Thierry Geoffroy / Colonel: A Propulsive Retrospective Cat. Villa Stuck Munich

FORMAT ART | AWARENESS MUSCLE | EMERGENCY ROOM | ULTRACONTEMPORARY | BIENNALIST | MOVING EXHIBITIONS | CRITICAL RUN | MUSÉ E DU RETARD | APATHY LAB | EXTRACTEUR: In September 2020, the Copenhagen-based artist Thierry Geoffroy / Colonel (b. 1961 in Nancy, France) conceived THE AWARENESS MUSCLE TRAINING CENTER at Museum Villa Stuck in Munich. It was after this intensive participatory exhibition project, that the idea was born to create the first comprehensive monograph on his multi-faceted work from the last forty years. This upcoming publication comprises all his art formats, including the most prominent Emergency Room, Critical Run and Biennalist, which were realized all around the world. It also sheds light on the physical art works by Colonel, ranging from photography, moving image to painting, which are interconnected with his activities. Another element of the publication is a complete chronology, which covers Geoffroy’ s extensive activities until today. In well-researched texts, international authors elaborate on different aspects of the artist’ s work, and how his artistic practice draws attention to manifestations of power and injustice in a site-specific and concept-based manner.

Michael Buhrs (born 1971) is art historian and the director of Villa Stuck Munich. Christian Ganzenberg is an independet curator, based in Munich and Berlin. Thierry Geoffroy / Colonel (born 1961, lives Copenhagen) is a Danish-French conceptual artist. For his installations, the documentation of his actions, he uses video, sometimes deliberately using the medium in an amateurish way. He draws much inspiration from TV formats, docusoaps and similar telegenic situations. His most important action formats he has shown several times in international houses like Emergency Room at PS1, MoMA New York in 2007.