HA Schult Biography
Born in 1939 in Parchim/Germany HA Schult grew up in the ruins of Berlin. From 1958 to 1961 he studied at the Academy of Art in Düsseldorf.
| 1962 – 1978 |
Living in Munich |
| 1971 | Guest Professor, Kassel Art Academy |
| 1978 – 1980 |
Living and working in Cologne |
| 1980 – 1986 |
Living and working in New York |
| 1986 | Establishing the HA Schult-Museum für Aktionskunst in Essen |
| 1986 – 1991 |
Living and working in New York and Essen |
| 1991 – 1992 |
Living and working in Berlin |
| Since 1992 |
Living and working in Cologne and Berlin |
| 1992 | Moving the HA Schult-Museum für Aktionskunst from Essen to Cologne |
| 2009 | Founding Director of ÖkoGlobe Institut, Duisburg – Essen University |
HA Schult creates his projects with Elke Koska the muse. Since 2001 also with Birgit Froehlich the actress. He lives with Anna Zlotovskaya the violinist in Cologne and Berlin.
In the sixties he coins phrases such as “Macher” and “Biokinetik”.
Since then the social fauna of cities and landscapes are in the focus of
his work, like Venice (“Venezia Vive”, 1976), NewYork (“Crash”, 1977, “Trash City”,
“Now”, 1983), Berlin (“Die Stadt”, 1982, “New York ist Berlin”, 1985),
Cologne (“Fetisch Auto”, 1989), St. Petersburg (“Marble Time”, “War and
Peace”, 1994), Germany (“Aktion 20.000 km”, 1970). The Ruhrregion
(“Ruhr-Tour”, 1978), and the Rhineland (“Rheingeist”, 1996).
In 1998 he created the “Peace Storage Building“ in Osnabrück, 1999 his “Hotel Europe” at the Cologne-Bonn
Autobahn which ended in a spectacular blasting on May 13, 2001.
In 2001 he realized the poetic “LoveLetters Building” in Berlin-Mitte,
2003 “Trees for Peace” in Zollverein, Essen, 2010 and 2011
“Corona Beach Garbage Hotel”, Rome and Madrid.
Since 1996 “Trash People”, Xanten, Paris, Moscow, Beijing,
Cairo, Zermatt, Kilkenny, Gorleben, Brussels, Cologne, Graz,
Rome, Barcelona, Washington D.C., Siracuse, Fabriano, Telgte,
Arctic.
HA Schult was one of the first artists to deal with the ecological
imbalances in his work. He is a major contributor to today`s new
ecological awareness. His works were on show on all continents.
They are in many private and public collections all over the world.
He participated twice at the documenta 1972 and 1977.
Since 2007, the worldwide first award for an environmental
conscious car industry, the ÖkoGlobe by HA Schult,
is presented yearly.
Munich, 1968
ekto gallery
Munich, 1969
Schackstraße
Munich, 1969
Trash Literature
Munich, 1969
HA Schult, Elke Koska, Jürgen Claus
Cologne, 1969
Ingo Kümmel, HA Schult, Policeman
Munich, 1969
Studio Munich Schwabing
Leverkusen, 1969
Günter Saree, Rolf Wedewer, HA Schult
Munich, 1970
Street Artwork
Munich, 1970
HA Schult, Gerd Winkler
Munich, 1970
Feldherrnhalle, 20.000 km
German Autobahn, 1970
Aktion 20.000 km
Aachen, 1971
Schult – Shoe with locusts, Wolf Vostell
Essen, 1974
Museum Folkwang
Ruhr District, 1978
Ruhr-Tour
Duisburg, 1978
Adam Seide, HA Schult, Georg F. Schwarzbauer
