CURRENT EXHIBITION:

image: >disintegration/ cycle<, 2023

installation at Neckarspinnereiquartier/ Wendlingen (Germany),

collected brick pebbles from rivers and beaches in various sizes/

DIN A0 affiche print (high resolution scan of an original pin-up poster found on site

at the Neckar spinning mill)

group exhibition project >längs und quer zum fluss<

July 8 - october 31, 2023 (on appointment only)

for appointments and guided visits please write to: events@hos-gruppe.de

Neckarspinnereiquartier NQ, Heinrich-Otto-Str.64, 73240 Wendlingen a. N.

(as part of the IBA'27-festival in July 2023

participating artists: Hartmut Landauer, Philipp Kojo Metz, Anja Schoeller, Menja Stevenson, Menja Stevenson, ststs, Sylvia Winkler/ Stephan Köperl, Kathrin Wörwag

PAST ENTRIES:

Hartmut Landauer

>metamorphology< / paintings and objects

December 2 2022 - January 29 2023

Gallery 38

2-30-28 Jingumae, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, 150-0001 Tokyo, Japan

opening reception: December 2 (Fri) 2022  18:00 - 20:00

the artist will be present on December 2 and 3

>metamorphology< exhibition views at gallery 38:

gallery 38 official press release:

metamorphology

The german artist Hartmut Landauer will be showing his recent work at Gallery 38 under the title metamorphology from December 2nd 2022 until January 2023.

The exhibition’s centre piece is created by an installation of more than hundred found and altered everyday objects on a large table to which the paintings and painting objects on the walls are referring in several ways. The original found and the artistically made-up objects of the table installation merge in a way that the borders of creation become fluent.

The table installation-related artworks displayed on the gallery walls consist of a series of complex abstract paintings on paper in shimmering vividly coloured stripes of countless layers of glaze, a series of much darker and stiller, meditative abstract compositions on paper and a series of minimalistic painted plywood objects in varying shapes of an almost sculptural character.

For Hartmut Landauer, the term metamorphology stands for the observation, collection and above all, the creation of objects in a state of constant change and their endless transformation and variation possibilities. For him it is that immeasurable wealth of imagination that is capable to create everything out of nothing.

FURTHER PAST ENTRIES:

Vinyl LP-cover artwork

LP-cover artwork (LP title: halfway to dawn)

for german Jazz duet Sunswept Sunday (Daniel Kartmann and Torsten Papenheim)

released in summer 2022

FURTHER PAST ENTRIES:

In 18 Büchern um die Welt  /  Around The World In 18 Books (group show)

Hartmut Landauer's room at Villa Merkel: installation with showcases of memorabilia, contemporary and antique ethnographical objects from the artist's collection

Als Interkontinentalreisen noch nicht üblich waren vermittelten dicke Bildbände den Blick in die Welt. Man wurde fremder Kulturen ansichtig, ohne sich selbst auf den Weg gemacht zu haben. Bedeutende FotografInnen, die dieses Genre meisterhaft bedient haben, stehen (standen) mit der Region in unmittelbarer Verbindung und sind deshalb Thema für den Esslinger Kunstverein. Bücher u.a. über Afrika, die Sowjetunion, Nepal, die Antarktis, den Ganges, Sun-City, den Vatikan, Cuba oder Sri Lanka halten fotografische Erfahrungen der AutorInnen fest – atemberaubende Landschaften, Mega-Cities, Menschen und Rituale, Kargheit und Überfluss – für ein neugieriges Publikum daheim.

Auf der anderen Seite versammelt die Ausstellung künstlerische Beiträge, die sich sehr divers mit dem Reisen, der Fremde, dem Anderen im Gewohnten, dem Ungesehenen beschäftigen. In den Medien von Malerei, Objekt, Installation und Fotografie handeln die Beiträge von der Exotik uns umgebender Dinge. Das Reisen ist in der Zeit der Pandemie schwierig geworden. Mögliches Fernweh wird durch diese Ausstellung kompensiert.

participating artists: / mit Kunst von:

Wolf Harhammer * 1941 in Stuttgart
Isabell Heimerdinger *1963 in Stuttgart
Hartmut Landauer *1966 Gemmrigheim
Florina Leinß *1984 in Freudenstadt
Ann-Kathrin Müller *1988 in Nürtingen
Guido Nussbaum * 1948 in Muri, Schweiz
Martin Pfeifle *1975 in Stuttgart
Menja Stevenson *1982 in Rottweil
Ina Weber *1964 in Diez an der Lahn

books and photography by: / mit Büchern und Fotografien von:

