Al Hansen 1927 - 1995

Curriculum Vitæ

EARLY BACKGROUND

1927 Born in Richmond Hill, Queens, New York
1945 Military Service, 82nd Airborne Division, Frankfurt; Cologne
1948 Berlin, Germany.
1950 US Airforce, Tactical Air Command
1954 South Carolina

EDUCATION

1949 Art Students League. New York City - John Groth
1950 Brooklyn College - Al Terris
1956 New School For Social Research - Experimental Music - John Cage
1959 Pratt Institute
1963 Environmental Loft Studio and Mixed Media Event Studies

TEACHING HISTORY

1967-74 Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey
1970 Parsons School of Design
1979 Eskimo Art School Nuuk-G., Greenland
1987 Founded the Ultimate Akademie with Lisa Cieslik, Cologne, Germany
1988 Hochschule fur Bildende Kunst, Hamburg, Germany

Solo Exhibitions\Editions highlights

1960 New York 6 Gallery, Watercolors. New York City, New York
1961 New York Walking Show, New York, New York
1964 Judson Gallery, New York, New York
1966 Eastend Gallery, Massachussetts
1967 Ringelhaupt Gallery, Boston, Massachussetts
Hallmark Gallery, New York, New York
1969 25-27 April The Hamlet of Gertrude Stein, New York
1970 Galerie Block, Berlin, Germany
Galerie Ingo Kummel, Cologne, Germany
1972 Galerie Inge Baecker, Bochum, Germany
1974 Galerie der Spiegel, Cologne, Germany- Archive Show
1979 "Collage and Construction", Galerie A, Amsterdam, Holland
Henie Museum, Oslo, Norway
Royal Academy of Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
1980 Munchatelier, Kultusministerium, Oslo, Norway
1981 Edition and Galerie Hundertmark. "Black Book" Cologne, Germany
Karl Valentin Museum, Munich, Germany.
1982 Petersom Galerie Berlin, Germany.
"The secret of the whole thing" Petersen Galerie, Berlin, Germany
1986 "Structures and Sculptures" Galerie Offermann, Cologne, Germany
"In Search of the Goddess" Gracie Mansion Gallery, NYC, New York
Zeichnungen, Aquerelle. "Andy Warhol Attentat" Edition Hundertmark, Cologne, Germany
1988 "Collagen, Objekte, Fingerbilder." Galerie Klewan, Munich, Germany
Gracie Mansion Gallery, NYC, New York
"Mama Vesuvia Mia" Studio Morra, Naples Italy
1989 Artothek Koln, Cologne, Germany
Galerie Kolon, Cologne, Germany
Gracie Mansion Gallery, NYC, New York
1990 "The Temple of the Goddess" Galerie Kolon, Cologne, Germany
"A Visitation of Fantoms 1989-1990" Studio Morra, Naples Italy
1991 Galerie Klewan, Munich, Germany
"Exposition" Galerie 1900-2000 Marcel Fleiss, Paris, France
1992 Lisi Hamerle Gallery, Bregenz, Austria
1993 Galerie Klewan, Munich, Germany
1994 Troy Gallery Los Angeles, California
Lattuda Studio, Milano
1995 Michael Wewerka Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Gracie Mansion Gallery, NYC, New York
"A.H. Una retrospettiva", Fondazione Morra, Naples Italy
Kunstverein Rosenheim, Rosenheim, Germany
1996 Kölnisches Stadt Museum, Cologne, Germany
1998 Emily Harvey Gallery in association with Gracie Mansion Gallery
Galerie Helmut Klewan, Munich Germany
1999 Galerie und Edition Hundertmark Objekte, Collagen, Aqurarelle, Fotos
2000 Galerie Inge Baecker