New York, 1981
HA Schult, Gregory Battcock, Elke Koska
New York, 1981
Hydrant
New York, 1981
Nam June Paik, HA Schult
Düsseldorf, 1982
Art People
New York, 1983
HA Schult, Robert Rauschenberg
New York, 1983
Muse and Macher
New York, 1983
HA Schult, Evelyn Weiss, Karl Ludwig Schweisfurth
New York, 1983
West Broadway
New York is Berlin, 1985
Collage
Berlin, 1985
Rainer Hildebrandt, HA Schult
New York, 1985
Roosevelt Island
Beijing, 1986
Tian'anmen Square
Düsseldorf, 1958
Academy of Art
Munich, 1968
ekto gallery
Leverkusen, 1969
Museum Morsbroich
Munich, 1970
Aktion 20.000 km
Telgte, 2011
Anna Zlotovskaya, violin
Telgte, 2011
Anna Zlotovskaya, violin
New York, 1985
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Cologne, 2011
HA Schult Museum
Arctic, 2011
Advent Valley
Gorleben, 2004
Saltmine
Xanten 1980
Amphitheatre
Düsseldorf, 1982
Anatol Herzfeld, HA Schult, Elke Koska
Dortmund, 1986
HA Schult, Allan Kaprow
Essen, 1987
Han Boping, mayor of Beijing
Essen, 1987
Art People
Saint Petersburg, 1994
Palace Square
Saint Petersburg, 1994
Art People
Beijing, 1999
The Great Hall of the People
Beijing, 2000
HA Schult, Han Yang I
Beijing, 2001
Great Wall
Beijing, 2001
Great Wall
Beijing, 2001
Beijing Hotel
Cairo, 2002
Al Gezirah Palace
Cairo, 2002
Pyramids of Giza
Barcelona, 2007
HA Schult, Heinz Kühn
Barcelona, 2007
Birgit Fröhlich, Elke Koska
Nuremberg, 2007
NMN, Neues Museum Nürnberg
Leipzig, 1991
Künstlerbedarf
Karlsruhe, 2011
Frozen Car
Fabriano, 2011
poiesis
Rome, 2010
Saint Angelo
Cologne, 1999
Studio Bensberg, the crew
Rome, 2010
Thomas Hoepker, HA Schult, Kolin Schult
Melsungen, 2011
B. Braun sharing expertise
Selected Solo Exibitions
| 2013 | Diocesan Museum, Paderborn Au Cloister, Monschau |
| 2012 | Fundacion Manos Verdes, Buenos Aires Mod's Hair, Cologne |
| 2011 | Kranhaus1, CMS Hasche Sigle,Cologne Kulturhuset, Longyearbyen |
| 2010 | Alexander Korobchinsky Art Center, Odessa |
| 2008 | National Geographic Museum Explorers Hall, Washington, D.C. |
| 2007 | Kölnisches Stadtmuseum, Cologne sidispot, Cologne |
| 2005 | Bortier gallery, Brussels sohle1, Bergkamen |
| 2004 | artiscope gallery, Brussels Kölnisches Stadtmuseum, Cologne HA Schult gallery, Cologne Charlotte Sailer gallery, Wissen |
| 2003 | Entsorga, Cologne |
| 2001 | Postfuhramt, Berlin |
| 2000 | Museum für Kommunikation, Berlin Museum für Kommunikation, Frankfurt Museum für Kommunikation, Nuremberg |
| 1999 | Art Cologne, Germany Eva Marie Bergermuseum, Amorbach ITB, Berlin |
| 1998 | Museum Burg Wissem, Troisdorf Charlotte Sailer gallery, Wissen |
| 1997 | Carmen Vetere gallery, Eitorf Galerie am Markt, Cologne-Porz Bernd Behrens Car Center, Kassel Neue Galerie, Bad Marienberg |
| 1996 | Central Train Station, Cologne, Dortmund, Hamburg-Altona, Hannover, Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Munich Kunsthaus, Cologne |
| 1995 | Central Train Station, Berlin, Dresden, Düsseldorf |
| 1994 | The State Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg |
| 1992 | Brandenburgische Kunstsammlungen, Cottbus Rathaus Sassnitz, Rügen Island Galerie Junge Kunst, Frankfurt/O. Kulturhistorisches Museum, Rostock Galerie am Fischmarkt, Erfurt Galerie der HGB, Leipzig |
| 1991 | Kölnisches Stadtmuseum, Cologne Städt. Museum, Zwickau Kunstverein Friedrichstadt, Berlin-Mitte Hospitalhof, Stuttgart |
| 1990 | Städt. Galerie im Prinz-Max-Palais, Karlsruhe Gasteig, Munich Vonderau Museum, Fulda Städt. Galerie Schloss Wolfsburg Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen Museum Volk und Wirtschaft, Düsseldorf Kunsthaus, Hamburg Kunsthalle, Bremen |
| 1989 | Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn |
| 1988 | Carlo Lamagna gallery, New York, N.Y. Hennemann gallery Bonn |
| 1987 | Inge Baecker gallery, Cologne |
| 1985 | Leopold-Hoesch-Museum, Düren Kunsthalle, Nuremberg Roemer- und Pelizaeus-Museum, Hildesheim |
| 1984 | Lincke Bookstore, Düsseldorf |
| 1982 | Hans Strelow gallery, Düsseldorf Kunstverein, Düsseldorf |
| 1980 | Museum Ludwig, Cologne sohle1, Bergkame |
| 1978 | Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund Städt. Museum, Mülheim Städt. Galerie, Bergkamen |
| 1977 | Europalia, Brussels Palazzo Odescalchi, Rome Palazzo Spalletti, Naples Camomille gallery, Brussels |
| 1976 | Lauter gallery, Mannheim |
| 1975 | Städt. Galerie, Ravensburg Edith Seuss gallery, Buchschlag Batimat, Paris Galerie K, Darmstadt |
| 1974 | Lenbachhaus, Munich Inge Baecker gallery, Bochum Kunsthalle zu Kiel Museum Folkwang, Essen Bundesbauministerium, Bonn Ubu gallery, Karlsruhe BfG, Frankfurt Bouwbeurs, Utrecht constructa, Hannover |
| 1973 | Museum Wiesbaden Falazik gallery, Neuenkirchen Edith Seuss gallery, Buchschlag Inge Baecker gallery, Bochum |
| 1972 | Otto van de Loo gallery, Munich Rochus Kowallek gallery, Frankfurt Klaus Lüpke gallery, Frankfurt |
| 1971 | Rudolf Zwirner gallery, Cologne Neue Galerie-Collection Ludwig, Aachen Kunstverein Heidelberg Spot/University, Kiel |
| 1969 | Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen K 235, Ingo Kümmel gallery, Cologne |
| 1968 | ekto gallery, Munich |
Selected Actions
| 2013 |
"Clean Water Building", Qingdao, China "Antarctica Project", Buenos Aires, Argentina "From Waste to Art", Baku, Azerbaijan “Monschau People”, Monschau, Germany “The Blood of Alexander Korobchinsky", Odessa, Ukraine |
| 2012 | “Potala Palace People”, Lhasa, Tibet “ÖkoGlobe VI”, Cologne “Climate.Klima.”, ZKM Karlsruhe, Berlin |
| 2011 | “Arctic People”, Longyearbyen, 78° 13´N 15° 33´E “Corona Beach Garbage Hotel”, Madrid “Future inside”, B.Braun, Melsungen, Germany “Einkehr inTelgte”, Telgte, Germany “Frozen Car”, Car Culture, ZKM Karlsruhe |
| 2010 | “Trash People”, Fabriano, Italy “Corona Beach Garbage Hotel”, Rome “Der lange Atem”, Bergisch Gladbach, Germany “Stecker am Dom”,“Golden Fishes Car”, Cologne |
| 2009 | “Crying Cars”, Cologne |
| 2008 | “Nabucco”, Antikenfestspiele Trier, Germany “Car Crash”, Riverside, Cologne |