Karin Eisenmann *1940 in Esslingen, † 2020 in Stuttgart
Erwin Fieger * 1928 in Böhmen, † 2013 in Stuttgart
Dieter Blum *1936 in Esslingen
Peter Granser * 1971 in Hannover, lebt in Stuttgart
Franz Lazi *1922 in Freudenstadt, † 1998 in Stuttgart
Werner Pawlok * 1953 in Stuttgart
Lothar Wolleh * 1930 Berlin, † 1979 in London

above:

>altamar<, installation with mended japanese fish box (found at Barbate's Hierbabuena beach in 2003), antique japanese mono record player and LP-record with songs ogf humpback whales (Zweitausendeins Verlag, 1988)

>altamar< is currently being exhibited at the inner courtyard of Villa Merkel in Esslingen as part of the group exhibition >In 18 Büchern um die Welt / around the world in 18 books<

below:

>songs of the humpback whale<, flexi disc (single record), 1979, National Geographic magazine supplement (from the artist's collection) played on the >altamar< installation.

PAST ENTRIES:

gallery 38  >gallery collection show<

Eiji Uematsu    Christiane Pooley    Hartmut Landauer

Hinako Miyabayashi    Kanjiro Okazaki    Kishio Suga   

Oliver Marsden    Romain Cadilhon    Stephanie Quayle

22 (wed) Dec, 2021 - 13 (thu) Jan, 2022

wed-fri: 14:00 - 19:00    sat/sun: 12:00 - 17:00

closed on Mon, Tue, National Holidays

Winter Holiday: 30 (thu) Dec - 4 (tue) Jan

101 Harajuku Homes, 2-30-28 Jingumae
Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, Japan 

EXTINKT 1

(fragments / improvisations)

object and collage installation by Hartmut Landauer at Remise Bukarest, Stuttgart

music performance by Daniel Kartmann

August 5, 2021, from 6 pm until 9 pm

Remise Bukarest

Gänsheidestraße 41a (Hinterhof / backyard) > access via Gerokstraße,
(to the left of the butchery at Bubenbad)

Remise Bukarest: architectural art space concept by Peter Stellwag and Daniel Kartmann,

curatorial contributions by Julia Connert, light installation and artworks by Hartmut Landauer.

temporary object installation in the staircase at Remise Bukarest, summer 2021

Bachbett

model for a fountain (scale: 1:20)

competition model for a monument for the city of Kirchheim/Teck

(limited competitive bidding)

march - june 2021

HOMEWARD / HEIMWÄRTS

EINE INSTALLATION VON HARTMUT LANDAUER
IM AUSSTELLUNGSRAUM HUEHNERSTALLEN

kuratiert von Bruno Nagel

23. Juli bis 29. August 2021
Freitag, Samstag und Sonntag 12 bis 19 Uhr

BRUNO NAGEL  I  Kaiserbergsteige 12  I   73037 Hohenstaufen
Das Stallgebäude ist geöffnet und durch den Garten zugänglich.

Das Projekt HUEHNERSTALLEN wird gefördert durch ein Stipendium des
Ministeriums für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kunst Baden-Württemberg

COME BACK STUTTGART

Sonderausstellung / special exhibition

Galerie Valentien Stuttgart

Erik Andersen, Wolfgang Flad, Vanessa Henn, Katharina Hinsberg, Judith Hopf, Mathias Hornung, Annette Kelm, Isabel Kerkermeier, Kathrin Landa, Hartmut Landauer, Miriam Lenk, Cesy Leonard, Matthias Megyeri, Jost Münster, Nadja Schöllhammer, Klaus Weber

kurartiert von / curated by Hergen Wöbken

vom 15. April bis 12. Juni 2021 / April 15 until june 12 2021

Eröffnung (falls erlaubt) / opening (if permitted): Donnerstag, 15. April von 15 bis 22 Uhr / thursday, april 15 from 3 to 10 p.m.

