Michael Dreyer

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Michael Dreyer
Born1953
Coburg, Germany
OccupationAuthor, artistic director, artist

Michael Dreyer (born 1953) is a German artist, author, and director, who analyzes the basis of art. He creates, analyses and proves the connection between the presentation, history, attraction and forms of Art. Since 1982, Dreyer had worked as a professor at Merz Akademie in Stuttgart, Germany, where he had been teaching visual communication.

Germany Federal parliamentary republic in central-western Europe

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Stuttgart Place in Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Stuttgart is the capital and largest city of the German state of Baden-Württemberg. Stuttgart is located on the Neckar river in a fertile valley known locally as the "Stuttgart Cauldron." It lies an hour from the Swabian Jura and the Black Forest. Its urban area has a population of 609,219, making it the sixth largest city in Germany. 2.7 million people live in the city's administrative region and another 5.3 million people in its metropolitan area, making it the fourth largest metropolitan area in Germany. The city and metropolitan area are consistently ranked among the top 20 European metropolitan areas by GDP; Mercer listed Stuttgart as 21st on its 2015 list of cities by quality of living, innovation agency 2thinknow ranked the city 24th globally out of 442 cities and the Globalization and World Cities Research Network ranked the city as a Beta-status world city in their 2014 survey.

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Career

In his art pieces, Dreyer works with sculptures, environments, movies, theater pieces, musical issues, graphics and texts, with which he dissects the modules of their connection to each other. [1]

In 2006, Dreyer founded the exhibition space W.O. Scheibe Museum in Stuttgart, where he organised the "Palindrom". He also exhibited "Oben und Unten mit Rex Whistler & Friends" with Tom Holert in 2009, as well as "white albums" with Diedrich Diederichsen, Helmut Draxler, Julian Göthe, Wolfgang Paukner and Hans-Jürgen Hafner in 2010. [2]

Diedrich Diederichsen German author, journalist and cultural critic

Diedrich Diederichsen is a German author, music journalist and cultural critic. He is one of Germany′s most renowned intellectual writers at the crossroads of the arts, politics, and pop culture.

Works

Single exhibitions, performances and movies

The following is a list of Dreyer's single works: [3]

Group exhibitions

The following is a list of Dreyer's works with a group: [4]

Literature

Further reading

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References

  1. Michael Dreyer: A nose is a nose is a nose. In: Tom Holert – Michael Dreyer (Hrsg.): PALINDROM, Stuttgart 2009.
  2. Hans-Jürgen Hafner: Michael Dreyer, Berlin 2012, 10.
  3. "Dreyer's single works". Aanantzoo. Retrieved 2014-07-03.
  4. "Dreyer's group exhibitions". Aanantzoo. Retrieved 2014-07-03.