GROUP SHOWS

1959 "Below Zero" With Rauschenberg, Oldenburg, Dine, Kaprow, Reuben Gallery, NYC, New York
1960 "Ray Gun Spex" With Kaprow, Dine, Oldenburg, Judson Gallery (Hansen: Multiple Projections), New York City, New York
1963 "Fluxus Anti-Musik Festival" With Beuys, Hansen, Paik, and Spoerri
Staatliche Kunstakademie, Dusseldorf, Germany
1966 "Juxtapositionen." Neue Galerie, Aachen, Germany
1969 "Happening & Fluxus." Kolnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany
1970 "This Is Not Here Show" With Yoko Ono and John Lennon, Everson Museum, Syracuse, New York.
1973 Galerie Block, Berlin, Phenomenatransactionskunst: A Hansen Mini- Retrospective
1975 Galerie Baecker, Bochum. Collage/Decollage Works by Brecht, Filliou, Hansen, Schwitters, Spoerri, Vostell, Watts and others.
1977 Galerie Rene Block, Berlin. Photographie Exhibition. Works by: Beuys, Duchamp, Baumgarten, Becher, Hansen, Hodicke, Kaprow, Knoebel
1982 "Attersee Party Performance." With Beuys, Dieter Rot, Lupertz, Attersee, Wurthie, Iannone in der Exil Bar, Kreuzberg, Berlin
1984 "Gruppenausstel" With Hansen, Cieslik and Yilmaz, Cologne
1986 "Unausgewogen." Kolnischer Kunstverein. Cologne, Germany
1987 "Conflux-Ausstellung." Wewerka Galerie, Berlin, Germany
1988 "Mobel als Kunstobjekt." Kunstlerwerkstatt. Munich, Germany
"Parallel, Dokumentas Banana, Erotica, Fotografica"Ultimate AkademieAusstellungen, Cologne, Germany
1989 "The Junk Aesthetic" Whitney Museum, NYC, New York
"Happening & Fluxus" Galerie 1900 bis 2000, Paris, France
"Walk Don't Walk" Walkman Show, Kunstlerbuch Galerie, Cologne
1992 "Fluxus-Virus" Cologne Kuntsverein, Cologne, Germany
"L'Art Est Inutile" Bregenzer Kunstverein, Palais Thurm und Taxis, Bregenz, Austria
1994 Galerie Mamus, Copenhagen, Denmark, With Hansen, Gyr, Den Fria , Henryk Pryds Beck and others
1995 Fluxus Virus - St. Petersberg and Moscow, Russia-With Hansen and Ben Patterson, Vautier, Joe Jones, Bob Watts, Nam June Paik, Alison Knowles, Larry Miller, Emmett Williams, Dick Higgins and others
Louis Stern Gallery, Los Angeles - "Pasted Papers" Collage in the 20th Century"
UBU Gallery, NYC, New York "The Gun: Icon of Twenthieth Century Art"
1996 Fotouhi Cramer Gallery, "Box", NYC, New York
Rafael Vostell Fine Art, Berlin, Germany "Aus der Sammlung"
1998 And I Quote... Mary Delahoyd Gallery New York; curated by Pavel Zoubok
Queensland Art Gallery, Queensland, Australia, "Francesco Conz-Intermedia and the Avant Garde"
Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles, "Out of Actions: Between Performance and the Object 1949-1979"
Museum für angewnadte Kunst (MAK), Vienna "Out of Actions: Between Performance and the Object 1949-1979"
Santa Monica Museum of Art, "Beck & Al Hansen: Playing With Matches" Channing Hansen performed Al Hansen's "Elegy for the Fluxus Dead" and "Yoko Ono Piano Drop" during the two opening nights, May 7th and 8th
Thread Waxing Space, New York, "Beck & Al Hansen: Playing With Matches"; performances by Channing Hansen, Beck Hansen, Marianne Faithfull, foot (Thurston Moore, Don Fleming, Jim Dunbar), Larry Miller, Rebecca Moore & special guests; Happening conducted by Bibbe Hansen; Panel Discussion with Hannah Higgins, Wayne Baerwaldt, Carlo McCormick, Francesco Conz and Bibbe Hansen
Plug, In, Winnipeg, Canada, "Beck & Al Hansen: Playing With Matches"; performance by Channing Hansen - Al Hansen's "Elegy for the Fluxus Dead"
1999 Art Beatus, Vancouver, Canada, "Beck & Al Hansen: Playing With Matches"; performance by Channing Hansen - Al Hansen's "Elegy for the Fluxus Dead"
LaForet, Tokyo, Japan, "Beck & Al Hansen: Playing With Matches"; performance by Channing Hansen - Al Hansen's "Elegy for the Fluxus Dead"
LaForet, Fukuoka, Japan, "Beck & Al Hansen: Playing With Matches"
La Foret, Nagoya, Japan, "Beck & Al Hansen: Playing With Matches"
Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff Centre for the Arts, Canada, "Beck & Al Hansen: Playing With Matches"
Gallery talk by Bibbe Hansen, Francesco Conz and Wayne Baerwaldt performance by Channing Hansen - Al Hansen's "Elegy for the Fluxus Dead."
2000 Power Plant, Toronto, Canada, "Beck & Al Hansen: Playing With Matches"; performance by Channing Hansen - Al Hansen's "Elegy for the Fluxus Dead"
Schloss Moyland Museum, Joseph Beuys Institute, Germany, "Beck & Al Hansen: Playing With Matches";
Panel Discussion with Bibbe Hansen, Channing Hansen, Wayne Baerwaldt, Beck Hansen
Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queens University, Kingston, Canada, "Beck & Al Hansen: Playing With Matches"; Lecture "Al Hansen, His Life and Art" by Bibbe Hansen; performance by Channing Hansen - Al Hansen's "Elegy for the Fluxus Dead"
2001 Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art, "Beck & Al Hansen: Playing With Matches"; Performance Workshop conducted by Bibbe Hansen; Happening conducted by Bibbe Hansen including workshop participants; Lecture "Al Hansen, His Life and Art" by Bibbe Hansen; performance by Channing Hansen - Al Hansen's "Elegy for the Fluxus Dead"
Galerie Berndt, Cologne, Germany