NEW WORK

elements_M1      65 x 50 cm     (medium-size wall object series)

acrylic paint on plywood

August 2020

tokyomorphosis 2

recent works for the ongoing photography series >tokyomorphosis<

May / June 2020

PAST ENTRIES

artist talk with Hartmut Landauer

sunday, February 2nd 2020, 4 p.m. (until 6 p.m.)           
at Daimler Contemporary Berlin, Haus Huth, Alte Potsdamer Str. 5

>Amaru< (with record player and >Amaru< LP), installation view at Daimler Contemporary Berlin

Breathing Loop

How to Turn a Sculpture into Sound: The Amaru Sound Experiment

The artist Hartmut Landauer and composer Daniel Kartmann produced and published, in a signed and numbered edition of 100 copies, a 12-inch orange vinyl record with four experimental sound improvisations housed within a silk-screen printed cover. Featured inside the album is a 12-page booklet.
During the exhibition sound on the 4th floor, to be seen from July 7, 2019 to February 2, 2020 at the Haus Huth on Potsdamer Platz, the exhibition forum of the Daimler Art Collection, the record will be heard as part of Landauer’s installation. It will be played on a vintage record player next to his sculpture Amaru.
Landauer’s sculpture Amaru was created in 2016, which the Daimler Art Collection acquired in the following year. The artist temporarily borrowed the artwork from the collection to realize his idea of adding sound and to publish the results on record. Using the materials of the sculpture, he first built improvised musical items that simulated vibraphones, whistles, or archaic stringed instruments. This provided the foundational sound resources for the multi-instrumentalist and composer Daniel Kartmann, whom he had decided upon to be his musical counterpart for the sound project.
For Kartmann, sound research involving the original sculpture was particularly important and enlightening. These sonic investigations played a central role in the creation of the sound experiment. What materials produce what sounds? What is achievable? Due to the sculpture’s dimensions and proportions, considerations on Minimalist and Concrete Art also influenced Kartmann’s ideas for the recording sessions. The sculpture itself appeared silent and hermetic, as though construction and composition had created a kind of “acoustic vacuum.” Hence, musical rendering was for him like “turning into sound” the hidden world within a primarily visually perceptible object.
At the same time, Kartmann had already interpreted the sculpture acoustically beyond its pure physicality: He had assumed a “silent substance” within the sculpture’s hermetically sealed nature. The sculpture’s “hidden music” should then be made audible through a kind of endoscopic exploration of its inner life. And when Kartmann was unable to detect neither the sculpture’s beginning nor its end, it was clear to him that there had to be an enclosed cosmos that—musically translated—could be expressed in a loop.
Both artists had a puristic and minimalist idea of their joint concept: “The source material and resulting sounds shall not be altered subsequently nor will any material used in the sculpture be excluded.” This meant that in addition to the long hose and the different lengths of the straight and bent metal tubes,  also hooks, screws, wood dowels, cable ties, and shock cords were used. The only permitted device was the use of a loop station. This is how Kartmann was able to layer the sounds during the live recordings and realize his basic compositional idea of the recurring loop.
The building of instruments and the sound finding process developed over several weeks. Increasingly, Landauer’s atelier turned into a recording studio and finally—with the technical support of sound engineer Markus Schäffler and his precise Russian microphones—the four compositions for the record emerged within a few productive sessions, through the combination of sounds of nature and jazz reminiscences in psychedelically symphonic and percussively vibrating ways.
The sounds elicited from the sculpture were “liberated.” They were universal sounds made audible by the freedom of the artistic idea. The sound experiment on record could, by all means, also be defined as the sculpture’s immaterial complement.

Renate Wiehager
(English translation  by Alix Sharma-Weigold)

>elements<

exhibition views and images of the opening reception on september 26

Hartmut Landauer: Elements

In Koumi machi, where Hartmut Landauer spent the summer working, he found the necessary stillness and magical setting for his new work series that combine painting with sculpture and show other hybrid forms between two- and threedimensional materials and media fusion concepts. Japanese influences are perceptible in these new works and some of them may be called innovative for his art.

The new minimalistic collage series made from vintage LP cover cut-outs, mounted on layers of used coloured cardboard sheets are based on single two-coloured units that - combined with others of their kind - become complex towering assemblages of unexpected accidental tonal harmonies and disharmonies.

Folded at their conjoined edges these 'dyad segments', Landauer's elements, become the basic building parts for his objects that oscillate subtly between the second and the third dimension.

One of the new features in his work is a variation of these objects using painted plywood pieces (from his own collection of antique and new, both German and Japanese plywood boards), that the artist has sawn out by hand and conjoined with glued linen straps on the reverse side. Without intricate planning, these works  evolve within a continuous informal process of assembling and disassembling, painting and overpainting until the work of art is eventually banned in one of a million possible states.

The evidence of discarded and fragmented found material, its destruction and reinterpretation provide many plausible connotations in order to interpret Landauer's art. Metamorphoses have been a central motif for Landauer for several years. The materials, so to speak, undergo stages of destruction and alteration to finally become transmutated beings, which are liberated from the original material, and come into existence on their own behalf.

Both in the Japanese Godai philosophy and in some ancient European elementary philosophies, the nature theory of the five elements earth, water, fire, wind and void are philosophical abstract principles of views and reflections of nature - and of human life and actions according to natural processes.

