Action Trash
The most important material used by HA Schult for his attacks against an impassive, and waning cultural institution is garbage. Garbage used as a material of refusal and provocation. Armin Zweite, 1974
If I were an artist educator, I would go with young people and walk the garbage heaps of industrialized civilization, because by destroying this order one breaks through its facade. Robert Jungk, 1973
HA Schult’s art is like a heavily loaded vaccination injection whose effects have not missed the mark regarding society’s awareness. Eberhard Roters, 1973
More and more artists are using trash not just as a material but also as a subject. Kim Levin, 2011
sub art Munich, 1968
Terra Extra Galerie Nächst St. Stephan, Vienna, 1969
Situation Schackstraße Munich, 1969
Unwelt Lenbachhaus Munich, 1974
Tribute to Beckenbauer Lenbachhaus Munich, 1974
Tribute to Beckett Staatstheater Stuttgart, 1974
Venezia Vive Piazza San Marco, Venice, 1976
Crash New York – documenta 6, 1977
Trash Concert Ruhrdistrict, Germany, 1978
Now Washington Street, New York, N.Y., 1983
Collection Annette and Peter Nobel, Zurich
Trash City National Studios, New York, N.Y., 1983
Broken Dreams Hertie Department Store, Bonn, 1984
Broken Dreams Hertie Department Store, Bonn, 1984
Broken Dreams Hertie Department Store, Bonn, 1984
Bonn, 1984
Broken Dreams
Art AttackMuseum Ludwig, Cologne, 1980
Attack against ArtGorleben, 2004
EndzeitAtze Brauner Studios, Berlin, 1991
EndzeitAtze Brauner Studios, Berlin, 1991
EndzeitIngrid Caven, Johannes Willms, 1991
Trash People.
In twenty containers they roam around the world like refugees of the consumer society. The Trash People are images of ourselves. We produce trash and we will become trash. Today's Coca-Cola bottle is the Roman archeological found of tomorrow.
The pyramids of the present are the garbage dumps. On them the consumer society lets grow the blossoms to flowers of civilization. The children of Coca-Cola and Vietnam, of Red Bull and Beirut skip 6000 years of history.
The poor collect the trash of the rich, the more poor men collect the trash of the poor. And the most poor men dig a hole in the Sahara for warming up with the hungry fire of the garbage. Over all is the black sound cloud of barking hell dogs. At the end it will be covered by sand and a year later a gulf hotel will be constructed there.
HA Schult, 1999
Roman Amphitheatre
Xanten, 1996
Trash People in Paris La Défense, 1999
Red Square People Moscow, 1999
Red Square People Moscow, 1999
Great Wall People Young Chinese artists, 2001
Great Wall People Chinese photographers, 2001
Great Wall People Performance by He Chengyao, 2001
Great Wall People HA Schult, Karl Ludwig Schweisfurth, 2001
Great Wall People Jin Shan Ling, 2001
Great Wall People Jin Shan Ling, 2001
Great Wall People Beijing, Jin Shan Ling, 2001
Trash DanceBeijing Opera, 2001
Pyramids PeopleCairo, Giza, 2002
Pyramids People Cairo, Giza, 2002
Matterhorn People Zermatt, Stellisee, 2003
Matterhorn People Zermatt, Stellisee, 2003
Grand Place People Brussels, 2005
Stille Tage in Gorleben Saltmine, 2004
Stille Tage in Gorleben Saltmine, 2004
Stille Tage in Gorleben Saltmine, 2004
Stille Tage in Gorleben Saltmine, 2004
Stille Tage in Gorleben Saltmine, 2004
Stille Tage in Gorleben Saltmine, 2004
Stille Tage in Gorleben Saltmine, 2004
Stille Tage in Gorleben Saltmine, 2004
Stille Tage in Gorleben Saltmine, 2004
Slum, Palais Herberstein
Neue Galerie Graz, Austria, 2006
Cologne People
Cologne, Cathedral Square, 2006
Cologne People
Cologne, Cathedral Square, 2006
1,200,000 visitors
Cologne People
Cologne, Cathedral Square, 2006
Roman People Rome, Piazza del Popolo, 2007
2,200,000 visitors
Roman People Rome, Piazza del Popolo, 2007
Barcelona, Plaza Real, 6:00 a.m., 2007
Barcelona, Plaza Real, 10:00 a.m., 2007
Longyearbyen Tuesday, 3/15/2011, 2:00 p.m.
Street into Advent Valley Tuesday, 3/15/2011, 5:00 p.m.
Street into Advent Valley Tuesday, 3/15/2011, 5:00 p.m.
Street into Advent Valley Tuesday, 3/15/2011, 5:00 p.m.
Street into Advent Valley Wednesday, 3/16/2011, 10:00 a.m.
Street into Advent Valley Thursday, 3/17/2011, noon
The Violin, Anna Zlotovskaya, 5:00 p.m.
Arctic PeopleAdvent Valley, 2011
Places become no places, the living become the dead and the dead become the living dead. The glamour of history will be a dread, welfare will become a horror. In the name of clarification there will be a dual occupation, namely the re-entry of the invasion and the return of reality. HA Schult redefines places, sites and buildings that have already been named by the public.
The living dead, the depraved in the shadow, return to the light in HA Schult's art. The unnamed people who have helped others to glory and to the glamour of the history, they have build: the palaces and pyramids they have cleaned up the garbage and they were treated like rubbish. They are the victims who were historically considered to be trash by the offenders.
Now they will be rehabilitated. They will be presented right in front of the historic locations of power and glamour they built. People made of trash.
We live in an era of trash. We produce trash and we become trash and we, the majority, are always treated like trash. By showing the people who were made into trash by history and cruelty, the spectacle of horror becomes a mirror. The shocking wounds, which were inflicted on the people and other living beings become visible in an impressive picture, which returns from the zone of suppression, from the desert of reality. It shows us reality like a desert populated by zombies: Trash!
Peter Weibel, 2006
Einkehr in Telgte
Telgte, Germany, 2011
Colaman, Telgte
Collection Haus der Geschichte, Bonn