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Vita
HA Schult was born in Parchim in 1939 and grew up in Berlin. From 1958 to 1961 he studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy. From 1961 to 1978 he lived in Munich, from 1978 to 1980 in Cologne and from 1978 to 1986 in New York. In 1986 he founded the Museum for Action Art in Essen.[2] From 1986 to 1991 he commuted between Germany and New York, and from 1991 to 1992 he lived in Berlin. In 1992 he moved his museum from Essen to Cologne. Since 2007, the ÖkoGlobe, which he initiated, has been awarded to the mobility industry as the first international environmental prize.[3][4] In 2009, together with Prof. Dr. Ferdinand Dudenhöffer founding director of the ÖkoGlobe Institute at the University of Duisburg-Essen.[5]
Schult has realized numerous actions in collaboration with his muse and former wife Elke Koska and, in recent years, also with the Moscow-born violinist and performer Anna Zlotovskaya[6][7][8][9], with whom he has been in fourth since 2010 marriage is married. Schult is the father of two sons; one is the film and television director and Grimme Prize winner Kolin Schult.[10]
In 1972 HA Schult took part in the Documenta 5 in Kassel with the Biokinetic Landscape and was also represented as an artist in 1977 at the Documenta 6. In the 2009 federal election campaign, Schult campaigned for Angela Merkel’s continued chancellorship.[11]
Selection of his works
Hamburg Wall of Freedom (2016)
“Aktion 20,000 km” (1970) [12], “Venezia Vive” (Venice, 1976)[13], “Crash” (New York, 1977), “Ruhr-Tour” (Ruhr area, 1978)[14], ” Now” (New York, 1983) [15], “New York is Berlin” (1985, he showed a replica of the Berlin Wall with the Brandenburg Gate with the Guggenheim Museum in New York) [16], “Fetish Auto” (Cologne, 1989 ) [17], “Marble Time” and “The War” (St. Petersburg, 1994) and “Rheingeist” (Rheinland, 1996).[18] In 1998 HA Schult realized the “Friedensspeicher” in Osnabrück[19] and in 2010/11 “Corona save the Beach Hotel” in Rome and Madrid.[20][21][22]
This was followed in 2014 by the tableaux “Home-Heimat” in Siegburg[23] and “WIR das Tier” at the Tollwood Festival in Munich.[24] In 2015 he showed the tableaus “Ratinger Freiheit” at the Andreas-Quartier in Düsseldorf[25] and “In view of Karl Marx” in the Museum Karl-Marx-Haus in Trier.[26] From 2015 to 2016, the environmental project ActionBlue was created for the Globale of the ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe.[27] On September 30, 2016, the “Freedom Wall” was unveiled in Hamburg.[28]
