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

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

2016

Reduktion der Wirklichkeit, Kunstverein Oldenburg

Disput, Kunstverein Ruhr, Essen

2014

Zwei, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf

2013

Sakha, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Berlin

2012

Script, Audi Art Award for New Positions/ Art Cologne 2012, Cologne

2010

Transformation, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf

2006

Left Behind - Missing Pictures, Gallery Space Other, Boston, MA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2022

Die Wirklichkeit ist sowieso da, Weltkunstzimmer, Düsseldorf

2021

Sound and Silence, Kunstmuseum Bonn

Fire Flies, Kunstlerverein Malkasten, Düsseldorf

2020

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

2019

Listen to the image, look at the sound, Kai10 - Arthena Foundation, Düsseldorf

gestalten, Kunsthaus NRW, Aachen

Richard Long - and Fischer artists, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Berlin

2018

TAIFUN - What we talk about when we talk about RESIDENCE, Atelierhaus, Neuss

Deutschland ist keine Insel, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn

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

asphalt - Kunststörer, Alte Kämmerei, Düsseldorf

Luther und die Avantgarde, Old Prison, Wittenberg

Duett mit KünstlerIn Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen

The present order, GfZK, Leipzig

viele, Ministerium für Familie, Kinder, Jugend, Kultur und Sport, Düsseldorf

2016
offenes Depot, Kunsthaus NRW Kornelimünster, Aachen

WITH A TOUCH OF PINK - WITH A BIT OF VIOLET - WITH A HINT OF GREEN -

Dorothee Fischer in memoriam, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf

2015

AAA: Art Altstetten Albisrieden, Public space of Zurich, Altstetten

Albisrieden, Zurich

more Konzeption Conception now, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen

Sammlung mit losen Enden - Einsichten und Aussichten, Kunsthaus NRW Kornelimünster, Aachen

Vom Großen und Ganzen / Die Sammmlung Haus N, Gerisch Stiftung, Neumünster

Daily Sounds All Around - Spurn akustischer Lebenswelten, Weltkunstzimmer, Düsseldorf

Beyond The Surface - Jan Dibbets, Thomas Ruff, Juergen Staack, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf

2013

Transfer Korea - NRW 2011-2013, Osthaus Museum Hagen; MMCA Seoul; Kunstmuseum Bonn; Kunsthalle Düsseldorf; Arko Art Center; Museum Osthaus; Alternative Space Loop

Mit den Augen Düsseldorfer Galeristen, E.ON, Düsseldorf

Exposicao Neblina no outro lado da rua - Hannes Norberg, Juergen Staack, Thyra Schmidt, estemp, São Paulo, Brazil

2012

Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen

Transmission, Düsseldorf

2011/12

ars viva 11/12 Sprache, Museum Folkwang, Essen

2011

Summer Show, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf

ANTIFOTO 2011, Kunstraum Düsseldorf

2010

Reality, Walzwerkstrasse, Düsseldorf

Aber Schwarz ist doch gar keine Farbe, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf

Schwarzweiss-Drei Release begehbar, General Public, Berlin

Reminder, Forgotten Bar, Berlin

2009

Fehlstelle, La Zona, Milano, Italy

Open Studio, Tokyo Wonder Site, Tokyo, Japan

Junge deutsche Fotografie, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg

2008

still in time, B-L-A-S-T, Cologne

Land scaped, Galerie Filiale, Berlin

62. Bergische Kunstausstellung, Museum Baden, Solingen

Fehlstelle, Vallauris, France

Gerberstrasse 21, UrbanVideoProject, Syracuse, NY

2007

Going Postal, Art Metropole, Toronto, Canada

Nach dem Sputnik, K.I.T., Düsseldorf

Abwesenheitsnotizen, Museum X, Mönchengladbach

2006

René Spitzer, Juergen Staack, Galerie Acapulco, Düsseldorf

Exile 2 - referentielle Kunst, Estemp, Düsseldorf

2005

Close, Galerie Space Other, Boston, MA

Rencontre des Arles, France

Allen Schülern geht es gut, Malkasten, Düsseldorf

Fehlstelle - Importe 2005, im Stadtraum EVK, Düsseldorf

2004

Maapagu-InExile, Rotermann Salt Storage Arts Centre, Tallinn, Estonia

Fehlstelle - Kleine Revolte, within the city of Berlin

Fehlstelle - Platz da!, Mintropplatz, Düsseldorf

Fehlstelle - Bilder im öffentlichen Raum, within the city of 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.)