| 2007 | “Roman People”, Piazza del Popolo, Rome “Barcelona People”, Plaza Real, Barcelona “ÖkoGlobe I”, Cologne |
| 2006 | “Cologne People”, Cathedral Square, Cologne, “Zerbrochene Träume”, Rosenthal, Cologne |
| 2005 | “Grand Place People”, Grand-Place, Brussels “Das Glück”, City Center, Bergkamen, Germany |
| 2004 | “Stille Tage in Gorleben”, Saltmine, Gorleben, Germany |
| 2003 | “Trees for Peace”, Zollverein, Essen, Germany “Matterhorn People”, Stellisee, Zermatt, Switzerland “World Box”, Event Island, Berlin-Spandau |
| 2002 | “Pyramids People”, Giza, Egypt |
| 2001 | “Love Letters Building”, Berlin-Mitte “Great Wall People”, Beijing “Trash Dance”, Beijing Opera House |
| 2000 | “Arche 2000”, Pariser Platz 3, Berlin “Der gelbe Kilometer”, Skyline Frankfurt, Germany “Trash Man One” in the Universe Space Shuttle Endeavour |
| 1999 | “Hotel Europe”, Autobahn Cologne-Bonn |
| 1999 | “Red Square People”, Red Square, Moscow “Trash People”, La Défense, Paris |
| 1998 | “Friedensspeicher”, Harbour Osnabrück, Germany “Trash People”,DLR, German Aerospace Center, Cologne |
| 1997 | “Inside out”, Prison-Ossendorf, Cologne “Prozess Stau”, Law Court, Düsseldorf |
| 1996 | “Rheingeist”, Bonn, Cologne, Leverkusen,
Düsseldorf, Duisburg, Xanten, Germany “Rhein-Ruhr-City”, Kunstkäfig Sutter, Essen, Germany |
| 1994 | “Der Krieg”, Palace Square, Saint Petersburg, Checkpoint Charlie, Berlin, Times Square, New York, N.Y. “MarbleTime”, Marble Palace, Saint Petersburg |
| 1992 | “Die Welle”, Wissower Klinken, Rügen Island “Die Wolke”, Marienkirche, Frankfurt /O. |
| 1991 | “End-Zeit”, ZDF/Atze Brauner Studios, Berlin “Denk-Mal-Auto”, Köln.Stadtmuseum, Cologne |
| 1990 | “Friedensaltar”, Mittelrhein-Museum, Koblenz, Germany “Schwarz, Rot – Geld”, 68elf, Cologne |
| 1989 | “Fetisch Auto”, Röm. -Germ. Museum, Cologne “Ver-rückter Garten”, AWO, Essen |
| 1985 | “New York ist Berlin”, Guggenheim Museum, New York, N .Y. Haus am Checkpoint Charlie, Berlin “Das Ding”, City Square, Dortmund |
| 1984 | “Broken Dreams”, Kunstsommer Bonn |
| 1983 | “Now”, Washington Street, New York, N .Y. “Trash City”, Nationalstudios, New York, N .Y. |
| 1981 | “Tribute to Gregory Battcock”, Anthology Film Archives, New York, N .Y. |
| 1980 | “Der Alltag”, Römisch-Germanisches-Museum, WDR, Cologne “Jetzt-Zeit-Reise”, Museum Ludwig, Cologne Archäologischer Park, Xanten, Germany |
| 1979 | “Trash”, Palazzo Grassi/New York University, Venice, Italy |
| 1978 | “Ruhr-Tour”, Essen, Duisburg, Bochum, Dortmund, Mülheim, Gelsenkirchen, Bergkamen, Ruhrdistrict, Germany |
| 1977 | “Crash”, New York, Staten Island Herkules, Kassel, via Satellite, documenta VI |
| 1976 | ““Venezia Vive”, Piazza S. Marco, Venice, Italy “Konsumbaum”, Städt. Gal. Wolfsburg “Ruhrfenster”, Museum Volk und Wirtschaft, Düsseldorf |
| 1975 | “Bergkamener Landschaft”, sohle1, Bergkamen |
| 1974 | “Ereignisraum für Beckett”, Staatstheater/Kunstverein, Stuttgart “Beckenbauer Trash”, Lenbachhaus, Munich |
