Heinz Mack is one of the most important artists of the 20th and 21st centuries. In 1957 he founded the group ZERO with the artist Otto Piene in Düsseldorf. Together with other international artists, they wanted to revolutionise art after the Second World War. With “Mack at the ZKM”, the ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medien Karlsruhe is now dedicating a comprehensive solo exhibition to him with around 130 works from the period 1955 to 2023, including works that are being reconstructed and exhibited for the first time in a long time. Mirror objects in the glaring desert sun, shimmering colour prisms in the Arctic, light-reflecting steles, magically vibrating rotors, golden and silver shining cubes, virtual volumes generated by electrical impulses: from September, Heinz Mack, artist of light, makes the atriums of the ZKM glow in many different ways.
New materials, new forms of artistic expression
As early as the 1950s, Heinz Mack was looking for harmony between man, nature and technology. In 1957 he founded the group ZERO with the artist Otto Piene in Düsseldorf. Together with other international artists, they wanted to revolutionise art after the Second World War. ZERO stood for a …
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Image above: Heinz Mack at the ZKM | Karlsruhe, 2023, © ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medien Karlsruhe, Photo: Felix Grünschloß