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Since the 1960s, the Fluxus movement has been regarded as an experimental laboratory in which art and life are inseparably intertwined. Fluxus was based on the idea of “making” a better world and the urge to rebuild society after the horrors of the Second World War through music, visual art, performance, and architecture. Few people know that Bochum also played a role in the Fluxus movement. In 1970, gallerist Inge Baecker (1943–2021) founded a gallery for avant-garde art in Bochum and wrote a chapter of art history there. In 2021 she bequeathed her estate to the Kunstmuseum Bochum, including an exceptional collection of Fluxus art. This forms the occasion for the major exhibition HOW WE MET (German: Wie wir uns begegnet sind).
The exhibition presents artworks and documents from the collection, newly created site-specific structures as walk-in installations, and films by Fluxus artists. The result is a vibrant space that reflects…
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Since the 1960s, the Fluxus movement has been regarded as an experimental laboratory in which art and life are inseparably intertwined. Fluxus was based on the idea of “making” a better world and the urge to rebuild society after the horrors of the Second World War through music, visual art, performance, and architecture. Few people know that Bochum also played a role in the Fluxus movement. In 1970, gallerist Inge Baecker (1943–2021) founded a gallery for avant-garde art in Bochum and wrote a chapter of art history there. In 2021 she bequeathed her estate to the Kunstmuseum Bochum, including an exceptional collection of Fluxus art. This forms the occasion for the major exhibition HOW WE MET (German: Wie wir uns begegnet sind).
The exhibition presents artworks and documents from the collection, newly created site-specific structures as walk-in installations, and films by Fluxus artists. The result is a vibrant space that reflects…