| 1973 | “Konsum-Mal”, Bochumer Kunstwoche, Bochum, Germany |
| 1971 | “Gastarbeitersituation”, spot/University, Kiel |
| 1970 | “5 kg Agar Agar”, Art Basel, Basel “TV Situation” Aktionsraum1, Munich “Touuuuuuuristen”, Monschau, Germany “Prozess Schackstr.”, Law Court, Munich “Aktion 20.000 km”, Aktionsraum 1, Munich, Kunsthaus Hamburg, Kunsthalle Cologne, Neue Gal.-Collection. Ludwig, Aachen, Kunstverein Mannheim, Kunstverein Heidelberg, Kunstverein Ingolstadt, Kunsthalle Nuremberg, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin |
| 1969 | “Situation Schackstraße”, Schackstraße, Munich “König des Konsums”, Streetwork, Munich “Terra Extra”, Gal. Nächst St. Stephan, Vienna “Computer Situation”, Lüpke gallery, Frankfurt “Konsumliteratur”, Schleissheim Airport, Germany |
| 1968 | “Deconstruction”, Kölner Ladenstadt, Cologne |
Selected group exhibitions
| 2012 |
"Futures", Artiscope, Brussels, Belgium “From Waste to Art”, Gala settlement, Baku, Azerbaijan "StadtLandFluss" Villa Burgeff, Hochheim, Germany "Südwind", Schloss Plön, Germany "Eco Art", Beijing, Hongkong, China "MiArt", Milano, Italy “ARTandPRESS”, ZKM Karlsruhe, Germany |
| 2011 | “The Nature of Waste”, 5imde Confercence,
Honolulu, Hawai, Georgia State University, USA “Car Culture”, ZKM Karlsruhe, Germany “From Trash to Treasure”, Kunsthalle zu Kiel “Freedom to Create”, Singapore, Malaysia “Eco Art”, Shanghai, China “Aktionsraum 1”, MUMOK, Vienna “Umwelt -Akzente-1970”, Monschau, Germany “Götterdämmerung”, Schloss Herrenchiemsee, Germany “Ich sehe was du nicht siehst”, Osthaus Museum, Hagen |
| 2010 | “Human”, MAMAC, Nice, France “/+\=X”, unit F404, Cape Town, South Africa “PressArt”, Kunstmuseum St.Gallen, Switzerland “Trash Society”, Avant - garde, Warsaw, Poland “Newspaper Art”, Museum Siegburg,HdM Stuttgart |
| 2009/10 | “Record > Again”, ZKM Karlsruhe, Ludwig Forum, Aachen, Kunsthaus Dresden, Edith- Russ-Haus, Oldenburg, Germany |
| 2009 | “REstART”, G8 Siracusa, Italy “Architectuur en Alfabet”, Centre for Architecture, Leiden, Netherlands |
| 2008/09 | “Performing the City”, Lothringer 13, Munich, PAN, Napoli,C C, São Paulo, INHA, Paris |
| 2008 | “Blattgold”, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen |
| 2006 | “Slum”, Neue Galerie Graz, Austria “Drap-Art”, CCCB, Barcelona |
| 2004 | “Hommage an K.O. Götz”, Museum Küppersmühle, Duisburg |
| 2003 | “Kilkenny Arts Festival”, Kilkenny Castle, Ireland |
| 1996 | “Die Kunst des Fliegens”, Zeppelin Museum, Friedrichshafen |
| 1995 | “Das neue Köln”, Kunsthalle, Cologne |
| 1994 | “La ville”,Centre Pompidou, Paris, CCCB,Barcelona |
| 1993 | “Differentes Natures”, La Défense, Paris |
| 1992 | “Mythos Rhein”, Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen |
| 1991 | “Black Box”, K.E. Osthaus-Museum, Hagen |
| 1989 | “Art and the Law”, Reno, Nevada, USA “Wertpapier”, Künstlerwerkstatt, Munich |
| 1988 | “Zurück zur Natur, aber wie?”, Städt. Gal.
