FÄLLT LEIDER AUS: ART, LIFE & CONFUSION

When René Block (born 1942) was 22 years old he opened a gallery in Berlin whose initial exhibitions and performances were done by artists who back then were still emergent: Gerhard Richter, Sigmar Polke, Wolf Vostell, Joseph Beuys and Nam June Paik. In addition to the gallery, in 1972 Block began to work as a curator for the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, the Berliner Festwochen as well as for the Academy of the Arts. From 1982 to 1992 he directed the departments Visual Arts and Music at the The Arts-in-Berlin Programme of the DAAD, from 1993 to 1995 the Exhibitions Department of the Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa) in Stuttgart. In 1990 he curated the 8th Sydney Biennial and in 1995 the 4th Istanbul Biennial. From 1997 to 2006 René Block was the director of the Kunsthalle Fridericianum in Kassel. He concluded to work on large art projects by curating the Nordic Pavilion at the 52th Biennale di Venezia (2007) as his final large exhibition. In 2008 he founded TANAS, a space for contemporary Turkish art in Berlin.

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