Panel with Helene Romakin, Christian Nagel, Lena Braun, Sandro Droschl; Christian Kobald (moderation)

This evening ist devoted to Jörg Schlick (1951–2005, Graz), the exuberant creativity of a pretty productive and internationally renowned artist , who was an exemplary author, conceptual artist, musician, painter, short-film director, video and performance artist, ballet choreographer, lodge cofounder, and set designer.

Schlick’s intelligent, energetic play with all forms of artistic expression and their inherent potential for appropriation, this clever way of overcoming the original, was always carried out with a markedly creative feel for controversy and the available (multi) media of the times, although it could not be foreseen that his once provocative solution, “Keiner Hilft Keinem" (Nobody Helps Nobody) would devolve into an elementary starting point for the increasingly egotistical self-regard spreading throughout all spheres of society.

At the center is the presentation of an extensive publication "Jörg Schlick. Monograph and Catalog Raisonné" (Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne), which includes texts by Diedrich Diederichsen, Elisabeth Fiedler, Martin Prinzhorn and Helene Romakin as well as numerous illustrations presenting Schlick and his work from an updated perspective. As special supplement the LP "Jörg Schlick in the mix" by the artist friend Albert Oehlen accompanies the catalogue, on which he reinterpreted in a remix pieces partly created in collaboration with Jörg Schlick.

Jörg Schlick exhibited in renowned museums throughout Europe: For example, at the Centre Pompidou, Paris, in 1993; the Museum Ludwig, Cologne in 1996; and the Musée d’art modern et contemporain, Geneva, in 2000, among others. In 2015 Künstlerhaus, Halle für Kunst & Medien (KM– Graz) realized a major retrospective exhibition. Currently the show „Back in Cologne“ ist on view at Nagel / Draxler, Cologne.