Juergen Staack

1978

born in Doberlug-Kirchhain

lives and works in Düsseldorf

2002 – 2008
Master Student, Kunstakademie Düsseldorf,
Prof. Thomas Ruff

2003
Founding of the artist collective "Fehlstelle", Düsseldorf

1999- 2002
photography apprenticeship, Wuppertal

AWARDS

2022
Kunstfonds working fund

2021
Kunststiftung NRW "Monographie"

2020
Kunstfonds project fund "Unser-Deutsch"
Kunstfonds project fund "7 Rooms of Life"

2015
Kunstfonds (one year working fund)

2012
AUDI Art Award for New Positions, Art Cologne

2011
ars viva Prize for Fine Arts
Förderpreis für bildende Kunst/Video der Landeshauptstadt Düsseldorf

Residences

2015
Pink Factory, Hongcheon, South Korea

2013
Art Space Estemp, São Paulo, Brazil

2012
TRANSFER NRW-Korea, Seoul

2009
Tokyo Wonder Site, Aoyama, Japan

Light Sketch "Limonium" / Strandflieder, 2020, 1 turquois china vase (Meissen), 1 sketchbook, 1 colour photograph (44 x 65 cm), 2 colour photographs (je 32 x 44 cm), Edition: unique + AP
In Juergen Staack’s "Light Sketch“ series the beholder will get instructions being asked to open a sketchbook, to put a flower in the vase, to place the vase next to the book, and to wait for the sun light which creates shadows on the empty pages of the sketchbook. Every 24 hours the work appears as a „sketch"

Juergen Staack, Aberration M2 / Moiré - Rouge I, 2021, lightbox with dimmer, moiré-textile, 226 x 162 cm

SHADOWS is an installation that is using the material of Profiler-Lamps and mirrors to create a gallery of images only by light. Visitors who are entering the installation become part through their shadows in those light-images. Depending on the position in the room, the visitors shadow can be in more than one light-image from different perspectives. The mirrors are cut in the shape of
trapezes to reflect a rectangle light-image on the wall.

SHADOWS, 2016
mirrors, LED headlights
dim. variable

Installation view Kunstverein Oldenburg 2016

SOLAR - COPY is a series which has been created in Gobi desert in Mongolia, which has unusual flower and plant growth in recent years. With Cyanotopy-Paper shadows of plants have been copied to the paper and fixed as a symbol of time.

Solar Copy / Shadows of Plants No. 046, 2019
Cyanotype
18 x 13 cm
31 x 25.2 cm (framed)
Edition: unique artwork

Some people spray contact phone numbers on the walls of houses in China to offer businesses. These businesses are mostly illegal so that the government and also house owner have them to overpainted.
Staack collected telephone numbers before they were overpainted. Staack collected the phonenumbers before the troups
could overpaint the numbers and called the providers to record their „WEI“ (Hello), which is used for a multi channel sound collage. The paintings have been photographed in high resolution.

WEI (deframed) No.30, 2016
affichen wallpaper
107 x 75 cm

For this series family members are asked to describe each other and to tell stories about their relatives; each person is represented by a speaker hidden behind a black canvas giving the family position (father, first-born, daughter etc.)
The sound goes from one to the other loudspeaker and end up as a polyphonic sound mix.

JEJU - Family, 2014
7-channel-sound installation, MDF and matt blackboard paint & chalk

Glass negatives from the early 20th century are mounted onto wooden plates. They are exposed by sunlight for the duration of one year. The wood gets darker by the sunlight. The negative is exposed as a positiv on the board.

Tableau 2014 X, 2014
poplar wood
20 x 15 cm

„Snow Walk“ is a series of four different geometric patterns (line, triangle, square and circle).
The sound was recorded from walking footsteps in the snow. The sound of footsteps in 50- °C/ 58- F sounds different than in one degree higher or lower. These geometric patterns have been stepped in the snow and the turning corners have been accousticly recorded. The loudspeakers
fix the corners of the geometric form and plays the sound of the footsteps, which walking like a ghost from speaker to speaker.

Snow Walk (Fig. 02, line), 2013
4-channel-sound installation
continuous loop
unique

The performance involves a "story-teller" and a "writer". The story-teller is describing the entering visitors from their cloth or by imagination about their lifes. Each performance is done by different language teams. The „writer“ is writing everything they hear, simultaniously with on the canvas. The
black writing will be seen on the canvas. After a while all the letters disappear and the canvas will look grey like before.

