Lithograph by Philippe Délis et associés and René Arch., dated [between 1990 and 1999], held by Wellcome Collection.

Work associated with this heading is recorded in 2 named public collections.

M HKA - Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen: 4 recorded objects, read from the institution's own published catalogue. Wellcome Collection: 3 recorded objects, read from the institution's own published catalogue.

11 scholarly publications naming this subject were located in the registry of record.

Gerz, Jochen, Benezit Dictionary of Artists, 2011. Octave Debary, La Ressemblance dans l’œuvre de Jochen Gerz. Avec les archives de Jochen Gerz et des photographies de Pierre Gaudin. (Resemblance in the Work of Jochen Gerz. With Jochen Gerz’s Archives and Pierre Gaudin’s Photographs.), Gradhiva, 2019. Jochen Gerz : anthologie de l’art, Critique d’art, 2009. Les questions de Jochen Gerz, Vacarme, 1997. Monumental Attack: The Visual Tools of the German Counter-Monument in Two Works by Jochen Gerz and Esther Shalev-Gerz, and Horst Hoheisel, Images, 2016. Quels lieux de rencontre démocratiques ?, EspacesTemps.net, 2003. The Invisible and the “Matter” of Memory: A New Materialist Approach to Countermonumental Aesthetics, The Polish Journal of Aesthetics, 2017. Situation : les paradoxes de la commande artistique - Jochen Gerz, Appareil, 2018. Antimonumentos: trabalho de memória e de resistência, Psicologia USP, 2016. Antimonuments: Between Memory and Resistance, Between, 2020. La volonté politique de commémoration des morts appartient aux vivants, Conserveries Mémorielles, 2017.

This heading is established in Gemeinsame Normdatei (GND) (1365379795). Those registers additionally record the form Jochen Gerz Public Authorship Foundation.

Bibliographic registers publish measured figures for this heading: 7 language editions of the general reference literature carrying an article (Wikimedia (language editions)). A count of publications is evidence of attention, not of standing, and is given here only as a measure.

This article draws on 5 independent source lineages. Copies and mirrors of the same underlying record were collapsed into a single witness, so 5 means 5 genuinely separate publishers of record. 14 further registers were consulted and returned nothing for this heading.

the recorded working language is German.

The authority associates the name with contemporary art.

Places of work recorded in the authority are Paris. Membership is recorded of Academy of Arts, Berlin.

Works named in the authority record are Le Monument vivant de Biron.

Work by Jochen Gerz is recorded in the collections of Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, CODA Museum, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Van Abbemuseum.

Distinctions recorded are Peter-Weiss Prize, Knight of the National Order of Merit and German Critics' Prize for Visual Art.