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Archives of Artists and Theorists

Acquired archives

The archives of ZKM | Karslruhe
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The ZKM archive manages over 250 acquired archival fonds of artists and theorists.
You can find more information about selected archival fonds in the overview below.

For further information and appointments please write to collections-and-archives@zkm.de.

Archives of Artists and Theorists

  1. Imaginäre Architektur

    Otto Beckmann
  2. Der Fluss

    Ulrich Bernhardt
  3. A black and white portrait of the artist Joseph Beuys.

    Joseph Beuys Media Archive
  4. Karl Oskar Blase, »Audiovisuelle Dokumentation«, documenta 5, 1972: Joseph Beuys, »Boxkampf für direkte Demokratie durch Volksabstimmung«

    Karl Oskar Blase
  5. Harald Bode: Melochord

    Harald Bode
  6. Black Gate Cologne

    Center for Advanced Visual Studies
  7. Portrait of Christian Chruxin at work

    Christian Chruxin
  8. Jürgen Claus' picture Ascending diver from 1971

    Jürgen Claus
  9. Inge Claus-Jansen with her artworks

    Inge Claus-Jansen
  10. Gerd Conradt, »Colour test – Red Flag«, 1968

    Gerd Conradt
  11. Miro A. Cimerman, Dunja Donassy-Bonačić, Vladimir Bonačić, Paris, 1984

    Vladimir Bonačić & bcd: CyberneticArt
  12. Jahresrückblick 1982

    Holger Czukay
  13. A woman wearing a white eye mask

    Lutz Dammbeck
  14. Douglas Davis, The France Tape

    Douglas Davis
  15. Drawing of a radip in black, white and blue

    DEGEM WebRadio @ ZKM
  16. Close-up of an eye.

    Klaus Peter Dencker
  17. The shape of an apple consisting of the words "apple" and the word "worm".

    Reinhard Döhl
  18. Alba D’Urbano, »Der Kreis«, 1988

    Alba D'Urbano
  19. The letters E.A.T.

    Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.)
  20. Portrait of FM Einheit

    FM Einheit
  21. You can see a person dressed in black doing a roll in the air. The background is white.

    William Forsythe
  22. The portrait of Albert Einstein is gradually resolved into simple color surfaces.

    Herbert W. Franke
  23. The picture shows a grey-black sound device.

    Rudolf Frisius
  24. 1927 - Science and invention - Vol. 14, No. 10

    Hugo Gernsback
  25. Tastbild

    Walter Giers
  26. Frank Gillette, »Symptomatic Syntax #5«, 1980

    Frank Gillette
  27. Boris Groys, »Thinking in Loop. Three Videos on Iconoclasm, Ritual and Immortality«, 2008, video still

    Boris Groys
  28. Barbara Hammann, »Frage«, 1979

    Barbara Hammann
  29. View of the reconstruction of the studio of Herman Heiß

    Hermann Heiß: The Studio for Electronic Composition (1957-1966)
  30. Hermann J. Hendrich, »Mnemosyne«, 1986

    Hermann J. Hendrich
  31. Zweischaliges Hyperboloid mathematisches Modell Mathematisches Institut der Universität Halle

    Photogram Archive HeyneNeusüss
  32. Monika Huber: »#206_030811 (Egypt)«, 2011

    Monika Huber
  33. You can see two standing drums, each of which shows a picture on the round surface. On the left an ancient married couple and on the right the portrait of a woman.

    Stephan von Huene
  34. A person inserts a magnetic ring memory.

    IBM Research & Development
  35. White hearing seats with a monitor

    IDEAMA
  36. Logo of the video journal »Infermental«

    Infermental (1982–1991)
  37. A holographic image by Dieter Jung. Red, blue, green and yellow horizontal stripes on a dark background.

    Dieter Jung
  38. Exhibition view Wolf Kahlen

    Wolf Kahlen
  39. Abstract colored pattern

    Hiroshi Kawano
  40. Bryan Konefsky

    Bryan Konefsky
  41. Black lettering on a white background: Laboratorium

    Laboratorium (1999)
  42. Six portrait photographs by Gerhard Johann Lischka

    Gerhard Johann Lischka
  43. Kunst-Raum-Schiff – MS Stubnitz - 1993

    Armin Medosch
  44. »Schlau sein, dabei sein«, Merve Verag, Beriin 1980

    Merve Verlag
  45. Benson Plotter in der Centre de Calcul de la Météorologie National

    Manfred Mohr
  46. it is a black and white photo showing the artist Lutz Mommartz, with a large video camera over the shoulder, looking through it.

    Lutz Mommartz
  47. Andreas Müller-Pohle, »Transformance 5548«, 1981

    Andreas Müller-Pohle
  48. Antoni Muntadas, archive, video still

    Antoni Muntadas
  49. Gerald O'Grady

    Gerald O’Grady
  50. The picture shows an installation by Paul Panhuysen: Several dark blue barrels, from which ropes go to the ceiling, stand in a warehouse.

    Paul Panhuysen
  51. Visualisation of a sound recording, below the words "Radio_Copernicus"

    The Radio_Copernicus Audio Archive
  52. Meeting Radical Software

    Raindance Foundation
  53. Glauben Sie nicht, daß ich eine Amazone bin

    Ulrike Rosenbach
  54. Paul Ryan, »Color TV«, 1974

    The Paul Ryan Video Collection
  55. Bernhardt Sandfort, »Das Museum der Fragen«, 1978

    Bernhard Sandfort
  56. Sabine Schäfer, studio TopoPhonien, 1992

    Sabine Schäfer
  57. Wandpoem

    Konrad Balder Schäuffelen
  58. Michael Schirner, »schreIBMaschinen«, IBM 96 C Selectric, 1977

    Michael Schirner
  59. Frank Gillette, Ira Schneider, »Wipe Cicle«, 1969

    Ira Schneider
  60. Venezia Vive

    HA Schult
  61. A scene from an exhibition opening: Gerry Schum and Ursula Wevers talking with Gilbert & George

    Gerry Schum and Ursula Wevers
  62. Cover of the magazine "semiosis": white text on black background

    Semiosis (1976–1994)
  63. Jeffrey Shaw's "Virtual Sculpture" from 1981 floats as a cube of blue lines in the exhibition space.

    Jeffrey Shaw
  64. Annegret Soltau, »Versuch einer Selbstbefreiung«, 1976

    Annegret Soltau
  65. Amicothek

    Ed Sommer
  66. Aldo Tambellini, »Study of Internal Shapes and Outward Manifestations« - Neutro

    Aldo Tambellini
  67. telewissen, »Der Magische Spiegel«, 1970, bus

    telewissen
  68. Ulay, »A Skeleton in the Closet«, 2015, performance at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

    Ulay
  69. Steina Vasulka, Woody Vasulka, »Evolution«, 1969

    Steina & Woody Vasulka
  70. A black and white image of a man who also takes a photo. In the background a car and another man running in the picture

    Vox Humana - Gideon Bachmann
  71. rot (Plakat) - o.A

    Elisabeth Walther-Bense
  72. The portrait shows Peter Weibel in the context of the exhibition »respektive Peter Weibel«. In the photo the artist opens his right eye with his fingers.

    Peter Weibel

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The Laboratory for Antique Video Systems allows for preserving video and audio archives of artists and theorists and making them available for research, exhibitions and publications in the long term.

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