Script - Greek, 2013
script canvas, video, sound
120 x 200 cm
performance at Museum Osthaus Hagen, Germany

Visitor and the image... , is a series of performances with images behind a wall. A large-size photo print is hidden behind a wall, visible only through a small peephole; the beholder is kindly asked to describe loudly what she/he is seeing; the description will be heart by other visitors who share the same moment in the exhibition space. The picture behind is depending on the exhibited work but always a wallpaper, sticked on the wall.

Visitor and the Image - Jinson, 2010
mixed Media Installation, 46 descriptions

The Transcription - Image consists of four consecutively series that are strongly connected to each other. For part 1 polaroids have been described and recorded and were overpainted by the same person afterwards. For part 2, Staack asked people to describe sceneries he would have taken a photo from. For part 3, these oral descriptions have been turned into images using computer software that visualize audio tracks. In part 4, he reused the audio files from part 2, and sent them to certified translaters to handwrite the description on a paper in their according language.

Decodiertes Bild / Transcription Image (part3) No. 3121204jeju1, 2012
Lampda print, framed, language: Jeju-Corean
206 x 163 x 4,5 cm

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2024
UNSERDEUTSCH, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Berlin

2023
ABERRATION - EROSION - V1S10N, LOHAUS SOMINSKY Gallery, Munich, Germany
Time, Da in die Front, Düsseldorf
SELF, Kunstbüdchen, Ratingen, Germany
Eilike Schenkhoff, Juergen Staack, Marburger Kunstverein, Marburg, Germany

2020
Hans-Peter Feldmann, Thomas Ruff, Juergen Staack, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf

2016
Reduktion der Wirklichkeit, Kunstverein Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany
DISPUT, Kunstverein Ruhr, Essen, Germany

2014
Zwei, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf

2013
SAKHA, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Berlin
Script, artothek Raum für Junge Kunst, Cologne, Germany

2010
Transformation, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf

2006
LeftBehind, … Missing Pictures, Gallery Space Other, Boston, MA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2023
Transverse, Art Space & Cafe Barrack, Osaka, Japan
Bis die Bude brummt, Museum für Neue Kunst, Freiburg, Germany
Light Sketch, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany

2022
A Project for an Aging World, SOCIO:1 by TAIFUN e.V., Osaka, Japan
Die Wirklichkeit ist sowieso da, Weltkunstzimmer, Düsseldorf
workplace sequence, Invitation at studio Sascha Pohle, Seoul, Korea
Channel: Wave-Particle-Duality, Changwon Sculpture Biennale, Changwon, Korea

2021
Sound and Silence, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany
Fire Flies, Kunstlerverein Malkasten, Düsseldorf

2019
Listen to the image, look at the sound, Kai10 - Arthena Foundation, Düsseldorf
gestalten, Kunsthaus NRW, Aachen, Germany
Richard Long - and Fischer artists, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Berlin

2018
büro komplex, Kunsthaus NRW, Aachen, Germany
Summershow, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Berlin
TAIFUN - What we talk about when we talk about RESIDENCE, Atelierhaus, Neuss, Germany
Deutschland ist keine Insel, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, Germany

2017
Duett mit KünstlerIn, 21er Haus/ Belvedere, Vienna, Austria
Compilation - 5 Jahre Weltkunstzimmer, Weltkunstzimmer, Düsseldorf
Stress Field, Hubei Museum of Art/ Fine Art Literatur Art Center, Wuhan, China
Galerie mit Bleistift Fischer - 50 years of Konrad Fischer Galerie, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf
Mit den Händen zu greifen und doch nicht zu fassen, Kunsthalle Mainz, Mainz, Germany
asphalt - Kunststurer, Alte Kämmerei, Düsseldorf
Luther und die Avantgarde, Old Prision, Wittenberg
Duett mit KünstlerIn, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen
The present order, GfZK, Leipzig, Germany
viele, Ministerium für Familie, Kinder, Jugend, Kultur und Sport, Düsseldorf

2016
offenes Depot, Kunsthaus NRW Kornelimünster, Aachen, Germany
Memorial, Konrad Fischer Galerie,Düsseldorf

2015
Sammlung mit losen Enden, Kunsthaus NRW Kornelimünster, Aachen, Germany
Open Studio, Pink Factory, Hongcheon, Korea
daily sounds around, Weltkunstzimmer, Düsseldorf
More Konzeption - Conception now, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany
AAA - Art and the City, Public space of Zurich, Switzerland
beyond the surface, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf

