The work of Jürgen Partenheimer reveals the artist’s profound experience in his artistic activities which include painting, drawing, sculpture and which also draw on theory, poetry and prose as his referential grammar of artistic expression. [1]
2014, four institutions joined together in a partnership showing various aspects of Partenheimer’s work: the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich; the Falckenberg Collection, Deichtorhallen Hamburg; the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag; and the Contemporary Art Gallery in Vancouver. All four exhibitions had independent installation concepts related to their locations and spaces, and opened up various subjective and reflexive realms of experience to visitors. The accompanying book Jürgen Partenheimer. Das Archiv – The Archive provides a 'fifth space' where through a series of commissioned essays, philosophers, historians, artists and poets, reflect on the multi-faceted nature of Partenheimer’s work through an examination of ideas and themes present in his practice [2].
The drawing on the cover of Das Archiv - The Archive is Fadensonnen, a 2013 drawing by Partenheimer. Fadensonnen is a 1968 German-language book of poetry by Paul Celan.
The Ergo Pers edition A la rêveuse matière, a double volume artist book with a series of etchings by Jürgen Partenheimer and five texts by Francis Ponge, was on view in Das Archiv – The Archive in the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich and the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag [4].
Das Archiv – The Archive – Het Archief
The Archive is like a journey through memory. The artist has selected works from early and late in his career to form an impressively orchestrated presentation that unites the past with the present and blends personal recollections with associations and fragments from our collective memory.
Jürgen Partenheimer:
«The artist’s archive refers neither to a place nor to a space. It is a synonym for all that exists and has been gathered within and outside an open field of imagination and reality.»[3]
