Galerie St. Petri is a
Conceptual art gallery situated in
Lund
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,
Sweden
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. It was opened by Jean Sellem, a French artist who immigrated to Sweden in the 1970s and is a professor of
Art history at
Lund University.
In the 1970s the gallery called: "Galerie S:t Petri - Archive of Experimental and Marginal Art" quickly became an international
Conceptual art and
Performance art space, closely collaborating with
Fluxus artists like
Eric Andersen,
Ken Friedman and
Tomas Schmit
Tomas Schmit (born 13 July 1943 in Thier, now part of Wipperfürth, died 4 October 2006 in Berlin, Germany) was an artist and author associated with the Fluxus movement of the early 1960s. as well as organizing individual exhibitions of works by artists such as
Christian Boltanski,
Henck van Dijck,
John Fekner
John Fekner (born 1950 in New York City) is an American artist known for his spray painted environmental and conceptual outdoor works.
Fekner's has created paintings, cast paper reliefs, video, music recordings and performance works, sculpture, ...
,
Arne Groh,
Jarosław Kozłowski,
Yoko Ono,
Nam June Paik,
Carel Lanters
Carel is a given name, and may refer to:
Arts
* Carel Blotkamp, Dutch artist and art historian
* Carel de Moor, Dutch etcher and painter
* Carel Fabritius, Dutch painter and one of Rembrandt's most gifted pupils
* Carel van Mander, Flemish painter ...
,
Endre TÓT,
Horst Tress,
Jacek Tylicki and
Krzysztof Wodiczko among others.
Bibliography
* Jean Sellem, (ed.): Fluxus Research, Lund Art Press, Vol. 2, No. 2, 1991
* Jean Sellem, Hardy Strid's Work and Swedish modernism in art from 1935 to 1980. ()
* The Fluxus reader By Ken Friedman, , page Page 171
* Encyclopedia of aesthetics By Michael Kelly, Oxford University Press, 1998 v. 4, Page 294
Art museums and galleries in Sweden
Museums in Skåne County
20th-century establishments in Skåne County
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