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Universal in der Aussage, multimedial in der Form: das Werk des deutschen Künstlers über Grundfragen der menschlichen Existenz, Kommunikation und Zukunft
Neueste Arbeiten und Überblick zum Gesamtwerk in einer umfangreichen Monografie

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J†rg Geismar (geb. 1958 in Burgsvik, Schweden) überrascht in seinem Schaffen immer wieder durch neue Perspektiven. Schon früh beschäftigte er sich mit Themen, die später von anderen Künstlern aufgegriffen wurden. Zwischen Tokio, New York und Düsseldorf schlägt er schöpferische Brücken über urbane Zentren und gesellschaftliche Unterschiede hinweg. Sein freies Denken spiegelt sich in Arbeiten, die sich jeglicher Einordnung entziehen. Seine Fotografien, Videos, Zeichnungen, Objekte sowie Performances, Aktionen und Interventionen im öffentlichen Raum sind reduziert in der Ästhetik und grundsätzlich skeptisch gegenüber globalen Mustern der Warenförmigkeit und kulturellen Gleichschaltung. Alltägliche Dinge, Kabel oder Wäscheleinen, erlangen leuchtende Symbolkraft und entwickeln kritische Zeichen der Vernetzung zwischen Individuen. Leitend ist die Frage, wie Menschen die Zukunft gestalten und welche Rolle die Kommunikation darin spielt.

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J†rg Geismars ( 1958 in Burgsvik, Sweden) art is often unwieldy and generally difficult to categorize. He creates objects and images, as well as ephemeral installations and temporary interventions, which cannot be pigeonholed and are not made first and foremost for the market the opposite of much of which characterizes the highly commodified, global contemporary art world on the threshold of the new millennium. His art transcends the normal ambitions and aspirations of many a contemporary artist, and his highly individual position occupies a very personal space, while at the same time addressing issues with a universal message. Kenny Schachter and Noemi Smolik delve into Geismars fascinating world of art and socio-cultural interaction from two highly divergent starting points and open new perspectives and ways of seeing. Since the 1980s, the Swedish-born, German artist a veritable globetrotter, who has lived for extended periods in both Japan and the United States has been silently creating various trends within the contemporary art scenes at home and abroad. Transparency and ambiguity, tension and balance, lights and projectors, photographs and videos, drawings on carbon paper and cellophane, as well as actions and interventions involving cuisine and fashion, have all become trademarks of sorts. THE RED LINE reveals how J†rg Geismar transforms his inspiration taken from daily life and journeys into local neighborhoods around the world into his own unique and thought-provoking art. Geismar takes the viewer on a virtual journey into the self and helps to decode the often convoluted world that surrounds us.

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The German artist J†rg Geismar ( 1958 in Burgsvik, Schweden) has spent his whole life looking for new developments, perspectives, and inspiration. From Tokyo to New York, Stockholm to Düsseldorf, he builds artistic bridges from one world cultural center to the next. This multifaceted artist is a keen observer of social life in urban places. Encounters among people are hallmarks of his works. His photographs, videos, drawings, objects, performances, actions, and interventions in public space are as minimal in their aesthetic approach as they are fundamentally skeptical toward worldwide patterns of shaping commodities, and of cultural conformity. Everyday things cables or laundry lines achieve a brilliant, powerful sense of symbolism and become something like critical signs of the interconnectedness of individuals.
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