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Heinz Mack
Artist's Name: Heinz Mack
Preferred medium: mixed media
birth year: 1931
Nationality: DE
City: Düsseldorf

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Heinz Mack (born March 8, 1931 in Lollar, Germany) is a German artist. Together with Otto Piene he founds the ZERO movement in 1957. He exhibited works at documenta in 1964 and 1977 and he represented Germany at the 1970 Venice Biennale. He is best known for his contributions to op art, light art and kinetic art. Heinz Mack was born is 1931 in a small German village. Between 1950 and 1956 he studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. Together with Otto Piene he started 1957 a series of so called Abendausstellungen (evening exhibitions) at their studio in Düsseldorf. This series was the initial event for the formation of the group ZERO (with the nucleus Mack, Piene and Günther Uecker) and the international ZERO movement. Among the participants of the ZERO movement were Yves Klein, Lucio Fontana, Piero Manzoni and Jean Tinguely. In 1964 Mack, Piene and Uecker arranged the “ZERO Lichtraum (Hommage á Lucio Fontana)” at the 1964 documenta in Kassel. 1964 to 1966 Mack lives and works in New York where the Howard Wise Gallery presented a solo exhibition in 1966. 1970 Mack was invited as visiting professor to Osaka, Japan. At the same year he represented Germany at the 1970 Venice Biennale (together with Günther Uecker, Georg Karl Pfahler and Thomas Lenk). For the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich he created an illuminated “Wasserwolke” (Water cloud). (Wikipedia)

important exhibitions from Heinz Mack

Exhibition Location City Country Date
HEINZ MACK - Kinetik Museum Abteiberg Mönchengladbach DE 03.04.2011
Mack - the language of my hand. Museum Kunst Palast Düsseldorf DE 26.03.2011
Mack - die Sprache meiner Hand Museen Haus Lange und Haus Esters Krefeld DE 26.03.2011
Heinz Mack - Zwischen den Zeiten Museum am Ostwall Dortmund DE 06.05.2012
Heinz Mack: Licht-Raum-Farbe Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Bonn DE 18.03.2011
HEINZ MACK - DIE SPACHE MEINER HAND Galerie der Stadt Tuttlingen Tuttlingen DE 17.02.2012
Heinz Mack Museum im Kulturspeicher Würzburg DE 06.08.2011
Heinz Mack - Silberlicht Museum Abteiberg Mönchengladbach DE 08.03.2006
3. Moscow Biennale 2009 Moscow Biennale of contemporary art Moskau RU 25.09.2009
Minimalism in Germany. The Sixties II Daimler Contemporary Art Collection Berlin DE 31.03.2012

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Galleries representing
Heinz Mack:

Florian Trampler Galerie
Galerie Bengelsträter
Galerie Heinz Holtmann
Galerie Löhrl
Galerie Thomas
Geuer & Breckner Galerie
Kunstraum Falkenstein
Samuelis Baumgarte Galerie

Collections representing
Heinz Mack

Adolf-Luther-Stiftung
Deutsche Bank Collection
kunsthalle weishaupt
Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein
Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz
Märkisches Museum
Miami University Art Museum
MUSEION - Museo d`arte moderna e contemporanea
Museum Abteiberg
Museum gegenstandsfreier Kunst
Museum Kurhaus Kleve - Ewald Mataré Sammlung
Museum Morsbroich
Museum Ritter - Sammlung Marli Hoppe-Ritter
Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin
Sammlung der Bundesrepublik Deutschland
Sammlung Hoffmann
SCHAUWERK
Städtische Galerie Karlsruhe
Tate Britain
Tate Modern
Tate St. Ives
The Berardo Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art