{"id":1659,"date":"2009-02-07T23:09:11","date_gmt":"2009-02-07T22:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alexanderkoch.info\/?p=1659"},"modified":"2025-04-24T23:27:20","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T21:27:20","slug":"partizipatorischer-minimalismus-franz-erhard-walther-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alexanderkoch.info\/en\/partizipatorischer-minimalismus-franz-erhard-walther-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Partizipatorischer Minimalismus: Franz Erhard Walther (2009)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"each is-aside is-large\">\n<div class=\"text default\">\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kow-berlin.com\/exhibitions\/kow-issue-1-participatory-minimalism\">KOW Berlin<\/a><\/h2>\n<h2>Mit Franz Erhard Walther, kuratiert von Alexander Koch und Nikolaus Oberhuber<\/h2>\n<p>KOW ISSUE 1 shows the 11-Meter-Bahn, one of the most prominent objects from Franz Erhard Walther\u2019s 1. Workset \u2013 developed between 1963 and 1969 and a classic among the German post-war art \u2013 and portrays the history of its utilization. Walther proposed to no longer conceptualize art independently from its application by a public and assign its users co-authorship on the form and meaning of artworks. He became an early exponent of process-related and participatory art.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"each is-aside\">\n<div class=\"text default\">\n<p>Walther\u2019s proposal is still a design to counter the habitual way of dealing with art, which is to seek for the aesthetic and the economic value of an art piece in its \u201cout-standing\u201d object quality or peculiarity, rather than in the social dimension of a \u201cWerkgedanke\u201d (Walther) or the possible consequences for our actions, our \u201cHandlungsvorstellungen\u201d (Walther) respectively.<\/p>\n<p>In numerous, partly canonized, partly unorthodox, and previously unrevealed documents, we display the diverse forms of employment the <em>11-Meter-Bahn<\/em> has led to in the last 43 years. How open and inviting does Walther\u2019s proposal look today? How encouraging does it sound? The white, 11 meter long textile strap that two persons can tighten between their bodies, remains an ever unconcluded artwork that calls for our participation, not for our deference. In his <em>1. Workset<\/em>, Walther presents symbolic models of action, which were concrete expressions of democratic experience, hardly 20 years after the end of fascism. Similar to the recently reappreciated Charlotte Posenenske, his <em>Participatory<\/em> <em>Minimalism<\/em>is increasingly regarded as a politicizable, societal-oriented alternative to American Minimal Art.<\/p>\n<p>Concept and production: Alexander Koch, Nikolaus Oberhuber. Text and photos: Alexander Koch<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KOW Berlin<\/p>\n<p>KOW\u2019s first project focused on a single artwork\u2014Walther\u2019s Elfmeterbahn from 1963\u2014and unfolded the visual-documentary history of its reception within the exhibition space. What becomes visible is a shift: starting from a very open and anarchistic understanding of the work, the perspective of its presentation gradually narrows and becomes more rigid. Concept and production: Alexander Koch and Nikolaus Oberhuber<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exhibitions","entry"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"en","enabled_languages":["de","en"],"languages":{"de":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":true},"en":{"title":false,"content":true,"excerpt":true}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexanderkoch.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexanderkoch.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexanderkoch.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexanderkoch.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexanderkoch.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1659"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/alexanderkoch.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3256,"href":"https:\/\/alexanderkoch.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1659\/revisions\/3256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexanderkoch.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexanderkoch.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexanderkoch.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}