2014
Takeshi - verschunden, Thealozzi Theater - collaboration with Julie Stearns, Bochum, Germany
Eine Reise in Jakutien – Road of Bones and the search for Ice-Whispering / T. Neumann und Juergen Staack, IMAI im NRW-Forum, Düsseldorf
approach to realities, Kunstraum, Düsseldorf

2013
Transfer, MMCA - National Museum for Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
approached to reality, Organhaus, Chongqing, China
Transfer, Museum Osthaus, Hagen, Germany
neblina no outro lado da rua, Estemp, Sao Paulo, Brasil

2012
Renania Libre, Gallery Helga de Alvear, Madrid, Spain
Transmission, OFF -Space, Düsseldorf
ars viva - languages 11/12, Museum Weserburg, Bremen, Germany
FEHLSTELLE, Gallery of Offenburg, Offenburg, Germany
Ars Viva - languages 11/12, Riga Art Space, Riga, Latvia

2011
Hantmann Staack, Kunstraum, Düsseldorf
Ars Viva - languages 11/12, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
Maulwurftremor, Villa Karl Marx, Viersen, Germany
Ant!foto!, Kunstraum, Düsseldorf

2010
Part 1: Reality Fotografie aus Düsseldorf und London, Walzwerkstrasse, Düsseldorf
Aber Schwarz ist keine Farbe, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf
Katalog, Künstlerhaus Sootbörn, Hamburg, Germany
Reminder, Forgotten Bar, Berlin

2009
Canell, Hultén, McBride, Staack, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Berlin
FEHLSTELLE - LA ZONA, public space, Mailand, Italy
Open Studio, Tokyo Wonder Site, Tokyo, Japan
Transcription – Image (I), Stuttgart 99.2 MHz/ 133 MHz Skopje (Radio-Exhibition)
Junge deutsche Fotografie, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany

2008
still in time, B-L-A-S-T, Cologne, Germany
Land – scaped, Gallery Fi’lia:le, Berlin
62. Bergische Kunstausstellung, Museum Baden, Solingen
FEHLSTELLE ? Vallauris, FEHLSTELLE, Vallauris, France
Gerberstrasse 21, UrbanVideoProject, Syracuse, NY

2007
Going Posta, Art Metropole, Toronto, Canada
Nach dem Sputnik, K.I.T., Düsseldorf
Abwesenheitsnotizen, Museum X, Mönchengladbach, Germany

2006
René Spitzer, Juergen Staack, Gallery Acapulco, Düsseldorf
Exile 2- referentielle Kunst, Projectspace Estemp, Düsseldorf

2005
Closer, Gallery SpaceOther, Boston, MA
Rencontre des Arles, Arles, France
Allen Schülern geht es gut, Malkasten, Düsseldorf
FEHLSTELLE- IMPORTE 2005, public space - billboard- architecture EVK, Düsseldorf

2004
Maapagu-InExile, Rotermann Salt Storage Arts Centre, Tallinn, Estonia
FEHLSTELLE - Kleine Revolte, public space, Berlin
FEHLSTELLE- Platz da!, Mintropplatz, Düsseldorf
FEHLSTELLE- Bilder im öffentlichen Raum, public space, Düsseldorf
realismus update, Malkasten, Düsseldorf

2017

Friese, Peter (ed.). Reduktion der Wirklichkeit, Oldenburger Kunstverein, (cat.)

Wilco, Hutch (ed.). Stress Field, Hubei Museum of Art, (cat.)

Duett mit KünstlerIn. Partizipation als künstlerisches Prinzip, Museum Morsbroich, (cat.)

Luther und die Avantgarde, ed. Susanne Kleine, Gefängnis Wittenberg; Berlin; Kassel, (cat.)

daily sounds all around, Weltkunstzimmer Düsseldorf, (cat.)

2015

more Konzeption - Conzeption now, Museum Morsbroich, (cat.)

AAA - Art Altstetten Albisrieden, Stadt Zürich, (cat.)

2013

Hyun, Jung (ed.). TRANSFER / Korea-NRW, NRW Kultursekretariat

2012

Fehlstelle, Städtische Galerie Offenburg, (cat.)

2011

ars viva 11/12 - Sprache/language, Kulturkreis der deutschen Wirtschaft, (cat.)

HANTMANN STAACK, Kunstraum Düsseldorf, (cat.)