{"title":"Wolf Kahlen","description":"\u003cp\u003eWolf Kahlen (born 1940, Aachen) is a German artist and one of the early figures in European video art. Working across film, video, photography, performance and installation since the late 1960s, his practice consistently tests the boundaries of self-image, identity and medial perception. He co-initiated the Video Forum at the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein and later founded Ruine der Künste, an artist-run space and edition imprint in Berlin. His photographic work \u003cem\u003eSelbstversuch\u003c\/em\u003e (1969) and the long-running retrospective project \u003cem\u003eBilder (k)einer Ausstellung\u003c\/em\u003e (2000–2003) are among the most sustained self-examinations in postwar German art.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"wolf-kahlen-bilder-keiner-ausstellung-ruine-der-kunste-berlin-2000","title":"WOLF KAHLEN, Bilder (k)einer Ausstellung, Ruine der Künste, Berlin, 2000","description":"\u003cp\u003eWolf Kahlen\u003cbr\u003eBilder (k)einer Ausstellung\u003cbr\u003eRuine der Künste \/ Edition Ruine der Künste, Berlin, 2000\u003cbr\u003eArtist postcard and exhibition invitation · 10.5 × 15 cm\u003cbr\u003ePrinted card stock, recto and verso\u003cbr\u003eSigned by the artist in ink to recto\u003cbr\u003eArtist-issued\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInvitation to the first part of Kahlen’s ten-part, three-year retrospective \u003cem\u003eBilder (k)einer Ausstellung\u003c\/em\u003e (2000–2003), opening at Ruine der Künste, Berlin, on 7 January 2000 — Kahlen’s 60th birthday. The recto reproduces his photographic work \u003cem\u003eSelbstversuch II\u003c\/em\u003e (1969), a four-part photo-canvas piece showing an inverted self-portrait with a positive print layered over the chest, Kahlen’s signature running vertically at the right edge.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe verso announces both the exhibition and \u003cem\u003eSelbst-los \/ Self-less\u003c\/em\u003e, an interactive internet work launched simultaneously and made available worldwide for visitors to print from the web. Its inclusion here — website address, email and fax contact printed alongside — gives the card an inadvertent historical precision: a document of the moment when artist-run spaces and early web distribution briefly occupied the same printed surface.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKahlen had worked with film, video, photography, performance and installation since the late 1960s and is an early figure in German video art. He co-initiated the Video Forum at the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein and later founded Ruine der Künste as an artist-run exhibition and publishing space. The ten-part retrospective it hosted between 2000 and 2003 is independently documented as a sustained self-examination across four decades of practice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe card connects several layers of Kahlen’s work at once: a 1969 photographic self-image, a 2000 retrospective, the artist-run institution and an early web-distributed work — all on a single piece of printed ephemera, signed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Very good. Light handling consistent with age; signed to recto. Verso bears a later pink rubber-stamp addition (\"täglich 15–19 Uhr\" \/ daily 3–7pm) giving the exhibition's regular viewing hours, applied after printing..\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Edition Ruine der Künste","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54751047778642,"sku":null,"price":95.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Kahlen_Wolf._Artist_postcard_and_exhibition_invite._2000.jpg?v=1789593669"}],"url":"https:\/\/thenewrare.com\/collections\/wolf-kahlen.oembed","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}