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Wolf Vostell

ICH ERKLÄRE DEN FRIEDEN ZUM GRÖSSTEN KUNSTWERK!, 1979

Wolf Vostell, ICH ERKLÄRE DEN FRIEDEN ZUM GRÖSSTEN KUNSTWERK!, 1979, © VG Bild Kunst, Bonn 2024 / The Wolf Vostell Estate

Wolf Vostell’s (*1932, Leverkusen, DE; †1998, Berlin, DE) artistic oeuvre encompasses happenings, video art, installations, drawings, paintings and sculptures.

His practice centred on themes such as the critical examination of current affairs, collective memory and social coexistence. Vostell is regarded as a co-founder of the Fluxus movement.
Vostell’s quote “I declare peace as the greatest work of art!” from 1979 was adopted in the form of a stamp during the of Art-of-Peace Biennale at the Kunsthaus Hamburg in 1985. Vostell, whose work is concerned with the conflict-laden status of society, provides an answer to the essential question the Art-of-Peace Biennale also focused on: What is peace?
The reproduction of the stamp with Vostell’s quote now is meant to carry the artist’s message further. As a mobile artistic tool, the object stands for the reproduction of Vostell’s words and the renewed dissemination of the values under which the artists of the Art-of-Peace Biennale have come together.

EINZEL- UND GRUPPENAUSTELLUNGEN U.A.:

Museo Vostell, Malpartida de Cáceres, ES (seit 1998); Art-of-Peace Biennale, Hamburg, DE (1985); Documenta 6, Kassel, DE (1977); Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, FR (1974)