im Prinz-Max-Palais, Karlsruhe “Die Europa und der Stier”, Kunsthalle Bremen “Papier-Biennale”, Düren, Germany |
| 1987 | “Auf ein Wort”, Gutenberg Museum, Mainz |
| 1986 | “Der Traum vom Raum”, Albrecht-Dürer-
Gesellschaft, Nuremberg “Der Baum in Mythologie und Kunstgeschichte”, Kunstverein Heidelberg, Staatsgal. Saarbrücken “Der andere Blick”, Evgl. Krankenhaus, Bonn |
| 1985 | “1945 – 1985 – Kunst in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland”, Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Staatsgalerie, Saarbrücken “Zeichnung – Video”, Museum Wiesbaden |
| 1984 | “Frieden...”, Mönchehaus Museum, Goslar |
| 1983 | “Frieden...”, Kunstverein Wolfsburg |
| 1982 | “Kunst wird Material”, Nationalgalerie, Berlin “Kunst für den Bund”, Kunstmuseum Bonn “Art +Photography”, Kunsthalle zu Kiel |
| 1981 | “Das Papier”, Leopold-Hoesch-Museum, Düren “Szenen der Volkskunst”, Kunstverein Stuttgart “Oeuvres Plastiques des Artistes de laPerformance”, Elac, Lyon, France |
| 1980 | “Mensch u.Umwelt”, Wissenschaftszentrum Bonn “Tel Hai 80”, Tel Hai - Art Institute, Israel |
| 1979 | “The Art of Performance”, Palazzo Grassi,
Venice, Italy
“Im Namen des Volkes”, Wilhelm-Lehmbruck-
Museum, Duisburg, Künstlerhaus, Vienna “Die Entfremdung der Stadt”, NBK, Berlin “The Image of Man since 1945”, Fundatie Kunsthuis, Amsterdam “Stellungnahme”, Kunstverein Bonn |
| 1978 | “Partei ergreifen”, Kunsthalle, Recklinghausen “Prozesse”, Kunstverein, Bonn |
| 1977 | “documenta 6“, Kassel, Germany “Fliegen – ein Traum”, Kunsthalle Recklinghausen “L’espace d’évènement”, Europalia, Brussels “Deutsche Grafik von 1900 bis heute”, Kunstihoones, Tallina, ESSR |
| 1976 | “Grafikbiennale”, Krakau, Poland “Schuh-Werke”, Kunsthalle, Nuremberg |
| 1975 | “Der ausgesparte Mensch”, Kunsthalle, Mannheim “Grafikbiennale”, Vienna, Austria “Rencontres beaux arts /architecture”, Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland “Künstler der BRD”, Ständige Vertretung, Berlin -Mitte, East Germany |
| 1974 | “Landschaft – Gegenpol oder Fluchtraum? ”,
Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen,
Haus am Waldsee, Berlin “Signifying”, The Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto, Japan “Kunst in der Wirtschaft”, Historisches Museum, Hannover, Germany “Projekt ’74”, Kunsthalle, Cologne “Drawings”, Haus der Kunst, Munich “The World Uprising III ”, The Data Center of Contemporary Art, Tokio, Japan “Deutsche Kunst im 20. Jhd.”, Städt. Gal. Schloss Wolfsburg, Germany “Schaufenster”, Württ. Kunstverein, Stuttgart |
| 1973 | “Landschaften”, Haus der Kunst, Munich “Landschaften aus vier Jahrhunderten”, Kunsthalle Bielefeld “Künstler u. Umwelt”, IKI, Düsseldorf “Reale u. irreale Räume”, Falazik gallery, Neuenkirchen, Germany “Art in the factory”, DEMAG, Duisburg |
| 1972/73 | “Kritische Grafik”, USA, Southamerica, Argentina Chile, Uruguay, India, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Bolivia, Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco, Algeria, Turkey, Cyprus, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Australia, New Zealand |
| 1972 | “documenta 5”, Kassel “Verkehrskultur”, Kunstverein Münster “Welt aus Sprache”, Akademie der Künste, Berlin “Landschaft heute”, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart |
| 1971 | “situation concepts”, Gal. Nächst St. Stephan, Vienna, Gal. Im Taxispalais, Innsbruck, Austria |
| 1970 | “Jetzt. Künste in Deutschland heute”,
Kunsthalle, Cologne “Der Bildungstrieb der Stoffe”, Kunsthalle, Nuremberg “Konzepte einer neuen Kunst”, Museum Göttingen “Christo, HA Schult, Kosuth”, Art Agency, Oldenburg, Germany “Umweltakzente”,Kunstkreis Monschau,Germany |
| 1968 | “subart”, Subway Station Giselastraße, Munich |
| 1958 | “Art Circle”, Unna, Germany |