Blue sky with the right tip of the ZKM-building and left a small part of the cube

Obituaries

We would like to pay our last respects here to ZKM's companions and artists who left us far too early, and look back on their work.

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You can see the portrait of an old man looking directly into the camera.
2021-07-15
In remembrance of Alvin Lucier
ZKM mourns the death of the US-American sound artist and pioneer of electronic experimental music, who died on December 1 at the age of 90.
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Réliquaire
2021-07-15
The conceptual artist Christian Boltanski has passed away
In memory of Christian Boltanski, whose outstanding installations and other works addressed oblivion and remembrance.
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You can see Joachim Sauter
2021-07-12
In memory of Joachim Sauter
ZKM mourns the loss of a pioneer of new media and an artist of unforgettable kinetic sculptures.
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Peter Weibel with Friederike Mayröcker in front of a portrait by Susanne Widl at Café Korb, Vienna 2018.
2021-06-18
In memoriam Friederike Mayröcker
In memory of Friederike Mayröcker, one of the most important German-language authors of her generation.
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Photo of a multimedia projection, an image in pink, black and turquoise with geometric shapes. On it the text: »Jürgen Claus, Expansion of the Art«
2021-04-20
Mr. Expanded Cinema has died
Thoughts on the death of Gene Youngblood
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The artist Manfred P. Kage standing in front of hist photographic artworks.
2019-09-13
Obituary Manfred P. Kage (1935–2019)
ZKM mourns the death of one of the most outstanding personalities in artistic and scientific microphotography. Herbert W. Franke has written the obituary.
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