Marcel Odenbach is a German video artist. In the 1970s, with Ulrike Rosenbach and

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, he formed the producer group ATV. Odenbach's works criticize the conditions of German society.

Life and work

Odenbach was born in 1953 in Cologne, Germany, where he studied architecture, art history and semiotics between 1974–79. In the late 1970s, he started using video work, tapes, installations, performances and drawings to probe the cultural identity of his native Germany. His ambivalence to cultural history shows in works such as "Make a Fist in the Pocket", a German expression for hiding one's rage. Odenbach was a professor of media art at the

Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design The Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design (HfG) is a state art college founded in 1992 in Karlsruhe. It focuses on media art, communication design , product design , exhibition design and scenography, art research and media philosophy wit ...

between 1992–98. He now lives and works in Cologne and is the professor for film and video art at the

Kunstakademie Düsseldorf The Kunstakademie Düsseldorf is the academy of fine arts of the state of North Rhine Westphalia at the city of Düsseldorf, Germany. Notable artists who studied or taught at the academy include Joseph Beuys, Gerhard Richter, Magdalena Jetelová ...

since 2010.

Works

* 1976-77: The Eternally Creative Hands or For All Art Historians (video, 4 minutes) * 1977-78: To Stay in a Good Mood (video, 13 minutes) * 1983: Die Distanz zwischen mir und meinen Verlusten * 1984: I Do the Pain Test * 1986: As If Memories Could Deceive Me * 1986: In the Peripheral Vision of the Witness * 1987: (Srecan Susret) Die gluckliche Begegnung (translation: The Happy Encounter, video, 6 minutes) * 1994: Make a Fist in the Pocket * 1994: Videoarbeit für einen Winterabend" (Videotape as contribution to "Der Klotz" portfolio of various artist) * 1995: Vom Kommen und vom Gehen (Coming and Going)

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video '' Vom Kommen und Gehen'' http://www.imaionline-katalog.de/servlet/fc?oid=11647&script=f&col=1616&p=1&srid=0&c=3&r=1000&f=180&mf=1&lng=de&order=name&JServSessionIdroot=zsf3ogtnq1&lb=0&wacc_cmd=imageprocessing.1&c=1&imp_type=3 * 1995: Standing is not falling down * 1997-98: The Consumation of My Own Critique (video, DVD player, monitor, chair)

References

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