To Hartmut Landauer there is a holistic point of view to all aspects in life - this is true for both his art and his personal life. The archaic creative determination to 'alter the given world' is immanent in human nature. To Landauer making art is about creating for this determination   to discover the unknown within oneself.

Akiko Horiuchi, curator

THE KOUMI ARTIST IN RESIDENCE 2019

three month studio scholarship at the artists' residence in Koumi Machi Kogen, Nagano prefecture, Japan

july - september 2019

DANIEL KARTMANN + HARTMUT LANDAUER

>AMARU SOUND PROJECT<: EXPERIMENTAL CONCERT

+ LP release

>DANOPTICUM< / Reihe für improvisierte Musik

JAZZCLUB KISTE / STUTTGART    Mittwoch, 19. Juni 2019    ab 21 Uhr

>amaru sound project< experimental concert: Daniel Kartmann performing live at jazz club Kiste in Stuttgart, live-video performance by Menja Stevenson (photography: Jürgen Altmann)

>amaru sound project< / >die Vertonung einer Skulptur< / >how to turn a sculpture into sound< 

part 3: the making of the record

The production of the 100 orange >Amaru< vinyl records was accomplished by www.duophonic.de in Augsburg, the booklet was printed by Grammlich in Pliezhausen.

the 12 page booklet (above)

silk-screen printing of the LP covers by student Lisa-Devi - at the screen printing workshop of the State Academy of Art and Design Stuttgart  (below)

>amaru sound project< / >die Vertonung einer Skulptur< / >how to turn a sculpture into sound< 

part 2: the recording sessions

cardboard objects (>transition codex< series), may 2019

>tree house< 

april 2019

>amaru sound project< / >die Vertonung einer Skulptur< / >how to turn a sculpture into sound< 

part 1: sound research

february / march 2019

recordings at the artist's studio together with musician and composer Daniel Kartmann who is experimenting with the material from a dismantled version of Hartmut Landauer's sculpture >amaru< (2016) that had been purchased for the Daimler art collection in 2017.

The idea of making this sculpture audible and to compose a sound piece pressed on vinyl arose from the invitation to the exhibition >sound on the 4th floor< (see below). The release of a 12'' vinyl record in summer will reveal this unique sound experiment. The record will be played during the exhibition next to the original sculpture.

Hartmut Landauer: >amaru< with >amaru sound project< at the group show:

>sound on the 4th floor<

compiled and arranged by Gerwald Rockenschaub

videos, audio and sound works, sound sculptures, pictures, graphics

http://art.daimler.com/sound-on-the-4th-floor/

>selenotrope<

has found a perfect home in an original Bauhaus building in Stuttgart with its original 1920s staircase and furnishing.

january 2019

PAST ENTRIES

wall design for the lounge area at SG Stern headquarters (Mercedes Benz sports association),

Fritz-Walter-Weg 19, >SpOrt<, Stuttgart

(515 x 272 cm, printed foil, accomplished in november 2018 by >t-signs<, Stuttgart)

Magie und Ritual / Museum Villa Rot

group show

Birte Horn / Hartmut Landauer: Malerei / Skulptur

21. April - 19. Mai 2018

Eröffnung: Fr, 20. April 2018, 20 Uhr / Künstlergespräch

Galerie Tobias Schrade

Auf der Insel 2, Fischerviertel, 89073 Ulm

www.galerie-tobias-schrade.de

Öffnungszeiten: Dienstag bis Freitag 13.00 – 18.00 Uhr, Samstag 11.00 – 15.00 Uhr sowie nach Vereinbarung

Gallery 38   Tokyo   gallery show

7th March (Wed)  - 5th April (Thu) 2018

Exhibiting artists:
Hartmut Landauer, Kishio Suga, Eiji Uematsu, Masaaki Yamada

Gallery 38

101 Harajuku Homes, 2-30-28 Jingumae
Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, Japan

exhibition views / photographs by moco

>wealth< (fleeting monument to the void)

assemblage of found objects, 2017

Hartmut Landauer

disco debris

Ausstellung in der Graphotek

Stadtbibliothek am Mailänder Platz / Stuttgart

19.10.2017 bis 18.03.2018

Ausstellungseröffnung: Do, 19.10. / 18 Uhr / Graphothek / 8.OG

Einführung: Toba Borke & Pheel

Durch die Beschäftigung mit gefundenem ausgemustertem Material als materia prima und in den unendlichen Möglichkeiten der Verfremdung solcher Materialien sieht Hartmut Landauer magisches Potenzial für Metamorphosen: Er rettet die Essenz eines dem Untergang und Vergessen geweihten Gegenstands hinüber in die Welt der geistigen Artefakte, deren möglicher Zweck oft nur die in Anarchie und Freiheit geborene Schönheit selbst ist. Der Künstler ist anwesend.

