Julius von Bismarck
History Apparatus
11.April 2014

We find a large stump of a hundreds-year-old oak in the center of Neumarkt square in Arnsberg. Symbolizing permanence and majesty, a historical focal point for city and municipality, as well as a protection and refuge, this mother oak is gone now. Traces prove that it has been recently felled. Did the city grow around this tree and lost it now? The stately tree is though still recognizable in the imagination of the viewer. Bismarck is interested in the relation between construction of reality and perception of nature. His stump is a survivor of a fictional reality and was posthumously written into the history of Arnsberg.

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Julius von Bismarck (b. 1983) grew up in Riad (Saudi Arabia) and Berlin, where he currently lives. He studied Visual Communication and Fine Arts in Berlin and New York and is graduate of Olafur Eliasson’s Institute for Spatial Experiments (2013). Bismarck is winner of the Prix Ars Electronica Collide at CERN 2012. His works were recently exhibited at Hamburger Kunsthalle (2014), Winzavod Moscow (2014), Künstlerhaus Bethanien Berlin (2013), Palais de Toyko Paris (2013), Family Business New York (2012).

"History Apparatus" is a new public art work commissioned by Kunstverein Arnsberg 2014.
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Realisiert wurden die Ausstellungen mit der freundlichen Unterstützung von:

Tree Energy, Christoph Kraas
Michael Schulte, Ketensägenzauberer
Freiwillige Feuerwehr Arnsberg
Garten- und Landschaftsbau Braun, Familie Braun
Knispel Bauunternehmen, Peter Knispel
Glaserei Piecha, Herr Piecha
Schreinerei Stadt Arnsberg; Siggi Göppert und Manfred Känzler
Antikgeschäft Beste; Franz Beste
H-S-Immobilienbetreuung, H. E. Schael
Baumschule und Pflanzenhandel Krass
Familie Hennecke
Tim Laußmann, Leverkusen
Christian Gröger, Berlin
Armin Keplinger, Berlin
Ekatarina Burlyga, Berlin

And of course our student helpers from the Kunstverein Arnsberg: Anna, Corinna, Henrike, Jendrik, Kevin, Lena, Lisa, Pauline, Samantha, Steffi and Tobi