Intro Hinrich Sickenberger

at the „ALTER WARTESAAL“, Cologne and in many art-galleries,
clubs and other cultural events.
The music excursions led him with the project GINA X
PERFORMANCE in the middle of the international pop-musicscene directly to London. Together with Claudia Simmler (Gina
Kikoine), Ralph Morgenstern and Zeus B. Hero (producer) they
aroused enthusiasm with groundbreaking Sounds&Beats,
spectacular videos and shows. GINA X published between 1978
and `82 worldwide three LPs (NICE MOVER + X-TRAORDINAIRE
INTRO
Hinrich Sickenberger, born in 1955 in Aschaffenburg, Germany,
developped his artistic talent already very early. As a child he
signed on metre-long paper roles, later the expressionist painters
Elisabeth Dering and Anton Bruder formed him. After 2 years of
work in Darmstadt, with an engaged gallery project in the
„Landgraf-Phillip-Anlage“, he moved to Cologne in 1975 to
develop his own artistic language.
His eccentric appearance and his strictly lived individuality
predestined him for his numerous impressive live performances.
He showed that for example in 1976 during the supporting
programme of the FIAG, Paris (the first „LOVE SICK version),in
1979 on the ART Basel 10 ("TRANSITORRINESS" + "REFLECTION
+ VOYEUR).
In 1981 Hinrich Sickenberger presented three big installations.
During the ART 12 in Basel with "LOVE TEMPLE" (a giant space,
forms with large-size drawings) + the photo installation „BLICKE
MIR NICHT ZU TIEF IN DIE AUGEN…“ and at the
„INTERNATIONALER KUNSTMARKT KÖLN“, Cologne ( today ART
Cologne) with „MICHELANGELO TRIFFT AUF DEM WEGE
NACH…..“ , a Space installation with drawings.
1981 was also the year of the scholarship of the DFJW/OFAJ (6
months Paris) and the series "KAMASUTRA" composed of
drawings + performances + videos. In 1982 he showed his
installation „BLICKE MIR NICHT ZU TIEF IN DIE AUGEN…“ once
again on the PHOTOKINA at the „SPANISCHER BAU“ in Cologne.
I"), in 1981 "POSING" with the performance festival „BEI
His most innovative and most long-term artistic development took
LEBENDIGEM LEIBE“ in Cologne and in 1982 in BETHANIEN,
place since the middle oft he 70th in the area of video-art.
Berlin "LOVE-SICK" (performance festival „performance, another
Promoted by Ingrid Oppenheim („GALERIE OPPENHEIM“,
dimension“). In 1979 the spectacular action „24-HOURS
Cologne) he devoted himself in many works and exhibitions to this
PROINHABIT“ took place in Cologne in a shop-window pavilion .
medium. He also belonged in 1982/83 to the participants of the all
At the same time he concentrated upon musical performance,
among others, in 1982 at the „KUNSTVEREIN KÖLN“, Cologne
with a première on the occasion of the "suitcase edition" and
under the name KALA SIC (&Band) 1983 at the „RHEINISCHES
LANDESMUSEUM“ Bonn,
over Germany shown exemplary Exhibition „VIDEOKUNST IN
DEUTSCHLAND 1963-82“ (Video-Art in Germany 1963-82),
curatet from Wulf Herzogenrath („Kunstverein Köln“, „Kunsthalle
Hamburg“, „Badischer Kunstverein Karlsruhe“, „Kunsthalle
Nürnberg“, „Nationalgalerie Berlin“).
In
1988
he
showed
his
colourful
video-installation
„MÄRCHENPRINZEN LÜGEN NICHT - PRINCE CHARMING DO
NOT LIE“ in the „KUNSTHALLE“, Cologne. Other exhibitions
(video-installations, projections) took place in the „VIDEOKOOPERATIVE KÖLN“, Cologne, at the „KÜNSTLERBUND“ of
Lüdenscheid and during the „VIDEO-TAGE – VIDEO-DAYS“ in
Salzgitter. Till the end of the 90th he developed his Video-Stills
(photographs of filmed video-sequences). This technology
produced subtle results of quite special esthetic effects. At the
end of the 80th he stopped his work with an exhibition at the
„COMPU-NET“ Cologne.
From1990 Hinrich Sickenberger dedicated himself to a quite
different profession. He worked till 2001 intensely in the media
area (television / film), first as an editor / realisator, then as a
partner of the successful creative company „PMC“ together with
Ica & Michael Souvignier in Cologne.
A radical change of his life happened in 2001 – he moved to
Marrakech, dedicating himself for some years again intensely to
the art. After initial experiments he created large-size expressive
pop-style paintings and drawings and developped as well digital
art (photoexperiments /Mix-Media-Works). He showed results of
his pictoral work during an exhibition in an ancient palace in the
Medina of Marrakesh during the Arts-in-Marrakech BIENNALE in
2012.
Hinrich Sickenberger still lives and performes in Marrakech and is
an important part oft he local cultural and artistic scene.

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