mit freundlicher Unterstützung von Second Hand Records Stuttgart

>spirit<

Hartmut Landauer

spirit

Gegenstand und Artefakt

"Manche Gegenstände werden zu Lebensbegleitern mit erheblicher Symbolkraft: Sie stehen stellvertretend für Personen und Gedanken, für Erlebtes, für Geschichte und Zeit. Dinge werden zu Mythen in einem eigenen Kosmos. Der Mensch will die Dinge beseelt wissen und begreift sie als ausgelagerte Erweiterungen seines Geistes."(H.L.)

Aus seiner ethnografischen Sammlung zeitgenössischer Alltagsgegenstände aus aller Welt zeigt der Künstler Hartmut Landauer his favourite things und stellt sie seinen neuesten skulpturalen Objekten, Intarsiencollagen und Fotografien assoziationsreich zur Seite.

Städtische Galerie Ostfildern, Ausstellungsdauer: 9. Juli bis zum 19. September 2017

Hartmut Landauer

spirit

object and artefact

"Some everyday objects become companions through life with significant symbolic power. Representing persons and thoughts, memories, history and time they become myths within a universe of their own. Because man wants to conceive things endowed with spirit he looks at them as if they were external extensions of his own mind."(H-L.)

the artist will show his favourite things from his contemporary ethnographical collection of everyday objects complementing his recent work of sculptures, paper-inlay collages and photography.

Städtische Galerie Ostfildern, exhibition period: 9th July until 17th September 2017

everyday objects from the contemporary ethnographic collection of Hartmut Landauer (selection)

>spirit< exhibition views:

photographs: Frank Kleinbach / Hartmut Landauer

Hartmut Landauer, Uli Gsell – Schnittstellen
sculptures / objects
in the project space: installations by Jürgen Oschwald

vernissage: friday 3 june 2016, 19:00

introduction: Martin Naumann
exhibition period: 4 june - 16 july 2016

Galerienhaus, Breitscheidstraße 48, Stuttgart

Lumpp & Landauer / Figur und Artefakt

exhibition at Stadtmühle Weinsberg 12 june - 30 july 2016
vernissage: sunday, 12 june 2016, 11.00
introduction: Franziska Heyder
Jazz: Jan Jankeje (bass) and Hans Kumpf (clarinet)
finissage: saturday, 30 july 2016, 18.00, subsequent after-show summer party

opening hours: wednesday: 9.00 - 12.00
thursday - friday: 15.00 - 18.00 Uhr
saturday: 9.00 - 12.00 und 15.00 - 18.00 Uhr

Stadtmühle Weinsberg, Kanalstr. 37, 74189 Weinsberg
Tel. 07134 / 91 00 00, Mail: andreas-bonnaire@kultur-am-kanal.de
www .kultur-am-kanal.de

Free Jazz legends Hans Kumpf and Jan Jankeje improvising on >kumade II<

project scholarship at Künstlerdorf Schöppingen  may / june 2016

Projektstipendium Künstlerdorf Schöppingen  Mai / Juni 2016

http://www.stiftung-kuenstlerdorf.de/

HARTMUT LANDAUER & MATTI KRAUSE  Projektraum LOTTE: Wundertüte 3

SchauspielxLOTTE  >always radical / never consistent <

thursday, march 3 2016 / 8 pm / Projektraum LOTTE / Willy-Brandt-Straße 18 /70173 Stuttgart

Actor Matti Krause and Hartmut Landauer have a humorous and philosphical genre-crossing encounter at the Stuttgart Monopoly game board. They display their biographies while they try to fulfill tricky tasks and spontaneous improvisations along the evening together with the team and the audience of the Stuttgart based art project space LOTTE.

http://projektraum-lotte.de/

photography: Martin Becker

HELIOTROPES sculptures

art Karlsruhe art fair 2016 >Schacher - Raum für Kunst< ( stand H4/R09)

opened february 18 - 20, preview: february 17,  15 - 17 h

Messe Karlsruhe Messeallee 1 in 76287 Rheinstetten Germany

TOKYOMORPHOSIS

photography series, Tokyo, 2015 (residence in Tokyo / Japan, september until december 2015)

>I take photographs of what I wish to see, but then again what I see is real.<

Hartmut Landauer