In Freundschaft für Günther Uecker

In the organizer's words:

Günther Uecker is a world-renowned artist, a teacher for many younger artists, a role model, a fighter for humanism, someone who has not spared himself to make the "vulnerability of man" heard.

Günther Uecker is a co-founder of the ZERO foundation and he was a co-founder of the "Gruppe ZERO", which never formed a self-contained unit, but rather a Europe-wide network. Nevertheless, the ZERO movement began in Düsseldorf and the artists active here - Heinz Mack, Otto Piene and Günther Uecker - were recognized as the Zero group in the period from 1961 to 1966, not least because they created joint works such as the light space Hommage à Fontana for documenta III in Kassel in 1964.
The ZERO movement, the Zero group, the organization of exhibitions and, last but not least, the creation of joint works - all this was based on the firm foundation of friendship. Friendships that lasted for many years and stages of their lives.

In Friendship for Günther Uecker is a tribute to the artist on his 95th birthday by colleagues, students, curators and collectors. The exhibition on the first floor, where Günther Uecker set up his workshop in the early 1960s, shows works from private collections with which the artist has a friendly relationship.

Personal stories about these works as well as memories, photos and drawings are collected in a limited-edition friendship book.

In addition to the exhibition In Friendship for Günther Uecker, the ZERO foundation is also showing Donations 2024 in the Feueratelier with works by Hal Busse, Hermann Goepfert, Herta Junghanns-Grulich, Christian Megert, Herbert Oehm, Otto Piene and Jef Verheyen.