Holger Trülzsch

Holger Trülzsch is a German artist born in 1939. He lives in Berlin and Paris. After his studies at the Munich School of Fine Arts, he founded the electronic music group “Popol Vuh” with Florian Fricke in 1969. In 1970 he developed a body art practice with Vera Lehndorff. Co-founder and photographer of the DATAR Photographic Mission, from 1984 to 1988, he developed his concept of psycho-topography in Marseille with reference to situationist psychogeography.

Since 1980, he has been experimenting with his research on the landscape through drawing, painting and photography. He has completed major installations including “Hegelʼs garage” in the Odéon parking lot in Paris, “Verlichtungen” at the Hôtel de Ville de Paris, and “Fire and Forget” at the CREDAC in Ivry. In 2010, he designed an installation for the MEP in Paris with seven videos, photographs and painted Polaroids. His works have been exhibited at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris; ARC / MAM, Paris; MOCA, Los Angeles; AIC, Chicago; Guggenheim SoHo, N.Y.; Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin; MACRO, Rome, among others. 

For the German artist Holger Trützsch (a member of the “International Situationists” in the sixties), appropriation is an artistic approach that he has been able to explore in different series throughout his long career. The series “Fliessende Landschaften” (“Flowing Landscapes”) is the result of a contemporary photographic appropriation of the pictorial act and landscape as a classical genre. By pouring paint on transparent tarpaulins, he reveals imaginary landscapes of this liquid matter which he photographs before the colours mingle and dry up. In the series of “oxydographies”, from the re-appropriations of his “Body Art” work with Veruschka, he transposes the principle of Rauschenberg’s Erasements of De Kooning’s drawings into his own photographs.